November 25, 1991. Better 20 pages late than 16 on time! Look for the special basketball preview inside! Life in Hell: p 15
G UILFORDIAN
The Front Page
News Line
Serial killer stalks
Greensboro?
Greensboro police are now
pursuing the possibility that
several of this year's murders were
committed by the same person.
The GPD suspects there is a
serial killer preying on young,
black, drug-using women in the
city. At least one of the cases
involved dismemberment of the
victim's body.
Possible link between
Waite and North
Waiting for the release of
hostage Terry Waite to become a
reality, the BBC released a
documentary Tuesday it had been
sitting on for three years drawing
connections between the Anglican
Church convoy and Oliver North,
one of the key players in the U.S.
trading of arms to Iran for
hostages.
Waite stated that he intends to
respond to these accusations
shortly. He is currently recover
ing from the seven years he spent
as a hostage.
Peace talks may move
to United States
Washington, D.C. just may
be the next site of the Arab-Israel
talks. Israel, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan and the Palestinians can
not agree on when and where to
begin talks again, and Washington
is likely to be chosen as a
compromise site since it is the
least contentious to all concerned
parties.
Tuition raised
The Strategic Long Range
Planning committee has an
nounced the tuition increase for
the coming school year.
Students will be paying 8.75
percent more for room and board
and 9.75 percent more for tuition
in 1992-93.
"Looking for a reason, roaming through the night to find mv place in this world" - Michael W. Smith
Vol. 76, No. 8
Forum discusses
internship options
Peter Smith
Special to The Guilfordian
The Clerk's Committee spon
sored an open forum in the Gallery
on experiential learning last
Wednesday in an effort to solicit
information and suggestions con
cerning the future of Guilford's
Internship and Experiential Learn
ing Program.
The program featured four mem
bers of the Experiential Learning
Committee and included statistical
information on internships, discus
sion of three models detailing the
proposed structure of the intern
ship and experiential learning pro
gram, and discussion of some of
the issues and concerns involved in
determining the structure of
Guilford's internship program.
The discussions concerning the
new structure of the program are a
result of the firing of Jim Keith as
Director of Internships and Service
Learning last spring. Keith's posi
tion was one of 29 administrative
and support staff positions reduced
or eliminated as a direct result of
Guilford cutting $2 million of re
Academic departments feeling five percent cut
Skip Davenport
Staff Writer
Guilford's Budget Committee
has recently requested administra
tive and academic department heads
to reduce their budgets by five per
cent.
The cuts are mandatory for the
administrative departments but not
for academic departments, due to
possible damage to the academic
program.
The cuts are to come from the
"unexpended" portion of depart
ment budgets—money not allo
cated. Salaries, benefits, tele
phones, insurance and utilities are
not to be affected.
quested expenditures in order to
balance its 1990-91 budget.
Following the elimination of
Keith, many members of the Col
lege, including a variety of stu
dents, had expressed concern over
the future of Guilford's internship
program and service learning op
portunities. Guilford had received
national recognition for various
aspects of its Internship and Ser
vice Learning program.
Before Keith's elimination,
Guilford maintained two full-time
positions within the Internship and
Experiential Learning Program.
Keith served as Director of Intern
ships and Service Learning and
Meg Kaplan served as Director of
Career Development. Both Keith
and Kaplan reported to the Dean
of Students.
Following Keith's elimination,
the College implemented the cur
rent structure featuring Meg
Kaplan as the interim Director of
Career Development and Intern
ships. Kaplan is currently required
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Since all department budgets are
not the same, the five percent cut
has a different toll on the various
departments, depending on their
functions.
"Science departments tend to
require more money to provide
equipment," stated Provost Dan
Poteet, "while English depart
ments just use paper."
Specific cuts are left up to the
department heads, who will estab
lish the priority of items to be cut
and monitor the expenditures of
the department throughout the
year.
Every department is looking for
places to reduce costs. The Geol
ogy epartment has recently gone
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
photo by Joan Mulioc ti |
Following Alcohol Awareness Mont", Bryan RA's
| Charlie Johannes and Jackie Burkett* with Assistant
| Director of Residential Life Helen Mufhem, coordinated
with AAA to: display the remnants of this car behind
Haiti fit was involved in an alcohol related
i accident last week in which there were three fatalities.
from seven majors in 1987 to a
current number of 22.
"Students might have to help
cover field trip expenses," said
Geology Professor Charles Almy.
"And equipment purchases will
have to be delayed."
Political Science Department
Chairman Bill Schmickle said one
way to cut back in his department
would be to "keep the political
science building closed when pos-.
sible, cutting down on the work
study budget."
"Overall, the five percent cut
seems feasible right now," said
English Department Chairman
Dick Morton. "But we won't feel
the squeeze until the spring."
The Budget Committee esti
mates that it will save $ 150,000 or
more from these reductions. The
purpose of the cuts is to help bal
ance the budget for this fiscal year.
Faculty, staff and administration
must work together to make the
cuts work.
Even with these short-term ad
justments, the budget will still have
to be dealt with next year and short
term necessities need to be turned
into long-term policies.
Also, department heads are be
ing asked to look for ways to re
duce their current operating bud
gets now given that their budget
requests next year may possibly be
restructured and reduced.