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t ■ \GE MAROON AND GOLD Friday, March 10, 1961 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 m^il, $1.50 the college year, 50c the quarter. Eklited and printed by students of Elon College.. Published bi-weekly during thR college years under the auspices of the Board of Publication. EDITORIAL BOARD Doris Faircloth Editor-in-Chief Don Terrell — .... Assistant Editor Edwin Boelte Assistant Editor John DalCifl Sports Editor David Marshburn .. . lnti«mural Sports Judy Burke Girls Sports H. Reid .. Alumni Editor James Waggoner Alumni Editor Luther N. Byrd Faeulty Adviser TECHNICAL STAFF Carl E. Owen Linotype Operator Louis Jones Linotype Operator Grant Hall Press Operator REPORTERS Horton Callahan Bobby Johnston Barbara Day John Koenig Nancy Ellington John Ling Mark Foster Howard Little Wayne Gardner William Long Robert Garrison Harry Murray Ralph Gilbert Jerry Nance William Graves Bob Overton C. G. Hall David Plaster Thomas Harris James Rosser Charles Hawks Judith Samuels Barry Hodge Don Szydlik Jackie Holmes Gary Teague James Holmes Wilson Teal S. J. Irvin Aubrey Utz Sandra James Don Whitaker Dean Yates FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1961 CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE What are your hands? Are they tools with which you build and create, or are they weapons used to tear down and de stroy? There are hands of many shapes and sizes. The hands of a musician are long and delicate. The chubby and round hands of a small child are eagerly grasping and touching everything as he explores this wonderful world so new to him. The large and brawny hands of the farmer show the caucuses of many years of hard work. The gentle but strong hands of the doctor soothe the aches and pains of all who come to him for help. The wrinkled and worn hands of the grandmother show the marks of toil. Yes, these are the hands of people, people like you and me. Have you thought of what your hands can do? They can create and build a massive structure that wiU stand straight and tall for many years. They can become the hands of the doctor bringing new life into the world. They can be the hands of the missionary, patiently teaching the people of a foreign land. So many wonderful things have been done, yet there are more accomplishments to be made. In your hands is the destmy of yourself, your country, and the world. You hold the power to create or destroy. Your hands are only tools controlled by you.—From THE PIONEER. ON APATHY Time is fleeting, someone once said. Compared with the whole of man's history, the space we occupy in that picture is minute, to say the least. Our allotted poi^ tion is small, agreed; but is this realiza tion in itself responsible for the attitude prevalent among the m>ajority of Ameri cans today, among students on college campuses, more specifically? We face a multitude of evils today. In medicine, the search is endless for cui«a of cancer and for panaceas for tired hearts and bodies. Another disease for which we have yet to find a cure is the red threat, the fear of communism, the communism advocated by our corpulent neighbor to ithe East, engulfing the free world. These and other things are necessary evils such a free world must face. The most devastating, the most danger ous evil we face today, however, is the evil we can do something about — an apa thetic attitude. This "I-don't-care'’ attitude encompasses our habits of dressing, our attendance and interest in classes, and eventually our way of life. To defend the ■way of life we know, we must first care enough about what we are defending to be interested in it We must stop passively ignoring the things we would rather not see. Only when we eradicate this apathetic way of not thinldng will we begin to be strong and the time we occupy, important —CLIPPED. the chatter box THEY LOCATED SITE FOR ELON COLLEGE By DORIS FAIRCLOTH Rush week has done and past, the worst is yet to gome — that is, for those who have accepied bids from sororities or fra ternities on the campus. Monday will begin a hectic and trying week for these '•lucky' pledges and scums, whom -we will warn to get lots and lots of extra sleep this week end to tide them over for the coming week. Some folks on campus seem to feel that the last Chatter Box column was unwar ranted and unfair in its treatment of the subject of "immature” students. Their philosophy is that if we're fed like animols, why not act like animals? * * * * On our campus there are several indi viduals and group? who are somewhat un recognized except through criticism, but without their assistance many of us as indi viduals and all of us as members of the student body would have