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fAGE TWO Maroon And Gold Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Elon College, N. C. under the Act of March 8. 1879. Delivered by mail. $1.S0 the college year. 50c the quarter. Edited and printed by students of Elon College. Published bi-weekly during the college year under the auspices of the Board of Publication. EDITORIAL BOARD Gary Thompson Editor-in-Chief Ann Stoddard Assistant Editor Charlie Oates Feature Editor Gary Thompson Feature Editor Neil Johnson Art Editor Reuben Askew .... Staff Photographer Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor BUSINESS BOARD Jack Lindley Business Manager Ann Stoddard .... Circulation Manager Carl E. Owen Printing Advisor Worden Updyke Press Operator SPORTS STAFF Bill Walker Sports Editor REPORTERS Judith Clark John McGowan Walter Edmonds Dot Perkins Glenn Garrett Girleta Vestal Sylvia Grady Louis Wilkins George Hall Yvonne Winstead WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1956 NOTE — HONOR SYSTEM According to a recent issue of The Le noir Rhynean at Lenoir Rhyne College, there is something amiss with their Honor System. Seems that Professors sit in on exams, and there have been students who actually boasted about cheating on tests. It would be nice to be able to say that it can't happen here at Elon, but anyone can 'See that it can, and, in a small de gree, is happening. What we forget, how ever, is that the Honor System exists in spite of liars, thieves and cheats, not be cause of them. The real danger lies, not in the pre sence of violators of the Honor System, but in that students with honor and in tegrity may become hardened to dishon esty in others if they allow themselves to be exposed to it too long. As long as a menace Is recognized as such, it is neither too dangerous or too late to do something about it, but when students turn their backs to it, they soon feel the point of the dagger between the shoulder blades. GBT. MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, February 8, REGENERATION AND EDUCATION How can we consecrate our college life? First by a right appreciation of wisdom. Knowledge isn't wisdom. A man may know a great deal yet utterly lack in education. Knowledge is a matter of books;, education is a matter of the soul. The writer of the Proverbs urges his son to get wisdom;^'with all thy getting, get understanding.” TO BE IS GREATER THAN TO KNOW. A few years ago one of our state peni tentiaries had two hundred and thirty-five college graduates as prisoners within its walls. Talking with a prisoner at San Quentin a short time ago, W. H. Geistweit, lear;ied that the character of the prisoners from an intellectual standpoint was high. "We have men here who are capable of any position in the world; there is no task or project they couldn't carry through to suc cess." said Geistweit. What is wrong with them? An unfortu nate moral twist. So, otir first effort in the consecration of college life is to realize the worth of wisdom as against the com- mo(» idea of knowledge -G B.T. ■MARKS OF EDUCATION A profesor in the University of Chicago told his pupils that he should consider them educated in the best sense of the word when they could say "Yes" to every one of the following questions: Has education given you sympathy with all good causes and made you espouse tt-.em? Has it made you public-spirited? Has it made you a brother to the weak? Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? Do you know what it is to be a friend yourself.’ Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight in the eye? Can you see anything to love in a little child? Will a lonely dog fol low you in the street? Can you be high-minded and happy in the meaner drudgeries of life? Do you think washing dishes and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as piano- playing or golf? Are you good for anything yourself? Can you be happy alone? Can you look out on the world and see anything except dollars and cents? Can you look into the sky at night and see beyond the stars? Can your soul claim relationship with the Creator? —G.B.T. Sounding Off By LARRY BARNES The Maroon and Gold office is bustling with the usual activity, for it is press time once again. 1 will cover very briefly a little of the behind-the-scene actions. Professor Byrd, munching madly on chewing gum, now that he has given up the pleasures of his beloved cigars, is busily checking on the athletic statistics. Someone l>ellows, I don't .see how 1 can get my column in. . . ” I glance toward a voice from behind a slack of musty news papers to see if the person who yelled is known to me. It is the Quidnunc, G. Boyd Thompson, writhing in intense pain. He is in utter despair. (Beads of perspiration drip from his lean person and hysteria is writ ten across bis sallow face.) His Joe Miller Joke Book has been stolen. Bill Walker walks a chalk-line through the door, playing his sports-writing role to the hilt. He is attired in sweat clothes and, as usual, is late getting his column in. Worden Updyke is beaverishly oiling the huge press getting more of the gooey liquid on himself than the machines. This is a typical picture before the presses roll. My head is swathed in bandages. I had beat it against the wall continuously tor an hour before finally coming up with an idea. Smiling with self-satisfaction, I com mence to peck away at the portable . . . * » • * * Wahoo Days In Retrospect Every college student knows or should know sometime or other, how it feels to be broke. Allow me to pass on to you a true story, bordering the near genius, on how to obtain money when your pockets are depleted. This tale was told to me by jovial Arthflr Pitts. The locale of this little epic takes place at the ‘University of 'Vir ginia about five years after the turn of the century. It’s principle characters con stitute Art’s father and two collegiate com panions. The three young men