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THE S A L E M1 T E
February 27.
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Before the end of March the new officers of
Student Government and campus organi
zations will have been elected. These officers
will be members of Salem College — your
friends, maybe your roommate. Each girl
will have a responsibility, a job to perform,
a standard to which she mpst live up. But
yo\i also have a responsibility—a personal one
—for it is you who elects the officers.
You are the important person in the coming
elections. It is within your power to elect
a person to office. Have you ever stopped to
think what this means? The person who en
ters an office must have personal courage as
v'ell as convictions. She must possess cap
ability, self-reliance, and tolerance. She must
sincerely believe in the ideas and ideals of
that particular organization.
An election is not a popularity contest.
Certainly a nominee should be someone who
is friendly and understanding, but there is
more to it than that. An officer must act in
an official capacity—that is, she must carry
out the duties and regulations of her office
without prejudice. She must further campus
activities as well as execute the rules set up
by you, the student body.
When you choose officers, remember you
are selecting the ones who will put you on
restriction if you break a rule; you are select
ing the ones who will plan your Christmas
and May Day week-ends; you are selecting
the ones who will edit campus publications.
You must have respect for these girls and be
willing to co-operate with them. Without
your help and support, they are powerless to
fulfill their duties.
There are no restrictions on voting at Salem
College. You do not have to be twenty-one
years of age, neither do you have to pay a
poll tax. There are no party polities or vote
getting campaigns, nothing but the qualifica
tions of candidates to influence your choice.
So come to chapel next Tuesday, the opening
day of elections, and vote. You are free to
choose the girl you want—it’s up to you.
C. M.
Honor. What aspects of campus life should
be under the honor system?
Most students generally agree that academic
regulations should be upheld by the indivi
dual’s integrity.
Most students seem to feel that social re
gulations also belong under the honor system.
But there is another matter for eonsidera-
tion. Should not library rules also be sup
ported by all honorable students? Is it not
unfair for people to take reserved books out
of the library without signing them out?
Books are placed on reserve by teachers so
that all students will be able to use the books.
Takmg reserved books out of the library illeg
ally is a true breach of the honor system and
shows a lack of consideration for others.
P. C.
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NONCOhiEORMiST,
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Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
Every Monday night Salemites
are offered an opportunity to at
tend recitals whicli are given by a
Salem student, faculty member or
faculty member from another col
lege. But every Monday night
there are only a few people in the
main auditorium and still fewer
people in the balcony. Why ?
It seems to me that music is as
much a part of education as get
ting your lessons, adjusting to
dormitory life, or reading books in
the library. I think that students
are missing a chance to broaden
their understanding of the music
of their predecessors and their con
temporaries as well as see and
hear various instrumental and
vocal music performed.
Salem certainly doesn’t make a
good showing when a guest has
spent long hours practicing, and
appears on the stage to find around
fifteen or twenty people to applaud
his efforts.
In a few weeks the senior piano
majors will be giving their grad
uating recitals. These girls have
spent four years of hard work in
preparing for this occasion which
to any piano student is a dream
come true. How many Salem stu
dents will have the school spirit
to be loyal to their fellow class
mates ?
Students say they have term
papers or assignments to do, but a
recital takes only one hour of their
time. This takes no longer than
sitting in the basements of the
dormitories smoking and talking
or sipping a “coke” in the drug
store. To the argument that stu
dents don’t like to dress up for the
recitals, I might add that students
are not required to do so if they
sit in the balcony.
There is one conclusion to draw.
Students find time to do things
they want to do. They do the
things they enjoy and understand.
So by attending the recitals a stu
dent will grow to understand and
enjoy music.
• When the next recital is given
on March 9 by a senior piano stu
dent, how many students will be
there ?
Edith Flagler
Dear Editor:
We have here at Salem a great
many rules and regulations which
we are expected to uphold. There
are those rules with moral impli
cations such as the ones regarding
drinking, cheating in classes and
falsifying sign-out information.
There is another regulation that
is listed in the handbook along
with those mentioned above: a
serious penalty may be inflicted
for smoking in dormitory rooms.
The implication of this rule is not
moral, although an infraction would
be a moral issue; but rather it is
a practical one.
This regulation is not included
in the handbook to make our list
of rules longer or to restrict our
wishes simply for the sake of re
striction. This is often the attitude
of some.
This regulation is necessary for
our protection and safety. We
fail to recognize this fact and argue
against its necessity. We say, “We
smoke in date rooms; so why not
in our rooms?”
There is an answer to this. The
date rooms are usually occupied
with a number of girls who un
consciously see where ashes fall
and consciously put out cigarettes.
