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PGncl Ilium Thursday, February 20, 2003 Vol. 28, Issue 18 Elon University Elon, N.C. If it matters to you, it matters to The Pendulum. Students rally for peace In Raleigh Thousands gather to protest war in Iraq, promote non-violent solutions to conflict I w ly-:- n’r; • V.7*' -• lessica Patchett Kathleen Frey / Photographer Lorenz HampI and Kate VanDerSchaaf march in a peace rally in Raleigh Feb. 15. Nearly 50 members of the Elon community attended the event, joining more than 6,000 others from around the state. Similar protests took place throughout the country. Assistant News Editor Elon students and faculty joined some 6,000 political activists in Raleigh for the Worldwide Day of Protest Saturday, Feb. 15 to express their disagreements, frustrations and concerns regarding the escalating possibility of a United States attack on Iraq. “It was a typical kind of U.S. protest rally in that people were doing introductions and speeches with singers interspersed,” said Jim Pickens, sociology professor at Elon. Although it was hard for protesters to hear all of the mes sages throughout the afternoon, chants repeating the basic ideas of the speeches carried the main theme for the day, “No more war.” Speeches, singers, drum cir cles and a march down several city blocks were central to carry ing the message Saturday after noon, according to Pickens. The protesters marched past office and government buildings, including the one that houses the offices of Senators John Edwards and Elizabeth Dole. As the protesters marched, counters stood on vari ous street comers to obtain a number of people in attendance. The Raleigh police department and the rally counters concur that the protesters numbered between 6,000 and 7,000. Of these 6,000 demonstrators, roughly 50 people, 30 being stu dents, came from the Elon com munity. “The students that I talked to there were up and excit ed about the rally,” Pickens said. Alice Dull, an Elon student active in the Elon Students for Peace and Violence, agreed that the reactions of the students from Elon were very positive. “I’d See Rally p. 15 Student Union Board director, SGA adviser resigns After 14 years at Elon, Carlton looks forward to new challenges in school systems Job Erin Cunningham Reporter When Barb Carlton looks back on her 14 years at Elon, she sees students. She sees their faces, their smiles and remembers the hours of conversation. “There’s been so many stu dents,” Carlton, director of stu dent activities, said. “I’ll remem ber when they come in and say ‘I get it. I understand where I’m going now.’” On March 3 Carlton will be helping a new set of students dis cover where they are going and how to get there. She resigned from Elon to take a position as prevention specialist with Alamance and Burlington School systems, working with troubled youths being reintroduced into public school. “I’ll be working with high school students and middle school students who are coming out of training programs,” she said. “It’s youths that have had some prob lems.” Carlton equates college stu dents with the students she will be working with. “It’s just people finding their own way,” she said. “Everybody has great potential.” The decision to leave Elon was sudderi, the entire process taking only three weeks, Carlton said. She received a call from a friend, say ing there were some positions open. She called to find out more details, and it seemed like a dream job. The hours were right. “I’d been wanting to spend more time with my family,” she said. “My family is very impor tant to me, and I don’t want a job that will keep me from them.” The money was also right, Carlton added, “Cha-ching, cha- Barb Carlton Pendulum founder dies at 85 Katie Beaver Mary Ellen Priestley ching.” She could not turn it down. “It was unbelievable,” she said. She has -already been to one day of training. “It’s very exciting,” Carlton said. “Not every day will be the same.” Carlton’s first role at Elon was through Residence Life, as north area director. During her second year she was asked to take over as director of student activities, and See Carlton p. 7 Managing Editor Mary Ellen Evans Priestley, who was instrumental in estab lishing Elon’s communications department, study abroad pro gram and The Pendulum, died Feb. 4 at age 85. Priestley, a former news paper reporter, editor and freelance writer, devot ed 12 years of her career to Elon, serving in the English department and as adviser to The Pendulum. Former col leagues and students remember a driven, energetic woman devoted to her job and her family. “The vigor of her personality and breadth of her interests made her memorable,” said English professor Russell Gill, who worked with Priestley from 1976 until her retirement in 1980. “She was such an active and energetic person.” Born April 20, 1917, in Ashland City, Tenn., Priestley received her bachelor’s degree from Tennessee State Teachers College in 1938, her master’s degree from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1943 and her doctorate from the University of Alabama in 1967. She worked in newspaper, radio, film, maga zine and corporate settings before spending three years in the Pacific during World War II, working See Priestley p. 15 INSIDE SGA candidate Information page 12 The platter goes mad page 16 Senior will star in “Sound of Music” page 20
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