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The (jUILFORDIAN The Front Page News Line NCATE and state teams visit this week The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and a team of state officials will be on campus March 21-25. During their visit the two organizations will work to gether in evaluating Guilford's Education Studies Depart ment. NCATE and state officials will be having formal and in formal discussions with all facets of the community to determine campus-wide awareness about the depart ment Union makes plans to "dry out" Serendipity Union announced plans this week to make Serendipity a "dry" event. This is the first time in the history of Serendipity that it will be enforced as non-alco holic. Concerns have been raised in various areas of the com munity over whether such a policy can be enforced. Student Loan Fund Auction Scheduled The 1992 Guilford College Student Loan Fund Auction will be held Saturday, March 28 in Founders Hall. The public is invited to at tend both the preview recep tion beginning at 7:30 pm in Boren Lounge and the auc tion at 8:30 pm in the dining hall. Tickets will be available at the door. They are $lO for the general public or SSO for a table of six. For more information call 316-3070. Vol. 76, No. 15 Guilford safe from Painter Christopher M. Craig Copy Editor On Wednesday the North Caro lina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) officially announced that the federally funded, six-lane super-highway named Painter Bou levard will not be built on the east ern route that includes the Guil ford Woods. NCDOT Secretary Tommy Harrelson and his staff instead ap proved the western route that will circle the city, skirting further out of town toward the Greensboro Triad International Airport. The NCDOT indicated that it approved the western route because it displaces the fewest homes and businesses, and they also took into consideration an SBSO thousand environmental impact study that outlined the three possible alterna tives. The western route also af fects the least acreage of wet- and woodlands and avoids all eligible historic sites. Harrelson's announcement fol lows some three years of delibera tions concerning the best possible Faculty replace IDS 101 with First Year Seminars Jennifer Watts News Editor Putting to rest the controversy over IDS 101, the faculty approved at its March 4 meeting a proposal by the curriculum committee that replaces the freshman, interdisci plinary courses with a First Year Seminar Program. A First Year Seminar course will be offered by each department (with concessions for smaller de partments), giving freshmen the opportunity to "preview" the de partments in which they are inter ested. ecologic, historic and eco nomic options for Greensboro's outer belt-line. Greensboro developers, citi zens' groups, corporations and individuals have lobbied these last three years, pres suring local, state and fed eral transportation officials to approve what they felt was the best option. Because the eastern corri dor option was to cut through Guilford College's nationally regis tered, historical woodlands, and because the limited ac cess highway was to inter sect the surrounding commu nities, many in the Guilford and Greensboro areas chal lenged the eastern route. Vice President for Finance and Development Jim Newlin, who assisted the community in lobbying against the Guilford route, stated that the eastern "plan makes no sense to the col- > continued on page 5 As with IDS, freshmen will be sent a short description of the First Year Seminars and asked to choose on that basis. Course assignments will be based on student choice as far as possible. Credit for the seminars will be counted as a core requirement and not a distribution requirement or major requirement, which is also the same manner in which IDS 101 was handled. In the instance of a double major, however, the course could be counted towards a major. All departments will be respon sible for the advising of freshmen. Those freshmen who are ready to Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. m | 1 H ' I I II jHf H K V | fl Hv^ ':;• RijIBMBHMffIrHMBMM _ JBs |g| m&s%& ||K fl|H S| I I Hw >i|: aHI jjjjj% || .• photo by Joan Malloch The Union off leers lor next year are President Scott Thorn WH, Vice President Dana Trltsch, Treasurer Matthewßuctelnski and Secretary Jod le Hargus. To gat a preview of theirplans for next year see page three, li declare a major will be assigned an adviser in the department of their interest. Undecided students will be assigned special freshmen ad visers. This process is expected to be more beneficial to students than the current system, because stu dents can begin planning for their intended major sooner. The main difference between the new seminars and the old fresh man program lies in the fact that the philosophy of interdisplinary studies has been abandoned. Inter disciplinary work requires instruc tion by professors outside of their field of expertise as various as- pects of one or more disciplines are combined into acourse. Classics Professor Ann Deagon expressed a concern shared by many at the faculty meeting over what she called the "triumph of departmentality." She has actively crossed the boundaries of disci plines in her 36 years at Guilford and does not want to see the Col lege become like larger universi ties, which are generally more de partment oriented. "I would hate to see that happen at Guilford," said Deagon. >• continued on page 7
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