Rough start for Quaker baseball
By Paddy Lehane
Staff Writer
of the season.
"It's a shame that they lost," said
senior Jenn St Mary, "But I still had
a really good time."
One of the better aspects of the
game was simply the support from
the large crowd. Parents, alumni,
and locals, in addition to Guilford
students, were on hand to watch
The 2008 baseball season started
off with a bang this year — only the
wrong team created the fireworks.
The Quakers suffered a disap
pointing 23-3 loss in the season open
er with cross-town rival Gi^r^boro
College. While the Quakers put up a the game in the exceptionally nice
good effort, they were no match for weather.
die great pitching and even better "It was such great weather for
hitting from Greensboro College. opening day," said senior Brennan
Things weren't all bad, however. Kahl. "It was nice to be able to sit out
Third baseman Brad Buchman horn- and watch a ballgame for a while in
ered to left-center in the sixth inning,
marking the Quakers first home run
Claire Oosterhoudt/Guilfordian
See "Baseball" on page 16 Guilford catcher Jason Flud watches a Greensboro College player rack up a hit in the Quakers' season opener.
Concentrations changed back to minors
By Jamie Metrick
Staff Writer
For incoming first-years, the
term concentration will only ap
ply to exams and term papers.
Last month, faculty members ap
proved the decision to change
concentrations back into minors.
The new college catalog due
out this summer will contain the
first official use of the name. How
ever, the change will not affect the
requirements of current students.
"It's a change in name only,"
said Norma Middleton, the col
lege registrar. "It's one of the
smooth moves we're making at
Guilford."
Guilford originally used the
term minor to describe any four
related disciplinary or interdisci
plinary classes outside of a major.
But in 1997-98, the faculty began
to debate the usefulness of the
term.
"At the time, 'minor' didn't
have the same meaning as it does
today," said Vemie Davis, direc
tor of the peace and conflict stud
ies department, about the change.
Davis, who is on the Education
Policy Committee which finalized
the decision, added that minors
at most colleges consisted of fo'ur
courses that did not necessarily fit
together.
The point of concentrations
was to create programs that tied
together four related courses in
a meaningful and coherent man
ner. Concentrations were unique
to Guilford and helped create a
higher standard for academics.
"(The concentrahons) high
lighted what was special about
See "Minors" on page 5