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The Pendulum
March 6, 1980
‘You get what you put into it^
Emanons to play at benefit
The Beta Psi Chapter of
Jipsilon Sigma Alpha will
sponsor a benefit concert
March 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Williams High School Audi
torium. All proceeds will go
lo the St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital. The con
cert will feature music per
formed by the Emanons of
51on College and Western
(express of Western High
School. Tickets are available
for S2 at the Treasure House,
Front St., Burlington, both
Burlington locations of Ster
eo Village, Disc-N-Dat Re
cords, Elon College, and the
Campus Book Store. Anyone
wishing to purchase tickets by
mail or to make a donation
may send them to ESA
Benefit Concert, P.O. Box
658, Elon College, N.C.
272M. The tax-deductable
check should be made out to;
St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital.
No faU RUSH aUowed
by Nancy Cnitchfleld
The Charter Review Board
has announced requirements
and recommendations for the
sororities of Elon College.
While some of the require
ments have been in effect
for some time, others are
new.
Beginning spring semester
1980, sororities will be re
stricted to rushing and pledg
ing only women students who
have completed at least 12
semester hours and have
achieved a 2.0 average or
above. No student with an
average below 2.0 will be
initiated. Any sister who
drops below a 2.0 will be
required to go “inactive.”
She will be unable to hold an
office in that sorority, live in
the house, participate in
Greek Weekend or partici
pate in the annual spring
banquet.
Two awards are also to be
established during the spring
semester. These awards will
go to the sister in each
Choreopoem
cont. from p. 5
every time I saw the show, I
must infer that it was inten
tional, and therefore a direc
tional mistake.
Costuming was necessarily
simple, and quite adequate.
The lighting was by no means
perfect, but it was effective
and added to the play.
Colored Giris was a success,
and all involved can be
proud of their work.
sorority with the highest
academic average and
another for the most im
proved academic average.
All sororities will also be
prohibited from having social
affiliates. These are people
who, for some reason do not
wish to formally join a
sorority or are not eligible to
do so but who participate in
social acitivities with sorority
sisters.
Sororities will also be urged
to sponsor at least one social
service project each semester
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sity and several other schools.
Ann beat out seven men
and two other girls to capture
the Hawaii trip. One hundred
people competed in the shoot
out. Melvin Shreves, director
by Cindy Violette
“Our uniqueness is our
strength; we can be different
and still be sisters. Being in
Alpha Sigma Alpha does not
mean that you have to be a
carbon copy of one another,
but you can remain the
individual that you are,” says
Nan Pearson, when asked to
comment about her feelings
about being a Greek.
The Alpha Sigma Alphas
have a special national pro
ject that they have adopted.
They are the only sorority
that has adopted Special
Olympics for a project. Nan
also adds that they receive
good Greek cooperation and
it is fun to work with other
Greeks.
Nan pledged during the fall
of 1978. She waited until her
junior year to become a
member. When asked why,
she said, “Nothing was ex
plained to me. “I was not
able to explore the other
organizations, and I was
scared.” However, she knew
the Alpha Sigs ever since they
started. She felt more com
fortable and their equal.
Dr. Mary Brittain is their
of athletic affairs, said, “It’s
an idea we picked from
another school — it had an
added excitement. The pur
pose was to get people to the
ball games ... It worked.
faculty advisor, and the girls
consider her one of their
sisters. They feel she is easy to
talk to and has helped them a
great deal.
When asked about her
pledgeship. Nan says, “You
get out of the sorority what
you put into it. She also
added that whenever the
administration needs help,
they come to the Greeks.
“We do help the campus.”
“Greeks are an integral
part of Elon College and they
are not recognized for it,”
comments Brenda Vinson,
the treasurer for Phi Mu
Sorority. She also said that
the “administration does not
understand our purposes.”
The Phi Mu’s national pro
ject HOPE (Health Opportun
ities for People Everywhere).
