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Eamon Barker
Staff Writer
School closings.
Accidents. Roads and
walkways covered in an inch
thick skin of ice. Welcome to
Jan. 25, 2004.
Last week, four-and-a-half
inches of snow and ice hit the
Greensboro area, shutting
down Guilford County and
surrounding counties. The
snow was followed by sleet
and below-freezing tempera
tures, which solidified the
mass of snow and froze it into
sheets of slippery ice.
Classes were cancelled at
the college Jan. 26 and were
cut short on Jan. 27.Eight thir
ty a.m. classes were cancled,
and evening classes ended
early at 9:30 p.m. College
personnel laid down sand to
cope with the ice, trying to
make for a secure, if gritty,
walk to class.
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Campus roads and sidewalks covered with ice last week made campus journeys difficult
The snowstorm turned busy
traffic thoroughfares, includ
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many people just flying and
slamming on brakes and then
doing 3605," Lisa Spencer, a
dispatcher for a Greensboro
towing company, said.
According to the Greensboro
Speaker announced
Taleisha Bowen
Associate Editor
I n a press release dated
Jan. 16, the college
announced that Christopher
Benfey, '77, will be the guest
speaker at this year's com
mencement ceremonies
"I was thrilled and floored
[when I received the news],"
Benfey said. "It's not the kind
of thing you expect... and the
News and Record, the
Greensboro Highway patrol
office responded to 305 wreck
calls in a 12-hour period on
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idea of addressing Guilford
grads is a bit intimidating."
Benfey is a professor of
American literature at Mount
Holyoke College in South
Hadley, Massachusetts. He
established himself as an
Emily Dickinson scholar with
the works Emily Dickinson
and the Problem of Others in
1984 and Emily Dickinson:
Lives of a Poet in 1986. He
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FEBRUARY 6, 2004
Islam scholar
visits campus
Meredith Veto
Staff Writer
f Ine of the world's lead
ing scholars of Islam,
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, visited
the college on Jan. 28th as a
featured speaker for Religious
Emphasis Week. Nasr, emeri
tus head of Islamic Studies at
George ' Washington
University, has written over 50
books on science and reli
gion, Sufi spirituality, and
Islamic philospshy.
Nasr led a panel discussion
in Bryan Jr. Auditorium at 3:45
p.m. on the harmony of sci
ence and religion. Panel
members included Dana
Professor Emeritus of
Chemistry and History of
Science Theodor Benfey,
Professor of History at UNC-
Greensboro Kenneth Caneva,
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Chemistry Latifa Chahoua,
and student Samer Atiany. At
7 p.m. in Dana Auditorium
Nasr gave a public lecture
titled "The Heart of Islam."
Max Carier, the college's
campus ministry coordinator,
was thrilled to be welcoming
the prominent religious schol
ar to the school.
A former student of Nasr,
Carter had maintained con
tact with him since his 1984
doctoral studies at Temple
University.
Carter has kept the same
goals in mind for the college's
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