BASIB aims for unity
By Myra Somerville
"Black-Light," BASIB's
third annual night club concert
featuring Phonalphie Rhue,
Pamela Smith, Walter Anderson, and the Jam-A-Ditty Band,
will kick off the 8th Journey into
Blackness activity-packed week.
Scheduled from Saturday,
Feb. 9 - Sunday, Feb. 17,
Blacklight will begin at 10:15
p.m. Feb. 9 in Sternberger.
The various events planned
promise to make this event one
of the best journeys yet. Journey's purpose is to expose the
Guilford College Community to
various aspects of the beauty in
the black experience.
J ulian Bond, a Georgia State
Senator and prominent spokesman for the politics at the
human level, will be the guest
speaker at the Top of the Mart
in High Point on Sunday, Feb.
10, at 8 p.m.
There will be a small charge
for visiting students and adults.
Transportation will be provided
for those who sign up on the
BASIB door.
On Monday, Feb. 11, a
variety of films will be shown
during the day in the Founders
lounge. The films will be "Afri-
kaneer Experience," "Black
American Dream," "The Assassin Years," "Me and Stella," and "From These Roots."
"Guilford College Appreciation Day" is featured with an
appreciation awards banquet at
7 p.m. in the Walnut Room on
Feb. 13. The black faculty and
staff will be specially honored
and officers for 1980-81 will be
installed at this time.
Entertainment for Valentine's Day will be the performance of the play "For Colored
Girls Who Considered Suicide. . . "
This play performed by sever
women is about the trials and
tribulations facing black women. The entertainers will be
students from A&T led by Miss
Sandra Jones.
A fashion show will begin at 6
p.m. Friday, Feb. 15th in the
Passion Pit of Founders. The
members of U.A.A.S. (United
Afro-American Society) of
Greensboro College of BASIB
are planning a joint gathering
for Sat. Feb. 16. "A Gospel
Feast in Song" with area college and community gospel
choirs and soloist Cathy Gaddy
will wrap up the festive week.
Throughout Journey VIII, in
Dana Lounge, there will be an
art, photo, and book exhibit.
Photographs were taken by
Judy Mutunhu, a Guilford student and faculty wife and
Ronald Woody, a student at
N.C. A&T State University. Art
work is done by Roosevelt
Moody, a Guilford College art
major. Books will be through
the courtesy of the Uhuru
bookstore.
Journey T-shirts will also be
on sale throughout the week.
One day a voter registration
table will be set up in the lobby
of Founders for those who'd like
to register to vote.
All events are free to Guilford
College students with ID.
Everyone is welcome to attend
all of the festivities.
