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Moseley has a designated place for
senior administration to gather during
an emergency or natural disaster
Dan Anderson confirmed that
the university does have a
disaster plan that lays out
Moseley as the “Emergency
Operations Center” during
a disaster. The headquarters
for emergency procedures will be in
Moseley 215 and at the information
desk.
“Part of the reason for this is
because it IMoseley] has a big power
generator so it has its own source of
power should a tornado or some other
calamity cut power," Anderson said.
There is roof access in Smith dormitory
According to Stanley Greeson, Smith's roof
can be accessed through the attic. The building
has has a roof hatch that leads onto the roof.
“The access is in the custodial closet as a barn
ladder,” Greeson said. “The hatch goes up into
the access with a catwalk that leads to the roof
hatch.” The closet is under lock and key
so students will not attempt to get onto
the roof, according to Greeson.
There is an underground passageway
between Sloan and Virginia
There are steam paths that
exist between West and Virginia,
but there is nothing underground
between Sloan and Virginia.
According to Stanley Greeson, there
are no underground pathways
between the buildings that are
accessible to walk through.
“The only thing that is there
would be the boiler room
under the patio outside
of West,” Greeson said.
The steam tunnel
between West and
Virginia provides heat to
the buildings.
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The university wants to expand the campus to mimic
the layout of other southern schools
The campus has a long-standing campus
master plan, according to Dan Anderson.
Some students were curious about
the similarity of Elon's appearance to
Wake Forest.
“I have never heard Wake Forest's
campus brought up in any discussion I have ever been a
part of," Anderson said. “Elon uses a consulting firm to
create this plan.”
Ideas for expansion include long-term goals,
such as deciding where an appropriate location for a
convocation center would go.
“There are lots of campus quads built in this nature,"
Anderson said. “This idea came from University of
Virginia’s design by Thomas Jefferson called the
'academical village.'”
Jefferson’s model is based on the assumption that
“the life of the mind is a pursuit for all participants in
the university ... that interaction between scholars and
students enlivens the pursuit of knowledge," according
to the University of Virginia Web site.
Elon's academic village is based off the same model
by Jefferson, in which buildings mirror one another
around a central quad. According to Anderson, the
'academical village’ concept has served as a model for
campuses across the country.
The water formations in
Fonville Fountain used
to be arranged like a
clock, but this feature
was turned off for the
Bill Clinton rally
Fonville Fountain
has about 25 different
patterns that the
water can spray in.
The fountain runs on
a cycle but was not
intended to serve as a
clock.
“As far as 1 know, the clock idea wasn’t even
imagined at any point,” Tom Flood said. But
there were some adjustments made to the
fountain prior to the Bill Clinton rally.
“We set the fountain pattern so that
it would stay consistent," Flood said.
“Otherwise, the noise would have
been too much of a distraction."
The placement of the nozzles
and the height of the fountain
were part of the original
design. While the water
patterns are preset, there is
“no secret Nostradamus code to
the fountain,” Flood said.
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Athletes don’t need to have a 2.0 GPA to graduate
All students are required to have a minimum
overall GPA of a 2.0 to graduate and a minimum of
a 2.0 in their major.
“We’ve never had a person graduate below a 2.0
to my knowledge, in the history of the university,”
Mark Albertson said.
Albertson has seen students graduate from Elon
for the past 31 years and cannot recall a single
instance in his time at Elon or otherwise.
“Athletes must have a 2.0 too,” Albertson said.
“There is no exception in any way, shape or form in
terms of graduation requirements.”
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Once a professor is
tenured, they can never
be asked to leave
According to the
faculty handbook,
under “removal for
cause," faculty who
have been tenured can
be asked to leave.
Tenured faculty
can be removed
for cause of illegal
activity, financial
exigency, discipline
issues and other actions inconsistent with
the university’s code of maintaining fairness.
If issues arise with tenured faculty, that
faculty’s chair, the dean and the provost and
vice president for academic affairs will meet
with the professor to discuss the issue.
If the issue is not resolved, the professor
may request a hearing from the academic
council. Hearings from this
procedure may be taken to
the board of trustees by the
president for further review
if the professor in question
requests an additional
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