The Right
Makes Might
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VOLUME LI
The lake had a slight leak and so the maintenance department was
asked to fix it. The result was the loss of the lake, and a fish fry by
five happy Guilford students.
The Devil and the Core Curriculum
by DR. ANN DEAGON
"Eritis sicut dei, scientes bonum
et malum: You will be as gods,
knowing good and evil.' These are
the words inscribed in the fresh
man's autograph book by his learn
ed professor in Goethe's Faust —
but the professor is Mephistopheles
in disguise, and the words are those
spoken by the snake in the Garden
of Eden as he tempted Eve to eat
the apple. That apple came from
the tree of knowledge of good and
evil, which is surely the tree of
which we would have our students
eat; and the effect of eating was
self-awareness. The Greeks said,
"Know thyself,' but knowledge,
especially self-knowledge, comes
hard. Woden hung nine days from
the tree Yggdrasil, trading one of
his eyes for knowledge, and Oedi
pus paid with both of his for the
bitter discovery of himself.
If "finding oneself" is a painful
process for the mythical hero and,
the individual growing up, it is
equally so for the institution, espe-;
cially the educational institution. |
Perhaps we are not like Dante lost
in a wood, with Hell and Purgatory |
between us and Paradise, but we
do stand at a moment of reapprais
al when our soul's salvation de
pends on our eating the fruit that
we prescribe for others, and seeing
ourselves for what we are. And
this "we" is a composite of individ
ual students, faculty, administra
tion, and trustees; no one of us can
say "they" of Guilford College
without surrendering a part of his
individual identity and flawing our
collective self. We all share the re-
Meeting Planned
Guilford College will host the
December 12 meeting of the Cen
tral North Carolina Section of the
American Chemical Society, ac
cording to Dr. Harvey Ljung, Pro
fessor of Chemistry at the local in
stitution.
Dr. Ljung also announced that
Dr. Laurence E. Strong, Professor
of Chemistry at Earlham College,
Richmond, Indiana, will be guest
lecturer at the gathering. Dr.
Strong, a graduate of Kalamazoo
College, received his Ph.D. degree
from Brown University in 1946. He
taught at Harvard University and
Kalamazoo College before assum
ing his present position in 1952.
The meeting will be held in the
College Union beginning at 8:00
p.m.
The QuilforWcm
Published by the Students of the South's Only Quaker College
sponsibility to analyze our own
complacencies and discontents, to
get beyond either traditions or per
sonalities, and to offer our most
creative personal selves to the real
ization of our communal self.
To this common search for our
identity as an institution I would
like to offer these thoughts. It seems
to me that our core curriculum was
designed to place the student in
context, so to speak; that is, to pro
vide him with a sense of the
achievements of the past, a clear
view of the complexities of the
world around him, an understand
ing of his own nature, and an
awareness of the basic questions of
human existence. I believe that this
curriculum has done well what it
was intended to do, and that its
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Cheap Date!
It was announced this week that
the campus library has just install
ed a new phonograph listening fa
cility in one of the listening rooms
adjacent to the Reserve Reading
Room. The new facility replaces
those formerly in use in the Fine
Arts Room of the library.
The new facility consists of a
four-speed Bogen turntable with
stereo amplifier and two sets of
stereo headphones. Use of the fa
cility is available to students and
faculty.
The library's record collection
has also been moved into the Re
serve Reading Room.
Patrons wishing to use the new
facility may sign for it on a "first
come, first served" basis at the
Reserve Desk. In times of heavy
demand, use of the unit will be lim
ited to an hour per patron.
Since the listening device is a
sensitive one, library staff members
will be on hand at all times to in
struct in the proper use of the ma
chine.
Initially, no limitation is being
made on the ownership of records
played on the machine.
Presently the listening room can
accommodate two listeners at once.
But heavy use of the room would
warrant an additional listening
unit.
Group listening for formal class
es or faculty-supervised groups is
now available in the Fine Arts
Room. Individual listening will be
limited to the listening room in the
Reserve Reading Room.
GREENSBORO, N. C., DECEMBER 9, 1966
Revelers' Play Rated' Smash'
By BILL PENDERGRAFT
His Name Is Santa Claus, a
play written and directed bv
Guilford College's own Pat Gil
breath, was a tremendous success.
His Name Is Santa Claus is a
children's play and it drew the
enthusiastic response of hundred's
of Greensboro children.
