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Volume 77 Issue 10
Guilford rated
near the top
Matthew Levy
News Editor
Guilford College has been
ranked near the top in a recently
published booklet, The Princeton
Review: The Student Access Guide
to the Best Colleges.
The guide, which claims to pro
vide "everything you need to know
about the 250 best colleges in the
country," placed Guilford in the
top 20 twenty schools in these cat
egories:
• Class discussions encouraged
• Most liberal students
• Most politically active
• Town-gown relations are good
• Great college radio station
Guilford was also listed with a
group of schools" stuck in the 60's."
"We're pleased to be rated so
highly," Provost Dan Poteet com-
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construction crew
The sun will come
Joe Gaines
Staff Writer
Weather permitting, Director of
Grounds Bill Scott projects the
completion of the brick sidewalk
before Christmas. Communication
devices (fiber optic cords and other
wiring) will be installed under the
walkway after its completion some
time in the spring.
Up to now, rain has been the
biggest obstacle in laying down
the walkway. On average, Guil-
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mented to the Greensboro News
and Record. "We're stuck in the
'6o's in a positive sense. It means
we're still a place of intellectual
and social ferment."
Poteet expressed concern about
a section in the review which re
ferred to drinking at the college.
"Guilford does have its share of
parties and its share of collegiate
drinking," the review reads. "One
student complained, 'weekends on
campus are pretty boring if you're
not drunk."'
Poteet commented, "Of course,
we know there is alcohol use and
abuse on campus, but I think we
were singled out there in a way that
was not accurate. For the most
part, Princeton Review captures us
very well. It is one of the more
accurate college write-ups, in my
opinion."
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Scott
ford College receives 1.68 inches
of rain for October. Last month the
college had 4.09 inches of rain.
Already for the month of Novem
ber 3.41 inches have fallen. Once
it quits raining, "it won't be long at
all" before the walkway will be
finished.
"Weather has more to do with
digging than the average person
realizes," Scott explained. Once a
hole is dug, rain can collect in it. It
takes a while for rain to dry if the
temperature is too cold or there is
an absence of wind. Both of these
conditions apply to the current con
struction on the walkway.
Bill Scott personally monitors
the weather for Guilford. He has a
rain gauge, barometer, and tem
perature gauge in and around his
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Guilford graduates dig up
recognition in
Greg LoughUn
Staff Writer
The Southeast Asia operations
of three of the world's largest oil
companies are managed by Guil
ford college graduates, accord
ing to the magazine Explorer.
Guilford's Geology depart
ment received international rec
ognition in the geology
magazine's Sept. article, "Small
School Hits Big Time."
Maijie White Heymon man
ages Southeast Asia for Chev
ron, Mary Beth Donaldson for
Amoco and Jack English for
Texaco. Also, Kelly Dempster is
an advanced exploration geolo
gist for Texaco and Lindley Tay
lor is a geochemist supervising
exploration research for Amoco.
The graduates attributed much
of the college's disproportionate
success to the "Quaker Quad
rangle" computer program in
vented by Geology Professor
Cyril Harvey.
The Quaker Quadrangle, of
ten called "the Quad," simulates
Photo by Carl Beehler
not only a geological search, but also
"the activity of a person who is in
vestigating a scientific question,"
said Harvey. Students "experience
for themselves the excitement of
achieving a creative insight as an
integral part of the scientific investi
" We want them to be just
as mystified and just as
excited and interested as
a geologist is when he
finishes a project.... You
don't know if you're
right."
--Geology Professor
Cyril Harvey
gation," added Harvey.
The Quad simulates a slab of the
earth's crust which is 16 miles from
east to west 26 miles from north to
south and more than 5 miles deep.
Students work in teams of 2-3 for 10-
12 weeks in order to compile a report
describing the area and summariz-
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Harvey
ing its geological history.
Students are given a contoured
topograghic map, rock samples and
field notes from the explorers
"Clewis and Lark."
Students obtain additional data
by drilling holes at locations and
depths of their choice. The land
scape has 7000 possible drill sites
of 40 acres each, which can be
drilled down to 25,000 feet. Stu
dents must work with a budget of
$3,000,000 a week.
The students must use their
imaginations, and confront the am
biguity involved in a geological
exploration. The drillings give a
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