The Pendulum
ELON, NORTH CAROLINA | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010 | VOLUME 36,
www.elon.edu/pendulum
EDITION 29
Volleyball
gains historic
victories
PHOTOS BY UNDSAY FENDT AND COREY GROOM
■
When the Elon University
volleyball team took the
court in its matches on
Nov. 12 and Nov. 13, the Phoenix was
in position to capture a Southern
Conference North Division crown.
The team did not disappoint.
Led by senior middle blocker Sarah
Schermerhorn (above) with 19 kills
combined, Elon beat Appalachian State
University on Nov. 12 and Western
Carolina University on Nov. 13.
The Phoenix will now travel to
Boone, N.C. as the North Division’s top
seed for the conference tournament.
Traveling is nothing new for the
team, as the had played its previous five
games on the road. Elon put together a
4-1 record in those contests.
The Phoenix has been playing its
best as the season closes, dropping just
one set in its past four matches.
With a match against Davidson
slated for Friday at 4:30 p.m., the team
is set to compete for the conference
championship.
For full story, see page 23.
Destruction of NASA posters shuts down exhibit earher than planned
Jack Dodson
News Editor
The NASA astronomy
exhibit in Elon University’s
Academic Pavilion was taken
down early Nov. 15 after it
was vandalized, resulting in
$1,000 worth of damage. Two
of the posters in the exhibit
were destroyed — one of
which was gone completely,
leaving a bent metal frame
in its place — and one was
cracked.
The Smithsonian-owned
exhibit consisted of large
posters on display in front
of different buildings in the
pavilion, depicting photos
from space. The posters
were a project of NASA’s, but
came to Elon through the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics, which will
cover the cost of the damages.
The exhibit was planned to
be taken down days after the
incident.
Tony Crider, associate
professor of physics, said the
exhibit has traveled around
the world and has been on
display in cities with minimal
security, and it has only once
before had a problem with
vandalism — in New York
City.
“It doesn’t happen in
downtown D.C., but it happens
on Elon’s campus,” Crider
said. “It’s just a bit sad and
shameful that Elon had to be
the place where a couple got
destroyed."
Crider said Campus Safety
and Police were contacted that
morning, and the decision was
made to take down the exhibit
early. When he and others
coordinating the exhibit were
planning for it, Smithsonian
representatives told them
there hadn’t been problems
See VANDALISM I PAGE 4
PHOTO SUeMfTTED
Damage to the NASA exhibit in the Academic Pavilion was discovered Nov. 15.
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