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THE SALEMITE
May 12,
Published every Friday of the College
year by the Student Body of
Salem College
OFFICES: Basement of Day Student
Center
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EdItor-in-Chief Carol Quick
Associate Editor —Vicky Hanks
Business Manager — Lillian Young
Managing Editor Sybil Cheek
News Editor Sandy Kelley
Feature Editor Carol Carson
Copy Editor ...- —- Pat Sanders
Advertising Manager ..Mary Lou Atkinson
Photography Editors .Anne Wyche
Lisa Mobley
Headline Staff Sallie King,
Karen Shelley, Jane Bostian, Helen Best
Managing Staff Elizabeth Pridgen,
Hillary Masters, Sandy Kelley
Layout ..Cathy Clements
Circulation Manager — —Debbie Loti
Advisor Mrs. Laura Nicholson
Other writers contributing this week:
Sandy Gills, Kathy Dealy, Annie McLeod, Lyn Davis, Joy
Bishop, Debbie Lotz, Sandy Kelley, Lisa Mabley.
Critics Should Offer New
Alterriatives To The Sign
The new green sign in front of Main Hall has evoked much
criticism from students in the past few weeks. But how much of
this criticism has gone beyond an expression of dislike toward con
structive ideas for improvement? The fact that the student body
wishes the sign to be removed has been well established. We
should not expect action, however, until a sugge.stion has been
made for a suitable replacement. Many possible locations and
styles for a sign exist. For example, could a metallic historical
marker, similar to those seen throughout North Carolina, be se
cured by the college and placed on Church Street by the library?
As citizens of the college community, we certainly possess the
right to dissent. Such a right carries with it a responsibility to con
sider a solution for the problem in question. Anyone who is con
cerned enough to offer thoughtful criticism should have considered
the issue at hand so carefully as to be able to suggest a solution.
An issue now exists on campus—the sign. Let us exercise our
right to dissent. But let us make sure our criticism is valid by
meeting our responsibility and suggesting a replacement for the
sjtanding marker.
C. J. Q.
Imaginative Student Dreams
Of Fun'Filled Cemeteries
By Lynn Flanders
Cemeteries aren’t as much fun as
they used to be, and that’s why
I’d never like to be dead in one.
All the new kinds of cemeteries
are supposed to be calm and serene,
so if you ever decide to go wander
ing around one, you’d just better
be calm and serene. Some people
go wandering around being afflicted
with bereavement which is O.K. if
you like to walk around being
afflicted with bereavement. I don’t
think I’d like that and if I were
dead, I wouldn’t like a whole lot
of people just moping around my
cemetery being like that.
When I’m dead, I want people to
be happy when they come to see
me. I want little kids and their
dogs to be running through and I
want the balloon man to sell his
balloons in my cemetery and I want
people to pick some of the pretty
flowers, but not all of them. Then
I’d really be happy just knowing
that people are enjoying my ceme
tery, and if they didn’t want to see
ghosts they wouldn’t have to see
any. But. if they wanted to play
with some, we’d have a couple extra
on hand. Then we could have a
party and that’s fun. And a lot
more people would hear about how
much fun you can have in a ceme
tery and then everybody would
want to come and we could have a
hotdog stand and maybe a Coke
machine with lemonade in it, be
cause when it’s hot, lemonade is
really good, except the hotdog stand
and the coke machine would have
to be outside the cemetery so it
wouldn’t be ugly.
That’s the way I’d like my ceme
tery to be if I were supposed to
be dead in one. I’d like to know
that people are having fun in my
cemetery and that they’re all the
time not being calm and serene and
afflicted. That’s what I’d really
like—a cemetery for my own self
where I can see all the sit-ins and
the parades and the little kids with
their hot dogs and even the old
balloon man because he’s my friend.
So, whenever you decide to pass
away (that’s how my mother says
you’re supposed to say it when
you’re talking about somebody be
ing dead), just come on over to my
cemetery, because it’s really going
to be pretty and we can just sit
back and enjoy ourselves.
