Guilfordian
Vol. LXV, No. 16
Four seek senate presidency
By Barbara Phillips
Senate and Union elections
will be held this Thursday and
Friday. There are four tickets in
the running for the Senate
offices. They are: Marie Bran
son, Katherine Helms, Steve
Trout; Martin Jones, Roger
Pettingell, Karrie Jo Manson;
Dennis Kirschbaum, Steve Har
vey, Beth Dußocher; and Mark
Mason, Paul Grube, and Ann
Stone.
According to Hugh Stohler,
who says it has been years since
four tickets have run in one
election, there is almost sure to
be a run-off. Run-off elections
will be held the following Wed
nesday.
Stohler believes that because
this is not likely to be a
"run-away" election, more stu
dents may participate in voting.
Last year, only about one-third
The Cuilfordian requested that each of the four tickets submit a
statement of their views in campaigning for Student Senate offices,
which are presented in the accompanying articles.
Kirschbaum
I didn't want to run, but I saw
the need for a fresh approach. It
seemed to me that something
had to be done, so I did it. There
are problems here. Big prob
lems. Some of the most obvious
examples are the lack of butter
in the cafeteria and the absence
of a metaphor committee.
Knowing that I couldn't do it all
alone, I called in some of the
most powerful minds on cam
pus. But they weren't interest
ed so I went to the fringe, and I
think we got a pretty good team
here.
What follows is our "State
ment of Purpose", a sort of call
to action for the students of
Guilford.
We had a vision of Guilford as
a community where everyone
frolicks barefood through the
grass, where people are ahppy
and smiling, where joyous stu
dents spread petals on the paths
they tread, where everyone is
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Dußocher, Kirshbaum and Harvey
of the students voted.
Stohler does not consider
"issues" to be of major impor
tance, for they tend to be about
the same year after year. He
considers style of leadership to
be of more concern to the
students and to the effective
ness of the Senate.
Stohler has noticed a trend in
the last three years on the part
of the Senate presidents that
indicates a greater concern for
Quaker values and the consen
sus method of decision making.
Candidates night is Tuesday
night (tonight) at 7:00. All
tickets will have a chance to
express their views.
There is only one ticket
running for the Union, which
will automatically receive the
positions. Daphne Brown is
heading a ticket that includes
Isa Cheren and Joel Richon.
greeted by a kiss, where death,
disease, and sickenss are vir
tually unknown, and where the
fragrance of perpetual spring
time fills the air.
But then we realized that this
wouldn't be so nice, cause the
flower petals would get caught
in your toes and begin to rot,
the paths would get muddy, and
let's face it, there are some
people whom you just don't
want to kiss. So we decided on
an alternative vision where
people go barefood when they
want to, smile when they feel
happy, and are somewhat more
discriminate in their kissing.
Because of the intense inter
est of the studentry in its
activities, we feel the Commu
nity Senate is the forum best
suited to the realization of
visions. However, in order to
make the senate a wieldy tool,
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Pettingell, Jones, and Manson
Jones
By Stan Givens
"We need to have the stu
dent governing body in good
order to be able to address the
issues at hand. We need to get
our own 'house' in order and to
enhance the perception of the
Senate as a responsible govern
ing organization, in the eyes of
both the students and College
administration," says Martin
Jones.
I spoke with Martin, who is
running for president of the
Community Senate, along with
Roger Pettingell (vice-president
and treasurer), and Karrie Jo
Man son (secretary), about a few
of their views concerning some
of the issues on campus and
also the positions they seek.
Martin, who is currently vice
president of the Senate, is
concerned, first of all, with
re-structuring the Community
Senate. To this end, Martin
proposes bi-weekly Senate
meetings with the "off week"
reserved for Senate committee
meetings. In this way "an
effective and functional commit
tee system can be established to
deal with the day-to-day issues
and free the Senate as a whole
body to address the more
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Marie Branson, Katherine
Helms and Steve Trout would
like to announce their candidacy
as a team rich in experience in
student action, initiative and
ideas. We hope you'll consider
us for those important Senate
positions on voting day
TACKLING THE MAJOR
ISSUES
Our primary concern is the
Senate's failure to address te
real problems and issues of
students. The Senate is more
substantive issues and prob
lems of students' -- those of
financial aid, projected prob
lems of the growth of the
College, the curriculum, prob
lems in residence halls, the new
Ragan-Brown Fieldhouse, and
the like," explains Martin.
Martin also proposes a "Sen
ate retreat with members of the
student body to discuss issues
of concern, to establish a feeling
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Mason
By Edwin Bass
Mark Mason has announced
his candidancy for Community
Senate President. Running
along with Mark for Vice-
President/Treasurer and Secre
tary and Paul Crube and Ann
Stone, respectively. These stu
dents are by no means stran
gers to student government
here at Guilford. Both Mark and
Ann serve on the Senate while
Paul is on House Council.
Several goals have already
emerged from Mark's cam
paign. The first of these deals
with the student government
student relationship. They feel
that at the present the relation
ship is weak, and they want
student government to become
closer to the students. "We
want the students to know who
their representatives are, and to
feel comfortable going to them
with issues and problems."
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Trout, Branson, and Helms
than an approval board for
budgets and club constitutions.
However, recently this has been
the Senate's major function.
Although these are important to
the Senate, there are other
pressing problems which the
Senate should address:
1) Curriculum
2) Tenure
3) Long range planning deci
sions
4) Specific policy formulation
5) Tuition increases and fi
nancial aid
COMMUNICATION
We perceive the Senate to be a
forum for open discussion. Stu
dents must know what the
Senate is discussing for that
organization to be effective To
ensure this, the Senate must
utilize the Guilfordian, WQFS,
and other available media.
ON THE ALCOHOL POLICY
The Alcohol policy has always
been a major obstacle between
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Mason would also like to see
student government having a
stronger role in developing
school policy. Another goal is to
see the establishment of a
central meeting place on cam
pus for students, such as a pub,
for example. Mark, Paul and
Ann all believe that they are
students who are aware of
problems, and want to repre
sent the students.
Student government, espe
cially upper level government,
is a difficult and time consum
ing job with little recognition.
Even the best representatives
cannot perform efficiently with
out student involvement. On
Tuesday, February 24, it is
Candidates' Night in the Boren
Lounge. As a student, everyone
owes it to oneself to come and
listen to the candidates for the
election