"T"HE^C3I_JIL_F"CZ>RDIA.ISI GREENSBORO, NC In This Issue... Tony Blair faces inter national pressures. page 4 gg!iJH il| HRSf Tibetan monk building a sand mandala. page 8 ' - Coming out in style. page 9 Edward Albee visits Guilford Emily Hantz Staff Writer I am sitting in one of the reserved seats in the fourth row of Dana Auditorium, a seat that is certainly not reserved for me, among a lot of excited octogenarians. We are waiting for Edward Albee to speak. The playwright is described on the Guilford website as a master of American theatre, and last Wednesday night he lectured about the state of theatre and the arts in America. Albee enters. He has a gravelly voice. He begins his lecture talking about his childhood and edu cation. He was an orphan who was adopted by a wealthy family that he didn't $10,500 worth of equipment stolon from Bauman, Dana Katie Elliott News Editor Three data projectors were stolen. Each cost $3,500 to replace. That means Guilford College is out $10,500 - only a little less than what one stu dent pays for a year's room and board. The data projectors, used to view Internet, Power Point, and other media presenta tions, were stolen from rooms 202 and 813 in Bauman and from Dana 215. The theft of Bauman's projectors, located only a few rooms away from the Office of Public Safety, was reported on Aug. 29. The Dana projector was reported stolen on Sept. 20. "We're not alone," said Anne Lundquist, Dean for Campus Life. "UNCG, A&T, and Greensboro College have all VOLUME 90, ISSUE 6 WWW.GUILFORDIAN.COM ' /' Jf" V... ' '4^'' >- WB _ Edward Albee visits Jack Zerbe's theatre class get along with. He only went to private schools, most of which he was kicked out of for what he calls "Gandhian pas sive resistance". He just didn't go to classes. had similar, high-technology things stolen." Unfortunately, this is not Guilford's first theft. Laptops and computer equipment have been stolen from Guilford and the other col leges before. "It's not just these data pro jectors," said Lundquist. "We all made reports [to the Greensboro Police Department], and that put the police into thinking there was some kind of pattern. "Most of the things were taken from behind locked doors, without any sign of forcible entry," Lundquist said. "So the GPD had an investi gation team going and also worked with local pawn shops. We had serial num bers on our [projectors], so they can put two and two together. And they have." Megan Miller/Guilfordian "The function of formal edu cation is to teach you how to educate yourself," said Albee. That is what he learned at the private high school Choate, the only school from which he The GPD recovered thei stolen projectors earlier this week and have arrest ed several people, though the investigation is not yet complete. The theft, however, has already done its damage - and not just monetarily. "It's a bigger issue than that," said Ken Gilmore, Chair of the Political Science department, who teaches in Bauman 202. "It's not just disrupting the finances of the college, A . but the education of the A mount wrth a projector rn.ss.ng people in it... It's harming the education of hundreds of peo ple." "Someone is robbing us of our own education," said sophomore Vita Generalova. "All this money is going to replace that, and now the school has to make sacri OCTOBER 3, 2003 has ever graduated. Yet, Albee is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a distinguished professor at the University of Houston. "I am probably the only distinguished professor of anything in the entire Texas school system who does not have a college degree." Albee, despite a limited knowledge of farce and a sin gular knowledge of sex, wrote a 3-act sex farce when he was 12. However, he likes to consider "The Zoo Story" his first play. He can't keep track of how many plays he has written since then; he esti mates 27 and one half. Albee tells the audience, "I enjoy being a playwright. Maybe I do it as an act of Continued on page 11 if J : SLg 3 fices." All three projectors have been replaced with newer models, a fact Director of Information Technology and Services Leah Kraus takes comfort in. Continued on page 2

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