News in Brief

Community alert: flasher on campus

On April 29 around 2:30 p.m., a male exposed himself to a female Guilford College student near New Garden Hall. According to an email from Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Todd Clark that evening, the man was described as a white male with white hair and wearing a black t-shirt and dark ball cap, and was driving a white four-door sedan with a N.C. license plate that begins with OBW.  If anyone has information about this situation or similar occurrences, please call Public Safety at 336-316-2909.

The Guilfordian wins national award

With a score of 900 out of 1,000 possible points, The Guilfordian was one of six national college newspapers to win first place in the 2015 American Scholastic Press Association’s annual newspaper contest, continuing a winning streak that has spanned several years. Last year, its 100th birthday year, The Guilfordian was named “Most Outstanding College Newspaper of 2013-2014” in the same competition.

Men’s lacrosse makes tournament

Guilford College’s men’s lacrosse team posted their best record since 1992 and the second best overall record in school history this past season. This earned them a spot in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Tournament as a six seed.  The Quakers traveled to Roanoke College, but there they fell in their ODAC tournament debut to three-seed Roanoke College Maroons 13-5. Regardless of this loss, their accomplishments this season will go down in program history.

Historic couple to graduate in May

When they walk across the stage on May 16, David Frazier and Larry Frazier-Arnold will make history as the first married same-sex couple to graduate from Guilford. Frazier and Frazier-Arnold have been together for over 20 years. They were married last May in Washington, D.C. “We had no expectation that our union would be codified in NC in October,” Frazier-Arnold wrote in an email.