Intellectual Climate
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Volume IV Number 12
Eton College, North Carolina
Basketball
Tonight
vs
Liberty Baptist
December 1,1977
40 from Elon walk for CROP
Sigma Pi was well represented by
Atkinson, and Jay [Slack] Fain.'loth.
Tim Childress, John
Approximately 40 students
and faculty from Elon College
joined 120 other concerned
people from Alamance Coun
ty’s churches, civic organiza
tions, schools, and communi
ties to raise money to fight
world hunger on Nov. 19.
Elon College was the largest
single group to participate in
the 10-miIe walk-a-thon spon
sored by CROP, an organiza
tion of Church World Service
which conducts community-
wide campaigns to raise money
for the hungry in the U.S. and
abroad.
Among those Elon members
who met at Graham High
School to “walk” were six
Sigma Pi pledges who jogged
most of the way, 12 students
from the Music Department,
five Religious Life Committee
members. Chuck Griffith and
another energetic student who
successfully ran the 10 miles,
and Dr. Carole Chase, Dr.
Rights leader languishes in jail
The fight for human rights
goes on in America today. It
started as a black community
protesting school board de
cisions, with white nightriders
terrorizing 'he black popula
tion in anger over forced
integration in a local high
school.
As a result of this action a
white-owned grocery store
burned down. The Reverend
Ben Chavis, a Peace Corps
worker named Anne Shepard,
and eight high school students
were charged and convicted. In
headlines all over America
these individuals have become
known as the infamous Wil
mington 10.
The “10” have become in
ternational symbols to human
rights leaders who say the
convictions contradict Pres-
dent Carter’s imagery of the
United States holding moral
authority for leading the strug
gle for human rights in other
countries. They charge that the
President stresses these so-
called human rights in other
countries and fails to do so in
his own homeland.
The 1972 trial found the
“10” guilty and sentenced
them to an average of 28 years
for arson. White female Peace
Corps worker Anne Shepard
has since been paroled.
Amnesty International, a
London-based group with in
ternational ties, thought the
court proceedings so unjust it
has included their cases among
those of 18 political prisoners
in the U.S. it will work for.
The group says the convictions
were “probably ethnic in ori
gin.”
At a hearing to examine the
possibilities of*a retrial, three
of the prosecution’s witnesses
recanted their testimony saying
that they had been bribed by
Sickle cell tests Dec. 5
by Bryant Colson
The Black Cultural Society,
along with the Triad Sickle
Cell Anemia Foundation in
Greensboro, is sponsoring a
day of educational enrichment.
The subject is sickle cell
anemia.
This enrichment program
will be held Dec. 5 in the lobby
of Long Student Center from
9 a.m.-4 p.m. It will consist of
educational material,
pamphlets, film-strips and
even a clinic to better inform
people of this disease. Students
can ;ven be tested for the
abnormal hemoglobin. Ac
cording to Leo Bradshaw, exe
cutive director of the foun
dation, “it is a policy to test a
person and conduct follow-up
counseling if he has the disease
or is a carrier of the trait.” A
common error said Ronald
Goodson, Public Health Pro
gram Consultant, State Sickle-
Cell Program, “is the belief
that sickle cell disease is limited
to Africans and their de-
scendents, but sickle hemoglo
bin is founJ in high frequency
among many different peoples;
for example, those of Mediter
ranean descent. So we encou
rage everyone to take the
test.”
Dianne Downer, outreach
coordinator for the founda
tion, along with Francis Mur
rell, Program chairman for
BCS, is coordinating this pro
gram. “Our main goal,” ac
cording to Miss Murrel, “is to
interest as many people as we
can in this program, citizens of
the committee as well as
students of the college.”
Rep. Preyer
comes to
Alamance
On Thursday, Dec. 8, Con
gressman Richardson Preyer
will be in Alamance County to
hold a series of town meetings
to receive citizens’ views and
ideas.
Cngressman Preyer will be
gin the meetings at 1:30 p.m. in
Room 111, Mooney building,
on the Elon College campus.
Preyer’s second meeting will
be held at 3:30 p.m. in the
municipal building, located at
106 E. Center Street in Meb-
ane.
The Congressman’s final
meeting will be held at 7:30
p.m. in the county commis
sioners’ room of the Alamance
County Courthouse Annex,
Graham.
The meetings are designed to
allow the people of Alamance
County to voice their opinions
on various issues confronting
them. According to Preyer,
“There will be no speeches,
just the sharing of ideas.
You’ll do the talking and I’ll
do the listening.”
James Pace, Ms. Anne Pond
er, and Ms. Molly Marvin of
the faculty and staff.
“A special ‘thank you ’
goes out to the many caring
students and faculty who spon
sored the people who walked,”
say members of the Religious
Life Committee.
Although the amount of
money Elon will raise is not yet
known, it is estimated that
approximately $1,200 dollars
will be collected.
the state prosecutor. The de
fense also presented over 1000
pages of evidence supporting
the innocence of the “10.” The
retrial was denied by Judge
Robert Martin, who said no
constitutional rights had been
denied. The decision was ap
pealed to the state court of
appeals and to the federal
court.
Bond for the “10” was
posted by the United Church
of Christ, according to Dr.
James Lightbourne, president
cont. p. 4
Ann Fonder and Molly Marvin walk and jog the 10 miles with
Molly’s dog.
Com! case set for spring
by Bryant Colson
The case involving certain
fraternity houses and the
town’s zoning ordinances, re
scheduled to hit the court
dockets Nov. 28, has been re
scheduled for sometime in the
spring. However, this time the
case will be tried before a
federal court.
“We moved the case to
federal court because there are
some federal questions in
volved” said Dr. Robert Bax
ter, vice-president for legal
affairs at Elon. “Basically,”
he said, “there is the question
of deprivation of property
without due process of law.
Namely, the land that the
houses stand on is private
property.”
The future of the fraternity
houses is still in question, at
least until spring.
Frat council exudes life
by Mike DeLuise
The Inter-Fraternity Council
(IFC) of Elon College is alive
and kicking. The IFC has
adopted a constitution of its
own and is now determined to
stand on its own feet con
cerning matters involving fra
ternities and sororities on the
Elon campus. Recently, the
IFC elected these officers:
President, Steve Slough (Kap-
Pa Sig); 1st Vice Pres., Chapel
Whitt (Kappa Psi Nu);2nd
Vice Pres., Brent Whitner,
(Sigma Pi); Treasurer Chris
Martin (Sigma Pi); Secretary
Sam Burgess (APO now EP);
Reporter Mike Deluise (TKE);
and Adviser, Dr. Bob McBee.
The IFC has many projects
underway. Sigma Pi Wally
Vinson is heading the Easter
Seals Bike-A-Thon schedule
for today. The Bike-A-Thon
will be held in Long Student
Center starting at 5 a.m. and
lasting until 10 p.m. Thursday.
The stationary ride will be
covered by local TV and radio
stations.
The goal set by the Elon
Greeks is to raise $3,000 for
the Easter Seals Foundation.
All Greek organizations are
participating, and Vinson’s
assistants ZTA’s Bunkv Wom-
ble Kappa Sig’s Keith Scott are
urging everyone in Elon to sup
port this worthwile effort.
To get the newly adopted
IFC off the ground, each
Greek organization must sub
mit dues each semester in the
amount of $100 per member
and pledge.