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ARCHIVt% tHf OECIL W. ROBSINft k AiiioDt lon I On Back See Inside Exam Schedule James or John? The LC Conductor he Cnlumits Volume 45 No. 4 Louisburg College Louisburg, N.C. Dr. Ricketts: Professor and Author By PAUL MARTINI Any author knows that the writing of a book is an extremely long and difficult process that sometimes involves years of hard work and research. But if the book is expected to be between 750 and 1000 pages, and the author teaches several religion classes every year at a junior college, then the writing of a book can be an even more difficult task. Thus is the case with Dr. Mac L. Ricketts. Dr. Ricketts is back at Louisburg College teaching religion this semester after taking a one year leave granted to him by the college. With this leave, and with the aid of a N.E.H. (National Endowment for the Humanities) fellowship ?rant. Dr. Ricketts has worked i'igorously within the last year -O finish this book, which is about world religion scholar Mircea Eliade, and his background in Rumania before he defected to the United States to escape the communist reigime in the 1950’s. Dr. Ricketts, who is good friends with Eliade and a former graduate student under him, says he first decided to write about Eliade around 1970 but, “What I have written since isn’t exactly what I decided to ivrite about.” Dr. Ricketts also began learning the Rumanian language around 1970, and after 3 or 4 years he began ranslating some to Eliade’s vorks in Rumanian for Dublish, and has been doing so :ver since, even though he says hat he is “still learning the anguage.” After Dr. Ricketts decided hat he wanted to write about Eliade’s Romanian roots, he realized that he had to go to Rumania. This finally became 'Possible in April, 1981, with the h elp of a Fulbright Scholarship granted by the government, and a leave granted to him by Louisburg College. “After I received the scholarship in 1981, the college agreed to give me a leave of absense, so I taught classes on an accelerated pace so I was through by the end of March instead of May.” When Dr. Picketts arrived in Rumania, he collaborated with a man who knew Eliade and taught “at the level equivelent to high school in the United States.” This man proved to be extremely helpful to Dr. Ricketts in his copying of articles. Study Hard! Bv STAFF WRITER “And it came to pass that early in the morning of the last day of the semester there arose a multitude smiting their books and wailing. And there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth, for they were sore afraid. For they had left undone things which they ought to have done. And there was know help for it.” “And there were many abiding in the dorms who had kept watch over their books all night, but it nought avail us. And some there were who arose smilingly, for they had prepared for themselves the way, and made straight the path of knowledge. And these wise ones were known to some as the burners of the midnight STEVE HOWARD INSTRUCTS mSSS^ DR. RICKETTS Pholo by Buddy Hyde “I had a copying machine shipped over a couple weeks after I arrived (in Rumania). When it arrived at customs, the man there got excited and said that it could not be brought in and used. I then thought all was lost because I would then have no way to copy the hundreds of articles I needed. Finally I told my friend this and he called an official, and they came up with a successful plan to donate the copying machine to the library, but it was six weeks before I actually began copying articles from the library.” Dr. Ricketts also had trouble cont. on pg. 7 oil. But by others they were called the curve-lousers. And the multitude arose and ate a js hearty breakfast.” I “And they came unto their s appointed place, and their I hearts were heavy within them. I And they came to pass, and X some passed not, but only I passed out. And some of them ^ repented of their riotous living, and bemoaned their fate, but thay had not a prayer,” “And at the last hour, they came among them one known ad the instructor, she of the diabolical smile, and passed papers among them and went cont. on page 1 S.G.A., Eller Address Problems By BETH BATES No matter where you go to school, whether it be large or small there will always be problems. Louisburg College is no exception to the rule. No college or university is free from the problem of thieves. Louisburg College is going through a period of students or outsiders taking property that does not belong to them. The Student Government Associa tion is working closely with the Office of Student Affairs and Dean Eller to curve the problem of thefts in the dorms and in the student cars. There were several grie vances that surfaced at a recent forum, brought about by the S.G.A. request; Dean Eller was present and answered questions posed to him from the student representatives. The questions of theft,-parking area lighting and women students unable to find security guards to let them in their dorms were addressed. Dean Eller responded on the lighting problem in the cont. on pg. 7
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