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Four Audition for NATS
Four Guilford voice students trav
eled to Appalachian State University
on March 21 to participate in the two
day annual National Association of
Singing (NATS) student auditions.
The students, Ritchie Eanes, Scott Lee,
Katherine Schnorrenberg and Joseph
Champion qualified to audition by
meeting specified repertoire require
ments.
Champion, a freshman from Black
Mountain, won third place in the Fresh
men Men division and first place in
the advanced Musical Theater divi
sion. The students study voice with
Grace Johnson. Drama professor and
director Jack Zerbe provided coach
ing assistance for preparation for the
Musical Theater category.
1992 Serendipity Chair Appointed
Scott Thornhill, a rising junior from
Raleigh, was appointed chairman of
next year's Serendipity Committee.
Thornhill said he was excited about
being selected and is looking forward
to producing a successful Serendip
ity.
Quaker Concerns Sponsors Visit
Bruce Grimes, editor of the Friends
for Gay and Lesbian Concerns News
letter, and Geoff Kaiser, a Quaker his
torian, creator of the definitive wall
chart of Quaker divisions, general
authority on Quaker theologian Robert
Barclay and on the history of homo
sexuality in the Christian church, will
be on campus April 3-5. Exact plans
for their visit, which is sponsored by
Quaker Concerns, were not available
at press time.
Two Juniors Named
Yearbook Editors
Juniors Martha McCoy and Carolyn
Bundy were named co-editors of the
1992 Quaker last week. The Publica
tions Board closed its interviews last
week after reopening the selection
process.
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Vol. 75, No. 19
Senate Debates Using Fees
Justin Cohen
News Editor
The president of Guilford's Gay, Les
bian and Bisexual Alliance went before
the Community Senate last Wednesday to
try to convince senators to approve fund
ing for free condom distribution.
GLB A PresidentßJ. Nickels asked Sen
ate to allot $145 in special request money
to his club so that it can arrange for the
Guilford community to have access to free
prophylactics at the Student Health Cen
ter.
The money would be used to purchase
1,000 condoms with nonoxynol-9 (lubri
cated) and 1,000 "dry" condoms. The
condoms could be obtained through an
appointment with the health center's di
rector, Charlotte Schmicklc, or by picking
them up in a basket in the center's lobby.
AIDS prevention information would also
be posted adjacent to the basket. In addi
tion, some condoms would be set aside for
distribution at GLBA-sponsored AIDS
information seminars and other related
educational events.
The funding request was presented with
the expressed support of a handful of prom i
nent campus organizations, including
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Two students play Frisbee on the lawn between Bryan and Milner.
Behind them is the road being built to increase access to the new
apartments. In front is the new concrete walkway connecting the
two dorms, /photo by George Brand
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
Quaker Concerns, the Coalition of Voices
and Women's Awareness.
Fifteen years ago today a story about
free condom distribution at Guilford would
have belonged in the April Fool's Day
section of the newspaper, but with the
advent of the AIDS epidemic, the extent to
which institutional support for protective
measures is appropriate has become an
important issue on campuses throughout
the country.
The debate continues to rage at Guilford,
as Nickels went before the Senate for the
second time in as many weeks to lobby his
cause.
Senate failed to reach consensus on the
matter, so discussion will continue at this
Wednesday's meeting.
The debate occasionally turned ugly,
with some of the exchanges as hot as the
weather outside. At one point, Academic
Senator Lew Riley appealed to his col
leagues to improve their conduct.
"I think we owe [Nickels] some re
spect," Riley said.
A slight majority of the Senate was at
least somewhat skeptical ofGLBA's fund
ing request.
At the outset of the discussion, some
senators expressed strong reservations
April 1, 1991
for Condoms
about providing the condoms in the Stu
dent Health Center. They pointed out that
the health center is closed in the evenings
and on the weekends, at which times the
need for condoms tends to be at its great
est.
Nickels conceded that the situation
wasn't ideal.
"It is unfortunate that student health
isn't open all the time, but aside from
giving [the condoms] to the RAs [to dis
tribute], which hasn't worked at other
colleges, or making them available at the
activities desk, we haven't been able to
come up with a feasible alternative," Nick
els said.
Moreover, Nickels insisted thai
Schmickle strongly advocated the plan.
However, senior Joe Studi vant challenged
that statement. Senate officials will invite
SchmicklctothisWedncsday'smectingto
clarify her position.
Concern was also expressed that the
response to the availability of free con
doms may actually be overwhelming. In
other words, a few students may "hog up"
all the condoms. Nickels countered that he
would ask health center employees to keep
a "minimal" watch on the basket and that
there would be a sign posted on the basket
requesting that students take only as many
condoms as they need.
see CONDOMS on page 3 >•
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