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MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, January is, iMg
Maroou And Gold
D«dicated to tlie bett intarwt at Bon
College aod its itudeoti and faculty, the
Maroon >nd Gold li publiihed bi-weeUy
4urln( tbe college year with the exception
■f holiday period* in cooperation with tbe
)oumali«in program.
Entered ai lecond claM matter at tbe
PCS* Office at Elon College, N. C.. under
tbe Act of March 8, 1879. Delivered by
nail, $1.30 per college year, 75 cents the
aemeiter.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Melvin Shrevei .. Editor-In-Chief
Paul Robinson Assistant Editor
rbomas Corbitt Sports Editoi
June Reaves !irls Sports
H. Reid . . .. Alumni Editor
Luther N. Byrd . . .. Faculty Advisor
Rill Wicker Staff Photographer
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Hichard Hedrick Uiane Woolard
Scott Zimmerman
FRIDAY, JANUARY l.i, 1963
I>K()BI.F:M of I.KIM kk
AlthouKh Elon students are finding very
little leisure time just now as they prepare
for the mid-year exams, many American
leaders declare today that finding £0und
and healthy u.se for rapidly increasing leis
ure time is one of the most difficult prob-
lem.s facing America today. Such was the
opinion of a speaker at a recent conference
of North Carolina recreational leadeq^ in
Asheville.
In an address prepared for presentation
to the conference, the Rev. Harold Hipp.s of
Nashville. Tenn , staff member of the divi
sion of the local church. General Board of
Education of the Metbodist Church, said the
United States is "literaUy in a leisure revo
lution.”
■ We are gomB through a period of difficult
transition from a society in which the virtues
of work have been the prime moral code
to a society in whjch the virtues of leisure
have to be reaxamined and granted the
prime significance which they inevitably
must have if we are to keep our society
from being completely demoralized." Hipps
said.
"Whether we like it or not. if this world
of ours stays in orbit, we are going to
have more and more leisure available to
us."
Pointing out that next to abundance of
material goods the most significant charac
teristic of present U. S. society is abund
ance of free time, Hipps said "within four
decades the basic work w«ek has dropped
from 60 hours and more to 40 and less.
Saying that leisure was once the privilege
of tbe very few, Hipps said, "now member
ship has been extended to the masses
whereas leisure has always been a fringe
benefit in the hi.story of mankind, it is fast
moving into the center of life to replace
work as the basis of culture.
Hipps said $40 billion per year is a "rea
sonable" estimate of U. S. exp>nditores on
leisure time activities. Under this heading,
be hsted $% million for bicycles $2 billion
for boats and accessories. $55 million for
swimming accesaories, $225 million for bath
ing suits and $15 for fishing.
There has been a strong shift from spec
tator to participant sports, Hipps said, with
estimates showing $1.5 billion spent on ad
missions to spectator sporting events com
pared to $8 billion on participant sports. These
include bowling, softball and golf.
Vast sums are also spent, Hipps said, on
dining out. travel, music, drama and books
and magazines.
The U. S., Hipps said, is a "middle cla.ss
society with a middle class morality of work
and the aristocratic opportunity of leisure.
The question, a hard one for us to face,
■a how does one keep the middle class
backbone of the nation strong and at the
same time give to leisure the same dignity
that we have long given to work?”
It is hard to realize today that this country
was founded partly to avoid taxation
a view
from
the oak
By
MELVIN SHREVES
It is oftentime interesting to learn what
is going on at other colleges in our same
region, and for that reason, 1 pa^^ on these
Iw.i .'irticles, both taken from a recent issue
o', the Intercollegiate Press Bulletin. Both
should be interesting at this time of the
.-■thool year.
.New Academic Schedule
Beginning with the 1965-66 :.chool year,
Clemson University will start operating on
a newly academic calendar that
opens the fall .-.omester nearly three weeks
earlier and concludes the college year two
weeks earlier in the spring.
The matriculation-registration process will
be on August 20 and commencement on
■May 14. By comparison, the current school
year began September 9 and ends May 29.
A principal accomplishment of the new cal
endar finds the first semester ending at the
beginning of Christmas holidays with the
second .semester .starting immediately after
the holidays.
