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The Pendutimt Volume XVI, Number 21 Serving the Elon College communiy April 19,1990 ! •;!r. Signs of Springtime The weaver’s getting Warmer and graduation is only a month away for hundreds of excited seniors. Pendulum staff photographers Scott Lansing and Mike Vomdran took these pictures last Thursday. They managed to capture the splendid Colors of springtime: ^ariding lakes, blooming flowers and trickles of Sunlight. Frail selected as SGA president Murray Glenn The Pendulum Scott Prail nanxjwly defeated Erik JohnsOT by a 224-219 vote to become president of the Student Government Association for the 1990-91 school year. Frail credits his win to his aggressive campaign strategies. In the two weeks preceding the election, he disttibuted 1,200 fliers across the campus. "I tried to use color- cooniinaied patterns that made the students recognize their pfcsence," Frail said. 1 also feel tl.e fact that I stood in front of Long Student Center and greeted the students as they came in really helped my cause." Fiail will have one year of experience in the SGA senate under his belt when he lakes ofHce in early May. "1 first got involved with the SGA because of friendships with Rob Boi^stiom and Ed Boswell, the past and current presidents of the SGA. I hope I can follow through with many of the ideas that they introduced during their lenns of office," Boswell commented, "The best advice 1 have for the new president is that he makes sure the student body knows that he is working for them." According to Frail, his biggest challenge will be improving the communication between the students and the administration. "I have seen many good ideas from the student body not reach the SGA. I hope to have regular forums ui improve the communk:alion with the students." Frail says he will spend the remaining weeks of the school year evaluating the current administratifMi. "I want to see what needs to be done and then woik from there. I do not want See SGA, Page 10 Students place third in home video contest Jamie Tulp Special to The Pendulum James ScoU Stewart was driving back from Guilford College after seeing his fiancee when he heard the advertisement for the Triad's Funniest Home Videos for Rock 92. Before spring break, Slewart approached his friend Chris Thatcher about the idea of entering the oMitesL "Chris and I got together and we brainstormed. We came up with the idea of Rock 92 ^ys and their female companions converting a geek into a rocker, Stewart says. Stewart, a corporate communications major and a senior, and Thatcher, a marketing major and a senior, won the $500 third place prize in WKRR's Rock 92 home video coittcsL Rules for the contest were that the video had to be 30 seconds long, have no profanity so it could be shown on television and show the Rock 92 logo. Thalchcr helped Stewart with the creative aspect of the video. "I developed most of the shots and angles, and ScoU worked the camera and did the actual editing. It was definitely a coUaboratkm," Thatcher says. "We had the siory board and music layed out before spring break," Stewart says. When they got back from spring break on March 26, they only had three days to film and edit before the deadline that Rriday. Hiey filmed all they needed and ediied almost everything on See Video. Page 11 1
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