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PAGE TWO MAROON AND GOLD Friday, December 14, iggj I^laroon And Gold Enter«d ai second clan matter at the Po«t Office at tlon College, N. C.. uader the Act of March 8, 1879. Delirered by mail, 11.50 per college year, 75 cenU the •rme*t*r. Edited and printed by studenti of Elon College. Published bi-weekly during the year under the auipicei of ihe Board of PublicatioD. EDITORIAL BOAKD rk.n Terrell Editor-ln-Ch.ef .Melvin Shreve;- As -itant Editor Hin-m Mlkell Ai .itant Editor David Marthbura Sporti Editor Sallie McDuffie Girls Sports H Keid Alumni Editor Lulher N Byrd Faculty Advisor TECHNICAL STAFF P N Thompjor. Linotype Operator C'-'l Linotvpe Operator Kerneth Harpt-r Pre'-s Operator REPORTERS Anni Aaron Donald Hinton Howard Amer Paul Huey Kobert Barham Barbara Jensen William Baskerville . Cameron Little Nancy Lou Butler Judy Maness J rr> Byrd Larry Meisel Diane Clary Roland Miller Burl Clements .... James Moore Arthur Davis Bill Morningstar Konald Denhart Otto .Mueller Janet Faulkner Barry Opell Kobert Felton Richard Thompson William Griffin Aubrey Utz Danny Hall Sonny Wilburn Jane Harper David Winfrey KHIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1962 PR(K;RESS BKINfiS CIlAMiE Piogress in every phase of human life means change, chasging methods and clianging tools, and a certain nostalgic writer in a recent educational pamphlet, iitt' an interesting change in the field of education and points to the old-fash ioned pen-and-ink instruction in writing Mt a vanished part of American school training. He writes as follows: There once was a time in American schools when children were taught to write with pen and ink, but [hose days are gone forever. Even the holes in the desk where the old ink bottles were stored have disap peared. for the new school desk.s with the carve-proof lops no longer provide for an ink botlle Along with this change in school furniture has. come a change in the termi nology for the mighty writing instrument. Today’s children are still taught penman ship, but they are no longer taught to "write In pen and ink." This is the day of the ball point pen or the solid-ink pencil. Since the old penholder and ink botUe are no longer a part of a child's experience there are only two writing Instruments using ink that he familiar with. These are the pen and the ink pen. hen 1 first heard the expression "ink pen. ' 1 heard it from a person whom 1 would claviify as a speaker of .southern sub-standard American English and 1 have always labeled it as nonstandard since, 1 did not hear it after then, yet today 1 hear it everywhere 1 have heard it in North Dakota. Michigan, and all through the South Are children just aping their par ents substandard diction or if there now a niL’d for thi-. word which i.s wide enough for It to be in general -.lamlard use; Both grammar sfhool students anil i.. , ,;u. dents use this term. It is interesting to speculate hi.*- such a term which I once shuddered at cuuld cohk ■ such general use. This is what I think Just as the fountain pen had to have a dis- tinguishimi iidjective to indicate that with Its self-contained ink supply it was differ ent from the most commonly used v ilinK Instrument, the pen. so the adjective ink " has been used to distinguish the foun ain pen from what is today the mosi common ly used writing instrument. U is also inicr- esting to note that the pen with an internal reservoir for ink still is the writing instru ment that needs a distinguishing adjective. •Since the ordinary writint; Insti.i.aent other than a pencil for most students today seems to be a ball-point pen, this is now called a pen and no adjective is needed to identify it. A fountain pen uses ink, so it Is distinguished from an ordinary pen by the only adjective needed—ink. I have no doubt that the schoolteachers of America are discouraging this usage just as I would haie. but smce (here are now only two types of pens in general use, I would pre dict that the now unnecessary adjective fountain will become as archaic as "pen and Ink ’ and that the expression "ink pen" now unknown to dictionaries may find Its way Into them with an appropriate label. Will this usage be labeled coUoqulal, di alect or localism, or slang, or will it be called standard usage? nit i shades of e/on By HINSON MIKELL After Colorful Career . . . Taxes could be a lot worse. Suppose we had to pay a tax on what we think we're worth’ "i- we ... pn onclher Christmat season, let us pau.' to contemplate seriously its meaning, '.'hri^tmas, which brings to us rec- olltction.