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The Pendulum
Thursday, Feb. 17, 1983
Newsbriefs
Basic Computer Programming
The Office of Continuing Education will conduct a course,
“Basic Computer Programming,” for teachers and the
general public. The two five-hour sessions will be held on
consecutive Saturdays beginning April 23. Class times are 10
a.m. to 4:40 p.m. with a one-hour break for lunch.
Tuition for the course is $40 per participant. For
additional information call 584-2437 or write the Director,
Office of Continuing Education, Campus Box 2193, Elon
College, Elon College, N.C. 27244.
GaUery Players
The Gallery Players will present the Rodgers and
Hanunerstein musical “Oklahoma!” on Feb. 25-27, March
4-6, and March 11-13 at the Paramount Theatre in
Burlington. For further information and reservations, call
226-4495
Paintings Exhibit by Kai-Jepscn
The month of February brings an array of visual arts into
the Firehouse Galleries. Ivona Kaz-Jepsen from Durham will
display her prints and drawings along with a collection of
hand painted porcelain provided by North Carolina teachers.
Kaz-Jepsen hais exhibited her work all over the world. Her
work has been very {popular in Iran and Egypt where it was
shown in the major art museums there. In the United States,
she has exhibit^ in Massachusettes, Washington, D.C.,
Virginia, Rhode Island, and throughout North Carolina.
These two exhibits will open to the public through March 6
from 3-5. The Art Center is open Monday - Friday 9-5.
Poetry Contest
The American Collegiate Poets Anthology is sponsoring a
National College Poetry Contest. It is open to all college and
university students desiring to have their poetry anthologized.
The entry deadline is March 31. For more information write
to: International Publications, P.O. Box 44-L, Los Angeles,
CA 90044.
AMA Meeting
There wiU be a meeting of the marketing club, Monday,
Feb. 21, at 3 p.m. in Alamance 300. New members welcome.
Faculty Recital
The Department of Fine Arts will present a faculty recital
by Dr. Cardon V. Burnham, Composer, on Sunday, Feb. 20,
at 4 p.m. in Whitley Auditorium.
Auditions
Auditions for the “Tinian’s Rainbow” musical comedy
will be held on Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Whitley Auditorium.
GYMA
Mary Watson, an Elon College senior, has been named as
an Outstanding Young Woman of America, by the OYWA
committee.
Sid Trip
On Monday, Feb. 28, there will be a meeting for all
participants of the Colorado Ski Trip. The meeting will be
held in the large lounge of Long Student Center beginning at
7 p.m. All money will be due at this time. Also room
assignments and final arrangements will be made. In
addition, two ski films will be shown. If anyone cannot
attend, they are urged to call Bill Clarke at 584-2330.
All newsbriefs should be in the Pendulum office by 3 ;30
p.m. on Mondays. Newsbriefs received after this time will be
subject to the following Thursday publication. If newsbriefs
are to run in more than one publication of the Pendulum,
they must be re-submitted on the following Monday.
‘The harder part begins’
for Elon’s radio station
cont. from p. 1
has “secondary status,” it wouldn’t be able to complain, he said.
“The FCC doesn’t want 10 watt stations; it’s not good use of space, so you
either go up or quit. With 500 watts we can get out anywhere from 18 to 23
miles. This gives us a good portion of Guilford County and can help recruit
college students.”
Gibson said that the operating costs are the same for a 10-watt station as
they are for a 500-watt station, because both have to be on the air the same
amount of time during the course of a year.
“We’re about 75 percent through this whole process,” he said. “The hard
part is over. Now the harder part begins—raising the money.”
The Communications Media Task Force, a study group that was formed last
semester, met last Friday after WSOE was approved by the FCC for 500
watts.
This task force was formed to examine the media and the media board to
determine what kind of commitment Elon should make to student media. The
force is chaired by Dr. Lamar Bland, Chairman of the English Department.
Its members are Ron Klepcyk, Barry Simmons, Dean William Long, Bill
Clarke, Chris White, and students Tracey Walser and Charlie Addison.
“There wasn’t too much development,” said Clarke, of the meeting. “Right
now we’re just looking at the costs and projection of what taking this on
would mean. The task force is looking at itematives and the possibility of a
media center, which would be moving the radio station to a more central
location.” ‘
College programs designed
to help students pick major
by Doug Norwood
Managing Editor
Nearly one-third of Elon’s students,
mostly freshmen and sophomores, have not
declared academic majors, and a college
official said that almost half of those
students need to decide on a major within
the next two months.
Lela Faye Rich, director of the Pre-Major
Advising Program, has coordinated three
College Programs to help these students
decide on a major.
Rich said the college de-emphasized the
need for incoming freshmen to declare a
major so that the students would not find
themselves in a field of study that they did
not like or knew nothing about. Now,
about 300 of the 648 undecided students
here need to decide on a major by spring
registration: March 31.
The freshman class is down (in enrollment),
Rich, who is also coordinator of student
retention, said, “but enrollment is up.
These pre-majors are the most likely
candidates to drop out of school.”
The first of the three programs, which
starts next Tuesday and continue on the
foUowing two Tuesdays, will be self-search-
ing activity where students examine thtm-
selves, their interests, abilities, values and
goals. Rich said.
She said second-semester sophomores and
a few juniors who have not declared a
major need to do so as soon as possible.
“The delay can be deadly,” she said. “It
will surely cost them another semester.”
Other ways Rich’s office is trying to help
students decide on a major include testing
to measure students’ interests, and offering
Psychology 171, Educational and Career
Dmsion-making.
The Strong Campbell Interest Inventory
and the Occupational View Deck are tests
designed to show students their interests
and fields where those interests can be
applied.
Psychology 171 is a 10-week class
beginning Feb. 23. It offers students
one hour of academic credit.
Rich said that she has also written letters
to undecided students and their parints
concerning the importance of declaring a
major, publicized the need to decide a
major, and alerted faculty members and
advisors about students needing to declare a
major.
FUch said she wants to stress declaring a
major allows for the students’ growth, not
limits it.
McDowell favors UNC tuition increase
cont. from p. 1.
Tim McDowell said that
the bill has very little chance
of passing in the General
Assembly “because the uni
versity is against it and they
have a lot of friends in the
legislature.”
McDowell said, “Private
colleges requesting more
money is high on the appro
priations committee’s prior
ity list. There isn’t any
additional money in the state
to give them. It’s not a lack
of concern; it’s a lack of
money.
“The first thing we want
to do is lift salary freeze for
teachers and state employ
ees. It’s been frozen for the
past two years.”
“I personally feel that
tuition ought to be raised
across the board, for in and
out-of-state students.”
He explained that 20 years
ago, out-of-state students
paid what it cost the state to
educate them. Through the
years, the cost of education
has gone up but tuition has
remained low.
McDowell said, “For all
practical purposes, in-state
students’ tuition is frozen
while the cost of education
has skyrocketed.”
In October and Novem
ber, the advisory budget
commission met with Gov.
Jim Hunt to predict how
much revenue the state will
have in 1983-84.
They predicted it would
grow 8.8 percent or 90
million dollars. Now,
McDowell said that the rev
enue figure probably won’t
be that high.
It s more like 7 percent
because of inflation and the
economy, so the budget is
out of balance,” he said.
Overall, McDowell said
that It is too early to tell
what the funding picture for
pnvate colleges in this legis
lature will be.
“In April or May, the
recession may end and the
revenue can go up this
year,” he said. “If this
happens, it’ll free up some
money.
“The appropriations
committee will look at and
figure out how private col
leges will be funded, but
right now we don’t know if
the recession will improve or
what they’ll recommend.”