I April 24, 1992
GThe
UILFORDIAN
The Front Page
News Line
Student Activity fee
to increase next year
Next year's student activiy
fee will rise from its current
$ 100 toslos per student This
increase was the first major
action taken by next year's
Senate executives: President
Jen Hill, Vice President Jamie
Whitehead, Secretary Brian
Sugioka and Treasurer Keith
Valbuena.
Radio station gives
CDs to campus library
WQFS is donating over 30
compact discs of twentieth
century classical music to the
Hege Library.
Transfer of the discs will
occur this summa-, and stu
dents will be able to check the
CD's out of the library for
home use by the fall semes
ter.
Included among the artists
are Anton Webern, Stephen
Reich and Pauline Olveros.
Fulani speaks on her
presidential campaign
Speaking at Guilford ear
lier today was Lenora Fulani,
an independent candidate of
the New Alliance Party run
ning for president of the
United States.
Fulani spoke at Guilford in
1989 after her first bid for the
presidency in the 1988 elec
tions when she became the
f ; .rst African-American
woman to appear on the presi
dential ballot and the first can
didate to qualify for federal
matching campaign funds.
She also succeeded in captur
ing two percent of the na
tional vote.
'Guilford is a lot like summer camp, only without the learning activities."— Eric Dawson
Vol. 76, No. 19
Vice President for institutional Advancement
Soenksen to fill new administrative post
Jennifer Watts
News Editor
Guilford announced its selec
tion for the newly created position
of Vice President for Institutional
Advancement this week. Gordon
Soenksen, who is currently the
Associate Dean for External Af
fairs at the Duke University Fuqua
School of Business, was chosen.
"He has a clear record of suc
cess," said President William Rog
ers. "We're very excited to have
him on board."
Soenksen graduated summa cum
laude from Wartburg College in
lowa in 1972 and received an MBA
from the University of Chicago in
1984.
He taught English in an lowa
high school for two years before
returning to Wartburg as Develop
ment Assistant He continued his
career in development at the Uni
versity of Chicago Graduate School
of Business as Director of Devel
opment before going to Duke in
1984.
VAX computer system excites new assistant director
Jennifer Watts
News Editor
Beginning work earlier this
month was Guilford's new Assis
tant Director of Computer Services,
Teresa Sanford.
Sanford, whose previous job in
volved working with a VAX net
work of computers (the same sys
tem Guilford uses), said, "I de
cided that the VAX environment
was where I wanted to continue the
rest of my career, because they're
such great systems."
Before coming to Guilford
Sanford was one of two managers
of a large VAX network that en
compassed five counties and two
thousand users in Fort Meyers, Fla.
That was where she was first intro
duced to the VAX network.
Prior to that she worked in At-
At Duke Soensken is "respon
sible for planning, implement
ing and managing the school's
fund raising, public relations and
publications activities."
Under his direction Duke in
creased its gift, grant and con
tract income from an annual fig
ure of $2.5 million to a figure of
$7.2 million.
Rogers hopes that Soensken
will do the same for Guilford, at
least such is the justification for
the creation of a high-salary, ad
ministrative position amid
Guilford's work force reduction
resulting from the restructuring.
Rogeirs anticipates the position
will pay for itself several times
over.
"In development it is our job to
work with the strategic objec
tives of the instimtion to increase
the resources available for aca
demic programs so that the high
goals of the institution are met,"
said Soensken, describing the
objectives of his position.
The new vice president, who
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New Assistant Director of
Computer Services Teresa Sanford
lanta, Ga., as manager of techni
cal services for Inacomp Com
puter Centers, a national com
puter retailing chain. Her first
job after graduating from college
in 1982 was with Beverly Enter
prises, which was at the time the
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
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photo courtesy of College Relations
Gordon Soenksen will occupy the sole remain
ing vice presidency left after the restructuring.
officially be
gins works
May 18, said
part of his in
terest in Guil
ford rested in
the school's
character. "I
admire the
College for its
integrity and
academic
strength," he
said.
"I'm hon
ored to join the
team," said
Soenksen,
"and I'm look
ing forward to
the opportu
nity to work
with a very tal
ented group of
people here at
Guilford."
Soensken has been a resident of
Greensboro for four years, making
the commute to Durham. His wife
nation's largest nursing
home chain. She stayed
there five years develop
ing PC programs for main
frame connectivity
throughout the United
States.
Sanford learned
of the job opportunity here
at Guilford through an
advertisement in a Raleigh
newspaper. She and her
family were looking for a
chance to return to North
Carolina, her husband's
home. She also feels the
quality of life in this area is superior
to Florida's and is impressed by the
state's emphasis on education; the
oldest of her three children will be
starting school in the fall.
She has found Guilford's campus
"beautiful" and was attracted to it
Life in Hell—p. 12
Patricia is Vice President for Pa
tient Care Management at Moses
H. Cone Hospital.
partly because of its people, who
she said, "made me feel very at
home in a short amount of time."
The new assistant also com
mented, "I've been very impressed
with the students on campus... and
their inclusion in all the decision
making processes shows that the
College cares about the students.
I'm looking forward to interacting
with them as well as the computer
services staff."
She has been pleased with the
College and the position so far:
"Guilford has some exciting things
on the horizon. It's positioning it
self to be a forerunner in the pri
vate college arena. I think it will be
a challenge and a wonderful op
portunity to be a part of thatevolve
ment This is a good, long-term
career opportunity. . .1 think it's
going to be exciting.