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The Pendulum
Thursday, September 28, 1983
Volume X, Number 4
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Enrollment record
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HOMECOMING PERFORMERS: Entertaining at the SGA dance at the Best West
ern Friday is Hot Smokin’ Brass. They will perform top 40 and beach music.
Homecoming starts today
By Margaret Caldwell
Staff Writer
Homecoming activities begin today at 9:20
a.m. as the Student Government Association
sponsors a homecoming coffee by the Fonville
Fountain. A pep rally with the Showband and
cheerleaders will whip up spirit for Satur
day’s game.
The SGA homecoming dance will be at Best
Western from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Friday. The
entertainment will be provided by Hot Smo
kin’ Brass, performing top 40 and beach music.
Tickets are $4 single and $7 a couple. The
dress will be semi-formal.
A new policy at the Best Western, is that_no
one under 19 can be admitted if alcohol is
served. This means that one-third of the fresh
men are unable to be admitted.
Student Government President Diane
McSheehy said, “For the interest of all the
people who are concerned about homecom
ing, the dance will still be the same time, but
no alcohol will be served.”
She went on to say that this decision was
made by both the hotel, the homecoming com
mittee and the executive officers in the stu
dent government.
A shuttle bus will leave every half hour from
the visitor’s parking lot starting at 8:30 p.m. It
will run until 1:30 a.m. Students are encour
aged to use this free service for their own pro
tection.
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By Penny Thomas
Features Editor
Elon College is having to deal
with the “good problems”
stemming from the above aver
age enrollment this year of
2,715 students said Vice-
President Chris White.
These problems are “fairly
clear” said Will Migniuolo, En
glish instructor and academic
skills coordinator. The dorm
rooms are obviously crowded
and the classrooms are full,
Mignioulo said.
White said that possible ac
tions to help the housing situa
tion are to require seniors to
live off campus, to cut down the
number of students admitted
or to build a new dorm.
He said that he likes the lat
ter idea the best and that Elon
definitely needs to get the stu
dents out of Best Western and
out of the tripling of residents
in Smith and Carolina dorms.
President Fred Young is ful
ly aware of the housing prob
lem, said Migniuolo; however,
“The students can’t expect a
dorm to be build overnight,” he
said.
Migniuolo said that Elon
could have great teachers and
the best academics programs,
but if the students are not hap
py and comfortable then their
attitude towards the school
will not be very positive.
White said that the clas
srooms are “full but not cram
med.” Yet there have been
complaints from various
teachers concerning classroom
size.
The faculty members, said
Mingiuolo, “are really having
to extend ourselves” in dealing
with the full classrooms.
He also said that the admis
sions committee will be meet
ing soon to discuss how to deal
with the increased numbers of
students more efficiently. He
said that it would be dangerous
if students at Elon became lost
in a crowd since Elon does
pride itself on being able to
serve each student so that each
student has access from the top
to the bottom of the administra
tion. He said, though, that he
doesn’t believe this will
happen.
White contends that the clas
sroom numbers are really not
any larger than in the past. He
said the administration hired
new part-time teachers as soon
as it knew that the number of
students was going to be grea
ter than they had anticipated.
White also said that when the
Fine Arts Center is completed
it will alleviate crowding in the
classrooms.
Gerald Gibson, instructor in
Communications and WSOE
Radio Station advisor, said
that his classrooms are “a little
crowded but not beyond
reason.” The number of stu
dents in his classes is “more
than he would like but that the
additional students do provide
nice benefits,” he said.
One of those benefits which
has been made possible by the
rise in the number of students
is the ability for WSOE to go up
in power by 500 watts, Gibson
said.
Migniuolo said the number of
students is a good sign for col-
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