Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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the new ballet room. Mike Cross. year ' s complaints about the inefficient phone system were not as loud this year because of the option of having phones in many students ' rooms. However, it may have posed a problem for their pocketbooks. There are many other plans un- derway for the students and administra- tion and even the entire college for future improvements and changes, but we will have to wait for the 80 ' s to bring them about. we all give our bucks to Buck. just hanging around. 15

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Town of Elon College Founded 1893 A Bird Sanctiiarv this is it . Living . . . Changing . Growing . As 1979 comes to a close and 1980 begins to bloom, we tend to reflect on years past and the changes that have oc- curred here on the Elon campus. This past year it seems that the alterations in the lifestyle on campus have been for the best. Before the 1979-1980 school year had even begun, the administra- tion had already taken steps to assure that the crowded situation in the dorms, which was so severe last year, did not happen again. Many students, however, were placed in the Ramada Inn again this year. Carolina dorm was improved and ad- justed so that it could accommodate females, while men were moved into Sloan dorm. The aim of this move primarily was to balance the campus, as before all the women ' s residence halls were on one side of the main campus and the men ' s on the other. Many stu- dents did not like this change at first, but adjustment seemed to settle in as the year went on. It proved extremely helpful in establishing male-female relationships earlier in the year. Another major move was the North Building. It was literally picked up and hauled away from its first home, the gym parking lot, and moved to an area beside Harper Center, the Slaley side. This new dorm is panelled, nicely painted, and has only two occupants per room. This is a men ' s residence. The postal service that was formerly in the North Building has moved to the recently purchased East Building. Also going to class without books? within the East Building, athletic equip- ment has been set up for a gymnastics room, and a ballet studio established too. For the first time at Elon students are able to take some serious dance classes. Commuters and boarders in a few fraternity houses greatly benefitted from the new parking lots added be- tween the Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Pi, and Kappa Sigma fraternities, and in the old football practice field. Last 14 a cig. between class.

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The Overseas Campus: Winter Term Abroad towards their academic specialities. During the fall semester. Professor Crowe taught a six-weeks night course in order to give participants in the trip an overview of English history and culture. There were also several orien- tation sessions to explain the specific Ninety-five students and professors enjoyed the 1980 winter term abroad in England. During January they par- ticipated in a series of highly structured learning activities designed to supple- ment classroom studies w ith on-site ex- perience. The group was led by Professor David Crowe together with Professors Terrell Cofield, Lamar Bland, Gerald Francis, William Rich, and Lyn Ryals. After leaving from Dulles Airport and landing at Heathrow, they stayed in London at the Kennedy Hotel. While in London, the group enjoyed a ballet and a symphony. Many in- dividuals went to other musicals and plays. In addition, there were trips to the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, and other places in the London area. The group as a whole traveled exten- sively outside London. A day in Cam- bridge, a trip to Stratford to see Shakespeare ' s Julius Caesar performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and other trips to Bath, the Stonehenge, Canterbury, Dover, and Hastings made English history and culture a living ex- perience. Especially enjoyable was sight-seeing and shopping in Brighton, a picturesque town on the English coast. Most in the group went to Edin- burgh, and smaller groups took trips to other parts of Scotland, to Athens and the Pelopennesus, to Granada, to Rome, Paris, and Ireland. The trips of smaller groups were often oriented Beats Sugar i Mountain? Rex, T-Bone, Howard and John find that things aren ' t all that different in Spaii The landscape near Granada. conditions that they would meet abroad. Those who spent the winter term in England agreed that it was an effective type of education. The experience abroad gave their study immediacy and vividness. The trip was an excellent and economical introduction to Britain, an intelligent and enjoyable way to spent the winter quarter. 16