MAROON AND GOLD
0«t»bef 1, IIJ,
Miroo)i And Gold
Dedicated to the best uiterest of Elon
Calka- and iti studenU and fatuity, the
Maroon and Gold published semi-monthly
during tile coHege year at Eloo Coilcee, N.C.
(Zip Code TiMti, publication b«ing in co
operation with the Journalism department.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Mike Wyngarden Editor-in-Chief
Hichard Hiitchtn-- Assistant Editor
\%iliiam Bradham Assistant Editor
Jiick DeVito Sports Editor
Carole Pojo>».->ki Girl Sports
H H' id Alumni Editor
Luther N Byrd Faculty Advisor
Jimmy Pollack Staff Photographer
tkciinical staff
Loui! Joiitn Linotype Operator
Perry Willuims Press ()i>c*itor
R>;i*«KTORIAL STAFF
Jerry Barnette Arthur Klaff
Howard Blanchard WiHiam Macey
Martha Broda Kachel Mcmtyre
Martin Chandler Pamela McLauchlin
Eileen Cobb Thomas McIiCan
Alex (',K)k Ralph Mizelle
John CYook William Moore
Koger >ooks Philip Pagliarulo
Grover Crutchfield Judy Quinlin
Jane Dailey Owen Shields
Jeanne Fiorito Stephen Sink
Virginia Fogleman Wayne Smith
H.iymond Harris David Speight
Diane Hendrix Thomas St. Clair
Judith Hillers William Stiles
Thom;', Jeffery George Weber
Loui- Johnson Ray Wilson
Tim Kempson Dianne Wyrick
Charlef Kemodle Helen Yoho
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1965
SILVFR LININGS IN CLOIDS
Everyone i.s entirely too prone to see the
dark side of every situation which confronts
them, and it ii- always comforting when one
finds a celebrated figure such at Hal Boyle,
nationally known columni:>t, who in one of
hi.; rrcent columns listed a few things for
which one could be grateful in a troubled
time Among the things he listed were;
Tilt- sight of sailboats racing on a wind-
grooved ;sea. The sound of church bells at
twilight. The purring contentment of Cdti. and
the eager inquisitivenes.s of puppies. Hearing
two children doing their homework together.
Waiting in the dark for someone you love
to arrive. Watching the happy fates of people
gfceting each other at air terminals. Heading
a ijood novel that leaves you feeling that life
ii important and the human rate worthwhile.
Opening a package sent by a distant friend.
Folding more money in your wallet than you
had thought was there.
Looking down on the peaceful face of a
sleeping child. Lying awake in a railway bunk
as the tram roars through moonlight valleys
and dozing towns. Seeing the wonderful pat-
teras made by lightning during a night sum
mer storm in the Midwest — as if heaven
were putting on a Fourth of July fireworLs
show just for you.
Playing catch with the kid.s down the
street and showing them you can still whip
over a few fast ones. Waking up on Satiu*-
day morning and knowing Monday is still two
full days away. Picking up a good luck penny
from the sidewalk. Finding an ideal parking
place after driving around the block only
twice.
Walking in the woods in spring and star
tling a deer and her fawn into graceful es
cape Helping chiKiivn build a tree house dur
ing lon^ summer afternoons. Telling stories
around a campfire later ami coiintln” ( Him
•tars and givijig a dime to the one that sees
the most Listening to insects in the
bkickiH'o ' Katy did, “no, sh*‘ d*dn‘t!’’
viettinf-' a pay raise when you were sure
yi:i; d bi^ n p;i.s-..*d by for anothi r year Going
to the denti.st and bein>! told he had hope
of sa\inf: the tooth after all. Learning that
som-'fine you hold dear ha;; recovered from a
di!rs.!rou.‘. illnes,-, Overh»>aring a young cou-
p.f on the hus di.scu.s.iing whether they should
*p»‘nd their .;avin^;-> on a honeymoon or invest
in a more expensive ru>;
Surely the thought »( such homely thingt
a.* those listed by the columnist «an mean
much to persons of all ages, to youth/ul col
lege students as well as to those who kaw
been long battling the world for an ex-
istencc.
rONCKKMN'f; KAI) .MAWKKS
A common belief of our ancestors. summ‘d
up in the phrcs' “manners maketh man."
led them to place a high premium on court
esy, even to a formalism in behavior re
garded b*r us as stiff and stuffv But now
we haw outdone ourselves in' »bandoning
the maniuTs of the past and esche^'ing those
courtesies once believed to be e5«nlial u> a
gentleman.
