An interview with
Don McNemar
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t GUILFORDIAN
GREENSBORO, NC
Ten new professors for next fall
♦By next fall 26% of the faculty will have been at Guilford less than two years
By Brian Schuh
STAFF WRITER
Several retirements and ca-
reer moves will
bring more than
ten new faces
into the faculty
next fall. This
has left various
departments
busily searching
for potential
candidates to fill
the voids. Next
year 26% of the
faculty mem
bers will be new
compared to the
arrangement
two years ago.
"It's a very
exciting time for
the college," said
Joyce Eaton, as-
ERIN MACK
A series of retirements will leave empty offices in Archdale
sistant to the Academic Dean. "The
candidates are very interested in
the new curriculum and want to be
at a place like Guilford."
Of the ten openings for per
manent positions, several remain
to be filled.
Alex Stoesen's retirement in
the history department led a
search committee to find and even
tually hire a qualified candidate.
Currently completing his
Ph.D. at Harvard in modern Ger
man and modern international his
tory, Jeff Vanke was hired to teach
courses on modern Europe for the
History department. Jeff will also
teach classes in the European area
of the International Studies major.
Jeff was selected for the position
out of 23 candidates.
"Jeff was an outstanding can
didate from the start," said Tim
Kircher, chair of the History de
partment. "He is highly knowl
edgeable about European history,
especially the history of interna
tional relations since World War
II."
A Durham native, Jeff re
ceived his undergraduate degree
from Duke.
"This is the department's first
hire in ten years, since I came to
Guilford," said Kircher. "So it's a
welcome, major event for the de
partment and the college."
The faculty search for an
Alex Stoesen to retire
after 33 years
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ethicist in philosophy has been
completed with the hiring of Lisa
McLeod, who is currently complet
ing her Ph.D. at Stanford Univer
sity.
A search committee for the
English department has so far
filled two of its three openings. Jim
Hood, currently a faculty member
Disney films pilot on campus
♦Founders used as dormitory at prestigious preparatory school
By Andrea Dodson
STAFF WRITER
Lights, camera, and action!
These words were heard all
over campus on Tuesday, as the
Walt Disney Company came to
campus film scenes for a brand
new television show.
The show is called Brookfield
and is said to be a melodrama
similar to the popular show,
Dawson's Creek.
After searching for the per
fect spot to film, Guilford
College's own Founders hall was
chosen to be a set for the produc
tion.
"We thought it was a pretty
campus," stated Kim Hardwick
the set medic.
Monday afternoon, Dana
Lounge was transformed to look
like a female dorm room for the
prep school for the show.
Tuesday, the excitement be-
NATO nations to
take refugees
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at Mars Hill College, will teach
courses in British and American
literature, and creative writing
and poetry. Hood, who graduated
demic deans office agreed to
terms and Bailey accepted the
postition. Having recently re
ceived her Ph.D. at the Univer
sity of Michigan, Bailey is cur-
gan.
The road between
Founders and Bauman
was blocked to allow
room for the large num
ber of trucks that had ar
rived.
Lights transformed
the campus to look like
a Hollywood set.
At ten o'clock, the
filming began.
Repeatedly, until
about one in the morn
ing, a scene involving
streaking in front of
Founders, was filmed
with a few Guilford Col
lege students joining in
the action. Two Guilford
students actually
streaked in front of
Founders where the
scene was being shot.
Please see Film, page 3
The future of the
Theatre Department
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from Guilford
in '79 with a de
gree in Reli
gious Studies,
received his
Ph.D. degree at
UNC-Chapel
Hill.
An offer
has been xhade
to Amanda
Bailey to fill
one of the other
positions,
which will
serve English
and Theatre
Studies. In the
middle of this
week, Bailey
and the aca-
MATTHEW ZUEHIKE
Founders was used in Disney's production.
APRIL 9,1999
rently a visiting professor this
semester at Deep Springs Col
lege.
Peter Wycoff also accepted
a position this week with the Bi
ology department teaching
botany classes and courses for the
Environmental Studies concen
tration.
The Sociology/Anthropology
department hired Leban Gwako.
Gwako is a cultural anthropolo
gist with expertise in economic
anthropology and African Stud
ies.
Cutbacks in the Music de
partment have brought much at
tention to the replacement of the
choir director, Ed Lowe, who is
retiring. According to Tim
Lindeman, chair of the Music de
partment, there has already been
one candidate to fill the position
to visit campus. However, the
choir director position will only
be a part-time position instead of
full-time.
"Many people are upset that
Please see Faculty, page 3