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Photo by Corky Williams
Naoko Nishimoto, an exchange student, will be
returning to Japan soon after a semester of study
here at Guilford, We'll miss you, Naoko!
Seek and Ye Shall Find
BY CAROLINE COLES
If you too are tired of over
drawn bank accounts and living
off dried pears all summer,
perhaps you should search for
a summer job through the
Placement Office. In many
cases, the potential work is
there waiting for someone to
apply "but students, said Dick
Coe "expect the information
to jump out at them. They
must read and look for jobs
in the newspaper and on
campus posters."
There are a series of appli
cant deadlines for different
types of positions beginning
this time of year. The first of
these deadlines is January
15 for National Park and
Land Management jobs.
Beginning now, and through
March there are an abundance
°f jobs for summer camp
counselors, principally in
Volume VXII, No. 131
North Carolina, New York,
and throughout New England.
If amusing students (or others)
are looking for work there are
presently openings at Six
Flags over Georgia and Disney
World! As a matter of fact,
the Placement Office has a
library full of references and
information on part time,
year round, and summer jobs.
The staff is more than glad
to help, but they specifically
requests that students leave
their summer phone numbers
so that they can contact he/she
about spur of the moment
opportunities that spring
after May 1. The Placement
Office does not go to firms
specifically looking for jobs,
as the employers contact
Placement as to their needs.
But most importantly, the
student, and seniors in
particular, need to talk to
Dick Coe, have his/her name
filed and tell him what he/she
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
Japanese Student Enjoys Semester in U.S.
BY APRIL EVANS
Can you imagine sitting in
an American Political systems
class here at Guilford with
out knowing much of the
English language?
When we asked Naoko
Nishimoto, she replied that
she had taken English grammar
and reading, but she found it
difficult to converse in English.
This is especially true in a
college atmosphere, where
there are several different
accents. Naoko says that our
slang words have been espec
ially hard to understand.
This is Naoko's first visit
to America and she likes the
country a great deal.
She enjoys Guilford and
compared it to her university
in Japan. "The campus is
very big here, whereas mine is
smaller. Everyone is very nice.
When you pass by someone
they say, 'How are you?' In
Japan, we do not. The people
here are much friendlier."
Naoko comes from Nara
prefecture, a very old city in
the middle of Japan, near
Osaka. She told us that in
is interested in before a job
can be found.
There are some impressive
government job opportunities
offered! Some of these jobs,
requiring clerical skills, will
become available for applica
tion after January 4. In Febru
ary and March, state
government internships are
offered if one is qualified.
In addition, the Washington
Center for Learning Alterna
tives offers a twelve hour credit
semester in government. Only
four or five students are gener
ally allowed to participate and
Dick Coe believes that the
competition this year will be
tremendous. This last semester
students worked in the legal
aid office and family impact
study as well as participating
in the legislation and research
on welfare. One student of
the program from Guilford
was administrative assistant to
the women's caucus!
December 13.1977
the eighth century, Nara
prefecture was the capital for
74 years. A senior at Tezuka
yama University, a school of
about 1500 women, Naoko is
majoring in American literature.
She became interested in
American literature after
reading some works by Ernest
Hemingway ("In Japanese, of
course!")
Naoko felt that her exper
ienqes here have been worth
while. She has made many
new friends and has learned
a lot about America and
American Students. Naoko
also now knows American
customs.
When she first arrived,
Psychology Offering
This next semester there
will be a brand new course
being offered by the Psychol
ogy Department called.
Psychology of Men and
Women. This course has
been planned by the whole
Psychology Department and is
designed to use the Faculty
Colloquium on Sex Roles as
part of the lecture material
for the course.
There are three sections
of this course, all meeting for
discussion of the reading
material on Mondays. The
section led by Jane Caris and
Jerry Godard is closed but
there will be two other sections
with some space in them.
Richie Zweigenhaft with
Jackie Ludel assisting, and
Clare Morse with Carol
Stoneburger assisting both
have spaces for students at
this time. The course is open
to all men and women students.
The reading material for the
course has a psychology base
but has materials from history,
sociology and biology as
well. Some of the books will
be Sex Roles by Shirley
Weitz; Him, Her, Self by Peter
Filene; a cross cultural study
of sex roles in China; as well
as material by Margaret Mead
on her cross cultural studies.
Early in the course information
dealing with biological differ-
Naoko did not eat meat, but
has since learned to like it.
She feels that American
students may have trouble
getting used to the raw fish
which is so popular in Japan.
Naoko will be returning to
Japan soon after a semester
here at Guilford. Her future
plans include visiting with
friends she has met who live
in Los Angeles. She also
hopes to travel around and
see more of the United States.
Naoko says she would like
to return to America one day.
And, she is anxious to help
Guilford students who may
in the future, go to school in
Japan.
ences will be explored.
Questions of sexuality, and
sexual and gender identification
will be discussed. Then
after looking at historical, con
temporary and cross cultural
ways of defining sex roles,
some time will be spent on
considering the ramifications
of the changing sex roles
that we are experiencing in
our culture now and will in
the future.
The other part of the course
will be attendance at the
Faculty Colloquium on Wed
nesday afternoons. Each week
a different faculty member,
from Psychology, Biology,
History, Sociology, Political
Science, English Literature,
Women's Studies, Black
Studies, etc. will present a
lecture on some facet of sex
roles.
These lectures will be
open to all faculty and students
(as well as students in this
course) and there will be
discussion following the
lectures. The combination of
having such a strong inter
disciplinary representation of
faculty all looking at this major
social question, as well as the
opportunity for reading and
discussion with both other
students and a large number
of faculty members will
make this a very special kind
of learning experience.