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be documented for smoking marijuana
beginning at this spring's annual festival
Serendipity.
"It will make our jobs a lot easier to start
at Serendipity," said Senior P-Safe Officer
John Matthews. "It should also make the
transition easier for the students."
After hearing of the new rule, students
immediately started to make plans.
"There will be a quad smoke-in on the
Saturday of Serendipity," said President
of Student Community Senate and senior
Tim Leisman. "It's going to be absolutely
awesome. I can't wait."
WQFS has recently begun attempting to
book musical acts for the event.
"So far, we have Guilford's own
Whiskey Fingers," said WQFS General
Manager Kate Schwab. "We're trying to
focus on quality local acts for a change."
The faculty and staff response to the
event has been somewhat mixed.
"I want to remind students that
smoking in public or outside will still
result in documentation," said Bowles.
"Personally, I'm really not looking
forward to that many meetings."
"I think this supposed smoke-in is
an inevitable consequence of the rule
change," said Fetrow. "I may have to join
in.
"I'm going to be hosting a donut-in in
The Hut," said Carter. "It'll be the healthy
alternative. We'll have glazed donuts and
Cheerwine."
Guilford is now the third U.S. college
to legalize recreational marijuana. Warren
Wilson College and University of Southern
California both passed similar rules in Fall
2012. According to The Princeton Review,
even more schools have similar rules on
the ballot for the upcoming year.
"I worked really hard to get this
passed," said Leisman. "I love seeing
Guilford at the forefront of an important
cultural movement again."
BY KEVIN ENGLE
StaffWwtbi
On Friday, March 15, Kent Chabotar
announced that he would be stepping down
as president of Guilford College as of June 30,
2014.
In an interview held later that day,
Chabotar discussed his unusual plans for
post-retirement life.
"After having devoted more than 40 yeare of
my life to helping prepare students to become
responsible adults, I am ready for a change of
pace," said Chabotar. "Being at Guilford and
having the opportunity to interact so closely
with students has sparked this insatiable
desire within me to go back to school to learn
something new."
Despite his Ph.D. in public administration
from Syracuse University, Chabotar is resolute
in his decision to enroll at Guilford for the Fall
2014 semester.
When asked about the legitimacy of
Chabotar's enrollment as a CCE student at
Guilford, Associate Vice President and Dean
for Continuing Education Rita Serotkin said,
"Well, quite frankly, I can't find anything that
says that Kent can't earn another bachelor's
degree from Guilford.
"There's no rule that limits the amount of
bachelor's degrees that one can earn. If he
wants to learn something new, who am I to
stop him?"
Interestingly, on the same day, Chabotar
also announced his pending lawsuit against
The Guilfordian for slander and defamation
of character in response to the cleverly edited
video interview released at the beginmng of
the month.
Chabotar's decision to join the study body
has sparked quite the controversy among
faculty and administration.
"To put it delicately, many of the faculty
members do not want Kent in their classes,"
said Associate Professor of Political Science
Ken Gilmore. "Personally, I would be
delighted to have Kent in my class. I think
some of the faculty members are intimidated
by him being smarter and definitely better-
dressed than they are. Or they simply have a
misunderstanding of who he is."
"I do not want to divert attention away
from the teacher," said Chabotar. "I have been
at the center of attention for the last 66 years.
And I'll tell you, it's a lot of work. Shaking
hands, kissing babies, dodging crowds of
adoring fans. I am past my prime and ready
for a break."
So if he's not doing it for attention, then
why? What does Kent Chabotar hope to
accomplish by returning to school?
Critics of Chabotar believe that he is not
willing to accept getting older. They believe
that Chabotar seems to want to party with
students, to somehow become young again by
association.
However, those in support of Chabotar's
decision far outweigh those who oppose
it. Students are excited for Chabotar to join
the student body, and faculty is excited for
Chabotar to be out of the administration.
"I would rather set my hair on fire than
have to read one more of Kent's wordy
strategic plans, budgets, renovation color
charts or commencement speeches," said Vice
President for Student Affairs and Dean of
Students Aaron Fetrow.
When asked about what major he planned
on pursuing, Chabotar said, "As of now, I plan
to get a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies.
After all, my presidency has been an amateur
act. I'd like to become a professional."
Judicial process so pleasant,
students try to get written up
BY HANNAH WALLER
Staff WwTfR
Instead of artfully dodging Public
Safety and formulating fantastic excuses,
Guilford College students are starting
to try to get written up. The issue begs
the question of who is to blame; the
students, or an overly pleasant judicial
process?
In 2005, rap group Geto Boys
introduced the "G-Code" to the general
population.
One of the most important stipulations
of the G-Code is: "We don't trust in the
judicial system, we shoot guns / We rely
on the streets, we do battle in the hood."
In complete and utter ignorance
of the G-Code, students are willingly
subjecting themselves to judicial charges,
even going so far as to cooperate with
the sanctioning process.
Senior Ang Styles uses the judicial
process as a method of stress relief.
"Between exams and work-study, I
was feeling really stressed," said Styles.
"A friend suggested getting written up.
The judicial process was great; they
listened to all my problems and told me
how well I was doing regardless. In the
end, we all hugged it out."
"At first we thought it was just -our
imagination," said Director of Student
Judicial Affairs Sandy Bowles. "We
thought the students were being careless
and were too confident that they
wouldn't get caught violating rules and
regulations. When the violations started
becoming more and more absurd, we
realized something out of the ordinary
was going on here."
Some students have had to try more
than once before succeeding in being
charged.
"The first time, I put a pile of oregano
on my desk, next to a scale and some
plastic bags," said sophomore Mary Jane
Beasley. "I called Public Safety with an
anonymous tip, but when they searched
my room, they didn't fall for the old
bait-and-switch."
Beasley realized she would have to
step up her game if she wanted to beat
out the competition for judicial charges.
"On my second try, I wasn't going to
let anything go wrong," she said. "I put
fresh batteries in my smoke detector, lit
up a blunt of the real stuff and held it in
front of a fan pointed at the crack under
my door."
That time, Beasley's plan worked like
a charm.
"It's a disturbing trend," said Vice
President for Student Affairs and Dean
of Students Aaron Fetrow. "Students
want to experience our judicial process
so badly, they're willing to risk their
own well-being for a chance at getting
charged.
"One of the most common student
infractions has always been host
responsibility. Now, students are
taking it to a whole new level, inviting
convicted felons to campus in the hope
that they'll do something to get their
hosts written up."
In coming weeks, school
administrators are expected to meet
in an effort to find a solution to the
problem. Among the proposed solutions
are the use of corporal punishment
and the establishment of an on-campus
detention center.
"This is not how we want students to
see the judicial process at Guilfprd,' said
Associate Dean for Campus Life Tammy
Alt. "You can call it a hellhole, just don't
call it pleasant."