Guilford staff face layoffs due to budget cuts
Hannah Shoemaker, News Editor
February 9, 2018
Assistant Director of Internships Amber Slade will no longer be working at Guilford College. Slade was laid off due to a recent round of budget cuts after working in the Career Development Center since April 2017. “Amber has communications with all of the organizations who have worked with Guilford...
Jeff Jeske Memorial Scholarship honors late professor
Beatriz Caldas, Editor-in-Chief
February 2, 2018
“Go for the gold” and “error creeps in” are quotes that students who attended Guilford in the last three decades will remember. They both were said by Charles A. Dana Professor of English Jeff Jeske, who passed away on Jan. 23, 2017. Jeske joined the College in 1986 after getting his doctorate...
Proposed parking fee faces faculty and staff backlash
Hannah Shoemaker and Andrew Walker
January 26, 2018
The final weeks of 2017 at Guilford consisted of finals, winter break and a proposed faculty and staff parking fee. On Dec. 11, the Office of Human Resources sent an email to Guilford faculty and staff stating that beginning on Jan. 1, they would need to pay a monthly fee for campus parking. 10 days...
Guilford alum reads from first book of poems
Finn Williamson, Staff Writer
October 6, 2017
On Thursday, Sept. 28, students, teachers and community members gathered in the Carnegie Room of Hege Library, all excited to hear Guilford alumna Anna Lena Phillips Bell speak. Since attending Guilford, Bell has been an editor at several publications, including the American Scientist magazine. She...
Annual Quaker conference comes to Guilford
Abe Kenmore, Opinion Editor
April 21, 2017
The semester will be over, but the learning will continue well into summer. This summer, Guilford College will once again host the Friends Association for Higher Education conference from June 15-18. The annual conference brings together faculty and staff from the 17 Quaker colleges, univer...
Students take advantage of final J term
Nicole Zelniker, Editor-in-Chief
February 9, 2017
From Europe to Asia, Guilford College students spent January term all over the world. “It was fantastic in so many ways,” said senior Hannah Brewer-Jensen, who spent January term in Germany taking a course called “Alp Dreams” with Chair and Professor of Foreign Languages David Limburg. “I...
St. Clare’s professor discusses Tolkien, literature
Nicole Zelniker, Editor-in-Chief
September 30, 2016
Whether in Oxford, England, or Greensboro, North Carolina, “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien remains a highly influential figure in literature and history. On Sept. 20, Paul Sinclair from St. Clare’s, Oxford gave a talk titled “J.R.R. Tolkien and the Victorian Fantasy of the Middle...
Letter to the editor: You don’t belong at Guilford if…
Jim Hood, Guest Writer
October 5, 2015
Dear Editor, I’ve been thinking a lot about community lately, one of Guilford’s so-called “core values.” I’ve wondered if community is, indeed, the squishiest of those values, the one we have the most trouble actually defining. It needs to be something more than the Kumbayah feeling...
Max Carter set to retire at the end of spring semester
Ben Achilles, Staff Writer
February 13, 2015
Max Carter, director of the Friends Center, adjunct professor of religious studies and beloved member of the Guilford community, will be retiring after 25 years at Guilford College. “Max has been a key person in highlighting and maintaining Guilford’s Quaker identity,” said Jim Hood, professor...
