Volume LVI
Voter Poll Gives
Political Leanings
The following results were
obtained by a poll taken among
students at Guilford on
Wednesday, March 1, by a
special committee of the
Student Union. The
questionnaire was designed to
find out whether or not students
were presently registered to
vote, what their party
preferences were, and which
among several candidates for
state and national office they
preferred. A final question asked
the students to select from a list
of ten current political and
social problems the ones they
personally believed to be an
issue in North Carolina's
upcoming primary elections.
Guilford is a school of some
nine hundred students; over five
hundred responses were turned
in, and from these were culled all
those from North Carolina
resident students, those eligible
to vote in the May primary this
year. These young voters
numbered 191, and from their
responses the following statistics
have been obtained.
Number of Students Registered
51.8% of the North Carolina
residents sampled at Guilford
were registered to vote. 99
students responded that they
were currently registered to vote
somewhere in this state, as
opposed to 92 or 48.2% who
indicated that they were not yet
registered.
Of the students sampled,
39.5% considered themselves
Democrats, and 16.8%
considered themselves
Republicans. The largest group,
43.7%, expressed no preference.
Presidential Candidates
Out of our group of 191
students, 121 indicated a choice
in our straw-poll of Democratic
presidential aspirants. The ten
candidates collected the
following responses:
Hippo Premier
The world premiere of
"Hippopotamus in the
Bathtub," a play by Dave
Owens, will be presented by the
Greensboro Little Theater April
6, 7,8 and 10.
Each performance will begin
at 8:15 p.m. in Town Hall in the
Coliseum complex.
"Hippopotamus' is a three-act
comedy about a naive Southern
girl played by Susan Meeker who
tackles New York City and
suffers some indignities to her
person and her pride before she
scores a touchdown," Owens
said.
Tickets are available on
campus from Ted Edgerton, 226
Milner, 299-9883.
The Quiffor&icm
Votes Percent
McGovern 39 30.5%
Muskie 25 19.5
San ford 14 10.9
Chisholm 11 8.6
McCarthy 10 7.8
Humphrey 7 5.5
Lindsay 5 3.9
Kennedy 5 3.9
Jackson 3 2.3
Wallace 2 1.6
A total of 45 votes were cast
in a similar line-up of
Republican candidates.
Nixon 40 89.0%
McCloskey 4 8.9
Ashebrook 1 2.1
A total of 76 students
favored one or another
Democratic candidate for
governor of North Carolina; 115
expressed no preference.
Votes Percent
Bowles 36 47.4%
Taylor 31 40.8
Hawkins 7 9.2
Hobby 2 2.6
33 students cast votes for
Republican candidates:
Gardener 28 84.8%
Holshouser 5 15.2
Ex-POW Describes
Nam Experiences
by Allen Berger
George E. Smith, a former
Green Beret and prisoner of war
in South Vietnam, spoke at
Dana Auditorium Wednesday
night; the title of his speech was
P.O.W. Two Years With the
Viet Cong, which is also the title
of a book he has published. His
story was both shocking and
illuminating.
In 1963 he volunteered for
Green Beret service in Viet Nam.
He went unaware of the issues
behind the war effort, or the
actual nature of it, mainly for
the extra pay and chance for
travel. In November he was
captured, together with three
comrades, when the Viet Cong
overran a Special Forces camp.
For the two years during
which he was a captive he was
treated as well as his captors
treated themselves, sometimes
better. He said that he was
treated fairly in spite of the fact
that Americans dealt harshly
with prisoners. During his
captivity a university professor
he knew only as "the man with
A Guilford County
Elections Board registrar
will be on campus Tuesday
the 28th, from 11 a.m. until
2 a.m., outside the dining
hall. Students are reminded
that the registration books
for the May primary close
on April 7.
March 24. 1972 Greensboro, N.C
Rep. Chisholm On Trail
Speaking in Greensboro
during a three city North
Carolina campaign sweep,
presidential candidate Shirley
Chisholm extended a challenge
for those alienated from the
political process to join her
campaign and become "a mighty
force to tell those forces in this
country who determine the
destiny of this country that they
can no longer determine it
without the input of other kinds
of peoples in America."
"And that's what I'm about."
Chisholm, the first black, and
the first woman, to seriously
pursue the presidency, said "Of
course people have a
psychological block when 1 say
to them that 1 am running
seriously."
