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MAROON AND GOLD
Dedicated to the best Interests of Elon College and
its students and faculty, the Maroon and Gold is pub
lished weekly during the college year wirt the excep
tion of holiday and examination periods atElonOoliege,
N.C. (Zip Code 27244), publication being in coopera
tion with the journalism department.
editorial board
Paul Bleiberg
James Payne '
Ken Hollingsworth Associate Editor
Russell Schetroma Associate Editor
David Johnson .Entertainment Editor
Eddie Osborne .....Sports Editor
Bob Williams Sports
pj Alumni Editor
Luther N.“Byrr.'.V.V.V.V. Faculty Advisor
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Richard Adams, Claes Alexanderson, Nancy Boone,
Sam Boroody, Judy Caines, Tom Campion, Sandy
Carrington, Stanley Cocke, Larry Collins, Shannon
Doolittle, Monty Duncan, Wanda Edwards, Walter
Gose, Timothy Green, Keith Handy, William Her
bert , Eleanor Hill, Holly Hollingsworth, Vickie Hor
ner, Linda Jordan, Lloyd Kanipe, Richard Lee, Jim
my Lunsford, Kay McCauley, Jim McClure, Don
Martin, Lynn Michael, John Michaels, Robert Mona-
celli, Richard Moon, William Motz, Carl Mulholland,
Aleda Pope, Jeannette Robinette, Beth Rountree,
Wayne Smart, Sandra Wrenn.
Eliason Is Forum Speaker
Dr. Norman Eliason, at Elon, spoke on the
Kenan Professor of Eng- topic of “What’s Wrong
lish at the University of With English?” His lec-
North Carolina at Chap- ture was followed by a
el Hill, was a guest lec- reception in West Dor-
turer for the SGA spon- mitory Parlor,
sored Liberal Arts For- The guest speaker is
am in a program held in a graduate of Luther Col-
McEwen Memorial Dining lege and holds the M.A.
Hall on the Elon College degree from the Univer-
campus on Thursday sity of Iowa and the Ph.
night, February 15th. D. from Johns Hopkins.
He has taught at a num-
Dr. Eliason, who ap- ber of institutions and
peared as the fifth lec- jg now teaching Old and
turer of the year in the Middle English at Caro-
annual Arts Forum series lina.
A Song
By KEN HOLLINGSWORTH
It might seem that this
column belongs on the op
posite page, but we would
like to say it anyway.
On a Saturday night
in early December more
than serveral Elon stu
dents waited in the cold
to be admitted to the Elon
vs. Guilford game on the
Quakers’ home court.The
wait was of no avail. No
Elon students were ad
mitted.
Tomorrow night will be
our turn to host Guilford.
This game will give us
Elon students a chance
to show our school spirit
and our good sportsman
ship. We Christians don’t
have to turn away the op
posing team’s fans in or
der to build and boost our
own school spirit.
It is against the Caro-
linas Conference regu
lations to use musical in
struments during a ball
game. Despite this rule,
on that fateful December
night, a Quaker fan pro
duced a trumpet and with
the encouragement of the
Guilford cheerleaders
proceeded to add to the
cheers. Not once did a
referee ask that the in
strument be put away.
SGA President Dale
Morrison recently dis
cussed the Guilford game
with Joby Hawn,commis
sioner at the Carolinas
Conference. Morrison
asked for a clarification
of the instrument ban.The
commissioner told Mor
rison that Elon could have
a pep band for pregame
and at halftime; however,
the instruments are not
allowed to be played dur
ing the game.
We hope everyone will
come out to support the
Christians as they play
Guilford in Elon’s last
game before the Confer
ence tournament.
It seems appropriate
to quote the opening lines
of the Elon Fight Song,
which we would like to
address to the team:
Let’s win this game;
go onward Elon, go I
Never to yield a vict ry
to the foe.
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The Contemporary Af
fairs Symposium Com
mittee should be very
pleased with the success
of their first symposium
of the year which was held
February 12. Drs. Sutton,
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IwoThonored
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Unas Conference some
years ago when the con
ference accepted two
South Carolina colleges
as members of the loop.
Dr. Hookhas twice ser
ved as president of the
North State Conference,
the last time during the
1959-60 collegiate year,
and he also served for
many years as commis
sioner of the conference,
a post in which he was
often called on to rule on
judicial questions and
protests among the mem
bers.
While serving in these
various official positions
in the field of college
sports here at Elon and
in the entire area. Dr.
Hook has also establish
ed a firm bid for the right
to be called “Elon’s Num
ber One Fan.” He and
Mrs. Hood have both seen
most of Elon’s games at
home and many of the
games on the road, and
the two of them prob
ably know personally
more Elon College ath
letes than any other liv
ing person.
It is not only in the
field of sports that Dr.
Hook has served, for he
has also held numerous
other faculty posts while
teaching mathematics and
physics. He has served
as chairman of both the
math department and the
physics department and
has served more than
once for lengthy terms
as registrar and aca
demic dean. He is cur
rently serving as Dean of
the Faculty in recognition
of his long years of ser
vice.
