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Vol. LXVI, No. 1
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Dr. Sheridan Simon's freshman Physics students successfully launched a trash can last Tuesday in fulfill
ment of a projectile assignment. Although an error in calculations saved Archdale Hall, the can's crash lan
ding left two students and a young squirrel in critical condition.
Part 1 of a 2-part series
IDS 101 -An historical
By Constance Irving
What's as certain as death and
taxes and considered just as a)
unpleasant b) unfathomable c)
necessary d) difficult to explain?
If one is speaking of the
Guilford curriculum, the obvious
answer is IDS 101, the required
freshman interdisciplinary
course.
All that most students know
about the program is that it is
required and that this year's IDS
is different from last year's.
Because of its changing content
and somewhat vague objectives,
it is difficult for the temporary
student population to understand
118 Students spaced out
By Pete Fraunholtz
The approach of the 1981-82
academic year found Bob White,
Director of Guilford College
Housing, and the Housing staff
with a list of as many as 118
students for whom a room on
campus was not available. All or
most of the 118 were provided
with living space by members of
the Guilford community who took
new students into their homes
after all of the college's "stand
by" space of campus was filled.
Bryan A-22 and Frazier apart
ments 32 and 19, which are
normally used as "swing" spaces
to house those who decide at a
late date that they are coming to
what, if anything, IDS 101 is
supposed to be.
IDS 101 had its origins in the
Richardson Fellows Program
here in 1968. Guilford received a
grant from the Richardson
Foundation to create a
"leadership program." This
program was open to 20 freshmen
who took all their courses with
professors Mel Keiser, Jerry
Godard, Carter Delafield, Cyril
Harvey, and the late Jan Speas.
The program featured an em
phasis on interdisciplinary study.
In 1968-69 a desire was ex
pressed to expand the concept
into a required freshman in
terdisciplinary class for all
Guilford, were among campus
spaces which were automatically
filled with men. All or most of the
interns in the dorms, had new
students placed with them on a
temporary basis.
Those spots having been filled
and many more still needed, the
Housing staff requested that
various members of the
Guilford faculty, staff, and
community accomodate students
on the waiting list.
Doris Kimmel, Grace Small,
Hugh Stohler, Dr. Robert
Bryden, and Dr. William Rogers
all have two male students in
their homes at this time, ac
cording to Bob White.
Those students who moved in
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students.
The influx of a large number of
new professors in 1966-68 had
created an atmosphere con
ductive to change, says Cyril
Harvey, who arrived in 1966,
"There was a lot going on then."
Many faculty members felt
that freshmen, arrived at
Guilford expecting a different
educational experience. They
were then plopped into somewhat
undemanding basic courses with
other freshmen. This left
students unaware of the rigors of
more advanced courses until
their sophomore year, when it hit
them all at once. Professors
thought a demanding and dif
with Ken and Pat Schwab, Hiram
Hilty, Cyril and Judy Harvey and
Bruce Stewart have since been
moved on to campus.
The Housing Staff was aided in
handling the increased demand
for housing by the many new
students who sent their Housing
contracts in early.
To be on the "safe side,"
Guilford made arrangements to
house ten students at Greensboro
College. It was not, however,
necessary to use that space.
After the first few days of the
school year the Housing staff was
able to begin relocating students
into rooms left vacant by those
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Maclnnes' battery
By Pete Fraunholtz
Dave Mclnnes, professor of
Chemistry at Guilford College,
recently gained wide recognition
for his role in developing an in
novative organic battery. This
lightweight, inexpensive battery
promises to improve the
feasibility of the electric car, as
well as energy storage by solar
cells and windmills.
Maclnnes developed the bat
tery while on sabbatical from
Guilford at the University of
Pennsylvania. Its essential
ingredient is polycatelene, an
organic (made from carbon and
hydrogen) plastic which can be
built from coal, wood, or gar
ferent freshman course would
alleviate the problem. Out of a
desire to avoid the "13th year of
high school syndrome" and to
lesson the notorious "Sophomore
Slump," "Man in the '2oth Cen
tury," the first IDS program was
born in the fall of 1969.
Mel Keiser, one of its creators,
said that it was one of the first of
its kind anywhere. He added that
with the exception of the
Richardson Fellows Program,
the entire thing was, and still is,
maintained without the
assistance of any outside grant
money, through other schools
have gotten funding for similar
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Alternatives to on-campus housing? The Guilford housing crunch has
created off-campus problems for freshmen.
September 18, 1981
bage. The plastic is chemically
treated so that it assumes
metallic properties.
One of the possible uses of the
plastic battery is for the electric
car. It can store five to ten times
the energy per weight of a
standard lead acid battery and
has a range of up to 500 miles
between charges. The typical
lead acid battery, however, can
only go 100 miles before needing
to be recharged. The develop
ment could make the electric car
cost-competitive with the gas
guzzling, air polluting coun
terpart.
The Maclnnes development is a
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projects. Keiser said that "We
were already doing some of the
things people at other schools
were demanding" with the "late
60's-early 70's revolt in
education."
"MITC", organized as a
"problem-oriented in
terdisciplinary course," lasted
for two semesters freshman
year. It dealt with the en
vironment and the individual in it
and included such topics as the
environment, overpopulation,
evolution, changing values, race
relations, women's issues and
future worlds.
continued on page 3