February 26,1980
Dr. Charlotte Meyer is the first in a series of candidates for an open
position in next year's English Department. Here shown with
English professor Jim Gutsell.
Guilford College Notebook
Open Mike Night: The Col
lege Union Coffeehouse Com
mittee is sponsoring an open
mike night in the Boren Lounge,
on April 8. Sign-ups will be
after spring break. Any ques
tions should be left in the Union
mailbox at the Information
Desk, Founders.
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Colloquium: On Wednesday,
Feb. 27, Dr. Leroy Walker will
speak on "The Making of an
Olympic Athlete" at 3:30 p.m.
in the Gallery of Founders. The
public is invited free of charge.
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Film: Theatre of Blood ~
Tuesday, Feb. 26, Sternberger,
25tf Vincent Price stars as a
Shakespearian actor panned by
the critics. Incensed, he plots
revenge using scenes from
Shakespeare's plays to bring
about each critic's downfall
Save your
phone books
The Biophile club would
like all of your old phone
books. Don't throw them
out; we can recycle them. A
box will be placed in the
lobby of Founders Hall for
students to drop the books
off during meal hours. Pro
fessors can place their
books (home and office)
beneath the mailbox tables
where they will be picked
up on a daily basis. Covers
do not need to be torn off.
Anyone interested in joining
Beta Beta Beta should get in
touch with Dr. Frank Keegan as
soon as possible. 888 is the
national honor society for un
dergradate Biology majors. Re
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Tickets are on sale in the
SCA/VA office in the Center for
Continuing Education for the
Barn Dinner Theatre's adult
comedy, "Move Over, Mrs.
Markham." Tickets are $5.00
per person for the performance
on Sunday, March 16. Unsold
tickets will be available for
purchase main-campus stu
dents the week of March 10.
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The Yale Slavic Chorus -
Wednesday, March 12, a chorus
of 15 women in a lively cele
bration of authentic eastern
European folk music. They will
appear in Sternberger Auditor
ium at 8:15 p.m. Admission is
$2.00 for adults, SI.OO for
non-Guilford students. (Guil
ford students will be admitted
free with I D. card)
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Sunday Afternoon Musicale -
Sunday, March 16, featuring
Teresa Radomski from the voice
faculty of Wake Forest Univer
sity with a chamber ensemble at
4:00 p.m. in the Boren Lounge,
Founders Hall.
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The UNC Symphony Orches
tra, conducted by David Ser
rins, will present its annual
Earl captures election
By Paul Holcomb
News Editor
The ticket consisting of Jan
Earl, Martin Jones, and Stan
Civens was elected to the
Executive Council of the Stu
dent Community Senate for the
upcoming 1980-81 school year.
Elections were held this past
Thursday and Friday in Foun
ders Lobby. Earl's ticket cap
tured 63% of the 429 votes cast.
Last year, over 600 voters
turned out.
Jan Earl, a junior Adminis
tration of Justice major from
Fort Wayne, Ind., and the
President-elect, is currently the
Vice-President/Treasurer of the
Senate.
Guilfordian
Exhausting literature
By Gordon Palmer
Features Editor
Dr. Charlotte Meyer, the first
candidate for an open position
in next year's English Depart
ment to appear at Guilford,
spoke to a gathering of students
and faculty on Monday, Februa
ry 18th in the Gallery. The topic
was her specialty, post-modern
literature.
Like this type of literature,
which is often in a light humor
ous vein, Meyer has a light but
concerto concert Tuesday, Feb
26, at 8 p.m. in Hill Hall
auditorium at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Concertos by Brahms,
Tchaikovsky, Donizetti, Samuel
Barber and Ralph Vaughn Wil
liams will be performed, as will
Shubert's Unfinished Sympho
ny.
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The time for the annual
International Dinner is fast
approaching. It will be held on
Sunday, March 23rd at 7:30
p.m. in the cafeteria. You are
invited to come and share exotic
dishes from many lands. This
event is sponsored by the
International Relations Club.
Tickets will go on sale soon!
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Stained Glass Class: Begin
ning March 19 - 7:00 p.m. at
Folk Recreation Center. Class is
designed for the beginner and
intermediate student. Call 292-
7851. $12.00 6 weeks, does not
include materials.
