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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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