Volume XXV, Number 5
Informing the Elon College Community
October 7,1999
INSIDE
Opinions
The infamoits Elon College
rumor mill at work
page 3
News
Hometown Heroes honors
community leaders
page?
Focus
Campus dining services
evaluated
pages lO-li
Conversation with ‘Rimers
of Bidrifch* director
page 19
Sports
Photo Essay;
Elon’s club sports
page 2!
^en*s Soccer scores victoiy
over Campbell
page 24
Elon Football
#22 in nation
for Div I-AA
Jeff Sanders
The Pendulum
Sports Network, Teamlink.com and USA Today/
ESPN polls list the Elon football team with a 22nd national
ranking this week after a 20-16 defeat of University of New
Haven Saturday, Oct. 2.
The team moved up from last week’s ranking of 25th
nationally. There are over 120 teams considered in the
Division I-AA ranking.
“Of course, we’re hoping to keep up the [unde
feated] run as long as possible,” said Sports Information
Director David Hibbard. Hibbard admitted that Western
Illinois, who Elon is set to face this weekend, is a tough
team that may pose a threat to the undefeated streak.
Western Illinois beat Elon last year 17-7 and were
ranked 24th in the same national polls on Monday.
“These next four weeks will be the most intense,” he
said, referring to Elon’s future matchups against Samford,
Hofstra, and Charleston Southern.
This weekend’s game is the sixth of the season for
Elon, now ranked at 5-0.
Should Elon defeat Western Illinois, it will have tied
its own record of undefeated games set during the 1986
season. That year in game seven, Gardner-Webb Univer
sity punted a field goal in the last minute to defeat Elon 33-
31 and bringing Elon ’ s record to 6-1.
“That’s the closest we’ve ever been to a play off bid,”
said Hibbard.
“Our 5-0 is behind us. We’re still practicing like it’s
the beginning of the season, and Coach [A1 Seagraves] is
still running us hard and trying to keep us focused. He
doesn’t want to see us complacent,” said junior quarter
back Derrick Moore.
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see FOOTBALL, page 5
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Elon running back Steven Ferguson (#6) wards off
linebacker Luigi Amasino (#13) of the University of New
Haven during Elon’s 20-16 victory over the Chargers
Saturday, Oct. 2. The win pushed Elon’s record to 5-0 and
earned them the #22 spot in the Division I-AA USA Today/
ESPN coaches’ poll released Monday.
Condos planned for Elon College outskirts
Kelly Allen
Contributing Reporter
^resident Leo Lambert welcomes parents to his home
during Sunday’s College Coffee at Maynard House.
“Build it and they will
come...” That is what the town of
Elon College has been saying for
the past ten years of the Mill Pointe
community right outside the col
lege.
Ten years ago a group of in
vestors bought 90 acres from the
Elon Homes for Children for $2
million.
They bought this land in hopes
of developing high-end housing in
the Elon College Community. - ,
Now, their dream is becom
ing a reality.
It took ten long, hard years of
revamping and revising to get this
venture off the ground.
The planned community was
originally supposed to have 150
condominiums modeled after simi
lar structures in the Pinehurst and
Southern Pines communities.
Now the development is ex
pected to put between 45 and 50
condominiums on the property.
Now included with the condomini
ums are lots for large single family
homes.
In 1993 the property received
a Planned Residential Development
agreement.
With this agreement the de
veloper is allowed to mix the uses
of the zoning district, in this case
varying the sizes of the lots.
The layout today has the
single family home lots skirting the
perimeter and the condominiums in
the interior of the development.
The development has four
phases that will be underway in the
coming years;
see CONDOS, page 5