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First In Freedom?
The Equal Rights Amendments will be going before the
N.C. Legislature within the next three weeks.
Four more states must ratify the Equal Rights
Amendment before it becomes a part of the United States
Constitution.
N.C. legislators in Raleigh need to know that you favor
passing the ERA. At a press conference last month in
Raleigh, David Cohen, vice-president of Common Cause
said, “The Equal Rights Amendment is a citizen’s
amendment that helps the eight-year-old child as well as
the 80-year-old retiree. It helps men as well as women. It
helps provide individual choices for people. It belongs in
our Constitution.”
It is imperative that all legislators know how
constituents stand on this issue. Write your
representatives today and urge them to consider the ERA
fairly, and rep»ort it to the House floor for a vote.
A. Hartwell Campbell is chairman of the ERA
committee, and W.S. Harris, representative for Alamance
County, is on the committee. Write to them at: Legislative
Building, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Write on!
Elon Grade Point Averages Rise
The Pendulum
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL-MARCH 4
A group of students who hope to deal with excessive
waste of paper and heat, establish a
newspapers, and look into a clean-up progr^ to the
will toh an awareness campaign to awaken people to the
for Environmental Con-^
met for the first time Feb. 18 to discuss possible pl^ ^d
suggestions for future goals. The next meetmg is ^areh 4 «
6:30 p.m. in 206 Long Student Center and is open to all
concerned persons. crvr
Hoping to make this environmental control a succe ,
will limit its initial efforts to the primary problems °n
College campus before expanding its work to mclu
surrounding area.
Despite its name, SCEC invites faculty and community
support. Members encourage any suggestions, even i you o
not wish to make a personal commitment.
Lectures On Marriage
By Mildred B. Lynch
Does “everyone win and
everyone receive a prize” on
graduation day as Prof. Steven
Cahn, author of The Eclipse of
Excellence, stated recently in
the New York Times.?
The Stanford University
student paper has reported a
grade point average (GPA) of
3.5 plus. At Yale 46 percent of
the spring 1974 class graduated
with honors. At American
University, 75 percent of all
grades during that same period
were A’s and B’s. The
University of Pittsburgh report
ed an average grade of B where
five years ago the average was
C.
The Feb. 17 Greensboro Daily
News reported that Duke
University has resisted the
pressures of students, parents
and others to devise a more
lenient grading system. UNC-G
however, allows a pass-fail
option to the traditional grading
system, and NCSU started a
system last fall of recording
only A, B, C and No Credit on
student transcripts. The No
Credit grade carries the same
penalty as the old F in
computing the GPA.
How does academic excell
ence at Elon rank with these
larger institutions across the
nation? Recent figures from the
registrar's office reveal the
following GPA’s for the spring
1974 graduating class:
Percent of
Average Range Total
2.0 to 2.5(D) 38.36%
2.5 to 3.0 (C) 34.76%
3.0 to 3.5 IB) 20.43%
3.5 to 4.0 (A) 6.45%
These figures indicate a
slight increase in GPA when
compared with the following
By A1 Mann
A seminar directed toward
the needs of students preparing
tabulation from the 1969 class;
Percent of
Average Range Total
2.0 to 2.5(D) 51.10%
2.5 to 3.0(C) 32.31%
3.0to3.5(B) 11.35%
3.5 to 4.0 (A) 5.‘24%
The most significant diff
erences appear in the B and D
grade range. In 1974 there were
12.74% fewer D’s awarded and
9.08% more B’s.
An all-out effort to establish
another N.C. Public Interest
Research Group on the Elon
Campus is underwaV.
Students met with Peter
Brown, PIRG research associ
ate, February 28 to organize
needed committees to secure
the interest group on campus.
The coordinating, petition and
publicity committees were set
up to give those students
interested a chance to sign the
petitions, then approach the
administration, and let other
members of the community be
aware of PIRG.
"PIRG could be a tremen
dous step forward for Elon
students. Giving the student a
chance to get directly involved
with cambatting such things as
deceptive advertising, sale of
dangerous commodities, and
enviornmental . pollution, to
mention a few, would have
infinite benefits for the
students,” said Political Sci
ence Prof. Rudy Zarzar.
Prof. Zarzar has met with the
students at their various
meetings to offer advice on how
to get the students and faculty
involved. “The individual is
offered the opportunity to
enrich and develop himself
intellectually, experientially,
and humanistically through
PIRG. For example, by
engaging in various field
experiments he can acquire a
more sophisticated and intelli
gent perspective into the
methods of field research, the
strengths and weaknesses of
the social, economic and
for marriage will be held here
March 21 and 22. It will deal
with the major needs of those
nearing their wedding date.
