Vol. 1. No. 1
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Elon College, North Carolina
October 14, 1974
Consumer Advocate
Ralph Nader to Speak at Elon
Emanons Jazz Band Opens
Season Nov. 3 for Parents
by Debbie Cochran
Ralph Nader, noted consumer
advocate, will be guest speaker
at Elon College on October 30 at
8:00 p.m.
The Public Affairs Committee
in cooperation with the SGA will
host Nader. This committee in
the last two years has brought to
EI o ti such well-known
Americans as William Kuntsler,
Julian Bond and Frank Reynolds.
The advisers for 1974-75 are Dr.
Robert Delp, Dr. Patricia
Yesulaitis, and the Reverend
William Sharpe, and Elena Scott
as student chairman.
Nader is considered one of the
nation's most famous and
effective critics. He is known for
his documented criticism of
government and industry. Time
magazine has referred to him as
the "U.S.'s toughest customer."
The crusading attorney was
first brought into public attention
in I %5 with his book Unsafe at
Any Speed, the indictment that
lambasted the auto industry for
producing unsafe vehicles. He
has been responsible for at least
■''X major federal consumer
The word "Emanon" ("no
name" spelled backwards)
originated as a title for a number
by jazzman Dizzy Gillespie. The
popular jazz-rock band from
Elon College which uses the
name originated in the 1962-3
academic year when Prof. Jack
White joined the music facuhy
here. Since that time, this band
has been warmly received all
over the world. As Goodwill
Ambassadors for the State of
North Carolina, the Emanons
have received the Order of the
Long Leaf Pine, the highest
civilian honor awarded by the
Governor of North Carolina.
Today the Emanons are a fresh
bunch of enthusiastic college
musicians who are preparing for
their first performance. The
season will start during the Elon
College Band concert on Sunday,
November 3, at 2 p.m. for
Parent's Weekend. After this
show, a busy schedule of local
performances will follow,
including programs for all the
area high schools. Professor
White also hopes to have the
Emanons give a concert for the
college in the spring.
Although the main purpose of
the Emanons is to give aspiring
musicians a chance to get "big
band" experience, the group also
serves as a representative of
Elon College in recruiting
students. This is the purpose of
their winter term week of
mtensive rehearsal and three
weeks of touring. The Emanons
have played before high schools
all along the East Coast on these
recruiting tours.
International acclaim for this
top-rated group begain in 1964-5
when the Emanons played at the
New York World s Fair. In 1971
they were selected by the United
States Navy to tour Puerto Rico
to entertain the troops there. The
next year they played to sell-out
crowds across western Europe.
The Emanons were also the
featured artists at the First
Annual New York Brass
Conference in 1973.
This year the ensemble
members already have "charts"
for Count Basie's “Brownsville
Express" and Stan Kenton's
"Heaviness of Blue " as well as
"MacArthur's Park " of Richard
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Ten Added to Elon Faculty
by Nick [>emilio
Elon College has added eight
new members to its teaching
faculty, along with a physical
education consultant and a
coordinator of the medical
technology program.
Additions to the English
Department are Mrs. William
Long and Thomas Toher of Duke
Graduate School. Mrs. Long
received a B.S. in Journalism
from West Virginia University
and an M.A. with honors in
Communication Arts and
Sciences from Western
University. She is teaching
freshman English part-time.
During the last three years, Mr.
Toher has been a part-time
lecturer in English at Clark
University. He has a B.A. from
Hobart College and received his
M.A. from Clark.
Dr. Gerald Francis and Dr,
Richard Haworth have bolstered
Ihe ranks of the Mathematics
Department. After attending
j^palachian State University for
•’oth his undergraduate studies
and Master's degree. Dr. Francis
received his Ph.D, from Virginia
Tech, He comes to Elon after
leaching at Appalachian and
Virginia Tech, Dr. Haworth
earned his Ph.D. at Virginia
Polytechnical Institute. For the
last two years he has been an
instructor at VPL
Added to the staff of the
Physical Education Department
are Dr. Alan White and Miss
Barbara Yarborough. Dr. White
comes to Elon from Mississippi
State where he received his
Ed.D. and, as a student, was an
all-conference halfback. He
earned a B.S. at Wake Forest
University and his M.Ed. from
UNC-CH. After teaching
physical education at UNC-CH,
Miss Yarborough has also joined
the department. Her credentials
include a B.S. from Winthrop
College and an M.A T. from
UNC.
Dr. William Peacock has taken
over the duties of physical
education consultant after 30
years of service to UNC-CH. His
tasks include Ihe improvement of
the physical education major
program and the promotion of
physical education among
students.
Mrs. Harriet Barnhart has
come to Elon to coordinate the
Medical Technology Program,
She received her M.T. from
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Author-Artist Franck to Lecture
by Judith C. Dean
Frederick Franck, an
uncommonly versatile man, will
direct a two day "Zen of Seeing"
workshop at Elon on October
15th and 16th, under the
sponsorship of the Liberal Arts
Forum. The evening lecture will
be in Whitley and College
Program Credit will be given.
Dr. Franck holds degrees in
Medicine, Dentistry, and Fine
Arts. He served for three years
on the staff of Dr. Albert
Schweitzer at Lambarene. His
drawings and paintings are part
of the permanent collections of a
number of museums in the
United States and abroad,
including the Museum of Modem
Art, Whitney Museum, the Fogg
Museum and the Tokyo National
Museum.
