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April 15, 1975 This Wednesday, April 16, will be the last day to arrange for senior yearbook candids. Seniors may sign up in the cafeteria during lunch. Those seniors who would like color portraits will be given the opportunity to sign up Tuesday at lunch and dinner in the cafeteria. The pictures will be taken by a professional studio between 9-3 Wednesday. The cost is $2.00 for six 5" x VA" photographs. These pictures will be used as yearbook pictures. Help Run The Union John Ladd and Sherry Balcar, Union president and vice-president, are now at your disposal from 10 to 5, Monday through Friday, in the Union office on the first floor of Bryan. They are there to listen to you- the people of Guilford College-and want to hear your complaints, sug gestions and, most of all, what you want to see accomplished by the Union next year. There will always be a schedule on their door. If by chance, neither one is in, leave a note and they will get back in touch with you. If you are interested in working with next year's Union, there are a variety of committees that need help. The Film Committee not only chooses the year's films but also has people running the projectors, taking the tickets, etc. The Coffeehouse Committee has the task of providing a wide range of entertainment where the performers will be in intimate contact with their audience. The Recreation Committee will be more important this year with the advent of the new Founder's recreation room. They will aide in its planning, provide it with pool and pingpong tables, etc., and staff it. The Student Involvement Committee is a kind of all-purpose ad-hoc committee that takes on everything the other committees don't en compass. They will arrange such things as crafts fairs, purchasing block tickets to area concerts, refreshments during finals, busses to football and basketball games, etc., etc. The Dance and Pop Arts Committee will be the ones to plan the six or seven large concerts next year and also to find some wide variety of artists to put in a series of mini concerts. The Fine Arts Committee will have the opportunity to utilize the gallery space in Founders using student and off campus art. From there they take the ball as far as they want-anything else in the field of fine arts they'd like to try. If you're interested in becoming more involved in the Union's organization, the positions of secretary and treasurer are still open. The treasurer will have the responsibility of funding the Union and keeping it on budget by working closely with all involved. The secretary's only actual duty is keeping the minutes of the various committee meetings, but the job can be extended to encompass whatever the person wishes it to. Both jobs are important and need responsible people who are willing to work. There it is folks-something for everyone. Even if you don't have much time, what free hours you have could be put to good use. So go on down and offer your services, your suggestions, or whatever The Gullfordlan you want. John and Sherry can't do it alone; we've got to help make next year's Union be all that it can. BLACK SEEDS IS COMING: Saturday--1:00--Urban Center DO COME! Syllabi Procedure On April 9, 1975 Joseph W. Freud went before the faculty I to present a speech concern ing syllabi procedures. Some professors were receptive, some disagreed, others mere ly turned themselves off. The question was whether Acade mic Dean Cyril H. Harvey will enforce the already existing provisions concerning syllabi, or continue to ignore them. The text of the Freund speech was: At present, Guilford College has a problem concerning syllabi procedures. Quite simply, some of you arc upholding the practice and others are not. This signifies to a concerned student and others, a major problem. Namely that those disregard ing the practice are violating Section 111 of the Teaching Faculty Responsibilities which upon being hired these individuals promised to up hold. In relation to this matter it reads, "Professors are expected to prepare syllabi for all courses. Syllabi should include course objectives. Guilford On ABC News The following was broadcast 1 by Edward P. Morgan, this semester's Woodrow Wilson 1 Fellow, over ABC news on '■ Friday. March 28th. This is Edward P. Morgan. ABC News Greensboro, North I Carolina, with the Shape ot ] One Man's Opinion. A look at 1 a hotbed of hopefulness after 1 this word. Things are bad. Fresh turbulence in the Middle East. A bloody climax building in Indo china. The world's economy battered from two directions. Joblessness still a heavy and mounting burden at home, with summer a brooding question mark over how much trouble to expect from a restive school popula tion if work doesn't matcria ' lize for the vacation months. Forty per cent and more of teen-age blacks in major cities are already idle, a danger sign that should galvanize officials to swift and proper remedial action. Yet there are oases here and there across the land shielded from the storm, not isolated Shangri-Las ignorant of the problems but protected c nough to reflect and prepare. These are the campuses of higher learning. A special one is Guilford College on thc* westerrt edge of Greensboro, North Carolina. The sap is running at Guilford. The stately trees on course outlines, required and suggested readings, test and , paper requirements, atten dance policy and grading policies. Copies of syllabi are to be distributed to students and must be filed in departmental offices." My suggestion to the faculty body present and absent is that either we uphold the responsibilities related to instruction and fire those not complying or we delete from the Faculty Handbook all * matters concerning syllabi. If we retain syllabi procedures at | Guilford College may I i suggest two additions to the 1 section. First: "That all syllabi for courses in their respective departments be posted on the 1 Department's bulletin board at least by the day of registration." Reason being all students interested in a course could study, prior to registration, the guidelines and requirements set forth by the professor, thus greatly decreasing the amount of drop Cont. on Page 7 Page 5 the gently rolling greensward are threatening to leaf out. The fruit blossoms are already ahead of them. Soon white wax petals will festoon the dogwoods. Students and faculty are digging into the past, present and future with both wariness and /est. Guilford, a Quaker school in one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished Quaker communities, is a hotbed of hopefulness in a world reeling dangerously toward cynicism. There is history here and it has rubbed off on Guilford. The first Friends Meeting of Quaker settlement was esta blished here in the Piedmont at the foot of the Blue Ridge in 1680. Although some rich Quakers owned slaves, there was strong agitation against slavery in the 1840s and Guilford was a "stop" on the underground railway helping slaves escape to the north. So it's hardly a surprise that the civil rights lunch counter sit-ins of the 1950s began here in Greensboro. The Guilford campus vibrated with the militancv of protect in the 60s against the war in Vietnam. In the Quaker tradition of non-violence, Grimsley T. Hobbs, president of the college, was a prominent protestor himself. The red brick and white 'columns of Guilford's Geor gian buildings on the campus quadrangle house more than books, classrooms and student dorms. Quaker educators somehow manage to inject a vibrant reflectiveness into their institutions that weaves a strong thread of consciousness into the fabric of life: A graceful awareness of right and wrong that can only be called civilized. Greensboro has not escaped facial violence. Things arc mightily improved now and observers believe a major factor is Guilford's Urban Center where 750 adults take day and evening classes, to upgrade their careers. One of the most successful courses is on the problems of lawn enforcement, and among its most willing students arc policemen and sheriff's depu ties. Understanding between the community and officers of the law, says one faculty member, has never been better. I'll have a footnote in 30 seconds. Quakers use the word "concern" when facing is sues. Guilford College demon strates a concerned about the world.
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