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The Pendulum
Thursday, September 13, 1984
Volume XI, No. 2
Fall enrollment sets record for 8th year in a row
By Penny Thomas
Associate Editor
“At this point we have approximately 2,780
students registered,” said Registrar Mark
Albertson, which eclipses last year’s record-
breaking 2,715. This makes the eighth year in a
row that Elon’s Fall Semester enrollment has
broken previous records. In 1976,2,150 students
were enrolled here.
Joann Soliday, dean of admissions, said that
the number of new students is also up. “There
are 1,009 new students as compared with 953
last year,” she said.
She said the reason the admissions office is
most happy is that they rejected 335 people,
almost 100 more than last year, and still man
aged to increase the number of new students.
Soliday said that the admissions staff has
started to raise standards and has begun to be
more selective about incoming students. She
also said that the guidelines they are currently
following suggest that most students admitted
must have a predicted grade point average of
1.8.
She said that this is hard to go by since “of
course every student gets individual considera
tion.” Also, the 1.8 figure for the predicted
grade point average is not just the grade point
average in high school, she said, but rather is
calculated by averaging grade point averages,
SAT results and class ranks.
In the last couple of years before Elon admis
sions started raising standards, said Soliday,
“The college was more concerned about getting
enough students than about the standards.”
But now, she said, the college can worry about
raising the guidelines for admission. “We have
to stay in business,” said Soliday, “so we’re still
worried about that number.”
If the number of new students drops down too
much, she said, we may have to review the stan
dards again. “We have “self-imposed limita
tions” and “nobody wants to see dorms tripled
again.” She also said that the college just wants
everything to stabilize.
Albertson said that President Fred Young’s
plan for being more selective about admissions
“could cut back a little,” but would probably
stablize the growing numbers of Elon students.
Overall, Albertson predicted next year’s total
enrollment will have additional growth since
every year the number has increased.
“Past years we just haven’t been as well-
known and didn’t have the choices of students
as we have now,” said Soliday, “but this means
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Photo by Stuart White
BEFORE AND AFTER: Former TKE house was used as firehouse training last
month.
TKE T-shirt slogan comes true
By Sue Hoggard
Staff Writer
“A lot of good memories went
up in smoke,” said Terry Tera-
mo, president of TKE fraterni
ty, concerning the Aug. 19 in
carceration of what was the
fraternity’s house. The house
was burned in a training exer
cise by Elon College, Altama-
haw-Ossipee and Faucette fire
departments.
The fire training exercise
occurred after the fraternity
lost its house last spring be
cause of violations of college
policy that had occurred over a
period of time, according to
Dean of Student Affairs, Ron
Klepcyk. He said the house was
not in good condition but the
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