September 23,1994
NEWS
CLIPS
Committee continues to
search for Academic Dean
Ed Lowe has been assigned to the Academic Dean Search Com
mittee. He replaces Martha Cooley, who resigned from her position
as chair in order that she could become a candidate for Academic
Dean.
The year-long search continues as applications proceed to pour
in.
At the end of the spring '94 semester, the search broke down when
the committee failed to choose from amongst the candidates. Geol
ogy professor Cyril Harvey, who is currently on a month-long trip to
Greece, was chosen as interim dean..
"Finding someone who can do most everything the [Academic
Dean] job entails is difficult," explains Provost Dan Poteet. "There
aren't a lot of people out there who have the combination of techni
cal skills to be dean and philosophical sympathy with Guilford."
Daughter of Brown
plantiff to speak Wednesday
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of Education of Topeka of September 28 in Dana Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m.
Brown Henderson is the daughter of the late Reverend Oliver
Brown. Rev Brown was the plantiff in the famous Supreme Court
case involving the desegregation of schools.
Forty years ago, Ms. Henderson and Linda Brown-Thompson
established the Brown Foundation for Education Equity, Excel
lence and Research. The oiganization is dedicated to the belief
that education is the most important element in improving the qual
ity of people's lives.
Brown-Henderson has spent the last twenty years as a teacher,
guidance counselor and educational administrator. On Wednes
day, she will reflect on what the landmark Supreme Court decision
has meant to her and to our society.
Guilford reapplies for
science building funding
Guilford has reapplied for a grant from the Olin Foundation to
fund a new science building. The college's application was turned
down last year. According to Provost Dan Poteet, the process of
getting funding from the Olin Foundation usually takes several
years. He observes that it would be "something of a surprise" to be
funded this year.
Q.U.A.C.K. chess
tournament in third round
The little-known Guilford College games club, Quaker Utopian
Alliance for Chess Knowledge (Q.U. A.C.K.), is holding a chess tour
nament that is now in its third round. Five people, as of yet, are
undefeated-Robert Davis, Nat Gray, Jarrod Underwood, Jeff Johnson
and Steve Wood. The tournament will be completed by next Friday.
First and second place winners will receive prizes.
Q.U. A.C.K.'s future plans include holding one-day chess and speed
chess tournaments, a spades tournament and maybe even intercolle
giate chess competition.
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Committee reports concern
RASCAL, Computer Services
(adapted from the Community
Newsletter of Sept. 15)
Administrative Council—At
the August 31,1994 meeting, Ad
ministrative Council asked the
Computer Advisory Committee to
undertake a review of the size and
configuration of Computer Ser
vices staffing. In making this de
cision, Ad Council deferred a re
quest from Computer Services to
replace immediately the Manager
of Training (Sandy Pearman, who
has moved to the Admissions Of
fice). Ad Council took this step
with two particular concerns in
mind: The current level of systems
support for administrators. Coun
cil realizes that other important
concerns exist and has directed that
CAC consult broadly across (and
off) campus as it works up its rec
ommendations. In the mean
time, Sandy will continue to assist
to the extent possible with train
ing and the college will retain, as
needed, on a temporary basis, out
siders to run our basic workshops.
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Strategic and Long Range
Planning Committee—Late last
spring, the SLRP Committee re
ceived a draft long-range plan
(which SLRP had requested ear
lier) from the Computer Advisory
Committee. The SLRP Commit
tee approved of the general direc
tion of the draft plan and asked
CAC to test it publicly across cam
pus and—in the light of this
broader testing and discussion—
to continue to develop the plan.
This process is about to begin. The
request from Ad Council for staff
review folds into this continuing
planning process.
- submitted by Dan Poteet
Computer Advisory Commit
tee—ln response to the slowness
of the academic computer (RAS
CAL), CAC has recommended to
Computer Services that;
1. an upper limit to the number
of users that can sign in on RAS
CAL at any one time be estab
lished.
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2. there be two priorities for use
of RASCAL:
a) top priority—academic use.
(VAX notes, languages, statistical
packages)
b) low priority—INTERNET
and Mail. (eg. the computer will
service a user who is in VAX notes
before it will service an
INTERNET user.)
3. Word Perfect be removed
from RASCAL. Word processing
will be done using the PC's and
Macintosh computers in the labs
in Bauman.
We encourage recreational users
to limit their use to late nights or
weekends.
If there are concerns about these
recommendations, they should be
addressed to Rex Adelberger.
During the next few weeks, we
will be meeting with groups of fac
ulty, administrators, and students
to discuss and get imput on a first
draft CM* the long range plan for
computing at Guilford College.
- submitted by Rex Adelberger
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