November 15,1977
AF
BY AMY FRIBUSH
and ARLENE FURMAN
We feel it is our duty as
loyal upright citizens of the
Greensboro community to
take this time and space in
order to warn the Guilford
campus of an upcoming
seige of rhinoceroses. Beware
of this intrusion!
The take-over is due to
happen Thursday, November
17, at 8:15 and could and
will last as long as until
Sunday. You may be asking
yourself exactly what is the
meaning of all this? Allow us
to assist in the explanation.
Guilford's acting troupe,
.Revelers', will be presenting
their fall production Rhinoceros,
a French comedy by Eugene
lonesco, in Sternberger Audi
torium for free. The main
character, Berenger, portrayed
by Ray Rinchuiso, is a disso
lute alcoholic and unhappy
slob. He is likable but not
very efficient and dissatisfied
with himself and the way life
treats him.
Gradually the town that
Berenger lives in is taken over
by rhinoceri. First, one is seen
running down the street. Next,
the wife of a co-worker explains
that the reason her husband
European Tour for Teachers
Guilford College's Seminars
Abroad program which
conducts tours of Europe for
students in summer and adults
in fall and spring is offering
a trip next summer for
teachers, also.
The 21 -day tour is set for
June 19 to July 10, 1978, and
will visit Amsterdam, Paris,
Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Bern,
Wengen and Geneva. The
group will have dinner in most
cities with local teachers.
Persons interested in receiv
ing a free brochure describing
the tour may contact Mrs.
Helen Thomas, New Garden
Halt, Guilford College, Greens
boro, N.C. 27410 or Mrs.
Eddie Lou Black, 429 Greenway
Dr., Eden, N.C. 27288.
Art, architecture, history
and government are among
the subjects to be explored by
the Seminars Abroad group.
Eight to 10 of the great
museums of Europe will be
visited, with hundreds of others
available to members during
their allotted free time.
Most of the transportation
will be by air to reduce
travel time to a minimum.
However, to enjoy the Bavarian
Alps and Swiss scenery, the
Stand by for Rhinoceri
couldn't come into work is
because he had turned into a
rhinoceros. People every
where are changing.
Berenger's best friend, Jean,
played by Don Wagoner,
metamorphisizes right before
his very eyes. Amidst an argu
ment with another friend,
Dudar, depicted by Andy
Milliken, on whether or not
they should give in and become
rhinoceroses or remian
human, Dudard himself
changes and rushes out.
Berenger is left with his love,
Daisy, interpreted by Lilli
Schacklett, and they speak
of how to reassert humanism
into the world in the face of
all these rhinoceri. She leaves
realizing that she could not
make a good life with him, and
Berenger is the only human
being left which the rhino
ceroses snort and stampede
all around him.
Several underlying themes
can be found in lonesco's
satire: conformity vs. non
conformity, the preservation
of the individual's dignity in
the face of an increasingly
insensitive world, and the
individual vs. society's values
having been debased by
materialism. It deals subtley
group will travel by train from
Munich to Bern, Bern to the
resort town of Wengen and
then to Geneva.
D.C. or Bust
A select few from the
Philologist's Chowder and
Marching Society will be over
running the grand city of
Washington, D.C., Friday
throuqh Sunday, November
18-20.
The "invasion" will include
a tour of Langley Space
Flight Center on Friday and a
visit to the Smithsonian Air
and Space Museum Saturday.
Says Helene Dauerty,
PCMS President:
"We are interested in
speaking to people engaged in
research at Langley to get
some ideas of job opportunities
in physics, as well as to see
how physicists do their jobs.
"The Smithsonian is always
interesting to visit of course.
We also hope to take advant
age of a cultural center like
Washington, so we have
scheduled some free time on
Saturday afternoon, and Friday
and Saturday nights to enjoy
the city itself."
Bon voyage!
Guilfordian
with the manner in which
machines and technology
have taken over.
Berenger represents a
commonality that everybody
shares. There are some ele
ments in his character that
everyone can see in themselves.
The audience will be able to
get a vision of themselves
and society and a chance for
laughter at the same time.
lonesco's play is a prime
example of Theatre of the
Absurd which is derived from
the Existentialist theory that
man starts with nothing and
ends with nothing. This is
taking real life situations to
as far an extreme as possible
and giving absurd connotations
to them. In this case, every
one feels the need to conform
and the conformity takes on
unrealistic proportions.
