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The Guilfordian January 23,1998 Number of students withdrawing high ♦Some say that the numbers aren't anything to worry about BY ELLEN YUTZY World Editor Like most Guilford College stu dents, Cynthia Bibber returned to school on Sunday, January 11, 1998. However, she didn't come to finalize her registration and fight her way through lines in the bookstore. She came to pack up her belongings and ship them back to Maine. She came to fill out the forms that would make official her withdrawal from the col lege. Bibber had decided that she wasn't happy at Guilford. "Home is where my heart is," she said at the airport Wednesday morning, "at least for now." She plans to apply for transfer to a school closer to her hometown of Harpswell and begin studying equine science next fall. Many students choose to leave UNION VOX BY JENN WINGO UNION President Welcome Back!! I hope that everyone had a great break. This week we have several exciting events on the UNION agenda. Tonight we are proud to present the two films "Clerks," beginning at 8 p.m., and "Chasing Amy," begin ning at 9:30 p.m. in the Underground. This Sunday we are going to have the first ever UNION Super Bowl Party in the Underground be ginning at kickoff. In conjunction with Residential Life, UNION will provide snacks, beverages and pizza to munch on while watching this ex citing game between Denver and Green Bay. Monday night we will present our first coffeehouse presenting Car rie Newcomer and students (back by popular demand) in conjunction with Max Carter and Co., in the Under ground at 9pm, Carrie will perform again on Tuesday at New Garden Friends Meeting at Bpm. Finally on Wednesday evening we will have a second coffeehouse presenting the widely acclaimed the college each year. Some plan to leave college for good, while others plan to take a semester off or trans fer to another school. Marlene McCauley, academic dean, lists several reasons students frequently give as reasons for trans ferring. Most of them want a program Guilford doesn't offer, to be closer to home or in a bigger city, or they can't afford to return and choose cheaper alternatives. The college keeps track of the percentage of students who stay each semester. That statistic, called retention rate, is one of the numbers many prospective students and orga nizations that evaluate colleges, like U.S. News and World Report, use in assessing how happy students seem to be with a school. A definite number for Guilford College's retention rate at the con group Rockwell Church at 9pm in the Underground. Needless to say, we have an exciting semester ahead of us, and this week is just the begin ning. Keep in mind that the skiing trip is coming up on Feb. 7, and that sign-ups will be very soon. We will be going to Winterplace in West Vir ginia this year. Ten dollars pays for the whole trip, including transporta tion, ski rental and ski lift passes, so mark your calendars! As you all know, spring se mester includes the ever exciting, much anticipated weekend of Seren dipity. Therefore we hope that you will consider coming forth and bring ing your ideas and energy to our meetings on Tuesday evenings at 8:30 in the Passion Pit. We will be estab lishing a time during which we will meet to discuss only Serendipity. That time is still undetermined. Anyone who is interested in par ticipating in planning any events should feel free to contact me, Jenn Wingo at extension 3864 regarding Serendipity or any other UNION matters. News elusion of last semester will not be available until sometime next week. McCauley was able to say, however, that the total of 85 withdrawals was more than is listed for previous years. She was confident, however, that part of the reason for the seeming increase was quirks of Guilford's computer system. The current system doesn't al low for students who wish to take a semester off from Guilford but have every intent of returning to the school, which many students do. For example, Guilford's study abroad in Ghana program was in such demand this year that many students who ap plied were not accepted into Guilford's program. Some of those students chose to go to Ghana with another school. Until they return to Gtiilford, they are counted by the computer the same as if they simply dropped out 5502 Hornaday Road, Greensboro, NC 27409 Phone (336) 292-5100 Regular Prices Hours of Operation Mon - Fri, 9AM - 6PM: $1.50 Sunday: 12noon - 11PM Saturday, 9AM - 6PM: $1.50 Monday - Thursday: 9AM - 11PM Sunday, 12noon - Close: SI.OO Friday & Saturday: 9AM - 2AM Mon - Thur, 6PM - Close: $2.20 Fri & Sat, 6PM - Close: $2.50 Shoe Rental: $1.75 OPEN PLAY SPECIAL Rent - A - Lane Monday - Thursday 9PM - 11PM sl2 .00 per lane Friday & Saturday 12AM - 2AM $21.95 per lane Gameroom & Redemption Center Come try the newest game around NFL BLITZ FflMllV €NT€RTfIINM€NT C€NT€RS of school. Once they return, however, the computer will not count them as with drawals anymore. Therefore, the numbers at the end of each semes ter are almost certain to look worse than previous semesters because stu dents who withdrew and came back are no longer counted in the numbers of previous semesters. "Once they're readmitted, it's like they've never been gone," McCauley said. On a positive note, compared to last spring there were fewer suspen sions, probations, and dismissals last semester. McCauley doesn't believe that there's anything alarming about the retention rate. As to the students who choose simply to leave, she says, '"Some students tell us that, and the next semester, they're back again."' 3
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