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Martin: a fall from grace?
By Jacob Noble
STAFF WRITER
Editor's Note: This is the first
piece of a three-part series.
Watching someone you hold
in great admiration slowly fall
from grace is hard to accept.
Whenever I think of our former
Senate President, Molly Martin,
the idea of what could have been
is replaced with the possibility that
Martin and her actions might have
hurt Guilford for years to come.
Molly Martin first entered the
executive branch of senate when
she ran on the '96 Marasco ticket.
This experience could have been
Martin's first insight into the
stress accompanying a presiden
tial race.
The race was one of the tight
est in Guilford College history with
the Marasco ticket edging out the
Davis ticket by merely two votes.
It was also during this time
that Martin was allegedly involved
in an incident in which she claimed
she was attacked in the woods.
Friends and acquaintances of Mar
tin spoke candidly to each other
about the alleged attack, question
ing the validity of her story.
The next year was a bit easier
for Martin, who, this time, ran
successfully for Senate president.
The ill-prepared '96-'97 Ford ticket
Forum
proved no match for the experience
which accompanied the Martin
ticket. The margin was over
whelming with Martin receiving
over 60% of the vote.
The '97-'9B school year, how
ever, was filled with much more
turmoil: Guilford's laid-back ap
proach towards easing racial ten
sions finally caught up to it.
Many African Americans
were tired of their concerns about
the college falling on deaf ears.
Martin seemed to sense this and
wanted to help; the potential ques
tion was would it hurt her chances
at re-election?
Then Rob Owens, an African
American staff member, resigned,
largely in part because only a
small portion of his job dealt with
African American affairs. After his
resignation, minority members of
the community were visibly
shaken and tired of being the vic
tims of what some felt was a his-
Our alcohol policy
should be enforced
During freshman orientation
I, unlike many of my peers, did not
consume any alcohol, and so I had
the unfortunate opportunity to ob
serve the reckless abandon of
drunken teenagers. It disgusted me
because all those who had been
drinking showed the common signs
of drunkenness: slurred speech,
crooked walk, and the inability to
focus on one thing at a time.
It appeared to me that these
students, friends of mine, cared
not one bit what the consequences
of their actions might be. Their
conduct was immature and unrea
sonable, and it led me to the opin
ion that the alcohol policy on cam
pus should be toughened and en
forced much more often.
In my opinion, teenagers are
not yet able to make reasonable
judgments, and when in college,
they jump at their newly found
freedom. Poor choices are made,
and people are hurt. This includes
both innocent bystanders as well
as those drinking.
Horrible incidents on campus
in the first week perfectly demon
strate this point, and I am in
strong support of the recent modi
fication of campus-wide alcohol
regulations. I hope that these
rules will now be enforced.
The emphasis on education
seems to have been forgotten by
many. College, to the drinkers, is
By Daniel Fleishman
STAFF WRITER
THE GUILFORDIAN
SEPTEMBER 1 8, 1 998
torically racist institution.
Whites, too, were shaken.
Never before had anybody publicly
questioned whether or not Guil
ford as an institution was racist,
nor were they prepared to deal
with the list of grievances outlined
by African Americans. Through all
of this, Martin took a stand. Un
fortunately for Martin, this stand
was beginning to cost her the sup
port of some of her constituents.
Election time was nearing.
While Martin spoke of an easy vic
tory amongst her ticket, she
seemed concerned to her friends
at the realistic possibility of los
ing something she loved: the ex
ecutive office.
The tension mounting in the
community was immense. Racist
letters and flyers began to stream
across the campus; some were even
distributed to members of Senate.
Something was getting ready to
happen, and then it did.
merely a party. It's time for ev
eryone who spends their entire
week looking forward to getting
wasted on the weekends to start
concentrating on scholastic
achievement and extracurricular
activities.
I don't live in the substance
free wing of Binford Hall. 1 do
drink but only occasionally and
only in moderation. My parents
taught me very early that "any
thing is all right in moderation."
I am not trying to tell you that
I'm a wonderful person who should
be idolized, but I want to make it
clear that no one needs to get
blasted beyond recognition; no one
should feel obligated to drink be
cause it appears that everyone else
is doing it.
If Guilford College students
can ease their gross partying hab
its for a few months, then maybe
the new rules implemented this
week could be relaxed or eradi
cated. But this should be done only
after careful consideration and the"
sufficient confidence of Guilford
administration that events of the
past week will not be repeated.
I am now dreading the week
ends when I have to walk through
campus, distrustful of my friends
as to whether or not they are so
ber. It will bother me for as long
as I am here, but I guess all I can
do for now is hope that someone
else will understand my view and
perhaps help me understand the
views of those who drink.