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VOL. XXV.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday February 23, 1945.
Number 1 6.
Legislators
Pass Bills
After a heated discussion,
the petition stating that the
election of the off-campus and
on-campus vice-presidents of
the Stee-Gee should follow im
mediately after the election of
Student Government President
was passed by the Legislative
Committee, which met Tuesday
night at seven o’clock in the
Day Student Center.
This question has long been a
point of debate among Salemites,
who believed that it would give the
vice-president-elect more time for
work on the Handbook and that it
would prevent an incapable person
from being elected to this im
portant post. The opposition de
clared that the vice-presidency was
not as important as other major
offices and that the time gained by
electing the vice-presidents earlier
would not justify a change.
The petition that the off-campus
vice-president be made co-chairman
of the assembly committee was pass
ed, while the one concerning points
of the vice-presidents was referred
to the Executive Committee of Stu
dent Government, which handles
matters on points. All of these
petitions, however, must first be
passed by a vote of the student body,
since they are amendn>ents to the
Constitution.
Two petitions concerning social
regulations were also passed by the
Committee. They are as follows:
That groups of Salem students
be allowed to attend concerts any
night without obtaining express per
mission from the dean, providing
they do not have dates and provid
ing they sign out in the dean's office.
That groups of Salem girls be al
lowed to attend a movie on Monday
through Friday nights without it be
ing considered one of the set nights
out, and without obtaining express
permission from the dean, providing
that they do not have dates and pro
viding that they sign out in the
dean’s office and are back by seven-
thirty.
Freshmen have been granted an
extra over-night by the vote of the
Committee on the petition which
states that Freshmen who have earn
ed their merit points and are passing
their work be allowed 6 overnight
absences the second semester, and
that Freshmen with a C plus average
may have 8 overnight absences the
second semester. .
Blanil on Ne4APi
General Patton’s Third Army
has moved eight miles further in
the Moselle Valley in a drive toward
Coblenz. The action on the western
front has been slow in comparison
to that on the eastern front.
The Russians 9re rolling more
slowly toward Berlin now for they
must consolidate their lines. An army
can go only so far until it is forced
to stop in order for its supply lines
to catch up with it. When the Bus-
sian supplies arrive in force again,
their drive will gather momentum
once more.
The Navy’s gigantic bombing of
the principal cities of Japan was a
feat of major strategy and planning.
The raid was highly successful and
the Japanese navy did not appear
to challenge our naval task force
which was only three hundred miles
from Tokyo. Part of this task force
opened its powerful guns on Iwo
Jima, an important operations base
in the Japanese-held Volcano Is
lands. After the heavy bombardment
which knocked out most of Iwo’s
shore batteries, the Marines in vend
ed. The island, which is only eight
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RED” MUELLER
Mr, Mueller
To Lecture
Merriel ‘ ‘ Red” Mueller, America’s
most “blitzed” reporter vvui lecture
Thursday, March 1, in Memorial Hall
at 8 o’clock. Mr. Mueller is the only
correspondent who has circled the
globe since Pearl Harbor, and is a
survivor of more than 1000 . air
raids. In fact, he travels so fast that
his own publication, Newsweek, does
not know where he is from one day
to the next.
It has always been like this, how
ever. At fifteen he left school and
got himself a newspaper job. His
family thought he ought to have
more education and sent him off
to college, but he promptly left to
get another newspaper job. He
wanted his information first-hand.
“Red” Mueller is qualified to talk
about the fighting front. He scoop
ed the world on the Russg-German
war . . . and was almost fired!
Nobody believed him! He was at
Gibralter when the Mediterranean
was a German pond, and he arriv
ed in Malta in time to experience
seventy-five air raids. Then he went
to the Middle East to join Richie
in a sweep across Northern Libya.
Next he went to Singapore and into
the thick of the fight in Sumatra.
He escaped with the Australians to
Java and took part in the hard-
fought evacuation. Thus he goes
from one end of the globe to the
other.
Although he seldom mentions his
honors, Mr. Mueller has the Head
liners Award of Valor, the Purple
Heart, and Regimental Badge from
the French, with an accompanying
Foragiere of the Legion of Honor.
Staff Sponsors
Mr. Sandridge
Mr. W. P. Sandridge, guest speak
er, and Nell Denning, President of
Salem Student Government Associ
ation spoke in assembly Tuesday
morning in a program sponsored by
the Salemite to remind students of
the oncoming spring elections.
Nell Denning outlined the elec
tion system at Salem, calling atten
tion to the privilege each girl has
to nominate candidates by petition
and urging every girl to think and
vote wisely.
Mr. Sandridge’s thesis was that
women, owning the majority of the
country’s wealth, have an unusual
power to influence. Our student
government, experience, he said,
can be valuable training for United
States government and citizenship.
Dean l-l ixson Announces
Changes In Curricula
Sophomores GiDe Aid
To Red Cross Drive
SGA Gives
Memorial
The Student Government As
sociation of Salem College has pre
sented to the library, in memory of
Edward M. Holder, two volumes of
Early Victorian England, a history
of English life from 1830-1865.’
Mr. Holder had requested that
these two books be placed in Salem
Library last year.
Volume I includes early Victorian
costumes, work and wages, homes
and habits in town and country,
sports, and the Army, Navy, and
Merchantile Marines. Volume II
covers the press, art, architecture,
music, drama, holidays and travel,
charity, and expansion and emegra-
tion.
State Boys
To Debate
The North Carolina State College
debate team, under the direction of
Mr. Edwin H. Paget, will give a
demonstration debate here Friday,
March 2 at 6:45 p. m. in the base
ment of Louisa Wilson Bitting build
ing, sponsored by the International
Relations Club. When the State
boys finish, four Salem girls will
give an impromptu debate on the
same question.
