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Drug Policy Discussed at Community Forum
Darma Jeter
Staff Writer
A crowd of approximately 75 Guilford
students gathered in the school cafeteria to
participate in the Senate sponsored Drug
Policy forum last Wednesday evening.
The forum, sponsored by the Commu
nity Senate, was moderated by the Senate
President Vance Ricks and discussed vari
ous aspects of the new Guilford College
judicial code, including the controversial
"One Strike You're Out" policy concern
ing the immediate suspension of students
convicted of drug abuse or possession.
During the forum questions centered
around disagreements over the new sus
pension policy and if the policy served
more of an educative role or a punitive
roie. Students disagreed over whether
immediate suspension of drug abusers
would serve an educative purpose. Other
Controversy over New Semester Abroad in Italy
E. J. Hofferman
Staff writer
The Off Campus Studies Committee
recently approved a new semester abroad
program in Brunnenburg, Italy, beginning
Christ the King
A.R.Presbyterian Church
We meet in the Moon Room at Dana Auditorium
every Sunday at 9:45 a.m.
Some upcoming topics to discuss include:
-The rise of Satanism: Sept 9 & 16—A rational look at an
emotional issue.
-Are all religions the same?
-Who is Jesus?
-How can I know God?
-Is The Bible full of errors?
-How to be confident in relationships
-What does The Bible have to say about problems such as: Fear?
Anxiety? Depression? Self Control? Etc.
-How do I know when he/she is right (marriage partners)?
-"Are we having fun yet?" how to experience true and lasting joy.
-Faith/reason: Do I have to commit intellectual suiside in order
to believe?
-Jesus and the New Age.
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students felt the new policy went against
the Quaker tradition of tolerance and for
giveness.
Several students who attended the fo
rum expressed displeasure over the new
policy dealing with the immediate suspen
sion of any student convicted of illegal
drug use on campus.
Students felt that immediate suspension
of drug abusers would prevent students
from receiving the help or guidance needed
forrehabilitation, whileothers didnotagree
that alcohol and drug abuse should have
separate punishments in the student hand
book.
The new policy was also defended by a
variety of students.
Some students defended the new policy
by arguing that the immediate suspension
of drug abusers will allow for students to
realize the seriousness of their problem,
thus the suspended abuser would receive
January 1992.
The semester abroad will take place in
South Tyrol, an agricultural, wine-grow
ing region of northern Italy. In this way, it
differs from the other semester abroad
programs since it is not in a big city.
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Panel members hear student concerns at the Drug Policy ForurrVphoto
by Jiro Mizuno
an education to the dangers of drug abuse,
as well as the opportunity to receive help
from the outside community.
Said one student participant, "The ques
tion appears to be which will help the
abuser more —kicking the person out of
Students will live in Brunnenburg Castle,
which is owned by the descendents of the
wife of Ezra Pound, a 20th Century Ameri
can poet A maximum of 14 students will
live in the castle complex, study there,
work in it or in the neighboring village and
make excursions to important sites, in
cluding Florence, Rome and Venice.
Several courses will be offered includ
ing German and Italian 101, agro-archae
ology which studies the developing tech
nology in agriculture in Southern Europe,
and The Pound Era, an examination of
Ezra Pound and his work.
In addition to their studies, students will
be required to participate in the agricul
tural work of the community, thereby inte
grating themselves into the culture.
Despite the obvious advantages of the
program, several concerns have been
raised, the most notable being the fact that
students will be living in the castle of, as
well as studying, Ezra Pound, who held
anti-Semitic and fascist views.
John Stoneburner, a religion professor
at Guilford, is concerned that the school
would be identifying, even if indirectly,
with those views.
"We are a Quaker school," said
Stoneburner. "With whom do we think it's
wise to associate with? Also, will the
students be getting a well-rounded educa
tion on Pound? His ideas should not be
ignored."
Another religion professor, Joe Groves,
is also concerned about Pound's contro
versial views.
"Pound is a great poet. His work should
be taught But he is also an apologist for
fascism, and students who study him need
to beaware of that dimension of his work,"
said Groves.
Groves also feels that because the course
school, thus forcing him to realize his situ
ation, or putting the person through
Guilford's rehabilitation process to help
him deal with his problem here. I think
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in Pound is taught by a member of Pound's
family, that the students are isolated from
a setting of broader learning; it is "harder to
gain a critical perspective" on Pound.
In reply, the Off Campus Studies Com
mittee said that there is no attempt in the
course to overlook the negative side of
Pound, although his anti-Semitic and pro
fascist attitudes are not the focus of the
course. They recommend that during ori
entation at Guilford, the students be pre
pared for what they will encounter and that
they be encouraged to raise questions on
these issues during the course.
Another concern Groves raised about
the semester in Italy is why Guilford is
starting another program in Europe when
there are presently only two non-European
semesters abroad (Guadalahara and China).
"While the college is seriously consider
ing a program in Africa," he said, "I'm
concerned that financial priority seems to
be given to starting another program in
Europe first, with no certainty that an
African program be started."
The Off Campus Studies Committee said
that the decision to set up a semester in
Brunnenburg will not affect efforts to find
solutions for study in Africa.
It has been recommended that there will
be an annual review of the Brunnenburg
program by the Off Campus Studies
Committee and reconsideration, by the
faculty, after every three years.
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