- of many happy timet past, wouldn't be ' i.mplete w ithout yule trees, gaily colored lights, and tinsel. Presents, Santa Claus, and parties for the older sets also have been closely associated with this season. For most of us students, a two-week vacation from ted ious studies is another blessing eagerly an ticipated. Christmas has a multitude of mean ings which \ary to suit all age groups. Beneath the surface, however, there is something about Christmas which is hard to describe. This something is often referred to as the “Christmas Spirit "; to me, it is an overwhelming realization of my place in the brotherhood of all mankind. Regardless of our various religious affiliations and beliefs, we are able at this time of the year above all other times to put away our prejudices and see for once in our enemies a good point here and there. It only strikes me as a shame that this '"something” peculiar to the Christ mas sea.son cannot be realized to the extent that people would adopt it as part of their everyday lives. .My approach is an idealistic one, granted; in fact it only makes me wond er how real Christmas actually is. Wouldn't it be fine if we could make this "Christmas attitude " a permanent one and carry it as part of us into the ensuing year. Above its "Sounding brass and tinkling symbols", Christmas Is a season of general good will and charity towards the more un fortunate. As part of their annual activities, the fraternities and .sororities on campus, working through the Pan-Hellenic Council, provided a Christmas party for the children at the Congregational Christian Home for Children here in KJon College. Last night the.se groups conducted this activity by dec orating a tree at the home and by providing pre.sents for the children. The social groups ought to be congratulated for this endeavor, which is hopefully something above admin istrative su.spicion. Perhaps this sort of ac tivity will at least preserve the names of our fraternities and sororities, le.st they fade out altogether becaii.se of the restrictions under which they must function. 'But why should one complain about a lack of social freedom when there is so much studying to be done4» Judged especially from a scientific point of ' lew. one is belter off ju.st being an electron ic brain or perhaps a chemical computer.) • * * » Last Tuesday, during chapel period, the students and faculty of Elon College were addressed by a Mrs. Whitney in tones far u" of tpp ordinary. Although I am not in .1 position to elaborate on religion and pol itics, it seems fitting that a few commenLs conceming her talk be made if only to .serve ilS a M'minder of this event. Mrs. Whitney is compeJled to speak at least five minutes on the topic of communism dur ing her every lecture (like unto the ancient mariner who was forced as part of contimi- ing con.'^eqiiences to tell his tale. Therefore, she spent most of her half-hour during chapel propotinding the evils of a socialistic way of life and challenged us (students' as a "mili tant minority" to stand against these en croaching evik. This point could have been effective had she not weakened it by telling of her own private experiences. Her challenge as presented .seemed to say that we ought to pay more attention to com munist advances which have been predicted to culminate in work! supremacy for Russia in 1972. However, in a particular example, she made me wonder if she really wanted us to think or was just preaching a dogma. Her experience, as she told it, was this: In graduate school she was forc«l to lake a course with a majority of freshinen. The professor, instead of welcoming the newcom ers in the usual fashion, began his class by asking how many of the students had attend ed church .services the previous Sunday. A unammity of hands was shown and upon this the professor began questioning as to reasons why they had attended. The answers given which, in my opinion, we-e trivial, 'ContlDueu on Paee Fpur’ Wooten Is Praised By Alumni Writer By H. REID Four years ago, a tall, scrag- giy boy stood beside an automo bile on the Alamance Hall park ing lot. He looked anything but a foot ball player. His stovepipe legs, sphed with wisps of soot colored hair, stuck out flimsily from Ber muda shorts. He weighed—and bis coach back home at Hamlet, nev er scrimped on program figures— all of the 130 pounds. George Wooten, uncertain, feel ing very young and looking the part, wondered if Elon College really were as good a school as his pal Ed Thrower from over Rockingham way had been tell ing him. As an afterthought, George called to his mother wait ing in the car. "I don't think I'll be too long." Wooten miscalculated slightly. Thrower had been correct about Elon. Wooten stayed for four years, passing up overtures from the Uni versity of South Carolina and East Carolina College. He never rued it an instant. George Wooten de veloped into a pretty fair student. He also found a pretty Virginia bride at Elon. On the football field, Wooten combined being in the place at the right moment with ingrained natural talents. In four years, he was boldly men tioned in the same breath with such Elon untouchables as Jack I Rabbit Abbitt, Pete Williams. Joel Sal Gero. The day third string Wooten first scrimmaged, thougli, he was far from that noble echelon. He doubted he would make the firsi- te'im. I Bumped on his meagre behind time again, Wooten soon became convinced his opposition was ter ribly big and that he was quite, quite small. He picked himself up. re.