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Kara Price
STArr WRITER
Guilford College's
teacher-education program
scored 111 out of a possible
150 in a recent report from
the state Department of In
struction, but many do not
feel the methods used in this
evaluation were entirely fair.
As part of Governor Jim
Senate election tickets announced
James Tatum
SPORTS EDITOR
Wednesday, Feb. 7 -- The
2001 spring campaign for Senate
and Union executive tickets offi
cially kicked off today at the close
of the weekly Senate meeting.
Senatorial executive candi
dates are competing as tickets for
control of the student Senate
through the 2001-2002 academic
year. This year there are two tick
ets running for Senate, the Holden
ticket and the Page ticket.
The Holden ticket includes:
Joshua Holden, President
Natia Rostomashvili, vice
president
Michael Henderson, Treasurer
Elizabeth Larson, Secretary
The Page ticket features:
Megan Page, President
Chris Babcock, vice-president
Jill Burchell, Treasurer
Tamara Asad, Secretary
This year only one ticket is
running for control of Union:
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Hunt's effort to improve educa
tion, the Excellent Schools Act
was passed in 1997. This re
quired all teacher-education
programs within the state of
North Carolina to submit an
annual written report explain
ing their program's methods, as
well as compiling surveys com
pleted by recent graduates of
the program:
The surveys asked gradu
ates, their employers, and col-
The Leaf ticket includes:
Eric Leaf, President
Nate Finley, vice-president
Ben Thigpen, Treasurer
Amy Bashinsky, Secretary
Brian Dumas, vice-president
of Student Senate, announced this
year's tickets at Senate's weekly
meeting following the opening mo
ment of silence and brief comments
from Senate President Cynthia
McKay.
Both Senate Presidential can
didates expressed hope that the
campaign will be issue oriented,
particularly in the area of revitaliz
ing and refocusing Senate. "I hope
we will focus on restructuring Sen
ate," said Page, noting that many
students "have lost faith in the cur
rent system."
Both tickets also look forward
to what they hope will be a clean
campaign. "After the campaign oc
curs, I don't want anyone to feel
alienated," said Holden. "There is
a lot of talent on both tickets and I
would hate to see it lost."
Dumas is overseeing this year's
February 9, 2001
leagues to reflect on their
strengths and weaknesses
in areas such as the abil
ity to use technology in
the classroom, incorpora
tion of multi-cultural
education, classroom
management, satisfaction
with training received
from teacher-education
program (graduate), satis
faction with graduate (em
ployer), ability to address
diversity in learning styles
and to structure and de
liver curriculums.
Programs and their
graduates also submitted
information on various
test scores, compliance
DAVE SCOTT
with state and national ac
creditation standards, and the
program's involvement in the
public schools.
However, not all the crite
ria evaluated were taken into
account for the final score.
Where Guilford lost points in
areas such as technology, it
scored above the state average
in areas such as multi-cultural
education and learning diver
sities, two areas that were not
included in the final tally and
campaign rules and election pro
cedures, along with Andrea
Dodson, the current Senate secre
tary.
In the past, the chair of the
Senate Special Projects Committee
oversaw spring elections, but that
changed this year with responsi
bility shifting to the vice-president.
"Since the vice-president already
handles fall elections, it makes
sense for them to do spring as
well," said Dumas.
Dumas recommended that
future Senate secretaries likewise
assist with spring elections, noting
that it is a big job, and that as chair
of the Communications Commit
tee, "it makes sense for the secre-
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would have added an extra 10
points each.
"It's a matter of what you
think is important," said Mar
garet Borrego, chair of the
Education Studies Depart
ment.
Faculty member David
Hildreth agreed and added,
"When you try to quantify like
that, you lose a lot of the rich
ness."
Of the nine surveys that
Guilford sent out to its gradu
ates, only two were completed.
Both Borrego and Hildreth
are new to the department.
Borrego joined the Guilford
faculty last year and Hildreth
arrived only last semester.
Borrego said that it was diffi
cult for her to encourage
graduates, whom she didn't
know personally, to submit the
surveys. One employer even
refused to do the survey based
on the principle that it was too
harsh an evaluation to place
on a new teacher.
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tary to be involved as well."
Tickets for either Senate or
Union had to file their petition by
Tuesday, February 5 at midnight.
Dodson noted that any tickets fail
ing to meet the deadline could still
compete on a write-in basis.
Dodson led an information
meeting about the campaign rules
Tuesday evening in the Senate of
fice. At least one member from
each ticket was present.
Senate verified petitions on
Wednesday. Candidates must
have at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA
in order to run. The campaign then
officially began at the close of the
Senate meeting around 4:30 in the
afternoon.