"The new calendar is Ijeing establi-shed in
the interest of improved first semester schol
arship." said Dean of the University Jack
K. Williams. "We believe students will do
better work when they no longer have a
two-week break in the midst of a study
routine.
"The Clemson Faculty Senate and Student
Senate were mo.st helpful in working ou*
the new calendar. Both groups approached
the new calendar idea as an aid to better
scholarship, not as a gimmick of some sort.
The new schedule has nothing to do with
the current trimester fad. Clemson is and
will remain on a year-round schedule, and
our summer session is used by students who
wish to expedite their academic careers.”
In 1961 the University of Pennsylvania
pioneered the shift to the calendar Clemson
is adopting and two years later the Univer
sity of Kentucky becamc the first major
Southern school to employ it.
A pedestrian is the husband who did not
think that his family needed tww cars.
tonfidence is the feeling that you have
before you know better.
More people gel run down by gossip than
by cart.
Honor At Kandolph-Maron
No Honor System can achieve absolute
purity among all its participant.*^, according
to a liandolph-Macon faculty committee.
However, the report states, such a compact
must be idealistic: It is more personal, more
moral and more lnten.se than the relationships
created by the government of the United
States.
Its basis is Honor; its attributes Pie Loy
alty. Trust, and .Mutual Respect. By the
sane token, such a system cannot guaran
tee to participants all the protections and
legalhstic securities of the United States
systm of jurisprudence.
The committee recommends:
I That membership in the student body
of Randolph-Macon College, beyond consid
eration of fees and quality points, be on
condition of a man’s meeting the require
ments of the Honor Code, that there be
only one penalty for failure under the sys
tem - permanent expulsion from member-
snip in the college.
Such a ^nalty is. of course, stringent: and
tnus IS both intention and necessary. However
It IS not as awesome as it seems at first
glance. Under more successful, less formal
systems, the student violator is allowed much
more personal initiative to protect his own
interests.
by evidence
of his dishonorable conduct, or who turns
himself in, should have the option of with
drawing from the college immediately rather
than contesting the evidence. Thus if the
students can settle an honor case without
permanent record should be
vomio^• O'""
2. The Honor System is basically a pos-
^hould^
Tich . niechanics within
Tif eLr "^ated and
ever necessary.) altered by a joint effort
of students and faculty.
's functioning it
?ent‘ ^ uenterprise:*'s,u
.u .^udent council has
acfed^ there should be no appeal
3. The existence of a Board of Review is
alien to the principle declared in point No 2
I. implies by its v^y being thm the stu
dents on the Judicial CouncH are no. c^m!
petent to act fairly. A morii fiexible council
should be able to “reopen" a case should
new evidence be brought to light. Under
that stipulation, we feel that the Board of
Review should be cibolished.
4. We are confident that the corporate in
tegrity of the members of the Randolph-
Macon community is great enough to assure
the success of such a system here. However,
this would assume that a rigorous campaign
of orientation be made, for the &ake of old
as well as new members. '
One Of Two Dutch SIikUmiIs . . .
Ineke Koorn Speaks Six Languages
By PAUL ROBINSON
From Holland to Indonesia to
Holland and now America. In her
eighteen years Ineke Koorn has
traveled to many parts of the world,
learned six languages and is now
studying at Elon.
She began to know about Americ;:
through a pen pal. Bill Reynolds,
of Liberty, son of Mr. and Mrs. J
W. Reynolds. With ther help she
Ls now their house guest for one
academic year while she commut' s
to Elon. Their congenial hospitality
has been one of the most impres
sive things Ineke has found since
coming to this country.
She hopes to become an English
teacher and has already had six
years of study in the language. A
year in America, .she feels, will
afford her the opportunity to per
feet her use of it.
As already pointed out, Ineko
speaks five languages besides her
native tongue. She was a language
major in her high school and wa.-
required to take three languages
She chose English '6 years). French
7 years I, German '6 years), and
for an elective she took two year.s
of Spanish. She also speaks Indo
nesian because her family lived
in Indonesia for 10 years, from thf
time she was one and a half to
twelve.
