VOLUME LI I
The Guilfordian- Potential Death And
Actual Change
One week before the Thanksgiving
holidays, Jim Garvin, representative of
the day students on the Legislature, con
ceived of the idea to expand the present
newspaper - The Guilfordian - or to start
a separate newspaper.
The growing dissatisfaction with The
Guilfordian, said Garvin in Legislature,
that "students could care less about news
on campus." He added that he was in
terested in starting another paper for
which he felt he could get enough student
and faculty support to publish. He also
figured he could publish more reasonably
through increased advertising and a dif
ferent publisher.
Appearing before an open Legislature
meeting Monday, Nov. 27, Caroline Carl
ton, College Editor, described briefly the
structure of The Guilfordian. "We started
a Publications Board and approved three
editors for this year with an approximate
budget of less than $3,000," said Miss
Carlton. She added that it was a new
paper to come out every week, which
would hopefully negate its past history.
Rich McKelvie and Janet Ghezzi, ed
itors of The Guilfordian, each added that
"despite many structural problems with
the paper, it was certainly progressing."
One problem in particular is a lack of
facilities in The Guilfordian room, accord
ing to McKelvie. This room is shared with
the Quaker and contains two inadequate
typewriters and no board space, both
needed for a newspaper.
McKelvie added that the editors are
planning future ideas. "We hope to meet
with the other editors of the four neigh
boring colleges of Greensboro and talk
about inter-collegiate communication and
problems related to our specific paper,
McKelvie said. The Guilfordian also hopes
to develop a theme concerning student
freedom and responsibility and sponsor a
forum on this topic in the future.
Following Legislature and subsequent
meetings of Jim Garvin and staff, with
Donald Christenson, sociology professor
and members of the Publication Board,
the group decided to work for The Guil
fordian.
Jim Garvin, Walt Howerton, Zack Lowe,
The Generation Gap - A Reality?
The Generation gap is a reality but not
a reason. It is a deceiveing term used as a
"feeble attempt to give strength to ideas
that people have not thought through."
contends Dr. William Burris. Nor is the
cause from which spring all the seeds of
discontent of our protesting generation.
This generation gap is merely a term which
describes an obvious and perhaps eternal
situation, which is that the young people
of today (under 25) have different ideas
than do older people (over 30). However,
by demeaning this inadequate and over
used term I am not denying the validity
of the increasing cry of protest that is
pouring out of this side of that gap, but
rather I am attempting to clean away all
the trite labels that are pasted onto this
tide of dissent and find the pertinent
reasons why that dissent exists, and why
it is louder than ever before.
One reason is posed by Dr. Cyril Harvey
that this gap between generations is not
The Qui I for (Sew
Ted Mallick, Peter Ballance and Bob Hill
will all join the staff of The Guilfordian,
hoping to expand its scope and increase
interest in the paper.
Judicial Controversy In The
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The Men's Interdormitory Government,
organized last year, took the place of the
Men's Student Council which has become
ineffective and stagnated.
Tim Tuffs, first President of the MIG,
resigned two weeks ago because of an
earlier illness, leaving Keith Parks the
Presidency.
The MIG has been concerned about its
judicial processes lately. Six members had
a conference with Dean Lanier to discuss
whether the MIG is necessary.
The conference strenghtened the MIG
through the adoption of three resolutions,
First, there should be better commun
ication between the Dean of Students and
the MIG Judicial Board. The Dean of
Students should inform the MIG when he
is dealing with a discipline problem on a
counseling situation.
Second, the MIG needs to "sophist
icate its judicial system." A permanent
fact-finding committee has been set up
with the purpose of finding information
about a case and deciding whether it is
of a judicial nature. The MIG should take
more responsibility in enforcing campus
codes, and use a more formal procedure
for its court system.
Third, the advisors to the MIG should
act in an advisory capacity of the MIG in
stead of independently from it.
"In seeking these evaluations, the MIG
comes closer to its function," says Keith
Parks. "The purpose is two-fold: to leg
islate cohesive programs for the male
student body and to enforce the codes of
behavior of Guilford College men."
The MIG also promotes projects for
the college. Joining the Women's Student
Council, the MIG is sponsoring a Christ
mas party in the cafeteria for 30 under
privileged children.
widening but is narrowing. As a result the
two generations are having more dialogue
between themselves concerning a greater
number of issues, but either side as yet
has not been very convincing, and as a
result the protest continues.
The affluence of our society has given
us more independence, by being less de
pendent on our parents for our "bread"
we can experience a greater freedom to
live by our own created standards. The
result of this, says Dr. Harvey, is that we
as students are more self-confident, that
is, we have more guts to look at the
established structure of tradition in a
critical way.
Dr. Burris made an important point
when he suggested that "mature" adults
become responsible for other things be
sides themselves. Thus all their energies
are concentrated on protecting their pro
perty. As Dr. Burris says, "this is just
human." But we young people are not
GREENSBORO, N. C. DECEMBER 8, 1967
WITH EDITORS NOTE
Student Affairs Committee Modifies
Women's Rules
The Student Affairs Committee (SAC)
voted to modify women's rules a week
ago.
This came after long discussion in and
out of the committee just before Thanks
giving. The recommended rule changes
originated in Student Legislature and were
approved by the Women's Student Coun
cil (WSC). Then by a 2/3 majority vote,
the women students passed the proposed
rule changes.
Mary Loveland, President of the WSC,
brought the proposed changes to the SAC.
The proposals brought before the SAC
which passed the women students read:
1. The closing hours of the women's res
idence halls be changed as follows: A.
