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Zhe Week at Quit ford
Week of January 23-30
23- Morning Quaker Worship - The
Hut -8:05 a.m.
- GCRO Brown Bag Lunch - The Hut -
12 noon
- Conflict Resolution Resource
Center Training - Duke Hall - 7 p.m.
- Guitar Concert - Moon Room, Dana
Auditorium
24- Basketball (M) v. Bridgewater - 2
p.m.
- Basketball (W) v. Randolph-Macon
-4 p.m.
- Conflict Resolution Resource
Center Training - Duke Hall - 9 a.m.
25- GCRO Meeting for Worship -
Moon Room-9:15 a.m.
- Conflict Resolution Resource
Center Training - Duke Hall-9 a.m.
- Catholic Mass - The Gallery - 7 p.m.
- Klezmer Music Concert - Moon
Room- 6 p.m.
- Union's Superbowl Party - The
Underground
26- Religious Emphasis Week
- Morning Quaker Worship - The Hut
-8:05 a.m.
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February 2: All petitions are due at the Info Desk
by midnight
February 3: Information meeting about campaign
rules
February 4: Campaigning begins
February 15: Senate and Union elections forum,
7:30 p.m.
February 17: Elections begin at 7:30 a.m. and end
at 7:30 p.m.
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- Sheridan Simon lecture featuring
Daniel Carter on "Faith in the Future" -
The Gallery-8 p.m.
- Basketball (M) v. Lynchburg Col
lege-7:30 p.m.
- Student Coffeehouse in the Under
ground-8 p.m.
- Last day to return books to the
bookstore
27- Episcopal Eucharist - Moon
Room-5:15 p.m.
- Singer Carrie Newcomer at New
Garden Friends Meeting - 8 p.m.
28- Community Senate - Boren
Lounge -3:30 p.m.
- Mid-week Quaker Worship - Hut -
5:30 p.m.
29- Scrabble Club - Founders 203-A -
8 p.m.
- Union Concert, "Rockwell Church" in
the Underground at 9 p.m.
30- GCRO Brown Bag Lunch - Hut -
12p.m.
- Board of Trustees Weekend
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Groves held a seminar entitled "Activism
in the 90's." In addition, Millicent Brown
and a group of students from Guilford and
Bennett College gave a talk on "the
Overground Railroad." The group has
been researching possible sites of the Un
derground Railroad and traveling to visit
them, and shared their experiences.
Monday's events culminated with the
annual candlelight vigil held in Dana Audi
New requirements
approved
The Guilford faculty approved five
new breadth requirements at their first
weekly meeting last Wednesday.
The breadth requirements, which are
similar in principle to the current core re
quirements, are a part of the new curricu
lum that was developed by last semester's
Curriculum Task Force. Students will now
be required to take one course each in arts,
business and policy studies, humanities,
natural science and math, and social sci
ence.
Under the new curriculum, students
will have significantly less requirements to
fulfill, leaving more room to double-major
or explore other interests.
'This change is one that is positive
for everyone, both stu
dents and faculty,"' man
agement professor Bill
Stevens said. "It's go
ing to serve the students
better because it's a step
towards preparing them
for life after Guilford Col-
lege, since it will expose them to a broader
variety of courses from departments in all
areas."
Faculty approval was not unanimous.
Two professors, Mel Keiser and Lee
Johnson, recorded their opposition to the
plan.
"I want to make it clear that I am in
support of the pre-professional areas being
taught in a Quaker and liberal arts educa
tion," Keiser said. "However, there was
no clarity about what it is that we are re
quiring in the business and policy Studies
area. This is something we haven't had as
a requirement before, and I think we should
define it."
"I also objected to the word 'busi
BY ADAM LUCAS
Editor-in-Chief
This change is one
that is positive for
everyone, both students
and faculty. Bill
Stevens
The Guilfordian
January 23,1998
torium, sponsored by the African-Ameri
can Culture Society. "The vigil is a great
experience," said Dawn Watkins, director
of student activities. "It's becoming a pretty
big community event. A lot of people in
Greensboro come out for it."
As the final part of the celebration,
internationally-known poet Sonia Sanchez
gave a poetry reading Thursday evening in
the Gallery.
For the most part, Guilford's events hon
oring Martmg Luther King were well-attended
and students seemed to enjoy them.
ness,' because one of the threats to our own
humanity in the twentieth century is the
commodification of ourselves. We think of
ourselves as consumers. Tome, that makes
it inappropriate to make business a require
ment."
Despite the opposition of some pro
fessors. the faculty's approval of the new
requirements was seen as a victorv for the
pre-professional programs, which include
JPS. management, sports studies, and ac
counting.
"There's been a histoiy of some, I'd
even say a few, liberal arts faculty looking
down on pre-professional faculty as sec
ond-class citizens," JPS professor Barton
Parks said. "We convinced enough of the
faculty that a lot of this prejudice was due
to corrosive relationships within the fac-
ulty."
While current stu
dents may notice some
changes in the types of
courses offered in the fu
ture, the new curriculum
will primarily impact in
coming students. The goal
is for the incoming class of 1998-1999 to
be the first to experience the new program,
but it may be as late as the 1999-2000 school
year before it can be fully implemented.
No matter when the new require
ments take effect, Admission senior assis
tant director Bob Spatig says that potential
Guilford students are enthusiastic about the
change.
"Anything that strikes students as
being more geared towards them or in re
sponse to current student concerns is seen
as a positive change," he said. "The fact
that an institution is willing to change in re
sponse to what students have to say is seen
as saying something about the dynamic na
ture of Guilford."