Volume V Number 9
Elon College, North Carolina
October 26,1978
Alsop to open coffeehouse
by Joy Hamilton
Peter Alsop will be guest
performer at the grand open
ing of the Elon College Cof
feehouse Saturday at 8 p.m.
in Mooney Theater.
Alsop has recorded two al
bums and his energy and en-
husiasm are very contagious,
jcording to Frank Mianzo,
irea coordinator. He is a
Terformer whose talent and
ense of humor are over
whelming. Alsop shows this
ense of humor in some of his
iongs concerning the changing
role of the male in society
today. He seeks to free both
sexes from their respective
stereotypes and limitations,
especially the men.
His first album is “Peter
Alsop, Peaceable 5.” “Doin’
It For You” and “WhenYou
Ask Me First” are satirical,
expressing the “Chauvinist
Pig” viewpoint in caricatur-
istic terms. The first was
written expressly for this pur
pose, while the second is a
rather touching situation of
an old-fashioned male who is
insecure when pursued by
the newly aggressive modern
woman. The best track of the
albimi, cleverly written with
witty lyrics is “You Make Me
Stand in the Corner,” in
which the hero is unsuccess
fully trying not to look upon
his lady as a sex object.
Alsop’s second album,
“Asleep at the Helm,” is
even more successful than the
first. It reflects his increasing
maturity and depth as a per
son as well as a writer/per
former.
Elon is fortunate to have a
personality such as Peter Al
sop performing at the cof-
feeheuse, Mianzo says.
Opposition to student trustees;
health service to be extended
Peter Alsop
by Craig Harris
Elon’s SGA Senate con
ducted many items of busi
ness during its meeting last
Thursday. The results of SGA
President Robin Moser’s
meeting with the Campus Life
Committee were discussed.
Miss Moser said, “My report
W.1S last with the committee,
and my time was cut from
half an hour to 12 minutes.”
She mentioned the possibili
ty of conducting a parents’
survey on visitation to de
termine the attitudes of par
ents to in-room visitation.
According to Annette Met
calf, senate speaker, when she
asked the board of trus
tees members about faculty
and student representation on
the board, one of them re
plied, “Faculty and students
do not belong on the board
because there are decisions
that have to be made in
dependently of the people af
fected.”
In other business. Miss
Moser reported that the
health services will now have
to hold office hours on Satiu-
days. The actual hours are
not yet determined. The Aca
demic Credit at Elon will not
be held this summer, as ori
ginally planned.
In exerpts from Dean
Long’s report, read to the
senate by Miss Moser, he said
that out of the 10 fraternities
and sororities at Elon, eight
are housed now, and nine will
be housed at the end of the
year.
The senate approved a mo
tion that the speaker of the
newly organized House Gov-
eriunent Association be chos
en from that organization and
not from the SGA senate as
had been planned. The Com
munications Media Board
Constitution by-laws were
passed as written.
A representative of the
Daytrippers club spoke on the
New Games, which will be
held to raise money for
cerebral palsy, tomorrow
from 2-5 p.m. The rain date
for this event is Tuesday, Oct.
31, before the bonfire.
Alpha Chi to sponsor
two Holocaust films
Lowry takes charge
by April Morrison
The Elon College library
has a new head librarian,
Charles B. Lowry, who came
to Elon in August. He re
cently explained his goals for
the library.
He wishes to “have a
higher currency of books.
Books should come into the
library one or two weeks after
publication, instead of having
them come in after they have
been out and advertised for
over a year,” Mr. Lowry
says.
He also hopes to improve
the quality of the reference
collection, to help the stu
dents obtain information and
to gain information beyond
the Elon library, but through
the help of the library.
When asked his major con
cern for the students and the
library, Mr. Lowry respond
ed, “To make the library a
viable part of the education
process here at Elon.” He
would like the students to
think of the library as more
than a place that keeps the
books.
There is a concern being
expressed by more members
of the library staff than Mr.
Lowry. Mrs. Ann Vickers, of
the library staff, complained
of boisterous behavior going
on in the library last week.
“In order to keep the group
study available, the students
will have to be more conside
rate and aware of other
students wishing to study,”
Mrs. Vicker said.
Staff members say they
don’t enjoy having to tell
college students to keep the
noise down.
The library committee is
made up of faculty members
and students. There are open
ings for students now.
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Entertainment
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Two foreign films on the
Holocaust will be shown in
Mooney Theater on Nov. 1,
sponsored by the N.C. Delta
Chapter of Alphi Chi, na
tional collegiate honor socie
ty.
The films will provide
background for Alpha Chi’s
second annual lecture on
Nov. 8, which will feature Dr.
Helen Fagin, acting director
of Judaic studies at the
University of Miami. Dr.
Fagin will speak on “The
Moral Experience of the
Holocaust.”
The two films, “Memor
andum” and “Night and
Fog,” detail the horrors and
psychological trauma of the
Holocaust and Hitler’s “Final
Solution.” The first, “Mem
orandum,” produced by the
Canadian National Film
Board, was made to com
memorate the 20th anniver
sary of the liberation
of Jewish survivors from Hit
Ctaarles B. Lowry
Head Librarian
ler's concentration and death
camps at the end of World
War II.
The story centers on a
group of Jewish survivors of
these camps who return to
Germany after the war. It
recounts their tragic exjjer-
iences at Auschwitz, Bergen-
Belsen, and Treblinka. Inter
spersed with this plot is the
trial of camp gujirds and
others accused of murdering
Jews. The court finds the
Nazi perpetrators not guilty
as the memory of death camp
horrors pervades the final
scenes. The theme that runs
throughout the film is that
both those directly involved in
Jewish deaths as well as those
who failed to prevent the
Holocaust share similar guilt.
The second film, the classic
“Night and Fog,” was pro
duced by the well-known
French director, Alain Res
nais. Mr. Resnais poignantly
combines footage of empty
Nazi concentration camps
with fihn of life in the camps
when they were used by the
Nazis to murder millions of
Jewish inmates.
Dr. David Crowe, an as
sistant professor of history at
Elon College who has pro
duced a number of scholarly
works on the Holocaust, will
make some comment on the
Holocaust and the films be
fore their presentation and
will conduct a question and
answer period afterwards.
The public is invited to these
films, which will be shown at
7:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, in
Mooney Theater.
Dr. Robert Blake and
Dean Chris White are spon
sors of Alpha Chi’s Delta
Chapter.