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GREENSBORO, NC
Rascal
be abandoned
♦IT&S urges
students to install
Lotus Notes
By Andrea Dodson
SIAFFWRITER
"Rascal is going away in
May." When students log onto
Rascal, this is the first thing
that is seen. As of May 31st,
students won't be able to re- .
ceive any e-mail via their old
address. So why aren't
Guilford students responding
to the call and having Lotus
Notes, the new system that
Guilford will use after the
"death" of rascal, installed on
their sharespace? It takes
more than a simple answer to
explain.
Lotus Notes is brand new
to Guilford students. The
freshman class came in with
Notes already installed as their
e-mail system. It is a fairly new
program and appears to be "in
dividually oriented," stated
Leah Kraus, the Assistant Di
rector and Training of Infor
mation Technology and
Services (IT&S). "Right now
we are crawling with Notes,
and eventually we will walk
with it."
With Notes, students will
continue to have their own per
sonal e-mail address with a
small change in the address
(@guilford.edu instead of
@rascal.guilford.edu), be able
to have conferencing, and have
a daily calendar along with bet
ter design features as part of
the database. Eventually, Lo
tus Notes will be available over
the internet so that students
can access e-mail when they
are abroad or on breaks. Se
niors will also be allowed to
keep their address over the
summer, so the move to Notes
is not just for students who will
be here next year.
"We are at the cutting
edge, I believe," replied Kraus
about the installation of Notes.
Yet with all of the new features
Please see Rascal, page 3
Senate tickets announced,
campaigns commence
Though Guilford's elections
will probably not attract news
vans this year, they will be a bit
unusual. ,
For the first
time in years,
three tickets will
be competing for
the Senate ex
ecutive posi
tions. "It will
make elections a
lot more interest
ing," said Ryan
Bek, Special
Projects chair in
Senate and
therefore Elec
tions chair. Tick
ets do not have to
win more than 50% of the vote,
as in many elections—the ticket
Cultural diversity pari of
new curriculum approved
♦Name may change to "Diversity in the U.S.: Culture and Identity"
Enigmas of the new curricu
lum became one step closer to
being cleared up at last week's
faculty meeting. The criteria for
the "cultural diversity" require
ment was approved after months
of discussion.
"All of the guidelines for the
requirements with the exception
of quantitative skills have now
been set," said Clerk of the Fac
ulty and Economics Professor Bob
Williams.
However, the question of
which classes will satisfy this and
other requirements has yet to be
finalized.
"The next step is to identify
courses which will satisfy the CD
requirement and modify or cre
ate classes that would," said Wil
liams. Even though no classes
By Marjorie Hall
GUEST WRITER
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STAFF WRITER
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with the most votes wins.
Also unusual is the fact that
two of the presidential candidates
are currently seniors.
The Senate tickets, officially
approved on Tuesday after it was
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determined they met the mini
mum requirements of 12 credit
have been approved yet, Williams
did state that it's likely that cul
tural diversity classes will be of
fered next fall. .
Therefore, the
approval of the
classes to fill
requirement is
expected this
spring.
According
to Jeff Jeske,
English profes
sor and chair of
the Curriculum
Committee, faculty members
have until March Ist to submit
proposals for classes being of
fered next fall to satisfy the cul
tural diversity and other require
ments of the new curriculum.
"The faculty approved the over
all framework for the new cur
riculum last April," said Jeske.
"This year we are now getting ap-
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hours and a 2.0 GPA, are as fol
lows:
Shawan Gabriel, president;
Luke Martin, VP; Jill
Reemsnyder, secretary; Kelly
Davis, treasurer.
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James Norton
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proval at the concrete level."
A cultural diversity class
will examine issues specific to
people of color,
as well as iden
tity, gender,
sexual orienta
tion, and class.
African Ameri
cans, Native
Americans,
Latino Ameri
cans, and Asian
Americans will
"There were some faculty
members who were
concerned if the name of
the requirement should
be 'cultural identity'
instead."
—Bob Williams
all count as
people of color. In setting the
guidelines, the faculty approved
the measure of devoting at a mini
mum to one-third of a course's
content to the study of people of
color. Tf a specific class were fo
cused on people of color, then at
lease one-third of the focus would
Please see Curriculum, page 5
Colin
McF adden-
Roan, presi
dent; Nate
Parsons, VP;
Megan Page,
secretary;
Sloan
Craw ford,
treasurer.
James
Norton,
president;
Neil Taveras,
VP; Skye
Harris, sec
retary; Luke
Please see Elections, page 2