Volume XXXVIII Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 14, 1958 Number 1 5 Constitutional Changes Proposed By Stee Gee The major business of the Stu dent Council on Monday, February 10 was to vote on the recommen dation of changes in the Student Government constitution. The pro posed changes had to do with our system of nominating candidates for principle offices on campus and were to be presented to the stu dent body at the meeting on Feb- niarv 13. Mary Curtis Wrike, Student Council president, read a report from the nominating study com mittee. The report consisted of four recommendations which were discussed and voted on separately. The recommendations as passed were; 1. That the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes elect two representatives each to the nominating committee, and that these representatives serve with the president of each class on the committee. 2. That, before elections, a campus poll be taken with a student writing in two names for each f)rincipie office; that a student be allowed to write in a person’s name more than once if she feels the person is Cfualified for more than one office; and that these write-ins serve as suggestions to the nominating committee along with suggestions from committee members themselves and from Student Council mem ber. 3. That each principle officer be elected by a simple majority vote. 4. That a committee be established prior to the time for nominating to publicize the function of the nominating committee. Students May Choose Friday Or Sunday Free The Student Council also voted to recommend to the student body ttha the secretary and treasurer of Student Government be added to the list of principle officers in the handbook. Council members felt a majority vote should be re quired for election to these offices in accordance with the 'second re- conmrendation above. Another important item of busi ness was an announcement from Mary Curtis that Mrs. Heidbreder had granted the recfuest that each student be allo'W'ed either Friday or Sunday night free in addition to Saturday night. Mary Curtis stated tliat each student will be required to specify wdien she is using her free night by putting a small “f” beside her sign-out on the night that she takes it. Class Of ’57 Finds Jobs Satisfy! mg Bosley Crowther, Motion Picture Editor Of NewYorkTimes,ToTell Ds What He Knows About Movies From the Dean of Students’ of fice comes a report of a vocational survey taken of the 1957 Salem graduates. This survey is con ducted on a national basis and is a five year project of the National Vocational Guidance Association in cooperation with the Women’s Bu reau of the U. S. Department of Labor. Salem' has contributed informa tion for the past two years, and will do so again this year. The results of the questionnairs are sent to the 'Washington office, with no reference made to the girls’ names. The information which these questionnaires disclose is used in securing figures for plot ting trends, graphs, and the like. Although Mrs. Heidbreder com ments that the survey for last May’s graduates reveals “nothing startling,” it will be interesting to note the tabulated results. Out of the. 59 questionnaires sent, 48 were returned. Of the 48, all except one were employed or married, or both ! The actual figures are: Employed—36 (17 married) Sal ary range $176-$450 per month Employed part time—3 Enrolled for study or training—4 (2 professional study) Unemployed—5 (4 married) The next section deals with the satisfaction the graduates found in their positions : Yes No Kind of job hoped for 22 16 Related to college major 23 20 Meets economic needs 32 4 Provides fonvard professionally 32 6 Serves only until married 12 Serves only until have children 28 Plan to have a career 2 I Taking part in community activity 29 Bosley Crowther, motion picture critic and editor for the Ne-w York Times, will speak in Memorial Hall on Monday night, February 17, at 8:30 p.m. Mr. Crow-ther, who ap pears through the courtesy of the Salem College Lecture Series, will have as his topic, “What You Don’t Know .About the Movies.” :\ native of Lutherville, Mary land, Mr. Crowther spent his boy hood in Winston-Salem and Wash ington, D. C. He attended the public schools in these cities until entering Woodberry Forest pre paratory school in Orange, Vir- gina. Although Mr. Crowther spent his college days at Princeton dur ing the mid-twenties, he confesses th:;t he owned neither a Stutz Bearcat nor a Racoon coat! His newspaper career began while at Princeton, where he was Shall We Travel This Summer... Or W ork? Mueller Plays Harpsicord Next Friday A recital of Baroque and Ro coco music will be given in Old Chapel Friday, February 21, at 8:30 p.m. Mr. ,fohn Mueller of the Salem School of Music will play the harpsichord, and Mr. Hans- Karl Piltz of the Women’s College School of Music will play the viola, viola. This recital will be given in Old Chapel, heca.use chamber music needs a small room with an inti mate atmosphere. The program includes Sonata in C minor by William Flachton, So nata in C by George Frierich Llandel, Sonata in B flat by Jo hann Gottlieb Graun, and Sonata in C minor by Wilhelm Friedrich Bach. Two Juniors ©o To Meet At Georgia U Martha McClure and Margaret McQueen will fly to Athens, Geor- gia,~this weekend for the Regional Conference of the Athletic and Recreational Federation of College Women. The conference, which will be held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Univer sity of Georgia, will have as its theme “Fitness and College Wo men,” The Bridge Tournament wilt be played Tuesday, February 18 through Friday, February 21, Thirty-four couples will participate the first night, and the number of couples will