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Smoking forum held:
Smokers voice concern, questions
Chris Hosford
Staff Writer
A forum to discuss pro
posed changes in the cam
pus smoking policy was
held February 15 in the caf
eteria.
Currently the rear bal
cony section of the cafete
ria and the corridor section
of the Underground are the
only places inside of build
ings on campus where
smoking is permitted out
side of individual residence
areas.
The possibilities that
were discussed included:
1) Eliminating smoking
from those two areas;
2) Installing an improved
ventilation system in the cafeteria;
3) Placing picnic tables outside
the Underground;
4) Converting the Game Room
into a smoking lounge and mov
ing the video games into the Un
derground;
5) Moving the smoking section
to the side balcony and installing
curtains;
6) Opening the closed dining
rooms to smokers;
7) Simply advising those sensi
tive to smoke to sit as far away
from the smoking section as pos
sible.
Hunger banquet r
Rachel Salzberg
Staff Writer
Guilford's Pope House spon
sored a Hunger Banquet, under the
Oxfam America instructions,
which was attended by Guilford
students last Friday.
The purpose of the banquet, in
the words of Pope House member
Holly Green, was to help student
"realize that hunger...was affecting
a lot of people...it's affecting
people in this local area." The or
ganization, according to Green,
was done as a joint effort on the
part of the members of the Pope
House, one of Guilford's theme
alternative housing, their theme
being "Community Concerns."
Green's part was mainly rela
tions, a part of which was to bring
in the speakers. Originally, the plan
was to have a woman by the name
of Willena Cannon, from the
Greensboro Citywide Poor
People's Organization, but when
she was unable to come, Jeff
Thigpen, of the same organization,
came in her place.
Thigpen, a recent graduate of
this school, spoke about his orga-
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Senate vice president Teri Freeman discusses a concern during
the smoking forum.
A ventilation system is consid
ered financially nonviable by the
school due to other renovation and
repair projects that take priority,
including repairs to Hege Cox.
The pro-smoking majority of
students on hand for the forum
balked at the options that would
further restrict their already lim
ited range of on-campus smoking
options.
Joel Allen, sophomore and
smoker, said, "I think the smokers
and the people sensitive to smoke
can be separated within the cafete
ria so both can be satisfied. People
nization, as well as about his ex
perience of growing up poor in
rural North Carolina and being on
welfare. He described the feelings
of not-belonging, and being left
out because of it, as well as his fust
contact with the Poor People's
Organization.
In his speech, he quoted Jesse
Jackson, "Capitalism without capi
tal is just another -ism," and en
couraged students to get involved
with organizations like Habitat for
Humanities and Big Brother and
Sisters programs.
Another speaker was Carol
Clark, Guilford professor, who
lead the discussion following the
dinner.
The dinner itself varied accord
ing to the Oxfam America instruc
tions. Oxfam America is an inter
national organization described by
Green as working against hunger
"through more grassroots
work...they teach farming tech
niques, give farming
equipment...they do give some
food and seeds, " among other
things. Green was pleased at the
outcome of the event, "the dinner
went really well...student made
good comments."
Jietas
allergic to smoke can easily be ac
commodated with a section of their
own far away from the smokers."
The non-smokers at the forum
cited health concerns and statistics
regarding the dangers of second
hand smoke as adequate reasons
for eliminating smoking from the
campus buildings altogether.
Beatriz Juncadella, a freshman
non-smoker said, "Having a smok
ing section is a lack of consider
ation to those people who prefer
not to smoke. It just comes down
to health and the well-being of the
individual."
Upon entering, the students eat
ing at the hunger banquet were
given a square bit of paper with
two numbers in it, one in a box.
The numbers were then used in a
lottery to decide which students
would be sitting at which tables.
There was one decorated table,
seating six, which represented the
first world nations; the approxi
mately 15% of the people in the
world with good food available to
them, according to the Oxfam
America facts sheet. Another 3
tables were for the approximate
25% people living in second-world
nations, who have some food, but
are more likely to die of hunger
related problems.
The rest represented the impov
erished areas of the world, and
were seated on 4 clothes, seating
nine each, on the floor, the meals
varied as well, with the 3-worlders
eating rice and water.
Held in the Walnut Room, the
dinner featured a guitar duo as well
as the speakers, and a discussion
of the even was held after eating,
where the students at the exclusive
first-world table talked about feel-
See HUNGER page 4
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Photo by Daphne Lewis
Justin climbs one of Guilford's most interestingly
marked trees while enjoying the unseasonable weather.
Photo by Daphne Lewis
THE GUILFORDIAN
wishes you a happy
spring break.
We will not be in
production again
until the week of
March 21.
GARDEN
Cont. from page 1
moved. These will be the trees
that have been diagnosed as un
healthy by botany professor Dr.
William Fulcher.
"Dr. Bill Fulcher tested the
trees and said that they should
be removed before they become
a safety hazard," said Hoopes.
Cfte
Hie decision to remove the
trees as part of the construction
was also made by the Facilities
Committee, upon Dr. Futcher's
advice.
Any remaining questions or
concerns about the Sesquicen
tennial Garden can be taken to
Melissa Hoopes at extension
316-3448.
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