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April 25, 1979 Letters to the Editor... Union Speaks Dear Editor, In the last two issues of the Cuilfordian there have been editorials, letters, and editors reply concerning the College Union. I would like to add some thoughts as to the role of the College Union. The Guilford College Union should be the community center of the college family, serving students, faculty, administra tion, alumni, and guests. The Guilford College Union is an organization and a program, and together they represent a well considered plan for com munity life of the college. Through its various commit tees and staff, the Union pro vides a cultural, social, and recreational program, aiming to make free time activity a coope rative factor with studies. In all its processes, it should encourage self-directed activity, giving maximum opportunity for self-realization and for growth in individual social com petency and for group effec tiveness. The Union should serve as a unifying force in the life of the college. In order to achieve the role the Guilford College Union should play at Guilford, it needs input and support from the entire College Community. We need you to serve on commit tees and to help out at Union events. There is something for everyone to do or explore by joining one or more of the committees the Union has. We need your input, support, ideas, advice, and your pre sence at committee meetings and Union events to make next year the best year ever for everyone. Eric F. Johnson College Union President '79-' BO Shore unsafe Dear Editor: Two weeks ago in the Guil fordian Peter Reichard com mented on the post-war look in the Library. I want to clarify that the Library is not the only building on campus sporting unusual architecture. The first floor bathroom in Shore has a rain forest setting. There are long curly paint shavings winding down from the ceiling like vines; moist ground (in the form of puddles) beneath our feet; and continu ous dripping from the ceiling on our heads like little rain drop lets. Now we can even see the evolution caused by continuous running water -- yellow lines down the wall. And once in a great while, if we are lucky, we get a waterfall by the tub. The only thing we are missing is an alligator. Seriously, I hope the college will realize this summer that just repainting the ceiling does not get rid of the problem. Not only is the ceiling annoying to the residents, and unsightly to prospective students and their parents; but I can't help feeling that paint chips on the shower floor are both unsanitary and unsafe. Sincerely, Lisa H. Rice Facelift needed This letter submitted April 13th Dear Editor: Why should "the traditions of Serendipity" be preserved? Brian Carey writes in his article of April 11, that Serendipity was "well-executed and well-re ceived." I agree that this is generally true; however, Brian Carey does not discuss the problems that Serendipity has created and the reasons for not preserving it. I believe that Serendipity needs a facelift and a change of name. Before this Serendipity week end three members of the College Union went around asking assorted students what "Serendipity" means. The general response was "beer, pot, and bands." The intentions of Serendipity have been gross ly misinterpreted! Serendipity is not intended to be a Guilford College spring rites festival. The intention of Serendipity is to create a sense of communi ty around a weekend of musical events. Understanding the term "Serendipity" in this light, I can only reach one conclusion: Serendipity was a dismal fail ure. There is no sense of commmunity at a drunken de bauch. Serendipity should be a community event which in cludes students, faculty, admin istration and their families. The question arises as to why faculty and administration high tail it for the hills around Serendipity? The answer is that Serendipity has nothing to offer faculty and administration. Ser endipity should be a broad event which includes all mem bers of the Cuilford College community. Brian Carey alludes to "The Johnny's Dance Band fiasco" in his article. This comment is totally unfounded. The John ny's Dance Band concert was well produced. The only fiasco was the failure of the student body to try and enjoy a new form of musical entertainment. The only fiasco is that people are closed minded. Brian Carey also states that "the selection of the band was mismanaged this year." BUF FALOCHIPS! Brian Carey did not choose to participate in the Union decision making process this past semester and therefore has no way of knowing whether or not the decision making process was in fact misman aged. The reasons for Johnny's Dance Band being chosen are numerous. For openers, the Union was left with a large debt this year and also was faced with internal mismanagement of funds. We began our decision making pro cess with an anticipated $7,000.00 after collected door receipts. This fiogure would have al lowed us to book one of the following bands: The Cars, Jerry Jeff Walker, Pure Prairie Guilfordian League, Arlo Guthrie or Taj Mahal. All of these bands were within the $7,000.00 price range. One must also remember that availability and routing cause problems. The concert committee's spending money was then cut to $3,500.00. At this point we made an offer on Leßoux. Leßoux decided not to take the date, which, as it worked out, was better for the Union be cause our funds were again cut by $1,000.00. So, being left with $2,500.00 we had a choice between three bands (which the entire commit