Penduium
Elon seeks tournament
action tonight at 9 p.m.
in Alumni Gym
Vol. IX, Number Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, March 3, 1983
Sig Ep togas during rush
Sigma Phi Epsilon threw a toga party
during fraternity rush on Feb. 22. Sig Ep
brothers [left to right, foreground] Jim
Gaiyon, “Hole” Kemp, Marie James and
Marl( James and Mark Brady were Joined
by meml>ers of Zeta Tau Alpha [left to
right, backgroond] Linda Wills, Donna
Harrell and Fran Rahil. Parties and other
activities have been numerous during rush,
with bids from sororities going out last
Friday and bids from fraternities going
out tomorrow. Photo by Ron Kruppa.
Survey shows students
want fall term break
by Loukia Louka
News Editor
The Student Government Association results of the Fall
Break Survey showed that 92 percent of the students wanted
a fall break.
According to SGA vice president Rodney Beebe, the
surveys were done to see if students are interested in having a
fall break. “We’ve never really known if they want a fall
break or not so we did a survey to find out,” he said.
Chairman of the Campus Opinion Committee, Tracey
Walser, said the biggest reason students want a break is
“because they feel the pressure is too much to handle until
Thanksgiving.
“The people surveyed that were against a fall break were
worried that school would have to start earlier, but that
hasn’t been discussed yet, the SGA just got student
opinion.”
Even though there is resounding student approval of a fall
break, the decision is not for SGA to make. The semester
calendar under authority of Dr. James Moncure, vice
president of academic and student affairs. The calendar itself
is formulated by Deans Long and White, Dean of Student
and Academic Affairs, respectively.
The big question is whether students would want to return
the last week in August, not whether students want a fall
break.
Moncure said that the issue of a fall break has been looked
at for a long time. “Elon’s fall semester is shorter than that
,of other schools in this area because we have a later start.
This way, we get about 25 more students who may have
started out at East Carolina or UNC and decided that those
schools weren’t for them.
“They then may need to go somewhere that hasn’t started
yet, so they come back to Elon. Starting later also lets
students work thier summer jobs longer.”
Lobbyists seek money for private colleges
by Doug Norwood
Managing Editor
The North Carolina Asso
ciation of Independent Col
leges and Universities has
•ssembled a lobbying group
of 400 of the state’s promi
nent business and political
leaders that will go to
Raleigh seeking more fimds
for in-state students attend
ing the private schools.
Many of the schools are
experiencing c^Meased
enrollmenudt^To^e great
l>sparit/-^je!ween the costs
to students attending state
Khools and to those attend
ing private schools, accord
ing to Dr. J. Fred Young,
who was named chairman of
the association last week.
North Carolina currently
gives in-state private college
students $830 a year in
grants to help with the
W^er costs of attending the
private schools. The new
group, Citizens Concerned
for Higher Education, hopes
to get that sum increased to
♦1.025 next fall and to
Jl.200in 1984.
In an interview, Yoimg
said that private college
costs were $981 more than
public school costs in 1975,
put that difference has
increased to $2071 in 1982.
He said that the problems
arising from tnis difference
are fourfold. First, he said,
students who might prefer
smaller private colleges are
forced into larger public
schools because they find the
expenses at the private
schools are prohibitive.
“Second, when students
go from private to public
schools, the state has to
subsidize these students with
approximately $4,000,
Young said. In the last two
years, enrollment has fallen
off by about 1,000 students
in the private schools while
it has increased by about the
same amount in state
schools. Young said that this
shift in enrollment has cost
the sute’s taxpayers about
$4 million.
Young said that the state
and its communities also
cannot fully utilize the fac^-
ties such as dornutoriw,
libraries and athletic facih-
ties that already exist on
private campuses because of
the lagging enrollment.
The fourth problem is that
simUar facilities would have
to be built and maintained
on state campuses at the
taxpayers’ expense, Yotmg
said.
“Currently, one-fourth, or
25,000 North Carolinians in
undergraduate school are
being educated in these
independent colleges,”
Young noted. “This enroll
ment pattern is being threat
ened because the student, or
the student’s family, must
pay most of the cost, where
the state pays most of the
cost in the public schools,”
Young said.
Of the 38 private colleges
in North Carolina, Young
said that only nine had
increased enrollments last
year. While Elon was one of
the nine to show an increase.
Young said, other schools
which are financially weaker
might conceivably have to
close one day. But he said
that that was only a remote
possibility.
Young said it is more
likely that “all of the
schools will become weaker
and weaker” if action is not
taken to alleviate the situa
tion.
Young said that Elon has
avoided the trend toward
declining enrollment because
“students like it here and
then bring their friends
here.” Other factors draw
ing students here are the
“great deal of individual
attention, great teaching and
student activites” students
We are in favor of
a strong dual system
with a small, but
strong private
institution.’
-Dr. Fred Young
receive at Elon, Young said. ^
Also the location of the
school, its strong athletic
tradition and a strong
admissions staff have helped
keep enrollment strong, he
said.
Young said that additional
funds for private college
students would not hurt the
public university system. He
said, “We in private educa
tion are strong supporters of
public education. We are in
favor of a strong dual
system with a small, but
strong private institution.”
Among those associated
with Elon who will serve on
the committee are former
Gov. Robert Scott; fbrmer
state senator Ralph Scott,
who is also a college trustee;
Roger Gant, another trustee
and president of Glen Raven
Mills; W.S. Harris, district
Fred Youg
court judge; Dr. Durward
Stokes, the college’s histor
ian; Royall Spence Jr., presi
dent of Canada Dry Bottling
Co., and college trustee; and
Jerry Tolley, former Elon
football coach who now
works in the Development
Office.
Also on the committee are
Sherril Hall, college trustee;
Clyde Gordon, Sr., and Dan
Ddy, both Elon alumni;
Ann Morrison and Fred
Bowman, friends of the col
lege; and Sherri Moore, an
Elon student who is e^tor
of the Pendulum.