Vol. I. No. 9
Eton College, North Carolina
Spring Symposium — Three Visions of Life
The North Carolina Dance Theatre — part of this year’s Spring
Symposium.
By Lance Latane
Continuing their annual spring
symposium, the Liberal Arts
Forum this year is encouraging
greater student participation.
Widespread appeal is expected as
past policies of sponsoring a
strictly lecture series have been
abandoned in favor of a more
entertaining "Festival of the
Arts" which will incorporate the
performing arts with lectures.
This spring's three-day
symposium is entitled Three
Visions of Life: Medieval.
Renaissance. Modern. It begins
on April 22, at 3:30 p.m. on
second floor McEwen Hall.
Afternoon lectures and evening
presentations are slated which
will capture the mood and vision
of man's development in the fine
arts of the Medieval.
Renaissance and Modern
periods. Each day of the
symposium will offer intellectual
background and visual
metaphors for its respective
periods.
Tuesday, April 22
The first day of the symposium
will explore Medieval life. At
3:30 p.m. on second floor
McEwen Hall. Associate
Professor of History at Chapel
Hill Richard W. Pfaff will speak
on "Man in the Middle Ages."
Dr. Pfaff. a graduate of Hai'vard
and an Oxford Rhodes Scholar,
is the author of New Liturgical
Feasts in Later Medieval
England.
Academic Scholarships
Heading for Second Year
By Vicki Moeser
Next year will be the second
year Elon scholarships are being
offered to students "whose work
represents achievement, whose
recommendations are excellent,
and whose activities are well
rounded."
The freshman scholarship
winners are selected on the basis
of IQ. SAT scores and predicted
grade-point average. About
thirty students have been
nominated for scholarships next
year, but only 10 will be
awarded.
On campus this semester are
five Burlington Industry
Scholars. These students with
the highest academic predictions
from Alamance Co. are Kathy
McGhee, Barbara Taylor, Teresa
Mann, Bonnie Pryce, and Arlene
Pate.
Other scholarship recipients
include Kim Haldiman holding
the Kirkpatrick Honor
Scholarship for Academic
Excellence. Danny Arnold
winning the Max Ward
Scholarship for Academic and
Athletic Excellence and Sandra
Smith obtaining the Crumpler
Scholarship for Academic
Excellence. The Gibsonville
Rotary-Business and
Professional Women Scholarship
was given to Janice Summers,
and an anonymous Political
Science Scholarship was
awarded to Dana Haney.
The Elon College sponsored
scholarships went to Joan
Henshall, Pamela Lancaster.
Paige Speight, Bryan Plemmons.
Donna Rogers, William H(XKi,
Paul Baker. Russell Schropp.
Cynthia Rayner, Linda Bartlett.
Jacquelyn Myres. Sharon
Osborne, Tina Alston. Theresa
Crews, Jenny Parks and Rebecca
Sharpe.
Continuation of individual
scholarships will be determined
annually by the Elon College
Scholarship Committee.
Awards vary from S400 to S.‘iOO
yearly.
Elon's music department will
complement this medieval theme
with the presentation of The Play
of Daniel A\ 8:30 p.m. in Whitley.
This 12th century liturgical
drama, director Dr. Walter
Westafer of Elon's music
department explains, "has a
strange mixture of sacred and
secular elements" and is one of
the very few surviving examples
of liturgical drama taken from
the Old Testament. Its clearly
written musical setting qualifies
its consideration as being the
first opera. The play draws from
the Bible's Book of Daniel, and
tells the story relating to Daniel
in the lion's den.
The play will be presented in
Latin as it was in the churches of
the 12th and 13th centuries,
before drama was neglected and
forgotten in the Middle Ages.
W.H. Auden's translation will be
used to narrate the production.
Other 12th century effects will
be achieved through period
costuming and the use of
Medieval musical instruments:
the rebec, psaltery, recorder and
their modern counterparts.
Tuesday's production will be
the first performance of this
drama produced in North
Carolina by a college or
university. The cast of 41 will
include these soloists: tenor. Dr.
William Mclver, a veteran of
song recitals and oratorical roles
in the Carolinas and a voice
teacher at UNC-G; Jeff Ishee,
bass baritone, former professor
of Music at Chowan College and
now active concert soloist;
soprano Terrell Cofield, assistant
professor of music at Elon — she
staged the contemporary opera
here — Help. Help the
Gloholinks: Jim Croom. tenor,
who has previously performed in
The Play of Daniel, as well as
other operas. He is currently
studying voice at UNC: Garth
Schumacher, bass, a former Elon
student who has performed in
operas here and is now studying
voice at UNC-G; Maurine S.