tee could agree upon): Michael Murphy, Johnny's Dance Band and Breakwater. Michael Mur phy was our first choice and the date did not work out because he could not get his touring schedule together. Our next choice was Johnny's Dance Band. This concert, as you know, was booked. The only mismanagement which took place was with funds, and these foulups were out of concert committee's hands. To continue setting Mr. Car ey straight: Serendipity was put on by a very small number of Guilford Students and one non- Guilford student. In fact seven people put on the entire week end. That is downright sad. The student body is happy to have Serendipity and happy to complain about it, but nobody, absolutely nobody, is willing to put any sweat into it, except a few dedicated students. I would personally like to thank Juliana Pontone, Vista Thompson, Carta Kosonen, Os car Newkirk, Richard Ashley and Andrew Applebaum (the non-Guilford helper) for putting on this weekend and for sweat ing a little bit. Lawrence D. Rust Theft continues Dear Editor, A small yet very disappinting incident occurred at the Place ment Office the other day. For a number of years we have been the central locaion on campus of the listing of off-campus part time jobs. Many students have used this service to obtain such jobs. Last week someone took the part-time job book from the Placement Library. The note book can be replaced and new jobs will be telephoned to us. However, in the past few days a number of students have come to our office looking for the notebook and were disappoin ted. I am quite angry and disappointed because of the selfishness of this act by person or persons unknown against the community as a whole. Whether it is the part-time job book being taken, a mirror being broken in Founders or other acts of vandalism, it is ulti mately the whole community that pays. In light of a whole series of events that have recently occurred, I hope we all consider both our rights and obligations as members of the college community as we look jjj toward the coming academic year. Sincerely, Dick Coe Placement Director Athletic funds Dear Editor, Several weeks ago, your edi torial dealt with the inequities between athletic and academic scholarships. Your main point was that academic scholarships should have "equal time." That is a fair opinion. You should have stayed with your opinion. Let me start from the begin ning of your "debacle." First, you complain that Guilford awards $150,000 in athletic scholarships and only $75,000 for academic awards. Ignoring the fact that I have heard a smaller figure for athletics. Please realize that some athletic scholarships are funded by out side sources. A few depart ments at this school, including athletics, are energetic enough o work for their funds. Editor, I have to thank you for part of your article. Your sen tence, "Athletic awards can, and often do, run as high as $4,280 . . has provided my friends and I with a great many laughs. A truer estimate would be five full rides. These go to several basketball players. Did you know that applications to Cuilford went up 200% after our "overpaid" basketball team won the national championship? Did you know Cuilford won a national championship? Can a price be put on the recognition that people like Lloyd Free, Michael Leon (M L.) Carr, Bob Kaufman, etc. have brought to Cuilford? I hope you do not really consider five scholarships as "often." What is the situation now? The following may give an indication: 1) The football team once received 25 scholarships which they had to split up among 60 to 70 people. They now have to split up 15 scholarships. This is the lowest figure in N.C. page two 2) Two, maybe three, people on the entire lacrosse team receive any money at all. 3) In the beginning, a very few years ago, our golf team went two years without a win. When they were given one grant to split up among the players, they won twelve mat ches. At present, they split a grand total of two grants, and also have a legitimate shot at the national championship. 4) Women's athletics as a whole have been so engulfed in poverty in the past that I will not go into the gory details. Hope fully, Title IX will help to upgrade their programs. 5) Of all the money available for athletic scholarships, 78% if based on need. I would like to elaborate on that last point. Editor, you claim that the "process of awarding scholarships should reflect this goal" of receiving a good education. Without the money received, I know many people who would be unable to attend Guilford. Many athletes could have attended other schools and received more money. How ever, they wanted to come to Guilford for some reason. Per haps that reason is to receive a goo deducation. I can never understand why people at this school think that athletes are "put on a pedes tal." Certainly they have re ceived no special treatment by the yearbooks or newspapers recently. They surely don't have the quality or quantity of equip ment received by other schools. Before you point to the new gym as "special equipment," please remember that the reason the Board of Trustees approved it was because of the multi-func tional aspect which is valuable to all Guilfordians who are open-minded concerning physi cal fitness. Editor, you further implied that the school requires "sig nificantly less in the way of academic achievement from these athletes." Again you made a foolish statement. Per haps they don't have to keep the same QPA as academic award Continued on page three
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