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mil 111 II The Pendulum Thursday, March 7, 1985 Volume XI, Number 19 ^rofessor resigns position as honors director By Vicky Jiggetts Student A£Tairs Editor Dr. Anne Ponder is resigning s director of the Elon College lonors Program. After holding position for seven years, bonder has decided to return to i-titne teaching here at Elon. ier resignation will be effective I the end of this semester. As Ponder recalled her years as ircctor of the honors program, le said, “I certainly enjoyed the logram. I conceived the pro- mi, developed it, and im- bnente'^ it. I was the founding toor of the program.” The program is widely recogiuzed by other colleges, and in a letter to Ponder, Dr. Chris White, vice president for academic affairs, said she “created and sustained a program that is the envy of many other in stitutions.” Ponder has been on the ex ecutive committee of the National Collegiate Honors Council and is a former president of the North Carolina Honors Association. Besides her desire to return to ftill-time teaching. Ponder said that there are other reasons behind her resignation. ”At this point, the best thing for this pro gram, is to give this healthy pro gram to someone else, to give it some new energy and new vi sion,” she said. ”I think that I’ve done for the honors program all that I can do.” Ponder said that she has discovered during the seven years of the honors program that there are other areas in which she would like to work. ”The reason for my resignation is that I want a change,” Ponder said. "Specifically on the horizon for me in the fall are more oppor tunities for leaching and scholar ly research.” She will be teaching American Literature, Public Speaking, and A taste of spring Robert Morabito left, and Doug Sorrells right, bring their books outside to enjoy the unusual warm Weather Saturday—perhaps to get a start on their spring tans. REO Speedwagon Review p.4 a General Studies Seminar call ed, “Social Change in American Films.” Ponder said that her scholarly flelds are in American detective fiction and film criticism. She plans to continue research in these areas. Ponder compared her resigna tion and need for a change to the biological changes in humans. She said, “I learned in biology that our biological cells replace themselves about every seven years. So even in a biological sense. I’m a completely different person now than I was seven years ago. Human beings grow, and part of growing is change.” Or. Anne Ponder Photo By Jamie Cobb Cable in all dorm rooms rejected as too costly By Loretta Bivins Staff Writer Students expecting to tune in to cable television in their dorm rooms by the end of this month will be disappointed. According to Buck Bayliff, auxiliary services director for the col lege, it was originally thought that Cablevision of Alamance and the college had worked out a contract to wire the dormitories. When they met for final negotiations, however, Elon could not accept the condi tions of the contract, Bayliff said. Cablevision wanted to wire every dorm room with cable, regardless of whether the residents wanted the service Bayliff said. The cost for this would have been $14.95 per room every month, he said, and that would have forced the college to raise the cost of room and board. College officials felt that it would unfair to students to force cable TV service upon them, because some students don’t have televisions to utilize it, and other students might not want the service at all. But the news is not all bad for students looking forward to cable. The college will probably buy its own satellite system. Officials are now taking proposals from different companies, according to Bayliff. The system will probably include two dishes, says Bayliff. One will be a fixed dish and the other can be moved to enable broadcast of different events. “By owning our own system, we can do a lot more educational ly,” Bayliff said. Lectures can be pulled and video conferences will be possible, he said. Program offerings include a movie channel, a sports channel, ETV, and “MTV will be high on the list,” Bayliff said. By next fall, students should have the service available to them at a cost of about $10 to $12 per month, he said. Baseball Tech
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