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Jackie Ludel and Claire Morse, who shared last year's Teaching
Excellence award, were among the teachers who were granted
tenureby the Trustees last month. Frank Keegan and Margaret
Young also received tenure at that time.
Schuman chosen new academic dean
By Barbara Phillips
Samuel Schuman, who is
currently associate professor of
English and director of the
honors program at the Uni
versity of Maine, has been
asked by Dr. Rogers to become
Guilford's new academic dean.
Rogers' decision was the
result of a long and involved
search process headed by
Richie Zweigenhaft. The search
committee narrowed the field of
applicants, coordinated visits of
the candidates to campus, and
conducted interviews. The
eight-member committee,
which had faculty, student,
administrative and trustee re
presentatives, submitted a
lengthy recommendation to
Rogers.
Forget Hawaii
Lies our teachers told us
by Isa Cheren
Picture the scenario, it is
midterm but you are surround
ed by bathing beauties, palm
trees and kiwi fruit. Hawaii, the
golden land which could have
been yours had you participated
in the contest run by the
Guilfordian two weeks ago.
Did it not seem a little odd
that the Guilfordian, a paper of
modest means, would be able to
offer such an extravaganza?
Read on poor, disappointed soul
and this tale wrought of high
adventure and thrills shall be
unfolded.
Once upon a committee,
there were those concerned
with the beauty of the campus.
Delicate and fragile as it was,
According to Zweignehatt,
the committee did not reach
unanimous agreement on a
particular candidate, but wrote
a detailed recommendation
dealing with several candidates.
Rogers' final decision was
among three candidates. Ac
cording to Rogers, the commit
tee's final recommendation in
cluded a weighting of the
candidates, and Schuman was
most strongly weighted.
Criteria listed by Rogers for
making the choice included
evidence of good teaching and
scholarship, so that the dean
will be a full colleague of the
faculty and thus able to judge
excellence in others' work; ad
ministrative leadership; ability
lo work with budgets; ability to
they decided that something
had to be done about the
numerous mud runs that the
Klutzy students had created all
over the greenery. So, during
October, 1979, the posts and
chains were placed in choice
locations on campus.
In order to press the point
home, words of 'wisdom' were
chosen to decorate the chains.
And now for the moment you
have all been waiting for with
baited breath, where did these
words of wisdom come from?
(This is where the high adven
ture and thrills come in . . .)
According to Alex Stoesen:
"They came from a local an
nonymous verse writer." For
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC 27410
optimize creative participation
on the part of others; knowledge
and sympathy for a small liberal
arts college; appreciation for
human values and academic
work; personal sensitivity to
other people; feel for con
sensual style of governance; a
belief in the importance of each
individual in the community;
imagination; and depth in think
ing about broad educational
issues.
Rogers' acknowledged that
several of the applicants had
many of these qualities. What
set Schuman apart was his
perceptiveness about the needs
and issues of the dean's office
(although Schuman has no ex
perience as a dean, he has
experience running programs.
those ot you have been pulling
endless dusty volumes ot
Shakespeare from the shelves,
you would be hard pressed to
find "guided only by their guts,
they turn our village into ruts."
When Stoesen was asked why
the anonymous verse writer
gave credit to the famous
authors, he replied that "it was
nice to think they thought
that." The anonymous writer
felt sure that these various
thoughts by Yeats, Goethe etc.,
were ones they just didn't have
a chance to put down on paper.
So there you have it, a case of
inverted plagiarism pack upyour
leis and trudge down to Big
Star for kiwi fruit.
Do you know Carlos?
Be an editor—
the last chance
This is absolutely your last chance.
You have until high noon on Wednesday to submit your
application for theeditorship of the Cuilfordian, the Piper, and the
Quaker.
The competition is stiff, but don't be discouraged. To give you an
idea of the caliber of the competition, we have printed a randomly
selected sample application.
Is this person more qualified than YOU?
Name: O. L. Backer Position sought Cuilfordian editor/chief high
muck-a-muck/grand wazoo
P.O. Box lightweight
Class: lower middle/working
Please describe briefly your experiences which would qualify you to
be the editor of the publication you are applying for.
"I was on the desert talking with Carlos when suddenly there was a
golden glow in the air and a talking coyote trotted up. I could tell it
was a talking coyote because it asked me the way to Phoenix. None
of this had anything to do with the small, round bitter-tasting
"buttons" that Carlos and I had been chewing on. Anyway, when I
didn't know the way to Phoenix this coyote said that I should
definitely think about applying to be editor of the Guilfordian.
Somehow this experience stuck in my mind, and I think that it
probably qualifies me for something.
such as the honors program at
Maine) and his ability to look at
important issues such as rela
tionships in departmental plan
ning, institutional planning, re
sidential and CCE programs,
and allocation of resources.
"Itwas decided that Guilford
should go outside with fresh
perspective in all areas of work
who would be open and acces
sible to all parts of the academic
community," says Rogers.
"While the advantage of hav
ing someone within the com
munity is the ongoing knowledge
of individual and institutional
questions, someone from out
side is free from a history of
affiliation with any particular
groups or sets of ideas," says
Rogers.
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"Like cows they spurn the quotes of Goethe, Shakespeare, Keats,
and Whitman and make their own."
February X 1981
Rogers emphasizes that the
main reason for going outside
rather than making John Stone
burner, who is now interim
dean, the academic dean, was
the desire to maximize leader
ship on campus. "This way we
get Sam's new leadership and
retain John's leadership in the
faculty," says Rogers.
The two most important
things to communicate, accord
ing to Rogers, are first, the
importance of welcoming
Schuman with "generosity,
openness of spirt and en
thusiasm," and secondly, a
blessing and sense of con
fidence in the good job that
John Stoneburner has done and
will continue to do. '