Volume XXIV, Number 19
Informing the Elon Colleges Community
March 4, 1999
Opinions
Gardner, Crotts thank
supporters
pages 2,4
News
Habitat for Humanity
dedicates their sixth house
page 6
Eoom";.-
T/ie goes ghost
hunting in Whitley
pages 10*11
A&E
Review of the heartfelt film
‘Life is Beautiful’
page 13
Sports
The weeic in Baseball and
Men’s and Women's Tennis
^ page 19
Prope; Mary Parker CotoMi
page 20
Elon graduate nationally recognized by Peace Corps
Alan Medeiros
The Pendulum
An Elon College graduate re
cently participated in the SS*** anni
versary celebration of the founding
of the Peace Corps.
On March 2, Crystal Gibson,
’94, and 20 students from her sev
enth grade world geography class at
Southern Middle School in Lusby,
Md. participated in a video confer
ence with Peace Corps volunteer
Mary Muzzi’s class in Moscow.
Those present at the celebra
tion at Peace Corps headquarters in
Washington, D.C. included the
Honorary Chairman, Secretary of
Education Richard Riley, Secretary
of Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala and Maryland Lieu
tenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend.
The students from Moscow
and Gibson’s class participated in a
video conference that was broad
cast over the web. This was part of
the Peace Corps’ global education
program, where students have the
opportunity to experience other cul
tures through a medium other than
a textbook,
Gibson feels that the program
helps students on both sides of the
ocean realize that even though some
one may be from a different land,
and have a different cultural back
ground, in the end everyone is the
same.
Gibson graduated from Elon
in 1994 with a degree in history.
see GIBSON, page 5
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Emily MacDonnell/T/ie Pendulum
SGA Executive President-elect John Gardner (left) receives
congratulations from current SGA Executive President Mark Richter
at the announcement of the election winners Thursday, Feb. 25.
Gardner won the run-off election held earlier that day.
Gardner
elected
President
Carrie Lancos
The Pendulum
John Gardner was elected Executive Presi
dent after the Student Government Association
(SGA) held a run-off election Thursday, Feb.
25.
The run-off was held because the general
election held Feb. 22-23, narrowed the field to
Gardner and Corbie Meadows, however it did
not produce a majority winner.
“The election was obviously close be
cause we had two well-respected candidates,”
current SGA Executive President Mark Richter
said.
“I’d like to thank everyone who came out
and supported me the past couple of weeks,”
Gardner said at the announcement of the winner
made Thursday evening.
Richter commended the two candidates
at the announcement for running “such a civil
election.”
see GARDNER, page 5
College Relations gets a new home
Carolyn Lampila
The Pendulum
Elon College’s Relations De
partment moved from their house
on O’Kelly Avenue to the former
Career Services house on Haggard
Ave. last week.
Dan Anderson, Director of
College Relations, and the rest of
the staff, were originally located in
the gray house on O’ Kelly Avenue,
just east of the Hook, Brannock and
Barney dormitories.
The reason for the move, ac
cording to Anderson, was a part of
Elon’s long-term plans.
In addition to the College
Relations house, the former Phi Mu
House, Counseling Center and Po
litical Science House have already
been demolished and the road which
led to them has been filled in and
replaced with a brick path.
The area where these build
ings and the street used to be, will
not be a green, landscape area. In
the future, the land may be used for
future campus construction,
“We’ re very excited about this
new facility,” Anderson said,
Anderson said that they have
more office space, a nicer location
and are more visible in their new
location.
“It’s a very comfortable set
ting for all that we do,” said Ander
son.
Anderson said that it is im
portant that Career Services be in a
prominent, central location on cam
pus.
He said that Career Services
is an important facet of college life
and it needs to be easily accessible
to the students.
see MOVE, page 5