Coming from a country only one
half the size of West Virginia, Ineke
finds the great size of America very
impressive. Having arriving in Lib
erty, where she now lives, by car
from a New York airport, she en
joys being able to "breathe fresh
air that wasn't your neighbor’s last
breath." She says that people live
very close together in Holland.
Dating in a car for the first time
in her life was one of the most im
pressive social experiences she has
had while in this country. She likes
it better than on one bicycle as is
the way it is done in Holland. The
boy pedals while the girl balances
herself on the seat. Ineke feels that
the car makes the American youth
much freer than Hollanders of the
same age. She is sorry, however,
that the result is less family life!
At home in Eindhoven, a city of
175,000 population, she can watch
FVench, Dutch, or Flemish tele
vision, the latter being a Dutch dia
lect. There are no commercials, for
the stations are government owned.
^ finds the commercials on Amer
ican TV disturbing, because they
break her train of thought.
Ineke enjoys spending her leisure
time in Holland in ice skating, swim
ming. reading and gardening. She
likes to watch ice skaters race on
ice and figure skating. She thinks
that American football is too cold
to watch so she likes basketball
much more.
Ineke finds American clothes more
"sporty" than Dutch clothes. She
finds that one American outfit can
be worn for more occasions. In
Holland a larger and more inflex
ible wardrobe is the present stand-
INEKE KOOKN COMMl TKS TO ELON CLASSES
ard. She approves of this .America':
u.se of clothes. Cosmet'cs, hovvevrr,
is ancfh'T .story. Dutch girls us'
them much less, especiallv those
girls under eighteen years of age
She has been experimenting with
them, and she admits that she u.ses
them more here than she did at
home.
Ineke doesn’t consider herself an
authority on the American male,
however, of those she has met she
notes that they express their feel
ings and opinions sooner and more
bluntly than do Dutch boys.
When she returns home at the
end of this college year, Ineke will
apply to a university to continue
her study of English. She will study
the English of the Middle Ages as
well as twentieth century literature
and grammar.
There is no liberal arts program
at !:;e cc'lege level like the one
here at Elon. If she wants to take
some math or history, she will have
to change her major to that de
partment. Dutch students gain their
liberal arts background in their high
schools. She will not be able to
transfer her Elon credits to her
Dutch university.
Elon welcomes Ineke to America
and to the campus, and all here
at Elon hope that she enjoys her
stay here and wish for her the best
of luck in her future studies in her
native country.
Eloti Heceives Gift From Estate
Elon College has just received
two bequests in the total sum of
$20,164.76 from the estate of the
late Mrs. Maggie Baynes Dixon,
widow of the late Patrick S. Dixon,
of the Mount Bethel Church Com
munity in Rockingham County, ac
cording to an announcement made
by Dr. J E. Danieley. president of
Elon College.
The major portion of the gift from
the estate of Mrs. Dixon is in the
sum of $18,182.36, w'hich is to be
known as the Maggie B. Dixon
Loan F\ind and which is to be
made available by Elon College for
loans to worthy ministerial stu
dents. Terms of the gift stipulate
that money from this fund is to be
repaid by the recipients so that
it may be available later to other
worthy students.
The remaining amount in the sum
of $1,932.40 is to become part of
the Elon College Ministerial Fund,
and in that fund it will be used to
support scholarships for ministerial
students.
JUDICIAL OBSER\ ER
Eloti Examinations And Honor System
To Faculty and Elon College Students:
We would like to remind you of the pledge that you took whon
o^Xno^^syl^i.."'”" ourXiTL ^Sd^n^
refrain from any form of cheating
fhP r • i- ‘"structor, an Honor Court member, or the Dean of
the College any mdication of cheating which he observed It is strona?v
suggested that each student avoid any actions which might appear susdi
c ous during a est or examination. These actions include Kn^hP
classroom for an extended period of time, taking a test or examination
alone, bringing text notebooks, and other materials into the classroom
and carelessly glancing at another student’s paper Classroom,
Write the entire honor pledge at the end of your test or examination
fuUy”^' ^ binding oath. Don’t sign it unless you can do so truth-
’raere should be a sense of mutual responsibility to uphold the honor
code on the part of both students and faculty. Each instructor is requested
K classroom during the testing period. However he
should tell the class where he may be found, so as to be readily availabll
for assistance, if needed. In addition, he should drop in from time to
time to answer questions and insure the maintenance of order. It ic thp
student s responsibility to uphold the honor code as it is stated in fhp
student handbook. This includes not only being honest to one’s self hut
also reporting anyone else who does violate the honor code. Anv infrar.
tion against the Honor System is an offense against all of us.
