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Friday, April 21, PAGE TWO MAROON AND GOLD Dedicated to the best interests of Elon College and its students and faculty, the Maroon and Gold Is published semi-monthly during the college year wim the exception of holiday and examination periods at Elon College, N. C. (Zip Code 27244), publication being in cooperation with the journalism department. EDITORIAL BOARD . Editor-in-Chief Don Kmg , . _ Tu D Associate Editor Thomas Pearse _ Associate Editor Alumni Editor Robert Model H. Reid ^ . Luther N. Byrd Advisor REPORTORIAL STAFF Roy Baker Stmny Long Wayne Barker Jonathan Lucas Myra Boone 8^““ William Clark Clyde O Ferrell Ronnie Cohen Kent Crim Alex Oliver Bobby Denny William Onufrak David Gentry Eddie Osborne John Greeson Sam Rankin Oliver Halle James Ritter Skip Hinshaw Shaw Don Honeycutt Rosalind Shoffner James Howell Carl Sparks Martha Johnson Sam Troy Lawrence Kleeberg Charlie VanLear Gary Knapp Dolly Walker Chris Kurlle Reid Watlington Greg Lee Thomas Ward Joe Lee Weed John Little Roger Wood PICKARD BILL STUDIED By DON KING Representative Glenn Pickard, of Alamance County, some time ago in troduced a bill in the State House of Representatives to repeal a 1933 act of the General Assembly which pro hibited the sale of beer and wine within one and one-half miles of the Elon College campus. This act has excluded the Town of Elon College from sharing in the county’s tax revenue from the sale of beer and wine in other areas of the county. The bill recently intro duced by Representative Pickard is back in the House of Representatives after having been amended by the State Senate. The Elon College administration and the board of trustees oppose the repeal of the 1933 act. As one per son stated, “It would be a terrible calamity for a Christian institution to be surrounded by places that could make wine and beer available to the students.” It seems to me that this has al ready happened, for there are several places within a five-minute drive where students so desiring can obtain beer and wine easily, and all evi dence is that some students do just this. Therefore, I can hardly see why there is such an uproar being made about Representative Pickard’s bill. Is it because the administration and the board of trustees feel that they must uphold the image of a Christian institution? If so, why did they wait until the bill had already passed the House Committee on Prop ositions and Grievances before asking to be heard? Surely, several members of the board of trustees must realize that students will drink, regardless of how far they must go to buy beer and wine. Furthermore, I feel safe in assum ing that some members of the Elon College community indulge in alco holic beverages occasionally, even if it is only for “Christmas eggnog.” This being the case, why should not the Town of Elon College benefit from the revenue that would become available by passage of the Pickard bill, for the revenue could be put to use for such things as community beautification, better roads and streets, lighting and a better police force. In the final analysis, the question is not the act of providing convenient wine for students, for it has already been established that it is already available. Instead, it is the question whether to allow the Town of Elon College to benefit from the revenues which would become available. Elon Offers Stude nt Financial Aid Elon College is cooperating in a number of student aid projects of the state and federal governments, all designed to make it possible for more students to obtain a college education, according to information f released this week by Robert Gwalt- | ney, who heads up the student finan- cial aid program on the Elon campus. One of the state-sponsored programs | is the Plan Assuring College Educa-^ | tion in North Carolina, often abbre viated to P.A.C.E.I.N.C. or just P. A.C.E. This is a cooperative vetnure between the student, the school in which he is enrolled, the community agency with which he works and guidance counselors. Initiated by the Community Serv ice Division of the State Department of Public Welfare, the P.A.C.E. plan is designed to increase participation of students in aid programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965. It provides for public and private non-profit agencies needing summer help to get college students in sum mer work by putting up money the college needs to match federal funds. Students working under P.A.C.E. sponsorship work in local health, welfare and law enforcement agencies, libraries, schools, poverty programs and similar ventures. Pilot projects have been conducted in several coun ties, and during the first summer of operation 995 students