VOL. LV
AFSC Book
Wins Acclaim
Since its publication early in
May, AFSC's 80-page booklet
Search for Peace In The Middle
East has been discussed on four
nation-wide television programs,
has been quoted and com
mended in scores of newspaper
articles across the country, in
cluding full-length editorials in
the New York Times and The
Wall Street Journal, and has
been ordered by more than
60,000 readers.
In the first of three programs
on the issue of the Middle East,
Roger Fisher of "The Advo
cates" praised the book. As a
result of this program alone,
40,000 requests have been re
ceived.
Since the demand for copies
continues, arrangements have
been made for translations of
the book into both Hebrew and
Arabic, and contracts have been
signed with Fawcett Publishing
Company to market the book in
quantity through bookstores and
other retail outlets. To meet the
possible orders for this second
edition of Search For Peace In
The Middle East the number of
books printed by Fawcett may
greatly exceed the 75,000 ori
ginally printed by the AFSC in
May.
A New York Times editorial
of May 13 stated: "Prospects for
progress in the Arab-Israeli stale
mate might be significantly im
proved if both sides would give
ear to some of the advice
contained in a recent report of
the American Friends Service
Committee. Quaker proposals
for new peace initiatives are
based on a sensitive assessment
of the deep feelings on both
sides and contain pragmatic
suggestions for compromise."
Search For Peace In The
Middle East may be ordered
from the AFSC, P.O. Box 1791,
High Point, N.C. 27261. The
price is for individual copies.
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Lan & Sylvia will Play Dec. 5
Lan and Sylvia and the Great
Speckled Bird will be in Dana
Auditorium on Dec. 5. This
group is new, but lan and Sylvia
Tyson have been around a long
time. Veterans of eleven record
albums, they've made a transi
tion from folk to count ry-freak
type music.
The Great Speckled Bird is a
four man back-up band that
evolved out of recent recording
sessions in Nashville.
Lan and Sylvia arc Canadians,
and have been singing together
for ten years. Both grew up with
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Conference Discusses Guilford's Priorities
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Photo by Willson
President Hobbs and Edwin Brown, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees
Sac Raps with English Hall
Professor Fred Parkhurst and
Dr. Henry Semmler met with
English Hall students Sunday as
representatives of the SAC. The
informal discussion ran the gam
ut from the relationship between
the SAC and students to student
life and problems.
Information flowed first of
all from the professors to the
students. Both Parkhurst and
Semmler thought that SAC is
not just a disciplinary organiza
tion. "That's just a minor role.
What we are concerned with is
student life—what goes on-what
can improve student life on
campus."
Semmler expressed his
thoughts on rules at a college.
He said that there must be some
form of regulation—be ; t either
influence because of public
opinion or a police state. He and
Parkhurst said that a good policy
would be in effect if everyone
was bound to a sort of Honor
Code of responsibility. Other
country music, lan in western
British Columbia and Sylvia in
Ontario.
In addition to making music,
the group supports the ecology
movement, and plays at benefits
for the cause. Said one writer
after hearing them at such a
concert in Boston—"The Great
Speckled Bird is composed* of
people whose eyes are clear and
minds are free like we all ought
to be. Not bogged down by its
increased number of passengers,
lan and Sylvia's new album is a
quietly beautiful flight."
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1970
colleges have this in their tradi
tion, thus making it easier to
perpetuate.
Then the information flow
was reversed—the question of
why English Hall was different
from other dormitories was
raised. Students expressed un
animously a sense of
community—a community
where all were individuals linked
by common experience. The
small size of the dorm plus the
fact that English is virtually a
microcosm of the male student
population on campus aid in the
bond.
Student problems arose—and
discussion dwelled on the lack of
decent counsellors on campus,
the lack of a place to study, the
drug situation, rule changes,
continued on page 3
Honor Board
The following statement was
released to the GUILFORDIAN
by Honor Board chairman
Michael McMillan.
In our judicial system found
in the United States, an indivi
dual is innocent until he is
proven guilty. Even though there
may be the suspicion that one is
guilty, the defendant cannot be
convicted without conclusive
evidence. However, in certain
departments at Guilford, when a
professor suspects something ir
regular in the work of one of
their students which would be
considered an Honor Board
violation, the professor often
takes matters into his own
hands. Professors have on more
than one occasion done this. The
reason for this procedure, al
though against college policy
and in disregard for the rights of
students, could possibly be that
the professor feels as though the
case is not strong enough for an
Honor Board conviction; so,
rather than have the student
possibly escape penalization,
they handle matters in what
they think is the most efficient
method. / will agree that the
route they take is often less time
consuming than the normal, just
method of bringing up the case
before the Honor Board, but it is
in total disregard of the rights of
the individual student.
