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Page 6 Elizabeth Laird STAFF WRITER This year my perspective of the Activities' Fair changed com pletely. Instead of being the freshman, overwhelmed by club leaders trying to reel me in, I participated in the fishing my self. I was one of the group lead ers, trying to find those enthu siastic people that are anxious to participate in my club. It was a lovely day outside when I rolled out of bed at 10:15 (early for a Friday with no classes!) to go drag my decora tions, banners, and handouts to the side pathway in front of Founders. I arrived at 10:45 to empty lines of tables, still plain, bare, and naked. I claimed my half of a table in the shade with a big box of copies of arts and literary magazine, The Light house, to hand out. As I set up, spreading out the tablecloth, pouring a bowl of M&Ms, and taping down signs, others began to trickle in with their signs and supplies. Around 11:15 the fair began to buzz as students got out of classes, passing by the rows of recruiters on the way to lunch. Freshman wandered by, occa sionally being drawn in, then convinced or even happy to give their name and number for in formation sheets. Besides candy, several other attention-getting tactics seemed effective. The Ultimate Frisbee Team, well, played Frisbee, very near to the jug gling, balancing, and tricks of the Circus Club, while both tried not to trip over the Out door Club's mountain bikes and pup tent. Another new group, ■tfs' JTyf' EC3SB 1 The righteous women of rugby. Features M • !■■ i|E(fl^ ■F Jiifc " ■ HF mIyLM f . Pyfl||w wd The lovely ladies of Forevergreen. the Guilford Chapter of SCA (the Society of Creative Anach ronisms), had friendly jousting, an inkbottle and quill to sign their list, and Beyond Joy in full costume, including kilt. The Scrabble and Chess Club sat complacently playing intense games. "We're just playing chess," said president Dan Freeman, as if the fair was just as good as any meeting. Pleasant background rhythms of the drums from the African Drumming Group made the event a bit more upbeat. Even cries against corporate propaganda were thrown into the crowd by G.A.NE (formally known as the Culture Jam mers). WQFS even gave fresh men an opportunity to own the famous 30th anniversary shirt, tossing them to anyone inter ested. The Yachting Club (GuilCo's role playing, sci-fi, anime group) was high-tech as usual with lovely anime movies playing on laptops, next to piles of gaming and comic books. Students remi nisced through old yearbooks at The Quaker table. Vera Brown, the President of Am nesty Interna tional, even had chocolate chip cookies, seeming just out of the BRITA HELGESEN The Guilfordian oven from lying in the warm sun, for you to nibble while she explained the upcoming School of the America's protest. While there was a lull in the crowd, I took the opportu nity to visit the other tables. There are many other groups active at Guilford with some thing for everyone's interests. Some other Guilford organiza tions include: Choir, Gospel Choir, Pagan Mysticism Group, GCROW, Quaker Concerns, In ternational Relations Club, St. Mary's House, SAFE, Revelers, El Club Hispano /Latino, Afri can American Dancing En semble, Sister Sister and Broth ers Doing Positive (divisions of African American Affairs), Gen der Awareness, Forevergreen, Admissions Visitation Program, Multi-Cultural Resource Cen ter, Community Senate, PRIDE, Bowling Club, Men's and Women's Rugby, plus several other groups that were not in volved in the fair. Some other highlights in cluded watching everyone look through their free "Good Stuff Boxes (for Him and Her)" from Res. Life full of all sorts of "Fun" things. I even heard a ru mor that there's a "Naked Club" starting somewhere. Clothing optional potlucks? Sounds en tertaining... I suppose they're not official yet. Overall, it seemed like it was a successful day for all of the groups. Everyone had names on their sheets, a smaller pile of handouts, and three hours worth of sun. Thank goodness I got a table in the shade. September 14, 2001 First-year memories Ben Hussey STAFFWRITER Frightening yet liberating, exciting yet horrifying. For most 18-year-old students, the experi ence of journeying off to college is one of the most important steps they've ever taken in their lives, full of new people and new experiences. Jacob Schonberg, a student staying in Milner , stated during an interview that this experi ence, even though only in its sec ond week, had been one of the greatest experiences in his life, one which he hoped would only grow better with time. Following the theme of ex citement which comes with the first-year experience, Guilford kicked off the week with CHAOS, a weekend designed to help bring the record-setting 325 students of the Class of 2005 to gether. CHAOS was a huge hit among many of the students that I talked to during my first two weeks here at Guilford, though there were those students who were negatively influenced by the activity. Rachel Chang, a Bryan resi dent, said to me during a bit of free time between activities dur ing arrival weekend, "I would al most rather sit in front of my dorm than do this stuff; I think I would'meet just as many people that way." Despite the negative influ ence felt by some students, many still enjoyed the activities, espe cially the Play Fair. Will Barber, my roommate and a member of the class 0f2005, told me that, "even though the Play Fair thing was pretty cheesy, I still thought it was fun, and I learned a couple of names, too." During the first two weeks of school there have been bad ex periences, and there have been good. From the input I have re ceived, the good definitely out weighs the bad. After these first weeks, the excitement has begun to slow, and the fears have lev eled off. The CHAOS program has proven successful for yet an other year. The freshman class of 2005 has also set in quite comfortably, if I may add, to their new lifestyle, and they seem more than prepared to handle all of the things so-called "college life" is ready to throw at them. JUSTIN BETSON
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