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SGUILFORDIAN
GREENSBORO, NC
Outsourcing remains dominant issue
at December community meeting
By Brian Schuh
STAFF WRITER
Outsourcing of the college
bookstore and other Guilford ser
vices remained the hot issue of the
last Community Time Meeting on
Wed., Dec. 9th. Around 50 people
gathered in Boren lounge to watch
tensions rise between concerned
students and administrators.
A key question that students
raised was whether the college is
already taking small steps to
outsource services without keep
ing the entire community in
formed.
According to students Jessica
Justice, Megan McCall, and
Karuna Markman, the answer is
yes. These students have been con
ducting their own investigation on
the college's proposed outsourcing.
McCall started off the meet
ing by stating that landscapers
from Budd Services, a company
used by other schools that
outsource, were seen on campus
last summer. McCall and Justice
traveled to High Point University,
Planned Activities
Monday, January 18th
Service Project
8:15 a.m., meet behind Founders
Worship Service
9:00 a.m., Boren lounge
Parade in downtown
Greensboro
10:00 a.m., rear of Founders
Hands Across the Guilford
Campus
1:00 p.m., front of Founders
Panel on Organized
Responses to Rascism
1:30-2:45 p.m., Gallery
Round Table Discussion on
Racism Experiences
2:00-3:00 p.m., Boren lounge
Panel: Multiple
Perspectives on
Homosexual Issues
3:00-4:00 p.m., Boren lounge
Why are so many black men
in prison?
3:00-5:00, Gallery
continued on page 2
Does YMCA proposal
make fiscal sense?
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Services per
forms ser
vices, to infer
possible con
sequences of
outsourcing by
Guilford.
An ac
count execu
tive led Jus
tice and
McCall to be
lieve Guilford
was looking
into outsourc
ing, but Gillis
denies con
tacting them
about poten
tial outsourc
ing.
If Budd
Services was
AMANDA SPENCER
Gillis addressed students' concerns about potential outsourcing at the meeting.
hired to outsource services here,
they would put all of the college's
current employees hack through
the interview process and there
would not be a 100% rehiring, ac
cording to the executive.
Celebration planned
for Martin Luther
King, Jr. holiday
From Staff Reports
Guilford students will enjoy
their only one-day holiday of the
school year Monday when the col
lege celebrates Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day. Students need not
fret that there will be nothing to
do, as there have been a plethora
of activities planned in celebra
tion of the day.
Monday there will be sev
eral panel discussions and oppor
tunities for community service
before the Candlelight Tribute to
King, (see chart, left)
The observance will continue
throughout the week with
speaker Colman McCarthy oui
lining "How to be an effective
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According to Gillis, Guilford
is solicited a lot by outside compa
nies like Budd Services to perform
services.
"This is the natural course of
business for a complex institution,"
peacemaker."
McCarthy is the founder and
director of the Center for Teach
ing Peace. He is a popular col
lege lecturer, speaking at more
than 20 colleges a year.
His lecture presents ideas
ranging from the basics of nonvio
lent conflict resolution to the
theories of Gandhi, King, and
Thomas Merton. The lecture in
cludes New Shoots for Peace , a
short film documentary about
peaceful conflict resolution.
McCarthy will arrive at
Guilford early Thursday and ad
dress individual classes through
out the day, delivering his lec
ture on peaceful conflict resolu
tion in the Commons at 7:30 p.m.
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said Gillis. Gillis also confirmed
that Budd Services was hired over
the summer to perform landscap
ing since Guilford does not own the
necessary sophisticated equip
ment.
Cecil McDowell, head of
housekeeping, along with Gillis,
said that Budd Service has been
hired temporarily in the past to
perform tasks such as landscaping
and stripping old wax off floors.
Speculation as to whether
Guilford has already begun to
outsource was heightened when
Justice raised the question of
whether the college owed money
to Budd Services.
According to McCall, Guilford
owes $20,000 to Budd Services for
work they have done in the past.
Vehemently defending this
charge, Gillis stated that Budd Ser
vices was not paid at first because
the work they had completed was
not satisfactory to the college.
There was an agreement be
tween Guilford and Budd Services
that the college would not pay for
the services unless they were
deemed satisfactory. According to
Gillis this did not happen and
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