Friday, September 15, 1972
Bike Riders G
"A letter to the mayor got the idea rolling and it should all be
downhill now for the city's first official bicycle route. Mayor Jim
Melvin announced Tuesday that the city will soon designate sections
of several streets for use as a bicycle route connecting the city's four
campuses Bennett, UNC-G, Greensboro, and A&T with the
downtown area and each other." (See Daily News - Wednesday,
September 13).
Four campuses? It seems that Mayor Melvin, City Manager
Turner, and the city traffic engineers have forgotten us. Would it be
that difficult to establish "a safe direct route to the CBD (central
business district)" from Guilford to downtown Greensboro?
"I think the key point in this is that it was a request from some
college students and we thought it was a good idea" Mayor Melvin
commented. In light of this statement, the Guilfordian calls upon
Guilford students both main and downtown campuses to write
to Mayor Melvin requesting that Guilford be included in the plans
for Greensboro's first bike route.
Marc Weiner
It's
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HELP!!! HELP!!!
I'm Being Eaten By A Refrigerator!
Yes Virginia, the mold which ate Chicago does exist. The
Guilfordian is proud to break the story that it summers in
Greensboro, yes, you guessed it, right here at Guilford College. Fed
on milk, eggs, mayonnaise, tuna salad and other delectibles by
members of the Eastern Music Festival and incubated carefully in
small chambers called refrigerators by the Student Senate, which
keeps them in hot basements, the mold told the Guilfordian that the
service was excellent.
To be blunt, the students of Guilford College who were foolish
enough to enter into rental agreements with the Student Senate
discovered to their dismay that they had just payed $2O for the
honor and privilege of cleaning and reconditioning the Senate's
refrigerators.
Leaving the amount of the rent for another editorial let us discuss
only the condition of the product and the position of the Student
Senate with respect to this condition.
Bill Fleming displayed commendable initiative in renting the
refrigerators during the summer. Money raised in this manner can be
only too readily used in this year of underenrollment. Yet, the
responsibility for adequate care and safe custody of student
property is as important as raising a few extra shekles. In this respect
Bill let us down. There was no provision made for checking the
condition of our refrigerators and assessing damage or cleaning fines
against the offenders.
There is little value in crying over sour milk. What was done was
done and most of the refrigerators which could be found are now
cleaned or at least in the possession of people who can live with
them as they a re. The Guilfordian is concerned however, about the
lack of any positive program on the part of the Student Senate to
make sure this type of thing never occurs again. Worth Wilson,
chairman of the Senate committee on food which is in charge of the
refrigerators, bemoaned the fact that residents and resident assistants
of various dormitories had allowed unauthorized students removing
refrigerators from the rooms last spring, wailed about no pick and
checking of the refrigerators last spring or this summer, but
when he was asked what steps were being taken to insure against
these undesirable occurances again occuring, he muttered something
to the effect that "We haven't thought that far ahead."
Since the Student Senate has not thought that far ahead the
Guilfordian will think a little for them and suggest one or two
ground rules which might be helpful in preventing disgusting
recurrences of this type of sloppiness:
(1) Set a date a week or two before the end of school by which
the refrigerators must be returned.
(2) Carefully check the condition of each refrigerator at that
time.
(3) Charge the students who do not turn their refrigerators in the
cost of a new one, payable before registration for the next year or
before graduation, which ever comes first.
(4) Charge the students, who leave their machine filthy, a five or
ten dollar cleaning fee to be deducted from next semesters rent to
compensate the people who will have to dean them.
(5) Only rent the refrigerators during the summer if there is some
way of making sure the above ground rules are followed.
(6) If it is true that Residents and Residents Assts. did in fact
allow unauthorized students to remove the refrigerators from their
storage areas bill the business office of Guilford College the cost of
these stolen refrigerators.
(7) Establish some sort of system to make sure that does not
occur again even if it means storing the machines in the Student
Senate Office rather than the Residence Halls.
Tim Collins
THE GUILFORDIAN
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CHILL IN U S-CHINA THAW
By Jack Anderson
1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
(Copyright, 1!i72, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
WASHINGTON - Warming
Chinese-American relations,
which weathered the bombing
and mining of North Vietnam's
supply lines, are chilling again.
The interception of Chinese
shipments, according to a CIA
report, has soured U.S. relations
with mainland China.
The report reveals that
Chinese freighters are
successfully unloading an
astonishing amount of supplies
at hidden anchorages up and
down the North Vietnam coast.
The supplies are unloaded on
small barges and boats, which
smuggle the war booty to shore.
The ingenious Chinese, we have
learned, even use huge
waterproof plastic bags to float
supplies ashore.
