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SGUILFORDIAN
GREENSBORO, NC
Board of Trustees to make decision
about outsourcing of the bookstore
By Ellen Yutzy
NEWS EDITOR
Outsourcing.
The word elicits a heated re
sponse from many in the Guilford
community, and they've been hear
ing and talking about it a lot lately.
After the Board of Trustees
meeting this weekend, many of the
conversations were expected to
come to fruition. However, if
President Don McNemar has his
way, the discussion will continue.
McNemar has made public his
intention to recommend to the
board that they delay the decision,
as well as his belief that while
outsourcing is likely the best alter
native, Guilford is not prepared to
make the right decision this week
end. McNemar was careful at the
community meeting Tuesday night
to not imply that he was recom
mending that Guilford not
outsource, only that the board not
make that decision this weekend.
Housekeeping staff suffer
from lack of student respect
By Brian Schuh
STAFF WRITER
Every Monday morning,
Betty Jones is greeted with 11-
12 trash bags on each floor in
Milner to be hauled down to the
trash bins. Paper, beer and soda
cans, which can easily be recycled
by students, fill up the majority
of these sacks. This isn't her last
unpleasant site. "Tell them (stu
dents) to flush the toilets and
pick up their cigarette butts,"
said Jones.
Down the sidwalk in Bryan,
Ann Hill is faced with overflow
ing trash cans and furniture
strewn about. As students crawl
out of bed after a weekend of par
tying, housekeeping staff is left
to do the clean up.
Concerns of students and fac
ulty showing a lack of respect to
housekeeping staff and campus
buildings recently prompted
Building Services(Housekeeping)
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In fact, when asked by bookstore
manager Betsy Johnson to say that
he would be open to exploring
alternatives to
outsourcing,
McNemar said
he thought that
Guilford would
outsource.
The discussion
of outsourcing itself
has come under at
tack, especially by
students who feel
that student input
has largely been ig
nored and that in
formation has not
been given to stu
dents as freely as it
should have been.
Students were
assured that the
full report would be available for
review after winter break. In fact,
the report was placed on reserve a
little over a week ago.
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cluding the section which was the
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The bookstore sells a variety of Guilford College paraphernalia.
committee's conclusions, prefaced
by a memo from Art Gillis. The
minutes from the committee's
meetings and a collection of data
Please see Housekeeping, page 3
vices, first handed out the
memo at the last Community
Time Meeting on Dec. 9 th .
The memo was then sent out
during the next couple of
days to each student and fac
ulty member.
In the memo several
items such as vandalism,
cigarette butts, unpleasant
sites within restrooms,
strewn trash on floors and
campus grounds, trash too
heavy to lift, classrooms with
spills, bottles, or wrappers,
animal waste, and graffiti
were listed as problems on
campus. "We are not asking
anyone to have pity on us, we
are just asking that you be
more considerate in helping
maintain this beautiful cam
pus," says the memo.
These current co
ncerns follow ones last
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that the committee had compiled
as part o*f their study were ex
cluded from the report given to fac-
Board of Trustees that students
are opposed to outsourcing at this
time.
The memo had been attacked
on several fronts. Bill Stevens,
chair of the committee that com
piled the report, asked that a sen
tence be changed at the faculty
meeting last Wednesday.
McNemar was unable to con
firm at the community meeting
Tuesday night that the copies on
reserve in the library or those sent
to trustees had been accordingly
updated. Beth Reiser, English pro
fessor and member of the commit
tee, felt that the report and the
administration's attitudes have
discounted the work that the com
mittee did, and that the memo did
not reflect the dissension of the
committtee members or the fact
that they did not come to consen
sus on all matters.
The trustees' decision was fur
ther complicated by the recommen
dation of the Budget, Audit, and
Investment Committee of the
Board of Trustees, which met on
Jan. 11th, and decided to recom
mend that the college outsource
the bookstore. That meeting,
which was held the day of regis
tration, did not have a student rep
resentative present. Olivia
Riordan, Senate treasurer, did not
receive notification that the meet-
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ulty, students,
and trustees. It
has since been
given to a few stu
dents who made
persistent in
quiries.
"The memo
randum is basi
cally an argu
ment to
outsource," said
Jessica Justice, a
senior who is part
of a group of stu
dents spearhead
ing a campaign to
collect signa
tures on a peti
tion telling the