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Serving the Elon College community
Thursday. March 2. 1989 ] Elon College
Over $7,500 damage to East area
by Krissa Holland
Staff Writer
In only five-and-a-half months,
damages to the East Area
Residence Halls have reached
$7,504.88.
These damages include
everything from replacing broken
windows and screens to cleaning up
vomit and removing graffitti.
Smith Hall was reported to have
the greatest amount of damages in
the area with a total reaching
$3,894.54. This averaged out to be
$23.61 per day.
Over half of these damages oc
curred to the bathrooms and hall
area on the second floor of this
dorm. We all use these places,
and some people just get out of
hand when they come in late at
night, but it’s not always just us that
live on this hall,” said a resident of
Smith second floor who wishes to
remain anonymous.
According to the official records
kept by the Maintenance Depart
ment, most of the damages to se
cond floor^ Smith occurred in the
bathrooms. The toilet paper
holders had to be replaced 15 times
costing $485.10. The screens and
windows in the rest rooms were
also the victims of a great degree
of vandalism.
The neighboring female dorm,
Carolina, had $491.26 or one-
eighth of the damages that Smith
Hall had. ‘Most of our damages
are screens that have to be put back
in windows...the girls like to hang
out of them and talk to people,”
said Tracey Baker, a Carolina resi
dent assistant.
One dogwood tree had to be
replaced on the lawn of Carolina
which accounted for almost half
the total amount of damages to the
dorm. “The tree wasn’t even
broken off by our girls,” said
Baker. Without that fee our dorm
would have almost no vandalism
fees”.
Another dorm in this area that
has a high vandalism rate is Bran-
nock Hall with $1,966.42 in
damages since September 1,1988.
The eight person suit 302 is where
$731.94 of these damages occurred.
The bathroom was where the ma
jority of the vandalism took place
with broken windows, toilet paper
holders, and stall doors having to
be replaced numerous times.
see Area page 2
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sweet home: New housing will be ready for the fall of 1989.
New apartment complex
to house 192 students
•jy Marlena Dare
Staff Writer
In the fall of 1989, students will
^^>have an alternative to dorm hous-
'ng with the completion of the East
Campus Apartments, which will be
located east of Sheridan Place.
There will be six buildings,
Which will each house 32 students.
I^ccording to Robert E. Poindexter,
"’Vice President for Administrative
'l^ervices, there is a requirement of
y^our persons to an apartment right
i’^ow, but that may change if all of
yiie apartments are not reserved,
j E^ch apartment will have two
j 9throoms, two bedrooms, a dining
living room,
rater will be furnished and
j^'ossibly local telephone service.
j The apartment complex is being
j ^ilt around a lake and will provide
• judents with plenty of parking.
I The apartments won’t be com-
;fested because they are kind of
isolated in a more natural setting,”
said Poindexter.
In the spring, there will be a
three-day sign-up period for the
apartments conducted by the office
of Student Affairs.
The first day will be exlusively
for seniors, international students
and non-traditional students. The
next two days will give juniors, as
well as the groups already mention
ed, a time to reserve an apartment.
Students will go through the col
lege to get the apartments, but they
will be run like any other complex.
According to Poindexter, price
ranges have not been decided yet,
but they will be competitive with
other nearby complexes. There will
also be a contract and 12 month
lease for students to sign.
The apartments will be separate
from the college to give juniors and
seniors the experience they need
out on their own,” said Poindexter.
What appeared to be an
emergency situation may have ac-
I tually been nothing more than a
college prank that could have
resulted in a chemical explosion if
the train had jumped track.
At 1:40 a.m. last Saturday, a
Southern Railways freight train
travelling west through Elon Col
lege struck what appeared to be a
pedestrian. According to police
reports, the train’s engineer, Mr.
D.L. Everhart, noticed three
figures as the train he was controll
ing passed behind Long Student
Center.
The tallest of these figures ap
peared to be waving, and all three
were standing very near the tracks.
As the train passed the bystanders,
it struck the tallest one, knocking
a baseball hat off its head and
throwing the “body” 10 to 12 feet.
Everhart stopped the train in a
“normal” manner rather than ap
plying the emergency brake. The
vehicles engine stopped west of
campus, near the car wash. The
engineer contacted Alamance
County’s emergency units, and of
ficers from the Gibsonville and
Elon College Police Departments,
Elon College Fire Department, and
Southern Railway police force
reported to the scene of the acci
dent.
The investigation took over an
hour during which time all north-
Mcdia members honored at banquet
Last Tuesday evening,
members of the campus media
organizations were recognized at
the second annual media banquet
sponsored by the Media Board.
• Approximately 50 of Elon’s com
municators set aside their computer
terminals, reporter’s notebooks,
microphones, layout sheets, and
record albums for the evening and
congregated in the Isabella Canon
Room to toast their successes.
Student and faculty represen
tatives from all four of the campus
media—Colonnades, the literary
magazine; The Pendulum; Phi Psi
Cli, the yearbook; and WSOE, the
radio station—were on hand for the
celebration.
To find these often “over
involved” students sitting still for
a ninety minute block of time was
unusual. Typically, the staffers are
busily working to provide a service
for the rest of the student body.
And, all too frequently, their efforts
see Media page 2
southbound traffic within the city
limits was blocked. A search was
made of the entire length and
undercarriage of the train, but no
body was found.
According to Officer Mike Woz-
nick of the Elon College Fblice
Department, four cans of beer were
found near the scene.
The jX)lice department has been
“tipped off’ that this entire inci
dent may have been what Chief
Dan Engle labels a “hoax.” There
is a strong possibility that the “per
son” was nothing more than a
“dummy” figure. Officer Woznick
says that he can “appreciate some
see Train page 2
Inside
London news
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Editorials
see page 4
Entertainment
see page 6
Sports
see page 8