Mo-nan> 9n Reoieiu . . .
liclow is tlie year’s one editorial on the Honor System. You wrote it
yourself when you took the handbook test this week.
“The honor system is the combination of prudence and ideals. For
prudence is the basis of the practical laws set up to govern the student
body by the student body itself. Thus the student’s honor m judicial
matters is the basis of a democratic government on campus.
As for ideals, a student’s honor cannot solely be prescribed to set
of laws. Thus, the student must use his integrity and discretion in
connection with the required camiius legislature. A law rnay he skirted
unless there is the ideal of honor and allegiance to that law.
“The Honor System is that intangible spirit and code by which Salem
maintains her high standards of integrity and unity. It builds not only
personal integrity in each student but also a sense of responsibility to
our college and classmates that serves to bring the unit closer together
for the benefit of each.”'
“The Honor System plays an important part in our first steps to
ward, an adult life. In order to be admired and respected by other
Iieople, you must earn your own self-respect. If all of us place our
hoiior in the proper respect, we have in common something which will
provide a harmony and understanding among us.
♦ ♦ *
“A test of a person’s individual feeling of responsibility and integrity
in which only tlje person himself knows whether he passed or failed.
“The Honor System is a way of life—not merely something to be used
in college to make a few rules work. Throughout life one must be
on an honor system of his own . . .’’
“The Honor System as I see it gives a person the chance to do right
and not be made to do so. I feel that if a person is given such a
chance and made to feel that others have confidence in his good char
acter and high ideals, he will choose more wisely.
He will either do right because he feels others believe in him and
he is ashamed to do otherwise, or he will do so for the simple reason
that it’s right. By the example of .good students, popular students,
others will also want to follow the right path.
1 feel the Honor System and Student Government should strive to
make the right thing popular.”
Those are the theories of a few students. Our aim should be to make
these statements practicable. , ■
By expressing tactful disapproval of both misconduct and errant-
attitudes. By exercising the “social pressure” that is so powerful in
other areas of our world. . . , „
By striving' “to make the right thing popular.
THE SALEMITE
Published every Friday of the College year
by the Student Body of Salem College
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Suejette Davidson
October 5, 1956
Beyond
the
Square
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Business Staff: Nancy
Townsend, Sue Davis.
Lomax, Sally
Headlines: Mery Jo Wynne,
nett, Jerome* Moore
Ruth Ben-
Staff Writers: Pat Flynt, Mary Walton,
Anne Catlette, Betsy Smith, Sally Bo-
vard, Pat Greene, Sissle Allen, Mar
garet MacQueen, Mary Brooks Yar
brough, Martha Goddard
Circulation: Ronnie Alvls, Barbara Bell,
Eva Jo Butler, Helen Babington, Ruth
Bennett, Laura Bible, Mary Calhoun,
Nancy Jane Carroll, Susan Childs,
Mary Carolyn Crook, Lina Farr, Betsy
Guerrant, Ellie Mitchell, Ann Powell,
Pat Shiflet.
The American people are known
for their ambitious competitive
nature and their unashamed reve
rence for the almighty dollar. But
have you ever thought about the
value of such things as the theatre,
literature and music — in other
■words, the Arts? Let’s look at the
comments made by Brooks Atkin
son on this subject in a recent
article that appeared in the Ne-w
York Times.
The difference between art and
science is that art looks at man in
relation to the universe from within
whereas science views man from
the outside. On the surface it
would seem that this scientific way
of thinking we have huilt a society
that is thoroughly equipped and
efficient—look at the rise in our
standard of living, for instance.
Thanks to the ‘productive and use
ful’ scientists and engineers of our
country, we’ve never had it' so good.
But look a little closer. Are we
really as well off as we think we
are? Every day our life is marred
by juvenile delinquency, riots
against Negro school children in
the South and the divorce rate.
Around The Square
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Have YOU wondered what-went
on behind that mysteriously closed
Stiidenl Government door every
Monday afternoon? Have you
wondered what was discussed in
that smoke-filled room (which by
the way is smoke filled no longer
thanks to. a ventilating fan in our
new quarters) ?
Well, wonder no longer—this is
the first of weekly reports from
your Student Council. I have al
ways felt tliat something of this
sort was needed on campus — a
direct and official report of the
(Council’s meetings and doings.
After all, we are ymur elected re-
jircsentatives. ^'ou have a right to
be (and should demand to be) in
formed of its workings.
