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New Computing and Information
Technology major proposed
Joanna Kete Walker
STJUTWIUTER
Rob Whitnell, Director of
Information Technology and As
sistant Professor of Chemistry,
has proposed a new Computing
and Information Technology ma
jor for Guilford College.
"There has been consider
able interest among students
with either how they can con
struct a major with computers or
how they can incorporate com
puters into their learning," said
Whitnell. "We have been one of
the very few [liberal arts col
leges] who haven't [offered this
major]."
Whitnell believes that the
major would benefit Guilford stu
dents who would be interested
in pursuing a career related to
information technology. "It
would not be reasonable for me
to say that computing makes
one's life simple, but it can give
tremendous utility for anyone
who's using it, both in terms of
completing their own work, and
being able to communicate freely
inside and outside Guilford,"
said Whitnell.
Currently, Guilford offers
Computing and Information
Caf welcomes composting effort
Nancy Houston
STJUT WRITER
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Rob Whitnell, Director of Information Technology and Services, hopes his
proposal will be approved.
Technology as a concentration.
If Computing and Informa
tion Technology is approved, it will
be an eight-course major with a
mathematics concentration'.
Whitnell sent out his original
proposal in 1997. His most recent
draft, distributed this September,
was sent to all faculty members for
review. "The initial response that
I've gotten has been positive.
There are clearly details that need
to be discussed," said Whitnell.
collect the fruit and vegetable
waste left over from brunch
and dinner on Sundays and haul
it to the compost bin in the
permaculture garden. As the
compost brews, the nutrients
bound up in the plant materi
als are released into newly cre
ated soil to feed next year's
October 6, 2000
Completed proposals are
first brought to the Curriculum
Committee. The proposal is then
brought to the faculty, and the fac
ulty decides on whether they
want to approve the major. "Who
knows how long that will take,
since we only have one faculty
meeting a month," said Dave
Maclnnes, Chair of the Faculty's
Curriculum Committee. "As a
Please see Major, page 3
garden. Gardeners call this
rich mixture "brown gold."
The students devised the
composting project for an FYE
assignment in psychology pro
fessor Catherine Kannenberg's
Ecological Psychology course.
"Each student must do a per
sonal or campus project to try
to modify some kind of envi
ronmental attitude, behavior,
or knowledge," Kannenberg
explained.
The first-year trio inten-
Please see Compost, page 4
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