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The Pendulum
Volume XIII, No. 15
Thursday, February 5, 1987
mposium to focus on Soviet Union
IDr. David Funderburk
By Amy Andrews
Staff Writer
Elon College will present a
General Studies symposium to be
held Feb. 8-16 in Whitley
Auditorium. The symposium, en
titled “Revisioning Soviet-
American Relations: On the
Necessity of Historical and
Cultural Understanding,” is be
ing funded by The North Carolina
Humanities Conunittee.
The symposium was developed
by Dr. David Crowe, history pro
fessor, the Rev. Richard
McBride, college chaplain, and
Dr. Jeri Fitzgerald, director of
foundations and government
relations.
According to Crowe, the sym
posium will focus on “getting the
community deeper into the work
ings of the Soviet society to see
what makes them tick.”
A presentation of Russian fine
arts will open the symposium on
Sunday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Several Elon faculty members
will present examples of Russian
literature, music and art history.
Dr. Arlene Goter will perform a
piece of Russian music on piano;
Dr. John Herold will present a
reading; Patrick Sullivan will
play the balalaika, a traditional
Russian instrument similar to the
guitar; vocalist Ellen Williams
and Dr. Jeri Fitzgerald will per
form; and Crowe will show
several examples of Russian Or
thodox icons.
At 4 p.m. Monday, Crowe will
speak on “The Constraints of
Russian History.” He will
discuss the elements which shape
the Soviet people.
Also on Monday, Dr. David
Funderburk, former United
States ambassador to Romania,
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Dr. Ralph White
See Russia, page 5
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By Michele Lashley
Editor
A feeling is that there were thousands
^^nam veterans who were saved by
snt Orange, compared to hundreds who
affected by it (negatively), said Lt.
iumwalt HI, while speaking in Whitley
ium on Jan. 19. Zumwalt and his
I, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr., have writ-
k called My Father, My Son. It tells
iCir lives have been affected by the use
controversial chemical defoliant,
icdc of using his father’s influence and
for a non-combat assignment during
ietnam War, the younger Zumwalt chose
the Viet Cong on the narrow water
's of South Vietnam as a swift boat com-
f Serving on swift boat patrol meant
here was a 70-75 percent chance of
See Zumwalt, page 5
Call Me Theodore.
j r\ -A “rwrthnll” Terry hold up Theodore for all to see. The
Joel Newfang and David_ _ Dirt ^ renter lake Tuesday afternoon.
large carp was
cugh, by the HanKT Cen.»
Photo by Denese DeJerf
Whopper
Student catches
40-pound carp
in Harper lake
By John Hoyle
Emphasis Editor
Joel Newfang, fishing T\iesday afternoon
on the Harper Center lake, hooked
something big—but his friends told him it
was just a stump.
However, Newfang had the last laugh. It
turned out to be probably the biggest fish
ever pulled from the lake-a 40-pound carp.
“He put up a fight for about 20 minutes,”
Newfang, an Elon freshman, said. “When
1 had him up to the side, ‘Dirtball’ (David
Terry) jumped in the water and picked him
up,” Newfang said he had used a six-pound
test line and hooked a spinner through the
carp’s fin.
A crowd of about 15 people from near
by dorms witnessed Newfeng’s big catch.
The students took the fish, whom they
named Theodore, to Staley Dorm and plac-
See Fish, page 5
Spring cultural calendar set
^ ^ Two plays previewed
P. 4
Fine Arts Building p gresses
Tentative opening in fall
P. 8