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The Pendulum
Thursday April 25, 1985
Volume XI, Number 25
Twisting
at Elon
I Dubbed “the Grand Twist” by
some of the participants, over 600
people participated in an attempt
to break the Guiness Book of
World Records for participating
in the Twister game. Despite hot
temperatures, Elon students and
players from neighboring areas,
everyone made a grand effort to
“connect the dots,” for the $100
first prize.
Twisters at Elon didn’t get one
thing; the old record, which is
still held by Colgate University
with 1,036 twisters. See story and
photos on page 8.
Photo by Ann Cralidis
Students, Alumni discuss career options
By Frank Isley
Staff Writer
This past Tuesday the Elon
Career Planning Office sponsored
the second annual FOCUS:
Careers Conference to help
students who are unsure about
what to do after graduation.
The FOCUS program was
begun last year and involves
bringing alumni back to the cam
pus for an afternoon of panel
discussion with students and
faculty about what they have done
since graduation.
Betsey Savage, director of
Career Planning, said she thinks
it is important for students to meet
former students and find out
where they are and how they got
there.
Noel Allen, who graduated
from Elon in 1969 and is now a
lawyer, was the ofwning speaker
for the conference.
Allen sat the pace for the en
tire conference when he said that
students should build “a reservoir
of experience” while in college
to take with them after
graduation.
As students and faculty moved
from one room to the next for
each forty minute panel after
Allen’s opening, they found that
quite often the alumni with whom
they had talked had entered
careers that had very little to do
with their majors.
J. D. Snead, a freshman, said
he thought the conference was
interesting.
“It’s nice to hear about what
people are doing after college and
to learn that just because history
is your major, that doesn’t mean
you have to go into history,” he
said.
The Careers Conference was
designed to allow students to see
that the major they choose will
not limit their career options and
opportunities after graduation.
Savage said students often
don’t have a clear sense of how
many options they do have.
This way, she said, students
have a chance to meet the alumni
who once sat where they do now
and she said that by doing this the
college is helping to expand their
horizons.
Students think the Careers
Conference is a good idea, also.
See Focus, page 7
Eric Clapton
mixes classic,
progessive tunes
p. 5
Baseball team
raps up title
of Carolinas Conference
p.6