Gminder. soprano and veteran of
performances at Elon; and Floyd
Hinshaw, tenor, who is active in
area church musical programs.
Also included are nine boys from
the Burlington Rotary Boys'
Choir.
Wednesday, April 23
Wednesday's theme advances
to the adventure, discovery, and
beauty of the Renaissance.
At 3:30 p.m. in second floor
McEwen, Dr. Frank P. Tirro.
chairman of Duke University's
Music Department, will lecture
on "The Sound of Renaissance
Affairs; Music and Social
Activities in the Early 12th
Century." A performer in jazz
and dance bands. Dr. Tirro is the
author of numerous articles on
jazz.
That evening at 8:00 in
Whitley. Michelangelo, a
personification of the
Renaissance, will be the subject
of Dr. John Dixon's lecture-slide
presentation of "The Images of
Man in Michelangelo." Dr.
Dixon, professor of religion and
art at UNC in Chapel Hill is the
author of Art as Communication
and Nature and Grace in A rt.
Thursday, April 24
This last day of the symposium
is devoted to the abstractions and
realities of Modern life. Dr.
Michael L. Riley will lecture at
3:30 in second floor McEwen on
"The Dramatic Image of Modem
Man." Dr. Riley earned his
Ph.D. at Boston University in
1970 and is now teaching drama
at UNC-G.
The symposium will conclude
with "An Invitation to Modern
Dance" presented in Whitley at
Dr. William B. Mclver will
perform as Daniel.
8:00 p.m. by the North Carolina
Dance Theatre. This professional
touring company of 15 dancers
finds modern dance an apt
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Wednesday, April 16, 1975
Open Letter From
President-Elect
First off, I would like to
thank all the students for the
great turn-out at the elections
and especially for their
support in electing me
president.
As president-elect, there
are many concerns, hopes
and ideas that 1 wish to see
fulfilled. 1 am excited about
the possibilities and 1 can
foresee a great future for the
SGA. However, without
student backing and
encouragement, there is
nothing that I can do, and the
SGA might as well be
dissolved. There has got to be
a strong, unified student body
or the administration is not
going to listen, and we will
once again hang in a state of
limbo. If we need to fight to
persuade the administration
of our needs, we will have to
do it together. If we need to
bargain, as a student body,
we will need to bargain. If we
only need to submit ideas, we
as a student body will need to
back these ideas.
We are individuals with
needs and wants, and
together as collective
students we need to stand
firmly to receive these rights
and privileges. I want student
input along this line and my
office will be open to every
single one of you for input. If
a problem, question or idea
hits, come on over and see me
about it. I want to be a
president for the students and
1 want to represent you. Next
year can be a year of good,
constructive changes, but
only if you, the students,
help.
I have a dream of the SGA
finally being heard and looked
upon as a strong student
organization. It is a large
dream but it can happen.
Please help me make this a
reality.
Laurie Hafner
SGA President-elect
Greek Week Premier
Week of Chugging and Fun Slated
By Doug Durante
The academic year of 1974-75
has been a year of change for
Elon College. A female president
of the SGA and women s 24-hour
open door policy are just some of
the changes that have occurred.
The Greek organizations on
campus are not to be outdone.
Following the footsteps of
hundreds of other colleges they
are in the midst of their first
annual Greek Week.
The main idea behind this
occasion is to unify the
sometimes distant relationships
between both fraternities and
sororities giving them a chance to
compete, perform and party
together.
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Kappa
Sigma. Kappa Psi Nu, Tau
Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Phi
Omega Fraternities will combine
with Sigma Sigma Sigma, Phi
Mu. and Zeta Tau Alpha
Sororities to host what they all
think will be a huge success at
Elon.
The festivities begin on
Tuesday with a kickoff time of
1:30 for a parade through campus
which will include chariot races
between the frats. and shopping
cart races between the sororities.
A beer blast at 2:30 will be
open to the public and will
feature chugging, torpedoing and
six-man relay competition.
Wednesday will be Olympics
day. again beginning at 1:3U.
featuring track and field and
softball.
Thursday is for the
non-Olympians, giving them a
chance to display talents in
banana eating, wheelbarrow and
sack racing ai^ dancing. That
evening will give the Greeks their
chance to show their stage
talents in bicentennial-oriented
skits in the new gym, with a S.25
admission charge to the public.
Friday will conclude the week
with awards and another beer
Mast.
So come out and cheer on the
Greeks; and if you don't like
them. boo.