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March 15. PndxHe. . . Some definite steps toward vitalizing cam pus elections have been taken. The Student Government Council and the student body are to.be commended for swift, practical moves. The pre-election dinner and campaign speeches by presidential candidates was the be.st of these steps. Despite the absence of real issues the candidates have a right to be heard and the student body has a right to hear them. The solemn reception of the well- planned, informal program was encouraging. A second good change was the shifting of the actual voting procedure to a “neutral” location. It is hard to understand why both these mo\'es were not made before now. There are some thinking students, however, who are still bothered about the narrowness of the election procedure. Murmuring about the existence and power of the nominating committee can still be heard. These skeptics have valid feelings that too many people, including the nominating com mittee members, have reasoned out a slate of officers ahead of time. It may be, if this feeling can be perpetuated and expanded, that by next year the nominat ing committee can be replaced by student body meetings in which nominations are made from the floor. A student who feels strongly that Mary Smith would be the ideal for a particular office (and Mary Smith is not in the current leadership spotlight) may be able to persuade Mary Smith to state verbally her interest in the position and her ideas on what the office entails. I The outgoing president or editor or chair- man (whose opinion is highly valued by the nominating committee now) would still be able to designate her choice of a successor by nominating her from the floor. The student body could attach whatever value they liked to this nomination. These considerations bear some thought from those who are likely to become com placent after a few changes have gone over successfully. A*ui Pnejiu&ice^ The North Carolina basketball team will be playing in the second round of the national elimination tournament in Philadelphia to night. Five New York boys comprise the starting team, currently winner of twenty- seven straight games and representative of the fastest conference in the country. Sour grapes is one descriptive term for the anti-Carolina fans. But it is a shame that sour grapes has to take the ugly form of pro vincial prejudice and anti-Semitism. Ijennie Rosenbluth, the North Carolina for ward who is undisputedly all-American, be comes not just an opponent but is termed a “Jew-boy” who should stay up north where he belongs. These devastating opinions are not confined to the heat and excitement of a close game. And they belong not just to vicious alumni. It is understandable for high school stu dents, and extremely loyal college students to ride and deride the opposing team during a close and important game. But it is frightening to think that otherwise wide-awake college students can seriously de spise a competent athlete for his religious background or the part of the country he comes from. College should be the place where such ideas are dispelled. Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College Subscription Price—$3.50 a year OFFICES—lower Floor Main Hall Downtown Office-304-306 South Main St. Printed by the Sun Printing Company Jo Smitherman Managing Editor ' Corol Campbell News Editor Feature Editor Marda Stanley Faculty Advisor Miss J«s Byrd Business Manager An" Knig Advertising Manager Martha Jarvis Circufation Manager P®99y ngram Pictorial Editors Dottie Ervin, Nancy Warren Make-Up Editor Jeone Smitherman Assistant News Editor, Mary Ann Hagwood Assistant Business Manager, Suejette Davidson Circulation; Ronnie Alvis, Barbara Bell, Evo Jo Butler, Helen Bobington, Ruth Bennett, Laura Bible, Mary Calhoun, Nancy Jane Carroll, Susan Childs, Merrie Jane Brown. Beyond the Sciuoro By MARTHA JARVIS • • Last Friday, the U. N. forces took complete control of the Sinai Peninsula after the withdrawal of the Isreali troops. This U. N. move is the first international police force that has bCen created in history. However, all is not going smootldy. Last Sunday, it was necessary for the U. N. forces to use tear gas to break up Arab demonstrations demanding the re turn of the Gaza Strip to Egj'ptian administration. On Monday, Egypt announced that it was sending its own administration into tiie Gaza Strip. Tiiis move has caused ap prehension among the U. N. diplo mats and the General Assembly may be called back into session. Dr. Ralph Bunche, U. N. under secretary charged with the respon sibility in the area, said he would sliake liands with the Egyptian governor wlien lie arrives, because lie does not question Egypt’s legal rights in Gaza. However, Bunche also asserted that, for the time being, the U. N. has sole responsi bility for the Gaza Strip. As tilings stand now, Nasser’s army has lost military prestige, but Nasser still retains the support of the Asian-Arab world. The British and French influence in the Mid East is sliattered. Through the Eiseniiower Doctrine, the U. S. has accepted a pivotal role in the area. Of extreme concern to tlie U. S. the events of the year have brought an increase of Communist influence in tlie area. * Last week the Senate finally passed the Eisenhow'er Doctrine (vote of 72 to 19) which was pro posed by tlie President last Jan uary. Tlie Doctrine provides that we (1) send $200 million in eco nomic aid to the Mid East (2) give military assistance to those count ries (3) dispatch U. S. armed forces, to help the Mid East repel any “overt”' Communist attack. * ♦ * Former Congressman James P. Richards is being sent to visit tlie capitals of the Arab nations to make plans for administering the aid. Though he has not yet been refused admittance to any of the nations, the Doctrine is not gen erally accepted in the area. Iraq, Lebanon, and the other pro-western nations have endorsed it. How ever, Saudi Arabia is the only one of the neutral block that has shown any interest. Egypt’s press has criticized it; Jordan has ignored it; and Syria has rejected it. » * * The President has sent the new $71.8 billion budget to Congress. This is the largest peacetime bud get that has ever been proposed and the pressure is on from the public and from Congress to cut it. The question is where to cut. Tliere w'HJ prqbably be a proposed cut of from $2 billion to $4 billion, mainly from the foreign aid pro- visions. 