Outside the college he
has been active in both
his church and in var
ious civic groups, ser
ving as both member and
officer in both the reli
gious and civic groups.
Special services were as
coordinator of the col
lege’s program with the
war effort during both
World War I and World
War II.
Of all the faculty mem
bers ever to serve at
Elon, perhaps no one is
more often sought out and
visited by returning a-
lumni, and those former
students are quick to tell
how Dr. Hook imparted
the ingredients of sound
character along with his
academic instruction in
mathematics and physics.
Friday, Feb. 23, 1968
A tomcat and a tabby
were courting on the back
fence when the tomcat
leaned over to her and
said: ‘‘I’d die for youj
you beautiful thing'” The
tabby gazed at him long
ingly and said; “How
many timss?”
So Whafs
New?
By PAUL BLEIBERG
On Friday, the ninth of
February, I was sitting
in Whitley Memorial Au
ditorium entranced by an
other illustrious Chapel.
Because I was sitting to
wards the back I could
not hear the speaker.
Therefore, my attention
was focused on other
things: mainly how the au
dience was reacting to the
program.
The following figures
are not by any means
exact, but they are pret
ty close. I would esti
mate that eighty-five per
cent of the people in at
tendance were either
reading, doing their
homework, or occupying
themselves by playing tic
tac toe and other word
games.
This is also a good op
portunity to get off a few
letters back home. Such
letters usually start as
follows: “While sitting in
a boring Chapel, I thought
I would drop you a line,”
or a similar observation.
Approximately ten per
cent catch up on sleep
missed the night before.
(Chapel is a very good
cure of insomnia). That
leaves five per cent un
accounted for in the study.
It is difficult to say what
these people are doing.
For some look like they
are paying attention but
they might be only day
dreaming.
But let us be liberal,
unlike some around here,
and pretend they are lis
tening.
A summation shows
that ninety-five per cent
of the p>eople attending
chapel don’t appear to
care much for it.
The following day I re
ceived a notice in my box
from the Dean of Student
Personal Services con
cerning Chapel attendance
for the Fall Semester. It
stated the following: ‘ Our
records indicate that you
overcut chapel during the
Fall semester. Because
of this, you will be per
mitted three chapel cuts
during the Spring semes
ter.”
I was in the state of
utter amazement. 1 had
thought that I had only
cut five times which is
the limit set up by the
college. Apparently not!
But why wasn’t I noti
fied last semester? Why
wasn’t I sent a notice
then when it really count
ed? Something is “rotten
in Elon”. The handbook
points out that one must
attend chapel once a week
during the course of a
semester. If one cuts over
the limit he has to go
before a committee and
explain his reasons for
overcutting and why he
should be permitted to
stay in schooL
In reciprocity, there
were people who did not
cut even one time. They
were not sent a notice
allowing them ten cuts
for the spring semester.
How can the administra
tion account for this?
Should it not work both
ways? Of course, in my
opinion as many others,
this entire business
should be tossed out the
window.
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Next Lyceum Event
PLAYER SHOW
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Another veteran of the
Elon campus stage, who
appears as Pozzo, the
ringmaster, is Paul Blei-
bert, of Wilmington,Del.,
Gordy Payne, of Wayne,
N.J., is another Player
veteran , who appears
as Lucky, Pozzo’s slave.
Rounding out the cast as
“The Boy” is Sam Ro
berson, of Burlington.
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dies with Clytie Mundy
and Norman Notley, and
for four summers he sang
with opera companies
throughout the United
States and South Amer
ica.
The South American
critic of “El Siglo” in
Bogoto, Colombia, said,
“The young tenor, Ray
DeVoll, posses a timbre
of rare quality, infinitely
lovely in sound and flex
ibility. His voice itself
is a marvelous instru
ment.”
DeVoll enjoys his world
wide travels and carries
his camera and record
ing equipment with him
wherever he goes. His
collections of photographs
and ethnological record
ings are the envy of my
hobbiests all over Amer
ica. He loves model trains
and many of his leisure
hours are spent making
model trains that really
work.
In the realm of sports,
along with his enthusiasm
for baseball, which he
plays at every chance,
Ray DeVoll loves sailing
and sailboat racing. In
fact it was difficult for
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him to give up this in
terest when he decided
to make singing his full
life’s work.
Ordinarily DeVoll is a
casual dresser, but his
profession as a concert
singer forces him to be
meticulous about his at
tire. However, he does
not own a hat, and the
only time he ever wore
one was during his naval
services.
Typically Anglo-Saxon
in his looks and endowed
with a warm and friend
ly personality, he loves
to tell and hear jokes.
Despite his perfect fi"
gure, he is somewhat ot
a gourmet and delights in
delicacies from all parts
of the world on his con
tinual tours of foreign
lands.
Ray DeVoll is a com
pulsive knick-knack buy
er wherever he travels,
and he devotes much ot
the space in hisNewYor
apartment to displaying
the many and varied dis
coveries. In fact, hislov
of the unusual may force
him to obtain a larger
apartment for display
purposes.