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This Elon Student Television (Journalism & Communications Department) show is titled Elon Tonight, and it is hosted by Candice Burrow in the Black Box Theatre of the Center for the Arts on October 2, 1997. This program was created to keep the student audience up to date with events at Elon College and in Burlington, North Carolina. Some notable topics include: the filming on Elon’s campus as part of the movie “He Got Game”, a 1998 American sports film written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee; selecting 350 Elon College student extras for the movie “He Got Game” filming on October 1, 1997; the Elon student extras in the movie “He Got Game” were paid minimum wage per hour and only received twenty-five dollars at the end of the day; interviewing the student movie extras; speaking to students and faculty were Jon Kilik, one of the “He Got Game” producers and Win Thomas, Production Manager; speaking in Whitley Auditorium was LouAnne Johnson who wrote the book “My Posse Don’t Do Homework”, which turned into a movie titled “Dangerous Minds”; meeting sorority potentials “Under the Oaks” during the fall holidays as a first endeavor to ease spring rush; playing a video piece about the sororities “Under the Oaks”; showing a video of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity continued a ritual in reciting a pledge to God and friends; fundraising for leukemia research by Sigma Phi in showing the movie “Show me the Money”; beginning a new “Caring for Elon’s Aging Parents” program by Richard McBride; playing a video piece on Elon students, faculty, and staff giving blood during the annual Red Cross blood drive; and reviewing movies by Chuck Buckley. Some names include: Bobbi McGhee; Joe Stone, and Chuck Buckley.

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