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by Sarah Bowdltch
Jean Quinn
Only nineteen more
shopping days until the Binford
Formal!
This winter-time
extravaganza, sponsored by the
Binford Residence Hall, is
scheduled for Saturday, December
3. The formal will have a new
location, however, opting to
move from its traditional local
hotel site into a vacant airport
hangar known as Plato's Crash
Landing.
"The Binford formal will be
one of the premier events at
Guilford College this year,"
claims Jim Stocks, Binford Hall
Director. Stocks and other
organizers of the event are
hoping this will the best Binford
formal in Guilford's history.
"This event will be an
experience that you don't want to
miss, nor forget."
Many of the Binford
residents have put in long hours
preparing for the upcoming
The Volunteer
Connection
by Darden Rice and Chris
Craig
Many times when people
feel strongly about an issue or a
cause they have trouble finding
an organization which
concentrates on the volunteer
work towards benefitting that
cause.
We at Guilford College now
have an organization which
makes opportunities available to
do several different types of
volunteer work. This student
organization is the Volunteer
Connection.
The group is concerned with
many different issues:
comforting patients in hospices,
animal rights awareness,
environmental concerns,
working with children at the
Gateway Education Center, adult
literacy at Delancey Street,
Adopt a Grandparent at Friends
Homes, opposition to Painter
Boulevard, work with Best
Friends Youth Services Bureau,
assisting the Volunteer Action
Council, working with Habitat
for Humanity, combatting
juvenile delinquency, attending a
work-camp over spring break, as
well as various one-time
opportunities to help the needy.
A representative from the
Campus Outreach Opportunity
League (C.0.0.L.), Julia Scatliff,
helped the group get off the
ground and set up a structure.
"C.0.0.L. is a national non
profit organization which
promotes and supports student
involvement in addressing
community needs."
Scatliff helped give the
group some ideas about how to
get started with the projects they
were considering developing.
"We need to get people who
are concerned together," said
Scatliff. "There are many who
are, they just don't know where
formal, working on such areas as
promotion, planning, and fund
raising. Organizers and planners
hope that through their hard
work and dedication, the event
will be a success, both in terms
of participation and fund-raising.
"We hope that the Binford
Formal will be well-attended,"
said Burt Gordon, a Binford R.A.
and head of financial planning
for the event.
Gordon emphasized,
however, that the key to a
successful formal will rest not
only with student involvement,
but with that of faculty and
administrators as well. He
encouraged all members of the
Guilford community to "get
active" and play a constructive
role in making the Binford
Formal an immense success.
The musical entertainment
for the evening will be provided
by Impulse Ride, a band from
Atlanta, Georgia. Their music
consists of both original and
cover songs and is designed to
to go to get something done.
That's what this organization is
for."
"We [the few who attended
the first organizational meeting],
like you, are looking for creative
ways of impacting the larger
community of Greensboro and
beyond," said Holly Fairburn, a
member, in a letter addressing
the group. "We are looking for
a way of connecting student
concerns with students who can
follow through with community
projects. The group is
apolitical, non-religiously
affiliated, and open to all. The
group is not being formed to
imitate existing structures, such
as the residence hall life,
maintance, or cafeteria
committees."
"This is not a 'club,"' said
Elizabeth Mills, one of the
group's organizers. "There is no
reason anybody shouldn't be able
to work with us. We need
everyone who is interested to
please join us. We need people's
energy and ideas to work."
The Volunteer Connection is
a core organization that channels
out to the community through
volunteer projects," said Lori
Chamberlain, one of the group's
organizers. "We hope that the
activities the students volunteer
in will benefit their education
through learning."
"This is something that has
been missing at Guilford and it
is about time we got this
started," said Hilary White,
another of the original members.
The Volunteer Connection
encourages those who have
concerns of their own and would
like to form an official
committee, to go to the
meetings, or to mail your ideas
and job descriptions to campus
P.O. Box 17715. Watch for
posters to find out meeting
places and times.
suit a wide variety of musical
tastes. Both Stocks and Gordon
believe the band and
accompanying D.J. will satisfy
the crowd. "We are making our
best efforts to appeal to the
diverse Guilford College
community," says Jim Stocks.
