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Volume 78 Issue 3
Hege Cox gets checkup
Jeff Johnson
Staff writer
Guilford an students and faculty
are fed up with the working con
ditions of the art facility, Hege
Cox.
"I feel that it is an insult to my
professionalism and it's something
we've been making the adminis
tration aware of since 1985. Be
sides Binford, Hege Cox is the
only facility on campus without air
conditioning," Roy Nydorf, an
professor, said.
"We want to be heard and we
want to know where we are on the
priority list with some assurances
that our needs will be met. We
don't expect it to happen tomor
row, but we do expect direct com
munication about progress from
the administration," Adele
Wayman, art professor, said.
"We know that major improve
ments to Hege Cox will cost
around $400,000," said Provost
Dan Poteet "We don't know with
confidence if making those im
provements will provide an art fa
cility of the quality that the college
should have."
A team of architects has been
hired to study the needs of all cam
pus facilities during the coming
Off-campus
financial, philosophical
Gail Kasun
News Editor
Controversy has arisen over
Residential Life's enforcement of
the policy of deciding who is al
lowed to live off-campus and who
stays, even though a total of 256
main campus students live off
campus.
"I just think it's horrible that be
ing a senior you can't even live off
campus," senior Stephanie Leslie
said. She said that several students
have had difficulty in receiving
permission to live off-campus this
semester.
Leslie remains on-campus in
Bryan Residence Hall. She was on
the waiting list for off-campus
housing when she was told, two
weeks before she returned to cam
pus, that she would not be granted
permission by Residential Life to
live off-campus.
In addition, Leslie moved into a
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
academic year. The team will meet
with faculty from all departments.
King Hall is the first facility that
will be looked at Hege Cox will
be examined lata- this year.
"I am confident that major im
provements can be made in Hege
Cox over the next two to three
years," Poteet said. These im
provements may occur, pending
the conclusions of the faculty's and
college's needs.
However, if a fully renovated
Hege Cox is determined to be un
suitable to the needs of the visual
arts department, a completely new
building might be designed.
Fundraisers would be organized in
order to pay the four to five mil
lion dollar price tag, Poteet said.
Some renovations have been
made in Hege Cox, according to
Art Kopscak, director of facilities.
Last summer the floor was re
placed in the ceramics area; new
plumbing, silt traps, and new elec
trical wiring were added to the ce
ramics area.
The lack of air conditioning and
heating is not the only problem in
Hege Cox. "We have a severe ven
tilation problem that is putting the
faculty who teach regularly at risk
and we are also risking the health
of our students," art professor
room in Bryan suite D3l, but the
suite remained empty save for one
other woman. Leslie was then
asked by Res. Life to relocate to
Bryan suite A3l to make more
room for men on campus..
"There is a philosophical and
financial basis" for the policy of
keeping students oil-campus as
residents, George Segabade, direc
tor of residential life said.
Philosophically, Guilford is a
community-based school, hence
the need for students to live on
campus. Financially, the cost of
room and board helps maintain
low tuition for all students.
This policy, according to Pro
vost Dan Poteet, "put a burden on
Res. Life people who had not nec
essarily had to exercise quite as
much rigor" in not allowing stu
dents to live off-campus.
"We don't think we've con
strained housing options, it has just
become harder to live off-cam-
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George Lorio said.
The students and faculty who
work in Hege Cox have also ex
pressed a desire for more work
space, better lighting, storage ar
eas, better sinks, and better elec
trical systems.
However, not all of the desired
improvements cost thousands of
dollars.
According to Roy Nydorf, small
scale maintenance work has been
neglected as well. The windows in
Hege Cox need to be cleaned. The
floors of the major studios need to
be refinished. The building needs
to be vacuumed and mopped regu
larly, and the light fixtures and
missing screens need to be re
placed.
One art student said, "The
school seems to be going through
a renaissance for the coming cen
tury. It would be a shame to lose
the arts on such a unique campus.
I see this as an opportunity for
positive change."
Fewer scholarships awarded this year
Chris Hosford
Staff writer
Eighteen fewer students were
awarded scholarships in this year's
entering class were in last year's.
In 1992-93, a total of 86 incom
ing students were awarded schol
arships. 34 received honors schol
arships and 52 received presiden
tial scholarships.
However, this year that total has
dropped to 68. 25 students were
awarded honors scholarships and
43 were given presidential schol
arships.
Increased competition among
private colleges for a shrinking
pod of students, efforts by the ad
ministration to keep the ever
growing cost of financial aid un
der control, and the arrival of a new
federal financial aid form have
combined to reduce the number of
scholarships awarded by Guilford
College for the 1993-94 academic
year.
The decline in scholarships is
partially attributable to greater
competition for fewer students.
Across die country most private
institutions, save for the top-of
the-line Ivy League schools, have
been forced to relax admission
standards and throw open the
doors of academia to applicants
September 10,1993
Students in Hese Cox sweat out the heat during class.
who might not have been consid
ered in the past
Potential Guilford students are
being admitted to more prestigious
institutions with greater resources
and more scholarship money to
throw around.
In the past Guilford's maximum
honors scholarship award was full
tuition. Now, it is $lO,OOO. Presi
dential scholarships max out at
$3,000.
Another factor is Guilford's on
going budget woes. Despite the
decrease in new scholarships, the
total budget allocation for finan
cial aid is one million dollars
greater than last year's. Larry
West, director of admissions, char
acterizes financial aid as, "...the
fastest growing piece of our total
budget"
West said, "I think that increased
competition for students is at the
heart of all of this. Public and pri
vate institutions are competing for
students in a way that we didn't
five years ago."
According to Dana S. Dooley,
one of Guilford's Financial Aid
Counselors, the new Free Appli
cation for Federal Student Aid
(FAFSA) form for processing
need- based financial aid requests
also plays an important role.
Approximately 50% of
Guilford's scholarship recipients
qualify for need-based financial
aid. The old Financial Aid Form
included home equity in its math
ematical formula for determining
need. The new form omits home
equity from its formula. The re
sult is that more students are eli
gible for need-based financial aid
Unfortunately, private schools,
like Guilford, that do not receive
government money lack the schol
arship funds to meet the increased
financial aid burden. Most private
colleges continue to use the old
Financial Aid Form in addition to
the FAFSA form.
Most state schools employ only
the FAFSA. Many students who
qualify for financial aid under the
FAFSA but not under the Finan
cial Aid Form are flocking to state
run schools.
However, there is hope for the
future. According to West the
shortage of students should bottom
out within the next year.
The elementary schools of
America are overcrowded and
brimming with potential new
scholars. When the number of
college applicants starts to increase
again, demand and competition
will decrease.
West said, "The institution is
searching for ways to strategize
and meet the competition in the
future.*'
Photo byEric Foreman