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Volume XIV, No. 12
Wednesday, November 18, 1987
Elon College, NC
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College Quiz Bowl: The Six-Packers (L-R Dave Mabe, Mark French, Robert Criste, David
McKeller) competed last week in the Elon College Quiz Bowl. The finals will be televised on Elon
TV A^fednesday night at 6:30 p.m. Photo by Clare Hedge
Ex-hostage: motivated to speak and plead case
By Amber Close
Staff Writer
Jerry Levin and his wife. Sis,
spoke to a full house in Whitely
Auditorium last Tuesday night.
Levin and his wife spoke about
his captivity by the Sheite
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months later.
Levin also spoke out against the
actions of the Reagan Administra
tion’s way of dealing with the
spread of terrorism. He compared
the use of “diplomatic dialogue”
to aggressive, violent military in
tervention, the later being the
view he most supported.
After Levin’s release, he and
his wife realized that the public of
America needed to know how the
government dealt with his per
sonal situation and terrorism.
“Once I was free, both my wife
and I felt irresistably motivated to
discuss the broad implications of
my captivity and the continuing
captivity of my fellow hostages, as
well as plead their cause.”
Levin spoke in great detail
about how the “executive branch
of our government was making
life and death decisions with or
without the consent or knowledge
of Congress,and often still are.”
He went on to state what the ef
fects of these branch decisions are
or could be, one being “para
military and guerilla acts of
revenge the innocent deaths of
scores of U.S. Marines and U.S.
Embassy personel”.
The other effect he discussed
was “terrorist retaliation that
resulted in the assassination of the
American University in Beruit
President, followed by the kidnap
ping of himself and others after
that.”
Levin was Cable News Net
work’s bureau chief in Chicago
when he moved to Beruit to head
the CNN beareu there. Along
with supervising camera crews
and correspondents, many times
he actually had to fill in as a cor
respondent. He is now in
Washington at CNN’s head
quarters there as a beareu chief.
He has been there since 1981.
Sis Levin also had her time to
speak. She told of her first
meeting and falling in love with
Jerry, but she also spoke of her
distress at learning of his kidnap
ping. She agreed with her hus
band that they didn’t like the. way
the whole ordeal was handled by
the government, and said that
the use of our military forces
agressively is a mistake.
Town members oppose
construction of dorms
By Jeff Holms
Reporting 225 B
Sparks flew TUesday evening at
Town Hall when town and cam
pus officials met with local
residents to discuss the expan
sion proposed by Elon College’s
administration.
The crowd sat patiently as the
Board of Alderman entertained a
request for rezoning of private
property and took care of routine
business, but came to life when
the campus expansion issue was
addressed.
No fewer than 12 area residents
voiced concerns that the propos
ed addition of student housing
across from the Fine Arts Center
would create traffic problems,
deflate the value of their proper
ty and subject them and their
families to excessive amounts of
noise and esthetic pollution.
The contested construction of
three more buldings at The Oaks
dormitoires is part of the plan that
would indued a Greek Village for
fraternites and sorrorites, a new
student center, additional parking
and a apartment complex.
It would all be built just east of
the campus to help house the
growing student body. The pro
posal was presented by Dr. War
ren Board vice president for
academic and student affairs, filU
ing in for ailing college president
Dr. Fred Young. Board said,
“There is not an isolated incident
of expansion but part of a larger
overall plan.”He argued the pro
ject is vital to for the continued
growth of the college.
Area citizens, mainly from Ar
cadia Drive behind the proposed
sight, contened that the develop
ment would violate Article 12,
Section 2-f of the Town BY-laws
governing bulding in the town of
Elon College.
Residents were quick to cite
violations of the 125 foot zone
mandating a cushion between col
lege and private residents. That
zone was not observed when the
Fine Arts parkifig lot was built
Despite Dr. Board’s reassurance
that the community would benifit
irom the work and that the work
would be aesthetically pleasing,
the citizens were clearly opposed.
The issue will be voted on at the
next town meeting.
Hungarian culture presented
by Amy Andrews
Staff Writer
“Love and Freedom: An evening
of Hungarian culture was held
Sunday, November 15, in the Fine
Arts Recital Hall.
The program featured visiting
professors of English George and
Margaret Szoni, who are from
Szeged, Hungary.
The night’s agenda included
readings of 22 Hungarian poems,
a series of Hungarian folk dances,
’ and two films about Hungary.
The poems delt with politics,
freedom, the world, and love.
Professors Andrew Angyal,
Lamar Bland, and Rosemary
Haskell, and Chaplin > Richard
McBride were the poem readers.
The Triangle International
Fblkdancers performed traditional
Hungarian Folkdances.
Two films about Hungary were
provided by the Hungarian em
bassy. The first, ’’Hungarian
Rhapsody” is a film about
Hungarian cities and landscapes
and is based on the music of Fer-
nic Listz’s Hungarian Rhapsody.
The Second film “’Snow- White
Hungary”, portrayed Hungarian
folk customs, hunting Christmas
festivites, winter sf)orts, and a
wedding ceremony.
The Recital Hall was approx
imately half full for the presenta--
tion. George Szonyi said that he
was a little disappointed with the
turnout, but there was a very good
atmosphere.
"All who came enjcyed it very
much,“Szonyi concluded.