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Drinking Age To Be Changed
BY PHILLIP HENSON
On September Ist, 1986, the
drinking age in North Carolina
will officially change from 19 to
21. We already know how the
change in the law is going to af
fect us as residents of North
Carolina but how is it going to af
fect us as students at Guilford
College? Bob White, Director of
Housing, is one of the faculty
members trying to combat what
may become a potential problem
on campus.
White says that, as of now. no
definite changes have been plan
ned. During the year the Student
Affairs Committee and the
Residential Life Committee of
the Senate have been contacting
other North Carolina schools to
see what their plans/changes will
be once the drinking age goes up
Guilford has also contacted many
out of state schools where the
drinking age has been 21 for some
Guilford Changes Over The Years
BY LEIGII PATE
Did you know that:
Bryan dorm was never a hotel
with a swimming pool in the
center?
Hege-Cox Hall used to be a
men's dorm that was divided into
five sections that were a lot like
little fraternities?
The second floor of Duke
Memorial was an auditorium un
til it was condemned by the fire
department?
Or what about the second floor
of Founders being a women's dor
mitory before this national land
mark was torn down and
renovated in 1975?
According to history professor.
Dr Alex Stoeson, Guilford Col
lege has changed dramatically
over the past twenty years from a
rather run down, shabby looking
campus into a well-organized,
more highly developed learning
institution.
From 1965 to 1980, the Grimsley
Hobbs Administration concen
trated its efforts on transforming
Guilford's mediocre facilities
without incurring any debts to the
college. He wanted to drastically
renovate most of the buildings on
campus using some federal
money, but mostly by using
private donations from the
Friends of the College. He also
realized the importance of
preserving the outside of the
buildings and retaining the
original atmosphere.
Hobbs began his campus
transformation by renovating the
old New Garden Quaker Meeting
Building (which the college had
time. In general, Guilford has
two basic options. The first is to
enforce the drinking age on an
underage majority. This socially
isolates one group of people, thus
fragmenting two groups on the
campus by age. This type of ap
proach is less desirable because
it uses selective enforcement.
Another option Guilford has is to
ban alcohol from campus entire
ly. White says that is not what is
planned here.
One suggestion is to color code
the background of student IDs.
much like the DMV has done with
N.C. Driver's licenses.
This year 31% of Guilford
students (not including continu
ing education students) are 21 or
over. By the end of the year that
number is expected to increase to
42%, considerable percentage
compared to other campuses.
White says party-petition and
Quad dance drinking policy
changes are undecided, and
await further consideration and
research. Considering that the
current policies were formulated
after the drinking law had been
passed, though, things are likely
to stay pretty much the same.
bought but didn't know how to
use) into what is now New
Garden Hall, Administration
Building.
Duke Memorial, at one time
known as the ugliest building in
the state, contained the presi
dent's and the registrar's office
and was used mainly as the cam
pus science building. An
auditorium, built in 1896 on the
second floor, seated 350 people
twice a week for required ses
sions, much like Wednesday IDS,
until the room was condemned as
a fire hazard.
Hege-Cox Hall was once a
men's dorm until it was con
demned by the fire department.
It was divided into five sections
with each section having the
spirit and comradery of a small
fraternity. The middle section
was always reserved for athletes,
and one section was named
Yankee Stadium. Unfortunately,
Hege-Cox was a dirty, unsanitary
building that wasn't suitable as a
dormitory. Hege-Cox stood emp
ty for several years and would
have been torn down except that
someone decided in 1977 to tear
down the wings and use it for the
Art Department. In Hege-Cox the
art students could have much
more room and make a bigger
mess than they could in
downstairs Founders, where they
had previously worked.
Archdale was a men's dorm un
til 1965 when it was renovated and
converted into faculty office
buildings.
Bryan Dorm was built in 1968 to
compensate for the loss of Hege-
White would have felt
better if the drinking
age law was passed for the same
reason as the Safe Roads Act of
1983. This act, among other
things, increased the drinking
age to 19 and made merchants
who sold alcohol to minors liable,
with very severe penalties. It was
an attempt to make the roads
safer and take alcohol out of the
high schools. The present law
which will raise the drinking age
to 21 was passed so that North
Carolina would get the highway
money it depends on from the
federal government, not primari
ly for any moral reason. White
says he realizes that sitting
around and drinking beer with
friends is a college tradition, and
even an expectation of many
students who go to college, but he
pointed out that over 80% of
judicial charges at Guilford are
direcetly or indirectly related to
alcohol. White also notes that
alcohol is a very real problem for
a lot of people. He says that it is
sad how many students think that
they have to drink to have fun.
and he hopes this new law will
make people more creative with
the types of parties i for example
theme parties and non-alcoholic
mixers > they have and the type of
things they do.
Cox and Archdale. Originally, it
was intended to be an all men's
dorm but soon after was con
verted into coed for practical
reasons. Milner, English, Bin
ford, and Shore have not changed
substantially over the past twen
ty years.
An old building behind King,
that was built in 1908, was torn
down because it was unbearably
cold during the winter and
classes couldn't be held there.
King was expanded over the
original building in 1971 and was
converted into the science
department.
The library was expanded by
adding the study room in 1965.
The front half however was dark
and dingy looking, lined with
tables and straight backed chairs
and lighted with hanging flores
cent lamps. It was renovated in
1976 and those wonderful easy
chairs were added.
Founder's Hall, built in the
1830's and on the National
Register of Historic Buildings,
housed women on the second
floor until the late 1960'5. Lounges
filled most of the front rooms and
the dining room lurked in the
back. Hobbs had wanted to create
a central student center out of
Founders but because of its
design and delapidation, he
couldn't save it. The old
Founders was torn down and a
new building erected in 1975. The
old cafeteria, which resembled a
prison with a grey floor, long
tables, and food lines, was
remodeled around 1980. Last
year, new windows added light
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Guilford College library as it looked in I!MX. What an amazing dif
ference!
Photo by Holly Hobbs/original
photo courtesy of Quaker
Historical collection.
and cheeriness to the dining area.
Hendricks Hall was originally
built in 1956 to serve as a student
center, but because it was so far
away from the campus center, no
one would use it.
The old gym was popularly
known as a "crackerbox"
because it was so hot and noisy,
although in 1940, when it was
built, it was known as the best
gym of any small college in the
state. The new gym, built in
association with the YMCA from
1978 to 1980, gives Guilford
students the opportunity to enjoy
a pool, raquetball, and many
other sports to whcih they had no
access.
Guilford students have infinite
ly better facilities today than
they had twenty years ago. The
building improvements not only
add to the beauty of the campus,
but also make it more
academically functionable. Stu
dent tuition is also lower than
most small colleges because of
the refusal of Hobbs and his ad
ministration to go into debt with
the building renovations.