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LINDNER HALL dedicated page 4 AND ONLINE IS ISSUE SPECIAL OLYMPICS PAGE 23 PAN AREA CARNIVAL HELD SUNDAY PAGE 17 and ONLINE TABLOIDS: BENEFICIAL OR DETRIMENTAL? GUIDE TO FINDING HOUSING FOR INTERNS PAGE 11 PAGE 15 ELONTHON PHOTOSTORY PAGE 14, Pendulum PH CAROLINA | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 , 2010 | VOLUME 36, EDITION II www.elon.edu/pendulum Bike ride honors life of Elon professor Wf. ji oiess '& L Bicycle Co., along with the Alamance Bicycle Club, hosted the second memorial bike ride in honor of Elon University prdTessor Eugene Gooch Friday. Gooch was killed in April 2009 while biking on University Drive. Participants rode through Burlington beginning from the bike shop, which Gooch frequented, and passed through Elon's campus. In addition to serving as a memorial, storeowner Tara Jones-Legros said the ride was ALL PHOTOS BY COREY GROOM | Staff Photographer a chance to educate riders and drivers about how to share the road. “We’re using this to honor him because he has so many friends, especially on campus, but also because he was a safe rider,” Jones-Legros said. Before starting the ride, she gave a brief safety talk to remind everyone of the rules of the road, as well as distribute red ribbons to wear during the ride. Riders tied the red ribbons to their helmets and bikes in honor of Gooch. New on-campus housing to break ground in summer Alexa Johnson SenKX Reportef By fall 2011, housing options at Elon University will offer new places for students to live. Housing will be the first change under the Elon strategic plan, according to school officials. The construction of Colonnades buildings C, D and E, as well as five additional Greek houses, will be completed by fall 2011, said Jodean Schmiederer, the assistant dean of students. In the next decade, Elon plans to change its look with new buildings and programs through the strategic plan. The Elon Commitment. Buildings to be added to Colonnades The Colonnades, a relatively new housing area located next to the Koury Business Center, includes a number of amenities, including a maid service as well as fully furnished and carpeted rooms. Construction of the additional Colonnades buildings will complete the second and final stage of the original building plan. The new structures will look identical to the old buildings on the outside, but the inside plan will be slightly altered. “The school asked current residents about their likes and dislikes about the buildings," Schmiederer said. “Due to survey feedback, we changed the layout of the interior.” Neil Bromilow, director of construction management, said the housing would look different from the original Colonnades buildings. “Unlike Colonnades A and B, which were designed more like hotels, the new buildings are more like residence halls,” he said. According to Bromilow, there will still be a lounge on each floor, but the room will now be more open and located in the middle of the building. A kitchen and private studying rooms will be attached. Rooms will also have different layouts, similar to suite styles instead of hotels. Once buildings C, D and E are completed, the renovation of the campus’s North Area will take place, said Schmiederer. Although the specifics and designs for the See HOUSING I PAGE 3 Construction on bypass will add final piece to University Drive in the fall Jack Dodson News Editor Changes set to begin in the fall on the liniversity Drive bypass will be the final step in a construction project that began more than 10 years ago. Cook Road, the segment of University Drive that travels adjacent to Beth Schmidt Park until N.C. Highway 100, will be the site of construction. The project is a widening of the road, according to Town of Elon Mayor Pro Tempore Ron Klepcyk, making it a four- lane road with a small median. The project also hopes to add a bridge over the railroad where Cook Road meets N.C. Highway 100. Construction will occur on the Cook Road segment of University Drive alongside Beth Schmidt Park. The most important aspect of the project to members of the Elon Board of Aldermen, though, is it represents the end to a decade-long project of adding a bypass that diverts heavy traffic from going through downtown Elon. “One of the purposes of the bypass was to take some of the truck traffic off Williamson,” Klepcyk said. “That's, 1 think, one of the major things we hoped could happen, and I think that has happened." According to Chuck Edwards, the local district engineer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, the project began as a state project in the late 1990s with the northern end of the road, which goes around Elon University. Another subsequent See BYPASS I PAGE 7 FOR THE LATEST .ELO
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