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THE PENDULUM Volume 30, Issue 7 October 1, 2004 www.elon.edu/pendulum What's Inside M AllJKt S How safe are you on campus? On-campus crime on the rise; burglary arrests for 2003 double number in 2002. See p. 14-15 INIMM AINMINI ‘Brighton Beach’ opens at Black Box Theatre Play highlights difficulties of a Jewish family through Great Depression. See p. 21 sl'OKls Men’s soccer looks to aid V Foundation. The Oct. 13 game against North Carolina will go to benefit the foundation. See p. 25 Mangled ride, rack, relax bikes litter campus Lindsay Porter Reporter In a large heap on the outskirts of Elon’s Physical Plant lies a pile of the lost and for gotten, those that fought the. good fight but spent their last days suffering through rugged use they just weren’t designed for. These are the bikes of Ride, Rack and Relax. The bikes used for the Ride, Rack and Relax program, a school-sponsored initia tive to provide students with access to bikes for cross-campus trips, have become the tar get of student misuse. In recent weeks, at least two bikes have been spotted and removed from the train tracks that run through campus. Another bike, according to Smith Jackson, dean of Student Life, was left mangled after being struck by a passing train. While no damage was done to the train, Jackson warns that similar incidents could have catastrophic results. “It’s not probable that a train would derail (because of a bike on the tracks),” he said. “But if a conductor saw something obstructing the tracks and tried to stop immediately, there could be problems.” Will Campbell / Photographer nncp functioning cruiser bikes lie in disarray outside Physical Plant offices. Ride, The remnants of what were on Rack and /T ^0 are awaiting major and minor repairs. See BIKES p. 4 Others have suffered gross mis Sustainability feature topic for Friday’s forum IS navid Pougla^ Reporter Janet MacFall, an asso ciate professor of biology, .be of university's October cnv^ ronmental conference, “Roadmap to the Future: Tomorrow by Design, not to tell people they Zor^g, but "to provide :„rer way »f "’'"®4-re lookine ” “ community that m.l negative Mvironmentwhileenhan_ ing quality of ’ ^Fan said of the confer- ence that starts Friday. It will be the fourth year the Elon University Center for Environmental Studies hosts a fall forum. The three previous conferences, titled “A River Runs Through Us,” were designed to focus on water resource management, but as cities sprawl and people spend and more time •‘Roadmap to the Future: 'mrnorrow by Design” Environmental Forum 8:30 am. -8:30 p.m. Friday McKinnon Hall more in their cars, MacFall said it was time to look at the idea of the sustainable commu nity. According to MacFall, it’s possible for businesses to conduct themselves and still remain profitable while safeguarding the environment, this idea is called the “sustain able business.” “It’s a way of doing business in which the econom ics of the business are planned for the long-term prof itability and stabili ty of the company, but again part of that is minimal to no impact on the environ ment,” MacFall said. Stuart Hart, an expert on the business world’s impact on the environment, will be a key presenter at this year’s conference. Another keynote speaker will be author David Orr, who discusses the ideas of sustainability in his books, “Earth in Mind” and “Ecological Literacy.” “David Orr is an author who is very, very active in bringing the ideas of sus tainable development to universities and communi ties,” MacFall said. MacFall says many great environmental ideas, such as that of the green or environmentally-friendly building, are still far under used. Frequently, she says, such technology and See FORUM p. 4
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