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THjfrUILFORDIAN GREENSBORO, NC Guilford sets enrollment record Meredith Veto Staff Writer The college has broken its enrollment record this spring with an increase of 52 students over the fall.The new total is 2,153. The college surpassed the all-time headcount recorded in the fall of 1965, when 2,101 students enrolled. Normally, colleges and universities have a decrease in enrollment from the spring to the fall. An increase of 105 students in the Center for Continuing Education (CCE) program helped push the college's total enrollment to its current ttotal, while both traditional age and Early College enroll ment dropped slightly. The Dean for Continuing Education, Bill Stevens, said that the college has more bachelor's degree courses at night than any other college Black music in historical perspective 3 ROB BURMAN/GUILFORDIAN Ann Hunt Smith performs in Dana Auditorium Feb. 10 Av ' an - - Valentine's m Bush's g- "The influenza Day fun I budget m Offices of r-m '"Asia and S •*- ideology Love" Pa 9® 4 I Page 9 Page 10 HK '' -;*^*'** m L l^r^l? l^ r '■ - "- rv -- . ' -y.> r s^^WB^ : ' ; ' r Hendricks Hail, behind King Hail, is home to Guilford's ever-increasing CCE program or university in the Triad area. This year the college cele brates the 50th anniversary of its adult degree program. "Adults are very satisfied with their experiences here," Randy Doss, Vice President for Enrollment and Campus VOLUME 90, ISSUE 16 1 WWW.GUILFORDIAN.COM Life, said: "Guilford has a tremendous academic reputa tion in the area." Students and faculty say that the CCE program bene fits the college community, both in and out of the class room. Aaron Demoss Staff Writer t 7 p.m. Feb. 10 in A Dana Auditorium, 68- year-old vocalist Ann Hunt Smith gave an interactive, musical, and his torical presentation on African-American music. Smith's performance was part of the celebration of Black History Month at Guilford The original program, first performed by Smith in 1967 at the segregated Lincoln High ROB BURMAN/GUILFORDIAN "Personally, I find it really motivating to be around peo ple who are so adamant to do well," traditional-age junior Elisabeth Villette said. "Adult students are wonder ful assets in the classroom. Continued on Page 2 in Chapel Hill, N.C., began with work and sorrow songs. Smith presented these all with a powerful and sad voice, dressed as a slave and doing a back-and-forth dialogue to depict the horror, fear, and desperation of plantation life. Smith continued on her his torical journey singing a mon tage of slave songs, each designed to tell slaves how to escape to freedom. "They were a code to help slaves," Continued on Page 3 FEBRUARY 13, 2004 Political activism at Guilford Charles Haslam Staff Writer The candidates involved in the Democratic National Primary have a range of striking personali ties, from the Rev. Al Sharpton to the outspoken frontrunner John Kerry, the junior senator from Massachusetts. At the col lege, two names in particular are making an impact: Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Governor Howard Dean of Vermont. Senior Hope Bastian, who has been campaigning for Kucinich on campus and in Greensboro, was first intro duced to Kucinich as she lis tened to NPR while driving home after work as a union organizer for the United Commercial Workers Union in Redsprings, N.C. last sum mer. In that interview, Kucinich proclaimed, "I'm running for president to bring a new day to America, an administration which will focus on the social, the economic, the human needs of the people and use the resources of our country to make sure that all Americans have decent health care, to get rid of health care for profit, to make sure that when people are sick they can see a doctor, to make sure that no one in Continued on Page 3
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