The Pendulum
Vol. XIII, Issue No. 13
Thursday, January 15, 1987
Ion receives grant
f/pr spring symposium
By Yvonne Evans
News Editor
Boil College has received funding from the North
clina Humanities Committee to sponsor a
lenl Studies symposium entitled “Revisioning
fie’-American Relations: On the Necessity of
fcnrn .il and Cultural Understanding.” This is the
|ta time Elon has received funding off campus for
I a ^gram of this nature.
he symposium will run Feb. 8-16 and will
urc lectures by guest scholars and group discus-
sponsored by the Friends of the Library. The
Jiposium is intended to provide a better
jerstanding of Russian history, culture and socie-
Itycs well as American and Soviet perceptions of
llhe world.
J'The symposium is a wonderful way to bring
Bents, faculty, community members and experts
leihcr to discuss this critical world issue,” said
IDr. Warren Board, vice president for academic and
"^eii; affairs. “It will demonstrate that we can pro-
J^t an excellent education for our students and in-
il them with civic responsibility.”
funding for this project was secured through the
Iperation of Elon faculty and staff. The Rev
Ihar i McBride, college chaplain. Dr. David
pwe, history professor, and Dr. Jeri Fitzgerald,
ctor of foundation relations, developed the pro-
See Young, page 3
Slam Dunk!
Eric Blair goes for a very impressive 2-point shot during a re
cent Fightin’ Christians’ basketball game. The team’s overall
record is 8-3 overall.
NCSA Jazz Ensemble
to perform on campus
By Greg Zaiser
Staff Writer
The North Carolina School of the Arts and
Winston-Salem Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8
p.m. next Thursday in WhiUey Auditorium.
The significance of this event is that for the first
time ever, Elon is cosponsoring an event with the
Alamance County Arts Council. The Arts Council
is paying for the performance and Elon is providing
the the facility. Elon smdents, faculty and staff wUl
be admitted free to the performance.
The 18-piece jazz ensemble is “a very strong
program,” said Dr. George Troxler, director of
Cultural and InteUecmal Programs. “They do quali
ty things.”
Organized in 1978 by leader Ron Rudkm, the
NCSA Jazz Ensemble is a versitile band of talented
student musicians. School and community concerts
in 1979 led to professional engagements in 1980.
Since then, the NCSA Jazz Ensemble has per
formed a full schedule of various professional ap
pearances throughout the Carolinas.
The program provides valuable experience to col
lege age student musicians who plan careers in
music. Alunmi of the ensemble are now working
professionally as members of pop groups, sym
phonies and regional dance bands.
See Jazz, page 3
oliday named Councelor of the Year by state
fcanne Soliday, dean of admis-
b and financial planning for
|r College, has been named
Carolina Post-Secondary
Jinselor of the Year by the
|rth Carolina School
linselors Association. Soliday
pived the honor recently at a
ping of the association in
l^jnston-Salem.
iJ^oanne was chosen by the
■nittee for everything that she
is,”said Janet Green, guidance
counselor at Ashbrook High
School in Gastonia and awards
chairperson for the association.
“She is outstanding in the pro
grams she has developed and in
her job as counselor.”
Soliday was nominated for the
honor 1^ Steve Poston, director of
admissions at Wingate College.
Poston nominated Soliday after
participating in her “How to Sur
vive or Not Survive in College”
workshop for counselors.
Soliday developed the “How to
Survive” workshop in 1983 as a
service for college-bound seniors.
Since then she has presented it
more than 500 times to more than
9,000 students in states from
Massachusetts to Georgia. A
video tape of the presentation is
also available and is being used
extensively.
Because of the great demand
for the workshop, Soliday has
recently begun to train other col
lege admissions counselors and
high school guidance counselors
to present the information on their
own.
She has delivered the
workshop at numerous guidance
counselors conventions, at the
1985 Regional College Board
Assembly in Atlanta, and at the
National Convention of College
Admissions Counselors in 1985 in
Cincinnati.
In the summer of 1986 she
hel()ed train 50 college admis
sions counselors from the
Carolinas to become certified
workshop presentors as part of a
special project of the Carolinas
Association of College Registrars
and Counselors.
See Soliday, page 6
Jetsetters return
.: i I i Elon students tell of studies abroad
P. 4
Zumwalt to speak
Veteran relates experience with Agent Orange
P. 8