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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1968
MAROON and 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-
i-ion with the Journalism department.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Paul Bleiberg Co-Editor
James Payne Co-Editor
Ken Hollingsworth Associate Editor
Russell Schetroma Associate Editor
David Johnson Entertainment Editor
Eddie Osborne Sports Editor
Bob Williams Sports Editor
H. Reid Alumni Editor
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Richard Adams, Claes Alexanderson, Nancy Boone,
Sam Boroody, Judy Caines, Tom Campion, Sandy
Carrington, Stanley Cocke, Larry Collins, Shannon
Doolittle, Monty Duncan, Wanda Edwards, Walter
Gose, Timothy Green, Keith Handy, William Her
bert , Eleanor Hill, Holly Hollingsworth, Vickie Hor
ner, Linda Jordan, Lloyd Kanipe, Richard Lee, Jim
my Lunsford, Kay McCauley, Jim McClure, Don
Martin, Lynn Michael, John Michaels, Robert Mona-
celli, Richard Moon, William Motz, Carl Mulholland,
Aleda Pope, Jeannette Robinette, Beth Rountree,
Wayne Smart, Sandra Wrenn.
ARTS AND FLOWERS
By WAYNE SEYMOUR and
DAVID BREWIN
In the most recent Elon
lyceum program the Elon
students had the privi
lege of hearing the guitar
played in a context not
usually heard on the cam
pus, for they heard in a
classical context an in
strument generally
thought more simple than
it is.
The guitar comes in
various sizes and colors.
They range in price from
$11.95 to well over a
thousand dollars. Some
are green, some are red,
some are natural finish.
Some have mother-of-
pearl running down the
neck depicting the Pelo
ponnesian War in thirty-
two scenes. Some are e-
lectric and resemble a
surfboard strung with
clothesline.
Most people have been
led to believe that the
guitar is simplest of all
instruments to play, and
some three million people
in the U.S. have attained
virtuosity after seven
days of assiduous prac
tice for ten minutes daily.
Because of its simpli
city of construction, it is
very easy to learn some of
the basic rudiments of
guitar; but, as many em
bryonic classical guitar
ists will testify, this sim
plicity becomes a liability
rather thananasset.Since
classical guitar is played
without aid of bow,ham
mer or pick, the tone is
dependent upon the musi
cian’s finger tips and
nails’ and if held wrong
or plucked wrong, the
classical guitar is sub
ject to many extraneous
clicks, rasps, and buzzes.
For that reason, the
classical guitar can be
one of the most difficult
of all instruments to play
well, and virtuosity on the
instrument is rare and
precocity even rarer. It
was thn a rare privilege
for Elon students to hear
Robert Guthrie, classical
guitarist and faculty
member of the N. C.
School of the Arts, when
ELON PLAYERS
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Pilkington stated that the
cast for “Waiting For Go
dot” will include Bill
Bradshaw, of Windsor,
Va.; Paul Bleiberg, of
Wilmington, Del.; Sam
Roberson, of Burlington;
Gordy Payne, of Wayne,
N.J.; and Jim Gillespie,
of Taftville, Conn, All
have appeared in previous
Player shows.
The Beckett play is a
tragi-comedy in the
style of the modern stage,
posing serious questions
about man’s reasons for
existing played in comic
manner. It will offer an
evening of serio-com
ic entertainment and a
new approach to old prob
lems.
So Whafs
New?
By PAUL BLEIBERG
Thanks go out to all
the people, students and
professors alike, who
sent in their comments
about the final examina
tion situation. There were
a lot of good ideas. On
the whole, everyone
seemed to favor examina
tions before the Christ
mas break. After talking
with a school official, he
said that there is much
A Song
By KEN HOLLINGSWORTH
he presented a program
of guitar music ranging
from the Sixteenth Cen
tury to the present.
He showed both vir
tuosity and scholarship
by interpretation, and his
youthful twenty-four
years of age, made his
performance a preco
cious on this ancient and
beautiful instrument;and
his concert went well in
spite of being forced to
face snow, sleet, slush
and other forms of pre
cipitation along with bad
acoustics in Whitley Au
ditorium,
Despite all the obsta
cles, however, Robert
Guthrie proved magnifi
cent, proving himself a
master of technique and
imbued with a deep sense
of musicianship rarely
heard in such a young per
son, He showed the abil
ity to bring enthusiasm
and spirit to his playing
and to convey both en
thusiasm and spirit to his
audience.
The program began
with two pieces by the
Sixteenth Century Span
ish composer, Luus de
Narvaez, “Cancion del
Esperador” and “Differ-
encias solore Guardama
las Vacas.” The first, a
slow stately piece, dem
onstrated richness of
tone; while the latter a
series of favriations on
a simple four-note
phrase, proved a virtuo
so showpiece.
Also included was a
piece by Frescobaldi,the
Italian organist-com-
poser, and three short
pieces by Caspar Sanz,
another Spanish master.
