THE
Pendulum
Serving the Elon College Community
April 7,1994
Unanswered questions surround SGA election
Mary Kelli Bridges
Staff Reporter
Lany Williams did not receive
enough votes to be elected as next
year’s SGA president, the college’s
attorney and a SGA official said
this week.
Williams, ajunior, received 42
more votes than his closest oppo
nent, Charlie Smith, in the election
March 24.
Williams, however, needed to
receive a majority of the 695 votes
cast in the presidential election, said
Robert Baxter, Elon College’s at
torney.
Kendal Rasnake, SGA speaker
pro-tempore, called Monday for a
new election.
SGA President Shannon
Moody appointed a committee of
Student Government Association
officers Tuesday to investigate the
election.
The committee’s chairman said
its findings and recommendations
will be presented to the SGA either
today or next Thursday. The SGA
meets every Thursday at 5 p.m. in
Carlton Roxn 102.
Shortly after theelection. Smith
called for an investigation into elec
tion improprieties.
Smith said that Rex Waters,
SGA adviser and associate dean of
Student Affairs, prohibited him fnxn
campaigning in the dorms. Baxter
also disagrees with Waters’s deci
sion, saying it was Smith’s “consti
tutional right.”
Smith also accused other can
didates of removing campaign fly
ers and placing others in prohibited
areas.
Smith received 267 votes in
the election. Williams received 309
votes. Barrett received 119 votes.
Baxter said, “The president
elect didn’t get a majority of the
votes.”
If the SGA follows Robert’s
Rules of Order, Baxter said, then
Williams needed at least 348 of the
695 votes cast to be elected presi
dent.
SGA’s constitution, however,
is unclear aboutelection procedures.
According to the constitution,
election “details are to be outlined
in the Policies and Procedures of
the SGA.”
The policies were written by
Vice President Khalil Ekulona.
Those policies do not mention how
many votes a candidate must have
to be elected to office.
Waters said that according to
the constitution, “if there is nothing
stated or within his (Ekulona’s)
powers, then we would probably
follow Robert’s Rules of Orders.”
Under Robert’s Rules of Or
ders, elections are determined by
majority rule unless the group’s by
laws spell out a different procedure.
SGA’s election policies do not spell
out a different procedure.
Under majority rule, elections
are held until a candidate receives
more than half of the votes cast.
SGA’s other option would be
to use a plurality rule, under which
the winning candidate receives more
votes but not necessarily a major
ity.
SGA should be following
Robert’s Rules of Order until it re
writes its by-laws, said Rasnake,
who is chairman of a judicial com
mittee revamping SGA’s
See SGA, page 4.
Campus Police still in planning stage
Therefore, the two would share the costs of
Mary Kelli Bridges
Staff Reporter
A joint dispatching unit between the town and
the college, part of the proposed campus police
would cost Elon College about $44,000 each year.
The one-time cost of $39,000 would equip the
dispatching unit.
On Feb. 28 the Board of Aldermen was pre
sented with a proposal from Gerald Whittington,
vice president of Business and Finance, which out
lined the costs of salaries and equipment for a central
communication dispatching team.
Campus police and Elon College Police would
share the salary costs of $87,400.
The proposal said that “at least four full-time
dispatchers are needed along with part-time dis
patchers for fill-in wwt.”
The supervisof would make $8 per hour, $20,800
annually with 25 percent benefits.
Three dispatchers would earn $7 per hour,
518,2000 annually with 25 p»cent benefits.
Two thousand hours of part-time dispatchers
would earn $6 per hour, $12,000 annually.
The proposal said, “in order to be in close
coniaa with the town police, it is essential that
^W'pus police switch over to a VHF police band
*^>0 frequency."
The current UHF system would be used by
students for security related functions.
equi{»nent totaling $78,963.
Equipment needed for Campus Police:
■ MSF5000 High Band Repeater 125W with
duplexer, wire line control, emergency reverting ca
pability, 100’ 1/2 foam transmission line and 9db gain
omni-directional antenna costing $10,330.
■ VHF Band portable radios (7 @ $795) costing
$5,565.
■ Martrac lOOW, Scanning Mobile Radio with
hardware (3 @ $1,235) costing $3,705.
■ Secure VHF license from FCC costing $300.
Equipment needed for Town.Police:
■ MSF5000 High Ban Repeater 125W with
duplexer, wire line control, emergency revering capa-
Wlity, 100’ 1/2 foam transmission line and 9db gain
omni-directional antenna costing $10,330.
■ VHF Band portable r«lios (7 @ $795) costing
$5,565.
Equipment shared by Town/College:
■ 10 channel dispatch console costing $10,000.
■ Multiple channel event recorder costing
$16,000.
■ Phone 1 ine (recurrin g each month) costing $ 18.
■ Phone line adapter costing $200.
■ Ema^ency Generator costing $10,2000.
■Cost of remodeling dispatch areacosting $7501.
■ Installation of repeaters, mobiles, console,
buikJing for bousing repeaters, rekxating Security
and Physical Plant repeater to water tank costing
See PoHce, Page 4.
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Erick Gill/The Pendulum
SGA Vice President Khalil Ekulona (left) and President Shannon Moody
announce the votes to an election that is now under investigation.
Student harassed by calls
Amy Logerwell
Graphics Editor
A 20-year-old Graham man has
been charged with making harass
ing phone calls to two Elon College
students in March, police said.
Brett Ray of 2263 Erin Court
confessed to making the calls, Elon
College Police Chief Dan Ingle said
Monday.
Ray has been issued a criminal
summons to ^pear in court. No
date has been set.
Ray did not return a phone call
from The Pendulum Tuesday night.
A woman who answered the phone
at his home said Ray had the flu and
could not come to the phone.
The woman, who said she was
Ray’s mother, said the charges
against him have been dropped. The
woman declined to give her name.
Elon College senior Leslie
Walsh said she and roommate April
Burnette starting receiving “per
verse” phone calls from an anony
mous man on March 4.
“We don’t know how he got
our phone number because it is un
listed. We think it was just a ran
dom thing,” Walsh said.
“The calls were getting so bad
that we had to disconnect our phone
sometimes. There were a lot of
hang-ups too, sometimes eight in a
row,” she said.
Tlie man called only when one
of the women was home alone,
Walsh said.
After the first weekend of ha
rassing calls, the women asked the
telephone company to trace the
phone calls.
Southern Bell hooked up a
trace, through a computer, to their
phone. They told the telephone
See Harassment, page 4.
INSIDE
Showcase highlights
talents of students.
See page 5.
1
III Elon baseball
triumphant during
break. See page 9.
Sitting in the
shadow of Seattle,
See page 6.