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The Pendulum
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Volume XIII, No. 24
Thursday, April 23, 1987
College drops 3 academic programs
MLT, cytotechnology, office administration axed
By Aleta Sinkfidd
StafflA^iter
; Ekm administratkin recent-
decided to terminate degree
grains in medical laboratory
|;hnology. cytotechnology and
Rce administration. The deci-
on means that some students
oiled in these programs will
i\ e to ccxnpleie requirements for
eir degrees elsewhere.
|At present there are five
dents in the second year of the
i-year MLT program, four
dents in the cytotechnology
program and two freshmen in the
office administration program.
In an interview. Dr. Gerald
Francis, dean of academic afbirs,
said the decision to terminate the
three programs did not “evolve
over night.” He said the college
had been studying the viability of
the programs for several years and
that the final decision was made
in cooperation with ad
ministrators, ik»lty and the cur
riculum committee of department
chairs.
Francis said fectors considered
were “the college using its facul
ty resources as well as possible,
enrollment trends in the programs
and the finances involved in con
tinuing the programs.”
The cost effectiveness of main
taining the programs for relative
ly few students became the basic
reason for terminating the pro
grams, said Dr. Herbert House,
professor and chairman of the
biology department and adviser to
the cytotechnology majors.
Francis said students in office
administration can easily move in
to business administration, but
moves for the MLT and
cytotechnology majors will not be
as convenient. These students
“will lean either toward science
majors or to allied health courses
at community coU^esor technical
colleges,” Francis said.
Dr. Richard Mroz, assistant
professor and MLT program
director, said there is a good
possibility that Technical College
of Alamance will take over the
MLT program from Elon,
although such a move must be ap
proved by the state Department of
Conununity Collies. He said
final word would not come until
this sununer.
If TCA does pick up the pro
gram, Mroz said, he and Barbara
Thornton, assistant professor and
MLT education coordinator, will
probably take teaching positions
there.
The MLT instructors will also
be employed at Elon next year to
allow the current group of first-
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Purvey shows students
V ant longer visitation
By Kathy Meadows
Staff Writer
1 Student Government Association poll of students, conducted last
fall indicates an overwhelming support for extended vistitation hours.
( f 834 resident students who participated in the survey, 804, or
96. percent, said they wanted visitation hours extended. Twenty-five
stu ents requested no change, and five said they thought visitation
hoi rs should be decreased.
, s a result, the SGA has proposed new visitation hours of I to 11
p.r . Sundays through Thursdays and noon to I a.m. Fridays and
Sal irdays.
i 3A President Scott ^rd said the proposal has been presented to
col ege President Fred Young for final approval. Mi^rd said he is op-
tin Stic about its chances for approval. “Of the different committees
we « presented it to, both faculty and students have given us a favorable
res lonse,” he said.
1 the new hours go into effect, a monitor system will be created
foi West, Virginia, Carolina and Moffitt residence halls.
, monitor would be on duty from 9 p.m. to I a.m. Thursdays
thi lugh Saturdays in “strategically placed station” in these dorms. All
mi e students wishing to visit a female student between these hours
VTO lid have to sign a log book. If the visitor is not an Elon student,
he vould also have to have a female escort to take him to the female
sti) lent’s room.
1 ive minutes before visitation hours would end, the monitor would
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