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The Pendulum
Thursday, May 1, 1986
Volume XII, No. 27
Shoreline retreat
is best solution
By Frank Isley
News Editor
As condominiums and high rise hotels take over more and more
ifthe North Carolina coastline, some people are wondering whether
lie state's beaches will become “exclusive” playgrounds for the af-
luent.
I At the same time, these multimillion-dollar developments are be-
Lthreatened by Mother Nature herself: the beach, in many places,
seroding away.
"As the sea level continues to rise and the shoreline retreats, we
avetwo choices,” said Dr. Orin Pilkey, a professor of geology at
Duke University. ‘‘We can make a strategic, well ordered retreat with
Ihe shoreline now, or we can armor our beaches and face unpredic-
uble consequences and be forced to make a chaotic retreat.”
Pilkey, who has written several books and articles dealing with
coastal development, was the guest speaker last Wednesday at the
Leopold Festival, sponsored by the Biology Department and Beta Beta
Beta,
Pilkey said the American shoreline is eroding (or retreating, as he
said geologists prefer to call it) at a rate of 80 to 90 percent at this time.
However, as the shoreline retreats, the beach can still remain wide
if man doesn’t interfere, he added. “As the shoreline moves back,
the beach doesn’t change its shape,” he said, “just its legation.
"The present sea level rise is about one foot per century, he said,
“but a small vertical rise causes a large horizontal retreat of the
shoreline.”
The Environmental Protection Agency projects that the sea will rise
tour to seven feet by the year 2100, Pilkey said.
See Pilkey, page 7
Ken Momson
Michele Lashley
Everett Blake
Lauri Crowder
Photos by Joe Coco
Special Olympics
Students, faculty
lend helping hand p. 4
Primary politicking
Terry Sanford (at right), former N.C. governor and Duke University president, brought his
campaign for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate to Elon’s College Coffee last
Thursday. Sanford, one of 10 Democratic candidates on the May 6 primary ballot, talked issues
with Elon student Kirk Monroe (center) and Democratic state Sen. Tim McDoweU (left), who
is running against George Daniel in the 21st N.C. Senate District.
Media leaders selected
to serve 1986-87 terms
By Jane Kid well
Editor
The Board of Student Com
munications Media has chosen
the 1985-86 editors and station
manager for Elon’s student
publications and radio station;
and it looks like the Fall Semester
will bring in some changes with
the college media.
New equipment, new program
ming, new editions and new
designs are in order for The Pen
dulum. WSOE, Phi Psi Cli, and
Colonnades.
Michele Ushley has been nam
ed editor of The Pendulum. She
said, “1 want to put out a paper
once a week that the students will
look forward to reading.” She
said she plans to include more ar
ticles about students on campus.
She also said she hopes to have
more consistent modular layout in
the paper and more photographs.
Lashley said that her main
challenge will be “to train a staff
which essentially knows very lit
tle about the workings of a
newspaper.”
Ken Morrison has been
selected as station manager for
WSOE. Morrison said he is look
ing forward to next year and
plans on making a few changes.
“Nothing drastic,” he said. “I
want to keep the progressive
music format, but I dso want to
have more album-oriented
music.” He said the different
style will be added in gradually.
Morrison said, too, that he
hopes the station can stay on the
air from 7 a.m. until 1 a.m. This
year the station airs a morning
show at 7 a.m then signs off un
til 1 p.m.
Everett Blake will be the new
Phi Psi Cli editor. He said he
looks forward to changing the
See Media, page 7
Basketball
New head coach
is named p. 6