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Late in September we students took up res
idence at Elon College. Because the opening
of school was delayed a week, we felt that
maybe for a change all accomodations would be
complete — the Establishment fooled us again.
If you have visited the new dormitory com
plex, barely within the city limits, you have
noticed a certain air of stagnation about it.
We have a non - active spring under a nearly
empty lake, a non - existent television (even
though we have an antenna), several non - ex
istent telephones, a non - existent cafeteria
(but maybe Horton's roaches just haven't moved
in), sparce furniture, untrimmed carpets, and
an unpaved mud or dust hole for a parking lot.
We do have in our favor, however, an envigor—
ating quarter mile walk to the nearest pay
phone; a sidewalk that leads half way to the
campus proper (well, 50% is better than noth
ing) ; our own mail service every day, or every
other day, or whenever it's delivered; and
locks on every door except those doors attach
ed to our rooms. For all of those little "ex
tras" we pay only $155 a semester; whereas the
students who do not share our "advantages" pay
only ?
My modest proposal to the Establishment is
that this money which we, the students of the
new dormitory complex, are paying in excess of
the other dorms be refunded to us as we have
paid for conditions that do not exist. This
money could be returned to us directly, or be
taken out of next semester's tuition. I'm
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