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Page 6 features The Pendulum Thursday, April 7, 1983 Greek Weekend opens today with dance contest by Lonkla Looks News Editor Greek Weekend 1983 begins today with the dance contest at Ramada. Follow ing the dance contest will be chugging contests, and drinking events at the Light house beginning at 8 p.m. Following this is a beer blast, beginning at 10 p.m. Greek Weekend Commit tee Co-Chairman Jim Sutton said that the main problem of planning Greek Weekend this year was the beer blast. “There wasn’t a place to accommodate us,” he said. “If we could have had it on campus it would have been great, because we could have held it in the gym. “In the past years, we’ve held the beer blast in the Armory, but their bath rooms can’t accommodate 400 people. Also the place would get so trashed that it would be too much trouble for the guard. All the other events just take care of themselves. The events stay the same and we follow the same ones from last year.” On Friday, the Greek events begin at noon with the Chariot Looks contest in front of the library. At this event, each fraternity and sorority chariot will be judged for the best designed chariot. Following this, the Chariot' Race will be held on the Intramural Field. At 1 p.m. competition in tennis, racquetball, and bas ketball will begin. Also at this time, bowling events will be held at Burlington Lanes, golf will be played at Indian Valley, Coimtry Club and horseshoes will be tossed in the area between the Sig Ep House and the Sigma Pi House. At 3:30 p.m., the Bike Race will take place from the Pantry to Ken’s Quick Mart in Gibsonville and back. That night at 7 the swimming events will take place in Beck Pool. At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, the day will start off at the Intramural Field with relay games such as a pofato sack race, the egg throw, and the centipede race. At 11:30, a pizza eating contest will be held at the Elon College Pizza Hut. At 12:30 p.m., the Intra mural Field will host a frisbee, football and softL J1 throw. Later that afternoon the men will play a softball game at the Intramural Field and the women will play softball at the East Gym Field. At 7:30, the Greeks will compete in ping pong, pool, backgammon and other events in the Long Student Center. Arm wrestling will begin at 10:30 on second floor of McEwen. Sunday wraps up the 4 Phi Mn displayed its chariot daring last year’s Greek Week. Photo by Nader Hunldponr weekend with the track events beginning at 9:30 a.m. The Greeks will com pete in the 50-yard dash, 100-yard dash, 220-yard run, the mile, 440-yard run and the eight-man mile relay. At 1 p.m. are the running jump, the high jump and the standard jump. Finishing things up will be the weigh-in, tug-of-war and the softball tournament at the intramural field. Sutton said that one major change in Greek Week this year is making sure the spectators are kept away from the participants. He said, “All the spectators will have to stay out of the way. Last year everyone was too close to the participants. This year everything has been done so that people are sitting away from the partic ipants but that they’ll still be able to see from where they are sitting.” Sutton said that if Greek Weekend were a week long, “the committee could have more time to plan more events. More people could get involved. We had to cram everything together. If the administration would let us have a week, we could do so much more, so there’s only so much we can do. “Considering it’s a week earlier this year, and being just after Spring Break we hope it goes along pretty good. We’ve had a lot of rain lately, so it takes about a week for everything to dry up, but we’re optimistic. “Each year since I’ve been here, a lot more non-Greeks show up for the events because it’s a weekend and a lot of fun things and social izing are going on.” Ctmppell recreated colorful lawyer’s life by Dong Norwood Managing Editor As he tuggea at the sus penders that held up his ill-Htting trousers, he said in a sonorous voice, “Reporters aie always trying to get a picture of me in my clothes. Well, I buy mine at all the fine stores just like they do; it’s just that they take theirs off when they go to bed.” Playing Clarence Darrow, |x>ssibly the most famous and colorful defense -lawyer in American legal history, John Chappell regaled a Whitley Auditorium audi ence with some of the attorney’s homespim wisdom and witticisms in a one-man show Tuesday night. Chap- pel is a North Carolina native who has had many nim and television credits since graduating from Wake Forest. He has recently re turned to the state to live in Southern Pines after living in California. As Darrow after his retire ment, Chappell said, “I passed the bar in the bar of a Maine hotel.” He explained that he never attended law school; it just wasn’t neces sary when he started his practice. After practicing in Ashtabula, Ohio, Darrow went to Chicago, where he “didn’t have to worry about job prospects because there weren’t any.” Finally, he got a job working for George Mort imer Pullman, founder of the Pullman Palace Car Company. Chappell said “forty-three men asked for and received assurances that they could keep their jobs. The next day they were fired. The famous Pullman strike and massacre ensued. After soldiers fired on workers, killing several, Eugene Debs, the socialist union organizer and leader of the American Railway Union were arrested for conspiracy to commit miu-der. Darrow defended them in court. Of Debs, he said, “I have never met a kinder, more generous man.” After the union leaders were found guilty, the actor related what Debs said: “Eventually we will win out — if not this time, then the next.” Darrow had much the same disposition toward the common man as Debs; he continued “to defend the ill-treated and dispossessed, that came to my door.” Once he came to know them “It was impossible for me not to see and feel as they did.” Darrow believed that there had to be a cause of antiso cial actions, and once that cause was foimd and dealt with, the criminal could return to a productive life. Chappell relayed that sense of cause-and-effect when he asked, “Why is human con duct the only case where we claim the existence of uncaused phenomenon? Why is the cause of man exclusive to the universal law that all things are caused by forces?” “Justice is a mysterious word,” the actor said. He said that he could make good citizens out of prison ers by giving them a little land and opportunity. He used Georgia, which colonized largely by released prisoners, as an example. Darrow’s claim to fame was assured when he volun teered to defend John Scopes, a teacher in Dayton, Tenn., tor illegally teaching evolution in the classroom. He said he took the case to protect Scopes who was arrested “for telling the truth” when he said, “Life began in the slime and ooze of the sea.” He also said he defended Scopes “to protect the schools and the minds of the people” from “sopor ific” moralizers like William Jennings Bryan, the prose cutor. The hotly contested trial got even hotter when Dar row called Bryan to the stand as an expert on the Bible. “Do you believe that God created the world in six days?” I asked him. the actor said, “He said ‘yes.’ I asked him if those were 2^hour days; he said he didn’t know about that. “I asked him if the whale swallowed Jonah; he said yes. I told him that the Bible said it was a run-of-the-miU fish. I asked him if the sun and the moon were made on the fourth'day. He said they were. So I asked him how they had evening and morn ing on the first four days without a sun and a moon.” Darrow lost the case, but the decision was overturned on appeal. Before he rolled himself a cigarette, put his straw hat back on his head and left the stage, Chappell looked reflectively toward his audi ence and slowly said, “There is no system of justice, not the least in the world. What I would like to see is a system of mercy, a system of love. “All around us are pris ons, hospitals and insane asylums filled with the vic tims of greed, illness and misfortune, mostly men and women struggling just to stay alive. And we blind our eyes and deafen our ears to, the pain around us.” “If someone asked me if life is worth living, I would say ‘no, it is not’.” he said, looking down at the stage floor. As he turned to walk on stage, he said, “but I’U probably spend my breath on earth asking for another.” With that, the wrinkled back of his coat disappeareo behind the curtain.
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