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MAROON AND gold
Dedicated to the best Interests of EIon 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 at Elon College,
N.C. (Zip Code 27244), publication being in coopera
tion with the journalism department.
maroon and gold
NEW PROFESSOR
FRIDAY, APRIL19.1968
EDITORIAL BOARD
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Paul Bleiberg
James Payne
Ken Hollingsworth .
Russell Schetroma Associate
David Johnson Entertainment
Eddie Osborne .Sports
Bob Williams Sports
TT Alumni
Luther N. Byrd ....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.
Arts Forum Offers
Cultural Programs
Five days of cultural
opi>u.rtunlty will be offer
ed to Elon College stu
dents and faculty next
week as the student-»pjn-
sored Liberal Arts Forum
presents its third annual
series of lectures, en
titled “Studies in the Hu
manities,” featuring an
outstanding series of lec
tures, concerts and other
programs.
The Liberal Arts For
um is a group composed
principally of Elon un-
dergratuates, its princi
pal purpose being to fos
ter intellectual interest
through public lectures. It
was formed in 1958 and
has been very active since
that time. It staged its
first annual spring lec
ture series in 1966 and
followed with the second
annual series last spring.
The 1968 program will
get underway on Monday,
April 29th, and will con
tinue through Friday, May
3rd, and will feature no
less than eleven outstand
ing scholars and lectur
ers, along with a world-
famous musician, in the
most outstanding sym
posium of the three staged
thus far on the Elon
campus.
The speakers will in
clude Or. Kemp Malone,
of John Hopkins Univer
sity, and Dr. Paul Mur
ray Kendall, of Ohio Un
iversity, in two opening
day programs on Monday,
April 29th. They will be
followed on Tuesday .April
30th, by Dr. Alfred Gar
vin hngstrom. of the Un
iversity of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill, and Dr.
Osborne B. Hardison, al
so of the University of
North Carolina.
A special feature of the
Tuesday program will be
the appearance of Igor
Kipr.is, world - famous
harp-ichordist in concert
on Tuesday night, follow
ing up the two lectures
for that day. Kipnis is to
appear under joint spon
sorship of the Arts For
um and the Lion Lyceum.
Elon Faculty
Judges For
S. C. Contest
Prof. Fletcher Moore,
academic dean for Elon
College, and Prof. Gene
Featherstone, of the mu
sic department, served as
judges for the recent
three-day piano contests
staged by the South Caro
lina division of the Music
Educators’ National Con
ference.
Dean Moore has served
as judge for this contest
for many years, and Prof.
Featherstone joined him
the past two years. This
year. Prof. James Cly-
burne, an Elon graduate,
now at Meredith, added
still more Elon flavor to
the event.
The three-day contests
were held at Rock Hill,
Estill and Columbia in
South Carolina.
DR. ROBERT W. DELP
Delp To Join
Elon Faculty
For 1968-69
Dr. Robert Worley
Delp, whose special field
of interest is American
history, will join the Elon
College faculty as a mem
ber of the Department of
History and Social Sci
ence for the coming 1968-
69 year.
Dr. Delp, who is native
of North Carolina, is a
graduate of Davidson Col
lege, later studied at the
Lancaster Theological
seminary in Pennsylvan
ia and received both the
Master of Arts and the
Doctor of philosophy de
grees in history from
George Washington Uni
versity.
He will come to Elon
from Atlantic Christian
College, where he has
been teaching in the his
tory department since
completing his doctoral
work at George Wash
ington in 1965.
He has written several
articleSj the most recent
being entitled “Andrew
Jackson Davis; Prophet of
American Spiritualism.”
His current research
project is a study of so
cial implications of A-
merican spiritualism in
the Nineteenth Century.
He holds membership in
a number of professional
groups.
A
Beneath
The Oaks
BY
RUSSELL SCHETROMA
Elon’s catalogue
proudly proclaims “Stu
dents of Elon College gov
ern themselves... This
is indeed something to
be proud of, if it were
true; but anyone living
here for a semester or so
knows better than to ac
cept all publicity state
ments at first sight.
While it is true that we
have a Student Govern
ment Association, which
includes an Honor Court to
try offenders against the
Honor Code, something is
obviously lacking.
In the Judicial Branch
of our government the
lack appears to lie in the
Why
Is It?
