THE
Pendulum
Volume XXI, Number-^^^
Informing the Elon College Community
March 28,1996
INSIDE
EDITORIALS/
LETTERS
pages 2-3
NEWS
New cartoonist ads a new
sense of humor
page 4
Easter Eggstravaganza!!
pages
New students visit Elon
page 5
Opening doors to a healthy
and happy relationship
pages
A&E
A history of one of Elon’s
favorite bands :Dakotta
page 6
Renowned poet
Nikki Giovanni speaks,
reads poetry in AVhitley
page?
SPORTS
Lacrosse beats
the Tar Heels!
(No, really!)
page 11
Super K's for super kids!
page 11
Baseball team swingin’
for SAC title.
page 12
Budget’s
one of the
topics
dicussed
at meeting
T\iition and student/
faculty representation
were also major issues
Michelle Cater
Letter's Editor
The Board of Trustees held
their annual spring meeting on
March 13. Several major decisions
were voted on at the meeting, in
cluding faculty and student repre
sentation on the Board of Trustees
and next year’s budget and tuition.
The Board of Trustees has been
looking at broadening the input the
different constituencies at Elon have
on the Board’s decisions. The four
constituencies are students, faculty,
parents and alumni. Parents and
alumni had ex officio, or non-vot
ing, membership on the board while
faculty and students had no repre
sentation. This, however, was
changed at the meeting.
Now all four groups have equal
representation. However, none of
them have actual membership on
the Board. ,
The Elon College faculty, Stu
dent Government Association, Par
ents Association and Alumni Asso
ciation are all responsible for ap
pointing members to serve on the
standing committees of the Board
and to sit in on the actual Board
meetings. These representatives
would not actually have a vote, but
would be there as guests of the
Board.
Members of the faculty and
students will sit on the Campus Life
Committee, the Development Com
mittee and the Educational Affairs
Committee.
This is a big step for the Board
because previously no members of
the Elon College staff were repre
sented on the Board.
Pat Kinney, the director of col
lege relations, said, “I think there is
See board, page 4
Jewish organization
invites all to Seder
Jodi Pearlman
Staff Reporter
Passover, the first of the ma
jor Jewish festivals mentioned in
the Bible, is observed and cel
ebrated by more Jews than any
other holiday in the Jewish calen
dar.
Passover celebrates the escape
of the Children of Israel from the
Egyptian “house of bondage,” and
it serves to remind us of the impor
tance of continuing the battle for
the freedom in every generation.
Added to this basic spiritual
concept, the pageantry and the spe
cial foods connected with Passover
have made it unique among holi
days.
Originally, Passover was two
separate holidays. One was an ag
ricultural holiday called “Chag
Hamatzot,” which means the “Fes
tival of Unleavened Bread.” The
other was a pastoral holiday called
“Chag Hapesach,” which means
“Festival of the Paschcal Lamb.”
See Passover, page 4
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Nev\r dining additions indude a coffee shop
Michelle Cater
Letter's Editor
Renovations in McEwen Din
ing Hall and the addition of a cof
fee house to the Elon College cam
pus were approved by the Board of
Trustees on Wed., March 13.
The renovations on the 40-
year old McEwen, which will cost
an estimated $1.1 million dollars,
will begin this summer.
McEwen will receive a whole
new look. Gerald Whittington, the
vice president of business and fi
nance, said that they are currently
looking into getting a national pizza
chain, .such as Pizza Hut or Little
Ceasers, on the first floor.
They are also planning on add
ing a small convenient store. Stu
dents will have the choice of pur
chasing their food by retail or using
their meal plan to get the “Special
of the Day.”
The second floor of McEwen
will feature a food court similar the
one in Harden Dining Hall.
The four stations will have ori
ental foods, a traditional cafeteria
meal, a pasta station and a specialty
salad bar. The meals will be all-
you-can-eat and will be a part of the
meal plan.
The coffee house will be lo
cated on Williamson Avenue, next
to NationsBank. It will serve cof
fee, bakery goods and deli items.
Whittington said that they also
hoped to include occasional evening
entertainment such as singers and
poets to add to the coffee shop
atmosphere.