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olume XIV, No. 10
Wednesday, November 4, 1987
Elon College, NC
Trustee s Approve 5 Year Plan on Housing Projects
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By Marc Scagnelli
■san Staff Writer
pan».st week the Elon College Board
ptior Trustees met in Wakefield,
ressjrginia and unanimously apprw-
renja five year plan to set the direc-
okOn of the college,
ibe^ln what President Young call-
lei^ “an historic occasion the board
nagdproved the sales of a $12 million
iroiiirth of bonds for the new
tind((lding projects. The board also
voted to increase talented student
enrollemcnt through honors pro
gram scholarship.
According to Nan Perkins, Ad
ministrative assitant to the presi
dent. the sch(X)ls first priority is
to retire the debt on the new Fine
Arts Center. After that the sch(X)l
will plan to develop the new pro
perty behind the s(x;ccr field.
New housing as also been approv
ed. including the buldoing of
Greek kxiges.
One hundred beds will be add
ed to Jorden Center and a new
2(X) -bed apartment will be com
plex will also be bult. The addi
tion of the Jordan Center will be
completed by next fall and the
new apartments will be finished
by the fall of 89.
The Greek kxiges should be
finished by the spring of 89.
In addition, a new student center
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Mrs. Iris Holt McEwen
-VicCrary of Burlington has been
elected to the Elon College Board
of Trustees.
McCrary is the fourth member
of her immediate family to serve
on the Elon board. Her father,
James Henry McEwen; her
mother. Iris Holt McEwen; and
her brother, James H. McEwen,
Jr.. all served terms as trustees.
Gifts for two major buildings,
McEwen Dining Hall and the Iris
Holt McEwen Library, and a
number of scholarships and en
dowments have been made by the
family.
"We are pleased that the
McEwen family tradition of .ser
vice to Elon will be continued
through the efforts of Mrs.
McCrary," said President Fred
Young. 'Their record of leader
ship and support for this institu
tion is unexcelled. '
A lifelong resident of Burl
ington and a member of First
Christian United Church of
Christ, Mrs. McCrary attended
Finch College in New York City
and graduated from the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. She has served on the Board
of Directors of the Elon Home for
Children.
will be bult. Planning for this
center will begin next year and
building should start during the
89-90 school year. According to
Perkins the new student center
would hopefully open in the fall
of 1991. The projected cost of the
center is $4 to 6 million.
Expansion of the library was
also cited as an important goal,
but no plans have yet been made.
At the same time, the board has
approved plans to increase
talented student enrollement.
Talented students are defined as
having SAT scores of KXK) or
Correction
in last week's Pendulum,
quotations were attributed to two
optometrists. Dr. Richard
Etheridge and Dr.Philip T. Bell,
when in fact neither individual
had been interviewed by a
reporter. The Pendulum sincere
ly regrets this violation of fun
damental journalistic ethics and
hopes no embarrassment has been
caused.
—Jerry Adams, Faculty Advisor
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more and a 3.0 gradeptiint average
increased enrollement will be ac
complished by expanding the
honors program, Elon will sup
plement North Carolina's teaching
fellowships for future teachers by
$5,(KX) each.
The schiH)l will also start awar
ding leadership scholarships to
highschool seniors, who arc
outstanding in their highschool
clubs and organizations.
"These are the .students who go
on to be leaders, were going to try
to count those students," Perkins
said.
The college will need to raise
.$1 million for these projects.
In the next few years , the pro
jects approved at last weeks
meeting will create several
changes. Not only will housing be
increased, but future incoming
freshman will be higher caliber.
As the school approches its KK)th
annivesary, the board is continu
ing to expand the college both
physically and intellectually.
Crate
Amnesty
Declared
by Holly .Sniffen
Staff Writer
Elon College is helping local
grocery stores and dairy
distributors retrieve a popular ad
dition to most college dorm
rooms —stolen milk crates.
In order to collect the crates,
Elon dcclarcd October 29 as
"Amnesty Day This gave
students the chance to return cer
tain brands of milk crates to their
area assistants without penalty.
Approximately 40 crates were
recoverc(.l.
Lee Proctor said that the
amnesty day was "an attempt to
keep the policc out of it and give
students ihc opportunity to volun
tarily return the crates."
See Crate page 2