www.elonnewsnetwork.com facebook.com/elonnewsnetwork @elonnewsnetwork Elon News Network Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Volume 44, Edition 25 Elon, North Carolina THEPENDULUM FEARING THE FUTURE Recent ICE raids leave Alamance County divided on politics and the Hispanic community on edge MAGGIE BROWN | Elon News Network | @maggieabrown_ ESSICA WALKED INTO CLASS at is documented, but her parents ar- ty-two percent are minorities. JESS RAPFOGEL | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Hugh M. Cummings High School en’t. Her family owns a local busi- “It was distracting. Everybody was The pin for the office of the sheriff of Alamance County the day after U.S. Immigration and ness in Burlington, and they are active talking about it — ‘My aunt told me this, sits on the lapel of Sheriff JCustoms Enforcement raided a members of the community. Jessica my uncle told me this, they streamed Terry Johnson. mobile trailer park on South Church lives with the fear that federal agents this on Facebook,’” Jessica said. Street. She said some of her friends were could deport her parents. The day af- CHS is only a couple minutes away too scared to leave their homes and go to ter the raid, Jessica’s parents told her, from the mobile home community class the next day. Others were afraid to “If we don’t come home tomorrow, where ICE arrested and detained people drive on the roads. don’t be scared.” in a series of more than 200 “targeted ar- “There were a bunch of seats empty,” Going to class the day after the ICE rests” across North Carolina. Jessica said about her classes. arrests was hard for Jessica. According to Jessica, whose last name has been U.S. World News and Report, 46 percent omitted for her family’s protection, of CHS students are Hispanic. Nine- See ICE | pg. 4 NEWS • PAGE 7 LIFESTYLE • PAGE 10 SPORTS • PAGE 11 Female faculty SAGA dance concert High expectations notice disparities in explores the history of await the baseball the workplace the African diaspora team in 2019 Wednesday 2 february 20, 2019 extras THE PENDULUM EMMANUEL MORGAN Executive Director of Elon News Network EDITORIAL POLICY: WHEN WE PUBLISH: A PUBLICATION OF The Pendulum ALEXANDRA SCHONFELD Managing Editor of The Pendulum ENN seeks to inspire, entertain and inform the publishes weekly on Wednesdays MAYA EAGLIN News Director of Elon Local News Elon community by providing Elon Local News a voice for students and MAEVE ASHBROOK Breaking News Manager faculty, as well as serve as broadcasts Mondays at 6 p.m. Established 1974 SAMANTHA CASAMENTO Event Coverage Coordinator a forum for the meaningful ELN Morning exchange of ideas. 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Alamance County Sheriff Terry ____ oversees and defends ICE chairman Lawrence Slade raids. See Page 4 for answer. and Marilyn Slade, program 2. There are ____ current members of the Provost Search assistant at the Center for Committee. See Page 6 for answer. Race Ethnicity and Diversity 3. A part-time professor that is not on a tenure track is also considered Education. Marilyn and Law- a ____. See Page 7 for answer. rence are first cousins. 4. The African diaspora is celebrated through ___, a dance concert being performed on Feb. 26. See Page 10 for answer. 5. Elon University’s baseball team calls ____ ____ home. See Page 12 for answer. FILE PHOTO BY ELON NEWS NETWORK Belk Library has been a popular study spot for Elon University students since it was built in 2000. FEBRUARY 20, 2003. Then- “This will probably work for people library director Kate Hickey helped who procrastinate; they can just stay organize the start of Belk Library’s up to do their work and get it done,” 24-hour service. With the new extend- she said. “Some people are more pro- ed hours, while the second and third ductive when they are under the gun floor remained closed during the at the last minute.” late-night hours, the first floor began While it was initially