To disrupt Hanoi's supply
line, the U.S. Seventh Fleet has
intercepted some Chinese
shipping. But such action,
according to the CIA, has only
prompted the Chinese to renew
their pledges of support of
North Vietnam.
himself. Such a rare message
from Mao has the force of being
engraved on the great wall of
China.
The CIA report, furthermore,
affirms our earlier report that
heavy U.S. bombing has failed to
Guilford Student Finds Missing Boy
The Guilfordian would like to commend those "100 Guilford
College students," sheriff's officers, police, and volunteer firemen
who spent nearly five hours last Tuesday night searching, and finally
finding, two-year-old Charles Gillespie.
At approximately midnight Tuesday, Ron Cruickshank head
resident of '6B - had bullhorn in hand calling for volunteers. Within
ten minutes, close to 100 students had been mobilized to aid in the
search for the lost boy.
The child was finally found by Guilford student Bruce McLarty
in the woods off New Garden Road.
DRAFT ENDS
Washington, D.C. Defense
Secretary Laird's announcement
in his August 28 press
conference marks the near
fulfillment of the
Administration's efforts to end
military conscription. Said
Laird, "Every effort will be
made to minimize draft calls, if
not avoid them entirely,
between January and July 1973,
when the current induction
authority expires."
Since 1968 draft calls have
dropped 77 percent. Draft calls
peaked in 1968 at 299,000; they
were slightly less (289,900) in
1969. In 1970 the draft took
163,500 young men, and in
1971, 98,000. This year 50,000
men (the lowest since 1964)
were scheduled to be drafted.
For 1973 induction totals may
be zero.
The draft wind-down is part
of a four year effort to replace
the draft with a volunteer army,
an attempt based on the 1968
Nixon campaign pledge that if
elected he would "work toward
halt the flow of supplies across
the network of rail lines, roads
and trails that lead into North
Vietnam.
The CIA report claims more
than half of the war material,
which used to be shipped to
North Vietnam before the
bombing, is getting through.
Even the Air Force, which has a
vested interest in demonstrating
its bombing raids are effective,
acknowledges that more than a
quarter of the former
are reaching North Vietnam.
Nixon's '76 Strategy
White House aides tell us thai
President Nixon will not annoint
Spiro Agnew as his successor in
1976 if the President is
re-elected this fall. The
President, say our sources, wants
a wide open Republican
convention in 1976.
With this in mind, the
President intends to give
national exposure to several
presidential prospects, including
New York's Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller, ex-Treasury
Secretary John Connally,
cost-of-living czar Donald
Rumsfeld and United Nations
ambassador George Bush.
The President is not likely to
embrace liberal Illinois Senator
establishing in its place an all
volunteer armed force."
In their news conferences
both the President and Laird
stressed the need for the
enactment of a series of bills to
increase funding for military
personnel. This would be
provided by two measures
currently pending in Congress:
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Chuck Percy. But even if a Percy
bandwagon begins to pick up
steam, the President is expected
to remain above an election
fight.
POW Preparations
The date reqiains uncertain
when the 528 American
prisoners of war in North
Vietnam will return home. But
the Nixon Administration has
made sure it won't be caught
unprepared when the prisoners
are finally released.
A special government task
force using the code name
"Operation Egress Recap" —has
already set up medical centers
around the country to receive
the POWs. Once they arrive,
each will be assigned a special
counselor who has been
thoroughly briefed on the
prisoner's background from his
eating habits to his sex life.
At the medical centers, care
will be taken not to force the
prisoners to readjust to
American life too quickly. Each
prisoner will be allowed only a
few phone calls, and his
immediate family will be kept at
a distance until the prisoner has
been thoroughly examined.
Even after the prisoner is
pronounced fit, the doctors will
try to discourage a big
homecoming. Studies show these
affairs can be traumatic and
impair the readjustment of an
ex-prisoner.
Political Potpourri
George McGovern has
received more lip service than
campaign funds from the unions
that have endorsed him. The
labor committee, which is trying
to raise money for McGovern,
has collected only $125,000 so
far ... Security around the
President is so tight that the
Secret Service now routinely
excludes all casually dressed,
long-haired young people
whenever the President makes an
appearance in public. The Secret
Service says it is purging the
long-hairs to protect the
President, but the action also
insures that the President is free
of the young protestors who
dogged his campaign in 1968.
one piece of legislation
permitting an enlistment bonus
for the National Guard and the
Reserves and another bill
providing additional incentive
pay for physicians. The Defense
Secretary mentioned that
monetary incentive programs
have proved successful in Army
and Marine Corns nrnmnts.