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Aime Groulx photo by Catoe
Carolina Friends
Attend
by P. Edgerton,
"High school is too long and
people can be ready for college
and a life situation earlier."
These words from Tom Stanley,
co head resident with his wife
Kathey, at George White Hall,
characterize a unique new
program begun this year at
Guilford in cooperation with
Carolina Friends School.
This unique program is
offering to a group of students,
who have completed at least the
10th yiade in high school, a
chance to be college freshmen
and also to participate in a
co-operative, coed living
situation. The program includes
7 students 6 men and 1
woman. The live together in
George White Hall; doing their
own cleaning and cooking and
attending 9-10 semester hours of
courses at Guilford.
The program aspires to be
more than "just another dorm,"
as all the residents express a
feeling of striving for a
community atmosphere. The
experiment was started as a
co-operative venture between
Guilford and Carolina Friends
School, and many of the
residents profess Quaker beliefs,
but few are members of actual
Friends meetings. Even so,
Quaker ideals of community and
practice are in evidence.
Problems, questions, and general
discussion sessions are held at
least weekly where decisions are
made by concensus with all
members participating. The
Quaker ideal of "each member
being responsible for the success
of the group" is also seen in the
life of the Co-operative.
The personal expectations
of the individuals of the group
are varied, but within that
framework Robert Fudge, 17, of
Chapel Hill, sees education itself
as being of primary importance
in his life and he would help his
attention in this area.
Eric Hall, 15 feels that his
area will in general be one that
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"deals in some way with
people."
John Furgueson, a 16-year
old from Chapel Hill, is
beginning in English and
Sciences, but his main ideal for
the program is, succintly, "to
live together well and meet the
college requirements."
Photography and
photojournalism is a primary
interest of Jimmy Tippens, a
16-year-old who attended
Friends School before, as did
Robert, Eric, and John.
The "outsider" of the group,
or the only one of the students
who did not know the rest of
the group before, is Robert
Pearce. Robert feels like he has
had no trouble fitting in with
the others and he really enjoys
the challenge of competition
with people of college age in his
courses.
The other "outsider," in a
sense, of the group is Elfie Fay
who is the only girl at George
White Hal!. Even so, Elfie does
not feel uncomfortable because
of the unequal male-female
ratio. Elfie is in this way typical
of the whole group in that she is
adapting quickly to the closeness
of the living arrangement.
The whole group relishes the
fact that they can attempt this
closeness, specially since they
were friends at school
previously. The only problem
mentioned by anyone was the
slight one of co-ordination of
the food and chores. All,
however, are becoming aware of
the strain which might be placed
on them by their being a
"special" group which many
people at Guilford and Friendly
School are watching with
interest.
The group felt, however, that
it was essentially too early to tell
the deep implications of their
being at Guilford. However, it is
obvious that there will be a
certain amount of pressure on
the group to succeed at what it
Friday, September 15, 1972
QUAD METAMORPHOSIS
In wheelbarrels pushed by
sweating students, pounds of
dirt, shovels-full of sand, and
piles of brick have disappeared
into the interior of 1968 Dorm
this fall. The open space inside
the building was known as the
"quad" prior to the beginning of
these efforts. Wednesdays,
Saturdays and Sundays found it
beer can littered. Bordered on all
sides by steel rainings it evolked
visions of old prison movies.
The laborers this fall are not,
however, extras on a movie set.
Their efforts are part of the last
steps of a project beaun last year
Caudill Named Director
Dr. Edwin G. Caudill has
been named to succeed Dr. Fred
Courtney as director of the
Downtown Campus of Guilford
College, according to Dr.
Grimsley T. Hobbs, Guilford's
president.
Dr. Courtney has been
granted a leave of absence as
professor of business
management by the college to
work with the Oceanography
Development Corporation of
Riviera Beach, Florida.
Caudill, associate professor of
management at Guilford, took a
leave in 1970-71 to serve as
acting dean of the School of
Business Administration at
American University in
Washington. As Downtown
Campus director, he will
continue to teach. Dr. Hobbs
said.
Dr. Caudill said the
Downtown Campus will
continue to offer its high quality
of education in both day and
evening classes, offering majors
in 21 academic disciplines, and
he explained programs of special
interest to veterans.
Under the college's new
"Operation Transition," recently
discharged veterans receive
personal, academic, and
vocational counseling and may
receive financial aid up to $5OO
through the new Transitional
Assistance Grant, Caudill said.
is doing. It is also difficult to tell
if the expectations of the
originators of the program will
prevent the students from
evolving a truly "natural" living
situation. However, all the
residents stressed that they so
far felt freedom from such
pressure.
When asked what they would
like to express to the campus
community, the consensus of
the residents was that they
wished to be accepted for their
worth and be treated as equals.
Also, to sum up the relation the
group wished to have to the
campus, Robert Pearce says, "we
hope people will feel free to
come over to see us, and have
some tea or something.-"
to chariye the 1968 Dorm
"quad" into a courtyard.
The project was initiated by
the residents of the dorm. First,
a vote was taken as to whether
there was a desire for a change in
the "quad." Questionnaires were
distributed to students and
pedestrian traffic surveys
conducted. Then a vote was
taken on individual plans, and
the plan now almost completed
was decided upon. The Trustees
approved the project at the end
of the school year, and actual
construction began the third
Programs he feels are of
special interest to veterans are a
bachelor of science in
management, with concentrati
in accounting or corporate
management; bachelor of science
in applied math in compute
science; two-year CPA
Certificate Program; associate of
arts degree in behavioral sciences
for law enforcement personnel;
and a bachelor's degree in
behavioral sciences for law
enforcement personnel, with
concentration in management,
political science, psychology or
sociology.
Guilford is unique in the state
in that it offers .both the A.A.
and B.S. degrees in its Law
Enforcement Education
Program, Caudill pointed out.
Grants up to $9OO per year
are available to in-service
employees of police courts and
corrections agencies enrolled : "i
courses related to law
enforcement, he said. Full-time
students in the program are
eligible for self-liquidating loans
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'LUKE' photo by Catoe
MILNER Pet (dog) Violation by male student. Verdict of guilty dog must
be off premises by Thanksgiving. Any further transgressions and dog must be
removed within 24 hours of complaint.
WERE IS YOUR
DOG TONITE?
Number 2
week of August. Completion of
the courtyard is hoped for
within a week (except for a few
plants to be set this spring).
Specialists were brought in,
such as a botanist and also a
landscape artist, who will be
here this week. Much
consideration was given both to
the landscaping and vegetation.
Many plants will be brought in
from out of state, and have been
chosen for their textural
composition, shape, and seasonal
changes. The plants include:
blue grass, cryptomeria,
dogwood, green acube, helleri
holly, Japanese maple, japonica
pieris, rotunda folio globoso,
sansanqua camellia cleopatra,
schipkca laurel, and shorp
juniper.
There will also be a sculps. c
n the courtyard placed within
ne central bricked section. The
sculptor is Aime Goulx, also
esigner of the courtyard and
coordinator, along with John
Dickerson, of the entire project.
The sculpture will be
"multi-media," "semi-abstract"
and is envisioned by Aime as
"soft and gentle." If all goes well
it will be completed in less than
three months.
The entire courtyard is
designed to contrast the harsh
vertical lines so prominent
within the dorm, and to
encompass both beauty and
utility. Aime's conversation
reflects the physical and
psychological metamorphosis of
the dorm. Aime hopes that the
project will promote an
awareness of the relationship
between consciousness and
exterior environment. "It is a
step forward in improving the
environment of people living in
dorm situations."