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Page 2 The Quilfor6ion The Guilfordian is printed by the students of Guilford College, weekly except for examination periods and vacations. The office is in Cox Old North. The telephone number is 292-8709. Address: Guilford Col lege, Greensboro, N.C. 27410. Subscription rates: $3.50 per year; $2.00 per semester. Craig P. Chapman . . .Editor-in-Chief Peter B. Ballance . . .Business Manager Associate Editors: Jeanette Ebel --News Ted Malick -Sports Jean Par in --Managing Tori Potts Contributing Bob Price Advertising Phil Edgerton Contributing Jerry Clawges, Stuart Sherman, Jim Willson—Photographers Kelly Dempster Cartoonist Michele VanGobes--Proofreader Frann White, Ellen Turner Circulation General Staff: Jeanette Ebel, Clare Glore, Jeff Bloom, Helen Macarof, Carla McKinney, Patty Lyman, Deanna Day, Doug Scott, Jim Shields, Nan Mengebier A REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Educational Advertising Services A DIVISION OF \7' H IIADIU'I DIOIIT MLH • SINVICKS. INC. U II 380 Lexington Av.. Nw York, N.Y. OQI7 II Last Wednesday Night Last Wednesday night a sizable segment of the Guilford College male population cele brated Guilford's admirable basketball victory in a most immature,uncivilized, and disgusting manner. Some celebrated by hurling bottles, fire crackers, and assorted debris into the 1968 Men's dormitory courtyard. Others chose to demonstrate their appreciation for the basketball team's success by blowing up a toilet in Milner Dormitory. Still other GuiLTora gentlemen expressed their pleasure for Guilford's good fortune by starting confrontations between different groups of students by shouting racial and ethnic slogans. However, alter tne excitement died down, it became apparent that in their "good cheer" this segment of Guilford's male population had actually formed a conspiracy o deprive Guilford students of their much desired rules changes. In fact before the last bottle had been Eye Of The Beholder A Greensboro district judge ruled Friday that the Swedish movie "I Am Curicus (Yellow)" does not violate North Carolina's anti-obscenity laws. Judge Kenneth Carrington, in dismissing charges against the manager of the Janus Theatre, which dared to show the film.said: " Obscenity is in the mindofthebtholder." Greensboro policemen arrested Janus' Halsey Melone two weeks ago when "I Am Curious" jpened its engagement. The Chief District Prosecutor, Koss Strange, charged that the film is part of a Communist plot to corrupt the nation's morals. MS The Young Adult Crippler Multiple sclerosis, better known as MS is a chronic crip pling disease of the central ner vous system. When a person is a victim of MS the myelin sheath or protective covering of the nerve fiber deteriorates. This leaves a scar that blocks the pas sage of nerve impulses tc acti vate muscles to perform their tasks propertly. Although MS is usually a slow crippler it is a pro gressive one. The most common symptoms of MS are partial or complete paralysis of parts of the body, tremors of the hands, loss of coordination, pricking sensa- removed from the New Men's quad by a hastily formed clean up squad Guilford students began to realize that they, by their own actions, had placed in serious jeopardy hope for the passage of the unit of Living Proposals at the April Trustee Board Meet ing. Obviously after the events of the past week, all hope for the success of the Unit of Living Proposal at the April Board meet ing is in the ability of the students to con vince the Board of Trustees, by their actions, that they are mature enough to assume the naw responsibility that the proposal requires. With this in mind, we urge all Guilford dormitory house councils to follow the ex ample of the 1968 Men's Dormitory House Council and adopt tough measures to curb dormitory disorders. We also urge the students to cooperate fully with their house councils in enforcing such regulations. The reputation of Guilford's student body and the future of the Unit of Liv ing Proposal is at stake. It is a common charge by American super patriots that one of the stepping-stones to a Communist takeover is the weakening of a nation's morals by getting the people "in terested in sex," and other obscene things. It is a logic which has been used exten sively by certain dissemenators of news in this area, who feel that "obscenity" and Com munism go hand-in-hand. We are grateful that once again this lugu brious notion has been legally rejected. Reprinted From THE DAILY TAR HEEL tions in parts of the body, like pins and needles, extreme weak ness or fatigue, staggering or loso of balance, speech diffi culties such as slurring, severe bladder or bevel