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Volume 79 Issue 4
NEWS
LINE
Action has been
taken to disci
pline a Guilford
student for phone harass
ment. The student is no
longer enrolled at Guilford
College.
Approximately 15 stu
dents filed complaints with
Security of sexually explicit
and harassing phone calls.
Director Mike Kimell sus
pects many more students
received illicit calls without
reporting them. Security
deteraified ifae perpetrator's
identity by tracing subse
quent calls to victims.
In order to avoid being
victimized by phone harass
ment, Kemell suggests that
students not reveal their
names on answering ma
chine and voice mail greet
ings. It is also vital, he says,
that students report all ha
rassing phone calls to Secu
rity.
Yet another delay in
the procurement of
air conditioners for
Binford Hall. . .The Com
munity Newsletter of Aug.
26 reported that the Facili
ties Committee decided to
provide air conditioning in
Binford "immediately."
According to Mark
Sadowsky of Residential
Life, the units theoretically
available at the time of the
decision are in fact unavail
able. Heating/cooling
manufacturers, he explains,
are only making heating
units now. Officials expect
to purchase 70 units this
winter for installation over
spring break.
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
Real cause of RASCAL
breakdown a mystery
Rob Mirchin
Staff Writer
RASCAL, Guilford's seven
year-old communications com
puter, has gone down four times
in the last three weeks. Due to in
creased use, the system is also be
coming increasingly slower.
Every time RASCAL goes
down, Guilford's link with the
Internet is destroyed. Thus, it is
impossible to send e-mail off cam
pus or participate in bulletin
boards on the Internet.
Students at Guilford are looking
for the reason why RASCAL keeps
breaking down. "It disturbs me,
because I feel I don't have a link
to outside worW," says Jeff
Martin.
Assistant Director of Computer
Services Teresa Sanford is not sure
why RASCAL is breaking down,
but is looking for probable causes.
She said, "We would not want to
speculate as to the exact cause of
the problem, seeing as we do not
Guilford Quakers
versus Sewanee:
The admissions debate
Cory Birdwhistell
News Editor
Al Newell, the new Dean of
Admissions, comes to Guilford
from a position as Associate Di
rector of Admissions at the Uni
versity of the South at Sewanee.
Because Sewanee is perceived
to be very conservative and elitist,
some members of the Guilford
community feared Newell's hire
was a step away from Guilford's
Quaker tradition.
Newell wishes to nullify this
impression. Referring to
Sewanee's dress code, he quips,
"Even if I had the power to do so,
I have no desire to make students
wear coats and ties or dresses to
class!"
"Sewanee is a traditional
school," he admits, "but Guilford
has a strong tradition as well—of
have enough information our
selves."
Sanford does know the problem
is not caused by a loss of memory
on the part of the system. She
thinks the computer system may
be trying to protect itself.
Sanford does not know whether
or not RASCAL will go down
again. She explains, "We need
more technical information to stop
it from occurring again—bizarre
things happen in computer sys
tems."
Charley White, director of Com
puter Services, says that this year,
with more services and more us
ers, RASCAL is becoming in
creasingly slower. 'There are sim
ply too many people on the sys
tem m tfie sane time," fee laid.
He cites the new hook up of the
entire faculty to the system, as well
as existing connections to Milner,
campus apartments, Hege library,
Bauman, and King hall, as all add
ing to the delays. "Next time the
Please see RASCAL page 2
n
Newell
Dean of Admissions
non-traditionality." Max Carter
was the second person he met here,
and Newell says about it, "We
have spent a lot of time talking
about the Quaker heritage.. .these
conversations were very meaning
ful to me."
Please see NEWELL page 8
1
Kevin Faria, a first-year student, checks his E-mail on
RASCAL this week.
Merit scholarship
to be full-ride
Cory Birdwhistell
News Editor
A proposal to create a new merit
scholarship has passed the Strate
gic Long Range Planning Commit
tee (SLRP) and has gone to the
Trustees for final consideration.
The benefits of the scholarship
would include full tuition, room
and board, books, and travel to and
from hone twice a year. It would
be given to no more than five en
tering students. Currently, the top
Honors scholarship is SIO,OOO per
year.
According to Provost Dan Po
teet and Honors Program Director
Sylvia Trelles, the scholarship
would attract top students who
would not normally come to Guil
ford. "We think we can provide
them with an excellent education
and they can benefit the campus
tremendously," Trelles comments.
Trelles cites the shift in admin
istration and the re-consideration
of the curriculum as causes for the
Brian Lowit
September 16,1994
scholarship proposal. Along with
these occurrences, she says,
"There comes a consideration of
the type of student Guilford wants
to attract."
To be selected, the prospective
students will have to meet several
criteria. They must have a mini
mum SAT score of 1450 and be
at, or near the top of their class.
They must also demonstrate lead
ership capacity at the secondary
school level. Their applications
must show that they are well
rounded people who will contrib
ute to the community. The pro
posal also states that students
"must be more than a 'book
worm'."
Sophomore Jocelyn Newsome,
a member of the Honors program,
believes, "The SAT cutoff could
easily become self-defeating be
cause unlike the other criteria, the
SAT does not truly reflect how a
student will perform when they get
Please see FULL-RIDE page 2
Lauren Goforth