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Vol. 1, No. 1
Elon College, North Carolina
October 14, 1974
Back in '74
Ralph Nader to Speak at Elon
by Debbie Cochran
Ralph Nader, noted consumer
advocate, will be guest speaker at
Elon College on October 30 at 8:00
p.m.
The Public Affairs Committee
m cooperation with the SGA will
host Nader. This committee in the
last two years has brought to Elon
such well-known Americans as
William Kuntsler, Julian Bond and
Frank Reynolds. The advisers for
1974-75 are Dr. Robert Delp, Dr.
Patricia Yesulaitis, and the Rever
end William Sharpe, and Elena
Scott as student chairman.
Nader is considered one of the
nation’s most famous and effective
critics. He is known for his docu
mented criticism of government and
industry. Time magazine has re
ferred to him as the “U.S.’s tough
est customer.”
The crusading attorney was
first brought into public attention
in 1965 with his book Unsafe at
Any Speed, the indictment that lam
basted the auto industry for pro
ducing unsafe vehicles. He has
been rcsfwnsibie for at least six
major federal consumer protection
laws, for the elimination of mono
sodium glutamate from baby foods,
for the recall of millions of defec
tive motor vehicles and for count
less other advances in the areas of
safety, sanitation, pollution con
trol, advertising credibility and
politico/economic power.
The Public Citizens Visitors
Center in Washington, D C., is one
of Nader’s recent projects. The
purpose of the center which opened
last May is “to tell people that this
is your government and we want to
show how it works.”
With a budget of $35,000, the
Visitor’s Center came into exist
ence because Nader believed that
the District of Columbia's $750
million tourist industry is "very
mechanical and unimaginative.”
While'others find the monuments
and landmarks awesome, they also
find the capital “cold and out of
reach. It offers itself to be seen
uncritically and superficially.”
Bom in Connecticut, Nader
graduated cum laude and Phi Beta
from Princeton University in 1955.
He received his law degree from
Harvard in 1958.
The lecture is scheduled for
Whitley Auditorium but will be
changed to Memorial Gymnasium
if necessary. “A limited number of
tickets will be given out and after
the supply has been exhausted and
if there are further requests, we will
accommodate the crowd in the gym,
said Chairman Elena Scott. We urge
all of the students, faculty and
townspeople to attend.”
The Pendulum celebrates
20 years of being in print
by Erick Gill
On Oct. 14, 1974, The Pendulum wgs born.
It didn’t take nine months of development,
though. The paper appeared almost out of no where,
said the first adviser, Mary Ellen Priestley
However, The Pendulum wasn’t the first news
paper on campus. On Dec. 1,1919, The Maroon and
Gold was started and published regularly until May
22,1969, when it was discontinued because of lack of
interest.
“It had come down to no newspapwr for the
college,” Priestley said.
Priestley said that during that time students be
gan to start their own underground newspapers on
and off campus. “They (students) had been publish
ing the truth outside of campus. So, the students
decided they should have a newspaper (that was run
through the college),” she said.
Priestley said there was one paper that stuck out
in her mind. The Veritas. She said the students who
ran the paper started it because they wanted the truth
to come out.
Another group of students “wanted the truth to
come out in a more professional manner," Priestley
said. Debbie Cochran, Patsy Lynch and about eight
other students decided to start another newspaper that
was run through the college. And Priestley, an En
glish professor at Elon from 1968-1985, decided she
would help them.
“1 went to them to see if I could help because I
graduated from the University of Missouri School of
Journalism, and 1 had a lot of experience in the field,”
Priestley said.
“I just planned to help them get started and do it
right.” she said. “Wc set out not to prove something
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The Magazine of Elon
President Fred Young presents the Daniels-Danieley
Award for Teaching Excellence to Dr. Mary Ellen
Priestley In 1978.
or do propaganda, but to set up a newspaper based on
journalistic principals.”
The first decision was the name.
“We went thought lots of names,” Priestley said.
“I told them most papers have an element of time, like
The London Times.. . but it couldn't be named The
Clock."
It was Patsy Lynch who named the paper. The
Pendulum, and “most of them like it,” Priestley said.
For the first year, The Pendulum was a four-page
monthly newspaper. In following years the paper was
bi-monthly, until 1977 when it became a weekly.
Priestley said the staff tried to run the newspaper
as professional as possible.
“We kept the news with news and even set up a
policy; an open letter saying what they wanted the
paper to do,” Priestley said.
For the first issue Cochran and Lynch were co
editors. Once the paper came out monthly, Cochran
remained editor.
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Rack in '74
Ten Added to Elon Faculty
by Nick Demilio
Elon College has added eight
new members to its leaching fac
ulty, along with a physical educa
tion consultant and acoordinator of
the medical technology program.
Additions to the English De
partment are Mrs. William Long
and Thomas Toher of Duke Gradu
ate School. Mrs. Long received a
B.S. in Journalism from West Vir
ginia University and an M.A. with
honors m Communication Arts and
Sciences from Western University.
She is teaching freshman English
part-time. During the last three
years, Mr. Toher has been a part-
time lecturer in English at Clark
University. He has a B.A. from
Hobart College and receive his
M.A. from Clark.
Dr. Gerald Francis and Dr.
Richard Haworth have bolstered
the ranks of the Mathematics De
partment. After attending Appala
chian State University for both his
undergraduate studies and Master's
degree. Dr. Francis received his
Ph.Dfrom VirginiaTech. He comes
to Elon after teaching at Appala
chian and Virginia Tech. Dr.
Haworth earned his Ph.D. at Vir
ginia Polytechnical Institute. For
the last two years he has been an
instructor at VPI.
Added to the staff of the Physi
cal Education Department are Dr.
Yarborough. Dr. White comes to
Elon from Mississippi State where
he received his Ed. D. and, as a
student, was an all-conference half
back. He earned a B.S. at Wake
Forest University and his M. Ed.
from UNC-CH. After teaching
physical education at UNC-CH,
Miss Yarborough has also joined
the department Her credentials in
clude a B.S. from Winthrop Col
lege and an M.A. T. from UNC.
Dr William Peacock has taken
over the duties of physical eduction
consultant after 30 years of service
to UNC-CH. His tasks include the
improvement of the physical edu
cation major program and the pro
motion of physical education
among students.
Mrs. Harriet Barnhart has come
to Elon to coordinate the Medical
Technology Program. She received
herM.T. from Duke University and
has amassed experience in her field
at various institutions.
In the role of a part time in
structor in psychology, Mrs. Janet
Jones has come to Elon.
The Art. Department has added
Leonard Miller to its staff Most
recently, Mr. Miller has been a
medical illustrator for the Bow
man-Gray School of Medicine and
a division chairman and teacher at
the Technical Institute of
Alamance.
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