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Volume 78 Issue 9
NEWS
LINE
SENATE AFFIRMS
FREEMAN AS V.P.
. The secretery position still
remains vacant, while former
secretary Teri Freeman ad
vances to vice-president of
Senate.
During Wednesday's Senate
meeting, Freeman formally
assumed the position.
Freeman said that the ex
ecutive committee of Senate
will likely bring a choice to fill
her vacancy to next
Wednesday's meeting.
WRITERS TO
SPEAK AT
GUILFORD
Lee Smith, English profes
sor at NC State and winner of
the John Dos Passos Award,
will read Thursday, Nov. 18 at
7:30 p.m. in the Gallery.
The author of eight novels
and two collections of short
stories will be reading from
her works. For more informa
tion, contact Carol Hoppe, ext.
2289.
Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Prof, of
English and chairman of
Black studies at Wellesley
College will speak on Early
literature in the new world:
African Literature in the Car
ibbean, Monday, Nov. 15 at
7:30 p.m. in the Gallery.
Cudjoe is the author of "Car
ibbean Women Writers," For
more information, contact
Carolyn Beard Whitlow, ext.
2116.
Journalist Samir Busovaca,
a native of Sarajevo, will
speaking on "The Diversity
That Was Sarajevo."
In Sarajevo, he helped ex
pose Serbian atrocities as a
member of the Bosnian War
Crimes Investigation Bureau.
He is scheduled to speak
7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 15
in Boren Lounge.
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Judge McSzvain lectured at an event sponsored by the
Websterian Prelaw Society.
Guilford receives
SSM endowment
Reprinted from the News
& Record.
An unidentified North Carolina
family has committed $5 million
to Guilford College to endow
scholarships for needy students.
The gift, the largest in the
college's history, was made in
honor of a Guilford alumna.
Guilford President William R.
Rogers said Friday that the family
wishes to remain anonymous. But,
he added that at some point the
scholarships may bear the name of
the alumna, who is a member of
the family involved.
"We are profoundly grateful to
the family that made this possible,"
Rogers said.
The gift ranks as one of the most
significant for an area campus in
recent years.
"Colleges of our size may get a
gift of that size every 10 years or
so," Rogers said.
"Obviously, it's the first for us.
Those who love Guilford will
surely celebrate with us the impor
tance of this outstanding gift."
Details of the gift were com-
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
pleted earlier this fall.
Guilford has aready received a
$1.4 million installment, with the
rest of the money to come over the
next five years.
When fully funded, the donation
would produce $250,000 annually.
That would be enough to provide
16 full scholarships worth $15,000
a year, or the money could be dis
tributed among any number of de
serving students.
"Scholarship assistance is our
greatest need at this point because
we want to help families that need
financial assistance to send their
children to school," Rogers said.
Guiford's most significant gifts
prior to this one both totaled $2
million and went for campus build
ing projects.
Both came in 1988.
A donation from a Winston-Sa
lem couple, H. Curt Hege Sr. and
his wife, Patricia Shields Hege,
funded a major library expansion.
A gift from Greensboro business
executive Edward J. Bauman and
his wife, Vivien Bauman, helped
build a telecommunications center.
Inflation takes its
toll at Guilford
Ann Witt
Staff writer
Guilford students with full room
and board pay $17,680 to attend
Guilford. In 1990-1991 students
with full room and board paid only
$13,462 to attend Guilford.
Full room and board costs $5,
070 a year for those not living in
Mary Hobbs or the apartments.
This breaks down to $633.75 a
month for eight months. A two
bedroom, two-bath apartment in
the Woodstream complex in
Greensboro costs only $485 a
month, plus S4O for utilities.
Photo by Eric Forman
"We are tuition-driven, and
that's where the rub lies...lf
you really start cutting
corners in tuition, room, and
board, you start sacrificing
the quality of education."
-Business Manager Dick Coe
Guilford's status as a private,
four-year liberal arts college not
funded by the state is one of tbe
main reasons for its spiraling
costliness. Whether or not
Guilford's students are paying too
Alcohol Awareness
Week educates campus
Rachel Salzberg
Staff Writer
Guilford's annual Alcohol
Awareness Week began Monday,
Nov. 8, and included a number of
activities designed to "heighten
[alcohol] awareness."
Helen Mulhern, the director of
Residential Life, and Anice Cox,
the student staff assistant, were in
charge of coordinating the events.
"Basically, we want to heighten
awareness about alcohol use.
We're not pushing for stopping
use, but pushing for moderation,"
said Cox. Helen Mulhern agreed,
acknowledging "that alcohol is a
problem on college campuses and
at Guilford."
The events themselves were
November 12,1993
much to attend Guilford appears
to be debatable, however.
"It is extraordinarily difficult to
put a dollar value on an education.
Anyone doesn't know for sure if
their education is worth it until
sometime later in life," Provost
Dan Poteet said.
"You can get things at Guilford
you can assign dollars to. You get
some extraordinary facilities," he
said. He cited the school's library,
new telecommunications center
and its networking capacities as
chief examples.
"Comparable schools in the
South and Midwest cost a lot
more," Poteet said. He cited
Davidson College in North
Carolina as an example. Poteet
also made the point that faculty
and administrative members are
"deeply concerned" about the cost
of a Guilford education. "People
here are not cavalier."
According to Poteet, the 14 to 1
student-faculty ration that
Guilford claims as one of its merits
keeps costs high. "Personnel costs
are the major costs of any higher
institution," he said. "The only
way to cut costs would be to reduce
by some significant percentage the
amount of people here...lt would
See INFLATION page 3
chosen by a volunteer committee,
including people who responded
to posters and other forms of pub
licity, or were asked by Residen
tial Life to join. These people were
mainly RA's, hall council repre
sentatives, and Union members.
Each member agreed to "take re
sponsibility for organizing" a par
ticular event, according to
Mulhem.
Some of the organizers tried to
be creative in thinking up events
that would appeal to students. Cox,
for example, described her event,
"Family Feud," as a mock-up of
the popular game show. She
wanted the activity to be "a differ
ent approach" to learning about
alcohol. Gift certificates to the
Rock Ola Cafe and Jam's Deli
See ALCOHOL page 3