Volume XXIII, Number 25
Informing the Elon College Community
April 30,1998
Academic summit suggestions examined
OPINIONS
2-5
COMICS
17 :
NEWS
Career Services helps
seniors find jobs
The dangers of hazing
13
^’He Got Game’’ hits
theaters Friday
14
A&E
Mayfest offers a day of
excitement
The Elon Dancers perform
this weekend
SPQ.RTS
The Year in Elon Atletics
Softball loses four
seniors
24
Lauren Bigge
Pendulum Reporter
Students, faculty and staff
gathered on Saturday, April 4 to
examine the current intellectual cli
mate on campus and explore ways
to enhance the learning environ
ment.
Representatives from the stu
dents, faculty and staff gathered to
receive reports of six working
groups which had been meeting for
several weeks and a class which
had undertaken the subject of "sub
ject involvement in academics" as a
project. They also gathered to par
ticipate in small group discussion,
share views in an open forum, and
signal the strength of their opinions
through prioritizing suggestions
from the group deliberation.
Feedback from the session in
dicated the summit was well re
ceived by all attendees who felt
they had the opportunity to contrib
ute openly and who expressed a
strong desire for the continuation of
similar student-faculty-staff dia
logue.
“The response to the (sum
mit) planning committee was very
gratifying,” Julianne Maher, vice
president of academic affairs, said.
“I think we need to have this
kind of dialogue more often...it was
helpful in showing that the biggest
challenge we face now at Elon is the
social situation versus the intellec
tual one. The social factor has been
overriding the intellectual and we
need to find better ways to blend the
two.”
Junior Eric Hurwitt, a mem
ber of the summit planning com
mittee, said, “The summit was ex
cellent. I think everyone saw Dr.
Maher’s commitment to Elon’s fu
ture. But the summit was just the
first step (in the college’s
progress)...it’s up to the students to
keep the same kind of thing going in
the future.”
Throughout the summit, two
general topics served as the orga
nizing structure. The first question
see SUMMIT, page 6
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New faculty
to be hired
Michelle Cater
Editor in Chief
Jenny Jarnecke/T/7e Pendulum
Two Elon students enjoy Saturday's nice weather and participate in canoe
races on Lake Mary Nell. The races were a part of the Earth Day celebration.
Many Elon students participated in the festivities sponsored by the Sierra
Club.
Thirteen full-time faculty will be added
to the Elon family in the fall as the college
increases the number of full-time faculty.
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Julianne Maher said that these new positions
will bring the college closer to its three-year-
goal of having fewer than 20 percent of
sections taught by part time faculty.
“The commitment behind hiring more
faculty is a major commitment on the part of
this campus and the Board of Trustees,” she
said.
Maher said it was important to increase
the number of full-time faculty because it
lowers the number of advisees’s each profes
sor has, allowing them more time to spend
see FACULTY, page 6
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New meal plans available in the fall
Patrick Donovan
Pendulum Reporter
Next year's students have no
reason to go hungry after the intro
duction of three new meal plans by
campus dining services.
Three new meal plans, the
Platinum, the Gold and the Maroon
are all due to begin in the fall of next
year. Each is designed to suit a
different student’s needs, depend
ing upon their schedule and general
dining preferences.
Starting at the top, the Plati
num plan is an unlimited plan with
which a student can eat as much as
he or she wants. It includes eight
guest meals and a $175 declining
balance on the Elon Card.
This plan, along with the two
others, also offers a feature with
which students can exchange two
meals in a day for $2.50 on their
Elon Card.
The Gold plan, which offers
19 meals and a $150 declining bal
ance, is much like a plan currently
used , except with more money in
cluded on the declining balance.
Finally there is the Maroon,
with 15 meals a week and $275 on
the card. This is much more suited
to those people who don’t have time
to eat at Harden or upstairs McEwen
and would rather grab something to
go at the Octagon or downstairs
McEwen.
“The biggest complaint we
hear is that people can’t eat when
they want to,” said Jeff Gazda, di
rector of dining services.
Many students seem optimis
tic to the new plan.
“I eat like a horse and stay up
late so I believe I will probably go
see DINING,, page 6,