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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
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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."
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"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
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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
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fices."
All three projectors have
been replaced with newer
models, a fact Director of
Information Technology and
Services Leah Kraus takes
comfort in.
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