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THE SALEMITE
April 26, 1953
Published every Friday of the College
year by the Student Body of
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Southerners Doubt, HuntAnswefl
r q'l c Jefferson and Abraham why aren t you? . . “We
(Editor’s note: This article, was of Ihomas spirit to move slow y m this matter,.,
;Sten by the editor of The Daily and he ch gWe die people time to adapt” , „
wriuen y which the sou “Don’t be impatient, don’t be i-
r'/-snfpflpracV. . i *
(Editor’s note: This article . was
written by the editor of The Daily
Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, and is re
printed with his permission)
By Jim Clodfelter
Initial desegregation within the
South is history. The first shallow
step has been taken into the cur
bers the Confe^’eracw ^ ^ h„rry”
c-iJy'jSr’of'the’ student’s life, a You know why
cany aicrnssion.
they
want to
toific Sch broached no discussion, adapt, you know how painful
no Lbate or controversy, no op- is to _^anyjyhi^ Southemers, b„,
position to
Who Is At Fault?
ae le of our farulty i. lirailPl, th* Wotgrouml ot our
“* wT‘orip?tho,'st wt may, wo do not make Ml nee of what
i, IftrS Laa? year there was mueh enthusiasm oyer the new
w!ua„e iab-“What a wonderful opportunity!” everyone said,
norrfany students who claim to be “vitally interested” in
their studies, who complain that they wish there were moie
p'rench courses offered, or Spanish courses, or German courses,
do not bother to use the facilities that are available.
How many students do not take full advantage of our libiaij
—with its film room, its browsing room, its new education
room its magazine and newspaper racks'? _
Those students who complain about the limited view pom e
they feel they are receiving because only one or two professors
teach their inaiors—have they discussed vital issues with those
one or two professors? Can they honestly say that they have
learned all that those professors have to offer?
We are for the most part, from similar backgrounds; henc ,
we have similar values and goals. “We need more varied back
grounds,” we complain. “We need to he exposed to people
unlike ourselves—to understand others from first-hand experi
ence ” Yet, when someone “different” comes to Salem, do we
listen to what she has to say? Do we seek to know and under
stand her ways? NO! We force her into seclusion or open
rebellion because she’s not like ns, because we cannot convince
her that our ways are right. . ,, ■
Do we really know what we wmnt? Are we perhaps blaming
Salem for some of our owm shortcomings? If so, whom will we
blame when we leave?
B. irl.
Liiruv^i ^ *
the majority opinion, still, you feel very frustrated..,
Mcp iiaa - pLj.:iiLiOn 10 everybody You ask, how long, how lone-
rents of Iwcnlicth century peaceful knew, and every You^ J, hundred yS
race relations. kept quiet. ^ , efferent situa- You were born with eighty vp,,’
The integration “inoyement is There is a jo against you, years which your an-
continuing history. It has acce - tion rfo„ and integra- cestors allowed to build up
rated greatly in the past nine yeys talk a on ,■ ^ fb „ow no solution to the problem.
and will continue. Many of he tion, American, ^,3, ,ge E old enough to be,,
ll■'lders m this movement — tne can lead to aen^j Uq , , 1 • , , ”‘”1
figures who give it much of its Southern generation J® ^ so, let us begin, and let us wotl
spicuo7s“amo^g'?hesetre"\he Su- |n‘Tmor!ifvindication American ^ f longer want that sivorj
them white students-why are they principles against the physical ^ ^^^r my head. It has bee,
[ . background of the South. Ihe de 1 was born and I ,1,
. 1 ivite on integraton has been going ^jj.gj g,f burden.
humanitarian-'they "Le” motivated on for a long 3^^re ^
also by seU-b.tcrest, bccansc the “ ‘■“'""'"YSSdnt I'earcbing for
,eeb rho rerr.bl. grosence,. ,»os«. .his is ?! “ -
of shame following him wherever
he goes, and wants to be rid of
the shame.
