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Friday, September 29, 1967 PAGE 2 MAROON GOLD Dedicated to the best interests of Elon College and its students and faculty, the Maroon and Gold is pub lished weekly during the college year with the excep tion of holiday and examination periods at Elon College, N.C. (Zip Code 27244), publication being in coopera- don with the Journalism department. EDITORIAL BOARD Don Brown Paul Bleiberg Co-Ed tor James Payne Associate Ed tor Eddie Osborne Sports Editor Tnp Lee Sports Editor H Reil.'.V...V Alumni Editor REPORTORIAL STAFF Claes Alexanderson, Peggy Beale, Percy Benton, Nancy Boone, Charles Boroody, Barbara Bugg, Bobby Bulla, Tom Campion, Sandy Carrington, Janice Car ter, Cathy Collins, Monty Duncan, Pete DeVault, Robert Halstead, Keith Handy, Holly Hollingsworth, Barbara Ippolito, Gary Jordan, Lloyd Kanipe, Jim Lunsford, Glenda Lutterloh, Jim McClure, Lynn Michael, Robert Monacelli, Richard Moon, Donald Morrison, J.W. Pace, Jeannette Robinette, Rosalind Shoffner, Larry Small, Ike Steele, Malcolm Sullivan, Ronnie Tugwell, Bill Turner, Charlie VanLear, Tom Ward, Claire Webb, Rebecca Whitaker, Bob Williams. death claims frank derita The Elon College cam pus was saddened when Frank Derita, 31, one of Elon’s finest basketball stars of a decade ago, died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 26th after a lengthy period of failing health and several weeks of critical illness. Derita, a native of Booklyn, entered Elon in 1954 and for four years played on Fighting Chris tian cage squads, having played as a starter on the two Elon teams which went to the national NA IA tournaments in Kansas City in both 1956 and 1957. The big Brooklyn boy averaged 10.2 points per game in more than 100 games during his four- year career here. News Policy ■ Weekly Style The Maroon and Gold begins its forty-eighth year of publication on the Elon College campus with this initial issue for the 1967-68 term, and with the beginning of its Vol ume Forty-Eight, the Ma roon and Gold becomes a weekly publication after almost half a century as a bi-weekly or semi monthly sheet. There was a tremen dous change in the Maroon and Gold just a year ago when the old cam pus print shop with its antique press and antiquated lino type passed into the realm of history. For many years the campus news paper had been printed on the campus, but last year it was sent out to a com mercial printer for the first time. With that change of ope ration, the Maroon and Gold also changed to a tabloid size with smaller pages than had been used in previous years. That tabloid size will be con tinued this year as the pa per becomes a weekly, and once more the paper will be printed commer cially. This year the printing will be done by offset process, and the appearance itself will be somewhat changed. With the change of form and the change of sche dule, it is a proper time for stating once more the news policies which gov ern the Maroon and Gold. That policy is that the paper is published with the best interests of the Elon campus in mind,with the paper serving both students and faculty as a news outlet. There is sometimes criticism from some quarters that college newspapers p.iblish old news, but Maroon and Gold readers must keep the fact in mind that the pnper and all college pa pers of similar schedule do not compete with daily newspapers for spit news. Daily newspapers count news as “old” when it is more than a day in the past, but college newspapers cannot count anything “old” which has taken place since the last previous issue of the paper was printed, and the very fact that copy for any particular issue of the Maroon and Gold is due at the printers from seven to ten days prior to the day the issue aooears on campus regulates abso lutely the timing of stories. As a matter of act, the Maroon and Gold and every college newspaper has an obligation to pos terity which is just as strong as the obligation to present campus resi dents, and such papers mast record campus e- vents as a source of fu ture reference, regard less of whether such e- vents have happened with- (Continued on Page 4) Campus Comment By Don Brown Another year beings here at Elon College, and for a second year in a row we find the campus in a state of incomplete repair and more or less confusion as we return, and we do not have to look far to notice the new fea tures of the campus, which run all the way from mod ern classroom interiors to new brick sidewalks. We who were here last year well remember how the construction crews rushed the work on Bar- iiey. Hook and Brannock dormitories during the early weeks of classes, but this year there was no major work done on the various dormitories,and they were all ready for their student occupants. A result of the con structional confusion on the campus this fall is the fact that the West Dormi tory parlor and the tele vision rooms in both West Dormitory and the Student Center, along with seve ral other conference and lounge rooms, were turn ed from their original purposes for the daylight hours. It became necessary to hold classes in these rooms due to the