PACE TWO
MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, AprU 17. 1954
Maroon And Gold
Dadlcatcd to tke beat InUreat of Elon
Collriie and tia itudeoti and faculty, the
Maroon and Gold is pubUabed bl-we«U>'
during the college year with tbe exccpticn
of boUday periods ta cooperation with thr
Journallam program.
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the Aft ot March 8, 1879. Delivered by
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•emestar.
EDITORI.4L BOARD
Melvin Shreves . Editor-In-Chief
Sy Hall Assistant Editor
Paul Kobin-son Aislstant Eiiitor
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Deeti Welch . . .. Girls Sports
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Jack Lambeth . Staff Photographer
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KKI*ORTORIAI, STAFF
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Gene Wrenn
FRIDAY. APRIL 17. 1964
SIGNIHCANT ANNIVERSARY
Already this year there has been frequent
mention of Elon College’s own Diamond An
niversary, but there is still another anni
versary coming in this month of .April which
cannot fail to be of intere.st to miny persons
within the campus community — that is the
four hundredth birthday next week of Wil
liam Shakespeare.
Certainly there arc few of the EJon In
habitants who have not been given some ac
quaintance of one form or another with the
great English literary figure, and it’s fitting
and proper that his birthday on April 23rd be
called to attention of Maroon and Gold read
ers.
Actually the ob.servance of the Shakespeare
quadri-centennial has become a veritable in
dustry in England, whert there has been a
long period of planning and preparation for
a great international jamboree that is to last
for five tightly-packed months of celebration.
One hears that advance requests from all
parts of the world have long since broken
all previous records for bookings and tickets
at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and the
police at Stratford-on-A'’on have exprc.'ijed
concern over how the single bridge that scans
the Avon can accommodate the crowds that
►ill come piling in from Utah to the Urals.
Across the river from the theater, the
Shakespeare Exhibition is taking shape in a
new white-and-gold pavilion. The vast hall is
filled with half-mounted exhibits — 17-ft.
modrl.^ of cavaliers; giant Shakespearean ef
figies: screens bearing slogans like “Gram
mar School 1570-76"; and everywhere the
stench of hot glue.
Portraying Shakespeare's life and times,
this will be the largest exhibition on a 'ii:‘.>l''
theme ever mounted in Britain.
"What excites me most is the international
character of this anniversary," said Levi Fox.
organizer of this year’s celebrations. "This
marks It off from the 1S64 event.s which were
national in character.
"Every country wants to celebrate Shake
speare. and so many want to send delega
tions that we're embiirrassed — we won't
have room for them.
"Already we’ve extended to 750 people from
its usual 300 the size of the birthday banquet
that annually follows the unfurling of the
flags.
"The Danes are sending an official team
of « Shakespeareophiles. And the Russians
have mentioned sending over a group of
their top culture experts."
Much of the money for the new Shake
speare center is coming from abroad, as a
kind of "international birthday present."
The Shah of Persia, for Instance, is per
sonally sending a carpet for the center; the
Indians and Ethiopians are giving furniture.
Two countries are expected to put up money
for felk>wships for overseas students to come
to Stratford.
Besides the exhibition, and the theater
(which is doing a cycle of seven plays', this
year's festival, lasting from April 21 to Sep
tember 6, will include every kind of conccrt,
poetry reading. Him show and folk dance,
most of it vaguely connected with the Bard
and his times in one way or another.
The British government has issued new
stamp in honor of the birthday. Shakespeare's
bead is on one side, the Queen's on the siher,
and scenes from his plays in the middle.
a view
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By
MELVIN S1IREVE.S
In I.'.: last ifnue of this paper, we natned
:-'.me names, much to the distress of .some
of our readers. This time this columnist
'.\oiild like to give hi.'; views on what students
liould look for in \oting for the next 5GA
president.
Before we can decide which candidate is
the most qualified, we should know what
some of the duties of the office of president
should be.
The president must appoint the chairman
and members of each SGA committee, ThI.s
means that he must find qualified persons
who are interested in working (don’t be
afraid of that word' in the various ohases
of the SGA. Anyone can make out a list
of committee members, but the good ’jresi-
dent will be able to get the most work out
of each person with the least amount of
effort.
He must make recommendations from time
to time to the Senate. This duty calls for
someone who has a creative mind for plans
that would benefit the general welfare of
the Student Body. He must also have the
respect of the Senate so that his recommenda
tions will be well heeded.
