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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
tion with the Journalism departm ent.
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.
MAROON AND GOLD
Why
Is It?
By JAMES PAYNE
ORCHESTRA
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edby instruments, follows:
VIOLIN 1: Eleanor Rey
nolds (concert mistress),
Cathy Handrahan, Mike
Deason, Helen King, Jody
Perdue, Alfred Hauser,
James McGaughey, Bill
Pennington and Clyde Sim -
mons.
Presidential
Preference In
Choice '68
Unofficial reports on
the Choice ’68 balloting,
which was held on the Elon
College campus on Wed
nesday, April 24th, show
ed a strong interest on the
part of Elon College stu
dents in the 1968 politi
cal races, and in parti
cularly the races for the
presidency.
The unofficial reports
from the SGA office dis
closed that more than 500
Elon students took the
time to express their
presidsntial preference
for the 1968 election by
voting in the campus poll
that was staged under the
sponsorship of TIME
magazine, a collegiate
poll which was expected
to reflect the presidential
preference of literally
millions of American col
lege students on campus
es all over the United
States.
No official count was
available on the Elon
campus on the number of
hlon students who voted
in the Choice ’ 68 bal
loting, but unofficial re
turns indicated that more
than 500 Lion students
did take time from their
busy daily schedule to
express a preference.
The final count on a na
tional basis will be re
leased to the various col
lege campuses within the
next few weeks, but a
sampling of the Lion
ballots indicated that
Richard Nixon and Eu
gene McCarthy were the
leaders in that order in
ilie balloting of the hlon
Students.
PLAYS MON
VIOLIN II: Jennings
Berry, Jack Deason, R.P.
Ellington, Dean Hall,Jean
Powell, Jane Deese, Don
na Festa, Caren Hobbs
and Lynette Petree.
VIOLA; Phillip Allen,
Pat Conner, Fred Lail
and Elizabeth Williams.
■ ; CELLO: Susan Mc
Adams and Mickle Ray.
BASS: Jim White and El
mo Hatley. FLUTE I; Ann
Lentz. FLUTE II: Pris
cilla Spoon. OBOE: Cathy
Hobbs. CLARINET: Dan
ny Chilton. TYMPHANY:
Don Stubblefield.
HORNS: Susan Ange-
mayer, Susan Patton, Judy
Stevens and Mickey
Stuart. TRUMPETS:Jack
White, Robert Truitt and
John White. TROM
BONES: David Abernathy,
Danny Fields, Ken Hol
lingsworth. LIBRARIAN:
Bill Pennington.
The Elon students were
recently given an oppor
tunity to express an opin
ion concerning the pre
sent food service plan
here at Elon, and the re
sults of that plebescite
showed that fewer than
twenty Elon students
wished to continue the
present set-up!
This expression of stu
dent feeling might have
gone relatively unnoticed
just as has happened at
times in the past, but this
time students participat
ed en masse. For one of
the relatively few times
in the history of student
politics, over 90 per cent
of the interested students
took the tim2 to express
their opinions, and such
mass expression of dis
approval of the present
system could not be ig
nored.
band concert
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Ken Hollingsworth, Ran-
dleman; Nancy Thomas,
Burlington; Dianne Clen-
dennin, Milford, Va.jPaul
Bleiberg, Wilmington,
Del.; and Judy Coffman,
Roanoke, Va.
OBOE: Danny Chilton,
flemyer, Elkton, Va.
SAXOPHONES: Bob
Johnson, Charlottesville,
Va.; Cecil Johnson, Bur
lington, Tom Burgess,
Burlington.
CORNETS: Howard Ea
ton, Cary; Ruffin QuaUs,
Burlington; John Regis
ter, Burlington; Bob
Truitt, Raleigh; Wally
Hardwick, Burlington;
David Towe, Miami, Fla.;
Lindsey Wyatt, Wilson;
Danny Suther, Concord;
Kim Luffberry, Washing
ton, D.C.; and Eddie Os
borne, Kernersville.
FRENCH HORNS: Judy
Stevens, West Lebanon,
N. H.; Mickey Stewart,
Speedwell, Va.; Susan
Patton, Speedwell, Va.;
and Charles Calligan,
Gibsonville.
TROMBONES: Elwood
Porshia, Falls Mills, Va.;
Buck Bayliff, Elon Col
lege; and George Cannon,
Newport News, Va.
BARITONES; Tom
Short, Roanoke, Va.; Cleo
Perdue, Roanoke, Va.
TUBA: Aaron Graves,
Burlington.
STRING BASS: Jim
White, Wythe ville, Va.
PERCUSSION: Danny
Fields, Burlington; David
Abernathy, Lenoir; Don
Stubblefield, Durham;
Greg Smr.th, Pittsboro;
and Fred Walser, Glen-
dola, N. Y.
