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Page Two What does the college generation value? Do we get these values from our parents, from a rebellion from our parents, from pre conceived ideas about college or from our col lege experiences? Phi Alpha Theta will pre sent a discussion of these questions in Monday assembly. The panel itself has found a major stumbling block in working out the discussion —the distinction between what other people think the college generation is and what we ourselves have experienced. From all sides, we hear that the mark of the American col lege student is Apathy. Students, the current opinion say, think only of themselves. They concentrate on social activities because a long list of friends and acquaintances is the easiest passport to success. If they study at all, it is for the diploma, another passport to success. They are great joiners, hut shrink from lead ing. They accept duties reluctantly, unwilling to assume any responsibility that might be of benefit to other people and might involve some restriction on their own pleasure. Is this really the way we act, or do we just put everybody else into this category, ex cluding, of course, ourselves? Is something really wrong with the college generation, or are we just putting too much emphasis on the negative possibilities? Perhaps what we all need is to do some positive thinking and ex press some positive opinions about ourselves. Until we start finding some good in our own generation, our parents and the society will continue to exclude college students. They will continue to ignore us, until we refuse to • _ I PGE Yl YZaatlHir PUSmSHED EVERY FR.OAY OF BY THE STUDENT BODY OF SALEM COLL OFFICES-Lower Floor Main Hall - Downtown Off,ce-414 Bank St., S.V^ Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price—$3.50 a year _DITOR Susan Foard business manager Betsey Guerrant News Editor Mary lu Nuckols Asst. News Editor Sally Tyson Feature Editoi Harriet Herring Asst. Feature Editor Susan Hughes Headline Editors - -Alta Lu Townes Joann© Doremus Copy Editor .Barbara Altman Faculty Advisor —- —Miss Jess Byrd Asst. Business Mgr Sara Lou Richardson Advertising Manager Jo Ann Wa e Circulation Manager —Becky Smit Managing Editor Elizabeth Lynch s;.d"“oiS Letters To The Editor Student Replies be ignoT’ed. S. L. F. Senior Recitals Begin A week from today, Gerrie Mcllroy will pre- .siit the first senior recital of this year. In the past attendance at these recitals has been re grettably small. We feel sure that this year, not only the performers’ friends and class mates will attend, but also many other Salem ites, for what better opportunity is there to see a finished product of Salem, to find out what the result of four years of col'ege train ing can be, and, may we add, to have an hour of real entertainment. S. L. F Dear Editor, With reference to Miss Broad- hurst’s letter in last week’s issue of The Salemite, with reference to cartoon depicting College Man dangling Fraternity Pins and Dia mond Rings at top of College Girl’s Ladder of Success, may I say, dear Editor, that I am in complete agree ment with Miss Broadhurst. We have, you see, a system, which works like this : We are girls. We want to get married. Naturally. I mean, why else were we born? Well, we graduate from high school unat tached and of course we have to do something while we wait for the Right One, so we think—Col lege. This is really an awfully Good Idea. I mean, it gives us four years to play around with, and if we pay the merest attention in class we should manage to look in telligent when some real smart boy dates us. Well I mean, some boys don’t like the dumb blonde type. And then of course in our spare time we can experiment with all sorts of cute ways of fixing our hair, and we study football and football stars quite concentratedly —well, it would be silly not to know what our dates are talking about when they take us to a game. It is unrealistic to expect us to value a college education in and for itself, or to evaluate ourselves as individuals, quite apart from our Attractiveness to Boys. I mean after all, it is our final goal to get our anxious little hands on those fraternity pins. Well, I mean. This system works pretty well, but of course there are gimmicks, which every smart girl has to learn. One of these is to keep the system a secret from Boys. Well, you don’t hand over your plan of at tack to the enemy, do you? St naturally, dear Editor, we do get hideously embarrassed when we see cartoons like the one in the Feb. 26th Salemite pinned up on frater nity bulletin boards. I mean, things like that just undermine the System. They give the whole show away. ’^Ve feel that we have been Betrayed by a Sister Woman Aren’t you on our side? Yours disgustedly, Felicity Craig Officer Clarifies To the Editor: As future Chairman of the Judi cial Board, I wish to clarify one of my goals as printed in The Salem ite last Friday. I do not believe the Judicial Board should “get the opinions of the students-at-large BEFORE deciding cases.” Students who are able to add new light or show a new angle on an individual case should be allowed to voice their opinions before the case is decided. But getting the opinions of the “students-at-large” before a decision would be an impractical and impossible task time-wise. On the other hand, I do believe that as part of the Judicial Board’s constant evaluation program that students should -give their reactions to decisions and policies. The mem bers of the Board are YOUR repre sentatives. Give them your sug gestions! What better way is there to find out whether the Judicial Board is keeping in line with stu dent opinion ? Thank you. Sally Wood Qkofiel Qammittez SUo-uUt He Hud^et Seniors ' Where Are You! There have been suggestions