FRIDAY OCTOBER 20, 1967
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N.C. (Zip Code 27244), publication being in coopera
tion with the journalism department.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Don Brown Co-E^tor
Paul Bleiberg Co-Editor
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Ken Hollingsworth Associate Editor
Eddie Osborne Sports Editor
Joe Lee Sports Editor
Reid 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 Kanlpe, 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.
ARTS AND FLOWERS
By DAVID JOHNSON
Ballet as an indepen
dent art form (excluding
operatic ballet) has never
really appealed to many
American audiences, al
though ballet music —
Tchaikovskian, Stravin-
skian, etc.—is a staple
of symphony concerts. We
tend to view ballet as
something sissified and
meaningless, which is
perhaps a partial throw
back to our frontier heri
tage and distrust of Euro
pean institutions. This is
unfortunate, since ballet
has many unique, ima
ginative aspects, not the
least of which is the
graceful movement of the
human form.
Thus it was a plea
sure to many of us to have
as the first Lyceum of
fering, the American
Choreographic Company,
which appeared in the A-
lumni Gymnasium re
cently. I found the gym’s
“atmosphere” very ap
propriate for ballet,which
is the most athletic of all
the arts; I’m sure the
dancers didn’t mind the
lines painted on the floor,
since these made excel
lent guides.
The program began
with GIGNOL, Part 2,
which is subtitled only
“Second Act.” This is a
severely abstract work
demanding an active ima
gination on the part of the
audience. The background
music, by the contempor
ary Armenian-American
composer Alan Hovha-
ness, was functional if
nothing else; but Hovha-
ness should stay within
his usual neo-classic,
modal framework and
leave expressionism to
others.
The chorus was not al
ways together, but the
movements of the princi
ples—Margot Travers
and William Thompson—
were very precise. Con
cluding this portion of the
program was a PAS DE
TROIS (dance for three)
set to serenade-type mu
sic by Mozart. This was
a brief work but a wel
come change from the
previous number.
Part 1 of GIGNOL,sub
titled “Tanka,” was pre
sented after intermis
sion. This was almost a
mime-play, using “clas
sical Kabuki theater mu
sic.” Travers and
Thompson, again the fea-
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Colonnades
Announces
New Award
Announcement of a new
$25 prize to be given to
the author of the best
article appearing in the
fall issue of The Colon
nades, the campus liter
ary magazine, was an
nounced this week by Pete
DeVault, editor of the
magazine.
DeVault stated that the
winner will be selected
by a faculty advisory
committee composed of
Prof, Jenning Berry,
Prof, Edward Pilkington
and Mrs. Betty Gerow,
with the committee not
knowing the identity of
the authors of competing
articles.
In announcing this
prize, the editor also
stated that the magazine
will be issued twice this
year, with the fall issue
appearing on January
15th, at which time the
winner of the $25 prize
will be announced. He al
so stated that The Col
onnades will use photo
graphs as art this year.
All students having
poems, articles, short
stories, plays or criti
cal essays to submit to
The Colonnades are urged
to submit them at once to
meet the November 1st
press deadline.
So What’s
New?
By PAUL BLEIBERG
Since my last article,
comfortable chairs have
been placed in the rooms
of Second Floor Alamance.
To whoever made this
possible, 1 thank you per
sonally and I am sure
the students thank you al
so. (The colors are ra
ther sexy, by the way).
There is a new organi
zation on Campus called
the “Pep Club.” Well,
actually, it isn’t entirely
new, but this is the first
time it has gotten off the
ground. Last year when
lists were put up in the
Union for various com
mittees, not a single name
was to be found for the
“Pep Club.”
So the Student Govern
ment Association tried
ftis year with the incom
ing Freshmen. Suprising-
ly enough, fifteen signa
tures were acquired.
Since credit must te giv
en where credit is due,
it was the Freshmen who
got the ball rolling.From
the original fifteen the
club boosted itself to its
present membership of
twenty-seven, which in
cludes several upper
classmen.
The main purpose of
the “Pep Club” is to a-
i'ouse school spirit. In
order to do this they make
posters, put the pep ral
lies together and various
other jobs. You might
say they do the dirty work.
But if it wasn’t for these
By KEN HOLLINGSWORTH
few we wouldn’t have
posters or things needed
to gain the interest of the
students because the
Cheerleaders can only do
so much.
At the present time,
Noel Allen, our distin
guished looking S.G.A.