First of all, 1 want personally to
thank the entire student body' for
your response and eager partici
pation in our first joint business
meeting last Tuesday. It was an
excellent example of “student”
gq-yenunent in which problems
were not only aired but solutions
to the problems were suggested.
Blit one thing bothered me about
the -jneeting. It was very evident
that t.here is a feeling on campus
that there is one panacea for rules
which seem to us unpleasant—our
parents’ permission to skirt the
rule.' “Why can’t we drive in Win
ston if we have permission from
home ?” you asked. “Why can’t we
go home , after a dance if we have
our parents’ permission?”
Do you think that if you have
your parents’ permission that it
wouldi.be possible or e-yen right to
sruoke in your room or to cheat on
an exam if it meant that you would
pass ? ‘ ■
Actually, we as a student body
werfe forgetting our first lesson in
campus, .coiTimunal living: Rules
are made for the benefit of the
entire group, and each individual
must abide by them. We must re-
member' that the college has a duty
to us and a responsibility for us
By Martha Ann Kennedy
The atmosphere in the square
Friday and Saturday nights was
definitely social, social, SOCIAL.
Salemites poured into buses or into
cars with their dates to go to the
“Welcome Wake Forest Festival”
and enjoy the music of Richard
Maltby’s (Deb Ball) Orchestra
... or perhaps find a “kindred
spirit” to while away the weekend
hours here in Winston. Some met
with success concerning the latter,
and some came back with stories
like one Junior.
p-ie was dancing with some well-
intentioned lad who said:
“Snf, snf, my, that is lovely per
fume you’re wearing. May I ask
what it’s called?”
“It’s Tigress,” she obligingly
answered.
He may never have been exposed
to Faberge advertisements or the
like, but he rallied with the com
ment, “Oh, you little tiger, you.”
Saturday night was something of
a record-breaker here in our 185th
year. Upperclassmen trying to re
cruit blind dates in Clewell at the
end of the week were utterly de
feated—there were none to be had!
Observers of the resulting 12 p.m.
stampede reported that the old
square became a swarming mass of
cars and daters. Last-minuters had
to make their way through the
crowd as best they could, leaving
boys behind on Church Street.
* ^ *
1 he Right Honorable Herbert
Morrison’s lecture produced a good
turnout of both students and towns-
p^ple Monday night in Memorial
Hall. But, frankly, the auditorium
was so warm and acoustics so bad
in my balcony seat, I found it a
little hard to follow his talk.
I expected something a little more
fervent and radical from a Labor-
ite, I guess. But, Memorial Hall
isn’t exactly the House of Com
mons. His sly British humor de
lighted those who were able to
talk to him at dinner or at the
i coffee in Strong, and, as in the
all, and not expect our parents to
always intercede and ask that a
rule be changed just to suit their
little “Sally Salem.”
But you did make good sug
gestions about revising other rules.
Your council appreciates these sug
gestions discussed in Assembly
along with others noted on the
handbook tests, and we plan to
discuss them in our regularly
scheduled meeting on Monday.
Look for a report in next week’s
Salemite.
On the whole, the handbook test
results, were quite good-*in spite
of the fact that there were many
more freshmen in the top bracket
than upperclassmen. The rule
missed most consistently was in
connection with starting restriction.
Restriction begins at 9:00 the
morning after the offence— not the
morning after you are notified.
You know when you’ve received
five call downs or have broken a
rule serious enough to merit re
striction long before the Student
Council does; therefore, restriction
should begin immediately.
Then, too, there was a misunder
standing in connection with events
such as Civic Music concerts. Little
Theatre plays, and church meetings
which do not count as evening en-
this year so that regardless of
whether you go to one of these
events on a bus provided by the
school, in a taxi with a group of
girls or with a date, you still are
not charged with taking an evening
engagement.
One final note — thanks to the
freshmen for your grand response
in the matter of signing the Honor
Book. ' .
Also if any of you know of
anything that you would like to
see discussed in this column—any
thing in connection with Student
Government which you feel should
be brought to the attention of the
students—please tell me, for I wel- case of many lecturers,'he is more
come your interest, views and sug- entertaining in small, informal
groups.
gestions.
Jo Smitherman said that she was
reminding German foreign student
Christa Menzel to attend the cof
fee at 6:30. American p.m.’s and
a. m.’s are still a bit confusing to
Christa, so she said,-“Oh, I am so
sorry, I plan to attend the morning
lecture, but I just can’t get up
that early for a coffee.”
jJ:
My apologies to the Seniors in
Society for not including them in
last week’s “Attached Salemites”,
but Betty Byrum is now Mrs.
