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think of them. Be antagonistic;
smoke where the signs say NO
SMOKING
* Bed-wet ting. Teli them you
wet the bed when you're awny
from home. If they don't de;cr
you, prove it when you're in
ducted.
The only flaw in the above me
thods is that most of them are em
barrassing; after all, how do you
go about telling your girl "Baby,
I'm going to be a homosexual. I
want you to teach me what to do."
How does one buy a doctor? As for
arriving drunk or high, Guilfoid
jans just don't do such things; at
least not in public anyhow.
Now if you want to do something
a little more drastic you can al
ways burn your draft card, pre
ferablv before a large audience
with television coverage. After all,
if you're going to go to jail, you
might as well have some fun on
the way.
If you are sincerely against figh:-
ing I suggesf you join the Peace
Corps or Vista, or a similar or
ganization. Or you can volunteer
for service as a medic or some oilier
noncombatant job.
Now there are two remaining
ways to beat the dralt. First, you
can work hard and really appy
yourself- and get the grades neces
sary to stay in college. Then upon
giaduation go back to school tor
postgraduate work, or get mar
lied and get a job that carries a
draft defered status. The second al
ternative I'm going to offer you is
so drastic and far out that it pro
bably hasn't occurred to very many
members of the student body. To
paraphrase Horace, "Enlist, young
man. Enlist." It may seem square
at first, but what's square about
helping your country?
People Pills and
Population Control
New York (NAPS) lf you've
alive 30 \ears from now, you'll be
able to say '"Of all the people who
have been born since the year 1 A.
D., about hall of them are aiive
today!" Strange as this seems, the
fact remains that by 1995, tlieie
will be six billion people on eaitli
if the present rate of population
growth continues.
This ' explosion" is of as much
concern as the bomb and is one
that is not peculiar to underde
veloped countries alone. Here in
the United Slates the birth rate
is beginning to create an economic
pinch: large families on relief call
for an increasing share of public
funds.
Twice as many people are born
as die each year, says Kenneth IJ.
Keating former U. S. Senator and
currently National Chairman of
the Population Crisis Committee.
And already, one half of the world's
population sulfers from hunger or
malnutrition.
President Johnson referred to
population problems in his State
of the Union address and no less
than 10 bills regarding birth con
trol have been introduced in the
89th Congress a clear indication
of the growing interest of govern
ment.
What are the consequences if
nothing is done to change the
trend? According to a report from
the Population Reference Bureau,
Inc., in 50 years, the population
of the United States may reach
500 million increasing each JO
years by the total number of peo
ple in the country in 1900. Cities
might be forced to cram millions
into huge apartment blocks, liter
ally reducing each individual to a
mere number.
And for the world, pessimists
have said that it will be overrun
by starving hordes, water will be
priceless and wars will start over
food for the masses a dismal
forecast for the scientific society
we know today. A
Even if new methods of produc
ing food and water supplies are
found such as "farming" the
iceans and desalting the sea the
problem of housing and just plain
jpen space exists. The sandlot ball
game, the tromp through the
woods and the backyaid flower gar
den niav be unknown.
Fortunately, science has another
answer, a pieventive solution. Thu
answer is in family planning
ihrough modern techniques. To
day, in many countries govern
ment experts are already urging the
use of birth control measures to
prevent the potential population
explosion.
Contrary to popular opinion, it
■s not only at the large family
vvith many children that the pro
giam is aimed. Particularly in the
U. S., moie women are marrying
now at an early age, and more ot
ihem are having several children,
six million girls are now in tie
uighly marriageable iB-to-2i age
bracket, as compared with only
4-7 million live years ago, the
Population Reference Bureau say*.
And medical science has seen to n
that most ot these children born
loday live to be adults. To hail
me population explosion, the tam
iiy that pians 10 nave three uuiil
ien need; to inxut tne number to
two, etc.
Birth control has been widely ac
cepted in tins country tor some
ume. It is clear however, that uie
state of taixiil) planning ot birth
control in the world is not effici
ent enough. Even in the United
States, tor example, women in low
income urban areas say diat over
half of their childreu were un
planned and unwanted, a recent
article in McCalL's states.
What methods of birth control
are used? today's women have a
choice of more than 50 commercial
products that are on the market,
m addition to the rhythm method,
presently the only means of family
planning approved by the Roman
Catholic Church.
