The Pendutum
Volume XVn, Number 6
Serving the Elon College Community
October 11,1990
Students ride thoroughbreds and school horses in equitation
Horsing around
Trustees take
no legal action
Heather WhitehouM/Thc Pendulum
class
Kelly Potter
The Pendulum
No legal action will be taken
against former Vice President of
Administrative Services, Bob
Poindexter, regarding financial
irregularities, the Elon College
Board of Trustees decided
Wednesday.
The board said it has the
option to take additional action if
warranted by future developments.
The board did not say what action
might be taken or if it's
considering further investigation.
Poindexter resigned from the
college Sept. 26. His resignation
came after an internal
investigation into purchasing
practices in his office.
J. Lewis Simpson,
landscaping supervisor for the
college, was also asked to resign.
Before board members
adjourned for lunch, a press release
was handed to members of The
Pendulum and the local media. No
formal press conference was held.
Members of the board and
President Fred Young left the
building without comment.
Young responded to questions
asked by The Pendulum with,
"You got the press release, didn't
you?"
According to the press release
trustees voted unanimously to
approve administrative action
rather than seek prosecution
regarding financial irregularities at
the college, on the advice of
counsel.
See Trustees, Page 12
Hit the trail,
take a break
from school
Heather Whitehouse
The Pendulum
Separated from the interstate
by just a row of trees, stands a
horse farm surrounded by a
wooden fence.
The tree-lined driveway runs
down to the main house and
passes a weathered gazebo sitting
in the middle of a hwse paddock.
The little section of country
is known to many students as the
classroom for the equitation
classes taught at Elon College.
There are three levels taught,
beginning with basic
horsemanship and riding skills and
ending with development of the
rider as a competitor in the show
ring.
The classes are one credit hour
and are offered through the
physical education department.
There is a $150 fee to take the
class.
Heather Whitehouso/The Pendulum
Riding and theory are taught in the class
Kim Nardelli, equitation
instructor, said that anybody can
take the class. "We have students
who have never ridden before to
ones that have shown before."
The class is not just for
riding, ^cording to Nardelli. "We
teach theory and lecture classes
dealing with basic conformation,
different breeds, parts of the horse,
Gantt campaigns at
College Coffee
and basic first aid for illness,"
Nardelli said. "The first class is
spent on learning how to groom
and tack the horse properly."
The majority of the time they
will ride in the ring and
occasionally they will venture out
on some trail rides, according to
Nardelli. "We base most of what
See Horse, Page 7
Murray Glenn
The Pendulum
United States Senate Candidate
Harvey Gantt addressed about 70Q-
800 members of the Elon College
community on Thursday, Oct. 4.
Gantt was on campus to drum
up support for his bid to defeat
Senator Jesse Helms, a three term
veteran of the United States
Senate.
Gantt is the first black man to
receive the Democratic nomination
for a major statewide office. He is
seeking to become only the second
black elected to the United States
Senate in the 20th century.
Gantt's 10 minute speech was
geared toward the college audience.
He talked about his visions toward
the future. Gantt feels the United
States needs to get more involved
in the changing world
marketplace.
"Since the threat of the Cold
War no longer exists, we need to
Gantt
Harvey
stop allocating so much money
toward the nation's defense and
start to become more concerned
with issues like education and
health care." Gantt said.
Gantt called for federal
support for the education of
children between the ages of 1-5.
He feels that nobody who wants to
See Gantt, Page 3