USHERS (MAJOR
ETTES): Evaline Gar
rison, Burlington (chief);
Adrienne Moen, Belmar,
N.J.; Kay Savage,Whaley-
ville, Va.; Mary Lee La-
Rue, Sanford; Debby
Draughn, Sanford; and
Sandy Dofflemyer, Elkton,
Va
The Slater manage
ment sent a new district
manager to spend a few
days on the campus to
find out what was going
on to cause such apowsr-
ful outcry against Slater’s
present service. He saw
what we see every day,
and because of the ob
viously strong feeling of
the student body in fa
vor of change, a change
of system was instituted.
Suggestions made by
the Food and Cafeteria
Committee that had long
lain for all practical pur
pose ignored were put in
to effect. New paintings
mysteriously appeared on
the walls to add some
color to the otherwise
drab appearance of the
dining hall.
And suddenly students
found themselves with a
better chance of having
Why is it that racial
violence exploded in 110
American cities during
1967? Are riots secret
ly subsidized? Do riots
just happen? These are a
few of the many ques
tions that are on the minds
of the American populace
today as “Free America"
braces herself for what
could be the longest and
hottest summer yet.
Within the last year,
heavy accusations have
been made against the Of
fice of Economic Oppor
tunity (OEO) in which it
has been claimed that em
ployees of L.B.J.’s war-
on-poverty program are
partially responsible for
the instigation of racial
riots.
One poverty worker
stated that it was his job
to persuade the Negro to
trust the poverty workers
and then to organize them
for political action. When
asked what would happen
if the poverty money were
cut off, he replied simply
that, “There would be
riots in every major
city”.
Nashville Police Cap
tain John A. Sorace tes
tified before the Senate
Judiciary Committee that
riots in his city in April
of 1967 had been ferment
ed by SNCC which was
inturn subsidized by the
OEO. His testimony stir
red an uproar in Wash
ington and soon after
wards poverty money was
cut off in certain areas of
that city.
In a Congressional in
vestigation of the Newark
riots that took place last
summer, the report show
ed that poverty workers
were in the forefront of
the protests and demon
strations that occurred
in Newark. It was also
proved that poverty work
ers triggered a riot by
arranging a ‘‘Police Bru
tality Mass Rally”.
Willie Wright, a di
rector of Newark’s po
verty agency, was quoted
in the press as saying,
“Get yourself a machine
gun, ’ cause you’re gonna
need it. Complete chaos
will have to prevail in the
streets of American cities
clean silverware on first
grab, and — wonder of
wonders — stew was ser
ved in soup bowls rather
than splattered across the
surface of a plate.
Of course, it is only
natural for a company not
to want to lose a situa
tion in which it has a
captive market for its
products if it can help
it, and in the near fu
ture students will be giv
en an opportunity to see
what the estimated costs
of eating various meals
on a “pay-by-the-meal”
plan will be, and another
plebescite will be held
to see if students are will
ing to try a new system
and pay estimated prices.
FRIDAY, MAY 3,1968
and blood will have to flow
like water before the
black man will become
an accepted citizen”.
Le Roi Jones, Negro
playwright, made a
speech in the Newark city
council on June 27,1567,
just prior to the riots
and stared that “Hiro
shima and Nagasaki will
look like Sunday school
picnics compared to what
Newark will look like
when we get through with
it.” He was arrested dur
ing the riots for shooting
a gun out a car window.
He is another who has
been subsidized by the
poverty agency to the tune
of some $115,000.
The latest brainstorm
for spending OEO money
was to approve a $927,000
poverty grant in Chicago
to put leaders of Chica
go’s big South Side gangs
on the Federal payroll
at salaries of $5,000 to
$7,000 a year. A similar
“gang” program for Cal
ifornia’s San Fernando
Valley was scheduled to
cost the taxpayers some
$250,000. It’s director at
$9,000 a year was to be
James Sherman, 25-year-
old gang leader with a
record of 14 arrests. This
program was however
postponed temporarily
because Sherman was ar
rested on June 24, 1967,
for holding up a liquor
store.
The racial struggle that
is now taking place within
our country is the worst
internal struggle that has
faced our nation since
“The War For Southern
Independence” (common
ly called The Civil War).
The problem is why can’t
the chaos cease, are there
any major substantial
gains being made through
violence, is the federal
government doing every
thing possible to STOP
violence, can the U. S.
survive the predicted up
coming long, hot sum
mer? Like 200 million
other Americans, 1 Don t
Know:
***Next time a closer
look at the question,
Riots Just Happen”.
Some people have ex
pressed the fear that the
figures will be “padded
to make the system look
too expensive, but it must
be remembered that the
prices can be adjusted
somewhat to fit the fin
ancial resources of the
students, who might not
patronize the dining hall
if prices are too high.
The new district man
ager for Slater’s took the
newly elected SGA offi
cers to Wake Forest to
show them the “pay-by-
the -meal” plan system
in operation there. The
most expensive meal of
fered that particular
evening (steak, etc.) cost
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A
Beneath
The Oaks
BY
RUSSELL SCHETROMA