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Volume 79 Issue 10
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The student organizers of the AIDS for AIDS conference,
Amanda Sabin, Jack Register, and Mark Fergusen, meet up
with participants from Wojford and Antioch Colleges.
AIDS about AIDS:
Bonner Scholars-organized conference to
show realities and emotions of disease
Daphne Lewis
Co-editor in Chief
AIDS about AIDS is an unprec
edented conference being held on
the Guilford campus from
Wednesday, November 30 until
Saturday, December 3. The con
ference seeks to Acquire Infor
mation and Destroy Stereotypes
about HIV and AIDS.
Twenty-seven colleges includ
ing Davidson College, Earlham
College, Emory and Henry Col
lege, Oberlin College, Rhodes
College, Spelman College, The
University of Richmond, and
Wake Forest University, have been
invited to attend.
"The conference is not about
who has AIDS; it is about what to
do about it. We are going to hear
from fathers, mothers, lovers, and
children, as well as anyone else
who is willing to speak," said Jack
Register, a Bonner Scholar and
organizer of the conference, "We
want to stress that AIDS is not a
gay issue, not a straight issue, not
a black or white issue, not male or
female, it is a human issue."
The conference is the first ser
vice learning conference at Guil-
ford organized by Bonner Schol
ars. Bonner Scholars Jack Regis
ter, Amanda Sabin, and Marc
Ferguson created and organized
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We know that
AIDS is a daunting
disease, not only
for those who
have it but also for
those interested in
helping.
—AIDS ABOUT
AIDS PAMPHLET
the conference with help from
Bonner Coordinators Katrina
Knight and Judy Harvey.
The conference is a cooperative
effort between the Triad Health
Project, a local, volunteer-based
AIDS service organization, and
Guilford College's Bonner Scholar
Program. It will feature work
shops on the Guilford campus, as
well as incorporate larger activi
ties in the Greensboro area such as
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
Kay tells Holocaust horrors
Claire Narensky
Staff Writer
She seemed to be the typical
grandmother as she sat in front of
students in the Leak Room on
Thursday morning, Nov. 17. But
Laura Kay only had to reveal the
identification number on her arm,
a constant reminder of her days in
a concentration camp, and the au
dience realized that her story
would be far from typical.
Laura Kay, the grandmother of
freshman Jessica Berson, was in
vited by Doug Smith's English
class to discuss an issue on which
they had been writing: prejudice.
Kay was arrested in 1942, at the
age of thirteen, and sent to a con
centration camp in Birkenau, Ger
many. This was when the dehu
manization process began. On ar
rival, her head was shaved, and she
the Winter walk for AIDS and the
AIDS quilt.
Workshops include "Body
awareness in the age of AIDS,"
which is a dance presentation by a
group from Virginia; "Ethics of
AIDS, Personal Commitment and
Service," a discussion led by
people who are in direct contact
with people living with AIDS; and
"Panel of people living with
AIDS," hosted by a panel made up
of a diverse group of people liv
ing with the disease.
The workshops will be held in
Dana Auditorium.
The Winter Walk and the Aids
quilt are both events that were or
ganized by Triad Health Project to
commemorate National AIDS day,
December 1. Both events will take
place at the Greensboro Coliseum.
The Winter Walk is a candlelight
vigil, in which people walk carry
ing the names of several people
who have died from AIDS.
The section of the national AIDS
quilt that will be on display in
Greensboro contains about 2000
panels of mostly North Carolina
residents that have died from the
Please see AIDS page 3
was given a striped uniform and
wooden shoes. She was virtually
starved, and what little food there
was had often been tainted with
chemicals. She was beaten for
something as simple as just look
ing around. She slept in straw in
fested with bugs.
The Leak Room was shrouded
with a silent chill as Kay held her
hands to her ears and told how the
sounds of moaning and crying con
stantly haunts her. Kay witnessed
unimaginable horrors, such as a
man's liver being removed and
eaten by German soldiers. Atone
point Kay was forced to walk
twenty miles in two left wooden
shoes, constantly digging and pull
ing up large rocks. She remem
bers thinking, "I want to be a bird,
I want to be an ant. Anything. But
a human—no."
Military recruitment
forum focuses on
Quaker heritage
Two fundamental
tenents of Quakerism —
an opposition to military
and the witness for
peace—formed the foun
dation of the discussion.
Cory Birdwhistell
News Editor
Sponsored by the Administra
tive Council, Tuesday's forum
highlighted the concerns of the
Guilford community as to the pres
ence of military recruiters on cam
pus. Ad Council will act soon to
formulate a formal policy to ad
dress this issue.
Questions as to the appropriate
ness of allowing representatives of
the armed services to recruit Guil
ford students arose this summer.
In June, the college received a let
ter from the U.S. Navy requesting
permission to recruit.
The Administrative Council
found no written, formal policy on
this issue. According to Provost
Dan Poteet, it responded to the
Navy by explaining that while
there was no explicit policy bar
ring their visit, that Guilford "has
December 2,1994
In January she made the "death
march" from Birkinau to Bergen-
Belsen. People were dying on all
sides of her. She herself clung
desperately to life, barely able to
walk in shoes only half-fitting her
swollen feet. The road to regain
ing her life and freedom began on
April 15, 1945, when the British
army liberated her camp.
The story was difficult for the
audience to hear, and it was obvi
ously painful to tell. As grand
daughter Jessie says, "She does not
talk to the family about it."
Kay's message to Guilford stu
dents was powerful and clear, "If
you see discrimination and preju
dice, speak out." She urged stu
dents to take advantage of the edu
cation they are receiving to com
bat ignorance and battle anyone
who poisons their mind with lies.
nol been a fruitful recruiting
ground." Council members also
added that there was a high likeli
hood that recruiters would be chal
lenged by students, faculty, and
staff opposed to the military.
Another request, this time from
the U.S. Army, prompted the
Council to question the need for
an institutional policy.
President Bill Rogers read from
a letter by Max Carter, Director of
Campus Ministries, who advocates
a policy banning the military from
recruiting at Guilford. "In the
Quaker world," Carter says, "[al
lowing military recruiters on cam
pus] would be interpreted as a re
jection of Quakerism."
Carol Cothern, a Guilford
graduate and library worker,
agrees with Carter. "I prefer that
students interested in the military
go to the recruiter downtown. I
feel strongly we should not have
recruiters on campus." She also
added that she is the daughter,
wife, and mother of Navy veter
ans, yet as a Quaker, she feels this
way.
Most participants, for varied rea
sons, did not support a policy ban
ning the presence of military re-
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