liWJE TWO
MAROON AND GOLD
Thiiraday, Aprfl ij,
Maroon And Gold
Entered as second class matter at the
Post Office at Elon College, N. C„ under
the Act of March 8, 1879. Delivered by
mail, $1.50 tjie college year, 50c the
quarter.
Edited and printed by students of Elon
College. Published bi-weekly during the
college year under the auspices of the
Board-of Publication.
EDITORIAL BOARD
■Walter Edmonds Editor-in-Chief
Dick Lashley Assistant Editor
Ann Joyce - Assistant Editor
H. Reid Alumni Editor
Pete Curtis Staff Photographer
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
BUSINESS BOARD
Phillip Sexton .. Printing Advisor
David Horn Press Operator
REPORTERS
Robert Bennett WiUiaro Mullins
Tony Carcaterra William Reece
James Fogleman Gene Rhodes
John Frost Ronald Scott
Carl Fuller Darrell Shue
Virgil HovfeM Elizabeth Updyke
Edward Hughes Earl Vickers
Fred Lloyd Ted Webster
Robert Lowe Edward Wilkes
Wade Montgomery Lafjyette Wilkins
TirURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959
PATERNALISM OR NOT?
During the past month in several col
lege papers the question has been raised,
“Have colleges become loo paternal (or
maternal), too concerned over student wel
fare?” This “concern" refers to the coun
selling system in many colleges, the close
supervision of class schedules, fraternities,
sororities and dorms, adjustment, person
ality and general behavior of the students.
Items questioned concerning paternal
ism were, “Should parents receive news
about their child's progress in college;
should professors take attendance or give
quizzes to see that everyone keeps up on
the subject; should an upperclassman run
to his counsellor for^advice every time he
or she is in difficulty; should the student’s
personality and problems be the business
of other people?”
Many believe this paternalism should
stop; many believe that it ii an abaolut*
necessity. But only strong arguments can
present the answers to these questions.
Here are two.
Pro
Students should be thankful that schools
devote time assisting them to solve their
problems. The counselling system is a
great boon to students. Granted, an upper
classman in college is an adult; still he
or she needs help in selecting a program.
Also, professors are justified in taking
roll and in giving short quizzes. The in-
etructor spends time preparing class work
and he should »ot be forced to lecture
to a group of inconsiderate "boobs" who
come to class just to get out of the rain.
As for sending reports to parents, why
was this even mentioned? Who has a bet
ter right to know students' progress th&n
the parents of each particular student?
Adjustment, personality, and general be
havior should be recorded. In this way a
student's improvement can be notad. ThU
informetioB furnishes sch(^l authorities
with sufficient background to give pros
pective employers an idea of present stu
dent*.
Perhaps this outlook would not be con
sidered "adult” by some, but every stu
dent, especially a freshman, must adnait
that he or she is not capable of charting
his or her future without assistance. The
personnel and faculty of colleger through
out the country are doing a vital job.
Cm
Excessive "p»tcmalisro’' has no more
place in a college or university today than
it does in a company. Must college stu
dents, many of them well over 20, be
treated as high school teen-agers?
Uigh school graduate« who decide not
to go to college but secure a position in
t firm are generally treated »1th more
adult measures than their college student
(.'ouiiterpart who is supposed to b* learn
ing “manage'meDt” methoda.
Will the student who is patted on the
head fondly, or kindly told. This is not
the way we do it here," be able to suc
cessfully ooDtrol those workers under him
who have had the experience of the labor
ing w«rld? The latxu- force will not treat
the youBg executive or teacher with "kid
gloveff. In the future, college students
must take responsibilities seriously and
work to attain promotion.
