THE PENDULUM
Volume 30, Issue 12
December 2, 2004
www.elon.edu/pendulum
What's Inside
Elon holds annual holiday
luniinaries '
Small budget?
Check out inexpensive
Christmas gifts to get the
best bang for your buck.
See p. 11
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Faculty spotlight:
Ihe Physical Plant
staff prepared all
week long for the
luminaries celebra
tion by putting up
holiday decorations
around campus.
Eton's annual holiday
luminary celebration
will be held at 6:30
tonight by Fonville
Fountain and Scott
Plaza located in front
of Alamance. The
Elon community will
join in celebrating the
holiday season by
singing Christmas car
ols and having hot
chocolate.
Hundreds of luminar
ies will line the walk
ways on campus.
English professor Drew Perry
Was recently published in an
anthology.
See p. 17
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Ashley S. Feibish /
Photographer
Women's Basketball
With a young basketball squad
and only two returning starters,
^ team is off to a rocky start
See p. 21
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Area churches plan for biannual Cookie Walk
donuts, fruit. Goldfish a way to help students take a break . Rnmann a sonhomor
Rriftany Smith.
Reporter
cupcakes, donuts, fruit. Goldfish
and pretzels.
Local churches such as the Elon
Community Church, Faith Walk
Methodist United Methodist Church, First
On Wednesday, tne Methodist Church of Elon,
Fellowship is pm. in and Front Street United Methodist
nual Cookie ^an bring Church will provide students with a
McKinnon Hall, stu^ ^^,ty of homemade and store-
one can of food or any ^ bought cookies and other goodies.
ishable food iteim Methodist Fellowship spon-
plate of free promoted as
Lch as brownies, candy.
a way to help students take a break
from studying and the stress of
exams.
Last spring, the Methodist
Fellowship helped to serve 241 peo
ple over 3,000 free cookies and other
snacks. This year the Fellowship
hopes to serve even more people and
to raise 1,000 cans, instead of just
the couple hundred they raised last
spring, to donate to Loaves and
Fishes.
Jen Romano, a sophomore,
describes her experience with
Cookie Walk, “There were just so
many kinds of cookies. It was so
beautiful. It was just a room of
happy. They had Oreos, chocolate
chip, sugar cookies, the Fudge
Shoppe cookies with the icing on
them... You just can’t go wrong.
See COOKIE WALK p. 4