Cultural Connection
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Sex Police
Band makes first appearance
Erick Gill
The Pendulum
Saturday night The Lighthouse was
under arrest by Chapel Hill's finest, the
Sex Police and What Peggy Wants.
What Peggy Wants opened up with
their darker and heavier sound. Whal
Peggy Wants has one of the most extreme
sounds out of Chapel Hill. They have a
combination of gothic rock and grunge
sound. Regardless of their style, they
played full force working the crowd up for
the Sex Police's first show at The
Lighthouse.
Around midnight, the Sex Police took
the stage armed and ready. The band
packed everything from a trombone to
drums. With a hard-hitting bass and
screaming trumpet, it's hard to categorize
their music.
Trombone player Robert Jones said,
"I'm not really sure about our sound. It's
rocky, funky, jazzy and a little heavy."
The show was a compilation of the
band's four years of music. While they
played tracks of their first L.P.
Medallion, they equally promoted their
latest record Second String.
The Sex Police dug back into their
files and played older favorites like
"Speedball" and "Elevator." They even
cranked out newer songs like "You Turned
Sex Police
Out To Be A Monster" and "Shony Keep
Me Right".
It seems that their newer material has
more of a horn section than before.
However, the Sex Police know the exact
amount of horn and bass mixture that
gives them that unusual sound.
The actual show ran a bit short. The
band played for only an hour and half and
did not even offer the crowd an encore.
While their music dripped with
energy, the band members just seemed to
drip. The Sex Police's lack of energy may
be due to the band's return from a week-
long tour in Florida.
Even though the band had little to say
on and off stage, they have a lot to say in
their music, which I guess is what really
matters.
A 1917 Elon graduate inspires others
Jennifer Hudson
The Pendulum
The legacy of Elon’s valedictorian
from the class of 1917 returns as the
college honors Dr. H. Shelton Smith on
his lOOth birthday.
A symposium celebrating the life and
work of Smith will be held today in the
Fine Arts building.
Dr. Stuart Henry from Duke
University will present “Portraits of a
Master Teacher” at 4 p.m. in the Yeager
Recital Hall. Dr. Martin Marty from the
University of Chicago will give the
second lecture on “Human Nature, Human
Nurture, Human Hatred, Divine Love:
Professor Smith’s Legacy, Our
Challenges” at 7:30 p.m. in McCrary
Theatre.
The founder and first president of the
North Carolina Council of Churches and
the founding director of graduate studies in
religion at ^ u ‘YSi
major accomphshments ^mith is known
for.
“Early on he was a real leader in
North Carolina by pulling the different
denominations of churches together and
combining them as one voice,” Chaplain
Richard McBride said.
According to Chaplain McBride,
Smith was a liberal in his time fighting
for not condemning people to hell if they
didn’t lead perfect lives.
“The way to deal with faith is to
nurture people into it rather than
frightening them into it,” McBride said.
After graduating from Elon College,
Smith went on to receive his Ph.D. from
Yale University in 1923.
The Department of Religious Studies
would like to have H. Shelton Smith as
their Chair of Professorship of Religious
Studies. Currently, the ground work of
campaigning for the establishment of his
own chair is being laid.
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The cost of establishing a chair of a
department is $250,000. The Religious
Studies deparmient already has $20,000 in
pledges and gifts.
“It’s really an act of faith. I believe
that there’s enough people who believe in
him that we’ll get this money somehow,
even if it’s in just bits and pieces over the
next several years,” said Chair of
Religious Studies Dr. Carole Chase.
The Religious Studies department
plans to publish a book of essays about
H. Shelton Smith by next year and they
hope to raise some of this money from the
sale of their book.
Chase believes that Smith can be an
example for all Elon’s students. “He’s one
of Elon’s most important graduates and
it’s good for students to know that Elon
graduates go on and do great things,”
Chase said.
Chaplain McBride’s feelings are just
as strong. “I tell people he’s my nominee
of the century.” i_ L L
On The
Scene
[Heading To Concerts
■ Gravity's Pull will be
performing tonight at the Lighthouse.
Solar Circus performs Friday night.
■ Bus Stop will be performing
Wednesday night at Micons.
■ Mark Ribot will be performing
tonight at the Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill.
Marcia Ball performs Friday night.
[Musicals/Plays
■ Little Dave and the Howlin'
Blues Band will be performing Friday
night at the Cave in Chapel Hill.
Porcelain Mourning will perform
Saturday and Evil Weiner and Spatula
will perform Sunday night. Jim Smith
performs Monday and David Spencer
performs Tuesday night.
■ Great Tuna will be performed
Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. in
the Broach Theatre in Greensboro. For
more information call 378-9300.
■ The Importance of Being
Earnest will be performed Friday and
Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Kemersville
Elementary School auditorium. For more
information call 993-6556.
■ Meet Me In St. Louis will be
performed Thursday at 8 p.m. in the
Caswell County Civic Center. For more
information call 694-4591.
■ The Klezmer Conservatory Band
will be performing Sunday at 7 p.m. in
the Carolina Theatre. For more
information call 333-2605.
■ The Greensboro Ballet will
perform Coppelia Friday and Saturday at
8 p.m. in the Carolina Theatre. For more
information call 333-7480.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
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Compiled by Ashley Stone
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