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Symetrical Widening of Friendly DOT Approves Plan Federal approval for the symetrical plan for widening Friendly Road has been obtained from the U.S. Depart ment of Transportation. With this approval, highway planners can proceed with the organization of a public hearing on the design of the plan to be held early next year. The QuilforWcw Volume LVJ Summer Foreign Studies by Karen Reehling To most of us the very concept of "summer study" or "summer school" has a noxious or at the very least punitive ring to it. And why might you ask would there be any reason to mention summer study before first semester grades are posted (a portent of doom)? It happens that Claude Shotts has done it again - found another way to inexpensively transport students to Europe, but this time he offers more than just travel. It is now possible to spend two summers in Europe and receive 16 credit hours for it. This is the equivalent of one semester here at Guilford. The information sheet on Summer Studies Abroad is quick to point out that the. student must plan his course require ments carefully to be able to substitute the 16 credits for a regular semester. A list of courses, with des criptions can be found at the end of this article. The total cost per summer is $B5O. This price covers the six Opinion: White House Conference on Youth by Douglas Scott A report there on, available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 Price $2.50, Stock no. 4000-0267. For only two and one half dollars you too can have your very own copy of the report of the White House Conference on Youth. It makes facinating reading, all 310 pages of it, if your idea of fun is curling up in the booth and reading the Cleveland Phone Directory. Meanwhile, to the opinion part (see the word up there?), White Conference on Youth is a once a decade affair that was set up this time by Stephen Hess, a very sharp Nixon aide. The idea was to get 1,500 people, excuse me, I mean engaged leaders 1,000 between 14 and 24 and 500 adults "from all institu- The original plan for widen ing Friendly called for the additional land necessary for the road to be taken entirely from Guilford College property. Opposition to this plan from college officials and friends of the college led to a second proposal which specified that the land needed for the right of Friday, November 19, 1971 Greensboro, N. C weeks of formal study (not including those hidden extras that the travel books speak so highly of). However, it still boils down to two summers abroad for about $1,700, which, accord ing to Claude Shotts, is about the same advisor the average student kicks into the coffers at Guilford for one semester of study. Perhaps the best part of the whole program is that after the formal program "one may take from one to seven weeks for independent travel." This can be done at a fairly small cost. There is no reason why you have to limit this to seven weeks - you could always take six weeks of formal study and just never come back - but that is up to you. What Claude Shotts has done is to present a package deal which offers at a cost no greater than one semester here, an educational experience in other cultures, a way to get to Europe inexpensively, and plenty of time during the program for travel, visiting and general dabb ling in another country. tional walks of America" and let them make recommendations after a conference away from Washington, D.C. Would you believe Estes Park, Colorado? But let us not get ahead of ourselves. The Selection Process The Selection Process. Oh, yes, the idea was for a demo graphic cross section of Ameri can Youth. With slight over representation of minority groups so that each of the "task forces" within the conference could have their own minority groups. Allow me to quote the Report, and Stephen Hess: "This is not to say that the delegates were randomly selec ted. We did not blindly invite every 10th or 20th person in the United States between the ages of 14 and 24. Rather, within the demographic variables used geography, race, sex, age, cur rent status (school/working/un- way should be taken equally from both sides of the road. State highway engineers had discerned that this symetrical plan would cost the state $265,000 more than the original plan due to the commerical value of constructions on the south side of the road. However, continued on page 4 The choice is yours - summer school here at Greensboro Coll ege (or that junior college near home) or travel in Europe. Continued on page 4 Pat Paulsen Looks at the 70's Pat Paulsen, the famed dead pan editorialist of old "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hours," will give a little comic relief to weighty problems of the world in a lecture in Dana Saturday night. Paulsen, who made a comic run for the United States pres idency in 1968, will give a four-part lecture on the ills of society at 8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. His address, "Paulsen Looks at the 70's," will consist of a satirical discussion of politics, ecology, education and various other issues of the coming decade. Film clips, slides, and other visual aids will be used. In the first part of the lecture, "The World Is All Screwed UP," Paulsen will address himself to the role of the student radical in sexual geo employed) the delegates tended to be actively involved in their communities. Thus