expected that remaining open from 1 a.m. to 7:30 the hours would continue through the a.m. During those new early hours, a upcoming fall and spring semesters,, security guard staffed the library, and these hours are still in place today for students were required to show their all Phoenix Card holders. Phoenix Cards. “The new Belk After Hours pro- Then-senior Sarah Montemuro gram is the result of a lot of hard work said the new hours would help pro- by SGA, the library staff and the Elon crastinators get their work done at administration,” Hickey said at the hours that worked for their schedule. time. calendar: Feb. 20 - Feb. 26 BOSTON BRASS | STAMMTISCH – BUSINESS LECTURE THE BLACK BUSINESS JEFF WILLIAMS, “MY 7:30 P.M. GERMAN FROM SINGAPORE EXPOSE-ITION | 5 P.M. JOURNEY TO C00 AT McCrary Theatre CONVERSATION AMBASSADOR | 4:30 Snow Family Atrium APPLE” | 11 A.M. HOUR | 3:30 P.M. P.M. Great Hall, Global 20 Irazu 21 LaRose Theatre 21 21 Commons 22 WBB VS. JAMES TWO-DAY JAZZ CODY KEENAN, MEN’S TENNIS VS. JOB AND INTERNSHIP MADISON – PHOENIX FESTIVAL | 7:30 ‘IDEALISM AND LIBERTY | 2:30 EXPO | 2 P.M. PHANACTIC NIGHT | P.M. IMPATIENCE’ | 7:30 P.M. Alumni Gym 7 P.M. McCrary Theatre P.M. Jimmy Powell Schar Center Whitley Tennis Center 22 23 Auditorium 25 26 26 Wednesday extras | top photos | february 20, 2019 3 ABBY GIBBS | PHOTO EDITOR Senior Emily Patterson practices for the “SAGA” dance concert on Monday, Feb.18. Junior pitcher Kenna Quinn starts the first game of a doubleheader against the University of Virginia on Saturday, Feb. 16. ZACHARY OHMANN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sophomore Duje Radja and senior Steven Santa Ana do their pre-game handshake before the Phoenix take on the College of William and Mary on Saturday, Feb. 16. ABBY GIBBS | PHOTO EDITOR Sophomore guard Ariel Colón shoots a jumper over the William and Mary defense. The Phoenix fell to JESS RAPFOGEL | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the Tribe 64-59 in Schar Center on Sunday, Feb. 17. The Musical Theatre Class of 2022 performs “Seasons of Love” at the Parkland Vigil in front of Lindner Hall on Thursday, Feb. 14. LIAM O’CONNOR | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Wednesday NEWS february 20, 2019 4 ICE RAIDS LEAVE LASTING FEAR IN ALAMANCE COUNTY following the arrests, offering text According to the most recent ICE about detained undocument- al immigration law are also there, ICE | from cover alerts and notifications of ICE’s data from the U.S. Census Bureau, ed immigrants in county jails, then then this agency is not going to turn locations. The organization used Hispanics make up 12.9 percent of federal agents have to go into the a blind eye to that,” Cox said. ICE does not have the exact online forums to set up a 24-hour the Alamance County population. communities themselves. And while ICE’s visibility has in- numbers of how many people were community watch to notify people Muñoz said “everyone was startled” ICE mostly targeted areas in creased, Gallagher said the amount arrested in Alamance County. Bry- about nearby ICE officers. in her community after the arrests. North Carolina that had discon- of arrests it’s made has not. an Cox, the southern region com- Some of Muñoz’s family members tinued their partnerships with ICE But according to ICE’s numbers, munications director for ICE, said Turning to the community are afraid to drive in the county be- and had stopped notifying the fed- the amount of arrests has been ris- anyone who was arrested in Ala- cause they fear being stopped by an eral government when immigrants ing. From the 2017-2018 fiscal year, mance County “would typically be Jessica read a Facebook post ICE agent. The Hispanic-American were detained. This, Gallagher said, the number of arrests rose by 11 transferred to one of ICE’s deten- from Amy Arzola Muñoz, a parale- Democrats of Alamance County led to “criminals” being let go from percent, according to Reuters.