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Editorials November 10,1994 2 Viewpoint Some students said they were shocked last week because The Pendulum ran an article on the front page about a student being raped. (And yes, Elon College Police Chief Dan Ingle said it was a rape.) Well I'm shocked that this sort of thing could happen on this liny campus before 8 p.m. And this past weekend, five people were attacked in West dorm. I suppose students don’t think that should be on the front page either. Why don’t students want to know about these sorts of things? I know these are not pleasant, but 1 would rather inform the community about it than have to run a different article about another assault Ihe following week. Just because it was Homecoming weekend doesn’t mean ihe articles shouldn’t have been lop priority. Students have night classes and I wouldn’t want them lo slroll across campus thinking tlial nothing bad can happen lo tlicni. It seems this year there have been more attacks and assaults on students than in the past. Three students, including the rape, have been attacked Individually. And five students were assaulted as a group. What does Ihe college plan to do aboul ihis? And what do students plan to do? The college needs to decide whetlier or noi it needs to hire more security officers, or make the move to a campus police force, or add more lights on campus, or all of the above. The students need to lake an active role in preventing these attacks. Students shouldn’t walk alone, even at 7 p.m. Students should consider taking a self-defense class or carrying a personal safety device (mace, pepper gas or an alarm). Students should also lake advantage of the Campus Security programs. The escort scrvice will be more than willing to walk students across campus. The phone number for the escort service is 584-2407. Safe Rides also offers free rides to students Thursday through Saturday 10:30 p.m. lo 2 a.m. The number for Safe Rides is 539-3999. Off The Record "All the stories that you read. Don't know what to believe. And everything that you see. Don't you see what you need." - Sugar "What You Want It to Be" THE Pendulum Informing the Elon College Community Kdilor Erick Gill Manuping Editor Koh Mancuso Aiisislanl Managing liditor Amy Loycrweil A & t Editor Christy Earnhardi Sporl^s Editor April Perkin.s Opinion Editor Scoil Miller Photo Editor Tonya Hubart Advertising Michciic Riley Adviser Joey Scnai Senior Kcporler Mary Kelli Birdies Reporters Hcaiher Anderson Shannon Pruier Andrea Sehtnidl Jon Cantphell JelT Winck Stacey Ward Sports Reporters Chuck Walker Ciiiuinie Jeff Dunlop Colleen Herndon A & E Reporter Chris Adams Marne Blake Illustrator Brian Corrado Graphic artist Siacy Kuninter Noel McKenzie The Pendulum, founded in 1974, is published by Elon students. Single copies of The Pendulum are free. If extra copies are needed, they can be purchased at The Pendulum office. Office: 102 Lebanon Ave., Elon College, N.C., 27244. 584-2331. Fighting the truth: the Elon way What if you were in a forest, fell down, you died, and no one were around to hear you? OK, so I screwed up the analogy a littie bit but the question remains the same. Let’s say that something horrible happened to any one of you reading this. Would anyone care? Of course, your family would always remem ber you. Faculty members at Elon who stay here for several years would remember you as a name. (“God, what a shame what hap pened to that SnufHeupigas kid back in *78”) Your friends would miss you. Bui in 50 years, when they are looking at the yearbook (making the assumption that there is one) preparing for the reunion, would there be a catch in iheir throat. Would they say. “Wow, If he/she had been around, things would have been so much better for me and the world?” Maybe for one or two of your closer friends, and of course your fraternity brothers, but not many others. In this respect, faculty have a huge advantage over the students. Each individual professor has the ability to effect a bunch of people every semester. If a professor has three classes she can have a direct effect on as many as 90 or a 100 students a semester. Most faculty that I have had the experience of working with try to make that effort. Here at Elon, students seem to fight those efforts Scott Miller tooth and nail. I had a lest in one of my Tue./ Thurs. classes last week. The pro fessor had assigned reading for the next Tuesday’s class the Tuesday before the test. Needless lo say, no more than four out of thirty stu dents did it. During and before the class, my colleagues had the nerve to be upset at the professor for not getting the tests done! We had a week to get the reading done. The professor had 4 days to grade the tests. But still, students