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SLIP II holds open forum
THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR THE STRATEGIC
LONG-RANGE PLAN DISCUSSES CONTINUING
DIRECTIONS FOR UPCOMING YEARS
SPORTS
The crystal ball:
Predictions for
spring sports
Editorial by Will Cornelius
Guest Writer
If you've been like me the past few
weeks, you're just now dusting the snow
off your boots and forcing yourself to start
yet another semester at Guilford. While
the semester is young and most students
are still tuned in to upcoming snow
forecasts, the spring sports season is upon
us and it is time to dust off the crystal ball.
Men’s Lacrosse (3-12, 1-5 ODAC
Overview: The men's lacrosse team
is coming off a tough year in which, they
earned just one conference win in a dih
ficult conference schedule. In fact, the
ODAC is one of the premier men's lacrosse
conferences in the country.
Having returned their top three scorers
from last season, all freshmen at the time,
the Quakers have plenty to look forward to
this spring. This y ear's team will rely on ath
leticism and physical presence on defense.
Fresh Faces: There are 25 underclassmen
on this year's roster. Most of the offen
sive production should come from sopho
mores Daniel Dowd, Jake Beneke, and
Greg Nash, but look for new faces such
as Josh Wynne, Russell Smith and Sam
Newland to put in significant minutes.
They said it: "We'll need young guys
to mature quickly ... and to also al
low our offense to lead the way, a slight
See "Predictions" on page 11
By Victor Lopez
Staff Writer
The Strategic Long-Range Plan (SLRP) sub
committee held an open forum on Feb. 3 in
Founders Gallery to discuss directions /or the
SLRP II plan.
SLRP I had many initiatives, such as prin
cipled problem solving and the development
of the Diversity Plan, but focused largely on
institutional financial stewardship.
SLRP II, however, focuses on institutional
goals and strategic outcomes for studepts.
Students and faculty sat in chairs form
ing a circle while SLRP II co-chair Jack
Zerbe, professor of theatre studies, and Jeff
Favolise, assistant to the president for plan
ning and management, explained the prog
ress of the developing plan and the impor
tance of full community participation.
Zerbe and Favolise explained that the
purpose of these forums was to engage the
Guilford community in order to share and
exchange ideas with students and faculty.
See "SLRP" on page 2
Vanessa Reese, assistant director of
financial aid, contributes to the SLRP II plan
meeting on Feb. 3 in Founders Gallery.
WORLD & NATION
U.S. Baptist
missionaries
Carla
Thompson
and Corinna
Lankford, part
of the group
charged with
kidnapping in
the aftermath
of last month's
earthquake, wait
in their Haitian
prison cell.
Haiti's orphans: The fine line
between adoption and abduction
By Almena Mayes
Staff Writer
On Jan. 12, 10 Baptist missionaries
from Idaho were arrested at the Haitian-
Dominican Republic border and charged
with kidnapping and child trafficking.
The missionaries said they were just
trying to take the children to a better life.
The Haitian government, however, saw
things differently.
According to the BBC, Jean Sainvil,
a Haitian-born pastor now living in
America helped the missionaries gather
the children, load them onto a bus and
proceed to the border.
Dominican authorities said the
Americans had no documents to prove
they had cleared the adoptions of the
children through any embassy, nor did
they have passports for the children. It
became clear after the arrest that many
of the children were not orphans.
Richard Danzinger of the Interna
tional Office of Migration (lOM) told
The Guilfordian that children found in
See "Haiti" on page 4
NEWS
Diversity Action
Committee refines role
By Hannah Sherk
Staff Writer
A full year ahead of schedule, the 2010 initia
tion of the Diversity Action (DA) Committee high
lights Guilford's increasing attention to campus
diversity. The committee was created to facilitate
the implementation of the college's Diversity Plan.
At a Feb. 4 meeting, conversation focused on
the difficulty of assessing both the qualitative and
quantitative aspects of diversity. The committee's
concerns spoke to the reality that increasing diver
sity might not be as simple as building up num
bers and quotas.
"We can admit a whole bunch of people who
look differently, but if we don't have an environ
ment that accepts them, they'll be miserable," said
Holly Wilson, director of multicultural education.
In response to these considerations, the DA
Committee planned for an evolving role that will
keep in step with the progress of Guilford's Diver
sity Plan. Committee members emphasized the
importance of community-wide conversation in
defining their mission.
"We would like to begin an open dialogue with
faculty about where they feel they need help,"
See "Diversity" on page 2
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