GUILFORDIAN THE GREENSBORO, NC Young becomes new Senate president ♦ Molly Martin and La Shaira Fullwood resigned, leaving two vacant positions By Ellen Yutzy NEWS EDITOR The year for Commu nity Senate has gotten off to a tumultuous start. Events of the summer leave many wanting an swers from the adminis tration while others, in cluding the new Senate administration, want to focus on the future. In mid June, Molly Martin resigned from the position of Community Senate president and withdrew from Guilford College, citing as her rea sons her "health and the best in terests of the college." With her resignation, Martin added to rumors dating hack to the alleged racial attack of which she claimed to be a victim last spring. After the Greensboro Police De partment closed their investiga tion, concluding that there wasn't sufficient evidence to back up or discredit her story, many sus pected that Martin had staged the attack. While the administration de clines comment, Mona Olds, direc- The class of 2002 ♦ First-year students represent success of admission office and entire community BKEZZ~~ — jj§Lgj| ifr AM Students participate in activities on opening day. PHOTO BY AMY ROUSE By Ellen Yutzy News Editor Guilford welcomed the largest group of first-year students in years to campus last week. The students come from all over the world, with only 22% hailing from North Caro lina. Many of them also share an New parking regulations due to construction News pg. 2 Molly Mart MI PHOTO COURTESY OF OLIVIA RIORDAN Guilford College community) and to the college." She added, "I deeply regret those actions." The letter does not outline specific ac tions, and because the administra tion agreed with Martin not to dis cuss the issue, further clarification seems unlikely. According to a Greensboro News and Record article by Beth McMurtrie, Martin returned home following her resignation to be with her mother, who is a victim of advanced breast cancer. La Shaira Fullwood, who was elected to be Martin's secretary this year, adds that the stress of last semes ter was seriously affecting Martin. process of recruiting is a several year process because students are usually identified as potential good fits for Guilford as juniors and sophomores in high school. A 1 Newell, Director of the Ad mission Office, credits the extraor dinary work of his staff with the im provement. He also says that the Guilford College community has tor of student life, said, "We don't have any more informa tion about the attack than we had back last spring." I n Martin's letter she apologized for "acts that were inappro priate and that were injurious to them (the interest in African drumming. The in crease in numbers represents the culmi nation of years of hard work by the Guil f or d College ad missions staff. The Profile of Tay Stocks, Bonners Coordinator Features pg. 4 "Molly needed to leave to become a healthy person. She needed some down time and a safety zone to relax for a while." Gary Young, who was elected last year a s Martin's vice p re si ■ dent, be ca m e president accord ing to the terms of the stu dent gov ernment constitu tlo n . Usually the secre tary then has the Cragie, Riordan, and Young recruit new Senate members. PHOTO BY AMY ROUSE option of "maintaining the office of Secretary or assuming the of fice of Vice-President." When Young called Fullwood to inform her of Martin's resigna tion, she told him she had decided to transfer into the Center for Con tinuing Education program for fi nancial reasons. "Becoming a CCE arrives for Chaos come to realize that "recruitment is a community activity." The willing ness of student admission volun teers and faculty to make students feel welcome is a successful part of the college's recruitment strategy. The welcoming process contin ued at Chaos, Guilford's orientation program. This year arrival went well. "I was very happy with how it went —arrival went smoother than ever and we were very well pre pared," said Anne Lundquist, Direc tor of the First-Year Pro gram. "The leaders did an outstanding job of answer ing questions and being positive." The Chaos program was somewhat different this year. "Chaos was one day shorter in response to the evaluations from last year," said Lundquist. "We pre pared student leaders better by training them in a two- Charles Almy visits Three gorges dam World pg.7 AUGUST 28, 1998 student would reduce the amount of hours I'd have to work and the amount of jobs also; so why not do it?" she said. Fullwood will serve as vice- president of the C.C.E. student government this year and accord ing to the Guilford College Sum mer Newsletter, hopes to strengthen communication be tween the two student govern ments on campus. Please see Senate, page 2 credit seminar. We also added some new features, which were very well attended." Leaders were enthusiastic as well. Reggie Wilson, a senior, was a team leader at Chaos and will be participating in the mentoring pro gram. "I am looking forward to the fall semester so that I may get a chance to work closer with the st.u- Please see Chaos, page 3 Ethnicities of the new class r 109f- Other j f- l% American Indian or Alaskan rl* Asian or Pacific Islander |fc^Jr 3 * His P amc 2* International Student White. non-Hispanic CHART BY EILEN YuTZY Quaker football preview Sports pg. 8

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