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tolerance, and the very foundation of
Guilford past, give way to more hollow
aesthetics. All we need.
The difficulty in a search-and-destroy
mission on the Image scoundrels is that
they are invisible, like "Not Me" in Bil
Keane's"Family Circus" comic strip. Who
among us do you see wearing a "Duke
Wanna-Be" badge on their chest?
The problem is with this Image thing is
that it's not real-live people. It's an idea.
The most insidious, scandalously FALSE
idea that Guilford needs more, more, more
WQFS Top 30
compiled by Sara Heath and Tyson Whitney
WQFS Music Directors
1. Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind
2. The La's The La's
3. Slint Spiderland
4. Royal Crescent Mob Midnight Rose's
5. Blackgirls Happy
6. Happy Mondays Thrills, Pills and Bellyaches
7. Jesus Jones Doubt
8. Dogbowl Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain
9. Legendary Pink Dots Maria Dimension
10. Darkside All That Noise
11. Throwing Muses Real Lemons
12. 360's Illuminated
13. Samples Samples
14. Hawana 3 A.M. Hawana 3 A.M.
15. Bongwater Power of Pussy
16. Heaven and Hell A Tribute to Velvet Underground
17. Kiaro Scuro Like No Other
18. Daniel Ash Coming Down
19. The KLF Chill Out
20. Missa Luba Kenyan Folk Melodies
21. Ride Nowhere
22. Ambitious Lovers Lust
23. Pop Will Eat Itself Cure For Sanity
24. Jello Biafra/No Means NoThe Sky Is Falling Down and I Want My Mommy
25. Frazier Chorus Ray
26. Butthole Surfers Pioughed
27. Shamen En-Tact
28. Hollow Men Cresta
29. Greater Than One Index
30. Fire In the Kitchen Fire In the Kitchen
than it has right now. That Guilford has to
compete and assume a position in some
worthless hierarchy of colleges and uni
versities. That we have to conform to be
successful. What happened, GUILFORD
COLLEGE, to courage, to individuality,
to "that of God in everyone" so that no one
need follow any path but their own? It
seems to me that we are meandering on a
demented, drunken stumble and have left
our path and our compass miles behind us.
Or that we are tearing frantically through
the brush in pursuit of something that will
never be found at the end of this line—
Guilford's line.
I'm not sure who's leading the pack. No
one, I think. No one is pushing this idea,
it's just seeping in on its own seductive
appeal.
Heck, I like the new library. I like the
idea of a 21st century campus. I like the
fact that improvements are being made for
the students' sakes. As long as that is the
true mission.
But whatmakesGuilford is thatGuilford
is Guilford without any aesthetics at all.
Guilford is Guilford in classes on the lawn.
Guilford is Guilford when two students
greet each other on the sidewalk. Guilford
is Guilford in open doors and unapologetic
signs that read, "HELP CONSERVE
ENERGY. USE THE STAIRS IF POS
SIBLE." Guilford is Guilford in student
petitions and social concern. Guilford is
students in sweatpants and bare feet.
That's why I came here. And that's why
I hate to leave. I know of the problems
facing the school—of declining college
enrollment nationwide that has forced us
to lower admissions standards, of our small
endowment and budget crunches that have
forced us to let go of people we needed and
wanted to keep, of the unfortunate pre
requisite of dressing up the package before
we can attract those quality students we
deserve—l understand this. I hate it. I hate
it sympathetically. Whatever affects
Guilford affects all of its various parts,
THIS WEEK AT GUILFORD
Monday, April 8
! 6-7 p.m. Union Meeting Passion Pit
8:15-10 p.m. "Mummenshanz" Mask-Mime Performance (ArtsETC)Dana Aud
Tuesday, April 9
5:15-6 p.m. Episcopal Holy Eucharist Moon Room
8-9 p.m. Central American Action Group Dana Lounge
8:45-10 p.m. FCA Boren Lounge
8:30-9:30 p.m. Central American Talk Dana Lounge
Wednesday, April 10
2:30-4 p.m. Senate Boren Lounge
6-8 p.m. Anti-Pornography Slide Show Dana Lounge
7-8 p.m. GLBA Meeting Boren
7:30-9:30 p.m. Legislative Decisions-Abortion Moon Room
8-10 p.m. Movie —"Le Grand Chemin" Passion Pit
8:30-10:30 p.m. Inter Varsity Dana Lounge
Thursday, April 11
4-6 p.m. "We Shall Overcome" Gallery
7:30-8:30 p.m. Habitat for Humanity Meeting Gallery
8:30-9:30 p.m. Quaker Concerns Passion Pit
9:30-10:45 pm. Inter Varsity Gallery
Friday, April 12
All Day Serendipity Weekend Campus
Saturday, April 13
All Day Serendipity Weekend Campus
Sunday, April 14
All Day Serendipity Weekend Campus
9 a.m.-Noon Christ the King Church Service Moon Room
6-6:45 p.m. Vespers Moon Room
7-9 p.m. NCSL Leak Room
7-8 p.m. Catholic Mass Boren Lounge
7:30-8:30 p.m. WQFS D.J. Training Gallery
Monday, April 15
Noon-1 p.m. Committee W Meeting Dana Lounge
1-2 p.m. Images of Women Meeting Boren Lounge
3-4 p.m. Writing Workshop Gallery
6-7 p.m. Union Meeting Passion Pit
Tuesday, April 16
11 a.m.-8 p.m. Blood Drive Sternberger
5:15-6 p.m. Episcopal Holy Eucharist Moon Room
8:45-10 p.m. FCA Boren Lounge
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myself being one minor example.
So what am I asking for? I don't know.
If Guilford is set on change, on this mean
dering, then it will most likely do so no
matter what I think. If that is what the
future holds, then as soon as you get all of
us old-timers out of here, you can set your
course with little dissent. (Perhaps this
will influence my professor not to flunk
me for turning in my Bleak House paper
late.)
No, that is not my agenda. And Guilford
is almost no longer my school. I have one
parting request, though. Remember that
nothing is impossible. This can be done
and Guilford can preserve itself.
As long as Guilford consists of people
who are about Guilford , it will continue to
be the Guilford that I know. If we can
make it through the crunches without
compromising that one most important of
admissions requirements, Guilford will
humbly and quietly thrive as it usually has
done.
Here's some old Quaker wisdom: "Judge
thee not a booke by its covere," or some
thing like that Pretty is fine. But it's
what's on the inside that counts.
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