Pendulum
Volume XX. Numher 21
f „ cpaf 1 Faculty/Student Representation
Faculty ask for non-voting seai |
on Trustee Boards
on Elon’s Board of Trustees I
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Amy Logerwell
Asst. Managing Editor
Elon faculty want a voice on
the college’s Board of Trustees.
And if faculty get a seal on the
board, students want representa
tion, too.
Administrators and trustees
interviewed this week said they
want more information and time
to discuss the idea of having a
faculty member on the board.
"Most of the faculty are very
liberal, and we think of the board
being rather conservative,” said
Trustee Ernest Koury. "1 don’t
know if it’s good to express both
ideas.” .
President Fred Young said he
plans to bring the recommenda
tion to the board.
“1 vt/ill see that it gets to them,
but 1 don’t know how it will be
received," Young said.
Of 13 private, four-year North
Carolina colleges and universities
with enrollments between 1,000 and
5,000, 11 have faculty and/or stu
dent representation on their trustee
boards.
At the faculty meeting last Fri
day, Elon’s faculty approved ask
ing the trustees for a non-voting
seat on the board.
The proposal came from the
Faculty Governance Committee, a
subcommittee of the Academic
Council
English professor Anne
Cassebaum, a member of the com
mittee, said having a faculty mem
ber on the board would help com
munication between faculty and
trustees.
She would like to see faculty
have a stronger role in acadcmic
decisions.
"I have seen it work before,
and 1 was just used to it In my past
experience, faculty on the board
has worked very well," Cassebaum
said.
Under the proposal, the (ac
uity representative would be elected
by the faculty
"This recommendation is in
the spmt of Elon V ision which seeks
to strengthen the academic programy
of the college With faculty repre
sentation on the full Board, addi
tional information abtiut the aca
demic program of the college would
be available to Board members in
their deliberations," the proposal
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Application deadline for SGA approaching
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Stacey Ward
Staff Reporter
Elections for all Student Gov
ernment Association positions are
scheduled to be held on April 25
and 26 in the Moseley Center.
Deadline for applications for
SGA executive positions and class
officers and senators is Tuesday.
Applications for Academic
Council senators are due next
Thursday
If a position does not receive
any applicants, the deadline will be
extended to April 21. said SGA
President Larry Williams.
Students will vote on repre
sentatives for the At Large Council
and Academic Council
The At Large Council will have
27 senators representing the aca
demic classes.
The Academic Council will
have eight senators representing
academic majors: fine arts/humani-
ties/ communications, two; educa-
tion/HPHL, two; math/science.one.
stKial sciences, two.
Senators Iik the Organi/.ation
Council will be choscn by campus
organiAations.
Organizations should have
their represcntativeschosenby May
2. said SGA Sen Kelley Parker
Organi/.ation Council senators
would be sworn in with the otlier
senators and officers on May 4
See Kleclions, Page 4
Thursday ^
SGA budget hearings continue through Friday
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Staff Reporter
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SGA budget hearings began
Monday and will continue through
Friday The SGA Budget Commit
tee IS scheduled to discuss the bud
get proposals Tuesday
The Student Government As-
sx;iaiion Senate will then vote on
the budeet next Thursdav
Last spring. SGA officials had
abiui $3(X),0()0 to allot for this
school year
SGA officials were waiting this
past Tuesday to hear how much
they had to allot for the l‘W5-*^6
budget.
A committee of seven mem
bers presides over each bearing
Memt>ers of the ccimmittcc
were chosen by Budget Committee
Chairman Zuni Johnson ITk com
mittcc IS made up of tlie four execu
tive officers, an adviser, and Stu
dent Government Senators. Corn
mitiee members should be non-bi
ased. Johnson said
Class treasurers were the Itrst
senators t iinsidcrird. said Johnson
Due lo ■ Ik-iIuIc Lonnicf be went
to the entire SGA Scnale and the
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