MPendulum
Volume XX, Number 10
Serving the Elon College Community
December 2,1993
The News...
■n Brief
Visitation policy
change considered
The Elon College visitation
policy is again being considered
for change. The student govern
ment is holding an open forum on
the subject today at 7 p.m. at
Whitley Auditorium
Presently, the hours are Sun
day - Thursday 10 a.m. until 11:00
p.m. and Friday - Saturday 10
a.m. until 1:30 a.m.
Michael Rodgers, freshmen
class president, said the facilities
committee of the Student Gov
ernment Association is working
on changing the hours.
“We have several different
ideas of what the hours can be
changed to,” Rodgers said.
*‘We want to get ideas from
parents, students, faculty, deans,
and security, and this forum will
give everyone a chance lo speak
out,” Rodgers said.
April Montano, secretary
and treasurer of the freshmen
class, explained that after the fo-
•■uni is held and the S.G.A. gets
an idea of what policy everyone
'"'ants, they will write a proposal
and position paper stating what
new hours should be.
Rodgers also said that a ref
erendum for students’ vole will
^ held after the proposal is writ-
^n. “The referendum will be held
at the end of Winter Term,” he
said.
Rodgers said the proposa
'''ili go through some commit
tees of faculty, staff and hope
fully will eventually go to the
^oardofTrustees in March. “We
^'ope there will be enough time to
Set a new policy reinstated for
^ fall of 1994,” he said
- Lori Ilaley
INSIDE
* Sexual discrimination
policy needed. See page 10.
® Elon College Baseball
players taste professional ball,
See page 8.
® Professor Larson falsely
represented on E-mail, Sec
page 5.
Bill Harvey/The Pendulum
Lighted nativity scene adorns a local residents lawn for the holiday season.
Women faculty paid less
Wendy Whitfield
Reporter
Women faculty members get
paid less than men faculty
members at Elon College,
according to a spring 1993 report
by Elon’s Academic Council.
School officials point to
several possible reasons for the
difference in salaries. Perhaps
more women are in lower-paymg
fields, like English or educauon,
officials said. The faculty
member's level of educauon ^d
years of experience are also
^^^%'he Academic Council is
studying whether women earn less
Tan men when all the factors are
taken into account.
At Elon, women are paid an
• lor fn Flon. according
schools similar to tion.^ ^
to the American Associauo
University Professors
annual report.
But many local schools
similar to Elon do not have the
salary discrepancy. At Guilford
College, for example, women are
paid an average of 1.1 percent less
than men.
Gerald Francis. Elon vice
president and dean of academic
affairs, said male and female
faculty members of comparable
status are paid the same. He said
the overall difference in salaries is
because women are relatively new
members of Elon’s faculty.
“Seven or eight years ago,
there were few female faculty
members, but the percentage of
females has increased over the past
years. As more females are hired,
they come in at entry level and
have fewer years experience than
males.” said Francis.
Francis said few faculty
members have expressed concern
about the statistical difference.
“It hasn’t been viewed as a
problem.” said Francis. “The first
time a faculty member approached
me about it was in the spring of
‘92. Of course, nobody thinks
they are paid right.”
Anne Cassebaum, an assistant
professor of English, said such
statistics do not set a good
example for students.
“This sends a strange
subliminal message to students
about what they can expect in
life.” said Cassebaum. “These
problems cannot be overcome by
their own ambitions.”
Kathryn Larson, an assistant
professor of economics and
member of the Academic Council,
said the study will see if there is
evidence of gender discrimination
in faculty salaries.
“If we compare within
departments and find people who
are all equivalent at the same rank
(for example, assistant professors
who all have Ph.D.’s and have all
been on the job the same amount
of time) and find that males still
have higher salaries than females,
then we can say there is
discrimination.” said Larson.
Student charged
with sex crime
Tonya R. Taylor
Editor
An Elon College student has
been charged with raping a female
student.
Sophomore William Theodore
Mills, 19, of Cook Road,
Gibsonville was charged with
first-degree rape said Gibsonville
Police Chief Morris McPherson
Tuesday.
A preliminary hearing is
scheduled for Dec. 7 at 1:30 p.m.
in the Basement Floor Courtroom
according to Alamance County
Court officials.
The Pendulum was unable to
reach Mills on Tuesday. Senior
Clayton Peebles, Mills’ fraternity
brother, told The Pendulum that
Mills declined to comment.
The Pendulum contacted the
alleged victim. She declined to
comment. The Pendulum does
not identify alleged sexual assault
victims.
McPherson said Mills is
alleged to have raped the student at
See Rape. Page 12
President Young's
contract renewed
Whitney Newton
Reporter
President Fred Young’s
contract was renewed for three
years at the Elon College Board of
Trustees meeting OcL 10-12.
Young recently declined to
say how much, if any. his annual
salary will increase under the new
contract. He received a $5,000
pay raise, from $118,000 lo
$123,000, between the 1991-92
and the 1992-93 fiscal years,
according to the school’s latest
available tax returns.
Young, 59, is in his 21st year
as Elon College president.
Young said he is striving to
improve the quality of education al
See Contract, Page 12