Study Abroad: The London Experience SGUILFORDIAN 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. v - *V ■ ?%iV H BH 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." Home movies of Hitler discovered in Tennessee page 14 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- Amy Evans excels on soccer team OCTOBER 30, 1998 mPHpr 1 n ; 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

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