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Art students take a break during the 70° weather Wednesday to mug for the
camera on the Hege-Cox lawn.
Campus altercation prompts judicial action
Jacob Stohler
Layout Editor
Two Milner residents win go
before the judicial board Wed
nesday to face charges stemming
from an incident Jan. 12 in which
one student was taken to the
hospital to be treated for knife
wounds.
Alvin Washington, a freshman
from Raleigh, N.C., and Jason
Rhyne, a freshman from
Statesville, N.C., have been
named as defendants in the case.
Guilford College is bringing
charges against both students.
VOL. 74 No. 14
According to sources who wish
to remain anonymous, the two
students allegedly became in
volved in an argument earlier in
the evening at an off-campus
party on New Garden Road which
eventually escalated into aphysi
cal altercation involving a knife
upon their return to campus.
Residential life Hied a report
on the incident describing what
happened based on interviews
with Rhyne and Washington and
witnesses, but the administration
declined to release that report or
discuss itscontents. Furthermore,
Rhyne declined to talk about the
incident and Washington could
not be reached for comment
GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N.C.
According to witnesses, Rhyne
and sophomore Tom Harrington
bumped each other at the part at
New Garden. After exchanging
words, Washington reportedly
got involved in the situation about
12:30 a.m.
According to a source who read
the incident report and a witness
at the party, Washington had
smoked marijuana earlier in the
evening and Rhyne had been
drinking alcohol.
About 2:30 a.m., according to
witnesses, Washington stood
outside Rhyne's room holding a
stick. After an exchange of
words, Rhyne allegedly pushed
Washington and the two fell to
Carbon monoxide
poisoning at Lodge
spawns concern
Vic Johnson
Staff Writer
Three Guilford students, resi
dents of Frazier 35/36, suffered a
prolonged exposure to carbon
monoxide leaking from a crack
in their gas heater on Dec. 20.
The heater was replaced by main
tenance after Paul Coscia, Steve
Terrill and Chris Chickering all
woke up feeling ill from the ef
fects of the lethal gas. According
to Coscia, he felt so dizzy he
"couldn't even stand up."
"I felt horrible," he said, "I was
dizzy so I just lay down and went
to sleep. I remember laying there
and then I hear Steve get up. He
was talking about how sick he
was and how he just kept on
almost passing out. I fell back
asleep and when I woke up, Steve
was asleep on the couch. Iwason
the other couch and Chris was on
the floor. Washington is then
said to have pulled out a knife
and cut Rhyne across the face
and then the back as he tried to
get away.
It was suggested afterward that
the incident was racially moti
vated, but according to sources
familiar with the report, both de
fendants stated that their actions
were not the result of racial feel
ings.
The incident prompted a
memorandumwhich was released
Thursday from the dean of stu
dent's office referring to the inci
dent andreminding students of
Guilford's policies toward respect
for persons.
JAN. 22,1990
the floor sleeping. I was late to
an exam. Halfway through the
exam I had to stop because I
thought I was going to throw
up."
According to John Lindstrom,
director of the physical plant,
maintenance checked the heater
the night before when fumes were
reported and apparently found
nothing wrong with it. They
suggested that sorae stacked
crates obstructed the air intake,
causing the fumes, and instructed
the residents to move them. It is
not clear what role, if any, the
crates played in the malfunction
of the heater.
"It just happened to wear out,"
said Lindstrom in an interview
Wednesday. "There's no way of
really knowing what's going to
happen."
Joe Freeman andNeal Dewan,
who share the room with the
heater, felt something was wrong
over a month before it was re
placed.
"The first week of cold weather
we called maintenance in right
away because the heater was
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