Volume I, Number 4
Elon College, North Carolina
December 12, 1974
FM Radio
By April
By Ray Mason
WELN, Elon's
non-commercial educational
broadcast station, should be
ready early in April.
Bob Hurst announced the
executive staff that will head
committees and be instrumental
in the operation and planning of
the FM station. Working with
Hurst will be Mike Hughes as
assistant manager, John Lewis as
program director, Chris Angel as
music director, Sheila Greene as
news director, and Dan Stone as
special counsel.
At this time, Hurst and his
committee are working with
operating policies and
procedures. There has been one
broadcasting workshop held so
far. More workshops are planned
with talks by local professionals
in the field of radio.
Many students feel that the
radio station is progressing too
slowly. Most stations, however,
take up to five years to get
started. The major problem now
is still the work with the
government.
Late this week the forms
requesting a construction permit
will be sent to Washington.
When the permit arrives,
probably in late March, Elon has
60 days to assemble and install
the radio equipment.
During the waiting period,
Hurst is handing out forms to
equipment operators and staff
members for provisional third
class operating certificates with
broadcast endorsement.
Assistant manager Mike
Hughes is writing up a poll to be
distributed to all students to find
out what kind of music they
want. Both Hughes and Hurst
are energetically pushing for the
earliest possible operation date.
WELN will be located at 91.5 on
the FM dial. ■
Special Exhibition
At Art Center
About 100 British watercolors,
oil paintings, drawings, and
etchings from the collection of
Drs. S.E.G. and Mary E.
Priestley are on exhibition at the
Arts Center, Graham, until the
end of the year. An official
opening and reception will be
held at the Center on Sunday
from 3 to 5 p.m. All students,
faculty members and staff are
invited.
The 62 watercolors illustrate
the high standard of the work of
the 19th century, although
several are of recent date.
Subjects range from pastoral
landscapes to architecture and
portraits by some of the best
known of British artists. Among
the drawings are two by
Augustus John, the subject of
several books this year.
Many of the pictures have
been exhibited at the Royal
Academy, London, as well as
other galleries in London. The
show is sponsored by the Arts
Association of Alamance
County.
Five Resolutions Pass
Student Senate
We may not have snow, but the Fenditlum staff sends this photo
by Dave Shuford as warm greetings to all students, faculty and
staff of Elon College.
Library Network
Serves State
By Ray Mason
The Elon College library is
now a part of the North Carolina
Information Network. The home
of NCIN is the N.C. State
Library in Raleigh. Participating
in the information network are
121 public libraries, 52 agencies
and departments of state
government, 57 technical
institutes and community
colleges, 35 special libraries, and
58 colleges and universities.
The NCIN sets up loans of
books, microfilms, and federal
and state government
publications among the member
libraries and agencies. The
organization also copies articles
for ten cents a page as well as
answering questions.
The answering service is an
example of how the libraries
work together. The local library
is contacted first; then the
librarian either answers the
question or calls NCIN at the
State Library. An expert there
will take the question and with
the help of many resources will
find the answer. This service is
free.
Elon College students can
benefit from the services of
NCIN by obtaining materials not
found in the college library. To
make use of the service, a
student should ask a librarian to
call Raleigh for needed materials.
The State Library will find them
and mail them to Elon. Once the
materials have arrived, they are
treated as the property of the
college library. They can be
borrowed for two weeks. There
is a small overdue charge if kept
longer. When the materials are
no longer needed, they are
returned to Raleigh.
Delivery takes about four or
five days, so materials should be
requested in advanced. For more
information on NCIN. contact
the Elon College library or write
to; North Rarolina Information
Network, Division of the State
Library, 109 Eitsl Jones Street.
Raleigh. N.C. 2761 L
Mail Now:
Avoid Rush
By Nick Demilio
Holiday greetings should be in
the mail early, cards no later than
December 15. With this
Christmas season rush ends the
peak period of postal service that
began in September with the flow
of advertisements coinciding
with the opening of schools.
Mail coming into the college
comes into the community post
office from Greensboro, the area
center for postal distribution.
