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VOL. 74 No. 2 GUILFORD COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N.C. SEPT. 4, 1989
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Senate faces challenging year
Peter Smith
News Editor
The Senate executives are anticipating both an
exciting and challenging year ahead as they prepare
to tackle some difficult issues during the 1989-90
academic year.
Lead by senior President Tracy Russ, this year's
executives include senior Vice-President Beth Tate,
senior Treasurer Burt Gordon, and senior Secretary
Alexandra Duckworth.
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Duckworth replaces
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to resign his posi
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saidßuss. "We wish him the best of luck and we are
excited to have Alexandra as our new secretary."
Among the issues that are at the top of the Senate
agenda for this fall are attempts to hold tuition
increases below the 10% level and an overhaul of
the current visitation policy.
The Senate also hopes to create a house council
"umbrella government" known as the Residential
Hall Government Association (R.H.A.). The R.H. A.
will replace the current Student Residence Council
(S.R.C.) and serve to organize and coordinate the
current councils in each residence hall into a sepa
rate organization independent of Senate.
Roving con artists
hit English Hall
residents for $590
Several residents of English
Hall were the victims of two con
artists who coerced money from
Guilford students Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The two men collected an esti
mated $590 by posing as Guilford
students in need of cash. The men
went door to door in English Hall
only, telling students who would
listen how they needed money for
their girlfriends who were "in
trouble," or saying that they
needed to repair their cars and the
banks wouldn't cash their out-of
state checks.
According to Assistant to the
Dean of Students Dick Dyer, the
men were successful with their
ploys for three reasons: 1) with
the start of the new year, there is
lots of unnoticed coming and
going within the halls; 2) there
are plenty of new students who
don't know each other well
enough to recognize that a person
isn't a student; 3) Guilford and its
i students are naturally trusting and
open.
"They were using all that makes
this place wonderful for illegal
"TheR.H.A. will
enable house coun
cils to hold their
own elections and
also work more ef
ficiently," said Beth
Tate. Tate will
spearhead the
R.H.A. proposal in
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and hateful purposes," said Dyer
of the iricident. "I think it could
happen to anyone."
A flyer distributed Wednesday
night by security guards warned
to "Be on the lookout for two men
attempting to enter rooms and
'borrow' money from you." It
also gave descriptions of the men
and their car.
Security guards who investi
gated said the two men would
introduce themselves as freshmen
from Milner Hall, the taller one
saying he was on the basketball
team. They would explain that
they had a certain problem and
needed cash to get out of it. In one
instance, they said their car had
been towed and they had to get it
back, agreeing to meet the person
again the next day to repay the
money. In another case, the men
signed over an out-of-state check
in return for cash.
One victim said "I'll just chalk
it up to experience. I imagine I'll
have a lot'of this in life."
Dyer warned that "we have to
try and educate people carefully
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