The Honor Board mav not be
"Setting the priorities for the
major thrust of Guilford in the
next several years" was the topic
of discussion at a retreat of nine
trustees, six administrators, nine
faculty members and eight
students held in Pinehurst, N. C.
Nov. 13-15.
The discussion at the retreat
centered around a statement of
the purposes of Guilford College
which was distributed before the
retreat by President Grimsley
Hobbs and the Challenge for the
Seventies Campaign list of
priorities.
Friday evening five small
groups composed of trustees,
Day Students
Organize
The Day Student meetings
have been organized for this
year. They hope to promote
activities and develop a mailing
list to circulate calendars, pa
pers, bulletins and other college
information to day students.
The Day Student population
is almost one-fourth of the
student body at Guilford Col
lege.
The next meeting will be held
December 2, at 5:30 in the
College Union Lounge. For more
information, please contact Val
erie Johnson at 299-2599 or Ed
Saleem at 292-7310.
The Piper Returns.
Rm 222,
Cox Old North
Clarifies Role
composed of time-tested, pro
fessional judges who are in
fallible. However, they do take a
sincere interest in their job of
attempting to protect and de
fend the rights of individuals
under the provision of due
process as well as maintaining
justice in all matters that involve
students in academic violations.
Often students have one view
of the Honor Board, while some
members of the faculty have
another. Both it seems are
erroneous. Students, who don't
know or understand the work
ings of the Board, sometimes
think of it as being more partial
to the faculty. A t the same time,
some faculty think the Honor
Board is entirely too lenient on
student offenders. It must be
understood that the Honor
Board does perform a necessary
function. If both the faculty and
students followed the procedure
outlined in the PATHFINDER,
some of the problems that have
developed in recent times would
have never occurred.
With the cooperation and
support from administration,
faculty, and students, the Honor
Board will be able to do a more
effective job that will greater
benefit the entire college com
munity.
Michael F. McMillan
Chairman, Honor Board
faculty, administrators, and
students met to attempt to draw
up a list of the things which
Guilford College should consider
to be its top priorities in the
next two years.
A steering group of group
chairmen and recorders com
pared the priority lists of the
groups and discovered that each
group had decided that the
greatest immediate need of
Guilford College is a
strengthening of community
spirit between all elements
within the college.
Other items on the priority
lists included strengthening the
programs of the college, and
increasing scholarship funds. The
group stressed the need for the
new college union center which
has been proposed as a part of
the Challenge Campaign.
Inter-Cultural Programs
Conference participants were
concerned about the quality of
the inter-cultural studies pro
gram and about the conditions
under which the foreign students
at Guilford must live. Suggest
ions were made which include
setting aside scholarship funds
exclusively for foreign students,
establishing a cultural center foi
foreign students and providing
special instruction in English as a
foreign language.
Also discussed was the idea of
having each student spend a
semester off campus. The sup
porters of this idea indicated
that they felt it would allow
individuals to supplement the
regular curriculum with off
campus experiences while
enabling the college facilities to
be extended to more students.
Expectations
At least one of the groups
talked extensively about the
importance the setting of high
expectations can have on the
building of a community. This
group reported that they felt
that "the 'expectations of aca
demic excellence and social
behavior must be set high
enough to allow the develop
ment of the Quaker faith in
individuals that will help us
develop the kind of community
we want."
N. C. Yearly Meeting
The group exhibited.concern
over the relations between Guil
ford College and the North
Carolina Yearly Meeting. Several
trustees reported that N. C.
Friends had shown a misunder
standing of the recent changes in
social restrictions for Guilford
students.
Challenge Priorities
Dr. Hobbs asked the small
groups to rank the goals of the
Challenge of the Seventies Cam
paign in order of their im
mediate importance. The con
sensus of the group placed
scholarship funds on the top of
the priority list.
In building projects, the pro
posed College Union was ranked
number one in importance.
The retreat, which is Guil
ford's third annual Pinehurst
conference was held at the
Carolina Hotel.
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