Pcniiulutn
Vol. IX, Number 16
See coverage of
England trip
on pages 4 & S
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, February 3,1983
Inflation drop deletes faculty raises for 1983
by Doag Norwood /
Managing Editor /
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Due to a decrease in tijc
rate of inflation, Elon C^l-
^e’s faculty and staff me^-
bers did not receive a Janu-
iry cost-of-living raise / in
1983 as they have in re^t
irears, said a college adminis-
irator. i
“In the past couple; or
liree years, faculty and Aaff
kave received raises for the
five months of the f&cal
rear,” said Dr. James i A.
Moncure, vice president for
academic and student
affairs.
“There was no increase
this year because inflation
was flve percent instead of
12, 12.S or 13 percent as it's
been before.” He said the
mid-year raises have been 4
percent, but “obviously,
with inflation down, there is
not the pressure” to raise
salaries.
Moncure said that since he
came to Elon in 1974, col
lege employees have received
“an annual increment of 5
to 8 percent” at the begin
ning of the school’s fiscal
year since they have year
long contracts. Faculty
members got their raises on
Sept. 1, the beginning of
their nine-month contracts.
He said that he had “no
authority to comment on
raises” this year because
Elon President J. Fred
Young will not present his
budget proposals to the
board of trustees until
Pledging^ill proposed for Greeks
by Jo Craven
Feature Editor
The Inter-Fraternal Coun-
al (IFC) and the Panhellenic
pouncil in cooperation with
Dean of Student Affairs
h^illiam Long are working
on a proposed bill of pledge
rights, which they hope will
be completed before spring
rush activities.
The proposed bill, accord
ing to IFC President Greg
felackbum, will state the
“ground niles” of pledging
•nd “what is expected of
pledges.”
The document will also
■liminate confusion among
pledges Long said. Long
•aid that in the past, individ
ual active fraternity or
►>rority members may have
engaged in some hazing of
pledges, although the frat
ernity or sorority did not
offlcially condone it. He
said that often pledges are
unsure of their rights in
these situations.
When the proposed bill is
fmalized, “a copy will be
put in the hand of every
person going through pledg
ing” to help eliminate this
confusion. Long said. “If
actives and pledges know the
guidelines, there will be less
chance of violations,” Long
said.
Long has been observing
Greek systems at Elon for
eight and a half years, he
said, and also for eight
previous years at the Uni
versity of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill. He said he had
“had a lot of thoughts”
concerning how Greek
organizations should con
duct themselves.
“The nationals (national
Greek organizations) pro
mote academic excellence.
The first thing in college is
to do as well as possible
academically,” Long said.
Although Long said this had
not been a bad year, it had
not been free of violations,
and he felt the “time had
come to be more assertive.”
Blackburn said he does
not think Elon has a prob
lem with hazing, but that
most pledges to worry about
their grades. He said the
proposed bill will insure that
pledging will not interfere
with school work, and it will
cont. on p. 3
Did YOU have the drop/add blues?
»■* lines and hours of waiting character- the hubbub is over, students shouid be able
Drop/Add Day here Tuesday. Regis- to slow down and enjoy a normal college
»tion took place Monday. Now after all routine. Photo by Ken Upsteln.
March. However, he did
say, “I’ve heard no discus
sion about not having a
raise.”
The cost of building Scott
Plaza, Fonville Fountain and
the new dorm complex were
not a factor in the decision
not to give January raises,
Moncure said, because such
construction is a one-time
capital expense while salaries
are yearly operational
expenses.
Among North Carolina’s
28 private colleges and uni
versities, Elon’s faculty
members are the flfth high
est paid. “Among small
colleges, we are about where
we shoidd be,” Moncure
said, “considering our
endowment and the fact that
we are one of the least
expensive private schools in
the state.”
Elon has a 20 to 1
faculty—student ratio for
private schools. With this
relatively high ratio, faculty
members have a heavier
workload, Moncure said.
But by employing fewer
teachers, higher wages can
be paid to each. Also,
Moncure cited “administra
tive efficency” as another
way Elon has kept tuition
less and faculty salaries high.
He said “Four or five
years ago, we were seventh,
but moved up to sixth, then
to fifth.”
Among the fringe benefits
Elon’s faculty members
receive, Moncure said, are
grants for continuing their
education, writing books,
developing new classes, trav
eling to professional meet
ings and furthering research
in their fields — all gotten
through the faculty research
and development committee.
Moncure said that both
Elon’s staff and faculty
receive retirement benefits,
health and life insurance and
“major discounts” to child
ren and spouses attending
Elon. He said that these
benefits compare favorably
with those offered at other
schools of Elon’s size and
financial means.
WSOE faces staff
changes, more watts
\
FM
by Shelby Bowman
Staff Writer
Station WSOE is changing its executive
Campus
staff.
Fred Goehringer, due to ill health, will step down from
his position as station manager. Becoming responsible for
the running of the station, former News Director Joel
Maness will finish his senior year replacing Goehringer.
Emily Besuden will be second in command as Program
Director in charge of educational and entertainment pro
grams. Her assistant, Neal Davis, will train new staff.
Since WSOE now has no news director, Maness will also
icover news and sports. Helping Maness is Mike Dolianitis.r
the new sportscaster.
Dealing with record companies and correspondence, new
Music Director Charles Bruce will oversee programming of
rock and roll, jazz, disco and contemporary Christian
music.
WSOE has been hoping for a new transmitter since,
according to Gibson, “the FCC decided that 10 watt
stations were not useful. With a capacity reaching only
listeners with a two mile radius, we were given three
undesirable options: to go off the air, change our frequency,
or go up in power.”
“We chose to go up in power,” Gibson said.
“Since 1979 we have been submitting requests to the FCC
for increasing our power to 500 watts,” Gibsons said.
“As of Jan. 24, we have had the engineering and legal
aspects approved. The few complaints we received have
bwn cleared up. Only the FCC commissioners need to meet
and vote.”
If approved, WSOE’s enlargement will be given 12
months for construction. It would cost between $13,000 and
$30,000.
^b Goodman, a consulting engineer from Western
Electric, is helping the station to plan for new equipment.