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Campus News
"Skittles
and
by Libby Brown
Beer"
This year, for the first time. Big
3+3 and CAC have decided to
combine the traditional IRS
weekend with Spring Fling.
Both organizations are very excited
about this terrifically entertaining
upcoming event. In the past we
have had difficulty in competing
with other schools’ spring functions
because of date for Spring Fling
which conflicted with Wake
Forrest University’s Spring Fest.
Another reason for the change is
the big name bands our
organizations wanted and tried to
book were not on tour.
As I stated above, this entire
weekend promises to be terribly
entertaining, supercalifragilistic, a
once in a life time labor of love, full
of mirth and merriment, beer and
skittles (Roget’s Thesaurus p.l7),
and not to mention, bring high off
the hog for only $15.00. This
weekend is for YOU (whether you
have a date or not)!
Epicurean Update
by Caroline Swope
Well, Food Committee doesn’t
have much to report on for the past
month. Brunch every Sunday is
still being worked on, and
hopefully we will have an answer
by the next issue of The Salemite.
If anyone has been eating the
bake desserts lately they may
notice more store-bought sweets.
The reason for this is that Rose, our
baker, damaged her back rather
badly when lifting a full mixing
bowl. (For those of you who don’t
know, an institutional mixing bowl
is huge, and can easily weigh any
where from fifty to a hundred
pounds when full). Rose will be out
until mid-summer or perhaps even
as late as next fall, so we have no
baker for awhile. Please try to
remember this if the baked goods
aren’t the same as they usually are,
or if we don’t always have bread on
sitdown nights.
The last thing I need to mention is
something that I had already
written about earlier this year:
taking china and silverware from
the Refectory. As I mentioned last
time, this is considered stealing,
and is punishable under the Honor
Code. At the end of the year when
housekeeping cleans our rooms,
enough china, silverware, and
glassware are found to fill several
boxes. According to Wayne, an
entire table can be filled with the
boxes. It adds up. Some things are
never found, and the prices aren’t
cheap to replace the utensils
either. A cup and saucer cost $4.25
each, plates are $5.65, knifes are
$1.89, and a serving bowl runs
around $12.00. Please, don’t take
things from the Refectory! Money
is in our budget for things like the
wing improvements, and when
almost a thousand dollars worth of
china and silverware is missing or
broken, the money must be used to
replace them. I don’t know about
the rest of you, but Food Committee
has a rather long list of things that
we would love to see done, and
spending money on replacing stolen
goods is not one of them!
April Arts
Coming Soon
by Christy Barley
April Arts has traditionally been
a week in April dedicated to
celebrating the arts. Many students
have often wondered exactly what
April Arts is and when it is held.
Well, a week has been put aside
April 16-20, and events have been
planned for each day. It should be
a lot of fun! There will also be a
few surprises for the student body.
Other activities include the
Archways, Dansalems, distribution
of Incunabula, and Artisans on
campus.
This year’s goal is to get everyone
involved. Salem students have a
lot of talent, and we have great
facilities as well as faculty willing
to help us out.
April Arts committee is excited
about this funfilled week and hope
that everyone is looking forward to
it.
Senior Experience Planned
by Virgina Crable
The Academic Council proposes the following statement for inclusion in the
1990-91 college catalogue:
"Beginning with the Class of 1995 an evaluative Senior experience will be required
of all majors. The Senior experience may take a variety of forms such as a Senior
Seminar. An examination or a major research paper or other forms as deemed
appropriate by each department and the dean of the college will be required. The
method of grading and the amount of credit will be determined by the department."
The Academic Council would like to expand upon the already instituted Senior
Seminars required in majors such as music, art history, and the sciences. The
proposed action will be named a Senior Experience instead of a seminar because it
may or may not take the form of a seminar. However, the proposal will not require
that the already implemented seminars make changes. The form of the Senior
Experience will be left open to the individual departments.
In talking with a few Seniors already engaged in a Senior Experience or Seminar, it
seems that it could be a beneficial institution for all majors.
Jennifer Savage, a senior interior design major, is now doing her senior seminar in
interior design. She had a choice of designing a house, a furniture showroom, a
rehabilitative school, or a fast food chain restaurant. Jennifer chose to design the
furniture showroom. She is required to have a floor plan, a furniture plan, three
perspectives of depth and a model of the showcase. She is required to spend ten
hours a week on her project and will receive a full credit for it. After all the Senior
Seminars are handed in, they will be put in the Student Art Exhibit in the FAC on
April 26.
Heather Glasscock, a biology major, has completed her senior seminar on
estuaries: seaward terminals of a river. The estuaries are characterized by saline
and non-saline water. She is studying the species that live there and how they exist.
The focus of her seminar is on the problem of estuaries in North Carolina. Her
seminar is forty minutes and is required for her biology degree. She will receive a
1 /2 credit for the seminar and was required to spend an adequate amount of time
for research.
Kerry Stovall, an arts management and music major, is doing her Senior Seminar
in chamber music. For her senior seminar she is required to review concerts such
as the On the Town Concerts and other chamber music concerts. Kerry will also be
accompanying Cathy Bowers singing recital as well as participating in a final recital.
All the senior music students will get together and perform their own chamber
music concert on May 4 in Shirley Auditorium. The concert will consist of vocal
students as will as piano, organ, flute, and harp students. Kerry will receive a 1 /4
credit for her seminar and is required to participate in all the student practices in
order to prepare for the performance.
Library News
contributed by Rose Simon
The next time you’re in Gramley
Library, track down the new color
microcomputer (soon to be moved
into the Reference Room). You can
use this computer to consult either a
world or a US atlas, and once you
start, there’s a good chance you
won’t want to stop for hours. You
can select any country or state you
wish, and look up an assortment of
maps (including those with
principal cities, principal
geographic features, and
elevations) as well as a host of
facts and figures about that place.
For the world atlas (PC Globe)
these include population, age
distribution, languages and
religions, health statistics, city
information, GMP figures, resources,
agriculture and industry, imports
and exports, government
information, and facts relating to
culture and tourism. It also
provides information about currency
conversions, time zones, and
distances between cities. Moreover,
it is possible to juxtapose selected
categories for various contries, and
create comparative charts. Best of
all, you can print anything on the
screen onto the paper using the dot
matrix printer.
The US atlas (PC USA) provides
similar types of information for the
individual states, and yet allows
you to examine whole regions of the
country as well.
To use these atlases, just follow
the instructions posted next to the
color microcomputer. Detailed
instructions are also provided there
for those who wish to make
maximum use of this new resource.
Light Reading
contributed by Rose Simon
Interested in finding some light
reading for free? Want to pass
along some of those paperbacks
you’ve already read once and don’t
care to read again? The Paperback
exchange in Gramley Library is just
what you need.
Located on the second floor
Browsing Balcony, the PBE is
housed in a wire book rack. All the
paperback books you find there
have been contributed by people
who left them in exchange for books
they found there and took away.
The principle couldn’t be simpler:
take one, leave one. No checkouts,
no overdues. Keep it as long as you
like. Bring it back and take
another if you want. And enjoy.