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Jpeniiulum ROTC celebration Battle of Yorktown today at 3:30 p.m. on the fleld ky East Gym. Volume Vni Number 7 Elon College, Elon College, NC 27244 Thursday, October 15, 1981 Aiello, Alford nominated for grad scholarships by Mari Behrend Paul Aiello and Charlotte Alford have been selected by the graduate study commit tee to represent Elon College in national competition for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. The Rhodes scholarship is for three years of study at Oxford in England, and the Marshall scholarship is for study at any college or university in England. Aiello, nominee for the Marshall scholarship, is an English major with minors in business, philosophy and history. Aiello is a member of Alpha Chi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta and Phi Alpha Theta honor societies at Elon. He was the recipient of both the 1980 and 1981 Elon College Humanities Scholarships. Last spring Aiello was first runner up in the com petition for the Alfred H. KnoUe Scholarship and was named English scholar of the year by the English faculty. Aiello represented Elon for the Truman Scholarship Competition. Aiello is listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities and is men tioned in the 1980 National Dean’s List. Aside from his academic honors, Aiello has been active in campus life. As a freshman he was elected to serve on the Elon College Honors Program Advisory Board and has held this position throughout his collegiate career. During the 1979-80 school year he worked on the Liberal Arts Forum. In both 1979 and 1980 he served as editor of the Colonnades, Elon’s literary magazine. He served as a senator in the student government and par ticipated in the 1980 self- study program, a crucial function in the college’s accreditation process. Aiello was assistant to the student attorney general in 1980-81 and was elected as 1981-82 vice-president of the SGA. Charlotte Alford, a native of Burlington, N.C., is the nominee for the Rhodes Scholar Competition. Alford attended Converse College in South Carolina before transferring to Elon in 1980. While there, she was a Milliken scholar, class president, a member of the student faculty relations committee and a delegate to the South Carolina state student legislature. She also ANTI-SUrrCASE WEEKEND-Brice Street Band wUl play Saturday, Oct. 24 at 1:3(M:30 p.m. beside the Intramural field. Photo courtesy of Brice Street Band. Brice Street Band to kick off Elon Anti-Suitcase Weekend by Loukia Louka The first Anti-Suitcase Weekend will be held from Oct. 23-25. This activity, sponsored by the Student Union Board, is a weekend filled with activities to give Elon students something to do over the weekend. “It’s a reason to stay,” says Bill Clarke, student activities coordinator. “Elon is known to be a ‘suitcase college’ where everyone packs up their suitcases and leaves for the weekend. With the knowledge that there will be something new and dif ferent to do, students will be able to stay.” Anti-Suitcase Weekend will begin on Friday, Oct. 23 with “The Amazing Kreskin” in Whitley Audit orium at 8 p.m. Kreskin is a mentalist and is considered an international authority in the field of ESP. He is not a psychic or a fortune teller, and he will use no trances in his two and one-half hour shoW;^ What do Elon students do on a ‘normal’ weekend on campus? See story, page 4. Kreskin has been at Elon before—and performed to a full house with good re NOMINEES-Cbariotte Alford and Paul Aiello will enter competition for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships. Photo by Nader Hamidpour. received an art club award for sculpture and partici pated in a drama group. Alford was also a member of the volleyball team and cont. on p. 7 views. Admission will be free to Elon students, and non-students will be ad mitted for $2. The Kreskin show is the only one of the weekend’s activities that will be open to non-students. Saturday will feature “Almost Anything Goes,” and the Brice Street Band. “Almost Anything Goes” will be held at 1:30 p.m. on the intramural field beside the Oaks. Teams will be co-ed and will consist of three men and three women, who will compete for the highest total of points. Events for “Almost Any- cont. on p. 4 Young journalists visiting campus How to improve the school newspaper is the theme of a workshop being held on campus today for high school editors, their staff and advisers. About 135 young journalists are here from Alamance, Chatham, Guilford and Rocking ham counties. Sponsored by the college and the Daily Times-News, BurUngton, general sessions opened this morning at 9 in Mooney Theater when participants discussed interviewing techniques after a video-demonstrated lecture by Robert Nowell, assistant professor of journalism at the college. How to cover a meeting session was enlivened by a mock meeting of a town board, dramatized by Dr. George Taylor and members of his public administration classes. Dr. Mary Ellen Priestley, professor of English/journalism, coordinated this session as the students wrote lead paragraphs for a story on the meeting. After lunch in McEwen Dining Hall, the group will hear a brief account of careers in newspapering and allied fields by Mr. Nowell and Dr. Priestley. Press law, ethics, good taste will be discussed by Prof. Jack Adams of the UNC School of Journalism at Chapel Hill at the 1 p.m. general session in Mooney Theater. At 2:10 p.m. work sessions will begin on four facets of newspaper production: (1) Sports writing, (2) copy editing and editorial writing, (3) layout, art and graphics, and (4) photography. Sports writing and editing will be led by Bill Hunter, sports editor of the Daily Times-News, in Mooney Theater. Photography will be demonstrated and discussed by Jack Sink, photographer with the Times-News, in the history seminar room, Carlton Building. Copyediting and editorial writing with Mr. Nowell will be held in second floor library, southeast end. Layout, graphics and art will be worked on in 301 Carlton with Dr. Priestley and Gayle Fishel, Learning Resource Center graphics specialist. Workshop participants will reassemble in Mooney Theater at 3:30 p.m. to receive evaluations and suggestions on their school newspapers and news magazines. A maximum of five papers submitted by each school has been read and evaluated by judges who have also prepared specific suggestions for improvements in the various papers. Certificates will be presented for overall achievement and cont. on p, 7
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