April 6, 2001
Interview with the Page ticket
James Tatum
SPORTS EDITOR
On Sunday, April 1, the
Page ticket began their term
as executives for the Guilford
College Community Senate.
That evening, Sports Editor
James Tatum sat down with
President Megan Page and
Vice-President Christopher
Babcock to discuss their plans
for the remainder of the year
and beyond. The following is
a transcript of that conversa
tion.
Guilfordian: Thank for
sitting down with us today, I
know you're both very busy. To
start things off could you give
us an overview of your first 30
days in office: are there any
current Senate projects you
intend to tie-up, or any new
initiatives/proposals the Page
ticket intends to bring to Sen
ate before the end of the year?
Page: First of all, our sec
retary [Tamara Asad] is going
to be bringing a proposal to
Senate. She has heard from
her constituents some concern
about the quiet lab in Bauman,
that they would like to have
102 become the quiet lab in
stead of 104 because 104 is big
ger. So, that's something she
is going to work on for Senate.
We're also going to be
looking into Senate by-laws.
There were revisions made
that have never been ap
proved, and those revisions
have been revised, and so
we're looking to consolidate all
of that and to bring new Sen
ate by-laws before Senate to be
passed.
Babcock: We're also look
ing at finding a time when
more students will be able to
come to Senate. We're not
sure if we will be able to
change the meeting time yet,
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The Page ticket relaxes making plans for next year
but we want to bring that before
Senate for discussion.
Page: We also want to dis
cuss whether or not students feel
Senate should be every other
week instead of every week.
Babcock: Right.
Page: We don't want to
make those decisions for every
body. We want to discuss them
and see what everybody thinks....
Guilfordian: Senate is cur
rently discussing plans for a com
munity forum in response to the
"Bullwhip Incident" of a few
weeks ago. In last week's Sen
ate meeting it was suggest that
such a forum should be sched
uled for the fall since the semes
ter is drawing toward a close and
any forum planned for this se
mester would occur around the
time of finals. Can you give us
any sort of timeline
as to when we can
expect the forum to
be held?
Page: That's
another thing that
we are going to talk
about in Senate this
Wednesday, about
when to do that.
I'm not really sure if
I can give you a
timeline yet. It's
definitely some
thing that we have
been talking about.
The "Bullwhip Inci
dent" in particular
is difficult because
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the people involved are still in
the judicial process, and that's
the issue with that. But I think
that it all links together the
Bullwhip Incident, drug/alcohol
enforcement and security all
link into one huge issue that
needs to be unfolded. And I
think that may be something
that takes place in the fall.
Probably something you will see
in September.
Babcock: We're definitely
going to look at it. The thing is
we don't want to go into any
humongous changes right now
just because like you said
that would probably take place
during finals, and people are
going to be stressed out'about
that. And not only that, then
they're leaving, and then we're
just going to go into something
and then just cut off and then
everyone is going to go home.
Page; And it's hard to
count on other people to be sure
to carry it on while the students
are gone. So, I'm afraid that if
we move forward right now that
anything that comes out of it will
be dropped once school lets out.
Babcock: Right.
Guilfordian: To follow up,
you mentioned the drug policy
as well in that statement. That
is an issue that has continued
to dominate the discussion on
campus throughout the year.
Students have complained that
their voices are being ignored
while at the same time Senators
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feel they have been misrepre
sented as trying to push
through the revised policy sub
mitted by the Judicial Commit
tee last November. How does
the Page ticket plan to proceed
on the issue of the drug policy?
Page: The Student and
Community Concerns Commit
tee did a survey about drugs and
alcohol on campus. I don't have
those results in front of me so I
can't give you specifics, but I
believe those are going to be
published in The Guilfordian.
Guilfordian: I found them
on Lotus Notes. [Editor's note:
results are available through
the March 14 Senate Minutes on
the Community Senate 2001
Conference via Lotus Notes]
Page: Oh good. What we've
drawn from that is that students
are not positive about changing
the policy but students are posi
tive about looking at stricter en
forcement. And not even
stricter, but more just actually
enforcing it, because a lot of stu
dents feel like its not being en
forced at all right now. And so
that's kind of what we are look
ing at right now: what to do
about the issue of enforcement,
which is complicated when you
have student RAs who are su
pervising their friends, and
dealing with personal relation
ships as well as professional
Please see Interview, page 4
DAVE SCOTT