Guilfordian
Volume LXV, No. 6
Roads planned
By Susan Ide
Guilford property may soon
be crisscrossed by two large
roadway systems. The first of
these proposed roads, spon
sored by the state Transporta
tion department, will create a
northern access to the newly
remodeled airport. The second,
sponsored by the City of
Creensboro, will be part of a
proposed beltway system meant
to encircle the city.
The airport road, scheduled
to be completed around 1986, is
still in the planning phase. An
Environmental Impact State
ment (EIS) is being completed
and public hearings are being
held. The next will be in late
November. There are seven
alternative routes (see map -
page 4). H.R. Jenkins of the
State Highway and Transporta
tion Bureau, says, "Personally,
I don't think the alternative
through Guilford is a good
choice. We need an alternative
that makes use of pre-existing
roads." Jenkins admitted, how
ever, that he had little influence
on the final decision.
The final decision will be
based on a series of actions.
First, the EIS staff will recom
mend one of the alternative
routes. Their recommendation
will be based on the findings of
the study and on the public
hearings. "The need for the
road has already been estab
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lished by the professionals,"
said Jenkins. "The public hear
ings are held primarily in oruer
to decide which alternative will
create the least amount of
public arousal."
The recommendation of the
"The thoroughfare
plan is an attempt
to solve tomorrows
problems with
yesterday's solutions'.
-Donald Gibbon
EIS staff is then voted on by the
State Board of Transportation.
The Board is under no obliga
tion to act upon the recom
mendation and may choose an
entirely different alternative.
The second road, scheduled
to be completed in 2000, is part
of the proposed beltway system
that will eventually encircle
Greensboro. The plan, first
formulated in 1954, consists of a
four lane beltway going around
the city. The beltway will have
"full control" - it will have
cloverleaf exit and entrance
ramps. Sections of the beltway
have already been built. One
such segment is Freeman Mill
Road
The beltway system is being
built in segments. Each section
is individually considered in
order to determine whether it
justifies further consideration.
An EIS is then done in order to
determine if the road should be
built and what the alternatives
are. One of the alternatives
considered is changing land use
patterns of today with an eye to
the future. This would involve a
change in traffic control, an
encouragement of carpooling,
and possibly an upgrading of
the public mass transportation
system. Another alternative
would be to upgrade the exist
ing facilities. The EIS also
considers such things as en
vironmental, natural, and hu
man elements that will be
affected.
The reasons for not doing an
overall EIS on the whole system
are twofold. The first of these is
that,according to Jim Laumann
of the Greensboro Traffic and
Transportation Department, the
cost of an overall EIS would be
in excess of one million tax
payer dollars. In addition, the
EIS would be virtually meaning
less by the time the building
took place. "Things may
change in that time. Cars may
decrease in number and size
and we may not need the new
beltway system,"says Jim Lau
mann. "To do an EIS of the
whole project would be a use
less waste of tax-payers'
money."
Search for
By Barbara Phillips
The dean search committee is
now recruiting candidates for a
position which has been vacated
seven times in fifteen years.
The position being recruited
for is the academic dean, which
involves a change in title, from
the dean of the faculty, and a
clarification of the responsibi
lities now included in that
office.
The changes, according to
William Rogers' explanation
during the September faculty
meeting, involve making the
dean "the chief academic of
ficer" of Guilford. At present,
academic responsibilities, in
cluding membership in the Fac
ulty Affairs Committee, are
shared between the dean (in
terim dean John Stoneburner)
and the provost (Bruce Ste
wart). FAC's responsibilities
include making recommen
dations on the promotion and
tenure of faculty members.
According to John Stonebur-
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Guilford's atmosphere may be in danger if beltway is con
structed.
Jim Laumann believes the
Guilford College section (see
map) will be justified within ten
to fifteen years. He believes the
traffic increase will call for the
increased capacity that the belt
way will allow. Once the need
has been established, an EIS
will be done and public hearings
will be held. The public hear
ings and the EIS play an
important role, according to Jim
Laumann. If there is a great
deal of public opposition, the
project may be delayed. Jim
Laumann admits, however, that
"to prevent a project alto
gether, you need a very strong
case." The final decision, once
the public hearings are over,
lies in the hands of the federal
government. The federal gov
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ner, the clarification is greatly
needed. "It's been a jungle,"
he says, referring to the tangled
responsibilities of the offices
and the confusion on the part of
the rest of the community.
Richie Zweigenhaft, chairman
of the search committee, con
curs. "It's really been a mess
the past several years."
The search committee, ac
cording to Zweigenhaft, is func
tioning in a similar way that the
committee two years did, when
Catherine Fraser was recom
mended for the positon of dean
of the faculty.
The situation, however, in
1978 was different for two
reasons, says Zweigenhaft.
First, the college was going
outside the community to fill the
position, which had not been
done in many years. Second,
the search was conducted in
Crimsley Hobbs' thirteenth
year of administration, not Wil
liam Rogers' first year These
factors may well lead to a very
different recommendation than
was appropriate two years ago.
October 7, 1980
ernment, since they are ex
pected to finance much of the
project, makes the decision
jointly with the EIS staff.
There are some arguments
against the plan. Don Gibbon,
one-time professor of geology at
Guilford, was very much op
posed to the proposed beltway.
He argued that the implications
of the beltway far exceed what
the segmented EIS can cover.
The beltway, scheduled to go
through an old residential area
will destroy the feeling of
community. In addition, it
would encourage people to
move out to the suburbs, thus
overloading the already over
taxed water supply, argued Don
Gibbon.
see beltway page four
Major responsibilities of the
office have changed over recent
years. In 1972, the dean's office
was responsible for overseeing
the library, admissions, ath
letics, the registrar, and all the
academic departments. Now, it
includes only the registrar and
the academic departments.
Changes in responsibilities
have been accompanied by
changes in titles. Various peo
ple associated with the office
have been called the academic
dean, executive dean, acting
dean, dean of the faculty,
interim dean, and provost. In
addition, there is a dean of
continuing education, formerly
dean of the urban center.
Qualities of the person being
sought include an earned doc
torate, experience in adminis
tration, qualifications to hold a
teaching position in an aca
demic department, and ability
to work with students, faculty,
and administration. The search
committee is encouraging nom
inations from the Cuilford com
munity as well as outside.