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Powderpuff football will be part^of
Homecoming weekend.
Education Conference
At Quaker Lake
A three-day conference on
creative education featuring
nationally recognized authorities
will be held by Guilford College
Oct. 18-20 at Quaker Lake
Conference Center near Climax.
Representatives from Quaker
schools in four Southern states
and the District of Columbia will
attend to share with others their
thoughts on current trends and
needs in education.
In addition to Guilford, the
other schools are Carolina
Friends School at Durham,
Friends School at Virginia
Beach, Va., Sidwell Friends at
Washington, Friends School at
Baltimore and Friendsville Acad
emy at Friendsville, Tenn.
Opening speaker Sunday
evening, Oct. 18, will be Dr.
Douglas Heath, professor of
psychology at Haverford College
and author of several books,
including "Growing Up in Col
lege" and "To Educate for
Today's Needs: Why a Friends
School?"
Speakers on Monday, Oct.
19, will include James Gallagher,
until recently with the U. S.
Office of Education, now direc
tor of the Frank P. Graham
Child Development Center at
UNC-Chapel Hill, and Richard
Ray, director of the Learning
Institute of North Carolina
(LINC).
Choreographer Nelle Fisher
of the North Carolina School of
the Arts modern dance de
partment and some of her
students in ballet and modern
dance will discuss and demon
strate the use of dance as a form
of creative expression on Mon
day evening.
The director of the Creativity
Program for the H. Smith
Richardson Foundation, Dr. Irv
ing Taylor, will speak Tuesday
morning, Oct. 20.
Afternoon speakers will in
clude Mrs. Alice Brodhead of the
Swarthmore College psychology
department and Dr. Cyril Har
vey, chairman of the Guilford
College geology department.
Participants from Carolina
Friends School will be Harold
Jernigan, headmaster, and Don
Wells, middle school director.
Guilford College participants
will include Dr. James Gifford,
freshman honors program direc
tor; Dr. Cyrus Johnson, educa
tion department chairman; and
Bruce Stewart, coordinator for
special educational programs.
Dr. Gallahger's area of spec
ialization is research on the
exceptional child. Among his
writings are "Analysis of Re
search on the Education of
Gifted Children" and "Teaching
the Gifted Child."
LINC's work is conceptual
izing and promoting a wide
variety of experimental educa
tional projects in the state has
gained national attention and
has sered as an important cata
yst for change in the Southeast,
according to Stewart.
Nelle Fisher, who joined the
faculty of the School of the Arts
this year, has danced in Broad
way musicals and more than 600
television shows and has dance,
choreographed and taught in
major cities in the United States
and abroad.
Dr. Taylor is the author of a
number of articles on creativity
and sensory stimulation.
Homecoming
Homecoming 1970 will last
for three days-October 23rd
through October 25th. Activities
begin at 1:00 Friday afternoon
at the Circle with an open forum
with Campaign '7O students.
A jam session at 2:00 Friday
on the lawn begins the cele
brations. The session is open to
anyone who wishes to partici
pate. There is to be a soccer
match between Guilford and N.
C. State at 3:30. The champion
ship Powder Puff Football game
is scheduled for 6:00 Friday
evening.
For visiting alumni, there will
be an art exhibit in the library, a
tour of King Hall, and a dinner
at President Hobbs' house Fri
day.
Tickets for the Combo Party,
with the Villagers, a big success
Freshman week, and the break
fast planned for Friday night
cost $1.50 per couple. Week-end
tickets can be bought for $6.00
per couple and include the
Kenny Rogers and The First
Edition concert, the Combo
Party, and the breakfast. Tickets
go on sale in the cafeteria
October 16th.
On Saturday at 10:30 in
Dana, Doctor Purdom will speak
on the progress and major events
of the past at Guilford College.
Winners in the judging of the
float and dorm decorations will
be announced during half-time
at the football game. Judging is
at 11:00 Saturday morning and
floats and decorations can have
either a blue-hose or circus
theme.
The football game between
Guilford and Presbyterian Col
lege begins at 2:00 Saturday
afternoon. Just before the game,
there will be a Faculty 500-a
"thrill per minute bicycle relay."
The major half-time event will
be the crowning of the Home
coming Queen.
Kenny Rogers and The First
Edition are to be in concert at
Dana Auditorium at 8:00 Sat
urday evening. Tickets cost
$2.50.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Myth Lecture: Rudy Behar
"Belief Not A Matter Of Volition"
by Phil Edgerton
The third of the Mythology
Lecture series was given Wed
nesday night by Rudy Behar of
the English Department who
lectured on "Reality" (his
quotes). I was given an assign
ment to do a feature on the
lecture for the GUILFORDIAN
which 1 accepted. I should have
known better. As a former
student of Rudy Behar's, I
should have known that the
whole GUILFORDIAN could
have been filled with an analysis
that would still not do justice to
the complexity and comprehen
siveness of his lecture. Not only
would the whole GUIL
FORDIAN been too short, but I
should have known from ex
perience that I could not do
justice to the lecture with my
own deficient analysis.
Nevertheless, I have space to
fill and the GUILFORDIAN
must be filled. Also, the topic
concerned is certainly one of
note. My problem, then, be
comes one of finding a way to
cop out of writing a "good
journalistic analysis" and still
hopefully say something mean
ingful about Rudy Behar's lec
ture.
