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Volume XXIII, Number 8 Informing the Eton College Community October 23,1997 INSIDE EDITORIALS cotnf!s 19 Students share a vaHety of Dplaioii^ ^Ntiit pQ$$i|)le soplioiiiore heiising reqidrement doHiig ihe jSludiejit life beld lit MeKiimaii lioldotiOct^ IIIIIIIIB tambda Chi Alpha hosis he Fmni^kin Fest Satwr- Jay to help raise money for a worthy eause 8 mm Fi»d out why broce&ii sprouts itiay be a food that helps prevent mcer _ ^ 10 AM TRfee AfrCean^Anierlcan ^^urce Room is ready for another year of £flltlir^ events and programing 14 SPORTS Elon women placed first weekend in the North ^^ollna Collegiate Cross Country Championships 23 \||ig Elon examines its use of technology Michelle Cater Managing Editor The Elon Vision states that the college’s primary goal is to guar antee that Elon “is and is recog nized as one of the premier private undergraduate institutions on the Eastern Seaboard.” Steps taken to wards achieving that goal include the building of the new science building, library and football sta dium. Another step is to equip Elon with the technology needed to pre pare its faculty, staff and students for the 21 century. The Office of the Provost re cently released a technology report listing Elon’s equipment and tech nology goals and the steps needed to reach those goals. ‘(The report’s purpose) is to take a reading of where we cur rently are in technology and where we need to be in a few years,” said see TECHNOLOGY, page 5 jt Senior class to help fund football stadium Jeff Wirick Editor in Chief Andrew Brickey/T/ie Pendulum Bringing down the house: Elon guard Dennis Gaskins maies a two-handed dunk during "Friday Night Madness," the first practice for the men's and women's basketball team. A record crowd of 1.450 saw scrimmages, dunk contests and prize giveaways. See related story, page 24. Build it and they will come. The Senior Society hopes “they” will come in the form of $65,000. A month after the senior meet ing, the Senior Society announced last week that the Class of 1998 hopes to help fund a section of the new on-campus football stadium as part of the senior gift, “It’s a really exciting project because this is the first class that has a chance to leave their mark on the stadium,” said Stephanie Schaefer, assistant director of an nual support. What the gift will be is still a mystery, but Chad Bebout, presi dent of the senior class, said one idea would be to fund a tailgating area. “When we come back to Elon (as alumni), most of the activities will usually be centered around the football game,” he said. “And we think that the schools with tailgat ing areas are ones that are really remembered.” The senior class voted to fund a section of the new football sta dium during the senior meeting on Sept. 4. During the meeting, par ticipants chose from a list of six possible gifts. Schaefer said that nearly 80 percent of the students chose the stadium gift. Schaefer and Bebout sat in with leaders from 22 organizations last Wednesday to plan fund-raising activities. The group hopes to top the Class of 1996, which had the high est class participation with their senior gift. That class had nearly 37 percent of its members raise more than $ 13,300 toward the underwrit ing of the renovated Iris Holt McEwen Library. Last year, 27 percent of the graduating class helped raise nearly $7,500 to renovate the Alamance rotunda (the main lobby on the first floor). This year’s goal is $65,000 see GIFT, page 5 Pen d 111 um RY.l. Volunteerism stressed on Saturday W gradiiates in an internship or co-op while at Eion, ^ The national average in 1996 was •MM Source: Career Services Graphic Jon Campbell Michelle Cater Managing Editor Make A Difference Day is com ing to Elon. The national event, which is sponsored by USA Weekend and the Points of Light Foundation, is on Saturday, Oct. 25. “The purpose (of Make a Dif ference Day) is to get people who don’t volunteer out there volun teering and to get the people who do volunteer to volunteer more,” said sophomore Cam Tims, one of the co-directors of the Elon Volun teers! service events team, which is organizing Elon’s participation in the event. While this is the seventh an nual Make A Difference Day, this is the first year that Elon College or Burlington have participated. The reason Burlington is participating this year is because the Times-News now carries the USA Weekend magazine, said Kevin Hancock, the advertising director for the Times- News, who is coordinating the Burl ington events for the Times-News. EV! sent out letters to campus organizations informing them of the day and asking them to partici pate. The groups were given a list of possible projects they could par ticipate in, or asked to think of their own. Some of the groups participat ing are Sigma Sigma Sigma, which is collecting children’s books on Saturday, and Alpha Kappa Psi which is doing a road clean up and sending cards to a child dying of cancer. The MBA program in the Love School of Business has also coordi nated some projects. Students in the program, along with local busi nesses affiliated with the program, have adopted two houses belong ing to elderly. They will be paint ing one of the houses and planting see DIFFERENCE, page 5
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