earned over half a million dollars at a cost of less than $80,000 of local money. Also a North Carolina state-spon sored project is the insured loan program of the College Foundation, Inc., which has headquarters in Ral eigh and which makes it possible for eligible students to borrow up to ROBERT A. GWALTNEY $1,000 per year for undergraduates and up to $1,500 per year for grad uate and professional students during an educational period as much as six years. Such loans are insured by the state and repayment does not begin until after graduation. Among the federal student aid programs which are possible to Elon students are the National Defense Student Loans, the College Work- Study plan, the Educational Oppor tunity Grants and a federal Guaran teed Loan plan, and the student aid officer may be able to work a combination of more than one of the plans for students who need assistance. The National Defense Student Loan program enables undergraduate stu dents to borrow up to $1,000 per year to a total of $5,000 and grad uate students to borrow as much as $2,500 per year to a total of $10,000, with repayment beginniij after graduation at 3 per cent pu year and with repayment spaced over ^ a 10-year period. Those who becon* teachers after graduation receive cred it on the prinicipal for teaching sen. ice, in some instances for the entirt loan. The Guaranteed Loans plan is designed for students from middle oii upper income families, with interesi as 3 or 6 per cent, according to tkt ] family income level. Such loans ari obtained from banks or other finaj.' cial institutions and guaranteed bvl the federal government. The College Work-Study plan is' designed to help students combim work with a full-time program of study, with work up to 15 horns weekly while in school and with plans for summer jobs. Such work may bt either for the college the student j| tends or in off-campus employmeii The Educational Opportunity Graj; program is a system of direct awards to a limited number of undergraduatt students with exceptional financii need. Such grants range from $201) to $800 per year, with some addi tional grant for academic excellenci In announcing these programs which are available to students ai- tending or hoping to attend Eta College, Gwaltney pointed out ihi i present students costs at Elon Collefi average $1,525 per year, not includ ing personal expenditures, but thesi varied aid programs should make iij possible for anyone with sufficieii7 desire and ambition to attend coUejt' Interested persons should contact tla| student aid officer at his office oij' the Elon campus. ADVOCATUS DIABOLI By TOM PEARSE Does Elon have the chance to move ahead in the realm of the aca demic endeavors? This question pre sents a situation similar to the ques tion, does your mother know you are crazy? No matter how the question is answered one is placing himself in an ignoble situation. Yet to the ques tion, there is an answer. Elon has been moving ahead ma terially for the past few years; much as the Industrial Revolution in Eng land during the 19th century. Aca demically the school is sterile. The college can not maintain a well rounded faculty. Sociologists call this situation a culture lag when the ma terial aspect of society out distances the cultural. The lag at Elon exists for several reasons. One of the most pressing is the quality of the faculty. As one professor admitted, “if we beat the bushes long enough we will find some one. Sure enough, each year they manage to round up enough to main tain a full complement. The ironic aspect about this ran dom sampling is that they do manage to obtain one or two “free thinkers.” At the end of the year though, there is a mass exodus of the men of qual Ity, and the fugitives from the rigors of high school hold on with the tena city of a bulldog, building up ten ure. Here again, some of the dedicated professionals stay. It is just possible that they see some potential at Elon What happens to this individual? Some poor misguided official looks at the man’s records. “This man is giving too many F’s He must be too hard.” In reality he is not hard at all. The official fails to realize that because Elon lets people in who could not get into another institution, there is a hard core of people who lack sufficient background in the academic field. The school fig ures the professor does not fit at Elon. Of course. He never received his B.D. Arts Forum Offers Lecture Series (Continued from page 1) ject of “Ancient Rome and Modern America Reconsidered,” with his lec ture to be followed by a recpetion at o’clock in West Dormitory Parlor. Hammond is a trustee of the Ameri can Academy at Rome and has di rected classical studies there. He is graduate of Harvard