Bryan Brendley elected to AAFS
February 28, 2012
Bryan Brendley was elected as a member of the General Section of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists (AAFS) at their annual meeting on Feb. 21, 2012. More
Archive for February, 2012
Vance Ricks Presents Paper on Privacy and Social Media
February 23, 2012
VANCE RICKS presented his paper, “Interactional Privacy Norms and the Value of Friendship,” as a participant in a workshop, “Reconciling Privacy With Social Media,” that was part of the Association of Computing Machinery’s Computer-Supported Cooperative Work conference in Seattle, February 11 – 15. The workshop participants were an interdisciplinary gathering of academics and of researchers from Google and IBM, and focused on the possibilities and challenges of designing social media interfaces that are responsive to users’ changing privacy needs.
Update on Administrative Program and Services Assessment Offered
February 23, 2012
The Administrative Program and Services Assessment (APSA) project was originally announced in April 2011. Subsequently, there have been numerous workshops, community forums and Beacon announcements regarding the status of the project and progress made to date. The purpose of the assessment was and is process improvement, greater accountability for results, improved metrics for assessment and enhanced efficiency.
Our originally published goal was not to identify staff and/or operating budget reductions or reallocations. When the project was first announcement last year, however, we also indicated that opportunities for reductions and/or reallocations would be considered should they appear. This stated purpose has been consistently shared with the community.
In late November of last year, the campus learned of the unexpectedly significant reduction in state financial aid to be awarded to our North Carolina students beginning in FY 2012-13. This $2.5 million cutback constituted 8% of total grant aid and 14% of the grant aid for North Carolina students. Much has since been shared with the community in meetings and written communications regarding the serious “worse case” budget challenges for Guilford beginning in FY 2012-13 resulting from this announced elimination of state aid. We need to decide how much of the state aid to replace with institutional funds, and what the effects of these funding cuts will be on enrollment. The president and senior staff have had ongoing conversations about how to best address these challenges, and this will be one of the primary topics discussed at the Board of Trustees meeting this weekend.
As a result of the budget challenges currently facing the College, President KENT CHABOTAR has modified the goals of the APSA project. In addition to the originally announced goals, the project now includes a 10% savings target. Although our budget situation for FY 2012-13 is still uncertain, the campus must prepare an appropriate contingency plan. That plan will likely include upwards of $2 million in expense reductions that should be done, if needed, in stages and strategically rather than across-the-board. If the “worse case” budget scenario becomes reality for our campus next year, the president plans to use recommendations from the APSA project to focus reductions deemed necessary to balance the budget.
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Four Students Named ODAC Player of the Week
February 23, 2012
Four students captured Old Dominion Athletic Conference Player of the Week awards: GREG NASH ’12 in men’s lacrosse, JOHN MACON SMITH ’14 as baseball hitter, E’LEYNA GARCIA ’14 in women’s lacrosse and CLAYTON HAMILTON ’12 in men’s tennis. Nash was Guilford’s Student-Athlete of the Week.
Nash win twice last week with nine points (7 goals, 2 assists) in the Quakers’ opening week. He scored a career-high five goals and had one assist in a 14-4 season-opening win over Shorter University Feb. 13. The attackman netted the game-winning goal with 1.9 seconds left in Guilford’s 14-13 comeback win over Ferrum College Feb. 18. The game-winner marked the sixth of his career. Nash also scored with 4:14 left as part of a 5-1 Quakers’ run that ended the game.
Guilford is off to its second 2-0 start in the last two seasons. Nash leads the Quakers in scoring and has five ground balls in the two wins. Coach TOM CARMEAN’s Quakers look to continue their winning ways Feb. 25 when they play Birmingham Southern College in Greenville, S.C.
Smith helped the Quakers baseball team to a 2-1 week with six hits, including three homers, four runs and six RBI. He registered a .750 on-base percentage and a 1.778 slugging percentage in the three games. Smith was 5-for-7 with a double, three homers and six RBI in Guilford’s doubleheader sweep of Maryville (Tenn.) College Feb. 18. He belted a three-run shot followed by a solo blast in the 10-6 opening-game win. The first baseman finished with three hits and four RBI in the contest. He homered in his first at bat of the nightcap and added a game-tying double in the bottom of the seventh. Smith had two hits and two RBI in Guilford’s 4-3 win. He also was 1-for-3 in a Feb. 15 game with Averett University.
Coach NICK BLACK’s ’02 club is off to 3-2 start after Saturday’s doubleheader sweep. The Quakers continue their 11-game home stand with a game Feb. 24 versus the University of Maine-Presque Isle, followed by a doubleheader Feb. 25 against Southern Virginia University and another twinbill Feb. 26 with Case Western Reserve.
