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Page Two A WARNING TO BE HEEDED Finals are at last upon us. As an act of responsible journalism we of the Guilfordian feel that it is our duty to issue a public service warn ing. At this time of the year many students who find the need to cram before a big exam keep themselves going by the use of stimulants. Coffee and other devices containing caffeine are relatively safe so long as one docs not become dependent upon them. Our main concern deals with a drug known as Dexedrine. This drug, which can be obtained by prescription only, has been used by those who must lose weight. The drug speeds up heart and body action, causing a necessary loss of weight. Because it deals with the heart action the drug can only be adminis tered to a body which is capable of receiving it. This is why it is only to be acquired by prescription. We do know of cases, however, in which this drug has been illegally acquired. We therefore urge all of our students to proceed along this proper course: Do not, for any reason, take this drug. This is especially true for those who have never taken it before and do not know the effect that the drug might have upon them. Anyone who has been under the influ ence of. Dexedrine will tell you that when its effect wears off, an inde scribably miserable feeling takes hold. Secondly, if you have heard about the illegal acquisition of Dexe drine, please report it to an official. \ou may be helping someone else. Thirdly, do not put yourself in the position where cramming will be a necessity. If it is too late for this semester, look forward to being suffi ciently prepared for spring semester finals. AN INVITATION TO JOIN Now, for a limited time only, the rolls of a very prominent national organization have once again Deen opened for membership. The Na tional Association for the Advancement of Apathy on College and Uni versity Campuses has asked us to extend an invitation of membership to Cuiilord students who meet with the loilowing quahiications: 1. Candidates must have led a normal, unobstructed life. 2. Candidates must not have joined any clubs or organizations while at Cuiilord. Similar inactivity at other schools from which the candidate has flunked out ot cannot transfer. 3. Candidates must retuse to take a stand on any issue which is open to controversy. 4. Candidates must not have read the front page of any newspaper within the last year. 5. Candidates, during some portion of their college careers, must have joined the movement for the promotion of objective testing. 6. Candidates must sleep at least 12 hours a day (9 in bed and 3 in class). As previously mentioned, this is a limited offer, and we urge all those with the qualifications to join before it is too late, ft may be your last chance to join anything. The Guilfordian Second-class postage paid at Greensboro, N. C. Published bi-weekly except during vacation and examination periods by the students of Guilford College. Editor-in-Chief Hank Siegel Associate Editor Mike King Managing Editor Gary Lessner Business Manager Wesley Sexton Sports Editor Dick Dierker Associate Sports Editor Paul Schettler Exchange Karen Hamilton Advisors Forrest Altman, Gene Key STAFF WRITERS Ed Bondurant Porter Dawson Doug Schumann A. J. Carr Andy Hines Ric Schumann Harold Clark Dave Mockford Tom Taylor Ward Cross Sam Rose Libby Voss W.S.C. News (Continued from page 1) to begin at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday because of the feeling that the dormitories should not be open for dating until after study and class hours. Students who are through with their classes earlier than noon on Saturday will be per mitted to leave campus on dates. Because of constant public criti cism, the Committee did not agree to delete the regulation: "Women should not linger in cars with men when they return from riding to gether." To the proposed addition to the rules concerning emergency delay in returning to the college, the Committee felt that the wording should be: "Dean of Women or Head Resident must be contacted .. . rather than "should be con tacted." The Committee approved the definitive regulation about drink ing, but agreed that "their" must be inserted before "parents or guardians." Those changes must now be pre sented to the women students for a vote. The voting will be held after exams. Step by Step 73 ' in Muz's —_ Jackson (Miss.) Daily News THE GUILFORDIAN The Nomenclature of Administration A Program: Any assignment that can't be completed by one tele phone call. To Expedite: To confound con fusion with commotion. Channels: The trail left by inter office memos. Coordinator: The guy who has a desk between two expeditors. Consultant: Any ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home. To Activate: To make carbons and add more names to the memo. To Implement a Program: Hire more people and expand the office. Under Consideration: Never heard of it. Under Active Consideration: We are looking in the files for it. A Meeting: A mass milling by master minds. A Conference: A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of labor and the loneli ness of thought. Will Advise in Due Course: If we figure it out, we'll let you know. Reorientation: Getting used to working again. Reliable Source: The guy you just met. Informed Source: The guy who told the guy you just met. Unimpeachable Source: The guy who originally started the rumor. A Clarification: To fill in the background with so many details that the foreground goes under ground. We are making a survey: We need more time to think of an an swer. Note and initial: Let's spread the responsibility for this. See Me, or let's discuss: Come down to my office; I'm lonesome. Let's get together on this: I'm as suming you're as confused as I am. Give us the benefit of your pres ent thinking: Well listen to what you say as long as it doesn't inter fere with what we decided to do. To give someone the picture: A long, confused, inaccurate state ment to a newcomer. To negotiate: To seek a meeting of minds without a knocking to gether of heads. Point up the issue: To expand one page to fifteen pages. First Signs of Spring Nine students who might be con sidered potential candidates in this spring's elections have refused to let their aspirations be known to the public. When questioned by the Guilfordian the students replied that they had no plans at the pres ent, that they had not thought about it, or that they did not plan to run. Reliable sources indicate that this is not entirely the case. The Statesman by DAVE MOCKFORD The complexities of foreign rela tions are at first glance not evident to the casual observer. One tends to treat them with only a modicum of insight into the problems which actually exist. The tension, which might termed nuclear tension, is so involved as to be almost beyond the