THE
Pendulum
Volume XX, Number 9
Serving the Elon College Community
November 18,1993
The News...,
In Brief
Former senator claims
SGA is dysfunctional
Elon’s student govonment
has been functioning inappropii*
ately, said fonnerS.G. A. dilator
Charlie Smith.
Smith did not run for re-
electipn this semester because he
feels it is ineffective.
Smith said “there is a lot of
confusion in S.G.A” about the
way it is meant to function.
According to Smith, S G.Ai
committ^s are supposed to
low ^ ; senate to vote on propos
als its committees make, but
hasn’t been.
The hanecoming ctmunit-
tee of five, for example, decided,
without allowing the senate to
vote, to charge every organiza
tion involved with homecoming
$25, Smith said.
S.G.A.VicePrcsidentKhalU
Ekulona said the committees are
supposed to make decisions, and
that legislation does gel voted on.
He said that the homectmiing
canmittee’s decisions wmb an
exception becausf voting would
have been too inefficient during
that busy time.
Ekulona said students elect
S.G.A. officials and that “they
Uusted us to make changes.”
Jeff Potter, junior class sena
tor said S.G.A. hasn’t really
made any changes.
“There has only been one
bill passed on the floor of the
S.G.A,” Potter said.
When Ekulona was told that
some students don’t know when
and where the S.G.A. meets, be
said, “The meetings aren’tpubli-
cized because we’re elected
officials...it’s not up to us to pub
licize the meetings.”
SGA meetings are on Thurs
days at 5 p.m. In Carlton 109.
-Dane Fredrickson
INSIDE
ii Angela Owens visited Elon
Monday night. See page 5.
• Football victorious at
Homec(Hning, finishes season
With 8-3 rccord. See page 8.
Homecoming king David Bynes, 1st runner-up Gladys Tate and other Black Cultural Society representatives^
Photos by Bill Harvey
Aon wins again
Amy Logerwell
Staff Reporter
Alpha Omicron Pi won
homecoming for the fifth time in
six years Saturday when the
week’s events came to a close.
During halftime the winners
were announced. Alpha Xi Delta
finished second followed by Sigma
Sigma Sigma in third and Zeta
Tau Alpha in fourth.
Holly Good, a member of
Alpha Omicron Pi, was voted
homecoming queen and David
Bynes from the Black Cultural
Society became the first
homecoming king.
This year’s homecoming
theme was “Hats off to
Hollywood.”
Each of the 20 organizations
were required to nominate a [>erson
to represent them queen and, for
the first time ever, a king.
“I was very happy to be
running for king. I stand for
community service and academic
achievement and that’s what they
wanted in a king,” said Bynes.
Good had much of the same
response. She had never been
involved in or seen any of the
homecoming activities at Elon.
Her first impression was a great
one. . . u T
“I was totally shocked when I
won and I’m really, really tilled
10 feprcsent Alpha Omicron Pi and
SUB members entertain crowd during the homecoming parade,
carry on the winning tradition at possibly give the king and queen
Elon,” Good said.
This year’s nominee
competitions were structured
differently than in the past. Each
of the candidates had to write a
profile of themselves and be
interviewed. The interview was
40 percent of their score and 60
percent of their score was by
popular vote.
The Student Government
Association is planning to
responsibilities and tasks in the
community and with the school.
“We may be working with
SGA and admissions this year, we
really don’t know. It’s a brand
new thing this year ” Goode said.
Sophomore homecoming
coordinator Cathy Sparks-felt this
year went smoothly and already
has ideas for next year’s
homecoming.
Audio/video
equipment
inadequate
Mary Kelli Bridges
Reporter
Communications professors
and students say Elon College’s
audio/video equipment and facilities
are often broken, not up to industry
standards and not available as much
as needed.
“Everything we get our hands
on is broken. We test the
micrc^hone and that’s broken so we
go back to the LRC (La Rose
Resources Center), then we get out
to the location to work and the
tripod is broken. It’s so
frustrating,” said Tracey Gillis, a
student in audio /video production
class.
Gary Swanson, assistant
professor of journalism and
communications, said the
adminisU’ation told professors to
“demand more. Push them
(students) to their limits. Make
them do things that they didn’t feel
they were capable of doing.”
See AudioA^ideo Page4
Trustees asked
to use personal
funds for retreat
Kara Mauceri &
Whitney Newton
Reporters
Elon College trustees were
asked to pay their own way to the
board meeting at a resort in
Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 10-12.
Provost Warren Board said
Elon College could not afford to
pay for all the trustees. Board
said the school paid part of the
expenses for some trustees, but
he declined to give specifics.
Thirty-one of the 35 mistees
attended the meeting. Of the
dozen interviewed by phone
recently, none objected to paying.
However, none would say
how much they paid. “I made a
contribution that covered the
expenses for the weekend,” said
Noel Lee Allen, trustee and an
alumnus . n
See Trustees Page 4