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Proposed visitation policy combines old values, new attitudes Jason Underwood Editor-in-Chief Guilford College has come a long way over the years. We have built a beautiful new library and we are constructing a state-of-the-art telecommunications facil ity that will skyrocket Guilford into the future. Ironically, though, some of Guilford's existing policiesarejustdown right archaic. The existing residence hall visitation policy is one of these dusty policies, one that has been put up on a shelf to age until someone realizes that its time for disposal has finally arrived. The existing policy denies visitation between opposite sexes in residence halls from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. This policy, though still enforced by the Guilford College Security, is often ignored by Guilford students (many of whom are forced to hide in the closet until the unsuspecting QUILFORDIAN Editor-in-Chief Jason Underwood News Editor Peter Smith Features Editor Eric Badertscher Editorials Editor Laurel Nesbitt Sports Editor Scott Genualdi Photo Editor Charles Almy Copy Editor David Simpson Layout Editor Jacob Stohler Business Manager Anna Yeargin Staff Coordinator Linda Kreem Production Coordinator Joyce Atkinson Faculty Advisor Jeff Jeske Assistant Copy Editor Laura Seel Assistant Layout Editor Betsy Vance Advertising Director Martha McCoy Staff: Hobie Anthony, Eliza Blake, Andrew Bloom, Lisa Boggs, Dena Bolton, Laura Brooks, Carolyn Bundy, Emily Carr, Brad Chance, Alex Clay, Kathy Corcoran, Eric Dawson, Allison Dean, Alexandra Duckworth, Sara Ellefson, Christie Evens, Mandy Ford, Mike Grossman, E.J. Hofferman, Doug James, Dara Jacob, Vic Johnson, Anne Jonas, Seth Jurnak, Graham Lashley, Dwayne Lawler, Elise Lillard, Paige Mahaney, Butch Maier, Brywn Malbasa, Laura Marshall, Troy Martin, Randall Moore, Laura Myers, Lisa Pope, Cory Schwartz, Andy Smith, Joe Studivant, Ted Talcott, Kristi Wachowiak, and Eugene Wan The Guilfordian is the student newspaper of Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. Mailing information can be obtained through The Guilfordian's office. Submitted articles are welcome. Opinions expressed in editorials and letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff and editorial board of The Guilfordian. The editor(s) reserves the editorial licence toThe Guilfordian staff. Please address all mail to: The Guilfordian, Box 17717, Greensboro, NC 27410. 2 THE GUILFORDIAN November 6, 1989 PERSPECTIVES security guard passes by). The new visitation policy, initiated by the Policy and Governance Committee of the Student Residence Council and ap proved by the Community Senate, is an appropriate compromise between the old and the new. The halls will still be locked according to the existing schedule, but the residents will be permitted to have guests of the opposite sex at any hour. Just as importantly, the roommate of the resident with a visitor reserves the right to deny visitation to anyone he/she pleases. Hence, the proposal introduces the resident's right to entertain anyone who he/she pleases at any hour, while preserving the right to deny anyone entry to the room at any time. Residence halls will also have the right to decrease the hours of visitation if a consensus is reached among the residents of each hall. Adding to the freedom of choice and insurance of privacy for the individual student, an optional visitation agreement between roommates may be reached through consultation with the resident advisor. The result isnhat the residents are give both the right to liberty as well as the right to privacy. Other schools have already recoginized the obsoleteness of stringent visitation regulations. Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., a school comparable to Guilford in size and academic purpose, has a 24-hour open visitation policy. Some critics of the proposed policy contend that parents will not approve of the new 24-hour liberties granted to stu dents. Although this is a valid concern since many parents pay for their chil- Rebuilding the United States from the ground up Brad Chance Guest Writer Our country now embraces a tax system that finances the platforms of big business as it ignores social needs. Although the Democratic Leadership Council declares a national need for over 3.5 million work ers in the areas of education, health care, child care, environment, and criminal justice, the Bush administration refuses to pay social servants to work these jobs. Standing strong to Reagan's economic policy which is based upon writing tax breaks for big business, George Bush refuses to write government paychecks for social servant workers. Opting not to write these checks, George Bush ignores a brilliant work-fare proposal initiated by Leon Moskos a sociologist at North western University. Championed by Georgia Senator Democrat Sam Nunn, the Moskos pro posal offers a work-fare plan that would act as a strong starting block toward solv ing our social servant, environmental, low cost housing, and educational needs. Moskos proposes that high school gradu ates receive a small salary (S4OO a month) and a grant toward either a down payment on a house, a college education, or trade school in return for working two years as a full-time, social servant. Moskos' proposal: (1) provides full time qualified social servants, as it (2) prepares high school graduates with pre college/vocational work experience, and (3) grants these graduates with future opportunities. High school graduates providefull-time, dren's room and board, we must remem ber that the parents are not the ones who will have to live here. We must further assume that parents want their children to grow up at Guilford, to realize and live the freedoms of choice of adulthood. Guilford College is a community of adults, not a summer camp teeming with little children. We should be respected as adults; we should be able to make our own decisions. Guilford simply does not need another anachronistic regulation telling us when we should and shouldn't visit with the other sex in our own dwelling. consistent, well-trained, role models. Working daily as day care or health care counselors, high school graduates can provide children and the elderly with familiar faces they can trust. As high school graduates work for their country, they will collect work experience and discover their interests and talents. Such a discovery period provides an excellent, practical background for a college or vocational education. In fact, the com mon person needs this background before blindly committing him/herself to educa tional decisions which may outline life time committments. After serving two years of social work, the high school graduate will not only be qualified to choose their direction, s/he will also be granted one of the following three pathways to choose as a starting base: a down payment on a house, a college education, or trade school. A young adult, living in a country where s/ he has the opportunity to earn a promising future, will develop greater concern for his/her life and his/her country. Needless to say, the Moskos proposal benefits our country, as it helps our nation's youth help themselves. George Bush needs to discern the voo doo out of Reaganomics, and consider, as Moskos has, how we can rebuild a nation where the masses can work to advance themselves. We the people need to write our congress person and senator and stress our interest in work-fare and rebuilding America from the bottom up. It is "our country" not "the nation of big business" and "we the people" need ways to work to earn educational and housing opportuni ties! If there is no opportunity, freedom cannot ring!
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