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In This Issue...
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Jazzman's Cafe opens
its doors for business in
the Underground...
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Guilford celebrates
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Day...
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Doug Gilmer honored
for 40 years of
service to Guilford
College...
Dreams Live on in Vision for Peace
Mary Layton Atkinson
Campus Life
Correspondent
Despite the chilly conditions
in Dana Auditorium on Jan. 20,
the group that gathered there to
honor the memory of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. seemed filled with
an inner heat.
The program, A Vision for
Peace: Dreams Never Die, was
sponsored by the African Ameri
can Cultural Society and featured
guest speaker Monica Walker.
Walker is on sabbatical from
her position as the Executive
Coordinator for the Commemo
ration of the Maafa. She travels
nationwide speaking and leading
workshops related to peace, jus-
300 Quakers Consider Peace Testimony
Casey Creel
Senior Correspndent
A panel of four soft-spo
ken, resolute women opened
last weekend's Quaker peace
conference in Dana Auditorium,
outlining the reason for the as
sembly of 300 Quakers on cam
pus:
To respond, as members
of the Religious Society of
Friends, to the growing likeli
hood of global war.
The conference, called nine
months ago by the Section of
the Americas Friends' World
Committee for Consultation
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Vigil participants remember Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sarah Austin
tice, and equity issues as well as
seeking to undo racism.
Walker spoke about the fa
mous dream of Dr. King and chal
(FWCC), is the fifth such con
vention in that organization's
66-year history.
"A lot of folk raised the is
sue of the war on terror at last
year's annual FWCC meeting,
and the question was how this
umbrella group of different
Quakers should facilitate con
sideration of Quaker peace
testimony," said Max Carter,
director of Friends Center
and campus ministry coordina
tor.
The peace testimony is an
integral part of all Quakerism,
which spans from evangelical
Friends, who mostly emphasize
lenged the audience not only to
remember it with admiration, but
to dream new dreams that will
keep the struggle for equality
the Bible and the state of the
soul over pacifism, to Univer
salists, who often hold pacifism
as a major aspect of their faith,
and who don't necessarily iden
tify as Christian.
"Differences were left
aside, and nothing got in the
way of the conference," Carter
said. "The focus was the peace
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alive.
"If the dream did not die with
Martin Luther King, who's dream
ing now?" Walker said. "How
many of our dreams can chal
lenge and prick the conscious of
this nation? How are we support
ing our dreams?"
Many audience members
found Walker's call to action to
be inspiring.
"The most important thing I
took from what the speaker had
to say was the call for people to
take a stand and see who the
dreamers among us are," said
Guilford College gospel choir
member Amalie Malochee.
This theme of continuing to
dream is one that was echoed
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testimony, not on the disparity
between how one group re
gards gay and lesbian Friends,
for example."
Carter mentioned the issue
of gays and lesbians as one o
fthe most contentious that the
different Quaker traditions deal
with today.
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