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February 5,1998 Editorials Viewpoint It’s a new calender year, a new semester and time for new leadership at The Pendulum. We have an almost entirely new editorial staff this semester, coming at you with many new ideas. The new editor in chief of The Pendulum is Michelle Cater, Carrie Lancos is keeping our columnists under control m the new Opinions Editor, Julie Koch will supervise the news section as the News jEditor. Giselle Pole has moved from the A&E section to be the new Features Editor. Famed columnist Chuck Buckley has taken over the A&E section. Chrissie Taylor will becoveringElon atfjletics as the new sports editor. Jenny Jamecke will capture the wodd of Elon on film as the new photo editor. Jeff Sanders brings hi$ Inteniet expertise to The Pendulum as our new online editor. And CadiQr Woelfel is supervising our advertising Uiis semester. Keeping us all in line is Office Manager Melissa Pasternack. One of the major content changes in the p£^r is the disappear ance of Crime Watch. TJie Pendulum is also goingto try tafanagyou more news from the Town of ElonCoK^ge to keep students andstaff more informed on the community in ^ch they live. We have also added a profile section to the paper. In this section we will feature a member of the factilty or staff and their accomplish-^ ments both on and off campus. In the comics section we have {st)ught back two comics from Pendulum histoiy. “Life in Heir and “University^ are now both gracing our pages and Uvesiagain. The spirts section wll feature more stories on campus recre ation and intramural ^>orts as well as featurftj on the people who make the Elon sports teams what i^ey satt. While there are many exciting changes m The Pendulum, some things must remain the same. Our adveftising4eaiUiie k still at 5. Letters to the editor are due Monday atnoon. We are still opea to any suggestions, ideas and cnticjsm. And we are still dedicated to providingyou with the best coverage of the ElonCollegecommunity that we can provide. Happy reading! * ne Bendulum editorial staff THE III Pendulum Informing the Elon College Community Editor in Chief Michelle Cater News Editor Julie Koch Features Editor Giselle Pole Spoi Cnri rissie Taylor A&E Editor Chuck Buckley Opinions Editor Carrie Lancos Photo Editor Jenny Jamecke Online Editor Jeff Sanders Advertisine Manager Cathy Woelfel Office Manager Melissa Pasternack Adviser Byung Lee Art Director Andrew Brickey Reporters Leann Alfred Lauren Bigge Jason Dennis Carolyn Lampila Andrea Stoffer Sports Reporters William Bartley Kevin Lewis A&E Reporter Erik Akelaitis Brian Ashmore Laura Foxx Katisha Hayes Photographers Bethany Beaman Maggie McKelvey Crystal Pape Emily MacDonnell Advertising Andy Dietnch The Pendulum, founded in 1974, is published by Elon students. Address all correspondence to: The Pendulum 7012 Campus Box Elon College, N.C. 27244. • Phone: (336) 584-2331 Fax: (336) 584-2467 E-mail: pendidum@mBTienjekxijedu Web page: http://www.elon.edu/ users/o/pendulum m Clinton: The happy lecher The time has finally come. I am going to join the ranks of the proud and pathetic and write about the current White House scandal. I am now going to throw the hat into the ring and give you my opinion of the BJ heard ‘round the world. If any of you have been watch ing TV, reading the newspaper or in any way receiving information from the outside world, you are probably aware of the the “President in Cri sis!” situation. For those of you who have been productive this winter break instead of killing brain cells in front of the boob tube like good little children, I’m going to have to break it on down for you and put it into a nice little information suppository: Allegedly, President Clinton said something desparaging which caused emotional damage to Paula Jones. He is being sued by by Jones for casting aspursions on her char acter. In a nut shell, she’s accusing Clinton of being a potty mouth. Well one thing led to another and a special prosecutor was ap pointed and for some reason it was brought up that Clinton had sexual relations with other people around the White House, one of them being former White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky went on the stand to say that she did not have sexual relations with the leader of the free world. Well that wasn’t good enough for some people because the FBI has tapes of her admitting to having sex with the Prez, so now Monica either goes on trial or fac ing charges of perjury. And that is what has happened so far. Now I don’t know if what I’ve just told you is the truth or just a big pile of horse poo, but I do know that the stuff Chuck Buckley A&E Editor bucka5c0@numeti.elon.edu going on is damn funny. I mean think about it, any news story which hinges on the the words “semen stains” is bound to be good for at least a couple of laughs. All right, what have we got so far? Wehavean intern who doesn’t seem to recall whether or not she had sex with the President, we have a First Lady who from all outward appearences doesn’t seem to give half a fig about whether it turns out to be true or not and we have a President who allegedly commited some relatively minor crimes which he can’t be impeached for and his approval rating grows by leaps and bounds everyday. I love this country. The lechers and womanizers are our leaders and favorites. Right now the public opinion of the president is high. Yes, they feel that he probably should have kept it in his pants but what’s done is done and life goes on. From all the people that I’ve talked to they feel that it is absolutly no one’s business but the First Family’s, and aside from lack of entertainment value in every other cur rent event I would agree with them. Just a thought. If it was found out that Clinton had pulled a Marv Albert and was prancing around in Hillary’s naughty wear while he was with Lewinsky, would we be so forgiving? I don’t think so. Regardless this fiasco is prob ably what Clinton is going to be remembered for, despite the fact that his public approval rating is the highest of any president save Roosevelt’s. It would have been simpler if he kept it in his pants. Winter Term What was the most interesting thing you did this Winter Term? I Atsuko Yamasaki, sopho more: “I ate insects in my biology class and I was on TV.” Claire Camey, freshman: “I got adolphin tattoo while my friend got her tongue pierced.” John Gandolfo, senior: “I took a stress management class. It was an 8:30, so you would get up, get lectured for half the class, and the other half you would just lay on mats and meditate and learn stress reduction exercises.” Steve Davis, junior: “I got to see my sister get married.” Jessica Ports, freshman; “I was on the pre-Colombian as tronomy trip to Mexico and we went to the jungles of Guatemala and we were almost eaten by jag uars at 4 o’clock in the morning.” Mike Zgleszewski, junior: “I had the Sydney Flu and survived... take that stupid dingo!” ....« * . '
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