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scrimmage
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Saturday
10 a.m.
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Intramural
Flag football
Champs
“Kappa Sigma’
Volume V Number 11
Elon College, North Carolina
November 9,1978
Students to gain choices
as 18 new courses offered
Amazement shows on the face of the 1978 Homecoming
Queen Bonnie Irby. She is escorted by Rick Crittenden.
Irby crowned queen
Homecoming 1978 was
highlighted at half-time cere
monies Saturday as Kappa
Sigma sweetheart Bonnie Irby
was crowned queen for 1978
by SGA president Robin Mos
er. The 1978 Homecoming
queen is a senior from Rich
mond, Va., majoring in
elementary education. She is
also a member of Sigma
Sigma Sigma sorority.
First runner-up went to
the Black Cultural Society
representative Myra Baldwin.
Miss Baldwin is a sophomore
transfer from Lewisburg Col-
Prof to speak
atLAF
“Ways and means by which
we can draw democratic life
closer to reality” > will be ex
plored by Dr. Rudolph Zarzar
of the political science de
partment during the next
Liberal Arts Forum, “Demo
cracy and Political Life.”
The lecture will be held at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14,
in the large lounge of the
Long Student Center.
Dr. Zarzar will examine
institutions which he believes
“contribute to the weakening
or possible paralysis of citizen
involvement in the American
political system.”
After Dr. Zarzar’s lecture
the floor will be opened to all
interested students and faculty
for discussion.
lege and is originally from
Bearcreek, N.C.
Second runner-up was TKE
sweetheart Amy Haney, a
senior math major from Bur
lington. Amy is president of
Tri-Sig sorority.
Phi Mu president Banu
Duraman, a senior from Dan
ville, Va., was third runner
up while Marcia Alderman,
Kappa Psi Nu sweetheart was
fourth runner up.
These young ladies were
chosen by a popular vote of
the student body. Voting t(»k
place during homecoming
week.
The revised dates for pre
registration are Tuesday,
Nov. 14 through Tuesday,
Nov. 21, according to De^
Chris White. Students are
asked by the dean to see their
academic advisers and to plan
courses of study for winter
term and spring.
A total of 18 new courses
is being offered during the
winter and spring terms. The
eight newcomers in January
include Com. 471-A, Photo
graphy Workshop; English
371-A, Image of Women in
Fiction; Music 471-C, Music
and Worship; Music 471-D,
History of Opera; P.E. 471-A
Athletic Coaching Seminar;
P.E. 471-B, Outdoor Recrea
tion Services; Policy and De
velopment; Pol. Science. 470-
A, Studies in the Corporate
State (course description says
the LFSA), and Sociology 471-
A, Minority Groups. All these
courses offer three semester
hours’ credit.
During the spring of 1979,
10 new courses will be offered
in the departments of English,
physical education, religion
and sociology. One English
course is Tragedy in the
Christian Perspective, Eng.
371-A, which examines trage
dy from religious, historical
and literary viewpoints. It has
no prerequisites other than
freshman En^ish. The other
English first-timer is Modem
Black American Literature,
Eng. 371-B, which will focus
on the prose, poetry, and
drama of important Black
American writers. English 111
and 112 are prerequisites.
Introduction to recreation,
P.E. 471-A, is designed to
give information on commun
ication programs for students
who plan a professional ca
reer in recreation. P.E. 471-C
is Recreation for Special Pop
ulations, such as handicapped
persons.
A Practicum in Recreation,
P.E. 481-A and B, three or
six hours credit, will be
on-the-job experience with the
recreation department of Biu--
lington, Alamance Coimty,
Gibsonville, or the Biu"lington
YMCA.
Religion will offer three
new courses: The Theology of
Richard Neibuhr (271-A) for
one semester hour; Hunger:
Theological and Moral per
spectives, three (471-A); and
Judaism (471-B) for one hour
credit. There are no prere
quisites.
Sociology 471-A, Social
Psychology, three hours’ cred
it, will study the ways in
which the individual is in
fluenced by his or her re
lationship with others in so
ciety.
Four honors courses
to enliven spring
by Ronald Crotts
Elon’s new honors pro
gram has about four dozen
freshmen enrolled in four
honors sections (formerly
academic enrichment). Some
upper-classmen are edso tak
ing these honors courses.
Classes are limited to 20
students and tend to be infor
mal, providing greater oppor
tunity for student involve
ment.
“A great deal of respon
sibility for what goes in these
classes is left up to the stu
dents,” according to Ms. Ann
Ponder, director of the new
program.
Special academic counselors
sissist honors students. The
program also offers oppor
tunities for honors independ
ent studies. Assistance in
planning for graduate school
or careers is also available.
This spring four more
honors sections will be
offered. Honors classes in
freshman English (Eng. 112-
H), Dr. Martha Smith; Eng
lish literature (Eng. 232-H)
Dr. M.E. Priestley; American
History (Hst. 212-H), Dr. G.
Troxler; and New Testament
(Rel. 112-H), Dr. BiU Rich.
Next fall honors sections in
biology and business will be
added to the existing humani
ties sections.
Danieley to give paper
Dr,
Rudolph Zarzar, LAF Lecturer on Nov. 14.
Dr. J. Earl Danieley, pro
fessor of chemistry at Elon
College, will present a paper
in the chemical education
division of the southeastern
regional meeting of the
American Chemical Society
entitled “Individualizing and
Personalizing Instruction in
Introductory College Chem
istry” this week in Savannah,
Ga.
The paper is being present
ed at the 30th regional meet
ing of the society to reflect
some of the work currently
being done in the general
chemistry course at Elon. All
of the work in general chem
istry at Elon is on an in
dividualized basis this fall.
“The 96 students who reg
istered for the course were all
given the opportunity of pro
gressing at their own rates,”
Dr. Danieley said. “Each in
structional unit includes care
fully stated objectives for the
unit and a test to determine
whether the objectives have
been accomplished.”
When the student completes
the assigned work in the unit,
he is given the unit quiz. If
the student achieves a grade
of 90 or better, he proceeds
to the next unit.- Otherwise,
he studies the unit again and
repeats the test. Dr. Danieley
explained.
“The test is taken without
penalty because the procedure
is based in part on the
concept of mastery learning,”
he noted.