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Football team 2-0, . more to go Volume III Number 2 Elon College, North Carolina September 23,1976 Immt New atmosphere of living for frats and sororities The house is new but ITK lets everyone know they are back. Damon Dalvin, comedian and singer, “picks” for a living by Sandra Raskin Everyone meets Trials and Tribulations in one's life. Well, I can honestly say I met mine this week in the form gf Damon Dalvin. Damon will be performing at The Back Door Oct. 7. At an interview with him I asked the usual questions and received rather unusual answers from a rather unusual person. Damon arrived at Elon Thursday evening wearing a straw cowboy hat and a pair of pointed toe cowboy boots. He had on the regular college attire other than that, gray cords and a flannel shirt over a t-shirt. Yet something about him said this would be no ordinary interview. Perhaps it was his two-foot-long hair, although this is perhaps not so unusual either. I began the interview with the conventional, "What do you •do for a living other than play the guitar?" His answer was, '1 pick my nose." Trying to retain my composure and not act very shaken, I wTote down his reply. I decided to chance another question, thinking perhaps he Apply now for London tour Students who are planning to go to England during the winter term should fill out their applications and pay the $25 deposit to hold a place on the jetliner, Mrs. Marjorie Long, coordinator of the study-tour, advises. Mrs. Long also has passport applications available in her office, CO-103. The Studies in Britain program in several fields of interest offers three hours of credit. The chartered jet aircraft, flying from Greensboro to London and return, will be filled on a "first come, first served " deposit basis. Friends of the college who are interested in British affairs, art and architecture, music, literature, government and politics, history, the theater, and way of life may also apply for places. Orientation meetings will begin soon, according to plans of the leaders, and all students going abroad are urged to attend so that they will get the most possible from the four weeks visit. Free time will be made available for personal tours and discoveries, Mrs. Long says. Students should budget fun^ for travel to Edinburgh, Paris, Amsterdam or other cities. Extra meals, local transportation by bus or underground, gifts of wool, cashmere, and such should be thought of in considering one's finances, tour leaders suggest. In orientation meetings, students and others will be advised about clothing, packing, English currency, customs regulations, tours to the Continent, and such. Those who wish to go to the Continent may travel at reduced fares and hotel costs, according to Dr. Gerard Priestley, study-tour consultant, if they are in groups of 10 or more and if requests for such tour groups reach London by Nov. 1. was just "breaking the ice" and asked where he came from, to which he replied "my mother." I ruled against asking where his mother came from for obvious reasons, and asked instead where he spent the majority of his life. 'In an apartment" was his casual reply. After learning that the apartment was on a street and that the street was in a city, I finally arrived at the long sought after fact that Damon was from Ocean City, Brooklyn. Damon went on to explain that he attended South Hampton College for two and a half years, but now he is, according to him, a "transendeviant," one who just travels around from place to place, or, as he sometimes referred to it, "a bum. To explain why he chose this progression he sang a song that he wrote. It went somewhat like this: "I stink and I smell refl bad, but think of all the good times T/e had." Damon said when his teachers asked him why his grades were so low, he told them he was studying to be a bum. When I questioned Damon about why he took up the guitar, he replied, "I wanted to (Continued on page 3) by Kemp Liles The summer of 76 meant change for Elon College. One of the most notable was the move towards a more centralized fraternity and sorority housing. Involved in this move were the fraternities Sigma Phi Epsilon, Iota Tau Kappa, Kappa Psi Nu, and the sororities Iota Tau Alpha and Tri-Sigma. These fraternities and sororities are all now located within about one block radius of each other, on N. Lee St., N. Holt St., and W. College Ave. Also, Phi Mu has a new house located on E. College Ave. Overall the moving has brought better houses to the fraternities because the former houses were in poor condition. Bill Devaney, president of ITK commented that the new ITK house, "although smaller than our other house is a definite improvement. The only problem with our new house is that the college gave it to us without any remodeling or cleaning, except for paneling the lounge. The house itself does have a lot of potential though, and it jvst needs some work done on it." A centralized parking lot on W. College Ave. has eliminated parking on the grounds of the new houses and is an effort to preserve the lawns and improve appearance. W'ith this change a closer atmosphere of fraternity sorority living has developed as Elon slowly breaks away from the traditional male/female segregation in housing. According to Inter Fraternity Council President Dave Dickerson, "The centralization of fraternity housing should better the relations between fraternities. Also, the new sorority houses should improve fraternity-sorority relations." Drama workshop to present fast-paced comedy by Liz Priestley Student response to developing a drama workshop during the winter term has been encouraging, reports Dr. Andrew J. Angyal of the English Department. He says, however, that other interested students may still write him at Box 2245. The problem of stage and rehearsal space must still be solved since both Mooney and Whitley theaters are in Dr. Andrew Angyal will direct drama workshop. frequent use by the Music Department and for special programs. The workshop's first play, to be staged early in the spring term, is expected to be a fast-paced comedy, perhaps a play by Woody Allen. This year Jane Wellford, a new member of the P.E. Department, will also offer students an opportunity to participate in modern dance and choreography. Student volunteer help is sought for another theatrical project, the developing children's theater to be directed by Carol Hawthorne, dramatics teacher at the Graham Middle School. This fall the children will stage some productions at The Back Door 'in Harper Center. Dr. Angyal's future hopes for the Elon College drama group include working on a cooperative basis with the established theater program on UNC-G. Watts alerts students to voter registration dates by Dana Hill The registration deadline for the November 2 elections is approaching quickly. For North Carolina voters, the deadline is October 4 at 5 p.m. An attempt by Dr. Fred Watts of the political science department to get an elector in the Elon College area to help register student voters was recently vetoed by the Alamance County Board of Elections. Instead, Dr. Watts hopes to get a local registrar to visit the campus on certain days with the objective of registering more local students. Everyone will be alerted to these dates. According to Dr. Watts, students in the 18-21 age bracket tend to cite three major reasons why they aren't voting. The most evident reason is a lack, of knowledge of their elected officials. This can be remedied by checking the voting habits of their Congressmen and Senators in the Sunday newspaper, Dr. Watts says. A second reason why- students are reluctant to vote is that they feel their vote won’t matter one way or the other. The third reason students have for not voting is that they feel there is no discernible difference between one politician and another. In one of his government classes. Dr. Watts found that only about half of the eligible voters were registered. Of that group about two-thirds of the students knew who their respective Congressmen and Senators were. Only one-third of the entire class knew. As Dr. Watts reasons, 'If you don't know who your elected representatives are, how are you going to know what they stand for when election day rolls around?” A prime example of the consequences of such apparent ignorance is shown in a national survey taken recently. It showed that only about 20% of eligible voters expressed any degree of real confidence in their Congressmen. In spite of this however, about 80Vf of the Congressmen are re-elected each two years. The percentage for Senators is even higher. The voter registration drive on campus will apply only to Alamance County residents. Students living in other locations will have to register with their local board of elections. Resident students from locations other than Alamance County should arrange to obtain absentee ballots. Both North Carolina and 'Virginia allow this method of voting.
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