Vol. XL
Survey Conducted
on Roles at Guilford
A Survey designed to
discover how members of the
Guilford College Community
view themselves and their fellow
members was recently con
ducted by the Sociology Depart
ment's Community Organization
class. The questionnaire was
developed by members of the
Center for Creative Leadership
for use at the campus-wide
retreat held April 17-18. After
seeing the results of the survey
on the retreat, the class felt it
would be valuable to distribute
the questionnaire to a sample of
the school, to obtain a wider
viewpoint.
The survey was distributed to
180 persons, students, faculty,
administration, and trustees.
From these 180, we chose 89 of
them for a sample for the paper,
50 students, 32 faculty, and 7
administrators. The trustee sur
veys have not yet been received.
Results from the newspaper's
sample are on page 3.
The survey revealed that in
general, students conceived the
role of the trustee as more
powerful than the faculty judge
them to be. When asked if the
trustee's role is to support the
desires of the students and
faculty, 48% of the student
sample agreed, with 18% dis
agreeing, and 26% undecided.
63% of the faculty sample
disagreed, with only 3% unde
cided and 30% agreeing.
Both students and faculty
strongly agreed that the Trus
tees should not have a strong
voice in the curriculum. 90% of
the faculty surveyed felt this,
and 78% of the students agreed
with the faculty.
Some surprising results came
from the question of should the
faculty member teach only in his
Andy Gottschall
"Residence Halls Are Key to Sense of Community"
conducted by Douglas Scott
GUILFORDIAN: Who are
you, Andy Gottschall?
GOTTSCHALL: Well, I guess
Andy Gottschall is really a
number of different people . . .
depending on where you find
him at a particular point in time.
You can talk about him as a man
with a family, you can talk
about him as a person who has
worked in community devel
opment, you can talk about him
as a person who has worked in
community development, you
can talk about him as a person
who has been immensely in
volved with people probably
most of his life, one way or
another.
Sometimes Andy Gottschall
speaks about him as a person
who has some kinds of goals and
ideals about being a "good"
teacher . . . I guess you find
Andy Gottschall in some ways
permitting himself to become
involved by other people in their
concerns and in their lives .. .
and he kind of enjoys it!
GUILFORDIAN. As Guil
ford's new Dean of Students, do
The QuifforWon
area of experience. Botli stu
dents and faculty agreed that the
faculty should stick to their
respective fields, 58% of the
students agreeing, and 60% of
the faculty agreeing. 28''/ of the
students sampled disagreed how
ever, while only 18% of the
faculty did.
On the question of the
importance of research in the
faculty, 51% of the faculty felt
that research is not a primary
part of the acitivity of the
faculty, while 42% of them felt
that it was of prime importance.
Full results of the paper's
sample are on page three.
Legislature Now
Using Consensus
In the two student legislature
meetings which have been held
by the new president, Doug
Scott, the tone of Scott's
administration has been set by
the move from parlimentary
formality toward the use of
Quaker concensus and the
presence of a more relaxed
atmosphere in general.
The first meeting held April
26 centered around a discussion
concerning a proposal to reor
ganize the legislature (see page 5
for the full text of the proposal).
Scott kicked off the discussion
by asking the legislature mem
bers what attibutes the current
legislature's structure held. Con
versely, a discussion proceeded
concerning the faults of the
present system.
The May 3 meeting included
consideration of a new consti
continued on page 4
you plan to continue the policies
of past deans of students, or do
you plan to do something new
with the office?
GOTTSCHALL: Well, I guess
I'll just have to speak for myself
in this respect. I hope that I am
a new dean of students,
whatever that means, at this
point in time. I'm not at all
certain that I'm continueing the
policies of the operations of
previous deans of students that
have been here at Guilford
College. I do see this: that we
have some needs, some very
intense needs, and some very
important needs in our student
body that aren't presently being
met ... I think, as I've said on
other occasions, that Guilford
College isn't what it used to be;
it hasn't yet become what it's
going to be.
Perhaps, in fact, it doesn't yet
quite know that it DOES want to
be. And I think one of the things
that I would like to be a part of
is helping to determine just what
there is about Guilford College
that we're going to be.
GUILFORDIAN: What sort
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'6B Proposal Revised
Project RASI Proposal
by Karen Reehling
The facts surrounding the
RASI (Resident ia, Academic and
Social Interaction) program,com
monly known as a living and
learning experience, have not
yet clearly surfaced. As Alice
in Wonderland observed, things
are getting "curiouser and cur
iouser.'"
