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-10- ersona Qnade by BEv Powe.i_L Sally McDuffie, Junior, is one of the most active students at Elon. In . addition to working in the Chemistry Lab every afternoon, she is Editor-in Chief of the PHI PSI CLI, for which she served as Sorority Editor last year. She also writes a column for THE CAMPUS CRIER, and contributes to THE COLON- NilDES, the campus literary magazine. She is a member of the Beta Omicron Beta Sorority, and belongs to the National Education Association. Sally has been a Senator in the Student Government Association for the past two years, and this year she is Tresurer of the Woman’s Interdormitory Council, She has worked on the Committee on Committees, the Judicial Committee, the Or ientation Committee, and is Chairman of the Handbook Committee. A Chemistry major, Sally is Secretary of the Chemistry Club. She is also the Social Chairman of the Baptist Student Union. Her Sophomore year, she' was Girls’ Sports Editor for the MAROON AND GOLD, and is one of the more ac tive members of the Women's Athletic Association. During her Freshman and, ^*^^sSly%Cts^to^teach^Chemistry in high school or college, "before students^ get the mental attitude that they can't learn it," She continued, I am Iv convinced that education is more than memorizations of factual information. The difference between knowledge and wisdom is the ability of a person to Re late what he knows to humanity. If he can’t do that, knowledge will serve iiim She chose to come to Elon because two of her high school teachers in Ports mouth Virpinia were Elon graduates. She was impressed not only by their ?QmaAd of tSeir subject, but ther concern for people and willingness to pat extra effort into teaching. cjonitr "tvip qtudpnts should As to waht can be done to improve Elon, Sally thinks. The students snouia resTject the position of the faculty and administration more than they do. llnne tfof?er Lggestions and objective criticism, but it must be remem- irfdonSt; insult to lntelllge,oe She also fe renuired courses whould be more stimulating. They should in some cases All ^°°^^;®dents awake." She herself wants to teach It maLs her feel fulfilled to help someone understnad even one small sT^are time Sally enjoys all sports, especially tennis and swimming. She alsfpSyrtfe ?iaL aL wirtes short stories and other articles for one of the four literary publications on campus. She would like to see a Por- ^^^^BelirerherdJg! o°ne°:rslily’s prize possessions is her car. She named it "Shasts" because "She has to have so many things. 1/—^ -SALL'V "rive me a place to stand, and I will move the world." The old wise who Slte?ed those words was not referlng merely to the physical Involvement o^ the lever-fulorum. He was referlng also to the result that asserted efto ’’’^°PsVoholoKlBts would have us .believe that all hunan tjeings are goal-direo- Psycnoxogi validity of that assertion. There appears to be tpd, I sometimes q ruthlessly violate this judgment. These creatures exist PoSSletelv void of any motivation, direction, or purpose. One has completely voia -narticlDation at Homecoming events, or enthus- ;orSng l^en^f lo'coS^^fal^^here would appear to he a slight hprp and here ." For I strongly contend that apathy is the propelling force K ^i;/rma1oriiv of the^imltSd corpses who exist on the Elon campus, behind a majority oi tne a. next page)
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