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♦ Probable increase in student enrollment for incoming class
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By Daniel Fleishman
STAFF WRITER
Based on current data, the
Office of Admission predicts
that the number of students en
rolling at Guilford this fall
should represent a fairly signifi
cant increase from last August's
unusually small first-year class,
Dick Dyer Awards approach
By Timothy Leadem
STAFF WRITER
The third annual Dick Dyer
Memorial Awards will be held in
the Walnut
Room at 8 p.m.
on Tuesday,
April 28th.
Sponsored by
Community
Senate, the
awards focus
on members of
the faculty and
student body
who do not al
ways receive
the recogni
tion that they
deserve.
Dick Dyer, who passed
away on August 19th, 1997,
dedicated 18 years of his life to
which had only 233 students. As
of April 14th, the Office of Ad
mission had received 92 depos
its, a 22 percent increase from
the 72 deposits they had exactly
one year ago.
"It's very early; we've got a
long, long way to go," said
Randy Doss, Dean of Enroll
ment. "Obviously the next two
or three weeks are real key.
We'd love to have a class of 300."
serving Guilford College.
The variety of positions he
held, from assistant director of
housing and security to assis
tant dean of student life, are
testament to Dyer's immense
talent and leadership.
"Dick was without a
doubt one of the most
remarkable people at
Guilford. We remember
his smile, his zest for
tackling every challenge,
his love of Guilford and
most of all his passion for
each student."
—Don McNemar
"We remem
ber his smile, his zest for tack
ling every challenge, his love of
Guilford and most of all his pas
sion for each student."
GUILFORDIAN
Greensboro, NC
"Dick
was without
a doubt one
of the most
remarkable
people at
Guilford,
filled with
passion for
young people
and for the
college," said
Don
McNemar.
Guilford also
received more ap
plications this
year—l 349, op
posed to 1199 last
year —and accepted
a slightly lower
percentage of stu
dents—74.6 per
cent, compared to
76.4 percent last
year.
"When you gen
erate more applica
tions, you can ac
cept less [stu
dents]," said Doss.
Bobby Wayne
Clark, Special As
sistant to the Presi
dent, explained fur
ther. "There's some
concern that we're
going to drop ad-
AARON IHOMPSON
missions standards," he said.
"We're not. We hope to be more
successful in bringing to campus
people we've accepted than in
the past."
The preliminary number of
deposits can be a fairly good in
dication of what the size of the
first-year class will be; the num
bers are mostly proportionate to
Please see Enrollment, page 2
As the assistant dean of
student life, Dick helped coun
sel many students who were un
happy at Guilford and advised
others who were struggling aca
demically.
Many students claimed
they would not have continued
at Guilford without Dyer's guid
ance.
"Dick was also instrumen-
- Please see Dyer, page 3
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April 21, 2000
IT&S fights
network
troubles
Over 16 gigabytes of data
travel on Guilford's connection to
the outside world each day,
enough to fill two large hard
drives. Information Technology
and Services (IT&S) is respon
sible for insuring the stability of
that connection. When that con
nection has problems, they're the
ones that get called.
Recently, problems have af
fected this traffic flow. First,
Guilford's resources are being
burdened with more use, stretch
ing the capabilities of the net
work. "We've seen a sharp in
crease in incoming traffic, and
we're trying to figure out why,"
says Rob Whitnell, Director of
IT&S.
One of the suspected culprits
is Napster, a music-sharing util
ity that has recently gained popu
larity. "Napster is currently the
second biggest bandwidth-using
program on campus, right after
the web," explains Jeff Sellick, As
sociate Director of Centralized
Networks & Systems. Sellick is
responsible for the hardware that
the network runs on.
According to the Network
Acceptible Use Policy, Napster's
use levels are an unacceptable
strain of network resources.
IT&S has yet to reach a decision
on Napster and similar band
width-using programs, but is
monitoring program usage.
Another concern is the occa
sional DNS flood. DNS. or Po
main Name Server, is the service
which allows the use of a name
(such as www.yahoo.com) instead
of the number which identifies
the server to other computers
(216.32.74.55). Guilford's domain
name server is occasionally being
Please see Network, page 3
By Jon Hicks
STAFT WRITER