had just gradu ated from the Wahoo institution and found themselves without spending green. It was necessary to have funds so they could pro perly celebrate their conquest. Gaiety filled the atmosphere for everyone but the trio. Parties and dances were being held all over tTie campus. Laurie Pitts and his colleagues, John Bell and Frank Hoffman, sat in the local hangout pondering how to acquire some moola. Their faces had that long, downcast look and gloom permeated their infrequent chatter. Suddenly, Hoffman’s mind flashed a brilliant idea. He got up from the table, excused himself for a mom ent, and headed for Western Union. Un known to his two friends, he sent an ur gent telegram to Bell’s father, a man of some wealth. It read . JOHN DIED EARLY THIS MORNING WIRE MONEY FOR CASKET AND EX PRESS ON BODY HOME. REGRETFULLY HOFFMAN AND PITTS Hoffman then returned to his compan ions and told them nothing of the deed just done. The next morning Laurie Pitts was roused out of his bed by a constant knock ing. He went to the door and was met by a Western Union delivery boy who thrust a telegram into his hand. Pitts had no Idea who could have sent him a telegram. He noticed that is was addressed to Hoff- nian and Pitts. That discounted the fact that I^iiybe someone at home was ill. May- be the Dean had sent it telling them that they did not graduate ai’ter all. Hurriedly he opened the envelope. Surprise crossed nis face as he scanned . SHIP JOHN C.O.D. KNOWINGLY, MR. BELL ***** Feminine Hoopla V>e have on the Elon campus, some very capable feminine basketball players To be readily aware of this fact, all one has to do is to saunter over to Alumni Gym nasium around 6 o'clock any week-day eve ning. It would be nice if we (Elon) could be represented by a girls basketball team There is a wealth of talent on this campus toward achieving such. I read recently where a number of col leges and universities in Florida were form ing a conference for womanly sports Some of these centers of higher learning are Florida Southern, Rollins, and the Uni versity of Florida to mention just a few A neighbor of ours started playing college basketball on the girls level this year. The neighbor referred to is High Point Col lege. Possibly in the near future we might be abe to have a North State Conference m sports for he ladies. I'll l>et a lot of them can give the boys a run for the money. EI/)N PROFESSOR WITH MAP OF HIS NATIVE EUROPE Dr. Konstantinas Avizonis, member of the Elon faculty for the past seven years, is pictured obove as he points out some of the historic spots he speaks of in his Kuropean history coursee. A native of Lithuania, the popular professor lived through much of the modorn European history that he teaches. Dr. Avizonis Came To Elon College After ^Stranger Than Fiction’ Life By GARY THOMPSON Only seven short years have passed since Dr. Konstantians Avizonis and his wife came to America and Elon College. As a professor of history and German on the Elon faculty. Dr. Avizonis can look back upon a varied and not always pleasant route from his native home ir: faraway Lithuania to his present post. Students who have seen this quiet and unobtrusive figure, walk ing quietly through Elon's peace ful colonnades, would little guess that the story of his experiences in war-torn Europe coud be used as living proof that 'truth is stranger than fiction. ' Born in 1909. Dr. Avizonis' birth place was located in Eastern Europe near the boundary of Rus sia and Estonia. His lather. Ur. Petras Avizonis, was a former dean of medical school and presi dent of the University of Lithu ania. Dr. Avizonis, himself, was educated in some oT the oldest and best universities in Europe. He received his early education in the Lithuanian government .schools, which offered instruction equivalent to that in the under graduate levels in American col leges, fitting their graduates for r.dvanced study at the .?raci”ate level. From 1927 until 1923 he was a student at the University of Lith uania. after which he transferred to the University of Fredrich Wil helm in Berlin, where he majored in h’astern European histlry and was awarded the doctoral degree in December. 19,32. While still studying in Berlin Dr. Avizonis winessed the rise to power of Adolph Hitler and his henchmen. The Elon professor ‘tated, when asked about the senti ment his university toward Hitler, that only a minority of the university students favored the Nazi party, and that the members of that Nazi minority were hostile toward the other students. Dr. Avizonis left Germany be fore Hitler gained full power, prob ably just in time, for some of his colleagues were driven from the ctiuntry in 1933. During the fol- lowinr; years he was a researchei in th? Archives of Krakow, which dated back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, his chief work ''cing in. the study of historical '"cuments concerning Lithuanian hi'toyy from the Seventeen Cen- 'urry; , He spent nearly six years in gathering the material for his principal written work. This was "Nobility in Lithuanian State Life at the Time of the Reign of A^a" a 592-page work written in German. This book was written entirely on studies of unpublished information. He also spent some time as an instructor ii; the government boys chool or gymnasium in Kaunas, tJthuunia. and in 193S he assumed duties as a manager and scientific secretary of the Institute for the l.ithuiiian Language. History and Ethnology. Dr. .Avizonis continued in edu cational work, despite the unset tled conditions during the early .vears of World War II, serving as ' a member of the faculty of the Lithuanian University at Vilnius and working with the Historical Institute of the Lithuanian Acad emy of Sciences. The Russians occupied the coun try in 1940 and began a series of prosecutions against the church, and Dr. Avizonis recalls that 30,000 Lithuanians were deported to Siberia in two days, June 15-16, 1941. About .'5,000 teachers and thousands of pastors were de-j ported because they would not acquiesce to Russian demands. Fifteen of Dr. Avizonis’ own rela tives were among those deported by the Russians, their ages vary ing from small babies to those seventy years of age. Then came the German occu pation on June 21. 