fAGE TWO
MAROON AND GOLD
Thuri.Iay, March 36, 1959
Maroon And Gold
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TirURSUAY, MARCH 26. 1959
CAMPUS ELECTIONS
The coming of spring brings many plea
sures to those who inhabit this campus,
itut spring also brings to Elon students
tach year a duty which many do not re
gard with proper seriousness, that being
the duly of choosing through the medium
of the annual campus elections the student
olficers who will guide Elon s oampus gov
ernment through the following year.
The time draws near once more when
t.ie students must, or should, trek to the
polls to name those student leaders for
next year, and it appears as always that
there are certain things which need at
tention in these weeks and days just before
the balloting begins. Proper attention now
to those items might eliminate many of
the problems wh'ch have plagued Elon’s
student government In the past.
A necessary prelude to any election is
the nomination of candidates, and from
thove nominations in past years have arisen
many of the problems, for in all too many
cases nominations havg been made with
out duv’ thought and consideration.
It is true that efforts have been made
within recent years to improve the system
by which Elon student body candidate*
are nominated, efforts to secure a more
,able slate of candidates for the various
governmental posts, but in some instances
in previous years there were too many
nominations made in a joking manner,
and tome of tiose Ugbtly-nominated can
didates were elected by students who votei
Without proper thought as to the results.
As the 1959 nominations and elections
draw nearer, each and every student
should thinic and think seriously before pro
posing candidates for any office, and then
they should think again before voting. It
is important that campus officers be cho
sen, who really want to serve and not those
who simply want another honor tacked
after their names.
Many instances have arisen in which of
ficers. after being elected, neglected to
do their duty. It is possible that they en
tered the political races with all good is-
tenti^tns and then found time lacking in
which to perform the work of their of
fices, but the result proved sad for stu
dent government in any case.
As a matter of fact, there was trouble
last spring in finding enough students to
fill out the tickets, and it was a sad com
mentary on student attitude at Elon that
each of the three major ofQccs on the
eampus had only one candidate. It is true
that Uiose officers have rendered tine ser
vice tiiis year, but it would seem that there
would be more than three students in a
student body of this oiJe who would wish
to ser\e.
So, with campus balloting less tt»an a
month away. H i* well that every student
b gin carting eyes around for suitable can
didates. candidates who have shovn by
their previous actions that they will be
on the job when needed during the coming
year.
Proper study of the situatitw now will
mean far fewer problems in student gov
ernment circles during the forthcoming
19S9-60 colleKe year—CONTRIBUTKD.
RA!VDOM THOUGHTS
Prrnchmen are suave lover, but slow.
A Frenchman tisses the girl’s finger*,
wri.sta, arms, shoulders. By the time he
reaches her Ups. an American is already
passing out cigars.
• » * » *
It's toucher for a man to {ace a eriais
after she's t>een waiting up tor several
iieurs.
around
with
square
by
SQUARE EDMONDS
It's come to my attention and reading,
which is of course in real, brevity form,
tliat much emphasis, too much. Is 'being
placed on Uie so called "2nd CiJ’iculum”
in colleges today. This innate device was
composed by some college professor, who
was probably a real "campus kind” in his
day. (If you know what I mean). He speaks
ol the studi-nts who are turning the col-
k.ges of today into a playground.
Sorae of his imaginative ideas are purely
fixed atid whimsical, and of coursc on the
o'.her side of Uie ledger very sound. He
tpeak.s of the abolishment of fraternities
and the non-pennission of automobiles on
a college campus and a number of other
'antis’. It all bo*ls down to one simple
premise. The man is strictly hyper-critical
of all campub life outside the field of edu
cational lore.
One cr{ his statements included his com
ment of the prohibiting of autos on the
classic campus of Princeton. He goe.- on
further telling how many outstanding grad
uates there are from the “earless” uni
versity. lyaybe if he researched a little
further, he would have found at M.l.T.
a few outstanding graduaies, who are per
mitted to operate autos. William and Mary,
the original founder of Phi Beta Kappa,
also lets its students operate automobiles.
All in all it is pretty easy to sit up in
one’s little, white tower and call the shots,
especially when one is not subjected to
them . . .
