March 15, 2001
News
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“This unfortunate series of
events tainted the integrity of the
Elon Greek community and the
strong advances made over the
past two years. I could not stand
back and jeopardize all the great
work of Elon’s Greek chapters,
councils and individuals. Conse
quently, it was with much sadness
that I had no other option but to
resign as Elon’s Director of Greek
Life.”
‘To my detractors, I trust
that my resignation will end this
issue once and for all and that the
Elon Greek community is allowed
to return to its national award win
ning prograrhming based on Ritual
and life-long brother/sisterhood.”
No official statement has
been made about the incident in
volving Hasp’s Web site. Presi
dent Lambert expressed the reluc
tance of the college to make the
incident involving Hesp public
because the administration wants
to ensure his right to due process.
“The school does not want
to broadcast personnel decisions
across campus,” Jackson said.
Lambert said, that Hesp
“made a serious lapse in judg
ment,” he said college officials
were very careful to erasure that
Hesp^s life and c£^eer werc not de
stroyed. “The college has moved
very quickly and very carefully to
handle the situation expeditiously,”
Lambert said.
Dan Anderson, Director of
College Relations said only a couple
of cases involving Web policy vio
lations with pages on Elon’s site
have occurred over the past three
years.
Anderson said to ensure the
material on the Web pages is con
sistent “with the mission and com
munity standards of Elon as an aca
demic institution, the mission be
ing educational,” Elon requests the
disclaimer as part of the Web policy
be placed clearly on every personal
page. “Personal home pages are the
responsibility of their creators,”
Anderson said.
Lambert said that it would be
too difficult a task. “With millions
of pages related to the Elon Web
site, including syllabi, course mate
rials and the official college web
site, it presents us with a new set of
challenges.” Lambert added, “We
do not want to create an aura of
censorship.”
The rules of Elon’s Web
policy state the “content of all elec
tronic pages must be consistent with
the mission interest, standards and
policies of Elon College.” Each
personal home page must contain
a statement that informs the viewer
of Elon’s disclaimer in regard to
the Web page.
The disclaimer states that
the information and opinions in
cluded on the site reflect indi
vidual thoughts, tastes and activi
ties. “Individual page providers
assume all liability and responsi
bility for information on their per
sonal pages. Elon guarantee's no
previous-to-publishing editorial
contt-ol or review over the con
tent.”
John Gardner, president of
the Student Government Asso
ciation, expressed SGA reaction
to the incident. Gardner said Hesp
has made significant contributions
to the Gieek systerij, but his link
was inappropriate. He said Hesp
made an unfortunate mistake.
A search for a new Director
of Greek life will begin soon, “bi
the past, student forums were held,
students were asked to sit in on
interviews for a new Director of
Greek Life, and I would assume
this is how the process would work
again unless the administration
has someone in mind,” Gardner
said»
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College dean announced
Taresa LaRock
Editor in Chief
Steven House has been named
Elon’s next dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences. Nancy Midgette
will be the associate provost.
The announcement was made
Wednesday by Gerald Francis, pro
vost and vice president for academic
affairs.
“We had two viable candidates
for the position,” said Francis at a
meeting held to reveal the decision.
“I made a recommendation to the
president and it has been accepted. I
got what I wanted in both people.”
The search for the dean was
launched last fall. There were eight
candidates.
Over the past month faculty,
staff and students were invited to
attend presentations by the selected
four finalists.
The College of Arts and Sci
ences was created in February 2000
and includes 17 academic depart
ments and two interdisciplinary ma
jors. As dean. House will be respon
sible for those departments and ma
jors.
Midgette will help promote and
accomplish the goals outlined in
NewCentury@Elon, the school’s
Steven House (left)will
become dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences. Nancy
Midgette (right) will become
associate provost.
most recent strategic plan. She will
also provide curriculum development
and supervision for several of the
academic departments.
House and Midgette will also
be members of the dean’s council
and will serve under Francis.
“Steven House is a nationally
known scholar who brings to Elon an
impressive background,” said
Francis. House is currently associate
dean of the College of Arts and Sci
ences at Seton Hall University in
South Orange, N.J.
Midgette has been a faculty
member at Elon since 1986 and is
currently serving as interim dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences.
Both House and Midgette will
assume their positions this summer.
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and audiovisual resources.
In 1999 the Board of Trustees
increased the acquisition budget by
$137,000. Additional money was
allocated to the last budget and the
same amount will be added for this
budget.
The library budget, without
the acquisition budget, is approxi
mately $340,000. Spending on li
brary materials has more than
doubled since 1999.
“We want to strengthen our
book resources,” Kate Hickey, di
rector of the library, said. “We never
have enough journals. We will prob
ably increase print joumal and online
catalogs with a concentration in sci
ence and math. These are the areas
students seem most unhappy with
what we have.
“While this specific money
has gone to resources, the rest of our
budget has increased too,” Hickey
said. “This has allowed us to in
crease our hours, specifically on
Friday and Saturday nights. It has
allowed us to be open 24 hours
during exams.”
Hickey said the college ’ s goal
is to spend at least $200 per student
per year on library resources, books
and electronic resources. Approxi
mately $175 was spent per student
this year.
The Trustees also supported
funding of goals under
NewCentury@Elon plan, which
include strengthening the foreign
language and mathematics pro
grams, enhancing humanities fa
cilities, developing the general stud
ies curriculum and establishing a
School of Information Technology.
Under the new budget, Elon
will continue to invest in the com
puter infrastructure of the college.
Dan Anderson, director of college
relations said the funding will be
directed at making the network more
stable and faster.