The Chaos
continues
News, pg. 2
GUILFORDIAN
THE
GREENSBORO, NC
New mrriadum
implemented
By Devra Thomas
STAFF WRITER
Last spring, the faculty
approved the curriculum
committee's recommendations
for Guilford's new curriculum,
the first total revamping of the
curriculum in 30 years. Now,
over the next year, the areas of
study, departments, curriculum
committee, and the academic
dean will be meeting to start re
designing majors, implementing
programs, and assessing how
well the curriculum seems to be
working.
"[We'll be] working on the
details and developing clear-cut
criteria by which we recognize
the animal," said Jeff Jeske, cur
riculum committee chair.
A large part of that assess
ment will come from within the
areas of study themselves. The
departments have been pulled
together into related areas of
study, each headed by a faculty
member.
These directors now have
the task of meeting with the area
faculty, reworking their majors,
and finding out how to best pro
mote their particular fields. Be
fore these new areas of study
were created, and all of the de
partments put on the same sta
tus level, the Arts and the Busi
ness and Policy Studies members
felt as if they were not being rec
ognized as valid members of the
educational establishment.
"There was not a formal
role for Business and Policy
Studies," said Bill Stevens, man
agement professor and head of
the new Business and Policy
Studies division. "Now all stu
dents take a course that covers
the area."
Jack Zerbe, Arts director
and professor of theatre studies
has definite ideas about the new
curriculum and what the new
areas of study, especially his, can
accomplish. "I love the new [cur
riculum] on a lot of levels for its
individual components and its
philosophical orientation to
wards interdisciplinary work.
Given Guilford's mission, we
ought to have a social justice
class."
Please see Curriculum, page 2
Cannibalism:
immoral or efficient?
Forum, pg. 9
Thirteen elected to Senate
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Students vote for representatives
By Sarah Coffey
STAFF WRITER
Students elected a total of 13
new Community Senate represen
tatives Monday.
"It will be a tremendous year
if we can harvest the talent," said
Senate President Gary Young
Monday night after the votes were
tabulated.
Students voted for represen-
Guilford changes alcohol policy
By Paul Binford
STAFF WRITER
Once again a Welcome Week
end in Bryan
hall saw the
widespread
abuse of alco
hol and its
dangerous
conse
quences.
Multiple and
distinctly
separate in
cidents — all
involving ex
cessive con-
AMY ROUSE
Students reenact typical weekend behavior.
sumption —"could really have re
sulted in serious harm to an indi
vidual or individuals," according
America's hand in
the Holocaust
World, pg. 10
tatives of their liv
ing area as well as
their class. The
number of living
area represen
tatives is based
on the number of
residents.
Senate Trea
surer Olivia Rior
dan pointed out
that there were in
sufficient numbers
of students running
to fill all the posi
tions.
Students in
Bryan Flail elected
sophomore Rebecca
Wiggers as their
representative.
Wiggers is new to
Senate and said she
wants to be more
involved in the de-
cision-mak
ing process
on campus.
"I'm ex-
cited but at the same time
the fact that I was the only
one running from Bryan is
a little disappointing,"
Wiggers said.
Although there are
spaces for two day-student
representatives, no one
ran on the ballot, and both
the junior and senior class
slots had only one candi
date each.
to Mona Olds, Dean of Student
Life. She elaborated that the "in
cidents involved excessive drink
ing, underage drinking, and up
are still being investigated, and
the upperclassmen may face judi
cial board charges. The easy acces-
Golf team
begins season
Sports, pg. 12
SEPTEMBER 11, 1998
Along with the 13 newly
elected representatives, Senate is
made up of a steering committee
which is comprised of the commit
tee chairs and the executive com
mittee. It is a body run by consen
sus in which, according to Riordan,
compromise is very important.
"The implementation [of
ideas] happens a lot faster that
way," Riordan said. She referred
to the Quaker traditions Senate
follows in some ways and the more
formal democratic process Senate
also uses.
"Senate is kind of a blend, and
we hope for the best of both
worlds," Riordan said.
In addition to elected posi
tions students will be appointed to
represent various campus organi
zations, transfer and international
students and athletes, said Ryan
Bek, a member of the steering
Please see Elections, page 2
c \ew genators
Binford: Tim LaFollette
Ty Pender
Eva Shaw
Bryan: Rebecca Wiggers
Milner: Kareem Wali Muhammed
Mary Hobbs: Kalynn Ruth
Shore: Katie Hunter
Alternative Housing: Cody Doran
Jill Reemsnyder
First-Year: Chris Babcock
Sophomore: Kemba Bloodworht
Junior: Megan DiMaio
Senior: James Norton
sibility of alcohol to minors, most
of whom are inexperienced drink
ers, contributed to the severity of
the incidents. An announcement
released Friday clarified
Guilford's alcohol policies and
stressed the illegality of providing
a minor with alcohol.
One clarification in the re
lease concerned the so-called "cup
rule" that allows students to drink
freely outside, assuming the bev
erage is in a cup.
The idea was that security
and residential life staff were giv
ing students the benefit of the
doubt. This will no longer be the
case at Guilford. In fact, accord
ing to Olds, this was just a tradi
tion that had developed and not an
Please see Alcohol, page 3
per -
class
men
provid
i n g
large
quanti
ties of
alcohol
to mi
nors."
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