GREENSBORO, NC In This Issue... K * \m Brian Person ... more than a great athlete P9- 5 Hp |f ipf pP Find out what's hap pening on Tate Street pg. 8 j^; Students bring Ghana back to Guilford pg. 15 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- VOLUME 90, ISSUE 3 WWW.GUILFORDIAN.COM 1" - tT* ■ Wv J 'srtZ ' aHs^-i 1 ' Stai-" JK ' '- 1 ft \'f t ' t\ >.\'/i4%T i "-*; !s r> fM,, 1 :'- 'J& ■■ ' V '• ;&fe r ftk ' : JjP |Mh FV .;Asm > ft -:| lffl| /■' ' *** if£^ 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 M A - pjiH /■ - £2B£i | VHHH IMB JSH ■!>■ - KH jj MHP^Bj^Hfi|^B 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 Continued on page 3 .Continued on Page 2 .Continued on Page 2

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