Mr. Franck was the only artist
to record all four sessions of the
second Vatican Council. His
most recent book. Pilgrimage to
Now/Here, is an account of his
search for the underlying
similarities between Christian
and Eastern religions. It records
his conversations with the Dalai
Lama and Buddhist scholars. His
book The Zen of Seeing
approaches seeing and drawing
as a spiritual discipline. The
Reader's Digest will soon make
it available to more readers. Dr.
Franck will bring twenty framed
drawings. This show of his art,
entitled Drawings from Five
Contenents. will be on exhibit
Comm. Board
Names Editors,
FM Manager
by Ray Mason
The Board of Student
Communications has named
three students to top managerial
positions. New co-editors of the
college newspaper are Patsy
Lynch and Debbie Cochran. Bob
Hurst, Jr., is to be manager of the
proposed campus radio station.
The new radio station will be a
non-commercial educational FM
station with a five to seven-mile
radius depending on terrain and
the height of the antenna. The
station tentatively will be called
WELN and will be located in the
Harper Center with a ten-watt
transmitter.
Hurst stated that the purpose
of the station is to inform,
entertain and promote
educational programs geared to
Elon College but of interest to
the community. The major
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during the workshop.
Tues. Oct. 15th IKK) p.m. —
Seeing/Drawing as Meditation.
Participants should meet at
Whitley Auditorium although the
session will be held outdoors,
weather permitting. Skill at
drawing is not required, but a
desire to deepen personal
awareness is. 8:00 p.m. —
Whitley Auditorium, Frederick
& Claske Franck, in a reading
from his version of The Play of
Everyman. It is a 45 minute play
which focuses on every person's
journey through life from illusion
to enlightenment.
Wed. Oct. 16th (AM time and
place TBA) Who is The Artist in
Man '.'i-.W> p.m. — Mooney Little
Theatre, Seminar; The relation
of Christian spirituality and
Eastern religious practices.
Interns Assist
N.C. Assembly
by Debbie Cochran
Elon students are now eligible
to participate in a legislative
internship sponsored by the
Department of Politics at NCSU
in cooperation with the N.C.
General Assembly. The 1974-75
year will mark the first time Elon
will be involved.
Ten interns will be chosen
from the four-year colleges and
universities of the state to serve
as staff assistants to officers and
members of the 1975 General
Assembly and to seek a parallel
course of academic study at
NCSU. Twelve semester hours
credit will be granted for transfer
to the intern's college.
The interns selected must
work a minimum of 25 hours
each week at the General
Assembly, which convenes
January 15, 1975. They will be
paid $50 a week for the session.
NCSU housing is available to the
iqterns; however, they may live
anywhere in Raleigh.
Participation in the Internship
program is restricted to juniors
and seniors in accredited colleges
in North Carolina. Upper
classmen with strong preparation
in political science, economics,
sociology or other social sciences
will be given priority. Students
whose training emphasized math
and statistics are also in good
standing.
"I want to encourage all
students to participate, but in the
future they should find out as
early as their sophomore year if
they have all requirements to be
eligible," said Dr. Fred Watts,
professor of political science.
protection laws, for the
elimination of moosodium
glutamate from baby foods, for
the recall of millions of defective
motor vehicles and for countless
other advances in the areas of
safety, sanitation, pollution
control, advertising credibility
and politico/economic power.
The Public Citizens Visitors
Center in Washington, D.C., is
one of Nader's recent projects.
The purpose of the center which
opened last May is “to tell
people that this is your
government and we want to show
how it works."
With a budget of $35,000, the
Visitor's Center came into
existence because Nader
believed that the District of
Columbia's $750 million tourist
industry is "very mechanical and
unimaginative. " While others
find the monuments and
landmarks awesome, they also
find the capital "cold and out of
reach. It offers itself to be seen
uncritically and superficially."
Bom in Connecticut, Nader
graduated cum laude and Phi
Beta from Princeton University
in 1955. He received his law
degree from Harvard in 1958.
The lecture is scheduled for
Whitley Auditorium but will be
changed to Memorial
Gymnasium if necessary. "A
limited number of tickets will be
given out and after the supply has
been exhausted and if there are
further requests, we will
accommodate the crowd in the
gym, said Chairman Elena Scott.
We urge all of the students,
faculty and townspeople to
attend,"
Top Accountant
To Visit Campus
by Debbie Cochran
The Business Department will
bring R. Lee Brummet, president
of the American Accountii. ;
Association, to 'the campus
October 28. Following a coffee,
Brummet will speak on
"Measuring Social Performance
of Organizations" in Alamance,
third floor.
Mr. Brummet has served on
many accountant committees
and is now a member of the
Executive Committee of the
National Association of
Accountants. His current
research and teaching interests
include social accounting, human
resource accounting,
interdisciplinary approaches to
measurement and
communication, and the role of
behavioral sciences in
accounting. Mr. Brummet is a
CPA and holds a Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan.
‘‘There are many business
people from Burlington expected
to attend the lecture," said Dr.
F. Clouse of the business
department. All faculty and
students are urged to attend.