IJtrfm 7*w mg_ In This Issue... Page 4 Attn: Seniors Town Hall Meeting Wednesday April 7 at 1:00 p.m. Lunch Provided. Want to submit some final thoughts for inclusion in the last issue of The Cuilfordian? See page 4 for details ... Page 8 AIDS Walk photos... Pages 9-12 A transcript of Chabotar's inaugural speech... 04/03 Incident Frames Wed. Discussion on Race Casey Creel and James E. Tatum News Editor and Editor-in-Chief "The problem of racism on this campus is a problem that needs to be addressed actively by the community as a whole, including administrators, stu dents, staff and faculty," said first-year Chris Lett. About 50 community members assembled this Wednesday to discuss a re cent instance of racial hatred and how the campus is react ing to it. The instance, recounted in a letter by Eleanor Branch to sev eral English department faculty, See Discussion, page 3 Kent John Chabotar, Bth President, Inaugurated Eamon Barker Staff Writer "Dude, this is righteous - a guy who likes to party!" said as sociate academic dean Jim Hood at the inauguration of Guilford's eighth president. "This was my third presiden tial inauguration since coming to Guilford. They tend to be celebratory, forward-looking, at times moving, and optimistic (with a good bit of pomp and circum stance thrown in). This was no exception," said Richie Zweigenhaft, a psychology pro fessor. Kent John Chabotar's official investiture was televised by three news stations and watched in person by 1,000 Guilford stu- ututui .CXTMHL James Tatum Community members during a break at the Wed. discussion on campus racism. dents, faculty, staff, alumni, trust ees, and guests. Festival Introit, a song by the choir, got the audience's atten tion, and then Ruffin Hobbs 75, playing bagpipes, led the pro cessional of student flag bear ers, faculty, alumni, delegates, and speakers through the en trance-way and into the make shift auditorium. College trustee Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. '6O called the audience to order following the proces sional, delivering a short speech that was fully supportive of Chabotar as the college's presi dent. Following Bryan's speech, Max Carter, director of Friends Center and campus ministry co ordinator, made a solemn invo cation requesting the presence of God in the Field House. Max's invocation was tailed by greetings from the faculty, students, and community to the new president. "Most of the speeches were excellent, and Jim Hood's welcome was just irreverent enough to lighten the occasion," said sophomore Susan Rahmsdorff. After another song by the choir, Donald McNemar, Guilford's seventh president, transferred the charter of Guilford and the key to the April 18, 2003 Volume 89, Issue 22 original Founders Hall to Chabotar. Bryan again spoke, officially investing Chabotar as Guilford's eighth president and jokingly blaming the cold win ter on Chabotar's Maine heri tage. Chabotar himself then stood and delivered a resounding in augural address (entitled Pride and Promise , available in this is sue of The Guilfordian), promis ing, "you will not need the psy chic network to see what's See Inauguration, page 3

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view