r wQ 14 v Marriage of Figaro, p. 5 ■ M ■ ' ' ■L . ; I • X "' "* '*" * _" VPHnHHHH| ■**? M aJ *Jg iyltlfgl§fel I 1 i m M M ' 4;V J 1 jo ! o Colin Roach Bentley rides one of hts masterpieces in front of Founders. See p.S for the full story on Guilford's own mutant creations. 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

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