Review of Varsity Blues page 8 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) Message from The Lighthouse editors page 13 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. mt JHNK'9 B h&k- I Bi 11% I LLL ' : - % MATTHEW ZUEHKIE Phyllis Hendricks works in English hall. to issue a memo to the entire Guilford community. Cecil McDowell, head of Building Ser- E539 Pop art primer page 11 The report on reserve in cludes parts of the final report, in cluding the section which was the m m ■ ■ COURTESY BETSY JOHNSON 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 A look at the Euro page 14 JANUARY 29, 1999 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- Please see Bookstore, page 3 Women fall to Washington & Lee page 16 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

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