Personal Privacy Vs.
Presidential Spying Discussed
What right have you to
privacy, specifically, from
Presidential surveillance?
An outstanding speaker and
a well-known panel will
examine that question and
many others involving human
rights here at Guilford today.
The speaker will be Alan F.
Westin of Columbia Univer
sity, whose book, "Privacy
and Freedom," won three
awards for excellence in the
field of public affairs.
Panel members will be
Harry Golden, editor of the
"Carolina Israelite" and
author of such books as "Only
in America" and "For 2 Cents
Plain;" Signe Goldstein,
doctor of philosophy at
Columbia University; and
William W. Van Alstyne,
professor at the Duke
University School of Law.
Dr. Westin will speak at
8:15 p.m. in Dana Auditorium
on "Privacy of Persons from
Presidential Surveillance"
and will be questioned by the
panel members following the
talk.
Beginning at 3 p.m. in the
Moon Room, Westin and the
panel members will examine
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Articles for sale at the Biophile Bazaar 10-4:00 Saturday in Quaker Village
the topic for the evening
meeting.
Dr. William Carroll, Guil
ford College political science
department chairman, said
sponsoring organizations a
gree that there is a growing
realization of the threats to
privacy that lurk in modern
devices for watching and
listening.
Although privacy is no
where specifically mentioned
in the Constitution, various
provisions of the Bill of Rights
imply a right to privacy, he
said.
Sponsoring the series with
Guilford are the Greensboro
chapters of the National
Council of Jewish Women, the
League of Women Voters and
the YWCA.
They selected Dr. Westin as
the speaker on "Privacy of
Persons from Presidential
Surveillance" because of his
outstanding work in the field
of civil liberties.
Professor of public law and
government at Columbia
University, Dr. Westin has
written or edited 16 books.
Dr. Westin has testified as
an expert witness before such
groups as Sen. Sam Ervin's
Senate Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights, the
House Subcommittee on
Invasion of Privacy, and the
Committee on Government
Operations.
His "Privacy and Freedom"
won the Sidney Hillman
Foundation book award for
1968, the George L. Polk
award for the best book in
public affairs in 1968, and the
Frederick G. Melcher book
award of the Unitarian-Uni-
Association.
Biophile Bazaar To Be Bonanza
The annual Biophile Club
Bazaar will be held this
Saturday from 10:00 to 4:00.
Proceeds from the bazaar will
be donated to conservation
programs. Subjectively speak
ing (as a four year Biophile
participant), 1 can particularly
recommend the Johnson
buttermilk pies as the best
made, the McCulloch carrot
cakes as unquestionably
unforgettable and the Looney
cheese bread as rightfully
irrestible. Besides a wide
The QuiWbrfrwo
MARCH 28. 1974
Environmentalist, Wilson Fellow,
To Spend Week At Guilford
By Dave Owens
The man responsible for
environmental planning by a
major dealer in energy will
spend the week of April 1 on
the Guilford College campus
as Woodrow Wilson Senior
Fellow.
He is Peter M. Stern, vice
president of Regional and
Environmental Planning for
Northeast Utilities. Hartford,
Conn.
In that job, Stern is charged
with responsibility for the
environmental aspects of all
facilities being planned and
submitted for regulatory
approval to public bodies, and
for environmental criteria
applicable to the operation
and maintenance of those
facilities.
His staff, comprised of the
several planning and envi
ronmental disciplines, plays
an important role in the
selection of sites and routes
for major electrical projects.
Stern, who mostly will meet
informally with students and
faculty, is one of many
range and variety of culinary
delights, there will be a
selection of exotic and
domestic potted plants, shaw
belts, art work, mounted
spider webs, unique jewelry,
decoupage and macrame
products, bird houses, a
child's quilt, stationery, and
kites, among other things too
numerous to mention. So if
you're hungry, need to buy
someone a present, or want to
buy yourself a present, please
come.
representatives of business,
industry and the professions
visiting college campuses
under a program funded by
the Lilly Endowment of
Indianapolis and administered
by the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Founda
tion of Princeton.
In announcing the threeyear
grant totaling $1 million.
Landrum Boiling, executive
vice president of the Lilly
Endowment, emphasized that
it was to "promote greater
contact, understanding, and
sharing of ideas and experi
ences between the academic
community and the 'outer
world."
Among those from the
Guilford faculty who will
spend time with Peter Stern
are three persons who were
Woodrow Wilson Fellows
Elizabeth and Mel Keiser, in
1960, and Gary McCown, in
1961.
IRC Selects
UN Delegates
by Sao Kim leong
The International Relations
Club has announced one of its
most important activities of
the present academic year.
Three members of the Club,
students from Guilford Col
lege, will form a delegation
representing Peru to the
Security Council of the
National Model of the United
Nations, an annual event to be
held from the 16th to the 21st
of April. The delegates are:
Sao Kim leong, Arshivir
Michael and John Ndusha.
The aim of the National
Model of the United Nations is
to help college students
understand the organization of
the UN and how it works - its
diplomatic procedures, the
foreign policies of the
different countries, and the
current topics under discus
sion in the UN.
The program is organized
by the National Collegiate
Conference Association, Inc.,
and is expected to draw about
1300 students from different
universities and colleges. The
event will take place in the UN
Building in New York.
The delegates have submit
ted two resolutions on nuclear
disarmament, and are working
on a third one concerning
racial discrimination in South
Africa.
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Peter Stern
Stern joined the Northeast
Utilities system in 1968 from
the Tennessee Valley Autho
rity, where he had been
director of Regional Studies,
heading a staff of 15
professional economists, plan
ners and regional develop
ment specialists.
Stern currently is a member
of several industry task forces,
including the Environmental
Task Force of the Northeast
Power Coordinating Council,
the New England Power
Pool's Environmental Com
mittee, and the Atomic
Industrial Forum's ongoing
study of Nuclear Power Plant
Siting Criteria.
He was responsible for the
formulation and justifications
of land planning and resource
management projects under
taken by TVA.
Panel On Death
A program on facing death
A-ill be presented by Friend
ship New Garden, and First
Friends Meetings this Sun
day, March 31, from 7:30-9pm
at New Garden Meeting
House.
The program will begin with
an introductory presentation
by Bill Guthrie, minister of
High Point Friends Meeting.
A panel consisting of
Greensboro psychistrist and
neurologist Dr. Robert Gar
rard, and three members of
the Piedmont Memorial Fune
ral Society. Dr. Nancy Allen,
Ralph Caskey, and James
Hcge, will then look at death
as a dimension of life that we
often don't face.
The Piedmont Memorial
Funeral Society is dedicated to
simplicity and economy in
burial services.