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Vol. 72, No. 12
CCE: No Major Growth in Future for Program
By Peter Smith
Guilford College's
Center for Continuing
Education Program, a
full-service adult student
center, is not planning any
major growth for the near
future according to
several college ad
ministrators, including the
Dean of Academic Affairs,
Sam Schuman.
"CCE is not growing or
declining in influence at
Guilford College. We hope
to see the program ex
perience modest growth;
however CCE's role will
remain in proportion with
the rest of the campus in
terms of institutional in
terest."
The current ad
ministrative response to
the CCE program comes
at a time when many main
campus students have ex
pressed serious concern
over the program's role in
Guilford's small, liberal
arts college setting.
Among the concerns ex
pressed by main-campus
students have been CCE
tuition inequalities, addi
tional benefits, and a large
increase in CCE student
enrollment.
Students complained
that CCE members pay
approximately SI4OO less
for 16 credits, receive un
fair access to tutors, night
classes, and various other
benefits such as a babysit
ting service or cheaper
campus housing, and have
increased their enrollment
significantly enough to en
danger Guilford's private,
liberal arts college com
munity.
However, Janet Krause,
Dean of CCE, believes
many student complaints
are unfounded and without
facts.
4 'Many students who
have expressed concern
over our programs have
done so without looking at
Guilford College. Greensboro. N.C
the facts. The facts show
that the CCE program is
not what they say it is."
According to Janet
Krause, CCE students,
although paying less for
equivalent credits, do not
have access to the same
facilities, do not receive
additional benefits such as
a babysitting service or
cheaper housing, and CCE
enrollment has not in
creased dramatically, but
has actually dropped over
the past few years.
Krause points to the fact
that CCE students cannot
use the full-campus
facilities including health
or counseling services,
cannot participate in
athletic programs, nor
hold office in college clubs
or interest groups.
She also emphasizes
that both the babysitting
service and the Frazier
apartments are open to all
who qualify, not just CCE
students, and CCE enroll
ment has increased only
from 468 students in 1986 to
503 students in 1987 after
dropping from 585
students in 1980 to 440 in
1985.
Krause, selected by the
Guilford administration
three years ago to add life
to a faltering CCE pro
gram, admits she has sub
mitted ambitious pro
posals to the administra
tion for further growth and
expansion; however, she
is comfortable with the
current decision by the
college for continued
modest growth with a
trend toward stabilization.
"I have no problem with
the way they
(administration) choose to
go. I'm just doing the best
job I can do."
Tom Lamb, the student
body president, expressed
"mixed" feelings concern
ing the CCE program.
Tom believes the main
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campus students have a
right to be concerned over
the potentiality of finan
cial inequalities between
main campus and CCE
Judicial Board Case Spawns
College Response
By Michelle Godard
This year's reports of
verbal and physical
harassment of gay and les
bian students on campus
provoked a statement by
the President, Dean of
Students, and the Advisor
of Guilford's Gay and Les
bian Awareness and Sup
port Group. The February
19 statement experiencing
or witnessing such har
rassment to seek
disciplinary action.
No allegations of this
harassment had been
reviewed by the Guilford
College Judicial Board un
til this month.
On Friday, April 1, the
first such case was heard
by the Judicial Board
Steven Reichert, a leader
of GGLASG charged
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students; however, he
argues that the CCE pro
gram offers advantages to
Guilford and it's students.
"Personally, I had a
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Graham Stephenson, a
computer service's stu
dent worker, with harrass
ment and violation of com
puter ethics.
The alleged harassment
occurred on February 21
when Reichert was ter
minated from the com
puter system by Stephen
son. The following charges
are excerpted from a
statement read by
Reichert at the Judicial
hearing: "After this inci
dent, I spoke to Mr.
Stephenson to ask why I
was so abruptly 'kicked
off' the system He
responded that he, as an
employee of Computer
Services was authorized In
his actions. He stated that
he was offended by my
personal sexuality, my
April 21, 1988
CCE member in my
marketing class and it
helped a great deal. CCE
students help fortify the
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computer process name,
"naked beside you," and
by the Guilford Gay and
Lesbian Awareness and
Support Group's logout
message which reads
'GGLASG...aII inquiries
confidential...box 17725.'
The statement con
tinued, "as further harass
ment, Mr. Stephenson
displayed—in publicly
visible computer pro
grams—his bigotry
toward myself and other
members of our communi
ty. He utilized a process
name that read
"Queerbashers" and a
logout message that mock
ed that of the GGLASG
and read "Guilford Col
lege Queerbashers
Organization, Box 17304,
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