Hamilton earned his first weekly tennis honor, the ODAC’s first of the season. The senior won all four matches in the Quakers’ 2-0 week. He teamed with Tyler Mercier to win first-doubles matches against Bluefield College and Greensboro College and won in straight sets at second and third singles, respectively. Coach DAVE McCAIN’s Quakers (2-2) visit N.C. Wesleyan College Feb. 25 at 1 p.m.
Guilford‘s 2011 Rookie of the Year and an honorable mention All-ODAC selection, Garcia earned her first ODAC Player of the Week honor Monday. The sophomore scored a team-high 12 points with 10 goals and two assists in the Quakers’ first two games. She had four goals and an assist in Guilford’s 17-16 season-opening win over Berry College Feb. 18. Garcia added a team-high six goals and one assist in an 11-10 loss to the University of the South Feb 19. The attacker had a hand in seven of Guilford’s 10 goals against the Tigers. Garcia moved into 19th place on Guilford’s career scoring chart with 76 points (55 goals, 21 assists). Coach MATT GROSSO’s Quakers (1-1) host Marymount (Va.) College Feb. 25 at 2 p.m.
Brother of Mary Broos Dies at 69
February 23, 2012
Lowell C. Guin, 69, brother of long-time athletic trainer MARY BROOS, died Feb. 13 in Thomasville. His funeral was Feb. 16, with burial at Liberty Baptist Church. He was a retired charter member of the Thomasville Rescue Squad where he served for 42 years.
He is survived by his sisters, Mary Broos and Jill Hunt ; nephews Brian Broos, Brad Broos and Scott Hunt. He dearly loved his grandnephew, Will Broos, and grandnieces, Ella Broos, Marley Broos and Lucy Broos.
Memorials may be directed to Oak Hill Memorial Baptist Church, 1793 Tower Rd., Thomasville, NC 27360 or to the Thomasville Rescue Squad, 212 Pine St., Thomasville, NC 27360. Online condolences may be sent to the family through www.thomasvillefh.com.
Food Justice Talk is Monday, Feb. 27
February 23, 2012
Nikki Henderson, executive director of People’s Grocery in Oakland, Calif., will speak on “Policy, Advocacy, and Community Self-Determination: Tools to a Healthy Food Justice System” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Auditorium. Her community lecture is sponsored by the Bonner Center for Community Service and Learning.
Second Film on Muslim Women to be Shown Feb. 29
February 23, 2012
The screening of the second film in a semester-long series on Muslim women presented by DIYA ABDO’S IDS 485 Arab and Islamic Feminisms class will be Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 7 p.m. in Founders Gallery.
Women Like Us is an “intimate and revealing portrait of five ordinary Iranian women: a nurse, a journalist, a rice farmer, a religious college graduate and a piano teacher. Against a backdrop of Islam, revolution and war, they share their views on the veil, the relationship of Iranian women to the West and the long-ranging impacts of the 1979 Revolution on the status of women in their country.
What emerges is an image of Iran that resists easy classification, a nation in flux at a unique historical moment, still reeling from the residual effects of the Iran-Iraq war but poised for a new future. An important and timely look at contemporary Iran, Women Like Us offers surprising insights into the changing role of women in the Middle East from a perspective that rarely makes it to international headlines.”
The film will be introduced, presented, and moderated by students BENNETT CHRISTIAN, JOHNATHAN CRASS, ELIZABETH FISTEL, JACOB KRESLOFF, and SCOTT WEISS. For more information contact Diya Abdo at 316-2214 or abdod@guilford.edu. Other films in the series are March 21, My Home, Your War, and April 4, That Paradise Will Be Mine.
Students – Sign Up to Rumble in the Greensboro Biscuitville Bowl
February 23, 2012
Bigger in spirit, badder in behavior, and entrepreneurial in principle, the Greensboro Collegiate Biscuitville Bowl will have Guilford students crossing campuses, becoming inspired, branding their own biscuits, building resumes and battling for the 7 Campus Scramble title.
The Greensboro Collegiate Biscuitville Bowl is a week-long series of events April 16-21 for Greensboro’s collegiate community. The bowl is a collaboration between Biscuitville, Opportunity Greensboro and synerG Young Professionals.
Organizers will be on campus during lunchtime hours on Monday, Feb. 27, in Founders Hall with information on how Guilford students can form teams and enter. Check out the planned events for April 16-21:
- Scratch-Made Success Week – Free intercampus events and programs focused on entrepreneurship.
- Brand Your Biscuit! – Product development challenge for local college students.
- 7 Campus Scramble – Center City relay race with wacky breakfast-themed obstacles.
