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Volume 79 Issue 12
Rogers announces retirement
Cory Birdwhistell
News Editor
Guilford students congregated
around a single letter this weekend.
It was a letter, blown up to poster
size and placed at the entrance of
Founders hall, which personally
informed them of its author's im
minent retirement. The author is
their president.
Bill Rogers, the sixth president
of Guilford College, has an
nounced his retirement effective
June, 1996.
He made the announcement at
the Board of Trustees meeting
January 28. Students were in-
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The one
word that
comes to my
mind about
Union today
is CHANGE.
—ANDY SWANSON
Serendipity
The spring celebration
is the last weekend in
March! Planning
meetings are
Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Nobel Laureate in Physics to visit
Staff Report
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., 1993
Nobel Laureate in Physics, will
visit Guilford February 14-16 as
the 1995 J.M. Ward Distinguished
Quaker Visitor. Taylor is the James
S. McDonnell Distinguished Uni
versity Professor of Physics at
Princeton University.
During his three-day visit to
campus, he will deliver a public
address focusing on his reflections
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.
formed of his decision, through the
open letter, before it was publi
cized.
"Bev [Rogers] and I feel particu
larly close to the students here,"
he explains. "[Their] well being
is the most important thing we are
working for."
Rogers, who came to Guilford
from Harvard in 1980, will con
tinue to work over the next 18
months of his tenure to complete
the college's current
reaccredidation process and to in
crease the college's endowment.
During Roger's presidency,
Guilford's endowment has grown
600 percent, and annual giving has
Union revolution
Student group seeks involvement
Luisa Constanza
Cory Birdwhistell
Senate/Club Correspondent
News Editor
The Guilford College Student
Union seeks a new name for itself.
On an obvious level, the enter
tainment organization is soliciting
ideas for a new title. Participants
in its Tuesday night meetings,
however, know that Union is un
dergoing a structural revolution.
"[Union's] job is to provide fun
events for students," Vice-Presi
dent Andy Swanson explains.
Union should not be considered an
"exclusive" group, he empha
sizes—meetings are open to ev
eryone who wants to participate
and bring new ideas for activities.
"Our goal is to find more creative
ways to involve students in orga
nizing our events," he says.
of spirituality and his work as a
scientist. The lecture will be on
Tuesday, February 14 at 7:30 p.m.
at New Garden Friends Meeting on
New Garden Road.
The following days on campus
will be spent in meetings with stu
dents, faculty and Guilford's
Quaker Leadership Scholars.
He and co-researcher Russell
Hulse received the 1993 Nobel
Prize in Physics in recognition of
their research with pulsar gravity
grown by more than 500 percent.
He also secured the college's first
$5 million gift for endowed schol
arship funds.
In a look toward the future, Rog
ers comments, "For Guilford, there
are important challenges to face.
Perhaps the greatest is that of bal
ancing affordable high quality pro
grams with the provision for well
structured financial aid programs
to meet demonstrated student
needs." Funds available for finan
cial aid have also grown more than
500 percent during his presidency.
Charles F. Milner, Jr., chairman
Please see ROGERS page 6
Currently, Union is com
prised of eight committees
which work together to plan
for the success of activities.
The committees have
Please see UNION page 6
On Union's move to
be more inclusive...
"We want to show how
accessible we are. . .by
paying student fees, stu
dents automatically be
come members of Union.
Too often, we are seen
as people who plan enter
tainment for students in
stead of people who work
with them to do what they
want. We want to change
thisum^;. Cara gkeat
waves. Their research helped to
confirm the veracity of Einstein's
General Theory of Relativity.
Until they provided the neces
sary evidence in the mid-1970'5,
Einstein's theory, although widely
accepted, predicted what had never
been observed. Taylor and Hulse
supplied proof in 1974 when they
discovered the first binary pulsar
and later observed evidence of the
Please see LAUREATE page 7
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Rogers
Budget increases
expenses 4.9%
Rich Ewell
Contributing Writer
The Board of Trustees affected
a bit of Guilford's future during
its January 28-29 meetings. The
weekend was marked by the ap
proval of the budget for the 1995-
96 fiscal year and the announce
ment of President Roger's retire
ment.
Theft at WQFS
Equipment stolen; DJ suspected
Rob Mirchin
Staff Writer
WQFS, Guilford's radio station,
had approximately SIOOO worth of
equipment stolen from its produc
tion room over winter break. The
theft of two CD players, two trans
mission tubes, one tape deck, a
security camera, and a monitor was
apparently committed by a WQFS
D.J.
The theft occurred over break
when there were not as many
WQFS managers and security
guards standing guard over the
equipment. According to WQFS
manager Becky Browning,
"Things were kinda loose. There
wasn't anybody around to make
sure that rules were being fol
lowed."
February 3,1995
The Board met to discuss a
search process for a replacement
lor Dr. Rogers, which should be
gin this spring.
A partial report from the meet
ings follows:
The Budget, Audit, and Invest
ment Committee approved the
budget for the 1995-96 fiscal year.
Please see BOARD page 6
Browning is pretty sure that a
D.J. committed the theft because
"nobody else would have known
how to get into the prod room."
Two anonymous DJ.'s have also
accused the same person.
The theft has been reported to
WQFS's insurance company and
the police. According to Brown
ing, WQFS will not prosecute if
the person comes forward. How
ever, if the person chooses not to
come forward and is discovered,
WQFS will prosecute.
As a result, the DJ.'s cannot use
the production room without spe
cial permission, and Browning is
left wondering about a D.J. staff
that she once trusted implicitly. In
her words, "It is a privilege to work
at WQFS, and it makes me so mad
that a D.J. would do that kind of
stuff."
Bernie Carpenter