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Maroon and Gold is published semi-monthly
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(Zip Code 27244), publication being In co
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KDITOKIAL BOARD
Mikf Wyngardcn Eklitor-in-Chief
Richard Hutchens Assistant Exlitor
William Bradham Assistant Editor
Tom Jeffery . Dramatics Editor
Jack DeVito Sports EMitor
Carole Popowski Girl Sports
H Reid Alumni Editor
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
Jimmy Pollack Staff Photographer
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Ray Wilson
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966
KNOWLEDGE AND WLSDOM
Recent months have seen repeated re
ferences to questions raised concerning the
question whether God is dead, and there
have also been many comments in recent
times concerning the relationships of the
Bible and science. One of the most interest
ing of such comments was by Chub Seawell,
who is himself one of the most interesting
of all contributors to the Public Opinion
columns of various North Carolina news
papers. The Sandhills Sage furnishes inter
esting reading both for his philosophical
opinions and for his picturesque language
in which he writes. His most recent writ
ing to one of the state dailies follows:
I just read in your paper where one of
these over-educated intellectual atheists
cussed out Cousin Billy Jeremiah Graham
a^ut his statement on science and the
Bible and then cast some considerable as
paragus on old Noah the navigator.
One of the main ways for a carnal-minded,
over-educated intellectual to utterly skin
his ignorance is to try to talk spiritual
things when he is spiritually dead.
The Bible is a spiritual book. The preach-
ing of the cross is foolishness to them that
perish. The Bible was not written to prove
or disprove science.
The Bible is a miracle in itself. It was
given to point men to the need of a savior.
Like a compa.ss it always points to Jesus, '
the lamb of God that taketh away the sin ^
of the whole of mankind.
This is crazy and doesn’t make a bit
of sense to the man who has more educa
tion than his intelligence can stand. There
is a lot pf difference between knowledge
and wisdom.
The world has more knowledge today
than it has ever had before and is right in
the midst of acting the fool. Intellectual
atheism is the same egotistical bait used
by Satan in the Garden of Eden.
When a man gets too smart to believe in
God. he is just exactly smart enough to
land in hell.
THE BEAST IN US
I heard a speaker recently use Aristotle’s
definition of man as a “rational animal”—
and then the speaker went on to say that
It Is our task to conquer the animal in us
by our rationality.
This is not only an impossible task, it
Is looking at the problem the wrong way
around. For it is precisely our rationality
that betrays us, not our animality.
The evils men commit are not those com
mitted by any other animals. We kill when
we are not hungry, or even threatened We
make war against our own kind, for ab
stractions that have nothing to do with
our physical (or animal) existence. We con
tinually act against our own self-interest,
for reasons of avarice or envy or pride
or resentment.
All these, mind you, are not animal traits.
They are purely human traits. And they
come not because we share a common
heritage with the rest of creation, but be
cause we alone have the power to misuse
reason.
A recent, and definitive, study of aggres
sion in other animals, including the pri
mates shows conclusively that their be-

a few
blasts
and bravos
By
.'MIKE WYNGARDE.N
BRAVO
BRAVO NO. 1 — What a fantastic job
done by the Elon Players! There cannot
be enough Bravos heap^ upon these people
for their excellent showing, as is always
the case whenever they put on a show.
The mechanics of the play were handled
and performed without the slightest flaw
or hitch. Each and every performer hand
led his or her lines and his or her actions
with great ease and clarity.
The play was no easy one to put on, but
because of the actors’ cooperation, coupled
with their obvious determination, the per
formance came off as a rousing and indeed
most entertaining bit of artistry. The stu
dents of Elon College should be very, very
proud of the quality of their performers.
BRAVO NO. 2 — Cheers must go al.so
to the musicians who supported the play,
and cheers should go especially to their
leader, the Professor of Sound, Jack 0.
White. Of course, cheers do not really have
to be heaped on his shoulders, because it is
taken for granted that Professor White
performs his jobs with great vigor, which
he does. And, as regards the members of
the band, their job was also done absolutely
perfect. There was not one bad note, and
their timing appeared flawless.
