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Breensboro communitv discusses
controversial immigration law
By Megan Feil
News Editor
Amy Goodman
speaks on media,
everyday heroism
On April 9, about 40 people
from around the Greensboro
community met at The HIVE,
a collectively run not-for-profit
community space in the Glenwood
neighborhood, to discuss
Guilford County's impending
implementation of section 287 (g)
of the Illegal Immigration Reform
and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
While Dwinther Abreu
translated in English, Rafael
Torres spoke in Spanish about
his experience with local law
enforcement. As he was driving on
Guilford College road, an officer
from the Guilford County sheriffs
department stopped his car. Sitting
in the passenger's seat, his wife
was asked for her identification.
"Racial profiling is happening
here even without 287 (g)," said
Joe Frierson, Beloved Community
Center staff coordinator for the
Greensboro Truth and Community
Reconciliation Project. "If it's
implemented, the difference will
be that officer can take you to jail
and run your name and determine
immediately if you're legal.
Then, if you're one of our friends
without your cards then you could
be detained until as long as it takes
for ICE (Immigration and Customs
Enforcement) to come and get
you."
"By that time, you'd probably
lose your job, your car, and
communication with your family,"
said Yamile Walker.
According to the Government
Office of Accountability's (GOA)
January 2009 report, this legislation
"authorizes the federal government
to enter into agreements with
state and local law enforcement
agencies to train officers to assist
in identifying those individuals
who are in the country illegally."
Such an agreement is referred to
as a Memorandum of Agreement
(MOA)
On March 30, the Greensboro
News and Record reported on a
public forum at the International
Christian Church.
"My officers will only be
checking on the status of anyone
who has already been arrested for
a crime," said Guilford County
Sheriff B.J. Barnes to over 200
people in attendance. "If one of my
officers sees you (in public), they
are not going to come up to you
See *’287 (c)" on page 6
Story by Kylie Gilliams
Faculty salaries behind SLRP goals
"Democracy is a
MESSY THING AND
it's our job to
CAPTURE,IT ALL,"
said Amy Goodman at her
lecture in the Community
Center on April 8. Despite the
event's starting almost an hour
late, people packed the room.
As the main host of the
alternative news program
Democracy Now!, which WQFS
broadcasts, Goodman spoke
on current events, activism, the
media and everyday people who
become heroes. She began by
talking about Barack Obama's
election.
"November fourth was
a historical moment," said
Goodman. "The world heaved
a sigh on that day. It was not
just a national election—it . was
a global phenomenon. He's
the first African-American
president of the United States
in a country thafhas a legacy of
slavery."
From there, Goodman delved
back through history, tracing
her way from the current White
House to another house with a
tarnished legacy: Mount Misery,
the home of the slaveholder
who beat and tortured Frederick
Douglass.
"From Mount Misery to
Mount Hope," said Goodman
See "Goodman" on page 2
2008-9 SALARIES RANK
NEAR THE BOHOM OF
GUILFORD'S PEER AND
ASPIRANT INSTITUTIONS
By Ben Dedman
Editor in Chief
Echoing the Strategic Long-
Range Plan (SLRP) progress
report last May, President Kent
Chabotar and Vice President
of Finance and Administration
Jerry Boothby believe it is "highly
unlikely" that Guilford will reach
the SLRP goal to raise average
faculty salaries for all ranks to
$63,700 by the fall semester of
2010.
According to Boothby and
Chabotar, Guilford may have to
forgo faculty and staff raises for
two consecutive years, 2009 and
2010.
Approved by the Board of
Trustees in October 2004, the
SLRP planned to raise faculty
salaries by the fall of 2010 to the
50th percentile of baccalaureate
colleges as reported each spring
by the American Association of
University Professors (AAUP).
Reaching the 50^ percentile would
place Guilford faculty salaries near
the middle in relation to all other
American baccalaureate colleges.
As the SLRP's largest financial
goal, faculty salaries were planned
to increase cumulatively by $6
million between 2005 and 2010.
"The slowdown in progress
toward our pay targets was
largely a revenue shortfall when
we reduced our enrollment goal
for 2010 from 3,300 to 2,800. We
also had an enrollment shortfall
in summer 2008 and fall 2008,"
Boothby said. "Since enrollment
increases in SLRP were the largest
source of revenue for the raises
to faculty and staff pay, there
was much discussion about the
negative effect on reaching the
50th percentile when we cut the
enrollment targets from 3300 to
2800. The cut was approved by
SLRP, the faculty, and the Board of
Trustees."
Academe, the bimonthly bulletin
of the AAUP, reported this week
See "Salaries" on page 4
Friends Center Series revisits the life of Nary Hobbs
By Mary Bubar
Staff Writer
The words and life of Mary
Mendenhall Hobbs were celebrated
in the second session of the Friends
Center Series.
Married to Lewis Lyndon
Hobbs, the first president of the
college from 1888 to 1915, she had
no official position at Guilford.
A reading of her private letters
offered a glimpse into the personal
life of this woman whose public
life involved leadership roles in
woman's suffrage, temperance,
and pacifism.
On April 7, Assistant Director
of Friends Center Deborah Shaw
and Friends Historical Collection
Librarian Gwen Erickson, presented
"Up Close and Personal: The
Intimate Side of Mary Mendenhall
Hobbs' Leadership" in Boren
Lounge.
"Let Mary Hobbs speak to
us tonight through her letters
to her daughter Gertrude and
friend, Rachel Farlow," said Shaw,
who continued by reading the
encouraging and wisdom-filled
letters Hobbs wrote to her 14-year-
old daughter at Westtown boarding
school in Pennsylvania.
"A woman this day and age is in
poor plight without an education,"
said Hobbs in response to her
homesick daughter. "It is important
for girls to get a good education
and know the world before they
get married."
Hobbs' letters reveal how she
personally valued education, not
only for her own daughter, but also
for other women at Guilford.
She helped raise $10,000 to
start the Girls Aid Committee at
Guilford. This group built several
cottages that housed girls that may
See "Mary Hobbs" on page 6
Peggy Baxter (right) sits with Jewell Farlow as they reminisce about
their years at Guilford. The Mary Hobbs Reunion took place April 17
through 19, providing a weekend of joyous reconnection for alumnae.
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