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Salem 0oes Republican-Chooses Nixon In Close Election Faculty Picks Jack Kennedy By Just ONE Vote Vice President and Mrs. Nixon Vice President Richard Nixon won the Salem student body mock election by a narrow margin in chapel on Tuesday, November 1. In a separate election the faculty, administration and staff selected Senator John Kennedy as their choice by a one vote margin. Of the 332 students voting, 170 supported the Republican ticket of Nixon-Lodge and 160 prefered the Democratic ticket of Kennedy- Johnson. One student was undecided. There was also one write in vote for “Alvin the Chip- ,monk” for President. Nixon also won among the 48 students who ban vote in the national election. Among this group, 26 students favored Nixon to 22 for JCennedy. There were 21 ballots which did not indicate whether the student is eligible to vote or not. Seventy-four per cent of the 445 Salem stu dents voted. Of the 376 students who regis tered, 332 voted. A separate poll was con ducted among the faculty, staff, and admini stration. Forty-five voted out of approxi mately 85. The faculty poll showed the importance of a single ballot. Of the ballots cast, Kennedy won 22 and Nixon won 21. Two people were still undecided. Of this total number, 3 were not registered voters. It will be interesting to note on Tuesday whether the student body or the faculty chose the national favorite in our mock election. Volume XLI Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 4, 1960 Number Stee Gee Makes Change In Election Procedure The Legislative Board has voted to change the election procedure that was previously followed when the principal officers of the dif ferent organizations are elected. Under the former procedure, the student body voted for one or two officers every few days; often the elections lasted lor over a month because it was necessary to hold runoffs. The old method was un satisfactory because the voters did not know who was going to run for all the offices until the candidates were announced the day before each election. The election procedure that has been decided on will eliminate run offs and enable the voter to see at once all of the candidates for every office. The slate will have a repeti- Head Presents Piano Recital Mrs. Linda Head, piano instructor in the preparatory department of Salem College will present a piano recital Monday, November 7, at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Mrs. Head received her B. M. and M. M. from the University of Michigan. She has served on the staff of the National Music Camp in Michigan. In 1958, while on the staff of the Brenard Music Center, she was piano soloist with the faculty staff orchestra. Mrs. Head is the wife of Emer son Head, Director of Instrumental Music at Wake Forest College. They have lived in Winston-Salem for two years. Mrs. Head’s program will consist of Bach’s “Partita in E Minor”, Mozart’s “Sonata in C Major”, Bar- tok’s “Suite, Opus 14”, and Shu- bert’s “Sonata in G Major”. Most of us do not know too much about the music faculty unless we are music majors, so f^his is an ex cellent opportunity to get better acquainted with at least one mem ber of the staff. Remember, Mon day, November 7, at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. tion of names so the student will vote on one office at a time in order to protect a candidate’s chances if she is running for more than one office, but all the elections will take place on the same day. Candidates are nominated by the Nominating Committee, the student body, and the respective organiza tions. If there are four girls run ning for an office the voter will put down her first, second, third, and fourth choice; this is preferen tial voting. If four girls are run ning, and two girls are tied or are very close to winning, the second choice votes of the other two can didates are distributed to the two who are tied. In other words, tf candidates A, B, C, and D are run ning for an office and A and B are tied, then the second choice of those who voted for C and D for first choice are distributed to the candidates A and B which should result in a majority for one of the candidates. In preferential voting, if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the highest number of first and second choices together is elected. In Assembly on November 3, two motions were brought before the student body which will be voted on in December. The question is whether the students want to vote preferentially in Assembly or pre ferentially after supper. One dis advantage in voting at Assembly is that there is not enough time dur ing the Assembly to elect all of the officers unless more than one of ficer at a time were elected. NOTICES The deadline for signing up for the Hygiene Exam is November 7. Students must pass this exam be fore entering their senior year. The exam will be given again in the spring. Mid-semester grades will be is sued November 9 and announce ment of second semester courses will be issued November 10. A schedule for the second semester will be published November 18, and registration will be November 21-23 and 28-30. Students should check with their advisors for mid-semester grades. Mrs. Dai Shows Ceramic Display |n Salem Library Ceramics by "Vivian Dai, an ex hibition of stoneware pottery and porcelain, is being displayed on the vestibule balcony of the college lib rary. The display was set up on October 27 and will remain in the library through November 13. It is being sponsored by the Salem Col lege Art Department. Mrs. Dai will also lecture November 8 on Contemporary Ceramics. The lec ture will be at 8 p.m. in the Science Building. The art being shown is the work of Mrs. Bingham Dai, an American- born Chinese, who now resides in* Durham, North Carolina, where herj husband is a professor in the De- \ partment of Psychiatry at Duke University. Mrs. Dai received! training in art at the Newark' School of Fine and Industrial Art, in Newark, New Jersey; she then attended Alfred University in Al fred,. New York, where she was trained in ceramics. In the seven years since she attended Alfred University, the artist has exhibited her work all over North Carolina, including the Craft Center in the James G. Hanes Community Center in Winston-Salem, the local sales outlet for Mrs. Dai’s work. Mrs. Dai works mainly on the potter’s wheel with stoneware clays which she mixes herself in order to obtain the desired texture and coloring. She also mixes her own glazes from minerals rather than buying commercially mixed ones for her pottery. The Ceramics Show is open to the public at the following hours: Weekdays—8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m. Saturdays-—8:00 a.m.-S :00 p.m. Sundays—2:00 p.m.-S :00 p.m. Lynn Ligon and Jette Seear Girls Elect Seear May Queen, Ligon, Attendant Tuesday night, the student body was given a dress review of the candidates for May Queen and Maid of Honor for the class of 1961. After taking a careful look at the girls, ballots were cast and the results were tabulated. Jette Seear, one of the Pfohl House girls was chosen as May Queen. Actually, this was not a real surprise to the members of her class who remember her when she was the only-freshman-to-be-dated- up-for - the - rest - of - the-year by Christmas of her first semester at Salem. Whether this is literally true or not, doesn’t matter. Her beauty has been evident in other ways. Jette has served on the May Court for the past three years, and a more queenly and feminine person could not have been chosen. Jette’s beauty is enhanced by knowing her as well as by looking at her. She is originally from Copen hagen, Denmark, but has been liv ing in Gastonia, North Carolina for several years, with her family. Jette is an art major, and is minoring in English. She has spent quite a few hours modeling in cities around the state, and hopes to work in New York when she leaves Salem. As Maid of Honor, .the stude nts chose Lynn Ligon, a native ■ of Wil mington, North Carolina. She is a Home Economics major and tenta tively plans to teach a year and then go to graduate school for a while. Lynn said that she had a horrible time keeping from showing her ex- citemei ,t when Mary Lu Nuckols called to tell her and to congra tulate her on her honor. “I thought up every way besides English that I could thank her, so that the peo ple passing by the phone wouldn’t know.” Her roommate took her to the Dairy Barn for a treat to cele brate, but all Lynn could get was a cup of coffee. She couldn’t sleep the night she found out, either. “I was too excited ...” Lynn has always been active in the life of Salem. As a member of the I. R. S. Council, secretary of the Judicial Board, as a Scorpion, or as a “feature girl,” she has shown grace and beauty that are 1 not just skin deep.
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