Many times during the school year, the
president of the SGA must represent the
students in dealings with the faculty and'or
the administration. It is very important that
the president be able to communicate with
these perons in the best interest of the
students whom he is representing.
Any person who aspires to be the president
of the SGA .should be a person who is dedi
cated wholeheartedly to serving the students
who elect him. The job of SGA president
is not a part-time one. It requires a mini
mum of fifteen hours work each and every
week without monetary reward or academic
credit.
This is more than most of us spend on .iny
one academic course we may take. The
president must uphold the dignity of that
office at all times and never let his guard
drop. He is directly responsible to the stu
dents for the proper spending of the $14,000
dollars with which they have entrusted SGA
during a year’s time. He is directly responsi
ble to the students for seeing that the
Honor System and the Campus Code is up
held, and that justice is carried out in the
Judicial branch.
Experience
The duties and responsibilities that fall
upon the office of president of the Student
Government Association are numerous and
varied. But above all, the president should
have experience in Student Government work.
In my opinion, experience is the one
quality that the president cannot be without.
A per.son who has never worked in the Stu
dent Government cannot just walk into this
job without knowing something of what the
job is all about. Of course, no one can fore
see all of the things that the president must
face in a year's time, but it is a mu.st 'hat
he have some idea of what has been done
in the past so that he can rely .somewhat
on pa.>.t experience.
Even a person with an expert for every
situation could not perform all the duties
that the president must face. Even if he had
these experts, he nvi.st decide as to wheth-.-r
he .should use the sugge.stions offered or not,
and these decisions cannot be made blindly.
A person who is building a boat doesn’t
build a boat by reading how it is done in a
book, he watches someone build one, then
he helps to build one, and then, and only
then, does he build the boat himself. He must
have some experience first.
So in choosing a candidate for the office
of president of the Student Government As.so-
ciation, the students should look for the
qualities of experience, sincere dedication,
creativeness, knowhow, and the desire to
serve the students to the best of his ability.
As a final note, the students should beware
of the candidate who is pushed into a race
for an office that the candidate is not sure
he can fill. Often a candidate is pushed in
with promises of help and support both d'U'ing
the campaign and ^ter only to be left hold
ing the bag, the content of which he is not
certain. Hie president should be a person
who has run for the office because he is
sure he can do the job, and should be a per
son who has been elected because the stu
dents know he can do the job. |
This is an unusual honor, for British »
stamps are never allowed to commemorate
another person — only the monarch. Thus tje
Shakespeare stamps, strictly speaking, honor
the guartercentenary festival, not the man.
Nevertheless, this is the first time someone
else has nrumaged to get his picture on.
ELON ALIMM S IMiESENTS CHOIR ON CAMPUS
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One of Elon’s brightest musical stars of past ye ;rs returned to the campus last night, but he did not
come alone. Ronnie Black, who was an outstanding soloi.'.t with the Elon Singers during his student days,
came back to the .scene of his campus activities and brought his very fine choir from the high school at
Rising Sun, Md., where Black now teaches music. T.k youlhlul Hising Sun singers are pictured above.
I)i reeled By Ronnie lildck ...
Maryland Choir Group Sings At Elon
The conccrt choir of the Rising!
Sun High School, of Rising Sun,
Md.. appeared in Elon College’s
Whitley Auditorium last night,
singing under the direction of ROn-
11' jck, 111 Elon graduate and a
native of Burlington. Its perform-
mce won high praise for both the
choir and its director.
The 39-member group, which has
gained recognition as one of the
utstanding scholastic choirs in
Maryland, has had individual mem
bers to win numerous honors in
recent ye.- i. C;i • .f ■
VIS named as an All-American High
School Soloist, an honor given to
miy one .student in the United
■Hch month
In addition, the Rising Sun Choir,
which is selected after strict audi
tions f.om three choral groups in
!i.' school, has won many seat in
the Cecil County Chorus and in the
past two years has sent se'.en ol
its members to places in Maryland’.';
All-State Choir.
The Rising Sun School is a junior-
senior unit In Cecil County. Md..
located in the extreme northeast
corner of the slate near the Bain-
bridge Naval Training Center. It
has a current enrollment of about
n03 students. Its choir has frequent
invitations to sing in adjoining
'.tates. but heavy rehearsal and pro
gram schedules in the home area
■illow only a few acceptances.
