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Thursday, April 5, 1984
Volume X, Number 22
Photo by Paul Harris
DEADPAN: Susan Burgess refused to crack a smile
last Thursday night for any of the comedians and was
awarded $25 dollars.
Housing lottery begins soon
By Loukia Louka
Associate Editor
The housing sign-up for 1984-
85 will be held on April 29 in
Alumni Gym. The only people
who are eligible to participate
in the lottery are those stu
dents who are currently living
on campus.
By April 13, students must go
to the cashier’s office in Ala
mance 111 to pay a $75 deposit.
After this is completed, the stu
dent will receive a receipt.
This receipt must be presented
at the Office of Student Affairs
on April 16 and 17, for the stu
dents name to be registered
into the lottery.
Students are assigned a lot
tery number, on the basis of the
number of credit hours they
have successfully completed.
Names will be drawn begin
ning with those who are ranked
as rising seniors to those who
rank as rising sophomores,
such that there will be six diffe
rent lotteries.
“This is the fourth year we’ve
done the lottery this way,” said
Dean of Student Affairs Ron
Klepcyk. “I think it’s the fairest
way. This system is based on
seniority, so the more seniority
a student has, the greater their
choices are. Rather then have
us place them, they have the
option to pick where they live.”
When choosing this current
system of housing, Klepcyk
said the college looked at a
number of different systems,
but decided the current
method gave students more
control over their own environ
ment. “We feel it gives students
as much control over the situa
tion as possible. Most students,
though not everyone, are able
to get what they want,” he said.
On April 19, student’s lottery
numbers will be posted outside
the Office of Student Affairs.
And, the day of the lottery,
April 29, students must report
to the Alumni Gym, with their
student ID cards. All resident
female students will report to
the Alumni Gym in the after
noon. Rising senior women will
report from 1-2 p.m., rising
junior women will report from
2-3 p.m. and rising sophomore
women will report from 3-4
p.m.
On Sunday evening, all resi
dent male students will report
to the Alumni Gym. Rising
senior men must report from 5-
6 p.m., rising junior men from
6-7 p.m. and rising sophomore
men from 7-8 p.m.
Floor plans will be posted on
the bleachers, so that students
will be able to look and de
velop 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 a roommate may choose
from any of the rooms that are
available. The lower a stu
dent’s lottery number, the
sooner it will be called, thus
enabling him a wider selection
of rooms.
If a student chooses a room
mate from another class lot
tery, that student will be eli
minated from that lottery, and
all the other students in that
lottery will move forward.
Wallace-Casey nominated
Volunteers test
their will power
Last Thursday night, three stand-up comedians performed in
Whitley auditorium to a standing room only crowd. The come
dians first did their own routine, and then there was a contest
with members of the audience. Participants were selected by a
random drawing during the performance. Susan Burgess was
awarded $25 in cash for keeping a straight face for six minutes
while each comedian attempted to make her laugh.
Dr. Catherine Wallace-
Casey, assistant professor of
foreign languages at Elon, has
been nominated for a Ful-
bright Scholarship. The scho
larship is for an award for
Deutsche Landeskunde, which
is a seminar being offered this
summer for professors of Ger
man language and culture.
The seminar will be held in
Bonn, West Germany, for four
weeks and for one week in Ber
lin. It will give first-hand ex
perience to political systems
and major social actions of
West Germany.
Lectures and discussions with
major people in the university
and governmental system. Pro
fessors will be given first-hand
exposure to government, cul
ture, politics and social expo
sure.
Wallace-Casey applied in
January to the Council for In
ternational Exchange (CIES),
located in Washington, D.C.
The council nominated 35 peo
ple, including Wallace-Casey,
for 25 awards. This figure was
narrowed down from several
hundred applicants.
The 35 applications chosen
will be sent to the Fulbright
commission in Germany for fin
al selection.
“I feel pretty confident about
getting an award,” says Wal-
lace-Casey. “Fulbrights are so
prestigious that just being
nominated is exciting. Getting
nominated is the hardest part
because they solicit applica
tions from all over the
country.”
Coming Home:
Ritt, Hollywood director
visits in may
p. 5
Alumni Football
Game
p. 6