Madeleine Albright
visits Guilford
Ben Many
STAFF WRITER
It appeared to be a
good old Guilford pro
test. About 30 students
were sitting in front of
Dana Auditorium on
Thursday, Nov. 1. This
was no protest, though,
but the general admis
sion line optimistically
waiting to hear this
year's first Bryan Dis
tinguished Visiting Pro
fessor, former U.S. Sec
retary of State
Madeleine Korbel
Albright.
Albright's lecture
was the latest in the
"Human Rights: Global
and Cross-cultural Per
spectives" series, which will
feature consumer activist
Ralph Nader and Nobel Peace
Prize recipient Oscar Arias
later this year.
Hours before Albright's lec
ture began, people in general
admission were already rest
less. The line of ticket holders
stretched continuously from the
steps of Dana all the way to the
center intersection of campus.
By about 7:00 p.m., the
stagnant general admission line
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Avanti and CHAOS:
No changes, not yet
Bradley Podair
PUBLIC OPINION EDITOR
Will Avanti and CHAOS be
changing next year?
CHAOS, which stands for
Community, Health, Advising,
Orientation, and Services, is
Guilford's freshman orientation
program. It generally involves
three or four days of activities,
ranging from dances to hypno
tists. Avanti, whichjin Italian
means "forward," is an optional
experience for first-years prior
to the start of the school year,
with a wide range of programs
from rafting to community ser-
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
reached almost all of the way
to Friendly Ave. Even those
near the front of the line began
to look longingly at the whirl
wind of walky-talky-toting offi
cials, starting to accept the fact
that they would probably be
forced to watch the speech on
one of the closed-circuit televi
sions set up in the Moon room
and in the choir room.
Eventually, a lucky few
from general admission were let
in. They charged the steps of
Rumors on campus have it
that major changes are being
proposed and discussed. The
most drastic of these rumors
has Avanti being eliminated
entirely and CHAOS being
shortened to only one day.
Shelly Crisp, the director
of the First Year Center, could
provide only limited information
regarding these programs. Ac
cording to Crisp, the First Year
Center and Guilford are "in the
process of formulating plans re
garding the future and changes
in both Avanti and CHAOS for
See Avanti p. 2
Dana like kids at a Skid
Row concert trying to get
down front. Hundreds of
hopefuls, unfortunately,
had to be turned away.
Eventually, everyone
settled in and the former
Secretary of State ap
peared. She was accom
panied by President Don
McNemar, Mayor and
Guilford graduate Keith
Holliday, and junior
Crystal Waitekus.
McNemar exuberantly
welcomed everyone to
the event. Holliday also
made some welcoming
remarks.
Waitekus received
rousing applause from
BRITA HELGESEN
the students as she gave
a brief biography of
Albright and welcomed her to
the podium.
After a round of applause
that only grew louder as the
tiny woman urged the crowd to
sit, Albright showed that she
had done her homework about
Guilford and its Quaker tradi
tions. She also engaged the
crowd with a well-received joke
about Jesse Helms.
"How do we separate right
from wrong amidst the turbu
lence?" stated Albright in re
gards to the events of Sept. 11,
2001. She then began to speak
of the need for proportionate
war and the need to keep civil
ian casualties down.
Later, she spoke about the
necessity of U.S involvement in
Bosnia and even that our lack
of involvement in Rwanda, a
major point of criticism of the
Clinton administration, was a
mistake. "I thought that our
See Albright P-4
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November 9, 2001
The (search
process
begins
James Hart
STAFF WRITER
In the wake of Donald W.
McNemar's resignation from
the office of President, Guilford
College has begun the process
of selecting its eighth chief ex
ecutive.
The Board of Trustees, in
their Sept. 21-22 meeting, cre
ated three committees, each
headed by a board member, to
organize and expedite the
search process.
The Consultant Selection
Committee, chaired by Alan
Hunt, was charged to research
and select a "search consult
ant." This task was completed
in mid-October, when the
school hired the firm of R.H.
Perry & Associates of Washing
ton D.C. to identify possible
candidates for the position.
The Leadership Committee,
chaired by Martha W.
Summerville *76, has been
asked to create a "leadership
statement," detailing the quali
ties that Guilford is looking for
In a chief executive, as well as
recommend to the Board both
the content of the incoming
president's contract and a pro
cess for evaluation of his/her
performance.
The Search Committee,
chaired by Ellen P. Hamrick '7B,
will take the leadership state
ment created by the Leadership
Committee, and the candidates
suggested by R.H. Perry and As
sociates, and compile a final
list of three to five finalists
which will be submitted to the
Board of Trustees, who will
then make the final decision on
who is hired.
Though the Consultant Se
lection and Leadership Commit
See Search, p. 2