Adventures in Australia page 8 T GUILFORDIAN GREENSBORO, NC Election '99 ♦ Profiles of fhose vying to be Senate executives next year wSIBSBX! - * I W' R J8- ■^=&j I i COURTESY THE GABRIEL TICKET The Gabriel ticket: Shawan Gabriel, president Luke Martin, vice-president Kelly Davis, treasurer Jill Reemsnyder, secretary Profile, page 5 - V gsSSp^fPji S KpflMp The McFadden-Roan ticket: Colin McFadden Roan, president Nate Parsons, vice-president Sloan Crawford, treasurer Megan Page, secretary Profile, page 4 I Wmmmk Jt HBI COURTESY COMMUNITY SENATE The Norton ticket: James Norton, president Neil Taveras, vice-president Luke Boganny, treasurer Skye Harris, secretary Profile, page 2 The Runner Stumbles page 11 More outsourcing debate page 12 McNemar announces departmental changes lege every day, and this one is one of the big ones. A couple weeks ago, President Don McNemar sent out a letter to students that stated that there would be some more changes made to the curriculum. According to the let ter, the music major will be eliminated, the certification of sports trainers will be discontinued, and the education stud ies department will have three tenure tracked professors instead of the previ- ous four. Yet, most stu- dents had no clue that this was going on. The letter was also somewhat vague to Single ticket uncontested in bid for Union office From Staff Reports This year's Union elections mark a re turn to normal. As in year past, there is only one ticket running for next year's Union top seats. Sara Hahnel, Kemba Bloodworth, Michelle Simmons, and Kirsten James are running for President, Vice Presi dent, Treasurer, and Secretary, respectively. Running uncontested doesn't seem to bother them, though. "If somebody else was really interested, they would've formed a ticket," said Bloodworth. Dawn Watkins, Director of Student Activities, is very excited about the ticket. She is looking forward to working with them. "[Union] had a strong year of events with strong chairs. We're going to try to get the B Starbucks invades Chinese market page 14 Andrea Dodson STAFF WRITER Surprises take place at Guilford Col- • TEA, ■ i Brw ~ *' ".'' ■*$*?' J Hk B Wjk 4Bk HI 9 ~ B AC EDEICH President Don McNemar Baseball season begins page 16 Sara Hahnel, Kemba Bloodworth, Michelle Simmons, and Kirsten James are running for President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, respectively. FEBRUARY 19,1999 most students, so even with the letter, the new implementations were hard to under- stand As students wonder about the origin Please see Departments, page 3 entire group working together rather than individually next year," said Watkms. Even though the ticket formed at the last minute (the petition deadline was ex tended in order to get the ticket together), the four are excited about working together more. Hahnel served as Union's vice president this spring after returning from Guadalajara. Bloodworth was the Spirit Activities chair. Simmons and James have both attended Union events but have not been members of Union. "We want to have a more diverse range of activities," said Bloodworth. "We want to increase the amount of rap, reggae, and latino bands we bring to campus. There's also been a decrease in the amount of movie tickets and outings and we want to increase those." Bold plans for a new year. of this plan, many are curious as to where this decision will leave Guilford stu dents. "The end result was the best decision to serve Guilford stu dents well," said McNemar. Guilford students should not worry too much about completing programs that they are already in, though, because, ac cording to McNemar "everybody here will be able to finish the major they have al ready started." Many people have asked who made the decisions to