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Baseball Doableheaden Home Sat. and Su. 1 p.m. Coffee hpw Tomorrow n^ht 8 p.m. Har^r Center Volume V Number 19 Elon CoUege, North Carolina March 8, 1979 JP Hunt has good words for private colleges Gov. Jancf B. Hnt, Jr., [ceater] sports Sigma Pi Epsilon cap, a gift of brothers at Elon, tfter Founders’ Day address yesterday. Chinese lecturer to speak here Dr. Thomas Ganschow, as sociate professor of Chinese history at the University of Georgia, will deliver the an nual Pi Gamma Mu Lecture at Elon College at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, on the second floor of McEwen. Dr. Ganschow’s speech, “China Plays the American Card,” will touch on the historical background of cur rent Sino-American relations from the Chinese perspective as well as the influence of China’s domestic and foreign policy needs on her new ties with the United States. A renowned Chinese specia list and educator. Dr. Gan- whow is well known for both is excellent teaching methods and his scholarship. He has won four major teaching awards at the University of Georgia since 1974. Also, Dr. Ganschow is an active scholar who has con tributed to four books and over 20 articles and papers on various asp)ects of Chinese history. He has also been the recipient of numerous re search grants, including a Fulbright-Hays fellowship which allowed him to study and teach in Taiwan for thre years. The talk is sponsored by the North Carolina Alpha Chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, the National Social Science Honor Society, advised by Professor Rachel Holt. This talk commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Alpha Chapter and is dedicated to Dr. A.L. Hook, emeritus dean of the college, who is a charter member jof the N.C. Alpha Chapter. The talk is open to the public. see Pi Gamma Mu “You have a lot to cele brate at Elon College,” said Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr., in his Founders’ Day address in Memorial Gym yesterday when the college, community, and friends marked the 90th anniversary of the founding of the institution. After acknowledging the sa crifices and hard work of the founders, and especially those who rebuilt the college after the fire of 1923 and the Great Depression of the 30’s, Gov ernor Hunt went straight to the core of his speech-the continued value of private higher education in North Carolina. “Church related and private education is very important to North Carol ina,” he said, “We need both private and pubhc institut ions. People should have the opportunity to choose; both types of colleges should be available to students.” “Many people want schools that teach values,” he went on. Today, perhaps we need values more than ever, he said. It is proper for the state to promote an overall system, and he himself has worked to assure that the support could be increased every year since the independent colleges ask ed the legislature for assistan ce for North Carolina stud ents. That was when Hunt was lieutenant governor. This year, he said, he has recommended an increase of $75 per N.C. student for the first year and $75 for the second year of the biennium. This means $475 and then $550 a year for each North Carolina student attending an independent college full time. Governor Hunt commended the college for raising funds under PRIDE, one-half of which have been raised al ready. “It is essential that Elon College be the best it can be-this means students prim arily,” he said. “Do all you can, and be all you can be,” he urged. “We should dedicate our selves to the idea of living together.Such concerns should Cont. on p. 4 England ’80 study-tour planned PIRG plans symposium Dr. M. Christopher White, dean of academic affairs, re cently announced the reap pointment of Dr. David Crowe as director of the British Studies Abroad Pro gram for 1979-80. The faculty members and courses offered for the Jan uary 2-25, 1980, trip are Dr. David Crowe, history; Profes sor Terri Cotleld, fine arts and music; Dr. Rudy Zarz^, political science: Dr. Bill Rich, religion; Dr. Lynn Ryal biology; Dr. Lamar Bland, English; and Dr. Gerry Fran cis, mathematics. Each course carries three hours academic credit and will fulfill part of the student’s general college course requirements. This year’s trip, which will cost $949, includes roundtrip airfare on British Airways’ 747 from Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. (free transportation provided from Elon College); first class hotel accomodations at the Kennedy Hotel in London, continental breakfast, trips to Stonehenge, Salisbury, Win chester, Bath, Cambridge, Canterbury, Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Oxford. The Elon chapter of the North Carolina Public Inter est Research Group (NC PIRG) announces a college- wide energy', symposium to be held during the week of March 19-23. The symposium will focus on alternative; ener gy technologies and policy choices for the coming de cades. The symposium plan ners hope to personalize these energy issues by encouraging students to take conservative measures during this week. Major events to be held during the week include a debate on nuclear power, an assembly program on alterna tive energy sources such as solar and wind power, dis plays of solar and appropriate Survey p. 5 Career futures offered On The Inside Editorials...2 Entertainment. Letters...2 Sports...6 .5 by Craig Harris Elon’s S.A.M. club and the B.S.C.C. are jointly sponsor ing a career awareness work shop, to be held next Thurs day afternoon at 1:45. Every student attending this workshop will have a ch^ce to meet with representatives from every major sector of business and government that offers job opportunities Elon graduates. to The representatives are as follows: Fred Gilliam, CPA; D.E. Holt, of Sears and^oebuck;) Betsy Webster, person nel officer of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.; Bruce Turner, city manager of Graham; Charles McGoogan, Workshop p.5 Dover, Stratford-upon-Avon, and other places as well as tickets to major plays, sym phonies, and other cultural performances. Students will also spend time with their individual groups at the Tower of Lon don, the British Museum, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Bucking ham Palace, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, sessions of Parlia ment, Westminster Abbey, and other important sites Optional trips will be avail able to Edinburgh, Scotland and to an Elizabethan Ban quet at Hatfield House. Finally, students will be given free time at the end of the trip to travel throughout Eu rope and Great Britain. Dr. Crowe has plans and infor mation on optional trips to Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Athens, Greece as well as to ski areas in Italy and Swit zerland. For further informa tion about the winter semester in Britain, 1980, contact any of the professors listed above or Dr. Crowe in CO-216, Extension 473. A $25 deposit (applied to your trip cost) is required
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