He sees the racial problem as a day.
' ■ " The Southern college student can
understand the prejudices which
they feel tb's is possible, so that it i.
feel this
“question” or
national one, for whose solution all
of America must work. As a South-
01 America mUSl worn. a. unoror-rr—o. - .
erner, the problem is most acute plague his people, but more clearly,
in his region: he must work he senses the shame when that pre-
hardcst.
judice leads to defiance of the led-
„ solution. And
the solution. And they feel tms longer even a
is the age and the year and the »
For the Southern student then
is a peculiar obligation in all this-
peciiliar because the shame is so
close, not next door but in his ow,
home. The problem cannot be I
irdcst. jiiuiku rrr -- scch as next door, or tomorrow,
Tire problem has brought a tense oral government and to violence s ,3^^
feclirrg w.thin the student of up- something of an ^ /hte rt
heavcl from old values and prin- the most educationally-backward
p-iples — an upheavel characteristic
of the last twenty years of con
tinual political crisis and chronic
moral confusion. •
Every young Southerner can
vouch for virtually the same in
herited feelings toward the black
man — the wonder and uneasiness
which every city’s “Niggertown”
caused. The Southerner can re
member when, as a child, he asked
his father why those colored pco-
shut out.
The student doesn’t want to bt
shadowed by this shame the rest
of his life. Always before him is
the dream of America which m |
have constructed for ourselves,
CommitteePlan
Social Aspects
For Orientation
The Orientation Committee,
headed by Irene Rose, will have its
first meeting May 1. Plans for all
the social aspects of freshman
orientation are to be completed by
Reading Day. The meeting, called
for next Wednesday, is to set up
objectives for the non-academic
orientation.
Following a suggestion by last
year’s Orientation Committee, the
eliainnan of this year’s committee
is not the president of the rising
senior class, the traditional chair
man. She was elected by the ris
ing seniors specifically for this
position.
'Tish Johnston, president of
Legislative Board, will be in charge
of another aspect of orientation
lhat of making the incoming fresh
man aware of the traditions, func
tions, and spirit of Salem and her
organizations
planning for two of Salem s an
nual publications, the handbook and
Bricks, Books and All That, is
nearing completion. All material
for the handbook is in the hands
of the committee chairman.
Symphony Has
Last Concert
The desire to go faster, be done
nst cdncationally-DacKwara . , , , , , . ’ . '
os: tunc j with the whole thing sooner, is all
renion of the nation, the Southern ^
rc.gion OT nu , ^[^g gjgj^tgj. because you realize yo,
student sees his obligation to help zz 1 1
Siuaeni see. b are the sufferer as much as tbt
save the South from its misguiaea
s.ue uic ..uLJLii Negro. The young white man 1,
friends who, in trying to preserve
rnemi.s \ ^ search of a broad education from
the Southern way ot life, only • 1 . • t ,i ■,
, n all sources, is shut m by the racial
clmc to those customs old and ugly. . ,1 w ■
. barriers as surely as the Negro«
From earliest years in elementary
school, all z\raericans are taught
that the Declaration of Indepen
dence with its ringing statement
that “all men are created equal,”
...... , was the world’s greatest document
pic lived in “that” section of town, of freedom and liberty. Southern
why they worked as mauls and gar- children are taught this too. This g This dream is always
deners, and why they went to dif- is another case of the ever present ^gf^,.g „„„
ferent schools, why they ate m shame—claiming to be what you
different restaurants . . . And are not, preaching to the world the * ^ , n
glories of democracy, and at the Pot fbe Southerner who loves liis
same time, subjecting a large mi- nation and his South, the obligation
noritv of your region, your town, 's clear to vindicate his dream ol
to second-class citizenship. America, to cleanse the nation oi
As the Southern student sees the shame which his neighbors anJ
them, the issues of racial integra- ancestors have allowed to exist lot
tion have to do with time and with so long.
