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The Pendulum
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Thursday, May 7, 1987
Editorials
Campus Thefts
A disturbingly trend has been increasingly obvious this spring at
Elon. Students with sticky fingers are stealing property from room
mates, professors and even a whole class of television production
students. This small Christain school has turned into an easy target
for the dishonest student.
This past week an incident occurred which shook up the entire Com
munications department. Two tapes containing a major project for the
JMC 255 Television Production were stolen from the editing room
in the Learning Resource Center. The classmates are not only miss
ing out on the grade, but also the Tinished product of their first ex
perience in commercial production.
It is sad that one person or maybe more have jeopordized the trust,
confidence, and respect of an entire dass. Acuity and department.
This type of behavior should not be tolenied in the supposedly high
grade student that Elon hopes to cultiN'Mc ia in body.
This theft and other campus thefts will earn Eloo a reputation as
a college where no one can be trusted.
Carrie Town and John Ht^le
Theater students to
miss Olsen next fall
To the editor:
I'm writing this letter to let the school know what it is losing. I took
Introduction to Theatre this past fall under professor Todd Olson. In
the beginning, I felt uncomfortable having a teacher my age (23), but
that was soon solved. Todd showed me and my fellow classmates that
the theatre is alive and that we as students can enjoy the art of theatre.
I have been a student at Elon College since 1982; to me and the
peers I’ve talked with, theatre is more visable now at Elon. Unfor
tunately, Todd will not be teaching here next year because he was not
offered a parttime position. He will be acting this summer in Galveston,
Texas, and hopes to work in theatre in Seattle after moving there in
December.
Elon College just built a new expensive Fine Arts Center. Why didn’t
someone budget money for a ftilltime teacher in drama? Todd has acted
or directed many plays this year: Greater TUna, Black Comedy, Trou
ble in Tahiti, Hbridng. The students and feculty who attended the pl^s
will agree, I hope, that they were excellent performances on everyone’s
part.
I hope someone has thought about how to keep students involved
and interested in the theatre. It is a fact that 40-45 people came to
audtion for Wjrldng our spring musical. This is over five times as many
people who tried out last spring musical. This is over five times as
many people who tried out spring. Whether acting or working
backstage, working in the theatre gives you first hand experience in
one of the arts. I and several fellow students are very sorry to see Todd
leave, but wish him luck. Todd, break a leg.
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you don t take or have previously taken TV Production
Could som^ne tell me why? Am I a sttanger not to be tmsted because
I haven t taken the course? Do I not deserve to use the SuiZem
because my major is not Mass Communication?
Dan Foster
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