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G'boro - murder capital?
Residents of Greensboro
don't have to worry about their
city becoming the nation's
murder capital anytime soon,
but they do have reason to be
wary: the number of murders
committed in the city in a given
year is at an all time high, and
there is still better than a month
and a half until the year is over.
The latest addition to the list
of murder victims is a still uni
dentified decapitated head
found earlier this week and be
lieved by the police to be the
city's 34th homicide victim this
year.
Magic diagnosed with HIV
Rocking not only the sports
world, but all facets of society
alike, Earvin "Magic" Johnson,
32, announced his retirement
from the NBA Los Angeles
Lakers Nov. 7 because he has
tested positive for HIV, the vi
rus that causes AIDS.
During a press conference,
Johnson stressed the fact that
while he is HIV-positive, he
has not contracted AIDS.
The professional basketball
star announced plans to remain
affiliated with the NBA and
that he still has hopes of own
ing his own basketball team
one day.
Kuwait oil fires finally out
The last of the 732 oil wells
set ablaze in Kuwait during the
Persian Gulf War were finally
extinguished this week.
Now that the fires are out and
the wells have been capped,
concerned watchers are now
focusing on the resulting envi
ronmental damage.
How can we dance while our earth is turning,, how can we sleep while our beds are burning Midnight Oil
The
UILFORDIAN
Vol. 76, No. 6
Robbins to give humanitarian lecture
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author makes
Joshua G. Lewis
Staff Writer
John Robbins, author of the
Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, Diet
for a New America , will speak in
Dana Auditorium Saturday, Nov. 9
at 8:00 p.m. The lecture, "Healing
Ourselves, Healing Our World," is
Robbins' only North Carolina ap
pearance this year.
The subtitle of Diet for a New
America is "How Your Food
Choices Affect Your Health, Hap
piness and the Future of Life on
Earth," and the book demonstrates
this in what some may find a most
disconcerting manner by telling
the truth with facts and figures.
It sheds light on the modern-day
meat industry where factory farm
ing for maximum profit not only
inflicts unspeakable cruelty on ani
mals, but also jeopardizes the health
of people who eat animal flesh that
will "invariably contain residues
from pesticides, hormones, growth
stimulants, insecticides, tranquil
izers, radioactive isotopes, herbi
cides, antibiotics, appetite stimu
lants and larvicides."
One consequence of this is that
the European Economic Commu
nity, which will form officially in
1992, has banned American beef
JPS department survives threat to its future
Peter Smith
Special to The Guilfordian
Guilford's justice and policy de
partment is breathing a little easier
these days following the resolution
of concerns stemming from a sug
gestion by the Clerk's Committee
last spring to consider eliminating
JPS from the Guilford curriculum
and subsequently merging JPS with
the political science and sociology
and anthropology departments.
The suggestion by the Clerk's
Committee was made following
attemnLs to reolace JPS Professor
from its markets.
The factory farms Robbins de
scribes keep animals in cages or
pens where they do not have
much more space to move about
than the breadth of their bodies.
Under such conditions many
animals literally go crazy and
attack one another. Chickens en
gage in feather-pecking, which
may result in cannibalism. Pigs
driven crazy will attack others in
what is known as "tail-biting."
One source Robbins cites says
this "frequently results in crip
pling, mutilation and death."
What are the various indus
tries' responses to these prob
lems? Robbins tells that rather
than improve the animals' con
ditions, which would invariably
cost more, action is taken in an
other direction. Chickens are
"de-beaked," while pigs have
their tails cut off.
Aside from the suffering of
the animals raised for their flesh,
Robbins enumerates facts about
the environmental destruction
taking place at the hand of the
meat industry. The author reminds
us about what most by now have
heard is a major impetus behind
the clearing of tropical rainforests
the grazing of cattle for the
John Grice who died during the
fall semester last year. The Clerk' s
Committee is initially responsible
for position allocation within Guil
ford academic departments.
"We went into the committee
meeting asking for a replacement
for John Grice, and we came out
fighting for our life," said Associ
ate JPS Professor Richard Kania.
A 1 though the suggestion did not
involve the elimination of Kania
or fellow JPS Professor Barton
Park's teaching positions, it did
suggest the possibility of moving
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
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"Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World" is the title of the lecture
to be delivered be John Robbins at Dana Auditorium.
American meat habit.
According to the U.S. Depart
ment of Commerce, in 1987 alone,
this country imported 300 million
pounds of meat from South and
Central America.
both professors into separate de
partments and thereby eliminating
the JPS department.
The suggestion appeared to be
prompted by several factors in
cluding complaints by various un
named faculty and administrators
that JPS did not fit well into
Guilford's academic mission, that
the department was prepro
fessional, and that it was allowing
too many students to receive A's
and B's (it ranks as the Guilford
departmentproviding the most high
marks).
The current rate of species ex
tinction due to the destruction of
rainforests is one thousand per year.
The situation described by the
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Following the suggestion from
the Clerk's Committee,both Kania
and Parks expressed deep concern
over the possibility of the JPS de
partment being eliminated at Guil
ford. The suggestion prompted in
tense efforts by both professors to
confront the criticisms of their de
partment and lobby for their con
tinued existence at Guilford.
"Naturally, I was very concerned
by the suggestion that our depart
ment might be considered for elimi
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