Housing: “We run behind, but we’ll get to it
by Joy Hamilton
There are many angles to
the present housing pro
blems at Elon, an investiga
tion reveals, but difflculties
among both on- and off-
campus students are slowly
being solved.
On-campus problems in
clude crowded rooms and
the initial lack of necessities
in the transition stage of
Sloan and Carolina dorms.
According to Phyllis Har
gis, director of housing,
“blinds, shower curtains, or
frosted glass are in bath
rooms in Carolina.” Locks
are on all individual doors
and outside doors to dorms.
All available screens have
been placed in dorm win
dows, and more have been
ordered.
Larry McCauley, head of
the physical plant says, “ev
ery room in every dorm had
the regular amount of furni
ture in it. We triple
checked every room on the
Saturday before students ar
rived and they had all the
basic equipment,” referring
to a double occupancy
room. Those rooms with
three students have furniture
for two. Most of the
available fumitiu-e is being
used, but students who lack
a desk or other necessary
room facilities should con
tact the resident counselor
who daily forwards the
needed information to main
tenance.
According to McCauley, it
often takes from three to six
months for reordered mate
rials to arrive. The staff of
the maintenance department
also “has over 10,000 rou
tine requests a year re
corded,” and these are
placed in order of priority.
With the bulk of incoming
requests at the b.*ginning of
the year, plus the recently
completed renovations,
McCauley says, “We run
behind, but we will get to it
eventually.”
At present, 60 male stu
dents are housed at the
Ramada Inn. Most of these
students were either accepted
late or were tardy in return
ing room applications. Thir
ty students have been main
streamed into the dorm pop
ulation on campus or have
found other campus hou
sing. Men are moved out of
the Ramada according to
when their fees are paid.
Bus shuttles run from the
Ramada three to four times
a day, but according to
Frank Mianzo, coordinator
of student activities and area
coordinator, the Ramada
Inn students face “an awk
ward situation.” They often
don’t feel an immediate pa.t
of the student body at Elon
and face several adjustment
periods, first at the Ramada,
and then in the dorm.
President Young com
mented that Elon’s enroll
ment is rising at a time when
many colleges are facing
financial difficulties. “We
were anticipating that the
enrollment would decline but
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MEMORIAL STADIUM
Volume VI Number
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
September 20, 1979
Joha ChappcD, ihowa here m Mark TwirfB ■« he appewed at
□on three times in the role, will visit again, this time as
Qarence Darrow, the famed defense lawyer in the Scopes
Monkey TraU of the 1920’s. Pendnlum fUe photo.
SGA announces officials
Jim Stephenson was selec
ted as SGA attorney general,
and Deimis Bailey became
assistant attorney general in
the fmal list of appointments
made by Bryant Colson,
SGA president, this week.
The defense attorney ap
pointee is Frank Neely with
Mark Hayes as assistant.
Bob Henritze chairs the en-
tertaimnent committee, and
James Moore heads public
affairs.
Honor court members are
Layla Al-Habib, Zim Town
send, and Trace Trimmer.
Donna Popular, Raymond
Jackson. Ronnie Wolfe and
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Chappell to recreate Darrow
by Keith Nelson
“I speak for the poor, for
the weak, for the weary, for
the long line of men who, in
darkness and despair have
borne the labors of the
human race,” said Clarence
Darrow, the famed defense
attorney who defended the
right to teach evolution in
public schools. Next Tues
day, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m.,
John Chappell will portray
Darrow in a solo perfor
mance, the first Lyceum
program of the year. Ad
mission is free.
Chappel, who has visited
Elon three times to portray
Mark Twain, will recreate
Darrow’s appearances on the
platform.
He has appeared in “The
Trial of Lee Harvey Os
wald,” “Tail Gunner Joe,”
“Nickelodeon,” “The Other
Side of Midnight,” “The
Rockford Files,” “Delvec-
chio,” and “Rafferty.”
“Usually I play a sort of
assistant crook. Some day
I’d like to play the head
crook.” Chappell doesn’t
worry about being mobbed
by fans because he usually
works “in disguise.”
Chappell has three degrees
in mathematics and physics,
theology, and drama. “I
was excessively educated,
thus suffering from a serious
'.ack of ignorance,” says
Chappell.
Also among his honors
are his title of Kentucky
Colonel and being named
“distinguished graduate”
from his alma mater. Wake
Forest University, in Win
ston-Salem. At the Mark
Twain Boyhood Home Mu
seum in Hannibal, Mo., he
was presented with a film of
the great hiunorist himself.
In 1968 Chappell began
performing Hal Holbrook’s
“Mark Twain Tonight.”
Four years later he wrote his
own version. Since then he
has become the first solo
performer to portray Cla
rence Darrow.
Ordinance to control night noise
An ordinance to control
excessive noise at night in
the town of Elon College
was approved unanimously
at the Sept. 11 meeting of
the Board of Aldermen.
The move on the part of
the governing board comes
after complaints by residents
over a period of two or
three years that amplified
music from fraternity
houses, the college, and.
Colonnades, the Elon
College literary maga
zine is looking for stu
dent staff. Meetings are
Tuesday afternoons at 4
in Alamance 213.
Colonnades literary
contest will be explained
in next Thursday’s Pen
dulum.
most recently a tavern in the
viUage had been disturbing
citizens who tried to sleep at
night.
The town attorney, C.L.
Bateman, said at the meeting
that control of noise such as
that of rock bands playing
amplified music “in unen
closed structures” after 9
p.m. was needed in the
town. Exceptions, he said,
could be granted once a
month at the discretion of
the aldermen. The penalty
for violation of a noise
control ordinance would be
a $50 fine or 30 days in jail
for each violaion.
Frank Grzeszczak, owner
of the Lighthouse Tavern
who started bringing bands
to the partially roofed patio
of his tavern about two
months ago, was present at
the meeting with his attor
ney, Paul Messick, Jr. Mr.
Messick argued that the pro
posed ordinance would ap
ply unfairly to his client
because it was directed
against a particular person,
his client, and a particular
noise source, rather than
applying evenly across the
board. Mr. Messick said
that the ordinance would not
cover the train whistle, fire
bell, Elon College marching
band and such. Mr.
Grzeszczak had contracted
with bands to play through
October and he would lose a
lot of money if “the town
tried to shut him down now,
without a grace period.”
The Board of Aldermen
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