conscience. The problem is here and now and
uiuii, rtb a. uiiiiu. ±111= 1= mu mu,- This is one of the most decisive it was here yesterday and shoulii
ing that torments every Southerner factors in the whole desegregation be gone by tomorrow. It is 1
as he attempts to reconcile the two muddle. It hangs threateningly over question of conscience for tlifi
cultures and two traditions which all discussions. The student always Southern student, and a question oi
he inherits as an American and a is asked by older Southerners, time, and the time is now and no |
Southerner: the egalitarian ideals “Your father was a segregationist, man’s conscience will wait.
Suntans, Pins Involve Salemites;
More Unfamilar Cars Hit Campus
father answered coldly — with the
same vague sense of horror as if
you had asked about sex—that was
just how things were and always
had been and always would be.
And you soon learned not to ask
those questions.
'That uneasiness was fleet, even
then, as a child. This is the feel-
I'he Winston-Salem Symphony
presents its last in a series of five
concerts on Tuesday, April 30, in
Reynolds Auditorium at 8:15 p.m.
A variety of selections will be pre
sented including excerpts from
“West Side Story,” a Mozart con
certo, Prelude to the fourth act of
“Aida,” ballet music from “Faust,”
Bach’s “Arioso,” and “The Fire
fly” (Friml).
Music majors from Salem parti
cipating in this presentation in
clude Anne Cleino, June Beck, Jo
Dunbar, Sigrid Ostborg, and Fran
ces Speas. Faculty members parti
cipating are Mr. Eugene Jacobow-
sky and Mrs. Richard Bloesh.
Tickets may be bought at the door
for one dollar.
The two new pins on campus I
By Billie Peele and Sue Humphreys Other trips involved Cacky Hub- dent whom her mother visited ill
Around the square or around the bard, Baird Brown, Babs MacRae, India,
pool? Everyone is now furiously and Aline Hearing to Sewanee;
working on those good tans for Sally Day to W & L; Mary Law- , cy nln froiil
Babcock sun spot and the rence Pond to V. P. L; and Mason Tmka Lee a P ,
Kent to V M I Carolina—and to Judy Aylwara
Jo Dunbar had Bunn, Salabury, ‘'“‘" I
Frances Holton, Pat Lee, and ' . , c,.|
Marty Paisley over to her house What was all the excitement I
for a cook out. morning, seniors. I
fiarsha Lynne McClement and Chuck unfamiliar c
Forrester. Daphne had a special P/GU went to Hanging Rock, while campus that looked quite nev
treat while she was there: she was eat ler Peebles, Sue Cook, and ® , cinel
serenaded! Also at Davidson were ^ay Austin entertained here. South Planning a big weekend at I
Elinor Trexlor, Carol Colbert, Lorni gave Fallie Lohr a miscellan- Sing are hardened criminals Br' |
Susan O. Smith, Mary Jane Har- cons bridal shower. After your Barrs and Ross Clark.
By the way, maybe the gifb j
, — u, plan to go off next weekend
Johnston, Wookie Workman, Judy Linda Hodges went home to talk.
Summerell, and Becky Newsome. about the sophomore’s foreh
summer.
swimming pool seem to be crowded
nearly every day, but Tanglewood
and the tennis courts have had
their share of people too.
Off to Davidson last weekend
were Vicky Auman, Daphne Du-
kate, Gayle Remmy, and Marsha
vu. - your
rell, Sandra Morgan, Zellc Holder- week of sick leave, welcome back
ness, Sue Elliot, Ellen Perry, Tish Jnnice Glenn!
want to talk to Kay Shugart at)° |
'em stu- a ride in her new(?) car.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In connection with the
series on religion. Dr. j
will speak on Thursday, ®
Dr. Depp was formerly min'*
Centenary Methodist Churc ■
The Chapel program fof j|,(
April 30, will be presented W
Music Composition class.
time original compositions "
presented.