To retrace the proposal's
steps just a hit, the original
proposal written hy March
Weiner, Randy Hopkins, lilena
Brown, Jean Johnson and
J
ol programs and plans do yon
have for your new position?
Could you he a hit more
specific, particularly in regard to
what kinds of things you'd like
to use as your grdtind rules?
GOTTSCHALL: Well, a "hit
more specific" might he a little
more difficult at this point in
time. One of the things that I do
sense, and I think that there's a
growing hody of evidence to
support it, is that the parts and
pieces ol Guilford College seem
to he Hying off in quite different
directions at quite different
speeds without responding to
how they're relating to one
another.
And I think that part of the
job that I have is to try to find
some way to begin to pull
together these parts and pieces,
to get them Hying in something
like the same direction, so that
as a community we seem to be
going some place together.
Now, a major part of that
constituency of Guilford College
is that body of students we have
here. And even within that body
of students we have parts and
Alison Bradley was present oil
to the incoming student person
nel stall; Dr. Jerry Cioddard,
I xecutive Dean: Bruce Stewart,
head of the (iuillord fellows
program and Jim (iillord, head
of the Man in the 201 h Century
course. I his was to get it in the
hands of the administration so
that suggestions could he,made,
and the possibility of implimen
tation for next year enhanced.
There were three goals
continued on page 7
pieces flying off in different
directions at different speeds.
Instead of talking about a dean
of students and his staff, what
we're trying to talk about now is
the idea of a student personnnel
service, a service which is
responsive to the needs of
students and yet may remain
unidentified yet by students as
needs.
Well, what is this stall going
to be directing itself toward?
Seems to me that the most
important place in the student's
life at the college, in the sense
that most of his life revolves
around it, is his residence. The
Student Personnel Service that is
being organized is looking at the
residence as the key to the
development of a sense of
community, of a sense of
direction, of a sense of purpose I
think the residence must truly
be called a residence rather than
a dormitory. It's a place not only
to sleep and study, byt it's a
place to be, to grow, to develop,
to extend one's understanding,
not only of academic things by
of other things.
Students from Guilford,
Greensboro College, and UNC-G
joined the nationwide day of
peace action called by the
Student mobilization Committee
on Wednesday, joining the
weekly Quaker Peace Vigil at the
Federal Building at noon, and
returning to their respective
schools in the afternoon for
individual action and discussion
centering around the Peoples
Peace Treaty and the continuing
war in Indochina.
Guilford students began the
day of action against the wai
with a "Walk for Peace" leaving
Guiltord at a.m.. and joining a
rally at Greensboro College
around 11. After last minute
negotiations for a parade permit
from the City of Greenshorr
failed, the march was redefined
as a "walk." and allowed U
proceed.
About 25 students, lead b>
Sam (ireathouse, walked the livt
miles downtown via Friendly
Road, to join the rally of about
150 persons at (ireen shore
College. Other Guilford student.*
joined the rally later, arriving by
car. At the ((' rally, the crowd
was addressed by Dr. Waltei
Weaver, Chaplain of the College.
Mr. Paul Sebo, a political science
professor, and Ron (iallimore,
organizer of the rally.
The rally moved on to join
the Quaker Silent Peace Vigil,
held every Wednesday at the
federal Building on West Market
Street. Alter the Vigil, students
returned to their colleges for
allcrnoon discussion and action
groups.
A brief meeting w;is held at 4
p.m. on the steps of Dana
Auditorium, at which Dr. Bill
Beidler spoke of a Priest in
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The residence hall is also a
place where values, perhaps, are
most involved on the campus.
The Student Personnel Service
has as its objective the identifi
cation of these needs and a kind
of community development pro
cess in which your staff will
serve more as a liason, as
implemented, as identifiers, as
coordinators, as developers to
respond to needs of students.
We've already heard talk about
some groups of students being
interested in scuba diving.
Well, in what ways can a
Student Personnel Staff relate
effectively to the expressed
needs of some students for scuba
diving or modern dance, or a
weight lifting club, or a bowling
league, or a specoa? Academic
interest that the college is for
one reason or another, unable to
meet in its normal curriculum
structure? How can we vitalize
the residence hall as a meaning
ful place to be and to do
something other than sleep and
prepare term papers?
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