Indeed, th« concept of a gentleman is al
most as archiac as buckle shoes and knee
breeches Today we shove a»d pu«h through
A»or\(jys. elbow ooe another in crowds, no
longer shgw respect (or age, fwget the
form.*- of courteous address, JinW revel in
tJ>e gaucheries of unlettered barbarians.
Thus it Ik to be free, easy and isfomial.
But alas, our bad manners are catching up
with us and sendiig an appreciable number
to t^ yavoyard. A study in Great Britain
glorious
feast
NEW ECONOMICS-ACCOUNTING MAJORS
By
KICIIAKD HLTCHEVS
The Intellectual Tiadition On The Campus
Though labels .leem superficial, overplayed
and often misleading, it seems safe to em
ploy 'intfllecti«ir' in the above context as
the conception of the campus intellectual i-
a common one.
Contrary to popular belief, all intellectuals
do not wear beards nor ere they suffering
from persecution complexes. There is one
aspect of intellectualism that is all too
common on the campus of Elon College,
however; it i.^ either disregarded or looked
upon with disdain by an all too .sizeable
number of the college population.
It seems that if one takes an interest in
anything more salient to our society than
those things ostensibly learned in class or
from textbooks, he is immediately classed
as a “radicall" As a consequence on this
campus there seems to be an apathy on
the part of the vast majority of students
toward anything more controversial than
the Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball
tournament. This is a paradox in that the
campus ii generally considered to be the
seat of social and political evaluation.
For example, what did the voice of Elon
have to say about Medicare? about Southeast
Asia? about the Civil Rights Bill of lilM.’
These are import;int issues and they should
be of some concern to the students on this
campus. Even when noted scholars are hero
and authoritative views are presented on
many and diverse topics, the audience is not
in proportion to the number enrolled.
Sadly enough, in conjunction with this lack
of interest on the part of the students the
academic element of college becomes drud^;-
ery while the emphasis leans all too heavily
toward athletics and big week-ends. More
important, when the students become involv
ed in the world around them they begin to
thirst for knowledge, while the emphasis be
gins to shift toward the classroom and the
heretofore uninvestigated realm found in the
pages of “outside reading.”
In order to be entirely fair 1 must offer
a word of caution to those who are, or want
to be considered intellectuals. Avoid becom
ing a "pseuda-intellectual.” It is true that
you are intelligent and that you have becom
acquainted with concepts that had never
before entered your mind. It is not true,
however, that you are capable of rewriting
Othello in order to improve its quality.
Also, be able to observe and understand
both sides of an issue. Your ideas and the
adherents to ideas similar to yours may
very possibly be correct in their analysis of
a problem but these ideas can just as easily
be wrong. Lastly, remember that the mark
of an educated man is that he is able to
realize that he is just beginning to scratch
the surface of the broad plane of knowledge
reveals that many motor accidents are the
result simply of a failure to observe the rudi
mentary courtesies of the road. Like the
oaf who pushes past one in a doorway, the
driver who crowds another to the curb is
guilty of crude rudeness — and, this study
shows, is frequently the victim of fatal ac
cidents. If we coukl be sure that the road
hog would always be the one slaughtered,
our concern might be tempered. But all tor.
frequently he carries with him .some inno
cent victim. As in Great Britain, observa
tions in this country reveal that gross ni'k'
ness in driving and' disregard of other dri'
ers' rights cause many di.siistrous wrecks.