In 2001 Opportunity Greensboro, a team of the city’s academic and business leaders, recognized the need to connect students from all seven higher education institutions. They asked synerG Young Professionals to come up with a high-energy event geared to college students.
SynerG proposed a spring 5K relay race in downtown Greensboro. Then, enter Biscuitville with flour, jelly, grits and buttermilk. The initial event quickly transformed into a test of college students’ school spirit, brain power and resilience as well as an opportunity to learn by participating in different entrepreneurship activities.
In addition to Guilford, teams will come from Bennett College, Greensboro College, UNCG, N.C. A&T State University, GTCC and Elon University School of Law.
Go online for more details: BiscuitvilleBowl.com, Facebook.com/BiscuitvilleBowl, or Twitter.com/BiscuitBowl
Leica Scanner System Acquired by Forensics Institute
February 23, 2012
Guilford’s Forensics Institute has acquired a piece of crime-fighting technology that folks on the CSI television shows would be proud to own.
It’s a Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 3-D laser scanner, which will be used both on campus and off campus to assist local law enforcement. On Thursday, March 15, from 10–11:30 a.m., Tony Grissim, a public safety and forensics manager with Leica, will be on campus to put the tool through its paces.
He’ll give a lecture and demonstrate the system to students in the forensic biology program, crime scene technicians, representatives from the District Attorney’s office, police leaders from a wide area, and other guests including Guilford College leadership. The demo will include an overview of its various law enforcement applications, case studies of homicides, officer involved shootings, shooting reconstruction and post-blast investigations. Area law enforcement personnel will come back for in-depth training April 10-13.
FRANK KEEGAN, director of the Forensics Institute, said, “This is a sophisticated piece of technology that will be used to instruct Guilford students in the proper procedures for investigating a crime scene. The laser scanner captures a very detailed 3D image of the crime scene that then serves as a permanent record and reference that can be consulted as the investigation proceeds.
“Utilizing Guilford’s Crime Scene House, students will learn how to preserve a crime scene and collect and analyze evidence. In addition, the Laser Scanner will be made available to local law enforcement for capturing highly detailed three-dimensional images of major crime scenes.”
The Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 is a versatile and easy-to-use 3-D laser scanning system which enables users to photograph and measure a scene with an extraordinary level of speed, accuracy and completeness. Police agencies all over the United States use it for forensics and homeland security applications. It produces data that can be used to generate high-value rapid-response products within minutes of the scanning. In the courtroom Leica’s laser scanning data has allowed prosecutors to place the jury in the crime scene. Data from Leica laser scans have been accepted in U.S. courts of law many times.
Gabby Oglesby ’14 Named ODAC Women’s Basketball Player of the Year
February 23, 2012
GABBY OGLESBY ’14 earned the Old Dominion Athletic Conference’s Women’s Basketball Player of the Year Award as well as First Team All-ODAC recognition. JAZLYN GIBBS ’12 was Second Team All-ODAC for the second straight season. (Photo, L-R, Oglesby, Gibbs)
Oglesby is the fourth Guilford student to win the ODAC’stop women’s basketball prize. BRENDA DAVIS ’94 (1993, 1994) and LAURA HAYNES ’98 both won the honor twice (1995, 1998) and ARDEN MILLER ’01 claimed the 2000 award. Oglesby is the first sophomore so honored since Randolph-Macon College’s Molly Ariailin 2008.
Oglesby leads the Quakers in scoring, rebounding, field-goalpercentage and blocked shots (59). She tops the ODAC in blocks per game (2.4bpg.) and stands third in the league in field-goal shooting (.509). Her 14.7points per game average stands fifth in the conference and her 7.7 boards perouting is sixth.
Oglesby broke Guilford’s all-time blocks record Feb. 17 inher 51st career game. She now has 118 rejections, four better thanthe former standard, which was set in 110 contests.
Gibbs is Guilford’s 10th two-time All-ODAC performerafter averaging 13.0 points per game and shooting better than 40 percent fromthree-point land. Her .402 three-point shooting percentage ranks second in theODAC and 23rd in NCAA Division III through games of Feb. 19. She is third in the league with 2.1 threes per game and also contributes 3.4 reboundsand 1.6 assists per outing. Her 53 three-pointers this year rank seventh inschool history. Gibbs has 18 games with 10 or more points and became Guilford’s16th career 1,000-point scorer this year.
Coach STEPHANIE FLAMINI’s Quakers posted a 19-6 regular-seasonrecord, their most wins since 2003. Guilford went 16-4 in the league andsecured the third seed for this week’s ODAC Tournament at the Salem (Va.) CivicCenter.
