THE GUILFORDIAN
Greensboro, NC
State NAACP
president visits
♦Alston talks with administration, staff
BY MARJORIE HALL
News Editor
Melvin "Skip" Alston, the president
of the state NAACP, came to campus
on Monday, February 23. to meet with
several prominent members of the Guil
ford community and discuss possible mea
sures that the school could take to in
crease awareness of race issues on cam
pus.
The meeting was attended by Presi
dent Don McNemar, recently instated
director of African-American activities
Santes Beatty,
Board of Visitors
member Robert
Brown, and local
NAACP president
Harold Cotton,
among others.
Alston and
Cotton co-wrote a
press release last
week demanding
that Guilford and the Greensboro Police
Department find a suspect within two
weeks or he would call in the State Bu
reau of Investigation. The press release
also included a list of suggestions for the
Guilford community.
The meeting proved to be positive.
"We came here in a cooperative spirit in
order to try and bring a good resolution
to this unfortunate matter," Alston said.
"We arc very excited about what we are
going to be doing from here on out."
Alston rescinded his prior threat to
call in the SBI. "After gaining more de
tails and discovering that not one but four
detectives are working on this matter, we
feel confident that they will bring forth
whoever is responsible for this," said
Faculty holds meeting
to discuss race relations
on campus
News pg. 3
"We always did feel the same ; we just saw it fro — Mob
Alston.
The investigation is now also prob
ing into the most recent incident on cam
pus, when two black female students re
ceived threatening phone calls in which
racial slurs were used.
The group discussed spearheading
a race relations institute on campus, co
sponsored by Guilford and the NAACP,
which would not only be a resource for
those on campus but for the greater Guil
ford community.
The group stated that Guilford has
a zero tolerance policy towards racism.
"We came here in a
cooperative spirit in order
to try and bring a good
resolution to this
unfortunate matter."
—Melvin "Skip " Alston
to report racist incidents and to encour
age students to report them. McNemar
also emphasized that the school is cur
rently trying to build values into the new
curriculum to help students understand
issues such as racism and sexism.
The group was not able to discuss
all of Alston and Cotton's suggestions at
the meeting, but plan to continue work
ing together to develop more concrete
initiatives.
Alston commended McNemar and
the staff for sitting down and talking.
"The Quakers in this area were a part of
the Underground Railroad," he said.
"Our ancestors worked together in the
past, and we want to work together in
the future."
Since 1914, but never quite like this
"We have a history'
of good race rela
tions in this commu
nity and we want to
keep that tradition,"
said Brown. "We
will prosecute to the
fullest extent of the
law." The college is
looking at instating a
hotline for students
Molly Martin looks to
the past for lessons for
future
Features pg. 6
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Senators discuss the possible reelection at Thursday's called Senate meeting.
PHOTO BY CHRIS CARLSTROM
Senate almost calls
for new election
BY MARJORIE HALL
News Editor
The controversies surrounding the
1998 elections did not end when stu
dents voted Tuesday, February 17. One
more was added to the list at the Sen
ate meeting the following day when
some Senate members called for a new
election.
Current Senate treasurer Colin
McFadden-Roan, who ran for both
Union and Senate, read a statement
raising several concerns about the elec
tion procedure. After Senate discussed
the issue for almost four hours, the
senators decided to reconvene on
Thursday night to finish the discussion.
The Senate constitution states that
student I D must be presented before
a student can vote. The constitution is
not completely clear on whether or not
drivers' licenses arc acceptable. In the
morning, election committee members
working at the voting table in the
Founders lobby turned away students
who only had drivers' licenses as I D.
In the afternoon, elections chair Steve
Changes in financial
aid and the effect at
Guilford
Forum pg. 14
Karakasidis decided to begin accept
ing drivers' licenses as I D.
A list of all eligible student voters
is at the table with the ballot boxes, and
as each person votes, his or her name
is crossed off the list, so no non-
Guilford students voted and no one
voted twice.
In 1996, a similar controversy
arose when there was only a two-vote
difference in the results and it was dis
covered that some people had voted
without showing ID of any kind. The
election results were allowed to stand.
"I think Senate's failure to face
the issue two years ago has contrib
uted to the problem now," said
McFadden-Roan.
MeFadden-Roan also claimed that
Karakasidis was biased against the
Thomas ticket, which he ran on in the
Union election. He claimed that
Karakasidis made several disparaging
remarks about Thomas and had actively
searched for another candidate to run
against her. Karakasidis said that al
though he might have made negative
please see ELECTIONS on pg. 2
Five senior women
bid farewell to the
Quakers
Sports pg. 16
February 27, 1998