Dr. Swan Haworth will
conduct the seminar. At present
he is the director of pastoral
counselin at North Carolina
Baptist Hospital in Winston-
Salem. He has a wide spectrum
of experience in the counseling
field, ranging from professor of
psychology and religion and
pastoral care to being a
consultant for the Veterans
Administration.
The seminar will consist of
lectures and small group
workshops on Friday night and
Saturday morning.
political systems, and the
complexity of human prob
lems,” stated Zarzar.
“One of the prirnary
objectives of establishing PIRG
was to revitalize and rejuvenate
grass roots democracy. Mem
bers have the opportunity to
investigate auto repair prac
tices, use of energy by major
commerical firms, their pricing
policies, sale of dangerous
commodities on the market
(toys, drugs), the incidence of
brown lung disease in N.C.
textile mills, corruption in
government, the administration
of justice in criminal courts and
much more,” Zarzar empha
sized.
Students at Duke, St.
Andrew’s, Wake Forest, and
UNC-G are PIRG members.
“PIRG has been a tremendous
success on these campuses and
could be equedly so for Elon,”
stated Peter Brown.
The Elon committees have
written an explanation of PIRG
and why it should be on the
campus to be read and signed
by the students and then
submitted to the administra
tion. The student petitioning
date is Thursday, March 13,
and Friday, March 14, will be
given to the administration for
consideration.
“We have really put a lot of
time and effort into establishing
PIRG at Elon. I hope that when
the students do read the
petition they will give it ample
consideration,’’ said Elena
Scott. “PIRG could be the
answer to much of the apathy at
Elon College.”
March 4,1975 |
Letter To
The Editor
What will Elon do to
discourage rape on campus?
Any college campus is the
prime target for rape. Students
can easily be cornered studying
alone or returning from the
library or evening classes on
deserted, unlit paths.
All over the U.S.. colleges
have been awakened to the
crime of rape. Many colleges
are fighting the crime.
Northwestern spent $140,000 to
light up dark areas of its
surburban Chicago campus. A
rape late last fall triggered a
sit-in of 600 students at the
administration building of N.C. ^
Central University in Durham.
The university president vowed
to increase security and to ask
the State Bureau of Investi
gation for help. He also asked
“all young ladies walking on the
campus to do so in groups
whenever possible.”
After the rape of a student in
a New York University
apartment, a sign-in-out rule
was instituted. Visitors to
housing must now leave some
form of identification at the
security desk in the lobby.
After a student was raped
and kidnapped at the University
of Florida, funding was
provided for an escort service
and a student auxiliary night
patrol.
Self-defense techniques such
as karate, judo and Tae Kwon
Do are being taught for P.E,
credit at Reed College in
Oregon, Howard University in
Washington, and at NYU.
Extra lighting, a shuttle bus,
emergency telephones to sum
mon the police, and escort
services were all introduced at
Radcliffe College in Cambridge,
Mass., last year.
What will Elon do to prevent
sexual assault on the women of
our campus?
Pam Bradley
Dr. Williams
!
Leaves Elon I
By Lanna K. Peavy '
Dr. Benjamin F. Williams,
professor of psychology, is no
longer teaching at Elon College.
He has taken a position as
director of the children's |
Service Division at the
Alamance Mental Health Cen- I
ter. Dr. Williams began |
working at the health center on
Feb. 3. He is primarily involved
with administrative work, and
he says that he misses the
classroom.
As for his educational
background, Dr. Williams |
received his A.B. fro’”
Davidson in 1957, M.S. from
NCSU in 1961, B.D. from Union
Theological Seminary in Rich
mond in 1961, and his Ed.D.
from University of Tennessee in
1967. He taught at Elon College ,
from 1968 to 1975. Dr. Williams j
said he had “mixed feelings ■
about the change in his career, j
nevertheless, he finds his new
position challenging. Students
have expressed their regrets
about this leaving and wish him
well in his new job at the hea
center.
STAFF
Debbie Cochran Editor
Vicki Moeser Assistant Editor
Page Garriques News Editor
Pam Bradley Feature Editor
Lance Latane Columnist
Gary Spitler Sports Editor
Janie McGann Women’s Sports
Ron Perkins Sports
Bill Dawkins Sports
David Nichols Sports
Wesley Bennett Layout
Dave Shuford Photographer
Reed Alexander Circulation
REPORTERS
Lanna Peavy Diane Costa
Gib Buie Jayne Freeman
Doug Durante Mildred B. Lynch
Adviser, Dr. Mary Ellen Priestley
Published by the Communications Media Board of Elon
College in conjunction with the Student Government
Association. All correspondence and articles: Box 5272,
Elon College.
Public Interest Research
Group To Begin Campus
Petition On March 13