TH^PIM'I-FORDIAN
(GREENSBORO, NC
In This Issue...
Anti-racism training
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The March on
Washington remem
bered
P9-4
Coffee co-op kicks
off another year
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Gwako receives SIOO,OOO grant
Josie Black
Staff Writer
Laban Gwako,
chair of the Sociology
and Anthropology
department, has big
plans for his SIOO,OOO.
On Aug. 23,
Gwako received a
SIOO,OOO research grant
from the National
Science Foundation
(NSF) for a two-year
study on the effects of
property rights security
on agricultural output in
Western Kenya.
Gwako has
already hired several
native Kenyans to begin
research. In the sum
mer of 2004, two
Guilford College stu-
Princeton Review recognizes Guilford
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Sports Editor
The average
Guilford student wears
Birkenstocks, is political
ly active, speaks up in
class, acknowledges the
quality of the theatre
program, doesn't partici
pate in intramural
sports, and gets high.
They do all of this while
listening to WQFS.
This is according
to the US News and
Princeton Review col
lege rankings for 2004,
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SOAN Chair Labon Gwako
dents will join these
researchers.
Altogether the
team will spend 18
months gathering data
and six months writing it
up. Researchers will
collect data through oral
and written surveys,
random spot checks of
the data for which was
gathered during the
2002-2003 school year.
The rankings,
released Aug. 22,
placed Guilford among
the top 351 schools in
the nation, and one of
only 11 North Carolina
schools included on the
list.
The US News'
rankings are more aca
demic than the
Princeton Review's and
has Guilford tied for
nineteenth for the most
diverse liberal arts
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farms, and participation
in farming.
The project
intends to examine con
trol over the products of
farming. In the patriar
chal system that exists
in Kenya, men own
most of the land but
women do most of the
farm work. Gwako is
studying whether these
women produce more
when they get to decide
what to do with the fruits
of their labor.
This study builds
upon previous research
Gwako did in Kenya on
small-holder farms. This
time he will be studying
large-holder farms also.
"The broader
school of 160 schools
profiled. Guilford tied
with Schreiner
University and Vassar
College.
The Princeton
Review studies many
more categories and
gets its data first-hand
from students through
online surveys that con
sist of about 70 ques
tions. The categories
are offered in opposite
pairs: "Top Party
Schools" and "Stone
Cold Sober Schools,"
"Best Quality of Life"
impact [is] significant,
because the new knowl
edge about the causes
of African women-farm
ers' productivity will be
of great interest to plan
ners concerned with
economic development,"
said one of the NSF
grant reviewers.
Gwako believes
this research will benefit
Guilford College in a
number of ways. "We
teach our students theo
ry. The more knowledge
you have on the ground
about theoretical opera
tions of the real world,
the more you speak
about it with your
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and "Least Happy
Students," and "Horrible
On-Campus Food" and
"Great Cafeteria Food."
The most impres
sive jump from the 2003
edition was the ascen
sion of WQFS from
number seven in "Great
College Radio" to num
ber four this year. The
category is based on the
popularity of the radio
station among students
and 90.9 trailed stations
at Emerson
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