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VOLUME 94, ISSUE 21 // APRIL 4, 2 0 08
Guilford college // www.GuiLFORDiAN.eoM // Greensboro.ng
Pelcher, Hamdan, Vormelker, and
Kennedy take senate election
By Megan Feil
Staff Writer
Joe Pelcher, president;
Dana Hamdan, vice
president; Will Vormel
ker, tresurer; and Hannah
Kennedy, secretary.
"We want
Senate to work
for you! To ac
complish this.
Senate needs
an Executive
Council with ex
perience making
change at Guilford."
The language of
experience and change
worked together to lift Joe
Pelcher, Dana Hamdan,
Will Vormelker, Hannah
Kennedy into of
fice for 2008,
defeating Dan
Jimenez,
Nancy
Klosteridis,
Chris Pug-
liese, and
Alex Knox.
Out of the
437 students
that voted, over
60 percent elected
the winning ticket on
March 31.
Using their com
bined 23 years of ex
perience in student
government and ability
to accomplish effective
change, they will focus on
dealing with student-sug
gested concerns and man
aging senate meetings ef
fectively.
Relying on student in
put for their platform, the
elects want to concentrate
on a myriad of suggestions
and concerns students
have about the Guilford
community.
Changing parking rules,
creating a 24/7 health clin
ic, and installing bicycle
shelters are among these
requests.
"We're not making
promises about these
things happening, but they
are things we will definite
ly address," said Pelcher,
president-elect, when
asked if these ideas were
realistic.
In response to student
wishes, the new executive
council plans to find more
ways to advertise campus
events and issues next year,
having had fun campaign
ing with comic strip style
and Harry Potter themed
posters.
"Students focused on
wanting more advertising
for events because nobody
really reads The Buzz,"
said Hamdan, vice-presi
dent-elect.
Another project the
group will explore is uti
lizing the approximate
$300,000 to $400,000 in a
fund made up of unused
student activity fees tradi
tional students pay for in
See "Senate Elections" on page 2
Ben Dedman/Guilfordian
On March 26, Barack Obama's campaign trail came through Greensboro, he spoke and fielded ques
tions in the War Memorial Auditorium.
Barack Obama Town Meeting gets
appraisal, argument in Greensboro
By Ben Dedrnan
Features Editor
The line began at 5 a.m. By 10 a.m., nearly
2,000 people extended from the War Memo
rial Auditorium entrance out of sight behind
the Coliseum. It conjured up images of mu
sic festivals or Los Angeles freeways, the only
places I've seen so many people and so much
raw energy all crammed together.
Responding to this same common "rock-
concert" cliche about Barack Obama campaign
rallies. Max Carter, director of the Friends
Center and campus ministry coordinator, said
that Obama's March 26 Town Hall Meeting in
Greensboro did not conform.
"I didn't see any drugs or sex the whole
afternoon," Carter said. "In line it had the at
mosphere of a big family reunion, just a big
festive atmosphere."
Martha Assefa, a junior with an internship
with the Democratic Party in Greensboro this
semester, said the two-hour wait "seemed like
nothing ... because of the positive attitude of
people and the excitement."
"It just felt like a group of very di
verse people who were genuinely excited
(about politics) for the first time in their life,"
she said.
Junior Hedyn Ericson, who took a year off
after high school in 2004 to volunteer for the
Democratic Party, attributes much of the ex
citement and young support Obama receives
to the fact that, since 2000, "people our age be-
See "Obama in Greensboro" on page 8
Women s lacrosse reigns over the Monarchs 17-4
By Meghan Spivey
Staff Writer
Senior Mary Hutchins
loc^'jOT.a^^teammate to pass
to s I7i4 win
Ana Martinez/Guilfordian
Smiling broadly and laughing,
the women's lacrosse team plays
a relaxed game of catch. Carefree
and at ease, it's like they're warm
ing up before any practice. In re
ality, they're up 11-0 at halftime,
while their opponents sit in a heap
across the field, trying to catch their
breath after chasing the Quakers
around the field.
The 17-4 win against Methodist
on March 26 seemed effortless after
winning the previous three games
and making a bit of history.
The season didn't always seem
this promising. The team got off
to a rocky start, losing their first
three games. But with things look
ing dismal, they stepped up and
turned their game around, beating
their next three opponents in Mary-
mount, Lynchburg, and Greens
boro Colleges.
The reason for such a turn
around?
"We went back to the basics
on defense," said Coach Matthew
Grosso. "It was a matter of doing
what we practiced. Most of the
time, if the team is paying attention
and following what we practice it
works ... If we could go back to the
first games and played like we are
right now, we could have won."
The win against Lynchburg Col
lege was the first in sixteen years
for the women's lacrosse program,
and provided a much needed boost
in moral just in time for the rivalry
game against Greensboro College.
See "Women's LAX" on page 11