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Vice President candidates
to be announced Friday
March 2. I*)**-*?
Amy Logerweil
Asst. Managing Editor
The Academic Vice President Scarch
! Committee is narrowing down candidates
for the vacant position and hopes to release
the names at the faculty meeting Friday,
j Provost Gerald Francis said Tuesday.
The position was opened last April when
Francis, former vice presidenl, was promoted
to provost of Elon College.
1 Clair Myers, dean of Academic Affairs,
, ha.s been acting as interim vice presidenl
while a national scarch has been conducted.
The finalists will come to Elon’s cam-
j pus sometime between March 9 and 24, said
I*lean Schwind, English professor and com-
|| mittee member.
Francis said more than 100 applications
[ were accepted.
I The committee, which included faculty
isnd staff, began the search in September.
“This is an extremely important job to
fill so the search as been thorough,’ Schwind
said.
Feb. 19 and 20, the committee inter
viewed six candidates at the Piedmont-Triad
Internaiional Airport. Schwind said.
She said the committee hop'S to have
three or four candidates to chfK)sc from.
The candidates will be interviewed by
faculty and stafl of different departments on
campus
President Fred Young will make the
final decision.
Francis, chairman of the committee,
Tuesday declined to give specifics about the
candidates until Friday. He also told the
other committee members not to discuss the
candidates publicly.
The other ten members of the committee
are Thomas Henricks. Janie Brown, Don
Grady, Nancy Harris, William Hightower,
SmithJackson,Terri Kjrchen.Calven Buck
McGregor, Mike Sanford, and Schwind
Former student involved
in fatal car accident
Erick Gill
Editor in Chief
Fonner Elon student Floyd
larrett of Windsor, N.C.. died
Friday after being in an automo-
fbile accident last Thursday.
Barrett, who would have been
I senior this year, was a student at
aon from the fall of 1991 through
the summer of 1994. However,
Khool officials wouldn’t give in
formation as to why he left the
college.
The Windsor Police Depart
ment and Highway Patrol did not
return phone calls Tuesday night.
Amemorial service for Barrett
[will be held at the Elon College
[Conununity Church at 9:15 a.m.
iday.
While at Elon, Barrett was
'Evolved with several student ac
tivities.
He was the “guiding force”
behindElon’s College Bowl Team
defeat of Duke University a couple
of years ago.
“Duke didn’t easily recover
from that,” said Chalmers
Brumbaugh, assistant professor of
political science and College Bowl
adviser.
Barrett was a member of the
College Bowl for two years.
“When he was on, he was a
real good player,” Brumbaugh said
about Floyd. “He knew an awful lot
of information. I’m not sure where
he got it from, but he could bnng it
up quickly. He was quite a player ”
The political science/public
administration major was also a
member of the Honors Program, as
well as being involved in the North
Carolina Student Legislature, the
Floyd Barrett
File Photo
Black Cultural Society (BCS)
Student Government Association
and Gospel Choir.
His first year at Elon, Barrett
served as president of the Black
Cultural Society and as a SGA
senator. Barrett was in the SGA
for two years. Last spnng, he ran
unsuccessfully for SGA presidenl
Barb H. Carlton, director of
Student Activities, said Barrett
See Barrett, Page 4.
Professors say constitution
doesn't include individuals
Stacey Ward
Staff Reporter
SGA’s proposed constitution
is weighted heavily in favor of or
ganizations rather than individual
students, said two political science
professors.
“It doesn’t include everybody.
The people left out will be upset.”
Laura Helvey, assistant professor
of political science, said last week
SGA senators tonight will con-
tinue picking apart proposed
changes to its constitution.
Last week. SGA senators spent
three hours revising about one and
a half pages of the eight page docu
ment
Student Government Assx:ia-
tion officials had hoped to revise
the constitution Ixsi Thursday and
ralifv It lonighi
SGA President I,arry Williams
said senators probably will ratify
the proposed constitution next
Thursday and send it to the student
bxJy for a vole March 13 and 14.
A forum for students to a.sk
questions and comment on the pro
posed constitution was scheduled
for last night.
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, repre
senting the academicclasscs, would
have 12 senators. The Organi/.a-
tion Council would have 14 sena
tors. The Academic Council, rep
resenting academic majors, would
have eight
Helvey said tier Comparative
Politics class tailed the proposed
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