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THE Volume XXII, Number 18 Pendulum Informing the Elon College Community March 6,1997 INSIDE EDITORIALS/ r PTTPIJC 24 14-15 jLast career feir, wMdt attracted itior^ 40d |iartlcipaiit$, was a liage success. IlilHHIIil Jason Deimis reviews a Car^ Brooks concert PEOPLE Meet the bask^ball team's floor leader—iie*i» not^q^lcaljock^ 8 Baseball up game to battle Division 1 opponents, i: 18 The womeft^s haskethall team came wilhin one game of the NCAATcHtrnamentThe^ : s^xS^red a sH^onnsndinqg loss to Wittgate Saturday, i 20 m Elon Rallies From 19 Points Down to Claim Title i m Andrew Brickey/77ie Pendulum To the victors go the spoils. Senior Will Waller gets his turn at "cutting down the nets' after the men's basketball team won its first South Atlantic Conference Tournament title. The win boosts the Fightin' Christians into the NCAA II Toumament for the first time in school history. For a tournament preview, see page 18. Senate Votes Not to Allow Write-in Winners in SGA Jeff Wirick and Michelle Cater Editors Saturday’s Elon men’s basket ball game wasn’t a movie. But for senior Seth Chambless, it had a storybook ending. “I’m the happiest guy on Earth,” he said after the Fightin’ Christians pulled off one of the most amazing come-from-behind victories in recent memory with a 62-59 victory against Lenoir-Rhyne in the South Atlantic Conference Championship Game. “I couldn’t have written a better script if I were writing a movie.” The win earned the Fightin’ Christians (16-13) a berth in the NCAA Division II Toumament for the first time in school history. Chambless, a senior who suf fered through several lean years at Elon, was able to enjoy the champi onship a little more than most of his teammates. “I’ve been waiting four years for this one,” he said, see CHAMPS, page 5 Jeff Wirick Editor-in-Chief Write-in winners in last week’s Student Government Association elections were denied the chance to hold office next year. The senate voted last Thursday not to accept President Ward Culver’s proposal to allow write-in winners who were interested in holding a position in the SGA senate. Pendulum F.Y.I. The SGA Elections: Voter turnout over the past toar elutions 100 Instead, the SGA’s governing body voted to fill vacant positions the way it normally does—have the newly elected executive presi dent appoint them. The senate will then vote whether or not to ap prove the appointed candidates. Most of the arguments were that these write-in winners didn’t fulfill the requirement of collect ing 250 signatures to get on the ballet for the Feb. 24-25 election. The write-in winners were a result of several positions that didn’t have a candidate running. According to a final vote count sheet supplied by SGA, there were 28 write-in candidates and five winners. The vacant positions in clude three senior class senator seats, the junior class secretary/ treasurer and a junior class senator seat. The situation became more complicated because the SGA Con stitution doesn ’ t say anything about what should happen to write-in can didates if they win an elected posi tion. “It’s just something we’ve never experienced before,” said SGA Executive Treasurer Stacey Draper. “It was best that it was brought back to the senate for them to decide. In the future I think we should allow write-in votes, be cause it is an expression of the study-body opinion.” The debate, which lasted al most an hour last Thursday, had some of the members visibly upset see CANDIDATES, page 5 VOTE miiimi J1996 1997 Board of Trustees to Vote on 10 Percent Faculty Pay Increase Michelle Cater Asst. Managing Editor A proposed 10 percent pay increase for all faculty and staff is a part of the budget that will be voted on by the Board of Trustees at the meeting this Wednesday. The proposed salary increase would make Elon faculty and staff ranked third in the state among private schools in salary, behind Wake Forest and Duke, said Gerald Whittington, vice president of busi ness and finance. While the pay increase is a large jump, it is not a sudden one. Whittington said that for the last three years Elon has been es crowing, or reserving, two percent of the normal salary increase that faculty and staff receive annually. That accounted for six percent of the increase, the remaining four percent is from a standard-of-liv- ing pay increase. “It sounds like a good idea to me,” said Frank Harris, a physics professor. “We’ve had a small sal ary increase for a number of years. This is moving us up to the (com petitive) level where we want to be.” If the proposed salary increase is passed, faculty and staff salaries see SALARY, page 5
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