Both beer and wine will be
available to students 21 years of
age and over.
The tickets to the formal
will go on sale within the next
two weeks and will be priced at
eight dollars per person, and ten
dollars at the door.
For further information
contact Burt Gordon or Jim
Stocks in Binford Residence
Hall.
Cherokee
(cont'd, from p.l)
According to Toineetai and
Smith, who reside in Cherokee, a
Cherokee tribal reservation in
Western North Carolina, few
students complete their
education. "In ninth grade you'll
have ninety people in your class
and by the time you are a senior,
half of them have dropped out."
Guilford has had the same
problem of retaining students
brought here on the Carson
scholarship. To counter that
problem, Guilford has this year
instituted a new program to ease
the transition into the academic
life of the college.
In this program, students
attend five weeks of summer
school to ease into the academic
rigors of the college. They also
participate in pre-orientation
Venture programs with other
freshmen.
For DeHaven, it is *
imperative that the students .
succeed because "they can bring
back with them motivation, *
passion, and skill and help
enrich their culture." She added..
"Guilford is certainly a ricliei "
place by their presence, and tlicii -
presence reminds us of a past wc
must not forget."
This past includes the
infamous "Trail of Tears," in __
which 15,000 Cherokees were
forced to march through a
merciless winter from their,
Georgia homeland to a new
"home" in Oklahoma to make"
room for gold prospectors. Over
4,000 Cherokees died on the
116-day journey led by troops "
who supplied little food or rest,
for the ill and exhausted.
Success is certainly the goal"
of the current Cherokee students. .
"This [school] is a
challenge," said Toineeta. "The -
work is tough. we nave to
manage our time." But they are
confident they will succeed ■
"[We] feel it is important to help _
others and encourage them to
come here too."
Thanks to William Carson,
many more will have the ,ame
chance.
Grillroom Audience Enjoys
"Black Girls" Performance
by Vic Johnson
After touring the east coast
and playing at a music festival
in New York, The Black Girls,
an innovative trio from Durham,
performed in the Guilford
grillroom Friday night, Nov. 4,
to a large crowd including many
students from UNCG.
The Black Girls, keyboardist
Dana Kletter, guitarist Lee
Johnson, and violinist Hollis
Brown, grew out of the Raleigh
music scene, dominated by
mainstream pop bands that rely
on bass guitar and drums foi
their backbone of sound. The
Black Girls proved themselves
an interesting alternative with
soaring violin solos and creative
lyrics.
Lee Johnson was the
strength behind much of the 2-
hour performance. To feel the
intensity of what she sang, one
had to overcome any aversion to
her somewhat abrasive voice and
look beyond the seemingly
contentious attitude. In many
songs that voice created a
feeling of desperation and
anguish with words like "I am
not proud, why won't you look
at me..." that were escalated by a
WQFS
"very positive. Most people are
very comfortable coming up and
getting a packet from us."
"I think it's great that
females as well as males are
responding," commented Fiona
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pounding rhythm. But for any
length of time it was difficult to
endure.
What Johnson lacked,
though, keyboardist Dana Klettcr
had. Her strong, beautiful voice
gave something special to their
music. It allowed the audience to
really feel and become enraptured
in its beauty. "Sometimes you
love me, mostly when I'm not
there...," Klctter sang in a
sorrowful ballad.
In many songs violinist
Horris Brown also sang, along
with Johnson and Kletter, to
create pleasant harmony that was
complemented by interesting
rhythm and timing. An equally
essential part of their sound was
Brown's sporadic violin playing
which gave life to their
intriguing, sometimes haunting
melodies.
On the whole, these
melodies captured the interest of
the audience and received much
enthusiastic applause. At times,
though, the show seemed to drag
and was a little too much to
swallow in one bite. but as
senior James Hines said, there's
more to listening than meets the
ear.
(cont'd, from p.l)
Clem, WQFS Promotions
Manager.
Thomas said that WQFS
will distribute more AIDS
packets in the future if there is
an excess of materials after the
campaign.
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