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Editorial: High percentage of Greek-affiliated students generates pressure to rush Arts showcase celebrates Black History Month pg.11 Animal rights protest follows circus pg.3 President Leo Lambert pens letter to Elon Community pg.8 HE PENDULUM Elon, North Carolina • Wednesday, February i i, 2015 • Volume 41 Edition 3 _f facebook.com/thependulum www.elonpenduIum.com @elonpendulum Elon welcomes newest admit, Inman Inman Admissions Welcome Center opens its doors to current, prospective students JANE SEIDEL AND LANE DEACON 1 Photo Editor and Staff Photographer Clockwise from left; Sophomore tour guides Jenny Fukunaga and Justin Morin speak with prospective student Emily Freirich in the lobby of the recently-opened 32,000-square-toot Inman Admissions Welcome Center. The building was funded largely by donors and is expected to welcome more than 12,000 prospective students and their families to campus each year. Caroline Fernandez News Editor (The Opening of Elon University’s new Emissions center, The Inman Admissions Welcome Center, provided the opportunity for offices to merge in one central location. For the past few years, the Office of Ad missions and Financial Planning — which includes Undergraduate Admissions, Grad uate Admissions and Financial Planning — has been scattered across campus. The Office of Financial Planning has been situated in a'^uilding on South Campus since January 2013, while many Undergraduate and Grad uate Admissions offices were housed in the Powell Building. The Inman Admissions Welcome Center cofisolidates the offices of undergraduate admissions, graduate admis sions and financial planning under one roof Greg Zaiser, vice president of admissions and financial planning, said the new build ing provides the department with space and centralization. “[Inman Admissions Center] consoli dates our services and department, which is really important to our prospective and cur rent students,” Zaiser said. - The building, which includes 38 meeting spaces and offices as well as two presenta tion theaters, increases the number of people that can be accommodated at one time. The previous room for admissions presentations in Moseley Center seated 120 people, while the new Clohan Theater in Inman seats 165 people. “We have over 12,000 students, plus their families come to visit a year,” said Zaiser. “[In the past,] families [would] try to schedule visits, and we have been full. WeVe given them self-guided walking tours because we didn’t have the space for an information session.” Seventeen spaces in the building were named after donors, all of whom are Elon alumni or parents. William and Patricia Inman, parents of 2000 alumna Jacklyn, made the lead gift toward the construction of the building in 2013. The Inmans made gifts to Elon before the admissions center project was proposed, supporting for Rhodes Stadium, Koury Business Center, Lindner HaU and Numen Lumen Pavilion. See ADMISSIONS page 4 Preparing for the real world means working in college Diana Stancy Senior Reporter For many Elon University students, maintaining a job is an integral part of the college experi ence. Students face a widt variety of choices, ranging from on-cam- pus employment opportunities to employment outside of campus. Students at Elon have options — it’s ultimately what works best for them, given their interests and schedules. In August 2011, Elon estab- fished the starting minimum wage as S9.00 per hour. One of the pri mary objectives of the policy was to attract students to seek employ ment on campus rather than off. Tom Brinkley, executive direc tor of corporate and employer re lations at Elon, believes the higher minimum wage rate contributes to the competitive nature of on-cam pus Jobs, which are often filled soon after being posted to the Elon Job Network. “I think the wage rate is very appealing to students,” Brinkley said. “The jobs off campus... are not going to pay that rate, so stu dents are more inclined to seek these jobs if they are looking for Elon’s Minimum Wage $9.00 National Minimum Wage $7.25 employment.” Typically, students interested in on-campus employment submit a resume and a cover letter and then complete an interview, a practice intended to mimic the job appli cation process after graduation and prepare students for their careers. “It is a competitive process, so [when] they are intendewing for jobs, they are required to have a re sume,” Brinkley said. “It’s just like having a job outside. They are em ployed and evaluated and subject to expectations.” As a result, students with. on-campus jobs are constantly honing their professional skills. Brinkley said students’ profession al growiih is facilitated faster when they are employed during college. According to him, on-campus em ployment complements student development. Nancy Carpenter, Elon’s on-campus student employment coordinator, agreed. She noted stu dents who have a job listed on their resume are more attractive candi dates for internships and jobs after graduation. She believes the train- See JOBS page 5
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