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THE NEWS ARGUS
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NEW ARGUS NEEDS COOPERATION
The students at W. S. S. C. fail to cooperate with The News
Argus staff in spite of the fact that The News Argus is publish
ed for their benefit. Often we are criticized for not having more
editions. The reason for this is that State College does not have
enough responsible students to make contributions toward publi
cations. Our students do not have any initiative. They are too
lazy to even attempt to write correctly. This accounts for many
deficiencies in English that accompany many of our students.
One is able to achieve only through putting forth an effort.
Our problem in publishing newspapers are numerous. We are
confronted with status-seekers. Such persons love to see their
names at the top; however, they do not live up to these obliga
tions. Hence, their names appear at the expense of someone else’s
work. An individual should know his limits. Why accept a posi
tion, if you are not willing to fulfill its duties?
Another outstanding problem is that of meeting deadline
dates. Why wait until the last minute to submit articles to the
staff? This delays the date of publication. One who waits until the
last minute often lands at the bottom. If one is to become a pro
fessional person, he must learn to be punctual.
Finally, students are not dependable. Promises cannot be
broken if they are never made. If an individual knows that he is
not capable of performing certain acts, why promise to do so?
Why promise to report certain news when you know that it is
not actually your intention to report?
The school newspaper is a means by which everyone has an
opportunity to express himself. It also keeps students well in
formed. In the light of this, we solicit your sincere support.
— Editor —
SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT
Through the years, Winston-Salem State College has seem
ingly been in the dark. It has been shaded by the many problems
that arise on a college campus. Today, a different outlook pre
vails. Dr. Kenneth R. Williams, President of the College, has
made many improvements in our college atmosphere. Through
his guidance, our curriculum, campus, and student body are ex
panding. Changes in the administration have been made for the
better for our college. In addition to this. Dr. Williams has made
constructive suggestions and concrete effort toward the develop
ment of.a well-rounded type of college life for the students. As
a result, a fueling of belonging to our college family has developed
within the hearts of our students.
Dr. Williams’s contributions are numerous. If our college is
to be the best, the administration, faculty, and student body, must
make equal contributions. Each individual must respect the rules
and regulations of the college.
The student body is grateful to the President and the admin
istration for such improvements. In light of this, we, the mem
bers of the student body, pledge to support all of your endeavors.
— Editor —
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Our Student Council President Says
To the Winston-Salem State
College family, education makes
a person easy to lead, but diffi
cult to drive; easy to govern,
but impossible to enslave.
Freshmen Need Thinking Ability
I would like to dedicate this
article to all freshmen students
everywhere.
This criticism, as I would like
to call it, deals with every fresh
man, upperclassman, and even
instructors.
I can remember the first night
when I arrived at school. Every
body, it seemed, had that “I’ve
been around look.” Even the
freshmen boys who had just
come minutes before I did, had
this appearance. Nevertheless,
I took my bags and placed them
in the corridor.
I was so afraid. Afraid of
what? Who knows — but I was
afraid so much so that when I
asked an upperclassman where
was the dormitory director, my
voice cracked. I, composed my
self and commenced. Anyway
the dormintory director wasn’t
in. I got a “not wanted” feeling
from his reply.
That instant I started think
ing. “These people must not care
where we freshmen sleep to
night.” If I were an upperclass
man, I would know what to do.”
I realized that all I had to do
was to sit there and wait as did
everyone else who didn’t have
a room was doing.
As I sat I noticed this boy sit
ting, too. I asked the usual ques
tions, and we began to converse
freely. Later he told me that he
had the same feeling I had.
“Whew, boy what a relief,” I
said to myself.
The following week of fresh
man registration was a sequence
of lines, lines, and lines. A line
to eat, a line to register, and a
line to pay. Sometimes I got the
impression that somebody “shot
me a line” about college. The
gymnasium was filled with
desks and tables for instructors
to obtain information from us.
Yes, there was a line for that,
too.
As the week progressed, and
all freshmen were registered, I
began to feel more relaxed. All
of the fear I had left with the
ending of the week. Soon it was
time for the upperclassmen to
come and register.
