Serendipity: not just
another weekend
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GREENSBORO, NC
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By Heath Williamson
STAFF WRITER
Are the postal workers
of Greensboro disgruntled?
Picketers stood their
ground a week ago Monday
outside Greensboro's Main
Post Office. These picket
ers are members of the
American Postal Workers
Union, Area Local 711.
The protesters are being
led by 711's president Wray
Davis.
The protests extends
from the recent notification
on intention to fire mechanic
Terry Duncan, the Greater
Greensboro Area Local 711
executive union vice presi
dent. According to Duncan,
the U.S. Postal Service fired
him for lying during his tes
timony in an arbitration
hearing. It was a testimony
defending a fellow employee
and union member.
Duncan claims he is be
ing let go because of his
union membership.
"They were basically
singling me out because of
my union activity," said
Duncan to reporters Mon
day.
The protest is just an ef
fort to get his job back and
to send management a mes
sage. Union president Wray
Davis called this malicious
firing as an intimidation tac
tic about speaking out or fil
ing grievances.
"We are not going to ac
cept harrassment of a fellow
union member who is acting
within his rights supplied by
the National Labor Act," said
Davis in our telephone inter
view.
"This is to let all man
agement know that we are
not going to take the crap
that they are giving us. We
want the people to know
what's going on in the post
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Our Town: a benefit for
the Multicultural RC
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New IDS major approved
♦Peace and Conflict Studies first in series of interdisciplinary proposals
Ben Gann
STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, March 17th
marked a significant moment for
the new Guilford College curricu
lum. The faculty approved Peace
and Conflict studies as an interdis
ciplinary major. On April 21st the
faculty will consider approving
two more interdisciplinary majors,
African American Studies and En
vironmental Studies.
Each of the majors requires
that students double-major in a
second, disciplinary field. Two of
the programs, Peace and Conflict
Studies and African-American
studies, come from existing concen
trations. Expanding the current
programs gives students more in
terdisciplinary opportunities.
Peace and Conflict Studies
draws on two fields, Conflict Reso
lution and Peace Studies. How
ever, one field or the other has
tended to dominate in many gradu
ate and undergraduate programs.
Joe Groves, Coordinator of the
Graduation plans commence
By Andrea Dodson
STAFF WRITER
The day that many have
been looking forward to
since they set foot onto
campus their freshman
year is near.
That day is gradua
tion.
The ceremony will be
held this year on May Bth
at 10:30 in the morning.
"Commencement is
planned by the Celebra
tions and Convocations
committee," said Dawn
Watkins, director of Stu
dent Activities and
Events Planning and also
chair of the Celebrations commit
tee. "Commencement is probably
one of my favorite times of the
year."
There are students who
serve on this committee who help
plan and organize the events that
take place during the week of
commencement. Those students
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Peace and Conflict Studies
Committee, sees the two
fields as complementary and
thinks the new major has a
nice balance.
African American
Studies also strives for a bal
ance. The program, coordi
nated by history professor
Adrienne Israel, does not
focus strictly on African
Americans. The goal of the
proposed major is to educate
students about the signifi
cant contributions made by
African peoples to the
world's growth and
progress.
At the end of the spring
semester 13 students will
have completed a concentra
tion in African-American
Studies. The demand for a
major is present. In addition, 15
students without concentrations in
African-American Studies have ex
pressed an interest in taking more
African American Studies courses.
Environmental Studies has
on the committee are James
Norton, Gwen Kelly, Sarah Mor
ris, and Gary Young.
The senior picnic will be
held Thursday, May 6th at the
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Don McNemar and Thad Rombauer
lake from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Se
nior senator, James Norton has
been planning this event.
Friday, May 7th, the re
hearsal for graduation will take
place in Dana auditorium at 2
p.m.
Baccalaureate, the spiritual
service for graduation will be
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track and field club
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the most student interest. About
40 students currently enrolled
at Guilford have expressed inter
est in an Environmental Studies
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held also on the 7th in Dana Au
ditorium at 6:00 p.m. Jon Coyle,
Gvvyneth Cliver, Hanna
Passmore, Taj Greenlee, and
Michael Martin have been plan-
ning this event.
Commencement will
be held in front of Hege
library. Keir Bickerstaffe
and Debbie Kiliru are the
main campus students
speaking at graduation.
"Basically, I'm really
touched that I was chosen
to speak,' 5 replied
Bickerstaffe "Hopefully I
won't bore the crowd to
death with what I say...
I'll try to keep it lively and
short and relatively
'clicheless' ... It's really
difficult to think of something to
say that will be meaningful for ev
eryone—there are so many dif
ferent individual experiences at
Guilford that for me to sum it up
in a five-minute speech seems
pretty daunting. Hopefully most
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