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MAROON AND GOLD
Scholarships
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1968
Why
Is It?
By JAMES PAYNE
Today’s farmer has a
double problem. Not only
must he remember what
he is not growing, he’s
got to remember which
field he is not growing
it in.
One of the most dis
cussed topics on the cam
pus recently has been
school spirit.” Count
less articles have ap
peared in campus publi
cations bemoaning the
lack of this seemingly
elusive and yet all im
portant spirit and pride
in our school. Unfortu
nately, many of these ar
ticles did a good job of
chiding the students for
the lack of school spir
it but reflected little
searching into the cause
of the claimed student
apathy. Let us examine
some of the facts.
The burden for the gen
eration of this pride and
spirit quite possibly rests
upon the on-campus stu
dents. It is certainly one
thing to live in one’s home
community and drive
from five to fifty miles
each morning to school,
remain at school for
classes and necessary
research, and then drive
home to one’s own home
and social circles each
school day; and quite an
other to live at one’s
school and to have one’s
whole social life orbit
around the campus and
its facilities. For the ma
jor part of her history,
Elon has been mainly a
“commuter school” and
its social functions and
general outlook seemed to
reflect this fact. But in
1967 the on-campus stu
dent body, made up over
Catching the small
seam break before it en
larges and splits the fab
ric not only saves time on
your part but adds to the
wearability of the gar
ment.
50% of the total enroll
ment. This subtile change
which has been taking
place over the past few
years will certainly have
a major role to play in
the campus spirit of the
next few years.
Another factor involved
in one’s being proud of
his school is the feeling
one obtains from being a
member of a select group.
Comparing figures for the
fall semesters of 1966 and
1967 one finds that the
number of applicants in
creased over 5% but the
percentage of students
accepted DECREASED
approximately 1% in 1967.
In the future when even
greater selectivity is ne
cessitated, this feeling of
being part of a select
group is sure to be more
deeply felt.
There are, obviously,
many other factors which
play major roles in the
development of school
spirit (e.g. winning teams
in football and other
sports), but one possibly
might rightly conclude
from the facts seen here
along with the renewal of
the beauty of our campus
by the current land
scaping program, con
struction of the new li
brary, co-ed dormatory,
etc. that Elon students in
the next few years will
feel a new and growing
pride in their school and,
thus, a rocketing school
spirit.
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J. Drum Scholarship.
Kay Thomas, of San
ford, holds the Sadie V.
Fonville Scholarship.
June Cheryl Bennett, of
Driver, Va., and James
Caviness, of Robbins,
hold the Holmes Memor
ial Fund Scholarships.
Earl Ray King, of Elon
College, holds the Vitus
Reid Holt Scholarship.
Peter Hudgin, of South
Boston, Va., holds the
William S . Long Schol
arship.
Archie Caudle, of Gold-
ston, hold the Sue Boddie
Macon Scholarship.
Belinda Sue Black, of
Lexington, holds the L.E.
Moffett Scholarship.
Lawrence Sage, of Ver
sailles, Conn., holds the
Emmett and Katherine
Rawls Scholarship.
Pamela Sauvain, of
Richmond, Va., holds the
Richmond Alumni Schol
arship.
Norman Ward, of Bur
lington, holds the L.E.
Smith Scholarship.
Stephen Prye, of Swans-
boro, holds the W. W.
Staley Scholarship.
Kay Savage , of Wha-
leyville, Va., holds the
Staley Memorial Schol
arship.
Jack Hanel, of Chesa
peake, Va., holds the
Tidewater Alumni Schol
arship.
James Carpenter, of
Burlington, holds the
Trollinger Memorial
Scholarship,
Richard Gibson, of
Graham, holds the West
ern Electric Scholarship,
In 1965 more than 10,
000 children were born
out of wedlock in North
Carolina. The number of
such births increases
each year.
One way to relieve
household clutter is to
throw away—or give a-
way—articles you no
longer use. One good
guide to help you decide
which items to discard
is: If you haven’t used
an item within the last
one or two years, out
it goes.
Why is it that a con
siderable amount of stu
dents who have afternoon
classes or labs and us
ually have lunch in the
“Varsity Room” of the
student union many times
have to stand or carry
their lunch elsewhere to
eat?
One reason is the in
adequate size of the
“Varsity Room” which is
not large enough to ac
comodate its purpose.
Stepping outside of this
room we find ourselves
on the patio which is fine
on a warm spring day, but
in the dead heat of the
summer or the bitter cold
of the winter, the patio
is of no use at all. Even
the patio furniture is not
the most practical in that
one has to sit on the edge
of his chair to reach the
table because of the re
clining fashion that the
chair is made. A patio
may be a status symbol
for some people but I
feel that this area could
be put to better use the
year round.
First of all, it could
be closed in with brick
walls, yet the best solu
tion 1 believe would be a
screened in area with fold
out glass windows to shut
out the cold. Then this
area could be used the
year round and eliminate
a great deal of the stand
ing room only. The only
problem here is how long
the windows would stay
in one piece before some
young, up-right Elon stu
dent would come along and
see how far the windows
would push out before the
mechanism and window
broke. But “c’est la vie”.
Of course this renova
tion would cost money
that the college budget
has not allowed for and
my suggestion may in no
means be a simple solu
tion to the problem. Yet,
I feel that the admini
stration should take the
time to look into this
veryobjectively and see if
they can obtain a solution
to the problem at hand.
Until the time, if and
when, action is taken,
there is one small chan
ge that could be made
concerning the seatingini
the “Varsity Room”.
This is that a large sign
should be placed on the
wall saying “No Card
Playing Allowed”.
Within the last three
or four months 1 have no
ticed each afternoon at
12:30 that on the aver
age of three to five ta
bles are completely tak
en up by persons playing
cards. The college set
aside a room on the sec
ond floor of the student
union strictly for the use
of those persons wishing
to indulge in this game.
However, this room many
times is vacant while at
the same time downstairs
in the “Varsity Room”,
three to five tables are
being used for the sole
purpose of playing cards
and those persons wish
ing to sit down to eat
their lunch are forced to
stand or go elsewhere.
This problem was e-
liminated at Lenoir Hall
on the campus of the Un
iversity of North Caro
lina at Chapel hill by
placing on the wall a sign
forbidding card playing.
This will not completely
eliminate the seating
problem here at ole’ Elon,
but at least it will be a
step in the right direction.
A fool and his money rest of us just wait until
are soon parted. The income tax time.
SOMETHING TO APPRECIATE IN WINTRY WEATHES
The graceful Elon Colonnades, which connect the five buildings of Elon’s main umti
appreciated during wintry weather such as that which hit
mLv welcome shelter from rain and sleet and snow-
t K similar structures offered their sheltering protection mal
parts of the oak-shaded campus.
Beneath
The Oaks
BY
RUSSELL SCHETROMA