THE GUILFORDIAN
Greensboro, NC
New director of security hired
♦After a three-month search, Sylvia Chillcott to move from Sarasota, Florida to head Guilford security
BY BETSY BLAKE
Staff Writer
As of Dec. 1, Guilford
College's security department
will be headed by someone
new —Sylvia Chillcott. Chillcott
will replace interim director Jim
Gibbons, as she returns to the
Tarheel State after spending
three years in Sarasota, Florida.
"We are looking forward to
Sylvia's arrival," commented
Dean of Student Life Mona Olds.
"She brings significant prior
management experience in col
lege security. We expect she will
bring expertise with her which
will help further strengthen our
security services."
The quest for Guilford's se
curity head got moving this
summer. Students aided in the
process upon their return in the
fall. The list of applicants, nar
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rowed to six, were asked to
spend time on-campus and meet
with a group of students and
administrators. Steve
Karakasidis, a student represen
tative on the search committee,
says that he was looking for
someone "who would be easy to
talk to and familiar with a small
school." He adds that Sylvia also
"seemed really eager to learn
and work with the Quaker pro
cess."
Chillcott has been involved
in law enforcement for more
than a decade, and has worked
with such institutions as
Catawba College—another small
liberal arts school in North Caro
lina.
She has been employed
most recently as the public
safety director of Florida's
Ringling School of Art and De
sign.
Cable option discontinued
♦Many students expressed interest, but not enough were willing to pay
BY ALAINNA BROOKS
Staff Writer
New computers, new smart
cards, and a new voicemail system.
Of all the changes at Guilford this
year, however, cable will not be an
addition.
This year saw the first attempt
to provide students cable access in
their rooms. The attempt failed.
The business office received
proposals from several different
companies. The best offer required
the college to have a minimum of
350 "drop boxes." Elgina Manuel,
director of residential life, said that
meant at least 350 rooms out of the
approximate 568 rooms on campus
had to have cable.
The college would have paid
for 100 of the boxes to be placed
in public areas to decrease the
needed number to 250. Manuel
said the problem was not getting
people to sign up; i r was getting
them to pay. Over 250 signatures
of people who wanted cable were
collected, but only 34 payments
were received.
"No one can make you feef inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roo&eueft
Since 1914, but never quite like this
A payment of SB4 was needed
up front, and most students could
not pay that amount all at once.
The payments were held a few
weeks to be sure that no one else
was going to pay. "People didn't
know when or where to pay, or how
the payment plan was set up," said
Manuel.
First-year student Sloan
Crawford said, "If people would
have known they had to pay up
front probably not as many people
would have signed up."
Another factor was the chan
nels that would have been pro
vided. Junior Kevin Bowman felt
it was too expensive for the limited
amount of channels. "For the price
it wasn't quality service."
Like Bowman, many students
saw the list of 22 channels and did
not want it. "They wanted more
entertainment channels like MTV
and BET," said Manuel. In order
to provide more channels, a new
satellite with a higher frquency
would have to be installed. That
would cost the college at least
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work this year, Manuel said it has
been a learning experience.
Her response to the question
of how much time was put into the
project was "Ahhhhhh. It was very
time-consuming at a peak time of
the year. We collected signatures,
then looked for duplicate signa
tures, and then entered them into
the computer."
Students who did make pay
ments were reimbursed two weeks
ago. Along with the reimburse
ment, they received a letter from
Manuel apologizing for any incon
venience and welcoming sugges
tions for a more effective plan for
the project. Manuel also noted that
if a student has a cable-ready tele
vision, he or she can connect it to
the cable outlet in his or her room
and possibly improve the current
reception.
Manuel says there will be an
attempt to manage the entire
project differently next year. "Per
haps in the spring when students
sign up for housing they can sign
up for cable at the same time and
a new payment plan can be imple
mented."