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Volume XXIV, Number 12 Informing the Elon College Community November 12,1998 Elon examines judicial options 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 Opinions Dr, Young discusses his. upcoming retirement page 2. News Cheating in the . computer age page 3 The math department's Dr. Todd Lee page 9 A&E “Children of Eden” reviewed page 10 Sports Fiona MacPherson—one of volleybairs true leaders page 19 Katie Bonebrake The Pendulum A new policy will soon be implemented regarding the student judicial commission. At present students may choose if they want their case to be heard by an administrator or by the judicial board, currently made up of three students, one faculty member and one student life administrator. Most students choose to have an administrator deal out their punish ments instead of having their case heard by the board. However, a change will soon be made adding more students to the judicial board and giving ad ministrators the option of sending students’ cases to thejudicial board. Currently there are three stu dents on the judicial board, who were appointed by the Student Gov ernment Associaton president. The board will be expanded to include three more students elected by the student body. Any student may apply for these positions. Also, Scott Nelson, the assistant dean of students, and Mary Wise, the assis tant dean for academic affairs, will now have the authority to send cases to the judicial board. Last year approximately 350 cases were heard. Under the new system, not all of these cases would ever make their way to a hearing of the judicial committee. Area Di rectors will still handle most of the minor offenses such as first time alcohol offenses and noise viola tions. This procedure takes care of about sixty to seventy-five percent of the violations. The major cases would still be sent to the judicial board. The hearings are structured but not formal. The student is given the chance to tell his or her side of the story and can have witnesses and an adviser from the Elon com munity present. “In the past five years no student hearings went to the hear ing boards,” said Nelson. “Students might feel that since see JUDICIAL, page 5 Next Wednesday to be a 'Major' day Lisa McChristian The Pendulum Elon will hold its annual fall event “Major Importance Day” next Wednesday at the College Coffee. College Coffee runs from 9:20 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. in front of Alamance Building. For those un able to attend during that time there will be tables near the campus boxes in Moseley Center and in the hall way of first floor Alamance until 4 p.m. that day. “Major Importance Day” is a time when students are provided with an opportunity to talk to pro fessors and other students in their perspective majors and offically declare their major. Several majors will be repre sented. There will be check sheets available describing each major and there will be information sheets on possible professions. Academic advising staff and counselors will also be available to talk to students. One day out of the entire academic year is chosen to help students focus on making the im portant decision of a major. The day is also designed to have everything that students need to declare their major located in one central place. “Major Importance Day” will be one of the first times that fresh men will be able to formalize their decision on a major. The choices that freshmen made during pre-reg- istration and that are listed on cur rent registration forms are not offi cial. Elon 101 teachers are being encouraged to bring their classes. The registrar's office and academic advising hope that there will be a large student turn out. On average 100 students de- see MAJOR, page 5 Megan Anderson/r/?e Pendulum Josh Beil and Adam Cote of The Aristocrats take a break during their set at Midnight Breakfast last week. Library and LRC to merge in new building Bree Myers The Pendulum As the new library continues to rise, plans to bring all informa tion services on campus together are being set in motion. Kate Hickey, Elon’s head li brarian, calls the new library for mation a “coming together.” The resources and services that students use daily will soon be available all in one location instead of spread across campus. The library will house the LaRose Resources Cen ter (LRC), tutoring services, the writing center, academic comput ing, the Honors program and gen eral studies (GST) office as well as the traditional library resources. The LRC will physically move to the new library building but will really just be moving back home. The LRC, the library and additional library staff who work off-campus will now have an op portunity to be working together again. Once the LRC is established in the new library, multimedia sta tions will be available for use. These services and others will occupy the first floor of the library. The circulation desk will also be there as well as the faculty resource center which will be moving from Carlton. The second floor will be standard library format with books and journals, bound documents and microfilm, and study areas as well as a computer lab. Additional study rooms, furniture and books will be on the third floor. Chris Fulkerson, associate li brary director for facilities and learn ing resources, is excited about the new building. Finally, much of the equipment that has been housed in closets and storage places will be available for students and faculty to use. Fulkerson has been working on the library project for nine years. He sees the new library as a “seamless” facility that will be one place to get everything. With added space and equipment, it will be the best of both worlds - print and elec tronic media. Fulkerson says the library will be a “beautiful building that faculty, students and staff can be proud of”
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