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VOLUME 48
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1967
NUMBER %S
College Shows 1,454 Students
Registrar Discloses
Varied Backgrounds
famed JAPANESE MIME APPEARS HERE NEXT TUESDAY
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YASS HAKOSHIMA, JAPENESE MIME
Yass Hakoshima Will Appear
In Second Lyceum Attraction
h„f his nerfor- pany in Tokyo. Di
Yass Hakoshima, the
world-famed Japanese
mime, will appear in
Whitley Auditorium on the
Elon campus at 8 o’clock
next Tuesday, October
I'^th, in a program which
creates a subtle blending
of Western and Far East
ern elements.
His program, which is
the Second of the annual
Elon College Lyceum
series for the 1967-68
college year, is open to
the public without charge,
and the public is invited
to see his celebrated work
in an art form that has
produced relatively few
great performers.
Yass Hakoshima avoids
strict stylistic forms and
Qoes not create simple
FLASH!
John Anderson, 19,
Elon sophomore from
Aberdeen, was killed in
a wreck near the campus
last Friday night. Too late
to get full story in this
issue. Details will appear
in next issue.
parodies, but his perfor
mance is outstanding in
that he works with no
stage sets except those
created in the minds of
the audience, and there
is only little help from
costumes and music. The
essential elements are
simply his amazing body
control and great acting
talent.
Dance Magazine calls
his work “an exciting
display of concentration
and control” as he Pre
sents a repertoire mat
includes humor, pathos,
frustration, grandeur and
a symbolic struggle for
freedom.
Among his most excit
ing portrayals are the
Fisherman, the Geisha,
Harikiri, the Duel, pup
pet, illusion, the Dream,
Labyrinth, the Eagle and
Ecdysis.
The guest performer
was born and reared in O-
saka in Japan. He studied
classical Japanese lit
erature at Kyushu Uni
versity and did work as
a solo dancer with the
Yokayama Ballet Com
pany in Tokyo. During
the mid-fifties he spe
cialized in classic Jap
anese dance and Noh
movement.
His interest in panto
mime began in 1955,
and the next year he join
ed the first Western Pan
tomime Group in Tokyo.
The Elon College en
rollment for this fall se
mester of 1967-68 lacks
only four students of be
ing exactly the same as
that for the fall term of
last year, according to a
report just released from
the office of Prof. Larry
E. Barnes, the college
registrar.
His report shows that
Elon has an enrollment
of 1,454 students this
fall, representing a de
crease of four from last
year’s 1,458 students for
the fall semester. The re
port also shows a break
down of the enrollment by
classes and by home ori
gins and religious affilia
tions.
The total enrollment of
1,454 students includes
998 men and 456 women,
compared with 943 men
and 515 women last fall.
Another grouping lists
1,355 students in day
time classes and 99 in
the Evening School. The
day registration repre
sents an increase of seven
in the day-time registra
tion, while the night
registration shows a
slight drop.
As might be expected,
the largest enrollment is
found in the freshman
class, with 478 of the
daytime students and 31
night students in the first-
year group. Other class
memberships in the day
classes include 341
sophomores, 271 juniors,
258 seniors and seven
special students. The
night classes list 19 sop
homores, 22 juniors, 21
seniors and six special
students.
In each of the four
classes men are in the
majority. The freshman
class Includes 339 men
and 139 women, the soph
omore class lists 229
men and 112 women, the
junior class shows 179
men and 92 women, and
chairman
DICE WYLLIE
Dice Wyllie, of Mount
Holly, N. J., is the SGA
chairman in charge of ar
rangements for the an
nual Elon College Home
coming Day observance,
which is set for the last
weekend in October, with
plans calling for a talent
show on Friday night and
a full day of activities
on Saturday that features
the annual Elon-Western
Carolina grid battle.
the senior class includes
162 men and 96 women.
The Evening School lists
87 men and 12 women.
As was the case in re
cent years, more than
half the day-time students
resides on the campus,
and this year for the first
time the dormitory group
includes over half the en
tire registration. There
was a time when com
muter students were in
the majority, but the trend
has switched in recent
years.
The actual figures on
campus and commuting
students show that there
are now 737 students liv
ing on campus, among
them 512 men and 225
women, compared with a
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Faculty Busy During Vacation
Members of the Elon
College faculty had both
interesting and busy va
cations during the past
summer, according to a
survey just completed
which showed that many of
them travelled either in
this country or abroad,
while others studied in
their respective fields or
did special work as sum
mer school teachers or
conducting at Elon or
elsewhere.
Three of the Elon fa
culty members toured in
Europe during the sum
mer, including Dr. Kon-
stantinas Avizonis,chair
man of the Elon College
department of history,
who came to the Elon fa
culty in 1949 from his
native Lithuania, He and
his wife travelled exten
sively in Germany, Swit
zerland, Austria and the
Netherlands, renewing
old friendships and visit
ing universities and
points of historic interest.
Also going abroad were
Prof. Alfred W. Hauser,
who flew to Switzerland
and West Germany in the
early summer, revisiting
his old home in Germany,
with visits to his old high
school and several uni
versities and points of
cultural and historic in
terest; and Prof. Paul
Sebo and his wife, who
spent three weeks in Yu
goslavia in the late sum
mer, visiting points where
he had studied in his grad
uate work.
Many of the Elon Col
lege faculty members en
gaged in advanced study in
their academic fields,and
three of them completed
requirements for ad
vanced or additional de
grees. Prof. Wesley
Alexander earned his
second Master’s Degree,
this time in mathematics
at New Mexico State Uni
versity; and both Mrs.
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