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Fight The Drug Bill
In the wake of No-Knock and Preventive Detention we
may now be faced with one more piece of repression under
the law. The North Carolina Dangerous Drug Act, now
pending before a subcommittee of the General Assembly
contains provisions which if passed will allow wiretapping
in cases of drug possession, and will either close down or
seriously hamper the operation of Switchboard, and other
drug-crisis centers throughout the state.
The wiretapping provision of the bill is such a blatant
violation of individual rights of privacy that it stands little
chance of passage. However the portions relating to
Switchboard appear headed for passage. The contribution
that Switchboard has made to our community is
immeasurable. We cannot afford to stand by and watch all
of the work which went into it destroyed.
The bill has one redeeming feature- probation without
judgement for first term offenders accused of only
possession.
This bill does not have to become law. It probably will.
However we can still hope, and let the General Assembly
know how we feel. Chairman of the Subcommittee
handling the bill is Representative Hugh Campbell, c/o The
General Assembly, Raleigh, N.C.
Transcending Images
Much of the struggle for dorm autonomy is centered on
the issue of dorm visitation rights, and we fear that much
of the opposition by college community members other
than dorm residents (administration, faculty, alumni,
trustees and parents) will be directed against this issue.
Presently dorms are open on the evenings of weekends.
But weekend party-like "date night" affairs are not
adequate. What we need are visitation rights on weekdays
and evenings—not for special occasions, not parties or
dates—but visits. If a dorm is to be a home, and a room is
to be more than a cell, then we must be allowed to drop
by informally to visit a friend as people in the real world
naturally do. We must have this to even begin to realize the
ideal of a community on the student level.
However, there is a less apparent but infinitely more
important view of this matter which centers around the
changed and changing sexual roles in our society. This is
immediately evident in the fact that there are more women
in colleges than ever before, and we aren't all planning to
be housewives or secretaries or teachers exclusively. The
traditional roles of women have been defined by
exploitation (in the college context this generally means
being used as sex objects) and by occasionally (being dealt
with only at special times and on special occasions—like
from 6 to 12 on Fridays and Saturdays.)
Women in colleges as well as in careers are not accepting
the sexual roles we have been dealt by tradition, but the
policies of this college make it difficult for us to change
traditional images. Only last summer did this college
recognize that women students are responsible enough to
be on the campus without supervision after 11:30 on week
nights and 1:00 on weekends, and we know that many
think ill of us for even asking for that recognition. But this
college is going to have to do more than that. This college
is going to have to realize that women are taking roles in
society based on our humanity more than our sexuality
and that it has a responsibility to allow both men and
women students the opportunity to deal with each other
in these new roles without fear or guilt stemming from
repressive policies.
Aren't we, by virtue of our desire to be educated in the
liberal arts, entitled to live in an environment that does not
deny women the right to be human in terms not defined
by sex and does not deny men the opportunity to
recognize our humanity?
Jeanette Ebel
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Students React to Dog Policy
Dear Editor,
There are nasty rumors
around that 'They' are going to
do away with dogs on campus.
'They' is the same, sometimes
explicable force that perpetrates
many unfavorable actions at
Guilford College . . . (such as
closing the Circle .. .).
What They are going to do
about the dogs is more than a
rumor. A directive in New
Garden Hall states that the dogs
must go because they are dan
gers to life and limb and
navigation of the Guilford Col
lege campus by humanoids.
But as one of my friends
said-"The dogs are some of the
nicest people on this campus."
And as someone else said, "If a
place like Guilford College can't
support a few dogs, what can?"
And therein lies a basic problem.
A lot of us have ideals about
what Guilford is because of its
stated purposes and these ideals
keep getting tromped on. That
may sound a bit heavy for an
article about dogs, but it is not
in the least irrelevant. The dogs
here are an integral part of
campus life. They tend to
remind students living the dor
mitory existence that there are
such things as homes and places
where people can have animals.