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Lavaliers, serenades, prize-win
ning plants, a coke machine, a
Honda, and an engagement helped
to make this past week at Salem
another unique one.
Chris Mathews won silver, china,
and crystal this week, but, more
than that, she added a Lambda Chi
lavalier to her possessions. George
Findley, a Wake man from Palm
Beach, Florida, followed an example
set by many of his fraternity bro
thers and secured Salem freshman
Chris last weekend.
Monday was Sue Wooten’s birth
day. She’ll find this year’s day
hard to forget, for not only was
she twenty, but she also became
lavaliered to Andy Beard, a Beta
from Davidson. Don’t you wish
you’d celebrate a birthday like that!
What’s this about being asked to
wear a lavalier after only two
dates? You freshmen must have
been extra attentive—or was he a
Lambda Chi ?
Debbie Yager’s serenade last
Wednesday night was certainly
pretty, but to Clewell it came as a
total surprise. Sorry those “jets”
took off during the first song, Deb
bie !
Four spotlights illuminated more
than Nancy Taylor and the Sigma
Chi’s during the serenade Mon
day night. Clewell girls got a chance
to be in the movies . . . but with
hair rollers and a beauty mask? I
guess we’ll forgive them for the
WRA Sponsors
Tennis Match
The morning of May Day proved
to be a big one for Jane Bray and
Donald McLeod, who were the win
ners of the student-faculty tennis
tournament. Play began at 9 a.m.
with eight matches. The winners
of the first round moved to the se
cond round while the losers went
into a loser’s bracket. This bracket
was ultimately won by Bevie Car
ter and John Spitz.
The play in the winner’s bracket
continued to the semi-finals when
Jane and Mr. McLeod played Betsy
Payne and Paul Peterson with the
Bray-McLeod team winning, giving
them a berth in the finals. The
other final’s berth went to Nancy
Richardson and Jerry Surratt, who
defeated Susan Harvard and James
Edwards in the semi-finals. The
finals were held at 11:30 a.m., and
Jane and Mr. McLeod won by a
6-2 score over Nancy and Mr. Sur
ratt in an excellent display of ten
nis.
Besides the activity in tennis,
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1 ffke g/l/i
uare
candid shots since the songs were
so pretty. Next time don’t plug in
the extension cord. Sisters .
Salem may be well known for her
rhododendrons as well as for her
girls and her music. A father who
should know what he’s talking
about remarked that the bloorning
plants on either side of the drive
way between Sisters’ and South
were quite valuable. We have
prize-winning planting, girls!
B. B. James met the coke man-to-
ca!l-in-an-emergency, after she’d
met a policeman while, attired in
p. j.’s, she held up several cases of
cokes inside the machine for over
half an hour. It seems that the
machine wouldn’t surrender its trea
sure for a dime, and B. B. tried to
encourage it. Now the number to
call is enshrined under glass in
Clewell’s front office. Next time
please stay fully dressed, though.
The basement’s drafty when your
hand is being refrigerated.
Julia Daniels discovered a new
way to gain entrance to the infir
mary. Her Honda burn was i
serious, but I heard a rumor'ti l
she’s going to ride one again Ti J
the spirit, Julia! ^ "''M
Mark Livingstone fromriL
Streets of New York has cotnr J
visit Salem s campus as Ran ^ *
a \Vi,.|
ner. Ran, an editor for ""'*'
ston-Salem publisher, and a
Peace Corps man in Thailand kl
engaged Mary Sterns for a' **
summer wedding. Ran, an A
spent two years at Davidson jjl
graduated from Carolina bewS
meeting Salem sophomore, Mit,l
Play practice was really worthwii
for her! *
A note of warning must end f
article, as I have heard stranfl
tales of a Pied Piper in a blue co,
haunting our campus. She
usually seen walking to and irm|
Clewell and the F.D. in sandakiJ
that blue coat, playing straeJ
tunes on her flute (a souveniJ
from Founders’ Day). Be carelJ
... her tune may lure you away J
play, too!
