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January 30,1979 Editorial Milner destruction costs a By SUSAN SHUFORD Glass smashed, walk kicked in, marble bathroom partitions destroyed, lights short-circuited and slashed upholstry are only a sample of the increasing wave of vandalism flooding Guilford and almost every other college and university throughout the nation. Vandalism is the willful, unprov oked destruction of property. It is anger vented on inanimate objects. Many experts agree that campus vandalism occurs most often in sterile surroundings which students view as the property of some impersonal "they." The high STUDENTS Infirmary: 8-3 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Clinic Hours: 8-9 p.m. Mon., Tues., Wed.,andFri. After 3 p.m. and Weekends see intern or coordinator or call 292-8187 Editorial The Calm Seventies? With a clink of a champagne glass I ushered in the new year in calm oblivion this year, not stopping to think that this was to be the last year of an entire decade. While it's true that the emotions and activities represented by a parti cular decade rarely fall within an exact ten-year span (the 60's didn't end until the Vietnam War ended), generalizations about the 70's are already being printed. In a recent issue of Time Magazine characterized this decade as "the calm 70's," but I've seen a different feeling emerging over the past couple of years. While studying last semester in Munich I was exposed to students who were not lethargically passing idle comments about the world of today. Posters, speeches, and pamphlets seemed a way of life for a few, and the majority of the student body expressed a genuine interest in the events going on around them. The city of Munich was their campus; the sidewalks, their podiums. Last Tuesday's PCB (polychlorin ated buphenyls) rally gave me an equally good feeling about Guilford. As an information source it was invaluable, and as a thermometer of the campus, and of the 70's, it read accurately. rate of destruction in both Founders and Milner bears out this hypothesis. Public areas such as halls, bath rooms, and the recreation room have been hardest hit, while there have been few incidents of students mistreating their rooms. At one point during first semester exams, a breakdown in staffing caused Founders to be left open and unmanned overnight. Severe vandalism in the recreation room resulted. Although there are innumerable explanations for vandalism, there is no excuse. One cannot dismiss vandalism at Guilford simply because Founders was left unstaffed, or by A diverse group of people, includ ing members of the African Libera tion support committee and Guilford's own Dr. Ted Benfey, spoke at the rally. At the heart of most accomplishments of the 70's are people from all walks of life, united only by common causes or enemies. They are dedicated people working for an issue they believe in, or against abominations they abhor. Admittedly the 70's have not been filled with the violent protest marches and virulent anti-establish ment demonstrations of the 60 's, but this fact does not diminish the quality of what has been accomplish ed. The 70's have their own unique qualities. The embryonic, and sometimes overlooked, activities of this decade have been slow moving but well-planned. The civil rights issues and anti war arguments arose in an era of liberalism, and were resolved with liberal ideas and laws. The conser vative mood of the country at present should be viewed not as a period of reversals; rather, it signals a time of realignment and thought fulness. The 70's were, and still are, imaginative, pensive, and even unobtrusive years, but calm is and adjective that is too exhausted to apply. Guilfordian blaming it on the large impersonal atmosphere of Milner. To do so is comparable to a judge letting off a known rapist because his victim, a young and pretty girl, "brought the crime upon herself." Milner and Founders don't "attract" vandalism; people, both Guilford students and others have created it. Currently college policy dictates that unless person(s) responsible can be found, charges for vandalism will be levied against the hall, dorm, etc. where the damage occured. Many students believe this is unfair to those who didn't contribute to the damage. Admittedly the situation is not ideaL, yet if not for this policy, the entire student body would be forced to pay for the actions of a few through increased tuition and higher activity fees. Responsible attitudes are the key to reducing the high incidence of pillage and destruction permeating Dear Editor. We are writing to encourage all members of the Guilford College community to join the ongoing boy cott of products produced by Nestle, the largest food processor in the world. The reason for the boycott is Nestle's all too successful efforts to