Run! It's hurricane time page 7 F GUILFORDIAN GREENSBORO, NC Guilford receives grant ByMarjorieHall NEWS EDITOR Guilford will be getting a new science program to go along with its new Frank Family Sci ence Building. The school has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will allow it to develop a new program for sec ondary education in science. Guilford will play a role in a larger plan to develop centers of excellence in secondary educa tion in Greensboro. The $75,000 grant, of which Guilford will get $20,000, is a ca pacity-building grant. Guilford will first look at developing a program to license high school science teachers, and will later look towards developing a pro gram for math. Bennett College will develop a program for spe cial education. There is a short age of all three types of teachers in North Carolina, as well as in most of the country. The Education Studies de partment currently licenses stu dents wanting to teach English, social studies, Spanish and French, as well the elementary grade. The school has not offered licensure for those students wish ing to go into the sciences. "We want a bigger second ary program," said Deborah Roose, chair of the Education Studies department. "We want to have a program that includes physics, math, chemistry, and bi ology." Each education major is re quired to have a double major. If the school offers licensure in the sciences, more Ed. Studies stu dents will choose one of the sci ences as their second major. "It's something I wanted to do to help both the science de partments here and the Ed. Studies department," said Thom Espinola, a physics professor and the driving force behind the grant. "It will help the class rooms get more diverse." Some Ed. Studies students are interested in teaching high school science. "They know they can't get the kind of program we Please see GfOnt, page 5 G3831 The Toys R Us' conspiracy page 13 JL (T|utsourcing decision looms Fate of Bookstore hangs in balance By Chris Roose and Simon By next week a decision is expected among the three op tions regarding the outsourcing of the campus bookstore. Two of the options require Guilford to turn over the bookstore to one of two large book-selling corpo rations: Follette or Barnes and . — MIS - ' fcTi \ OwSSBWB I Outsourcing the bookstore has positive and negative implications First-year retention increased Seventy-eight percent remain for second year By Peter Morsheck STAFF WRITER The numbers are in. Guilford's first-year enrollment may be down, but retention is up from last year, as are payments and the school's reputation in the press. 78% of last year's entering first-year class is still here, an in crease of 5% over the previous year. Director of First-year Pro gramming Anne Lundquist said the improvements in the First year Program, now in its fourth year, may have been among the many contributing factors. "Some times people make a decision to leave early before we have a chance to pinpoint and diffuse the Burr Kress G VEST WRITERS Toilet sludge on the rise page 14 Noble The Barnes and Noble agree ment would include the establish ment of a Starbucks coffee shop on campus. The third option, put forth by Betsy Johnson, current man ager of the Guilford College book store, is to renovate and imple ment new technology in the ex isting facility. Last January's Trustees' meeting was a turning point in problem," said Lundquist. Hoping to change that, the First Year Cen ter has adult staff in the residence halls. "Having J.J. [McEachern] in Milner and Tica [Brown] in Bryan allows them to be there and solve problems on the fly." Lundquist also cited last year's implementation of the new curricu lum as indirectly responsible for the The Guilfordian c/o Student Activities 5800 W. Friendly Ave. Greensboro, NC 27410 Mens soccer 1-0 in ODAC page 15 SEPTEMBER 24,1999 the debate surrounding this is sue. At community meetings leading up to this time dissent was developing which culminated in a student demonstration in which students lined the hallway and stairwell of Founders through which the Trustees walked to their meeting. Stu dents expressed discontent with the disregard for student opinion by duct-taping their mouths and holding signs reading "Don't sell our school, Corporate does not equal Commu nity," and "Outsource the CFO." At that meeting, the Trustees surren dered authoritative dis cretion on the book store decision to Presi dent McNemar. "The trustees have ultimate authority but this is an administra tive matter and they have given [Don McNemar] full author ity," said Bobby Wayne Clark,Vice President for Public Affairs. As the decision ap proaches, supporters of an independently owned Guilford College Please see Bookstore, page 3 retention increase. Prior to that, faculty and staff were spread very thinly on task forces and adminis trative committees charged with developing things like the new cur riculum, leaving little time for at tention to students. Associate Academic Dean Please see Retention, page 4 Please recycle this paper.

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