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Volume XXII, Number 25
Informing the Elon College Community
May 1,1997
Elon Student Killed on 1-40/85
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' NEWS
A day in the life vFith
Elon President Fred
Yotmg.
Habitat for Hiiitiatiity still
needs to raise $10^000 to
fimd next year's house^
The North Carolina
Student Legislature
learns a tittle bit about
pacing a law.
Carlos Colon of late-nlgbt
Fantry fame talks about
how he came to Elom
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Hie movie "Romy and
Michelets HIgb School
Reunion'' reviewed*
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SPORTS
The men^s golf team
prepar^^ to host a
regional tournament this
Weekend.
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1 in Region.
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Donough Forde
Pendulum Reporter
An Elon senior was killed in
stantly Monday afternoon after be
ing struck by a car on 1-40/85.
Psychology major William
Shawn Russell had pulled his red
Toyota on to the emergency strip
and was preparing to change his
left front tire when a Chevy driven
by John Beach of Oak City swerved
into the emergency strip, striking
Russell and his car, said investigat
ing officer Bobby Culler.
The accident occurred at 3:40
p.m., 188 feet west of the Tucker
Street Bridge.
Russell, a member of the psy
chology honors society, was in
volved in the Psychology Club.
Psychology Club faculty ad-
P ^
viser Jim Pickens described Russell
as “very bright and a hard worker.”
Russell was planning a career
as a professional psychologist and
was due to graduate from Elon May
24.
“He wanted to apply what he
had learned to help people. He rec
ognized that all of us had things to
work on and wanted to do that at a
professional level,” Pickens said.
Russell,
an active
SCUBA
diver, had
dived as far
a away as
Australia.
A friend
of Russell’s William Shawn Russell
described
see RUSSELL, page 5
AIDS Quilt Localizes
National Epidemic
Pendulum F.Y.I.
A Closer Look. Darcie Cascone/77?e Pendulum
A group of students look at a section of the AIDS Quilt Friday afternoon at Elon's
Alumni Gymnasium. Several hundred panels were on display April 24-27.
Jason Dennis
Pendulum Reporter
Putting names to faces when
the AIDS Quilt came to Elon last
weekend was something that Elon
students, faculty and staff will not
soon forget.
“It is tough for me because I
know people who have AIDS. It is
difficult when you can put a face to
one of the panels,” said senior
Rafael Solanes.
Lyday-Lee said there was
something different about seeing
the full 40,000-panel Quilt in Wash
ington, D.C. last October and see
ing it at Elon this time around.
“It was a different experience,
because one of my students was
lying on the floor,” said Kathy
Lyday-Lee, associate professor of
English at Elon.
She is talking about one of
her students who died of AIDS in
1993.
“We knew the people who
were there grieving. We knew it
was their son or their lover or their
brother. It makes it more personal,”
Lyday-Lee said.
The opening ceremony oc
curred last Thursday night in
Alumni Gymnasium and the clos
ing ceremony on Sunday night
ended a full weekend of eyes open
ing up to the AIDS epidemic, tears
being shed and an emotional roller
coaster.
“It was an incredibly emo
tionally and physically draining
process to get it here. When it actu
ally got here, it was an extremely
rewarding experience,” said
Michael Ulrich, assistant professor
of biology at Elon and co-chair of
this event with Shannon Bennett
from the community group
Alamance Cares.
Lyday-Lee worked with
people who wanted to add new
panels to the AIDS Quilt. Six new
panels were made by people in this
see AIDS QUILT, page 5
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Professor Runs in Boston Marathon
JeffWirick
Editor-in-Chief
Tom Arcaro finished more
than an hour behind the winners in
last week’s Boston Marathon. He
said he cramped up the last 10
miles of the grueling 26.2-mile race,
which hampered his performance.
But the Elon professor who
was running in just his second mara
thon said being there was enough.
“Boston is mythical,” he said
of the race. “And anyone who has
aspirations for running wants to
run at Boston. To get a chance to do
that is incredible. I feel very lucky,
honored and special.”
Arcaro, 44, who has taught
sociology at Elon for 14 years, said
he started running 5- and 10-kilo-
nieter races about five years.
“(The first race) I ran was for
the Elon Homes for Children,” he
said. “After that it was like the first
shot of heroine — I was hooked (on
running).”
Arcaro had run cross country
during his college years at Ohio
State University, but he hadn’t run
a marathon until 1996.
The Charlotte Marathon,
which was also the site for the 1996
Olympic marathon qualifying race,
was where Arcaro fii-st ran 26.2
miles at one time. “I never thought
of running a marathon until a few
months before Charlotte,” he said.
“I had run a half-marathon that
Thanksgiving (1995) and thought
‘what’s another 13.1 miles.’”
Arcaro finished the Charlotte
race in a time of three hours and 20
minutes, which qualified him for
Boston.
“One of the reasons why Bos
ton is so special is because you
have to qualified,” Arcaro said.
Once qualifying, Arcaro set out
to train for the race. With the help
see BOSTON, page 5