Volume XXIII, Number 18
Informing the Elon College Community
March 5,1998
INSIDE
EDITORIALS
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NEWS
Women's GBsory Month
and a iook at outstanding
women leaders at Elon
Gredi Briefs
A look at Mike Calhoun
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Board of Trustees to vote on
sophomore housing requirement
Michelle Cater
Editor in Chief
The Board of Trustees will vote
on the two-year residential require
ment next week at its annual spring
meeting.
The proposal being submitted
to the Board states that incoming
freshmen, starting with those en
tering in the fall of 1998, will be
required to live on campus for two
years.
Vice President of Student Life
Smith Jackson said requiring stu
dents to live on campus for two
years would increase Elon’s reten
tion rate. The rate increased by ap
proximately 10 percent at Furman
University when they adopted a
similar change.
“We think its going to provide
a more vital campus life,” Jackson
said about the proposal. He added
that students who live on campus
tend to be more involved in campus
activities and programs.
The Board of Trustees will also
be voting on whether or not to build
new housing near East Campus
apartments. While it is a separate
issue, Jackson said the two were
very connected.
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see TRUSTEES, page 5
Richter, Meadows to lead SGA in 1998-99
Carolyn Lampila
Pendulum Reporter
Last week Elon students voted
on the SGA executive officers, as
well as class officers and senators.
Junior Mark Richter was cho
sen as the executive president.
Sophomore Corbie Meadows is the
new executive vice president. Jun
ior Jeffrey Angel and sophomore
Akilah Weaver round out the ex
ecutive offices as treasurer and sec
retary.
Both Meadows and Richter
were excited after they won their
positions.
Richter jokingly said that he
wants to “try to get Ashton [1997-
98 executive president] out of the
office as soon as possible.”
Meadows said that she feels
1997-98 executive vice president
Jen Hamblen has done a good job
and Meadows hopes to follow in
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“I’m hopefully going to take
what she’s done, keep on that, em
phasize what she’s done,” Mead
ows said.
Richter said he thinks the ex
perience that he has received as the
executive treasurer has been ben
eficial because he has the knowl
edge to deal with the money.
Richter said he hopes this
knowledge can be used to benefit
the school. “There are some
projects that people are trying to
send our way. So we may take that
money and put it toward some big
project, for the school, for the stu
dents.”
Richter would really like to
see all organization elections take
place at the same time. He said that
SGA holds their elections in Febru
ary because the budget hearings are
in March and the new executives
need to be there. Several other
organizations hold their elections
see SGA, page 5
Jenny Jarnecke/TAie Pendulum
SGA Vice President-^lect Corbie fVleadows anxiously
awaits the SGA election results last Friday afternoon
while Jill Schwebach offers her support.
Woodrow Wilson Fellows to speak
Giselle Pole
Features Editor
Two Visiting Fellows will
spend theweekofMarch9atElon,
visiting with classes and meeting
with faculty and staff.
Jack and Christine Hjelt,
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows,
spend most of their time in Africa,
where they are involved in peace
keeping negotiations.
The Hjelts became interested
in the Peace Corps when they were
young adults; at the time, African
countries were becoming indepen
dent. This led them to seek out
ways that they could work abroad
on development issues.
The Woodrow Wilson Fellows
Foundation is a program that brings
speakers to liberal arts colleges;
this is the fourth year that Elon
College is a part of the program.
Each year, the Foundation sends a
list of about 50 fellows to the school
who then makes the final decision.
The Foundation provides some
funding for guests to speak at the
colleges, while the school provides
room and board.
“This year that we decided to
pick it up ourselves, and we’re
gonna do it once a year instead of
twice. It is a good thing for the
college,” said Thomas Tiemann,
director of the general studies pro
gram.
Instead of hosting a campus-
see FELLOWS, page 5