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Maroon and Gold
February 26, 1970
Elon Sends 10 Students
To State Student
LegisI ature
By PHIL LARRABEE
A ten-member delega
tion will represent Elon
College in the thirty-third
annual State Student
Legislature to be held in
Raleigh March 4- March
7.
The participating
members of the Elon del
egation will be Gail Fon-
ville, a senior; Terry
Marker, a freshman; Bob
Lane, a junior; Phil Lar-
rabee (chairman), a sen
ior; Kathy Lawson, a sop
homore; Frank Lyon, a
junior; Craig MacCreary,
a junior; Sally O’Neill,
a senior; York Poole, a
sophomore; and Chris
Walsh, a sophomore.
North Carolina’s mo
del Legislature is the old
est of the kind in the
country. The first ses
sion was held on Nov.
12, 1937 and only once
since then, in 1947, have
the annual assemblies
been interrupted.
The State Student Le
gislature is conducted in
the same manner as the
State General Assembly.
Two members from each
delegation of the partici
pating schools are placed
in the Senate, along with
one alternate. A propor
tionate number of dele
gates from each school
are placed in the House,
along with a proportion
ate number of alternates.
The legislative sessions
are held throughout the
day for three days, and
this is when legislation
is presented to both
houses, debated under
strict parliamentary
rule, and voted on.
Since the conception of
the State Student Legisla
ture a total of 43 per
cent of all the legislation
introduced has been en
acted into law by the North
Carolina General Assem
bly. This overwhelming
percentage speaks well of
the caliber of the legis
lation presented and also
of the importance of the
Student Legislature as an
outlet for student opin
ion.
The legislation Elon
will present is a bill en
titled “An Act to Encour
age Attendance in Institu
tions of Higher Learning
by Providing a Scholar
Incentive Program foi
Residents of North Car
olina.” The nine page bill
deals with setting up £
state board to allocate
funds, on a percentage
basis, to those students
who ^sh to attend pri
vate institutions of high
er learning but cannot af
ford to do so. The bill’s
effect would be to allow
students to attend the pri
vate institution of his
choice and also to take
the strain of over-crowd
ing off the lower tuition-
ed state-supported in
stitutions.
Awards are given to
the school presenting the
best legislation having
the best delegation, and
the best individual speak
er. The Elon College del
egation is striving to ob
tain its share of these
awards.
WORTH
ABOUT
%
The Emanons bone up for their tour of North Carolina and adjoining states.
In Los Angeles, for example,
where pollution controls were
introduced somewhat earlier,
the number of smog days per
year is declining, and levels of
hydrocarbons and carbon mon
oxide are on the down-grade.
Over the next several years,
over-all reductions in levels of
these two pollutants will be
substantial in the congested
urban areas where problems
now exist, because many of our
older cars, without controls,
will be phased off the roads and
replaced with newer, low-pollu-
tion vehicles.”
—Frank N. Ikard,
President
American Petroleum Institute
March 1,1932—The twenty-
month old son of Colonel and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh was
kidnapped from his bed in the
Lindbergh home at Sourland
Mountain, near Hopewell, New
Jer.sey.
THE WINTER TERM
“A typical new car coming
off the assembly line today pro
duces about a third of the car
bon monoxide and hydrocarbon
pollution produced by a car
back in 1962, before the first
pollution control devices were
put on all new automobiles
across the nation. This ad
vance, though recent, is already
beginning to have an effect.
Members of a P.E. class plod upon
the snow at Sugar Mountain during
winter term. Beginners were given
three-foot skis and advanced to lar
ger ones as their ability progressed.
Harold Perry and Gary Morgan at
Marche aux Puces (Flea Market) in
Paris.
Chris Fisher prepares colorful icing for her metallic
ornaments during metal-enameling class.
famous Tower arldge?"^^ Spencer at the Tower of London. Behind them looms the