raaaßßS ] g? Guilford aluin's art Ef collection displayed page 5 IGUILFORDIAN Greensboro, NC 0r,,.™, T,7 JDTAFF W RITERS M latest enthusiastic sup porter of Guilford s new curricu lum is—Uncle Sam. The National Endowment for the Humanities announced this month that it has awarded Guilford over $24,000 to develop the new Historical Perspectives course. Guilford was one of the 20 schools nationwide to receive an NEH grant this year. Over 112 schools had applied, according to history professor Dottie Borei, the grant's author and main cre ative force. Historical Perspectives is one of the cornerstones of the "Foundations" portion of the new curriculum's general education requirements. It replaces two ments in the old curriculum: the drawn from all of the college's five areas of study—Arts, Busi ness & Policy Studies, Humani ties, Natural Sciences and Math ematics, and Social Science. The stipend will also permit the college to bring in profes sional historians to lead these faculty in workshops on such top ics as "Learning about Historical Sources," "Using Artifacts, Pho tographs, and Documents," and "The History of Science." As part of the approval of the new curriculum, the faculty °lease see Grant, page 2 KSSSSE3I ! McNemar's welcome page 6 Class of 2003 arrives ♦This year's class small but enthusiastic By Melissa Starr and Marjorie Hall STAFF WRITERS The class of 2003 has arrived, hailing from 30 states ranging from Alaska to Florida and six countries, including Bulgaria and Brazil. Students began arriving early last week for Avanti programs and began CHAOS on Wednesday, Aug. 18. First-year stu dents' opinions are still forming. "Along with the stress of leaving your family, going to new places and meeting new people have made the experience exhausting so far," said new stu dent Mary Reilly. When asked to comment on her first-year expe rience so far, Jill Burchell re sponded, "I'm having so much fun... I guess I don't really have any complaints. It's been pretty good--a damn fine time." CHAOS this year included First-year program changes ♦ Community Groups successfully hit off the new year By Anna Belle Peevey and Sam Mann STAFF W RITERS For the first time in Guilford history, the First-Year Program designed a series of mini-classes in order to get first-year students better acquainted with Guilford. Anne Lundquist, director of the First-Year Program decided that forming small community groups during the days of CHAOS would get freshmen involved with the Guilford community and famil iarize them with the campus. Ginny Marble and Kate Gra ham, returning students, worked extensively during the summer to prepare the first-year community Death toll in Turkey rises to 20,000 page 7 community groups. Students were organized into groups ac cording to their interests. The groups actively worked on projects, such as writing articles for the newspaper or watering plants or cleaning up the Lake. apt COURTESY OF THE FYC CHAOS builds the confidence of the first-year students The class is smaller than last year's--it has only 234 students compared to last year's 315. "The class is not as small as it seems," says Susan Bagley in Admissions. "This is not a record low. Last year was a record high." Bagley is excited about the entering class. "We try to recruit students with energy, enthusi- groups. The program included 17 different community groups. Ac tivities ranged from singing Rent songs to picking up trash around the Lake. "At first people didn't like it because they were confused on the purpose," said Marble, "but after a few days I heard really positive The Guilfordian c/o Student Activities 5800 W. Friendly Ave. Greensboro, NC 27410 IBNgjf iKM Estes steps into role as new basketball coach page 8 August 27,1999 asm, and positivism, and we feel like we've really succeeded with this group of students. This is quite an amazing class." Though the statistics have not been finalized due to a change in computer systems, the admis- sions office has compiled prelimi nary facts about the class of 2003. Their SAT and GPAs are up, with a median SAT of 1170 and median GPA of 2.92. Ten percent of the en tering class are Quakers, making them the largest religious group in the class. Public stu dents comprise 63% of the class and private schools account for 36% of the class. Three students were home-schooled. The largest en tering majors are psychology and English. Senior Zack Hample was one of the CHAOS leaders working with the incoming first-year stu dents. "This class is as smart and nice and funny as any other class," Hample said. remarks from the students." Although some students chose the warm comfort their twin-sized bed offered to the 9:00 meetings every morning, the general consen sus of the class for 2003 was one of appreciation for the new groups. Three of the community Please see Changes, page 2 Please recycle this „ paper.

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