GniilJfordian
Vol. LXVI, No. 4
Homecoming!
Alumni, parents, children, and grandparents crowded the campus
this past weekend, for Guilford College's annual Homecoming
celebration. There were also events during the previous week for
students. Major events included a pie-eating contest, a football game,
a tobacco-spitting contest, a pig-picking, and a sock hop.
Thursday night, October 1, Bryan Hall hosted the Second Annual
Pie-Eating Contest. Allen Fetter won the contest when he consumed a
chocolate pie in less than 10 minutes. He received a SIO.OO gift cer
tificate donated by Huck's Restaurant. Mary Jeane McAward took the
second place award, while David Newkirk came in third.
Saturday was the big day of the Homecoming week. Guilford's
Quakers beat Salisbury State 29-20. A zealous, cheering crowd enjoyed
750 Homecoming balloons distributed during the game. The balloons
were part of the Union's contribution to the Homecoming celebration.
During the day there was a lunch picnic at Haworth Field, a faculty
student softball game (which the students won), and tours of the cam
pus.
Following the football game there was a pig-picking in front of Dana
Auditorium. Diners were entertained by doggers and a bluegrass
band. The day ended for students with a sock hop in the old gym. The
band "First Class" provided the shoeless dancers with a wide variety
of music from the 50's to the 80's. The final event for alumni was the
Second Annual Young Alumni Homecoming Party at the Blue Room of
the Greensboro Coliseum.
Woman student attacked
Guilford security proced
By Roger Lifson
Last Monday night, Oct. 5,1981,
a woman student was attacked by
a male assailant on the Guilford
College campus, near the
Maintenance hut.
The woman was walking along
the path between Binford Dor
mitory and Founders Hall bet
ween 2:00 and 2:30 a.m., when
she was attacked from behind.
The assailant covered her mouth
with his forearm, threw her down
on the ground, and jumped on top
of her. According to the victim;
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Professor Robert Williams, chairman of the Guilford College
Economics department, will be speaking at Elliot University Center,
UNC-G on Saturday, October 10.
for a brief, undeterminable
amount of time, the attacker just
"garbled" into her ear. He then
abruptly sprang up and ran off
towards Mary Hobbs.
The victimized student ran to
Hege-Cox, where she was sup
posed to meet a friend. Her
friend and two male students
then escorted her back to Bin
ford.
Mark Brewer, one of the
students in Hege-Cox who
escorted her to her room, called
Security about the incident. "1
called Guilford College in
formation and said that there was
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. 27410
A Blue-grass band added to the festive atmosphere at this year's Homecoming "pig-picking." The
barbecue was only one of the many exciting Homecoming events.
an emergency; that a girl had
been jumped, and that Security
was needed in person, im
mediately at Hege-Cox where
there is no phone," he said. The
answering service, which an
swers for Guilford College after
Founders Hall closes, paged
Security.
Alan White, the guard on duty,
said that he got a message on the
pager to call the "answering
phone." After arriving at
Founders Hall, White proceeded
to get in touch with the answering
phone. A Security guard of two
years, White had never had to
Central America in crisis
by Elizabeth Gretter
"The United Stated will never permit a new
Nicaragua even if it must take the most reprehensi
ble measures to prevent it. If all else fails, we'll
send in the Marines," said former National Security
chief, Zbigniew Brezenski.
Students Concerned for Central America, a local
student organization, believe that "Now Reagan is
fulfilling Brezenski's promise by sending money,
guns, and military advisors to support repressive
dictatorships in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Hon
duras; and threatening to invade Nicargua,
Grenada, and Cuba."
SCCA is sponsoring a conference entitled,
"Central America in Crises," October 8 through Oc
tober 10 at UNC-G. Dr. Robert Williams, chairper
son of Guilford's Economics department, will be
one of the featured speakers at the conference.
Williams will have as his topic "The Economic
Roots of Crisis in Central America." He will speak
at 9:00 a.m. October 10.
Other featured speakers will include the former
photo by Randy Rosenthal
answer a call involving the an
swering service. Not knowing the
procedures for response to an
anwering service call, he said
that he thought it best to wait in
Founders Hall where he would be
accessible.
Brewer and another student,
while waiting for Security in
Hege-Cox, saw White go into
Founders where they expected
him to get the message and
proceed to the art building.
Fifteen minutes later, White
not having arrived, Brewer and
the other student went to
Founders to get the Security
dean of students at Central American University,
Knut Walter, and Jose Simon, a former El
Salvadorian Cabinet member. Walter will discuss
"Social and Political Context of the Crisis in El
Salvador" Saturday, October 10, at 10:00 a.m.
Simon, who spoke at Guilford last year, will lead a
workshop on the role of the church in El Salvador.
The workshop is one of several which will begin at
11:00 a.m. Saturday.
Williams said that he is "very happy to see that
students have taken the initiative to examine the
current situation in this extremely important area
of the world." "In light of recent build-ups in the
military and the on-going threat of the draft, it is
especially important that students inform
themselves about the causes of the situation down
there," he said.
All of the conference events will take place in
UNC-G's Elliot University Center. No registration
is required and admission is free. For more infor
mation, call 379-5219.
October 8, 1981
guard and convey the message
themselves. White then recorded
the emergency.
He next went to the victimized
student's room and asked for a
description of the assailant.
White said that he felt that, under
the circumstances, the Green
sboro police did not need to be
notified. "She was not harmed,
bruised, or molested in any way.
If she had been, there is no
question that I would have called
the police," he said. White went
on to explain that "she said that
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photo by Youseef Elias