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Vol. IX, Number 21
Elon College, Elon College, N.C.
Thursday, March 17, 1983
Moncure resigns to return to classroom
by Dong Norwood
Mtnaging Editor
Dr. James Moncure,
Elon’s vice president for
icademic and student
iffairs, will resign that post
10 return to teaching history
here next fall.
Moncure, whose resigna
tion will ^ effective May
31, will take over Rachel Y.
Holt's full-time teaching
duties. Holt will retire at the
end of this semester.
Moncure, 57, said he
chose this time to resign
because he has recently fin
ished several long-term pro
jects such as curriculum
changes, the college’s self-
study that is necessary for
re-accreditation and allocat
ing funds from Elon’s $2
million Advanced Institution
Help fight hunger
with CROP fast
by Debbie Sapsani
Staff Writer
Fight hunger with hunger?
Everyone knows world
liunger cannot be eliminated
overnight. This is the reason
many students, faculty, and
•itoiinistration members at
(Elon will begin the CROP
for the himgry on
, March 30.
The CROP Fast is a part
of CROP, an organization
•'Wch helps to fight hunger
» the world. The CROP
Fast requires strength,
ndurance and stamina to go
for 24 to 30 hours without
jfwd. According to College
I Chaplain Bill Sharpe, “The
j f«t creates a conunon bond
Ixtween all people who are
fwting.”
Religion professor Carole
Chase said she does not
'®ow how many people on
■tie Elon campus will partici
pate this year but she said,
"It’s significant that out of
•U the counties in North
pyolina, Alamance County
"as raised the most money
•Jd had the highest number
« fasters than any other
®unty for many years.” In
seventh aimual CROP
■^Mt, Chase expects to raise
•PProximately $3,000.
A person who wants to
^icipate in the CROP
fast does not just fast. Each
faster must have sponsors. A
Person can contribute 5
*®ts, 10 cents, or a dollar
more to the faster in
[^*rd to how many hours
* faster can last without
tating.
A student who eats on
^pus can help by skipping
^ee meals for 28 hours,”
^nase said. The Dining HaU
ntnbutes money towards
h student that does this.”
of that 80 percent
the money collect^ goes
**rd providing the less-
Dr. Carole Chase
fortunate with skills and
tools to help them become
self-sufficient. The remain
ing 20 percent goes toward
immediate food relief while
25 percent of the money
raised will be returned to the
Alamance County Commun
ity Services agency for local
hunger relief projects.
The two-day 'fast for
hunger project is sponsored
by the Religious Life Com
munity, and according to
Sharpe, “It’s interesting to
me how the different religi
ous groups come together
and work together.”
The CROP Walk and Fast
had their beginnings six
years ago with an Elon
student named Carole
Dregis. Dregis was a fresh
man at the time and became
interested in brii^ng the
CROP Walk and Fast to
Elon. She worked very hard,
and the first year the com
mittee she headed raised
$1,200. Sharpe remarked,
“It’s interesting to me to see
how one person could pull
that off single handedly and
make it succeed.”
Fasters are to “check in”
on Wednesday, March 30,
between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
cont. on p. 3
Developments Program
(AIDP) grant.
Elon President J. Fred
Young said that no decisions
have been made about who
will replace Moncure or
whether the search for a
replacement will consider
current Elon administrators
or faculty members.
He said, “Moncure has
made a significant contribu
tion to this institution with
his judgments, integrity,
dealings with students and
his knowledge of the process
of education.”
He said that Moncure had
said that he wanted to return
to the classroom before, but
he did not realize that he
would do it so soon.
Moncure, who came to
Elon from the University of
Richmond in 1974, has been
in charge of spending Elon’s
AIDP grant. The money was
allocated to the school from
1977 through 1982, with
Elon getting about $400,000
a year.
He said the money was
used to revise Elon’s curric
ulum, install its computer
systems, help establish the
Learning Resources Center,
and start new academic pro
grams such as cytotechnol-
ogy, public administration
and English-joumalism. “It
was very important to this
school,” Moncure said. “It
did a great deal to help the
college provide its students
with adequate career oppor
tunities.”
Moncure received his doc
torate in history from
Columbia University, and
has taught history part-time
at Elon. “I love history very
much,” Moncure said.
“History is a search for
truth and understanding in
our lives and the direction
our lives take.” He said that
he looks forward to “help
ing young people broaden
themselves.”
Moncure said that he con
sidered himself a European
historian. He will teach
Western Civilization and
another course in the fall.
He said that one class not
offered at Elon that he en-
Dr. Jamea A. Moncim
joyed teaching at Richmond
was historiography, which
he said is the philosophy of
history.
He said that he will enjoy
working with Elon’s “great
group of students,” and
being a peer of Elon’s facul
ty members.
He said that he would like
to see the vice president’s
office “maintain the gains
we have now” after he goes
back to teaching.
Housing sign-up begins in April
by Loulda Loulca
News Editor
The housing sign-up will be held Sunday,
April 24 in the Alumni Gym. The only
people that are eligible to participate in the
housing lottery, are those who currently live
on campus.
By April 8, students must go to the
cashier’s office in Alamance 111 to pay a
$75 deposit. After this is completed, the
student will receive a receipt. This receipt
must be presented on April 11 and 12 when
students go to the Office of Student Affairs
to register.
Students are assigned a lottery number,
on the basis of the number of credit hours
they have successfully completed. Names
will be drawn beginning with those who are
ranked as rising juniors to those who rank
as rising sophomores, such that there will
be six different lotteries.
“There are other ways to do lotteries,”
says Ron Klepcyk, associate dean of student
affairs.
He says that although Elon’s system
takes a lot of plaiming, it lets students
make a decision about where they live, and
this gives them a little more control, than
some of the other systems.
After registering, students will receive a
card, and the Office of Student Affairs will
have a copy of this card. This must be
taken to the lottery, along with student
identification cards, or students will not be
able to sign up for a room.
On April 13, Student Affairs will draw
numbers at random. “It will probably be
someone from the SGA who will pick out
the numbers,” says Klepcyk. Klepcyk says
that using an SGA member to pick the
numbers eliminates any chance of unfair
ness because the person drawing the
numbers is a disinterested third party.
“Last year, we investigated the possibility
of drawing numbers by computer, but there
were some problems. This is probably the
fairest way.”
On April 14, lottery numbers will be
posted outside the Office of Student
Affairs. On Sunday, April 24, the lottery
will be held in the Alumni Gym. All
resident female students will report to the
Alumni Gym in the afternoon. Rising
female seniors will go from 1 to 2 p.m. and
rising sophomores from 3 to 4 p.m.
On Sunday evening all resident male
students must report to the Alumni Gym
for their lottery. Rising seniors will go from
5 to 6 p.m., rising junior men from 6 to 7
p.m. and rising sophomore men from 7 to 8
p.m.
Floor plans will be posted on the
bleachers, so that students will be able to
look and develop some ideas of where they
would like to live, as well as develop
alternative choices as rooms fill up.
When a student’s lottery number is
called, he and any roonunate may choose
from any of the rooms that are available.
The lower a student’s lottery number, the
sooner it will be caUed, this enabling him a
wider selection of rooms.
If a student chooses a roommate from
another class lottery, that student will be
eliminated from that lottery, and all the
other students in that lottery will move
forward.
Provisions have been made for students
wishing to room with incoming freshmen
cont. on p. 3