VOLUME LIII
n Attitude Survey
Fnsh More Liberal Than Seniors
Five Guilford College
sociology majors have concluded
that freshmen, when compared
with seniors, are more liberal
overall in their attitudes toward
Negroes.
In a survey prepared for Dr.
Cyrus R. Johnson's Race and
Ethnic class, Gertrude Judd,
Abigail Moore, Paul Morse, Jan
Nichols and Neal Thomas sought
to answer three questions to a
random sampling of 132
freshman and senior males and
females.
The first area of questioning
had to do with rooming with
Negroes: "Since Negroes have
been admitted to Guilford, I
have no objection to having
them room with me." To this
statement, freshmen girls scored
a high 76%, followed by senior
girls with 57%. Freshman boys
were moro liberal than the senior
boys, with 55% to 40%.
Inter-Collegiate Council Bogs Down
For a! at two years student co-ordinate the schools'
leaders 01. the five campuses in activities and to increase
Greensboro have been trying to communication between the
"We are ready to operate ..."
Charles Bledsoe, Guilford's representative.
Sarah Gurney's Father
Elected To U.S. Senate
"I wish I had been there! I've
never been so excited!" These
are Sarah Gurney's sentiments
about Election Day, 1968, the
day her father was elected to the
United States Senate.
Senator Edward Gurney, the
first Republican to be elected to
the Senate from Florida since
Reconstruction days, graduated
from Colby College and studied
law at Harvard and Duke
University. He began his political
career as a city commissioner in
Winter Park, Florida, in the early
'so's and was later elected
mayor of Winter Park. In 1962
Gurney was elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives where
he served until his election to
the Senate.
A conservative Republican
voting record in the House
includes votes against civil rights
legislation, foreign aid, and the
war on poverty, Gurney
defeated former Democratic
Tf)c Qui I for Scm
Seniors overall were more
conservative than the
underclassmen, 47% to 64%.
The freshmen's bent toward
liberalism dropped with the
question of double dating with
Negroes. The freshmen females
scored 69% to senior females'
50%. Senior males were lowest
with only 45%. Of all the
persons polled, 49% said they
had no objection to double
dating with Negroes.
The final question, whether
one would object to dating
Negroes, freshmen girls with
42% and senior males with 31%
scored highest. Freshmen males
were the most conservative,
tallying only 20%.
Of all the seniors polled, only
27% would have no objection to
interracial dating, while the total
freshmen's count was a slightly
more liberal 29%.
The inclination of senior
Governor Leßoy Collins in the
race for the Senate. Sarah, a
freshman at Guilford, did not
have much time to participate in
her father's campaign. However,
during her summer vacation she
worked at his campaign
headquarters and attended
political rallies with her parents.
Sarah's highlight of the
campaign was meeting Senator
Everett Dirksen during his visit
to Florida for a fund raising
dinner for her father.
Sarah first heard of Guilford
when she was a high school
student at Holton Arms
Academy in Maryland. She
decided to come here because
she was interested in a small,
liberal arts college in North
Carolina. Sarah is not sure what
she wants to do after she
graduates but she definitely is
not interested in following her
father's footsteps. "I just don't
think I am cut out for politics."
Friday, January 31, 1969
females to be more liberal about
dating and rooming with
Negroes, and yet show
conservatism toward dating
them has raised questions among
the pollsters. Another interesting
finding is that senior males
become more liberal in
comparisons to others as the
relationships become closer.
Males, it is observed from the
survey, are more conservative
overall than females.
"We were surprised to find
the freshmen more liberal than
the seniors," said Miss Nichols.
Although the group had not
hypothesized the outcome in
advance, she said they were still
expecting the seniors, after
having been to college, would
have become more liberal in
their thinking. On the other
hand, females are found to be
more liberal in their attitudes
toward Negroes to begin with.
colleges. Problems have
constantly plagued the group,
called the Greensboro
Inter-Collegiate Council, but
perhaps it will soon become a
functioning organization.
