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The Pendulum
Missing: locker room
In the past, women have been denied the right to vote, the
right to have a child or not, and now in 1980, on the Elon
College campus, women are being denied the “sole rights” to
a locker room.
A winning women’s basketball team is without locker
room space to accommodate the freshmen on the football
team.
No spectator'knows what goes on in a locker room. It is
used not only for dressing, but is a place where the team can
get together and plan strategy for a game, soothe emotional
upsets, and get to know each other better.
But for the past couple of weeks, the women’s team has
been disturbed about the loss of a “home.” It has been
reported that the men have destroyed the condition of the
room. Such news has left the women upset and confused.
The women team members are not sure they will have a
locker room by Monday, their first practice date, or if the
room will be returned in good condition.
Athletes should have respect for other athletes. This
respect is not only for the players in general but for property
and facilities of other players. It is not enough to be a
sportsman to visiting teams, for sportsmanship should start
at home.
Yesterday a reporter was assured that the women’s
basketball team would have a dressing facility by their first
practice. If true, the question may be asked— was this action
planned all along or did it happen because of the potential
publicity ?
October 9, 19801
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Letters to the Editor
Photography hurtmg! ^ Colleae needs street lights
With the absence of a full-time staff photographer, Elon is 11CCU.O
With the absence of a full-time staff photographer, Elon is
losing out on covering many events of interest to students.
Presently, Ed Huehn is responsible for audio visual
equipment, distribution and repair, stage lighting and sound,
and last of all, photography. Although photography is only
one facet of his job, an estimated 75 percent of his time is
spent with photography.
Especially sensitive to photographic needs are the phi Psi
Cli and the Pendulum . Without photographs, these
publications are practically useless. It doesn’t help that
student staff photographers are paid a very low wage.
Perhaps a long term solution to this problem is to hire a
part-time photo-journalism and magazine journalism profe
ssor and have this person also take photographs. He/She
could also be adviser to the yearbook. With administrative
needs, public information, sports information, and the
alumni office, this person would have more than ample
responsibility.
If this long-term solution is not feasible for this year, each
publication could have a photo editor that has access to the
darkroom. Presently, the Phi PsI Cli and the Pendulum
spend $500 a year for supplies and $500 for students
photographers. Volunteer photographers are also used.
The problem lies with the administration; photograpljy is
also an administrative need and must be financed as such,
for there are more than enouKh areas needing aid.
Dear Editor:
Recently a concern for
safety, particularly for wo
men students, has arisen on
campus. Campus security is
sued a statement saying,
“Even when you are
crocked, be sure to keep our
door locked.” Dean Long
issued a memorandum with
strict instructions to follow
to insure security.
An area has been over
looked, however. East Col
lege Avenue, the road that
connects the East Building
to the east side of campus, is
without street lamps and
completely dark.
This road is the path that
most of the female athletes
travel to get to the East
Gym. Volleyball practice,
for instance, is not over
until late, which means the
team has to walk back to the
dorms in complete darkness.
Phi Mu Sorority house, also
located on East College, is
an ideal spot for a potential
molester.
Perhaps the town and
Elon College could get to
gether and finance street
lights for East College Ave
nue. This measure would
greatly lower the risk of
being attacked and increase
the safety of all residents.
Susie George
Yearbook pictures being taken
]Peniiulttm
E4Hor Joy Hamilton
Features Editor Robin Adams
Entertainment Editor Becky Kimbreil
Sports Editor Yield Blaniiensliip
Photographers Dickie Whitmore Susan Burleson
Composition Priscilla Crumpton
Karen Carrouth
Layout Mari Behrend & Day Irmiter
Adviser Mary Ellen Priestley
Advertisins Manaser Ken Whitley
Cartoonist Myra Worth
Published by Communications Media Board of Elon
College in conjunction with the Student Ck>vemment
Association. Founded on October 14, 1974, as a student
newspaper of Elon College, the Pendulum is published
each Thursday during the school year except during
examination, summer and holiday periods. Staff meetings
Thursdays at 4 p.m., 205 Student Center.
Subscriptions — $5 per year
Editor:
Volume 66 of the Phi Psi
Cli is well into the making.
The staff, headed by Mary
Lib Moore and Ann Wick
ham, is striving to create an
annual that will capture all
facets of Ufe at Elon.
“Our main objective is to
produce something everyone
can relate to and enjoy,
Mary Lib says. There will be
less copy and more artisitic
design than in last year’s
annual. Since the staff has
no adviser, former Elon
graduate Mark Smith who is
now with the yearbook pu
blishing company, has of
fered his assistance if pro
blems should arise.
Color pictures of the or
ganization’s fair, open house
and typical Elon life will be
included in the first layout
due Oct. 31.
Class pictures will be ta
ken in the east wing of West
Doritory today from 10 a.m.
to 9 p.m. tomorrow from 10
a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Satur
day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The staff urges all students
interested in having their
pictures taken for the year
book to attend one of the
sittings.
Ashley Taylor
Third West bathrooms dirty
To the Editor:
What is mildewy, dirty,
falling apart, and never has
toilet paper? You’ve guessed
correctly if you said the
bathrooms on third West!
The shower stalls have
black mildew in every cre
vice of the tile and look like
it’s been several months
since they have had a good
scrubbing.
The stalls enclosing the
toilets are falling apart. The
metal walls swing back and
forth and the locks don’t
work.
Besides dirty showers and
falling apart toilet stalls,
half the time there seems to
be a shortage of toilet paper.
Although the showers and
toilets are a problem, there
is one more thing to be
brought up. Students on the
hall clean their dirty dishes
and popcorn machines in the
sinks and don’t bother to
clean up after themselves.
Since this is a place where
I along with the rest of the
girls on the hall must live, I
feel the bathrooms should be
kept clean on the part of
both the student and the
maid, and that the college
should make the necessary
repairs in the bathrooms. If
we all do our share,third|
West will be a nicer place to j
live. Mari Behrend