Who Declared War?
by Frederick Parkhurst
(page two)
VOLUME L
Proposed MSC Construction to
Go Up For Ratification Vote
The Men's Student Council of
Guilford College may soon have a
new constitution. On January sth
the M.S.C. unanimously approved
the new proposed constitution af
ter several weeks of discussion. It
will now be brought before the Stu
dent Legislature on January 31st.
If the Student Legislature finds no
faults with the constitution, it will
permit the M.S.C. to bring it before
the men students for their ratifica
tion. If three-fourths of the men
Exam Time - An
Honor Board
Reminder
by Alvis Campbell
As examination time draws near
the Honor Board would like to re
mind each student of his responsi
bility under the Honor System, both
to himself and to his fellow student.
Article 21-3 of the Honor Board
Constitution is of special signifi
cance during semester examina
tions:
"Students shall be reminded
that they may use rest rooms, porch
es and halls of the building in
which the examination room is lo
cated, and the student union build
ing for brief periods during a quiz
or examination. Leaving an exami
nation room to sit in cars or vacant
rooms or to return to dormitories
shall be considered an infraction of
the honor system."
Each year students are turned
over to the Board because of suspi
cious actions of which they are usu
ally unaware. For your own protec
tion, be alert as to your own con
duct while taking examinations.
And finally, as the Board always
urges, take a few minutes to com
pletely familiarize yourself with
the Honor Board Constitution as
found in the Pathfinder in abbrevi
ated form.
1966 Yearbook
Something Unique
by Susan Belk
The 1966 yearbook staff is at
tempting to present an interpreta
tion of campus life at Guilford and
to place the various facets in a per
spective which will be meaningful
to you as a student. It is very easy
for a yearbook to be a mere record
ing of facts and data pertaining to
a specific college during a specific
year. However, to have any rele
vance or meaning to each student,
the annual should recognize the
undesirable as well as the laudable
aspects of Guilford and should in
corporate throughout, those goals
and hopes toward which we are
striving. We want you to approve;
we want you to disapprove, and
most important, we want you to in
terpret and evaluate our evaluation
for only then can the yearbook
mean anything to anyone.
Dean Kent Announces
Scholarships Totaling $15,000
Dr. E. Daryl Kent, Academic
Dean of Guilford College, has an
nounced institution of twenty-five
Annual Freshman Scholarships val
ued at $600.00 each. The first of the
grants will be awarded for the 1966-
67 academic year.
"With our Dana Scholarship pro
gram, instituted several years ago,
we can now offer an outstanding
scholarship program for the out
standing student during each of
his four years of study." Dana
Scholarships provide up to full tu
ition grants for outstanding stu
dents during sophomore, junior,
The QuilforS'cw
Published by the Students of the South's Only Quaker College
students "okey" the proposed con
stitution, it will be adopted.
The need for a new constitution
was first realized by M.S.C. presi
dent Gary York last year when he
organized a committee to write the
new constitution.
There are two important changes
in the M.S.C. constitution. The first
is the inclusion of a Judiciary Board
which will serve to prosecute viola
tors of M.S.C. rules. Under this
system the M.S.C. president will,
each year, appoint with the advice
and consent of the M.S.C., the
members of the Judiciary Board.
Several steps have been taken to
guarantee the defendant a fair trial.
In addition the defendant will be
entitled to object to members of the
Judiciary Board whom he would
consider to be prejudiced against
him. These members would not be
permitted to sit on the Board for
that particular trial. The Judicial
Board is expected to greatly aid in
accomplishing the M.S.C.'s judicial
function.
The second important change in
the new constitution permits Day
Hops to be eligible for election as
M.S.C. officers. They have not been
allowed to run for M.S.C. offices in
the past.
In addition to these two major
changes, the new constitution has
removed numerous ambiguities and
fills in the "gaps" of the old consti
tution.
President David Mockford feels
confident that the adoption of the
new constitution will play a major
role in making the M.S.C. a more
effective and capable organization.
