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Pendulum
Volume XX, Number 17
Informing the Elon College Community
March
School names four finalists
for office of vice president
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Past and present Pendulum staH memlsers and advisers pose for a
photo before Friday's forum. (From left to right) Bottom row. Patsy
Lynch, Kelly Potter, Dot Hale. Mary Ellen Priestley (first adviser).
Second row: Deborah Durkee. Mindy Schneeberger. Patsy Lynch.
Fred Young. Third row: Mari Straub, Joy Washburn. Ehck Gill, Frank
Isley, Brad Hamm. Fourth row: Bob Nowell, DeeDee Carowan. Penny
Rtcco, Murray Glen. Joey Senat and Scott Wood. See Page 10
SGA's "6-month clause"
axed from constitution
Amy Logerwell
Asst. Managing Editor
A Loyola University dean and
a University of Hartford adminis
trator are among the top candidates
for Elon’s vice president for Aca
demic Affairs
The interim vice president of
Elon College and a Simpson Col
lege vice president are the other
two finalists.
Provost Gerald Francis an
nounced the candidates at the fac
ulty meeting last Friday
From March 12 to 24, each
candidate will have two days on
campus to meet faculty and stu
dents.
President Fred Young will se
lect the top candidate
Francis said he expects the new
vice president to start m June
The vice presideniial sloi
opened Iasi spring after Francis was
promoted to provost
A nationwide search netied
more than 100 applications for the
job A committee narrowed a tield
of SIX candidates to four last week
One of the candidates report
edly will be out of his current job in
May
Last December, Richard Ber
nard was promoted Ironi dean ol
Academics to vice president of
Academic Affairs at Simpson Col
lege in Iowa
Bernard said Tuesday that his
new job “made my work load less '
His contract expires in May,
according to The Simpsonian, the
student newspaper at Simpson Col
lege
Bernard, also a history proles
sor, was hired by Simpson College
in IW.^
Simpson College is a l.2(X)-
student liberal arts school in
Indianola. Iowa
Bernard said he applied lor the
Elon job because he was liMiking
(or aquality instiiution in the South
•'Elon s best days seem to be
ahead," Bernard said ■’They have
made progress, but ibere is still
more to be made "
He earned his master >- Irom
Wake Forest University and his
doctorate from Auburn University
He was a department head and
co-direcliir ol Urban AIKiitn ai
Auburn from l*)K4-KK He w,i>. a
vice president for Ac.idemic AI
lairs at Bethany College in West
Virginia from 19X9-^^'
He will be ai Elon March 12-
14
See Finulisis, Page
Stacey Ward
Staff Reporter
A controversial "six-month
clause" has been dropped from the
posed SGA Constitution.
SGA senators last Thursday
ted against requiring candidates
for SGA executive office to have
first served as Student Government
^jikssociation senators for at least six
f months.
College officials who had ana-
; lyzed the proposed constitution
|Wled the clause "needless discrimi-
Mtion,” “undemocratic” and "un-
'fair.”
The clause got an equally un
favorable reception last week at a
student forum. SGA President Larry
Williamshadcalled it “ridiculous."
“It really contradicts every
thing we're trying to do." Williams
said Tuesday.
The "six-month clause" was
one of several proposed changes to
the SGA Constitution. SGA sena
tors have been rewriting the consti
tution since last year.
Senators are scheduled to fin
ish revising the constitution and
vote on it tonight at 5:15 p.m. in
Alamance 302. The new
See SGA, Page 4.
Elon forces furniture store to close
Erick Gill
Editor In Chief
An 83-year-old business man
said Elon College is forcing him
to close the town’s oldest store.
After 35 years of service.
Haynes Furniture Co. on
Williamson Avenue will be closed
in May because college officials
chose not to renew its lease, said
owner James Haynes.
"They didn’t give me much
of a choice,” Haynes said Tuesday
afternoon. "I don’t want to quit
work.”
This will be the second time
in a year that the college has shut
down a local business. Last year
the college bought the 41-year-
old Wilburn’s Tire and Auto Cen
ter at the comer of Williamson
and Haggard Avenues, which was
the town’s oldest business.
Haynes said that about two
weeks ago he received a letter
k
L
Haynes Furniture Co. owner James
hang up his business.
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Haynes said he's not ready to
from Elon College, which leases
the building to Haynes, stating that
he had to move out when his lease
is finished in May.
Haynes said that no one from
the college told him in person that
the school wasn’t going lo renew
his lease.
James’ sister, Mackie Haynes,
who has helped run the store for
the 10 years, said that she isn't
happy with the way college offi
cials handled the situation.
“(Jim Johnson) called us on
the phone,” Mackie said. "He
couldn’t even walk next door and
tell us in person.”
See Haynes, Page 5