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The Pendulum Thursday, May 8, 1986 Volume XII, No. 28 Ward beats Coker for SGA presidency By Frank Isley News Editor Scott Ward, a junior who is currently the vice president of the Stu- Union Board, defeated Shawn Coker, a senior and co-chair of Liberal Arts Forum, in a runoff election to become the 1986-87 A president. Out of the 780 votes cast in the runoff election. Ward received 408 Coker received 372. According to David Atkins, director of student activities, the runoff tion was held because the constitution calls for a primary follow- by a runoff election to narrow the choice of candidates down to 0 if more than two candidates are seeking the office. Tom Mayes, a sophomore who was the third candidate, was knock out of the campaign in last week’s primary. Atkins, who said he was pleased with the turnout, said morning rs had to cast their votes on paper ballots because the program- who sat up the voting machines was busy with state elections was not able to set up the machines until the afternoon. Ward won on a platform which proposed such goals as a new visita- " policy, starting an Emergency Student Loan Program, creating Organization Council, increasing campus activities and proposing : new activities center. Coker’s platform included such proposals as improved parking, ex- Jending visitation hours and encouraging more student participation 1^ the SGA. Photo by Stuan White CASTING HIS VOTE: Frank White, a freshman from Washington, N.C., turns in his ballot during the runoff election for SGA president between Shawn Coker and Scott Ward. Yoder to speak at commencement I Pulitzer Prize-winning colum- M and North Carolina native EiwinM. Yoder Jr. will address graduates of Elon College at I* %th annual commencement Mrcises to be held at Alumni ^l®orial Gymnasium on May 18. Approximately 400 graduates nil receive degrees in the *remony which begins at 10:30 ' The Class of 1986 is the ^ largest in the college’s listory. Yoder, a Greensboro native grew up in Mebane, is a syn- “Mted columnist with The •sWngton Post Writers Group a biweekly columnist for ‘^News and World Report. In he received a Pulitzer Prize * editorial writing. Yoder is a former editor and writer for the Greensboro Daily News. He has also contributed to various national journals and magazines and is the author of the book The Night of the Old South Ball. Yoder received the bachelor of arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 1983 he was awarded an honorary doc tor of humane letters from Grin- nell College. Elon will award Yoder an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at the commencement ceremony. Also receiving honorary degrees will be Kyong Soon Han, professor of music at Sangmyong Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea; Lawrence W. I’An- son, retired chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court and president of the Beazley Founda tion; and Edward R. Zane, a Greensboro attorney and certified public accountant who serves as the executive director fo the Mar tha and Spencer Love Foundation. Commencement weekend ac tivities will begin on Saturday afternoon with the college wor ship service at 4 p.m. in the Elon College Community Church. The Rev. Reuben A. Sheares II, ex ecutive director of the Office for Church Life and Leadership for See Yoder, page 7 Gill is top professor Dr. Russell Gill, professor of English, was named Wednesday as the 1986 recipient of the Daniels-Danieley Award for Ex cellence in Teaching. The award, the highest honor given by the college for teaching, was presented at the annual Faculty-Staff Awards Luncheon in McEwen Dining Hall. Gill, 43, joined the Elon facul ty in 1976 after having taught for seven years at Virginia Tech. He has served as chairman of the department of literature, languages and communication since 1983. An authority on English literature of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Gill earned his bachelor’s degree at the Col lege of William and Mary in 1964 and his master’s and doctorate from Harvard University. Gill is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Tau Delta, the English honorary society. He has published regularly in scholarly journals and won the 1983 award for best essay on an eighteenth- century subject given by the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. He and his wife Diane, who is a part-time English instructor and library assistant, have four children. The Daniels-Danieley award was established in memory of the parents of Dr. J. Earl Daniely, sixth president of hte college, and his wife, Verona Daniels Danieley. Edwin M. Yoder Jr. Fond farewell Retiring faculty spotlighted pp. 4-5 Graduating seniors Anticipating the end; they’ll miss the past p. 8
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