Chapel Speaker Sam Levering:
Very Active in Waging Peace
On Monday, December 13, our
chapel speaker was Samuel R. Lev
ering, a well-known orchardist and
leader in the Religious Society of
Friends. Educated at Cornell Uni
versity, he received his B.S. in 1930
and spent the next four years in
graduate work for a Ph.D. After
spending the next five years with
the Farm Credit Administration,
he returned to Ararat, Va., and be
gan what is now an orchard that
produces 40,000 bushels of apples
a year. Well known in the field of
horticulture, he has served among
his other capacities as Director of
the Virginia State Horticultural So
ciety, and has spoken all over the
nation on the subject of horticul
tural developments.
In 1943 he was one of the found
ers of the Friends Committee on
National Legislation, and he has
served on its executive body since
that time. He is now Chairman of
the Executive Council.
Chairman of the Board of Chris
tian Society Concerns of the Five
and senior years. The freshman
scholarship program makes it pos
sible for outstanding high school
graduates to compete for scholar
ships worth $3,150.00 during a four
year period.
Dr. Kent announced that Charles
C. Hendricks, admissions director,
and Alan Atwell, admissions assist
ant, are now interviewing appli
cants for the scholarships. They
will in the near future call on high
schools in western and eastern
North Carolina, Delaware, Mary
land, Philadelphia, and Washing
ton, D. C.
GREENSBOBO, N. C., JANUARY 15, 1966
Student Body, Faculty Polled on Viet Nam;
Faculty and Students Disagree on Many Issues
How Much Influence Did
Quaker Atmosphere Provide?
On Friday, January 7th, the Guil
fordian and the Stuaent Legislature
conducted a Viet Nam opinion poll
among the students and faculty of
Guilford College. Playboy Maga
zine had run a similar poll which
covered 200 colleges across the na
tion. The Guilfordian and the Stu
dent Legislature decided that it
might be interesting to see how the
views of Guilford students com
pared with those of Guilford faculty
members; how Guilford students
compared with students across the
nation and how Guilford faculty
members compared with faculty
members across the nation. The fol
lowing are the results:
1. Does the United States have
an obligation to provide active mili
tary assistance to Viet Nam?
Guilford (Nation) Guilford (Nation)
Students Students Faculty Faculty
Yes 77% 82% 44% 72%
No 18% 15% 56% 25%
No Opinion 5% 3% 3%
2. If we are unable to effect a ne
gotiated settlement before the end
of February, 1966, should we:
Pull out of
Viet Nam
completely? 8% 6% 32% 8%
Continue to
send aid in
dollars only? 7% 3% 8% 5%
Confine our
military action
to South Viet
Nam only? 31% 35% 40% 59%
Push the war
into North
Viet Nam? 54% 56% 20% 28%
3a. The administration's current
policy is correct in dealing with the
Viet Nam situation.
Strongly agree 12% 18% 8% 18%
Agree 53% 57% 36% 50%
Disagree 26% 18% 24% 20%
Strongly disagree 9% 7% 32% 12%
by Porter Dawson
Guilfordian Staff Writer
Years Meeting of Friends, Mr. Lev
er-ing represented the nation's
Quakers as delegate to the World
Council of Churches meeting in
New Delhi, India, in 1961. He was
a founder of both the American
Freedom Association and the Na
tional Executive Council of the
United World Federalists, and has
served as president of the former.
A frequent lecturer and writer,
his papers on a wide range of topics
appear frequently in periodicals
and scholarly journals.
His topic at Guilford was the re
quirements of peace. He broke the
general term peace down into three
categories: spiritual, social, and po
litical, and explained that each cat
egory has requirements of a differ
ent nature. He pointed out the dan
gers and defects in many currently
held beliefs concerning peace and
the need for correcting these.
One of these, he said, the notion
that Communism must be elimi
nated before peace can be estab
lished, is one of the most dangerous
and thus one that demands imme
diate rectification.
Legislative Notes
A reminder to presidents of clubs
and organizations on the Guilford
College campus: the first semester
is rapidly drawing to a close, and
with it the deadline for filing con
stitutions with the Student Legis
lature. If no attempt has been made
to comply with the request mailed
to all club presidents concerning
constitutions, funds will be refused
and no requisition orders will be
signed.
