October 4,1977
ERA, Marijuana, and Liquor Discussed in
Senate Forum
On Wednesday, September
28, three state senators, Mc-
Neill Smith, Kathy Sebo, and
Rachel Gray, held an informal
forum to answer questions
from students, faculty, and
members of the community
interested in current politics
in North Carolina. Six people
showed up for the forum.
The question of why the
Equal Rights Amendment did
not pass in the senate was
foremost in the minds of
participants. All three senators
supported the ERA, and
Rachel Gray said, "I was
terribly disappointed." She
feels that equal rights for
women is a long overdue re
form. The ERA will not come
before the senate again until
January, 1979.
A bill currently before the
senate proposing that liquor
be sold by the bottle in Grade
A restaurants was also discus
sed. Kathy Sebo explained
that the bill would provide a
local option: each community
would hold an election to
decide if liquor should be sold
Scholarship Society Inducts 17
The Guilford Scholarship
Society held its first meeting
Wednesday September 26th
for the purpose of recognizing
new members. Advisor
Rudy Gordh and President
Bobbie Jones introduced the
President's Committee which
consists of Phil Manz, Amie
Fort and Jim Hood to the
group and recognized the
following new members: Scott
Culclasure, Amie Fort, Donna
Harris, Jim Hood, David
Hurley, Bobbie Kent, Lynn
Lippincott, Phil Manz, Vance
Massey, Connie Mazzoli, Jan
ice Poston, Bonnie Pratt,
Susan Sabanos, Jeanette
Sachs, Mae Sexauer, Deborah
History Club News
The History Club met
September 21 for planning
and election of officers. With
Martha Cooley as advisor, the
club discussed projects for
the first semester. There are
plans for a field trip and picnic
at the Guilford Courthouse
Battlefield, discussion groups
about selected readings, and
films of past or current history.
Club members also discussed
the need for revision of the
History curriculum. Tentative
plans were made for a party
by the drink. If the community
approves it, the individual res
taurants will decide what per
mit they want: one allowing
liquor by the drink only, liquor
by the drink and brown
bagging, or just brown
bagging. Senator Sebo
added, "much of the opposition
to this bill comes from people
who realize that liquor will be
much more expensive by the
drink." She supports the bill,
however, feeling that brown
bagging is much more
offensive to non-drinkers than
liquor served by the drink.
Other developments in the
state senate include a law
recently passed which
reduced the penalty for first
time marijuana violations to a
maximum fine of SIOO. The
senators were concerned with
the large difference in
penalties for first and second
time offenses, and hoped to
see more equitable laws
passed in the near future.
Some very interesting
discussion stemmed from a
question by a brave individual
Stoessel and Virginia
Wagoner.
Members inducted last
spring are Cyd Atkins, Ellen
Cashwell, Randy Catoe, Pat
Collins, Andrea Deagon,
Debra Doggett, Robin Ernest,
Marianne Frierson, Joel
Groce, Charles Haworth, Sue
Hughes, Dan Hurley, Bobbie
Jones, Kathy Jones, James
Osborne, John Poag, Mark
Snyder and Carolyn Williams.
An organizational and
planning meeting will be held
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
5, FROM 5:15 UNTIL 6:15 PM
IN THE EAST DINING ROOM.
All members are requested to
attend.
to be held for History Club
members at Henry Hood's
house.
No officers from last year
returned, so a new slate was
elected. They are as follows:
President: Mark Mc Donald
Vice-President: Frances
Alexander
Secretary: Frances Henderson
Treasurer: John Pendergrass
All History Majors and anyone
with an interest in history is
invited to join.
Guilfordian
who admitted to knowing little
about North Carolina politics
and wondered how he cold
become more involved.
McNeill Smith suggested
working in a candidate's
campaign such as his
campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Rachel Gray stressed the im
portance of citizen
involvement in precinct
meetings, admitting, how
ever, that they are often quite
dull. Kathy Sebo said that
letters are an important
contact with her constituents.
She admitted that they are not
an accurate guage of public
opinion, but often a source of
different and interesting out
looks on a problem.
Everyone was disappointed
that the forum did not attract
more students, but delighted
to have the chance to talk
informally with the senators.
Hopefully people will realize
next time that one need not
be a political activist to attend
a senate forum and they will
take advantage of this rare
opportunity.
Too Close for Comfort
BY PAT STABLER
Calling Guilford an Ivory
Tower is admittedly like saying
there are snakes in the lake,
but Taxi Driver in both its
content and people's
reactions to it, leads me
irresistably to try and
describe some of those snakes.
