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New VAX system will allow 400 users at one time. Jazz's "Master of Bebop" lets out air at Elon College. I Elon baseball team rallies in the 5th to earn first h'ih of the season. d RF.MINDKR: Mardi Gras ends Tuesday, so hit the road now! Volume XX, Number 15 Pendulum Informing the Elon College Community February 23,1995 Jon Campbell/The Pendulum Lending a Hand... I The International Relations Club and the Religious Life Commit tee collected money last week for families who were devastated by the earthquake that struck Kobe, Japan. Anyone wishing to make contributions should send them to Chaplain Richard McBride at Campus Box 2960. Flu bug bites late this year Erick Gill Editor in Chief i_ J The sounds of sniffles filled flhe R.N. Ellington Health Center .] Monday, while 15 students flipped |lhrough magazines and waited for ilreatment just before noon. Flu season has arrived at Elon College. “You never know when flu ^(fcason will start,” said Mary Jane f|Salter, director of Health Services. [£jisTyear it started earlier in the fyear. But now it is here around the [usual time.” Salter said January and Febru- «ry are prime months for the flu. She said the center treated an aver age of 85 students a day last month. ‘It’s the really cold part of the winter and people tend to congre gate together indoors,” Salter said. ; There has been an increase in patients at the health center and Sailer said the flu is a result of that. “We’ve seen a little more (flu patients) than usual but it’s not a I; fiill blown epidemic,” she said. “But it can become that. ‘We’ve been extremely busy," Salter said. “There is a wait, but when you pile them in, there’s gonna be a wait.” Sailer said about 14,000 people were seen at the health center last year. The best way to prevent the flu, Salter said, is to get a flu shot. However, it is too late in the year to take that precaution. “You have to get them four to six weeks in advance, so your im mune system can build up,” she said. “You have to take them in the fall” The health center sponsored several flu shots for students and faculty each fall. Sailer said that 800 people received vaccinations last semester, but “that’s not a drop in the bucket” considering there are about 3,400 people on campus. Even though the flu may .seem like a harmless virus, Salter said that it could lead to death. She said the aftermath of the flu could cause pneumonia or bronchitis. She said vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective, but “it makes sense to protect yourself.” See Flu, Page 4. Elon hosts 3-day conference on violence against women Gemma Cubero Reporter Elon College students, faculty and community have the chance to be part of the first Women’s Stud ies Conference held at Elon Col lege today, Friday and Saturday. The national conference titled “Violence and Violation in Women’s Lives: Myth, Metaphor and Reality” has captured the at tention of more than 35 colleges and universities around the coun- try. Elon College will be the meet ing point for more than 50 pre.sent- ers that include faculty and stu dents from an array of private col leges and public universities, as well as experts on sexual as.sault and domestic violence. The three-day conference is divided into 15 different sections, such as “Violence in African American Literature,” " Women. Violence and Religion- East and West" and "Rape, Romance and Media." among others. Participants will share thcir ideas through papers, roundtable discussions and addresses by speak ers sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum. Speakers such as former model Ann Simonton. founder of “Media Watch," and Stacey Kabat. co-foundcranddireciorofthc Acad emy Award wining documentary “Defending Our Lives," will be leading discussions. Seena Granowsky, professor of psychology and chair of the WomA’s Studies Department at Elon College, hopes the interna tional conference serves to create an open dialogue concerning is sues related to violence in women and men’s lives. “We cliose violence as the topic for the conference because it is interdisciplinary and timely,” Granowsky said. "Violence is present in any subject, whether lit erature, religion, philosophy, biol ogy or anthropology ” With the diversity of topics within the confcrencc. Granowsky hopes that Elon siudents will relate thcir majors to the symposium and involve themselves in the event "The iniernational conference on ’Violence and Violation in Women‘s Lives’ is a once in a lifetime experience." said Chandana Chakrabarti, assistant professor of religion at Elon Chakrabarti, who organi/.ed other conferences at Elon College suchas“Non-Violence: Theory Into Practicc." said that financial limi tations can be overcome "Money will follow," Chakrabarti .said. She believes that the force behind organizing a suc cessful conferciiic is human will and educational awareness Chakrabarti said people should be exciteu that Elon College can attract national attention. She said the conference should "have an im pact on the present and future gen erations of students to come.’’ SGA reviews constitution today Stacey Ward Staff Reporter SGA senators tonight will pick apart, line-by-line, proposed changes to the Student Govern ment Constitution. An open forum for students to comment on the constitution is scheduled for 8 p.m. next Wednes day in McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center. Enlarged copies of the pro posed constitution were scheduled to be on display on the first floor of the Moseley Center by today. As of Tuesday, the SGA was scheduled to vote on the proposed constitution next Thursday. The proposal would go to the student txxiy for approval on March 13 and 14. The Student Life Committee has been reviewing the proposal. Comments from the student-fac- ulty committee were scheduled to be in Dean of Student Affairs Smith Jackson's hands yesterday. "It is better than the old consti tution,” said SLC member Chris Fulkerson, directbr of the LaRose Resources Center. The SGA originally began re vising the constitution last year to make it politically correct, an SGA officer said last semester. Under the proposals now be ing offered up, the makeup of the SGA would change in several ways: ■ Student organizations would be represented in the Senate; ■ Students running for SGA executive offices would have to first serve in the senate for six months; ■ The overall number of senators would increase to S3 from 48, but the number of senators elected by each academic class (for example, the senior class) would decrca.se from eight to three. SGA senators will meet at S: 15 p.m. today in Alamance 302 to review the proposed constitu tion. Last Friday, the SGA’s Con stitution Committee presented the proposals to the Student Life Com mittee. Under the proposal, the SGA Senate would consist of an Aca demic Council, an Organi/ation Council and an At Large Council. The At Large Council would have 12 senators representing the See SGA, Page 4.
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