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Volume 77 Issue 20
AACS celebrates breaking barriers
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Students jammed at the AACS hip hop dance.
Multiculturalism debate
committee formed
Chandra Woolson
Staff writer
There is a new college commit
tee on cultural pluralism.Provost
Dan Poteet said "The committee
was created on the recommenda
tion of a designated two-year task
force on multicultural pluralism
formed over two years ago." Fol
lowing the end of the task force, its
recommendations were passed on
to the College Council and the
Cleric's committee.
The recommendations were
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passed on, with minor revisions,
to the faculty this spring. The fac
ulty took up the recommendation
to form an ongoing committee on
multicultural pluralism. Cultural
pluralism "is the condition of
community in which numerous
distinct ethnic, religious or cul
tural groups interact construc
tively," according to Poteet.
"Are we really going
to purge people based
on their opinions?"
- Richard Kania
The faculty entertained discus
sion of the committee with two
main points being made concern
ing the nature of the committee
and the effects it could have on
freedom of expression on cam
pus.
The primary apprehension
about the committee was that it
might become an excuse for re
verse discrimination. Justice &
Policy Studies professor Richard
Kania expressed a concern that
different points of view could be
stifled if the opinions expressed
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Guilford College. Greensboro, N.C.
Photo by Ben Cadbury
Susan C. Roberts
News Layout editor
The African-American Cul
tural Society celebrated "Break
ing Down The Barriers" last
week. Throughout the week,
members of the A ACS organized
several activities.
Thursday, April 1 in the Caf
eteria AACS tried to encourage
people to sit with others they
were not acquainted with to pro
mote unity and better compre
hension among the members of
the student body and the com
munity in general.
As part of last week's activities
they presented a play about
Malcolm X. The actor Michael
Lange from California reenacted
two of Malcolm's most famous
speeches: "Message to the Grass
roots" and "The Ballot or the
Bullet."
"I wish more people had shown
Yearbook future uncertain;
search for new editor continues
Gall S. Kasun
News editor
What will happen if no one
applies fortheeditor-in-chief po
sition of The Quaker? Accord
ing to Christie Evens, current
editor-in-chief, "If no one ap
plies for editor-in-chief, there will
be no yearbook."
At this time no one has applied
for editor-in-chief for the next
academic year.
"All of the editors this year are
graduating, and none of the staff
members have expressed any in
terest in taking on the position of
editor-in-chief," said Evens.
'The reason why the yearbook
wouldn't come out if a qualified
yearbook editor isn't found
would be because the yearbook
really hinges on the editor-in
chief position," Evens explained.
"The Quaker has had a
sketchy history," said Evens,
explaining: "Six years ago, we
had a yearbook editor who went
sooverbudget that itcostsßo,ooo
to produce, more than double its
regular cost—it has taken us more
than six years to pay off that
debt.
"The other thing that proved
fatal was a yearbook editor who
up for the play... But I was more
concerned with quality than quan
tity. It was a good play," said AACS
co-chair Katrina Wilder.
Fliers for the play were posted in
all of the dorms but, according to
Wilder, most of them were torn down
and ripped to pieces the next day. "I
can understand if someone dislikes
Malcom X or his views," she said,
"but it's wrong to disrespect what
someone else is doing. That only
shows their ignorance."
"And their fear,"added co-chair
Rebecca Mabry.
An intercollegiate conference was
also part of the scheduled events for
last week. On Saturday, April 3, stu
dents from UNCG, Greensboro Col
lege, NCA&T and Guilford came
together at Guilford to discuss their
concerns. The conference theme was
"Still I Rise."
Among the speakers invited to
participate was Guilford's Ernest
McCoy of the Center for Personal
Growth, who gave a talk entitled
didn't make it through the full year.
The yearbook was mostly paid for
but was never produced.
Evens considers this "an impor
tant issue that the community need
to address: the school is only mon
etarily supporting the yearbook, but
in order to continue successfully, it
needs some way to retain staff mem
bers and editors over the years," she
explained.
"I think that getting rid
of the yearbook would
be a sin."
- James Martin
"I think that getting rid of the
yearbook would be a sin," said James
Martin, current Quaker layout edi
tor.
Evens and Martin both explained
reasons for continuing yearbook
publications at Guilford.
"20 percent of the school's ex
penses are paid by donations of
alumni; of all the things that Guil
ford produces, the thing that ties
alumni together is getting together
and looking at the yearbook, which
we will all do in twenty years.
"So in that sense, what we pro
duce will help Guilford in twenty
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"Color Your Culture." Irene
Harrington, assistant director of
career development, also gave a
talk: "What Are You Going to Do
for the Rest of Your Life?"
"We got lots of comments [from
the participants]. They enjoyed it,"
said AACS officers. "We have lots
in common as far as being a minor
ity group on a predominantly white
campus... We should do more
things together to promote aware
ness and unity."
The Hip Hop party held Satur
day night in the Cafeteria was also
a success, according to Wilder and
Mabry. AACS and Hildebrandt
House joinUy organized this event.
They hired DJ Polo from 97.1 FM.
The theme for the party was "Free
Your Mind." Many people thought
this was one of the best parties of
the year.
"We are planning to make this
an annual event, and hope to get
support from as many people as
possible."
years," said Evens.
Martin explained other positive
aspects of yearbook production:
"It provides students with actual
publications experience."
Martin also showed another as
pect, "For the human race, there is
more sentimentality attached to
books as opposed to magazines."
Martin and Evens discussed the
problems with producing a year
book. "There's a lack of interest
on the production side," explained
Martin.
"Sometimes this means we come
out with a shabby yearbook,"
Evens explained. "The yearbook
can be an embarassing factor, es
pecially if you put a yearbook in
the admissions office where a pro
spective can look at it and compare
his or her high school's yearbook
and see the sometimes inferior
quality of The Quaker ."
"Some people feel the $43,000
production cost can be spent an
other way," said Evens.
"If no editor is found, then there
should be a community-wide de
bate over whether the studentcom
munity is interested in having a
yearbook," said Evens.
Applications for editor-in-chief
are available at the Information
Desk.