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GREENSBORO, NC
Students
give Pines
a facelift
By Alissa Fogg
STAFF WRITER
The Pines and the Pope
House went through a few
changes earlier this semester,
and both look to be in pretty
good shape. At the Pines, the
painting efforts of the residents
have certainly paid off. The
walls are a jumble of colors—
orange, yellow, red, blue, and
green. The residents of the
Pines, according to Sarah Mor
ris, have "scraped, primed
and painted all the walls" of
their house.
In the past, though, their
sink had a pretty serious leak,
but it is currently functioning.
On the other hand, the upstairs
shower overflows into the hall
way and creates a huge mess.
Such plumbing problems will
hopefully be solved. Morris and
her cohorts have worked incred
ibly hard with Residential Life,
Maintenance, and Thomas
Yang of the Financial Office to
produce an acceptable living
situation within the Pines.
George Segebade, Director
of Residential Life, feels that
there is a "great demand for al
ternative housing." He also
agrees on the residents' deter
mination to fulfill such rigorous
projects over at the Pines, say
ing, "Students have done a lot
of work, and this investment
will be followed up on." Each
person in the Pines has at
tempted to create a friendly,
comfortable space, and they
have somewhat succeeded.
However, the Pines are
still plagued with many ob
stacles. "There are no screens
in the windows of my bedroom
or Adrienne's on the first floor,"
says Sarah Morris. "I feel that
this is more of a safety issue
than anything else."
Money turns out to be the
biggest issue, which is no sur
prise to many of us. Guilford is
caught in a time of change and
many believe that the school is
Please see Pines, page 4
What's the
meaning of manhood?
Two Guilford grads face off
in local Congressional race
By Ellen Yutzy
NEWS EDITOR
Betting that a Guilford
graduate will win the local Con
gressional race is pretty safe.
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Bentley is the Libertarian candidate.
The race pits two Guilford
graduates against each other.
The incumbent, Republican
Howard Coble, graduated from
Guilford in 1958 and is seeking
election to his eighth term in the
House of Representatives.
His opponent, not the Demo
crat you might expect but Liber
tarian Party candidate Jeff
Bentley, was awarded his degree
in 1991.
Both men speak highly of
their time at Guilford and its
influence on their political
development.
' In an interview with The
Guilfordian, Coble said, "The
Quaker tradition of service to oth
ers instilled in me the desire to
serve the public in some capacity,
so perhaps my education at Guil
ford did have a direct influence on
my seeking public office."
Bentley realized while watch
ing a video in Founders' Hall in
1988 that he was a Libertarian, a
political party that he said, "advo
cates self ownership, resulting in
maximization of individual liberty
and personal responsibility."
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discovered in Tennessee
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Guilford, said Bentley,
stressed self-empowerment
and "that sense of self-empow
erment with the übiquitous ac
tivism at Guilford" convinced
him that he could help make
his views reality.
Coble praised Guilford's
faculty, saying, "One thing
that hasn't changed is the
quality of professors and teach
ers attracted to Guilford." He
went on to say that Guilford,
like most institutions of higher
learning, could benefit from
having a faculty with more di
verse political views. He
thinks most college and uni-
versity faculties tend toward the
liberal viewpoint.
Coble sees the changes at
Guilford since he graduated as
mostly positive , but Bentley, who
also had extensive
praise for the people
here, was more critical
of recent administra
tive foci.
"Too much of the
time Guilford tries to
outdo Davidson or
Oberlin, its main com
petition for students,
Group pushing for
new recycling policy
By Paul Binford
STAFF WRITER
A new sense of environmental
responsibility and awareness is cur
rently being felt'on campus.
Forevergreen, the .
new environmental
club, provides
much of the back
bone for this new
activism. An ag
gressive new recy
cling policy is in the
works for Guilford
College, along with a potential com
mitment to the Talloires Declara
tion, about which a petition is cur
rently circulating. This awakening
sense of environmental responsibil-
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on soccer team
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Coble has served seven terms in Congress.
by trying to be more like them.
This is a mistake. If I wanted to
go to Davidson or Oberlin, I would
a ride to the pofls^
The Political Science club is providing
rides to the polls on Tues., Nov. 3rd at 10:00
a.m., noon, and 4:00 p.m. Meet at the back
of Founders (by the doors to the ATM). A
sample ballot and limited candidate
information will be available on the van.
Call x 3956 with questions.
ity is a change for Guilford and ex
amples of it can be seen everywhere
from protests about the new bill
boards to an upcoming weekend of
activism including workshops and
other activities to raise students'
_ awareness about
Many students balk at
the word "mandatory"
and express displea
sure at the thought of
being forced to recycle.
essary to separate
their trash and recycle bottles and
cans, of which our campus produces
copious quantities. The new pro-
Please see Election, page 2
issues.
The current
Guilford recycling
policy is strictly
voluntary and
rarely do students
take the time nec-
Please see Recycle, page 5