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
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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
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Molly Mart MI
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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
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"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-
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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-
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