Ronnie Black, who directs the
• viir. is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul R. Black, of Edgewood Ave.
He is a graduate of Elon College
and during his student days he was
a soloist with the Elon Singers,
'fter graduation he served two
years with the Armed Services and
had the opportunity to study voice
privately while in Germany with
one of that country’s outstanding
voice instructors.
Following his army service Mr.
Black taught for two years in the
\lamance County schools, being a
member of the Altamahaw-Ossipee
faculty. At the same time he di
rected the choir at the First Re-
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Ehm Jazz Band In Annual Concert
The Elon College Elnanons, al
ready gaining wide reputation as a
jazz band, presented its second an
nual jazz concert in Whitley Audito-
'•iiim at 8 o’clock la.st Friday night.
Proof of the excellence of the Em-
’Hons and their miis''- lio-; in the
fact that the group has been in-
ited to i)Iav at the New York
World’s Fair the fir.st weekend in
May as a representative of Elon
College.
The band, playing under the lead
ership of Prof. Jack O. White, of
fhe Elon music faculty, will appear
in three concerts in the big band
shell at the World’s Fair. It is to
play two of the concerts on Friday.
May !, and a third one on Saturday.
May 2.
The proceeds from the concert in
Whitley Auditorium last weekenc'
will be used to help defray the ex
penses of the band on its trip tc
the World Fair. The concert wa.*;
staged under sponsorship of thf
Elon Student Government, which
:onducted an advance sale of tick
ets for the program.
Members of the Emanons who
played in the Friday program were
Mike Griffin, of Burlington; Graeme
Shull, of Charlotte; David Hosmer,
of Worcester, Mass.; Ken Hicks!
of Portsmouth, Va.; A1 Garrison,
of Smithfield, Va.; Bob Martin, of
Winston-Salem: Harold Bodenhamer.
of Winston-,Salem; Terry Sink, of
Winston-Salem: Barney Tysor. of
Burlington: and Eddie Harris, of
Cary: all Elon College students.
Also playing with the student
“roup were Prof. White himself,
along with four guest members from
the surrounding area. The guest
members were Bill Carruth, of
Cary; Dick Conrad, of Gibsonville:
and Elmo Hatley and W'allace Lon;t
both of Burlington.
Syde Lines
By SY HALL
What are the aspirations of th«
people of the world? What are your
inspirations? Recently a story of
aspirations was published by Dr
Hadley Cantril in Scientific Amer-
ican. In it he says:
United States citizens, known for
their material prosperity and a cer
tain smug contentment in it, may
be surpri.sed to learn that samp
lings of public opinion in West Ger
many, Brazil and Cuba show that
the people of those countries are
even more buoyant about their re
cent progress and more hopeful
about the future.
Americans may be chastened as
well to learn that these peoples
also identify their personal well
being more closely with the for
tunes of their countries. These very
general statements represent the
first findings in an experimental ef
fort to develop a technique for mak
ing comparative studies across na
tional boundaries of the concerns
and aspirations o( people around
the world.
In an interview, the respondent
is first of all asked the following
question: "All of us want certain
things out of life. When you think
about what really matters, what are
your wishes and hopes for the fu
ture? In other words, if you imag
ine your future in the best possible
light, what would your life look
like then if you are to be happy?
Concern for an improved stand
ard of living was mentioned as
often in the United States as it was
in poorer countries such as Cuba
and Brazil; in the United States
persons in the upper and middle-
income groups were just as con
cerned with the question as those
in the lower income group. For one
upper-income American, it took the
form of "I want enough money to
own a boat and send my four child
ren to private preparatory schools.”
For the wife of a worker in Havana,
the wish was “to have enough food
and clothes so we will not have to
beg for these things.”
Such non-material values as emo
tional security, independence of
thought and action, recognition by
others, feeling of accomplishment
and similar things were mentioned
as personal aspirations by about
one-third of the people of Cuba.
About a fourth of the Cuban re
spondent mentioned these values in
association with fears that they
might not attain their life goals. In
the United States, on the other hand,
only one-fifth of the respondents ex
pressed concern with these values.
Among Americans hope for peace
and fear of war were mentioned by
nearly 60 per cent; among West
Germans this thought concerned 70
per cent; and among Cubans it was
only expressed by about 10 per cent.