In this era of moon rockets and six and
onebalf hour Jet flight* to London, our
colleges and universities cannot afford and
sbOold not presume to be twentieth cen
tury counterparts of eighteenth century
finishing schools for “gentlemen and gen
tlewomen.’’—WESTERN CAROUPnAN.
around
with
square
by
SQUARE EDMONDS
Welcome once more to the campus col
umn, which shows people are funny, and
the campus cosmos in which Joe Lewis
thinks he’s twenty-one. It is spring once
again and the chained-up collegians grow
restless for the sun-splashed days and the
moon-struck nights of various beaches. Woe
unto the proprietors of the sandy terra when
this horde sets upon them.
Meanwhile, back here at ole Elon Tech,
life goes on in its old humdrum fashion,
and the mania we have accumulated in a
tiring period of a hundred and some odd
days is just about to reach its coutdown
stale.
Everyone gets tired of looking at the
same old faces, no insinuation to Joe Lewis,
and going to the same old places. I don’t
even know why I keep raving on with this
tripe when no one appreciates my skill and
taieat. It's plain as the nose on Richard
Bradham's face.
Everyone wants to talk and no onie wants
to listen. NO! Even some of the faculty
ignore these witticisms and will not even
acknowledge a snicker or two, but it really
does not bother me, for it is a phobia to ma
and nothing more.
If only a scandal would take place around
here, or some reasonable facsimile, I could
write something exciting. But, everyone
lives in his own little shell and is the per
fect paragon of perfection. Yes, Walter Win-
chell would find it tough at Elon College,
and the ironical part of the whole situation
is that IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING.
SPEAK.ING OF SPRING: The coming of
spring carries inevitable despair among
baseball managers of the North State Con
ference. Elou's Fighting ChrisUans loom
once again as the team to beat in the
race for the “bunting”. Apparently it is
becoming a perennial thing in the confer
ence. Coach Jack Sanford is blessed with
a bumper crqp of veterans from last year’s
conference champions.
The students of Elon College should be
proud of their baseball team and support
them to the fullest measure and ditto for
the thinclads.
PEOPLE: It's a shame that some type
of an award could not be given to the
biggest misfit at Elon College. Joe Lewis
would surely win easily. Joe’s pet hobby
is scaring Girl Scouts and bestowing cri
tical analysis on ballplayers. It is l>clieved
that he is putting on an act to cover his
own maladjustment. It is a pity to say
thci>e things atx>ut a guy, but I have ac
quired the right through the Home for
the Aged . . .
Picture yourself, a condemned man fac
ing the electric chair. (You can be sure if
it's Westinghouse). Your lawyer is none
other than Arthur Laurie Pitts, III, the
embarrassed barrister. The verdict is
your* . . .
Paul Brutch is Elon College’s renowned
version of "Charles At Last”. Brutch can
be found any afternoon in his own little
pti^aical cultural world developing his phy
sique. This writer wonders why, because
Jane Mansfield has already married, and
whal chance has a muscle-head got, like
Brutch. . . .
As Cincinnati Member . ..
Elon Prof Pre-Views Tryoii Mansion
CONGRATULAnONS
Congratulations are due to each and
every one of the spring sports squads of
Elon College, for each of the teams in
baseball, track, golf and tenni* have done
thems^ves proud in early-season compe
tition. Not «U of them will win North
State Conference championships, but they
have goUen away to a fine start.
The baseball squad, with ten wins in
Its first twelve games, must necessarily
be ranked among tlie favorites for the
Conference title; and the golf team, with
three victories in four start* against North
State rivals must also be ranked among
the favored outfits.
The track team has yet to face a North
State rival, but it has ro£ed over Pem
broke and has made a fine showing against
Washington and Lee of the Southern Con
ference. and Coach Varney’s cindermen
will definitely be beard from when the
Conference meet is held early in May at
High Point. The tennis team, despite loss
es to East Carohna Appalachian, show
ed power in de^eatS^^g^Htgh Point, go the
Christian netmen' will be counted on when
the title is conferred early in May.
Bran Tacin
One time a man doesn't call a spade
a spade Is when he trips over one In the
dark.
