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Editorial
Wake up; y
By Brian Carey
Editor
Americans have become increasingly enamored of arriving late
to functions, funerals, festivities, and whatever else has a
scheduled starting time.
In fact, this malaise, previously confined only to the very
fashionable and very rude, has cancerously crept throughout our
entire society. To be late is the norm, and punctuality has become
an anathema.
Students arrive late to classes, and perhaps a few feel slightly
sheepish, but they are quickly emboldened by the arrival of the
teacher ten minutes later. By the time a quorum has been reached,
many precious minutes have ticked away.
In decades past, a boy expected to tarry downstairs with the folks
and exchange pleasantries, while his calculating date powdered her
nose and watched the clock upstairs. Now boy meets girl, sets date,
arrives late, beeps horn, and yells out car window. So much for the
folks.
Not only has the American social life been deeply affected, but
also our foreign affairs have manifested the tragic symptoms. We
were late in Panama, late in Iran, late in Nicaragua, and late in
NATO. Because of our tardiness, America has appeared to its
friends and enemies to be reacting, when we were actually acting,
only late.
History contains only sad accounts of people and things that were
late. Marie Antoinette could still have her head if she had offered
the masses cake earlier. Nixon could have fooled us all if he had
been earlier in his denunciation of the break-in at the Watergate
Hotel.
Marie Antoinette could still have her head
if she had offered the masses cake earlier.
An ancient fish, the coelocanth, was caught recently, was
determined to be late for present history, and was promptly
stuffed. Moses was late in returning from his talk with Cod, and
consequently broke his tablets.
But the pace of infection has rapidly sped up within the past
decade, and the forecast is depressingly bleak and glum;
continuing procrastination and chronic tardiness.
A sampling of the big offenders of the last decade simply boggles
the mind with its scope and diversity. Babies were late, winter was
late, the mail was late, Chicago paychecks were late, and Skylab
was late (or at least not punctual).
Flower blooms were late in opening, Riverfront Stadium doors
were late in opening, and now the Olympics could possibly be late
in opening. Ted Kennedy was late in turning, Bakke was late in
applying, and Amin was late in leaving
Tardiness showed up in other places, also. Solar energy is late, a
new alcohol policy is late, the gym is late, my graduation is late,
and last semester's grades were late. Even the swallows at the
Capistrano monastery in California have been off schedule a couple
of times (Let's hear it for those punctual buzzards!). About the only
people who have been early have been the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Before it's too late, we'd better put a halt to the late-race and
begin a slow return to punctuality. But until then, it might be
helpful to relearn an old nursery rhyme:
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I'm tired as hell and really beat.
If I die now I'll really be late.
Just tell St. Peter to hold the gate.
GmlfordianL
Editor Brian Carey
News Editor Paul Holcomb
Features Editor Gordon Palmer
Photography Editor Steve Lowe
Business Managers Frank and Mary Merritt
Columnists Douglas Hasty, Bryan Smith
Campus Contact Tamara Frank
Circulation Joost De Wit, Peter Kothe
Layout Russell Tucker, Sharon Ehly,
Stephen Harvey, Karen Oppelt
Austin Burns and Marsha Halper
Advertising Kathe Luther, Fred Zumwait
Typing Susan Franklin
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and artwork for taste, veracity, and length. The deadline for
all copy is midnight on the Friday proceeding the Tuesday of
publication. Articles may be left on the office door in upstairs
Founders, or mailed to Box 17717. The opinions expressed by
the staff are their own and not those of the paper or of
Guilford College.
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AT LEAST WE'RE NOT BOARD. . .
Want a power trip?
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offended."
Two of the advantages of
being editor are meeting num
erous faculty and administra
tion and lots of invitations to free
dinners.
Carey's biggest emphasis
was that, being an editor is "a
power trip." Anything he want
ed to say, he said. If he was in
favor of an issue, he printed
articles that favored that issue.
For instance, Carey was in favor
of the power boost for WQFS,
the campus radio station. So he
had articles written in favor for
the increase.
The actual duties of the editor
consist of opening the mail and
separating it. Carey also checks
all copy and reserves the right
for the final edit. He plans
special features, and is the
representative of the Guilford
ian to the faculty and Commun
ity Senate.
Some of the changes Carey is
responsible for are a better
rapport with the faculty and
stability for this weekly tabloid.
He feels that a better sense of
community between Guilford
students, faculty, and the busi
ness area surrounding Guilford
has developed because of the
paper. This last group has been
brought closer by distributing
papers in Quaker Village, and
featuring articles about the
community.
Changing the actual appear
ance of the paper was easy,"
said Carey. "In the future, it
will be harder to refine the
quality of articles submitted,
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
One more note concerning
the signs. I think it is terrible
that the college had to even
resort to any means at all to
keep people off the grass. The
sayings were only to get peo
ple's attention not to insult
them.
If you feel insulted, it is only
because you are still walking on
the grass after having read the
signs. Doesn't anyone have
respect for other's property
anymore? This not only includes
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employ a bigger staff, and get
more advertising."
In ordr to file an application
for editor, one must first pick up
the application from the Infor
mation Desk located in Found
ers Hall, and fill it out.
After it is completed and
handed in at the Information
Desk, the application is brought
before the Publications Board.
The Board then chooses the
best qualified applicant. In last
the grounds, but the buildings
and college vehicles also (such
as the Security Jeep being
pushed into the ditch).
The "Blue Flash" did not
help the appearance at all; as a
matter of fact, I think he/she
made it look worse. If you have
any complaints, go to the people
in charge and voice your opin
ions; don't resort to some
cowardly high-schoolish prank
and think this will correct the
problem.
Respectfully,
Jean Apple
January 22,1980
year's case, only one applica
tion was submitted
If you still want to be editor,
there is one thing to remember;
besides the glory of running a
newspaper, there is a lot of
abuse that goes with the job. If
you want to be immortalized
and can't afford to have a
building named after you, then
the next best way to be a
8.M.0.C. is to become editor of
the Guilfordian.
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