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J^age 1 Wo THE S A L E MIT E ^o-n> Hn.id(^e? “IJue to tlic lack of participation t!ie hockey tournament scheduled for tliis week has been cancelled.” Assembly announcement October 22, 1956 It is time we stopped fooling ourselves and came out with it. Extra curricular activities and clubs and organizations have their good points, hut they demand too much in the way of time and mental energy. Somebody ought to stand up and say that, although there is a certain feeling that she ought to be doing something besides studying and dating, she honestly gets nothing out of extracurricular duties but a tired mind and a little recognition now.and then. Nobodj' in school has (he nerve to admit this, though. Because the college has always had an athletic association, a news- pa|>er, a yearbook, a play each semester, and a May Day program does not mean we must continue to have them. If we are tired of these things, let us come out with it. Say so. And then we can do something about getting them abolished. Think for a minute why you even bothered anyway. Do you really . like to ask for ads, or to paint flats when it’s cold, or to make announce ments in chapel ? . I’erha])s you feel obligated to the person who asks \'Our help. She’s your friend and you hate to turn her down. ■ Or are you working toward your thirty points or eighteen hours or a nomination? And who will know the difference ten years from now? Some |)eople say they’re just letting off excess energy between study ing. But there arc easier ways to do that. A good movie (when one finally comes to town) is diversion with almost no effort on your part. Almost anybody can relax for ,'a whole hour over a cup of coffee in Tom's or in the Student Center. A game of bridge is the perfect social calmer. Imagine what you could do wath all the si.x-thirty’s and one-thirty’s. Jijst the right amount of time for a short nap or a long-plav record between lunch and class or dinner and studs- or date time. ■We could get used to the one or two disadvantages. No Salemite on. hriday afternoons. No yearbook in the spring. We can always see plays uptown at the Little Theatre or over at ■Wake horest. Maybe we could even svatch some other school’s May liageant if we have trouble getting used to not having one. And the week-end before Christmas would not be taken up with a dance here on campus. No Christmas baiuinet to bother with. No more programs to make for anything. No announcements, either. And glorious hours and hours of unplanned time. It might be all right. Certainly we could come through the first shock of idlene.ss all right. • -We’re strong, lively girls. -J. S. Salemite Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College NAa OFFICES—Lower Floor Main Hall October 26, 1956. Beyond j the I Ss§pnre | Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price—$3.50 a year Editor-in-Chlef - lo Smitherman Assistant Editor . Martha Ann Kennedy Managing Editor Carol Campbell News Editor Miriam Quarles Feature Editor . Marcia Stanley Pictorial Editors Dottie Ervin, Nancy Warren Make-Up Editor Jeane Smitherman Assistant News Editor, Mary Ann Hagwood Facult/ Advisor _ .. Miss Jess Byrd Carol Campbell | ?iim[]iiiiiiiiini[3i!!iiiiiiiiii:]i!iiiiiiiiiit3iiiiinniiic]iiimmiiic}iiiiiiiimit]iiiiiiiiiiii[]iiiiiiiiiiii[]tiiiiiiiiiiic3itiiiminiE3iiiiiiiiiiij[|, are unknown dangers for future generations if we continue. On the other hand it is con- Business Manager : Ann Knight Advertising Manager Martha Jarvis Circulation Manager Peggy Ingram Assistant Business Manager, Suejette Davidson Business Staff: Nancy Lomax, Sally Townsend, Sue Davis. “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions — for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.” John Milton. The Nation At his Press Conference last week, Ike defined his opinion of Republicanism. According to the tended that there is a value in continuing tests on missiles that could be used for defense' against attacks and that if we made a pact and they were forced to re sume if it was broken we would lose valuable time which couldn’t be made up. Politically speak ing, the majority of Americans have sided Headlines: Mary Jo Wynne, Ruth Ben- nett, Jerome Moore |3!iiimiiiii:3iM!niiiiiic3niiii! Prom i the President i Judy Graham "'t'"""" i4 Many of yon suggested on your handbook tests that Salemites should he allowed to wear Bermuda shorts in the dining room, to class, .and even some of you said to •Tom’s and the Post Office. The IRS in conjunction with the Stu dent Council felt that no reply could be more thorough or more convincing than that made by Dr. Gramley to a similar request in May of 1954. Although outdated