Editorials
Octobers, 1969
Page 4
The Pendulum
Serving the Elon College community
Editor
Production
Mindy Schneeberger
Julie Barton
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Kim Beane
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Stephen Kahle
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Pat Hobin
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William Hassell
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Cartoonist
Donna Meyer
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Advisor
Michele Rowe
Brad Hamm
Stephanie Tallent
Anna Williams
Office
Laurie Wommack
102 Williamson Ave.
Elon College, NC
Columnists
27244
Jim Bush
Dallas Corey
Phone
Win Neagle
(919) 584-2331
Holly Sniffen
(919)584-2467
The Pendulum, founded in 1974, is published by Elon College
students each Thursday during regular school terms. The Pendu
lum welcomes your opinions, with letters Umited to about 250
words if possible. All letters must be signed and a phone number
given for verirication. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m.
Monday.
Parental parking problems
As most of us commuters have figured out, there is a parking
problem. But it’s a real shame when our parents come down for
Parent's Weekend and find a ticket matted to their windshield. I have
never known Elon College to hand out parking tickets on weekends,
let alone to our parents who pay this school a substantial amount of
money anyway.
The weekend was a mess as it was. I have to believe Elon is
paying these students or traffic officers a lot of money for them to
stand out in pouring rain and pass tickets out to all these cars. One
person I know had her parents park in a not-so-wet spot just long
enough to take some winter clothes up to her room. To their dismay
there was a soggy white sheet of paper saying they owed the school
$25, as if her parents don't give enough.
I understand having parking rules and giving out tickets to
students. Anytime you have approximately 2,000 cars spread out in
different lots there has to be some kind of order. But to give out
tickets on a wet day like Saturday and to our parents is a bit extreme.
I live off campus, so my parents could park freely in my apartment
complex, but I know my friends' parents would be much happier if
Elon went back to the old way of not ticketing cars on weekends.
Julie Barton
Neagle's Notions
Everyone would like to be
the best at something, but the
majority of us are forced to settle
with being superbly decent in
most of our undertakings. But
I've got some advice for those of
you out there that are suffering
from an overdose of mediocrity.
It's a lot easier to be the best at
something if you're the first
person to do it.
Take the Wright brothers, for
instance. Carl Lewis can
probably jump about as far as
they flew in their historical
flight; but they were the first, so
consequently they were the best.
The Concorde is an incredibly
spectacular aircraft, but how
many people know who designed
it? I'm telling you, being first is
the way to go. •
I'm really excited about
having kids (maybe even a wife)
one day, and like most parents I'll
want my child to be one of the
best athletes on the block.
However, I'm not uptight at all
about the thought of him being
lousy at baseball, basketball, or
football.
If this is the case. I'll just
enroll him in fencing lessons and
watch proudly as he defeats his
friends one by one with amazing
thrusts and parries. If his friends
start to catch on to the fencing
business, then we'll simply take
up team handball or full-contact
Chinese checkers. Being before
is just easier than being better.
One of my most special
talents is gargling "The Star
Spangled Banner." Even though
I have very little musical ability,
through a little practice in the
shower I'm able to entertain and
by Win Neagle
amaze (well, at least entertain)
people with my performance of
our national anthem.
Very few of them actually
realize how simple it is.
Pioneering in the world of
gargling has given me a small (a
very small) sense of superiority.
If you would like to do
something better than it's ever
been done before, then just try
something like this. Put three
playing cards, a dime, and your
driver's license in your left hand.
In your right hand have a bologna
sandwich with grape jelly and
horseradish. Now start on one
side of the room and begin to cat
the sandwich as you hop around
in circles on one fooL
I wasn't tliere to see it, but I
can almost guarantee you that
you did better than it's ever been
done before.
A not-so-beautiful neighborhood by nony sniffen
The East Campus
Apartments were designed to
provide students with an
alternative to living either in the
dorms or off-campus. Except for
the phone system, the apartments
offer the freedoms of living off-
campus. There are no visitation
restrictions or drinking
regulations and a meal plan is not
required.
With these freedoms,
however, come many
responsibilities. Responsibilities
such as disposal of garbage and
keeping hallways, stairs, and
entryways clean. Unfortunately,
some of the students living in the
East Campus Apartments have
proven by their actions that they
are not mature enough to lake on
these responsibilities.
The entrance-ways to the
buildings arc cluttered with
empty beer bottles and cans.
Piles of mud and dirt arc tracked
into the hallways and onto the
stairs and then left there. And,
some students mound their
garbage outside their doors rather
than just carrying it out to the
dumpsters.
Vandalism also seems to be
a problem at the aparunents. For
example, the letters of both
buildings A and B have been
stolen, there are lire tracks in the
new grass, and, more recently,
the window in the door of
building B's laundry room was
shattered.
To_ the residents of the East
Campus Apartments, I suggest
that you forget about the empty
lake and the unscaped land-those
problems will soon be solved.
Instead, concentrate on respecting
your neighbors and keeping your
new apartment complcx clean.
And remember, pick up after
yourselves-your mother doesn't
live there!
If didn't fake fhe freshmen long fo discover fine dangers of
cow-flpping while drunl.