By JAMES PAYNE
Why is it that the United
States is not winning in
Viet Nam? Is it because
the Johnson Administra
tion is afaid of the nu
clear strength of Rus-
sia?
In September of 1966
Secretary of State Dean
Rusk testified before the
Senate Preparedness In
vestigating Subcommittee
and stated that “accele
ration of the war in Viet
Nam could move into an
area of conflict that would
knock out 300,000 people
in the first hour.” He
further stated that “the
effort has been to take
the action necessary to
sustain the peace and to
prevent a course of ag
gression from being laun
ched and to prevent the
United States from be
coming involved in an all
out general war.”
When Rusk spoke about
“knocking out 300,000 in
the first hour” in a “gen
eral war”, it seems he
was referring to a nu
clear exchange between
the Soviet Union and the
United States. When
speaking of preventing “a
course of aggression from
being launched,” is he not
probably referring to an
attack on the United States
by the Soviet Union (It is
very obvious that the
United States will not at
tack the Soviet Union
first)?
On August 25, 1967. Ro
bert McNamara in a pre
pared statement to the
Senate stated that “an ex-
cellarated air campaign
against North Viet Nam
would involve risks to our
personnel and to our na
tion that I am unable to
recommend.” What
risks? From who?
There is no way that
North Viet Nam can hit
the United States nor is
there any way that Red
China (at the present) can
hit the United States. Only
the U.S.S.R. has at the
present the capability of
hitting this country.
In the last five or six
years, because of ever-
increasing spending for
the war in Viet Nam, the
nuclear strength of the
Unied States has been re
duced. High ranking mili
tary authorities have
stated that in 1967, the So
viet Union caught up with
and began surp.issing
the nuclear strength of
this country.
Does this all mean that
the present administra
tion will not destroy most
of the strategic targets
that have not been bomb
ed, and will not put areal
effective blockade on the
port of Haiphong, because
they are afraid of pro
voking a Soviet nuclear
attack against the United
States? The United States
has lost its nuclear su
periority which it had six
years ago and also lacks
an anti-missle defense.
Is Johnson just plain a-
fraid of Russia?
fact that we not only have
an Honor Code, but also
a Campus Code, and sep
arate regulations govern
ing dormitory life. Infrac
tions of eachof these var
ious codes are tried by
separate courts.
The decision as to which
court gets which case is
often a difficult one to
make. Decisions of the
student- faculty courts
are subject to review by
the Administration, and in
reality there is no clear
line marking the boundary
between the authority of
student courts and ad-
ministrtive action. Some
dormitory rule infrac
tions are handled by the
interdormitory council
and some by direct ad
ministrative action. Traf
fic violations are handled
by the administration.
The handbook each stu
dent receives at ths be
ginning of each year con
tains a vastarray of rules
and regulations. Many of
these regulations are
completely outdated. Ad
ministrative officials
realize this and do not
enforce these outdated
rules. This is certainly
kind and considerate, but
not very wise.
Whenever a group de
cides to enforce only cer
tain of its rules and to
overlook others, a gen
eral laxity is bound to
invade the entire legal
system. The outdated
laws should not be mere
ly overlooked — they
should be removed from
the code!
We are coming to the
time when a new admin
istration will take office
in the S.G.A. The new of
ficers are willing to
work as hard as they can
to make Elon a better
school and a much more
pleasant place at which to
live and study. But the stu
dent body itself cannot
rest content to leave all
decisions and actions to
the officers of the S.G.A.
Each student must be
willing to act as a mem
ber of the S.G.A. andbring
to the attention of the
elected officials those a-
reas in which work must
be done. The S.G.A. can
only be as powerful and
as effective as its mem
bers want it to be. Now
is the time for decisive
action— action which will
determine whether Elon
students will indeed gov
ern themselves or whe
ther they are satisfied
with the status quo.
From the frequent com
plaints over present con
ditions heard around
campus it seems incon
ceivable that the status
quo is satisfactory to the
student body as a whole,
yet few students seem
willing to take the re
sponsibility for change
upon themselves.
The changes necessary
to overcome the weak
spots in Elon’s student
governmental set up out
lined above can only come
about when the student
body as a whole rises
and unites within the •
G.A, to demand them.Any*
thing less than total sup
port of every S.G.A.
member can result m
nothing more than a con
tinuance of the present
near impotenfp of Elo’’ ®
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