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A Community by Tim Collins Guilford College has tak en important steps toward the creation of "community" de cision making. A genuine con cern on the part of the ad ministration and the faculty has resulted in visable pro gress. Students have been add ed to most faculty commit tees and the Board of Trus tees. In addition there has been increased consultation with the Community Senate on obviously student-related issues. Even the name. Com munity Senate, may be view ed as progress of sorts. It re mains to be seen whether or not this progress should be considered the end or only the beginning of "commun ity " decision making. Most students and almost the entire governance struc ture of the college consider the student members of gov ernance boards to be student representatives to governance boards. This distinction is cru cial. In making it we judge the success or failure of our ef forts at "Community" deci sion making. If the students presently sitting on gover nance committees are genuine representatives we have ach ieved limited "community" decision making. If not, if our representatives only represent themselves, we still have a considerable amount of work to do before achieving "com munity" decision making. Two factors are critical for effective representation; the first is attitude, and the second is communication. A representative must desire to represent or he will always remain a member of a board. Fortunately Guilford College appears to have no problems of attitude. Our representa tives do seem to honestly de sire to represent us in the go verning process. Yet, unless we know what they are decid ing and they know how we feel about that, no represen tation can take place. In at least one recent case the re presentative function broke down due to this communica tion factor. This case was the decision to schedule classes on four Wednesdays next fall, thereby forcing the students to "make-up" Thanksgiving. The important issue here is not whether or not the deci sion was correct, but whether or not it was made correctly. i The relevant student members of the governing process were present at and party to the final decision. The Academic Dean consult ed the Community Senate. The Guilfordian prominently printed the "proposed" chan ges in the schedule. The Aca demic Dean passed out a questionnaire asking how stu dents used their time on Wed nesdays. Considerable infor mal discussion resulted and many students thought they had participated in the deci sion making process. At first glance this decision appears to be the Utopian model of community decision making. The problem is more obvious when one realizes, that with the exception of the one or two student members of the governance process, all of this communication was after the fact.' The printers had to be notified of next semester's schedule Wednesday follow ing the Tuesday meeting with Decision the Community Senate. It is in the little time remaining before the decision was final ized. It is a fact that they had no time to consult their con stituency. It is a fact that both the Guilfordian article and the student questionnaire come out Thursday, after the decision had been finalized. The changes were not pro posed changes, they were changes. The decision was reached and the community was consulted -- not the other way around. Even if our student mem bers of the governing process had desired to determine stu dent opinion they were not given the opportunity. '•- stead they were presented with the cruel choice of de ciding for (rather than with) the community, or of not being part of the decision at all: either ignore your respon sibility to represent, or ignc.e your responsibility to decide. Obviously there are times when this is unavoidable, when decisions must be made immediately. The Academic Dean maintains that this was one of those cases. Decide now or never -- yet it appears obvious that this was not the case at all. Decide now or miss the catalogue was the alternative. What if we had missed the catalogue? The worst that would have hap pened would have been that the reforms were delayed a semester. Most likely, given a little imagination, the begin ning dates could have been printed and a one page sup plement printed later and in serted. A little [ess convenient. Acclaimed Pianist Japan's young piano vir tuoso, Minoru Nojima, will appear in concert tonight in Dana Auditorium at 8 p.m. His performance will be pre sented as part of the Guilford College Arts Series. Nojima was prize winner of the Van Cliburn Interna tional Piano Competition in 1969. The award was a Carne gie Hall debut which earned him a rave notice in the "New York Times." "Music-lovers who spooirlize in f:a."ii;ts should make space on their 'must hear' list for Minoru Nojima. The slight, studious looking young man made his debut at Carnegie Hall last night before a large audience and dazzled his listeners with piano playing of a king that does not come along very often . . .he must certainly be a pianist of major signific ance." Nojima began studying the piano at the age of three under the guidance of Japan's leading teacher. Miss Aiko Iguchi. At fifteen, he entered the famous Toho Music Sch ool, and at eighteen received the First Grand Prize in Japan's nationwide Music Concours sponsored by the Maninichi Newspaper and the NHK Broadcasting Corpora tion. He was immediately ac claimed by the Japanese music critics and the public as one of the greatest keyboard tal ents yet produced by Japan. TTk Qi/iflbf^(w 3EC Campus Elections Assume the worst, assume the reform had been delayed a semester. What would we have lost, what will we lose by deciding this way? There is a positive value in the way decisions are made which can outweigh the temporary ad vantages of immediate imple mentation of policy. As the administration's representa tive in this issue, the Acade mic Dean should have been aware of this value. The ad ministration is supposed to a little more trouble, but no disaster. (continued on page 2) to Appear Tonight In 1966, he was awarded a special scholarship by the Government of the Soviet Union to study in Moscow for two years under Lev Oborin, and in 1969 was granted an award for the most deserving young Japanese musican of 1968. In Japan, Mr. Nojima has appeared as soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. Presently he is studying in New York with Constance Keence and Arbram Chasins, and is making his first Ameri can tour under the manage ment of S. Hurok. Increase in Tuition The schedule of charges at Guilford for the coming academic year is as follows: Day Hobbs New Dorm Other Dorms Students Tuition 1,700 1,700 1,700 1,700 Special Fees 225 225 225 225 Room & Board 796 971 910 $1,925 $2,721 $2,896 $2,835 Student Activities Fees 66 66 66 66 $1,991 $2,787 $2,962 $2,901 The above reflects an increase of $50.00 in tuition; $25.00 in fees and $14.00 in room and board charges. The hourly rate for the main campus will be $54.50 and the Urban Center $44.50. THURSDAY MARCH 8, 1973 Esther Hall, known to one freshman class as the "out standing Freshman Woman" and to another as "the girl with the broken fly" won an overwhelming victory in Mon day's Union elections, She de feated Junior Jon Greene in a campaign that stressed plann ing for a changing Guilford community. Esther, who has served for the past two years as chairman of the Freshman photo by Fenske Hall campaigns in cafeteria Bike Theft Two ten sDeed hicveles were discovered stolen from the porch of Mary Hobbs Sunday morning, March 4. The bicycles belonging to Pat Ward and Karen Borreson, were a yellow Schwinn "World Traveler" and a blue "Western Flyer", both were in very good condition. One bike was unlocked but cover ed carefully by a jumble of five apparently less desirable bikes, and the other was lock ed, but only to prevent the wheel from moving. Guilford bicycle owners are urged to record their ser ial number and to keep their bikes in a safe place. nine GREENSBORO, N.C Advisory Committee, has been active in the Union for three years. The Senate election re sulted in a run-off, to be held after Spring break, between the tickets of Matteson - For man - Zulick and Rice - Hadd ad - Lathrop. The ticket of Dickenson - Newman - John son was eliminated in a close race, polling just twelve votes fewer than Rice. The exact date of the run-off has not been determined. In the Union Board of Govenors race unopposed Susan Pujak managed to pull more "yes" votes than "no" and campus figure Allan So cal defeated Randy Hopkins. 537 students voted in the election, the relatively large turnout credited, in part, to members of the student sen ate who sat at the entrance of the cafeteria and "persuad ed" hungry students to vote first, eat later. ■Hi M m fei B Biophile Brief Tuesday, March 20 Dr. Charlotte Dawley will speak on "Birds in the Caro linas" in King 122 at 6:30. Wednesday, March 21 "Who Killed Lake Erie" will be shown in King 122 at 6:30.
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