If civic, religious, and welfare agenci,'
could emphasize good manners once mor.’
a six'ially iLseful a.s.set, beneficial to the
well-mannered individual and to society ai
large, they might achieve more than they
accomplish in more pretentions and more
expensive entorpri.ses Good manners on the
street and on the road would curb much
blasphemy, save some souls for heaven, and
preserve many lives here below. If we
could induce the belief that good manners
can also be "good form" in the latest fa
shion, we might go a long way toward ro
habilitating .»cioty.—CLIPPED.
Passing the Buck
The college professor says:
Such rawness in a .student is a shame.
But high school preparation is to blame."
The high school teacher remarks:
From such youth, I should be spared,
They send them up so unprepared."
The elementary teacher observes:
"A cover for the dunee's stool,
WTiy was he ever sent to sWiool?”
The kindergarten teacher whispers:
“N’ever such lack of training did I see.
What kind of person must the raotber be?”
The mother replies:
Poor child, but he ii not to blame.
His father s folks were all the same.”
. introduction of new major fields of study in economics and accounting in the
Busine.ss Administration Department are pictured above. Those shown left to right are Prof. Ralph V.
Anderson, left, who has been at Elon for the past two years, who was named to head up the new
^onomjcs program, Mrs. Jeanne F. Williams, center, professor of statistics, who has for some years
Men chairman of the Business Administration Department, a post she continues to hold; and F^of. Allen
B. tenders, right, a newc^er the Elon faculty, who is to teach both economics and accounting.
Newcomers Join Elon College FiK*u!ty
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PROF. DEWEY V. ANDREW
MALVIN
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'01 one year.
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nti e of .Mary!1. j: n :i tii
-iciilty as an s.s!,iiit .t.ui ,ss
:.f Triian. A y. .::lu itj ti
rc 1.. he has do:] - graduate wor
it both Berlin and Moidclboig u;ii I
. tties 1,1 Germany, hjs studiv |
at the University of I’^-injyl ai:i
rias Oten working t .a iid cur
.iktion of his Ph.D. at ;li Uni.
jity of North Carolina aL- Cfi:l .
Hall. His wife, Mrs. Jeanne Bridge
water, taught German at Elon last
year.
Prof. Gene A. Featherstone, a i
native of Lowell, N. C., came toj
the Elon music department as an
assistant professor of music. He I
is a graduate of Oberlin Colleg 1
; Conservatory in Ohio, holds th !
\ Master of Music degree from Flor
iJ.i State University and has ad |
anced work toward the doctoral ’
' ;t Northwestern University Schoi.
I of Music. He has had seven year
I )f college teaching, including thre
/oars at Atlantic Christian Colleg
I Ur. .Albert B. Gminder, a native
uf Salisbury, came to Elon this f;
I IS an associate pro*'e.ssor of moderr
' inguages with experience in teach
ag Spanish, Fiench and German
; 1 graduate of Catawba College, h
lulds both the master's and doc
tor's degrees from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He
has taught the past six years at
Ohio Northern University.
I Prof. Charles W. Harper, a North
irolina native, is a new assistant
I Tofessor in the social science de-
: '.irtment. He is a graduate of East
j arolina and holds the master's de-
■■-e Iroin that same institution, but
i tho pj.st three years he has
j on at Colorado State College,
uc.aching there while completing
I -vork for his doctorate in socia.
icence. He is teaching history an.
eography here and will also teach
■ history methods course.
•1 s. .'.Ilene B. Hassell, a native o.
■ i:!ston County in this state, wii
resided in Durham for many yeato
came to Elon this fall as a o
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PROF. F. DALE BRIIKIEWATER
MRS. EDITH S. STEVENS
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PROF. GENE FEA'WERSTONE DR. ALBERT B. GMINDER I PROF. BE.\\r:TT UIMI\m«ON
a few
blasts
and bravos
By
MIKE WYNGARDEN
Let us, by raising a few questions, talk
about the racial situatioH. What are the
aims of those who are motivating the “free
dom movement”? Of those who oppose it?
