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Cokie Roberts visits, launches Bryan series
Karim Ali & Emily Place
Staff Writers
ABC News political commentator
and award-winning journalist
Cokie Roberts visited Guilford Oct. 1, the
first speaker in this year's Bryan lecture
series. She delivered a talk titled
"Women Shaping American Democracy"
in Dana auditorium.
After an opening speech by College
President Kent Chabotar, the audience
welcomed Roberts with a round of
applause.
Her speech had originally been sched
uled for Sept. 30 but was postponed due
to her involvement with that evening's
presidential debate.
Initially, Roberts commented on how
happy she was to be in North Carolina.
It's an important state this year, she said,
being home to Democratic Vice
Presidential candidate John Edwards.
In her talk Roberts expounded on
Guilford welcomes new Africana Coordinator
Chris Lett
Staff Writer
Trina Lynette Gabriel is
no stranger to small
communities similar to
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research from her recent book, Founding
Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our
Nation, on the women who affected early
American history.
Throughout history, she explained,
women were the driving forces behind
much of the success traditionally attrib
uted to men. Roberts explained that
Martha Washington, for example, cooked
and sewed for the troops at Valley Forge.
Her efforts rejuvenated a cold .and hun
gry group of men who otherwise ready to
give up.
Roberts also specifically mentioned
Kitty Greene, the wife of Greensboro's
namesake, Nathaniel Greene. Roberts
added that Greene, like Washington,
kept the army enthusiastic and enter
tained.
Moving to 20th-century politics,
Roberts named the women involved in
the suffrage movement of the 19205. She
also emphasized the contribution of
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Guilford. She was born and
raised in Sherrill's Ford, N.C,
a town large enough for traffic
to be directed by two flashing
caution lights.
Gabriel holds the newly ere-
ated position
of Africana
Community
Coordinator.
The former
position title
was Director
of African
American
Affairs and
was held by
Santes Beatty
until this past
spring. Beatty
now serves
as Africana
Retention
Coordinator.
As the
Africana
Community Coordinator,
Gabriel's responsibilities
include "(providing) adminis
trative leadership in the devel
opment, coordination and
delivery of social, cultural and
education programs and activ
ities intended to support stu
dents of African descent and
promote the education of the
college community as a whole
on issues of diversity and
equality," according to the
Guilford website.
The search committee for
the position composed of stu
dents, faculty and staff, select
ed Gabriel from a nation-wide
pool of candidates. Committee
member Beatty said that
Gabriel was the best fit due to
"(her) experience in higher
education and (her) passion of
equality and justice".
Since Gabriel started in
August she hasn't encoun-
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tered any large problems. She
says she is still getting
acquainted with the students,
but overall she "(feels) like
(she) was given an adequate
description of her responsibili
ties."
Of the Multicultural
Resource Center, Gabriel says
that she, "definitely (sees)
room for growth ... there is
room for a coordinator of
Latino students and strength
ening the connection with
International programs. The
office will need to expand to
address the myriad of con
cerns for different popula
tions."
One of Gabriel's goals is to
punctuate diversity with quality
care. "It is critical for faculty
and staff to be involved in that
process because of our inter
action with students," she
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