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Editor-rn-Chief
..Carol Quick
Associate Editor Vicky Hanks
Business Manager Lillian Young
Managing Editor —Sybil Cheek
Music Reveals Salem Spirit
In Varied Campus Activities
Within the limits of campus Salemites have long-since seemed
to be carrying on a love affair with music. Not only do the aca
demic offerings of her college community include a special school
of music, but a general attraction to musical expression seems to
characterize the student body as a whole.
The sophomore skit for their senior "Big Sisters" last week is a
most suitable illustration of this fact. In this capacity music served
as the primary vehicle of expressing the close sister relationship
between these two class groups—just as the essence of melody
and song have in general provided an outlet of student en
thusiasm for Salem in such activities as Founders' and Parents'
Day skits, FITS events, and Senior Follies.
Lacking the necessity for spirited team cheers, Salem's student
body has effectively substituted music instead, coupled with dance
and drama, as a comparable outlet of expression and school
spirit. The repeated manner in which the students utilize the
medium of music might be better known as another Salem tradi
tion. . . . But whatever the term of reference, Salemites seem to
find in their music an involvement that yields enjoyment and acts
as a source of expression. What's more, this music functions to
highlight the significance and meaning of memories of the vari
ous facets of college life "around the Square."
SNC
Salemites Have Privileged
Voice In Student Affair
The Salemite staff were among guests of the editors of the Win
ston-Salem Journal and Sentinal at a banquet Tuesday night.
Guest speaker Warren Montgomery, co-editor of the Ring-tum-phi
at Washington and Lee University, urged college editors to select
one problem on campus on which to concentrate their editorial
efforts. Presumably, the newspaper can evoke enough interest
among power groups on campus to bring the problem to the at
tention of Student Government.
The topic of Mr. Montgomer/s speech makes one realize the
unique situation at Salem. "Power groups" as such do not exist.
Student Government officers represent the student body, and not
individual political parties. An issue does not need to be widely
publicized before it even comes to the attention of Student Govern
ment. A petition, signed by only ten per cent of the student body
must be acted upon by Legislative Board. Salem is fortunate to
have such a political system. But only when students take advant
age of such a system can it be effective.
May 5
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By Jane Litton and
Janie McCaslin
New> Editor ...Sandy Kelley
Feature Editor Carol Carton
Copy Editor Pat Sanders
Advertising Manager ..Mary Lou Atkinton
Photography Editors Anne Wyche
Lisa Mobley
Headline Stoff Sallie King,
Karen Shelley, Jane Bosiian, Helen Best
Managing Staff Elizabeth Pridgen,
Hillary Masters, Sandy Kelley
Layout Cathy Clements
Circulation Manager Debbie Lotz
Advisor Mrs. Laura Nicholson
Open Letter to High Tide:
And great was my rejoicing to
learn that my blind date falls on
that saturnalia of festivities, that
apex of the social season known to
every sunworshipper as Surf City.
Can’t wait to get the old surfboard
out and hand ten on Ka-mai-a-
mai-a Beach. Won’t the boys love
my new Beach Boys albums and
the cute pink racing stripe down
my board—signed in genuine rhine
stones by the Big Kahunah.
Of course, fat globular bodies
have permeated my bathing suit—
exposing to the whole beach the
dimples on my limbs. Oh chagrin!
what to tell Nigel when he notices
the drag as he starts to show the
hodad his perfect style—no longer
a perfect size seven, and Nigel looks
so groovy in his jams. I guess a
size 13 won’t look too bad if my
hair grows much more . .
I hear the surf’s up in Miami;
Pair Discusses
ApartmentRule
Dear Editor:
We would like to express an
opinion which we feel is prevalent
regarding the apartment rule. As
of now the rule appears highly in
effective judging from both the re
sults of the Student Government
questionnaire and informal student
discussions. We feel that this rule
is restrictive and is not constructive
in the development of character
during a student’s college years.
Those college years are univer
sally a transitional period during
which a student emerges from a
state of dependency to one of being
depended upon. A student must
learn to make basic decisions about
personal conduct in order to be
come a mature individual. How can
a girl who is given specific rules to
apply to any situation learn to fend
for herself? We quote from Mil-
ton, “I cannot praise a fugitive and
cloistered virtue, unexercised and
unbreathed, that never sallies out
and sees her adversary.”
Personally we feel that our par
ents trust us in situations which
they do not supervise, to make our
own decisions relying on our up
bringing. If our parents have con
fidence in us, certainly Salem
should.
A possible alternative to the
apartment rule would be to include
parental consent on the general per
mission slip. In this way Salem
could be assured that a student and
her parents concur in their attitude
on this situation.
Sincerely,
Ann Haas and Margie Dotts
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By Carol Carson
The weekend of April 30 brought
many new things to Salem College’s
campus. The clock added an hour
to the day while eight Salemites
gained baubles for their daily at
tire.
Louise Sherrill must have made a
hit with Keith Sykes, a Davidson
Sigma Nu. Only four days after
initiation, Keith lavaliered her.
Davidson’s Sig Eps have also
visited Salem and left reminders
with Jane Wilson and Jeanne Ross.
