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Page 2 Auction brings in over SIO,OOO for Student Loans James Tatum MANAGING EDITOR The Student Loan Fund Auction, hosted by Community Senate in Bryan Auditorium last Friday, raised over SIO,OOO in bids and donations to help pay for loans to students attending the college, according to Senate President Megan Page. Page indicated that Senate usually con tinues to receive monetary donations for a little while after the auction is held, and ex pects the final total to surpass SIO,OOO. "I feel like over the past several years that the auction has been going through a rebuild ing stage, and it seems to be getting better and better every year," Page said. Page praised the work of auction chair person Jesse Melamed and other Senators in preparing for the event. It all began at 6:30 p.m. on Friday with a silent auction in the lobby just outside Biyan Auditorium. The silent auction featured around 50 items including a one-hour mas sage, a Jiffy Lube oil change, and a black and gold Nigerian chefs coat with matching cap. The live auction was hosted by Guilford Trustee Billy Ragsdale in Bryan Auditorium, and ran for two hours beginning at 7:30 p.m., as participants bid on another 50 items. Ragsdale kept a humorous running commen tary as each item was brought out for bid ding. 'That's a rock that looks like something," he said referring to a stone sculpture. "Here's a certificate that says it's authentic." The sculpture went for SBO.OO. Ragsdale, who had 10 years professional experience running auctions, said he wanted to make sure people had fun "and spent a lot of money, that's the key." Among the rtems in this year's live auc tion, a two-night stay at a house in Myrtle Beach that can hold up to six people went for $l6O to senior Maya Burlingame. "Unfortunately, more money wasn't raised as there were so many steals," said Burlingame. "Still, I am a student, and it is nice to get a good deal." Corrections We at The Guilfordian strive to maintain accuracy and balance in our reporting. If you should discover any factual error printed in this edition, please leave a detailed message explaining the error for Managing Editor James Tatum at the Guilfordian office, x 2306, or e-mail the paper at guilfordian@guilford.edu including the word 'correc tion' in the subject line. In the March 22 edition of The Guilfordian , Ellen Hamrick's name wits misspelled Hamrich. In the March 22 edition of The Guilfordian, a page 6 photo of John Hicks swallowing a mouthful of crickets and two page-seven photos including Liz Hindman- Harvey's version of tennis and Jack Hilley's Chest of Steel were incorrectly attributed to Beyond Joy. The photos were actually taken by Sarah Betson. The Guilfordian News New forensics major I I I 4 ja&gr JpHr 1 M ' m iB r ***' ': v y ;&j|ffi -.v : .&tiM-'jm' Jsi W . vX , SPlr m^m mmrnni^M : * • ... ;^E Frank Keegan, right, father of the Guilford forensics major. Brian Schuh STAFF WRITER Uncovering fingerprints, collecting blood samples, analyzing DNA evidence - Guilford students can now learn to become better detectives. Guilford became the first college or uni versity in North Carolina to offer a forensics major when the faculty gave approval on Feb. 27. It is one of only 13 forensics majors na tionwide, according to Dr. Frank Keegan, biology professor and architect of the new major. "Forensics is using science to figure out what happened at a crime scene," Keegan said. Previously, forensics was only offered as a concentration, but Keegan said student requests prompted its expansion into a ma jor. CCE students ranked forensics as the most-desired new major in recent surveys, so all of the required courses can be com pleted in the evening hours. News in brief Daniel Fleishman NEWS EDITOR Graduation speakers announced The keynote and students speakers for Guilford's 165 lh commencement have been selected. Mary Ann Akers, a 1991 graduate who is currently one of National Public Radio's leading reporters, will deliver the key note address. The three students speakers, as cho sen by the senior class, will be Wendy Lam, an economics major from Hong Kong; Scott Piyor, a religious studies and sociology/an thropology major from Virginia; and repre senting CCE, Aaron Griffiths, a community and justice studies major from High Point, N.C. Commencement will take place on May 11 at 10:30 a.m. Library opens digital classroom dedi cated to Betty Place Gifts totaling almost $90,000 have en abled Guilford to open a digital classroom and made possible the purchase of computer JUSTIN BETSON Keegan, who currently teaches Fast Track II Forensics Chemistry, had to revamp his curriculum to catch up to the techno logical and scientific advancements since the last time he taught the course, only two years ago. Job opportunities in forensics are nu merous, with many of them having above average starting salaries. Possible careers include toxicologists, lab technicians, crime lab serologists, autopsy and firearms tech nicians, and DNA analysts. Lisa Pegram, a CCE junior, decided to major in forensics because she hopes to work in a local crime lab. "I want to be out in the field working hands-on with criminal investigations," Pegram said. 'This will give me the experi ence a Criminal Justice major wouldn't." The eight required courses are: General Zoology, General Botany, Introduction to Fo rensic Science, Forensic Chemistry, Cell Biology, Human Anatomy and Physiology I and 11, and Forensic Anthropology. hardware including 20 new laptop comput ers for use in the wireless library network. The college dedicated the new classroom on March 5 to former library director Betty Place, who worked for the school for nearly 17 years. Students can now check out laptops for use within the library from the digital class room located in the basement area previ ously occupied by media services. Guilford art professor exhibits work in D.C. The work of Adele Wayman, Hege pro fessor of art, was exhibited at the Kogod Cen ter for the Arts in Washington, D.C. from March 3to 21. The exhibition, entitled "Sa cred Cycles: Paintings and Altars," featured paintings and other media focused on women as the bearer of sacred life. "Nature is my inspiration," Wayman said. "I am moved to make art by the natu ral rhythms of woman, seeds, flowers and fruit, the shift from light to dark and back again, form to formlessness, life and death, and the wheel of the seasons." March 29, 2002 "My phone has been ringing off the hook since there is now so much in terest in forensics," said Keegan. Keegan attributes this to many factors the introduction of DNA evi dence in court cases, a "quantum leap" in tech nology, television shows about the subject and popular crime books by novelists such as Patricia Cornwell. "Biological sciences advance quickly, and the rapid technological en hancements in forensics excite the imagination," Keegan said.
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