®bt 6utlforMan Volume 78 Issue 21 NEWS LINE SENIORS LAND PRESTI GIOUS INTERNSHIPS Graduating seniors Kate Gibney and Ashlee Gardner have landed summer intern ships at the National Mu seum of Women in the Arts. Gibney and Gardner, who learned of the program through the Women's Stud ies department at Guilford, submitted essays to the mu seum which offers a summer program for students at North Carolina colleges. Gibney said, "I'm hoping that my experience will lead to something more perma nent, possibly a career." GPD and noise ordinance shuts down De La Soul Rachel Salzberg Staff Writer While the band De La Soul was scheduled to play until 11 p.m. on Saturday, the conceit was cut short unexpectedly due to complaints of noise. Serendipity Co-chair Buffy Halbein estimates around SIO,OOO went into the concert. Complaints about noise started as early as Friday. "We [the Ser endipity Co-chairs] were notified Friday...we cut the noise level by half [on Friday.]" As far as either Helbein, Co-chair Deirdre Kielty, or Ben Johnson, Guilford's direc tor of security, knew there was not a problem Friday after the volume had been lowered. "We [the Co-chairs] were not notified of any problem whatso ever," Saturday night, said Hel bein, "until the police department arrived to shut it down." De La Soul was scheduled to stop playing at 11 p.m., and Hel bein estimates they had maybe 40 more minutes left in the show t. Hp >(5^ f? C i> St^m Rebecca Withrmu holds her ground in a Serendipitous game of Twister®. Photo by Heather Glissen when they were forced to leave the stage. "We had no idea there was a problem," Kielty said. She said they were unaware of any com plaints "until around 10 o'clock, after Otis Reem [the band open ing for De La Soul] got off the stage, and at that point, an officer...came down and told us there was a problem." Said Helbein, "If there was a problem, we should've been noti fied. 8 GPD were there, and none of them said anything [to the three co-chairs.]" Helbein recalled her work on Serendipity committee last year, and was surprised over De La Soul's cutoff. 'There's al ways noise complaints...we've never been shut down before." "They turned off the speakers, and just used the four monitors," said Kielty, describing the first ac tions taken when the police asked them to turn down the volume. According to Kielty, "it became apparent that regardless of any thing we did, we were going to be shut down, so we turned the speak ers" back on, and played until and Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. officer and De La Soul's road man ager finally "cut the power." Greensboro Police Department Captain Donnie Payne said com plaints from parties and events connected with Serendipity had been coming in from "numerous...residents in the area...2/10 to 3/10 mile area at least." Saturday the GPD received more complaints. There were 25 documented complaints, which is the number of individual calls the police had to respond to, not nec essarily the total number of calls, (e.g., 25 times an officer had to be sent out to deal with a complaint.) He estimated the numbers to be "about a dozen...Friday, and half a dozen Saturday afternoon to Sat urday night," assuring that this is an unusually large number of com plaints. This made for a violation of a city ordinance. When complaints came in again on Saturday, the police came to campus and met with Ben Johnson around 5 p.m., according to Payne. He said they "told him what the See DE LA SOUL, page 5 Guilford loses one of its finest Gail Kasun News Editor Sometimes, an unexplainable presence can give its gift so freely that its energy can only multiply through the people it affects. That energy existed in Physics Professor Sheridan Simon for 20 years while he taught at Guilford. Simon, 46, died Friday night at his home in the company of his wife of nearly 25 years, Rose. He died of a severe infection result ing from the cancer he had been diagnosed with last spring. "He was a person very much in control," friend and fellow Phys ics Professor Rex Adelberger said. Simon held this control even dur ing his last hours, "talking about the things which most interested him," primarily teaching. Simon and Adelberger rede signed the physics department 20 Biology faculty from dissection forum Beth Stringfield Staff Writer Dr. Jonathan Balcombe, assis tant director of education about Laboratory Animals with The Hu mane Society, spoke at a forum to discuss the Guilford dissection policy. At the forum, held on Wednes day April 6, Dr. Balcombe dis cussed some of the disadvantages and alternatives to dissection. Stu dents also discussed the Guilford policy and advantages and disad vantages to dissection as part of a science curriculum. The forum was sponsored by the Community Concerns Committee of Senate. Tony DeVelasco, com mittee co-chair, said that the forum was planned because of "a group of vocal people who wanted this issue discussed." Currently, there is no written policy at Guilford that provides an alternative to dissec tion in labs. The biology department did not attend, despite the multiple invi tations that were extended to Chuck Smith, the biology chair April 15,1994 years ago so that they could teach students who wanted to learn phys ics. Adelberger said that Guilford graduates as many physics majors as the University of Illinois, stu dent population 30,000. Adelberger said that although the Simons had no biological chil dren, "they treated Guilford stu dents as their children," and had a couple hundred children this way. Simon's most important contri bution was his love for the stu dents, Adelberger said. Adelberger observed that around 100 students came to Simon's funeral without any pre vious announcement. These people and the hundreds of others with whom Simon main tained correspondence and rela tions were probably affected by what Adelberger described as Simon's ability to instill confi- See SEVION, page 2 man. "We just wanted the biology department to come and they didn't," said DeVelasco. "It's just disappointing...we wanted to make it be as diverse as possible," he said. Many students have tried over the years to create a policy that would create a viable and educa tional substitute to dissection. Elizabeth Conrey explained, "We are asking for a written choice policy." Dissections have become "very widespread" within American schools, said Balcombe, citing that every year approximately 6 million vertebrates are dissected and "many, many, more invertebrates." Balcombe spoke of the harm which comes to animals through dissection, listing the direct killing of the animals for dissection and the suffering that the animals ex perience before their deaths. Dr. Balcombe described alterna tives to dissection such as interac tive videos, computer simulations, and models of animals, which are all available. See DISSECTION FORUM, page 4

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