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, *■ if‘ ‘. •'-'» , ■* J . > - .‘ *“■' ■ 1 4^‘jsi " '’'.''Vi j. j St?: f !AGe41 :, VOLUME 94, ISSUE 12 I DECEMBER 7, 2007 UILFORDIAN The Student-Run Newspaper of Cuilford College W W W GUlLFORDIAN.COM GREENSBORO,NC Congressman Brad MiBer discusses genocide in Darfur By Deem Zaru Senior Writer On Nov. 26, Democratic Congress man Brad Miller, who holds the seat for North Carolina's thirteenth dis trict and is the husband of Guilford Alumni Board President Esther Hall '74, spoke about the genocide in Darfur in Bryan Jr. Auditorium. The talk was sponsored by the political science department and the College Democrats. Miller's discussion consisted of three main parts. First, he educated the audience about the history of Af rica and the causes of the genocide. Miller highlighted the conflicts over scarce resources, mainly water, be tween the Islamic tribes, who mostly raise crops, and the Arab tribes, who are more pastoral and herd animals for a living. In order to control resources, the Arab tribes are led by "the Bashir regime, which is one of the world's most repugnant regimes, sponsored by the janjaweed Arab militia and the Sudanese government's military," Miller said. See "Brad Miller" on page 4 BUCK FRIBAYP As holiday season approaches, Shopping for Change event canses students to Question how they participate in consumerism By Elysa Polovin Staff Writer After losing six out of eight children to AE)S and being left to care for a husband with an amputated leg and four grand children, three of whom are HIV positive, Josephine Namutebi or "Jaja" still is said to be the life of the party. Jaja is one of the many members of BEADFORLIFE, a group of women who are from Uganda. Living within a world of constant poverty, AIDS, and war, these women have defied the boundaries of their strug gles and found a way to support their families by making beads. BEADFORLIFE was just one "I figured it would be great of the tables where one could to have an event where every- purchase numerous items made thing that people bought, they directly from the artisan at Guil- felt that their money was going ford's Shopping for Change to good use," said Director of event which was held in Stem- Interdisciplinary Leadership for berger Auditorium on Nov. 30 Social Change Judy Harvey, who and Dec. 1.. initiated Shopping for Change See "Shopping For Change" on page 4 Last Saturday the Men's Rugby Club beat the Eno River Men's Club 31-24. NEWamBORCMAYCR Keith Holliday 75 moves on By Sean Urquhart Staff Writer After eight years of ser vice to the dty of Greens boro, mayor and Guilford graduate Keith Holliday has htmg up his hat and called it a day. Yvonne Johnson, long-time city council representative and Greensboro's first African-American mayor has taken the helm. Holliday graduated from Guilford in 1975 during a turbulent time in American history: The Vietnam War. His experi ences here changed him forever. "If you would of told me I would one day be mayor of Greensboro, I would have said you're nuts," Holliday said. "I would never have thought about being that institutional. Even back in high school I was always in trouble," Holliday said with a chuckle. "Guilford set the stage for my whole attitude, it raised my con science level far beyond any other college would have." Bom in Greensboro to a conservative Quaker fam ily, Guilford was an eye opening change for Hol liday. "I remember on my first day freshman year I saw an interracial couple See "New Mayor" on page 6 Federal agents place secret tracking devices on phones By Joanna Bernstein Staff Writer According to the Fourth Amendment, probable cause is required to acquire any type of warrant. But recently, federal judges have been granting government officials permission to order wireless communication compa nies to place secret tracking devices in the cell phones of people whom the govern ment believes to be dmg traffickers, fugi tives, and child abusers without necessary reasons for conviction. Probable cause refers to the standard by which a police or government officer, official, or judge has the right to make an arrest, conduct a personal property search or grant/ obtain a warrant. "Specifics necessary to establish prob able cause such as relevant dates, names and places have been missing in agent See "Cell phone Tracking" on page 8
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