incom- Why Is It? By JAMES PAYNE plete state of renovations in both Mooney and Ala mance Buildings. While such class locations have been an unusual arrange ment, we must com.nend the resourceful manner in which the classrooms were juggled around. We are told that the renovations in Alamance and Mooney will be com pleted by October 1st, and the result will cer tainly be worth the de lay. Anyone who has been in one of the newly com pleted classrooms in Ala mance will surely agree that it is more bright and comfortable than in the past. By far the most impor tant and anxiously await ed improvement on the campus is the new three- story library building. To the casual observer,there m ay seem to be only two stories, but it seems that it was more expedient to put one of the floors be low ground level. Such has sometimes been call ed a cellar, but our li brary really does have three stories. It will pro vide Elon students with one of the finest study and (Continued on Page 4) Why is it that every fall semester freshmen and upper-classmen alike always complain about the terrible way registration is carried out? Where is the blame for this so- called atrocity against the student placed? I’ll tell you, right smack in the lap of the Registrar’s Of- I'ice. It’s true that regis- Lration is no church pic nic but no one is expect ed to enjoy it. Also don’t think that the Registrar’s personnel are the ones that have the gravy train, for over 40 hours of work were put into registering students during the three days set aside for this complicated task. Thus, I think the time has come to place the blame for the chaos that develops dur ing registration in the right place. First of all, since freshmen do not pre-re- gister, one expects some confusion. One of the big gest complaints ran along these lines, “Boy, did I get done? They closed me out of History 111-A.” One cannot blame the Re gistrar’s Office for this because class enrollment is determined by the na ture of the course and the student seating capacity of the classroom. Another complaint was similar to this, “Having moved slowly to the front of the registration line, I was told the class was closed and that I was to return to see my advisor.” This could be very discourag ing but I found that much of the blame for this waste of time should be placed on the student him self and his advisor. The reason is this; some advisors to students were consistent ly trying to enroll stu dents in courses that had been closed out the day before. There was no ex cuse for this because the Secretary to the Regis trar announced the clos ing of classes as they oc curred. Also, if students had listened carefully to the announcements con cerning the closing of classes, they could have saved themselves time by stepping out of the regis tration line and returning to their advisors if a class had been closed out while they were waiting in line to register. Instead they stood in line wasting time that they themselves could have prevented. A- gain confusion arose over the failure of some ad visors and students to place section letters be side courses (such as English Ul-S). What dif ference does this make? Plenty! Class tickets are pulled by their sections not by the hour in which they are taught and also sometimes the same course is taught more than once during the same hour. Thus, correct sec tion letters could have e- liminated still more con fusion. Now how about the up perclassmen who wanted to drop and add courses. This is their perogative but why blame the Regis trar’s Office when the class you want to add is closed out. Had you pre- registered correctly then there would have been no registration line to stand in, only the business line (which is not a depart ment of the Registrar’s Office). Another problem which caused confusion was students registering at the improper time. A schedule was set up so that upperclass commut ers would register one day earlier than upper- class dormitory students. This schedule was set up so that waiting in line for long periods of time could be shortened. What actually happened was many dormitory students registered a day early and confusion naturally a- rose. Where do students place the blame for this confusion? You guessed it, right “smack dab” in the Registrar’s lap. There is undoubtedly bound to be some confus ion when some 1,500 stu dents or more are regis tered in a 3 day period. Yet, much of the unnces- sary confusion could be eliminated if directions were followed by all and consideration were given those carrying out the registration process. Thus, a tip of the ole’ hat this week to the Re gistrar and his staff for the fine job they did dur ing registration and here’s hoping that by next year more problems will have been eliminated. In closing this initial “Why Is It’ of the year, it is noted that students may ask questions of the writer as a suggestion for topics to be discussed in later editions of the Maroon and Gold. he m ]hl mmcr -R GOOP Pdbl\c^t\on \S OWE TV\AT IfSV^ES \N PUBUSH'T^G rOR e\)EPYOMe ^ \weL00mG- THOSe V^)HO AUE ALVOf\YS FOR MISTAKES.
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