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Editorial Board
Laura Parker
Ellen Yutzy
Sara Johnson
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of Purpose
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tate dialogue and expression
on matters of importance to
Guilford College and its
mission. Toward this end,
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and turned in to the box
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before that Friday's publi
cation date. Editorials
must be no longer than 400
words and letters to the
editor must be no more
than 250 words. The
Guilfordian reserves the
right to edit submissions
for grammatical correct
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Editor-in-chief Laura Parker 316-3666
News editor Ellen Yutzy 316-3191
Features editor Mary Haldeman 316-3556
Arts editor Devra Thomas 316-3571
Forum editor Sara Johnson 854-1547
World editor Jack Shuler 316-3954
Sports editor Tim McFarlin 316-3109
Layout editor Melissa Osborne 316-3820
Gigi Burkhalter 316-3782
Online editor Steven Rentz 316-3278
Photo editors Amanda Spencer 316-3079
Chris Shattuck 316-3943
MattZuehlke 316-3297
Faculty adviser .Jeff Jeske 316-2216
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Staff writers; Paul Binford, Gigi Burkhalter, Andrea Dodson. Sarah Fleming,
Ben Gann, Audrey Ross, Daniel Snyder, Heath Williamson, Brian Wood, Jacob
Noble, Brian Schuh, Ivan Hall, Will Dodson, Laurah Norton
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Serendipity: a stressful time
By Gigi Burkhalter
LAYOUT EDITOR
Serendipity is really more of
a stressful time than anything
else. You're expected to wake up,
drink gallons of alcohol, run
around naked, dance yourself
silly, and pretty much just make
a huge ass out of yourself from the
minute you wake up until you
pass out. And that's not even all
of it...you're supposed to be hav
ing the best time of your life do
ing it.
I don't know about the rest
of you, but I find that responsi
bility to be quite a pressure. Per
haps if they scheduled the event
before spring break or after fi
nals—but not now. Maybe it's just
my bad luck but I have had more
work this past week than any
other week in the entire year.
And I'm not too thrilled.
Here I had to sit in front of
my computer screen all day on
Friday. People outside are cook
ing up a bar-b-que, yelling, blast
ing music, soaking up the sun, and
going on naked bike rides. And
all I can do is stare out my win
dow with longing eyes and tears.
Friday night I decide to go
out after I've finished the 11th
page of my 20-page paper due
Monday. I figure I should at least
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make an attempt to party, and
maybe I'll even relax a little and
feel a little bit less stressed out.
But as the night begins to take off,
I feel more and more disgruntled.
I just wasn't in any mood to so
cialize. The only thing going
through my mind was, "I hate
people."
But of course, I felt obliged
to go out and
have the time
of my life, so off
I went. I ended
up thinking
about my paper
and all the
other work I
had to do the
entire time. I
couldn't shake my cynical mood.
People remark, "Maaaaan, I am
sooo wasted! I'm having the best
Serendipity. Aren't you?"
How do I respond to that
question? With a simple, "No"?
With a "Yeeeeahhhhhh
duuuuude"? Or a crazy grin fol
lowed by a cackle?
In a state of anger, I hopped
onto a bike hoping to get away
from all those people. But due to
tears, blurry vision, and sobs
caused by Guilford, I failed to
notice a log and...BLAM! Gigi
goes down. Now, not only am I
emotionally damaged by all the
stress, I have been physically
wounded.
To prove to all of you how
damaged I was, I will tell you one
By Paul Binford
and Sarah Fleming
STAFF WRITERS
Does anybody really know
what is going on in Kosovo right
now? Bad things. Chances are
they are going to turn into worse
things in the near future. Worse
things like genocide and ethnic
cleansing.
So we decide to intervene,
with some international support.
We go in and bomb the bad guys,
trying to protect the innocent,
who are being forced from their
homes and sometimes murdered.
And Guilford students want to
protest.
What is wrong with you
people? Do you actually think
that genocide is good? That wip
ing out another people because of
their background, like Hitler
tried to do, is OK? Would you
have protested World War II?
I guess the Quaker mental
ity and the real world don't al
ways mix. Here is a situation
where hugs and positive thoughts
are not going to get you real far. I
To prove to all of you how
damaged I was, I will tell
you one thing: I called
my parents for support.
Violence is
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thing: I called my parents for
support.
Now tell me, how am I sup
posed to have the time of my life
with such pressure? I could prob
ably handle this work if it wasn't
for Serendipity but no, instead of
doing my work (like writing this
article), I sit and wish I were play
ing. But as soon as I give up and
go play, all I
think about is
my work.
So in the
end, nothing is
fully appreci
ated because
what I feel like
doing (locking
myself in a
room) just isn't acceptable. In
stead, I am forced to do my work
quickly, go out and party, and at
tempt to have the time of my life.
It's just like New Year's Eve.
I never feel like partying on that
night, but of course, I have to. I
mean, by God! it's New Years Eve.
So I go to some lame little party
and I count down the seconds
until the years over, and woohoo!
Oh, aren't we all just so excited...
But really, if I were to just go to
bed, the New Year would be there
when I wake up.
So if anyone wants to find me
during the next New Year's, look
in my bed. And as for
Serendipity...well, I'm just going
to sit in front of my computer
screen and type this article.
guarantee you if you try to hug
one of these guys and tell him
should really love everyone, you'll
get "cleansed."
The situation in Iraq is not
as clear-cut morally. If you really
need to protest bombing Saddam,
you can. But he's a bad guy too,
remember? He hates us, but loves
chemical and biological warfare.
He likes to kill his own people,
and sometimes invades his neigh
bors.
That's bad because it endan
gers our oil.
I know it sounds terrible, but
it's true. We need oil. Period.
Maybe we should just nuke the
whole country and drill through
the glass to get our oil. But I guess
that wouldn't be very nice.
The other problem with
Saddam is that he would really
like to get back at us, maybe with
his little chemical toys he should
not be building. Maybe by releas
ing anthrax in New York. If we
have to drop a few bombs to pre
vent that, I'm OK with that.
So remember Guilford, pro
testing violence is fine, but some
times violence is necessary.