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Dickinson, Newman, Johnson Announce Senate Candidacy We, as a ticket, would like to share with the Guil ford community the issues that are of major significance to the operation of this coll ege. Though there are issues, such as visitation, which we are concerned with we feel that among Guilford students there is little real debate about the fact that we all would like the freedom to visit whomever we want to when we want to. We are not children. There are several other issues of major import ance that we would like to present here: 1-We recommend a review of the operations of the Re cruitment Committee. The reason for this is that there are only 26 Blacks on this H*r ■ * ' ' V MErnkW B Wb i campus and we feel that the Recruitment Committee sho uld make an effort to recruit many more Blacks, on an in tellectual basis as well as on an athletic basis. 2-We would recommend a reduction in the P.E. re quirement from 4 semesters to 2. We would also recom ment that the program be ex panded to include more act ivities. 3-We strongly recommend the establishment of an Acad emic Review Board. At pre sent if a student feels that he has received a grade that is unsatisfactory, his only ave nue of appeal is the Academic Dean. We would seek the establishment of an appell ate board consisting of four students and three professors to review decisions handed out by the Academic Dean 4-We feel that students should have the right to peti tion for the retention of a professor who is being dis missed by the school, or to call for the dismissal of a pro fessor or a dean through a petition signed by 75% of the student body. 5-We feel that there shou uld be absolutely no recruit ing by the military on this campus, as we find the ideals of a Quaker institution in compatible with the goals of the military establishment. 6-We would recommend the establishment of a House Council Co-ordinating Com mittee, the purpose of which would be to co-ordinate inter dorm activities. The Union would have the option of hav ing a representative on this board. We would also support this committee in order that they could execute their plans. ★ Vote ★ March sth, from 11 a.m until 6 p.m. in the Small Din ing room of the Cafeteria. 7-Our final point concerns giving the President a personal column in the Guilfordian, through which he could com municate with the student body on a personal level. It is our contention that these issues affect the lives of every student here and that if students are apathetic (as is often stated) it is be cause the present administra tion had failed to offer an al ternative to boredom. We of fer a chance to break the bounds of apathy, a chance to work for important goals, to contribute to the real iss ues that affect us all. We urge you to give us and yourselves a chance on March 5. Burrows At Bennett Bennett College will fea ture the noted black Broad way actress, Vinie Burrows, in "Walk Together Children," a portrayal of the black scene in prose, poetry, and song. The lyceum program will be presented on March 5, 1973 in the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel at 8:00 p.m. The pub lic is invited. No admission is charged. Rice, Lathrop, Haddad Make Bid For Coveted Senate Positions Of itself alone, any stu dent government organization is virtually powerless to effect changes in school policy, ex cept in its role as a collective student voice. This is the role we envision for next year's Senate - a lobby for change within the academic institu tion. Assumedly, a proposal originating in Senate, and thus representing a consensus of student opinion, carries more weight as an effective lobby than a complaint or re commendation by a few stu dents. We have decided to run, basically, in order to raise cer tain issues which might not otherwise be discussed public ly. We hope that our candid acy will encourage the other nominees to confront certain common problems that may not have been aired previous ly, so that, no matter who is elected, our common con cerns will be dealt with. We are concerned primar ily with the "quality of life" at Guilford. The fact that so many people are moving off campus is evidence of the lack of satisfaction with the pre sent living situation in the TV Quiffortoon FRIDAY MARCH 2, 1973 i To Run For Senate Executive Council We have bean asked by the Guilfordian to write a statement on our platform. We feel the most important areas of concern with regard to student power and student rights are the evaluation of Guilford College as well as the continuation of such cur rent programs as faculty course evaluation and aca demic grievance procedures. In the coming year, Guil ford will be undergoing a pro cess of self-evaluation - and on that basis, changes will probably be instituted in col lege policy. Areas of our pre sent system that will pro bably be under consideration are: incompletes, Wednesdays and faculty and student rights. It is terribly important that students have a voice in this evaluation. This is the greatest opportunity that we have had to transform our ideas about what Guilford should be into reality. We will make sure that our voice is heard in this evaluation. We are also interested in the continuation of our cur dorms. Guilford will have to explore alternative styles of on campus living, if it hopes to retain any on campus stu dents. We hope that Senate can provide recommendations for making the dormitories places in which we can live not just sleep. We suggest lobby ing for a cooperative - on or off-campus - where students of both sexes could live and work together; for true co-ed dorms, in which men and women could get to know each other on a personal and individual, rather than sex ually - sterotyped, basis; for 24 hour visitation rights, so that each student could de cide for himself whom he wanted in his room, and when; for the establishment of a student - operated coop erative store, in which small quantities of products like detergent could be made ava ilable at lower prices by buy ing in large quantities. (There are other, less all- encompass ing measures that Senate could recommend and imple ment, in order to make dorm life a little more pleasant: per haps seeds, garden tools, and a plot of ground away from GREENSBORO, N.C. Cs>a Matteson, Zulick, Forman rent programs. Faculty course evaluation is most important to us, in that it will provide students with concise and ob jective information both on courses and faculty at Guilford. The necessity of an academic grievance proce dure will also be dealt with under our program. This pro cedure will provide students with the opportunity to be heard on questions of grading and course discrepancies. We would like to promote a com mittee composed of an equal number of students and facul ty to judge academic grie vance cases. Provisions will be made for a committee to for mulate standards concerning faculty as well as student rights. We feel these issues are of great importance and affect every student at Guilford. We will therefore concentrate on part of our program, on giv ing students the voice they deserve in deciding their fu tures and in forming the po licy that they will live by. We have had the exper- the main campus could be made available to on-campus students who would like to plant their own gardens). We are concerned, too, with Guilford's over - all priorities, directions, and goals. Senate must use its lobbying power in the self evaluation planned for next year in order to make stu dents' concerns known. In line with this self - study, the Senate could be a vital force through its continuation and expansion of the faculty course evaluation program, the creation of a faculty - stu dent academic review and appeal board, and re-evalua tion of the athletic program's goals and needs, particularly concerning scholarships. We favor, also, the at - large elec tion in the fall of at least one freshman representative to the Senate. We would stress again that TTjZ lence of working for the Se nate for the past year and have all worked on various faculty committees and are familiar with the workings of the Senate, as well as the dif ferent levels of the adminis tration with which we will have to deal. Shore Proposal A student - initiated pro posal to redirect the use of Shore Hall has been submitt ed to the Student Personnel Office and the Administra tive Council. The proposal ask for the authorization of a co-educational learning cen ter. Information has been sent to various segments of the College Community and it is hoped that a decision can be reached at an early date. Students who are interest ed in this proposal contact one of the following for cur rent information: John Elli son, Penny Parson, Jody Wood, Jim Baxter, Melissa Meyers, Debbie Davis. our main concern is with issues and priorities, and we sincerely hope that the winn er, whoever (s)he is, will honestly and realistically con front these basic common concerns. Japanese Exhibit The massiglias cordially invite the Guilford College faculty and students to visit a Japanese Cultural Exhibit, a family tradition, given year ly in honor of Hinamatsure, the Japanese Festival of Dolls. The exhibit will be Sat urday and Sunday, March 3 and 4, from 1-7 p.m., at 1314 Le Clair Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. (Briarcliff sub-division off 15-501).
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