February 23, 2007
Volume 93, Issue 18
UILFORDIAN
The Independent Student Voice of Guilford College
QUAKER
RUGBY
BEATS
UNCG
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Pancake
Photos by Jeremy Bante/Guilfordian
2007
In celebration of
Shrove Tuesday
(Feb. 20), Guilford
College Reugious
Organizations
(GCRO) SPONSORED
A PANCAKE RACE AT
8:30 A.M. According
TO THE OFFICIAL RULES,
EACH PARTICIPANT
MUST CARRY A SKIL
LET WITH A COOKING
PANCAKE AND FUP IT
THREE TIMES DUR
ING THE 375-meter
RACE, AND SKIRTS AND
APRONS ARE MANDA
TORY. Carl Farlow
FINISHED FIRST, BUT
WAS DISQUALIFIED FOR
WEARING PANTS. MAR
THA Orhai (above)
WON THE RACE, ABLY
ASSISTED BY THE INSPI
RATIONAL PARTICIPA
TION OF Max carter..
Men's b-ball advances to ODAC tournament
Jonathan Mangin | Staff Writer
College basketball aficionados na
tionwide are preparing for the game's
annual March Madness; the Quakers
decided the college community should
not have to wait
Guilford finalized its bid for the
ODAC tournament tiiis past week
with victories over both Washington
and Lee, 95-77, and Emory and Henry
108-107. The consecutive wins brought
Guilford's season record to 21-3.
"(We) have climbed the ladder here
in one of the toughest Division El con
ferences in the nation," wrote Randy
Doss, \^oe President for Enrollment
and Campus Life.
Ihe ODAC tournament begins Feb
21 After securing the second seed in
the tourney, the Quakers will faceoff
against the seven seed, Bridgewater
College.
Wanting to avoid the all-too-oom-
mon first-round upset, the Quakers are
trying to avert any complacency that
might stem fixrm posting the most suc
cess season in Guilford's history.
"This Thursday, it's like we are start
ing a new season with a 0-0 record,"
said junior guard Caleb Kimbrough
The home finale against Washing- court," commented Kimbrough,
ton and Lee had the opportunity of b^ Guilford jumped out of the gates
ing a prequel to Thiir^y's first-round to a lOD start to begin the season. De
game. D^ite the Generals' 14 three- spite a slight stumble in the middle of
pointers, the Quakers were victorious the season, including two losses in the
behind senior Jordan Snipes' 32 points span of three games to eventual first-
and 10 rebounds. and third-seeded teams, Virginia Wes-
Washington and Lee will enter the leyan and Roanoke, Guilford ends the
ODAC as the eight seed witii the same season riding a seven-game winning
record in conference as
Bridgewater College,
6-11
The season finale
victory against Emory
and Henry, despite be
ing a game largely de
void of playoff implica
tions, proved to the
seocmci-highest scoring
game of the season for
file Quakers.
Despite being out-
scored 66-0 fi'om the three-point line,
Guilford was able to triumph. Guilford
was led by junior center Ben Strong's
29 points and 12 boards and Eric Bel-
koski's two free throws of tiie final sec
onds, which proved to be fire deciding
margin.
"All of us guys on the team have
such good cheniistry on and off the
"When we play our
hardest, we are
hard to beat,"
Caleb Kimbrough
Guilford '08
Streak
Those
interested in
seeing if this
year's team
can continue
it's most suc
cessful sea
son since the
'72-'73 team
came away
with a na
tional cham
pionship in the NAIA basketball tour
nament should contact Wendy Smith
(smithww@guilford.edu) for informa
tion about buses to the tournament at
the Salem Qvic Center in Salem, VA.
"When we play our hardest we are
hard to beat, and I think we we'll play
that way this weekend," said Kim
brough.
CCE responds to drop in
enrollment, student needs
Nasimeh Easton | Senior Writer
In the 200607 school year,
enrollment for both traditional
and Early College students rose,
ocntinuing the upward curve set
by both in file p^ three years.
But CCE enrollment which
had previously been following
a sirrtilar path, dropped \jy over
50 students — or about four per
cent
'Tart of the problem last year
was fiiat we didn't have anyone
working on retention," said
Dean for Continuing Education
Rita SerotkirL "Now, we have a
retenticm coordinator, Joylyrm
Henning, and she's doing a phe
nomenal job."
The retention coordinator's
job is to figure out the r^eds
of students and keep them
enrolled Since being appointed
in October, Henning's n^cjr fo
cus has rx)t been on numbers,
but on creating lasting relaticHV
drips within the CCE student
body.
"A big part of my job is
helping new students to like
fiiey are part of campus," said
Continued on page 3
Daniel Katzman/Guilfordian
Senior CCE students Rod Massey(left) and Chad Slaughter(right)
STUDY before CLASS
Supreme Court rejects
First Amendment case
Reid Cranfill | Staff Writer
New York Times journalist
Judith Miller's phone records
have been given to investiga
tor Patrick Fitzgerald by a U5.
Appeals Court in search of the
source of a leak that tipped
MBller off to government raids
on Islamic charities in late 2001.
Fitzgerald claims that a
source within the government
to New York Times reporters
Judith Miller and Philip She-
non alerted the Islamic charities
under investigation By calling
the charities for comment be
fore investigators could search.
Fitzgerald accuses the reporters
of giving the charities the op
portunity to destroy evidence.
Fitzgerald and Miller have
also lodced horns over sources
in the Valerie Plame affair, in
which Miller was held in con
tempt and imprisoned for re
fusing to identt^ Scooter Libby
as her source, j^ther than put
MQIct on the stand for grand
jury testimony on the charity
leak, Fitzgerald subpoenaed her
phone records to pinpoint her
source within the government
Miller's phone records
Continued on page 4
AIDS Summit
Community Awareness Aids Proj
ect (GAAP) sponsored an AIDS
sumnyt featured workshops and
presentations by keynote speaker
Thelma Wright, sociology pro
fessor Martha Lang, and others
News Page 3
A Doll's House Alumni Art Show
New theatre studies professor Da
vid Hammond and Ibsen's clas
sic play, interpreted by Thornton
Wilder, make their Guilford de
but. Performances continue this
weekend.
Features Page 6
The Hege Library art gallery cur
rently features an exhibition of art
from 50 alumni artists represent
ing class years ranging from 1944-
2006. Media include painting, ce
ramics, sculpture, others.
Features Page 7
Pro-Caucus
Responding to recent criticism in
the media, the Anti-Racism Team
defends the use of caucuses, cit
ing them as an important tool in
a comprehensive anti-racist strat
egy for Guilford.
Forum Page 11
Gay in the NBA
John Amaechi is the first NBA
player to openly identify himself
as gay, and the news has brought
him both hostility and admira
tion. The Guilford community
reacts.
Sports Page 12