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been crowded from the time it
opens until the time it closes.
"Occasionally we have to
close (the health clinic) because
of patient overflow in order to get
the doctors out to lunch.
Recently, we haven't been able
to take lunch," said Salter.
"If we have a room full of
people, we have to process
them," Salter said.
This "processing time" has
caused many sick students to wait
for hours in the infirmary.
"I went in at about 3 o'clock
one day and by the lime 1 saw the
doctor and got my medicine it
was 5 o'clock," said senior Erik
Koestenblatt.
"I had to wait an hour and
the wailing room was packed full
of sick people. The girl beside of
me had mono. I was scared that I
would get even more sick waiting
there," said freshman Kelly
Lough.
Even after wailing to see the
doctor and getting a prescription
filled. Nurse Salter commented
that sometimes the antibiotics do
noi cover the virus.
Speaker says racism is still
alive in today's society
Bill Harvay/The Pendulum
Loren Burlando, Cherie Hubbel and Catherine Coward wait at health center
"There is no substitute for
rest," Salter said.
The symptoms for flu
include headache, chills, fever,
aching joints, coughing, nausea
and no appetite.
Habitat receives land for next home
Jeanette Jurkiewicz
The Pendulum
On April 3, The Elon
College Chapter of Habitat for
Humanity will finally break
ground on a house of their own.
“Evidently we have been
raising enough publicity since
last semester to make the right
people aware of the fact that we
needed land,” said chapter
president Steve Messinetti.
After meeting with the Elon
College Town Board and several
college administrators, local
resident Ernie Koury, Jr., said
that he would donate a parcel of
land locatcd in the town of Elon
College to the campus chapter of
HFH.
“This is an example of the
Town of Elon College, the
Alamance County Affiliate of
Habitat for Humanity, the
surrounding community and Elon
College ail working together in
partnership," Messinetti said.
College chapters of Habitat
for Humanity arc usually only
involved in helping oul with
fundraising and building, said
Messinetti.
“Last semester there wasn’t a
lot of actual building going on.
So, we wanted to push to do
something bigger like finding
land to build a house of our
own.”
“People are really excited and
ready to build now that we have
our own project,” said Habitat
member Brant Woodward.
“Hopefully it will get the campus
- administration, students and
faculty - more involved.”
Any person or organization
interested in working with
Habitat for Humanity should sign
up through Elon Volunteers! at
x2102.
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March 19.
Courtenay Houston
The Pendulum
A glance up and down the
rows of the McCrary Theater on
Monday night showed students,
faculty and community members
wearing lapel tags with the
slogan “I—H” printed on them.
“Inferiority generates
hostility” was the theme
presented by Dr. Marvin Morgan
at the speech sponsored by the
SGA and the Liberal Arts Forum.
Dr. Morgan was the fourth
African American to graduate
from Elon. The minister of the
Atlanta Good Shepherd
Community Church presented a
speech entitled “A Key to
Understanding and Overcoming
Violence and Racism in the
‘90s.”
“We need to acknowledge the
presence of hostility in every
nook and cranny of our lives.
We are all caught up in a sea of
hostility and we need to reduce
it,” Morgan said.
Morgan is a firm believer
that hostility is a big part of
what breeds racism.
“Racism is like an evil weed
in the field called humanity. It
has been allowed to grow and
grow wildly turning the paths of
our lives into a maze. It (racism)
has trapped us so much that it is
choking us,” Morgan said.
Morgan also said that
although race relations have
improved since the civil rights
movement began, the problem of
racial injustice has only been
touched on the surface and the
root of the problem has not been
addres.icd.
“Racial conditions have
improved ever so slightly. For
example, an African American is
elected to a visible position. We
then assume that the problem of
racism has been solved. By
doing this, we almost guarantee
that when the time of the harvest
comes, racism will agam rise
up,” Morgan said.
Morgan did offer some hope
and suggestions to a society
suffering from racial injustice.
“If we can overcome
hostility, then we can overcome
the determinants of hostility,”
Morgan said.
Dr. Morgan illustrated this
point by the comparison of two
men.
“One has been called the
dreamer, the prophet of non
violence. One has been said to
once have been the angriest black
man in America. These two men
are Martin Luther King Jr. and
Malcolm X. Malcolm X could
have easily been Martin and
Martin could have easily been
Malcolm X,” said Morgan.
Morgan observed that the
early lives of these men were
remarkably similar, but later in
his life Malcolm X experienced
more hostility than King .
Morgan added that it was the
increase of Malcolm X’s self
esteem that enabled him to reach
a point where racist behavior
could not touch him, and his
hostility diminished.
“All students need to develop
an opportunity to relate (to
others) in a way that lifts and
boosts self-esteem. They need to
make others feel good about
themselves and praise will
follow,” Morgan said.
Dr. Morgan is a graduate of
Elon where his daughter, Akilah,
is currently attending.
STUDENT FORUM
Wednesday, March 17
Large Lounge 3:(X)-4:00
ACADEMIC QUALITY PROPOSAL
FOUR SEMESTER HOUR COURSES
with
Dr. Gerry Francis, Dean of Academic Affairs
and Mike Mooney, SGA President
Are you prepared for change?
Are \ou prepared lo take a risk?