recently that a budget for the Chapel Committee should be provided, it does seem unusual that this com mittee is expected to provide two worth-while programs each week without being ab'e even to pay travel expenses, much less the fees which experienced lecturers or entertainers expect. The student body seems to expect that every assembly program will measure up to a Omni bus production or a major campaign speech. If the current complaints about assembly pro grams are to be justified, the student body should be willing to provide the “wherewith all” for improvement. The finance board, by juggling percentages might be able to set aside a small fund, but it seems more practical in ithe long run to raise the budget with the express purpose of including the Chapel Committee as a budget organization equivalent to the Lecture Series A gold bracelet with the Salem seal—the Seniors are now officially singled out. But this gift from Dr. and Mrs. Gramley is only physical distinction of the senior class. There is a general attitude in the senior class which also sets them apart. In the dormitories, seniors are busy typing out applications—civil ser vice, graduate school, teaching, secretarial school, camps, tours. Or the jnversation turns to the pros and cons of flowered sheets of gold- nimed china versus a less expensive everyday pattern. Some spend .lours wondering “will we be in Germany, or will he go to South Korea and leave me here.” Always the future, always after May 30 (we hope the 29th)—never now. Should we concern ourselves with these last 75 days. Should seniors even be allowed to vote in campus elections. We won’t be here next year, or ever again—we have nothing else to contribute to Salem. What a sudden shift—three and a half years of living each day as it comes +V>tf>n fViP lacf UV\A nprll^mc fVlP mrrcf ityi a suaaen biniL—liucc auu a. iirtu ^'ccub ui living eacn aay as it comes and then, reject the last, and perhaps the most important 75 days of our college life. How unrealistic we suddenly become. This is a time for constructive criticism, for exercising our accumulated knowledge of what’s wrong with Salem and of what needs to be con tinued. We have lived and worked with the juniors and other under classmen—we should vote, and we should do our best to tell them' what should be done next year. S. L. F. If you had any good reasons for staying here four years, do a little campaigning—buttonhole the sophomores. Express your opinions on the faculty, or cut the activities on campus you think have been a waste of time. We are busy and we are concerned about the future, but we are also losing the underclassmen’s traditional respect, because we have ceased to care abut Salem’s affairs. S. L. F By Janet Yarborough Below our southern borders lie many imjg. vekped republics with potentials of becoming world powers. As President Eisenhower’s re cent trip indicated, the United States has had for the most part increasingly friendly re- lations with the countries of Latin America, The exception is Cuba. On March 4th, a French munitions ship «. ploded in the Havana harbor; Fidel Castro, the president of Cuba, charged, as he has many times, the United States of conspiracy and sabotage against his regime. In addition, he has seized some American property in Cuba and has cut down on imports from the TJ. S, Just why Castro so hates the United States is puzzling to all. Some say that he sincerely wants to improve the Cuban economy believing that we have “enslaved Cuba” (although the Cubans rage when we suggest ending oiir sugar trade with them). Others think that he is influenced by Communist forces, for Castro was openly cordial to Soviet Deputy Premier Mikoyan when they recently con cluded an economic pact. Another opinion is that he wants to draw the Cubans’ attention away from their domestic situation and capi- alize on anti-Americanism. Perhaps, as many Latin Americans, Castro is jealous of the U. S. and would not mind seeing us “taken down a peg.” Whatever the reason for Castro’s actions, they have put the United States in a most precarious position. Besides trying to adhere to the “Good Neighbor Policy” of non-inter ference in domestic affairs, the U. S. has given Cuba one-third of her sugar trade; and, by the terms of the Sugar Act, sugar producers of the U. S. get 2c above the world price, A.lso the tariff on Cuban sugar is lower than that of other sugar producing countries. Now the government is faced with what to do. Whatever the United States does about Cuba will affect its prestige in regard with the rest of Latin America; besides the threat of Communist penetration in the Western Hemisphere, our inter-American solidarity is especially important when America needs al' confidence possible before the summit confer ence. Also the Communists use any actions of her rival for propaganda purposes; we must consider how the rest of the world would fed about how we act over the Cuban situation. There is also the Cuban people to consider for their economy would be ruined if they dn not have our sugar trade—whenever the Cas tro regime tumbles, the plight of the Cuban will probably be our responsibility. lastly, our government must consider the U. >• sugar interests in Cuba; if we cut off trad* we would be hurting ourselves. The present policy—and under the pre'i'ai ing conditions, the most realistic one—i® policy of restraint. However, as Dr. Afr' once suggested, Cuba is “having her cake ai eating it too" because she maintains econo® advantages with the United States and, at t' same time, enjoys trading privileges with i- viet Russia. Until the Cubans get weary Castro or the rest of Latin America rega Castro’s antics as a threat to their seen® the course of action for us seems. to ke
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