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Volume XVIII, Number 16
Serving the Elon College Community
March 6, 1992
THIS WEEK
■ If you are graduating,
dropping to less than six, or not
returning to Elon after May and
have also taken out a Stafford or
SLS loan anytime you have
attended Elon, you are required
to attend Exit Loan Counseling.
Two sessions are scheduled for
Tuesday at 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.
in Yeager Recital Hall.
■ Tonight, Zeta Tau
Alpha is sponsoring a "Greek
Man of the Year" contest. The
contest begins at 8 p.m. in
Whitley Auditorium.
■ On Saturday, the
Admissions office is running a
visitation day for prospective
high school students.
■ On Saturday, SUB is
sponsoring a video dance in
Harper Center Lounge at 9 p.m.
■ On Sunday, the men's
lacrosse team plays at
Washington - Lee. The game
begins at 2:30 p.m.
■ The Music Department
Gala show will be held on
Wednesday in the Fine Arts
Theater at 8:00 p.m.
■ Thursday is the last day
to enter the Intramural Body
Building Contest
■ The next S.G.A.
meeting will be held on
Thursday at 5 p.m. in the
Senate Room of Long Student
Center.
■ Dr. James David Barber,
author of The Presidential
Politics and The Pulse of
Politics will speak at iElon on
Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Fine
Arts Theatre.
THE PAST
Two Years Ago: The
Smithereens performed at Elon
on April 3, 1980.
Fifteen Years Ago: On
December 1, 1977, approx
imately 100 Elon students and
faculty members rode nearly
2,700 miles on stationary
bicycles in an effort to raise
money for the North Carolina
Easter Seal Project. Nearly 400
members of Greek organizations
participated in the fund raising
effort
Elon mourns a loss
Rob Whiteside/The Pendulum
Dean Ron Klepcyk solemnly greets mourners at the memorial service Tuesday.
Charity Apple
The Pendulum
Friends, professors, and
classmates want to remember
Chad Edward Macy as a friendly,
out-going person, who always
stopped to say hello.
Macy's academic and Elon
101 advisor, Nancy Harris, said,
"Even after Elon 101 was over
this fall, he would go out of his
way to wave or yell my name if
he saw me on campus."
Many professors described
Macy as cooperative, competitive,
and an excellent student
Becky House, coordinator for
tutorial services, and his English
professor, said, "He seemed to be
the All-American kid. It just made
me sick to hear what happened."
Macy was a member of the
football team, on an academic
scholarship, dean's list and
recently accepted a bid from Kappa
Sigma fraternity at Elon. He was a
1991 graduate of Cardinal Gibbons
High School in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., where he was a member of
the National Honor Society and
played football, baseball and
See Mourns, Page 3
Freshman
killed in car
accident
Murray Glenn
The Pendulum
The Elon College police
department believes alcohol and
excessive speed were factors in the
accident that took the life of an
Elon College freshman.
Chad Edward Macy, 18, from
Pompano Beach, Florida died early
Sunday morning as a result of a
massive head trauma incurred from
a single car accident on West
Trollinger Avenue.
"We will receive the blood
alcohol content report from the
medical examiners office at the
start of the week," said Dan Ingle,
chief of the Elon College Police
Department. "This is the first
student fatality (Alcohol - Related)
that I recall since I have been
here."
According to police reports,
the accident occurred at 2:30 a.m.
while Macy and Barrett Frain were
traveling west on West Trollinger
Ave. The car ran off the right side
of the road and overturned. It came
See Accident, Page 4
Commencement speaker: ABC's Bettina Gregory
Kristin C. Blass
The Pendulum
ABC news correspondent
Bettina Gregory will deliver the
commencement address at Elon
College on May 23. The program
will begin at 10:30 a.m.
The selection process began in
the Fall, when Dr. Warren Board,
Vice President and Provost, held a
student interest meeting.
Students brainstormed on
speakers suitable for the big ^y., Bettina Gregory
.A female journalist JttJcivcd the
I popalar vote.
who could speak about their
futures - not just a topic," said Pat
Kinney, director of public
information. "Commencement is a
beginning, and seniors need advice
for starting their independent
lives."
Gregory and other journalists
were pursued. Gregory’s response
was most enthusiastic, and was
given the honor, according to_
Kinney.
As a worldrrenowned coires-
r pondent, Gregory has covered the
( h i ^(Jhallcngor accident,: the terrorist’
a* p^r^qnexplosion of Pah-Am flight 102,
and the royal wedding of Prince
Charles and Lady Diana.
As ABC News White House
correspondent, she covered
President Carter's re-clection
campaign and the Iran crisis. She
reported on the hostage situation
for World News Tonight, Good
Morning America, and Nightline.
Gregory has been honored
with the Women in
Communications Clarion Award,
the Women at Work Broadcast
Award, the National News Award
and the Front Page Award for her
work'as an investigative reporter.