BRAVO NO. 3 — 1 don’t know who is re
sponsible for this measure of reform, but
whoever modified the registration proced
ure certainly needs to be commended. It
took me exactly thirty minutes to register.
There was no friction, everybody was nice
and pleasant, and my bill has been paid
already.
It seems that someone hit upon the idea
of .sending home a bill for the amount of
money due for the coming semester. This
negated a tedious process of having to stand
in line and make out your check. It was a
marvelous bit of innovation which was ap
preciated by all concerned. For whoever
did it, cheers!
BRAVO NO. 4 — How can you have
a Bravo Column without bravoing Jerry
Camerou? This brilliant young man, by
far the best SGA president since I have
been at Elon, continues to come up with
new ideas, all of which are conceived in
an attempt to streamline the Student Gov
ernment. Cameron has made numerous In
novations which, as of the present minute,
cannot be made public, but which will be
made known shortly. All that can be said
is that those innovations will greatly bene
fit the students at Elon.
havior is more sane and sensible than ours.
They engage in co-o-peration whenever
they can, and in conflict whenever they
must. Even the so-called “ferocious” gor
illa is far more pacifistic than mankind.
What needs to be tamed, controlled and
disciplined within us is not our animal na
ture, but our modes and processes of think
ing. And these, in turn, depend upon the
early education of our feelings. If our first
feelings are not turned in a creative and
productive direction, then we will simply
use our intellectual powers to promote de
struction and dissension.
This, I believe, is the root of the human
problems. We cannot use our minds to sub
due our more “primitive instincts, for the
mind itself is not a free and independent
agent; it is ruled by the will, and the will
itself is driven by a complex of feelings
we are scarcely aware of.
Men can be so much more savage than
animals because animals are bound to the
truth of their nature, and can do only what
Is best for themselves and their species.
Ma nalone—though the two-edged sword of
his intellect—can do what is worst for him
self and his species. It is not the best in us,
but the mind in us, that we need fear.
The paradox today is that we may blow
ourselves up with the abstract product of
our most intellectual mind—that we will
take a highly theoretical equation of Ein
stein and convert it into a weapon for race
suicide. We might be better off if the animal
in us could subdue the towering perversion
of our reason. —SELECTED
i:lon STi i)i:\t wins miss CRAii vivr pageant
Fri^y, April:
New GI Bill May Boost Enrollments
Prospects for a new influx of ucational program will be ooen
veterans with more than WO
tion College dnd other educational days active dutv service anv nart
mstitutions of Xorth Carolina of which occurr^ onTr afte? Fef
officials at ruary 1, 1955. The veteran must
i^n I '^'•"'■''■stration reg-, have a discharge that is other than
ional office in \Vin*?tnn-.^aiam ro_ . .
ional office in Winston-Salem re
vealed this week that there are
now 90,000 po.'^t-Korean Conflict vet
erans in North Carolina.
In releasing this figure, W. R.
Phillips, manager of the VA office
in Winston-Salem, stated that a
survey revealed that 11,400 of those
men who have had military or
dishonorable or must have been
discharged ro released for a ser
vice-connected disability.
Veterans will be eligible for one
month or fraction of a month that
they were on active duty. I
Servicemen with at least two'
years of duty may participate in
the educational program even
naval service since the Korean though they remain in “the serWcT
Their assistance payM wm
themselves of the educational op- cover the institutional charpps fnr
[wrtunities tha^ open to them under tuition and fees or $100 per month
the new Gl Bil], officially desig
nated as Public Law 89-358.
The pro"ram will not begin un
til June 1. and application blanks
and inform.-5tion will be ready at
the VA re^?ional office at at most
colleges and educational centers in
North Carolina by mid-April, 1966,
Mr. Phillips said.
In general, Phillips said, the ed-
for full-time courses, whichever is
the lesser.
Courses may be taken at ap-
proved colleges and universities,
vocational schools, correspondence
schools and at high school level.
Approval of the educational in
stitution will be made wherever
possible by the state approving
agencies.
