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Administrative
bloat sparks
student protest
STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES MEETING TO MAKE THEIR
VOICES HEARD ON SALARY INEQUITY ISSUES
NEWS
BY ALEXANDRA HARIDOPOLOS
Staff Writer
"We know where your money
goes."
"Nothing about us, without
us, is for us."
"Pop the administrative
bloat."
Outside of a board of trustees
meeting, students gathered,
silently holding signs with
these words on Feb. 22 at the
Community Center.
The Feb. 20 "Town Hall
Meeting" with the board intended
to spark open and honest
dialogue between students
and trustees, yet feelings of
frustration and disappointment
lingered. Many felt the meeting's
format did not actually allow for
candid communication between
trustees and students.
In order to make their voices
heard more directly, members of
Students Allied Against Privilege
and Supremacy and other
interested community members
demonstrated outside of the
trustees' meeting to finalize
Guilford College's budget for the
upcoming year.
The demonstration's main
message? Faculty pay concerns
must be tackled. Guilford's
professor salaries should not
be dead last compared to peer
institutions while administration
salaries "bloat."
Senior Daniel Raeder,
one of the demonstration's
organizers, explained the bloat
as "a disproportionate amount
of money at one point of the pay
scale compared to another."
Students were unrolling signs
(iHHD
as Carole Bruce, trustee and
chair of the presidential search
committee, spoke of faculty
salaries, just feet away.
"The timing was impeccable,"
said Aaron Fetrow, dean of
students and vice president for
student affairs.
Students stood with pieces of
paper indicating the difference
between the faculty and staff
average salary, and the top
three administrative positions'
average salary. Each foot of paper
represented $10,000, resulting in
one 7-foot piece and one 21-foot
piece.
"Initially, I went to support
and encourage our students in
their social activism," said Diya
Abdo, associate professor of
English and chair of the English
department.
"But I ended up being deeply
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