(Continued on page 2, col. 5)
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Fifty-four per cent of Guilford students want to push the war into North
Viet Nam if negotions fail. (Photo by Bowles)
3b. Use of non-toxic tear gas is
justifiable as a means of disabling
the Viet Cong without endangering
the lives of the civilians.
Strongly agree 37% 48% 23% 43%
Agree 48% 40% 35% 40%
Disagree 10% 9% 27% 9%
Strongly disagree 5% 3% 15% 8%
3c. We should avoid bombing
military installations and supply
lines in populous areas in North
Viet Nam, such as Hanoi.
Strongly agree 8% 15% 35% 26%
Agree 22% 18% 38% 28%
Disagree 38% 40% 15% 29%
Strongly
Disagree 32% 27% 12% 17%
4. Do you feel Americans have an
obligation to accept military service
even if they disagree with govern
ment policies?
Yes 80% 90% 58% 82%
No 20% 10% 42% 18%
5. In your opinion, the recent
public demonstrations against our
policy in Viet Nam reflect the atti
tudes of approximately what per
centage of the students on your
campus?
5% 5% 10% 5%
In addition, Guilford students
were asked if they could condone
draft card burning. Roughly four
out of every five students (82%)
could not pardon those who burned
their draft cards, while 12% said
that they could forgive these peo
ple.
A final question was asked of the
men students: Are you a conscien
tious objector? Twenty-eight an
swered "yes," 366 answered "no"
and 21 men offered no comment.
This means that 7% of the men stu
dents who answered this question
are conscientious objectors; 88% are
not and 5% did not wish to com
ment.
It is apparent that Guilford Col
lege student and faculty opinion
have been influenced by the "Quak
er atmosphere" which exists on our
campus. The campus opinion might
also be influenced by the large
amount of northerners within the
student body and faculty. Question
number one, for example, places
Guilford students and faculty mem-
Junior Class Driving For Funds
The junior class is just making
out with what support can be mus
tered in these trying times. It start
ed its year of fund-raising for the
"Junior-Senior" by having two car
washes early in the fall. Those who
showed up received a bath as well
as a full afternoon of washing dirty
automobiles.
Later in the fall, the junior class
Talent Show provided our students
with an idea of just what talents,
musically, we have on out campus.
All who were present saw quite a
successful evening of entertain
ment.
Shortly after the holidays the jun
iors began their candy drive. Al-
Examination
Schedule
(page three)
NUMBER 5
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Dick Arculin pauses for consideration.
bers to the left of their national
counterparts. On most every ques
tion, however, the two groups of
students did not differ as much as
did the two groups of faculty mem
bers. Of the four groups that were
polled, Guilford faculty members
were clearly unique. They were the
only group in which a majority felt
that we did not have an obligation
to provide active military assistance
to Viet Nam. An unusually high
amount, 32%, wanted to pull out of
Viet Nam completely if we were
unable to effect a negotiated settle
ment in the near future. On this
question a majority of the students
wanted to push the war into North
Viet Nam.
The question (3a): The adminis
tration's current policy is correct in
dealing with the Viet Nam situa
tion, brought interesting results.
Not only was the Guilford faculty
the only group in which the ma
jority did not agree, but more mem
bers of the faculty strongly dis
agreed than merely disagreed.
A final point of interest is ques
tion 4: Do you feel Americans have
an obligation to accept military
service even if they disagree with
government policies? A larger per
centage of Guilford students (20%)
said no to this than did national
faculty members (18%).
by Dave Stanfield
Guilfordian Staff Writer
though the usual lack of enthusiasm
has hampered sales, and all areas of
the campus have not yet been
reached, the campaign is fairly well
underway.
Now the juniors are looking for
help and with eagerness for the
drive to the Junior-Senior, which
they hope will be a nice send-off for
the class of 1966.
Junior officers Brenda Marion,
Treasurer; Bede Walker, Secretary;
Martha Chilton, Vice-President;
and Dave Stanfield, President, are
hoping to get the ball rolling once
more for a successful year.