Editorials
Febniaxy 14,1991
Viewpoint
What to do with
the new land?
Elon has purchased 27.6 acres of land future development
use. linking East Campus to the Main Campus. A grand gesture,
but no decisicMi has been made about what the land will be used
for. If time and thought were put into it, ideas could spring out
of no where. The Pendulum has compiled a list of its own
serious and some not so serious suggestions.
- The long awaited and longed for football stadium
- Outdoor swimming pool complex
- New student center with speciality restaurants and shops
- More off-campus student housing without on-campus
regulations
- A commuter student center
- Parking lot with Shuttle that loops around the campus
- An exercise par course and walkingAimning trails
- Animal safehouse for all the stray dogs and cats that roam
around campus
- Drive-in movie theatre
- More pub and dance places for students to go to
- Day care center f(W children of the faculty where education
majors could work and receive credit
- Buildings for graduate programs
- Intramural facilities: baseball field, basketball courts
- Golf course
- Equitation facilities on campus
- Move Book Gallery, Tele-Comm, and all other school
owned stores to the new land. Then lease existing space
to cover construction costs.
The Pendulum welcomes any and all other suggestions
concerning the use of the land.
The Pendulum
Editor: Kelly Potter
Managing Editor: Heather Whitehoxise
Sports Editor: Chip Lupo
Reporters: Darren Benfer, DeeDee Carowan, Jennifer Cowman,
Murray Glenn, Yvonne Houseman, Christine Rudiger,
Russ Smith, Trida Talbert, Ted Toomer
Production: Kati Mafko
Photographers: Scott Lansing, Rob Whiteside
Advertising Director: Ken Cooper
Advertising: Kristi Berg, Stuart Sterling
Advisor: Brad Hamm
Office: 102 Williamson Ave., Elon College, N.C., 27244. News:
584-2331. Advertising: 584-2467.
The Pendulim, founded in 1974, is published by Elon College students each Thursday
during regular school terms. The Pendulum toelcomes your opinions, with letters
limited to about 250 words, ^possible. Letters must be signed and a phone number
given for verifvcatUm. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. Monday.
Bush's letter manipulates
opinions to gain support
To the Editor:
President Bush’s "letter" to
the college newspapers, which is
clearly intended to manipulate
opinion on college campuses so as
to engender support for his Gulf
War, is so patently (xie-sided, self-
serving, distorted and hypocritical
that I feel compelled as an
academician and a concerned
citizen to comment on it.
The President expresses
remorse and indignation at
Hussein’s brutality, aggression,
and violation of human rights. All
self-respecting individuals indeed
would or should join the President
in his condemnation of such
practices and travesties on human
decency.
However, I find it difficult to
accept the sincerity behind such
utterances. What he neglects to
tell his readers is that the Reagan-
Bush Administrations not only
supported Hussein diplomatically,
politically, militarily and
economically for the last ten
years, but also were mum about
Hussein’s use of chemical agents
during the Iran-Iraq war and about
his brutal treatment of political
dissenters in his own country.
The President professes
concern for human rights but
neglects to inform his readers that
all of the nations we are fighting
side by side with and for money in
the Middle East are all
dictatorships with dismal records
on human rights.
I cringe when I read the
President as saying that we are
fighting for the Kuwaitis’ right to
have the "freedom as we have and
enjoy here". This sort of rhetoric
is belied by the fact that political
freedom never existed under the
rule of the Sabbah family nor for
that matter in any other part of the
Arab world. The Kuwaiti
citizens' struggle to establish
constitutional government was
always snuffed out by the Emirs
of Kuwait. Never, to the best of
my knowledge, did the President
protest or complain about these
denials of freedom to Kuwaiti
citizens. Is there a double standard
here in judging Iraq and Kuwait?
(or Saudi Arabia, Syria or Israel?)
Now that the President has
railroaded this nation into war, he
promises to do everything ("short
of appeasement") to find a peaceful
solution to this conflict.
Incredible! We go to war in order
See Zarzar, Page 5
Securing A Job class teaches
valuable job hunting skills
To the Editor:
This past Winter Term I
decided to take Elon’s Securing a
Job class taught by Pam
Brumbaugh of Career Planning
and Placement. I signed up for the
class because it was a prerequisite
for doing a co-op work experience.
In other words, I wanted to be able
to get credit for my job.
At the conclusion of the class
I had gained more than a credit; 1
had perfected my resume, learned
how to write an impressive cover
letter, sharpened my interview
skills, and had assessed my values
and studied their importance to my
happiness in a job.
Our work on resumes and
cover letters taught me the correct
style and the importance of perfect
spelling for the two. If an
employer sees a misspelled word
in your resume he / she will most
likely toss it in the trash. Ms.
Brumbau^ welcomed our turning
in as many copies for her to check
until our resumes and cover letters
contained no spelling or style
errors.
Through exploratory
interviews (talking with someone
in a company or job you are
interested in) I collected valuable
infmnation about companies I am
interested in working at. These
interviews also led me to a
valuable job contact
We (the class) did "mock"
interviews in front of video
cameras which meant being
interviewed by fellow classmates
and viewing the interviews to see
and hear our mistakes. I found
this method of practicing
interviews veiy helpful. It gave
me a chance to observe my
posture and catch myself
continuously saying "um". A
segment of the class was devoted
to identifying our values and
discussing the importance of them
when choosing a job or career.
For instance, if you value
spending time with your family
you might not want to take a job
working odd hours or a large
amount of overtime.
Along with becoming college
juniors and seniors comes the
reality of finding a job after
graduation. Many students also
pursue internships and co-ops to
gain experience in their field of
study. To acquire such jobs on®;
must possess good job hunting
skills. I can't think of a better
place to mast^ these skills than in;
this class. It will help you in job .
searches and career decisions
throughout your life.
Belly Covington in the
Academic Advising Center sai^^^
students can still sign up for the J
Securing a Job class being taugW
March 18 - May 1. There are i
sections of the class: one from ,
12:20 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Monday
and Wednesday and the other fro*^
3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and j
Wednesday. j
If you cannot fit the class into |
your schedule at least take ^
advantage of Elon's Career .
Planning and Placement Center*
They offer career workshops an
will happily look over
resumes and cover letters.
Jennifer