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Advancing Excellence campaign comes to Guilford
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By Ryan Gordy
Staff Writer
Preparing future leaders. Supporting
outstanding educators. Building
community. These are the primary goals of
Guilford College's new capital campaign.
Advancing Excellence.
"The Advancing Excellence campaign
can show how much confidence alumni
and friends have in Guilford College," said
Kent Chabotar, president and professor of
political science. "If we raise money and
spend it on what matters in student learning
and the academic program, we will increase
our academic reputation."
The campaign's goal is to raise $60 million
heading into December of 2013. The money
will be divided up into endowment, capital
projects, and annual funds. The program
will provide funds for scholarships, faculty
support, the renovation of Founders Hall,
and other programs.
Advancing Excellence has already raised
$42 million, according to the campaign
website, and the school is pushing for more.
Guilford is urging alumni and friends to
donate, whether their gifts are large or small.
"Being a small liberal arts college,
fundraising matters," said Chabotar. "We
would not exist without gifts. Student fees
only cover 80 percent of our costs."
Ty Buckner, associate vice president
for Communications and Marketing, calls
Advancing Excellence a comprehensive
campaign because every gift is included in
the 60 million. The goal of the campaign
now is to broaden interest and excitement
to people who are connected with Guilford.
"People need to know that their gift
will m^e a difference," Buckner said. "At
Guilford College, with a program that
shares the core values of the school, every
gift will make a difference."
This campaign does not just concern
alumni, administrators, and faculty; it
is about students and their academic
experience as well.
"Students are a large stakeholder in this
process," said Assistant Director of Annual
Giving Jill Hayes. "They need to be involved
in this campaign as much as anyone.
The value of a Guilford College degree
increases when people see what Guilford
is accomplishing and the reputation it is
making in the community."
In 2002, Guilford had a similar campaign
called Our Time in History, which raised
56 million dollars and was the largest
campaign in the school's history. Advancing
Excellence is looking to better that outcome
and provide students and faculty with a
new enhanced experience that still holds
true to Guilford's core values.
'The program promotes stewardship
and excellence," said Chabotar. "It makes
sure Guilford survives and prospers so we
can pass a legacy of practical liberal arts
education grounded in Quaker testimonies
to the next generation. Advancing
Excellence is positioning Guilford College
for the 22nd century."
Guilford is operating at a disadvantage
because of its small endowment compared to
some of its peer colleges, as well as the hard
economic times of the last few years. The
program's plan is to have the endowment
amount total around 30 million dollars to
position Guilford to thrive in years to come.
"A lot of Advancing Excellence will
be in the future and may not benefit some
people directly," said Buckner. "However,
sustaining and improving Guilford
over time is vital for the school and the
community."
According to the campaign pamphlet,
the funds raised from Advancing Excellence
will go into programs such as study abroad,
principled problem solving, and athletics.
This is all being done to attract the best and
brightest students. The message now is to
get on board.
"This is your time to get involved
with Guilford," Hayes said. "We offer a
competitive environment for education to
enhance the student experience. We promise
great expectations, and with Advancing
Excellence, we will deliver on those
promises for years to come."
Campus welcomes fresh faces to departments
With experience working as
account executive in Shanghai,
Wen Ling Wang, below,
brings a new perspective to the
business anagement department
The peace and conflicts stud
ies department welcomes
Jeremy Rinker, above,
who recendy tau^t at De-
Pauw University in Indiana and
Lutheran College, in Virginia.
Parag Parker, below, now
leads the writing program for
the English department She has
previously worked as an as
sociate director of the writing
program at Duke University.
Guilford professor arrested,
faces secret'peeping charges
By David Pferdekamper
News Editor
On June 9, former Associate Professor of
Mathematics Jonathan Hatch was charged with
one count of secret peeping and eight counts
of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor,
according to Digitriad.com.
The charges came after Hatch resigned on
June 3 in the midst of a college investigation
over an accusation that he used a camera pen
to take pictures up the skirt of an adult student,
an event that allegedly occurred on May
25, according to the News & Record. Police
searched his computer and said they found
child pornography, as well.
Various news reports are inconsistent as
to which charges Hatch has pled guilty to,
but most report that he has pled guilty to all
charges, and all report that he has pled guilty
to the secret-peeping charge.
The Guilford County Clerk of Superior
Courts Office told The Guilfordian that Hatch's
court date is Sept. 6.
A statement on the matter from Vice
President for Academic Affairs and Academic
Dean Adrienne Israel is available on the
Guilford College website.
Eartbauake rocks Guilford
By Victor Lopez
Staff Writer
According to the United States
Geological Survey, Virginia
experienced an earthquake on Aug.
23. The quake was of magnitude 5.8
and was felt in Greensboro.
Dave Krongel '11 told The
Guilfordian he was in a music studio
and thought the shaking he felt was
just a garbage truck making the
ground rumble, but he soon realized
this was not the case.
"The shaking went on for far
too long; once I realized it was an
earthquake, I was taken aback," said
Krongel.
Shortly after the quake, Kent
Chabotar, president and professor of
political science, released a general
statement informing the community
of the quake.
"As with any earthquake,
aftershocks are likely to occur and we
cannot tell if those will impact our part
of North Carolina," said Chabotar.
The earthquake occurred due
to reverse faulting on a north or
northeast-striking plane within a
previously recognized seismic zone:
the Central Virginia Seismic Zone.
—_Th^ earthquake's epicenter was
between Mineral and Louisa, two
small Virginia towns.
Senior Kieran Brackbill told The
Guilfordian that he was on the second
floor of Founders Hall at a poster sale
when the quake took place and, while
others around him felt the tremors, he
did not.
"Perhaps Birkenstocks have good
absorption," said Brackbill.
Professor of Geology Marlene
McCauley put the quake in
perspective.
"For people in Los Angeles, a 5.8
would not cause a disruption," said
McCauley.
McCauley also said that structures
in the Eastern and Southern parts of
the U.S. are not built with earthquakes
in mind.
"Had the earthquake taken place
under Richmond, instead of such a
small town like Mineral, Va., we might
have seen more damage and injuries,"
said McCauley.
McCauley told The Guilfordian
that earthquakes do not hurt people,
structures that fall on people in the
course of an earthquake do.
"In the case of Mineral, Va., there
simply were not large structures that
were there to potentially fall," said
McCauley.
McCauley said that most structures
in the Eastern and Southern U.S. are
not built with the reinforcements
provided for earthquake damage in
the Western U.S., because of the rarity
of earthquakes in this area.
Following the quake, the Office
of Public Safety, in tandem with the
President's Office and the Office for
Campus Life, made sure the campus
was structurally intact, according to
Ron Stowe, director of Public Safety.
"We made sure that there was no
structural damage and that members
of our community were alright," said
Stowe.
In spite of the tremors felt on campus
and across most Eastern states, classes
remained on schedule and no injuries
or structural damage were reported.