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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY. MAY 17.iaR«
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
tion 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.
Why
Is It?
By JAMES PA YNE
Why is it that some
thing cannot be done a-
boat the riot situation now
facing the United States
squarely in the face? This
was the question that I
stated I would discuss in
this week’s issue of the
Maroon and Gold. How
ever, since the publica
tion of the May 3 edition,
I have received in my
mailbox a letter from an
anonymous student asking
me Why Is It! Because
of its interest to the
students, I am publishing
the article just as I re
ceived it.
“Why is it that Elon
has such a miserable
number of students at
each election voting? For
years many have attribut
ed this to apathy and in
difference of the student
body. In a large sense
this may be true, but it
seems understandable
how anyone would be easi
ly discouraged.
How many students
normally carry their S.
G. A. cards around on
their person? Granted it
is a small piece of paper
and it does not take much
effort, but in more in
stances than not they are
lost or misplaced soon
after they are ‘bought’.
I have watched many
students go over to the
union between classes or
during break to vote, only
to be turned away be
cause they can not prove
they are a paying mem
ber of the Student Govern
ment.
Of course, it does not
take too much trouble to
go back to your room and
search through books and
wallets, whatever the
case may be, until you
find it and then trot back
over to the union again
to cast your ballot. But
how many iilon College
students would take the
time? According to the
figures, only a sorry
number.”
“It seems that in or
der to encourage more
voters on the campus, the
S.G.A should strive to
make voting less compli
cated and more enjoyable.
During an election last
year, the system used was
that of checking off names
from a list available of
those students who paid
their S.G.A. fees.
Perhaps this is a little
more work for the per
son sitting at the desk
collecting the ballots.but
I can guarantee that the
number of voters would
far exceed the number
voting now. The rest, of
course, is up to the stu
dent as to whether or not
he will take advantage of
this privilege.”
With this being the last
“Why Is It?” of the year,
I have but one parting
note. To the new SG.A.
committee that plans to
publish another school
paper twice a week next
year, “Good Luck and
Merry Christmas from
this member of the Ma
roon and Gold staff, for
you are definitely going
to need, it.”
Robert Daly, 18, was
president of his senior
class in Evergreen,
Colorado, and a member
of the wrestling team. He
has Joined the army and
is the country’s shortest
soldier at four feet, 10
inches.
Professor Richard Frost of
Reed College in Oregon says
that Americans spend $3 bil
lion more a year on their
dogs, cats and other house
pets than they do on
whole federal poverty
gram
TWO VIEWS OF FURNISHINGS IN NEW ELON LIBRARY
Pictured above and below are interior views of the new Elon College library
building located near the western gate of Lion’s walled campus and adjacent to the
McEwen Memorial Dining Hall. The carrel-type seats shown in one of the pic
tures and the study tables shown in the other view are all to be arranged at the
outside edges of the three floors of the new library, with the metal book stacks
to be placed in the center portion of the building on all three floors, thus assuring
convenient access to the books for all students. The library itself and much of the
furnishing is complete, and only a delay in shipment of the steel bookstacks has
delayed occupancy of the new structure.
Herbster And Hamilton Speak
At Commencement Exercises
The plans are near
ing completion for the
1968 commencement ex
ercises at Elon, with the
big weekend marking the
close of the college year
slated to start with A-
lumni Day programs on
Saturday, May 25th, con
tinue with the baccalaure
ate sermon on Sunday,
May 26th, and close with
graduation on Monday
morning. May 27th.
Dr. Ben M. Herbster^
of New York City, head
of the United Church of
Christ, will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon on
Sunday morning. May
SPRING TERM EXAM SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, MAY 17
9-12 A.M.— All 8:00
MWF classes. 2-5 P.M
the
pro
All English 111 and 112
classes, all Economics
222 classes, and all Bus
iness Adm. 441 classes.
SATURDAY, MAY 18
9-12 A.M. — All 9:00
TTS classes. 2-5 P.M. —
All Religion 112 classes
and all Accounting 212
classes.
MONDAY, MAY 20
9-12 A.M. -- AH 8:00
TTS classes. 2-5 P.M.—
all Physics 112 classes
and all Political Science
411 classes.
TUESDAY, MAY 21
9-12 A.M. — All 11:40
TTS classes. 2-5 P.M,—
All French 112, 212 and
312 classes; all German
112 and 212 classes; and
all Spanish 112, 212 and
312 classes.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
9-12 A.M. — All 10:40
TTS classes. 2-5 P.M.—
All History 112 and 212
classes.
THURSDAY, MAY 23
9-12 A.M. — All 11:40
MWF classes. 2-5 P.M,—
All 9:00 MWF classes.
FRIDAY, MAY 24
9-12 A.M. — All 10:40
MWF classes.
OTHER EXAMS
All P.E. 112 classes
and all afternoon classes
except block exams above
will have examinations at
last meeting of class,and
all Evening School exams
will be held at last meet
ing of class.
25th; while Dr. Frank R.
Hamilton, a retired Navy
chaplain, who is now an
interim pastor of a church
in DelRay Beach, Fla.,
will deliver the address
at graduation exercises.
The commencement
weekend will officially
open with the registra
tion of returning alunni
in the Student Center on
Saturday morning,
24th, with a special fea
ture of the Alumni Uay
program to be the naming
of the buildings in tne
new living-dining com
plex on the new Norm
Campus. Also on tna
day the returning oia
grads will have a chanc
to view the new library
building.
“It’s said we’re
ing a moneyless society, o
of us are already there.
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