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A new ticket
to ride
Dave Thomas
STAFF WRIIER
Home for the holidays is where most stu
dents want to be. In the comfort of family,
with that familiar bed and that familiar smell,
home is where the heart is.
But what about those students who are
afraid to fly, don't have a car, and live far away?
In most cases they are stuck between a rock
and a hard place. The Guilford College Ride
Board provides an opportunity to get out of
that place.
The idea for the board came from senior
Samara Richter, who felt like an alternative
was needed. It is located on Lotus Notes in the
database section. The process is simple: just
create a new topic and wait for people to re
spond.
There are already some requests on the
board: Dave Foley would like a ride to Atlanta
for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ashley Rose
needs to go to Fairfax, VA, and asks anyone
going north if they could drop her off. Kristyn
Casey is asking for a ride to Florida. Amelia
Kellogg takes a different spin, asking for a ride
to Nashville for a weekend and offering to split
gas.
'The requests sound legitimate," said
sophomore Matt Baker. " I would hook them
up."
See Ride, p. 4
THE
GOLFORDIAN
Greensboro, NC
Corntassel brings awareness of
indigenous peoples to Guilford
Jeff Corntassel does not look indig
enous.
"This is what 500 years of coloniza
tion does to you," he said, touching his
light skin.
His point was that indigenous people
are subtly pressured from all sides to
assimilate, and on the surface, it may
seem as though they have. But while the
society around them wants them to be
as much like everyone else as possible,
indigenous people are still fighting for
their rights as a separate culture.
Corntassel is the Associate Direc
tor of Human Rights at Virginia Tech and
Cherokee representative to the UN. His
lecture, "International
Law at the Crossroads:
New partnerships in the
struggle for Global Indig
enous Rights," on Thurs,
Sept. 8, was the fourth in
the "Human Rights" se
ries on campus.
Corntassel covered a
lot that night, as he gave
a self-described "crash
course" through "the In
ternational Decade of In
digenous Peoples." Start-
One Love,
p. 10
JaredAxelrod
STAFF WRITER
November 16, 2001
Recovery
update, p. 15
ing with the Mayan farmers who revolted
and became the Zapatistas in 1994, the
decade ends in 2004, when the Draft
Declaration of Indigenous People is to be
ratified. "Though, I'll be up front with
you," said Corntassel. "It will not be rati
fied by 2004."
One of the major stumbling blocks
in indigenous legislation is a lack of clear
concept of what indigenous people are.
A national government will have one
idea, while the indigenous people them
selves have another.
"Who is indigenous? How do you de
fine indigenous? Everyone has a differ
ent definition," said Corntassel.
"Charlton Heston says he's a Native
American!"
See Corntassel, p. 4