decrease by half each night for the remainder of the tournament. News Brief editor of the campus paper, the Princetonian College Daily. Upon graduation in 1928, Mr. Crowther won the New York Times Inter collegiate Current Events contest for “Knowledge of the News.” The prize money won in this contest was used for an extended trip til rough Europe. While in Europe, Crowther got a taste of early Italian totalitarian rule when he was arrested for' carrying a “weapon.” This “wea pon” was actually a steel-pointed Alpine stock ! In the fall of 1928, Mr. Crow ther went to work for the New York Times as a general reporter; the next four years were spent learning the “ins’! and “outs” of metropolitian life, while reporting police stories, forums, and human- interest episodes. His journalistic responsibilities brought him in con tact with every sort of incident— from the gory murder of “Mad Dog” Vincent Coll, to the stirring funeral of the first “Angel Gabriel” in “The Green Pastures.” In 1932, Mr. Crowther joined the Drama Department of the Times as an assistant to Brooks Atkin son, Drama Critic, and as a feature writer on drama events. He re mained in this position until 1937, covering the legitimate theater at the times when the socially signi ficant play came into its own. It was during this time that Mr. Crowther, in collaboration with William DuBois, wrote a play en titled, “East of the Sun.” In 1937, Mr. Crowther became assistant film critic and editor in the Motion Picture Department of the Times, and in 1940, he became Bosley Crowther chief film critic, a position which he now holds. Mr. Crowther strongly advocates the making of genuine films, those which honestly depict the true aspects of life. He has constantly impressed upon movie producers the responsibility of the motion picture industry to the public—that of unexaggerated realism in movie production. Ruth Bennett Eilan Tells About Israeli Girls And Arab Refuges *N^^f^oy?!^nd Harriett Dwelle are considering a NSA tour o -urope. For future ideas for summer, see page A special Ash Wednesday Com munion Service will be held this Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 7:45 a.m. in the new chapel of the Home Moravian Church. Our college chaplain. Rev. Johansen will serve. All faculty and students are in vited to this pre-Lenten program which has been held traditionally at Salem for the past five or six years. This service is sponsored by the campus “Y”. Dr. Gramley came in just under the bell with Tuesday’s chapel speaker in tow. The speaker, Arieh Eilan, looked not at all harassed by his rather tense schedule— Wake Forest classes in the morn ing, Rotary Club luncheon at 12:30, and Salem chapel at 1 :45. He was still calm, and neatly pressed; his quiet English accent was Tut a thin veil over the strength and vitality of his personality. After chapel Mr. Eilan told us something about the life of a col lege-age girl in Israel. She has the opportunity to attend three major undergraduate universities: Hebrew University and Medical School in Jerusalem, the Univer sity of Tel Aviv, and the Technical Institute at Haifa. Those attend ing the University in Jerusalem had a difficult time after the war as the temporary buildings that were put up were spread all over the city. Now most of the classes have been moved to a new campus. At Rehoboth is situated the post graduate Science Institute; quite a few women students there. Also, Israel is noted for its large num ber of women doctors. Mr. Eilan’s comment on the final exams in Is raeli colleges was brief: “They are too hard to be any good.” Not more than 30-40% pass Hebrew University finals; not more than 20% pass at Haifa. Regarding the attire of our con temporaries in Israel, he said they wear blouses and skirts in the summer, they never wear hats nor bobby-sox. His final comment was made while looking across the campus at hurrying Salemites: “Like you girls, our young women are very mobile!” Mr. Eilan was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1916, but moved to England, where he was brought up, when he was three. He studied law there, then became a newspaperman and a diplomatic correspondent, a college professor, a soldier, and adiplomat. He came to the United States in 1956 and has been serving as First Secretar.v of the Permanent Egyptian army, a soldier, and a diplomat. He came of the Permanent Mission of Israel to the U. N. since then. Mr. Eilan opened his talk with a quotation from Chapter IV of the Book of Nehemiah: then de scribed the condition of his coun try thus: “In one hand a gun, in the other a spade: this is present- day Israel.” In describing the Warsaw purge of the Jews in 1943 he summed up the Jewish spirit by relating that— “they felt it to be more honorable to die fighting than be slaughtered in front of a firing squad. This ideal inspired the Jews of Pales tine in 1948: How much better to fight where there was really a chance when those before them fought with no chance . . . Mr. Eilan also discussed the Israel army’s aggression in Sinai, 1956—“last year’s big crisis”. They had four main aims in this action, —which was prompted by the reali zation that the Soviet Republic was moving into the Middle East arming the Arabs with Russian planes and anti-aircraft. Only two countries could supply this type of heavy armor—the U. S. and Rus sia; the Arabs were receiving them from both—Israel from neither. The goals of the army were I) to try to destroy the striking force of a Russian-trained Egyptian army; 2) to get their commercial ships through the blocked Suez Canal; 3) to gain freedom of ship ping through the Gulf of Acaba; and 4) to stop Ihe marauding of Arab raiders. The results were not only bene- (Continued on Page Four)