Unfortunately, a number of
those methods are little better than
nothing at all. And with the excep
tion of oral contraceptives, all are
less than completely leliable, For
example, of the women using the
rhythm method, 40 per cent will
become pregnant in a year. And
amonj/ those couples using me
chanical means, such as diaphrams
or condoms, 15 per cent of the wo
men will conceive, the Planned
Parenthood Association says.
The only means of birth con
trol that is virtually 100 per
cent effective is the oral contra
ceptive when taken as directed,
of course. First introduced in the
United States almost five years ago,
and available only on physician
preseripion, the pills are the an
swer to many women's problems.
Significant numbers of women,
however, experienced sufficiently
severe discomforts with the first
oral contraceptives to prevent them
from continuing vvith the pills and
to discouiage other women from
taking them. Producing what is
commonly known as ' pseudo preg
nancy," the first oral contracep
tives often gave the side effects ot
the real thing: nausea, weight
gain, breast tenderness, etc.
So medical scientists improved
on these pills. The result is the
sequential oral contraceptive. Mead
Johnson Laboratories, Evansvilie
Ind., introduced the first sequen
tial oral contraceptive, called Ola
con, in April, 1965 and at least
one other has since become avail
able. Oracon greatly reduces the in
cidence of side effects that women
experienced with earlier products.
Both the earlier oral contracep
tives and the sequential contracep-
I lives prevent ovulation with syn
THE GUILFORDIAN
thetic hormones taken daily in
tablet form. In the sequenti.il
method however, the hormone con
tent of the tablets and the days 0:1
which they are taken are designed
to very closely simulate the body's
natural process. It is believed to be
for this reason that side effects are
so much lower.
Now that a means of birth con
trol lias been developed that is
not oidy virtually completely ef
fective bui is more acceptable to
women, it is becoming increasing
ly easy to plan the size of a family
according; to the desires of the
parents. It is this way that the
population explosion" can best
be controlled, insuring a better
economic, educational and social
atmosphere for those children who
are born and truly wanted.
(Continued from P. 1, CoL 5)
temperature (not over 100 degree).
If you aie within the acceptable
standards, you are now ready to
move to the second stage where a
registered nurse takes your blood
pressure.
At the thud stage, a trained
nurse takes down your medical
nistory and takes a sample ot youi
ulood for a hemogoblin count. In
case you re worried, there's a doc
tor present at all times in case of
any emergency.
The foui tli stage is die recording
Mage. Here all tlie information
winch has been gathered about you
is transiered onto a lorm which
will go to the Piedmont Carolina
ijiood Center at Charlotte along
v.ith your pint of blood. This reg
ional center collects blood lroiu
iorty-Lour cities in piedmont North
Carolina. Here the donor receives
the piaslic bag into which his
oiood will be drawn.
The fifth stage is where the fun
begins. You lie down on a padded
taoie and your arm is cleaned and
aie needle inserted. About five
minutes latei the whole operation
is over and you can get up. There's
little discomlort and almost no
pain.
At the sixth stage the donor ar
rives at the Canteen. Here he may
help himself to free cokes, coffee,
crackers, and so on. Also he can
share his tale of fright with his
tellow donors who have their own
accounts to ie-iterate.
Mrs. Pate gave me some statis
tics about Guilford's donations
over die past few years. Last year
we gave 117 pints out of a possible
yoo from the student body; about
15% donated blood. Our best year
was in i960 when we gave 178
pints. According to Mrs. Pate this
is a good percentage of donors.
This year the bloodmobile hoped
to get 125 pints from Guilford Col
lege. This is only a 12% donation
from the student body. I think we
can do better than this.
Davidson, foi the past two years,
lias had donations from approxi
mately 52% of the student body.
For its efforts, Davidson has been
warded a mahogany plaque which
is given annually to the college
with the best percentage of donois.
I think that the plaque would look
a lot nicer at Guilford College
than at Davidson. It's too late to
do anything about it this year but
next year should be a different
story.
I think that one of the most
significant things about the blood
mobile is its necessity. Blood is
one thing that money cannot buy;
it must be given, and given will
ingly. No one gives blood because
he has too, but because he wants
to. No one can visit the bloodmo
bile, donate a pint of blood, and
leave without feeling deeply satis
fied.