Aaron Lilley and is biding her
time here while Aaron does an
Army stint in Mexico. Patty Ward
is eng-ged to George Fisher, Col-
umbanai Ohio, w'ho is presently
stationed at Fort Bragg, N, C.
Juanita Efird is marrying Wesley
Herndon at Christmastime. He’s
pre-med at Augusta, Ga. ,med
school.
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Everyone on the staff is ivonder-
ing how we were so fortunate to
receive the following words of wis
dom on a postal card addressed to
this paper.
“Fines do not seem to stop traffic
violators. Perhaps better results
could be obtained by impounding
the car from one to thirty days.'
“If these violators had to walk
to work for a few days each time
they might wise up.
“Sincerely, Willie R. Sullivan,
720 West Tenth Place, Los Angeles
15, California.”
Thanks a lot, Willie, and do let
us know if the plan works out.
If you, our readers, have any
better ideas, you might drop Willie
a line and offer j'our suggestions—
but choose your words with care.
He sounds like a determined man
* *
The current Little Theatre play.
The Charm School, is the best
effort they’ve put forth in a long
time. Don Henry, who starred last
Spring m the Arts Follies, did a
grand job as the headmaster of
Fair view girls’ school. Linda
March, ex-Salemite, and Ruthann
Rhodes, class of ’59, ■w'ere right at
home in their schoolgirl roles.
Louis DuBois and Helen Thomlin-
son were responsible for some of
the funniest moments ever seen in
a local production.
Penal and mental institutions can
not be built fast enough. Atkinson
says that this is due to a lack of
something very basis — human
understanding.
The writer concludes that es
pecially in a democracy, where we
decide together, we must under
stand each other from the inside
as well as the outside. Thus the
artist shares with science the duty
of creating a complete culture.
People—Headed for a six Week
tour of Europe, Wladziu Valentino
Liberace left the country accom
panied by 34 pieces of luggage in
cluding 60 complete changes of
costume plus a custom-made $15,-
000 glass topped piano. Travel
light, I always^say.
The newest prodigy at Harvard
is 12-year-old Fred Safier, ,Jr. of
Berkeley, Calif. The youngest
scholar to enroll at Harvard was
William Sidis who entered in 1909
at 11 and lectured on fourth dimen
sional theories. ' I think it is rather
sad to note that he died at the
age of 46, a lonely, obscure adding-
machine operator earning $22.00 a
week.
The Nation. Dr. Deborah Cog
gins was fired last week for lunch
ing with a Negro nurse by county
commissioners in Monticello, Flo
rida. Said the attractive ohysician.
Health knows no color boundaries
—not even in the South.”
Alarmed at the Democrats at
tacks and lagging Republican cam
paigns in Senate and House elec
tions, the Republican campaign for
the Presidency has decided to take
off the gloves and turn on the
heat. Speaking in Cleveland and
Lexington, Ky. Ike accused the
Democrats of failure to act on
federal school aid, help for local
unemployment areas, expansion of
minimum wage coverage, occupa
tional therapy assistance and fur
ther help for small business.
Stevenson, meanwhile, has clari
fied his previous stand as to ending
the draft and is now taking the
position that he didn’t mean that
he would end conscription immedi
ately but that in the not far dis
tant future it could be abolished.
The farm issue: Since 1951 farm
prices have dropped about 25% and
costs have risen. Eisenhower’s ex
planation is that this is due to
huge surpluses caused by overpro
duction. This overproduction is the
result of high price supports that
were necessar}' during war time
but are now passe.
The Democrats, on the other
hand, say that with better farming
methods surpluses are inevitable
and farmers should have and re
tain high supports to protect them
against severe price drops. But
regardless, resentment is high
against Ike in the Farm Belt.
It is the general feeling that the
Republicans have been too sure of
themselves and, with Stevenson’s
popularity on the rise, it is no
time to get in and fight.
Entertainment — On Octobe
Giant, starring James Dear
open at the Roxy Theatre i..
York. I’m anxious to s
effect this will have on the
fan hysteria devoted to t
actor’s memory. Studio.',
report that they have rer. '
fan mail addressed to
than any living acto'r in
including Valentino at /
Delightful and maj
Royal Danish Ballet, n
in New York. On on
tours of the outside
group will visit ten
of the United States