The question will be concerned
with govermental control of labor
disputes. The direct clash method
will be used instead of the oratori
cal method.
In this newer method a speaker
on the affirmative has at first six
minutes to define the terms, explain
his proposal, and present what the
affirmative believes to be the fun
damental issues concerned. A neg
ative speaker has a similar six-
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Piii"Ups Now
The Sweetheart contest spon
sored by the Salemite takes place
from 5 to 6 o’clock on Monday
and Tuesday in the Club Dining
Room. Admission is 10 cents and
votes are a penny each.
Proceeds will be converted in
to a war bond to be added to the
swimming pool fund.
New View Book
Is Distributed
The 1945 Salem College View Book
which students have been awaiting
eagerly for some time was returned
from the printers and distributed
on campus this week.
Miss Edith Kirkland, in charge of
the publication, was besieged by
requests for the book, and a long
waiting line outside the Public Re
lations Office spoke for the book’s
success and popularity.
The Sophomore class is giving $40
to the Red Cross War Fund Drive
which is now in progress here at
Salem. The Sophomore class raised
the money by presenting a carnival
which was given last Saturday
night.
Tlie American Red Cross War
Fund Drive is taking'^place on this
campus on Thursday and Friday of
this week. The following girls are
collecting the money, and if you
liaven’t already donated, please do it
tonight.
Clewell: Mary Farmer Brantley,
Doris Little, and Eva Martin
Bullock.
Strong: Betsy Meiklejohn, Mary
Tonnison.
Bitting: Anne Sauls, Nancy Moss.
Lehman: Betty Lou Ball.
Sisters: Rose Mary Cleveland.
"Society: Agnes Bowers.
AnscombeTell
Unknown Facts
“Washington, the Unfamiliar”
was the subject of Dr. Francis Ans
combe when he spoke in Assembly
on February 22.
Dr. Anscombe stated that since
the winning of the war and the
establishing of the presidency under
Washington are familiar to people,
he chose to speak about the unfa
miliar things. To understand some
unfamiliar things about Washington
it is necessary to go back to the
twelfth century. In his line of
ancestors were soldiers, land owners,
ministers, rectors, and educators.
Washington had little book learn
ing. Dr. Anscombe stated that Wash
ington learned much from his as
sociates. He was sent to the West
as a surveyor and there he had to
endure many hardships. He was shot
at and almost killed on one oc
casion. He knew the West and came
back determined that it should be
ceded to the United States.
Washington was a great land
owner and business man. He in
sisted that all his workers do a full
day’s work. He did a full day’s
work too. He traveled a great deal
and would start out early in the
morning.
He was great as a Christian with
a practical kind of religion. As a
gentleman he belonged to the Vir
ginia aristocracy. When Washing
ton was married to Martha Custis,
it appeared that his in-laws settled
on him.
He had to make important de
cisions. One was that he was to be
called Mr. President. Another was
that all communications of foreign,
countries were to be addressed to
the Secretary of State.
Dr. Anscombe discussed the sup
position that Washington Jiad been
killed in the West. No one qualified
to take his place. Washington was
‘ ‘ indispensable.”
^ The work of many weeks by
various facility committees has
culminated in significant and
interesting changes in the cur
riculum, particularly of A. B.
students. Miss Ivey Hixson,
Academic Dean, announced to
day. These changes become
effective in the school year
1945-46, and while they will be
described in the new catalogue,
they are of immediate interest
to the present student body.
The changes made include certain
additional courses and certain var
iations in courses and requirements
that already exist. Realizing that
the first two years are devoted
primarily to basic requirements, the
Curriculum Committee has both en
couraged and approved certain
changes in general background
courses as well as in certain major
fields. From the standpoint of the
major, the changes should enable
the student to leave college with a
greater certainty of sound accom
plishment and with a stronger feel
ing of competence and confidence in
her major subject. A listing of the
curricular changes made will illu
strate the new emphasis upon a
wider background of both general
and specific requirements.
AET
The course in Modern Art has
been rearranged and beginning next
year will include two hours of lec
ture and one two-hour studio period.
Such a change should not only make
the course more effective but should
also afford better preparation in art
for prospective teachers in the pri
mary grades.
CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
For the student who plans to ma
jor in Latin a total of twenty-four
semester hours beyond Latin 3-4
should be completed.
ENGLISH
The course in freshman composi
tion, English 1-2 will not be included
in an English major.
mSTOEY
Work in history for freshmen
will allow a choice between two
courses. U. S. History will continue
to be one of these courses and the
alternate one will be a new course
entitled History of Civilization,
from earliest times and will em
phasize the more significant social,
political, and cultural ideas and de
velopments of all mankind.
A new course to be entitled The
U. S. in World Affairs will supplant
History 214 and History 216 which
are in the present catalogue.
N. C. History will be offered next
year but after that will alternate
with a new course entitled The
History of Latin America.
MODERN LANGUAGE
Students who major in French
and in Spanish will be required to
take a minimum of eighteen semest
er hours above the level of the
courses which now give the survey
of French or Spanish literature,
(i. e. French 103, 104 or Spanish 103,
104). A year course in conversation
and composition will also be re
quired in the language of the major.
RELIGION
A new course entitled History of
Religions is being added to the cur
riculum and will bo taught by Miss
Bonney. This course will give the
history of the living religions in
the world today and will place
emphasis upon Christianity includ
ing a study of similarities and dif
ferences that occur between Chris
tianity and other religions. A pre
requisite of three hours in religion
will be required.
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