* « • » •
As one race bone -said to the other;
I don’t remember your mane, but your
pace is familiar.
Dr. William M. Brown, member
of the Elon College social science
faculty, attended the annual con
vention of the North Carolina
Society of the Cincinnati, which
was held in New Bern the first
weekend in April, and he and
Mrs. Brown were among the
group v’hich got the first pre-view
of the beautifully restored Iryon
Palace and grounds.
The Elon faculty memt>er, as a
member of the Virginia Society
of the Cincinnati, was a special
guest for the North Carolina So-i
ciety’s meeting. The Society of
Cincinnati is composed of lineal |
descendants of officers «f Ihe^
American army during the Amer
ican Revolution, with state organ
izations in each of the thirteen
original states and in France.
Members of the group, because
of its Revolutionary connections
and descent, were privileged to
have the first preview of the re
stored Tryon Palace, which had
its formal opening the following
week. Both Dr. and Mrs. Brown
were high in their oraise of the
restoration project, i.hich has at
tracted national aattention as one
of America's most beautiful his
torical sites.
The Tryon Palace, a Georgian
mansion that helped set off what
some historians consider the first
battle of the American Revolu
tion within six miles of the Elon
College campus, was formally op
ened to the public th;' next week
after the Elon faculty member
and his fellow members of the
Society of Cincinnati saw it in the
first pre-view.
Called Most Beantiful
In the 18th century, some writers
of travel books described the pal
ace built by Royal Governor Wil
liam Tryon as the most beautiful
building in Colonial America.
The original palce, consisting
of a main building and two sepa
rate wings, was built to serve both
as the home of the governor and
as the meeting place of the state
council and the aassembly.
In 1798, about 28 years after it
was completed, the main build
ing burned and in the cour>)e of
time the east wing was tom dowm
and the west wing remodeled into
DR. W. M. BROWN
an apartment house.
Now the palace has been re
stored to all its former splendor
by a restoration job that took
nearly seven years and _cost about
$3,250,000.
The palace Tryon built cost the
taxpayers about $75,0o0. Viewed
in the glaring light of today’s
prices that looks like a bargain.
But 188 years ago some of the
colony's taxpayers judged it by
the increased amounts on their
tax statements as disclosed in the
light from fat pine knots. They
revolted, armed themselves with
blunderbusses and pitchforks, then
headed east.
The restoration will have been
more than 40 times as costly as the
original. But this time the tax
payers paid only a fraction of the
total.
Altogether, the General Assem
bly has appropriated $227,000 for
the purchase of land on the ori
ginal site along the Trent River.
Lathank Gifts
The restoration was made pos
sible through the gifts of the late
Mrs. L. E. Latham of Greensboro
who was a native of New Bern.
A tour of the main building
leaves one with the impression
that Gov. Tryon lived surrounded
by more elegant furnishings than
would be the ca=e today if he
occupied some governors’ man
sions in the United States.
^ The furniture is Chippendale
ithe china Wedgewood and the
j man^lpieces and some of the
floors are of Italian marble from
Sienna. The original drape* of
silk damask have been duplicated
and the dupUcates are made from
'cloth ove^• 200 years old, but still
. in excellent condition,
i There is a leather quiver for
arrows in the guard room and in
the council room an hour-glass
I rests in a conspicuous place on
the main table, evidence that
some sort of hfnt to Inogwinded
ispeakers has been necessary
throughout the history of the state.
I Some Concessions
But while the restoration has
been carried out painstakingly, a
few concessions have been made
to the 20th century — heating and
air conditioning units are kept in
a basement room and the neces
sary plumbing has been discreet
ly installed.
Two five-sided "Necessary Hous
es,” made of wood, stand on their
original sites behind the main
building. But the $2.50 admission
fee will not entitle the visitor to
experiment.
Tryon's Palace is believed to
have been unique among colo
nial governors’ mansions in that
it was both the governor’s resi
dence and the State House.
