NEWS
City considers reopening White Street landfiii
GSO DEBATES
COST OF LANDFILL,
RESIDENTS EXPRESS
WORRY OVER IMPACT
ON COMMUNITY
By Keyla Beebe
Staff Writer
The White Street Landfill,
located in Northeast
Greensboro, was closed
over five years ago to save
residents from odor, traffic
and buzzards. Met with
community opposition, the
Greensboro City Council has
recently proposed reopening
the landfill in order to save
money.
In 2006, after years of
lawsuits and protests from
residents, the landfill closed
its facilities to household
trash.
See "Landfill" on page 2
The White Street Landfill was closed over five years ago to improve life in the surrounding neighborhoods
but the Greensboro City Council recently proposed to reopen it in order to save money.
FEATURES
Students present PPS projects, compete for prize
Junior
Graham
Bryden, of the
project titled
"Reaching out
to the Stars and
the Community
using Radio
Astronomy,"
sits next to a
TV showing a
webcam image
of the radio
telescope on
top of Frank
Family Science
Center.
By Meg Holden
Staff Writer
With a prize of $1,000 on
the line, 10 students work
furiously to polish their
projects to perfection before
the judging is finished. This
isn't a new game show —
this is the GUS Challenge,
and it's happening now.
Officially titled the
Principled Problem Solving
Guilford Undergraduate
Symposium Small Group
Project Challenge, the
competition involves three
groups of students who
have researched, designed,
and implemented projects
to improve Guilford
and Greensboro. Now,
the groups will present
their projects — "Access
Everywhere: Handicap
Accessibility on Guilford
Campus," "Reaching
out to the Stars and the
Community using Radio
Astronomy," and "Rooting
See "Prize" on page 8
lAF community
organizer hosts
activism talk
GERALD TAYLOR ENCOURAGES
STUDENT ACTIVISM, STRESSES
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
By Amanda Dahill-Moore
Staff Writer
"The real question is: do you think there
is a need for organizing in Greensboro? Do
you think there is a need for organizing on
Guilford College campus? Is there a need for
you to be part of something which is trying to
change this community and the area in which
you are living?"
Gerald Taylor — lead organizer for the
Industrial Areas Foundation's Southeast
region chapter — posed these and other ques
tions in a preliminary discussion held with
Guilford students and faculty on Feb. 17 in
Bryan Jr. Auditorium to see whether Guilford
has the drive and potential to become a new
chapter of the LAF.
The lAF, America's oldest community
organizing network, is an affiliation which
enables communities to fight systematic
injustice and social inequities through grass
roots organizing.
"We move into communities by invitation
only," said Taylor. "This step is intentional; it
forces communities to organize around get
ting signatures for our invitation."
Sherry Giles, associate professor of justice
and policy studies, organized the event. Giles
received training by the LAF while she was
working as a counselor in the public school
system of Brooklyn, N.Y.
"I saw that organizing parents to address
the issues that made it hard to raise their
children in their neighborhoods gave (the
parents) the confidence and skills to improve
their lives and their communities," said Giles
in an e-mail interview.
See "Organizer" on page 3
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