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The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

QuakerQuest: opinions on video gaming at Guilford

QuakerQuest: opinions on video gaming at Guilford

Josh Ballard, Staff Writer April 19, 2013

“Evil pure and simple, destructive of social interchange, and of artistic effect,” wrote John Collier in “The Problem of Motion Pictures.” Such was the rhetoric against film in the 1900s. Similar...

Grant Murphy gives captivating presentation on protein engineering, synthetic biology

Christianna Van Dalsen, Staff Writer April 19, 2013

What do you think of when you hear protein engineering? Do you imagine strange laboratory experiments creating man-made life forms or reconstructing the genetic makeup of creatures? How about synthetic...

Today’s top cover artists: go ahead, judge them by their covers

Today’s top cover artists: go ahead, judge them by their covers

Rishab Revankar, Staff Writer April 19, 2013

For the most part, YouTube cover artists are just like you and me. Besides the fact that they wear a lot more makeup, what sets them apart from us is that they attract listeners by the millions. The...

Fear and Loathing in Chapel Hill

Daniel Gaskin, Guest Writer April 19, 2013

It was 3 a.m. and I was walking down a pristine, litter-free street in Chapel Hill with a Santa’s hat on, strange substances coding my blood, the scent of an older woman upon me like sweat and the fear...

No Mas Muertes: an introduction to the border crisis

No Mas Muertes: an introduction to the border crisis

Samantha Metzner, Guest Writer April 12, 2013

During spring break, five other Guilford students and I decided to volunteer with the organization No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes, aiming to prevent death and suffering on the Arizona-Mexico border by offering...

Illuminating Guilfords True Colors

Illuminating Guilford’s True Colors

Gabriel Pollak & Kevin Engle, Staff Writers April 12, 2013

A trumpet blared through plumes of blue and red at Friday’s widely attended Tribute to Holi, kick-starting Serendipity weekend.  Deep bass reverberated throughout campus until early the next morning. Students...

Life, love and sex  in ‘Spring Awakening’

Life, love and sex in ‘Spring Awakening’

Josh Ballard, Staff Writer April 12, 2013

It has been unseasonably cold this year, and it has affected everyone on campus. However, spring appears to be making a return just in time for the theatre department’s production of Frank Wedekind’s...

Getting to know Tim: a sit-down with our Senate president

Getting to know Tim: a sit-down with our Senate president

Kevin Engle, Staff Writer April 5, 2013

Q: First off, give us some of the basics… A: Well, my name is Timothy Leisman, I am a senior and the president of the student government association of traditional students at Guilford College, which...

The 1988 Quaker: a yearbook for the ages

Andrew Stuart, Guest Writer April 5, 2013

My career in college journalism began in the fall of 1984, when I was a first-year. Little did I know when I started out writing articles and taking photographs for The Guilfordian that the camera and...

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