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THE Pendulum Volume XXII, Number 12 Informing the Elon College Community November 21,1996 INSIDE EDITORIALS/ 2-4 COMICS 12-13 MM Hie Fletcher Series comes taElon Alamance County Arts Conncil vM perform **Stee MagnotiM** in Wlildey f winter 11 Fin# out why large amonnfs of teachers wiU be at Elon next September CjHunewatcb AM A review of jazz mnsidan John Coltrane Two reviews of '*Ransom/* PEOPLE Patrick Singleton SEORTS A listing of intramural soccer and basketball champions 15 Vollyball’s record setting sophomore Fiona MacPherson Mew win open?r; woto«ji1os;«! do$e game on free throw line AIDS Quilt Comes to Elon Tricia Ziegler The Quilt stretched as far as the eye could see, from the Wash ington Monument to the Capitol Building. It was a living and ever growing memorial to those who have lost their fight against AIDS. More than 50 members of the Elon College community experi enced the sadness, courage and joy woven into the panels of the AIDS Quilt displayed in Washington, D.C., October 11-13. Now the experience is coming closer to home. Elon College will display a portion of the AIDS Quilt on April 24-27. The display includes a Youth Day, Elon Day, Friends, Family and Lovers Day and Worship Day. The Quilt contains almost 40,000 panels representing people One-Half Graduate in Four Years Greg Grantham The most recent statistics from the Office of Institutional Research reveal that Elon will graduate a ' little more than half of its senior class under the traditional four-year plan. Brooks Cates, director of in stitutional research at Elon, said 54,7 percent of the students who entered the college as freshmen in 1992 graduated in May of 1996. The numbers may seem low, but 54,7 percent is the highest graduation rate Elon has had in more than a decade. The national average for stu dents graduating in four years from colleges classified as “traditional” is 53 percent. Traditional colleges, like Elon, target students who have received a 950-1070 on their SAT scores. “The graduation rate is con stantly rising, Cates said. “In 1995, it was 50.1 percent; in 1994, the four-year percentage was 43.2 per cent. This is something we take very seriously.” According to Cates, there are a . number of reasons why it would take a student more than the ex pected four years to graduate. “Changing majors midstream in a student’s college career is one of the most common ways to ex tend a student’s stay at Elon,” Cates said. Financial problems and poor grades also reduce students’ chances of walking down the stage in May. Nan Perkins, dean of admis sions and financial planning, said she was pleased with the rising graduation rate and predicts even more of a growth within the next five years. “The numbers have gone up across the board,” Perkins said. “We will see even more of a rise in the percentage because we are recruit ing more and more of the brightest students each year.” When students take the SAT test in high school, their names are put on a list and sold to colleges by various services. see RATE, page 5 How Elon's graduation rate compares to other North Carolina schools •Elon - 54.7 percent in four years. •Duke University - 90 percent in four years. •Wake Forest University - 68 percent in four years. •University of North Carolina at Greensboro - 28 percent in four years. •North Carolina State University - 31.5 percent in four years. who have died of AIDS. New pan els continue to be added to the Quilt, which is maintained by the NAMES Project Foundation. Although the Quilt covers 15 acres, it represents just 11 percent of all United States AIDS deaths, according to he NAMES Founda tion, - Michael Ulrich, assistant pro fessor of biology, saw the Quilt displayed in St, Louis six years ago. “I thought I was aware and I thought I was compassionate (about the AIDS issue),” Ulrich said. “See ing the Quilt took that to a different level. It personalized something that until that point had been imper sonal.” Ulrich wrote the proposal which is bringing the Quilt to Elon. Ulrich estimates that the dis- see QUILT, page 5 Emily Feinsod/T/)e Pendulum Elizabeth Rogers will be one of Elon's professors in the new physical therapy masters program starting in Januaiy, 1998 Elon Gets Physical New Masters Program to Start in the Spring of '98 Leann Alfred While jobs in the health field are in high demand, opportuni ties in home care, mental health facilities and physical therapy are promising. Elon has directed its attention towards this need and has announced a master’s pro gram in physical therapy which will be available in January of 1998. Julianne Maher, vice presi dent of academic affairs agrees with the decision to bring the progam to Elon. “There is a grow ing demand in the health field and Elon’s job is to provide stu dents with options within this field.” The physical therapy master’s program is a partner ship between the College and Alamance Regional Medical Center in which both parties will be responsible for instruction and resources, ARMC will provide a hos pital physical therapy staff for see THERAPY, page 5. ♦ f 5 f » f ft '» f » f »■ ,v i.i h.k i » ». i t i V't'
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