Tuition to
top $24,000
next year
Olivia Hubert-Allen
and Bethany Swanson
Executive Editors
The Elon University board
of trustees has approved the
2008-2009 budget, which
mdudes an 8.6 percent
increase to tuition and fees
and a 6.4 percent increase to
room and board.
This brings the total for
tuition and fees to 524,076.
Room and board for typical
on campus resident will
increase to $7,770.
The tuition increase helps
to support a $145.5 million
budget that is expected to be
used to hire 30 new faculty
and staff members, and
support new investments
in instructional resources,
financial aid, environmental
sustainability, and campus
safety and security.
in addition to the tuition
/like, the university also
plans to increase financial
aid by 10.4 percent through
"major new investments in the
Honors and Fellows programs,
need-based scholarships, and
scholarships to attract top
athletes and those with special
talents in the performing
arts," according to the
announcement made by the
university.
Part of the increase to
financial aid includes the
addition of the Lumen Prize, a
515,000 scholarship that will
available to rising juniors.
Administrators say they
hope to increase Elon's
endowment so that they can
felyless on tuition increases
in the future.
The 2007-2008 cost for
tuition and fees was $22,166
and room and board was
57,296.
VOLUME 34,.EDITION 8
ELON, NORTH CAROLINA | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008
www.elon.edu/pendulum
March Sadness
MITCH PITTMAN 1 Photographer
The men’s basketball team watches anxiously from the bench as the final minutes of the Southern Conference final tick down.
Historic tournament run ends as quickly as it began
Justin Hite
Reporter
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - Senior
guard Brian Waters could only hide his
face beneath his jersey. Fighting back the
tears of anguish or loss or completion, he
was overcome by what would soon be an
end to a career.
Sitting on the bench as the dying
seconds ticked off of his final collegiate
season, there was nothing Waters could
do to salvage the Phoenix’s Cinderella run
that finally ended on a national ESPN2
stage with a 65-49 Southern Conference
Championship loss to Davidson College on
Monday night.
After three consecutive days with three
consecutive wins, the Phoenix — the first
team to make it to the final with a losing
record since 1988 — finally ran out of
whatever magic may have lifted them.
Not since Virginia Military Institution, in
1988, had a team with such a low seed,
Elon was ranked No. 7, made it all the way
to the finals.
“We came really far in the last four
days and to win the first day and the
second day and the third day and to fall
short of your goal, it takes a toll on you”
junior guard Brett James said.
Elon (14-19) seemed as if it was going
to be able to hold on to the high-powered
Wildcats (26-6). But by the end of the
game, it was late timeouts, in a game that
seemed defined by waves, which changed
the ebb and flow of the game.
Even with the constant flow of the
game, Elon seemed to stay In the game
only as long as the Wildcats let them.
Elon shot 35.2 percent from the field in
comparison to Davidson’s 45.5 percent.
“We knew it would take a great game
from us to win the basketball game and
on offense in particular we dicln’t shoot
the ball well and it put us in a difficult
See FINAL, Page 14
THE ROAD TO THE FINAL
Elon beats Furman (52-37)
Elon set a new SoCon record for fewest
field goals allowed. Brett James recorded
a game-high 16 points and Ola Atoyebi
nabbed a career best 10 rebounds.
Elon beats Chattanooga (60-57)
Seventh-seeded Elon upset second-seeded
Chattanooga. Atoyebi tallied 13 points
and 10 rebounds and James scored 12
points and eight rebounds.
Elon beats College of Charleston (75-61)
Montell Watson led the Elon scoreres with
15 points. Three other players score^jft -
the double digits. Elon led the eptifv g^me r
and showed exceptional sklllj
Graphic by Olivia Hubert-Alien
Community reacts to murder of UNC student body president
'^Jit Diemer
Editor
HILL’ N.C. - Eve Carson
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Senior Maggie Caswell waits at Polk Place to write a public message to Eve Carson.
S^cellor James Moeser briefly spoke there, addressing the community about their loss.
Curran said he doesn t believe any
of her other bank cards have been
used, but that Carson’s cell phone
records have been turned over to the
police as well, which could help lead
them in another direction.
Elon’s student body president Rob
Saunders said that he and the Senate
are still in shock over the news, since it
occurred so close to campus.
“Our university is also 30 percent
North Carolinians, including myself.
so although we might not have known
Eve ourselves, we have siblings and
friends that go to UNC and know
what a special person she was to that
campus,” Saunders said.
Associate professor of
communications Brooke Barnett and
Tom Mould, assistant professor of
sociology and general studies, met
Carson in Chapel Hill Feb. 26 at a
mutual friend’s house. Barnett said she
was saddened to learn of a Carson’s
death.
“She was a bright, interesting,
engaging woman,” Barnett said. “We’ve
lost someone who truly would have
made a difference and already had in
so many people’s lives.”
UNC has been on spring break this
week, which may help students heal
quicker, Elon Dean of Students Smith
Jackson said.
He has been in contact with
administrators from UNC and is
crushed by their loss.
“Maybe there was nothing she could
See MURDER, Page 3