The council chamber and the
guard room are on the first floor
of the main building, as are the
library, the parlor and the dining
room. Tryon and his family—he
had a wife and a small daughter
named Margaret—^lived on the sec
ond floor and could hardly have
had absolute privacy when the as
sembly waas in session.
The coachman’s quarters are
rooms, but across the hall from
the kitchen is a large, comfortable
room occupied in the original pal
ace by Tryon’s secretary, Isaac
Edwards, "a clever young man
from around Edenton.”
Historians say that most of the
business of state t)etween sessions
of the assembly was transacted
in the secretary's office *
here
and
there
(Continued on Page Four)
Seen From The
West Watchtower
By ANN JOYCE
Someone had to plan the cam
pus movie schedule, order the
film, pay for the film, secure
a projector operator. To have
dances after games and on
other weekends meant that
someone had to make the ar
rangements and take responsi
bility of things.
We also needed someone to
represent our college at various
meetings and* conventions. The
student body fees couldn’t col
lect themselves. The budget tor
spending these fees to the best
advantage for all of us just
didn’t appear from outer space.
Committees for Homecoming
and May Dances just didn’t or
ganize themselves. The Arts
Porum Group had to be support
ed by bomeoiM!.
Someone had to give of them
self to see that these things
were taken care of properly.
Our student body officers
Student Legislature have
deed done a fine job of taking
©are of these duties for ue. ^
The amazing thing is that they
have done these things almost
completely without thanks, ab
solutely without glory and hon
or, and without complaining.
They have received two things
from 99 out of 100 student*—•
either an attitude of complete
indifference or unfair crrticisi*.
They are to be complimented for
the job which they have done
this year.
We have really come through
again with our great big lack
of school spirit! We didn’t have
and
io-
enough interest in the affairs
of our student government to
have two candidates for each
student body ^office.
We understand it wasn’t easy
to get one candidate tor each
office. We aren’t interested in
doing our part to make student
government stronger and more
effective, but we do wonderful
jobs of criticizing and complain
ing about what the faculty is
"pushing” on us. It’s a pity we
don’t have time to try to do
anything to improve or better
understand these situations.
Elon is progressing rapidly—
our physical facilities are being
improved constantly; our scho
lastic standards are continually
rising. It is our belief that a
progressive student government
is one thing we need.
We cast our vote for at leaast
one formal dance each year. It
doesn’t seem right somehow to
see local high school banquets
and proms seem so much more
exciting and more outstanding
than our “big” dance of the
year. And that’s exactly the way
we see the situation from here.
We understand that a num
ber of formal gown« nvay leave
West and Virgiaia Dorms come
May 31st without having been
Uken once this year from their
places on closet shelves. A
shame, isn’t it? For the girls
who are Invited to glamorous
dance weekends on other cam
puses: we regret that there is
no formal dance at Elon to which
you nught invite your out-of-
towo dates.
We note with pleasure the
Dew weekend library study
hours. For those who maj have
missed the announcement, the
Ubraryl reading room is now
open for study from 1:30 to
4:30 o’clock on^Saturday after
noons and from 2 to 5 o’clock
on Sunday afternoons.
Installation of the hi-fidelity
set has been completed in Mc-
Ewen Dining Hall. We should
be eating our meals to the
strains of music any day now.
The activity schedule seems
rather crowded from now until
the end of the school year, with
sorority and fraternity banquets
and with May Day festivities
just around the comer. For May
Day we can look forward to the
May Day program, a reception,
a lawn concert by Pee Wee
Hunt and Boys, and, of course,
the May Dance with Pee Wee’s
orchestra furnishing the music.
It occurs to us that someone
may be interested in the fol
lowing iiiformation concerning
Pee Wee Hunt: He majored in
electrical engineering at Ohio
SUte University, hi* Twelfth
Streot Rag” on Capitol label
went down in history aas the best
eeUing record of 1948, selling
more than two million copies
since Its release; he earns close
to $150,000 a year as the leader
of lii« Dixieland band; and he
is called Pee Wee because of
his massive 235 pounds on a
si* foot frame.