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The next meeting of the
T.Gilbert Pearson Chapter of
National Audubon will be on
Tuesday, February 26, at 7:30
p.m. in the parlor of the
Centenary United Methodist
Church. The program will fea
ture "A Peek at the Okefeno
kee" presented by Dr. Hollis
Rogers. Dr. Rogers, Professor
Emeritus of Biology at UNC-G,
is an eminent naturalist and
photographer and an expert on
North Carolina's natural areas.
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At the Green Hill Art Gallery:
"Triad Collectors or North Car
olina Artists" March 6-30 with
the opening reception on Thurs
day, March 6, 8-10 p.m. Gallery
hours are Tues.-Fri., 10-5 p.m.
and Sat.-Sun., 2-5 p.m.
Jones, the Vice-President
elect, is a junior Philosophy
major from High Point, N.C.
Stan Civens, Secretary-elect, is
a sophomore biology major from
Richmond, In.
The new Executive Council
hopes to promote a close rela
tionship between Dr. William
Rogers, the new College Presi
dent, and the student body.
They are also calling for modifi
cations in the Senate budgeting
system, the academic advising
system, and cafeteria service.
All three of the Executive
Council members for 1980-81
are Dana Scholars.
clear manner of speaking. Her
trim and slightly tall physique
culminates in a bright face
under a shade of curls.
After a brief, enthusiastic
welcome from Beth Keiser,
English Department Chairper
son, Meyer begins her speech.
She leads off by saying that the
subject of her talk is an area
which is still rapidly growing,
and thus "one which all the
evidence is not yet in. What I'd
ITke to do is give you a brief
introduction to what is called
post-modernism."
She describes some of the
principal events which led to
this movement, notably an arti
cle from a 1967 Atlantic Month
ly by John Barth (a novelist, and
one of two who were the
subjects of the dissertation with
which Meyer earned her docto
rate this year).
The article is titled, "The
Literature of Exhaustion." What
this indicates, says Barth, is not
a moral or spiritual exhaustion,
but one in which the possibili
ties of a mode of literary
expression exhaust themselves.
As an example, Barth uses the
example of a novel about a
French poet who writes Don
Quixote for his own time,
actually creating certain chap
ters in a wholly different man
ner from that of Cervantes.
Barth's point is that when one
mode exhausts itself, new forms
must arise to take its place.
Meyer comments that Barth's
term, "the literature of exhaus
tion" is "just one of a variety of
terms that floated around in the
late '6os and early '7os trying to
capture and pen some aspect of
post-modernism." Others iiv
elude surfiction, metafiction,
parafiction, anti-realism, self
reflexive fiction, and disruptive
fiction.
As Meyer points out, many of
these names carry a negative
connotation, and Borges, the
man who wrote the book about
the French poet, responded to
Barth by saying that fiction is a
dialogue, a relationship be
tween the writer and the reader.
And this, says Meyer, "de
fines the new attitude the
post-modernist has for his rea
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der. The post-modernist reader
has got to'work, he has to be
involved in the actual composi
tion of the novel; whereas in,
say, a realist novel, you are
shaped,and guided through the
book.''
Now that post-modernism has
grown, states Meyer, people
like Barth see it in a different
literature of replenishment."
Also, in the same article,
Barth poses a question to which
Meyer is moved to respond to in
detail: namely, is post-moder
nism an extension of, or a
reaction to, what has gone
before it?
It is important to remember,
says Meyer, "that the immedi
ate predecessors of the post
modernists, the modernists,
were often reacting against
their own predecessors, the
realists," She proceeds to de
lineate some of the characteris
tics of the three periods and
how these differ from each
other.
Realism: "There is linearity,
chronology and sequential time,
cause-and-effect as the system
of planning. It starts at the
beginning and goes to the end.
The emphasis is on middle-class
moral conventions and how they
work. The language is transpar
ent -- you can see the actual
events of the story."
Modernism: "In modernism,
time is more psychological.
What is happening to the
character psychologically, ra
ther than events in time, is what
structures the novel. There is a
celebration of the private reve
lation, and a moral pluralism;
in many ways, public morality is
disintegrated in the modernist
novel
"The langage of the moder
nist novel is metaphoric; there
are certain recurring images
which take on a greater signi
ficance as the novel moves
along. A novel like Ulysses is
less accessible than most realist
works for the average reader,
who would often say 'What's
going on here?' Fifty years
later, it's still a difficult novel."
Post-modernism: "First of
all, there is a playfulness, to the
See 'Meyer', page eight
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