Theatre of the Absurd
doesn't necessarily mean
everything is ridiculous and
beyond reason. It takes life
as more or less devoid of
meaning and portrays this to
the audience in fantastic
ways. The main attempts
of Rhinoceros is to point out
how to recognize and find
meaning in a meaningless
world.
Selection of SAC May Not Be Fair
BY BECKY SENSEMAN
The Senate is presently re
viewing the selection process
of the Student Affairs Com
mittee. As it stands now,
interested students who meet
the requirements submit a
paper to the community Senate
explaining his/her qualifica
tions.
Based on these papers and
a question-answer time the
Community Senate narrows
the number of nominees down
to ten. These ten are further
narrowed down to the desired
five by a selection committee
consisting of the Dean of
Students, Chairperson of SAC,
and the Executive Council.
They distribute questionnaires,
have personal interviews,
and discuss thoroughly each
person's application in order
to determine which people
should serve on SAC.
Some of the Senators
have been questioning the
fairness of this selection
process. They feel that the
Senate should have direct say
as to which five students
Fall Kaleidoscope
BY PAT STABLER
In the silence that broke
afi Meeting began this morn
ing, I was beseiged by a
series of delightful recollections
from the last couple months.
The first one was of the imme
diate past, and walking, practi
cally running across the
campus, my cheeks unused
yet to the cold. But I still
found the sensation and even
the autumn sky a delight.
I remembered then, another
running scene, but that time it
was night. It was fall break,
and the New York Seminar,
and Alice-like we were chasing
a rabbit's coattails that kept
disappearing into the faces of
Chinese, Italian, New York
Americans that caught our
curious eyes. Various smells -
bakeries, restaurants,
groceries - sent the juices
flowing in our newly arrived
Guilford mouths and our
hands reaching for our pockets.
We were only to be stopped
by the rabbit who looked
back anxiously - "We're late,
we're late." We could only
look on his distress with child
like wonder.
The next New York scene
that came to mind was of a
tired group walking rapidly in
the bowery towards an
alcohol rehabilitation center
and watching the bums begg
ing money from motorists
halted by the street lights.
I stopped to get some pictures.
are chosen for SAC. A
proposal has been made to
amend the procedures giving
the Senate the final say.
The purpose of the proposal,
however, is to spur thoughts
and questions concerning the
selection of SAC; to initiate
change, not necessarily to
bulldoze this stated proposal
through, but to pass a proposal
agreed upon.
The Student Affairs Com
mittee has recently been
chosen and asked to talk with
the Senate about their
impressions of the present
process. Frank Keegan, the
residing chairperson, expressed
his approval of the system
saying that: 1) There needs to
be a means of securing
trustworthy people, due to the
importance of SAC. 2) The
Senate cannot decide on
the basis of peoples' self
written statements who is
the best qualified to serve on
SAC. 3) The Executive Council,
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and ended up talking to three
of them - an interaction that
had a tense beginning, but
that resolved into their happily
posing for subway tokens
and eleven cents. That
moment, I think was the high
light of the trip, when arm in
arm they stood and smiled
proudly into the camera, and
I walked away with a real
feeling of their humanity.
The remaining memories
were of more recent vintage,
from Lindy Moore's tight,
powerful slide show of recent
women artists, to breakfast in
the dining room, huddled in
down jackets, a sausage skit
tering across the table. They
ranged from candelight dinner
with fried dog served by a
Carrot (who protested serving
the vegetarian dish), to a
private memory of studying in
the stacks and having the
chair slip on the cement
floor. There was nothing I
could do but laugh as I lay
on my back watching my book
teetor on the edge of the desk
and then fall onto my chest.
Last, I was in a forest of
swirling leaves, rapidly giving
in to the impulse to plunge
into the nearest pile, when
someone in the Meeting
spoke, bringing me to the
present. He spoke the
whole Meeting spoke in
silence or in words, to this
a celebration of life and hope
amidst the falling leaves.
which is elected by the
student body, is the students
in-put on the decision.
The voting on the proposal
has been postponed until
next semester to enable
students to have in-put upon
the decision and to enable
senators to decide if there is a
need for change and if so what
this change should be.
If you have any suggestions
or thoughts about this, talk
to your Senator, read the
procedure being followed
now and the proposal for how
it might be run (your Senator
should have this).
Think and talk with other
students and possibly SAC
members, (Paula Teague,
Bill Dam, Jane Griffis, Rick
Fonda, and Beth Barnard)
and be sure to let yourself be
known.
Apathy is not the name of
the game!