THE GUILFORDIAN
Greensboro, NC
Task forces ready for action
♦President's plan for Guilford begins to move forward as eight task forces are formed; suggested plans of
action to be submitted to McNemar by December 8
BY MARJORIE HALL
News Editor
The revolution has truly
begun.
Eight task forces are gear
ing up to formulate specific
strategies for carrying out the
broad plan announced by
President Don McNemar at the
beginning of the year, which
includes restructuring the cur
riculum and the elimination of
the positions of about 25 per
cent of the faculty. The task
forces include administration,
faculty, staff, and main campus
and CCE students.
Each task force has a spe
cific charge considered and ap
proved by the Strategic and
Long-Range Planning Commit
tee (SLRP). The charges range
from proposing a new inte
grated curriculum to enhanc
ing revenue in addition to tu
ition and gifts.
Recommendations for
most of the membership of the
committees were made by fac-
Mary Hobbs tradition
♦Hobbs residents angered by the announcement that their cafeteria will be closed indefinitely
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The Mary Hobbs community has a long
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ulty and members were se
lected by the Clerk's Commit
tee. The Steering Committee of
Community Senate chose stu
dent representatives. The
Clerk's Committee also tried to
select a membership that had
a college-wide perspective, cre
ativity in developing new mod
els, openness to seeking ideas
and opinions from others in
the community, and diversity
of roles and perspectives in the
community.
"The way the whole pro
cess was done was very fair,"
said Adele Wayman, chair of
the Clerk's Committee. "We
were very open and direct
about choosing people who
were open to change." Some
faculty members who are not
included in the task forces,
however, feel as if they are be
ing left out of the decision
making process.
The task forces are on a
tight schedule. Most task
forces have to submit progress
reports, informal documents
that outline the issue to be ad-
Over the summer the col
lege decided to replace some of
the equipment in the aged
kitchen. In replacing equipment
Guilford lost its grandfather sta
tus—which means the Hobbs
kitchen must now meet the 1997
health standards.
The final cost of Mary
Hobbs Hall repairs may exceed
the $200,000 estimate because
grandfather status was lost for
the entire building. The city of
please see Hobbs Kitchen on pg. 3
made (without inconvenience, even from oyorse to hetten—Richard Hooker
history of having its own kitchen
Since 1914, but never quite like this
dressed and
the priori
ties of the
group, by
September
22. All task
forces will
give their fi
nal reports
to the presi
dent by De
cember 8.
The re
ports the
task forces
make to the
president
will also be
available to
the commu
nity.
Some
are worried
that the
process is
please see
TASK
FORCES
on pg. 3
The college announced the
closure of the Mary Hobbs Hall
kitchen for the entire 1997-98
school year on Monday, Septem
ber 8.
Administrators present at the
5 p.m. meeting in the dorm lounge
were Art Gillis, chief financial of
ficer; Mona Olds, dean of student
life; Thomas Yang, director of
physical plant; Brad McNeely,
food service director; and Elgina
Manuel, director of residential
life. Also present were Hobbs
kitchen cook Lois Conrad, Senate
President Molly Martin, Student
Services Committee Chair Jessica
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BY OLIVIA RIORDAN
World Editor
in danger
Templeton and about 25 Hobbs
residents.
Gillis explained that given
the current financial state of the
college, the $200,000 needed to
repair the kitchen was not avail
able.
September 19, 1997