imagination. The realization that a move in the wrong direction could be a move toward mass anni hilation of a large segment of the world's population is a thought that would tend to drastically cur tail any ideas about a massive, forceful move to alleviate foreign intervention as is evident in Viet Nam or Malaysia. I have heard many people say that the United States ought to either solve the problem or clear out. This is a wishful thought, es pecially if made by a layman, since it seems quite evident that the finest minds of the time are stymied as to the solution of these problems. Take as an example, Viet Nam. First it is necessary to look at and try to understand why the oth er side is relatively successful. The communist forces attempt to meet the problem at real source, the wants and needs of the people, rather than as a mere military man euver. They infiltrate a rural com munity, establishing a firm tie with the leaders and giving aid directly to the people. If one were to com pare the social structure with a py ramid, the realization that the bulk of the population and ultimately through this majority, the political power lies at bottom where the communists have a strong foothold. To further thwart our aims, they enlist the help and aid of the very people whom, we believe, we are trying to help. Their idea of com munal economic ways to meet the problems of inadequate food pro duction, clothing, and medical care would seem more readily plausible than money dropped in at the top which they knew from experience might never reach them. The com munist system does not depend as much as democracy does on the understanding of a political ideol ogy; all it needs is rudimentary co operation. It fills their stomachs and then their minds rather than the opposite. The net result is that the communists are gaining both people and territory while we are barely holding our own. One must also look at the mili tary aspects of the situation. A jun gle war is being fought where the enemy cannot be readily separated from the supjected peoples. Flush ing the enemy out of such an area is extremely difficult if not impos sible. One fairly sure way of hurt ing the opposition would be to cut oft their source of supply, either at the border or point of origin. The major problem now arises, if troops were to cross into communist-held territory for the purpose of destroy ing supply outlets, the result could be nuclear war. Do you take a chance on creating a nuclear holo caust or do you painstakingly at tempt to find some alternate solu tion even though it may take a great deal of time? If we pull out we have admitted complete defeat and given Red China an opportun ity to dominate practically all of Southeast Asia. These are only a few of the diffi culties. There are countless others which make the situation even more complex. I do not know the answer, but I do know that a state ment such as ". . . solve the prob lem or clear out" has very little true value when referring to foreign re lations. Shrewdest Move of the Year— Bobby Kennedy's from Massachu setts to New York. o a o o In America some kids want to grow up to be cowboys and some want to be Presidents. LBJ has made it possible for them to be both. January 18, 1965 The Senator by By HAL CLARK In the last several weeks several news items of interest have come up which I feel are worthy of re porting and commenting on. I doubt if many of the readers will remember hearing about them, but they are nonetheless worth men tioning. Campaign promises are notorious for their habit of being forgotten after an election. This election, like all of its predecessors, has an ever growing mountain of broken prom ises piling up. However, I have found one which is especially inter esting. The following is quoted from "Capital Camera:" "In a campaign swing through New York October 9, LBJ plugged hard for the election of Bobby Ken nedy on the grounds that he could 'do more' for the Empire State. Asked about the future of Brooklyn Navy Yard, Johnson told voters that's another reason you should send Robert Kennedy to the Sen ate. He has talked to me so much about that.' The Brooklyn Navy Yard was among the installations whose demise was announced No vember 19 by Defense Secretary McNamara." In a country that has a bureauc racy as big as ours it is a full-time job to keep up on all the rulings that are passed down. Yet it is in teresting to occasionally look into what is going on in one or two of these bureaus. For instance, last month the National Labor Rela tions Board made an interesting ruling. It decided that a pet ceme tery in Peoria, Illinois, was engaged in interstate commerce. Although none of the dead animals are from out of state, nor do any of the em ployees live outside of Illinois, the Board decided that it was in fact engaged in interstate commerce since some of the headstones and some of the maintenance supplies were manufactured outside of the state. I seem to remember some highly controversial law that was passed last year that had something to do with businesses engaged in interstate commerce. It seems ap parent from this ruling that more businesses than we expected fall under the billing of interstate com merce. I wonder what the future will hold in store for us. It is not always wise to criticize sacred cows; however, experience is the best teacher. Two rulings have come out of United Nations' Committee on Colonialism in the past two weeks that all Americans should find interesting. The first by that committee was a declaration that the United States should give immediate independence to its is land possession in the Pacific called Guam (the reader may remember reading something about Guam last week. Secretary of Defense Mc- Namara announced that we have sent more planes with nuclear ca pacity to Guam in a move to cover all of China now that she is a nu clear power). Last week the com mittee turned to the Carribean area. After speaking about the pros pects of Britain giving independ ence to British Guiana the commit tee said, "It draws the attention of the decolonialization commission of the United Nations to the case of Puerto Rico and calls upon that commission to consider the situa tion of those territories." It is note worthy that Puerto Rico's Governor expressed outrage at this and said that "only 2.7% of the Puerto Ric an people have demonstrated a desire for independence." Bird Lover of the Year—L.B.J. # Amy Vanderbilt, the etiquette ex pert, dined recently at the home of Abram Chasins, the pianist-author, who said she'd used a wrong spoon . . . Then he told her of being at a dinner where a man discovered his dinner partner was Emily Post. He asked: "Are you really Emily Post?" She nodded, trying to be modest. The man said: "Then what the hell are you doing eating my salad?"
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