SEMJCSTER: With the installation of the
new system in the fall, it will b‘ interest
ing to see how it works. I imagine some
professors will be talking to themselves
on those Saturday morning classes. Elun
was on the semester system some years
ago and then re-installed the quarter sys
tem. Could be the "same old smg and
dance” . . .
NARROW MIND: H your mind travels
jn the same vein mine does, you will think
the following is somewhat humorous. In
this new generation of “Upbeat*”, the ad
vertising world can certainly take a bow.
The new rave of stereo-recordings proudly
boasts a title for two new LP albums.
"I’ll Be with You in Atom Bombing Time”,
and “If 'Vou Were the Only Girl in the
World” . . . How about this for a new
trend?
MONKEY BUSINESS: A new switch is
the launching of the nose cone, which con
tained a monkey. The question arises is,
did man descend from the monkey, or did
the monkey ascend from man? It’s a small
world, isn’t it???
DRAMA: Have any preparations been
niade to remodel the Elon College Drama
Department? Inadequate facilities can be
a real hindrance, ajad I'm sure either a re
modeled department or a new one would
be a blessing. Boy that’s wishful think
ing .. ,
JUST JUP^K; Furman Mosely plans to
tie the old knot around the first of April.
No foolin.M! Tony DeMatteo recently paid
a visit to the campus. Tony is currently
stationed at Camp Lejeune, N. C. . . .
"Bucky” Flemming is also one ol Uncle
Sam’s personnel. The "Beek" is stationed
at Fort Jackson, S. C. . . .
FINIS: Time caught me once again and
1 m sorry as usual, but the doing around
campas are just scarce; so I’ll close this
hottest print in extant . . .
WORK PROGRESSING ON NEW CHURCH
CHF.ERFUL THOUGHTS
•’Eavesdropping again,” said Adam, as
his wife lell out of a tree.
*****
Parking ticket: An R, S. V. P. invitation.
*****
I don’t like the prof
And the fubject’s deep!
I would cut the clasc
But I need the sleep.
*****
Drink broke up my home.
Couldn’t you stop it?
No, the still exploded.
• * * * »
Inquisitive lady: ’'Tell me, do you r»«r
do anything in the nude?”
Arti.st: “Well, ma am, occasionally I take
a bath
*****
When a girl suddenly slaps a boy in
public, she is generally pinchhitting.
« 4 » • •
■Women arc a good deal like miMilM.
They can be classified a« guided, unaided,
and mispnided.
*****
Mo: I've got a pretty powerful pb]>glque.
Mae: Really? You ought to put it on
sometimes.
*****
Confidence — the feeling you have be
fore you know t>etter.
work moving ahead steadily, the new Elon College Commjnity Ciiurch is beginning
sume the appearance of the strudure pictur>d above in the architect’s drawing. Although no date
hap been set for the final compleiion of the church, it is understood thai it will be ready for us_
during the 1959-60 college year.
Seen Fi’oin The
West Walchtower
Usually I'm a very mod,s.t per
son, but when it comes to ath
letic abilities it seems only fair
that the student body know
when it has one of such (blush,
blush) remarkable talent and
skills in its midst.
Bach time the Maroon and
Gold comes out 1 anxiously scan
the sports pages looking for
some mention of the .er.-weU,
the-the better lady athletes on
campus. Not even our renown
ed sports columnist has per
ceived the potential lady Olym
pic participants on campus who
are completely and shamefully
unpublicized. 1 guess I’ll just
have to help him out.
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The first sport in which I
engaged in horseback riding. I
remember well the first thrill
ing ride W'hich I took on a hoT.sc,
The horse's name was "Ruby”.
I approached Ruby’s left side
confidently (never let an animal
know that you have fear, t>spe-
cially a dangerous one), placed
my right foot in the stirrup, gave
myself a heave and, presto, I
was sitting in the saddle facing
the opposite direction from Ru
by’s head. Now I could see no
Eted for climbing all the way
to the ground to remount; so 1
tried an about-face on the horse.
