GREENSBORO, NC
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Students bring Ghana
back to Guilford
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Professors enter the dorms
Seth Van Horn
Staff Writer
Guilford is beginning
an experiment. Mix equal
parts student, faculty, and
what professor Ken Gilmore
calls "the spirit of making a
connection at some level
that wasn't being made
before."
It's called the
Living/Learning
Community Initiative, and
it's coming to a dorm near
you.
The Living/Learning
Community Initiative
includes classes taught in
the dorms, like Gilmore's
PSCI 330 International
Political Economy class.
However, classes in
the dorms are only a small
part of a much larger
movement, says Jodi Gill,
Greensboro community seeks truth
Emily Hantz
Staff Writer
Eighty-eight sec
onds. One thousand bul
lets. Ten injured. Five
dead. Lots of confused
and angry people. The
Greensboro Massacre
began and ended on Nov.
3, 1979, but the confused
and angry people remain.
On Sept.3, a young
Guilford alumnus named
Scott Pryor spoke in the
Moon Room about the
massacre and the
Greensboro Truth and
Community Reconciliation
Project (GTCRP.) He
addressed a group of
about 30 students, profes-
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IPE students in class in a Binford study lounge
Associate Dean for
Campus Life.
Binford has a liter
ary arts floor, advised by
Doug Smith and Eleanor
Branch, comprised of first
years who share an interest
in writing.
People undecided
sors, and com-,
munity mem
bers. He
showed a
movie about
the massacre
and the
GTCRP and
discussed both
with the audi
ence.
"I just"
happened to
be i nl
Greensboro!
that day," was
Max Carter's
response when
the audience
was asked how
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they heard about the read
about their majors share
the center of second floor
Milner. The special-inter
est houses each also have
a faculty advisor.
Professor Scott
Pierce Coleman's FYE stu
dents live together in Binford,
and he often teaches on
Courtesy of the Truth and Reconciliation Project Headquarters
Guilford's Jeff Thigpen and Scott Pryor, 'O2, with Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and the local Truth and Reconciliation task force
events of Nov. 3. Most had
SEPTEMBER 12, 2003
their floor.
"I think we respond
better to the class and to
each other," said Rachel
Gavin, a member of
Coleman's FYE. "We're
like a family now."
Another of
Coleman's FYE stu
dents, Nathan Sebens,
agrees. "It's a whole com
munity kind of thing. Plus,
if you forget your home
work, you've always got
people to remind you."
"The purpose of
everything on campus is
supposed to be education
al," said Gill. "That includes
the residential communi
ties. It is to make the
world seamless, so that
professors are aware of
Alice Sharp
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