^olving to improve. He did so much better, in fact, that he start-1 ed against Newport News Apren- tlcr School in the "59 season, al-| though he was hardly prepared I for what the press is wont to, label a hero s role. Wooten was, in a word, frightened. For lack of! anything more clever, he called a curious opening play, a quart erback sneak. It was good for Keid This! Football players come and go at a school like Elon, but few of them make as great an impres- cioD upon student and alumni supporters as did George Woo- i»*n during his four-year ca reer that came to a close with the end of the 1962 season. Sym bolic of Wooten’s ‘foot prints on the ssk'^ of football time” is the accompanying article, which was contributed by H. Reid, well known alumni journalist for use in his regular “Reid This** col umn. Thi- word-picture of George Wooten and his career is \ivid enough to pull “Reid This'* to a new and bigger spot in this is sue. four yards and even longer con fidence. Since that first call, with com mensurate aid from 10 otlier guys, Wooten has associated himself with some remarkable events: In the Elon homecoming game of 1960. safety man Wooten and halfback Jim Short weic amazed G FORGE W O O T E N Made Fine Recrd I to see Catawba—the game pract ically won with but 15 seconds ]left—line up for a field goal. Cat awba had missed in three prev ious placements. With an eye tow ard a fourth failure, Short coun seled, " Get that ball and run.” Wooten followed the suggestion. He ran for 108 yards with the errant kick for the winning touch down. It was the longest-ever Elon punt return. In another homecoming game, again in the lates stages—two sec onds remained—Wooten deployed a 32-yard field goal to defeat Wes tern Carolina in 1961. Against Newberry this year, he made a quarterback keeper, nor mally a short gainer, good for 89 yaids and a score. The longest running play from scrimmage in E'.on records. In the Apprentice game this sea son, he topped another Elon mark. He intercepted three Newport News passes. It was such defen sive performance that had earned a Little All-America rating in ’61. Oddly, had he been spared from defense and 60-minute playing, he may have made it on offense. This past weekend, Wooten cal led his final signal as an Elon un- dergratuate. He faked a placement kick against Frederick, running the ball over for two points. In his four years at Elon, the young man’s helmet still fits. The Horatio Alger-Frank Merriwell ex ploits have not left him heady. " A good way to end it,’’ he said in that foggy, country-boy voice. He slapped a teammate on the shoulder and said, "It’s been a igood four years.” Somebody in the after-the-game crowd needled, “Suppose you’d gone to South Carolina?” “I’ve got no regrets.” There was that look in his eyes hinting of his miscalculating again. He stood looking at the field, absently, and, in a sense, fondly. He was one of the last to get I on the team bus. Obviously, there was a regret: Those four years at Elon had slipped by all too rapidly for George Wooten. A \^ievv From The Oak By MELVIN SHREVES Judicial System Revisions The Committee on Judicial Sys tem Revision has presented a pre liminary report on its proposed revisions to the faculty Commit tee and should soon have a re ply from them on the report. It Is good to know that something is finally being done about this matter, since such a committee has been needed for many years. The committee, chaired by Ken Lumpkin, deserves a great deal of credit for the work it has done and is continuing to do. The Oak Riwm Although some people didn’t think the little deminstration in front of the Oak Room would bring any results, the appearance of the cafeteria has improved. It can be assumed that Slater is using psy chology in trying to make stu dents think the food is better by making the service better. But one must admit tliat any little improvement is a big improve ment. Christmas Dance The Entertainment Committee IS using a few gimmicks to at tract students to the Christmas Dance this week-end in hopes that the dance wlU not be as poor ly attended as it has been in the past. The Committee, headed by Ken Broda, will give away gift certificates (six of them) as door prizes. In order to be eligible for persons jp attendance ^ust be at the dance between 7:45 and 8:30. Another big at traction will be the announcement and crowning of the campus" ug- lie.'t man. Providing music for the dance will be a group from Greensboro known as the Fabu lous Five. This dance should be a hum-dingerl Telephones In The Dorm? It used to be that it was all you could do to get the teleplione com pany to install a pay phone in the dorms, but now the Southern Bell Company has approached Eton College to see about install ing private—that's right, private ,—phones in the dorm rooms. Sev- : eral weeks ago Southern ap- ; proached Elon College to see about installing private—that’s right, private—phones in the dorm rooms Several weeks ago Southern ap proached Dr. Danieley about in troducing such a system on our campus. From reports received to date. Southern must have at least 300 phones, fifty or more taken up by office phones, at a cost of $3.00 per phone per month (in the dorms, $1.50 per person) plus charges for long distance calls. If such a system were to be in- I stalled at Elon. and the Adminis tration is in favor of it at the present, our college would have best communication system in this I section of the country. Parking Lots The Student Government and Ihe .Administration is looking into a feasible way to have the park ing lots on our campus paved. It has been suggested that a Car Registration Fee be charged to ail students, faculty, and admin- I istration for the expressed pur- I pose of paving all of the parking lots on campus. At the present time, the school is waiting for bids on such an operation to see jit it would be feasible at the pres ent time. The school has wanted