Brenda pledged the spring of
1978. She was a second
semester freshman. When
asked her first impressions of
the Greek system, she said,
“They were an enigma, I did
not understand what they
were about.” When asked
why she joined, she said, “I
wanted to meet more people.
They seemed to be an active
Comm, skills
by Bonnie Barnes
Communication Skills for
Businesses and Organizations
will be offered by the Office
of Continuing Education at
Elon College, on Wednesday
evenings from 6:30-9:30,
March 5-26.
Dr. Dan Moury, director
of special institutional pro
grams, will teach the course
which is designed to improve
the oral and written commun
ication of instructions in
business and organizational
settings. Effective writing of
letters, memoranda, propos
als and reports will be dis
cussed in a review of ex
pository writing.
The cost of the course is
$43. To register, call the
Office of Continuing Educa
tion, Ext. 477.
Ex-pres.
Not all Indians rode horses
and shot buffalo, nor are all
big businessmen evil. Andrew
Carnegie, for example, was a
big business tycoon, but
before his death he had given
almost all his money to
libraries.” Dr. Whitten tries
to stress in his students that
all humans are “sacred” and
deserve to be treated as
such.
Not only is Dr. Whitten
concerned with his student’s
part of Elon College.”
Brenda also believes that
rush is a good opportunity to
meet a lot of people in a short
time. When asked what she
felt about Phi Mu, she said,
“It is a reciprocal relation
ship. I’ve done a lot for Phi
Mu and Phi Mu has done a
lot for me.” She also added
that, “pledging is a learning
process. You learn about
yourself and the Greek sys
tem.” She added, “Our
sisters come from many di
verse backgrounds, yet we all
have a common bond be
tween us which we cannot
always verbally express, but
the emotional bond is felt in
all our hearts.”
Resa Lemons, a sister of
Sigma Sifsma Sigma, also
feels a close bond is in her
sorority. She said, “being a
Greek is the greatest thing she
has ever experienced.” Her
first impression of the Greeks
on campus were, “They are
the active members on cam
pus.” She urges all to give the
sororities a chance. Resa also
adds that the Tri Sig’s
national project is the Robbie
Page Memorial. The Mem
orials are in Dallas, Tex.,
Chapel Hill, and St. Louis,
Miss. Tri Sigma has pledged
to support this organization.
When asked about Rush,
Resa feels that, “It is not
long enough. It is important
for the rushee’s to get to
know each organization.”
When asked about the ad
ministration’s attitude to
ward the Greeks, Resa admits
that she has not been on
campus long enough to com
ment. She is a transfer
student who pledged in the
fall of 1979. Resa says, she
rushed for involvement and
that the “Greeks bring cam
pus spirit.”
Resa. said, “Sigma Sigma
Sigma is a special experience
in the lives of each and every
sister. This sisterhood is
unique, and the bond be
tween each individual is ever
lasting. This lifetime com
mitment changes and enriches
the lives of everyone that
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work in his class, but he is
very concerned with their
development as persons. “I
like to hold individual con
ferences so I can get the feel
of what’s going on in the lives
outside of the classroom,”
said Dr, Whitten.
“If i don’t do anything
else as a teacher, I want to
teach my students to enjoy
history and look at it as a
backbone to the many pro
blems of today,” Dr. V^itten
concluded.
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I Editor’s Note: The Pen-
I dulum is running a review on
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students who demanded it.
As for town news, we feel it
is vitally important to our
student body to have access
to news, rather than rumor
and hearsay. The Pendulum
!iubscribes to a professional
critiquing service which has
criticized us for lack of town
news. Therefore, we run town
news whenever there are
important matters to be co
vered.
We hope that this will settle
this matter.
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Congratulations to Ann Suttle, winner of McDonald’s trip to
Hawaii. She will be escorted by the Elon men’s basketball tPQm
in January of next year. Photo by Hurd.
Aloha P’
cont. from p. 5