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Volume XXIV, Number 14
Informing the Elon College Community
December 3,1998
INSIDE
In Every Issue
AcAdemic Update
^ pages
Organization Biiefs
page 8
Staffi^aculty Ffoiile
page 9
Horoscopes
pgs 15
Elon ^ a Glance
page 16
Comics
page 17
Opinions
Celebrating CMstmas —
college style
page 6
Hfiws
Dr. Young looks back on
Ms 25 yeks
page^l2’'l4
TheBesi of 199$
page 18-22
Eeatergs
Blon prepares for the
annual SnowBall
page 23
Sports
A look at men's and
women's basketball
page 27
Donor gives money for stadium
Alan Medeiros
The Pendulum
Elon College recently an
nounced that Furman and Susan
Moseley have pledged $1 million
to the college in honor of Nick
Theos, Moseley’s former football
teammate.
President Fred Young said
that this contribution is the most
recent in a series of contributions by
the Moseley family. Young also
feels that the reason the Moseleys
continue to donate to Elon College
is their belief in what Elon College
does for young people’s lives.
Furman Moseley is a 1956
Elon College alumnus. While at
Elon, he was a member of the foot
ball team, playing guard along with
teammate Theos. Moseley was also
president of the student body.
The majority of the gift will
help finance the new football sta
dium and athletic facilities. An
archway at the entrance to the sta
dium will be names in honor of
Theos, a Charleston, S.C. native,
Theos, who graduated with
Moseley was principal of Bishop
England High School in Charleston
for 25 years before retiring earlier
this year. Following his retirement,
the school dedicated its develop
ment office in his honor, and the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Charles
ton named him an honorary bishop.
Both Theos and Moseley at
tended Elon because of the efforts
of John L. Georgeo, a 1945 Elon
graduate from Charleston, who also
played football at Elon and later
was an assistant high school foot
ball coach in Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
A portion of the Moseley’s
gift will be added to the John L.
Georgeo Scholarship Fund. This
fund was established by Furman
Moseley in 1981, and this gift will
see DONATION, page 4
Administrative
salaries on the rise
Michelle Cater
The Pendulum
Elon College President J. Fred
Young’s salary for last year was
more than $40,000 higher than the
average salary of the presidents of
Elon and four similar North Caro
lina institutions.
Young’s salary for the 1996-
97 academic year was $201,463,
according to a study printed in the
Chronicle of Higher Education.
This is more than the
$188,816 made by the president of
Davidson College, the $153,174
earned by the president at Meredith
College, the $151,200 earned by
the president of Gardner-Webb
University and the $ 108,342 earned
by the president of Lenoir-Rhyne
College.
Dr. Y oung also received more
than $46,000 in benefits during the
1996-97 academic year.
Lorraine Allen, director of
accounting, said benefits include
things like insurance, retirement
funds and social security and Medi
care taxes paid by the school.
Young’s salary for 1996-97
was also more than $41,000 more
than his salary for 1995-96.
A spokesman for Robert
LaRose, the chairman of the Board
of Trustees, said LaRose is not
making any public statements re
garding the college at this time. No
other members of the Board were
available for comment.
Young said the college com
pares its salaries with those of other
North Carolina private institutions
to make sure they are competitive.
He said the goal was to be in the top
5, but after Duke University, Wake
Forest University and Davidson
College.
Elon also compares its sala
ries to those of High Point Univer
sity and Guilford College. The in
formation for those institutions for
^ . Jenny Jarnecke/r/7e Pendulum
Students and townspeople gather at Fonville fountain
see SALARY, page 4 for Elon's annual campus lighting Tuesday night.
Sierra Club president to speak at Commencement
Lisa McChristian
The Pendulum
Adam Werbach and Rever
end Ann Calvin Rogers-Witte have
been chosen to be the Commence
ment and Baccalaureate speakers
for graduation ceremonies.
The 25 year old Werbach,
who gave the Commencement
speech at Colorado College last year,
awakened the reserved graduates
there with a lively version of “If
Your Happy and You Know It Clap
Your Hands.” At age 23, Werbach
became the youngest president of
the Sierra Club, which is the oldest
and largest grassroots environmen
tal organization in the United States.
He served two one -year terms.
During his time in office he led the
campaign to pass the strongest clean
air standards in America’s history,
the fight to protect more than two
million acres of wilderness, and
accompined President Clinton at the
Grand Canyon when the largest
wilderness bill in the history of Utah
was signed. Werbach used tools
like MTV and the Internet to help
increase the club’s membership to
600,000 and change the average age
of members from 47 to 37 years.
A graduate of Harvard-
Westlake, Mountain School of
Milton Academy, and Brown Uni
versity, Werbach started his activ
ism at an early age. When he was
eight he passed around a petition to
oust Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of
the Interior, James Watt. When he
was 17, Werbach founded the Si
erra Club’s national student pro
gram, the Sierra Student Coalition.
Under his supervision the SSC
helped create the largest national
park in the lower 48 states and had
its membership grow to 30,000.
see SPEAKER, page 4