Vice-President, is the
chairman and he is do
ing a marvelous job. Not
to his discredit, however,
there is a bill in the
Senate that the Head
Cheerleader will be
Chairman, and the S.G.A.
President will pick a Co-
Chairman who is not a
Cheerleader. So far the
“Pep Club” is doing a
fine job and will continue
to do so, I am sure. The
club is open to anyone who
is interested and your
suppost is most help
ful.
As many of you know,
there is a bulletin board
on the right as one walks
into the dining hall. In
the past nothing but the
hours have been posted,
but now there is a menu
of the week’s food. This
is a marvelous addition
to McEwen. Why it was
n’t done in the past, I
do not know. A person
doesn’t have to walk to
the Cafeteria anymore to
find out he’d rather go to
the Union and have a ham
burger, He now knows
what the meal is and can
save time by going dl-
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Possibly one of the
more obscure facets of
Elon life is the mainten
ance system. While it
does not require the pri
mary concern or atten
tion of students, it does
affect students.
This year the super
visors, Mr. Daniels of
general maintenance,Mr.
Jeffreys of carpentry,and
Mr. Ray of plumbing and
heating, may be easily
notified if needed during
the weekdays from 8 in
the morning until 5 in the
afternoon and on Satur
days from 8 in the morn
ing until noon. A semi
retired person and a stu
dent have been hired to
man the phone in the car
penter shop and to take
messages. The carpenter
shop phone number is 244.
Often it appears the
college is practicing
gross mismanagement
when this is not quite the
case. Have you ever no
ticed that floodlights are
used at the entrances of
the dorms? It seems like
a waste of electricity
since the lights point up
instead of toward the
ground. However, the col
lege uses the floodlights
because they will not
break if they are rained
on while burning. Besides,
who wants a lot of light
in front of New Dorm?
It also seems a waste
for the college to allow
holes to be worn through
linoleum to the extent that
the concrete under the
linoleum begins to wear.
Even though it seems to
be a simple job to replace
a block of linoleum, there
is still a limit to the
amount of time the main
tenance department has.
Odd jobs which crop up,
such as the moving of new
furniture into the newly
renovated Mooney and
Alamance, demand much
of the time that should be
spent on preventive main
tenance.
This writer did not find
out who selects the paint
colors for the dorms; but
he did learn that the
dorms are painted at no
specific intervals, rather
when it appears it is need
ed. In the past if the
occupants of a dorm room
felt their room needed a
paint job, the occupants
had to pay the school to
do it—no do-it-yourself
work.
Student complaints a-
bout the cleanliness of
classrooms and dining
hall are many times not
without cause, but, us
ually the complaints
should remain with the
students. The dining hall
is mopped every other
day on Monday, Wednes
day, Friday, and Satur
day. If the dining hall
floor is dirty, perhaps it
is the students’ fault.
The classrooms are
cleaned every weekday
afternoon; yet, too many
times have classrooms
been littered with Pepsi
bottles and paper by those
who study at night. No
student is being asked to
become a nightshiftmaid.
It is only reasonable to
expect each person to see
that his trash is placed
in the proper place.
The administration has
toyed with the idea of
locking the newly reno
vated classrooms be
cause of the minority who
insist upon sharing the
remnants of the pre
vious night’s study with
the following morning’s
eight o’clock class. Care
less placement of un
wanted food could en
courage an invasion of
cockroaches, ants and
rats.
The battle of the bugs
is in progress at the wo
men’s dorms. The Orkin
man, who is under con
tract to service the school
once a month, is on call
to return to Elon with
his gun whenever he is
needed. If any invaders
are spotted, a quick call
to Mr. Daniels (Exten
sion 244) should bring
“Otto” on the double.
Usually a solution to
one maintenance problem
will give rise to another.
An example is the “new
lock system” which was
established to discourage
the loss of room keys.
The new system includes
the complete codification
of all campus keys for
easy identification and the
five dollar room key de
posit (previously fifty
cents).
Even though the new
system means that a lost
key turned into the cash
ier’s office can easily be
identified; the new system
means that a person is
out five dollars if he does
not turn in his key. At
exam time, the 9 till 4:30
hours are not always the
most convenient time to
turn in a key.
Because we live at Elon
and not Utopia there will
always be problems with
maintenance. A little un
derstanding and patience
on the part of us stu
dents could do much in
improving our apprecia
tion of the Elon mainten
ance system and the job
they are trying to do.