Volume XVIII, Number 12
Serving the Elon College Community
December 6, 1991
THIS WEEK
■ Elon's annual Festival
Holiday Concert will be held
tonight in the Fine Arts Theatre
‘ at 8 p.m. The show is presented
by the Fine Arts Department.
■ This weekend, the
women's basketball team
participates in the Guilford
■ College Invitational. The two day
event concludes on Saturday.
■ On Saturday, SUB is
sponsoring a Christmas shopping
" trip'to Greensboro. For more
, information call ext. 2334.
' ■ Exams begin on Monday.
THE PAST
Eighty-four years ago:
On January 1, 1907, electric
lights were turned on for the first
time at Elon College.
Seventy-one years ago:
Toshio Sato, a member of the
class of 1920, was the first
Japanese graduate of Elon.
Fifty years ago: The
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
on December 7,1941.
Twenty-two years ago:
In 1%9, Eugene E. Perry became
the first black student to graduate
from Elon College.
Eighteen years ago: Dr.
Young was formally installed as
president of Elon College on
October 17, 1973.
INSIDE
■ Learn more about college
students and credit cards. Check
out the story on page 5.
■ What can Elon students
expect to find in the new campus
center? Refer to the story on page
11.
■ Learn more about the
educational backgrounds of four
international students who arc
attending Elon. Check out the
story on page 7.
■ Does Dr. Young know
anything about football? Check
Out his picks on page 13.
INDEX
Editorials
Commentary
Focus
Cultural
Connection
Sports
Comics
Santa Claus
comes to town
Children lie in wait for
Saint Nick during the
Burlington Christmas parade.
The parade was held
Noveml^r 23 down Main
Street and featured high
school bands, clowns, horses
and an array of floats.
Photos by Deborah
Durkee.
Student attitude survey results are in
Page 2
Page 3
Page 5 j
Pages 8 - 9
Page 13
Page 15
Murray Glenn
The Pendulum
Tom Arcaro's Research
Methods class was interested in
finding out more about the views
of Elon College students, so they
organized and distributed a survey
to a cross-section of the Elon
College student body.
They came up with some
interesting results.
Approximately 68 percent of
the respondents said that they
would not drop a friend if they
found out that the friend was gay.
Approximately 55 percent of
the respondents strongly supported
capital punishment in some cases.
Approximately 49 percent of the
respondents supported the
confirmation of Supreme Court
justice Clarence Thomas. Nearly
77 percent of the respondents
indicated that they use protection
when engaging in sex.
Approximately 15 percent of the
respondents indicated that 75
percent of the people that they
know have some type of drug
problem.
The first part of the survey
asked for the respondents sex, age,
year in school, academic major and
political affiliation.
The second part of the survey
contained 18 questions that were
designed for respondents to give
their views on subjects ranging
from abortion, capital
punishment, the confederate flag,
attitudes towards drugs and
different types of school policies.
In all, 200 surveys were
distributed. One hundred surveys
were distributed to classes while
the remainder of the surveys were
sent to miscellaneous mailboxes
on campus.
Ninety-two surveys were filled
See Survey, Page 10
Student
receives
KKK card
Ted Toomer
The Pendulum
A Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan card was delivered by
Michael Russell to freshman,
Latricia Moore, on November 15
in Staley dormitory.
Russell, a senior from
Virginia, was quick to say that he
isn't involved in the KKK and that
he got the card in a local bar where
someone walked up to him and
handed him the card.
"I don't have a problem with
blacks, I only have problems
with people who feel that this
country owes them something,"
Russell explained. "It was simply
a sick joke but I feel the whole
thing is being blown out of
proportion, I didn't think she'd get
this upset," Russell said.
Moore doesn't feel the
punishment was enough, however
she feels that Jana Lynn Patterson,
See KKK, Page 10
Macintosh
lab coming
to campus
Murray Glenn
The Pendulum
A Macintosh computer lab is
coming to the Elon College
campus.
The new lab will be located in
room 112 of the Fine Arts Center.
In the spring, two sections of the
corporate publishing class as well
as several other Journalism/
Communications classcs arc
scheduled to be taught in the lab.
The facility will be equipped
with eight Macintosh LC color
computers and a high - resolution
laser printer.
In the past, the corporate
publishing was taught on IBM
clone machines in the computer
See Macintosh, Page 7