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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY. APRILS.19BH
Elon Students List
Presidential Choice
LEADERS OF ELON SOPHOMORE CLASS FOR THIS YEAR
REID THIS
CAMPUS ORPHANS
Millionaire Frederick
Beazley decided to put
his money into a college,
modestly named for him
self, less than 10 years
ago.
He talked the federal
government out of a World
War II supply base in
Nansemond County near
Portsmouth and across
the river from Norfolk.
Old warehouses became
dorms and Mr. Beazley
thoughtfully put signs on
them so we d all know.
What the benefactor
may not have bargained
for was the kids’ spirit.
■All right. So they lived
in dopey looking, second
hand ammo dumps, but, by
heaven, it was their col
lege. They were proud
of it. Given a year or
so more, the Frederick
pride would have ap
proached that of VMI, a
school whose athletic
teams get by frequently
on spirit alone.
Frederick’s basketball
team, hardly deaf, listen
ed to the faithful in the
stands, took ’em serious
ly and continually smash
ed Old Dominion College
whose undergrads as
sumed a fat cat attitude
toward the Frederick
Lions. ODC never won.
This was due, in some
measure, to Frederick’s
plush surroundings. You
see, Mr. Beazley, ever
alert to bargains, import
ed burlesque house seats
for the freight depot gym.
I have always suspected
this is why Frederick
people had so much de
sire.
Well...
A couple of weeks ago,
Frederick College lost
the big one, Beazley gave
the college a million
bucks to the Common
wealth of Virginia for use
as a two-year community
school. No more football.
No more basketball. No
more much of anything.
And those young people
there, working so hard
to put Frederick on the
academic and athletic
map, find themselves hav
ing gone to class for, say,
two years for nothing.
Suppose you woke up
just before chapel one
day and the speaker pop
ped your eyes wide,wide
open by saying, “Look,
children, l-lon will be
a junior vocational col
lege next Friday.”
Our place has offered
to adopt the Frederick
scholastic orphans. They
need l-.lon and that works
two ways. l.lon needs
these displaced students.
I'hey can teach you all you
want to know about school
spirit.
Just one thing: Go easy
on asking about Frederick
Beazley, son of a rail-
By
KHN HOLLINGSWORTH
SGA President Dale
Morrison is in the pro
cess of completing details
for Elon’s participation in
Choice ’68. Choice ’68
is a TIME magazine-
sponsored primary for
President of the United
States. Morrison, acting
as campus coordinator,
hopes that the Republi
can, Democratic, and In
dependent elements of our
campus will unite to pro
vide support for one or
more candidates on the
ballot.
Choice ’68 is national
in scope in that every
college and university
in the country has been
invited to participate.The
primary is nationally di
rected by a Board of Di
rectors composed of ele
ven student leaders rep
resenting different geo
graphic regions and all
types of campuses.
All participating
schools, including Elon,
will vote on Tuesday, Ap
ril 24th. There will be
exceptions for those
schools not in session at
that time. They will set
a convenient voting day,
but the votes will be held
and tabulated with the
votes of April 24th.
The ballots will be a
printed IBM card on which
students will vote by
punching a hole with a
stylus at the end of a
pencil. The ballots will
not be counted here, but
sent back to TIME for
computer tabulation.
The ballot will contain
names of possible Presi
dential candidates, se
lected by the national
Board of Directors. The
candidates will be group
ed by party, but students
will be allowed to cross
party lines. Votes will in
dicate three choices for
President, the first
choice being the only one
used for the actual Pri
mary tabulation; the sec
ond and third choice being
used for statistical analy
sis.
The ballot will also
have spaces for the voter
to indicate his age and
political party affiliation
or preference. Responses
to referenda issues con
cerning Vietnam and gov
ernment spending may be
recorded on the ballot.
The slate for Choice
’68 consists of Fred Hal-
sted. Socialist Worker;
Mark O. Hatfield, John
V. Lindsay, Richard M.
Nixon, Charles H,Percy,
Ronald W. Reagan, and
Harold Stassen, Repub
licans; Lyndon B. John
son, Robert F. Kennedy,
and F.ugene J. McCarthy,
Democrats; Martin L.