Where respondents of all nationali
ties voiced a uniformly high con
cern about their economic well be
ing, only 6 per cent of the citizens
of the industrial countries men
tioned such concern in speaking of
the future of their countries.
In Brazil more than half of those
in the low-income groups in urban
communities craved a decent or
better standard of living, something
that concerned less than a fourth
of the middle-class Brazilians in
the cities. Whereas half the West
Germans over 60 years of age indi
cated their concern for good health,
only about 10 per cent of those un
der 30 years of age are as yet wor
rying about health.
For the small Moslem population
in the Phillipines, the most wide
spread desire was to have great
wealth, such being mentioned by a
third of them. I^ss than one per
cent of the small Protestant popu
lation there exfa^sed any such
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the
fourth
year
By
PAl'L ROBINSON
Morality is one of the most debated and
intricate issues pervading college campuses
today. Many noted educators realize that
this facet of the student’s life often dominates
his spare time through its practice and oc
cupies much of his thinking in trying to seek
out an answer to what is right and wrong
There is little doubt from a comparison
of college generations that the students of
today are in the midst of a change of em
phasis in respect to moral codes. Some con
tend that this is due to the intensity of the
international situation in which modern youth
is searching for security in insecure times
These advocates conclude by saying that
modem youth finds this security by escaping
into the splendor of intimacy. Others blama
the modern dUemma on the conservatism of
the parent generation. The attitude that pre
vailed in matters of sex then was secrecy
and taboo at the mere mention of the sub
ject.
It is not my place, however, to point blame
at anyone or anything. The main issue at
stake here is recognizing the present situa
tion as a problem of our society, and a
problem it is. The mass scale with which
intimate relations occur in modern day of.
fers pseudo security. To claim that satisfying
of innate drives is right is foolish, for in
actuality it is only the satisfaction of biolog
ical drives.
To base a relationship such as mai-riage
on mere physical attraction is equally in
consistent. Marriage is more, much more,
than intimate conversations after hours. Fac
tors such as character and compatibility of
personalities as well as religious and social
elements must be considered before the final
vows are taken. It is a lack of proper ba'ance
of all these factors that cause many re
lationships to fall by the wayside.
Marriage is not the major concern here,
but it is one that deserves mention bccause
of its potential importance in the lives of so
many dealing with moral questions during
their premarital days.
If security is the major goal sought by
the many who are caught up in the clutches
I of illicit behavior, then the problem can be
at least partially remedied by offering the
wayward a more lasting and staid security.
Modem society offers little to the militant
student. He cannot invest himself in trusting
the state, because so much of modern politics
appears to be equally as corrupt as the
conscience-torn student himself.
The modern church offers little recourse,
for it often seems a myth and not even valid.
To sell our souls to a large corporation ^
belittling ourselves and confining our lives
to becoming a little man, operating accoid-
ing to the whims of the unseen and inhuman
bureaucratic dictators behind mahogany desks
in the New York office. We cannot go into
service of mankind as a social worker, for
there is not enough monetary reward for
such efforts.
Such is our world, our erratic and con
fused existence on earth, where we are
forced to live beside the man who is trying
every day to cheat us of our hard-earned
wealth. TTiis is the world we inherit from
peace-loving parents who fought two world
wars in a lifetime and who now insist on
feeding the hand that conspires to bury us.
Bad as it might seem this earth is today,
we must live on it. We may find it disgust
ing and hypocritically govemed and fiiil of
half-hearted promises between men. but we
are forced to live in it. But, distasteful as it
may seem, we cannot justify our own ac-
tivitjes that add to the problems. W'e "annot
rationalize our way out of rebelling against
our strife by eating away at the dignity of
our own species, causing it eventually to
crumble into worse shambles than already
lay at our feet.
Modern authors spend months compiling in
formation on campus love-making through
out America. They tell us of comments of
coeds who resort to a certain disconcerte^-
ness at not seeing any wrong in their be
havior, and they then teU us of the embar
rassment of the coed who gets into trouble
and is forced to face her mdistake through
tragedy. There is undebatable evidence that
the trends are nationwide.
Is American society doomed to damnation?
Will the apparent flagrance of moral break
down accelerate into an uncontrollable mo
mentum such that no man alive will have
the power to regenerate our lost sense of
direction. No, the American moral code^
with its pornographic magazines, short skirts
and way-out dances is in a state of flux. It
is answering the conservatism of the ViC'
torian generation with the antithesis.
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