suffered consid erably. We would be more appreciative it we kept in mind that these people VOL UNTARILY give their time and effort in improving our campus as a whole. First and above all among the campus's "unsung hproes" are or Student Body Of ficers. It is felt that never before have harder and more sincere workers than these three officers taken a part in Elon's student government. The upperclassmen on the campus can easily denote the tremen dous improvement in student government since last year. This great change has not come about through chance, but has been brought about by time-consuming and self less devotion of these officers, with the aid of the various committees appointed by them. The present financial status of our stu dent government, unlike the poverty- stricken kitty with which we were con fronted last year at this time, is top- notch; not because activities on the campus have been lessened nor because the week end entertainment we receive has been second-rate, but because these officers have taken special care to maintain a bal anced budget and to attain the best enter tainment while keeping in mind the gov ernment’s financial capacities for the en tire year. For example, the three big danc es this year cannot be said to have been lany less successful than those of last year, buc the expenses this year were kept at a minimum. Matters which were carelessly left un attended last year, such as the collection of delinquent student body fees and parking fines, are well kept in check by the pres ent officers. * Each weekday afternoon from two to four o’clock, in the Student Government Office on the second floor of the library building, one will never fail to find Ed IBoelte, Cliff Hardy, or Bill Hassell working diligently at his desk or just sitting there waiting to be of service to any of those who selected him as their Student Body leader. The Dance Committee is another of the imappreciated groups on the campus, for no one unafflliated with this group seems to realize the effort required of its mem bers in order to prepare for the dances. Plans must be made through long meetings; correspondence with various businesses and entertainment groups must be enacted in order to attain the elements necessary for a dance; posters must be made to ad vertise a coming dance; decorations must be made and put up (for which purpose members have many times worked till all iours of the night before the dance); and many details are added to the responsibil ities of the Dance Committee. This year we have many committees of student government consisting of hard workers who never fail to fulfill their as signed duties. Our present student gov ernment has received high recogniUon from the North State Student Government Association, and anyone who feels that it does not deserve this recognition appar ently has never had a part in.the work of the student government. Another active body on the campus is he Pan-Hellenic Council, which governs tne campus sororities and fraternities and which is presently made up of two elected members from each of these organizations. lU duties include making rules and neces sary changes to effect each organization. Recently the Pan-Hellenic Council has received recogniUon because of the drawing up of a controversial bill meant to broaden the scope of the sororities and fraternities. (Continued on Page Four) a voice from the If all the businessmen who sleep at their desks were laid end to end they 'would be more comfortable. Qoickies A wise wife who keeps showing her husband the travel folders is putting on a trip tease. The choice of the site tor Elon C'llego was made by a committee of five men, who were appointed by the Southern Convention of the (.Christian Church in a meeting hel U Gnham in September, 18 . That committee was phoog-in' d a few years later standing in f i-l of East Dormitory and beside a lone gum tree that stood in the grove of oaks that gave Elon its name. Shown left to nght above are Col. Junius H. Harden, one i £ the original trustees; Dr. George S. Watson, also an original trustee; Dr. William S. Long, first president of the college; Dr. J. Pressley Barrett, one-time editor of “The Christian Sn," and Dr. James W. Wellons, another oriffiiial truM;ee, who lived to be more than 100 years of age, spending his last years on the Elon campus, where he preached a sermon on his 100th birthday. Dating Far Into Past... Elon College Idea Had Church Origin The history and origin of Elon College under its present name dates from March 11, 1889, the date, when the college was chart ered by the Legislature of the State of North Carolina “to afford instruction in the liberal arts and sciences,” but the idea and ideal from