The hour long Christmas per
formance took place mainly in the
bedroom of a small boy who was
played by Libba Hinkle of Chan
nel B's Romper Room. The boy
is visited in a dream by an angel
with orange wings, a frosty beard,
and white glasses, whose business
it is to make one laugh. The
"Funny Angel" is played viva
ciously by Chris Coan of Guilford
College. In the course of the boy's
dream he is visited by soldiers,
witches, and a host of other fairy
tale figures. The angel grants a
wish to the boy and the boy
wishes to make all children happy
on Christmas. After starting on
a trip to the North Pole in search
of the fat man in a red suit who
can make all children happy on
Christmas Day, a swarm of witch
es overtake the rockinghorse cara
van and dissillusion the boy to the
extent that he casts the funny
angel out of his dream and grows
into a man. As a man he later
meets the angel who has taken on
the form of a broken down writer
who has escaped from an old
folk's home.
Amidst a canned-snow flurry,
the old man realizes that the story
he was writing for children was
the dream that his new friend had
as a boy. They both proceed to
make the lost story come true
Guilford Girls
Present Fall
Fashion Show
by CINDY SAX
Thursday night, November 17, a
handful of Guilford women gath
ered in Dana for the Women's Stu
dent Council Winter Fashion Show.
Meyers Department Store spon
sored the showing which, narrated
by Mrs. Lawrence of the Advertis
ing Department, included every
thing from bathrobes to evening
gowns.
Models were chosen from the
women students by Cindy Sax, who
chaired the WSC committee. Dolly
Bruni, Carol Macon, Susie Roush,
Margaret Higgins, Sue Disharoon,
Susan Moore, Cindy Sax and Mrs.
Nacy Melleney modeled clothes
chosen by Mrs. Lawrence the Mon
day before at Meyers downtown.
The show began with a parade
of pants suits and sports suits of
light wool pastels. Loungewear
I ranged from floor-length robes to
terry cloth housecoats with match
ing towel. Cocktail dresses varied
from fashionable silver gowns to
burgundy velvet, and a black vel
vet floor-length gown modeled by
Dolly topped the show.
Refreshments afterwards in the
lobby provided a period for social
izing and fashion talk. Despite the
meager attendance, everyone en
joyed themselves and felt it an hour
well spent. Plans are already being
formulated for a Spring Show,
sponsored by Montaldo's or Brown
hill's, if possible. WSC thanks go
to the committee, the models, Mey
ers, the dressing room assistants
(Lynn Cooper, Chervl Sprinkle,
and Kathy Efird) and the Dana
Tech. Crew.
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and leave for the North Pole.
In hot pursuit are the witches who
have been realized as the nurses
from the old folk's home, led by
head nurse-witch, Sally Peterson.
Upon reaching the North Pole
the old writer-angel disguises
himself in a red suit, black boots,
and a red cap, in order to hide
Yiddish Show Presented
A program of Hebrew, Israeli,
and Yiddish music and folklore will
be given by The Three of Us at
8:00 o'clock tonight in Dana Audi
torium on Guilford College cam
pus.
The program will include coun
try folk songs, Hassidic melodies,
lullabies, and love songs sung to
the accompaniment of piano, dou
ble-bell tambourine, and an au
thentic Miriam drum.
Organized for only a year, The
Three of Us has given concerts in
colleges and universities through
out the Southeast, as well as per
forming for various Jewish centers
and organizations.
Soloist is Baila Pransky, a music
graduate of Boston University, who
has studied voice at the New Eng
land Conservatory, and toured with
the Robert Shaw Chorale. When
not performing with The Three of
Us Mrs. Pransky sings with her
Temple Choir and various opera
Math Expert Visit Planned
The Mathematical Association of
America, with the financial support
of the National Science Founda
tion, sponsored a visit of Dr. B.
J. Ball, Professor of Mathematics,
University of Georgia, at Guilford
College on Wednesday, December
7. This visit, part of a nationwide
lectureship program, had a three
fold purpose: a) to strengthen and
stimulate the mathematics pro
grams of colleges and universities;
b) to provide the mathematics staff
and mathematics majors with an
opportunity for personal contacts
with productive and creative math
Quakes Claim
Gate City Crown
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from the nurses. The play ends
with the realization that the old
escapee-angel is indeed Santa
Claus.
It was unfortunate that a per
fectly good show had to be some
what ruined by canned snow
which was sprayed on the audi
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BAILA PRANSKY
Jewish Soloist
groups.
Arranger-accompanist is Sherry
Greenspan, a graduate of the Uni
versity of South Carolina. Narrator
will be Betta Mandel who lias both
performed and written for radio
and television in New York.
ematicians; and c) to aid in the
motivation of able college students
to consider careers in mathematics
and the teaching of mathematics.
Dr. Ball, who received both his
{ undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees
at the University of Texas, taught
jat Texas and the University of
i Virginia prior to his appointment
j at the University of Georgia in
I 1959. He was appointed to his pres
j ent position in 1963. Dr. Ball is
author of several publications, in
j eluding "Countable paracompact
j ness in linearly ordered spaces" in
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