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Serving the Elon College community
JOHN HOYLE
Editor
CARRIE TOWN
Associate Editor
Offices, 102 Williamson Ave, Elon College NC 27244
Telephone (919) 584-2331
The Pendulum welcomes your opinion, limiled to about 250 vw>rds if possible. All
letters must be signed, and a phone numbw given for verification. The deadline fof sub
missions is 2:00 p.m. Friday. The Pendulum, founded in in 1974, is published by Elon
College students each Wednesday during regular school terms.
KATHY MEADOWS
Am Editor
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Facility Advisor
Campus Parking Problems
Elon College has added several new pmrking spaces o^^er the summer
and some are still in the process of being completed. This has not changed
the fact that we still have a big parking problem on this campus. If you
have tried parking down at Harper Center lately, you’ll understand what
I’m talking about. Alot of times drivers end up having to park on the
grass next to the football practice fields or they have to park illegally
on the side of the road.
Not only can parking there get your car muddy
but it can also award you a parking ticket. Maybe the system would work
better if drivers would just park where their stickers s^ thof should park.
The new dorm students should be parking in the gym and commuters
lots if they have an “R” sticker. This would free up some spaces for the
students who live in North, Moffitt, and Staley dorms. Another logical
answer would be to extend the present Harjjer center lot. This could be
done-by knocking down some trees and adding more spaces. Whatever
the case something needs to be done.
Editor — John Hoyle
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Goodbye and thank you, Whitley
To the Editor:
I am a non-traditional student
and I have made it through these
past three years with the en
couragement and tolemece of my
husband and four children. It is
not easy going to school fiill-time
twenty years after high school,
not easy for me or for my family.
One bright spot these past three
years has been that when I pick
ed up my ticket for the
Shakespeare play, I received a
complementary ticket for my
spouse. I never really said,
’’Thankyou.” ,
Please, know now that the two
tickets were enjoyed and
appreciated!
Now, this month, in my fourth
(and hopefully final) year at Elon,
it’s Shakespeare Time! My stu
dent I.D. got me a ticket, but free
spouse tickets have beeen discon
tinued. I have come to the conclu
sion that the new Fine Arts Center
is not so fine.
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“It lacks the generous
heart and encouraging
spirit Whitley extended
to us, the non-traditonal
ones.
Parking Is A Headache
To The Editor:
I am writing in reference to the
parking situation. As I came back
from work on Monday September
14th, and searched for a paking
space. I went up and down every
row and then after finding
nothing, went to the gravel park
ing lot, being that the only letters
on my parking sticker are HC.
There, I also looked but with no
luck. Having to back up at the end
of the rows got to be a quick pain.
In the gravel parking lot there are
no little roads to the side which
enable you to continue through to
the next row, so you have to back
up.
I finally had to resort to park
ing in the main parking lot along
the side . Knowing that this is not
a fire lane and seeing the other
five cars there, I thought it wouia
be fine to park. Afterall, there are
no signs to indicate otherwise.
There was plenty of room for
other cars to go by, I thought
nothing of it.
Wks that a mistake! I pay a good
deal of money to this school and
’ I paid a good $20 to be able to
park in harper Center parking lot.
What good is my $20 if I can not
find a space and end up havingt
to pay $15[half, if it is not paid
within 48 hours] for the inade
quacy of the school.
Parking is a serious problem
and I encourage the persons who
own the white mustang, bronze
volks wagon convertible and
others who may have been fined
to write to the Pendulum.
Thankyou .
Julie Barton
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Education 88
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Winston Salem Journal
It lacks the generous heart and en
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To Whitley: Thankyou! I miss
your fine heart...’
To the new fine arts
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Education ’88, the PresidentiaP*^
Candidates Forum at Chapel Hi?"'
last Friday, was most notewoith/"^
for the areas of agreement amonf °
all Democratic candidates and thf '
two Republicans who appeared'®^
Jack Kemp and Pete du Pont.
Education may actually prove K®*-
be an issue in the ’88 race. If sir'°
it will be because a series of
partisan studies and polls
placed the national agenda.
Harris and Gallup polls,
Carnegie study, the recent NElr^®‘
study and panels make up of coi ^
porate executives and profession^®
educators all suggest an emergir^*'
consensus.
It involves the realization
education is not in any sense ***'
ivory tower issue, but as brea ^
and butter a concern as there is’®'
Disadvantaged students
lose their chance for an educatior *'
and social advancement early
before school even begins.
Furthermore, all students ne«
more rigor in the classroom, mon
substance, greater discipline
higher standards. And school:
must be more accountable, mus
pass tests at least as tough as thos
prescribed for the studentsNe
Achievement must be mandated^®*
And a minimum core of basiju^
skills and knowledge must h^o
required. P°‘
Here, the disagreements ai*'®
often sharp. But the unanimity a®''®
underlying fundamentals suggesl®''®
a lively debate of real substanc^he
on hard nuts-and-bolts issues
possible in the year ahead-rathe
than platitudes, political puffen®*^
and pandering to interests
cemed with peripheral issues.
That’s good because it may con''3ti
vert eduction from a politicly^
sideshow into what it should bef>c
one of the main events in
plitical and economic life of tl»
nation.