It would have worked, of course,
if I hadn’t hung my foot in the
stirrup and consequently fallen
to the ground. By the time my
nose was bandaged and I re
turned to try again Ruby was
getting impatient. You eould
tell by the way she had her e*n
glued to the sides of her head.
Seated to the saddle wrth the
reigns in my hand I now em
phatically order Ruby: •'Come-
up”. WTien I saw this technique
was falling, I decided to try my
spurs just like I’d seen Mr. Dil
lon and Chester do on ttlevlsion.
1 guess I must have pushed the
accelerator a little bit too quick
ly or something. Anyway. Ruby
dug off like a bound dog wbo'd
just had his posterior sprayed
with buckshot. We sailed out of
By ANN
the bam and through the fields
at such a high rate of speed
mat I don’t think radar would
have been fast enough to have
clocked us. 1 kinda got to think
ing about things (fractured
skulls, cuts, bruises) and the
first thing you know 1 was lean
ing forw'ard with my arras tight
ly locked around Rubj-’s neck.
About that timel got a good bur
ring from a low swinging pine.
Things could have been going
worse I guess when all of a
sudden they began to do just
that.
The groom hadn’t tightened
the straps properly and the sad
dle began slipping as we sped
through the fields. Before you
could have counted to three, I
was riding on the horse’s side.
One of my legs was locked
around the horse's tummy and
the other was arched tightly over
her back. In the meanwhile my
arms were still locked about her
neck. I kept yelling things like
"gee” and ’ha ’ to Ruby, but
the stupid animal didn’t seem
to understand plain Engiish. She
kept puffing and snorting and
full blast ahead. By getting a
firm grip on her mane and by
the most frantic wriggliiig and
squirming you'll ever see, I man
aged to get back on the horse’s
back. Seeing no chance of stop
ping her, 1 hung on for a few
more minutes hoping that she
would run out of fuel. Luckily
we now were approaching a
stream. Ruby stepped into the
water with two fpet and low
ered her head to drink, I prompt
ly slid head-first over her long
neck and the first thing I knew
I wet seated in the middle of
the stream watching the flab
bergasted fish swim away as
fast as they could work their
appendages.
Well, I didn't let this little
experience bother me ’cause I
didn’t really care anything about
horseback riding to begin with,
* * *
Now that 1 had decided not
to buy a horse, I had to get
other means for getting my daily
exercises. I considered suoh
sports as basketball and sofl-
ball. Then I remembered how
well I’d always done ia the««.
JOYCE
sports in physical education
class. During basketball season
we u.--ed to have drills to see
how many goals we could make
out of 50 tries. I bate to do so
much bragging, but, honest, 1
bet we never did one of those
drills when I didn’t make at
least three out of the 50 shots.
’Course I might have had an
off-day occasionally when I
didn’t do quite so well, 1 know
I reallj' must have been inval
uable to my teacber vhen we
were playing softball. The rea
son I figure this is because she
always put as as far out In
the field as possible so that the
ball wouldn't hit me. Mighty
thoughtful of her, wasn’t it? Of
course it was to her advantage
to see that the star player (me)
wasn't maimed by a fly-baU
Desperate in my search for a
sport which would challenge my
talents, I decided to try golf.
1 had my chauffeur (from the
Elon Cab Company) to drop me
off at the club so that I could
begin the game. I perfected my
stant>e right away. Getting and
maintaining the proper grip
proved to be my problem. I lift
ed mj’ club back over my shoul
der, I was keeping my^eye on
the club so I’d be sure not to
lose my grip. Ob this backswing
my body swung around with the
heavy clubs, but I maintained
my very stationary stance. I
don’t know what happened, but
I ended up sprawled on the green
with a twisted ankle. In the fall
my nose had managed to hit
the tee markers and if the Red
Cross could have collected the
blood the Blood Bank would
have been considerably replcn-
iahed. With my ankle bound
tightly, 1 decided to practice my
drivin®. Soon the club proprie
tor was rushing up to me and
asking if I wouldn’t like to come
inside for some lemonade on
the house. He must have been
upset about something because
as I stjirted (or the club house
I heard him yelling to the green
attendants who were coming on
the scene with shovels, rakes,
sand, and grass seed. I over
heard such things as •'driving
just like chopping wood or kill-
(CoBtlnued on P»gt Four)
i
here
and
there
By
DICK LASHLEV
”Twas the week before vacation anfl jfl
over the campus . . . It's that time again!
