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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1969
MAROON and gold
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its students and faculty, the Maroon and Gold is pub
lished weekly during the college year with 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.
RLPORTORIAL STAFF
Paul Amundsen, Randy Bishop, Donnie Bowers,
Rebecca Burgess, Chester Burgess, Steve Caddell,
Bruce Cohen, Dean Coleman, Don Goldberg, Joe
Goldberg, Tom Hardee, Cheryl Hart, Dale Harrison,
William Hartley, Jim Hodges, Betty Isleley, Bobby
King, George Kopik, Bick Long, Noble Marshall,
Danny Moore, Rick O’Neill, Ned Poole, Kenneth
Shaw, Jerry Schumm, Mike Spillane, Ben Stever-
son. Max Sullivan, Archie Taylor, Vernon Taylor,
Jim Waller, Bill Walker, Jay Waugh, Frank Web
ster, Johnny W'eeks, Jerry Woodlief,
Impressions Gained
From Study Abroad
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SC£i\£ FROM ISATIONAL OPERA COMPAyi PRODlCTlOy
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Im
pressions gained by one of
the group of Elon students
who studied history in
England during the recent
‘'Mini-Term” are given
in the following article.)
By BICK LONG
Now that the first Elon
short winter term, or
“Mini-Term” as it was
frequently called) is a
thing of the past, the ad
vantages of the four-one-
four system become ap
parent.
No longer are students
faced with the Christmas
vacation brain-drain. In
stead, exams are behind
them, and the one-month
winter term give them
opportunity for concen
trated study in a number
of special courses which
would be impractical in a
normal semester system.
Probably the most ex
citing and rewarding of
these study opportunities
during the past short term
was the Elon-sponsored
trip to England, which the
history and political sci
ence departments offered
as course credit to more
than twenty upperclass
men, who travelled and
studied under direction
of Professors Priestley
and Elder.
In years to come, the
English and languages de
partments hope to expand
the program to Include
more students and to
reach more foreign coun
tries. Certainly, this ad
dition to the Elon curri
culum is a major credit
to the college, but more
importantly, it can be the
most rewarding single
month in a student’s edu
cational program.
The advantages of
travel have been well cat
alogued, but perhaps the
most significant aspect is
the subtle growth of the
students perspective, en
gendered by first-hand
involvement with his sub
ject matter.
Experience will re
place memorization as the
basis of knowledge and
will thus increase the
meaning and usefulness of
that knowledge. Litera
ture, history, art and var
ious cultures take on
greater depth of mean
ing when contemplated in
the surroundings which
spawned them.
The opportunity to meet
and converse with people
of different nationalities
is an invaluable aid to bet
ter understanding of other
nations than one’s own.
The advantages of Amer
ican life are much better
recognized and appre
ciated when compared
with the societies of other
countries.
From this side of the
Atlantic, generalizations
about Europeans are very
easy, but they become
harder in proportion to
the number of Europeans
one meets. Ultimately,
there may come the real
ization that significant
differences among people
are amazingly few. In any
case, Elon students now
have an opportunity to
learn for themselves.
Other Elon students
are urged now to make
plans that will make next
January the most mem
orable month ever. They
can keep in mind that
travel can be just as
broadening as sitting at
home can be fattening.
Dr. E. Adamson Hoe-
bt'l, who is chairman of
the department of an
thropology at the Univer
sity of Minnesota, will
speak on the Elon College
campus next Monday
night, appearing on the
second floor of McEwen
Dining Hall at 8 o’clock.
Dr. Hoebel, known
worldwide as an outstand
ing duthority of the laws
'•( jnthropfjiogy, will ap-
pcjr on the I.Ion campus
under the Visiting Schol
ars Program of the Pied
mont University Center.
His topic at that time
will be “From Stone Age
To Surbanization.”
The word “surbaniza
tion” is a creation of
Dr. Hoebel himself,and
he defines it as “the cul
ture stage which will re
place civilization,” and
he will trace the various
stages of mankind from
stone age culturq.
