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GREENSBORO, NC
Expansion of
YMCA being
considered
By David Jester
STAFF WRITER
Envision, if you will, the
Guilford College YMCA.
Imagine its beautiful swim
ming pool, the wonderful
gymnasiums, well-outfitted
weight room, functional of
fices, tennis courts, water
fountains, and friendly-smil
ing faces encountered upon
every visit. Now double it to
twice the size.
Guilford College and the
YMCA are working out. a pro
posal that could expand the
existing YMCA facility. The
plan, if carried out, would
double the size of the existing
YMCA by adding a new
at hlet ic center ad joining to
the two existing buildings
(Ragan Brown and Alumni
Gymnasium).
According to Arthur
Gillis, College Financial Of
ficer and advocate of the
YMCA proposal, the plan is
attempting to "combine our
(YMCA and Guilford College)
needs, combine our resources,
and create a very inter
esting facility that meets
everyone's needs."
Exactly how interesting
of a facility will this be?
The list of new athletic
resources is large: a main gym
area including an indoor
track, basketball courts, vol
leyball courts, and enough
room for concerts and large
meetings. It would also in
clude a fitness center com
plete with therapeutic pool,
aerobics rooms, classrooms,
kitchen space, soft space (a
place to just chill), and com
puter facilities.
The project would also
create a competition-worthy,
cross-country track as well as
an adjacent parking area for
all of the cars belonging to the
new YMCA members.
Now imagine the 4,500
new members, approximately
Please see YMCA, page 2
Life after beer: a
bleak existence?
Features
Students and faculty join
together to protect the arts
By Devra Thomas
STAFF WRITER
"The arts are among a few
things that can change a person's
life in a matter of moments."
So wrote one student about
why the arts are important at
Guilford. The new Arts Coali
tion agrees and demands that
Guilford take more notice and care
of its art programs.
On Sept. 7th. a lit lie over 150
students met with three faculty
members (Jack Zerbe, Christa
Wellhausen, and Kami Rowan) to
discuss why the arts are important
to them and to the Guilford com
munity at large.
The students spread across
disciplines, coming from art, the
atre, music, and dance as well as
other humanities divisions, with
a few people from the sciences
thrown in for good measure l .
Everyone shared a similar in
terest: deciding what the arts
mean to the community here and
how to better promote l them.
The Arts Coalition is the
brainchild of this year's residents
of the Pope House. Their theme is
"Art Forms." Mollie Ilowey, Hans
Many campus othces move
♦Shift an effort to make Founders more of a "student center"
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AMY ROUSE
Santes Beatty's new office is upstairs in Founders.
By Ellen Yutzy
NFAVS EDITOR
First-year students likely
aren't the only people who got lost
at the beginning of this year. Over
the summer the offices of the aca
demic dean, the First-year ("enter,
and the Career Development Cen
King David meets
with God's
spokesperson
World, pg. 10
Meyer, Sarah
Bernhardt, and oth
ers have taken it
upon themselves to
make sure the arts
stay alive on cam
pus. The house and
coalition started as
a response to last
year's sudden cut
ting of the dance
program. As it was,
I IH> college had one
da nee i nslrnclor
who could only
teach about three
classes at a time.
The dance stu
dents of last year,
plus many others
who were commit
ted to the arts,
banded together
and deluged Presi
dent McNemar
with emails, letters,
and walk-ins con
cerning the dance
program. Nothing
was clone to restore the program
and the final performance of last
year was a bittersweet one.
Chris ta Wellhausen,
ter all moved. The
college also added an
office for African
American affairs and
a Multicultural Re
source Center to
better serve the stu
dent body.
Moving the
First-year Center
and the Career De
velopment Center
(CDC) to Founders
serves similar goals
for both. "There's a definite advan
tage to being here," said Irene
I larrington, Director of the Career
Development ('enter. Previously
the ('!)(' was upstairs in New
Garden hall, and, as Harrington
puts it, "off the beaten path."
The center now occupies the old
recreation room in the basement
of Founders. The move accom-
Humberto Padilla
leads Quakers to
opening win
Sports, pg. 11
SEPTEMBER 18, 1998
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AAARIAH SAWYER
"Untitled Composition," 1997, oil on canvas
Guilford's (lance teacher, has been
brought back this year through the
good graces of the theat re depart-
panies the center's merger with
the internship office and puts the
two in close proximity.
Please see Offices, page 3
New Offices
Academic Dean's Office:
Upstairs in library. x2lßl
Martha Oooley. Dean
African American Affairs:
Upstairs in Founders. x 2 1(5(5
Santes Beatty. Director
Career Development Center:
Founders basement x 2 IK7
Irene Harrington. Director
First-year Center:
Upstairs in Founders \2 12")
Anne Lundquist. Director
Multicultural Resource Center:
Upstairs in Founders. \2
Daphine Strickland. Director
Please see Arts, page 3