One of the pieces of in
formation about the removal
plan is that tranquilizing guns
may be used. This could be fatal
if someone shot a dog in the
wrong place. It might even kill a
small dog if the dosage was too
strong.(Aren't guns strictly pro
hibited on the Guilford cam
pus?) The dogs will be sent to
the pound, and what happens
there is pretty inevitable.
Granted, there are places that
dogs belong more than others.
And the library and cafeteria are
probably not proper for them.
But women here are allowed to
'self-regulate' each other—l'm
sure they could keep an eye on a
few canines.
Most or all of the reasons for
keeping the dogs around are
purely emotional. But meeting
and greeting one of 'our' dogs
when you're out walking and
you're kinda down can make
"A college whieh emphasizes intellectual freedom and seeks to encourage students to
do independent intellectual work, but also maintains a rigid custodial relationship to
students, is likely to be ineffective both intellectually and custodially. "
people on campus could. And
isn't that worth something?
Maybe they should be made
counsellors for the Student Per
sonnel Office—they help keep us
a little saner.
Clare Glore
Dear Editor,
Is the Guilford College Ad
ministrative Council under
cutting Bob Dylan symbolically/
literally or is freedom vs. nature
an issue upon which there can be
no two ways about it?
Dogs roaming free. Free. Bit
someone. I remember when I
was a dog—l got kicked by an
unkind master.
Dogs. Dogs on campus. Sun
shine, grass lawns, trees, dogs
running free, free, free, students
talking to dogs, dogs are great,
when they're free. Safety be
yond their reach. Beyond dogs'
reach. Dogs can't open doors to
dorms.
Max. Holden. Morgan. All
those guys. All you guys, better
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I (Condition I
by Douglas Scott
"There is always hope (a hope which has become an important
part of an implicit American ideology) that in regard to any possible
built-in evil in the very nature of super machines, appropriate breaks
and corrections will be invented in the nick of time, without any
undue investment of strenuously new principles."
- Erik Erikson, IDENTITY: YOUTH AND CRISIS, p. 34.
A most curious question has come to mind more and more this
month. The ever increasing rate of change in social and technological
organization must be going from somewhere to somewhere.
The "from" end may be examined in history and, it seems, this
instrument for examining the roots of the present has but one
function. The present may be scrutinized directly, through sense
inputs directly or secondhandedly, through the accounts of others,
or indirectly through a scientific analysis. Fine. Imagine these
examinations as a series of points on a graph, where one may draw a
line from past to present, extending the line into the future. Within
most generalized limits, one should be able to tell something of the
future. In fact, computer forecasting is a reality in the
business/defense worlds already.
Something just doesn't seem right, though. Random points could
form a line if goal setting is a function of generations of people, if
dreams and ideals are lost without replacement or modification, if
the interests of the present were so pressing as to outweigh the
effects of the action on the future, or if change, and ever increasing
rates of change, were mistaken for dreams. Spare change, buddy?
Tuesday, March 23, 1971
watch out for U.F.O.'s that will
drug you to submissiveness,
whereupon you will be put in an
armored vehicle whereupon you
will be transported to the City
of Greensboro Animal Shelter
whereupon you will be . . . what
happens then?
Dogs are free, dogs run free,
dogs bite, cause others to seek
safety. The arm of the law vs.
the Pavlovian reaction to human
kindness. $5.00 a head for
illegitimate participators in na
ture. Redeeming our friends
again and again. How many
squirrels must a dog run up a
tree, before he will be called a
dog? Yes, and how many games
must a free dog play, before he'll
be allowed to wag his tail? Yes,
and how many dog traits must
each dog show, before he'll be
recognized as distinct from the
vicious? The answer, my friend,
is written down on paper, typed,
mimeographed, distributed, and
acted upon accordingly.
A Student-Dog-lover
(Paul Singletary)
Lewis B. Mayhew