Perspectives
Students Should Have Priority
Saturday, October 29, the
YMCA used Bryan parking lot as
a base for their biathlon
competition. During the
previous week, students found
notes on thier cars asking them
to have their cars moved out of
the parking lot by 8:00 a.m.
Saturday morning.
Car owners were then called
that Saturday morning and told
to move their cars. Students
were not informed of why they
had to leave the parking lot or
where they could find a place to
park during the day; the
biathletes' cars filled Binford's
parking lot. Students were not
informed of the event being
held.
In addition, students parked
Make Students Responsible for Actions
Last Saturday, October 29th,
Union threw one of the largest
quad dances of the year. Most
everyone had a good time
dancing and running around in
crazy outfits, except for the
people who had to clean it up.
The quad was littered with
silly-string and streamers, the
usual results of dances. In
addition to this usual trash, there
were also beer bottles and
splattered pumpkins. The mess
was so huge that it was decided
the clean-up process would begin
on Sunday morning. But, of
course, it wasn't, and when
Monday morning rolled around,
guess who finally started
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in Binford Parking lot were
detained while trying to leave
the lot while runners were
coming in. Biathletes used
Binford Residence Hall facilities
throughout the day, so that off
campus "guests" were in Binford
all day, causing inconvenience
for students as well as a
potential security risk.
As representatives of the
student body at Guilford College,
we as the Community Senate feel
that our rights as students were
not respected in this matter. We
believe that any future decisions
regarding the proposed use of
college facilities such as the
parking lots, residence halls,
cafeteria, etcetera that affect
students' daily routines and
cleaning the mess? Once again,
the Housekeeping staff, old
reliable, came to the rescue.
This editorial does not
criticize Union - for they have
done a fantastic job this year. It
criticizes the poor treatment of
Housekeeping staff who are
constantly mistreated and taken
for granted. First, the
Housekeeping staff should not
have to clean any student
activities' mess; it should be the
organization's responsibility.
Second, the Housekeeping
Staff's core responsibility are
cleaning the bathrooms and
emptying the trash, and
anything beyond that should not
be left for them. If students
schedules should be assessed
using the following criteria:
(1) Is there an alternative
area available for use that will
not inconvenience students?
(2) Will students receive
benefits from the activities of
outside groups using the
facilities?
(3) Can adequte publicity
informing students of the
activity and the inconveniences
be provided in a timely manner?
After the proposed facilities
usage is assessed using these
criteria, we ask that the proposal
be submitted to Senate.
The Guilford
College
Community Senate
insist on trashing the quad, then
it should be their responsibility
to clean the mess.
Making students responsible
for their actions will motivate
them to take better care of their
community and when someone
does break a bottle he will have
to contend with his peers. Like
it or not, Bryan is a community,
and every resident has the right
to live in a clean and safe
environment. In addition, the
Housekeeping staff would
appreciate all the support it can
get, since their job is one of the
most difficult on campus. But if
students continue to abuse the
Residence Halls then we have the
choices of either cleaning up the
mess or live in it; just don't
dump the trash on the
Housekeeping Staff.
Lori Chamberlain
Bill Abel
Bryan Residents
Regrets in the Video Age
As a senior, I profoundly
regret that I will graduate before
experiencing the educational
revolution about to take place at
our college. I'm talking about
the planned telecommunications
project that will connect every
residence hall to a computer,
video and cable television
network.
I'm happy to see Guilford =
putting its $1.75 million gift to
good use rather than let it idle in
an investment portfolio or waste
away in a minority or academic
scholarship fund.
Indeed, a PC on every desk
and a remote control in every
hand is "one of those great giant
steps in the life of a college." It
will destroy the dreaded "inertia
of parochialism" faster than any
semester abroad, internship,
international student, worldly
professor or guest speaker ever
could.
Considering the residence
hall part of the "academic
workplace" is a work of pure
genius. I cringe when I think of
all the time I wasted there,
simply relaxing and chatting.
LETTERS POl.irv
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Piper Corrections
I would like to thank Linda
Kreem and The Guilfordian for
the Nov. 7 article, "Piper
Undergoes Changes". The rest
of the editorial board and I feel
that we are creating a very
strong issue this fall.
I do need, however, to
correct a few errors which
appeared in the article. As much
as I wish the Piper had gone to
press, our work with Greensboro
Printing will not reach that stage
for a couple of weeks. The
Library Carries Racist Publication
Last year Guilford College
divested all endowment funds
from companies which conduct
business in South Africa.
The Guilford College Library
uses our tuition money to
subscribe to and display one of
the most exclusionary and racist
magazines published in the
world. The South African
Panorama magazine features
informative articles on South
African artists, political leaders,
and businessmen all of them
white. Black South Africans are
portrayed as unimportant to
South Africa's culture, economy,
and politics.
Our subscription supports
aparteid directly since our money
goes directly to the publisher,
the South African Bureau of
Now, students are sure to become
more serious and scholarly when
in their rooms, careful not to
damage their educational tools.
By placing all the
information in the world at
students' fingertips, Guilford will
have no need for the expensive
new library. Consider this an
opportunity to really do
something good for South Africa
-- send them all, of our books!
The library can be made into an
art gallery and arboretum which
the $6 million is being spent on
anyhow.
Guilford students will also
receive the educational benefits
of cable television. We all know
how cable TV has enriched our
society only a total
ignoramus doesn't know what
Australian football is. As a
conduit of the media industry,
Guilford will put a world of
entirely pertinent, un-biased and
accurate information at the foot
of our bed. Who needs discussion
with boring professors when you
have 100 plus channels and a
video library to tell you all you
need to know?
Going to class will be a
tedium of the past. Instead,
spaced. Letters should be signed
and dated and include the author's
phone number and local address.
The Guilfordian will not publish
anonymous letters. Please limit
letters to 300 words or less.
The Guilfordian and its staff
reserve the right to edit for
length and clarity and to
withhold letters based on the
discretion of the editors.
issue, at 40 pages, will be
considerably larger than it has
been in a number of years, not
smaller. John Lamiman and
Linda Brown were both invited
to attend the poetry selection
meeting, but both had previous
plans and could not make the
meeting.
Again, we appreciate the
coverage and hope the Piper will
be well-recieved when it appears
in the second week of December.
Jonathan Lawson
Piper Co-Editor
Information, a department of
South Africans current
oppressive regime.
The South African Panorama
sits upon the self of our library
as a symbol of Guilford
College's support for aparteid
and social injustice in South
Africa. I must protest our
support of this oppressive
system.
Let's divest from aparteid. I
hope that every member of the
Guilford College community will
speak out against this
publication. Guilford College
must end its support for aparteid.
One subscription to the South
African Panorama and the system
of racial injustice which it
espouces must end.
Mark Aman
professors will videotape their
lectures for liesurely home
viewing. Some ot the more
homely faculty will be replaced
by a more handsome lot as
students, who take classes on a
pay-per-view basis, will select
courses taught by the most
mediagenic professors.
Turning in assignments
through the computer mail will
ensure us that we will never have
to look a professor in the face
again. This will come in handy
when your paper is two weeks
late. If you happen to bump into
one, you can say, "didn't you get
my paper? I zapped it to you last
week. It must still be floating
around somewhere out there,
maybe in that strange blue radio
active glow that surrounds the
telecommunications building."
In all, the new
telecommunications project will
ensure for us that Quaker value of
"the edge" by fostering self
reliance, individualism, and
rapport with machinery, three
qualities necessary for success in
the modern world. It's too bad I
won't be around; at least I won't
have to pay for it.
Rich James
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