Rep. Chisholm. placed
withdrawal from Vietnam at the
top of her priorities, "If we get
out of Vietnam, there will be
more happy faces and more
contentment among the
American people. If we get out
of Vietnam, we can take care of
the domestic war at home,"
Rep. Chisholm said.
Unlike candidates Humphrey,
Muskie, and McGovern, Rep.
Chisholm did not seem to be
glasses" spoke with him about
the war, and asked him to
observe what was around him:
the well respected, well
supported, well organized Viet
Cong; the ravaged, defoliated
countryside; and the seemingly
illogical and purposeless U.S.
effort involving corrupt and
vicious ARVN troops. He had
been trained as a medic and
remembered the attitude that
had been instilled in him and
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Environment Seminar Set
Four internationally
recognized autorities in the field
of the environment will address
Guilford College's Second
Annual Community Service
Seminar on Friday, April 14, in
Dana Auditorium.
Called "The Environment,"
the one-day seminar will
examine current national
policies in environmental
matters and explore those means
- now available as well as other
projected ones of meeting
some of the more serious
recognized problems.
The seminar will begin at 11
a.m. and will be open to the
public.
"The speakers and panel
participants for this seminar
have been carefully selected, not
only for their normal and
regional prominence but also for
their wide ranges of experience
and their dedication to
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Photo by Jimmie Jeffries, Greensboro News-Record
daunted by the entry into the
North Carolina Primary of
former Governor Terry Sanford.
"Governor Sanford meets the_
constitutional requirements like
Shirley Chisholm does, so let
him run."
Rep. Chisholm spoke before
several hundred cheering
supporters at Bennett College.
Earlier in the afternoon she held
a press conference upon arrival
in Greensboro.
Commenting on the recent
Florida primary, Rep. Chisholm
felt that because of the
"over-emotionalism pertaining
to the busing issue" no real
issues were discussed by either
the people or the candidates.
She also called for a thorough
program of tax reform. She
called for the abolition of the
oil-depletion allowance, the
capital gains tax, and the "great,
large subsidies that we give to
farmers,, and a couple of
congressmen, by the way." She
also called for overhauls of
corporation taxes.
Rep. Chisholm stated that, if
elected, she would install an
Indian as the head of the
Interior Department, and a
woman as Secretary of HEW.
preserving and enhancing the
quality of life," Dr. Hobbs
pointed out.
The four main speakers will
be: Jack E. Ravan,
Administrator, Region IV, The
Environmental Protection
Agency, Atlanta, Ga.; Richard
A. Carpenter, Chief,
Environmental Policy Division,
Congressional Research Service,
The Library of Congress,
Washington; John Cairns, Jr.,
Director, Center for
Environmental Studies, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute,
Blacksburg, Va.; and Rodney W.
Markley, Jr., vice president,
Ford Motor Company.
Carpenter and Ravan will be
morning speakers. Dr. Cairns and
Markley will address the
afternoon session, which will
begin at 2:30 p.m. and end at
4:30.
They will be questioned by a
Number 18
Responding to her self-posed
question on reverse
discrimination, she replied "Are
you trying to tell me that White
men are the only persons in
America who have brains?"
The New York
Congresswoman called for
amnesty for draft evaders,
providing that they serve in
some other form of government
service.
She called busing and drugs
secondary issues, noting that
black people have lived with
both forced busing of school
children and drug "predators"
for many years. "We have to talk
about artificial instruments,
because our country is still a
very segregated society." She
called for an entirely new
program and emphasis on
housing, centering on totally
integrated neighborhoods which
would remove the reasons for
busing.
"I can't get excited (about
busing and drugs), I just want to
show up the sham, the hypocrisy
of so many things we do in
America."
Following her appearances in
Greensboro, Rep. Chisholm
travelled to Charlotte .
special panel of experts in
various areas of ecology. Dave
Wright, Public Affairs Editor of
WFMY-TV, Greensboro, will be
panel moderator.
Before announcing the
question and answer panels, Dr.
Hobbs pointed out that there
appears to be a sincere desire to
learn more about ways to
improve environmental
conditions on the part of many
Americans.
"Although individual
interests and concerns vary
considerably, there appears to be
an almost universal desire to
learn more about the effects on
the environment caused oy
technological advances, by our
demand for ever-increasing
comfort and convenience, by the
imminent exhaustion of many of
our natural resources, and by
rapidly growing population,"
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