to have this job done for some : time because of the unsightly ap pearance, the uncontrollable dust, that the dirt parking lots now pro vide. On Other Campuses For those of you who haven’t read about it in the daily news papers or visited their campus in the past two weeks, you may be interested in this little bit of news from the Woman's College in Greensboro. Students (most of whom are girls) at WC are permit ted to drink alcoholic beverages within a 50 mile radius of the campus under a new regulations which went into effect two weeks ago. The new rule was approved by the Student Legislature at the College and by the ChanceUor. Last week this columnist learn ed from students at East Carolina College that the student body there does a little evaluating of its own at the end of each year. Last year they evaluated their professors and instructors on their ability to teach others, and this ytar they will also evaluate the dormitory hostesses. Any sugges tions? Goodbye, Old Year The Christmas season is now up on us and we are all looking for ward to a fun-fiUed vaeaUon. It IS my sincere hope that each of you has a very Merry Christmas and great New Year. a voice from the corner By don TERRELL This being the final issue before being released for the Christmas holidays, I would like to recreate a little story printed during my Sophomore year in this coU umn. It is entitled “Santa’s Coming So Get The Legs Out Of Your Stocking," and :t goes something like this. It was the day Reginald had looked for^ ward to for quite some time, as a matter of fact, some ninety-odd days. Christmas clemency was to begin immediately after his four Wednedsay classes. The stimulus of the ensuing occasion made it easier getting up this particular morning, although the night before had been spent in gay laughter and other friv olous undertakings at the local scene of regular collegiate festivities, the Dug Out The glass of ice water which his room mate had poured into his pajama tops could be overlooked in view of the sea son's cheer, and the fact that MERRY XMAS was beautifully squirted across the door with the very last of the Rapid Shave, and one of the monstrous trash barrels had been quietly overturned in the center of the room, and all night long he had slept with feet poking through two perfect cir cles in the sheet resulting from a cute lit tle game of short-sheet. The popular Elon tragedy, "No-Heat”, was being performed as usual, and the guys in the next room had been loudly amusing in their telling of past personal experiences, (the good kind) all night long. Also someone had stolen the term paper, which he had stolen from someone who bought it from a guy who got it from a fellow who knew some one who was related to a very influenUai character. Had it not been the day when all little an^iishes are overlooked for awhile, Reg just might have been a Uttle perturbed, but not today. With a smile that would have made Ike’s and Jack's sadistic, he gently removed him self from within and without the sheet, and tenderly tapped his roommate with the ole trusty fraternity paddle, (eighteen stitches) and informed the swell chap that it was time to shove off to knowledge-land in history, English, French and religion. After a quick shower, which was follow ed by an ingenious thawing out process created by the guys in H. Reid’s class (thanks a H of a lot, H), our hero was ready to face those four sweet contribu tors to his intellectual development. Today, the history professor felt real good and especially inspired. He gave a little quicky-quiz covering only the last seventy-two typewritten pages of notes. Be ing overwhelmingly nice, the dear old prof informed the class that everyone who fin ished early was free to leave early. The real nice guy then proceeded to hand out the twenty-three pages of questions. On the first page were one hundred well- squeezed-in true or falsies (is that the ■vord?) On the succeeding pages were some crip essays. “Trace the trend of thought everywhere from 6 B.C. to 1962.” “What happened in Europe before 1900"?” Natch, as professor expected, our boy Reg knew all the answers and proceeded to write t >e information down, being interrupted twice by needs which were only satisfied y trips to the Union for note book paper and things. He left class early, and spent e remaining thirty-five minutes with his ve one, checking her over. She sure 00 e sharp from all angles ard sported quite a chassis, but most Chevys do. e jangling bell interrupted his medi tation and summoned him off to English. The professor there was in such a hoUday dismissed the entire class— ^ assigned a three thousand word phase of American a ure, due upon arrival back at school. ^ Ihe Union, which brought am* two bags of potato chips, of nabs, thirteen honey bppr’ w dip of tutti-fruitti, but no turn ^ hungry fes r '"as in held Inri' extent that he als nat recitals of Christmas car- beine ^ graded and in francais. Reg, out J t!- through with- small ^ ^ ™'s*ake, except for one which ^ a Spanish accent, Spanish course. ‘ " and Reg^Xolleri^*°” around, the class w down. When ‘-aped from his seaTLd"' gonna havva . a^ounced, " We’re Reg and the *®st.” of course, when turned fo their^*”^'."^"^ scholars had re- seats, the questions were C«n(i„„ed on Page Four)
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