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The Pendulum
Thun^ March 3, 1983
Newsbriefs
AMA Meeting
There will be a meeting of the marketing club on Monday,
March 7 at 3 p.m. in Alamance 300. Money-making projects
will be discussed.
FeUowship
The West Burlington Church of the Nazarene at 127
Markham St., is sponsoring a College and Career Youth^
Qass beginning Sunday, March 6 at 9:45 a.m. A bus will
leave from the Alumni Gym at 9:30 a.m. and return at 12:30
p.m. A continental bre^fast will be provided. For more
information call 227-7082 or 226-4375.
RedUl
Darla Bray will present a voice recital March 6 at 8 p.m. in
Whitley Memorial Auditorium. Assisting Bray will be Elaine
Bingenheimer and Melanie Artley. Music by Mozart and
Handel will be featured, as well as music by Matyas Seiber.
A highhght of the program will be a cycle of “five kid
songs” by Leonard Bernstein entitled “I Hate Music.” The
public is invited to attend free of charge.
Lectorc on Middle East
Ronald Messier of the Middle Tennessee State University
will speak on current affairs in the Middle East. The
program is to be held at 4 p.m. today in Mooney Theater.
SNCAE
The Elon College Chapter of Student North Carolina
Association of Educators will have a dinner meeting March
14 at 7 p.m. at the Bottom Line. Those interested in
attending should contact Professor Ken Harper or Professor
June Looney by March
Worship Service
Celebration, the campus-wide worship series held each
Thursday at 9:30 p.m. in Whitley Auditorium, will future
Dr. Carol Chase. Her topic will be “Household Hints.” Dr.
Chris White will provide music.
ROTO Scholarships
I Interviews for ROTC scholarships will be held Mwch 7
and 8. Army ROTC scholarships pay for full tuition, books,
supplies and laboratory fees. Scholarship recipients also
receive a monthly stipend of $100. Freshmen and sophomores
with a 3.0 GPA or better are eligible. For more information
call 584-2278, or stop by Carlton 303 or 307.
Citizen Kane
“Citizen Kane” will be showing in Mooney ThMter
Monday night, March 7. It wiU be shovwi at 8 p.m. Two
college program credits will be awarded.
CPR Oass
The Office of Student Activities will sponsor an eight-hour
CPR class beginnmg AprU 5. The class will be limted to 12
participants with registration beginnmg March 7 m ^ng 210.
The classes wiU be held from 3:45 p.m. until 5.45 p^m.
Students, faculty and staff are urged to register for this class.
For more information call 584-2330.
All oewsbrtef* staoold be ia the PcadalBin office by 3 JO
p.m. OB MoBdayi. Newibrtefo rccetrcd after this time will be
nbject to the foOowiof Thusday pabUcBtioa. If aewsbriefs
ut to run Ib oiore thaa oae pabHcatioa of the PeadalBni,
(Iwy mast be re-tabadttcd oa the foDowiag Moaday.
Student Union Board
Side Stage Productions
presents:
dan
hmsz
Harper Center Lounge
Tues., March 8
7:30-10:30
Elon talent opening
for Dan at
7:00 p.m.
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Black writers produce ‘art
for people^" A&T prof says
by Bob Moser
Three Elon students,
/along with Dr. Whitney
Wanderwerf, attended a lec
ture on Afro-American poet
ry on the campus of UNC-G
last Thursday afternoon.
The speaker was Dr. James
Williams, head of the
English department at North
Carolina A&T. The lecture
was a part of the observance
of Black History Month on
the UNC-G campus.
Williams gave readings
and short lectures on mod
em black poets. He first
concentrated on some mili
tant, lesser-known poems of
Langston Hughes that few
persons have had the oppor
tunity to read or to study.
Williams read with
emphasis on the wit and
lightly humorous sarcasm
inherent in the poetry of
Hughes. After the reading,
Williams made some unusual
statements about Hughes,
and about black poetry in
general.
He asserted that black
writers write “art for
people’s sake” while white
writers write “art for art’s
sake.” In other words, black
poetry is easier to read and
understand, while white
poetry is heavily intellectual
and not written for average
people to read according to
Williams.
Williams continued to
expound on this theme while
discussing the poetry of
Julia Fields and Mari Evans.
Fields’ witty poem “High on
the Hog” was a highlight of
the lecture. Williams pointed
out that the light tone of
Evans was a very effective
vehicle for expressing the
strong sentiments of the
poem.
“I Am a Black Woman”
by Mari Evans was discussed
in terms of the historical
context from which it
evolved. Williams talked
about the notion of the
1960 s “black is beautiful”
movement, which is an
important theme in the
poem.
Before this idea came
about, he said, white people
were considered the only
models of beauty, and
“black was ugly.” The idea
of blacks as models for
beauty, as the woman in the
poem, gave black people in
the 1960s a greater feeling of
self-respect.
In conclusion, Williams
noted that 15 years ago
“these poems could not be
read in front of a white
audience” such as the one
attending the lecture. He
encouraged the students in
attendance to participate in
one of the eleven courses in
Afro-American literature
offered at North Carolina
A&T.
Come with us on a
BAHAMA
CRUISE
Meeting: March 7
7 p.m. Large Lounge
•All interested persons
are urged to attend
•Details will be discussed
For more information call 584-2330
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