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The Underground
extends its hours
through the weekend
The Underground will now
be open for business on the
weekends. The Marriot-oper
ated restaurant, located in the
basement of Founders Hall,
extended its hours over the
weekend and will now serve
the campus Saturdays and
Sundays from 1 to 7 pm.
Computer hook-ups
now operational
Students residing in Milner
Hall and the on-campus apart
ments are now able to access
the computers at the Bauman
Telecommunications Center
through hook-ups in their
rooms, provided the students
have a device that can be
linked to a modem.
For further information,
contact Director of Computer
Services Charlie White.
Crime reports to be
published in the future
Senate reached consensus
last Wednesday on a media
policy that will enable The
Guilfordian to print campus
crime reports.
According to the plan, me
dia organizations, (i.e. The
Guilfordian and WQFS) will
be able to obtain a brief report
from Assistant Dean of Stu
dents Dick Dyer on the out
come of cases that have gone
before the Judicial Board.
Confidentiality will still be
preserved.
In the interest of consis
tency and uniformity, The
Guilfordian has agreed to
withhold publishing the re
ports until next fall
Vol. 76, No. 16
Dept. encouraged by NCATE/state visits
Jennifer Watts
News Editor
Although official word on
whether Guilford's Education
Studies Department will be accred
ited won't arrive until November,
those in the department feel confi
dent that they will receive both
NCATE and state approval after
being reviewed by the accrediting
teams from March 21-25.
"We're very encouraged," said
Department Chair Deborah Roose.
While the teams made no official
statements while on campus—as
sessment of their findings will be
revealed in a written report—Roose
did receive much indirect feed
back. The teams felt that two defi
nite strengths of the program were
the departments's use of portfolios
and the education students them
selves.
"The state team thought that the
students were 'amazing'—compe
tent and articulate," said Roose.
"They felt that the students owned
the program."
The NCATE and state teams
were also impressed with the
department's use of portfolios and
Dry Serendipity replaces beer garden proposal
Matthew Levy
Copy Editor
Having had its "beer garden pro
posal" shot down by the Adminis
trative Council, Union is currently
developing plans for a dry Seren
dipity, scheduled for April 10-12.
This announcement was made at
the March 25 Senate meeting.
At the March 4 meeting of the
Administive Council, Union sub
mitted three alcohol policy pro
posals, two of which involved a
cordoned-off area, to which con
sumption of beer would have been
restricted. Students would not have
been allowed to bring their own
beer, rather it would have been
sold in "the garden" by a third
party retailer.
portfolio reviews as assessment
models. A member of the state
team acknowledged that the port
folio system was unique to Guil
ford in North Carolina, and
NCATE officials stated that it was
rare in undergraduate programs
across the nation.
Attesting to the quality of port
folios is the fact that the National
Professional Certification Stan
dards Board, which is considering
means by which to evaluate in
structors for master teacher certifi
cation, is looking at using portfo
lios in its process.
Education Studies Professor
Claire Helgeson said that one team
member told her that he wanted to
say Guilford was "on the cutting
edge," but that "that was too trite
of an expression for the depart
ment."
"We feel affirmed in the direc
tion in which we're going with the
program," said Helgeson, pointing
out that the teams' viewing of the
old program as also strong was
helpful in the department's review
since the new program is still de
veloping. In fact, the program is so
young that it has yet to graduate a
The two beer garden proposals
differed in that the first would have
reserved Sunday as dry day and the
second would have only allowed
drinking on Saturday. The third
proposal was for a dry Serendipity.
The Ad. Council rejected the
beer garden proposal, partially be
cause it felt that bringing in a third
party to supply students with alco
hol would increase liability.
"Liability is an issue with the
dramshop laws. . .We would be
liable as a result of the sale of
alcohol, but there is a larger issue
than liability, and that is the impro
priety of an educational institution
selling alcohol," said Provost Dan
Poteet, a member of Ad. Council.
"Ad. Council suggested that
Union use the alcohol policies
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
"The state team thought
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—Deborah Roose
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major.
Roose stated that Gwen
Reddeck, a professor retiring from
the department at the end of the
year, was instrumental in leading
them through the review, having
had previous experience with state
reviews. Based on her past experi
ences, Reddeck also related to
Roose that "this was a tougher
review than this College had ever
been through."
One state department consultant
also related that this was one of the
strongest state and NCATE teams
with which he had ever worked,
making the success of the review
even more gratifying for the de-
employed in past Serendipitys. It
in no way endorsed a dry policy,
nor did itexplicitly hope that Union
would decide to make it dry," said
Guy Vitaglione, who is Senate
President and a member of the Ad.
Council.
"If this was an ideal world, of
course Ad. Council would rather
see a dry event But, no one be
lieves that is possible. It [a dry
event] is certainly going to be hard
to enforce," said Poteet.
Scott Thomhill, the Serendipity
Committee chair, expressed frus
tration over Ad. Council's posi
tion.
"When we went to make our
presentation to them, we made it
clear that we wouldn't revert to
last year's policy," said Thornhill.
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partment.
The NCATE and slate visit was
also handled well by the campus,
indicated Roose, saying, "(The
teams] had a great sense of being
accepted by the community."
The visits were one step in a long
accreditation process that began
with a compilation of reports by
the Education Studies Department
and the Education Studies Com
mittee that details how Guilford
meets certain standards established
by the state and NCATE. The teams
were on campus to verify the infor
mation in those reports. The teams
then report their findings to a board
that will determine accreditation.
"Yet, they responded with exactly
that suggestion, as if they hadn't
been listening. Ad Council failed
to support a dry policy because it
knew Union would implement one
anyway. It wanted Union to be the
bad guy rather than the administra
tion."
Poteet, however, stated that Ad.
Council had no intentions of mak
ing any organization a scapegoat.
The decison was based on a funda
mental position of the school not to
promote the sale of alcohol.
"Union wanted the College to
get into the business of selling beer.
The College refuses to sell alco
hol," said PoteeL
Union Vice President Page
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