45 * * At his news conference last Tliursday, the President had to ask tlie reporters to speak a little louder. The President has been suffering from an irration of the throat and, though his cough is better, his hearing has been some what affected by the infection. The President will seek some sun in Florida tins week in hopes of clear ing up ills cold before going to Bermuda for a conference with British Prime Minister, Macmillan, on tlie 20th of this month. Last weekend, movie actor Henry Fonda was married to Italian Con- tessa Afdera Franchetti. The civil ceremony took place in Fonda’s New York home. The Countessa is 24 and Fonda is 51. This is Fonda’s fourth marriage; it is the Contessa’s first. ♦ ♦ * The former cliampion of the NBC Twenty-One television quiz pro gram, Charles Van Doren, was de feated by a woman, Mrs. Vivenne Nearing, Monday night. Van Doren missed one part of a six part ques tion dealing with the kings of Den mark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Jordan, and Iraq. * * » Last Mondaj' night Admiral Richard E. Byrd died of a heart attack in his Boston home at the age of 68. Byrd was the first man to fly over the North and South Poles. He worked up to the end of his life on the U. S.’s Antarctic program which he supervised. + * * Tuesday night North Carolina beat Yale by 16 points, 90-74. The game was in New York and was the first game of the NCAA basket ball playoffs. This is Carolina’^ 28th straight win. Ihe Boeing 707 jet passenger plane set a record this week in its flight from Seattle to Baltimore in three hours and forty-eight min utes. The jet averaged 612 m.p.h. and, at one point, attained a speed of 698 m.p.h. The big plane will be delivered to its first airline buyers. Pan American and Ameri can, late next year and in the early part of 1959. It will carry from 120 to 162 passengers. * * * Prince Berhard, Consort of the Queen of the Tsietherlands, told a New York dinner party that he had been identified as “the guy who married Rita Hayworth”. The Prince said, “I wasn’t in any way offended by this—” The rest of the statement was drowned out by laughter. /J^0444td tke The biggest event on campus last week M'as Parents’ Day. The air was full of excitement Friday evening, and the rooms were being swept and dusted more carefully than they had been since we had open house last fall. It is remarkable the items of clothing and the general litter that girls swept from under their beds. At least one once-white rug that had been neglected until too late was hidden in the corner of a closet. Saturday morning few parents, understand ably enough, showed up for classes. Two mothers, enthralled by Dr. Africa’s lecture on “Great Britain in 19th century”, took notes vigorously and chuckled at his dry humor. The faculty held up pretty well. At 3:50 p.m. several of them were still in the Day Student Center chatting with parents, and even smiling. Later in the afternoon, it was good to hear Father commending his daughter on her house keeping abilities as he and Mother sat on her bed and talked with her roomie’s parents. The banquet was delicious. We didn’t see Eleanor; we think she was under the table. She needn’t be embarrassed, though. Parents have something strange in their make-up that causes them to keep letters they receive from their children—-it’s the same quality' that makes them show off snapshots of them to anyone who’ll look and stay up waiting for them to come in from a late date. A lot of | fathers smiled 'in agreement to what Mr. Evans said. Most seemed relieved that they | ■were not in his shoes. The skit was a side-splitter! But it was interesting to notice that some of the speeches and expressions that drew roars from the parents were so natqral to the students that they received only limp smiles from them. Nyra Boyd, we’ve decided, is ripe for Vaude ville. It was well-written, well-planned, and | ^yell-performed. On the whole, it was a successful day- thanks to sophomores, freshmen, faculty, and| of course, parents. * * * To all you Salemites w'ho have not yet seer “The Barretts of Wimpole Street”, our columr recommends it highly. This story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning featuring Jenni fer Jones, John Gilgud, and Bill Travers is rave material, especially Mr. Gilgud’s except ional performance. All of you who have mis sed this movie so far had better hurry! It’s I still on. * ♦ It was a shame the crowd was so small at the lecture Monday night, for Dr. Lapp gave the most exciting talk of the series—possibly because to him atomic energy and its possi bilities are the most exciting subjects one could discuss. While explaining the processes of splitting uranium atoms for A-bombs and fusing hydro gen atoms for H-bombs, he lambasted 11- S- politicians for their “egotism” in believing that our secrecy^ code is hendering the Russians. He condemned the fact that only ten pel cent of the Atomic Energy Commission’s bud get is assigned to developing peaceful uses of atomic energy^ and praised Ike for his part h bringing about the “atoms for peace” confer ence. It seems evident that Dr. Lapp is a man k watch he’s young, obviously a brilliant scien tist, and will be in on the future developments in atomic energy. « * * Last Sunday night at seven sharp, six cars from a First Baptist Church in Winston- Salem rolled up to Clewell. The Choral En semble was ready to pile in.and it wasn’t Ion? before we stopped before a large brick church For some of the girls, it was the first visit k a Negro church. This one was quite larg®- Ihere was even a lovely wedding chapel on to one side of the main building.
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