King, Independent; and
George C. Wallace,
American Independent.
Nelson A. Rockefeller,
Republican, is on the sam
ple ballot, but he will
probably be taken off
since he has declared that
he is not a candidate.
roader.
I'hey may tell you he
was also a son of a —
1 forget what it is, but
it’s a short word.
The three students who have led the Elon College sophomore class in its acti
vities during the 1967-68 term are pictured above. They are, left to right, Don
Tarkington, of Chesapeake, Va., president; Sally O’Neill, of Sycamore, 111.,
secretary; and Dice Wylie, of Mount Holly, N.J., vice-president. They will turn
the reins of class leadership over the newly elected leaders of the 1568-69
junior class in ceremonies set for the first Monday in May.
George Romney was re
moved from the ballot be
cause he withdrew.
The courage to speak
should be matched by the
wisdom to listen.
ARTS-FLOWERS
(Continued from page 2)
of those uninspired rush-
order pieces which Mo
zart was constantly toss
ing off for one patron or
another. It was certainly
given an elegant interpre
tation, butBenciniandLee
might have done better by
substituting a two-piano
arrangement of some Mo
zart piano concerto.
The program concluded
with Max Reger’s sel
dom-heard Introduction,
Passacaglia and Fugue,
Op. 96, which demon
strates many of the vir
tues and faults of post-
Wagnerian piano music.
Despite its title, this is
hardly a neo-classic piece
but a grandiose,rambling
work which succeeds in
making two pianos sound
like a symphony orches
tra. The introductory
section is on a high level
of inspiration that, unfor
tunately, is not maintain
ed; the Passacaglia loses
itself (and the listener)
in a sea of chromaticism
and dries up into a clang
orous double-fugue. A-
gain, the ladies got more
out of this work than was
ever put into it, which
is a great tribute to their
art. For an encore they
performed their own
flashy arrangement of
themes from “ I he Sound
of Music.” Rachmaninoff
would certainly have ap
proved.
State Jobs
Interviews
On Monday
Seniors interested in
employment opportuni
ties in North Carolina
state government will be
able to talk with a rep
resentative from the State
Personnel Department
next Monday, April 8.
Arrangements for the
interview are to be made
with the College Place
ment Office. One should
report there to establish
a specific appointment on
this date.
The state government
employs over 36,000 per
sons in 1,300 different
types of jobs. Business,
accounting, rehabilita
tion, social work, labora
tory science, education,
computer programming,
and the natural and phy
sical sciences are only
a few of the possible
employment areas.
Brochures, which fully
describe the employment
opportunities, are avail
able at the Placement Of
fice. In addition. State
Government offers its
employees a continued
education program, ex
cellent possibilities for
advancement, paid vaca
tion and holidays, sick
leave, and other liberal
employee benefits.
You are as young as you
feel, but nature usually
sees to it that you feel
as old as you.
Booming propserity is
costing most people far
mort? than ever to live
beyond their means.
I'he opixjrtunity to make
a fool of yourself knocks
more than once, so don’t
be in too big a hurry to
answer.
Money i.s unimportant
only to those who have
plenty and do not know
what it is to need it bad-
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SONG OF ELOIS
(Continued from page 2)
be built inside the wall,
the young oaks on the
northeast side of the
campus will succumh to
a “Much needed ad
ministration and class
room building. When is
the administration going
to realize that a little
breathing room inside the
walls is “much needed. _
Win Or Lose
(Continued from page
or he won’t turn a muscle.
But it’s also the young
ster who hitchhikes from
South Dakota to_ Florida
just for a tryout.”
“Baseball is a rookie,
his experience no bigger
than the lump in hih
throat — trying to begin
fulfillment of a dream.
It’s a veteran too, a tireu
old man of 35, hoping
his aching muscles can
drag him through anotntr
sweltering ^August an
September.” .
“Baseball is a hig V
paid Brooklyn (jiitcher
telling the nation s
iness leaders, you have
to be a man to be a g
leaguer, but you have i
have a lot of littlt^
in you too.’ ” , ^
-I his is a
America, a game for
and men.”