The VA will pay $100 a month
to those veterans with no depend
ents who take full-time courses.
Veterans with one dependent will
receive $125 a month while those
..’iili more than one dependent will
receive $150 a month.
Proportionate rates will be paid
11 taking part time courses.
Whether or not the veteran has
an income will not affect his
monthly payment from VA.
I The maximum period allowed
will be 36 months (equivalent to
[ four regular 9-month school years)
I but veterans who have previously
received educational asfistance un
der a VA educational program will
have to deduct that amount of
ibflity"^ f'’om their present elig-
Tliere are no retroactive pay
ments. Veterans who would have
been ehgiWe under the new GI
Bill but who have already taken
courses at their own expense may
not collect now for the time they
were in school since the new pro
ontlnuecJ cn rage Four
A Sleeveless Errand
By WILLIAM BRADHAM
Daffynitions
Adolescent — A person old enough to
stay up for the late programs on TV and
young enough to enjoy them.
Inflation — Something that costs $10 a
few years ago and now costs $15 to fix.
Courtship — The period when the girl
decides whether she can do any better.
Baby-sitters — Girls you hire to watch
your TV set.
Red Light — The place where you catch
up with the motorist who passed you at
75 miles an hour a mile back.
Changing Times
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today,
he wouldn’t have such a hard time getting
an education. His height would automatic
ally qualify him for a basketball scholar
ship.
So long as we're “twisting,” let’s
■'blow a few more minds.” There
are thousands of things in the
world that really bother people;
liberals annoy conservatives, dem
onstrators bug anti-demonstrators,
tests perplex and disturb students
. . etc. ... So, if people are go
ing to criticize or commonly called
"bust,” then I'd like to throw in
my two cents.
Any of you who read my first
attempt at editorializing may call
me “hypocrite.” I said that apathy
was a problem in the world today;
and, when people were not playing
at being unconcerned, they were
criticizing, never praising life
around them.
People are “picky,” so I’m peo
ple, and I have a right to be
picky” like everyone else. Per
haps I’m doing a complete atwut-
face, but I guess that’s human na
ture. I still hold to my thesis that
there are those “little things” in
the world which make life worth
living; yet perhaps complaining, I
too, as an are form makes life
worth living. Maybe it creates hap
piness. Funny as it seems, people
actually go about critical analysis
with more vigor and pleasure than
they do about giving praise.
So that’s the way I feel today.
Being able to write it down, thus
airmg my complaints, gives me
pure pleasure. All of you have
experienced much of the same dis
comfort of which I’m going to
speak. Also, others have written
articles an the very same subject
especially in the “Campus Crier’’
last year. However, those in com
mand have chuckled and paid little
heed to our complaints. Of what
am I speaking? None other than
the culinary genius to be found
on our oaken campus.
I go to dinner around 5:30 in the
afternoon, and I am suffering from
hunger pangs. When I leave the
Grade A” sanitary-rated Elon
cafeteria, my stomach feels as if
hot coals have been poured through
my entire digesUve tract. Also my
mental attitude upon entering the
appreciably low
er^ Granted that the Elon College
cafeteria is no Claridges, but it
could maintain a certain amount
of efficiency.
I How depressing it is to have to
^e a half-c|ean silver ware, or
shall I say ‘tin ware.” A friend
I once picked up a fork out of its
and spotted a lima LLn
j attached to its lower side. How
u terly disgusting! It’s also rather
discouraging to have to use a crow
bar in order to pry the salt, pepper
and supr containers off the tables
1 might be exaggerating a tad
but still. . . And about those tables’
they re just plain sticky. It seems
rather ridiculous to send a fellow
around with one slightly damp rag
n “u ®f‘er a meal.
One cloth for all the tables’ I'd
hope to see that cloth washed off
at intervals.
My major complaint is a verrv
immediate one, for it happened
to me personally last week. I ar
rived at the cafeteria at 5:45 and
waited with seven other people in
m.®; minutes passed. No
meat had been cooked. A worker
said It was on the way. Five more
minutes, “Meat’s being cooked, be
Stes min-
u eS| Meat s coming.” Then a min-
“ere and’attendant en
ters and informs us that we will
have to go to the other line.