Guilford is represented by
Charlie Bledsoe, Keith, Parks,
and Bill White, with adviser
Landrum Cross. Greensboro
College, A&T, Bennett, and
UNC-G also have representatives
on the council. Further aims of
the group include representing
area Greensboro college students
to the larger Greensboro
Community and also to
strengthen the Guilford,
Bennett, and Greensboro College
consortium.
The organization's
constitution was written last
summer, but so far the group has
not met regularly. Bennett and
A&T have both had internal
student government problems.
The elected officers of Bennett's
student government failed to
return to school this year, thus
disrupting their student
government. In addition, their
constitution states that a campus
referendum is required to adopt
the proposal of joining the
council.
The Council's constitution
states that all five schools must
be represented at each meeting,
or business cannot legally be
conducted. Therefore, the three
remaining schools (Guilford,
Greensboro, UNC-G) have been
meeting informally. According
to Keith Parks, Guilford
representative, the first
amendment to the constitution
of the group will be to require
the presence of only four
colleges' representatives in order
to conduct business. Otherwise
it is too easy to veto proposals
by just not attending meetings.
Ratification of their
constitution is the first problem
facing Council members. Perhaps
when that is finally completed
they will be able to consider
objectives for which the
organization was created.
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Pantomime Theatre To
Come February 4th
"Beyond Words" is an
enchanting and exciting
experience in silence: a series of
original vignettes executed with
artistry and sensitivity of
perception, creating attitudes
and illusions to stimulate the
imagination of the audience,
pointing out the essence of
human behavior.
The National Pantomime
Theatre, a significant new force
in the American arts, was
founded to bring the art of
classic pantomime to audiences
all over the world. It is unique—a
classic pantomime theatre made
up solely of gifted Americans,
who blend the new world
heritage of their own culture
with the old world favor of this
Commission Recommends
More Federal
By SUSIE SCHMIDT
College Press Service
WASHINGTON
(CPS)— Suggesting that the
Federal government take a more
active part in the financing of
higher education in America has
been a popular pastime lately.
So has championing the right
of every able student to an
education, regardless of his
ability to pay.
Those were the dual notes
sounded again shortly before
Christmas by the Carnegie
Commission on Higher
Education, in a report called
"New Levels of Federal
Responsibility."
Clark Kerr, former president
of the University of California at
Berkeley and now chairman of
the Carnegie Foundation-funded
Commission, explains his
proposals in terms of "quality
and quantity" for higher
education in the 1970'5.
By 1976-77, he says, the
federal government will have to
bearing one-third of higher
education's total cost in this
country (estimated at sl3
billion) as opposed to the
one-fifth it now carries. If it
does not assume this
responsibility, the Commission
says, the quality of the nation's
already pinching universities will
decline almost beyond retrieval;
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ancient art form.
The stars, Kenyon Martin and
Suzanne, studied with the
world's leading mime in Paris,
toured France with their own
show, and appeared on French
television. They have performed
on Camera Three, The Merv
Griffin Show, on CBS-TV, and
Boston's educational station.
When not on a tour of colleges
and concert halls, Mr. Martin is
teaching at Boston University
and the New School for Social
Research in New York City,
while Suzanne likes to teach the
art to children.
The performance starts at
8:15 and will be given in Dana
Auditorium. All Guilford
students will be admitted free.
and they will become unable to
open their doors to students
who cannot pay exorbitant
tuition fees.
The Commission's 56-page
report contains a total of 22
recommendations (all handily
written in language easily
adaptable to legislation and with
price tags already attached) for
expanded federal aid to higher
education. The recommen
dations would channel funds to
students themselves (enabling
them to choose their own
institutions), and to the schools
for facilities and salaries.
In addition, the report urges
establishment of two new
federal agencies concerned with
higher education: a foundation
(like the National Science
Foundation) to work for
development of new techniques
in education, and a council on
education to work directly
under the White House.
The rationale for such
extensive federal participation,
of course, is the same theory of
education that Kerr introduced
in 1963 and which so endeared
him to liberal intellectuals and
so enraged students: The
university is a place where young
people are taught the trades they
will need to fit into government,
business, and the other roles
modern society wants them to
fill.