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Volume 78
GUILFORD CCE
RECEIVES $25,000
ENDOWMENT FUND
Guilford received a gift of
$25,000 to create the initial
funding for an endowed schol
arship for CCE students from
a current student in Guilford's
Center for Continuing Educa
tion.
The scholarship will support
students who are returning to
college after having spent time
in a career and/or raising a fam
ily. The intention is to assist stu
dents who have already shown
strong academic performance,
particularly at Guilford, but
who might otherwise not be
able to complete their educa
tion because of financial limi
tations. Two annual scholar
ships are now available due to
a second anonymous donor to
the endowment.
Susan Heider, business and
finance major, and Sandra
Cummings, accounting major,
have been chosen to receive the
first annual Continuing Educa
tion Endowed Scholarships.
The two women, full-time
Guilford students, are single
mothers raising their children
and working outside the home
to support them.
HILLEL TO HONOR
TREES WITH SEDER
Hillel will be honoring Tu
B'Shvat (The New Year of the
Trees) with a traditional seder
on Monday, Jan 24, at 8:00 PM
in the Hut.
Legend has it that the trees
requested a cold date in the
dead of winter for their cel
ebration because they realized
that only following winter
rains would they flower and
prosper in the spring.
Rabbi Andy Koren of
Chapel Hill will be the featured
guest at the dinner, which is
being held as part of Religious
Emphasis Week.. The event is
open to the community.
King holiday observance debated
Christian Scanniello
Staff Writer
Despite recent proposals to ob
serve the federal holiday of Mar
tin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the
Guilford community celebrated
the civil rights leader's birthday in
traditional fashion.
Provost Dan Poteet said that an
open forum regarding the future
status of the day is tentatively
scheduled for Feb. 2. Poteet said
shortly after that forum is held, the
Administrative Council will de
cide whether or not to suspend
classes and grant a staff holiday
on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in
1995.
The issue has been debated in
recent faculty meetings, raising
many concerns regarding this
complex issue. Currently, classes
are held but professors have the
option of granting students the
holiday so that they are able to at
tend the day's events, which in
clude panel discussions, work
shops, and prayer services.
Garden forum hears concerns, questions
Chris Hosford
Staff Writer
A forum to discuss the proposed
and still debated Sesquicentennial
Garden, a memorial for the late
Grimsley Hobbs to be built in the
oval area between Duke Hall and
Archdale, was held Jan. 12.
The Senate's normal Wednesday
meeting was canceled so that sena
tors could attend.
At the meeting students aired
their feelings and two alternative
versions of architect Richard Bell's
design were presented by senators
Melissa Hoopes and Laura
Deßlois.
The alternative designs elimi
nate the flower beds in between the
walkways and add more benches
for a potential outdoor class area
and more space for quiet reflection
and meditation. Their purpose is
to use the space more efficiently
and simply.
Hoopes said, "If the garden is
intended as a meeting place for the
campus it seems wiser to reduce
the thirty-foot walkways. I would
suggest removing the plant mate-
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Anne Gailliard and Shelley Oldfield check out information about MLK
The designation of King's birth
day as a campus holiday poses a
particular problem to the science
department.
"We're concerned that canceling
classes for one day would affect
the scheduling of an entire week
of labs for those courses that have
rial from between the walkways in
order to give more room for
benches and outdoor classrooms."
Deßlois said, "Mr. Bell was very
appreciative of the alternative de
signs."
There appear to be three major
sticking points with the garden as
it is currently proposed:
First, some students have raised
the issue that the garden's walk
ways form a cross and are both
ered by the potential religious sym
bolism of such a structure on cam
pus.
However, according to Deßlois,
the cross design is purely coinci
dental, a natural result of the oval
shaped area the garden is to oc
cupy.
Senator Brian Burton said, "The
cross is not a symbol. It is the natu
ral flow of traffic."
Second, some students are both
ered by the perceived frivolous
ness of spending money on a gar
den at a time when Guilford is ex
periencing a financial crunch.
According to Deßlois, the
money for the garden was donated
in 1987 for the specific purpose of
building a garden. The money can-
more than one laboratory section
per week," said Lynn Moseley of
the biology department.
"We're certainly willing to con
sider any way of celebrating this
occasion that will take into account
our scheduling problems,"
Moseley said.
The proposed garden, shown at the forum
not be used for any other structure.
Deßlois said, "There's a lot of
hostility from students who see this
as frivolous, but they need to real
ize that this was a gift to the col
lege and we should accept it gra
ciously"
Finally, there is the issue of the
Lichfield Gates, which the origi
nal design called for to be placed
at the main entrance to the garden.
This proposal has been shelved.
The gates originally came from
a plantation in South Carolina and
there is concern over the potential
perception of them as a symbol of
January 21,1994
One such proposal that is be
ing discussed is the reschedul
ing of those Monday classes and
labs on either the first or sec
ond Saturday of the spring-se
mester.
Still, some are concerned
about the implications of Guil
ford recognizing its first federal
holiday.
"In general, I am opposed to
the proliferation of holidays,
c and it's not that I have any par-
Q ticular objection to Martin
| Luther King," said Richard
Kania, chairman of the justice
& and policy studies department.
o cial recognition on a pattern that
- we have followed for several
years, but I do feel that if we
start the practice of giving the
day off for this celebration, then
why not for George Washington,
why not for Abraham Lincoln,
why not for Robert E. Lee for the
people who feel he's special, why
not for a bunch of other people.
Photo by Rob Davidson
See KING page 2
racism, op
pression and
slavery, es
pecially at a
Quaker
school in an
area that is
historically
linked with
the Under
ground Rail
-4 road.
Burton
said, "I
don't agree
Photoby Daphne Lewis
with the idea
of the gates since they are from a
plantation."
Also, some students have raised
concerns over the garden's alleged
lack of simplicity, which contra
dicts Quaker tradition.
Burton said, "There have been
some complaints that the garden
is not simple enough. If you look
at the sketch, how could it be more
simple?"
No ground-breaking date on the
Sesquicentennial Garden has been
set. More forums are planned for
the future and students are invited
to come and participate.