Archive for March, 2008
March 31, 2008
Asistant Professor of Biology BRYAN BRENDLEY was named chair of the Board of Scientific Advisors for the Highlands Biological Station (HBS) at the annual meeting on March 29. HBS is an interinstitutional center of the University of North Carolina, located in Highlands, N.C., in the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains.
The Board is made up of faculty representatives from each of the thirty-three member institutions that belong to HBS, including Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, Florida State and Clemson. One of the main functions of the board is to review applications for funding predoctoral and postdoctoral research projects conducted at HBS.
March 29, 2008
Beginning Saturday, April 5, Art Professor DAVID NEWTON will be in a group show called “An Unexpected Line” at Gallery 115. The reception is from 5:30-8:30 p.m., and all are invited to attend. He will show four new sculptures, as well as several carvings that he made for an installation for the List Art Center at Brown University in 2002.
Newton has recently been making sculptures using balls that he finds on his walks. He combines these with linen, wood, steel and hardware to create game-like assemblages that work with balance, tension and lyricism.
Gallery 115 is located at 115 Pomona Drive, off of Spring Garden in Greensboro.
March 28, 2008
Journalist and author Bob Woodward will speak at War Memorial Auditorium on Sunday, April 13 at 3:30 p.m. in the final event of the 2007-08 Bryan Series.
Guilford students, faculty and staff may obtain free tickets (based on availability) at the auditorium box office beginning at 2:30 p.m. the day of the event with presentation of a Guilford ID.
Woodward is among the most respected investigative reporters in the news business, and has earned nearly every American journalism award, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, he has achieved national acclaim as the only contemporary American to author or co-author 11 No. 1 national best-selling non-fiction books.
Most recently, he has authored three books on the Bush Administration’s handling of the war in Iraq: Bush at War, Plan of Attack and State of Denial.
Following Woodward’s talk, the lineup for the 2008-09 series will be announced.
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March 28, 2008
Strip down to your skivvies and put on your rubber gloves for the Theatre Studies Senior Company production of Joe Orton’s sex farce, What the Butler Saw. This thesis production will play April 18-19 at 8 p.m. in Sternberger Auditorium. Admission is free.
In What the Butler Saw, Orton throws his audience into a world of nymphomania, incest, blackmail and chaos. When Dr. Prentice, a lusty psychiatrist, attempts to seduce a naive secretarial candidate, desire and confusion abound. A government agent, a blackmailer, a police officer and Mrs. Prentice all converge to unmask each other’s true nature.
1967′s What the Butler Saw was Orton’s final play. The title comes from an Edwardian peepshow, setting a comically voyeuristic tone. John Lahr, Orton’s biographer, sums up the impetus behind the show, “in showing us how we destroy ourselves, Orton’s plays are themselves a survival tactic.”
Hailed as his “farce masterpiece”, Orton’s play pulls us through the keyhole into a house of depraved sexual appetites and forces us to question the very nature of society and our own identities. Come take a peek as senior company members CLARE DAVIS, SEAN FINAN, KASS JAMES, HANNAH JEFFERY, DEREK LOEHR, SCOTT LYMAN, JACOB MARTIN, AMY MORRISON and JORDAN SPOON romp through a society where men are women, women are men and Churchill is missing his cigar.
For further information call 316-2414.
Please Note: This performance contains nudity and may not be suitable for young children.
March 28, 2008
Effective at the close of business on Friday, March 28, the Office of Public Safety will no longer take money for parking tickets, boot removals, or key deposits. Please make these payments in the Office of Student Financial Services in the basement of the New Garden building.
March 27, 2008
“Experts estimate that a non-smoker who is exposed to second-hand (or slipstream) tobacco smoke (at work or in the home) faces a 30 percent higher risk of coronary artery disease than someone not exposed to second-hand smoke. About 35,000 nonsmokers are estimated to die every year from smoking-related coronary artery disease.”
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March 27, 2008
ANDREA ROBERTSON ’08 has been accepted into the 2008 NY State Summer Writers Institute, a gathering of writers from around the country.
March 26, 2008
The next College Meeting for Worship will be on Sunday, March 30, at 1 p.m. at New Garden Friends Meeting. HANNAH JEFFREY ’08, theater, will lead the worship. All are invited to hear fellow students, faculty, staff, and visitors reflect on their spiritual journeys and their struggles.
GCRO and the Campus Ministry Office hope that the community will enjoy these opportunities to share in worship through music, word, and silence. For more information call 316-2326.
March 26, 2008
Applicants are sought for the Principled Problem Solving Scholars Program (PPSSP), a new academic and developmental leadership program open to current first- and second-year students. Deadline for applications is Friday, March 28.
PPSSP is interdisciplinary in nature, open to all majors and any professional or vocational interest, and is grounded in the critical, creative and constructive aspects of Guilford’s Principled Problem Solving curriculum. This program emerges from the college’s commitment to articulate and enhance Principled Problem Solving as a central unifying aspect of the Guilford educational experience.
The pilot phase of PPSSP will combine classroom, experiential, and integrative learning over three semesters and include a summer internship in Greensboro, Raleigh or Asheville. Students with an interest in social change and innovation are particularly encouraged to apply.
PPSSP offers a transformative educational experience for students seeking to more fully understand challenges associated with putting our community’s core values to work in the world.
The initial three semester pilot phase of this program is offered and directed by the Center for Principled Problem Solving (CPPS) and the Leadership for Social Change program (LSC).
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March 26, 2008
The Center for Principled Problem Solving is seeking letters of interest from faculty members for the 2008-09 CPPS Faculty Fellowship, which offers faculty members the opportunity to advance the work of principled problem solving at Guilford over the course of an academic year. Deadline for letters of interest is Monday, March 31.
During the year, the fellowship recipient works directly with the CPPS director to shape and advance the priorities of the center and advance a PPS project of her or his choosing. The fellowship project will be consistent with the faculty member’s experience and interests, and developed in conversation with the center director. Possible projects may include, but are not limited to, a targeted hands-on PPS project, a PPS research undertaking, creating new or retooling existing syllabi to match PPS priorities, PPS faculty seminar development. This project may be completed during the fellowship term or become an ongoing or occasional feature of the center’s future efforts.
This is a part-time appointment, roughly the equivalent of one day per week. The individual selected for the fellowship will be released from one course in either the fall or spring semester and receive $5,000 in additional pay. Funds will be made available to the fellowship recipient’s department to compensate for the course release, and he or she will have access to additional funds for programming, materials or travel expenses related to the fellowship project. One recipient will be selected for 2008-09 by the CPPS director in conversation with the relevant division chair and with the approval of the academic dean.
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