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Myanmar's brutal tyrants survive
Senior General
Than Shwe has
been the head of
Myanmar's ruling
military junta since
1992. In Septem
ber thousands of
Burmese monks
led peaceful protest
marches all across
Myanmar.
By Jake Blumgart
Senior Writer
It looked like revolution. Tens of thou
sands of Burmese anti-military protestors,
including thousands of saffron-robed Bud
dhist monks, marched across the world's
television screens this fall, throwing light
onto a repressed and impoverished nation
usually relegated to the periphery of the
world stage.
But the protestors who so recently
crowded the streets of Myanmar's cities, de
manding the military junta's downfall, have
ominously vanished, replaced by staged pro
junta rallies, where it is rumored that cash
incentives and force guarantee attendance.
Things seem to be returning to what
passes for normal in Myanmar, a country
of about 50 million people, where the vast
majority of the population lives on about 50
cents a day.
The "Saffron Revolution" began when
See "Saffron Revolution" on page 7
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Ty Buckner (RIGHT), college relations head, discussed trustees meeting.
$1.6 million gift received, four
new board members welcomed
By Jake Blumgart
Senior Writer
From Oct. 4-6, the board of
trustees congregated on campus
for the first meeting of the 2007-
2008 school year. Trustees and
staff, but few faculty or students,
sat through three days worth of
meetings on subjects ranging
from Quaker life on campus to
the ethics of investing.
Four new trustees were in
augurated to the board, consist
ing of two non-alums and two
graduates. The non-alums are
Robert Jones, a professor at the
Indiana School of Medicine, and
Hector McEachem Jr., a Greens
boro resident and executive vice
president of Wachovia bank.
Daryle Bost '93, majored in
management while at Guilford
and has been on the Alumni As
sociation's Board of Directors for
two terms prior to his appoint
ment to the Trustee Board.
David Hood, younger broth
er of Associate Professor of
English Jim Hood, is a member
of the Hood clan who has been
affiliated with the college since
See "Trustees" on page 4
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Protest against globalization turns violent but no arrosts made
STUDENTS PROTEST WORID RANK
By Jack Sinclair
Staff Writer
On Oct. 19, a rainy Friday night in Georgetown,
Washington D.C., police flooded the streets and kept
a close watch on Washington Square, where a group
of dark-clothed and masked people congregated to
march into the heart of Georgetown to shut it down.
They made their presence known to the watchful
eyes of the police. During the night a bystander was
hit by a stray brick, two arrests were made, and stores
boarded up for the weekend.
This was quite a start to the World Bank and In
ternational Monetary Fund (IMF) protest, a protest in
which Guilford students participated.
On Sat., Oct. 20, a much bigger protest took place,
culminating in a march from Franklin Square to Mur-
row Park where the IMF and World BaiEk's offices are
located.
Before the march of various types of protestors.
See "Protest" on page 10
Photos by Jack Sinclair/Guilfordian
Protestors, including Guilford students, marched on the
World Bank and IMF offices in Washington on Oct. 20.
GuiUord student intern aids educatinn in Ethiepla
By Deena Zaru
Staff Writer
This past summer, senior Katie
Martinko traveled to Shashemene,
Ethiopia, with Schools for Humanity
(SFH), an organization dedicated to
the advancement and learning for the
world's underprivileged children. She
is now their global marketing man
ager.
Martinko met the CEO for SFH,
Dave Brown, in San Francisco this past
May and attended a meeting he was
having so that she could learn about
SFH's projects in Africa and India. She
was instantly drawn to Brown's pas
sion and she was impressed by SFH's
dedication to education.
"It's a really great organization be
cause there's so much need out there,
so I volunteered to help out any way I
See "Martinko” on page 11
Senior Katie Martinko
interned with Schools for
Humanity in Ethiopia this
past summer.