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In This Issue...
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The McKissick ticket
describes their plans for
Senate next year ...
Page 3
Senate looks back at the
work it did this year...
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Ultimate Frisbee
wraps up its year...
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Senior Liz Baltaro ...
Meet Your Student Graduation Speakers
Angie Barnett
Staff Writer
Imagine that you are about to
speak in front of about 500 people.
They are your peers, your pro
fessors, and your family members.
You can probably feel the blood
rushing through your veins, and you
might be feeling a little nauseous.
These symptoms are just a few
that Sarah Humpal, Josh Neas, and
Deedee Pearman might be feel
ing at graduation on May 10,2003.
Sarah Humpal has a double
major in English and philosophy and
is excited to speak at graduation.
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Music Director for WQFS,
started the original
petition against Rep.
Howard Coble (R).
When you can't find Humpal in
class, you can find her at work in
the admissions office arranging
overnights for prospective students.
She still doesn't know what she is
going to speak about, but she has
it in her head.
"I'm not really that nervous
speaking in front of so many people.
I'm nervous about figuring out what
I'm going to say. I don't want to
make some trite, feel-good speech
that tells graduates that the world
is completely open to them.
"I've been
given an opportu
nity to express
concerns about
this institution to
an audience of
my peers, faculty,
administration,
and trustees.
Though I don't re
ally expect my
speech to change
anything, I've been
given a big voice. I
want to use it,"
Humpal said.
Photos by Sarah Austin
Sarah Humpal is an active
assistant in the Office of
Enrollment.
"Being at Guilford, I've learned
that I don't know much of anything. As
I do my readings for my classes, I re
alize that I have so many other schol
arly works to read to understand what
I'm reading."
Josh Neas, whom everyone
knows from WQFS because of his ar
tistic style of music, is both excited
and honored that enough people
nominated him to be one of the speak
ers.
"I'm flattered because my class
mates chose me," Neas said. He will
graduate from Guilford with a degree
in English and secondary education.
"Being at Guilford has shaped so
much of who I am," Neas said. "It has
given to me in ways that are different
from anyone else."
"The radio station is as impor
tant to me as my major is," Neas said.
Neas isn't nervous about speak
ing at graduation because he has al
ways gotten up in front of large crowds
as an amateur musician.
Like Humpal, Neas has an idea
of what he's going to say but hasn't
written anything down on paper yet.
Deedee Pearman, the secre
tary for educa
tion studies,
accounting,
and political
science faculty,
is the other
senior that will
speak at
graduation.
Unlike Humpal
and Neas,
Pear m a n
knows what
she is going to
speak about:
what Guilford
College means to her. A single
mother, Pearman is honored but
a little scared to get up in front of
her graduating class because she
doesn't like to speak in public.
After being at Guilford for
seven years, Pearman is a triple
major who will be graduating with
majors in sociology, justice and
policy studies, African American
studies and a concentration in En
glish.
"I'm really happy and excited
that I'm going to be graduating,
but I know I'm going to miss it a
lot," Pearman said. "I would like
to thank the people at Guilford that
have done things for me, espe
cially for the faculty and staff for
their flexibility and their patience."
May 2, 2003
Volume 89, Issue 24
All three made the point re
peatedly that "I love Guilford," and
Humpal discussed how Guilford
freed her from one kind of tradi
tional thinking and introduced her
to alternatives.
"I've learned that a lot of what
I had been taught growing up was
really wrong or at least seriously
skewed. By this I mean that many
of histories I've been taught have
been andocentric, Eurocentric, and
homophobic. □
"I've learned that I have just
the most basic understanding of
what racism, sexism, and ho
mophobia are and how they work
in my life and in the institutions of
which I am a part including Guil
ford Humpal said. "I've learned to
question what I am taught. Some
times this is disheartening. "ISom*
times it's inspiring."
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Deedee Pearman, the
CCE speaker, has been at
Guilford for seven years.
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