The overall theme of the
Is Coming
Planned for 2:00 Sunday
afternoon is a Frizbee contest in
front of Cox Hall and an arts
and crafts exhibit. Both are open
to anyone.
Homecoming weekend ends
at the End Zone Sunday night.
Beginning at 8:00, the End Zone
will have Guilford College night.
Guilford students will be ad
mitted for 50 cents with an I.D.
Partly Cloudy will be playing.
Candidates for Homecoming
Queen are: Jane Forbes, Senior
Class; Rachel Phillips, Junior;
Mary Munchenke, Sophomore
Class; Valerie Johnson, Fresh
man Class; Sylvia Harris, Bin
ford; Tina Stickle, Shore; Paula
Drummond, 1968; Gayle Ges
trich, Milner; Terry Romane,
English; and Kathy Buckland,
Mary Hobbs Hall.
Candidates for Homecoming
Queen will be presented in the
cafeteria Thursday night. The
voting will take place then.
Junior classman, Valerie
Johnson, is in charge of the
Homecoming project.
.
-Linwood Smith, district representative for
the State Highway Commission speaks at
yesterday's highway hearing.
lecture was the differences be
tween common ways of trying
to get at Truth, and the struggle
itself for Truth. In talking about
these modes of knowing, or
attempting to know, Rudy Be
har gave his refutation for some
of the misconceptions people
have in their search for knowing.
The view of "solipsism" or
that the universe is entirely a
projection of our own mind was
first denied. The absurdity of
the view that there is a self that
can carry on all the functions of
the universe and maintains con
tinuity and constancy while
being apart from and unknown
by the conscious self that "loses
my car keys and puts my
Chaucer with my master's thesis
notes in it into the refrigerator
and forgets where it it" was
pointed out.
In addition, Dr. Behar point
ed out Shelley's answer to
solipsism, that "belief is not a
matter of volition." Behar went
on to state that "we believe
what someone shows us to be
coherent and what we MUST
believe." To show why he
engages in the struggle to know
the ultimate Truth, which may
be unattainable, Behar said,
"that there can be a truth means
that the universe allows for that
construct" or that there exists
Truth in the universe. He went
on to say, "the alternative to
making the attempt (find out
'why?') is to reduce this meet
ing, the college, our lives, and
our families to sheer imbecility."
Rudy Behar then told why he
believes positivistic science and
evangelical religion do not have
or cannot find the answer to the
question "why?", asked of our
existance. The positivistic scien
tist at this point can only tell us
"how" and not "why", and we
cannot really be happy with this
answer. Behar denies evangelical
religion that finds "in the threat
of meaninglessness of the uni
verse sufficient reason for telling
ourselves pretty stories." He
went on, "There are lies that
make us happy. I am not arguing
that we need to find myths to
make us happy. If the universe
IS meaningless, I want to know
about that too."
To further explain the quest
for Truth, Behar gave the ex
planation, "I put a map of my
prison in front of me because I
might find a hole in the map. I
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might make this construct and
find my way out. If I do,
halleluyah, I'm out. If I don't, at
least I know where I am."
Rudy Behar went on to
advance theories about the dif
ferent ways of knowing; the
ways science, literature, philoso
phy, religion, and myth attack
the problem of knowing. He
showed that science used as a
tool to refute the pretty stories
is valuable, that the intersection
of the subjective and the objec
tive results in the self, how the
ways of knbwing relate to this
model, and he promoted a
holistic approach to the search
for Truth. He said a lot, lot
more, but I cannot go into it all
here.
I hate to short-change Rudy
Behar in this way, but I have to
say something about the lecture
for the people who didn't go.
The only recourse for these
people now is to take his
Comparative Arts course if they
are intrigued by some of these
problems, or if you will, "The
Probleqi." Right now 1 feel like
the person who tells an anecdote
that falls flat and sheepishly
says, "Well, I guess you had to
be there to appreciate it."
Small College
Approaches to
Athletics
by Danny Beard
The recent "discussion" of
the athletic program and its
relative importance at Guil
ford led me to read with interest
a Look article titled GREEN
AND LEAFY FOOTBALL:
THE SMALL COLLEGE AN
SWER TO BIG-TIME MAD
NESS. The piece, which ap
peared in the October 20th issue
of Look, was written by Stan
Isaacs and described basically
how the small colleges of the
North and Northeast feel about
football and its relative im
portance in an educational in
stitution.
In the first part of the article
the author cites humorous exam
ples of ineptness by schools who
either don't have or don't spend
the money necessary to grind
out football powerhouses. Such
schools as Worcester Tech, Beth
une Coohman, Wartburg, Bates,
Bowdoin Upsala, Lycoming,
Hope and Defiance are men
tioned.
Isaacs then contrasts the
small-college and large-college
variety of the game. In the
former there are no TV cameras,
no visits from the President,
small stadiums, and few spec
tators. But then he gets to the
heart of the matter. "The
question, though, is not which is
better, which registers higher on
the football pleasure metef. It's
which is more consistent with
the basic aims of an academic
institution."
He goes on to say, "At small
schools, the player, essentially
unrecruited, are very much a
part of the student bodv."
Instead of being set apart t>y
their very purpose at the college,
the non-scholarship football
players are students first and
football players second. Pete
Panciera, the Wesleyan College
quarterback, states, "Sometimes
it gets me angry that the
students here aren't excited
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