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THE Pendulum Volume XXI, Number 16 Informing the Elon College Community February 22,1996 INSIDE EDITORIALS/ LETTERS page 2-3 NEWS A preview of the upcom ing SGA elections! Everything you need to know about the candidates.. pages 4 and 5 A new Elon publication that will ATiVOCT your socks off pages Kids Korps USA adopted by Elon Volunteers! page 8 AM What would Eddie Vedder (of Pearl Jam) be doing if he wasn’t a popular rock star? Find out in On the Lighter Side. page 6 DieHardl st&Y comes to Elon • page? Warren reviews Avery’s My Generation page? SPORTS A Black History Month salute to a legend: Curt Flood page 11 The battle in the bubble! Jeff explains why the big conferences won't get their usual five bids in this year's NCAA tournament page 11 Baseball team off to its best start in years page 12 SGA elections begin Tuesday Stacey W^ard Editor in Chief Student Government Association elections get underway Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in McKinnon Hall. Candidates for SGA executive offices spoke on ECTV last Thursday night. They discussed their back grounds, qualifications and goals for the position they are seeking. Current SGA Pres. Michael Rodgers asked each candidate ques tions to enable voters to get to know them. Running for SGA executive president are Ward Culver, Jeffrey Keim and Brandon Scruggs. Running for SGA executive vice president are Matthew Belardi, David Murray, Matthew Plaster and Jennifer Pippin. Stacey Draper is running for SGA executive treasurer. Kelli'Palmer is running for SGA executive secre tary. The At Large Council has 12 people running for office. Iris Boutros and Kelley Parker are running for se nior class president. Robert Barry is running for senior class senator. C. Ashton Newhall is running for junior class president. Chad Bebout is running for junior class senator. Running for sophomore class president is Mark Richter. Running for sophomore class vice president are Riza Aquino and Ashley Hayes. Sherry Thornton is running for sophomore class secretary/treasurer. Running for sophomore class sena tors are Jennifer Wright, Andrea Henry and Kimberly Henry. Running for the Academic Council are Jennifer Neblett, com munications, and Jeffrey Swain, sci ence/math. There are 15 positions which will be open after elections. They are as follows: • senior class vice president • senior class secretary/trea surer • 2 senior class senators • junior class vice president •junior class secretary/treasurer • 2 junior class senators • 1 communications senator • 1 fine arts/humanities • 2 education/HPEL • 1 business • 2 social science Once elected, SGA senators and executive staff meet every Thurs day at 5:15 p.m. (location to be an nounced). They must attend all SGA sponsored activities. SGA starts new budgeting plan Stacey Ward Editor in Chief Student Government Associa tion budget hearings are scheduled to begin March 4 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Budget hearings are scheduled to take place March 4, 5, 8 and 11. They will be held in the Stovall Conference Room on second floor Moseley Center. Budget proposals are due March 1 by 5 p.m., said Dan Thomson, SGA executive treasurer. Each organization should have 10 copies of their proposal, Thomson said. The March 5 hearings are scheduled from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. On March 8, the hearings are scheduled from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. And on March 11, hearings are scheduled from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. There is a new budgeting sys tem, Under this new system, new organizations (those in service for one year) will get more consideration for allocation of money, Thomson said. Consideration is based on the number of students that the organiza tion reaches through its activities, Thomson said. ' Thomson urges new organiza tions to sign up on Monday because they will be looked at separately. He wants to make sure all orga nizations plan their budget for next year. He encourages them to use this year’s budget for reference. “Honesty is the best way to go,” Thomson said. Angie Siecker, sophomore, gives Carol Passaro, sophomore, a hug Sunday at Bid Circle. Passaro accepted a bid from Alpha XI Delta. Tonya Hubart/TTie Pendulum Media wants to 'focus on the issues' in N.C. political race JeffWirick Asst. Managing Editor Elon College will host inter view sessions for North Carolina political candidates, attempting to focus on the issues leading up to the May 7 primary election, said Chuck Clark, the Charlotte Obsetver’s government editor. Representatives from more than a. dozen news organizations will interview the nine candidates for governor and the U.S. Senate in Moseley 215 at Elon on Feb. 26-29. “It’s something that we’re happy to assist with,” said Pat Kinney, director of public relations. Kinney said that Elon was cho sen for the event because of its cen tral location. According to Clark, 1,000 people in the state were interviewed for their opinions of the most im portant issues concerning them and the state. Every candidate will dis cuss the top six issues of high inter est during a three-hour session at Elon. Two candidates a day wi 11 meet at Elon for the week-long event. “They (the media) will then take the material from the interviews and write issue pieces about the can didate during the election,” Kinney said. “Our goal is to make sure the people’s voices are heard,” Clark said. For six weeks, starting March 10, the participating newspapers will wyte stories covering the candidate’s opinions about each issue. The pur pose of these stories is to inform the voters about the candidates for the May 7 primary election, Clark said. The six issues will be an-- nounced Sunday. A similar process will occur for the fall election, Clark said. Students will not be allowed to watch the interview sessions in Mosley 215, Kinney said, because of the lack of room. Candidates running against Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt are Re publicans Richard Vinroot, Art Man ning, Robin Hayes and Ken Rogers. The people who have filed to run against Sen. Jesse Helms are Democrats Charlie Sanders, Ralph McKinney Jr. and Harvey Gantt. Clark said all nine of the candi dates should agree to the interview (See Media, page 4.)
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