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Safe Rides struggles
ith budget
Student service may
needfunding for
gas, repairs
Max Garland
Assistant News Editor
If Safe Rides continues to operate un
der its current budget, the organization will
be roughly SI,000 in debt by the end of the
spring semester and therefore unable to con
tinue running for the entire year.
And if the organization wanted to use the
two new 12-passenger vans it obtained last
spring — and Lindsay Luhn, a senior and the
director of Safe Rides, said it wants to — the
debt would more than double to S2,500.
At the SGA Open Forum meeting Oct.
29, dozens pitched ideas and shared thoughts
on how to improve Elon University’s student
life. But only Luhn and fellow Safe Rides
See SAFE RIDES
page 5
PARC holds
grand opening
Max Garland
Assistant News Editor
It took some time, but the Phoenix
Acti\dties and Recreation Center (PARC)
received an official nod from Elon Uni
versity Tuesday afternoon with the PARC
Grand Opening Ceremony.
Members of Elon University’s senior
staff gave brief speeches and mingled with
dozens of Campus Recreation and Stu
dent Union Board members, along with
Danieley Neighborhood residents, to cel
ebrate PARC’s impact since its Sept. 21
opening.
The space, located just behind Danieley
Center flats H, I and J, features a fitness
center. Campus Recreation offices and
two basketball courts. Smith Jackson, vice
president and dean of student life, said it
win be used for athletics and much more.
“PARC was designed to be a student
space,” Jackson said during his speech.
See PARC
page 5
School of Education
adding minors to
boost program pg. 3
Elon Town Center sold
Former owner continuing with Park Place at Elon
Caroline Fernandez
News Editor
Elon Town Center was sold Oct. 30
by local EDG Properties, LLC to New
Market Strategies, a firm of investors
based out of Stuart, Florida.
As of early Tuesday evening, it
was unknown the selling price of the
building, which has an assessed value
of more than S3 million, according to
the Alamance County Tax Adminis
tration Records.
John McDonald, co-owner of EDG
Properties LLC, said the decision to
sell Elon Town Center carne from a
business opportunity in a currently
popular market.
“Right now, there’s a lot of activity
in the commercial real estate industry,”
McDonald said. “Potential buyers are
looking for multi-tenants and good
tenants, which the Town Center has.”
Representatives at New Market
Strategies could not be reached for
comment by Tuesday evening.
The 24,000-square-foot, three-sto
ry building opened August 2011 and
sits on North Williamson Avenue be
tween West College Avenue and West
Lebanon Avenue.
It houses local pizza restaurant
Pandora’s Pies, Smitty’s Ice Cream and
Barnes & Noble Bookstore, as well as
offices for The Pendulum and Guy
Carpenter, a business management
consultant.
Despite the sale of Elon Town Cen
ter, EDG Properties, LLC will contin
ue to oversee the construction of Park
Place at Elon, a four-story building on
West Haggard Avenue slated to house
apartments and retail space. McDon
ald said construction on Park Place is
moving along as planned and should
be completed by June 2016.
ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE HAYS [ Design Chief
Ciolkowski’s burst at
final second wins CAA
XC championship
Alex Simon
Sports Editor
With 100 meters left, Elon University
men’s cross country freshman Nick Ciolkowski
wasn’t sure he was going to win the Colonial
Athletic Association
(CAA) championship
Oct. 31.
“I didn’t know if
I was going to catch
[College of William
&. Mary junior Paris
Sakallah] coming down
that straightaway,” Ci
olkowski said. “That
last lunge was really a
Hail Mary kick, you
could say.”
Ciolkowski’s win is the second individual ti
tle in two years for Elon since joining the CAA,
as Luis Vargas ’15 won last year’s cross country
See CROSS COUNTRY
page 16
Volleyball player says
goodbye to the sport
she loves pg. 19
Nick Ciolkowski