September 12,1996
Editorials
Viewpoint
Elon has its Heroes
This paper is filled with stories about,Hurricane Fran.
This is not exactly an “article” about Fran, but it is meant to
inform.
When disaster strikes, many things happen. Grocery
stores make tons of money. People flock there to buy milk,
bread, drinking water, batteries, flashlights, candles, etc...
On the same note, restaurants (and once again, grocery
stores) who survive the disaster profit as well. People without
power long for a hot meal.
The best thing that comes out of a situation like Fran is
the kinship between strangers. Even though it's tragic, heroes
are bom.
A hero can be someone who saves a life or helps pick up
the pieces. Some Elon students were heroes this p^t week
end.
There were volunteers helping Elon staff clean up the
broken branches and the toppled trees.
It makes people feel good inside to know that **Genera-^
tion X,” which every college student is part of, can put^ide
petty differences and beliefs to help one another (and others)
in a time of need.
It’s not often that these people, no matter how small they
believed the task to be, are commended.
It’s important to remember that by helping others people
can help themselves. Their kindness will be remem^red
when they need help. It’s not hard to remember, really.
THE
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Pendulum
Informing the Elon College Community
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Smells Like Team Spirit
Tracey Stark
Managing Editor
“We got spirit, yes we do. We
got spirit, how ‘bout you?” Andrea
Stoffer wrote in her August 29 let
ter to the editor. Andrea had a good
point, and so I would like to add my
own two cents (because it’s what I
do):
“WE GOT SPIRIT, YES WE
DO, DAMNIT!” (Silence)
Apparently nobody is yelling
back. This is the state of things at
Elon athletic contests. Be it soccer,
football or baseball, you’ll find
more parents and faculty than stu
dent fans.
Parents of players count as sup
port for their kids, but they can’t
properly represent the whole
school.
No, in order to do that you
must have many, perhaps dozens
of students at these games yelling
at the team to “Go! Fight! Win! Kill
that guy! Take his head off!” (And
that’s just baseball!)
At other schools you will find
fans who, after getting “un-inhib-
ited” if you get my drift, will strip
off most of their clothes and paint
their school colors on themselves
in indelible ink.
For up to a week after the game
(win or lose) these students can be
seen with shaved heads and full-
body temporary tattoos of a Blue-
Devil or a Tarheel (a small, homed.
mythical creature).
At Elon, the average fan shows
up at the game in a pair of shorts, a
T-shirt (usually Notre Dame or
Michigan), a baseball cap (da’
Bulls) and a ready-to-lose attitude.
I think the school should spend
time recruiting at high school bas
ketball and football games to find
the rowdiest, face-paintedest, loud
est fans and offer them a full schol
arship to Elon if they promise to go
to a few athletic contests each week.
This would come with the con
dition that they had to be hoarse by
the end of each game and they had
to produce a sufficient amount of
sweat to prove they did their job.
In the last few years there have
been a group of rowdies at basket
ball games who were dubbed the
“Koury Krazies.” They were loud
and dismptive to the other team.
Foul shots were missed. Cheap
shots were taken. Refs insulted. It
makes me proud to know that I am
a student at Elon.
But this year is different. It has
a different flavor already. I know
we’ve only had one football game
so far. And it was upwards of 120
degrees outside with 200 percent
humidity. But is that really an
excuse? Did the cheerleaders leave
at halftiine? No. Did the football
team leave at halftime? Maybe, but
that’s not the point.
I spoke to several people at the
game last weekend and asked all of
them to sing the school fight song.
Out of the 347 people I asked, (OK,
out of nine) only one knew the song
and was willing to humiliate her
self on videotape (available in the
campus shop). This courageous
individual was the cheerleading
coach, Susan Shirley, who I prom
ised not to embarrass.
Is this old song important to
show spirit? No, but it sure is fun to
watch people sing.
Here are my suggestions to
Elon students:
First, go to the SGA-sponsored
tailgating before home games. Strip
yourself of your inhibitions. Lather
up your friends and shave each
other’s head and chest.
Next, get some heavy-duty
outdoor paint at Home Depot in
maroon and gold and make each
other look like Satan’s minions.
And finally, go to the game,
proud to be wearing your school’s
colors and possibly causing serious
damage to your skin in the process.
This is the only way to bring us
the glory that other schools are
proud to bask in. Let’s raise a beer
to Elon...and pass the turpentine.
The next home football game is on
Saturday night, 7 p.m., atBurlington
Memorial Stadium. Be there!!
(Body-paint not provided.)
e-me: start4s0@numen.elon.edu
This Week:
Hurricane Fran
What did you think about Hurricane Fran?
Brian Skeen, freshman:
blew.”
‘It
Carol Passaro, junior: “I didn’t
really think much of it...until I saw
the damage it did.”
Stephen Davis, sophomore: “It
wasn’t a hurricane, it was a
nor’easter.”
Liz Tuttle and Alicia Carroll,
freshmen: “We were scared be
cause a tree fell outside our win
dow.”
Todd Grassi, sophomore:
“The mudslides were great.
Playing in them was a great stress
reliever.’
Heather Cornell, sophomore:
“I thought it brought about a reac
tion much like that of a snowstorm
in the north.”
Compiled by Michelle Cater
Sallie Lowrance, freshman:
“I’m used to hurricanes because I
live in North Carolina.”
Jeff Buntin, freshman: “It was
great. It was fun. The no classes on
Friday was good.”