MPendulum
Volume XX, Number 19
Serving the Elon College Community
April 14,1994
Gerald Francis named Elon College provost
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Gerald Francis was named provost at Fridays faculty meeting. Francis
has been at Elon College since 1974.
Mary Kelli Bridges
Staff Reporter
Gerald Francis is Elon
College’s new provost. President
Fred Young told faculty lastFriday.
Young also announced that Jo
Watts Williams will resign as vice
president for Development as soon
as a replacement is found.
Young outlined an administra
tive reorganization in which the vice
president of Academic Affairs re
ports to the provost rather than the
president. The vice president of
Business and Finance will report to
the president rather than the pro
vost.
A national search will be con
ducted to find Francis’s replace
ment as vice president of Academic
Affairs, Young said.
Francis said his goal as provost
will be to implement the Elon Vi
sion.
Francis replaced Warren Board
who resigned in March to become
St. Andrew’sPresbyterian College’s
president.
Francis has been at Elon since
1974. He started as an associate
professor of math and computer
science. He climbed the ladder to
chairman of the math department,
associate dean of Academic Affairs,
dean of Academic Affairs and then
vice president of Academic Affairs.
Young said Francis’s respon
sibilities include the change to the
four-hour course system, the re
duced faculty course load, and the
new General Studies program.
“His knowledge and judgment
are superb. He has shown an un
usual ability to combine quality and
innovation with efficient manage
ment,” Young said.
Williams was President Leon
Edgar Smith’s secretary while she
was an Elon College student from
1951 to 1954.
Williams returned to Elon Col
lege in 1969 as a professor of psy
chology and education. In 1977,
she was promoted to associate dean
of Academic Affairs.
She has served as vice presi
dent of Development since 1979.
Young said that Williams’s
leadership helped the Investing In
Excellence campaign near its $18
million goal.
Williams did not want to take
on the long-term commitment of
raising $40 million for the Elon
Vision program.
“The Elon Vision is a major,
major effort,” Williams said. “It
just seems to me that the person
who is going to complete the cam
paign needs to be here to begin it.
Time will just run out and I can’t
very well stay here long enough to
complete it.”
She will continue working for
the college but a new job has not
been selected.
SG A presidential election to be repeated
Mary Kelli Bridges
Staff Reporter
SGA’s presidential election wiU be repeated
April 21 with all three candidates on the ballot.
The election will be held in Long Student Center
from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Additional elections will be held if none of the
candidates receive a majority of the votes.
None of the presidential candidates won the
required majority of votes March 22, a Student Gov
ernment Association committee told the full Senate
l^t Thursday.
Larry Williams received the most votes. He
captured 309 votes, or 44 percent of the 695 votes
cast. However, a candidate’s complaint led to a SGA
investigation which found that none of the candidates
had won.
According to Robert’s Rules of Order, the win
ning candidate, must receive half of the votes plus one.
WUliams did not receive the 348 votes required to win.
SGA’s constitution and bylaws don’t spell out a
different election procedure so SGA must follow Robert’s
Rules of Order, the committee reported.
The committee also reported that presidential can
didate CharUe Smith violated Elon College’s solicita-
ticm rule.
Robert Baxter, the school’s attorney, and George
Taylor, chairman of the political science department,
called the conunittee’s solicitation decision "wrong.”
“It’s Student Affairs trying to save face,” Taylor
said.
The Student Handbook prohibits “door-to-door
solicitation” in dorms.
The policy does not define solicitation. Baxter said
it was written in the 1950’s by the college’s business
manager.
Solicitation “has to do with selling goods on
See SGA, Page 4.
Football player expected to be issued arrest warrant
Marco Ormaetxea/The Pendulum
Jeff Bedard stands at the starting point of the Lambda Chi Alpha
500. Lambda Chi Alpha hoped to raise $2000 for Allied Churches
of Alamance County. The event was held on Saturday.
Marc Gentile
Staff Reporter
An arrest warrant for Elon Col
lege football player Carlos Watson
was expected to be issued late
Tuesday or Wednesday, Elon Col
lege police said Tuesday.
Police confiscated 66.6 grams
of marijuana from Watson’s Jor
dan Center dorm room Feb. 23.
Watson was being sought for
felonious possession of marijuana
and possession of marijuana with
intent to sell and deliver. Detective
Mike Woznick said.
Woznick said Watson was be
lieved to be in his hometown in
eastern North Carolina.
WatsOT will be phoned and
asked to come to Elon College for
the warrant to be served.
“It is easier to serve the warrant
in the county of the offense,”
Woznick said.
Watson has denied having
marijuana in his room but he told
The Pendulum that he had drug
paraphernalia.
If convicted, Watson faces up
to five years in prison.
INSIDE
I Softball wins last
home conference
game, See page 10.
Take Back the Night
march held tonight,
See page 5.
Elon becomes studio
for Hollywood soap
opera, See page 14.