I suppose the upperclassmen
were wondering what dumb
freshmen had come to take their
places, especially the sopho
mores. Sooner than I had expect
ed the freshmen boys started in
fatuations for upperclass girls
and the same for the freshmen
girls. This was the start of a
‘rat race” to see who would be
interested in whom.
The results was very interest
ing. There were too few fresh
men boy-girl relationships.
Everybody, it seemed, was in
terested in upperclassmen. The
general trend of thought seem
ed to be that freshmen boys and
girls don’t know anything about
the so called facts of life.
Maybe this is good. If this
were the least bit true, each
would be saved by the other’s
ignorance. This is the reason I
think there should be more
freshmen boy and girl relation
ships.
The more captious type of per
son will say, “You can’t tell your
heart whom to love or admire.”
More than most of the time a
girl or boy has a friend back
home. The college friend is just
filling the gap until she or he
graduates.
In a freshman romance, you
would have time enough to grow
together and learn to cope with
problems that will arise as the
years progress. This will be con
ducive to a better marriage aft
er graduation.
In a class of organization
where you have a mixture of all
grades of students, opinions
sometime clash. This is because
of the superior attitude of uj)-
perclassmen. We were asked
what we thought was the gen
eral attitude of the organization.
The usual few upperclassmen
gave their opinions and received
the regular round of applause of
very good. Being a freshman in
the organization naturally gave
me a feeling of reluctance.
I raised my hand and was
given, to my surprise, an even
greater round of applause. Right
away I could feel a look of ask
ance from upperclassmen who
had given previous opinions. I
asked myself, “What did I do?”
Even the instructor looked at
me as if to say, Freshman are
not supposed to think that well.”
One senior, raising her hand
and talking at the same time,
said: “That’s what I was going
to say.” This one little discus
sion gave me the attitude that
freshmen don’t think, at least in
the eyes of upperclassmen and
instructors who have let these
students “eat cheese.”
Most of my instructors have
been fair persons, including my
high school teachers. I have
found to the benefit of some in
structors that it is the students
who are the headaches, not al
ways the instructors.
A person should never be de
prived of his attitude and be
liefs. A person is really not a
person without his own philoso
phy. If this is taken from him,
he becomes a parasitic image,
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As president of the student
council. I extend to the fresh
men, new students, and all form- ■ f
er students a hearty welcome.
On behalf of the student coun
cil. I would like to ask your co
operation in the activities of the
student council.
Some of the desires of the stu
dent body have been accomplish
ed. It took time, and in time all
other desires might be accom
plished. As students, let us run
with patience the race that is set
before us for patience is a flower
that grows not in everyone’,
garden.
As A 1) r a h a m Lincohi once ^
said, and 1 quote with a few:
changes, "I have been selected'
to fill an important office for a |
brief period, and am now, in;
your eyes, invested with an in
fluenced which will soon pass
away; but should my administra
tion prove to be a very wicked
one; or what is more probable,
a very foolish one, if you, [the
students,! are true to yourselves
and [Winston-Salem State Col-
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lege. I there is but little harm 1
can do.”
(ieraldiii Omega Pete
Student Couneil President
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Editor-in-Chief Mary H. Roseboro
Managing Editor Yolander Miller
News Editor Sara Matthews
Office Manager Emily Mcllwain
Fashion Editor Linda Hairston
Sports Editors Lawrence Railey, Horace Webl)
Yvonne .lackson, Irvin Speaks
Cartoonist Richard McElrath
Circulation George Counts, Albert Coleman
Typists Margaret White, Virginia l^rown
Ada Jackson, Charles Tennant
Reporters Betty Rountree, Jennie McDuffie,
James Mack, Freeman Coleman,
Barbara Farrish, Thelma Reedy,
Willie Grier, Nathaniel Tollison,
Syville Thompson
Make-Up Lorese Hines, Ina Hines
Proofreaders Joyce Love, Brenda Shelton,
Helen Marshall
The News Argus is published periodically by the Page One So-
student newspaper of Winston-Salem State College in
Winston-Salem, N. C. The summer edition is published by the journa
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