Volume XXIV, Number 5
Informing the Elon College Community
September 24, 1998
INSIDE
In Every Issue
Academic Update
pages
Organization Briefs
page 8
Staff/Faculty Profile
page 9
Horoscopes
page 15
Elon at a Glance
page 16
Comics
page 17
QgMioas
The presidential seaidi
from a student’s
point-of“View
page 2
News
Meet fljeptesidentfifl
candidates
page 6
Photos
A glimpse of Family
Weekend
pages 12 & 13
Ihe swing craze
page IB
iports
Behind the scenes of Boa
athletics
page 23
Sr. class president faces impeachment
Julie Koch
The Pendulum
The Student Government
Association (SGA) will be holding
an informal hearing on Thursday,
Sept. 24 concerning charges brought
up against Elon ’ s senior class presi
dent.
Emily Matesic, senior class
president, is being charged with
neglect of her senatorial duties; how
ever, the charges are not based upon
improper actions but because
Matesic can not attend the Thurs
day night SGA meetings, which
take place during her evening soc
cer practice.
Matesic, a member of Elon’s
women’s soccer team, said she en
joys being on SGA and is upset that
she may be impeached.
“I am really upset they (SGA)
is trying to impeach me and it is
frustrating because I am working
really hard, I just can’t make the
meetings,” Matesic said.
Mark Richter, SGA execu
tive president, agrees that Matesic
is doing a great job aside from miss
ing the meetings and said that he is
all for change if it were to benefit
more students.
“I think it’s unfair that there
are people who can’t be in student
government, but with 3800 students
you aren’t going to accommodate
everyone,” Richter said.
The controversy lies not only
in the fact that current SGA meet
ings conflict with sports schedules
but also with class schedules.
“I think it (SGA policy con
cerning meetings) is discrimination
against athletes and against students
academically,” said Matesic who
because of her soccer scholarship
had to change her Thursday evening
class to accommodate soccer prac
tice.,
see SGA, page 5
Crash causes
power outage
Chris Miller, Vijay Soprey &
Dave Ratz
Contributing Reporters
Many Elon students arid their parents found
themselves in darkness last Saturday evening as the
power went out all over the county.
Around 8:30 p.m. while many were sitting in
restaurants or relaxing in their apartments watching
television, the lights suddenly went out.
Moments later, electricity was restored yielding
television newsbreaks informing the public of a plane
crash on 1-40/85.
The pilot managed to steer his plane clear of
traffic as passing motorists witnessed the pilot emerge
from the shattered and burning wreckage, lucky to be
alive. _ ,
The pilot was taken to Alamance Regional
Medical Center by ambulance in serious condition and
with a few less teeth, which were later found on the
The accident backed up eastbound traffic from
Alamance County into Greensboro, approximately 25
see CRASH, page 5
Jenny Jarnecke/r/7e Pendulum
Elon students sign up for the shuttle to the Elon game against
James Madison University this weekend. Many students, parents
and alumni are planning on attending the game in Harrisonburg,
Virginia.
Elon College prepares to expand main part of campus
College to tear down houses, extend main campus to the east
Phi Mu house counseling services rent campus to the east down to the be placed in this area. It will be a
Katie Bonebrake
The Pendulum
and the Brannock and Hughes
houses.
Also, the sections of O’Kelly
The
area next to Carolina, Hook,
Construction will soon begin
expand the east campus area. Avenue and East Col ege venue
^ insidethatareawillalsoberemoved.
Construction is estimated to begin
around October 1 and will take ap
proximately four weeks to com
plete.
“We want to expand our cur-
^rannock and Barney residence
alls will be made into an open
8rass area.
Five houses will be removed:
® political science house, the old
tennis courts,” said Jim Johnson,
director of administrative services.
“They are old houses, they
don’t fit in with the new architec
ture, and there really is no need for
them any longer,” Johnson said.
Some of the houses are close
to 100 years old and are very costly
to maintain, Johnson added.
In the future buildings might
nice open place for students to go
and meet with other students.
“I’ve noticed in the spring
that many professors take their
classes outside and this would be an
excellent place to go,” Johnson said.
The five houses are not in use
this year.
Students using the parking
spaces on O’ Kelly Avenue will need
to park somewhere else and those
roads can no longer be used.
The wall will come down but
the archway will remain. A major
walkway from Alamance to Antioch
Road will be constructed.
Johnson said, “It is a positive
move for the college, something
that needs to be done, it will open up
the East Campus and make it a
much nicer place.”