Volume LVI
Bliss
George Bliss, a member of the
Friends Committee on National
Legislation in Washington,
visited Guilford on Wednesday,
speaking to several groups during
the day.
Bliss addressed an open
meeting of the Guilford
Students for McGovern
Wednesday morning, and spoke
at an open meeting in the Moon
Room later in the day.
Bliss concentrated on his
recent trip to Cuba in his address
in the Moon Room.
Bliss, a personal supervisor of
McGovern, told the Students for
McGovern meeting that he felt
the McGovern campaign was
going well at this point, how
ever, if after the Wisconsin
primary in early April, the
campaign hasn't picked up a
great deal more support, not
only from potential voters, but
from volunteer workers and
financial contributors, it will
probably be a loosing effort.
The Friends Committee on
National Legislation, of which
Bliss is a part, is non-partisan,
and as such does not endorse
candidates for office. Bliss' sup
port of McGovern is personal.
Bliss sees North Carolina as
leaning strongly toward Sen.
Muskie, although he does not
rule out a surprise by McGovern.
Calendar Changed
Guilford College has adopted
a new calendar of the fall
term of 1972. The calendar,
released on January 7 by the
academic dean William C. Burris,
Interns
Assigned
Ken Schwab, Director of
Housing, has announced the
addition of three new members
to the residence hall program,
replacing three who resigned at
the end of the semester.
Named as the new
coordinator in Mary Hobbs Hall
is Miss Beverly Wolfe, a recent
Guilford graduate. A native of
Greensboro, Miss Wolfe is
currently working on a Master's
degree in Guidance and
Counseling at UNC-G.
Hugh Mills, a senior political
science major will assume the
resident intern position of the
third floor of Milner Dormitory.
In Binford Dormitory,
Margaret Rees, a junior from
High Point, N.C. will be the
intern for the second floor. Miss
Rees, an Elementary Education
major replaces Beverly Bass.
Schwab said that the Student
Personnel Office was "quite
pleased with the response and
the quality of the applicants"
for the residence hall positions.
Sixteen persons applied for the
three openings.
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The Road to Emmaus
by Mollie McNair
Dr. Claude Shotts is fond of
saying that he plans off-campus
seminars to help Guilford Coll
ege students out of their provin
ciality. He repeated the phrase a
number of times when he
accompanied a group of fresh
man Fellows to New York City
in mid-December. But if the
itinerary which the group
is designed to eliminate long
breaks in the first semester.
Under this calendar, first
semester exams will end on
December 15, and second
semester will begin on January
8. In order that this may be
accomplished, it will be
necessary to begin the first
semester on the early date of
August 31, but second semester
exams will be completed by May
4.
Each semester wil! be broken
only once by major holidays.
Thanksgiving vacation is
scheduled between November 22
and 27, while spring vacation
will come between March 9 and
18. Only Good Friday will be
taken as an official Easter
holiday.
The calendar was designed by
Dean Burris in cooperation with
the deans of Greensboro and
Bennett Colleges with the intent
of unifying the schedules of the
consortium members. There will
still be slight differences in the
three colleges' schedules, but not
any of sufficient import to
prohibit students of one college
from taking classes at another.
Greensboro College presently
has their exams before the
Christmas holiday, and has a one
month interim term scheduled in
January. Next year, their interim
term will be in May, following
the end of spring semester and
preceding the beginning of
summer school.
Friday, January 14, 1972. Greensboro, N. C
followed is any kind of yard
stick, it would seem that he
plans the seminars to reaffirm a
set of humanistic values and to
awaken in the students a sensi
tivity to their kinship with all
other human beings.
One of the people to whom
he repeated his phrase was Lyle
Young, a co-founder of Emmaus
House in Spanish Harlem. The
volunteers involved in the
Emmaus project have given years
of their lives to other people and
to building a community which
arises from the communion of
all its members.
Young had originally planned
to be a priest, but he came from
Australia to the United States
instead and founded Emmaus
House with David Kirk.
Emmaus, which takes its name
from the New Testament story
in which Jesus appears after his
death, was to be an effort to
help the people of Spanish
Harlem through Christian prin
ciples. The exclusivity has since
evolved into an affirmation of
Christianity as well as Judaism
and even Eastern faiths. In short,
Emmaus House now seeks to
instill into both the workers and
the people of the larger
community a universal faith
which embodies all values which
have proved themselves to speak
to a need inside every man.