“Tha Canarios,” by Sanz,
showed Guthrie’s control
of tone at rapid tempo,
a feat not easily achiev
ed on the guitar.
Closing the first half
of the program was a
guitar transcription of J.
S. Bach’s Third Cello
Suite. Brilliant! Period!
A technical discussion of
the difficulty of Bach for
the guitar is useless.
Brilliant! Good darned
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The word is out. Those
who made illegal phone
calls are expected to pay
their bills. If the offend
ers do not respond, it
appears that the telephone
company will take strin
gent measures.
Now that the situation
has come to the fore,
many are asking why were
the calls allowed to be
made for so long before
any action was taken.
Some of the telephone
bills are dated back to
April and May of last
year!
We have no answers as
to why it was December
before either the student
government or the ad
ministration took action.
Surely both must have
known the situation long
before. If either had made
it plain that illegal long
distance phone calls
would not be tolerated,
most of the lawbreakers
would not have succumed
to the temptation of
"free” calls.
The handling of the
telephone situation is typ
ical of the handling of
other such moral and ju
dicial questions which a-
rise on this campus, and
often corrective action
seems to be delayed un
til it becomes so obvious
that action has to be tak
en.
It seems hypocritical
for the Student Senate and
the administration to
make all our “nice” rules
and then completely ig
nore the infractions be
cause Elon students are
from “such diversified
social backgrounds.” Can
Elon College call itself
a Christian school with
out sufficiant when noth
ing is done to discour
age broken rules and even
broken laws. The know
ledgeable silence of the
administration and stu
dents makes these group
pardners with those who
have committed the vio
lations.
This column feels that
the situation will not be
improved by checking
raids on the dorms; pre
ventive measures must be
taken. There must be a
noticeable change of atti
tude. Erich Fromm tells
us that in previous
epochs”, . . the teacher
was not only, or even
primarily, a source of
information, but his func
tion was to convey cer
tain human attitude.”
Can Elon call itself an
institution of higher
learning when it’s - all-
right - if -you-dont’-get-
caught philosophy seems
to be the prevailent at
titude. Is this kind of
thinking conducive to a
happy, productive life? Is
it coincidental to the
Christian beliefs and
practices? Surely, the
college owes to itself and
to its students the luxury
of reviewing its policies
and procedures of the past
few years.
The student senate
should do its part by in
vestigating the present
rules pertaining to drink
ing, dorm visitation and
other practices. If the
senate agrees with the
rules as they are, our
campus leaders should
demand obedience and
prompt and just punish
ment for the offenders.
If the senate disagrees
with the rules, it should
be honest enough to
change them.
The time has come.
Just because we have
chapel once a week does
not make Elon better or
“Christian.” The time to
stop and examine our at
titudes is now.
This issue begins ano
ther semester of “A Song
of Elon.” We trust that
you have sufficiently re
covered from the fall se
mester exams and are
now well on your way to
another successful se
mester. Speaking of ex
ams, this column would
like to see the admini
stration release the ex
am schedule about mid
semester instead of the
week before exams. It
seems to this writer that
it would make it more
convenient for everyone.
discussion now taking
place. A lot of facets have
to be weighed and thought
out carefully. In any case,
some action is taking
place.
How did everyone en
joy the reading day? Well
in case one didn’t know
the reading day has a new
name; it is now called
the half reading day. Last
year when the Senate
passed this bill to the col
lege to have a reading
day there was much doubt
that it would stay in ef
fect.
The administration felt
that the student body
would not use the day to
its full advantage. They
thought people would go
to the beach, party the
night before and do ev
erything but read. How
ever, to their amaze
ment, the reading day
went over very well.
It was also stated
that if it did work out,
it might be extended to
two days. Well you know
the outcome! It is a shame
that something like this
had to happen. I sincere
ly hope something can be
done to give the reading
day back to the students
and not to the administra
tion.
Along with the reading
day, the “dead week”
went over real well also:
yea, like a lead-footed
high jumper! The “dead
week” was another idea
sent to the administration
by the Senate. The reso
lution asked that no tests
be given one week prior
to examinations.
I spoke to Dean Moore
personally, and he was in
favor of the idea one hun
dred per cent. The pro
fessors were notified a-
bout the request. Every
thing seemed to be going
smoothly until one week
before examinations.
Then the bottom was pull
ed out from underneath
us. So many people had
examinations or tests that
last week you would think
nothing was even men
tioned about it.
Whose fault was it?
For once, the administra
tion backed the students.
That only leaves the
blame on various profes
sors who didn’t give us
a break. Maybe some of
them forgot, because it
has been so long since
they have taken finals they
do not remember what a
strain they are. But what
about the ones who still
can think back that far?
What is their excuse?
Apparently they just
didn’t take into consid
eration the feelings of the
students. To the profes
sors who didn’t give any
tests during the “dead
week,” I thank you as do
all the students. To the
others, no printable com
ment.
Since this article has
been mainly concerned
with bills passed in the
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