Is it the moral and Christiaa responsibility
of each and every American to support the
rights movement? And. finally, just where
is the movement headed?
The current race crisis should, I think, be
observed from at least two different aspects;
From the point of the Southerner and from
the point of the “Abolitionist.” The cna of
th# Southern point of view may well be —
“Let us work out our ovra problems." To
the Abolitionists, many of whom are Yankees
giving the impression of being holier-than-
thou, the point of view amounts to—“It's
about time we went down there and showed
them what’s what.”
F\irther, to some Southerners, if the cur
rent integration policy continues, a whole
way of life could vanish, a kingdom would
fall. To the crusaders of equality, on the
e ther hand, if the policy of total integration
should fail, then the Christian aim of “equal
ity" will be trampled under the boots of
the biased segregationist.
A pity it is that both sides of the race
problem must use as supports for the argu
ment such things as doctrines of bioloogical
race superiority and, on the other side, the
idealistic doctrine of Christian equality. Ir
rational indeed is the claim that Negroes are
I'iologically inferior; it is irrational, because
it cannot be proven. In similar manner, \^y
must some of the civil rights groups give the
picture that they are heaven-sent angels,
who have come to the earth to purge the
South of its “evils," claiming the Southerner
to be some sort of heathen. It strikes me
as being strange that, upon viewing some
of the battle scenes at Little Rock and other
ixiints, one sees just as many signs saying
“Yankee, Go Home” as he does signs de
grading the Negro.
This brings us to the moral question of
"responsibility.” I’ll take a stand right now
that it is not the moral and Christian re
sponsibility of every American to traipse to
i Alabama and blister his feet on the black-
top highway. This is a job only for those
■ ho are whole-heartedly and 100 per cent
devoted to the cause in which they believe,
people for whom we must mold respect.
But, if some member of the various inte-
grationist groups speaks in such terms as
you must march,” “you must see the
•Negro taken out of his chains," or else you
are bigot then this type of person must be
termed a radical. Radicalism may well have
started the civil rights movement; it may
well end it.
•And. if you want to hold to the view that
j it is the responsibility of every American
I to march and demonstrate, then ask yourself
j one question. Is a professor at Elon College
or Harvard, who is teaching his students the
process of purity of thought and instilling in
that student the ability to think for himself,
a crass bigot because he prefers not to
march at Selma or Chapel Hill? Is he a
Negro-baiter because he despises the tech
niques of sit-downs? Is he a prejudiced fool
because he would rather stay at home and
read .Andy Capp? I think not.
Much of the opixjsrtion to the equality
rflovement is generated by those who do not
the means with which the end sought.
! lere are thousands of Americans who are
-olidly behind the ideal of racial equality, but
^ 0 refuse to become involved in riots and
t-downs or crawl under the wheels of pohee
vans.
^ As regards the “progress" of the drive
or racial equality, this is perhaps the hard-
st part of the problem to analyze. “Prog-
■ ("■ss is a devilishly imprecise word which
•■launts and plagues the learned. In theory
r.e integrationist movements seem to be
' ii ing some headway. In practice one must
'vonder. It is hard to understand how a few
''or ers of CORE can change the racial
entire society. Perhaps the job
wou d be easier if^ey did not try to make
■ so radical:—"Full integration or you are
3 igot, and if you don’t go to jail you
ought to go to Hell”
I,- u fi some Southerners who resent
nigh-flymg Yankees who “tell them” that
ey must integrate or else; if they resent
J ? ^ point where civil rights demon-
s ra ors wind up«^s food for the fishes: then
I seems rather obvious that the means
are not in harmony with the ends and are,
erefore, only intrenching deeper the racial
^uThern segregationist-minded
A«d there is one other thing you tan jiut
u hold for certain: t there is a contin»a-
i-Th- seems to some Southerners as
aaical means trying to obtain ends diamet-
*0 his system of social val-
thf’ can bet your last dollar that
iht wrap around himself
I Snter toan ever the cloek of what the
wentieth Century Abolitionist calls ‘‘recial
hatred.”