THE
Pendulum
Volume XXII, Number 13
Informing the Elon College Community
December 5,1996
INSIDE
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lEXIERS
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COMICS
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NEWS
Snowball dance to take
place Saturday night
7
Business school to host a
series of workshops
designed to help small
businesses
7
Moravian Christmas
Love Feast & Candle
Service set for Sunday
at 5 p*m.
Crimewatch (for the last
time in 1996).
A&E
A review of Woody
Allen's latest movie
New international
Christmas album out
9
PEOPLE
L'Tanya Richmond and
Brian Keller
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SPORTS
Women's soccer coach wins
another award
15
Women's foasketball defeats
SAC rival with solid
defense and rebounding
16
Happy Holidays,
from The Pendulum!
Campus Cops Nab 13 This Semester
JeffWirick
Editor-in-Chief
It’s all smiles between the cam
pus and town police one semester
into Elon’s new campus police force
system. The two police departments
have worked together successfully
to deter crime at the college, said
heads of both departments.
But the number of arrests and
citations didn’t decrease for the
town police. In fact, it rose 16 ar
rest/citations from the spring se
mester, when the college police
didn’t have the power to arrest.
Elon Town Chief of Police Dan
Ingle said those particular numbers
don’t mean anything.
“When you look (at crime sta-
Christmas
Ceremony
Tonight in
Scott Plaza
Leann Alfred
Holiday festivities will begin
tonight at 7 p.m. in Scott Plaza as
Elon hosts its annual Christmas
celebration. This Elon tradition is
the highlight of the holiday season
for the College as well as the com
munity, with over 700 people ex
pected to attend.
Over the past ten years, the
College has changed the original
“Tree Lighting Ceremony” to the
“Holiday Celebration” in an effort
to accommodate the diverse reli
gious groups on campus.
“We now have a broader group
of students on campus and we would
like to recognize such groups,” said
Richard McBride, director of
church relations.
In addition to decorating Scott
Plaza, luminaries can be seen sur
rounding Alamance and the
Moseley center. About 50 students,
many from the Emerging Leaders
program, have volunteered their
time in making the luminaries and
see CHRISTMAS, page 6
tistics) from year to year, it
fluctuates,” he said. “As far
as any underlining cause (for
why arrests/citations in
creased), I can’t think of
anything.”
Compared to the fall'
semester of 1994, campus
crime numbers are down.
From Aug. 31 through Dec.
15 of 1994, the town police
made 287 arrests/citations.
During that same time
in 1996, the town police
made 226 arrests/citations.
Campus police made 21 ar
rests/citations during the
same period.
Ingle said stricter laws
see CRIME, page 6
Campus Police Arrests During Fall Semester
■ drugs
B alcoix)!
B failure to appear in court
□ assault
□ other
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Haggard's Last Stand AndrewBrickey/TTiePendu;™
If someone doesn't foot the $200,000 moving bill, the historic Haggard House will be torn down over Winter term. The
house, which is currently housing Elon students, was built by the first dean of Elon, Walter P. Lawrence (pictured on
left). Lawrence photo courtesy of "Elon College, its history and traditions."
$200,000 Needed to Save Haggard House
Andrew Brickey
Photo Editor
It’s the big, white house with
enormous columns proudly guard
ing the front porch. Its rock solid
foundation planted firmly on the
corner of Haggard and O’Kelly
Avenues. And, by all'admission,
it’s a beautiful house.
It’s the Haggard Avenue
House. But, by the spring semester,
it will be history.
If no one agrees to relocate the
Haggard House by this Winter term,
the house will be torn down, said
Provost Gerald Francis.
The Haggard House, along
with two neighboring Greek houses
and the old campus security build
ing, will be torn down to clear the
way for the new science building.
" We’ve made extensive efforts
to try to relocate that Haggard Av
enue House,” Francis said.
The problem with moving the
see HOUSE, page 6