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Page Four - Guilfordian. January 25, 1984 The North Carolina State Government Internship Program offers a variety of opportunities to learn about state government. The 10-week summer work pro gram offers $l5O per week and in cludes seminars, tours and other activities designed to broaden your perspective of state govern ment. The following schedule represents the time, place and date a recruiter from State Government will be on your cam pus to discuss these oppor tunities. Thursday, 4 P.M. January 26 the Gallery Founders Hall Deadline to apply to the pro gram is February 10. Your atten dance at this meeting is essential if you are planning to apply. Ap plicants must have completed 2 years of college work and graduating seniors may apply if attendance to graduate school in he fall is expected. The Biofeedback clinic is opening on January 30 to help you relax! Any student, faculty member, administrator, or other persons can learn to control such physiological functions as muscle tension, skin temperature, and brain waves. Developing a deeper awareness of how your body works may lead to a lowering of daily stress and this in turn can promote a healthier lifestyle. The clinic is located in King 224 and is managed by Deborah Arm inger, Bernie Dickinson, Kathy Jessup, and Susanna Terrell. Contact them during clinic hours if you have any questions concerning biofeed back or call Jackie Ludel at ext. 210. The biofeedback clinic hours are as follows: Monday 9 a.m. -12 noon 6 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Tuesday 9 a.m. -12 noon Wednesday 9 a.m. -12 noon 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. 6 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Thursday 9 a.m. - 12 noon Friday 9 a.m. -12 noon "E" Is For A Fact Appears On Campus? By: Tracey Clark Twice in conversing with peo ple last week I was thrown into a quandry. One person told me they had 'verifiable proof' of something or other, and another that they had 'proven facts.' Both incidences immediately conjured up images from Charles Dickens' Hard Times. The classroom was located in the topmost portion of the building. As it was, and as there were few classes held there, the classroom was not often cleaned nor aired. The atmosphere was stifling; warm, and heavy because it was dust-filled. The students, entering sporadically, were, from the moment they crossed the threshold of the classroom, at a disadvantage. The tweed coated, bulbous mid sectioned, grey-haired wretch of a professor stood before the students. He had arrived before any of them had; he did not ap pear dispositioned; his hair wasn't mussed, nor did his pulse race as the students' did, (whose flushed cheeks betrayed all). The Community Notes On Saturday, January 28 begin ning at 9:00 p.m., the Fourth An nual President's Ball will be held in Sternberger Auditorium. The dress is semi-formal and is open to all faculty, staff and students. Scott Adair's Orchestra "The Greensboro Men's Club" will play music for your dancing and listening pleasure. Admission is free. A social group for gay students, bisexuals, and their friends is now in progress. The group seeks to foster a positive gay identity, to provide a context for socializ ing, and inform students about the Greensboro gay community. The group meets off-campus and transportation is available. Privacy will be respected. In terested individuals should con tact the Center for Personal Growth. professor appeared (or so the students could reasonably have hypothesized) to be a fixture of the room. Like the influorescent bulbs which come to life and il luminate a room when the con trolling switch is depressed, so the professor seemed to materialize out of the floorboards to become the overbearing 'Wretch' when students entered the classroom. Tweed-coated, bulbous mid sectioned, 'wretched', and most of all, overbearing at the focal point of the classroom, before the students seated now with fresh clean notebooks opened crisply on their desks, the professor was somehow no longer possibly a fix ture of the room. Rather, the en tire classroom has in a few short minutes of embroidery been transported to an earlier realm. The monstrous monolith at the classroom's fore was none other than Thomas Gradgrind, benefactor of 'Facts, Facts, Facts.' The students were similarly transformed; helpless, hapless, forms that had they not been chained to their desks would have been wandering about the Coketown streets in derelict fashion. CHALLENGE YOURSELF! This is the chance you've been waiting for to become involved. It is once again time to elect a new President, Vice- President/Treasurer and Secretary of the Community Senate and College Union. Infor mation sheets including qualifications for these positions and petitions for candidacy forms are now available at the Informa tion Desk in Founders Hall. Peti tions are due no later than noon on February 10, and elections will be held on February 16 and 17. v' • •• •• •- '"v. Guilfordians are revving their engines for the upcoming week. The 'Wretch' peered from his position high on the ladder of fact and asked not the student, (who was cowering), but threatened him; because asking when one is physially imposing is no longer asking. Asking implies certain legitimate justice whereas the verbal component of an inquiry coupled with physical intimida tion imples coercion. "What," said the 'Wretch', is the proof you have to substantiate what is at present merely a sup position and not fact?" (The reader will note that the student's supposition is herein not includ ed. 'Facts, Facts, Facts' educa tion was at best insipid and it is in comsideration of hte reader that the author excludes the informa tion. The author does not write with the intention of boring the reader.) "Sir, I do indeed have verifiable proof... began the cowering student before he was cut short by the 'Wretch,' who had begun to turn cherry-red in the face, discharge steam from his ears, and snort loudly. "You have no such thing!" the 'wretch' emitted another horrific sort of guffaw and muffled belch Take advantage of this opportuni ty to assume a leadership posi tions on campus. For more information, please contact Wendy Quimby, 855-6151. "The Elephant Man" will be shown in Sternberger Auditorium at 8:15 on Friday, 27. John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins and Anne Ban croft star in this true story of John Merrick, a man so hideously deformed that his only means of earning a living was as a freak show attraction. combination and continued em phatically. "Proof is proof precisely because it has been verified! It is not 'verifiable.' You would have been correct in saying you had proof that was verified in such and such a way, that is to say, if you had made a valuation of your substantiation proof (!), but in asserting 'verifiable proof' you have spoken incorrectly!" To this the student could make no reply. The wretch, however, continued to look at the student imploringly. The student, unable to escape the gaze of the black, beady and angry eyes set in the cherry-red swell of the 'Wretch's' cheeks, had no recourse but to make some statement. "Sir, I apoloize. I cannot plead ignorance; the fact is you have proven me incorrect." Despite the sincere tone with which the student delivered his apology the 'Wretch' seemed to eat the student's words and fly in to an increased rage. "Pwah—Now you, you imbecile, you incompetent boob, now you talk of proving facts facts! A fact is by definition a proven thing. A fact is even a verifiable thing!" CHARLESTON: City /Sea /People During spring break Hugh Stohler and Dave Maclnnes will lead a field trip to Charleston, 'S.C., to study the ocean and a maritime city. Sponsored by the Off-Campus Studies program, the trip is open to all. The course is pass/fail and carries one credit. If interested, contact Hugh or Dave. The wretch grew even more enraged. He ceased to speak, (indeed, the 'Wretch' was so enraged he could not, even if he had wanted to, speak further). The classroom grew very grave. The students kept their eyes fastened to the more obvious fixtures in the room, avoiding each other's gazes, and also the gaze of the 'Wretch.' Everyone became sullen. Fact: the student had committed an impropriety beyond redemption. "Perhaps this is all too harsh on my poor partners in conversa tion. Is it not possible that one can find another's proof unaccep table, and thus be driven to 'verify' whether or not the 'proof' exists? Hmmm, or is that a philosophic-moral point-in-case being played out in semantic guise. The Gradgrind School of 'Facts, Facts, Facts' was in no way concerned with 'what one meant;' in no way concerned with 'thought'. The 'verifiable proof' and the 'proven fact' were less incorrectitudes and more sacrifices in precision to convey 'what I meant.' Comments please on the demise of language as a communication medium." Photo h\ Tom Rissr
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