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THE Pendulum Volume XXI, Number 13 Informing the Elon College Community February 1,1996 INSIDE EDTTORTATS/ LETTERS pages 2-3 NEWS Shooting in Gibsonville • page 6 African-American Leadership Conference page? Blizzard of'96 page 11 A&E Spring concert: Widespread Panic page 9 Q&A F. Lee Bailey page 10 SPORTS Soccer coach leaves... page 15 ...football coach arrives. page 16 Men's and Women's B-ball; slammin: page 15 Alcohol, high speed factors in crash ONE Woody Marshall/Times-News Shane McDermott (top) and Robert Lanham (lower) survived a crash which left the rear of this Mazda wrapped around a pole. Tracey Stark Managing Editor Last Thursday, at approx imately 10:45 p.m., Elon students Robert Lanham, 22, and Shane McDermott, 19, drove west into Gibsonville at speeds exceeding 90 mph slid into a utility pole and changed their lives forever. According to a police report, alcohol was a factor in the single car accident. Charges may be pending. The 1990 Mazda, driven by McDermott, was severed at the rear axle upon impact with the utility pole. The rear end remained wrapped around the pole, but the front end carrying Lanham and McDermott, continued down Burlington St. for another 330 feet, rolling and careening off an em bankment along the roadside. Before coming to a stop in front of 309 Burlington St., the passenger, Lanham, was thrown from the vehicle. Both Lanham and McDermott were wearing their seatbelts, but Lanham’s was ripped from the frame of the vehicle. Edith and Randy Apple were watching ER on television at the time of the accident, when Edith looked out the window and saw a car rolling through their yard. “My wife called 911. Then we went outside and put blankets over them and she took the pulse of the guy on the road,” Randy Apple said. Edith is a critical care nurse at Alamance Regional Medical Cen ter. The first ambulance arrived at 11:03 p.m. “The rescue units were super,” Randy Apple said. The sec ond unit arrived at 11:12. The Gibsonville Fire Depart ment arrived and cut the remainder of the vehicle's roof off to remove McDermott. His seatbelt was in tact and had to be cut from his body. A Life Flight helicopter landed in a vacant lot next door to the Apple’s house and the two were airlifted to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. (See Accident, page 4) SGA elections coming soon Stacey Ward Editor in Chief Student Government Associa tion elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday Feb. 27-28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the first floor of Moseley Cen-. ter. Petitions for elections are due by 5 p.m. Feb. 14. A manda tory meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The petitions can be picked up in the SGA office, 231 Moseley Center, on Wednesday Feb.7. Positions on the Executive staff, the At Large Council and the Academic Council are available. The Organization Council is scheduled to be chosen at a later date. An open house, for possible candidates is scheduled for Tues day Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. in 233 Moseley Center. New Security and Safety Director Named JeffWirick Asst, Managing Editor Charles Cantos, a retired AT&T manager who also has ex tensive emergency management ex perience, has been named director of security and safety at Elon and will start his new position today, according to an Elon College press release. He will oversee a staff of nine full-time employees as well as nu merous part-time student workers. As director, Cantos is respon sible for enforcement of campus security and safety regulations, ad ministration of motor vehicle reg istration and parking programs and inspection of college buildings. Cantos, who is in his 20th year as Mayor Pro-Tem and Alderman for The Town of Elon College (1976-1996), visited the campus for a day of interviews Jan., 19. Gantos worked for AT&T for 25 years leading projects, programs and business opportunities to suc cessful implementation. While working for AT&T, Gantos was responsible for the development and negotiation of contracts with inter national corporations, U.S. agen cies, foreign governments and AT&T Business Units. Prior to AT&T, Gantos served as captain in the U.S. Army Gen- Charles Gantos Photo Submitted eral Corps, and was commanding officer of the 28th Base Post Office in Europe, where he was for three and a half years. “This position (the security and safety position at Elon) has a lot of management aspects associ ated with it,” Gantos said. “If we know where we are going to be in five years from now, we can put the plans in place today and get there.” Gantos encourages student participation in the security de partment at Elon. “I strongly be lieve in team play. I will take responsibility for anything that happens, but we will function as a team,” Gantos said. Gantos is in favor of Elon’s possible conversion to an armed police force. “There are legal ad vantages, and they can provide a better safety environment for stu dents and faculty,” Gantos said, . The original four candidates who were interviewed on Elon’s campus by several panels of stu dents and faculty members are John J. Hackett Jr., director of pub lic safety at Babson College in (See Gantos,. Page 4.)
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