Vol. LIV
Drinking
Petition
Passed
The Guilford College Student
Government Monday voted to
approve House Council Resolu
tion No. 1, which condemns the
present college policy towards
drinking and recommends that
the use of alcoholic beverages
by students be permitted
immediately.
The resolution stated that
the House Council "strongly
condemns the present college
policy concerning the posses
sion and usage of alcoholic
beverages on the college campus
as a most un-Quakerly act of
intolerance and also as an act of
unwarranted intervention in the
lives of Guilford College
students."
The resolution also stated
that use of alcoholic beverages
be made "immediately per
missable."
The resolution, supported by
the mens dormitories and the
Student Government, now goes
to the womens' student council
for approval.
The resolution will be taken
to the Board of Trustees and
presented as a expression
of student feeling.
VIETNAM MORATORIUM
In other legislature business
the legislators voted "as
individual members of Legisla
ture" to express approval of
the upcoming Vietnam Morator
ium on October 15.
DRINKING RESOLUTION
SEE PAGE 3 FOR TEXT
Pulitzer Winner
To Speak Mon.
Robert Ward, Pulitzer Prize
winning composer, will deliver
a lecture Monday, October 13, at
3:30 p.m., in the Union lounge.
The lecture, "Artistic Dis
cipline and Creativity," will be
based on his opera, The
Crucible, for which he was
awarded The Pulitzer Prize In
Music and The New York Music
Critics Circle Citation.
The composer will explain
how he got the ideas for the
opera based on Arthur Miller's
play, The Crucible.
In describing the steps of
writing the libretto, composing
the music, and staging the
opera, Mr. Ward will use ex
cerpts from the recording of
the opera.
SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Robert Ward; Is the presi
dent of the North Carolina School
of the Arts.
Founded by former governor
Terry Sanford, this Is the first
state-supported school of the
arts In the United States. San
ford's objective In establishing
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Athletes Backed By Blacks
President Hobbs talks with students demonstrating against alleged
violation of students' rights.
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR MORATORIUM
The student legislature
passed a resolution in support
of the Vietnam Moratorium dur
ing the October 6 meeting.
A non-political statement,
the resolution reads, "We the
individual members of the stu
dent legislature express
approval of the Vietnam Mora
torium as held at Guilford
College."
The members of the legis
lature recognize the need of an
opportunity for discussion of
the different aspects of the
Vietnam war.
The activities for Morator
ium day, October 15, begin with
professors leading discussions
of the war in their morning
the school was to keep Southern
talent in the South.
Mr. Ward's dream is to
expand the school until It has a
ballet corps, a symphony or
chestra, and a repertory theatre
which will tour the world.
JUILLARD GRADUATE
After receiving degrees
from the Eastman School of
Music and Julllard Graduate
School, Mr. Ward worked for
several years with Aaron
Copeland.
He Is a member of the
National Institute of Arts and
Letters and has taught at
Columbia University, Julllard
School of Music and the Third
Street Music School Settlement.
In addition to the Pulitzer
Prize and the New York
Music Critics Circle Citation,
Mr. Ward has been awarded
two Guggenheim fellowships.
Mr. Ward also heads the
Sienna Summer Session of the
School of the Arts, which is a
school comparable to Tangle
wood In Massachusetts.
Friday, October 10, 1969
classes.
A worship service for
World Peace will be held from
11-11:40 a.m. in New Garden
Friends Meeting house.
Students are invited to
participate in the weekly vigil
at the courthouse from 12-
1 p.m.
Discussions and workshops
are scheduled from 1;30 until
2j30 p.m. Some of the work
shops planned are on draft
counseling and anti-war music.
Some teachers whose
classes relate to the war are
opening their classes to inter
ested students.
A speakout will be held at
Founders from 2:30 until 4p.m.
and at 4 p.m. a guerilla warfare
drama will be presented.
An organized march will
begin at 6:30 in Hamburger
Square and proceed to Fisher
Park. Students who need
transportation to the march may
contact Pat Shope orSueSingle
tary in Hobbs Hall.
ART SERIES:
BAND AND
NEWSCASTER
The Guilford College Arts
Series will present the pres
ervation Hall Jazz Band (above)
on October 16.
The band Is on tour from Its
home In New Orleans where the
members took part In the birth
of the most American art
form—jazz.
David Schoenbrun, award
winning CBS news corres
pondent, will be presented by
the Guilford College Arts
Series October 15.
In 1967 Schoenbrun made a
trip to Hanoi. He reported his
trip In "Journey to North
Vietnam."
Unique In American let
ters, he utilizes every modern
means of communication—
radio, television, magazines,
books, the classroom and the
lecture platform.
A small group oi black students Tuesday
staged an orderly demonstration in front of
New Garden Hall. The approximately 20 stu
dents demanded that basketball Coach Jerry
Steele's directive that all basketball players
wear shortr*hair styles be rescinded.
The group felt that since Black identity
and Black pride were involved, the matter
was of- special concern to Black students.
Tuesday morning a delegation of 6 Black
students discussed the issue of hair styles
with Coach Steele. They received an unsat
isfactory response.
As a result, the students met Tuesday
afternoon on the steps of New Garden Ad
ministration Building to discuss the situa
tion. Dr. Grimsley Hobbs deliberated with
Coach Steele for approximately 1 hour, while
the students awaited his reply.
Dr. Hobbs then gave a statement (see be
low) to Napoleon Jasper, spokesman for th e
group, who read it to the students waiting out
side the building. After hearing the statement,
the group of students immediately dispersed.
Coach Jerry Steele, in commenting to THE
GUILFORDIAN, said that he conferred with
the basketball players individually. Although
he feels his obligation to the team prevents his
releasing details, he believes that com
munication has not broken down.
Pres. Hobbs' Hair Policy
In response to the request for information
concerning Black hair styles at Guilford Col
lege:
Guilford College's policy of longstanding
is that all who represent the college are re
sponsible to be well groomed and to repre
sent the college in such a way as to reflect
credit upon it.
It was in keeping with this policy that Coach
Steele asked the basketball team to trim their
hair. It is, however, understood that certain
hairstyles are associated with a feeling of
Black pride and Black identity. So long as
these styles are kept neatly, Guilford's
Black students are pemitted to wear Afro
hair styles and a reasonable amount of facial
hair, and to participate on Guilford's athletic
teams if they otherwise qualify in terms of
the skills involved.
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