THE GUILFORDIAN
OCTOBER 2, 1998
Restore pride
in our school
By Devra Thomas
STAFF WRITER
Who are you? What's your
phone number? Where are you
living? What did you do last
year? You'd know these things if
we had our phone directories and
yearbooks.
Guilford is a small school,
and everyone tends to know ev
erybody else. Sometimes, though,
you don't know a person's phone
number, and you want to remem
ber last year's Serendipity
through pictures.
By now, the student phone
directories are here, and every
one has a neon pink, spiral
bound book sitting near their
phone.
Why didn't we have these
earlier? I know the phone num
bers of my best friends, but I
don't make a habit of memoriz
ing the extensions of professors
or fellow classmates.
I know that the Office of Stu
dent Activities has to wait until
we all fill out and turn in the
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forms with our
correct informa
tion in order to
make the phone
book. Isn't there
any way to
speed up this
process?
Students
know their cor
rect extensions
the week after
they move in,
and permanent
residence infor
mation can't
have changed
that much. The forms are pre
printed; can't they be handed out
and returned sooner? - ,
We got the directories a
month after school started, and
now only half of them are good
for the rest of the year because
of all the students that are
abroad and will return in two
months.
Making a yearbook is an
other time-consuming process,
and our yearbook staff is in sore
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need of people to work. Cory
Birdwhistell, last year's senior
section editor, begged seniors to
turn in pictures and quotes, and
she shouldn't have had to do so.
A yearbook is the past year
in pictures, and if the book
doesn't have enough of them, it
won't get printed or do its job.
I wonder if the reason why
we don't have our yearbooks is
not just because of understaffing,
but because the student body
doesn't care enough about memo
rializing its past to offer pictures
and other remembrances.
If the student body doesn't
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To the Editor:
Since everyone has hap
pily arrived back on campus
and we've had plenty of
time to sink into the rig
ors of this upcoming se
mester, we all need to
start to consider environ
mental impact at
Guilford.
Many of us can't even be
gin to contemplate how to cre
ate a sustainable world, let
alone a college campus.
So to make things easier
for us environmentally ques
tioning thinkers on campus,
Forevergreen has brought
Kevin Lyons to speak about
sustain, ability, and self
sufficiency.
To begin with*%hat we Can
do at Guilford is to purchase
products with the least amount
of packaging, aWd if w.e do, re
use this packaging.
If Mom sends you a pack
f age, use the. box. to-store your
books. If Mom happens to in-
care more about who we are and
were, what will happen to the
yearbook (not to mention the
Lighthouse , which also had to
plead for submissions) this year
or next? Are we even going to
have one?
The yearbook is an art form,
and as is the case with the rest
of our arts, they will all softly
and silently vanish if our commu
nity does not start to value and
care for them.
We must find a way to speed
up the process of making our
books and find a way to restore
pride in our past.
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elude those little Styrofoam
"peanuts," advise her to use
! plastic grocery bags that can be
reused or to find the new
biodegradable packag
ing.
Thanks to the recy
cling club, we are all well
aware of what we can re
cycle on campus. (And,
LETTER
TO THE
EDITOR
no, those green bags are not
supposed to be placed in the
trash as soon as your RA hands
them out.)
This is only the beginning.
If we aren't careful, this could
become a weekly column.
Guilford students, faculty, and
administration need to take the
initiative to form a sustainable
campus if we want to survive
in our future environment that
is plagued with ignorance to
wards consumption. Thank
you and we hope to see you at*
.the Kevin Lyons presentations
and JforeverGreen meetings. :;
Fogg and ;
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