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Page 4 James Carroll speaks on activism James Carroll addressing the community THE WEEK AT GUILFORD Friday, November 2 * Bowling AMF All-Star Lanes, 6:30 p.m. Gospel Choir workshop Boren Lounge, 7:30 p.m. International Dance Founders Commons, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, November 3 Acoustic Syndicate and Dana Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Keller Williams Sunday, November 4 WQFS meeting Founders Commons, 7:00 p.m. Monday, November 5 Guilfordian meeting Founders Commons, 7:30 p.m. GANE meeting King Peace and Conflict Studies Room, 8:30 p.m. Outdoor club meeting King Environmental Studies Room, 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 6 Latin American Film Festival Leak Room, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 7 Lunchtime Art Talks Hege Library Art Gallery, (Charles Tefft, ceramics) 12:45 P.M. Senate meeting Boren Lounge, 6:00 p.m. "One Night Only" Acoustic Underground, 8:30 p.m. Coffeehouse Thursday, November 8 ; Town Hall Meeting on Bryan Auditorium, 6:00 p.m. Racial Reconciliation Animal rights group King Environmental Studies meeting Room, 8:30 p.m. Yachting Club meeting Bauman 202, 10:00 p.m. If you would like to see cm-event or meeting published in The Week at. Guilford, please email the event title, date. time, and con- j pact information to The Guilfordian at guilfordian@guilford.edu. Jessamyn Bean STAFF WRITER James Carroll, an award winning author and columnist for the Boston Globe, spoke at Guilford's opening convoca tion in Dana Auditorium on the topic of "Academics and Activism." The convocation was originally scheduled for August, and because of the change in date, the focus in evitably changed to feature the Sept. 11 tragedy. Looking back on the past, Carroll noted that there have been certain moments that took hold of the world and forced everyone to reevaluate their lives and the possible future. He identified several turning points in history that affected his own life, includ ing the first atomic bomb tested by the Soviet Union, the The Guilfordian News launch of Sputnik, and the Cu ban missile crisis. Although he was only seven when Harry Truman an nounced to the country that the Soviet Union had exploded an atomic bomb, James Carroll still remembers the moment that started the age of McCarthyism and the fear of a nuclear threat. He re members watching Sputnik flicker across the sky, and what that small satellite meant for the United States. He explained how incidences like these can motivate a gen eration to activism. Carroll's generation, the generation that came of age during the Vietnam War, sim ply could not avoid activism. Carroll spoke of "being drafted, literally, out of aca demic attachment into activ ist political commitment. It was one draft we could not re sist." More recently, the sac rifice of so many lives on Sept. 11 and the escalating conflict with Afghanistan should be On Thursday, Nov. 1, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright delivered a public address in Dana Au ditorium. Please see next week's issue for complete coverage. The One Love Roots Co-Operation Celebration will take place Saturday, November 3 at the lake (in the Underground if it rains, or if it's too cold). There will be food, reggae music, a few vendors and an Underground Railroad simulation showing how Guilford fit into it. Our schedule is the following: 12:00 Playtime with a DJ, art mural painting, frisbee, soccer 1:00 Potluck - bring something to share or just come and eat! 2:00 Underground Railroad Education 3:00-5:00 IMANI (local reggae band) November 2, 2001 motivation to inspire the cur rent generation of students to a new activism. Being a pacifist, Carroll does not usually consider vio lence and force as options. However, he feels there are some circumstances in which a choice must be made to use force for the greater good. "I salute the people that found a way to make that choice. I don't presume I would have had the courage to be one of them," he said of the passen gers in flight on the hijacked airplane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Carroll's hope for the future is that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 will be a turning point in history towards a renewed peace. Instead of starting World War 111, the collapse of the World Trade Center should be a ca tastrophe that starts negotia tions, disarmament, and unity between every country. "Sept. 11, 2001 - we all know it will be the turning point," he said.
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