as far as blue jeans and pedal jui.sliers are concerned the judgment i.s Still sound. * * * To Petitioners Ke: Dress during Examinations Your petition “to wear pedal IHishers and dungarees, all during exams on back campus, and to exams” has reached my desk at the 11th hour. I am, thus, put in the awkward position of making an arbitrary decision, without oppor tunity of thorough review and dis cussion with the petitioners, with Student Council, with I. R. k and with others. I am sorry such is the case because as I reminded you in chapel “You are Salem”. May I think this matter through with you, therefore, in this one way conversation, to wit: '1. I think of Salem as being "different”, I have thought so for five years now, and one of many reasons is that you girls keep yourselves feminine. This fact has been one of my boasts in talking about you and Salem when I am away from campus. 2. I know that “anything goes” on . many college campuses, that girls wear jeans and pedal pushers and shorts, etc. I know also that girls has been carelessness and negligence in other matters of dress: their hair, for example. 3. I know, also, that the trend in America is to'vvard conformance in so many areas, and that this trend is marked by “pulling things” down to a common level instead of pulling things up to a higher level. Because jeans, etc., are popular (or common) at Vassar and Smith and other places, the assumption so often is that “we ought to wear them, too”. 4. I think of classes and ex aminations as being dignified in academic and other ways. And I am afraid I am just “old enough” to think of jeans and pedal push ers as being somewhat undignified . . . To put it another way, jeans somehow remind me of hay rides, doggie roasts, picnics and hikes iii the woods. 5. You may think me completely prejudiced in this whole I'natter, but my view is based also on aesthetic grounds. (I have seen tyomen on whom jeans are not be coming). 6. One of the troubles with let ting the bars down in matters of dress is the next step, then the next step after that, and then the hop-skip-and jump that inevitably follows. (If to classes, why not the dining room, why not to the Post Office, why not to classes the year around, why not to Church? . . . And if jeans and pedal push ers are all right, why not Bermuda shorts, gym shorts or your own variety of shorts . . . And then, perhaps, why not bathing suits?) 7. I may be all worng, as I am j Staff Writers: Pat Flynf, Mary Walton, Anne Catlette, Betsy Smith, Sally Bo- vard, Pat Greene, Sissie Allen, Mar garet MacQueen, Mary Brooks Yar brough, Martha Goddard Circulation: Ronnie Alvis, 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. President, the best theory of gov- , h^^e sided with the President r- 1 ■ r against btevenson on the assumn- ernment is the Lincolnian dictum . ,, , jtion that the general knows the of doing for people the things ^bout bombs and war.” they can’t do well themselves, but j With the renewed fighting be- avoiding interference where peo-1 tween the Israelites ad the Arabs, pie can do things for themselves.!^ is -r, r- 1 1 r- r 1 ^,,1,1 feared in the Middle East. But The Federal Government should ; \ ^ \ t j tilings are more hoperul when we support social security and tinem-i look to the recent events' in the ployment insurance, foster health | satellite countries, research, overcome emergency j People schoolroom shortages and help The Daily Express of London keep tlic dollar sound. The part-j has found another subject for at- nership policy is to give the maxi-| tack: Prince Charlie’s hair cut. rnum responsibility into the hands j Complaining about his highness’s 1 r\ r\ .-1-..,.. i afraid I often am, but I wonder if ■n a quiet moment, beyond the hearing of those who may enthusi astically promote and urge the pro- nosed change, you (each one of you) really think you would like to have Salem become a blue-jean or pedal-pusher college. 8. Is it so restrictive and so ter rible to be “different” ? Do you think it worth a little inconven ience, if that’s what it is, or a little discomfort, if that’s what it is,' to maintain a standard that singles out the Salem girl as unusual in mid-20th century? It could be that someday you will be proud that you helped keep standards high. ' In any event, will you help one of your admirers hold the line? Yes, you’ve guessed it, in this. 11th hour of my dilemma, the answer is “No”. Cordially yours. Dale H. Gramley President May 19, 1954 of the local and state government to run their own affairs. The Democratic approach is not only against releasing and helping the great results you get from a free people doing these things, but they are not concerned parti cularly ■ with the sound dollar. A short time ago the state of Mississippi invited a group of twenty small town New England editors and publishers to tour their state with the purpose of letting them learn the truth about segregation and what it is. Travel ing the region on a chartered bus, the northerners were surprised to find a large degree of compati bility among the races and the existence of many fine Negro schools, but the Mississippi sys tem of sufferage was an even greater surprise. In almost every district observed, the Negro citi zen is denied the right to vote. Concluding that the tour had proved that the worst they had heard was true. Editor Paul Cum mings of the New Hampshire press said, “Integration is bound to come. Equal justice must come. Our system makes no allowance for forty-seven states and Mis-' sissippi.” Divided opinions were heard around the nation as a result of Stevenson’s campaign proposal to halt the H-bomb tests. On one side, scientists agree that 1) there IS httle sense in : building ever bigger bombs since we already have one that will blow up a city 2) there is no risk involved in a pact to end the tests since we could always begin again 3) there Letters Student Body: ^ Due to the article in last Sun day’s paper concerning the Salem girls and the Wake Forest co-eds, we would like to apologize for the misunderstanding it may have caused. We were indeed misquoted and feel sure all of you are aware that a newspaper, sometimes twists statements to arouse public in terest. We hope that our mis quoted opinions will not be taken by anyone as the feelings of any member of the Salem student body. Hila Moore Camille Suttle * ♦ * * Kappa Alpha Order TAU Chapter Wake Forest College To the Editor: Concerning the article about the Wake Forest girls and the Salem women found in last Sunday’s newspaper, we of the third floor of the Kappa Alpha House strongly disagree with the Wake Forest co ed’s opinion that the Salem women are snobbish. Having been so royally received by these fair young ladies of Salem, we consider them anything but snobbish. The femininity as well as the quality of the Salem women far exceeds that of the Wake Forest girls ^ in our opinion. Socially speaking, we have found the Salem women, with the exception of a few "brain-washed” under classmen, much more enjoyable to be with at our parties. Its going to be a good year! ■Lets have a party? Signed, B- Y. 0. L. long bangs, the Express growled that not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead! When asked for an explanation, the royal Barber refused to com ply, aloofly replying that “We never discuss the heir’s hair.” The Duchess of Windsor dealt a blow to the policy of listing the world s best dressed women when she asked, “How could such a list be anything but phony, when most of the judges seldom see me or the other people they are vot ing for?” Touche. Entertainment A new record album entitled Aphrodisia and decorated with the ample figure of Antia Ekberg features this cautionary message The primitive rhythms in this album are basic and explosive. Those unaccustomed to dealing with aroused emotions are urged to listen with care.” Should sell a million albums, at least. Don’t miss Around The World In Eighty Days. This film ver sion of Jules Verne’s intriguing epic promises to be one of the hits of the year. The Metropolitan Opera begins its season on October 29 with the presentation of Bellini’s Norma. Making her debut on this occasion will be Manhatten born Maria M e n e g'h i n i Cajlas, tli^e most talked-about performer in the opera world today. Ending a world wide search for an actress to play the leading role in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, movie director Otto Preminger has at last made his choice in the person of 17 year old Jean Seberg. Slim, five feet, four inch Jean is a college student from Marshall town, Iowa who has appeared in only five professional productions m one summer of summer stock A modern Cinderella story. The World Is the Soviet Empire Criunb- ling? Let us look back. In 1948 the first break with Russia oc curred whe Tito led Yugoslavia to independence and away from the iron rule of Stalin, Then with the death of Stalin a general eas ing of policy occurred with the new Kruschev regime. An exam ple of this were the smiling faces of the Russian delegates at the Geneva Conference last year. A second bid for independence has now occurred with the steady disappearance of Moscow men in Polish government. Led by lib- eralist Wladyslaw Gomulka the Poles have defied threats from Moscow and are shouting for free dom. The eyes of the world are focused on Poland.
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