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Volume VI Number 14
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, December 6, 1979
Aldermen to consider PSO
The new members of the
Elon College Board of Alder
men will be sworn in next
Tuesday evening at the Town
Hall and will later go into
their first business session.
Charles Cantos, a contract
specialist wtih Western Elec
tric’s Guilford Center; Dr.
Mary Ellen Priestley, profes
sor of English at Elon and
owner of the art gallery; and
Marvin Grant, former mayor
and a designer with Copland
Fabrics, will begin their four-
year terms as aldermen.
Outgoing aldermen Ms.
Sherley White, C.Dwight
Wall, and D.D. Atkinson will
be honored as will retiring
Mayor Thomas L. Smith. Lt.
Garland Thomas of the police
department will be cited upon
the occasion of his retire
ment.
The new police chief,
Ralph D. Seagroves, and
remaining board ihembers
Nell Snyder and Robert Olsen
mayor pro tem, as well as
town administrator Beth Het-
zel, and friends will be
present.
The business session for the
bo^d will include the ap
pointment of mayor pro tem,
treasurer an.d assistant treas
urer, personnnel • chairman
and committee member,
planning board liaison, mem
ber of the Fire Department
board, representative on the
County Criminal Justice
Coordinating Council
(ACCJCQ, the Piedmont re- •
creation committee repre
sentatives. The board will
also vote on reappointment
of town personnel: engineer,
attorney, administrator, po
lice chief and public works
director.
The agenda for the busi
ness session includes a police
vehicle bid, a report on the
public safety officer depart-
jnent by Chief Seagroves, a
report on the Town Hail
complex and an enabling
ordinance for a recreation
commission.
The board will consider
requesting a survey of the
new extra-territorii zone.
There will also be appoint
ments to the planning board
and the board of adjustment
to fill vacancies created by the
recent annexation of the area
south of town.
The need for conmiunica-
tions equipment for the Public
Works £>epartment will also
be discussed.
Local hiring ‘unfair*
The Elon College Chapter
of the North Carolina Public
Interest Research Group (NC
PIRG) recently released re
sults of an investigation of
hiring practices of local gov
ernments of Burlington,
Graham, and Alamance
County.
Drama seeks members
The Elon College Drama
Club has now been chartered
and is open for business.
A group of dedicated Thes
pians has been working as a
club for the past several years
but only in a loose unofflcial
capacity. In the past, mem
bers have worked with the
English department on such
plays as Don’t Drink the
Water, An Enemy of the
People, and The Marriage
Proposal, but now the stu
dents are working toward
totally student-nm produc
tions in addition to the
regular Drama Workshop
productions.
The Drama Club supported
the student production of For
Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide. The club
is also gearing up for the
Theater Workshop produc
tion in the winter term of
Neil Simon’s The Odd Cou
ple.
Mike Robinson, acting
president of the new club,
suggests that all interested
students attend the first meet
ing tonight. Members of the
Elon College community are
encouraged to attend and join
the club.
The investigation showed
that despite the fact that the
Alamance County population
is 52 percent women and 17
percent black, blacks and
women are vastly under
represented in the higher-
paying administrative or pro
fessional local government
jobs.
The study concentrated on
those jobs for which statistics
were made public last spring
by the local governments at
the request of David Byrd, a
senior at Elon College and
author of the study. These
683 employees for whom data
was available represent 62
Ralph D. SeagroTea,Elon*s new chief of poUcc, a flm beUercr
in the PSO concept, comes to Elon from Dnrtam, where iw
had many years of experience with this system. See articles on
him and the PSO on page 6. Photo by Stanfield.
percent of the total number
of employees of the three
local governing bodies.
Among the findings of the
study were (1) The chances of
getting a high-paying or
prestigious city or county job
are almost non-existence for a
black woman, and they are
only a little better for white
women and black men. (2)
Despite the claim by each
local government that it has
an affirmative action plan,
such affirmative action ap
parently has shown no results
in the actual hiring done.
Steve Schewel, a staff
member of NC PIRG, said,
“Only about 40 percent of
the population of the County
is made up of white males,
and yet 104 out 124 em
ployees making over $13,000
yearly on whom we had data
are white males. And the
data is somewhat reversed at
the lower end of the salary
scale. If blacks and women
Cont. on p. 4
Honor students exchange ideas
^ To our Readers:
Merry Christmas
and a
I
Happy New Year
Several ideas on how the
Elon College Honors Pro
gram can be improved were
presented recently by honor
students who participated in a
convention in Atlanta.
Paul Aiello, Dennis Bailey,
Ann Saleeby, Lori Arrington
and Kim Steenken, along
with Dr. Anne Ponder, direc
tor of the Honors Program,
shared ideas which they dis-
cused at the convention.
The ideas dealt with how
the Elon honors program
could be improved.
Lorri Arrington suggested
an honors club which would
sponsor charitable drives and
group trips. She suggested
programs such as one at
Wichita College in Kansas,
where an honors lotmge was
established or at Clark Col
lege in Massachusetts, where
a retreat for incoming honor
students is offered.
She also proposed a library
committee and an honors
curriculum committee.
Paul Aiello commented,
“It is important for a student
to be partially responsible for
the quaility of his education, ’ ’
and suggested that the honors
program should be more
organized and should have
honors students fill a student
curriculum advisory position.
Paul also said, “We need
to define what honors means
at Elon to keep it form being
just a labd.”
Kim Steenken proposed
that before classes begin,
honor students meet and
decide on a format for
classes. She also proposed
that possible interdisciplinary
courses be investigated such
as ethics and businesst and art
and literature.
Dennis Bailey called for a
more open sturcture for
honors such as offering more
courses for honors and meet
ing with professors and add
ing additional special honors
requirements in regular
courses.
Ann Saleeby echoed the
national concern for the
importance of a liberal arts
education in helping students
to be well-rounded.
Dr. Ponder suggested that
students try learning activism
and personal motivation.
“We should become more
aware of the many possibilities
open to good students.”
She quoted statistics from
a recent university of Pitts
burgh study which stated that
“The average person has five
different careers in a lifetime;
therefore, a student shoidd
prepare for career adapt
ability.”
The study also showed that
in 1978, there were S0,000
different jobs and it is
predicted that by the year
2,000, only 20 percent of
these jobs will still exist.
Thus, students should not
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