Signed
OFFICERS OF THE HONOR COURT
over
the
bar
By
PAUL ROBINSON
I shall forego the usual discussion about
honor in this issue and write instead about
a topic of which every member of the
campus community is a part. I shall at
tempt to define the Spirit of Elon.
The term is my own choosing. You may
call it whatever you like. Perhaps you may
prefer the Tradition of Elon or maybe the
Personality of Elon.
We all are affected by this spirit and we
all contribute to it. Gathered here from nu
merous states and representative a large
cross section of backgrounds, we gain a
common interest. We are all in college.
Once here we share many qualities. We
all have course requirements. We all are
subject to tensions and depressions. Despite
the wide variety of social and moral stand
ards we had before reaching Elon, we share
a single responsibility to correct social be
havior and morality. While here we make
new friends and enemies. We each partici
pate in different amounts of extra-curricular
activities. We are sometimes proud of the
college. At othr times we can find nothing
good about it.
This is all well and good, but the Spirit
of Elon is still not clear. We have all e.\-
perienced this spirit and perhaps never
knew it. The Spirit of Elon conJfronts us
in many ways. Last year one of our fellow
students was in an automobile accident. He
was in dire need of blood, and the hospital
sent out an emergency appeal on the campus.
The response was amazing. Not only did he
get all that he needed, but the Elon students
filled up the blood bank, and nearly one
hundred campus contributors had to be turn
ed away. This was the Spirit of Elon, for
many of the contributors didn’t even know
the patient. He was an Elon student and
that was all that mattered.
During the past few years several students
and faculty members passed away. The
campus memorial services were heavily at
tended. This was the Spirit of Elon.
Many of the Elon students have a deep
interest in their courses. The Spirit of Elon
is being able to talk with their professors
informally about the course. Often the stu
dents visit in the professor’s home and be
come close personal friends with them. This
is the Spirit of Elon.
Many of us who have had many enrich
ing experiences here assume that all col
leges are like this. They are not. In a large
university most students are mere numbers
on IBM cards. Some students never see
their professors, much less visit in their
homes. Even more rarely can they become
close friends with them.
A death or an accident in a large school
often goes unnoticed. A card is pulled out
of the student roster, or a student is for
gotten in a hospital. Soon the whole incident
is completely forgotten.
I have heard complaints about Elon not
having adequate facilities. Perhaps we should
tour the area and see how much is so close
at hand. Tbe libraries of four of the state’s
largest schools are at our disposal. If we
don t happen to have a particular publica
tion on campus we can usually get it in a
couple of days without even leaving the
campus.
There are often famous speakers at schools
nearby. In many cases any Elon student
can attend. In addition to our own cultural
programs, we have access to much of the
culture presented nearby.
The spirit of Elon is all this and more.
IS being proud of the success we have
enji^ed in sports. It is being proud of our
an . which seems to have sprung up out
of nowhere.
The spirit of Elon is trying to tell our
inends where our school is located. It is
ing anxious to get back to study and see
^ long summer.
We should be proud to be a part of tbe
on community. Despite our many campus
problems and complaints Elon will leave its
war on us. As the years pass and we are
gone rom here we shall cherish these years,
on K more than an institution which teach-
courses. It tries to build character and
g a ua e self respecting men. Those who
thT ^chieve this goal usually have only
themselves to blame.
0^ education is whatever we choose to
will ® ‘ only enough to get by, we
life enough to get by in
■ ediocrity for the sake of being liked
wp ^‘snds is a big price to pay when
If wp futures are at stake,
hero unwUing to prove our capabihties
onlv ^
f" record, who will we be
better’ actually do any
amount ® learned only an average
able tn courses, how will we be
^ ahead in life?
talitv arouses our sentinren-
both thp leave and know that
fer our ourselves are better
ter our having been here.