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The Pendulum Thursday, April 5, 1984
Features
Voter
sign-up
set today
By Jo Craven
Editor
“If you vote this country be
longs to you, if you don’t, it be
longs to someone else,” Will
Migniuolo, instructor in En
glish, says.
When you turn 18, you are old
enough to “drive and get killed
in the Army,” Migniuolo said,
and now 18-year-olds have the
right to vote.
It hasn’t always been this
way, but now that 18-year-olds
do have the opportunity to vote,
they “have to prove their re
sponsibility” and their “in
terest in what’s going on,” Mig
niuolo, a member of the Demo
cratic Committee of the North
Boone Precinct, said.
Students can register to vote
in the upcoming North Caroli
na primary and in the Novem
ber election at the voter reg
istration table to be set up in
Scott Plaza during today’s Col
lege Coffee from 9:30 a.m. and
continuing until 11 a.m. In
order to participate in the May
8 Primary Election, a voter
must be registered by April 9.
“It is going to be an exciting
year” politically, Migniuolo
said. The committee is en
couraging Elon College stu
dents to register and vote.
“Now is the time to register to
vote,” Migniuolo said. “If stu
dents are not registered by the
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end of the week, they will not
be eligible to vote in the North
Carolina primary, and it is
turning out to be a very impor
tant primary.
“Even if they’re not involved
in local issues, they don’t have
to vote on these slates, but they
should be interested in who
will be their next senator,”
Migniuolo said.
Students interested in reg
istering to vote in Alamance
County must list their perma
nent residences in Alamance
County, but information on reg
istration will be available for
others at today’s voter drive.
Even if students are not eligi
ble to vote in North Carolina,
they should vote in their own
precincts by absentee ballot.
This will also be discussed dur
ing voter drive. “The big thing
is that students should exer
cise their right to vote,” Mig
niuolo said.
Anyone intending to register
should bring some form of offi
cial identification like driver’s
license or social security card.
Bill Long, director of founda
tions, government and church
relations, will serve as reg
istrar. He will have forms avail
able to determine a student’s
eligibility to vote in Alamance
County. This voter registration
drive is sponsored by the
Democratic Committee of the
North Boone Precinct. Com
mittee members Migniuolo,
Professor Martha Smith and
Assistant Professor Bruce Wal
ler will assist registrants and
answers questions about reg
istering and voting.
Economic aid needed
in Central America
Focus” to feature talks on careers
By Barbie Callahan
Staff Writer
Seniors, are you concerned
ibout being limited in your
■areer choices because of your
najor? Don’t be. Susan Phil
ips, director of Career Plan-
ling and Placement, said that
Cion has begun to do a study on
he graduates who have been
)ut on the job market for the
jast five years.
Phillips added that “Elon
las been collecting informa-
ion on the graduates and is
rying to keep it updated. We
ike to know what they are
ioing and what career they
lave chosen.”
She cited some examples of
people who have found jobs
;hat have had little or nothing
to do with their major. Phillips
said that there are so many jobs
that it doesn’t really matter if
they are not in your major. She
said that “the best thing to do is
to have a background in sever
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you a well rounded person, and
it is better to know a little ab
out many subjects, rather than
be well-educated in only one
subject.”
This isn’t saying that a hu
man services major can be a
brain surgeon- but a human
services major can find a
career in marketing. As a mat
ter of fact, anyone can have a
career in marketing, if you can
organize, plan and work with
people.
Phillips said that she knew
“of a stockbroker who had ma
jored in history, a sales repre
sentative who had majored in
English and a paramedic who
had majored in history.”
According to Phillips, “many
people either went out of their
major, or into something that
was related to it.”
So, if you are not sure about
the major that you have chosen,
and you are not certain that you
want to have a career in that
particular field, then “Focus”
j i^ f)>r1yi>4 “’Fpcus” is a Careers
Conference for Liberal Arts
Students. It is a careers work
shop that will be held on
second floor, Long Student
Center, on Thursday April 12 at
1 p.m. “Focus” will be featur
ing guest speakers who are
Elon College alumni and other
local businessmen and
businesswomen.
The careers that they will be
discussing are: sales, airlines,
government, communications,
marketing, advertising, invest
ments, banking, media, travel,
insurance and public rela
tions.
The keynote speaker will be
Sherrill Hall, who is the execu
tive vice-president of Jefferson
Standard Life Insurance. He
graduated from Elon in 1955
and majored in Math and En
glish.
He will be speaking about his
career and how he chose it.
This workshop is open to any
one in any class.
By Vicky Jiggetts
Staff Writer
“Half of the kids died before
they were five years old. I’ve
held them and have been asked
to bless them minutes before
they died.”
That was only one of Joseph
Moran’s descriptions of life to
day in Central America. With
the aid of slides from a recent
trip to the country, he gave a
lecture in Mooney Theatre, on
that troubled region last
Wednesday night, by the Liber
al Arts Forum.
Moran’s topic, “Central
America (The Church and Hu
man Rights),” centered around
his/attempts to help gain hu-
m^ rights in the region. He
spoke of his many efforts to
help the poverty-stricken peo
ple and to inform the United
States of the crisis in Central
America.
He spent 10 years in Central
America and five years as a
Catholic priest in Honduras.
Moran also spent four years as
a rural development advisor
with the Academy for Educa
tional Development, under a
contract for the United States
Agency for International De
velopment of Guatemala.
Moran later served as a con
sultant to the Congressionally
established Inter-American
Foundation. In 1976, he wrote
on Latin American affairs for
presidential candidate Rep.
Morris Udall, D-Ariz.
“The poverty crisis is very
important,” said Moran. “Our
country is pouring millions of
dollars to aid people in Central
America. We know that we
have technology to help our
brothers who are such a short
distance away.”
He said however, that the Un
ited States is offering the
wrong type of assistance to the
country. “We’re sending milit
ary aid instead of economic
aid. I think that is wrong,” he
said.
When he first arrived in Hon
duras, Moran was warned by
the military that “we like for
our priests to stay in the
church.” Several threats were
made on his life.
Moran recalled that, “One
lieutenant was drunk and
started shooting around the vil
lage. I reported him to the offi
cials. He later threatened to
kill me and told me that if I
stepped out of my house, 1
would be a deadman.”
Moran said that the villagers
did not want him to leave his
home because of the threats on
his life. “I couldn’t stay in my
house and when I went out, no
thing happened.”
The lecture by Moran was
arranged by George Lashley, a
junior religion major here at
Elon. Lashley said that Moran
traveled to Central America to
obtain information on human
rights.
“He passed that information
to federal people in the United
States, especially during Jim
my Carter’s presidency. Carter
was supposedly interested in
human rights,” said Lashley.
He said that Moran’s main
purpose was “for us to make
our own decision on human
rights, investigate it, read pap
ers and use sources that are not
biased so that we can use good
judgement.”
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