Spring Vacation! Very shorUy the Eloa
caravan will be winding and dashing it*
many-dire«tloned way, as we students head
tow.'.rd home for a welcomed break in
studies and to observe Easter. And speak
ing of Spring vacation, the fact that June
is just around the corner is the thoaght
that comes to our minds, and you ksoir
wihat that means! GRADUATION! Oh hap
py day!
Graduate Record Ex»m» ‘
You seniors who plan to graduate in the
summer had better not forget your grad-
uate record exams. They're required to
get paroled ya’ know. If ‘‘Here 'n There"
were really on the old journalistic stick,
it would give you the exact date: however,
about the best it can do is give you the
date it remembers—April 11th and iMh
The advanced test will be on the first daj,
with the area exams being given the next.
Speaking of exams reminds yours truly
about the English comprehensive that is
to be given in April, too. For those of you
who are scheduled to take it, “Here n
There” can only say, “We feel for you,
but we -can’t quite reach you.” Friends,
study hard and long.
Pi Kappa Tau Casualties
If the girls’ intramural basketball tour
nament had lasted much longer. Pi Kappa
Tau would have really been hurting. How
ever, ending when if did, the sorority only
suffered two casualties — Linda Simpson
and Patsy Taylor. The two suffered a bro
ken hand and broken foot respectively.
Though the sorority's record of wins
wasn’t very impressive, the injuries suf
fered by the players bespeaks of their sin
cerity in trying to win.
Beta Omicron Beta Wins-!
Martha Langley, president of BOB, has
reason to walk with a bounce in her step
—it’s from bouncing around on the bas
ketball court so efficiently in leading her
team to victory in the girls’ intramural
basketball tournament. The BOB's chalked
up a very impressive 5-0 record, which
makes ’em the champs. Congrats girls!
Phi Psi CK is “Fini”
Stoodente, it looks as if we’ll get oar
year books by the end of the school year
after all! The Phi Psi Cli is on its way to
Charlotte and the Delmar Printing Com
pany for final make-up. From the brief
previews of the year book that “Here 'n
There” has had, we should have an annud
this year to really be proud o/.
Election Day Looms Ahead
It’s that time of year once again when
we students have.to start thinking about
the election of our student body officers.
Not only should we be thinking about the
election of our officers, but some of us
should be considering running for an office.
So far only one candidate has made
public his intentions of running for office.
That person is Linwood Hurd, who has an
nounced his candidacy (or President of
the Student Body for the year 1959-1960.
Hurd has had much experience in stu
dent body activities since coming to Elon
College, He has served on numerous com
mittees, in the Legislature, and is present
ly serving as vice-president of the Studeat
Body and Speaker of the House in Hie Leg
islature.
Stndent Government Activities
At the present time a special committee
of students headed by Linwood Hurd is
working on the revision of our constitu
tion. Here ’n There talked to Hurd > about
•the work o( the committee, and though
much work has already been done in line
witli the proposed revision, the actual re
port on the revision will not be forthcomiivg
until it is completed. At the time of its
completion, "Here ’n There” will give >
complete report on the revision.
Jimmy Elder, another prominent figure
in student body activities, informed “Here
’n There” on another change In student
body government. This change will affect
tiie Legislature. As of next year, bills wIB
no longer be haphazardly presented to tie
Legislature. A standing committee sys
tem, consis-ting of four committees, ti**
l>een (ormed to handle the presenfation,
in I'estigation, and recommendatioo of bills.
Bills will be assigned to the committees by
the Speaker of the House.
It is felt that more thorough action can
be taken on bills with the new system th***
with the eld method of just anybody gf"'
ting up and presenting bills in any manner
they desired.
The committees vriU also have the power
of subpeona. This means they can sut
Peona any member of the student bo4^
appear before the Legislature at aw tt®*
(or any specific purpose. Failure t*
appear will be considered a violation of
tbe Campus Code. -