if we sought a rural, white, high school male, the odds were that he was also the president of his class or in some way had displayed a knowledge of one of the ten subject areas of the Conference." But note also: "While the majority of youth delegates were chosen from names submitted by State Com mittees on Children and Youth and by National organizations, a substantial number were nomi nated by community organi zations and by private citizens. Advisory Task Force members aided in the selection process and the co-chairmen (Task Force Chairmen were one adult, one "youth") retained the preogative of review for those assigned to their task forces." Now, as I understand, opin- Young Politicians Make Fair Show (CPS)-Two 19 year-old youths defeated incumbants for mayor in small towns in Ohio and lowa and several university communities got a taste of community politics as student and academics alike gained a voice in civic affairs in the recent nation-wide local elections. Ron Hooker, 19, a junior at Ashland College and a write-in candidate for mayor of New comerstown, Ohio, won a land slide victory over four oppo nents. Jody Smith, also 19, defeated Mayor E. B. Swanson to become mayor of Ayrshire, lowa, a town of 243 residents. In West Lafayette, Indiana, home of Purdue University, students seeking to unseat city judge Charles Kemmer, who had jailed and fined literally hun dreds of students for their participation in sit-ins and anti war demonstrations, were handed a narrow defeat when he won reelection by 7 votes. Meanwhile, across the state. No. 9 politics. During the second segment of his lecture, "Astrology, Zen, Occult, and Things that Go Bump in the Night," Paulsen plans to reveal the exact location of heaven. Paulsen holds that "for thou sands of years, man has battled his environment. Finally, in the 1970'5, he has succeeded in beating it to a pulp." This environmental issue will be dis cussed during part three of (he lecture, "The Spaceship Farth Keeps Getting Fuller, Buckmin ster." "The Sexual Revolution - Is Sex a Four-Letter Word?" will be phase four of the talk. Pat Paulsen's appearance is presented as part of the Guilford College Art Series. For further information contact the college union office at Guilford College. ion sampling, even in it's wildest forms does not include the personal selection of subjects. Nor does it involve the nomi nation of youth by adults and a selection process by a central staff with a vested interest in the proceedings. Have you caught on yet? They tried to rig the conference, and largely suceeded. It really would have been fun to see a demographic cross section of youth thought. The Conference Site Estes Parke, Colorado, de scribed as the YMCA of the Rockies, must have been an ideal spot for the conference. They had a blizzard, too. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C. between April 18th and 22nd, massive symbolic, nonviolent protest to the Indochina War was occuring, protest mainly by youth. At least to me arises the question of the students of Indiana Univer sity in Bloomington helped defeat a two-term encumbant for mayor and elect a progressive 32 year-old recent law school graduate, Francis X. McClosky by a two to one margin. Although additional council seats were won by students in lowa and Minnesota, the most overwhelming victory for the university community was in East Lansing, Michigan, site of Michigan State University and where some 9,000 of the 22,000 voters are below 21 and where all three winners in the city council race courted student voters. George L. Griffiths and George Colburn formed a coali tion with Charles W. Will, 24, a university, senior who ran his own write-in campaign. Although Will lost, Griffiths, 42, and Colburn, 33, won along with Wilbur Brookover, 60, associate director of the Univer sity's Urban Affairs Center. All three candidates out-polled encumbant Mayor Gordon L. Thomas. The mayor is chosen from the council members. A 19-year-old sophomore at Central Florida Junior College, David Passman, forced a runoff election between himself and the incumbant in a city council race in Ocala, Fla. Another student, freshman Maurren Massiwer, 18, won a seat on the Pawtucket, Rhode Island school committee. The Brown University coed placed first in a six-way race for only three positions. Russel Stanton, a 21-year-old student at Southwest State Coll ege in Marshall, Minnesota, won a city council seat in that college town. Young voters changed the Continued on page 4 Voter Registration for Guilford College students from Guilford County will be conducted today in the cafeteria from 1 p.m. through 6 p.m. "which one?" was the Confer ence. Conference Process Halt. Go no farther until you agree to grasp the ellusive quality of meaning in the follow ing quote. "The delegate committee felt it would be futile to attempt to debate and vote upon all recom mendations (which turned out to be over 550) at the final plenary session attended by nearly 1,500 delegates. They also decided not to ask the Conference to assign priorities to the recommendations . . (p. 6) Futile to debate recommen dations. No priorities. Recall that Nixon "directed all depart ment secretaries and agency heads to appoint liaison officers who would coordinate a govern ment-wide response to the Con ference proposals" (italics mine). Continued on page 4
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