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Credit Opportunity
NCNB/Visa Credit Cards are now available to all Guilford
students at a preferred rate. The usual eighteen dollar yearly
fee has been cut to ten dollars in a special program just for
Guilford students arranged for by the Community Senate.
All students with a 2.0 or better G.P.A. are eligible to apply for
a Visa card. NCNB has agreed to relax their usual application
requirements, so every student should have no trouble obtaining
a card.
Freshman and others who did not receive applications in the
mail can pick up an application in the Senate Office.
Wahoos Off to Sugar Bowl
English Wahoos are on their way to competing in the National
Collegiate Flag Football Sugar Bowl Classic in New Orleans,
Louisiana over Christmas break. The Wahoos earned this
privilege by winning the intramural championship in an
undefeated season.
Guilford gained an invitation by being selected as an at large
team in the 24 team field. There will be teams from all over the
country such as Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Auburn, Arizona
State and University of Illinois, last year's champ. The double
elimination tournaments will end on January 2 with the cham
pionship game being played in the Super Dome as a preliminary
to the Sugar Bowl.
The team is preparing for the tournament with daily prac
tices, report Jim McFall and David Bradley, team captains and
intramural student directors. The Wahoos hope to capitalize on
their strong defensive play which only yielded 14 points in nine
games.
Financial Aid News
Financial aid applications (the Family Financial Statement
Packets) were distributed among current financial aid reci
pients on Monday, December 12th, 1983. Forms were placed in
campus mail boxes with instructions for their timely comple
tion. Any student who has not received an application and needs
one should pick up one in the Financial Aid office before leaving
for the holidays.
Financial Aid applications should be completed as soon after
January 1, 1984 as possible to assure priority consideration.
Guilford College operates with an April 15th priority deadline.
Applications received after this deadline are considered only on
a "funds available" basis.
JLD Work Study Projects
Job Location and Development will be advertising the Pre-
Professional On Campus Work Study Projects which are being
funded by the recent grant from the Cannon Foundation. All
students are eligible to apply. Eligibility is based on fulfilling
specific requirements of the projects. Projects will be available
in the following areas: Accounting, Biology, Career Develop
ment, Chemistry, Craft Center, International Student Advisor,
Physics, and Sociology. A special edition of Job Talk will be
released with detailed information about the projects. The Job
Board outside the JLD office in Founders Hall will also list the
projects. Interested students must first register with the JLD of
fice.
After a brief pre-screening interview, students will be refer
red to the appropriate department. Final selection lies with the
employer. All projects will begin January 16 and continue until
the job has been accomplished. The length of the projects
varies, but salary is $3.35 per hour for all projects. The JLD of
fice is hoping to have interviews and decisions made prior to
Christmas break. Interested students should act immediately.
For further information, contact the JLD office in Founders
Hall or call Ext. 302.
Guilford College. Greensboro, N.C. 27410
Through Ra
Ice and Snow
By Julie Yindra
Mrs. Cloudier is someone
whose name many may not
recognize immediately, but
chances are that she knows you,
not just by face, but by name.
Hard to believe? It's true. Better
known by most of you as "Mrs.
C," she distributes all of
Guilford's on-campus and U.S.
Mail weekdays.
In this capacity, she has come
in contact with every Guilford
student at one time or another,
and, she adds, "I'm very good
with names and faces. Once I've
talked to them, I usually don't
forget them."
Between the hours of 10-3 Mon
day through Friday, Mrs. C. sorts
and distributes an average of 1600
U.S. Postal letters, not including
between 30 and 50 packages, and
finally hundreds of school related
notices, and that's on an easy
day. "Holidays are a different
story all together. It's chaotic,"
she says. To say the least, this is
a difficult task for one person.
But, Mrs. C. says, "I've been do
ing it for so long that it's not so
bad. I know how to do it efficient
ly."
Only when you have been made
aware of the amount of mail that
Mrs. C. deals with everyday, can
you understand the tremendous
effort that it takes to fill Mrs. C.'s
position. It usually takes her IVfe
hours just to sort the sacks of
mail into numerical order. She
explained that on some occasions
the mail is not delivered until
12:30, and that when this hap
pens, it is impossible to distribute
all of it by lunchtime. She says
she cannot be held responsible for
this mail being received late.
Masks Form Tableau of Impression
By Tracey Clark
A play in three parts by one
who knows nothing of Art.
Act One
Sitting outside the entrance to
Boren Lounge. "Masks of
Loneliness;" an exhibition of
eight paintings by Mary Edith
Alexander beckons inside. I am
apprehensive-I know nothing
about Art. I am not qualified to
critically evaluate works of Art.
What to do? I have seen the
paintings--at the opening on Fri
day the second of December.
They seemed to me very good!
They moved me. They were not
merely canvas color and texture,
but a compilation, pointed and
directed, of all three--and more
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Mrs. C. works weekdays in the mailroom providing an important
service for Guilford students.
Because it takes so long to sort
the U.S. Mail alone, Mrs. C.
stresses the importance of turn
ing in large on-campus mailing in
numerical sequence. This allows
Mrs. C. much more needed time
to do her job efficiently. It would
also be helpful to bring these
notices to the mailroom 24 hours
prior to the time that they should
be distributed.
Mrs. C. takes seriously the ser
vices that she provides for
Guilford students saying, "I con
sider these students my friends. I
give them something that I think
they deserve, and I do my best."
Recently, Mrs. C. has taken it
upon herself to expand on the
things. There are more things, I
suppose, special things the Art
realm has specific terms for. I do
not know the terms, but I know
there is something in Mary
Edith's work which encompasses
some of these artistic qualities.
Act Two
I wander through Boren
Lounge for a second time. The
eight paintings are spread out on
three of the walls. Wandering
through I have the distinct im
pression I am making my way
down a concrete hallway. The
paintings are distressing. By
distressing I mean only that they
are vivid. That they are
"conceptual tapestries." They in
voke emotion: bring one to emo
tional peaks--highs and lows-
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Photo by (iavin Arneth
mailroom services by increasing
supplies and extending her hours.
Mrs. C. feels that "students need
that courtesy," particularly since
the relocation of the U.S. Post Of
fice, which made it much more
inconvenient for Guilford
students to make use of the local
Postal Service.
On her own time, Mrs. C. pur
chases supplies of 20 t and 40t
stamps so that students will not
have to leave campus to send let
ters. She has set a 5-per-person
limit on the stamps.
But students often misunders
tand Mrs. C.'s role as a Guilford
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perhaps also muddled in
between. How does one convey
the idea that the artist has filled
her canvases with varied, myriad
kinds of things--that the canvases
are 'full'? That the title of the ex
hibition is apt?
Act Three
The third time in three days I
have visited Boren Lounge to
view Mary Edith's work. The
faces in her works are familiar to
me now. They seem less
ephemeral and more solid. Their
mute mouths have spoken and
their words been recorded for
posterity. There seems to be
something to 'for posterity's
sake.' One of the paintings in
trigues me above all the rest as I
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