which Elon College came or iginated much earlier. After the Rev. James O’Kelly and a group of dissenters from Wesleyan Methodism formed the Christian Church in 1794, they were quick to realize that the Church must have its own school for the training of leaders if it were to fulfill its mission properly, and several small schools of that period and succeeding yeans were closely connected with the Christ ian denomination and may be termed forerunners of Elon Col lege. As early as 1792 Daniel Tur- renUne conducted a school at a combination school house and church, which was located at pres ent Graham, N, C. This com bined school and church was used by ministers of the O'Kelly group and later grew into the present CH APTER ONE With Elon College ol»serving Us Founders’ Day aniversary this week, it Is fitting that it b? accompanied by the presenta tion of this first chapter of a brief history of the college. ♦ * ♦ Providence Congregational Christ ian Church, and it was at that church nearly one hundred years later that pains for Elon College were laid. Other Schools Somewhat later the Christian Church leaders founded other schools, all dedicated to the idea of Christian education and the training of ministers and lay workers. Elder Daniel Wilson Kerr, an eminent figure on Christ ian church work, as early as 1826 was conducting the Wake Forest Pleasant Grove Academy on the Oxford road, twelve miles north of Raleigh, and he was later prin cipal of the Junto Academy near Mebane In the late 1830’s. The Junto Academy burned in 1842, and in the late years of his life ' Kerr established a school near Pittsboro, where he taught until his death in 1850. I Elder Kerr, whose schools were privately operated but were en dorsed by the various conferences of his church, witnessed results of his leadership when the North Carolina and Virginia Conference, in session at Hanks Chapel Christ ian Church in 1849, approved a I recommendation from Union Ridge Christian Church “to ma ture plans by which might be es tablished and erected within the bounds of the conference an in stitution for the promotion of gen eral education; and also to afford facilities tor young men expecting to engage in the Christian min istry to prepare for that important work.” School In Alamance The Rev. John R. Holt, who had taught a private school in southern Alamance County as early as 1837, was chairman of a committee of ten appointed at that 1849 meeting at Hanks Chapel to plan such a school house near Providence Christian Church at Graham in 1850, and this school was form (Continued on Page i'our) Scribendi By ED BOELTE “The chinks in the moral arm or of American studenU are most obvious in regard to cheat ing. On this isue the situation various greatly among institu tions. But the practice is so widespread as to challenge the weU-nigh universal claim of stu dents that they value honesty as a moral virtue. Frequent cheating is admitted by 40 per cent or more at a large num ber of colleges, often with no apology or sense of wrong doing!” Dr. Phillip Jacob’s words are a devastating indictment of American student moral con sciousness. He, in fact, goes on to point out in his book, "Chang ing Values In College,” that implies that American stu dents tend to value self-interest first, then social acceptance, friendship, and moral princij>l«s in that order, when they are in conflict.” The puzzling thing, however, is that most American and nearly all students place honesty as a moral virtue. Most people are motivated by desires to be honest. Most peo ple are honest and want those connected with them to be hon est also. So there must be a division between theoretical ac ceptance of honesty and its prac tical manifestations. A person who cheats on a test or exam is merely showing the world that he is stupid or un able to do the work. It is admit ting lack of knowledge and in capability of grasping perhaps very simple knowledge. Those who dig into garbage cans for stencils or other information do not fit into the species known as Homo Sapien, for Homo Sap iens denotes a higher form of intelligence. Rather, this sounds more like some four-legged spe cies. Perhaps biology has be come all mixed up — not mor als. If those who are concerned with the lack of this virtue would think, they would realize that it is partially their fault Self-discipline and theoretical arguments for the system are not enough! Rather, the most important factor is the campus climate itself. The ‘campus climate” is established by you, the majority, the ones who know that honesty is the best policy! The "cat and mouse” game does not lead to aceptance of the sys tem. The big step, for the success ful system, then, is the educa tion of