and holds graduate degrees from Oxford Uni versity and has been awared numer ous prizes for his scholarship. Two Lectures On Tuesday The Tuesday programs feature lec tures in both afternoon and at night, with Dr. Clement Eaton appearing a second time in West Dormitory Par lor at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon to .peak on “Characteristics of Southern Society on the Eve of the Civil War.” This lecture will be followed at 8 o’clock Tuesday night in McEwen Dining Hall by the appearance of Dr. Alfred Engstrom, Alumni Distin guished Professor of Romance Lang uages at the University of North Car olina at Chapel Hill, who will speak on "Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, And the Alchemy of Les Fleurs du Mai.” Another reception in West Dormitory Parlor follows this lec ture. Dr. Engstrom is the only repeater from the last year’s symposium lec ture group, and he makes his second Elon appearance of the present col lege year, having lectured at Elon in January, also under the sponsor ship of the Liberal Arts Forum. He is the author of numerous articles on Nineteenth Century French litera ture and literary criticism. He is on When contracts come out for the next year the professor finds that his name has been left off. The man need not worry he will more than likely have an offer from Georgia, Wake Forest, or High Point. Eloii can afford to lose these men. There are more mediocre men in the bushes. the editorial board of the University of North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and on the advisory board of the Southern Humanities Review. Other Lecturcs On Schedule The afternoon schedule for Wed nesday includes a tea on West Lawn at 3 o’clock and a piano recital in Whitley at 4 o’clock by Betsy Bul lock, followed at 8 o’clock Wednes day night by a lecture by Dr. J. Peterson Elder, who will speak in McEwen Dining Hall on “Notions of the Golden Age in Four Latin Poets.” His lecture will also be fol lowed by a reception in West Dorm Parlor. Dr. Elder, who graduated from Williams College, holds graduate de grees from Harvard, and he has taught for many years at Harvard, where he has been dean of the School of Arts and Sciences since 1955. He has also served as chairman of the Classics Department at Harvard and is also a member of the committee for the new Center of Hellenic Stud ies in Washington. An afternoon tea on the West Lawn is the feature at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon, followed at 8 o’clock Thursday night by a lecture in McEwen Dining Hall by Dr. Jo seph Strayer, veteran history profes sor at Princeton University, who will speak on “Medieval Values: Theory and Reality.” Again Thursday night, there will be a reception in West Dorm Parlor. Dr. Strayer, a graduate of Prince ton and holder of graduate degrees from Harvard and an honorary de gree from the University of Caen in France,; is an eminent medievalist, who has taught at Princeton since 1939, holding the Stockton Profes sorship in History there at present. Final Program Next Friday The final lecture of the series will feature Dr. Osborne Hardison, pro fessor of English at the University of| North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wlmj will speak in West Dormitory Partoj at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon on tin subject of “The Image of Man ii Popular Films; The Rhetoric of Al l fred Hitchcock,” A graduate of the University ol| North Carolina, he holds the te i torate from Wisconsin and law; taught at Princeton before retumiJ!l to Chapel Hill. He has written ol| the Renaissance and medieval criti cism, was a founder of the South eastern Renaissance Institute and now editor of “Studies in Philology Student members of the sponsoritf Arts Forum are Carl King, chairman Fred Bright, Darryl Jennus, Pat Mt Causland, Linda May, Jean McGuini James Milward, Robert Model, Frti Moon and Alex Oliver, with Prol James Elder as faculty advisor. Judges I Dean Fletcher Moore and Pf®' Gene Featherstone, members of Elon College music faculty, spei three days last week judging the trict and state music contests • South Carolina, the contests be«! staged by the South Carolina Mus* Education Association. It was the fourth consecutive V® that Dean Moore had judged tl* South Carolina contests, but it ** the first such service for Profess* Featherstone. Dean Moore judj'* the senior and advanced piano ^ petition, while Featherstone jud8'‘ the intermediates and concertos. As a special feature of his in the South Carolina contests tt^ year. Dean Moore prepared a page manual and handbook, w was distributed to teachers havrt students taking part in the compf® tion. i
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