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Vandals take toll on campus
By Audrey Ross
STAFF WRITER
A rash of vandalism on cam
pus before spring break left
Guilford College Security and
maintenance staff to deal with
broken glass, muddy fields, and
defaced property.
On one evening in particu
lar, there were three different
incidents. It began in Bryan
when a Guilford College security
officer responded to a pulled fire
alarm.
While the officer responded
to the fire alarm, someone threw
a rock into a front first-story win
dow in Mary Hobbs. These two
incidents both happened within
minutes of each other.
During the same evening, an
officer found a wooden art project
in the doorway of King Hall. "We
think it is all related," said Sylvia
Chillcott, the director of security.
"It was awfully ironic that all
that happened within minutes of
each other."
Chillcott does not think that
Admisson office battles bad press
♦Numbers of applicants falls, but student credentials have improved
By Brian Schuh
STAFF WRITER
Events that rocked the com
munity last spring are just now
haunting the admission office
this spring.
Last year Guilford received
a whopping 17% increase in the
number of applications, but this
year that number has so far
slipped by 9%.
"There was a lot of pain in
this community last spring and
that was communicated to pros
pects during visits," said Direc
tor of Admission A 1 Newell.
It is projected that 1,227
students will apply to Guilford
this year compared to 1,348 last
year. Of the roughly 1200 appli
cants, 81% will likely be ac
cepted with 31% applicants ac
cepted enrolling. Last year only
76% of the applicantc were ac
cepted with 31% of them choos
ing Guilford.
Most of the class of 'O2
were aware of the events last
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The practice football field was damaged by tire tracks before break,
the rock thrown into Mary Hobbs solve this problem,
was directed towards those resi- Broken windows come hand
dents. in hand with snowstorms. It is a
There seems to be a recur
ring problem in Milner Hall. The
same window in the third floor
stairwell has been knocked out at
least three or four times. The
RAs as well as the security de
partment are collaborating to
spring while considering
Guilford.
"We were able to communi
cate directly to last year's pros-
"We were able to
communicate directly to
last years prospect pool
and were able to get timely
and accurate information
in their hands because we
knew who they were. Last
year's prospects respected
that integrity
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pect pool and were able to get
timely and accurate information
in their hands because we knew
who they were," said Newell.
"Last year's prospects re
spected that integrity."
The statistics show that
last spring did not turn away
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MARCH 19,1999
tradition to have snowball fights
but some get too carried away and
end up causing damage to prop
erty here at Guilford.
The weekend before
Please see Vandalism, page 3
students for this year's entering
class. However, the admission
office was not able to communi
cate to other prospect pools
such as sophomores and juniors
in high school regarding the
events.
"We received fairly wide
press coverage," Newell said.
"Someone who received only a
sound byte may have only got
ten part of the story. There were
lots of different interpretations
by younger prospects since they
may not have gotten the whole
story."
Despite the decline in ap
plications this year, the admis
sion office is still striving to at
tract students with strong aca
demic credentials. The office
buys lists from the PSAT and
the National Research Council
of College Undergraduate Ad
mission and begins reaching po
tential students as early as the
sophomore year of high school.
Please see Admission, page 3