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The Pendulum
Thursday, October 25,1984
Volume XI, Number 8
PRIDE II exceeds $5.7 million
Photo by Chris Fulkerson
PRIDE II CAMPAIGNERS: Trustee Royall Spence, donor
John Jordan and President Fred Young are recognized
for their contributions to the success of the PRIDE II
campaigns.
Legal drinking age
likely to rise to 21
By Frank Isley
Special to The Pendulum
North Carolina’s legal drinking age will be raised to 21, poss
ibly as early as Oct. 1,1985, state Rep. Tim McDowell predicted
Friday.
McDowell, Democrat from the 25th District, told a journalism
class at Elon that the state cannot afford to lose the federal
highway funds, which will be cut if North Carolina does not
raise its drinking age to 21.
Beginning next year, the highway funds to those states which
have not raised their drinking age to 21 will be cut 15 percent,
McDowell said.
He added that the states which do raise their drinking to 21 by
Oct. 1,1986, will have the 15 percent restored by Washington. If
states still refuse to raise the drinking age, he said, more cuts in
Federal Highway Funds will follow until the states comply with
the law.
McDowell said he sees the new law as “a state’s rights issue.”
The money being withheld is that which North Carolina tax
payers have paid, he said.
Constitutionally, the federal government can tell states what
to do, McDowell said, but added this situation almost appears to
be “blackmail.”
McDowell, who said he is not in favor of raising the drinking
age to 21, said that reasons to raise the drinking age do exist.
One reason, he said that half the fatal auto accidents in North
Carolina involve alcohol and of those, half the drivers are
under 19 years old. McDowell said that “the biggest problem is
around age 17.” ,
“ See Legal age, page 7
By Penny Thomas
Associate Editor
In an interview last Monday, President Fred
Young said that Trustees Chairman J im Powell
reported that PRIDE II has exceeded its goal of
$5.7 million, with the current pledges and gifts
totaling $5.8 million in the Board of Trustees
meeting last Thursday.
Young also noted that Elon has raised
$300,000 towards the $1 million Kresge Founda
tion challenge. The remainder of that challenge
must be met by July 1, 1985, he said.
This was the largest foundation gift in the
school’s 95-year history. The college will re
ceive $250,000 when it raises an additional
$750,000 all of it earmarked for arts center.
Young said that the board last week, dealt
primarly with three issues. First the trustees
discussed possible methods of financing the
fine arts center. The administration, said
Young said that the board last week dealt
ral drawings ready so that “it might be possible
to have funds available for starting the con
struction of the project next year.”
Secondly, the board focused on how to in
crease income from the college endowment
fund. Young said.
The third major consideration was how to se
cure increased state support to assist North
Carolina student attending Elon. With this dis
cussion, the board outlined the legislative
proposals to go about receiving additional state
support for students.
Three new board members attended this
meeting as their first. The new members were
selected last March. Kathleen Bryan Edwards
of Greensboro, who Young said has been active
in civic, church and cultural affairs throughout
her life, was one of those new members.
Nancy Newman Fulgham of Suffolk, Va. is
another new trustee. She has ties with Elon by
her grandfather who was a member of the first
graduating class in 1891 and her uncle who was
one of Elon’s original faculty members.
See Trustees Page 7
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Octoberfest
Photo by Joe Coco
Elon Hosted the German tradition Octoberfest in Jordan Gym last Saturday.
Organizations participated in dunking booths and other fund-raising projects. Phi
Mu Sorority sisters left Sara Springer and Anne Frank sell Halloween popcorn balls
and caramel apples for their fund-raiser.
Honors program
Convention brings
new ideas to Elon
p. 4
Elon losing streak broken
Christians recover,
beat Catawba 28-0
p. 6