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

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reflect its improved quality. If you don ' t need to raise costs to tceep tilings going though, she said, It just doesn ' t seem right to do it for image. Ironically, Elon ' s image appears to be poorest in North Carolina. It is best in Virginia, which once sent Elon 40 percent of the college ' s student body, and climbing rapidly on the Eastern seaboard to the north. The farther away from North Carolina that we get, the better the students we get because we aren ' t fighting the image prob- lem, Soliday said. Added White: They say that in academics, whether you ' re going up or you ' re going down, our repu- tation is a basic meat-and-potatoes school although that stopped being the reality about six years ago. The world just hasn ' t figured it out yet. We ' re gonna see if we can ' t change that. 8

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- • f ■WVf F • W Even as the college makes a commitment to an improved public perception, the students who at- tend Elon are experiencing some new beginnings of their own. For each entering freshman, returning sophomore or junior, the year ahead is alive with possibilities. To begin the journey toward accom- plishment and maturity is one of the most important and pivotal events in a person ' s life. College gives us each the potential to grow, to sharpen our perceptions, to ex- pand our thinking and to ultimate- ly change the world we live in. For the class of 1986, an impor- tant transition is about to occur. Their year of new beginnings com- mences the moment they receive their degrees and take their places in the world community. Gradu- ates of Elon College will return to their families and hometowns changed. They will have listened, studied, concentrated, written and talked about issues and events that will impact the way they will live out the rest of their lives. Now the real process of education can be- gin. Now they are truly candidates to be educated. 10