THE HORNETS NEST
by Virgil V. Horney in
Through the generosity of the
editor of this paper, it has become
possible lor me to write a column
lor the Guilfordian. Some of you
may wonder at the title I have
chosen. In the Revolutionary
War, the area around Charlotte
was a hot-bed of activity by Amer
ican loyalists the area became
known as the hornet's nest be
cause of the trouble it made for
ihe British. Most ol the colonists
wno participated m tne lignting
were irom tne mountans or from
the piedmont sections ot the state.
Now I'm from the piedmont and
I spend as much time in the
mountains as my time and money
permit. Thus, by reading the pre
vious sentences, you've learned a
bit about North Carolina history
and the back-ground of this col
umn.
Before i settle down to writing
my regular columns, there are a
lew things I'd like to mention.
First, many of my friends have
frequently asked me when will
the Guilfordian come out. All I
can say about the first issue is that
the first issue is always Hell to get
out. We had delays in getting the
copy to the printer and the
printer took quite a bit more
time than necessary to get the
paper printed. Mechanical de
lays, sudi as this, neither 1 nor the
other staff members can control.
Second, it has been brought to
my attention diat some people do
not read die Guilfordian. Surely
diis isn't true. I just can't believe
that anyone could come to Guil
ford and not read the Guilford
ian. That's just like saying "1
don't read Playboy." I know some
body reads this magazine because
the drugstore had sold all this
months' copies before 1 got there.
Third, the Guilfordian is held
up by a lack of articles. I've got a
YOU THINK YOU
GOT TROUBLES
lhe newspaper staff sometimes
finds itself at a loss when it Hp
proaches a journalistic problem
that only an experienced journalist
could handle. We are aware that
the college is not capable of hand
ling every type of course, for they
must restrict themselves to a basic
liberal arts program and the core
curriculum. The merits of these
programs have already been dis
cussed by the paper. We feel,
though, that a journalistic writ
ing course should be offered on
campus. Working on the paper
should be a requirement of the
course, for we feel that only ex
perienced persons could handle the
tasks assigned to them. The work
involved in putting together a
newspaper is very fatiguing both
physically snd mentally when one
is blessed with an efficient and
COMMENT b
" , I
DECEMBER 9, 1965
couple of articles in this issue
along with this column. I'm just
as lazy as you are, and it should
be clear to all that I'm not an
other John Steinbeck, William
Faulkner, or Hugh Hefner. I
doubt if any of my readers are
either. I'd like to be proved
wrong. If anyone thinks he can
prove me wrong, here's how to do
it. Write an article on any perti
nent subject involving Guilford
College and bring it to the Guil
fordian office in the Union Build
ing. While you're there, fill out
the application blank and join
the staff. If you're good enough
to write an article to submit,
you're good enough to write an
article to print. Remember, these
articles aren't graded like the as
signments you turn in to your
English teacher. I'll even offer
some ideas: Dottie Alley, why
don't you give us an article on be
ing one of Guilford's rare Fresh
man Homecoming Queens; Joe
Hooker, you could give our sports
section a boast by telling, in your
own words, what it's like to help
train a mighty good football team;
Dave Roberts, you could write us
quite an article about your ex
periences as a bag-piper. I know
that there are other people on
Campus with stories just as good.
Write 'em out and bring 'em by.
Fourth, I'm not omnipotent,
omnipresent, omniscient, nor om
nivorous. There's a lot that hap
pens on Campus that 1 never hear
about. I'm always open to sugges
tions for a good column, so bring
me any suggestions you may have.
I'll try to use them.
This conclude's The Hornet's
Nest for this issue. Next time, I'll
write about something a little
more interesting. Look for me in
the next thrill-packed issue of the
Guilfordian. Remember, every
oodv reads the Guilfordian.
enthusiastic staff, but when only
4 lew take enough interest to join
tiic staif the task is doubly hard.
If a journalism course were es
tablished on campus, this wouid
jolve many cl the problems that
i'ace the newspaper with each is
sue. The persons in the class would
be on the staff of the paper and
could be assigned according to the
leeds of the paper. Persons, there
lore on the staff, would receive
:redit for the work they do.
As it stands now the staff which
is composed of some eleven writ
ers has only one English major.
The persons on the staff put in
various amounts of time, yet re
ceive nothing for their lime except
to see the finished product in print.
If a journalism course in associa
tion with the paper is never es
tablished, I doubt the newspaper
vill dissolve completely, but it will
decline in quality and subsequent
ly, status.