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Volume XVn, Number 3
Serving the Elon Cc^ege Commimity
September20,1900
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photographer Heather
'^hitehouse captures
signs of fall during a
pickup game Sunday
°6tween students from
and the University of
f^orth Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
Young to speak
on South Africa
Ted Toomer
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Andrea Young will speak at
Elon in the Fine Arts Theatre on
September 27. Young is the
daughter of Atlanta Mayw Andrew
Young who spoke at last year's
Fall Convocation.
Andrea Young plans to keep
in line with Mayor Young’s
service speech and address the
topic of South Africa and the
meaning of that struggle for
Americans. She also plans to
address the goals of a democratic,
multiracial society that is shared
by Americans and South Africans
of good will.
Young is a great admirer of
South African leader Nelson
Mandela. She compares Mandela
to Martin Luther King in their
ability to capture the attention of
the world to a similar problem.
Young has recently been a
lobbyist to South Africa for the
United Church of Christ
Young has a law degree from
Columbia University and has also
spent over a decadc working with
community, governmental and
non-profit organizations in the
U.S., Third World countries and in
Africa.
The event is being sponsored
by The Liberal Arts Forum. The
Young speech concludcs a week
long symposium that starts on
Sunday night, Sept. 23, with
Spike Lee's movie. "Do The
Right Thing." Monday, Sept. 24,
a discussion on "Doing Business
with Americans." Tuesday, Sept.
25, the topic is "Maximi/.ing
Cultural l^tential and Minimizing
Racism," and Wednesday, Sept.
26, "Feminist Intcreptations of
Biblical Literature." All events
will take placc in the Fine Arts
Theatre bcgining at 7:30 pm.
Elon hires 24
new professors
Who's Who recognizes campus leaders
j^cather Whitehouse
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^ho's Who is a publication
On' American
and colleges that
recognized as the
^Pusleadere.
1,000 schools partici-
show*” students that
achiA, °“^^^anding academic
''Olvem'"''"'’ “"""“"‘‘y
leadership. The
each K selected from
school!^ is based on the
Bill Ri according to
dean at Elon.
^Ualif, students that
saia, ”L ®
® ^ve never come close
to filling our quota."
Who's Who is a self-
nominated position followed by a
selection process. The selection
is done by a committee
consisting of faculty and
students. The selecUon commit
tee will make its recommen
dations to the National Who's
Who program.
If selected for the "Who's
Who," a biography of
accomplishments will be featured
in a volume of "Whos Who
Among Students In American
Universities and Colleges. This
biographical volume containing
all the students honored is a
nationally respected fcferenpe,.
source valued by college and
public libraries, businessis, and
govemmenUil agencies.
"If selected it makes for a
nice thing to put on a resume,"
Rich said. "It also gives the
school another way it can
recognize its students."
For those students interested
all applications should be
submitted to the Academic Dean's
Office. Alamance 109. on or
before Oct 3. The applicaUon
should include information
pertaining to academic honors,
extracurricular activities and
college service along with a brief
essay indicating interest in
sel^tion for WW? Who. . jr
Heather Whitehouse
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Elon welcomes 24 new full
time professors to its family. The
new professors represent a variety
of disciplines and educational
backgrounds.
The economics department
acquired the most new professors,
adding five to the department
Thomas Tiemann, dean of the
business school, said some of the
professors were hinxl to rcplace old
ones that retired or ones that were
just part-time. "One faculty
member was hired for a new job,"
Tiemann said. "We needed another
finance teacher because it's a hard
class to teach with 45 students in
class."
Hie following are the new
full-time professors:
David Arant, cpmmunica-
tions; James Barbour, economics;
T. Nim Batchelor, philosophy;
Glenda Beamon, education;
Chandana Chakrabarti. religion;
Margaret Craft, mathematics;
Brian Digre, history; Alan
Eastman, business administration
and economics; Victoria Fischer,
music; Alston Flynn, eccmomics;
Thomas Green, psychology;
Thomas Hart, economics; Robert
Haynes, military science; Rebcca
Helmstetler, business administr
ation; Alvin Hooks, education;
Gregory Lilly, economics; Calvert
McGregor, accounting; Catherine
McNeela, fine arts; Jean Schwind,
English; Rexford Waters, health,
physical education, leisure/sports
management; Daniel Wright,
chemistry; Baffour Agyeman-
Duah, international relations; and
Lijbng Han. foreign language.