Sunday through Thursday, 12:00 mid-
SSOG Invades State
Department at Guilford
by Bob Swain
Foreign Policy underwent a day of ex
tensive discussion on the Guilford campus
last Thursday as the Student Union hosted
a State Department briefing team con
sisting of a group of four government in
ernational affairs specialists.
Visiting Dr. Suri's and Mr. Grice's
classes during the day, the visiting dip
lomats chose to concentrate briefly on
African and Middle-Eastern affairs, dis
cussing in turn the overwhelming Jewish
lobby and its effect on American attitudes
at the time of the six day war last June;
the Rhodesian oil embargo; American
business participation in South Africa's
racial and political conflicts; American
government contributions for and against
apartheid; the successes and failures of
various Communist attempts for power
and prestige in Africa;bthe disintegrating
ideal of pan-Africanism; and the "Lib
eration" movement in Angola and Moz
ambique.
Also on campus for the day were two
prominent student dissenters. Tom Gard
ener, chairman of the Southern Student
Prganizing Committee (SSOC), last year
Organizing Committee (SSOC), last year
traveled to Chechoslovakia for the inter
national NFL conference with represent
itives of North Vietnam. Bruce Smith,
also of SSOC, has recently returned from
a month's visit to Cuba. Gardener and
Smith spoke to classes under Mr. Cheek
and Mr. Christenson, and displayed peace
literature outside the Founder's Hall din
ing area at lunch and supper.
Probably the most productive of the
day's events was the 8:00 o'clock meeting
of Thomas McElhiney, highest-ranking of
the State Department representitives, with
students and faculty in the Hut. Mr.
McElhiney blended state material with
certain of his own philosophic views, and
produced an instructive forum on foreign
and underdeveloped countries including
foreign investment, isolationism, and limit
ed diplomatic warfare.
tied down to such demanding respons
ibilities. In David Bazelon's words, we
carry our "property in our heads." We
are not ready to commit ourselves to a
binding dogma such as that posed by the
"new Left," or to participate in any sort
of prefabricated "Great Society," and in
the same sense it is wrong for us to be
pressed into early specialization during
our undergraduate education. We possess
the tremendous asset of flexibility, which
alone will enable us to survive in this super
paced age. We do not ask that any answer
be provided for us, but rather that we be
free to determine our own answers to
questions which are actually beyond the
capacity of our elders. As Robert A.
Gross, a college editor, puts it, "We want
to try out various ways of living, to test,
to prove, to experiment with different
values . . for the rest of our lives."
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night; B. Friday, 1:00 a.m.; C. Satur
day, 2:00 a.m.
2. There be no restriction that freshmen
women do not leave campus alone?
during the first semester.
3. There be no restrictions on the number
of times a woman student may leave
the campus before closing hours of
the residence halls (this includes all
classes).
4. That all signing out be made voluntary
unless the student is spending the
night out of the residence hall or is
taking one of her late permissions.
5. That women students be allowed to
wear bermudas or slacks to the supper
meal on Saturday and Sunday nights,
in so far as the dress is in accordance
N with neatness and good taste.
Rules 2 and 5 were approved on Nov
ember 21 by the SAC. But the other rules
rema.ned open for discussion.
Mrs. Kitty Steele, member of the SAC,
was one of the fervent objectors to the
rule change. Besides her. Dean Nancy
Melleney and Dean William Lanier as well
as several other faculty members of the
committee questioned the change. "The
result was a compromise," said Dean
Lanier.
Finally, the other rules were amended
sufficiently to pass the SAC and the re
sults submitted to President Grimsley
Hobbs.
The approved results are that 2, 3, and
5 passed as they were. One (1) was chang
ed to read: The closing hours of the
women's resident halls: A. Monday through
Thursday, 11:30 p.m.; B. Friday and
Saturday, 1:00 a.m.; C. Sunday, 12:00
midnight; D. With the stipulation that
the lounges close at their present hours.
Four (4) reads: That all signing out be
made voluntary unless the student is go
ing off-campus or spending the night out
of the resident hall or is taking one of her
late permissions.
Members of the SAC are Professor and
Chairman, Kidd Lockard, Mrs. Kitty Steele,
Professor Herb Appenzeller, Professor John
Pipkin, Dean Jerry Godard, Dean William
Lanier, Professor John Grice, Dean Nancy
Melleney, and students Keith Parks, Mary
Loveland, Bob Swain, Scott Root, and
Gwen Reddick.
Exhibit of Paintings In
Library and Hut
The works of two artists are currently
being exhibited in the college library and
the Hut.
Emily Huntley, a Guilford faculty
member, has a collection of her works on
display in the library. She studied at the
Rhode Island School of Design where she
received a B.F.A. in painting and then
took evening classes at Brown University.
Exhibitions of her works have been
shown in New England, New York City,
and parts of the South. Her current ex
hibit in the library is a representation of
of the various subjects, style, and areas of
her works. Miss Huntley says that the
style of an artist should evolve and grow
as the life of the artist does. As an artist
who paints portraits, still lifes, and land
scapes, Miss Huntley finds it hard to de
termine her favorite subject matter for
painting, but says that her current works
have tended to depict ideas of nature in
stead of specific scenes or places. Al
though she tends to use generalities in
subjects of paintings, Miss Huntley trys to
paint individuals as individuals.
An exhibition of Rasbert Barnard is a
feature of Guilford's new coffee house,
the Hut. Mr. Barnard's paintings are rather
satirical because he uses them to express
his contempt for the pompous and bogus
flim-flam which he believes is present in
the art world. As an artist who enjoys
the support of a patron who declines to
question his work, Mr. Barnard paints
only what nearest pleases him, not the
general public.
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