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The Pendulum
NEWS
Hunger Awareness
Week promotes charity
Adam Smith
Reporter
According to the U.S.
Census Bureau, there are about
32 million Americans who are
either hungry or at risk of
hunger. Four million chil
dren under the age of 12
are malnourished.
Next week, Elon is
sponsering activities for
National Hunger
Awareness week.
Organizations and col
leges across the country
have events planned to
raise understanding and
knowledge of the cause.
Sophomores Jenn Pierson
and Alicia Cambri are
coordinators for Elen’s
event.
A canned food drive
will be set up in Moseley Center
all week. The organization that
donates the most food, Cambri
said, will win a pizza party.
Students will also be volunteer
ing at Allied Churches on
Monday and Thursday.
Another way to show support
is to donate a meal plan. A table
will be in Moseley from
Monday through Wednesday for
students to sign up to donate
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their breakfast meal on
Thursday. Aramark will donate
the money from these plans to
OxFam America, a national
non-profit organization. “This
is the easiest way to give some-
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Tram to be on time
Jessica Patchett
thing back,” Pierson said.
The week will culminate in a
30-hour famine in The Zone on
Friday. “The famine is a great
way to raise personal awareness
and to realize what is really
important in this world,”
Cambri said. The event is
a sleepover with activities
planned throughout the
night, with the attendees
being “a support group for
each other,” Pierson said.
“As students at a pri
vate university, most here
have never had to deal
with hunger,” Cambri
said. The events give all
students a way to get
involved in the cause.
“We take so much for
granted and don’t realize
what a huge problem
hunger is,” Pierson said.
Contact Adam Smith at pendu-
lum@elon.edu or 278-7247.
Reporter
By Monday, students living in
Danieley Center will have a prede-
temiined, dependable schedule of
the Danieley tram.
“Students want set times for the
tram according to class schedules,”
said Allen Poe, Campus Safety and
Security officer.
With 150-175 students depend
ing on the tram daily to get to and
from classes, a definitive schedule
will be a welcome change for
Danieley residents. The proposed
schedule lists arrival and departure
times to Danieley Center and
McMichael Science Center stops.
“I try to take the tram as much
as possible, but it’s hard to time it
right,” said Christine Sweeney, a
sophomore resident of Danieley
Center. Most students have simi
lar complaints regarding the
dependability of the tram, said
Gina Birdsall, a freshman resident
of Danieley. “If they had a sched
ule it would be a lot better,”
Birdsall said. Some drivers return
to campus quickly, and “other driv
ers slow down for every single per
son who’s walking slowly in
Danieley,” Birdsall said.
“I get to class a lot faster by rid
ing the tram,” Sweeney said. “It
makes it nice because I don’t have
to leave as early for classes than if
I were walking. But if I miss the
tram and leave later then it’s a
problem getting to class on time.”
While tram operators follow the
proposed schedule, they should
complete one circle around campus
in 15 minutes, stopping at six
places in Danieley and one at
McMichael. This schedule should
accommodate class schedules, as
there is a definite surge of com
muters near class times, Poe said.
The tram provides transporta
tion continuously from 7 a.m. to 6
p.m. five days a week, for five
years. But the current model of the
tram Elon uses is not designed to
run that much, and frequently
breaks down, Poe said. Poe is in
the process of looking at a newer
model to accommodate the needs
of Elon students.
“It seems to me that the tram has
been broken down a lot this year so
far,” Sweeny said. “The worst
time for it to break down is when
it’s raining because the intramural
field gets all muddy and the tram
track fills with puddles so by the
time I get to class I am always
soaking wet.”
Campus Safety and Security
will continue to run a van or bus
when the tram is broken.
Contact Jessica Patchett at pen-
dulum@elon.edu or 278-7247.
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