VOLUME LIII
Students Gain Seats
On Faculty Committees
By PAT ANDREW
The voice of the Guilford
Student body was strengthened
considerably last week when the
faculty voted to approve student
representation on faculty
committees.
Acting on a recommendation
sponsored by the Student
Government, the Educational
Policies Committee, headed by
Dr. Daryl Kent, issued a
memorandum to the faculty
favoring student membership on
all faculty committees with the
exception of Faculty Affairs and
Financial Aid.
A faculty vote cast November
11 gave formal approval to the
recommendation.
On Seminar
Students To Tour Harlem
Plans for the year's first
seminar to New York are in the
final stages. Claude Shotts,
coordinator of the two N. Y.
seminars for 1968-69, has
announced the schedule and the
leaders for the week-long
seminar.
The group of approximately
30 students and three faculty
members will fly December 14
to New York where they will
stay at the William Sloane
House, a YMCA International
Young Adult Center. Two days
will be spent in orientation to
New York and the U.N., and the
remaining four days in special
study in three areas of interest.
The study units offered for
the seminar are in the areas of
city government, the problems
Allen Toothaker Joins NSA
By EMILY HEDRICK
"Guilford is a good place for
a recluse, but it is not for an
activist like me . . . Everyone
looks on someone like me with a
cast of suspicion. It's quite
frustrating."
These words are Allen
Toothaker's, the 26-year-old
senior sociology major who
recently dropped out of school
to become director of the
Tutorial Assistance Center
(TAC) in Washington, D. C.
TAC, one of the largest
projects of the National Student
Association, is the clearing-house
for the nation's tutorial
programs, whether they are run
by public agencies, communities,
or students themselves. It gets
contracts from the Labor
Department as well as OEO.
Last year Toothaker took a
leave from Guilford to serve as a
project director for TAC,
recruiting and training VISTA
volunteers, and organizing
campus and community
programs. Upon his return, he
helped organize his own tutorial
program at Guilford—On With
Learning, or OWL.
In December Toothaker will
assume the leadership of TAC,
which "helps students in
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Thus, for the first time in the
history of the college, students
will have the right to participate
in all functions and levels of the
college community.
The committees receiving
new members are the Academic
Retention Committee, two
members; Athletic Committee,
two members; Admissions
Committee, two members who
must be above the freshman
level with one appointed for a
one year term and one for a two
year term
The chief marshall will act as
the student representative on the
Commencement Committee, and
two students each will be placed ,
on the Library Committee and
of the inner-city population, and
the role of the U.N. in today's
world. The students will receive
one hour credit for their
participation.
One group will tour Harlem
and observe private institutions
in the Middle West Side and
Lower East Side of Manhattan.
They will also visit public
agencies in Harlem to study the
relation of the police with the
community.
The U.N. group will attend
meetings and interviews at the
United Nations. All of the
groups will have dinner in
Chinatown with an
interpretation of the
community. They will also
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community relations. I'm
interest in seeing education
related to the poor people of a
community . . . TAC will have to
change a lot, to become less
concerned with what students
do and put more money into
poor people's pocketbooks. As it
is, the pursestrings are controlled
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ALLEN TOOTHAKER
Friday, November 22, 1968
the Foreign Students
Students interested in
Foreign Students and Freshman
Seminars will be placed on these
committees with two serving on
each.
Committees already having
student membership are the
Student Affairs Committee with
four members, Keith Parks, Sue
Sherrill, Steve Bowles, and
Martha Bradshaw; the
Educational Policies Committee,
two members, John Moorman,
and Steve Johnson.
The Convocations Committee
has four student members, who
are Toney Brown, Danny Allen,
Marilyn Mclntyre, and Susan
Lum. Lloyd Covington and Jill
Taylor are members of the
Building and Grounds
Committee and Danny Allen and
Haul Reddick are representatives
on the Curriculum Committee.
The Student Legislature
considered the committee
appointments at their regular
meeting Monday night, but no
action was taken. Nominations
will be made at the next regular
meeting of the body.
N.C. Papers Combine
By CRAIG CHAPMAN
Representatives of North
Carolina college newspapers,
through the co-ordination of the
United States Student Press
Association (USSPA), met
recently in Raleigh to discuss
mutual problems and to consider
the formation of a state-wide
by administrators.
"TAC has its problems, but it
also has great potential ... I
think that's where my efforts
will be most influential. A
hundred percent effort there
would bring the greater yield, in
comparison with staying here at
Guilford. (Continued on Page 3)
Author of 'Black Like Me'
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JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN
Noted Writer
Appear At
Thursday, December 5, the
Guilford College Arts Series will
present another in its series of
speakers on contemporary
issues, when John Howard
Griffin, internationally known
novelist and journalist, speaks on
college press service.
Although The Guilfordian's
tight budget does not permit it
to join USSPA, the parent
organization of the College Press
Service, staff members were
allowed to attend the conference
with full participation.
Like The Guilfordian, other
North Carolina college
newspapers suffer from
erratically high printing rates.
Such charges have led some
papers to consider the formation
of joint printing facilities.
While some college
publications labor on the brink
of financial doom, others such as
Western Carolina's newspaper,
enjoy such lavish budgets and
massive captive advertising, that
their staff members receive
financial remuneration for their
services. Consequently, Western
Carolina pays its editor and
business ma nager a set
percentage of advertising
revenues, the total of which runs
as high as $175 a month.
(This situation is in direct
contrast to Guilford College,
where none of the staff
members, including editor and
business manager, have received
any financial compensation for
their efforts. Furthermore, its
academic program lacks a
journalism course for credit or
otherwise, which distinguishes it
from a sizeable proportion of
other North Carolina colleges
and universities.)
After discussing such
comparisons, the conference
focused on the benefits of a
state-wide inter-collegiate press
service. This service would
enable any participating college
to use the news and feature
articles of another member
institution for its own
publication.
Number 10
race relations.
Griffin, who darkened his
skin through medical treatment
and posed for two months as a
Negro in the Deep South, is best
known as the author of the
consequent novel, "Black Like
Me." His account of the hostility
and discrimination that he
suffered while in his disguise was
later made into a movie.
Graduating from high school
in Fort Worth, Texas, Griffin
traveled to France, where he
graduated in 1938 from the
Lycee Descartes in Tours.
Still in France when World
War II broke out, Griffin joined
the French Defense Passive,
barely escaping capture by the
Gestapo. In 1942 he joined the
Air Force of the U. S. Army,
and fought in the South Pacific
and Far East. Both the French
and U. S. governments presented
him awards for his war services.
A short time later, he became
totally blind as a result of
wartime injuries.
Returning to Texas in 1947,
Griffin studied Braille and began
to write. During his blindness he
wrote three novels, "The Devil
Rides Outside," "Nuni" and
"Land of the Sky."
Suddenly, in 1957, after 10
years of blindness, Griffin
regained sight. Recovery of his
vision enabled him several years
later to undertake an unusual
assignment for Sepia magazine,
which resulted in "Black Like
Me."
Still interested in the life of
the Negro, Griffin has recently
done research on the causes of
riots, by sitting in on
"underground" meetings of
Negroes throughout the country.
APPLICATIONS for
editorship of The Guilfordian
for the second semester are
now being received. Place
applications in Mr.
Christenson's New Garden
box.