Volume XXIII, Number 12
Informing the Elon College Community
November 20,1997
EDITORIALS
COMICS
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the art department will
showcase their talents
from 7>^9 p.m. Monday In
the Isabella Camion Koom
Football ends an other
wise successful season with
a 4&>52 loss to Samford. It
fhiished 7-4^ its first
winning record since 1995
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Senator accused of tampering with ballots
Julie Koch
Copy Editor
Two Student Government As
sociation members will find out
this week if they face further
charges of abusing and neglecting
senatorial duties.
Senators Ashley Hayes and
Sarah Petelik sat through initial
hearings Monday to determine if
there should be a formal hearing.
Hayes has been charged with
abusing her senatorial duties.
Petelik is facing accusations of
neglecting those same duties and
responsibilities.
Meghan McGlinn, head of the
judicial board committee, said
Thursday that information pre
sented during SGA hearings or de
cisions made there are for the pur
poses of the SGA body only and has
no effect on the student’s standing
in the college.
Both students were in charge
of the Homecoming election booth
as well as ballot slips and had been
on duty on Nov. 4.
On that day, SGA Secretary
Kelli Palmer claimed to have re
turned to the SGA office and said
she thought there was something
wrong with the ballot counts for the
Homecoming King and Queen elec
tions.
SGA Adviser Barbara Carlton
later received a call from a student
reporting some suspicions on
Hayes’s actions. The student, whose
name was not released, stopped at
the election table in order to talk
with Petelik when she said she no
ticed that Hayes had a stack of
blank ballots under her arms.
The student claimed that when
Hayes became aware of her curios
ity, she tried to hide the ballots
from her view. With this informa
tion, Carlton contacted both Hayes
and Petelik.
Carlton said suspicions con
tinued to rise as there were differ
ences in Petelik and Hayes’s sto-
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All In a day's work: Maintenance worker Kevin Mansfield fills a hole in the ground near Haggard Avenue while his three-
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ries. Carlton, however, said she
couldn’t reveal the details of these
conversations until the decision for
a formal hearing is settled upon.
On Nov. 13 actions were im
mediately taken following the
Homecoming festivities as
McGlinn informed the SGA of the
charges being brought up against
Hayes and Petelik. Separate initial
hearings then followed as Charg
ing Advocate Akilah Weaver pre
sented the charges against them.
Senators were given a chance
to present their side of the stories.
see HEARING, page 5
SGA votes to
fill three vacant
positions today
Jeff Wirick
Editor in Chief
The Vice President of the Stu
dent Government Association said
the group hopes to fill three of the
five spots today that were left va
cant by recent resignations.
In a surprise announcement,
Lisa St. Louis, liaison to the Aca
demic Council, read her resigna
tion to the SGA last Thursday. The
sophomore, who had participated
in the SGA for a year and a half,
said she didn’t have the time to
fulfill her duties as a senator.
see SGA, page 5
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The money that built Elon
Michelle Gater
Managing Editor
A few weeks ago the Elon
College Board of Trustees an
nounced a $40 million fund-raising
campaign. While this is not Elon’s
first financing campaign, it is the
largest in the college’s history.
Elon was founded in 1889 by
“people without money,” said
former Elon president Earl
Danieley. The school was founded
in order to train teachers and minis
ters for the United Church of Christ.
“They were convinced that if
there were going to be teachers and
preachers...they were going to need
a college,” Danieley said.
The money needed to build the
school came from donations and
loans from members of the church.
In 1911 William A. Harper be-
came the President of Elon.
Danieley said that Harper was a
dreamer and had big plans for
Elon’s future.
In 1923 the main building on
campus burned. The school had no
money to cover the expensive dam
ages.
Harper decided to rebuild the
campus and five academic build
ings were built: Alamance, Carlton,
Duke, Mooney and Whitley.
Alamance Building was named
in honor of the citizens of Alamance
county who donated their time and
money to the rebuilding of the cam
pus.
The Carlton Building was
named after a family in Virginia
who donated $50,000 towards the
construction. The Carlton Building
originally served as the school’s
library. The Duke Building was
named in honor of Artelia Roney
Duke after $50,000 was donated by
the Duke brothers.
see HISTORY, page 5