Concern for this need is the
theme around which bmmaus
rotates; the group is essentially
spiritually-oriented, although no
one ignores the concerns of
housing or crime or institution
alized oppression or narcotic
addiction or any other problem
which can demoralize a country
by aggravating a physical sit
uation which is already uncom
fortable. However, the Hmmaus
workers begin with the idea that
the needs of the spirit cannot be
subordinated to the needs of the
flesh, and it is spiritual need to
which they have chosen to
minister. In giving of himself to
the community of Spanish Har
lem and the smaller community
of the tmmaus workers, each
Dorm Sanitation
Found Lacking
A Christmas vacation visit to
Guilford College by the Guilford
County Health Inspectors has
resulted in the institution of a
strict system of fines and clean
ing fees in 1968 dorm.
Most of the residence halls
were found to be in acceptable
condition. However, 1968 Dorm
was described in Jim Newlin's
report to Dean Gottschall as "in
the worst shape of any on the
campus." Large quantities of
food and evidences of open
cooking were found, and the
common rooms were "in a
general state of disarray." New-
volunteer hujjes IO achieve both
social progress and progress
The group is a commune in
every sense of the word except
the physical one: they do not
live together, although Thurs
days are set aside for simply
being alone together. Money
earned by the members is
pooled, and a new member must
be accepted by every other
membet and must be willing to
devote a huge percentage of his
time to group endeavors.
In seeking a heightened
awareness of and deepened
commitment to the potentiality
of both individual and society,
Emmaus sponsors programs
which include poetry readings,
lectures, workshops in radical
politics with a non-violent twist,
and a women's consciousness
raising group which has just
recently come into being. There
was once a magazine called "The
Bread is Rising," but money ran
short, although the group hopes
to revive it soon. The issue given
to the Guilford students includ
ed articles entitled "Tribalism"
and "In Search of Liberation in
Community," titles which are
heavily suggestive of the
Emmaus ideals and the efforts
for renewal of church and
society to which the small
community has dedicated itself.
The visit to timmaus House
came early in the week which
the freshman group spent in
New York and it was followed
by a storm of tours to museums
and concerts and theatre and
general "big city" experience.
But the timmaus theme was
present throughout much of the
seminar; in the Cooper Square
Development Project and its
concern for the physical situa
tion of the community, in the
Washington Square church
experiences on the first Sunday
which the group spent in New
York, in the drug rehabilitation
projects which they visited. All
of them carried the ideals of a
betterment of the communion
between a man and another man
and between a man and all men.
lin's memorandum mentioned
specific suites which had vio
lated health regulations. The
presence of animals in the dorm
was also scored.
As a result of the "deplor
able" conditions uncovered by
the inspection, a notice was sent
to all occupants of the building,
instituting a procedure to insure
that the residents meet health
and safety standards. The notice
quoted Newlin's report and
outlined a fine and warning
system effective January 4,
1972.
Upon violation of a rule, the
coordinator or an intern will
issue a warning to the occupants
of the area, allowing 24 hours in
which to correct the infraction.
If the regulations ! >J I cx>m
yiieu witn within the specified
time, the housekeeping staff will
be called in to clean the
designated area and a fee will be
charged for the services. In the
case of suites, fines and fees
total $24.00; in the case of
individual rooms, the total is
$15.00.
When the health inspection
official visited the Guilford Coll
ege campus just before Christ
mas vacation, he checked areas
which had not been checked
during previous inspections. In
addition to inspecting the lib
rary, Duke Memorial, King, and
the gymnasium, he checked all
residence hall restrooms and
public areas and spotchecked the
students' rooms.
When Ken Schwab, Director
of Residential Operations, was
asked if he considers 1968 Dorm
a problem, he answered, "No,
not really . . . The female pres
ence has, I think, helped by
keeping the noise down at a
lower level." He spoke enthu
siastically about plans being
developed by Ron Cruikshank
and Jeff Dancy to improve the
physical layout of the building.
The plans include planting trees,
landscaping, bricking in areas in
the courtyard where the earth is
exposed, and repainting "in
colorful colors to remove the
cell-block quality that exists
now." His attitude suggested
that if the physical appearance
of the building were improved,
students and residents might be
more careful of violating health
and safety regulations, "and
these, of course, are veiy import
ant."
In particular he cited the
renovations in Milner, where
occupants painted the halls after
clearing the paint colors through
the business office and assuming
responsibility for the quality of
the work. "This, I think, gives
personality to the area where
you live and provides a sort of
personal contact with your
environment. The painting in
Milner will stay up until another
group comes along and wants to
change it."
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