ladiK Septemb«r 18,1986
The Pendulum
Features
Page 5
'Game show
By Dot Hayes
Feature Editor
on down !” shouted
Chester Robinson and
imOM Susan Semonite ran
; the aisle as the audience
mi its approval.
Ilk), Vanna White and I^t Sajak
1 not brought Wheel of Fortune
|3aa.Instead, last Sunday night
n students borrowed the game
format to present a parody
^'tow women have been treated
their male counterparts.The
was part of the “Real
In and Real Women” sym-
dum that has been held in
jiitley Auditorium each day
ce last Sunday.
We played our parts in the
le show so absurdly and some
ientB took us seriously—that’s
said participant Jeff Van
IS, sophomore. He played
*e laixxxx), assistant to the vice
8ident for marketing of Blue
11 Corp.
‘My mother will kill me when
sees the tape,” he added.
Participants were Marlee
ascak, sophomore; Jim Bush,
^Jshman; Trey Gwaltney,
n Sls|dx)inore; Ritricia Cathcart,
l_3c‘iiior; Mark Harris,
[ jPhomore; Sandy Mershon,
jijj. nior; and Jeff Van Ness,
^.^omore. Robinson,area coor-
IdTi;:'
Mtor for the West area, served
I p.emcee and V^en Board, vice
, ' .’kident of academics and stu-
^raliOi!
^ ^j.nt affairs, made an appearance
the end of the game show
Hide a motorcycle that was one
^the many “prizes” for the male
lets ^
su intestants.
gned.»^
tthe'r''
The :^Thc four contestants took turns
inning a wheel similar to the
le on Wheel of Fortune. Con-
ispV3ntation, Power Play, Fate or
irtune and Status Check were
^ four categories of questions.
a Power Play question, Van
nieiHtss pufled from the barrel held
Mershon, alias Vanna White,
iS)u are the James Bond ideal;
Elon symposium parodies sex roles
sauve and sophisticated. In
timidate female players into a cor
ner He then proceeded to in
timidate the women with not
much success.
“You feel guilty about leaving
your kids while you work. Lose a
turn.” That was the fete of a
female contestant.
“Our game show is based on an
actual board game,” said
Semonite, who played Miss Vic
toria Templeton, a secretary fn>m
Tenafly, N.J.
“We (the participants) were
recruited by Rev. (Richard)
McBride, the college chaplain,
when the resident assistants were
here Aug. 25-31,” she added. “Wi
all got together last week and
planned out the show.”
Sexist comments such as “You
have the perfect wife-she never
contradicts you in public, has
perfect dinner parties and runs
her entire life around you” and
“Your wife stops working to tend
to your needs” brought cheers
from some of the male members
of the audience. At one point, a
female in the audience yell
ed,“Five points ? You sound like
a broken record when it comes to
giving women points.”The men
received 10 points or extra turns
for drawing cards with statements
such as, “ You have an affair with
with the boss’s wife. She con
vinces him to give you a promo
tion.”
Toward the middle of the game,
fects such as “men miss more
days of work per year than
women” vwre brought out--but
the men won 85 points. The
two men won a socket wrench and
screwdriver set, an all expense
paid trip to Colo., via Elon
Airlines and a Honda motorcycle
each. The females won as a con
solation prize a trip to Byrd’s.
Only 10 percent of the grocery
bill would be paid 1^ the show
and a two month supply of
vacuum cleaner bags was thrown
in. Neither transportation to
Byrd’s of Burlington nor the
Hoover vacuum cleaner bags were
included. The final score was
150-to-65.
For those who missed the Sun
day symposium, the game show
will be shown on Cable Channel
32 tonight at 7:30. The program
will also be shown in Greensboro
and on thdosed-circuit: television
system of Elon, ETV.
“A highlight of the symposium
will be shown at the time an
nounced,” said Ray Johnson,
assistant professor of communica
tions and coordinator of televiskm
services. “The show will be on
NCTV (National Collegiate
Television) on a 30-minute pro
gram entitled Campus America.”
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POWER PLAY: Game show host Chester Robinson, West Area coor
dinator, asks Elon students Mark Harris (left) and Jeff Van Ness a
Photo by Cord Finley
question concerning their view on male dominance. About 250 peo
ple attended the “Man Versus Woman” show in Whitley.