Volume LXV, No. 13
Inauguration addresses excellence
Speakers focus on education
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Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Seth Macon presents Dr
William Rogers as the sixth president of Guilford College.
Warming up in the gym
By Mike Van Wagner
In an earlier issue of the
Cuilfordian it was reported that
the operation of the new gym
was running rather smoothly.
However, upon our return three
weeks ago the pool was closed,
there was increasing dissatis
faction with the hours available
for student use of the facility,
and in addition to cracks in its
floor, the new gym was cold.
Geoff Miller, director of the
facility, addressed all of these
problems in a recent interview.
Contrary to the popular be
lief,- the heating system in
Ragan-Brown Field House was
not broken. The closed pool and
cold gym were the result of the
same problem; an inadequate
temperature in the heat sink.
The sink, which lies below the
gym collects arid stores heat in
the earth. As additional heat is
stored the temperature in the
sink graduaJly rises and at 110
degrees it is able to heat the
facility properly regardless of
the temperature outside. Since
the gym's opening in October
the sink had only stored enough
heat to reach a temperature of
around 90 degrees. This was
sufficient during the warmer
Autumn months, but when the
weather turned frigid in Jan
uary, the increased demand
reduced the sink's temperature
to 73 degrees and a cold facility
resulted.
At that time a decision was
Giiilfor clian
made to close the pool, thereby
increasing the heat supply for
the gym. Although the students
were on break the decision
remained, in the words of
Miller, "a very sensitive issue"
because of the YMCA use of the
pool.
At the advice of the architect
(Daniel F. Tully,) a hot water
pipe was linked from a boiler in
Alumni Gymnasium to the heat
sink in the hope of artifically
raising its temperature. The
move proved effective and with
in a week the temperature was
back up to 90 degrees.
Although the heat sink is
Don't Jet the flu bug bite
Watch where you sleep
By John Mottern
According to Dr. Doolittle the
flu outbreak at Guilford has.
passed the critical point and
seems to be subsiding. The two
types of flu that have afflicted
many seem to live for
four to seven days if there are
no complications. The most
"popular" is the Bangkok Flu,
which effects the respiratory
system. The other is an un
named flu which effects the
stomach.
The student health center has
been seeing about fifty students
a week, and finds that some
students develop ear and sinus
infections that need closer at
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. 27410
By Katie Lutz
"The goal which I believe we
must seek through the chal
lenge of this century and the
next is that of an education
which inspires both a love of the
good and the good of love; both
excellence and benevolence,"
said William Raymond Rogers,
the new president of Guilford
College, in his inauguration
address Saturday morning.
President Roger's inaugura
tion address, entitled "Excel
lence and Benevolence: a Guil
ford Prospective for a New
Century," dealt with the chal
lenges facing the college "pro
foundly important realities to
which thoughtful educational
planning at Guilford must be
directed." These problems not
only include those of material
importance, such as the increas
ing population, shortages of
resources, and environmental
contamination, but social pro-
Dlems brought about by increas
ng technological advances.
In addition, there are spiri
tual and emotional challenges
which President Rogers attri
again providing heat for the
gym and pool areas, it is not yet
capable of heating the pool
water, Realizing the necessity
of the pool for maintaining
support from the Y (which pays
40% of all costs for the facility)
the college installed a propane
heating system in mid-January
and reopened the pool. The
propane system is still being
used and will be until the heat
sink gains the capacity to heat
the pool or until a better
alternative is found.
The cracks in the Chem-Turf
surface of the new gym have
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tention. The flu was probably
brought back bv some unsus
pecting soul after Christmas
vacation and once on campus it
"spread like wild fire," accord
ing to Doolittle.
Guilford is actually doing
much better than some other
colleges. At Davidson, where
the flu has reached the epi
demic stage, about five hundred
students were'afflicted with flu.
The college had to close for a
while to get things under con
trol.
And a warning to the wise ■
don't drink from someone else's
glass, take plenty of vitamin C,
ind watch where you sleep.
butes to "psychological triviali
zation and the loss of a believ
able 'center,' the problem of
anomie." Rogers says, "We
live in a climate that is increas
ingly cynical about anything
really worth believing, anything
profound enough to build one's
iire around."
Complimenting the "funda
mental intellectual ability in
analyzing, synthesizing, and ar
ticulating ideas" students gain
at Guilford College, they must
also develop a "sensitivity to
moral values and just human
consequences." Rogers warns
that "mastery, pursuit, and
conquest, even of significant
social problems, is a hazardous
goal in itself. For it may so
easily seduce us into infatuation
with our own powers, disguise
an awareness of our finitude,
and dull our compassion for the
perspectives and needs of
others." However, Rogers says
that "somewhere in the balance
of commitment to ideals, and
realism about the soft under
belly of human nature, we may
find both courage and humility"
with which to undertake the
challenges facing students.
In addition to the inaugural
address made by President
Rogers, an address was given
by invited speaker, Patricia
Alberg Graham, Charles War
ren Professor of History of
Education at Harvard Univer
sity.
Professor Graham's address
dealt with the changing atti-
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Guilford students John Massey and April Reedy make it look easy
as they dance at the Inaugural Ball.
February 3, 1981
tudes towards education in this
country, from its founding to
the present. According to Gra
ham, the emphasis of education
has moved from that of produc
ing societal benefits, such as a
sense of nationalism in the late
18th and early 19th centuries,
and increased agricultural and
industrial production in the late
19th and early 20th centuries, to
producing individual benefits
such as equal educational op
portunity in the mid 20th cen
tury. She stated that the goals
for education in the present and
the future should be directed
towards the individual and the
society as a whole, towards
developing a sense of equity
within the students.
The purpose of a liberal arts
education, says Graham, is to
enhance "knowledge, morality,
and action," and to make
students aware of the demands
of all three The value of an
education should be judged by
one's performance in life, not
just by the paid work they do
after college.
In addition to the members of
the Guilford College com
munity, including the faculty,
trustees, former Presidents (ex
cluding Grimsley Hobbs), and a
few students, the ceremony was
attended by delegates from 184
colleges and universities across
the country. The program in
cluded musical performances by
the college choir, the Matrix
Brass Quintet, and Michael R
Rudd, organist.