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WE ticket wins election
ARGUIMBAU RESIGNS, LEAVING
COUNCIL-ELECT WITHOUT TREASURER
By Hannah Sherk
Staff Writer
On April 2, 561 students cast their ballots to elect the
2010-11 Community Senate executives. The vote was won
by the WE ticket, headed by President-elect Dana Hamdan
and consisting of Vice President-elect Patchouli Oerther,
Secretary-elect Anne St. Claire, and Treasurer-elect Andre
Arguimbau. The group defeated one other ticket, whose
candidates included Hannah Kennedy, Lamar Gibson,
Starlet Tetteh, and Sam Huff.
The numbers continue a two-year trend of record vot
ing turnout, with 316 votes for the winning ticket and 225
to the losing. The margin of victory was 36 percent smaller
than in the 2009-10 election.
"It was close," said current President Nancy Kloste-
ridis. "It was 81 votes. Both tickets had support because
they both had a good position. But in the end, the prefer
ence leaned towards Dana's ticket. I think it was the stron
ger ticket."
Losing vice-presidential candidate Lamar Gibson was
optimistic about student participation despite his ticket's
loss.
See "Senate" on page 2
Senior Lucas
Campbell speaks
to the audience
about the benefits of
being sober while his
® wife, played by junior
^ Natalie Streiter
sleeps on the kitchen
table in front of
him.“Curse of the
Starving Class” will
continue April 8-10 at
8 p.m. in Sternberger
Auditorium.
"Curse" debunks American dream
By Meredith Jones
Features Editor
The characters of Sam Shepard's
1978 play "Curse of the Starving
Class" enter wearing perfunctory
clothing — jeans, sweatshirts, a
dressing gown. They march across a
dilapidated set, missing a doorway
and pieces of the walls. But beyond
the chipping plaster are visions of a
brighter, broader country.
This is the driving force behind
"Curse." Each character's dreams
are glimpsed between the cracks in
the walls, only to be snatched away
a second later. The characters pursue
their ideal lives with ferocious intent,
but little effect. This is their curse:
to try, and try, and try, but never to
succeed.
Guilford's theatre studies
department presented "Curse of
the Starving Class" on April 2 in
Sternberger Auditorium. The play is
one of Shepard's "family" works, but
those expecting gentle humor and
Aesopian morals were disappointed.
See "Starving Class" on page 8
Quaker attendance rates rise
OVERALL AHENDANCE UP DESPITE
DECLINE IN SOME SPORTS
By Liz Farquhar
Staff Writer
Guilford's athletic department has
kept track of attendance rates for each
athletic team dating back to their first
varsity seasons.
"Attendance figures are estimated
figures, which is common at smaller
schools," Sports Information Director
and Assistant Director of Athletics
Dave Walters said.
Attendance rates have fluctuated
between an average of 40 fans per
game to 1,000 depending on the sport
and the season, since 2006.
The man in charge of tracking
attendance numbers and making
necessary adjustments to increase
these numbers is Bryan Jones, the
coordinator of sports marketing.
"I've been working on getting
the word out (about sporting
events) and I think the athletes have
been as well," Jones said. "I have
contemplated doing pep rallies in the
quad but then there's the question of
how many students would show up
to the game after (the rally)."
Getting the word out about games
and matches is just one factor that
attracts fans.
The data (above and on page 11)
indicates that average attendance
rates differ greatly among the
colleges in the Old Dominion
Athletic Conference (ODAC). Over
the past few years, many schools
See "Attendance" on page 11
"If a team wins, more people are going to want to watch them;
if they don't win as much, (fans) don't want to go watch."
Jeff Bateson, soccer coach
Average attendance at men's
SPORTS OVER LAST FOUR YEARS
2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
NEWS
Presentation addresses
cultural conflict resolution
By Almem Mayes
Staff Writer
On April 1, a day generally saved for fooling around,
Guilford students, dumni and guests got serious about an
issue that affects the world. Hosted by Vemie Davis, pro
fessor and chair of peace & conflict studies and director of
the Conflict Resolution Resource Center, world-renowned
conflict resolution specialist Mohammed Abu-Nimer fa
cilitated the Culture-Peacebuilding-Conflict workshop.
Abu-Nimer also presented a talk at New Garden Meet
ing that night at 7:30 p.m.
Diverse races, cultures, sexual orientations, and gen
ders all came together with one unified purpose: to dis
cuss methods of resolving cultural conflicts peacefully.
Abu-Nimer was introduced to the audience by Davis,
who revealed the speaker's ties to Guilford. Having re
ceived the first conflict resolution Ph.D. offered at George
Mason University, Abu-Nimer was hired by Davis in May
1993 to teach the first course on cultural conflict offered at
Guilford College. Abu-Nimer was also the first faculty di
rector of the Conflict Resolution Resource Center. He left
Guilford College in 1997.
The event drew students from a variety of majors as
well as professionals from other universities. Thomas G.
Matyok, an assistant professor in the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro's Program in Conflict Studies and
See "Peace" on page 4