Editorials Express Views
On ECC University Status]
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(Editor’s Note:) Although the
North Carolina General Assembly
recently defeated East Carolina
College’s bid for separate university
status, the issue will probably re
main in the news. The following
articles express two of the prevalent
views on the question.
Gentlemen:
I urge you to support East Caro
lina College’s bid to become a sepa
rate university. I have many rea
sons to support this request; how
ever, the primary ones are as fol
lows :
Under the present consolidated
organization, there will be for
North Carolina’s college students
only one educational philosophy
steming from one focal point and
then dispersed to the other units in
the system. In a separate state-
supported system, this can be avoid
ed and North Carolina’s students
will have a choice of educational
philosophies still within the frame
work of the state-supported system.
Secondly, the accusation that ECC
will create duplication is hypocriti
cal because the present system now
is educationally duplicated at the
four existing campuses. North Caro
lina State University is now offer
ing liberal arts degrees that are
available at UNC-CH. Several years
ago N. C. State College was a
highly specialized technical institu
tion with nationally recognized
identity. Now its program is lead
ing it toward “another” good liberal
arts school.
Also, Woman’s College at Greens
boro was formerly known as the
country’s second largest and best
women’s institution in the United
States. Now, male students are on
the campus and there is rumor of a
sports program to compete with
other colleges. In summary. Wo
man s College has lost its identity
and is becoming “another” liberal
arts university.
The University of North Carolina
at Charlotte has been created. This
campus must have professors, phy
sical facilities and money to operate
as does UNC-CH, UNC-G, and
IM- C. State University at Raleigh,
yet still offer the identical liberal
arts curriculum that is available at
these above listed units. Is this not
duplication in its purest form?
It has also been stated that edu
cational competition among separate
state-supported universities will
bring economic disaster to the state
and that general competition should
be avoided. It is human nature to
compete and as humans we all want
the most results from our money
for the least effort or expenditure
By competition, the people of North
Carolina would be the beneficiaries
because competition would bringtJ
highest utilization of money sp!|
on the educational process.
The only method to detcmiij
what unit is fulfilling its goals iti|
using its facilities to its higl
capabilities is by competition.
Perhaps the greatest fearinll(|
consolidated system lies in its “li
ness.” On the national scene o»|
can see what happens when (
gets too big. Politically, Noill
Carolina has fought the bigness j|
a centralized federalism and
been historically in favor of 1»
ism. Yet, in education we pro[w|
to create a centralized giant I
will be a monster to handle in l:t|
future because this system will tel
its touch with the local citizemi
Every day we fight to maintain os|
identity and try to prevent
ing a number. Must we hasten tisl
trend by creating a non-indivm
istic educational system whereby if
student loses his identity in the bifl
ness of a vast educational empire! I
I ask you to please vote to creatil
a separate university at East Caiel
lina and to prevent North Carohl
from degenerating into a chaoli|
condition that now exists in I
State of California.
Michael L, Bun*! I
A letter to the General AsseM
reprinted from the Greenil«i|
Daily News.
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That was a strange concept obi
university which Durhanis 1*|
Lenox Baker expressed at
week’s legislative hearing on t* 1
of East Carolina College to
a university separate from the *|
solidated University. Df', ,
said that the state, in grantinS
college independent i|
tus, would be supporting the I
cation of the little man, the ave ■
man, not the Phi Beta Kapp* I
the Ph.D.” , J
Perhaps Dr. Baker, who is ® ■
man of the State Board of
was not expressing the , J
Heii
ministration’s view of the
the Greenville institution.
he had never seen the tta®? J
Greenville and was i ii|
supporters of the college as J
to appear at the hearing-
Dr. Baker was not exactly e
ing an official view, he was e
ing a view widely
Carolinians who want East C*
ome a
Consolidated
College to become a university
rate from the
sity system. jjj*
North Carolina, of ' (jot*
be concerned about the ®
young people who are ca
“average.” Certainly
dents deserve as much a |
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