Pendulum
Monday, 7 p.m.—Lecture
and gallery talk at Priestley
Fine Art.
No Pendulum next week —
Happy Spring Break!
Volume VI Number 23
Elon College, Elon College, N.C 27244
Thursday, March 27, 1980
Tuesday features
Career Awareness
A list of career representatives for Career Awareness Day on
April 1 has been released by the steering committee for Career
Day. The committee is made up of representatives from the
offices of Career Planning and Placement, Alumni Relations,
the Civinettes, Daytrippers, Harper Center, the Society for the
Advancement of Management, and the Student Government
Association.
The program begins at 1 p.m. on the second floor of
McEwen dining hall and runsso 4:30.
According to Susan Phillips of Career Planning and
Placement, the day will begin with College Programs at 9:30
next Tuesday at which time more information concerning the
program will be given. Ms. Phillips says that “37
representatives from various professions will participate in the
program.”
“They will provide interested students with background
information and answer any questions pertaining to their
profession. About two-thirds of the representatives are Elon
graduates,” says Miss Phillips. “This should give the students
insight into the importance of an Elon College degree.”
Representatives for the Career Awareness Day include the
following:
Accounting:
* Kerri Brown, staff accountant. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &
Co.;
Banking
* Bob Lane, vice president retail banking. First Union National
Bank;
* A.G. Thompson, president, Carolina First National Bank
Buying
Sharon Baldwin, assistant buyer, Belk-Beck;
Hospital Administration
Marvin Yount, Memorial Hospital of Alamance County;
Insurance
* Thomas Bass, New York Life Insurance Co.;
Internal Revenue Service
* Larry Durham, Criminal Investigations;
Real Estate
Anne Morrison, president. Village Real Estate;
Restaurant Management
* Maurice Jennings, The Cutting Board and Biscuitville;
Sales-Management
* Gail Hutchins, account manager, Cavin’s, Inc.;
Cont. on p. 6
Rae Di Proflo, sophomore chemistry major, is one of more
than 60 students, administration and staff who Joined la Elon’s
Fast for Hunger project. Photo by Whitmore
Crop fast
Why would anyone, except
for diet purposes, choose to
go without food for 28
hours?
Rae DiProfio, a sopho
more chemistry major, gets
“personal satisfaction help
ing to remedy a situation
partially caused by the U.S.
government.”
A freshman math major,
Susan Connor wants “to be
committed personally, rather
than giving mere lip service.”
The two-day Fast for Hun
ger project, sponsored by the
Religious Life Committee on
campus this week, involved
more than 60 fasters includ
ing students, faculty and
staff.
Fasters celebrated com
munion together late yester
day.
Dr. Carole Chase, project
chairperson, projects that
1980’s efforts will yield more
than $2,300 in pledges to be
channeled through CWS/
CROP for hunger relief in
Cambodia.
Duke to train social journalists
Duke University is setting
up a program to train aspir
ing journalists to cope with
what many political scientists
see as the news media’s newly
emerging role as a shaper of
national politics and public
policy.
Called the Duke University
Program for Contemporary
Social Journalism, the pro
ject is being funded with a
ipmfm
Race hopefuls KeUy LoughUn. a Junior (leftl and Penny Page
Sorority, maneuver their cart over rough terrain on intramural field during Greek Weekend.
$450,000 grant from the John
and Mary R. Markle Foun
dation of New York City.
“We aren’t proposing a
school of journalism, aimed
primarily at teaching tech
nique,” said Dr. James David
Barber, James B. Duke pro
fessor of political science and
director of the program, in an
interview.
“Rather, we have designed
an interdisciplinary, inte
grated program of teaching
and research by which stu
dents will immerse themselves
in the best thinking in the
social sciences.”
New Program Outlined
The program, scheduled to
begin ^pt. 1, will be admin
istered through Duke’s Cen
ter for Communications Pol
icy, a unit of the Institute of
Policy Sciences and Public
Affairs.
Barber said it will draw
experience with earlier and
existing Duke programs in
volving journalists and jour
nalism, such as the Duke
Fellows in Communications
Policy, the Washington Post
and Time magazine fellow
ships and studies of the
interrelationship of journa
lism and politics.
The social journalism,
however, will be more broad
ly based and comprehensive.
Barber said.
It will involve three basic
parts:
A core seminar in social
journalism conducted by Bar
ber for undergraduates, grad
uate students and visiting
journalists. The seminar will
concentrate on the history of
social journalism and other
aspects of the field.
A seasoned professional
journalist to be brought in as
the Duke Senior Fellow in
Contemporary Social Journa
lism to work with the pro
gram each year.
A research program, in
volving four graduate stu
dents during the academic
year, to supplement the train
ing effort.
The social journalism pro
gram will not lead to a degree
in journalism. Barber said.
The Duke researcher said
social journalism “has come
to the fore as a new elite in
American decision making,”
owing much of its new-found
influence to the proliferation
of presidential primaries.
With the political parties in
disarray and perhaps even
irrelevant, candidates build
cont. on p. 3