First-class mail is broken down
by box numbers and is picked up
by employees of the College at
7;30 a.m.; magazines,
newspapers and packages are
picked up at 8:00 a.m. All mail is
distributed by 12:00 noon.
Outgoing mail retraces this route.
Posted by 4:00 p.m.. mail will go
out that day.
Elon College accounts for 20^?
of the population served by the
post office and probably a far
greater percentage of the total
volume.
For delivery by Christmas.
(Continued on page 7)
Five resolutions, passed the
Student Senate on Dec. 4 which,
if approved by appropriate
Open Letter to
Elon Students
As president of the S.G.A., I
am Very pleased with the
progress of the Student
Government at Elon College.
This semester has been a very
productive one. With the help of
many students and the college
administration, we have
managed to do many things. We
now have a very professional
campus newspaper, a men's
dormitory government system,
an active and strong honor court,
and an outstanding student
senate. The S.G.A. entertaiment
committee has managed to bring
two big-name concerts to Elon,
and also helped initiate the first
annual semi-formal
Fraternity-S.G.A. sponsored
Christmas dance. The Liberal
Arts Forum and Public Affairs
Committee contributed the
genius of Frederick Franke and
Ralph Nader.
1 am looking optimstically
towards the spring semester of
1975, We will begin broadcasting
campus-wide with our very own
radio station, S.G.A. committees
have been organized for the
purposes of reviewing the
possibilities of alcohol and
vistation at Elon, and evaluating
our faculty. Entertainment will
consist of more movies and
several small concerts. 1 hope
that student participation in the
S.G.A. will continue. There is
always room for interested
students to become involved in
our student government system,
1 extend to all students an
invitation to become a part of the
S.G.A. Our officials are always
open for suggestions, and the
senate meetings are closed to
noone.
Mark Mancini
Foreign Affairs Student Ann iilssic at Cummings High School is
one of Elon's 67 students who are practice teachii^ this year.
f*hoto by Dave Shuford
committees and officials of the
college administration, may go a
long way toward satisfying
student demands.
The first resolution, S.R.
74-11.1, calls for fraternity
houses to be used for social
purposes. Women would be
allowed to attend such social
functions, governed by college
regulations for campus events,
during the hours of I p,m, to 1
a,m,
S,R,74-11,2 is a resolution to
provide unlimited cuts in classes
for upperclassmen who have a
2,0 or higher grade point average,
S,R, 74-11,3 resolves to
abolish required medical excuses
for make-up tests and exams.
Medical excuses would no longer
be a prerquisite for making up
missed tests or exams. The
resolution suggests that college
doctors spend too much time
writing excuses, thus reducing
their time in seeing student
patients. It also states that
professore can reduce the
number of makeup tests by
making retests difficult. The
student would take the original
exam if at all possible.
The fourth resolution would
permit open visitation in men's
dormitories on Sunday
afternoons between the hours of
2 p,m, and 5 p,m. Such visitation
would be subject to rules and
regulations as set forth in the
resolution, S,R, '^4-11,4,
The fifth resolution would
provide for an open honor court;
that is, honor court trials would
be open to students, faculty, and
administration upon the
defendant's request. This
resolution requires unanimous
approval of the present honor
court members.
The Senate approved Donna
Brann as honor court clerk for
the 1974-75 administration.
All resolutions are posted on
the S,G,A, bulletin board in the
Student Center, first floor,
PIRG to Organize
Bv Debbie Cochran
N,C, Public Interest Research
Associate Peter Brown met
Tuesday with Elon students to
establish the Public Interest
Research Group (PIRG) on the
campus,
PIRG is a non-profit
organization that gives college
students a chance to take action
on problems of pollution,
discrimination, consumer fraud,
health care, and deception,
Duke, St, Andrews, Wake
Forest, and Davidson compose
the state board of PIRG,
Students get practical
experience, and term papers can
be prepared on vital topics. Now
many students think of education
as just a grade, but PIRG can give
them experience with which they
can directly relate, "It turns
students on to the fields of
interest they may never have
known existed," Brown
explained.