THE
Volume XK, Number 3
THIS WEEK
■ Today, film director Spike Lee
will be at the Carmichael Center
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill at 10
a.m. to rally support for a new
black student union building on |
campus.
■ Wednesday, Health Services
will give flu vaccines from 9[
a.m. to 4 p.m. in Long Student
Center. Vaccines are free to|
students, $7.00 for employees.
■ This weekend, head for food,
folks and fun at the Carousel i
Festival at the Burlington City'
Park.
■ Commuter students can pick
up the new student handbook in |
202 Long Student Center 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Monday -Friday.
■ Students can still pick up the |
1991-92 yearbook in 202 Long
Student Center. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday-Friday.
THE PAST
Twelve years ago: Thel
English Department formed a|
local chapter of the national!
honor society for English majors, I
Sigma Tau Delta in September |
1980.
Fifteen years ago: Ini
September 1977, Elon received
$633,000 for major renovations
to Smith and Carolina dorms.
Seventeen years ago:
Radio broadcasting became an I
available course at Elon for the ]
first time in September 1975.
INSIDE
■ The new director of Greek]
affairs, Amanda Harless, speaks
out about her goals for the Greek
system. Read the interview on|
page 5.
m Dracula.lhe first full-length I
* ballet ever to be presented at
Elon, will take place Wed.,
September 23. Turn to page 7 for |
more information.
■ World-class cyclists, as well
as two Elon students, competed
in the Burlington Downtown i
Criterium on Saturday. See the|
back cover for the story.
NDUUM
Serving the Elon College Community
&■
Mark Wheeler/The Pendulum
Native American Doris Leader Charge spoke about two different worlds at fall convocation last week.
Fall Convocation 1992
Leader
Charge spoke
on lost culture
Lori Haley
The Pendulum
Native American life is the
fall theme this year at Elon. Fa
Convocation was held Under the
Oaks on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 11
a.m. This year, the keynote
speaker was Doris Leader Charge
who played Pretty Shield in
Dances With Wolves.
Leader Charge spoke of her
life beyond Dances With Wolves.
She discussed the variations
between life on the reservation and
life on the road. She said that her
people arc very different from
white Americans even though we
all live in ihc same country. One
difference is that her people would
help each other no matter what
they nceclcii, she said.
"You people (non-Native
Americans) would not help each
other oui," Leader Charge said.
Mark Wheeler/The Pendulum
Young listeners learn about a forgotten culture.
When Leader Charge was
growing up. Native Americans
were forced to speiik English. She
said that they could not talk to
each other in their own language.
However, they decided to fight
back at the Americans with the
most powerful lorce, education.
Leader Charge is helping
people get their education by
teaching the Liikoui language and
culture at Sinte Gleska University
on the Rosebud Re.servation in
South Dakota.
Charge said that she knew the
audicnce wanted lo hear a'little
about Dances Wah Wolves and
what it was like to work with
Kevin Costner. She explained that
while they were filming, Costner
ate meals with her people, asked if
he could help with anything and
really cared about helping them.
She ended by saying, "Girls, 1
know you all want to know how
cute he is. He is as cute in person
as he is in the movie."
Other guest speakers included
Native American llute player,
Derek Lowry, and an Elon student
who spent a year in Japan, Sallie
Wolfe.
Lowry spoke of the Native
Sec Convocation, Page 6
Beck pool
shut down
until 1994
Christine Gowen
The Pendulum
Elon College has dried up.
Beck Pool, located in the
remains of Jordan Gym, will be
closed for the next 17 months,
according to Elon adminisuation.
Undergoing renovation are the
locker rooms and one of the brick
walls surrounding the pool. A
glass wall will uikc its place.
If students want to dive off the
deep end, they'll have to go
elsewhere.
"I understand it's a dilemma,"
said Rex Waters, assistant dean of
student affairs. "We've been
negotiating with the YMCA to
work around it."
The YMCA has agreed to grant
memberships to Elon students at a
discounted rate.
"We’ll let students buy a
temporary membership for three
months," said YMCA program
director Jerald Tumey.
There are no exceptions to
skipping around months like
December or January, when most
students arc gone.
"That would be too difficult,"
Turney said.
Twenty percent will be deducted
from every membership purchased.
For S20, students can drive
downtown and swim neck to neck
with every other Burlington
resident.
"Quite frankly, it's the only
other pool in town," said Gerald
Whittington, vice-president of
Business and Finance.
"Half the students now won't
be able to use the pool and gym
when it's finished. 1 wouldn't
characterize it as fair or unfair. If
we can make accommodations
now, we'll have succecdcd.”
The YMCA has no objections.
"We don't have a problem with
students coming here at all,"
Tumey said.
Special events and inu’amurals
like water polo will be organized
through the YMCA.
Beck Pool and Jordan Gym are
tentatively scheduled to open in
January of 1994.