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A FOOTBALL PLAYER BASHES COACH VIA TWIHER Columnist gives take on senior running back Jamal NO FREE BIRTH CONT. Elon Health Center will not be providing free birth control because of insurance regulation changes. » PAGE 3 Shuman’s social media outburst. »PAGE 15 THE Pendulum ELON, NORTH CAROLINA j WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2011 | VOLUME 37, EDITION 26 www.elonpendulum.com ‘HAIR’ tackles timeless social issues through song, passion Its plot sounds eerily familiar in today’s world of war, social controversy and political action. “Hair,” a “tribal love-rock musical,” features a cast of hippies, draft-dodgers and dropouts communing in New York City during the volatile 1960s. The large ensemble cast confronts everything from the war to sexuality, including an often-controversial nude scene, where each cast member strips down to his or her level of comfort. The cast also interacts heavily with the audience, giving the performance a more intimate feel. Despite the adult themes, director Cathy McNeela said in a previous interview that “Hair is not designed to appall viewers. ,u ■ ■ ii “Shock value is aggressive," she said. “Our Hair will CLMRE iSMRnOS I sun PtxXograiilw be everything positive. I embrace the youthful energy and the beauty that it offers.” Senior Tayler Mettra plays 16-year-old Crissy\ In a previous interview, Mettra said that although Hair is set in a time period different from today, the most important themes of the show are those that are still present in society. “We’re in the middle of another controversial war and have been suffering the effects socially, politically and personally just as the tribe in 'Hair' does,” Mettra said. “Despite the decade differences, watching ‘Hair’ is like looking into a mirror for our societal issues.” See page 10 for full story on “HAIR." Ceremony celebrates Numen Lumen Pavilion Students shave hope for new Multi-faith Center ..»11 j mircdif a follower of (the Baha Mary Kate Brogan Reporter Students, faculty and staff accompanied the Board of Trustees at the northwest end of the Academic Village to dedicate the grounds for the new Numen Lumen Pavilion, the final building in the Academic Village that will serve as the campus Multi-faith Center. “(The dedication) was a beautiful ceremony and it really touched many of us emotionally very deeply,” said President Leo Lambert. “I hope (the pavilion) will be a very well- used facility on the campus and I’m personally very excited for it.” Prior to the ceremony, university chaplain Jan Fuller asked pairs of students representing nine religions on campus to find a word that symbolized what they hoped the Numen Lumen Pavilion would represent for the campus. Painted on stones left at the site of the groundbreaking, the words included the Hindu “Namaste,” meaning “the divine in me recognizes the divine in you,” “charity" for the Church of Latter-Day Saints and “umoja," meaning “oneness” in Swahili for the Baha’i religion. The words will later be engraved on stones, which will be built into the new pavilion. “I actually just kind of declared myself a follower of (the Baha’i religion) and one of the stones founding it was a Baha'i stone,” said sophomore Meagan Casavant, who lives in the Better Together learning community. “I just thought, ‘Oh, that’s so cool’ because ... it made me feel like I was part of the building now. 1 like that they literally are making several religions the building blocks of the new Numen Lumen site.” The building itself will have many unique features, according to Smith Jackson, vice president and dean of Student Life, including a water wall in the lobby, a large multipurpose See MULTIFAITH I PAGE 2 General studies proposal axed by faculty Grace Elkus Senior Reporter The proposed changes to the General Studies curriculum was voted down Oct. 28 by a full faculty vote, bringing an to end to more than three years of wurk by Elon faculty and more than two years of work by the General Studies Review Committee. The committee, which consisted of 18 faculty members from various departments, presented a seven-part proposal that had been passed by the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) in September. The final vote was given to the full faculty because of its significance to the university. “We deferred the decision to the full faculty because it is such a big proposal and it affects every faculty member across the board,” said Jean Schwind, associate professor of English and chair of the Curriculum Committee. “The faculty bylaws provide that if 15 percent of the full-time faculty petition the UCC and say we want to vote on this proposal, then it goes to full faculty.” Elon faculty members voted in favor of the New General Studies Mission Statement and Goals in 2010, a document that outlined the initial proposed changes. But when it came to approving the amended version of the proposal, votes came up short. “We now have a general studies mission statement and goals and we don’t have a curriculum that adequately addresses them,” Schwind said. Although the proposal was voted down by faculty. The Pendulum interviewed numerous professors, none of whom would say on record they voted against the proposed changes. Primary concerns and opposition expressed in Friday’s meeting addressed the proposed additional four semester hours in foreign languages, definitions to some of the new categories in the studies in the arts and sciences and the scope and definition of the Arts and Sciences, according to Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, and Tom Mould, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, co-chairs of the General Studies Review Committee. The result of the vote comes as a disappointment to the committee, which worked at length creating the proposal to analyze research in general education, hold open forums with faculty and participate in national conferences on general education. “We are extremely disappointed in this result, needless to say, and wish that more of the debate had been focused on the extensive national research that suggests valuable ways of strengthening Elon’s general education program,” said Haskell and Mould in a joint statement. “We continue to believe that the proposal is a good one.” This disappointment isn’t limited to faculty on the committee. Other faculty members who were looking forward to improvements in the curriculum are also frustrated by the outcome. “Elon had the opportunity to really advance its general studies curriculum, and unfortunately the faculty as a whole wasn’t able to see the positive in the potential change,” said Jessie Moore, associate professor of English. “I think that folks had a hard time wanting to put See GST I PAGE 5
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