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ELON, NORTH CAROLINA | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 | VOLUME 36, EDITION 19
www.elon.edu/pendulutn
Orientation events prepare Class of 2014 for
life at Elon, offer advice on how to succeed
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UNDSAY FENDT Photo Editor
LINDSAY FENDT | Photo Editor
HEATHER CASSANO1 Staff Photographer
Kicking off a weekend full of orientation events, students from the Class of 2014 arrived at Elon University early in
the morning Friday, Aug. 29. In order to handle the rush, the school enlisted the help of orientation, residence life
and physical plant staff members, and with the class being the biggest in Elon’s history at 1,365 students, the day
was full as new students moved onto campus. New Student Convocation took place Sunday, Aug. 29, to welcome the new
class. At the ceremony, staff members offered advice to the new class, telling them to stay grounded and focus on what
they want to achieve during their time at Elon. Orientation events came to a close Monday, Aug. 30.
See CLASS OF 2014 I PAGE 2
Elon man
arrested for
indecent
exposure
Anna Johnson
tvlanaging Editor
An Elon man was arrested at 2:24
a.m. Monday, Aug. 23, and charged
with two counts of indecent exposure
and secret peeping. Elon Police Chief
LaVelle Lovette said he is believed to
be involved with previous indecent
exposure cases.
Phillip Brent Wagner, of 2224 Phibbs
Road in Elon, is accused of indecently
exposing himself Wednesday night at
the Trollinger Apartments. According
to the incident report, an Elon
University senior saw a man outside of
her apartment window masturbating.
When she stepped outside, the man
walked away toward the back of the
apartments.
Witnesses chased the man toward
Summerbell Avenue, where he left in a
silver minivan. All the witnesses and
the victim gave the same description;
6 feet, about 250 pounds, mid- to late-
30s, no glasses, “scruffy looking" and
wearing a red T-shirt and blue shorts.
Wagner was arrested Monday in
conjunction with the Wednesday
incident and was held on a $1,500
secured bond. He posted bond and was
released later that day.
Wagner has been identified as the
suspect in other indecent exposure
cases, but there was never enough
evidence to charge him, Lovette said.
It was thanks to the multiple witnesses
in the recent case that the arrest was
made, she said.
Students should realize some
indecent exposure cases could continue
to happen, even though Wagner was
arrested, Lovette said. Wagner does not
match all of the victims' descriptions,
indicating there might be multiple
suspects. There are three suspects,
including Wagner, who are believed to
be doing the majority of the indecent
exposing, Lovette said.
“If you look at Mr. Wagner’s record,
he has been arrested. He’s been
See INDECENT I PAGE 3
Lighthouse to be leased to Town Table owner
Jack Dodson
News Editor
Lighthouse Tavern will no longer be
run by Elon University but will be leased
out to local business owner Chris Russell
as of Thursday, Aug. 26, according to
Gerald Whittington, senior vice president
for business, finance and technology.
Thebar will nowbe a pub called College
Street Tap House, operated by Russell,
open Wednesdays through Saturdays,
with beer and wine and will occasionally
serve food. Russell said he hopes the bar
will open in late September.
“We’re shooting for Sept. 17, which is
kind of a tentative date (for opening),”
Russell said.
Russell, who owns Town Table in Elon
and B. Christopher’s in Burlington, said
the bar will be more of a pub than it used
to be when it was Lighthouse Tavern, but
it won’t necessarily be an Irish pub.
“It’s going to be a pub-style
atmosphere,” he said, “but we don’t want
to pigeonhole ourselves into one genre.”
College Street Tap House will serve 12
to 15 beers on tap, bottled beers, wine
and some faux-cocktails. There will also
be events where Russell said it will serve
food from Town Table, have beer and
brautwurst events or smoke a pig outside
the bar. Depending on popularity, he
said, they might offer food and events
more regularly.
“Let’s see what the demand is — I’d
love to smoke a hog every night,” he
said.
The bar is going to be focused on
attracting mainly Elon students, he said.
As of right now, the bar has been taken
out and is being redone, since he said it
needed improvements.
“We want to make it nicer,” he said.
“The bar’s going to be made of white oak.
It was kind of rickety, the last one.”
Russell said the pub will have a strong
emphasis on live music, especially live
acts by Elon students. Fridays, he said,
there will be live acts, and Wednesdays the
pub will host an Elon student band battle
of the bands, a sort of American Idol-
style process that would last throughout
an entire semester. The winner of the
competition would earn his or her own
set at the bar, he said.
WSOE and Russell have also talked
about the future of shows brought in by
the Elon student-run radio station.
“We will have some involvement with
college radio,” he said. “We look forward
to working with WSOE, and we’ve started
very preliminary talks.”
He said the Student Union Board will
also be involved in getting shows to the
venue.
“We’ve got some larger bands coming,”
he said.
For Whittington, the move was a good
opportunity to allow local business to
grow in downtown Elon. In this case,
Whittington said Russell approached
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