Volume 31, Issue 18
March 2, 2006
www.elon.edu/pendulum
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SGA staff (left to right) Maggie Piggott, Cameron Davis, Michael Bumbry and Bethany Massman tackle topics like preserving the 'Elon atmosphere.'
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Timothy Rink
Reporter
Beginning his second term as
Student Government Association’s
executive president, junior Michael
Bumbiy said the most serious problem
on Elon’s campus is the increase in
dangerous and illegal drinking.
“I sit in on hearings all the time,
and most of them are alcohol- related
and it’s really surprising,” said
Bumbry. “I’m not just talking about
.08 (blood-alcohol content) or .17, I’m
talking like .30 and above, areas
where you should be in a coma, if not
dead. I think our administration really
needs to crack down on underage
drinking.”
The most important people in this
process may be Elon’s Resident
Advisors. “It’s important for RAs to
maintain their credibility,” said
Bumbry, a resident advisor in West
Area. “And it’s impossible to do that if
they are violating the codes they
should be enforcing, especially with
their residents. They’re supposed to be
I think there’s a culture on this campus that
says you have to go to West End on Wednesday nights,
you’ve gotta go to Cantina on Thursdays and that you
just have to party it up on the weekends. That culture
needs to change.
—Michael Bumbry, SGA executive president ^ ^
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the role model and how can you
enforce something when you’re doing
it yourself?”
“I’m not completely innocent, I’m
not saying I’m holier-than-thou or that
I have never drank alcohol and I’m not
21. I’m no saint, but my residents have
never seen me intoxicated and because
of that, we have that barrier, that
boundary, that respect.”
According to Bimibry, the biggest
change needs to come from within the
student body itself. “I think there’s a
culture on this campus that said you
need to go to West End bar on
Wednesday nights, you’ve gotta go to
Cantina on Thursdays and that you
have to just party it up on the week
ends,” he said. “That culture needs to
change.”
Bumbry seemed at home in the
SGA’s executive president’s office,
where he has worked for the last year.
“I don’t know what it’s like to not be
involved in SGA,” he said. After an
election earlier this week, he found
out he will get to spend another year
there, working toward his vision for
Elon.
“I’m just looking forward to getting
started with a new year. Each year you
learn new things, you meet new people
Elon’s reigning homecoming king
said that being president is stressful,
but worth it “I think it just goes back
to having done this for so long and
having a passion for it and not wanting
to quit,” he said. “This is a very
demanding job, it’s very tough on you
physically and mentally because
you’re the president and that comes
with a lot of glory, but it also comes
with a lot of responsibility.”
Bumbry said he never planned on
serving two terms as president, but
he’s using it to his advantage and is
enjoying it. He said he loves Elon’s
personal atmosphere and warns that
growth is both necessary for and a
danger to the continuation of a healthy
campus.
“No one wants to see this school
twice the size it is,” he said. “I think
we don’t have the space for it and it
would take away from the culture that
is Elon - that personal interactive feel
ing that you don’t get at most schools.”
Staff
Senior Class Officers:
President - Carson Foushee
Vice President - Jamey
Falkenbury
Secretary - Amie Ritchie
Senator - Michelle Matalon
Junior Class Officers:
President - Michelle
Lauren Murphree
Vice President - Michael
Purcell
Treasurer - Joshua Donde
Senator - Robert Saunders
Sophomore Class Officers:
President - Ben Smith
Vice President - Alex
Nickodem
Senator - Ian Spreat
FEATURES
p. 15
Local couple hosts
dinner for Elon stu
dents every week.
ENTERTAINMENT
18
Popular jam band
O.A.R. is coming to
Elon May 6.
SPORTS
p. 21
Montell Watson hopes
to return from injury
and fulfill a dream