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Volume LXIV, No. 16
Milner dormitory changes colors
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From left to right are interns KM McDonald, Kevin Moriey, R.J.
Blincoe, Coordinator Dkk Dyer, Lou Prentiss, Don Hem rick, and
Brad Forrest.
Registration 'time bomb'
The Director of the Com
mittee on Militarism in Educa
tion charged today that the
Selective Service System's plan
to establish registration centers
in our nation's high schools and
colleges is a "time bomb wait
ing to go off."
At a news conference, Dr.
Robert I. Rhodes, director of the
committee, expressed astonish
ment that the Selective Service
System would even consider
.such a plan. Under existing
legislation, the plan would be
implemented if President Car
ter ordered a return to manda
tory registration for the draft.
Dr. Thodes went on to discuss
in some detail the impact regis
tration centers would have on
our nation's schools. He predic
ted that if we become involved
in another unpopular war, stu
dents will picket or sit-in at
these centers. Since obstruction
of the Selective Service is a
felony and a federal offense, we
would be exposing students to
long jail sentences arising from
nonviolent activities carried out
in their own schools.
But he was even more con
cerned about the impact these
centers would have on freedom
of speech within our class
rooms and school corridors. It
would be easy, he suggested,
for the F. 8.1, to justify the use
of student informers at school.
Innocent students involved in
the exercise of their first
amendment rights to freedom of
speech and to peaceably assem
ble could be charged under
federal law with conspiracy to
obstruct the Selective Service.
He pointed out that manv
young people today see their
schools as oppressive institu
tions and reject their teachers'
authority, especially in high
schools. The establishment of
registration centers will make a
bad situation much worse.
"Why," he asked, "is the
administrative convenience of
the Selective Service considered
to be more important than the
integrity of our nation's schools
and the rights of our students?"
Dr. Rhodes concluded his
press conference with a request
that the new Department of
Education call on Congress to
forbid the use of our high
schools and colleges as registra
tion centers.
Bodde to speak at symposium
By Paul Holcomb
News Editor
The China Symposium, a
non-western studies program
sponsored by Guilford College
and UNC-G, will be held here
this Friday and Saturday, Feb
ruary 15 and 16.
Keynote speaker for the pro
gram is Derk Bodde, Professor
Emeritus of the University of
Pennsylvania and widely recog
nized as one of the leading
China scholars in this county.
He lived in China for many
years prior to the 1949 Revo
lution and has visited there
since.
Professor Bodde will be
speaking at 7:30 Friday night in
Founders Gallery on, "Ideas
and Institutions in China: Past
and Present."
The two-day program, ar
ranged by Dr. Dorothy Borci of
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. 27410
By Roy Porter
Staff Writer
Recently, Milner Dormitory
has stood out as the most talked
about, the most publicized dor
mitory on campus. Much of its
publicity can be contributed to
its sudden shift. Which people
and situations have led to the
change in the dorm?
It was Burrhus Frederic Skin
ner who gave us the concept of
positive reinforcement years
ago (after WWII). Today, Skin
ner's concept of reinforcement
is in application on the Guilford
College Campus. It is a method
of behavior modification that
Richard Dyer has faith in.
Richard Dyer, called Dick by
many who know him, is a
recorded Friends minister. He
resides on the campus as the
new full-time coordinator of
The press conference was
held at Shadowcliff, the national
headquarters of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation. The Fellow
ship, a pacifist organization, is
the sponsor of the Committee
on Militarism in Education. The
Committee's mailing address
is: Box 271, Nyack, New York
10960.
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and the draft.;
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Guilford College and Dr. James
C. Cooley of UNC-G, features
slide shows, films and lectures
with open discussions.
Two sessions will be held
Saturday, one at 9:15 and the
other at 11:00 a.m. Topics for
the first session are "Political
Trends since Mao" and "Social
and Cultural Change." The
agenda for the second session
features "Economic Prospects"
and "Education in the Peoples
Republic of China."
An exhibit of Chinese arti
facts is currently on display in
the library to correspond with
the Symposium.
The program was funded by
the Intercultural Studies Pro
gram of Guilford College and an
International Studies Grant
from the U.S. Office of Educa
tion to the Greensboro Consor
tium.
What makes
Milner dorm. However, Dick
chooses to refer to himself by
another title than that of coordi
nator, a word often associated
with a disciplinarian.
"I define myself more as a
counsellor and a friend than as a
disciplinarian," says Dyer. In
relation to his position and the
observable changes of Milner,
Dyer has the following to re
port.
"If Milner has changed, it
has changed for a number of
reasons." He contributes very
little praise to himself and a
great deal of it to Milner interns
and residents. Although Dyer
works in the Housing Office, he
considers Milner his first re
sponsibility.
"I don't have to divide my
time. I can devote as much time
and energy to being a coordina
tor as necessary," he says.
"Resident have been extremely
cooperative. I can set out to
change it and the interns can set
out to change it, but, if the
residents don't want to change
it, it doesn't work."
For many years, Milner resi
dents have been given negative
recognition whenever recogni
tion was given. Dyer contri
butes much of the change in the
attitude of Milner residents to
the positive recognition they
have received as of late.
"Everybody has a need for
attention. If the residents of a
dormitory are not given atten
tion in a positive way, they will
demand it in a negative way."
In as much as this is true.
The China Symposium will be held at Guilford Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 15-16, with Derk Bodde to speak at 7:30 p.m.
February 12, 1980
Dyer seems to use it as a
method of doing his job. He
proclaims that it is the interns of
Milnerand he who attempt "to
reinforce and encourage posi
tive behavior and discredit
negative behavior." He adds,
"I try to set up direct connec
tions between the student's
behavior and the college's re
sponse.
In the past months, Milner
has had its lounge remodeled, a
new television set installed, and
plans are being made to install
new lounge furniture and new
doors to replace old, dilapidated
entrance doors.
Kevin Morley, an intern of
Milner, sees much of Milner's
recent progress as a result of
Dyer's work in the Housing
Office. "Because he works in
the Housing Office, he can
relate problems that occur here
back to the Housing Office," he
says.
"I am blessed with extraordi
nary interns," Dyer says. In
Milner, interns, residents, and
Dyer are all aware of the limits
of permissiveness and the need
for discretion. Dyer views this
as a possible reason for the
dorm's success. "Interns are
doing a remarkable job in
making sure no one exceeds the
limits," he says.
The other side to this argu
ment lies in the views of some
residents. "He puts pressure on
the interns, and they put it on
us," says one resident. Kirk
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