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The Pendulum
October 9, IQgo
Students become good consumers
by Dmle Saiuders
Overcrowding in the
dorms of Eion College has
forced increased numbers of
students to live off-campus.
Advantages are evident in
both the residence halls and
in off-campus living.
Costs of most off-campus
quarters vary from JlOO to
$325 per month. Living in
another family’s home re
duces the costs when they
are compared to apartment
expenses. Most students who
live with another family pay
about SIOO to $1S0 per
month. This price usually
includes one meal every day.
One advantage to this ar
rangement is the closeness of
family life, missed by stu
dents who are far from
home.
Another alternative is that
of living in an apartment
farther from the campus
than most housing. The Col
ony Apartments in Burling
ton are $315 per month for
three bedrooms, a dining
room, two full baths, and
a large living room. College
Manor Apartments at Elon
College cost $200 per month
which includes two bed
rooms, one bath, a kitchen
and a living room.
Basic living expenses,
including electricity, heating,
cooling, and phones, are
essentially the same in off-
campus facilities. However,
the total cost of dorm resi
dency in 1980 for the faU
semester, including room
and board, is $739.50. In
contrast to off-campus hous
ing, this is approximately
$loio to $200 less expensive
per semester.
Girls lockers p* ^
Vanessa Corbett, an All-
American basketball player.
The women’s team is also
upset because last fall they
used their own money to
clean up the locker room
and make it presentable.
“So far,” says Corbett,
“the guys have messed up
the place and probably have
no intention of cleaning up.
Every time something falls
short around here, the short
end always falls the female
way,” says Corbett.
Dr. Alan White, head of
the Athletic Department,
says, “All rooms here are
multi-purpose rooms. No one
room belongs to any one
group; at least that is the
way we would like for it to
be.” Dr. White says further
that “a team can use any
room during their season;
otherwise, the room is not
theirs alone.”
The Athletic Department
had anticipated the comple
tion of Koury Fieldhouse to
help alleviate some of the
problems of overcrowding in
the dressing rooms. “Until
the time the fieldhouse is
completed, teams will have
to make accommodations,”
says White.
The Athletic Department
assured this reporter that the
women’s locker room would
be returned to them by their
first practice. But the condi
tion of the room would not
be certain.
“I just hate for the fresh
man members of the team to
come into this confusion,”
says Corbett. “It’s hard
enough building team unity
and togetherness without
having to deal with admini
strative politics.”
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Personal advantages of li
ving off-campus outweigh
those of living in the dorms.
“The privacy is awesome,”
says Randy Fralin who
shares a house with Mike
O’Brien and Rob Haley in
Burlington. Lynn Moore, a
senior this year, says “Li
ving farther from campus is
more like your own home or
your own private get away.
Living close to Elon is great
for underclassmen, but as a
senior, yoij have experienced
most of what Elon has to
offer, and it’s time to begin
to break some of the college
ties.”
While in the end, it may
cost more to live off-
campus, many agree that it
is well worth the added
expense to have a place you
can call home.
Budgeting meals
Part One
Eating habits vary for
students who live off-
campus. With the costs of
other bills, the student finds
that he must budget his
money for weekly visits to
the grocery store.
Most students allow al
most $35 per week for
necessities such as dairy pro
ducts and meats. “Planmng
these grocery lists and the
venture to the store is a
family affair and everyone
must attend,” says Jimmy
Trainer who lives at College
Manor with Dickie Whit
more and John Vest.
“Saving coupons is a must
for most of us as well as the
Sav-A-Check specials found
at the local Winn Dixie,”
says Virginia Davis. “Food
costs more than I realized,”
she says.
In planning the menus.
the off-campus economist
must compensate for the
schedule of the roommates
“We eat about half our
meals together,” says Whit-
more. “We never know
what the others are doing,”
Dinner is the meal most
often shared by the students.
“We take turns making the
meals, and usually it’s somt
thing like hamburger,” con-
tinues Dickie. A special oc
casion or visitor calls for a
change from hamburger to
steak with potatoes and
wine, a welcome respite.
Fast food such as Mc
Donald’s is rarely eaten but
when there is an urge to eat
out, it is usually at Pete's
Grill in Gibsonville or at
Oak Grove Cafe in Burling
ton which serves well-
balanced meals at afford
able prices, these students
say.
World of computers
by WUliam
R. Parks
Elon College is committed
to developing a new minor
in computer information
science which will go hand-
in-hand with almost every
major on campus. In this
sense the new computer in
formation science curriculum
will be a service area offer
ing assistance collegewide.
Because of this recent de
velopment, I think it appro
priate to enter into some
sort of dialogue through this
series of articles with other
members of the faculty and
student body. I will be
expressing personal views so
that this is not necessarily to
be interpreted as some form
of official statement— mere
ly a series of reports.
Computer information
science is a relatively new
field of study with only 35
years of history in higher
education. Since I have been
involved with computers
since 1960, this represents
more than half the time that
computers have been
around. Very few disciplines
have so many workers who
actually span the life of its
origin or beginnings. That is
why, perhaps, that so many
openings go unfilled in this
field— the growth of the
field has outpaced the ability
of schools to produce gra
duates.
And the outlook for fu
ture job openings is so
bright that nearly every col
lege in the country is urging
or requiring its students to
take at least one course on
the subject. I know of
students who with only two
or three courses are getting
“on-job-training” positions
in industry. They went on to
become successful computer
specialists as their experience
grew.
The computer age we are
entering will affect all disci
plines. Low cost desk-top
“home” computers are b^
ing purchased by small and
large businesses. These de
vices are programmed in
BASIC language and this is
why our first courses taught
at Elon would be beneficial
to anyone. BASIC language
is taught to beginners as wd
as advanced students.
In the next installment,
current topics in compute
information science as the;
relate to other disciplines
such as business, mathenu-
tics, science, the social sci
ences, and the humanities
will be discussed. Because
these fields are much oldei
than computer science, r^
searchers in the field of
computers have drawn heav
ily from these older disci
plines to formulate or lay a
foundation for their youngo
discpline. (In the next issue
we’U discuss the importance
of human feedback in cyber
netic and/or computerized
systems.)
29 women accept bids from sororities
By Teri Miller
Twenty-nine college wo
men accepted open bids
from Elon’s four sororities
last Friday.
Each sorority was allowed
to give out a designated
number of bids, depending
on the number of active
sisters in their organization.
Accepting bids to Phi Mu
Sorority were Ashley Taylor,
Gail Plummer, Kim Aaron
and Jennifer Leeds.
Girls who accepted bids
from Alpha Sigma Alpha are
Lou Anne Bratcher, Angie
Rakes, Rita Knight, Becky
Eckoff, Kim Gravitte, Me
gan Walsh, Tamee Lambert,
and Stacy Carwhile.
Zeta Tau Alpha had five
girls accept bids. They are
Michelle Feroe, Beth Berry,
Nancy Marchman, Martha
Frye, and Bonnie Tutto.
Girls accepting bids from
Sigma Sigma Sigma were
Lora Arrington, Sheha Cal-
las, Margaret Cocke, Beth
Davis, Toni Ferguson, Marci
Melhom, Tami Offenbacher,
Mary Watson, and Linda
Young.
For the required period of
time each young woman
who accepted a bid will
“pledge” under the sisters
of her sorority. Pledging is a
time for the women to learn
and understand the meaning
of their sorority.
Open House
Zeta Tau Alpha will hold
an Open House for the
faculty and staff of Elon
College on Sunday, Oct. 12
from 2-4 p.m. at the Zeta
house, 310 Haggard Ave.
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