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News in brief
Jeremy Ball
STAFF WRITER
Dean's Writing Awards
Winners Selected
The 2002 Dean's Writing
Awards winners have been
named.
The Dean's Award for First-
Year Writing was given to Nat
Heatwole for his essay "If You're
Not Your Own Person, Whose
Person Are You?" The piece, writ
ten for Jeryl Prescott's English
102 course, was judged the su
perior entry by the Academic
Skills Center,
According to Heatwole, 'The
essay is a hypothetical high
school graduation speech. The
basic idea is that life after high
school is very different. Peer
pressure becomes more societal;,
it becomes possible to become
'society's person' instead of your
own."
Junior Elizabeth Baltaro
won the Dean's Award for Schol
arly/Critical Writing for her piece
"My Responsible Self?" The es
say, written for Mel Keiser's Con
temporary Theology course, is
based on the work of theologian
H. Richard Niebuhr.
"I realized that it.was a
strong paper but never expected
the award," Baltaro said. "It was
definitely a pleasant surprise."
Carole Sumner won the
Week at Guilford
Fri., April 5
4 p.m. Color and Culture in the Caribbean (Founders)
7 p.m. Bowling League (All-Star Lanes)
Sat., April 6
7 p.m. Yachting Club meeting (Founders)
Sun., April 7 Nina Creel's Birthday (She's 14)
7 p.m. African American Awards Ceremony (Bryan Aud.)
7 p.m. WQFS meeting (Commons)
Mon., April 8
7 p.m. Chemistry Department Lecture (Bryan Aud.)
7:30 p.m. Guilfordicm meeting (Commons)
8 p.m. Lecture: "Take Back the Night" (Commons)
9 p.m. Guilford PRIDE meeting (GLBTQA Resource Center,
Dana)
Tues., April 9
7 p.m. Chess/Scrabble Club (Founders Lobby)
8 p.m. International Club meeting (International Center)
Wed., April 10
4 p.m. Americorps and Peace Corps Panel (Commons)
5 p.m. Early College Info Session (Frank 101)
6 p.m. Community Senate meeting (Boren)
10 p.m. Yachting Club: Women Gamers (Founders)
Thurs., April 11
4:30 p.m. Music at Day's End (Founders)
7 p.m. Forever Green (Pines)
8 p.m. Student Action with Farm Workers (Commons)
9 p.m. GLBTQA Resource Center Social Night (Dana)
10:30 p.m. Yachting Club (Bauman)
Dean's Award for Narrative/Re
flective Writing and Samara
Richter won the Betty Place Prize
in Poetiy.
Katy Wurster Wins Dubba
Hughes Lucas Award
Katy Wurster, forum editor
of The Guilfordian, received the
Dubba Hughes Lucas Award on
Mon., March 25. The $250 cash
award is presented annually to
one Guilfordian staff member
who makes the most outstand
ing writing contribution to the
newspaper that school year.
Adam Lucas, former editor
in-chief of The Guilfordian, es
tablished the award in 2000 in
his step-mother's name. Past
winners include Peter
Morscheck and Daniel
Fleishman.
Wurster has been a member
of the newspaper staff for three
semesters. She began work as a
staff writer in fall 2000. She
studied in Brunnenburg the fol
lowing spring, returning to serve
as news editor during the 2001
fall semester. She graduates
from Guilford in May.
Tatum Chosen as 2002-03
Guilfordian Editor-in-Chief
James Tatum has been se
lected to serve as editor-in-chief
of The Guilfordian for the 2002-
2003 academic year. The publi-
The Guilfordian
News
cations board announced their
decision last Tues. Tatum will
succeed currefit editor-in-chief
Alison Goss.
.Tatum, a rising senior, has
five semesters of experience with
The Guilfordian. After working as
a staff writer in fall 1999 and
spring 2000, he returned from
studying in London to become
sports editor in spring 2001.
Last fall he edited the forum
section before rising to his cur
rent position of, managing editor.
Before beginning his tenure
at Guilford, Tatum founded The
cian philosophies overlap,
Rosemont hit at the core of the
differences between Western and
Eastern cultures regarding phi
losophy and sociology.
"Our question of "What is
real?' seems ridiculous from a
non-Western perspective,"
Rosemont said. "The best I can
come up with to explain why is
that math and geometry were de
veloped before philosophy in the
West, but in the East it was as
tronomy before philosophy and
math after."
He used this to explain fun
damental differences, but also
drew several parallels.
"Pre-enlightenment philoso
phy is very much like that Of
Confucian," Rosemont said, be
fore quoting several phrases
from the thinkings of John Locke
and others.
festival, and the old standard,
Serendipity. All of these ideas are
just starting to be worked on and
the details of individual events
still haven't been worked out.
"We are all really excited
about next year," said president
elect Doom. "We want to broaden
the types of activities to appeal
to a wide variety of students, and
through the use of numerous ac
tivity counsels and
get a lot of new and interesting
"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see
one's name in print."
Want a hands-on introduction to journalism?
Take English 282 in the fall
You will be part of the Guilfordian staff. Class meets Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 2:10, with a half hour Guilfordian staff meeting on Mon
days at 7:30 p.m.
No experience needed
From Lecture, p. 1
From Union, p. 1
April 20, 2002
Voice at his alma mater, the
Washington Waldorf School in
Bethesda, Md. He also held vari
ous positions at the Falls Church
News Press for two years.
"I anticipate a very exciting
year for The Guilfordian" Tatum
said. "The paper has had some
very positive developments
within the past few years, and I
hope that the trend will con
tinue."
First-year Kat Allen was
chosen as next year's editor of
The Quaker, and junior Ryan
Taylor for The Piper.
Much of his argument criti
cized the U.S.'s refusal to accept
the United Nations' universal
declaration of human rights to
freedoms like education, em
ployment, and health care, in
stead of just from coercion of
such rights as free speech, bear
ing arms, and so on.
"What is the real value of
free speech to those who haven't
been taught to speak?" he said.
"Education does not fall from the
sky; a preoccupation with the
freedoms and autonomy of the
wealthy subverts everyone else."
Vance Ricks found him
"generally a straight shooter"
and was impressed by Rosemont
and his talk.
"Like most Guilford events,
there was nowhere near the au
dience it deserved, but his en
gaging manner and content were
veiy effective," Ricks said.
events on campus," she re
peated.
Jen Surber, Union president
in 1999-2000, said, "To make
student Union work, it takes pa
tience, a willingness to cooper
ate with the administration, and
working hard at publicizing
events."
For now, event details re
main murky, but the Doom
ticket said it is looking forward
to making Union a highly visible
force on this campus.