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GREENSBORO, NC
Alnny gets
mew lab
By James Fishwick
STAFF WRITER
"My only regret is that
my office won't be as nice,"
quipped Charles Almy con
cerning the new Frank Fam
ily Science Center. True per
haps, but a nearly $50,000
; fundraising effort will see a
|new geology student re
j search laboratory named for
the popular professor.
Cyril Harvey, the now
semi-retired director of in
stitutional research at
Guilford and long time
friend and colleague of Almy,
led the campaign to dedicate
the new lab. He and his wife
Judy started with a donation
of $25,000, which moved oth
ers to give their gifts and
pledges.
Almy arrived at
Guilford in 1972 after gradu
ating from the University of
Houston and earning both
his Master of Arts and his
Ph.D. in geology from Rice
University. After school,
Almy worked for Chevron
Oil with Harvey, who con
vinced Almy to come to
Guilford and build the strong
Geology and Earth Sciences
department that we know to
day.
According to Almy, hie
approach to teaching is sim
ply to get "all kinds of stu
__ Please see Almy, page j§;
Karakasidis named new treasurer
By Marjorie Hall
NEWS EDITOR
Senate once again has a
treasurer. At the Community
Senate meeting on Wednesday,
Sept. 29, the Senate approved
the Steering Committee's
nominee for treasurer, senior
and chair of the Student Loan
Fund Auction (SLFA) Steve
Karakasidis.
"We chose Steve because
we knew he could do the job
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Mathabane speaks to students
\ yjTark Mathabane:
IVlwe are all human
By Alex Gingrow and Ginny
Marble
STAFF WRITERS
Mark Mathabane is a best
selling author of four novels as
well as an active anti-apartheid
activist. On September 29,
Mathabane graced Guilford
and he wanted to do the job,"
said Senate president Shawan
Gabriel. "He's been in Senate
three years and has a lot of
experience."
Karakasidis has been a
member of Senate since his
first year as a Milner repre
sentative, when he was a mem
ber of the Budget Committee
and worked on SLFA, a stu
dent-run auction that raises
money for student loans, one
of Senate's largest projects.
He has also chaired the Spe
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with his presence and insight
for the second time.
Mathabane, the eldest of
seven siblings and the first in
his family to receive a formal
education, was raised in the
South African ghetto of Alexan
dria in Johannesburg. He es
caped the apartheid around him
in 1978 by escaping to the
United States on a tennis schol
arship. He graduated in 1984,
Ultimate, apparently, is
now somehow a real sport
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cial Projects Committee and
the student residence council.
This year, prior to his appoint
ment as treasurer,
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cum laude, from Dowling Col
lege in New York and has since
devoted his life to his writing.
Mathabane's last visit to
Guilford brought about many
changes within the institution.
According to history professor
Adrienne Israel, "The students
were deeply affected by his pre
sentation." So affected, in fact,
Please see ApartheiO, page 4
Karakasidis was on Steering
Committee as the SLFA chair.
Please see Treasurer, page 3
COLIN ROACHBENT