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Guilford College senior David Norton has been a vocal advocate for gender equity during his college career.

As a sophomore, he was half of a pair who asked the college to consider gender-blind housing.

That effort failed, but he’s scored success with another: asking the college to expand its nondiscrimination policy to include gender identity and gender expression.

The change "really allows people to express themselves and the way that they are," said Norton, 21 . "It’s about the college is sending a message that everyone is embraced in this community."

Gender identity is how a person decides to personally identify "whether it be a man or a woman or something else all together," Norton said. Gender expression is how a person expresses himself or herself, such as in dress or speech, he said.

The change is included in Guilford’s Student Handbook this fall.
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The Princeton Review only names 366 colleges on its list of the best.

UNCG made the cut.

The university’s inclusion in the 2008 edition of "Best 366 Colleges" is an honor received by only 15 percent of the nation’s four-year colleges, according to a news release. Students lauded UNCG in the publication for its inexpensive tuition, quality education, computer facilities and library.
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Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun will be one of the keynote speakers during the From Campus to Congress: Women of Color Creating Change conference hosted by Bennett College Sept. 21-22 .

Breakout sessions for the event will include global reproductive rights, the politics of women’s health and how women of color are portrayed in the media.

Registration for the event is $25 — free for Bennett students — and will be accepted on site. For more information, go to http://www.feministcampus.org/leadership/bennett.
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Add these events to your upcoming calendar:

• Author Mary Rose O’Reilly will speak on "Writing the Inner Spiral" at 7:30 p.m. Monday at New Garden Friends Meeting, 801 New Garden Road . The event is sponsored by the Friends Center at Guilford College.

O’Reilly teaches English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.

• Retired attorney Richard Rawls will speak on "War and Peace: Who Decides" at 7 p.m. Monday at GTCC in the auditorium of the Applied Technologies Buildin

• N.C. A&T will host an evening of spoken word called "Sankofa: Secure Your Future — Culturally Engage Your Past" at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Harrison Auditorium.

• Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia and director of the school’s Center for Politics, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Science Building Auditorium at UNCG.

Sabato will discuss the constitutional reforms he outlines in his new book, "A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country."

• Four Russian writers from a variety of genres will read from their works and discuss the ups and downs of being a writer in Russia on Wednesday at UNCG . The reading will be at 4 p.m. and the panel discussion at 7:30 p.m. in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue.

• Dolores Huerta, who worked with Cesar Chavez to champion the rights of farm workers, will speak at UNCG at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Elliott University Center Auditorium.

Campus Notebook is a weekly roundup of college and university news and events. Look for it on Thursdays. Got something for the Notebook? Contact Lanita Withers at 373-7071 or lwithers@news-record.com by noon Monday for consideration in the following Thursday’s column.