muttered under their breaths about the test not being done the very nexi class. (A few were even stupid enough lo make oven comments to the professor.) Is this atlilude prevalent at Elon? If so, I owe an incredible apology 10 ihe faculty members for my edi torial of a few weeks back. It ap pears that no matter how hard they work, push, cajole or swear at us to miprove ourselves we sit and do not respond. Most of the lime. I’m jusi as guilty. Why don’t we want to know? It’s much more comfortabJe to watch Melrose, Models Inc. or Beverly Hills 90102 then work the gray matter. Last week, the SGA president chastised the newspaper for not giving any-one any credit. Do we deserve credit? Sure, the school's cumulative average is 2.73 or whatever, but why isn’t it 2.8? And if you have a 3.2 and you arc saying, “Well, it’s the morons who have a 1.58 that are holding us back.” Don’t. It’s your fault that you are satisfied with a 3.2. Everyone that has gotten into this college is with it menially enough 10 strive for perfection. It is our obligation to make sure that when a professor is lost for whatever rea son, that it reverberates through ihe college because of the way that each and every professor, no mat ter how boring, was able lo “moti vate” their students. Wiihin the next few months, we should be starling conversations amongst faculty members. Jane fac ulty, “How do you get students lo work so hard for you?” Joe faculty, “1 was just going to ask you the same thing!” (i.e. We motivate our selves. Could we handle such a concept?) I, certainly, am ihe farthest from perfect of anyone at this college. However. I recognize thal and am attempting to change it. Are you? Editor’sNote: Ifyousaid."God, whai an idioi. it’s Beverly Hills 90210,” a few paragraphs up, it just goes to prove my point.” Debunking the overpopulation myth Marc Fox Guest Columnis! resources diminishing, simply can- children yourself, there's a 66 per- Last week JeffSiaub offered his solution to the “problem” of popu lation explosion: a two-child cap on family size needs to be put inio law, he proposed. Let’s first con sider the "problem,” and then take a look at Staub’s solution. The FACT is. you could take ihc whole population of the globe and give each person a l.OCX) square- foot house to live in. every man. woman and child on the planet, and thal would lake up (you ready for this?)—Nebraska, Kansas, and pan of South Dakota (for ihose who like iheir winters cold)! Thai’s right! And it would leave the rest of the United Stales, Canada. Mexico, South and Central America. Europe, Asia and the Australian/ South Pacific areas for food production, amusement parks, whatever — 99.7 perccni of the land area of the earth, all empty. And the related problem you spoke of, supply of viial natyral not be substantiated with facts. The fact is. each shortage in our history has been a molivauon to creaie a new product from existing and over looked sources. U was George Washington Carver who saw the devastation of the cotlon crop on Alabama as an opporlunity lo test other crops. That “experiment’ led lo a newcash crop, the peanut, and over 350 new pea- nul-based products! New sources for food and fuel are being discov ered every day. I wonder, though, how many of the 55 million babies that the world has considered expendable and has aborted in the last 10 years would have been destined lo discover amazing new sources of food and energy? If you are inieresied in more, read “The Birth Dearth,” by Ben Wallenberg, “Men and Mar riage.” by George Gilder, and “A Full Quiver,” by Rick and Jan Hess. It’s ironic that your “solution” lo the mythical problem of over-popu- laiion would be two-child family, Mr. Stauh. Since you arc one of six y cent chancc thal you just elimi nated yourself from existence! The world is facing a lot of seri ous problems these days. Mr. Staub. bui I assure you, children are not to blame. The same people who are so quick lo suggest abortion as a solu tion to ihe world’s ills were out raged at the action taken by a mother last week as she sent her two sons lo a waiery grave in Union, S.C. Is there really any difference? Should we really be incensed at such a tragedy and not feel the slightest twinge of regret for the 1.5 million children slaughtered in abortion mills in this country every day? The overpopulation myth has a full throttle stranglehold on many, and I shudder to think of where it will lead is unless we change our course. As Mark Twain said once, figures don’t lie, but liars figure. And wrong facts lead to wrong conclusions which lead to wrong aciions. In this case, the stakes are high, for ihc lives of millions hang in the balance. May God help us come to our senses!
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