Friday, February 17,196)
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MAROON AND GOLD
Dedicated to the best interests of Elon College and its students and faculty,
the Maroon and Gold is published semi-monthly during the college year with
the exception of holiday and examination periods at Elon College, N. C.
(Zip Code 27244), publication being in cooperation with the journalism
department.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Don King Editor-in-(^ief
Thomas Pearse Associate Editor
Alumni Editor
Luther N/Byrd’ZZZZZ. Advisor
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Douglass Apple
James Baker Gan' Knapp
Myra Boone Christian Kurrle
Janie Carr ■'“hn Little
Marvin Chewning Sonny Long
William Clark Jonathan Lucas
Ronnie Cohen Robert Model
Ilene Costner Cheryl Morrow
Richard DeLowry Clyde O Ferrell
Bobby Denny George Old
Alton Edmundson Edward Osborne
Bobby Ferrell Elaine Phelps
David Gentry Mike Ray
John Greeson James Ritter
Alan Groh Thomas Rodney
Richard Gurganious Dorothy Smith
Oliver Halle Carl Sparks
Skip Hinshaw Sam Troy
Charles Honeycutt Dolly Walker
James Howell Don Weed
Roger Wood
‘BRICK VENEER JUNGLE’
By DON KING
Did you ever dream you woke up
one day and that all you saw were
brick walls. Well, friend, the day
might not be as far away as you
might expect.
For only a short time ago, con
struction was started on the new li
brary for Elon College. The fact that
the construction has begun is not
what I disapprove, for a modern li
brary is sadly needed, but I do ob
ject to where it is being constructed.
As usual, all advances in the phy
sical structure of Elon College in re
cent years has taken place within its
“four walls.” It is like a small child
trying to grow up without ever get
ting outside its play pen.
If the promoters of Elon’s building
program do not start using college-
owned land outside the college’s
“play pen,” then Elon will soon turn
into a “brick-veneer jungle.” Elon
needs to expand outside of its small
domain, or soon you will be able to
go from one building to the next
without ever taking more than three
steps; those being on concrete side
walks.
What space is not occupied by
buildings is filled by small inefficient
parking lots, available only to faculty
members who manage to get to the
campus by 7:30 o’clock in the morn
ing. What has happened to the col
lege appearance of previous years?
What would alumni think of their
Elon campus now, the campus that
was once so spacious and with all
the shady oaks rising above the fresh
ly cut spring grass and which offered
students a sanctuary from academic
pressures. Such are the things that
alumni recall about Elon, not how
many buildings were within its four
walls.
Buildings are a necessity, but even
necessities can be made to have
a pleasant appearance and to add and
not detract, to enhance and not dam
age the outward appearance of our
campus. There is so much land not
being used by the college. There is
land behind the gymnasium, land
occupied by the almost unhabited
Vets’ Apartments and also land sur
rounding the college pond. Creative
minds would want the college to ex
pand in these directions.
Alumni and students should re
quest the college to cease construc
tion of any further buildings within
the “four walls” before our campus
becomes a “brick-veneer jungle.”
ADVOCATUS DIABOLI
By TOM PEARSE
Much has been written and much
has been said concerning the morals
of the younger generation^, some
good, some bad. Morals are formed
in the home through the guidance
of the parents and as one grows
older tempered, by society. Higher
education, college, acts as a synthes-
ing factor.
A student arrives at college with
preconceived ideas, only to have them
torn down by iconoclastic professors.
Yet it is not with the idea that the
student will graduate with no ideas
what-so-ever; he wants the student,
through the active, creative process
of education, to form the working
guide lines for the moral standards
he or she has. A pragmatic mature
philosophy through which the normal
standards act.
The professor does not want the
student to accept what he has to of
fer blindly. What he wants is the
student to question. Or more, to de
velop a skeptical attitude toward ex
isting standards. As Descarte put it,
‘We must begin by doubting all.”
At Elon there has been a complete
break in the student professor re
ciprocal agreement. The student is
too lazy to think for himself, and the
professor is worried about his high
class average. The student is merely
happy to reside in the security of his
or her fraternity or sororiety room,
contented to be a social snob. Even
more they are content with rote
memorization of the professor’s lec
ture. Any child can achieve this. The
professor now has a high class aver
age and is forced to give an extremly
difficult exam or test.
The student is faced with two al
ternatives. He can either flunk hon
estly or obtain a copy of the exam
By attempting the latter he is break
ing every ethical standard he or she
is taught.
Who is to blame? Partially the
student for being so lazy. Partially
the professor for making the test
difficult and not challenging the stu
dent. The student’s family for not
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Views Of
Student
Center
Interior views of the beautiful new
William S. Long Student Center,
which was opened in November and
which has already become a hub of
campus life at Elon College, are
shown on this page. The top picture
above is a group of students enjoying
the comfortable tables and cushioned
bootiis which are features of the Var
sity Shop, which is located at the
west end of the new structure. The
Varsity Shop serves snacks and re
freshments from a cafeteria type
serving counter. Second from the top
is a picture showing the modem and
complete campus mail service, which
features boxes with combination locks
in a mail room located off the main
foyer of the student center. Immedi
ately below the picture of the mail
center is another group of Elon stu
dents enjoying the television viewing
room, which is just one of several en
tertainment facilities provided in the
Campus Shop, which provides Elon
students and faculty members with a
complete service for textbooks and
academic supplies, along with a va
riety of gifts.
OPERA DELAYED
(continued from page 1)
Varina; Linda Durham, of Burling
ton; Donna Thomas, of Mebane;
Carson Kuhnert, of Martinsville, Va.;
Ken Hollingsworth, of Randleman;
Gordon Payne, of Wayne, N. J.;
and Robert Gwaltney, of Elon Col
lege.
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