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Admissions Office pro
poses new st
increase enrol
Peter Smith
News Editor
Guilford College officials, in
an effort to both improve
Guilford's admissions profile
and reduce possible future en
rollment shortages have pro
posed several new admissions
strategies.
The new strategies, which
were proposed by the Dean of
Students Nancy Cable-Wells,
and Director of Admissions
Larry West, commented mainly
on increasing freshman enroll
ment and selectivity, and come
at a time when Guilford has
been forced to struggle with an
enrollment shortage and sub
sequent budget defecits.
In a memorandum issued to
Guilford College faculty and
staff during December, a "30
point plan" for enrollment
improvement was prepared by
both Cable-Wells and West.
The plan, which is to be
implemented throughout the
next six months, will concen
trate on maximizing "enroll
ment and selectivity for the
Guilford class of 1994" and
reducing "immediately any
avoidable attrition."
Long-range goals were also
mentioned in the report dealing
with improving Guilford's
position in the national admis
sions market place and "reduc
ing the severity of effects from
any future enrollment dips"
"We are very concerned with
the current enrollment prob
lems, however, we have not
backed away from our goal of
320 freshmen for next fall,"
said Larry West, Director of
Admissions. Our staff has been
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very committed and we're
willing to do anything that is
necessary to acheive our
poals."
In addition to the report pre
pared by Cable-Wells and
West, a "recruitment audit"
was performed at Guilford by
PeterS. Bryant, an admissions
consultant from the Noel
Levitz Center for Institutional
Effectiveness and Innovation,
Incorporated which is based
in Coralville, lowa.
Bryant, who studied
Guilford's current admissions
and recruitment strategies
during mid-December, issued
a twenty page report examin
ing Guilford's current enroll
ment and recruitment position
and proposed several new
strategies aimed at recom
mending improvements within
the overall institution, and
various elements of the ad
missions, financial aid, and
publications process.
Overall, the report recom
mended 26 suggestions for
improving Guilford's admis
sions and recruitment profile.
Specific recommendations
ranged from establishing a re
see ADMISSIONS
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Physical plant accident injures
workers, initiates speculation
Eric Badertscher
Features Editor
Even on as small a campus as
Guilford's, it seems that rumors
can travel almost faster than the
speed of sound. Although De
cember's coal truck accident
involving Guilford Physical Plant
worker Harold Mitchell (reported
in the Greenboro News and
Record) did not keep him from
returning to work the next day,
rumors have bedecked the inci
dent with a macabre air almost
befitting an Edgar Allen Poe
anthology.
When asked what they knew
about the accident, various
Guilford students responded with
everything from eyewitness ac
counts to complete lack of knowl
edge on the subject. Freshman
David Getz said, "I have no clue.
Is he dead?" Freshman Butch
Maier said that "I heard he was
smothered in coal, hanging onto
his life by a thread." He also said,
however, that he had heard that
"the other guy [a rescuer]
sprained a wrist, and that was
actually worse than what hap
pened to Harold." Senior David
Simpson offered the most trans
formed version of the story, say
ing that while over at UNC-G, he
had heard some people talking
about a dead body that had been
completely hidden for several
months in a coal heap.
If none of the above versions
are true, what is the real story?
Fortunately, not only were sev
eral Physical Plant members on
the scene to aid the rescue, but
also about 20 student eyewit
nesses.
Senior Jon Deitelbaum, who
was standing near the cafeteria
when he saw the "two ambu-
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Harold Mitchell
lances and a fire-truck" speed
toward the Physical Plant, ran
over to the Plant and saw the
rescue.
What had happened to Mitch
ell, Deitelbaum said, was that he
was over by the Haworth soccer
fields, down by the Physical
Plant, watching the coal truck
empty coal into the Plant's fur
nace. The truck's bed stood at a
dumping angle. Mitchell, who
was standing behind the truck,
received the blow's full force
when the bed's back door sud
denly swung open, knocking him
down, and pouring "over a ton of
coal" on him. After about twenty
minutes, the truck driver and the
other Plant worker there had
pulled Mitchell out, but "he was
really shallowly breathing,"
Deitelbaum said. Fortunately,
the coal had not covered the
man's face.
Mitchell himself, released
from the hospital the next day,
seems none the worse for his
accident, and is back at work on
Maintenance's second shift,
making repairs to the dormito
ries.
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