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Never Forget th Fifty"!
BY JANSEN WANG
The most significant effect
upon my personal growth was my
experience in the army in
Taiwan. Because of the draft
system there, I faced two
choices, either going to college
after joining the army or going to
college first when I graduated
from high school in 1976.
Knowing from hearsay that it
would be a hard time in the army,
I preferred to go to college first.
However, my father asked me to
join the army before going to
college, since he felt it would be
an experience good for me.
According to Chinese tradition,
which is that children should
obey their parents, I didn't have
any choice. In 1977,1 went to the
army unwillingly and fearfully,
as if I had been sent to hell.
Needless to say, the training
was severe and hard in the army,
I lost almost twenty pounds
during this period. However, it
was just the beginning. In the
winter of the next year, I got a
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mission called "Dead March" to
mark 500 kilometers in two weeks
with weapons and all my per
sonal equipment which came to a
total of fifty pounds. I felt I had
received a death sentence when I
was given this mission. I even
wrote letters to my friends to say
good-bye as if it were the end of
the world.
The march started in a storm.
I believe it was chosen on pur
pose. On the following days we
marched in the rain without any
hot food. Because of the cold and
bad weather, as well as thin
clothes, we walked all day long
without any rest, so that we
would not catch cold. The most
difficult time was the last fifty
kilometers. Not only was I ex
tremely exhausted, but my back
was also hurt by the heavy
equipment. What was worse, I
got over twenty blisters on my
feet. This pain attacked me so
strongly that I wondered whether
I was dying. However, con
sidering my company's honor,
which is regarded as one's second
life, I just couldn't give up. With
this in mind and with my friends'
help, I finally struggled to get to
the end of the march.
This experience was so painful
and hard that I will never forget
it. Everytime I have problems it
always reminds me of what a
difficult time I had before and I
get over them. It encourages me
to face these difficult things in
stead of escaping them, which I
used to do. It was, so to speak,
the turning point of my life.
Above all, it made me realize that
the key to success is to last the
final "fifty kilometers". This is
not to say this experience will
make me a success, however it
will make me survive any dif
ficult time, and I should thank my
father for it.
JANSEN WANG is from
Chiayi, Taiwan. He has been in
North Carolina for seven months.
He plans to pursue a career in
business administration.
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Co-ed dorms
By Marie Branson
Co-ed dorms at Guilford, rumor
or fact? It is a fact that the Stu
dent Affairs Committee is
seriously discussing the possibili
ty of creating new co-ed dorms at
Guilford. The rumor tends to lie
in the reasons. Our reasons for
thinking that co-ed dorms might
be a good change are not increas
ed security or decreased noise.
Although these are a small part
of the end result they don't begin
to touch upon the real reasons
behind it.
It is our belief that living only
around people of the same sex is
artificial and limiting and seems
more appropriate for grade
school or high school. Co-ed
dorms create a more natural and
mature life style and you will
most likely be living this way the
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rest of your life. You learn about
each other as ordinary people
under normal circumstances.
The present plan is to have a
single sexed floor in one dorm
and a wing or two in another
dorm.
Of course, since each floor or
wing is single sexed the
bathrooms will be also so you
don't need to worry about losing
your sense of privacy, plus
students will still have the option
of living in a single sexed dorm.
These plans are not definite
and even if approved the change
won't take place for another 2
years.
The SAC is trying to make
dorms a natural, rewarding en
vironment and will be holding an
open forum early in the fall to
discuss this and other issues.
Before we do anything we need to
know if the students want this
change.
Women's
Tennis
No one from Guilford even lost
a set as the Lady Quakers
crossed to a 9-0 win win over
Concordia College from New
York. In singles, Guilford never
lost more than four games per
match and most weren't even
that close. Perhaps the closest
match all day was the number
one doubles when the Concordia
team of Kreimer and Pinto came
close to taking a set from
Guilford's number one team. But
they didn't even get that and
Koho and Kennedy won the first
set 7-5 and the second set 6-1.