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THE Eendulvm INSIDE - S' \ ’ mmmmmiii 14-15 NEWS SGA briefs, eatin disorder survey. ' 6 £lon’s suicide rate lower than average? liiilBI^BlllSil..... SGA is holding a forum for, students to express ideas and opinions. - QScA with Bavid Blackman, director of : .residence life. ^ I Who*s who on Eton's Q& A with a Catholic priest wA 13 a®£ oi 10 i^wM^Pi^view. Peart Jam conceriVevievi^ pm !B1S «im mfiim Fo^ball not just close/ ^Ibut on the^inoncy| ‘ [ ■/ ■' S*J5 ■rri-jTSPtrrrrr-■.*?nnT^i■ 'fv'*^':rrr^ra^i IV^dness oh Friday nighu w..-.., Phone Stalker Terrorizes Staley Hall Jeff Wirick Asst. Managing Editor A telephone stalker that terror ized more than 20 females last weekend with prank calls prom ised not to continue his activities. At least that’s what he told Elon Chief of Security and Campus Po lice Joe Taylor. A man from Southern Florida, who called himself Mark, harassed females from Staley dorm and East Campus Apartments from Thurs day through Tuesday afternoon. Taylor estimated that Mark made about 100 phone calls over those six days. Campus Security and AT&T traced the call to a city in Southern Florida. Taylor wouldn’t say what city Mark called from. “I have talked to him myself,” he said. “The local police from his town have stopped by and talked with him and I believe the situation is now closed.” Taylor also ruled out the pos sibility of Mark calling from a cel lular phone at Elon with a Florida connection. “The gentleman assured me that this will not occur again,” Tay lor said. “And I advised him to get help.” News of the caller had Staley residents “on edge.” “It was even scary for people that didn’t get phone calls,” said see STALKER, page 8 Candidates Battle Over Funding For Education Betty Carroll People between the ages of 18 and 25 will be concentrating on the controversy surrounding financial aid and the many programs that could be changed, added or cut from the Federal Education Pro gram when they vote in the 1996 Presidential Election. Joel Speckard, director of fi nancial planning at Elon, said the government is trying to reduce stu dents’ reliance on student loans in 1997, and put more into student grants like they did in the 1970s. The government feels that students are starting to borrow too much money in order to attend college, he said. “Sixty percent of Elon’s stu dents receive some form of finan cial aid,” Speckard said. Jana Lynn Patterson, associate dean of students, said, 13 of the 91 students that withdrew during spring semester were due to finan cial reasons. President Clinton implemented a direct lending system, where the government pays out and collects loans, omitting banks completely. Presidential Candidate Bob Dole said he believes that the private banking system is better suited to dealing with student loans. Dole, along with other Repub licans, said he believes the federal government is ill-equipped to col lect repayment of these loans. He said he wants to reduce the Direct Lending Program by 66 percent if elected. The government is maintain ing both programs with identical interest rates right now. There would be no cost for colleges to i m p 1 e ment the Direct Lending Program. However, colleges would need more financial planning staff to deal with the result ing paper- work, Speckard said. 1 >«" ' p "**/''' - Andrew Brickey/T/?e Pendulum Doing the Macarena! Al Seagraves wins his first game as Elon Head Football Coach last Saturday when his Fightin' Christians came from behind to nip Lencir-Rhyne 35-24. See story, page 18. Clinton supports a national ser vice program called AmeriCorps. It gives students the opportunity to earn money for college by volun teering in their communities. AmeriCorps is a two-year-old pro gram that is much like a Domestic Peace Corps, where students have the option to work before or after college for one or two years. About 20,000 students are currently par ticipating. Students in the AmeriCorps program can use the financial aid they receive at any college they want. However, there are no stu dents at Elon that have been in volved in the program, Speckard said. Dole and other Republicans said they want to completely elimi nate the program due to the cost of running it for such a small group of students. see ELECTIONS, page 8 Nude Photos Vandalized, Removed from Fine Arts Stacey Ward Editor in Chief A photography exhibit was re moved from the Fine Arts hallway Tuesday afternoon because of the controversy surrounding a set of nude photos, said Kenneth Hassell, adjunct professor of art. Sources said Tuesday, two of the nude photographs, which were up for less than a week, were dam aged by vandals. The photographs disappeared sometime late Monday afternoon or early Monday evening. Hassell said a secretary noticed them miss ing when she left around 5 p.m. Monday. Hassell said he took down the photographs becausc of the contro versy surrounding them. He said he didn’t know if they were stolen or just missing. He added he didn’t want to make accusations. Andy Gordon, the photogra pher had no comment about the situation. This is not the first time art has been vandalized at Elon. In 1988, vandals caused about $7,000 worth of damage to a modern art display. Then again in 1989, a bust of former Raleigh mayor Isabella Cannon was stolen from the Isabella Cannon Room in the Fine Arts building and found in a local rock quarry.
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