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Human Rights series ends with
East Asian lecture
Casey Creel
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Interested students had the chance
to hear Henry Rosemont, professor of phi
losophy and Confucian scholar at St.
Mary's College in Maryland, on Mon.,
April 1 in Founders Gallery. His lecture
was the last in the series "Human Rights:
A Global Perspective."
Rosemont, a Korean war veteran and
former collaborator with Noam Chomsky,
addressed the issues of the value of free
dom, first- and second-generation human
rights, and the application of the philoso
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Greensboro, NC April 5, 2002
phy of Confucius to problems in the West
ern world.
"He was certainly one of the most
challenging thinkers in this series," said
Dottie Borei, head of international stud
ies, who introduced him to the audience
of around 35. "He knows Western philoso
phy and Asian as well; he made me con
sider the roots of individualism and hu
man rights in different societies in a way I
hadn't before."
When assistant philosophy professor
Vance Ricks asked Rosemont afterwards
to speak on how Aristotelian and Confu
See Lecture. p. 2
Union names
next year's 'big'
event plans
Gabe Fertman
STAFF WRITER
Student Union has big plans for next year.
Union president-elect Kate Doom and her team
- Sam Meyers, vice president, Cassie Baker, sec
retary, and Taleisha Bowen, treasurer - have
begun planning events for the upcoming year.
All four executives-elect are currently first
year students whose active membership on the
first-year advisory board led to their to the de
cision to run in the Union election, which they
won, opposed only by a write-in ticket also com
prised entirely of first-years.
"We want to make Student Union more ac
tive and publicize events more as to reach a
greater number of students," they repeat as a
theme over and over like a mantra.
Junior Eric Leaf, current Union president,
offered support to the new officers. "Union is a
pretty major time commitment. I hope that next
year's group will continue to offer diverse and
fun events," Leaf said.
Those interested in what Union has planned
for next year can go to their weekly meeting
Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. in Founders Com
mons. The 10 people at the last meeting, in
cluding Leslie Moss, director of student activi
ties and events planning, are all highly ener
gized about the prospects for next year.
For next year they have devised a plan that
focuses on what they have dubbed 'the big six.'
They are looking at having three major events
each semester, with smaller events on the off
weekends, which they hope will be run in col
laboration with other clubs.
The tentative big three for the fall semester
are, first, a plan to work with Action Greens
boro, a community group dedicated to commu
nity planning and visioning, that will hold a
citywide event for the seven colleges within
Greensboro for a huge welcome weekend bash.
As of now, exact plans for the weekend are still
unknown.
Union is planning a large homecoming party
for its second big event, which they hope will
appeal to a large number of students, especially
since next year's homecoming game will be here
at Guilford.
The final event of the fall term will be a fall
fling, which is shaping up to be the Binfor d For
mal with extras.
The three events for the spring semester
are a welcome back party in Jan., a Mardi Gras
See Union, p. 2
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