Stellar Performance Earns Top Honors
Freshwoman named USCAA’s Co-Player of the Week By: JHANAY DAVIS The week of November 15-21, was no ordinary week for freshwoman Tianna Bennett. She was selected as Co-Player of the Week by the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA). This recognition came because of her performance in Bennett’s basketball games against Randolph College, which took [...]
Bennett’s President Stood by Her Belles
By: JENNIFER COWARD In 1960, Bennett students and other area college students decided to boycott unequal treatment of Black citizens at the local Woolworth’s lunch counter. Belles were part of the planning and the protest. Former Bennett College president Willa B. Player, Ed.D, told a reporter with the Greensboro News and Record that she did [...]
Chronicles of a Transfer Student: “Glamorous” Life?
Can Evette take the heat—literally? By: EVETTE DIONNE I put on a happy face and proceeded to my new home away from home, Cone Hall, when suddenly I realized that it was impossible to access the dormitory without driving on the grass and, thus, across campus. Where do they do that at? At that precise moment, [...]
The Chronicles of a Transfer Student
Transfer student Evette Dionne recounts her not-so-easy transition into becoming a Belle By: EVETTE DIONNE Living a joyous reality at University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) with ignorance towards the existence of Bennett College for Women, one coincidental moment on July 22nd, 2008 forever changed the course of my life. While casually browsing CNN’s “Black [...]
Touched by a Dream
55-year-old Freshwoman Beats Out Cancer By: AJOYA LONG While sitting in church on a Sunday evening in 2005, Patricia Alexander felt a sudden pain in her chest. Worried, Patricia decided to go see a doctor. The following Tuesday at the hospital, she was told she had cancer. “At that moment I knew that I wanted to [...]