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PAGE 3 GREENSBORO, NC Guilford College student investigated Continued from page 1 received the e-mail from Heatwole, admitting that he smuggled illegal items aboard various planes. The most recent e-mail was dated Sept. 12, and is report ed to include the dates the items were left, the flight num bers, and how the items were sneaked past airport security. Likewise, the found pack ages of contraband were reportedly signed "3891925," the Washington Post reported on Oct. 21, Heatwole's birth day backwards. Heatwole's actions have already led to some changes in federal aviation security practices. The Baltimore Sun reported that Tom Ridge, who over sees the TSA, pledged to improve the system for inves tigating potential threats and tips from the public. This could include a program to flag e-mails, such as those allegedly sent by Heatwole, so that it will be impossible for five weeks to elapse if a simi lar event occur. Heatwole has been THO&UILFORDIAN Editor-in-Chief Mary Layton Atkinson Managing Editor Jacob Blom Business Manager Kevin Woodcock News Editor Alice Sharp Features Editor Katie Elliott World & Nation Editor Hannah Winkler Forum Editor Kat Spangler Sports Editor released on his own recogni zance following a hearing this past Monday. He is free to return to Campus, provided he does not enter an airport or board an air plane along the way. A prelimi nary hearing is set for Nov. 10. It is unclear if Heat wo I e intends to return to Guilford College for classes until! then. The local and] national media have' approached Guilford College students and www.cnn.com A Southwest Airline plane sits on the tarmac faculty members for com ment. Students appeared Tuesday on NBC's The Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America. Physics Professor Rex Adelberger joined CNN anchor Soledad O'Brian Tuesday morning for an on-air interview. All appearances were made via satellite. Kurt Cavanaugh Greensboro Life Editor Holly Butcher Layout Editor Patrick Holt Associate Editors Ali Stewart Taleisha Bowen Emily Mann Copy Editor Caroline Kemahan Photo Editor Megan Miller Visual Arts Editor NEWS Adelberger told CNN that "There are students that think that what he did was absolutely right, and there are students ... that [think] this was really pretty dumb. And probably the largest part of the students have no feeling one way or the other. They just are here to go to school." Guilford's Director of College Relations, Ty Buckner, agrees. "This is not about Guilford College," said Buckner. "This is an academic setting, where students come to learn. What Rob Burman Web Editor David Barron Associate Layout Editors Kenny Backus Adam Lemer Lisa Oros Associate Photo Editor Kevin Bryan Faculty Advisor Jeff Jeske Staff Writers Maggie Bamberg Eamon Barker they do with this learning is up to them. They are independ ent thinkers who make their own choices." Media attention and the national focus on the college does seem to be waning. Tuesday, fewer students were stopped and asked for inter views, and only two news channels visited the campus. This might change should Heatwole return to campus. "It all depends on what Nat does and where he goes," said Erik Liljegren of the local Fox affiliate, Channel 8. "Media attention is based on whether, in their view, they think they have a story to tell," said Buckner. Until that information becomes known, students should expect to see news vans by Dana Auditorium and New Garden Hall. Reactions to Heatwole's alleged act of "civil disobedi ence" the phrase he used in an interview Friday night with the Greensboro News and Record - have been varied, across the nation. Shelini Harris, Guilford's Assistant Professor of Josie Black Jessica Clark Aaron DeMoss Asa Fager Ernie Gilbert Laura Blythe-Goodman Dylan Grayson Emily Hantz Matt Haselton Charles Haslam Matt McCall Rebecca Muller Stella Oh Kathy Oliver Alice Simpkins Seth Van Horn OCT 24, 2003 WWW.GUILFORDIAN.COM Religious Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies, said:"According to the Gandhi and King schools, civil disobe dience involves disobeying an unjust law. The person must first put great thought into whether the law is unjust to civil rights and then con tentiously disobey it. "In this case the student dis obeyed a law that he believed just in order to prove that it is ineffective.l'm not sure if there is a precedent for this in civil disobedience as I know it." McHale, the deputy admin istrator of the TSA, said to reporters, "Amateur testing of systems like this does not in any way help us or show us the flaws in the system." An editorial appearing in Greensboro's News and Record on 0ct.21 said, "The fact that a college student easily carried out a carefully planned pre-announced hoax does nothing to soothe fears of anxious air travelers. [But] it's well documented that seri ous gaps in airport and airline security need fixing." Continued on page 10 Send Us Your Letter to the Editor I)Through our Webpage: Go to www.guilfordian.com, click on Letter Submission under Site Options, and enter the requested data in each field. Please include your name and phone number at the end of your letter. 2)By E-Mail: Send your letter to guilfordian@guilford.edu. Type "Letter" in the subject line, and please include your name and phone number at the end of your letter. 3)Hard Copy: Drop off your letter in one of the two Guilfordian boxes outside the Publications suite, Founders 208. Letters are limited to 250 words and mustbe received by Monday at 3:00 p.m. to be considered for that week's issue.
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