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Board of Trustees approves changes
Charlie McAlpin
Staff Writer
Kent Chabotar paces. The
board of trustees meet
ing runs an hour late. This is
the executive meeting. They
are talking about him. He asks,
"Will they give me two or three
weeks notice?"
He cracks a grin.
Chabotar knows he has noth
ing to worry about. As his eyes
gaze across the food table, the
meeting adjourns and the
trustees meander out like free
range cows.
One trustee stops and
speaks with Chabotar,
telling him how pleased
the board is with his per
formance and their deci
sion to make him the
president of Guilford
College.
Former Soviet President Goriiacliev speaks
Aaron Varnam & Cory Williams Greensboro communities, in Greensboro's
Staff Writers War Memorial Auditorium on Oct 6.
HThis year Gorbachev was the keynote
istory is not preordained; in speaker of the Bryan Lecture Series,
any situation there is always Keynote speakers in years past have
room for choice, for acting and deciding. It included Ralph Nader, Sydney Poitier and
is this kind of ini- Madeleine Albright.
Gorbachev's
kind of approach focused on challenges
that we need facing global develop
today order to ment the modern
together to world,
build a new dem- "However complex
the problems we
today, we have to be
So began confident those
problems can be
Gorbachev's solved," he said. "We
to nearly need to be We
need to take a
Gorbachev also
members of repeatedly stressed the
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was this year's keynote Bryan Lecturer
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"He's doing a great job," said
newly appointed chair of the
board Joseph M. Bryan Jr.
"There's unanimity there."
But appointing a new presi
dent is about the only exciting
thing the board of trustees does
at Guilford College. "There are
no surprises," said Ty Buckner,
Director of College Relations.
"So much of it has been
played out on the campus
already," said Buckner. "The
only thing left is for things to
become a reality."
During the Oct. 8 and 9
meetings, the board approved
the following:
"Except for the fact that I want a
dance floor, everything else is up
for discussion."
-Guilford President Kent Chabotar
- Construction of new apart
ment housing
- Construction of a community
center
- Strategic Long Range Plan
- New board chair Joseph M.
Bryan Jr.
- Six new active board mem
bers
Capstone Development
Corp. won the contract for the
community center and new
apartments. According to
Buckner, outside contracting
has become popular, and 74%
of college building projects are
now done this way. Among
other advantages, this route
_________ will not add to
the college's
debt.
Chabotar's
new strategic
plan includes an
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ment of 3,300 students, $27
million in construction and ren
ovations, and required commu-
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who are capable of understanding the
meaning of events and they are capable of
doing something unexpected and some
times extraordinary, taking extraordinary
steps to change archaic policies."
Gorbachev even spoke briefly about the
US pre-emptive strike on Iraq.
"The emphasis on the use of force,
ignoring international law, ignoring diplo
macy and political and economic ways of
solving international problems jeopardizes
international law and it jeopardizes and
undermines international organizations,
particularly the UN," he said.
He then added, "When alliances and
partnerships break down, this makes the
world situation increasingly unstable and
unpredictable."
Gorbachev also noted that poverty
spawns terrorism and that a war on pover
ty would be more effective than a war on
terror. "The zones of poverty and despair
are the most dangerous things to the
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