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"Melanie and I co-founded GUS after
a conversation we had while attending
SNCURCS in 2007/' said Whitnell. "After
that, we ran it the first year ourselves."
This year, panel discussions and oral
presentations were held in King Hall
on a range of subjects, including artistic
vocabulary, texting while driving and the
anti-bullying policies in North Carolina
schools. Posters were also displayed in the
Carnegie Room, advertising projects from
chemistry, biology and religious studies
majors alike.
Senior and
biology major Ellee
Stapleton presented
her findings on
exotic invasive plant
species, focused on
edge influence and
distribution, using
the Guilford College
woods as her
research platform.
"It's really easy
to get absorbed
in the research
element of a thesis,"
said Stapleton.
"It was wonderful
to get beyond the initial research phase
and present my findings to the Guilford
community, not to mention GUS was
the perfect environment to practice my
presentation for future conferences."
Alongside posters of scientific theses was
also a selection of student artwork. Junior
Leah Netsky had a series of photographs
entitled "ghostbabies," which were eerie
photographs of her childhood toys.
Netsky described in her abstract how she
admired her porcelain dolls as a child, but
upon recently finding them at her parent's
house, she was struck by their fragile and
unearthly appearance.
"My dolls were no longer beautiful,
flawless idols," said Netsky. "They were
"I really enjoyed playing (the
music pieces). They pushed me
to learn new techniques and
become a better musician."
Laura Boswell, Junior
disheveled, ghostly figures of the past.
These photographs are my attempt to ...
explore the disturbed, haunted quality of
abandoned childhood toys."
Later in the afternoon, musical
performances were also given. Among
other students, junior Michael Luciano,
junior Laura Boswell and senior Andrew
Bracken performed guitar solos in the
Art Gallery.
Boswell performed two waltzes and a
tarantella.
"I really enjoyed playing (the music
pieces)," said Boswell. "They pushed
me to learn new
techniques and
become a better
musician."
Following
the guitar
performances.
Part-time Lecturer
in Music James
Bumgardner
conducted the
Guilford College
Chamber Singers
in "Water Night"
by Eric Whitacre.
"We all
enjoyed sharing
our art with the
community," said Bumgardner. "Music
is vital to human culture ... and the
dramatic power outage in the middle of
our piece really gave us a sense of the
'now' — something we're always striving
for in art performance."
When GUS first started in 2008,
60 students presented 50 different
presentations. According to Rob
Whitnell, this year tallied a total of 84
presentations and 124 student presenters.
"(This year's GUS) left the planning
committee in awe," said Lee-Brown.
"The electricity, buzz and excitement
around campus in the days just prior to
and on the day of the symposium was
both touching and inspiring."
New athletics website
launched
REVAMPED SITE FIRST STEP
IN INTEGRATED MARKETING
PLAN
By Morgan Andrews
Staff Writer
"Behind the times" might be an
understatement when one thinks of
Guilford's former athletics website.
However, Feb. 17 marked the launch date
for something entirely new and improved.
While both the athletics website and the
entire Guilford site were in the works for an
upgrade, the athletics website was the first
to go live. Both redesigns were implemented
with Guilford's new marketing plan in
mind.
"The overall web redesign project is a
component of the integrated marketing plan
and the athletic site was a component of
the overall Web redesign project," said Web
Project Manager Aimee White in an e-mail
interview.
PrestoSports, the website design company
to whom Guilford outsourced the project,
collaborated with Guilford on ideas for the
redesign.
"The new site was created because the
redesign project included an upgrade of
the athletic pages, and we decided that
going to a third party that could build the
functionality we needed was the best way to
go," said White.
An overarching focus of the athletics
website redesign was to create something
uniquely Guilford.
"We looked at a few sites Presto had
done and gave them an idea of the look we
wanted and they did the mockups and we
tweaked," said White. "They built the site
and we populated it with the content."
"The company asked some questions
along the way to get a sense of what we
were looking for," said Sports Information
Director and Assistant Director of Athletics
Dave Walters. "There is still room for growth
and change as time goes on, which is nice."
Collaboration between Guilford and
PrestoSports produced a new and different
look for the college's athletics page. Now,
the athletics website is easier to operate
because of collaboration with PrestoSports
and the ODAC website.
"The ODAC is also a Presto site and we
now only populate on our (Guilford) site
and it pulls the information into the ODAC
site," said White.
"Once we have plugged the information
into the system, it is amazing how' the
ODAC can receive the information on their
site and it is instantaneously up to date,"
said sophomore Sarah Outright, assistant in
the Sports Information Office.
One of the other intended goals of the new
site was to be more user-friendly. Through
this new upgrade, users will be able to more
easily access press releases, statistics, and
student-athlete profiles.
"I was able to have a photo, story, and
stats up from the women's basketball win
over Bridgewater last night in around 30
minutes while sitting in the Salem Civic
Center," said Walters. "On the old site, I
wouldn't have been able to do that at all."
"It's awesome," said junior Andrew
Thayer, a member of the golf team. "The site
allows you to get instant stats and scores so
you can see how other Guilford teams are
doing."
Although the new site is officially up
and running, it has not yet reached its full
potential.
"While the site is live, I would say it's still
very much a work in progress," said Walters.
"Hopefully over the summer we'll be able
to work on getting more archival data and
other new elements in place."
British piavwright graces Guiiford stage
(Below) Professor ofTheatre Studies David Hammond (left) leads a workshop with British playwright Simon
Bent (right) and guest artist Tandy Cronyn (center). (Left) Cronyn acts out Bent's new solo performance,
emulating a disrespectful, lonely teenager who lost his parents in WWll.The discussion and performance took place
on Feb. 25 in Sternberger Auditorium. ^
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