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Soltball starts season oil 2-0 ELON ROCK OPERA- BRANT “A BEAUTIFUL SCHULLER DISEASE" ART EXHIBIT THE ONION MONOLOGUES STORY ONLINE PAGE 18 AND ONLINE STORY ONLINE Elon •TwMni* ¥oluiita8r arfywc PAGE 16 HE PENDULUI ELON, NORTH CAROLINA | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2010 | VOLUME 36, EDITION 4 www.elon.edu/pendulum Elon brings light to campus crosswalks 1 •X.. . lOgraph*»r Town of Elon workers put up lighting outside The Pendulum office on Feb. 11. The new lights were installed to create safer conditions for the crosswalks on campus. Samantha King News Editor along Williamson Avenue and Haggard Avenue on Feb. 4, but after taking light readings, the university decided that the LED bulbs alone did not provide enough light Elon University installed temporary lighting at key for the street, Dan Anderson, director of university crossing locations around campus and will permanently relations, said, install lighting at nine other locations within the next New LED bulbs were installed in the street lamps S66 LIGHTS | PAGE 6 Elon’s endowment grows, others drop Caitiin O'Donnell Assistant News Editor In a year when many schools around the country suffered dramatic dips in their endowments, Elon University broke the trend by increasing its endowment by 1.5 percent. A survey done by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute showed higher education institutions in the United States saw, on average, losses of 18.7 percent in 2009. Elon’s endowment is S81.8 million, according to the survey, up from S80.6 million in 2008. According to BusinessWeek, the year was the worst for college endowments since the Great Depression. The study reported UNC Greensboro’s endowment dropped 17.3 percent to $152 million. Wake Forest University witnessed a drop of 22.8 percent, falling from $1.15 billion to $887 million in 2009. “We did not lose as much as others did because of some good investment strategies, and we also added funds to the endowment because of the Ever Elon campaign,” said Gerald Whittington, vice president of business for Elon. “These two things made us go up slightly for the year.” In October 2008, Elon launched See ENDOWMENT | PAGE 4 Smoking ban effects set in across N.C. Rachel Southmayd Senior Reporter The smoking ban in North Carolina has left businesses in the state coping with regulation that not all customers are happy about. The methods of handling these changes vary across the state. The anti-smoking bill was first filed in the North Carolina legislature on May 19, 2009, going into effect at the start of 2010. The law prohibits smoking in public enclosed areas, such as state buildings and vehicles, as well as restaurants and bars. Greg Salenhe, owner of Sandy’s Steaks and Subs, said a lot of smoking customers are not happy with the new law and are upset that no public referendums were held before passing the smoking ban. “Especially with the cold weather, some customers are complaining a lot,” Salenhe said. But for another local Elon restaurant. The Fat Frogg, the ban has had a positive impact. “We have always been non-smoking," general manager Pete Ustach said. “We have even more people come here now because they can’t smoke anywhere.” Sophomore political science major Brooke Kassner recently quit smoking and has mixed feelings about the ban. “I think it’s a good thing for people who don’t smoke, but for people who do, it’s rather frustrating,” she said. As of Feb. 7, the North Carolina Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch of the Division of Public Health had investigated 12 complaints reporting potential violations of the rules within the ban. “I think that having only this number of complaints out of all the facilities we have in Alamance County is terrific. Folks are generally trying to comply," said Carl Carrol, the director of environmental health for the .'Alamance County Health Department. Carrol said several restaurants near Elon University have been given violation notices, including 3 Thirty 3 Sports Bar and the Oasis Lounge. “They may not have had their ‘No Smoking’ signs posted, or they may have had a.shtrays inside the facility, or we could have observed some smoking inside the facility, but management was not telling that person to go outside,” Carrol said. Smoking is still allowed indoors in cigar bars, private clubs and designated rooms in lodging establishments like hotels. Exceptions to the law also exist for tobacco shops and “live production sets.” In early January, WCET News in Wilmington reported on a local hookah bar, the Juggling Gypsy Cafe, that believed It had found a “loophole” in the law. The owners installed a webcam and began streaming footage from the restaurant live. By doing this, the entire restaurant became a “live production set” and was therefore exempt. Tom Noble, assistant professor in the Elon University School of Law, said See SMOKE | PAGE 6 How Elon compares to other N.C. Schools School 2008 Change 2009 Bon University $80.6 million -hi .5 percent $81.8 million High Point University $43 million -30.2 percent $30 million Duke University $6.1 billion -27.5 percent $4.4 million Wake Forest University $1.15 billion -22.8 percent $887 million Guilford College $68.4 million -21.5 percent $53.8 million Davidson College $501.6 million -26.4 percent $369.4 million UNC Chapel Hill $2.4 billion -19 percent $1.9 billion FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON ELON NEWS, VISIT WWW.ELON.EDU/PENDULUM
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