Volume XV, No. 18
The Pendulum
- — Serving the Elon College community
Thursday, February 23, 1989
Jazz Godfather” togivelocalconcert
Elon College
Dizzy Gillespie, otherwise
known as “The Godfather of Jazz,”
will perform at Elon College on
Tliesday, March 12, at 8 p.m. in the
Fme Arts Theatre.
Gillespie’s local appearance is
the last of three concerts in the
Centennial Fine Arts series.
According to the San Diego
Union, “Gillespie seems to grow
stronger and more vital with the
passing of time. His outgoing per
sonality and impish sense of humor
have endeared him to the general
public for generations.”
Gillespie began his life as a
musician at the age of 2 when he
first played the piano. A few years
later when he heard trumpeter Roy
Eldridge on the radio, Gillespie
knew he wanted to play the
trumpet.
After several years of study at the
Laurinburg Institute in North
Carolina on a music scholarship,
he moved north and played several
short stints with most of the lead
bands of the day. During the ’40s
he formed several of his own
groups. But it was “Yardbird”
P^ker who affected Gillespie’s life
the most. Together with a few
others, they helped create be-bop,
a revolution in the style of jazz.'
The interesting story behind
Gillespie s uniquely-made trumpet
is that in 1953 someone fell on his
trumpet and bent the bell back.
Gillespie played it, liked the sound
and has had his trumpets built with
the bell pointing upwards at a
45-degree angle ever since.
The design, along with his
balloon-like cheeks, is his visual
trademark.
Reserved seat tickets for the per
formance are available in the Fine
Arts Center box office Monday
through Friday from 12:30 p.m. to
5:00 p.m. The cost is $10 or col
lege I.D.
Cigarette causes Fine Arts Center fire
bv Mlirrav r^lonn . . . _
by Murray Glenn
Staff Writer
Last Monday, a small fire was
reported in the Fine Arts Center.
A smoldering cigarette butt led to
a small fire inside of a potted plant.
The Spanish Moss and the ex
panded polystyrene of a plant ar
rangement caught fire just outside
of Yeager Recital Hall.
The fire was first noticed by
students inside the recital hall who
were listening to a performance by
the Chamber Choir. Junior Steve
Weston commented, “The smoke
was pretty strong. We smelled it
through the closed doors of the
recital hall. I think everyone was
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kind of startled because the fire
alarm did not go off.”
The fire was quickly extinguish
ed by Dr. Clair Myers, director of
the Fine Arts Center.
Campus security became aware
of the situation when a near-by
guard heard the glass to the fire ex
tinguisher being broken.
The Elon College fire depart
ment wasn’t notified, according to
fire chief Eddie King. “In the past
two years, only 2 fire-related calls
have been reported on campus,” he
added.
King also said he felt the cam
pus security staff had limited train
ing in such situations. “We’re free
of charge. They should give us a
call more often. That’s what we’re
here for,” King said.
Terry Creech, director of securi
ty, commented, “The Fine Arts
Center is equipped with a fairly
new alarm system that should have
been activated by the smoke.”
Creech added that a investigation
is under way to determine the cause
of the problem. He went on to say
that the Elon community is for
tunate that the accident did not hap
pen elsewhere on campus.
The Elon College community
has recently been plagued by a
series of unlawful fire extinguisher
discharges. Creech said, “People
do not understand that they are not
only breaking the law, but they are
putting themselves in danger.”
Dizzy Gillespie
$2,000 in vandalism
done in one weekend
by Krissa Holland
Staff Writer
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Entertainment
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Sports
There were a wide variety of
damages, totaling $2000, done in
and around campus the weekend of
February 10.
According to Robert E. Pbindex-
ter. Vice President for Ad
ministrative Services, the signs in
front of Elon Elementary School
and the Boy Scout Hut on Haggard
Ave. were both tom down.
There were also damages done
to the shrubs outside East Building
and around the Pbwell Tennis
Center. Several trees were broken
off at their trunks around campus,
and a tree in front of Brannock
Dormitory was set on fire.
One of the new faculty/staff
parking signs was completely torn
out of the ground and several
globes on the lamp posts outside of
Long Student Center were broken.
There was also a residence’s
imilbox torn down at the corner of
East iand 0?kel]y avenuq^ ^ki,
Pbindexter said he feels that the
majority, if not all, of these events
are related because they occurred
so closely in time and proximity to
each other. He explained that cam
pus security and the Elon College
Police Department are working
closely with each other on some
leads they have.
My intention is to cooperate
with the police and see that this is
brought to court,” stated Pbindex-
ter.
There is a $500 reward being
given to anyone that has informa
tion that leads to a conviction.
Pbindexter is asking anyone who
knows anything about this to con
tact Terry Creech, head of campus
security, or the local police depart
ment. “I’m not saying that students
did it, but they may have seen so
meone,” said Poindexter.
He also said that he feels good
abouh the ,wayt the majority of
studcms;!^ care;of the campus.