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I November 15, 1991
GThe
UILFORDIAN
The Front Page
News Line
Criminal vs. Racist?
Saturday is an important day
in Louisiana. It is the state's
gubernatorial election day, and
it seems the voters of the state
have to choose from the lesser
of two evils: Democrat Edwin
Edwards, who has been inves
tigated on charges of corrup
tion, and Republican David
Duke, whose past includes lead
ership in the Ku Klux Klan and
the Neo-Nazi movement.
Ex-postal worker kills
A fired Royal Oak, Mich.,
postal worker returned to the
post office where he formerly
worked only to open fire upon
the employees. Three people
were killed and six people were
injured before the gunman then
turned the gun upon himself.
He is in critical condition.
This most recent tragedy,
which is only one of a number
of similar incidents in which
frustrated, former postal em
ployees struck back with fatal
violence, raises serious ques
tions about the government's
treatment of postal workers.
Cartoon upsets Quayle
Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury
was pulled out of many publi
cations across the country this
week as it began a controver
sial story line referring to alle
gations that Vice President Dan
Quayle was involved with drugs
in his years as a senator.
Quayle was so vehemently
outraged by the cartoon's im
plications that many newspa
pers have shunned the comic
strip. The Greensboro News &
Record, however, has opted to
run the cartoon.
Vol. 76, No. 7
Budget overrun may surpass $2 million
Peter Smith
Special to The Guilfordian
Guilford College is projecting a
potential shortfall of over $2 mil
lion in its 1992-93 budget, accord
ing to preliminary information re
leased at an open budget forum last
Wednesday in the Gallery of
Founder's Hall.
The projected figure would po
tentially represent the largest bud
get shortfall in school history.
In a memo entitled "Background
for Approaching 1992-93 Unre
stricted Operating Budget," a se
ries of additional expenditures were
projected which the college will be
required to meet during the 1992-
93 academic year. The additional
projected expenditures totalled
$2,460,078. Although the memo
indicated that the figure was a "start
ing point only," it stated that the
figures indicate "the shape and gen
eral magnitude of the problem we
face."
The meeting, which was attended
by approximately 70 faculty, ad
ministrators and staff, but only two
students, included presentations by
Provost Dan Poteet and Associate
Professor of Economics Robert G.
Williams.
Included in the additional ex
penditures are $284,177 worth of
Abroad program to Italy starts next semester
Joshua G. Lewis
for College Relations
An intellectual and cultural
sojourn in the Tyrolean Alps of
Northern Italy awaits 14 students
who will be venturing to
Brunnenburg Castle this spring
semester to participate in the newest
addition to Guilford's Off Campus
Studies Program.
With study abroad semesters
being offered in the European cit
ies of London, Paris and Munich,
the Brunnenburg program was ini
tiated because of the unique rural
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items deferred to the 1992-93 bud
get, a $211,765 increase in long
term debt sen/ice and a $759,565
increase in financial aid. The memo
also indicated that the projected
deficit figures for next year were
based on comparable enrollment
figures from this year's budget
and did not include salary increases
for administration and faculty.
The memo noted that each addi
tional one percent increase in fac
ulty salaries would increase the
projected shortfall by $42 thou
sand and each additional one per
cent increase in administration and
staff salaries would increase the
projected shortfall by $56 thou
sand. Typically, the institution
would consider raising salaries to
at least meet the annual inflation
rate in order to prevent actual cuLs
in employee wages for next year.
Poteet indicated various options
that could be employed to increase
revenue in an attempt to balance
the budget. These included increas
ing tuition, room and board charges
and CCE tuition, doubling the ap
plication fee, limiting the number
of students who study off campus,
containing financial aid, and de
signing and implementing reten
tion programs as a way of limiting
the number of transfer students.
President Bill Rogers indicated
experience it will offer. The castle
is located in the wine-producing
region of South Tyrol which bor
ders on Austria and Switzerland.
The area was not always a part
of Italy and is, as a consequence,
bi-lingual and m ulti-ethnical, with
both German and the official Ital
ian being spoken.
Thus, in the tradition of
Guilford's strong emphasis on
cultural diversity, the new program
will offer students the opportunity
to experience first hand the
dynamics of intercultural
relationships within a single
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Professor Robert Williams displays the amount of paper
work involved with tackling the budget.
at the meeting that a major consid
eration creating the budget short
falls can he attributed to a substan
tial increase in financial aid over
the past few years.
community
"I always dreamed about going
to Italy," said Kady Judge, a
sophomore who will be
participating in the first program
this spring. "There's something
more romantic about going to Italy
rather than a commercialized area
like London or Paris. I'd much
rather live in a small village where
I can really get immersed in the
culture."
The rural setting offers a new
persepective as well. Students will
witness the daily requirements an
agricultural community must fulfill
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photo by Joan Malloch
"The single largest factor which
has thrown our budget out of line is
the amount of financial aid we are
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to keep itself economically healthy.
Simple observation, however,
will not be the order of the day.
S tuden ts wi 11 participate i n the work
of the castle and the rest of the
village, bringing themselves up
from the remote level of tourist to
the role of meaningful interaction
with local people.
Since the primary setting of
this selective (only 14 students can
be accomodated each semester) is
rural, there is not the night life that
is found in the metropolitan centers
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