Then, much to the chagrin of
my dinner companion, I slammed
my tray and silver on the napkin
cont^ners and walked out. Grant^
act but r®*]! ^
This tirade will be continued in
Si ""f.*^^ent. Space limits^
happy taSS “'*“*“''■1
glorious
feast
By
RICHARD HUTCHE.VS
Last semester the editor voiced the oniH
ion that no organization should exist
the campus that interferes with X "
sential end of a liberal arts college J
munity - that of academic learning n
was in regard to fraternities
TWs opinion still stands, but it „ow no^
qualification in the interest of the
body, the faculty, and the college at
^ distaste for ,hi
childish behavior on the part of some wh
belong to these social clubs and for th.i
tendency to adhere too closely to h
“strict interpretation” as to the latest fa ?
ion trends. ‘
The purpose of this column, however I
to attempt to reach an understanding'
to why many members act like ninth Lh
ers and even to point out some good p/
fects derived from the system
Primarily, the deep-seated cause for
juvenile actions on the part of students who
belong to these groups is becomins all
too obvious. They are treated like children'
The intense supervision imposed on the I
fraternities and sororities by the adminis
tration is nothing short of abominable.
It is tragic that an organized group of
coUege-age men and women cannot get
together socially after a concert or even
a football game and enjoy a leisurely even
ing of hor d’-oevres and cocktails without
runmng the risk of being expelled for
something like ungentlemanly conduct
How inconsistent is it that Elon College
is situated in the middle of a wet county
less than two miles from two bars yet
when a student enrolls here he may drink
only at his own risk? Evidently many
people were mistaken when they thought
the “era of Excess” was at an end with
the repeal of the eighteenth ammendment.
The worst effect of this provincial atti
tude toward a social reality is that It
creates just what many faculty members
and interested students are complaining
about, apathy. This is illustrated by the oft-
repeated but appropriate cliche, “all woit
and no play makes Jack a dull boy”.
There is no doubt that more students
come to Elon to get an education and are
full of good intentions as to how much they
are going to study and to what kind of
grades they are going to strive for, than
many will acknowledge. It is, however, not
only unrealistic but ridiculously naive to
assume that every student here is going to
devote all his waking hours in the library
or in his room pouring over Ferguson and
Bruun or even a test tube.
Students need something to anticipate as
a relief from the tiring week of labs, tests,
and reports. Fraternities could supply this
relief, but they are not allowed this privi
lege. A moment of indiscretion or thought*
less “ungentlemanly conduct” might result
in the disbanding of what little diversifi
cation a student may have.
Something else to be considered in this
vein is that this discipline is notoriously
unfair. The commuters (who constitute a
sizeable portion of the student body), by
necessity, are not subjected to it. When
they leave the campus there is no secret
police to follow them to their home. There
fore, they can indulge in any form of recre
ation they might so desire while the poor
dorm students are forced to sit around
about the campus for the entire weekend
unless they are lucky enough to have a car.
It seems to the editor that the case made
that when adults are treated like adoles
cents they are going to act in a like man
ner.
What good can come from an enlightened
and progressive policy as to fraternities,
sororities, and dormitories? It seems ob
vious. The students should be allowed to
plan and sponsor their own parties with
money from an independent treasury and
with chaperones of their own choosing
(being persons not necessarily picked from
the ranks of the faculty or administration).
This would give the students a chance to
get together socially under conditions of
their own choosing, after all, this is an
psential for the success of a party; that
it be planned and executed by the ones
attendance rather than someone who is-
entirely removed from the interest of those
involved.
One last point remains. If the advocated
policy above were implemented there would
even be an advantage to the administration
itself. Let the students plan and financfr
their own parties, and there will be a re
lease of capital from the employment fof
the fabulously successful school dances to
the purposes of worthier events, among
these events being Liberal Arts Forum pre
sentations, guest speakers for chapel, and,
maybe even more books for the library
The appeal is to you, administratrix vrby
not give it some careful consjaeratMn?"