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In the above scene from the National Opera Company’s production of the Doni
zetti opera, “Don Pasquale,” which will be given in Whitley Auditorium on Tues
day night, March 25th, shows Norina, the attractive widow, as she declares to a
friend that she “knows the magic of a glance that sets a man’s heart to yearning.”
The Donizetti opera will be performed In English as an Elon Lyceum feature.
Touring Opera Company
Offers^ Don Pasquale’ Mar. 25
Entertaining, exciting
and easy-to-understand
opera in English will be
heard in Whitley Audi
torium on the Elon Col
lege campus at 8 o’clock
on Tuesday night, March
25th, when the widely
known National Opera
Company appears on
campus as the next num
ber of the Elon Lyceum
series.
The touring opera com
pany will present “Don
Pasquale,” Donizetti’s
great operatic production
at that time, and advance
notices indicate that the
Elon lyceum audiences
are due for one of the
finest programs of the
entire entertainment sea
son.
The National Opera
Company, which was
founded in 1948, by A.J.
Fletcher, a well known
Raleigh business man and
music lover, is thus a
North Carolina group,
but the members of the
operatic troupe are a
bunch of engaging and en
thusiastic young per
formers, chosen after a
nationwide audition, and
they are making friends
for “Opera In English”
in every town they play.
It has been describ
ed as nothing short of a
miracle that twelve tal
ented and professional
young artists are able to
perform opera in a dif
ferent city every night,
but that is exactly what
the National Opera Com
pany does, and the au
diences find many ope
ratic ingredients in the
English version that
might be missed if the
show were done in a for
eign tongue.
The reviews won by
this small and talent
ed troupe, with its piano
accompaniment and com
plete wardi'obe of cos
tumes but with a mini
mum of properties, have
been almost universally
laudatory.
The critic in Ormond
Beach, Fla., declared that
“the entire cast was ex
cellent, with voices and
acting brilliant, and the
production was exciting
in every respect.” A crit
ic in Hickory, N.C., term
ed the production “true
operatic artistry,” and
in North Wilkesboro,N.
C.j, declared that “all lo
vers of musical enter
tainment should look for
ward with pleasure to an
appearance by the Nation
al Opera Company.”
Cagers Set Seven New Elon
Records As ^69 Season Ends
Anthropology Expert Visits
Elon Campus Next Monday
The Elon College bas
ketball squad, which bat
tled through the 1969 sea
son to a 21-8 mark in
wiYis and losses finished
the campaign with seven
new all-time Elon basket
ball records, including
three new team records
for single game free
throw shooting, one new
SCOTT SPEECH
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share the education ad
vantages which they have
had with those less for
tunate than themselves.
J here was special
music for the Founders
Day program by the Elon
College Band and the Elon
College Choir. Imme
diately following the con
vocation the college was
host at a luncheon in the
cafeteria of the new Har
per Center.
team record for season
field goal accuracy, one
new individual mark for
field goal accuracy and
two individual career
marks for most field goals
attempted and made.
The Christian basket
ball set three new single
game free throw marks
with 52 of 55 for a 94.5
average against A. and
T., and the Elon squad
as a whole hit exactly 50
per cent of its field goal
tries for the year by con
necting on 888 of 1776
tries to break the old team
mark of 46.8 per cent set
in 1961,
Rugged Richard Mc-
George set a new indivi
dual season record for
field goal accuracy when
he hit on 188 field goals
of 303 attempts for a 62,0
per cent average. This
topped the all-time pre
vious mark of 57.5 per
cent hit by Dee Atkinson
during the 1952-53 cam
paign.
Henry Goedeck wound
up his four-year career
holding two of the most
coveted career marks,
for he set a new foyr-
year record of 1650 field
goal attempts, breaking
the old mark of 1539 at
tempts setby Jesse Bran
son, Goedeck also finish
ed with 811 field goa s
made, topping the old
Branson four-year marK
of 774 for the four-year
period.
Goedeck fell short m
his try for the career
scoring record, for nis
four-year total of 1995
points left his behind
Jesse Branson’s career
total of 2241 points set
from 1962 through 19oo,
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