People constantly walk in and out,
and a fire could be noticed im
mediately.
Our rooms are not public. There
are not often more than three or
four people there at one time.
There is a possibility of falling
asleep while a cigarette is still
burning.
We say that Bitting, Strong, and
Clewell are fire-proof. This is not
completely true or possible. It
might be true if the buildings were
stripped of curtains, bed spreads,
rugs and all clothes. The steel
beams and cement floors will not
burn, but sweaters and skirts will.
These are all practical argu
ments. We should realize the nec
essity of this rule. It is for us
completely. It is to protect our
lives. Why can’t we understand?
Alison Britt
Ulysses
By Cynthia May
Yet, he still was a man
Who lived by his creed.
And that was a creed of honor.
Though his sword was. stained
With the blood of many,
He lived by his creed of honor.
His honor drove him for twenty
years
To live by the crust of the earth
And to fill the soil with the blood
of those
Whom he fought in the battle
for life.
The lies that he told were count
less and many
For these protected his honor.
They were never bad and mostly
good,
And they saved, many times,
misfortunes.
He was a man of revenge and he
carried it far.
Revenge, too, protected his honor.
The men and women he killed
without mercy,
Fullfilled his desire for revenge.
Yes, he was a man who lived by
his creed.
And this man’s creed was honor.
Men have lived by other creeds.
Like love and truth and justice.
All these and more came under his
creed,
But most important was honor.
Ulysses, most godlike, was only a
man
And as man, he too was not
perfect.
By Sally Reiland
Abbie Ambition slotted herself into tht
spacious leather lounging chair in the living
room of her suite. Burying her stylishly^>«t
head of hair in her meticulously mauicurej
pair of hands, she sobbed hysterically, mop,
ping her mascaraed eyelashes with her Salem
blazer.
She had tried so hard to make a success of
her life, and now her dreams were shattered.
The month of February—the month of famoos
people—was almost over, and she had yet t«
become reknown in any of her many fields of
endeavor. It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried
hard enough; in fact, on the contrary, she was
convinced that she had tried too hard!
Recalling her failures of the month, the fii'sl
that came to mind was her attempt to be lila
George Washington. Smee she saw, however,
no direct resemblance between herself and th
father of the country, she launched a cam
paign to become the mother of Salem. Sh
would comfort those distressed by biology
labs and cure the victims of musichallitis.
Signs were posted announcing the times wiei
“Miss Abbie—the brighter light of life al
Salem” would be available for consultation,
The result was dreadful 1 Instead of mott-
ering the girls as was planned, Abbie was
mothered into staying on back campus far
three weeks by the IRS, who apparently
took her intentions most miserably. She nevei
did quite understand it though—and she
trying so hard to be helpful too. Oh, well-
such is life.
And then there was the time before tlia
that Abbie had worked up a mock “War Bf
tween the States” as a project in her history
class—all because this month’s hoyfrienr
Valen Tine, was a descendant of good old Ab
He had bet her the pair of unfinished argyk
she had knitted him for last year’s birthdj
that Grant could still lick Lee—and she k
fused to concede the point to him.
Well, anyway, refused until the end of tl
first day’s battle during which a multitude
not-too-weli incidents occurred. It seemt
that the history professor himself w'as strut
with a flying saucer and his companion sps
tered wuth a dough hand grenade in the
eral direction of the home ee. lab. Not on
had a trustee been enwrapped in a cloud
“pink violets” powder smoke, but some fell#'
I’ebel had also fired a shot of pure H20 froi
behind the willow tree which spotted 4
braid on one of the dean’s uniforms. By
time that night fell, Abbie had been tate
prisoner by the Student Government and
forced to call a truce on the basis of haviis
used “modern implements of warfare”, si*
liar to those often in use on the campus todsj
Now, to further her self-injury, she ti*
failed in her last attempt at greatness. W
sure that any notable actress had been boH
in February, but relatively certain that W
duty was now to command the stage, ratb
than an army or a country, she had gone I*
preliminary tryouts for Broadway, then bein'
held on Old Chapel Boulevard. The tra®
was terrible, but she managed to get throu!
to the stage.
And here she was—five days, three nin*
orized scripts, several voice lessons, a n)
cure and a hair-designing later; ready for
dramatic dehut—as the mute maid in ft
dent-written play entitled “The UnimportaiH"
of Being Ambitious.” Lifting her face
the mascara-covered blazer, another mett*'
of her past ambitious attempts pounced
her from absolutely nowhere—It was b
produced—the play that she spent all of
year’s comp class writing!
She wondered if a playwright had
authority to change the title of a play.