The movie is set in New
York City, with Robert DeNiro
playing Travis, a completely
alienated, distressed individ
ual. We first identify with him,
despite the barrenness and
dreariness of his life, because
he is dealing with the cir
cumstances in a way we can
understand. He chronicles his
thoughts, spawned by lone
liness and sleepless nights, in
a journal, and finally reaches
out toward another person.
That person is Betsy, who
is working in a Presidential
campaign office. She is highly
idealized, and when she
responds Travis feels that at
last he has found an authentic
person. At this point, our
identification shifts, however.
Travis bungles the potential
friendship by taking Betsy to a
porno flick, a move that is
natural within his world; he is
bewildered by the resulting re
jection. We feel that she is
right, somehow, but the
movie carries us with him
beyond this point where, like
Betsy, we would have refused
to see more. (Many people in
Column I
This past week, while I was gathering rosebuds behind!
Bryan, one of the Flying Martini Brothers flew by and knocked!
me on the ground. Stunned, I attempted to collect my
brown paper bag and its contents. But, alas, the cups and
dishes that I had borrowed from the cafeteria had shattered
into sparkle-bursts of fragmented glass. So much for trying
to complete Pammy Jo's set of dishes! Our nuptual pattern
was to be Cafeteria Crustware. But, at lest the seven years!
bad luck brought about a welcomed marriage postponement. 1
(What an appropriate time for the disco version of the
"Hallelujah Chorus!")
I don't want you to think that I'm always complaining. I have
found much pleasure, and many good points, here. At what
other school would the student union sponsor a finger
painting contest? r a dance with those novices of nighttime
entertainment, the Rockin-pneumatic Nuns? or an exotic
dance demonstration by Madame Gladine? Only at Guilford
College would we find such cultural offerings.
Bertie Lou phoned me today. She informed me that she
and her Binford Buddies, or rather Buddettes, are designing
a new doll, Binford Barbie, the battery-operated bed-toy. It's
refreshing to come across such innovative entrepreneurs.
As for myself, I'm spending most of my time these days
in the geology lab. Sure, things are slow, but then again, I used
to live in George White House.
I guess, noble reader, I ought to terminate my literary
lingering I still have a few chapters to read in Savage Surfer,
the memoirs of a violated beach-bunny.
Big Col
Coming soon: how SAC abolished itself and how I wrote a
paragraph of mandatory sentences.
the Guilford audience left
shortly after this happened.)
The content of the movie
does indeed become upsetting,
as we watch Travis train him
self for murder, with fearful
intensity. He also befriends
an adolescent prostitute, who
eventually forms the focus
from which he bursts into
violence. What is important,
though, is the manner in
which the action is dealt. We
are swept into Travis' world
in which his reaction is psyco
logically verv real and under
standable. For him, the pimps,
the drug dealers, the clientel
of both, the petty thieves,
are all so much trash, like the
garbage he complains about
littering the street. And he
realizes it is a world that Betsy
and her Presidential candidate
do not care to see. The
murders he commits enables
the girt prostitute to go home
to her very grateful family.
Travis accepts, however, that
he has no choice but to stay
among the filth and violence,
the price of that admission
costs him his sanity.
At the end of the movie,
we see Betsy, who is left on
the curb side by Travis, fas
cinated grotesquely by the
twisted heroism of his actions.
But secretly, we are glad of
being able to walk into that
ivory tower and say to the
elevator man, "Eighth floor,
please."
Page Three
Colloquium
Schedule
"The Hero" is the subject
of the Guilford College
Faculty Colloqium to be held
at 3:30 p.m. most Wednesdays
through Dec. 7 in the Gallery
of Founders Hall. All sessions
are open to the public at no
charge.
Therew ill be no session
Oct. 19 because of fall break
nor Nov. 23 because of the
Thanksgiving holiday.
Dates, speakers and individ
ual topics are:
Sept. 28, Jim Gutsell, "Is
There a Hero?"; Oct. 5, Rose
Simon, "George Chapman's
The Courtier Hero in Bussy
Plays;" Oct. 2, Nick McDowell,
"The Outlaw As Hero;" and
Oct. 26, BHI Burris, "The Hero
and American Presidential
Politics." ~
Also, Nov. 2, John Stone
burner, "Thoreau: The Hero
and The WildernesV' and
Melvin Keiser, "The Scientist
As Hero II: An Archeology
of Loren Eiseley's Theopoetic
Quest;" and Nov. 9, Jerry
Godard and Dick Morton,
"Explorations About Ahab of
Moby Dick."
Also, Nov. 16, Ann Deagon
and Carol Stonebumer, "Auto
biography and The Woman
Hero;" Nov. 30, Donald
Deagon, "The Hero in Drama;"
and Dec. 7, Ed Lowe, "The
Heroin Opera."