convince impoverished and uneducated women in third world countries that the "modern" way to raise children is with powdered milk formulas. Many of these women, persuaded by Nestle's employees and advertisements that they don't want to be "old fashioned" and breast feed their infants, come to misuse the pow dered preparations. Their children die of malnutrition. This happens for a number of reasons: some families can't afford the powdered milk preparation, and try to stretch it by adding more and more water to less and less powder, some can't read the directions on the package (which are often in a foreign language); and some know nothing of sterilization, or can't afford to pay for the fuel to sterilize the water. The marketing strategy used by Nestle's is to send women dressed in white to rural villages. These "milk nurses," who may or may not be real nurses, dispense free packets to show the women of the village how easy it is to be "modern" rather than "old fashioned.'' Many babies have died as a result of Neslte's attempt to create a new market for itself. Dr. Derrick Jelliffe of the UCLA School of Public Health reports that Guilford. Bob White, the housing staff and the Senate are actively seeking ways to instill student pride in their surroundings. These include letting students paint their rooms and halls and put up murals, thus GUILFORDIAN Editor Susan Shuford Assistant Editor Bob Via Sports Editor Steve Lindsay News Editor Brian Carey Feature Editor Jim Hood Club Contact Tamara Frank Public Relations Karen Ratledge, Jane Phipps-Boger Photographers Steve Lowe, Corky Williams Art Scott Davilla, David Jewett, Jody Mark off Columnists Susan Ide, Richard Fulton, Gwen Bikis Sports Dan Fayne Reporters Gordon Palmer, Caroline Coles, Jenny Kraar, Jim Pritchitt, Susan Ide, Debby Baine, Suzette Holbrook, Jane Allen, David Brawn, BetfaEakes Friends Dave Owens, Claude Shots, Richie Zwiegenhauft, Tendai Mutunhu Boycott alert "as many as ten million cases of malnutrition a year can be traced to bottle feeding." And Dr. J. Kreysler, indicating the growing concern on the part of the World Health Organization, points out that "the milk companies are creating a magic belief in the white man' powder." In most Third World countries, where pure water and knowledge of sterilization procedures are scarce, artificial milk formulas (which, by the way, lack certain natural anti bodies found in mother's milk) are dangerous. Improperly prepar ed, the bottle is a breeding ground for bacteria that cause acute diarrhea, malnutrition and death. Further more, the formula can cost a large part of the family's income. In Pakistan, for example, it is estimated that bottle feeding a single infant can cost more than 40% of the average family's income. In the past year, public pressure has succeeded in forcing the Bristol Myers Company, Abbott laboratories and others to agree not to use mass media advertising campaigns in Third World countries, and to restrict their use of "milk nurse'' sales personnel. But Neslte's profit-hungry baby profits division continues to send uniformed "milk nurses" to the homes of new mothers, hawks its products from magazine pages and transistor radios, and supplies doctors and clinics with truckloads of free samples, urging them to get new mothers started on the formula from the first day of the child's life. Many groups and individuals have endorsed the Nestle Boycott page three curbing the impersonality of many dorms. Until such improvements can be put into effect, Guilford will have to rely on thorough staffing and stricter regulations to halt the tide of vandalism. already, including Ralph Nader, Gloria Steinem, Cesar Chavez, Harry Chapin, Benjamin Spock, several U.S. Congresspersons, many national religious and political organizations, and the American Medical Student Association. We hope all concerned members of our community will avoid buying any products carrying the follow ing brand names: Nescafe Choco-Chill Taster's Choice QUDC Sunrise Coffee Nesde Chocolate DeCaf CRUNCH Pero Souptime Nestea Maggi Lancome Deer Park Moun cosmetics tain Spring L'oreal cosmetics Water Crosse & Black- Stouffer well Stouffer hotels Libby & Lubby Swiss Knight Los Hermanos Cheese Wine Beringer Bros. Wine In addition, we hope you will write Mr. David Guerrant who is the President of the Nesde Co., 100 Bloomingdale Rd., White Plains, New York, 10605, to tell him that you've joined the boycott. (You will receive an elaborate reply Nesde has already expanded its public relations department to respond to such letters.) The Nesde Boycott is already the largest nonunion boycott in Ameri can history. We hope you will help inform Neslte that we won't let them grow fat at the expense of starving babies. Sincerely, Tendai Mutunhu Richie Zweigenhaft
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