the general student body as to its desirability. This is done by you and you. Only a fool sits by and whines while the snake bites!! ♦ ♦ * As indications have become stronger that the World Federa tion of Democratic Youth (WFDY) has chosen Helsinki for the next Festival, Finnish youth and student organizations have become more concerned. Their objections centered on the fact that they had not l>een consulted on this choice of their own country as a Festival site, and on the history of these World Youth Festivals as instruments for furthering their sponsors’ Communist aims. This is a fol low-up of the VII Festival In Vienna in 1900. The initiating group of the VIII Festival in Stockholm, Sweden, (Continued on Page Four) corner By DON TEBBEU. Now is the time when all the fraternity and sorority members get out their pad dles, whips, dirty cars, unshined shoes, or ■what-have-you to be used on the poor in nocent defenseless pledges. Rush season ihas begun. The sorority gals are wearing tlieir friendliest smiles, and the boys are busy shaking hands, patting backs, and dressing up ye ole frat room. There will be parties galore for a while around the neighborhood. Being part of a fraternity is one of the most rewarding experiences to be found in college. To be closely affiliated with a swell group of guys or gals; to be a brother or a sister is quite a feeling. I advise each prospective pledigs to survey carefully aU the groups, weighing each one against the other. Make sure you’re making the right choice for yourself. Many have had the unhappy experience of a too- hastily-made choice. In the fraternal vein, I recently ran across a very comical, and I must say en tertaining, portion of a column written by John Biggerstaff, Maroon and Gold assist ant editor in 1957. 1 do hope dear John wiU forgive my borrowing his talent in order that I may quote his Frat Dictionary. Thanks, J. B.! » * ♦ ♦ Pledges’ Dictionary J KAPPA—^A pair. Example: Those girls are a kappa pigs. PSI—What they do during dramatic sit uations. Example: He heaved a psi. NU—Recent. Example: What’s nu? ALPHA—Used to mean half. Example: Alpha pint. MU—Love song of a cow. Example; Mu, moo. GAMMA—Baby talk for Grandma. Ex ample; What big teeth you have. Gamma. DELTA—Used in cards. Example: He delta hand of poker. ZETA—To repeat a phrase. Example; Zeta again. SIGMA—Part of a warning. Example: Watch out, or I’ll sigma dog on you. CHI—Slang for man. Example: He’s one heck of a chi. EPSILON—A laxative. Example: Go get me a nickels worth of epsilon salts. LAMBDA—A pugilistic phrase. Examp le; So I lambda guy on da snoot. XI—Dialect. Example: Xi in love? I is. ETA—To devour (singular). Example: 1 eta slab of horsemeat. IOTA—A duty. Example: Iota slap your face. OMEGA—^Part of a prayer. Omega good guy outta me. Along cultural lines. I’ve heard that the pianist who appeared here last week was nothing short of sensatfbnal. I was unable to attend because of several conflicting campus meetings, but all reports have been extremely favorable. The Lyceum Committee has certainly done its part in lining up interesting pro grams for us this year. It is interesting to recall some of the talent which has ap peared on our stage. In the same issue of the Maroon and Gold from which the Pledges’ Dictionary was taken, I found an article announcing that Ferrante and Teicher, the fabulous dUo-pianists, who scored a hit record with the theme from e movie. Exodus,” were coming. Sure wish they could return. The most recent program presented Dr. Thomas Rachner, pianist from the Colum bia University music faculty. We, who have eard Dr. Richner in his earlier appear ances were weU rewarded for the time ^ent m his audience. Orchids to Professor oore and his committee for a fine season of fine arts entertainment. Lairy Fuqua has recently been selected by Playboy Magazine to represent the pub- ca ion on our campus. Those interested in reduced subscription rates and Playboy arty info should contact Larry. He can sua y be cornered lingering around the nion or speeding between the oaks in his tourquoise Corvair. The ivy-leaguer. ^^grats to Roger Bednarik, Vic Hoff man Rosabe Radcliffe, and Bill Troutman selected to Alpha Psi Omega, Jonal honorary dramatic society. Sev- eral have recently been named to Pi Gam- u, national honorary social science ^ciety, but their names were not available to me at the time of writing. ad plenty more nonsense to write ** 1 slave-driving, whip-toting f ® ® ^^ottle Fairchild, made me quit Jor this time. J n- V'"' Muips and Quotes nLIT ^ “e *x>tt imted. owadays you donjt even have to be a lool. « vacauon a man before going to work for a new boss. Example:
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