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Volume III Number 2
Elon College, North Carolina
September 23,1976
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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
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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.