Informing the Elon College Community
VOLUME XXVI
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ISSUE 12 date 12/07/00
Road expansion to help ease
college traffic: Connection to
Interstate 85140 several years away
Alison Deiboldt
The Pendulum
A two-part extension of Cook Road is
set to break ground this spring, giving the
Elon College community an improved traffic
pattern around the county.
The first part of the extension, the “Elon
Bypass,” will connect Highway 100 with
Highway 87, directly north of the Elon Col
lege campus. Chuck Cantos, Director of
Campus Safety and Police, explained that the
road will most likely be called University
Drive and serve as a main entrance to the
campus in the future.
This road will be beneficial to students
and the community because it will alleviate
traffic along Haggard Avenue and Williamson
Avenue,” Cantos said. “We are definitely
ready for this change.”
The second part of the extension is still
several years in the future and it will connect
Cook Road with Interstate 85/40. This road
will be directed behind the cuirent location of
Davidson Park.
Town Manager Mike Dula explained
that many preparations have already been
made including extending water and sewage
lines along the proposed bypass.
“This development will bring more
businesses and industry to the town and ex
pand the community as a whole,” Dula said.
“If the Research Triangle area continues to
expand the way it has, the Elon College and
Burlington communities must also be ready
for growth.”
Cantos said that the area from High
way 100 to O’Kelly Avenue hopes to be
completed around the same time as the
Rhoades Stadium opening. He also explained
that in order to improve the current infra
structure, the community would have to adapt
to a few inconviences during the time of
construction.
There will most likely be detours on
Williamson and O ’ Kelly Avenues 20-30 days
during construction, as well as some detours
around Manning Avenue.
“I think that the community realizes
this need for expansion and will be willing to
work with us during delays,” said Cantos.
“Once completed, Elon’s community as a
whole will see the benefits of this project.”
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Chaplain McBride leads everyone In song, with the help of the
“Spirit Sisters” at Elon’s lighting ceremony.
Thousands of lights announce
Elon’s annual holiday ceremony
Lauren Bigge
Contributing Reporter
Fifty-thousand lights glowed as hun
dreds of people sang Christmas carols and
drank hot chocolate during the Tree Lighting
and Luminaries ceremony at Scott Plaza
Tuesday night.
“We have to sing for the lights! The
song of, course, is ‘Deck the Halls,’” Chap
lain McBride said as he stood on the stage in
front of the Alamance Building. The white
lights on the trees around Alamance came
on, followed by the lights at the Moseley
Center. McBride thanked the Salvation Army
band for providing the music, as well as
volunteers who set up the luminaries lining
the paths on both sides of Haggard Avenue.
The Freshmen Class, the Emerging
Leaders of the Isabella Cannon Leadership
Program, Bob Willis and friends and Hillary
Sherman and her friends in the Junior Class
all helped set up the luminaries. McBride also
thanked a Greensboro family for giving Elon
College a new Moravian star.
Students joined McBride on the stage
to sing “Joy to the World,” “Oh Christmas
Tree,” “It Came Upon The Midnight Clear,”
and “We Wish You A Merry Christmas.”
See “LIGHTS,” page 5