SGA reviews GST proposal

The General Studies Review committee recently spoke to SGA about the revisions it hopes to make to the GST curriculum, up for a faculty vote Oct. 28.

The committee hopes to integrate General Studies classes so they connect more with the classes students take for their majors.

One addition on the table is to start "pathways," which would be three classes that could connect and teach certain skills pertaining to a student's major.

Contemporary health and wellness would no longer be a required first-year class. Instead, it would be optional and would be lengthened from two credit hours to a four- credit, full-semester class.

Students would also have to reach the 221-proficiency level in a language rather than the 122-level. This means an extra four credits would be needed to fulfill the language requirement.

If the changes were to be enacted now, only 15 percent of the student body would be affected and required to take an additional language course, according to the committee.

Student originally reported missing returns to campus safely

Elon University senior Heidi Fuller returned home safely Saturday after originally being suspected missing after attending Dayglow, a popular paint party held at the Raleigh Amphitheater.

While no missing persons report was filed by the Raleigh Police Department, Fuller's roommate Sunni O'Connor said it was very unlike the biological education major to be out of touch for so long and she said she doesn't believe Fuller has friends in Raleigh.

Fuller's disappearance caused a wave of concern and many posts on friends' social media sites.

PERCS launches new ethnographic project

Elon's Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies (PERCS) will soon be starting a collaborative, multi-year project about how personal narratives shape society's understanding of public assistance programs, like Welfare, and the people who are recipients of federal benefits.

The project will involve students and faculty and PERCS intends to work with certain community groups and agencies to determine their needs in relation to the common beliefs about public assistance.

Corrections

In the Oct. 5 issue of The Pendulum, Doug Finberg's title was incorrectly published. Finberg is the executive vice president of marketing at MGM Studios. Additonally, the name of his former workplace was incorrect. He worked at Paramount Pictures International.