Page Eight
Guilfordian, January 25, 1984
Editorials
Summary
age to 19. It was the Community
Senate's responsibility to
translate the new state laws into
campus policy. The Senate did
this, very diligently working
through every nuance of the law
so that you and the College would
be protected. I am very proud of
my Senators for their patience
and dedication regarding this
very difficult, touchy matter.
They all deserve a great deal of
respect for their work in this
area. If you are not fully aware of
all the changes made in the
Guilford College Student
Codebook, I strongely encourage
you to pick up a copy of the revi
sions either from the Senate Of
fice or the Housing Office. It is
imperative for your own benefit
that you become aware of the
changes in the law and in college
policy.
The Safe Roads Act went into
effect October 1, 1983. To help
students adjust to the new law
and to raise awareness regarding
the use and misuses of alcohol,
the Senate and Student Services
co-sponsored Alcohol Awareness
Day on September 30. This was
very successful, with over 450
students either involved in the
program itself or going through
it. This project demanded a great
deal of work from the students
who worked to put it on, par
ticularly the Alcohol Awareness
Committee. They did a superb
job with a difficult, time
consuming task. I hope all of our
projects can be as successful as
that one.
In connection with Alcohol
Awareness and the growing
number of students disturbed by
widespread misuse of alcohol, the
Senate is now in the process of
establishing a Bacchus Chapter
on campus. Bacchus attempts to
provide students with an
awareness of alcohol and the pro
blems associated with its abuse.
We hope to have our chapter of
Bacchus in place by late spring.
The Community Senate has
also become active in the North
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Carolina Federation of Indepen
dent College and University
Students (NC-FICUS). We have
taken a leadership position in the
organization; I am currently
Vice-Chairman, Bo Markley is
Regional Coordinator, and
Jayne Mardock is our delegate
to organization conventions.
From what I can judge, NC
FICUS seems to have been a fair
ly dormant organization in the
past, in need of the kind of energy
and concern that our Senate can
lend to it. I am excited about the
potential for legislative influence
that this group presents, on state
and national levels.
We are working with the
Univeristy of Tennessee to
establish a larger network among
southeastern colleges and univer
sities called the Southeastern
Legislative Interest Group. As
the title suggests, this would
primarily serve as a lobbying
group trying to affect national
legislation. This project is still in
the planning stages, but pro
spects for its success look good. I
expect this group to become com
pletely functional by the Spring of
1985 at the earliest, so this is in
deed a long-range project for our
Senate Executive Council, pre
sent and future.
The Senate recently completed
work on a project that I hope has.
and will benefit every Guilford
student who wishes to take part.
Primarily through the efforts of
one key Senator, Bo Markley, we
were able to relax the application
procedure necessary to receive
an NCNB Visa card. Everyone
should have received a letter
from me explaining this project,
so I will not go into great detail
here. I hope that everyone who
wanted a card received one. If
not, please contact me or 80.
We are also working on several
other projects no less significant
than those I have already written
about, some of which you will
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hear and read more about later
this semester. These projects in
clude the Second Annual Com
munity Senate Service Auction,
Course Evaluation Guides, a
Residential Life Committee pro
posal for additional co-ed living
space, and National Lobby Day.
We are also at work on Serendipi
ty and would appreciate sugges
tions for ways to improve it.
I hope I have not left out
anything that my Senators have
done. I am proud of the folks on
the Senate, and I am proud of my
student body. There is no limit to
the things we can accomplish
when we work together. My
Senators have completed a great
number of projects already this
year, and we have many more
time-consuming plans for this
semester. I encourage all
students to get involved in stu
dent organization and clubs this
semester; improve your school
2nd your life. And to those who
are already involved, I offer my
gratitude for all you have done.
Now—let's get to work!
Sincerely,
Dennis Blue
President, Community Senate
Artificial
snow
Campus Digest News Service
If your livelihood is skiing,
you depend primarily on
nature for snowy slopes, but if
Mother Nature lets you down,
there's always artificial snow.
But "new and improved" ar
tificial snow? If tests at Col
orado's Copper Mountain
resort are successful, higher
volumes of snow could be
made at warmer than usual
temperatures (up to 32 degrees
instead of 18).
The new process involves
mixing the bacteria strain,
Pseudomonas syringae, with
water and blowing the com
bination into the freezing air,
where artificial snow forms.
Commercialization rights
have been bought by Advanc
ed Genetic Sciences Inc. from
the University of Wisconsin
Alumni Research Foundation.
The bacteria aren't know to be
harmful to plant or animal
life.