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Editorials
Night For Views
time with any number of people.
cular subject.
Whv can’t this be continued in other areas s“ch as
drugs, sexuai weto a^
ruV"o ?Uor “? v.ew ,o be presented.
Whv can’t there be a certain night once a week,
evIS other week, or once a month even to invite
students, faculty and administration to come and a
their views?
Granted the problems brought up won’t be solved,
but something like this could
standing with those who participate. It is a way to eau
cate us without text books and notetaking. It could
ODen our minds and broaden our scope of understanding
of the topic discussed and also of how other people
think.
It will be good to see something started in this
direction and hopefully to see many people partici
pating. It is a way of getting together.
LITTLE MAN
Thursday, November 6, 1969
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Review
Winter Term An Opera At Echo Mountain
Junior and seniors remember Saturday classes.
Freshmen and sophomores, however, do not, because
the sixth day of class was eliminated by the adoption
of a four-one-four system. This plan enables the
student to take his final exams before Christmas.
The student then attends school for one month, taking
one course. In the spring he then attends for three
months, taking another full load of subjects.
This system proved a tremendous success last year.
The most successful facet of this program, as most
people will agree, was the Winter term. This term
enabled students to specialize in one course while
engaging in extracurricular activities. Most of these
courses were either experimental or unusual. For
example, many students studied in England for the month
long session. Also, a drama class toured area high
schools, presenting its production of “Tartuffe”. An
other innovation at Elon was the practice of team
teaching.
After reviewing the success of Elon's winter term,
it is hoped that this year will provide more of the same
benefits that were enjoyed by students last year. A fea
ture which may enhance the value of the winter term
even more should be considered. This is the possibility
of letting qualified students take two subjects (possibly
even three) instead of only one. This would let them
fill some empty time, while at the same time giving
them the chance to learn more. Of course, this plan
would be optional and would probably cost more than
the regular plan. If this were adopted many more stu
dents would benefit and the winter term would become
even more successful than it has been.
DOWN THRU THE YEARS
20 YEARS AGO -
The Elon Student Un
ion, located on the first
floor of the Mooney Build
ing, is fast becoming a
center of student life at
Elon, and already its in
fluence for better school
spirit is being felt on the
campus.
Upper classmen, as
they enter the spacious
new union, recall the days
when the college boo''
store was located on the
first floor of Alamance
in the room now used by
the Hygiene classes. They
recall, too, the crowded
conditions which made
fractured ribs and a-
brasions a likely price
for a coke between class
es.
10 YEARS AGO -
Prof. M. E. Wooton is
pushing rehearsals for
the play “Our Town”;
workmen are pushing the
remodelling work on the
Mooney Chapel Theatre,
which will present a com
pletely new appearance
for this play. The thea
tre was badly damaged
by fire on December 15
this year and has not
been available for Elon
Players use since that
time, but the restora
tion process will make it
a completely new and
modern home for the stu
dent stage shows.
Sampson County is
North Carolina’s largest
By. Robert Nielsen
Why the music depart
ment at Elon insists on
staging an opera every
year or so is complete
ly beyond my comprehen
sion. I suppose that it is
all some sort of a status
game whose results can
go on file in the local
newspapers and college
annual. The whole idea
of even attempting to pro
duce an opera at Elon
seems to present nothing
but grief on the parts of
everyone concerned from
the very beginning.
To begin with, there is
that great monstrosity
called Whitley Auditor
ium. The acoustics at this
Elon Mountain can only
be compared to those
of the Grand Canyon.
Secondly, there is that
stage itself which could
n’t have been construct
ed with much of anything
in mind except lectures
and/or sermons. It is al
most physically impossi
ble to position more than
20 persons on that stage
without fear of lossing
some of them off the sides
or into the orchestra pit.
This situation became
more than evident in the
Elon version of Puc
cini’s “Madame Butter
fly” two years ago.
Finally, an opera with
out orchestration is like
the Parthenon with all
the columns removed.
The piano accompania-
ment by Gene Feather-
stone at this last opera
was played excellently and
well timed throughout.
But the overall impres
sion that results from
substituting a piano for
an orchestra is one of
sitting in on a rehear
sal rather than an ac
tual performance.
All factors consider
ed and keeping in mind
that people climb moun
tains just because moun
tains are there, this
weekend’s production of
Mozart’s “Cosi Fan
(Continued on page 4)
Cast of “Cosi Fan Tutte”, an opera presented by
the departments of music and drama.
Porde of inspiration
By Marvin Morgan
I send you forth as
lambs among wolves.
Luke 10:3.
The seventy whom
Christ sent out were as
lambs because they lived
and worked in the gentle
way of trust, honor and
generosity. Those among
whom they were sent were
as wolves because they
lived and worked in the
precious way of unscrup
ulous greed.
There seems to be de
creasing number of lambs
in the world today and
an increasing number of
wolves. Could you be the
course of the latter?...
Think about it.
If a God of righteous
ness is in control of this
world, and one certainly
is then those who live
in his righteous ways and
adapt his spirit of right
eousness are wise; they
will be victorious! If M
such God of righteousness
is in control then
wise way to live is the
way of ferocity. Go on,
live the life of a wolf;
devour the lambs;
when that is done begin oi
the weaker wolves; de
vour them all until yo
are left alone. Then yo“
will find there is nothffl
to do but perish yourseii.
You are in a blind alley'
A world without God 1
a great suicide club. ■ •
best Gofi’s lambs haW
hard time of it;
future lies with them.
The wolves will never
solve the major pro
lems of this world,
lambs may never sm
them either, but at
they are on the only P
that shows any hope or
promise.