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Serendipity
Schedule!
By RICHARD ASHLEY
Greetings and felicitations
from your friendly local College
Union. That long-awaited list
of events that tells all you
wanted to know about
Guilford's celebration of
spring, sunshine, and liquid
protein (Serendipity for short)
is right here before your
eyes. Starting on Tuesday
at 8:15 in Sternberger Theater
the film Network is going to
actually appear. Price of
admission: 50C for Guilford
students; SI.OO for non-
Guilfordites. On Wednesday
the Art Series presents Erica
Klemperer, a violinist who
just has to be seen. Her first
note flies at 8:15 p.m. in
Sternberger Theater. And
on Thursday, same time, same
place, Cathie Faint will host
Open Mike Nite. Admission
is free and the guest perform
ers will surprise you for sure.
Now on Friday we really
start to get this show in gear.
There is going to be a rockin'
rockin' dance with 'Chairmen
of the Board.' You remember
them: they did that song "Give
me Just a Little More Time."
The price is free and the fun
will be great.
Saturday, Hmmm; Saturday.
Well, starting at 11:30 a.m.
the music begins and won't
stop all afternoon. For your
pleasure we're gonna have
'Granfalloon' playing jazz and
Doors-type and Dead-type
sounds. Also Tall Dogs' hitting
out that jazz and rock. 'Bill
Haney and the Zassoff Boys'
will then bluegrass ya like
you've never been bluegrassed
before. And then (as if ft
weren't enough) Jonathan
Edwards plus special guest
Eric Lillequist will send Dana
Auditorium reeling with their
acoustic guitars, hot band and
whatever else they can think
of. Take-off is at 9:00 p.m.
and tickets are SI.OO for Guil
ford students; $2.00 for
foreigners.
By the way - a combined
lunch/dinner will be served
outside from 1 to 4 p.m.
photo by Steve Lowe
• Andrea Deaaon
• Andrea Deagon
Point of Interest: Acupuncture
Breaks Through to Skeptics
By GWEN BIKIS
In recent years, the ancient
Chinese medical practice of
acupuncture has come under
intense scrutiny in the West,
especially because, for all
intents and purposes, it
works. Acupuncture has been
practiced to cure and prevent
man's physical ailments for
more than 5,000 years. Much
to the consternation of
Westerners, who feel that
everything must have a
rational explanation acupunc
ture has proved successful
and seemingly for no logical
reason. But as Westerners
have been learning, not every
phenomenon in the world can
be explained logically. Acu
puncture works: Numerous
scientific experiments have
proven this, and acupuncture
refuses to be explained away.
Western interest in acupunc
ture was first stimulated by an
article in The New York Times.
James Reston, a very re
nowned and very skeptical
reporter for the Times traveled
to China, only to have an
appendicitis attack. Post
operation, he was given a
choice of acupuncture or
conventional modem medicine
to combat the pain. He chose
acupuncture and much to his
surprise, experienced no
pain. He returned home,
and wrote a lengthy article
on the "miracle" of acupunc
ture. It has since been proven
in the laboratory, that acu
puncture effectively reduces
pain in both humans and
animals.
According to the Chinese,
disease represents nothing
more than an imbalance of
"vital body forces," which
flow through meridian lines.
Each puncture point, then,
represents a channel in the
meridian lines. When a needle
is inserted at a particular point
or channel if blocks the Ifow,
and thus restores the equil
ibrium of flow.
The needles are sterilized
and inserted painlessly, they
are very slender, and are
rotated. More recently electric
current has been passed
through the needle instead.
For those who are squeam
ish around needles, however,
acupressure works on the
same principle as acupuncture,
but pressure is applied to the
points of meridian flow. Acu
pressure has been recom
mended for the relief of chronic
headaches. Howard D.
Kuriand, professor of psychiatry
at Northwestern Medical
Danforth Nominee Named
By CAROLINE COLES
Yes, Guilford does have a
nominee for the Danforth
Scholarship! This is a four
year fellowship that pays the
student's way to any University
within the United States and is
specially designated for future
college professors interested
in the improvement of their
fellow man.
There are only twenty-seven
hundred nominees chosen in
the nation, of which about five
hundred-sixty are singled out
for interviews and at this stage
we would like to present
Andrea Webb Deagon. In a
very short time she will know
whether she has been selected
in the top one hundred to one
hundred fifty candidates to
actually receive the significant
scholarship.
School, in Quick Headache
Relief, explains how even the
layman can eliminate headache
paint by applying pressure to
vital points. Acupressure does
not require expert skill. Acu
pressure, properly used, can
eliminate our need for aspirin,
which even in small dosages
eats away at the stomach
lining, and may even cause
ulcers.
For those interested in acu
puncture and acupressure
there will be a demonstration
in the Gallery, on Monday,
April 17 at 7:30. There will be
a showing of a 20-minute film
which deonstrates, very
graphically the actual use of
acupuncture. A panel discus
sion will follow, with Ed
Burrows and Lois Ann Hobbs,
who have both witnessed acu
puncture as panelists. After
ward, the floow will be
opened for questions and
demonstrations. The session
will be led by Jackie Ludel,
and Ted Benfey who uses
acupressure regularly as a pre
ventive measure against
disease. Dr. Benfey will utilize
large charts of acupuncture
points. Jackie Ludel empha
sizes that the session is open
to everybody, especially
skeptics.
Although the name may
sound familiar to many of us
and Andrea is exceptionally
creative in numerous ways,
she does not like to write
poetry. However she thrives
on archeology, creative
writing and the studying of the
Greek and Latin languages, in
addition to teaching, learning,
and reviewing the special art
of bellydancing.
Andrea has planned much
of her own humanities curri
culum at Guilford and doesn't
regret it. She says that she
has "found it most rewarding
to work on her own and finds
teachers more than willing to
assist in that work." Another
point she strongly emphasized
was that at one time she
thought it would have been
best to have gone to a big
university but has since
found that working out your
own program, instead of having
old courses and degrees, is a
broadening experience that
larger universities admire.
Certainly if they did not
she wouldn't have been offered
three major scholarships in
addition to having the honor
of being named a Danforth
nominee! Those universities
that have offered to award
Andrea grants include the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and Duke
University, where she will go
no matter what else might
come along.
Presently the recipient is
teaching belly dancing at the
YWCA and writing book
reviews for Belly Dance Maga
zine. While the most promin
ent magazine in the field
Andrea laughs and says, "I
don't know what quality of
journalism that entails." She
also has attended one archeo
logical dig in England and
hopes to be able to participate
in more when she has the time.
In the near future, Andrea
will be publishing pamphlets
on a small scale concerning
the techniques and costumes
of belly dancing for semi
professionals. Then she
moves on to Duke 'who I've
heard were slightly surprised
by this resume and from
there, who knows?