To Date Or
To Stagnate
By Emily McClure
Lovely sunshiny fall weather had
prevailed up until a few days ago,
when the slam of a door marked
the departure of the last wise soul
and the beginning of a torrential
and ominous rainfall. To the few
unfortunate creatures left, the dull
thud of the closing door seemed
the sound of their hearts sinking
to the floor in unison. Contribut
ing to the dreary atmosphere, the
cloud wept in sympathy, seeming
to know what lay ahead.
Yes, you guessed it. The re
maining students w'ere faced with
that predicament in comparison to
which even the grave seemed more
w^clcome — a weekend at Salem
without a date. The first thing
they did was to discuss the ques
tionableness of their sanity, for
everyone was fully aware anybody
in her right mind had gone to
either Carolina, Duke, or Davidson.
After a lengthy commentary,
peppered with several unprintable
remarks, they went different ways
in a futile attempt at diversion.
Some w^ent down to the basement
where they became rooted to the
television set by an apparently
fascinating program, only to spring
out of their seats like a jack-in-
the-box when the possibility of
procuring a blind date was ment
ioned.
A few others climbed slowly and
laboriously up the stairs to their
rooms where they sat and .stared
in quiet solitude, finally reaching
the conclusion that the four walls,
strangely enough, had not changed
a bit since the last time they had
looked at them. Several self-
righteous ones even w’ent to the
library and engaged in apparently
obvious concentration on varied
jubjects.
To an observer, everything would
appear in order. It would be im
possible for him to know that
these bodies bending studiously
over books, completely engrossed
in the search for knowledge, were
merely empty shells. The minds
and spirits, contrary to normal
situations, had left their natural
habitation and could be found in
various football stadiums and frat
ernity houses all over the state of
North Carolina.
So it went, on through Saturday
night when, due to the spasmodic
cooperation of the television set,
several thousand hands of bridge
were played. Finally, when the
wear and tear began to take effect,
and there was an argument as to
the winner of each trick, due to
the illegibility of the cards, the
girls began to trudge up to their
rooms and call it a day.
At last Sunday arrived, bringing
with it a cheerful note. The
travelers would return today, and,
consequently, the rest of the girls
would not have to sit here and
suffer, knowing everyone else was
off having a good time. This did
not last long, however; for when
the truants assembled back on
campus, they had had such wonder
ful trips, and had so many tales
to help them remember, that it
would take them until the next
week-end to get over it. All this
contributed to the making of a
pretty sad world for the pitiful
stay-at-homes.
The trying experience was not a
total loss, though. They had
learned one thing. The next week
end they were going to be dating
—not stagnating.
Here’s The Score
By Sissie Allen and
Jo Smitherman
There’ll be big doings down on
the athletic field during noisy hour
(10:00 p.m.) Monday night. All
the class cheerleaders will be down
to lead Salemites in class yells—
and there’ll be a big, popping bon
fire to lend that inimitable high
school spirit to the occasion. The
whole event is planned by the A.A.
to give a send-off to the intra
mural hockey tournament sche
duled to begin Tuesday afternoon.
Pull yourself away from the books
and come down at 10 o’clock Mon
day night.
Sometime late this afternoon
the Salem representatives to the
hockey sportsday at Catawba Col
lege will be dragging in. A similar
group plans to leave in the morn
ing for Greensboro College where
they will enter into volleyball and
tennis competition.
Though none of us Salemites
managed to land a berth on the
Olympic team this year, all of ua
can feel that we are a part of the
tournament. The Athletic Asso
ciation voted on Wednesday night
to donate to the Olympic fund
from their student budget allot
ment.
The varsity hockey team, to be
chosen by the hockey managers
after next week’s fournament, will
get a chance to show how good it
is on November 13 when the girls
will compete in a hockey sports-
day at Woman’s College.
Only three-fourths of the Big
Four saw action on the gridiron
last week-end, and judging from
the scores we conclude that the
home-state teams didn’t fare too
well. Duke gave up a Homecoming
victory to Army, 28-14; N. C. State
lost a Saturday night game to
Florida State, 13-7; and the UNC
Tarheels failed to score in the time
that it took Maryland to collect
33 points. (The Carolina boys came
on to the field having experienced
a 12-hour train ride through hurri
cane Hazel.) Flad Wake Forest
and Davidson scheduled games.
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they might have made things look
better for North Carolina.
Here are some results from jun
ior colleges in the state and larger
schools through the South. Guil
ford won over Lenoir Rhyne;
Newberry over Elon; East Caro
lina over West Carolina; Appa
lachian oyer Catawba. Georgia
Tech whipped Auburn; Florida
beat Kentucky; and Georgia won
over Vanderbult.
All this week’s Big Four action
centers around the state capital.
October 22, 1954
Tomorrow afternoon Wake For
est’s Deacons will invade Chapel
Hill, whence we believe the Bap
tists will emerge victorious. On
Saturday night, Duke and N. C.
State will tangle in State’s Rid
dick Stadium; we pick Duke.
Davidson plays Furman tonight in
Charlotte.
Incidentally, State’s football team
may be lacking, but the college’s
cross-country Harriers are leading
the conference. They beat Mary
land 26 to 29 last week.
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