THE
Volume XVIII, Number 13
NDULIM
Serving the Elon College Community
THIS WEEK
■ Tonight, comedian
Dave Miller will be performing
at 7 p.m. in the second floor
dining area of McEwen
Cafeteria.
■ Men's Rush begins qn
Sunday.
■ Spring room change for
students living on - campus will
be held on Monday and Tuesday.
For more information, call your
resident assistant
■ The Elon College
Wellness Program is sponsoring
a nutrition education program
on Tuesday at 12 p.m. in the
large lounge of Long Student
Center.
■ The Young Democrats
will be meeting on Tuesday al
7:30 p.m. in the senate room of
Long Student Center.
THE PAST
One Year Ago: On Feb.
24, approximately 400-500
people attended a rally in
Gibsonviile as a show of
support for the troops serving in
the Persian Gulf War.
Two Years Ago: Two
hundred Elon students who
tested for tuberculosis learned
that all of the test were
negative. The 200 students were
thought to have been exposed to
a student in Fall 1989.
Four Years Ago: Dizzy
Gillespie performed at Elon on
March 12, 1989.
Thirty Years Ago;
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.
bccame the first American to
orbit Earth on February 20,
1962.
INSIDE
■ Two staff members from
the student affairs office resign.
Check out the story on page 5.
■ A top Kennedy
assasination expert discusscs the
film JFK and his theories on
what really happened in Dallas.
Read the interview on page 7.
■ Learn more about the
plans of two former Elon
football players trying to to
pursue professional football
careers. See the story on page
10.
INDEX
Editorials
Ans&
Entertainment
Sports
Comics
1
Brian Boxell and Bill Beardslee are back from break.
More Students...
Enrollment for the
spring semester is up.
Figures obtained from
the registrar's office
indicate that this
semester's enrollment
of 3,039 students is 7
higher than last spring's
figures. The record is
3,122 students from the
spring semester of
1989.
Todd Hershey/The Pendulum
Todd Hershey/The Pendulum
Dave Nash, Reno Collier and a mountain of books.
College seeks reaccreditation
Trustees
approve
expansion
Murray Glenn
Jennifer Hudson
The Pendulum
The Elon College Board of
Trustees formally approved a $13
million expansion program
during their January meeting.
The facilities expansion project
is part of a $30 million effort
designed to upgrade academic
programs, develop flagship
programs and improve the
facilities in which the programs
are housed.
"While there are bad economic
times, w& feel the campaign will
go very well," said Dr. Fred
Young, president of Elon College.
"The danger of not providing these
programs that will enhance the
quality of this institution is
See Expansion, Page 12
Cause of
Sloan fire is
unknown
Page 2
Pages 6,7
Page 10
,;Page 11
Murray Glenn
The Pendulum
Eleven members from the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools will be visiting
campus this week to evaluate the
college as it seeks to be re-
acicditied.
The visiting committee will be
on campus Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday. The committee
members will attend a variety of
pre-scheduled appointments as
well as spontaneous meetings. In
addition, they will be review
college records, including those in
academic affairs, accounting,
admissions and student affairs.
"These people will be seeking
students out. They may invite
them to lunch or they may
casually ask a question in a
hallway," said Warren Board,
provost and senior vice president.
"We want the students to feel free
to give their perceptions of the
college."
The Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools is one of six
regional accrediting associations.
It is composed of officials from
colleges and schools who take
responsibility themselves for ihc
quality of education in their
region.
Each member school is reviewed
every ten years.
Warren Board, Provost and Vice
President described the
accreditation process as the most
important self-study and
ev^uation process that happens to
the college.
Board defined accreditation as "a
standard recognized by our peers
and by the public at large that the
institution is worthy of delivering
a baccalaureate and education
comparable to the guidelines of
See Collfege, Page 3
Rob Whiteside
The Pendulum
It was a little before 3 a.m.,
Sunday, Feb. 9, when junior,
Chris Gallavan emerged from his
room on first floor of Sloan
dormitory.
He was drawn out of bed by
the all too familiar sounds of the
fire alarm.
Gallavan spotted the trash
can at the end of the hall
overflowing with flames and
smoke.
"I was just the first to poke
my head out the door," said
Gallavan.
Gallavan saw the fire
extinguisher, look it off the wall,
.. , , See Fire, Page 3