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October 14, 1974 The Pendulum “aKe I'hrve President Young reflects on The Pendulum A look at technology President Fred Young in 1975 Photo Courtesy of Phi Psi Cli by Mary Kelli Bridges Since 1974, The Pendulum has had a “seriousness” and “whole- somcness” in its purpose, the col lege president said. Elon College President Fred Young had been at the college for two years when the first adviser. Mary Ellen Priestley approached him with an “industrious" plan. The college had 2,175 students and offered 26 majors, compared to about.3,400 students and 41 majors in 1994. What the college didn’t have was a newspaper. There was a “history of a good college newspaper” called the Ma roon Gold, Young said. How ever, when the newspaper folded the few attempts at forming an other newspaper failed. Priestley told Young about her plan for a communications depart ment, a media board and a newspa per. Though all Priestley's visions weren’t immediately implemented. The Pendulum was first published Oct. 14, 1974. "The Student Government (As sociation) and 1 both saw the im portance of the newspaper being independent,” Young said. So the Media Board was established to insure responsibility and protect the freedom of the press, Young said. Young said though none of the issues of 1974 stand out in his mind. Priestley’s hard work couldn't be forgotten. Young said he remembered The Pendulum staff trying to get another piece of equipment and Priestley, their adviser, “would work and work and work." Over the years. The Pendulum has become more professional with the addition of the communication department. Young said. “The Pendulum is my primary source of news,” Young said. The Pendulum was alone ume influenced heavily by the SGA and was the “voice piece of the student government," but times have changed. Young said. The Pendulum Is "more inde pendent and much more aggres sive in seeking the news and re porting," Young said. From the start, the staff of The Pendulum has always been objec tive and “student reporters behave like professional reporters whojust want the news," Young said. Back in '74 Comm. Board Names Editors, FM Manager by Ray Mason The Board of Student Com munications has named three stu dents to top managerial positions. New co-editors of the college news paper are Patsy Lynch and Debbie Cochran. Bob Hurst, Jr. Is to be manager of the proposed campus radio station. The new radio station will be a non-commercial educational FM station with a five to seven-mile radius depending on terrain and the height of the antenna. The station tentatively will be located In the Harper Center with a ten-watt trans mitter. Hurst slated that the purpose of the station is to inform, entertain and promote educational programs geared to Elon College but of inter est to the community. The major objective of the station Is to help break the communication barrier on campus. The staff is composed of approximately fifty-five people, consisting of a station manger, di rectors of news, music and pro gramming, and disc jockeys. The Student Government As sociation funded station is governed by the Federal Communications Commission. Due to the paper work Involved In establishing a ra dio station, WELN does not plan to operate until the spring semester when final approval comes from Washington. Hurst said that the station will operate from noon to midnight with straight music. There will be pub lic service announcements, Inter views and news of interest to the students. WELN will bejocated between 88.1 and 92.1 on the FM dial. I Photo Courtesy of Archives Communications professor Gerald Gibson sitting in on WELN. -Priestley- (Continued from page 1) Priestley said that even though she helped the staff with the pro duction of the paper, she didn't act as a censor. “I saw all copy,” she said. “It was all nght with me to ague against faculty. 1 wanted them to learn that it was a newspaper, not a press release organ.” The small staff started in a room in Long Student Center with one typewriter, one art table, a T- scuare and a place to keep typing paper, Priestley said. “I wanted to get a computer for the staff,” she said. “It was a Compugraphic for about $500, but the college wouldn't allow it. It was too much money. The school thought I was asking for too much.” Not only did a newspaper come from of the ideas of Cochran, Lynch and Priestley, but the basis of the communications department was started that year. “(The college) came to me and said make a class out of It (The Pendulum), Priestley said. “We started with two classes: one did news and,the other was a 'grab bag' with features and editorials." “I taught English, that's what I was hired to do, but It was very exciting to work with students and see such an interest and develop ment in journalism,” Priestley said. “I enjoyed It very much," she said. “Sometimes the students were there (at the newspaper office) til midnight working and I told them that was part of the fun of it. They got Involved and didn't stop until it was done.” It's good to know, some things never change. 1974 -1994 by Rob Mancusu You can never have enough technology. That one statement can pretty much sum up the di lemma The Pendulum has faced for the last 20 years. When the-paper was started all the staff used was one type writer and one art table, and that wasn't enough. T wenty years later we have seven Macintoshes and two laser printers and that still isn't enough With technology constantly changing and when a purchase becomes outdated within two months after buying it, it's almost impossible to keep up with any thing "state-of-the-art." For example, this year we started scanning in our photo graphs so we can place, size, and crop all of them right in our desk- top publishing software. We thought that was as “state-of-the- art” as you can get. But, now technology allows you to scan a picture in from a negative, which cuts darkroom in half. The days of cutting and past ing are gone thanks to desktop publishing software like PageMaker Before computer pagination, we would print the story, wax it, and place it on the page. The computers were used primaraly as entry terminals for stories. Now, after moving all of the sections over to PageMaker, the computers are constantly tied up. We have four section editors fight ing for only two computers that are capable of running the desktop publishing software. After realizing that typewrit ers weren’t working, Mary Ellen Priestley approached the school and asked for $500 to purchase a Compugraphic photo-typesetter. The school thought $500 was an outrageous price and declined the request. Some things never change. We now purchase $1,500 Macintosh computers and the school' thinks the price is outra geous. »' Fred Young: president—president ✓ Gerald Francis: assistant professor of mathematics—provost. ✓ Jo. W. Williams; associate professor of education—vice president of development. v' George Troxler: associate professor of history—director of cultural events, professor of history. ✓ Alan White: associate professor of physical education—athletic director. ✓ Jerry Tolley: assistant professor of physical education, tennis coach, special assistant dean of students—mayor of the Town of Elon College.
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