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ELON, NORTH CAROLINA | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011 | VOLUME 37, EDITION 4
www.elon.edu/pendulum
Car catches on fire
in Oaks parking lot
HEATHER CASSANO | Photo Editor
The Elon Fire Department was dispatched to a vehicle fire, and arrived in the
Oaks parking lot at approximately 6:45 p.m. Monday, Feb 14, after recieving
a 911 call. “It was an electrical fire that started under the hood of the car
in the engine compartment," said Chuck Gantos, director of Campus Safety and
Police. He said the engine is damaged, but he is unsure to what extent.Gantos
identified the car as a blue 2004 minicooper. Visit elon.edu/pendulum for more
information as it becomes available.
Campus Kitchen
welcomes first
volunteers to prepare
meals for community
Caitlin O'Donnell
News Editor
After a preparatory trial
period last semester and an
official opening at College
Coffee last TUesday, Campus
Kitchen at Elon University
will prepare its first meal
Wednesday, Feb. 16 to be
delivered to Allied Churches
of Alamance County
Thursday. After Wednesday’s
shift, which will be led by
members of the service
learning communities, other
students and community
members will have the chance
to sign up to volunteer.
Holly Anderson, Campus
Kitchen program
coordinator, said
people looking to
get involved have
already contacted
her. On a weekly
basis, up to six
volunteers are
needed for the two
available shifts -
four for cooking
meals and two for
delivering them to
Allied Churches.
According to
its website. Allied
Churches is “an
emergency shelter,
soup kitchen,
resource center and
Christianassistance
network.”
Before the
Anderson said
executive board was hired.
Positions include student
director, cooking coordinator,
delivery coordinator and
public relations director.
Junior Lauren Wilmer
serves as cooking shift leader
and said she is responsible
for ensuring food is not
only prepared correctly,
but includes all major food
groups.
“I organize volunteers,
make sure the kitchen is a safe
environment so volunteers
can cook meals that will then
be delivered to off-campus
locations in the community,”
she said. “As we expand
more and more, we will be
involved In delivering to other
locations.”
opening,
student
Sophomore Weston San key,
the delivery shift leader, is
responsible for coordinating
volunteer delivery shifts.
“I deal with the logistics
of getting foods from here
to Allied Churches," he said.
“We've been going on for a
couple months now and it’s
been going well, we’re excited
to get more volunteers.”
Both Wilmer and Sankey
will work with volunteers to
ensure food is prepared and
delivered correctly, while
keeping in touch with student
director Amber Mathis, who
also coordinates with all
potential volunteers.
While working in the
Kernodle Center
for Service
Learning and
Community
Engagement the
summer after
her freshman
year, Mathis first
discovered the
Campus Kitchens
Project, a national
organization
that targets
hunger relief and
recreates leftover
foodintobalanced
meals for the
community.
Before the
opening at
College Coffee,
was nervous about
the student response, but was
pleased with the “excellent
turnout.”
“Everyone was there, I got
to introduce the program and
by the end, I was in sensory
overload,” she said. “I loved
that we had (President Leo)
Lambert taking the first
scoop rather than a traditional
ribbon-cutting ceremony.”
Lambert was joined by his
wife Laurie, as well as Smith
Jackson, vice president and
dean of Student Life, and
Steven House, provost and
vice president for Academic
Affairs.
“Mrs. Lambert has been
involved from day one and
championed the effort,”
“Every once
in a while,
something
new comes
along that
refreshes
the soul and
spirit of Elon
University and
that is this
project."
-PRESIDENT
LEO LAMBERT
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Melissa Kansky
Assistant News Editor
RALEIGH, N.C. — In response to Wake
County School Board’s proposed return
to neighborhood schooling, more than
100 organizations marched through the
streets of Raleigh to advocate for equal
educational opportunities for Wake
County students and promote the value
of diversity in public schools.
After 10 years without neighborhood
schooling, the new school board
officials intend to reinstall the system
that divides students according to place
of residence and, in turn, dividing
schools along socioeconomic lines.
Socioeconomic status and race are
linked together, according to speakers
at the rally’s concluding ceremony.
“We gather here today to demand that
every child has a right to high quality,
well-funded, diverse constitutional
education,” said Rev. William Barber,
NAACP North Carolina state conference
president. “Educate our children, lift
our children. Invest in our children.”
The crowd swarmed with energy as
the thousands of marchers repeatedly
chanted, “Forward together, not one step
back,” while holding signs and linking
arms. Mothers, students and those in
the black community were among the
thousands who attended to oppose a
return to the former system.
“1 really like my school the way it is,”
said Max Gowan, 14. “I have friends that
come from very diverse backgrounds.”
Gowan said he believes diversity in
schools better prepares him for real
world experiences and enables children
of various backgrounds to have the
same educational opportunities.
Whilestudentparticipantsassociated
diversity in the school system with
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