1941, and many people were forced to go to Ger many as slave workers. The Uni versities were closed, and many students became forced workers. The summer of 1944 saw the Russians pushing nearer and nearer and this caused the Germ ans to fbrcejnost of the intellectu als to leave for Germany. It was then that Dr. Avizonis and his wife were taken to a forced labor camp in Germany, and he was as signed to the job of digging |tre: :hes for defense against the ] French and American troops. The 'Germans sought to pul Mrs. Avi- [zonis to work in a manufacturing I plant, but good fortune gave her an assignment as a maid in the I kitchen of a hospital. ^ (Continued on Page Four' LEADERS FOR GIRLS’ ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES the quidnunc By GARY TlTOiMPSON Elon's gift to CONFIDENTIAL is back on the scene again . . . Belated congratu lations to all those Elon students who have taken that fatal step toward matrimony Carolyn Abernathy, the Fighting Christians' chief yeller, recently broke her ankle. Hop« you recover soon! . . . “Sounding Off” Barnes named editor of the literary mag, tlie COLONNADES . . . Elon was well lepresented at Winston-Salem's rock-and- roll show last Friday ... Dr. Brown, night school prof, is back from his Caribbean cruise. Evidence of this fact is his sun baked head. What happened. Doc, too much Virgin Islands? . , . Wonder when Tony Carcaterra and Butch Leitch will take off for the Empire State again . . . The Carl ton House has its own private aquarium. A lot of "fish’’ can be seen floating around most any time . . . “The Little Foxes” ae* claimed a success . . . Betsy Watson??? . I flex my brim in a voice of praise to all w'ho recently gave blood to one of the members of the Elon Community Church . . . Prof. McKants, Paul Westerfield and “Yogi” (Give him an A in English 41) Frederick were among the first to donate and are to be commended . . . North Dorm’s Connie Apessos is giving free haircuts these days. Pfave you been scalped lately? * ♦ + * ♦ Small Colleges vs. Large One is always hearing arguments over the relative advantages of the small and large colleges, and there are many good words to be said for each one. One of the inter esting discussions on the subject was found in a speech delivered recently by Dr. Har old A. Landree at Union College. Excerpts from his speech are offered below; “Some students would grow and even flourish almost anywhere; others seem im mune to the whole educational process, no matter how or where it is conducted. But the vast majority fall in between the two extremes; some of them are fitted by tem perament and background to thrive at the small college, and others at the big uni versity. So it may be worthwhile to ponder the advantages of each. “The big university, for one thing, can command and keep top teaching talent in an amazing variety of fields ... In higher education, there is no substitute for- either quality or variety ... A university or col lege without first-rate teachers is no col lege or university at all, no matter how grandiose its buildings or how bulging its treasury. "But ... if the ‘great teachers' appear tnly infrequently before large lecture courses, or if they appear only in the ad vanced courses to which admission is dif ficult, where is the educational profit to the average undergraduate? “It is here that the small college scores •a point, and an important one, for the student at the small college has a dozen opportunities to get acquainted with his teachers for every one that he woud at a big university. This is not, I hasten to add, because of any lack of cordiality or good-will toward Iheir students on the part of the university teachers as compared with college teach ers. It is rather a matter of tension versus comparative relaxation. University pro fessors in a metropolis (and no one knows it better than their students) are swamped with work. One result is that their students approach them, if at all, in a mood of I know I shouldn’t bother you about this, but ... A small college teacher senses less of that kind of hesitation. For the student who needs teaching stimulus and guildance to bring him up to the university level, the small college has it all over’ the big university, in my opinion. It must strive constantly, however, to see that its relatively relaxed intellect- lial atmosphere does not become relaxed to the point of slumbering mediocrity. It should expect an ever-greater degree of maturity and intellectual irJterest in its student.?, hoping thereby to gain some of the adult verve and vigor of the big uni versity without sacrificing the intimacy and friendliness of the small college.” • » * * * Time now to stack a few Z Z Z Z’s ! Leading the girls' athletic acti.i.ies on the Elon campus this yer.i are the five girls pictured above who comprise the corps of officers for the Women’s Athletic Association This organization wh.Vh functions with Mrs Jeanne P. Gri fin as faculty sponsor, is respon ible for promTon of aM gS r “ t'' aL ‘ ROW-Ann Dula, of Durham secretary- Carolyn Abernathy, of Graham, p esidei.:; and Norie Luce, of Riverhead. NY treasurer B\CK RO^ Evelyn Fritts, of Lexington, vice- resident; and Kathryn Lambert, of Bennett reporter Sounding Off A Ship Sinks ,As you well know,, the Corsairs from East Carolio.-} sail into this port of no return Saturday night. A new subject will be taught them at the gym. It is a course called—vertfbrate bonlogy. Now is the time to oil up those blunder- ^sses and put out that Pirate’s other eye. We have been waiting for this chance for a long time.
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