trouble, notice able dragging of one or both feet, and double or otherwise defective vision such as involuntary move ments of eyeballs and numbness in parts of the body. In many cases early symptoms disap pear, only to reappear at a later date, frequently in more severe form. In some cases these re missions last for years enabling the MS victim to carry on a nor mal pattern of life until there is a reoccurrence Even though all THE GUILFORDIAN these symptoms may not be present in an MS patient they do sometimes occur in multiples. The most tragic and danger ous fact of MS is that it occurs between the ages of 20 and 40. This means that it not only af fects the victim but the fami ly of the victim. A father must find another breadwinner to sup port his family. A mother can no longer take care of her home and family. Children in MS fami lies are forced to shoulder re sponsibilities that they are not prepared for. Although progress is being made toward possible solutions, more mi:st be forthcoming. fflSlfe /£? -I- 'f • $ y^S^R® llfefc 'till mfrm ppf \v > •ijy* Victory Over What? Letter To The Editor Pride? Or Fear? Dear Editor: I would like the privilege of saying a few things to the fel lows and girls: It was a glorious evening. Everyone was thrilled and ex cited and showed it. You had a chance to get rid of your ex uberance* You yelled yourselves hoarse in Winston-Salem. Here, cn campus, you shouted, blew your horns, kissed your girls and boys, plastered the pla.ce with Tissue, muddied the Dorms. Everyone would have shrugged their shoulders, smiled and cleaned up and looked forward to the next step up the ladder: Kan sas City. And then what happened? Vandalism and destruction.Why? 4-Course Load, 4-Day Wk. Asked Dear Editor: The Educational Policies Com mittee is commended for its con sideration of significant curricu lum and structure changes. Most notable among these are the four course load per semester, the four-day class week with one day open, and the revision of the social science requirement. We further urge the Educa tional Policies Committee and the faculty to seriously- con sider the elimination of the for eign language and physical edu cation requirements, as ad ditional steps in total curricu lum reform. These reforms will provide an important step toward making Guilford an academically vital institution. The four-course load would al low the student to concentrate more on each of his subjects. The present five - course load makes it extremely difficult for the student to devote ample time to each of his courses. The re sult is learning without depth. Furthermore, professors could have more time to prepare for their courses with fewer courses to teach. The four-day class week pro vides an immense amount of flexibility for professors to structure their class time. In addition, interesting classes can barely scratch the surface of a subject in the space of 50 min utes. With one day free during Monday, March 9. 1970 Ob, I know not everybody was responsible for the unfortunate happenings - but aren't there e nough of you ready and able to set and enforce your own rules and to stop while spirits are high and everyone can go to sleep in a happy frame of mind? Why must a night that could have been a wonderful memory be de stroyed? We love to be proud of you. What's going to be when you come back from Kansas City, when - win or lose - we'll be proud of you again. Can we be proud? Or afraid? Ask yourselves that. Your friend, "Mom" Bass. the week there is time for in numerable opportunities such as internships, field trips, special seminars, symposia, speakers, independent and cultural events. Along with the elimination of the social science requirement, the ends of academic freedom and individual lesponsibility would be furthered by the elim ination of foreign language and physical education require ments. To' be sure, these dis ciplines have a place in the liberal arts college but by mak ing them required they become self-defeating. In addition the language depart ments could spend more time on intermediate and upper-level courses thereby attracting more majors. The physical education department could devote more energy to developing a compre hensive intramural program. As students we want to see significant curriculum reform as part of the development of gen uine academic interest and in volvement at Guilford College. We feel it important that these curriculum reforms be insti tuted as soon as feasible. There fore, we, the undersigned, sin cerely urge the faculty and ad ministration to put certainly some if not all of these changes into effect for the academic year of 1970-71. (see page 4)
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