Jeanne’s screaming entry into Cle-
well Monday night was preceded
only by the news that Gene Linton
had lost his lavalier to her. Larry
Caldwell, realizing that the green
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beautiful
maybe it’ll hit Nags Head by Fri
day. Sure would love to be in the
surf when it comes. Maybe you
could catch a wave and come up.
Oh! I saw the best movie last
Saturday night at the Flamingo—
Bonneville Baby. You won’t believe
the scene—sparks, salt and tires
all over the screen. Next they
moved to the strip with all the hip
pies on trips—talk about way out—
Man, that ain’t nothing like O. D.
at Easter, though. Every bike in
the country was there—Mass hys
teria, baby—I’ve never seen such a
collection of rockers.
By the way, thanks for sending
me your Frederick’s of Hollywood
new summer special catalogue. I
really love the mod bikinis.
My punk brother got his first
swatch blade last night—made it in
the shop class—works really w’ell—
he’s still practicing though. Oh!
he got in U. N. C. yesterday. Guess
maybe that’ll settle him down some.
Well, what can I say? Every
thing’s roses up here — Write me
soon.
the rays at fun city t
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myself, “Self^
said
I
there ain’t
on you,” and proceeded J*’
up the beach to catch N.gel ti
Tuesday. There we were, f
me, doing handstands on °
board (we shared) and what sC
happen next but that Nigel triel: "
smooth on in (much to i
As I was talking to NigelT' ,
te
Nigel
to Nigel, I said, “Nigel, g,.: j;
slice you three ways: long
and frequently if you’re notolff
board in three seconds.” (11,3,1;
blade stashed in my bikini.) \:-
Nigel couldn’t stand the press-'
so he wasn’t able to leave i,
enough. Trouble is, just before*,
left, he finished me off by seit-
the board (with me atop)
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back to Miami. So, M. S., whaifW
Fly it, dad.
Mustang Sally
Open Letter to Mustang Sally:
want you to do is have a real
time at Surf City with N
probably would have floated atom
for the rest of my life if it
not for Wayne (who is yet anofc
story) who happened by on an is
ner tube and helped me pal|
ashore. And great was my reliil
You really botched it by m
catching a dog to Miami lastwti
Tommy Kirk, the big screen swo*
was in town. When I saw
was so overcome that I just pass#
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right on out. Luckily, Marie m
Mustang, baby.
Gotcha note, kid, and boy are you
ever in for a low blow. You mean
I ain’t never told you about this
time last year when I hit Surf City
with your one and only Nigel ?
Well, what I want to do right now
is relate the events. I was just sit
ting here thinking just how sharp
I am when Nigel dialed my number
and said that what he didn’t want
was grief and what he did want
was to hang all ten as he took in
with me at the time and got It
to autograph my genuine 8
ture of him that I had purcha
at the five and ten just fortbe*
casion.
Sorry, kid, but I haven't tih
pen in hand to put down sc®
words for so long that my
exhausted from the effort W
what more can I say but “conlt:
those curls.” Catch you Tuesday.
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High Tide
Legislature Specifies Law
On Purchases Of Liquor
By Beth Taylor
Those officials who have, since December, been unhoppilj^W
from supplying their usual amount of liquor at parties can be«
lieved of such a stigma now that the brown bagging controvefi)
has been resolved. By the Turlington Act of 1937 liquor drinki^
was legal only within the home. Social gatherings with their*
liberal use of whiskey, coupled with more liberal enforcement!
the '37 law, instigated the popular "brown bagging" that ensytj
Then last December (yes, around Christmas party time, remeral)!i,
the Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that the act, outddi*
though it might be, was still in effect.
The more fashionable restaurant owners felt a little t- .
and beach motels and hotels, knowing that lack of season port"
would be economically damaging, were cautious yet liber®
their own adherence to the ruling. It was time for a change,
less than two hundred words. Senator John Burney, Jr., of Wil*
ington (New Hanover County), stated his proposal for the
zation of brown bagging. From that one-page Senate Bill Ni
the House and Senate created a fifteen-page "house com®®
substitute for Senate Bill 2." The senators became tagged as*
liberals of the issue and the representatives as the conservatir*
with final substitutions and compromises coming to comp"™
with the passage of the bill on Friday, April 22.
Now each brother at a fraternity party can legally bring
him up to one gallon of bourbon (gin, Scotch, your preferencsr
long os the fraternity has a liquor permit. However, he ra™
carry his bottle in the front seat of his car with him if the sea
been broken. Vacationers can throw cocktail parties in their ®
(rnountain) motel rooms this summer, for liquor is permitted
places of "secondary residence.
Those staunch, dry counties will not escape the provisions of'
bill, for these provisions will be applicable to all one hund
counties of North Carolina. Liquor drinking will be per["
only m restaurants of counties with ABC stores. However,"
municipality of a dry county establishes a legal ABC store,
whole county will become "wet." For those under 18
who are interested in the age restriction, the following state^
l^s mjrestingly worded: "The act provides that no person an ^
could legally purchase liquor, and no one under 18 could H
purchase beer." This seems to hint that our legislators know ,
tk mixing Whiskey Sours with the lipua
hey have bought (with their false ID's or from an accommotld
triend who was born in 1945).
Other writers contributing this week:
oy Bishop, Lyn Davis, Sandy Kelley, Sandy Gills, Dorot
ness, Anne Calhoun, Debbie Lotz, Becky Bolt, Anne