We are with the group who
believes that It would b« nice
for the Social Club* on campus
to join together in the purchase
of a gift for the new Elon Col
lege Community Church.
Let's not forget to count our
tileasings. Run into large figures,
don’t they?
ST’ »»
DICK LASHLET
Before we delve too far into this gossio
column. Here ’n There would like to make
a short comment on the chimes that some
one so thoughtfully had played after class
es ended before Spring vacation. For once
’ole Elon took on the sound of a real col*
lege campus. Why can’t we*ave them plajJ
ed every day at the end of claasses.
For some time now the lack of tradition
on the campus has been a major problem
It could be that the playing of the cliimes
every day could be the answer. Wouldn't
hurt to try anyway.
Student Government
Here "n There has finally gotten some
more “poop” on the action of the commiU
tee that is revising our constitution.
The I^egislature has approved a partia
revision of the constitution already. This
revision pertains to the elecUon of mem-
bers to the Legislature, which is to be
known as -the Student Senate in the near
luture. The near future may mean next
year, if the revision is approved by the
student body and the administartive com-
fflittee. By the way, the election revisioa
calls for eight members from each clasi
to be elected to the Legislature.
The committee is also working on the re
vision of thejudicial part of the constitu
tion. This revision should be ready for pres
entation to the student body for approval
by the fall of 1959.
McCants Is Staying
There has been a rumor floating around
the campus that Prof. McCants is leaving
us. Tain’t so! And, this is from the horses’
mouth.
Just like MacArthur said as he was le»T-
ing the Philipines, McCants has said, "I
shaU return.”
Student Union
Leslie Johnston, manager of the Student
Union, has finally given Here 'n There some
real "poop” on the remodeling of the stu
dent union.
The remodeling is to be done during sum
mer school this summer. The remodeling
will Include the installation of a complete
soda fountain serving drinks, soft or course,
milkshakes, and similar refreshments. The
ceiling of the union will be covered with
sound boarding to reduce the noise level
in the union. The walls will be covered with
brick and glass.
Here’s some good news for us book buyers.
The book store will be of the “self-service"
type. That should really make it easier to
buy books when that time rolls around again
Also, the end of the union that now hs«
tables and chairs for loafing around will
be turned into a lounge. At last we will
have some place to take our guests whes
they are visiting the campus.
Student Magraztoe
The Colonnades is about to go to press,
says Etta Britt, member of the editori«l
advisory committee.
According to Miss Britt, the new literary
edition will feature new art work. The srti-
cles will be from the student body »t
large.
Gossip's All Gone
Here ’n There has just about expended
its supply of gossip for this issue, so lef»
come to a screeching halt. See ya' all
issue.
SCHOLARS AND DOLLARS
J"ust how much is education worth? Her*
are some striking answers from the Na
tional Education Association . . .
. . . College graduates, on the average,
have lifetime earnings at least 100,000 dol
lars higher than those of high-schod
uates . . . 268,000 dollar* versus 165,009
dollars.
... A college graduate at the peak «f
his earning power has an average incoM
Shat’s 70 per cent higher than when Ix
first started to work. But a man who
no further than high school can expec*
to earn only 14 per cent more than hi*
starting salary.—Clipped.
Sbart Snsrts
A tree is an object that will stay in place
for years and then jump in front »
Woman driver.
* » * • •
If a woman could talk oulf of tie tw«
sides of her mouth at the same time, *
great deal would be said on both lid*®'
* • • • *
He ha* the gift of compressing tl» UJfr
est amount of words into the
amount of thought. «. :
» • » * *
Never get made at anyone for knowisJ
more than you do. It’s not his fault
» • • • «
A government bureau is where ***"
payer’s shirt is kept