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2 McCarthy's visit impresses many By Jacob Noble STAFF WRITER When Colman McCarthy walked into Vernie Davis' conflict resolution class last Thursday morning, nobody knew what was coming. When class was over, however, McCarthy had left them with ideas they would not soon forget. Davis noticed that McCarthy's presence was "very stimulating for the class." What impressed Davis most was when McCarthy reached into his wallet and pulled out a $lOO bill. He told the class that he had five questions for them and that if they could answer them all, the money was theirs. The first two questions involved naming the President of the United States' pets. The class answered these THE WEEK AT GUILFORD Friday, January 29th ★ Board of Trustees weekend ★ GCRO activity at 7:30 p.m. in the Gallery Saturday, January 30th ★ Board of Trustees weekend ★Women's basketball v. Eastern Mennonite at 2 p.m. ★ Union sponsors Play Station tournament in the Underground at 8 p.m. Sunday, January 31st ★ GCRO Meeting for worship in the Moon room at 9:15 a.m. ★ Union and Milner hall sponsor a Superbowl party in the Underground at 6 p.m. Monday, February Ist ★ Experiential education workshop in Boren lounge at 3:30 p.m. ★Guilfordian meeting in Duke 305 at 7:30 p.m. ★ Union meeting in Boren lounge at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 2nd ★Community worship in the Moon room at noon. ★ Episcopal Eucharist in the Moon room at 5:15 p.m. ★ New Generation Ministries meeting in Boren lounge at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 3rd ★ Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meeting in Boren lounge at 7:30 p.m. ★ Men's basketball v. Hampden-Sydney at 7:30 p.m. ★ AACS meeting in the Gallery at 9 p.m. ★ Newlin lecture in the Gallery at 7:15 p.m. Thursday, February 4th ★ SCRABBLE Club in the Commons at 7 p.m. ★ Hurricane Mitch Relief Open Mic Coffeehouse in the Underground at 9 p.m. To have your (.rent or meeting appear on the Week at (.'mil ford, submit il outside the publications suite in the box labeled public service announcements. Please thin it in be/ore TucJav at A 00p.m. and mark that it is for the llcc'k at (lUilfurd two questions, "but could not answer the question about who some of the im portant leaders of the country are," Davis said. McCarthy tapped into the minds of many people in that class, leading Tamara Mason to wonder, "how many people has America killed in the name of peace." From there, McCarthy walked around campus talking to various people. One student who he met that day was so struck by his demeanor that she decided to hear him speak. Colin Berry, an animal rights enthusiast, was News I HV: , 9K 1H . • HP Mm V ! i|H| ■ ■ I I I■' 1 y -. I'pJ I I'Yi'! f - BKM;- JM|^-J MATTHEW 2UEHLKE Colman McCarthy, founder of the Peace Studies Program, spoke in the Passion Pit. particularly impressed because "he wasn't only interested in hu man rights, and peace within hu manity in a sense, but he was also interested in animals and animal rights." Another quality which seemed to stand out to Berry was that "he seemed like he really cared and it wasn't just some thing he came to do." Later that evening, McCarthy, a former columnist for the Washington Post and founder of the Peace Studies program, de livered the message, "How to be an Effective Peacemaker." The talk outlined several ways in which modern society has been taught to accept and condone vio lence. The audience, which packed the Commons on the sec ond floor of Founders, seemed to be impressed with the message McCarthy delivered. Erik Anderson, a former stu dent of McCarthy's Peace Stud •QOiRO Proton luncb religious experience while abroad, in the ui; call for lime •College Meeting for worship, (sun., flan 31 si flessie c lDbiie, 99. and elsy Plaice. '99, in ihe 9rfoon room, 9:15-10:15 a.m. • horning c ll)orsbip unprogrammed meeting for worship weekday mornings from 8:05-6:15 a.m. in the tyut. • c Hillel— fleff has office hours in ihe ui from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Won. • 9*lid-week Meeting for worship unprogrammed worship c U)ed. eoenings from 5:30-6:00 p.m. in ihe C ?2 l ui •Community Grayer Tues. from noon to Ip. m. in the c Moon room. •Qrief Qroup Thurs. 12:30-1:30 p. m. in the c Jiut. Corrections *** * * * The Guilfordian makes every effort to be accurate and re sponsible. If you should discover an error in an article printed in the paper, please do not hesitate to contact us at x 2306. Our circulation goal is to have a paper in the campus mail box of every person on campus by noon on Friday. If you do not receive your paper, please let us know. THE GUILFORDIAN JANUARY 29, 1999 ies class at his high school, re members that during this time he was always worrying about him self but after taking his class he shifted his mind and, "like a mon key wrench stopped the system of I and started the system of we." Vance Ricks, a philosophy professor, found McCarthy's speech both "inspiring and an impassionate portrayal of non violence, not as passivity but as passivist activism" Ricks, however; wished that, McCarthy had "said more about the consequences that his view has." In the end, McCarthy left the audience with the message that peace can be achieved by anyone at any age. You only have to do one thing, and that is "start." Finally McCarthy ended his message with the words, "It is not about changing the world, it is about keeping the world from changing you."
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