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Page Two ^ile>4^ P^04fto-te> Mo-^Q' Co-mmunitif Sp^Mt During his address to the Press Club in Washington last week, Premier Khrushchv was asked if the U. S. S. R-, having hit the moon (as far as scientists can tell), would claim the moon as Russian territory. Mr. K. rejoined with a reply which applies aptly to the Salem campus. He said that the word “ours” is a capitalistic expression, one denoting the exis tence of private property. Going on m his propaganda-tossing he said that the moon-ex periment was done, not for Russian prestige but for the enlightenment of the whole world At Salem, or at any college, the' process of rising from a freshman to a senior consists of a change in thinking in pronouns. It is a change from thinking of “mine” or “ours’ referring to a clique, to referring to “Salem’s our community’s”. or The best way to understand this change is to have the opportunity to return one year as a member of the Orientation Committee. The pressure of their first few days at an unknown campus causes freshmen to feel as if they were a herd of cattle. The only way to bring them to love Salem was to single out each girl as an individual; to knoAv her name; to eat each dav with a different group of girls. Why can’t all upperclassmen carry on this process of knowing each girl as an individual There is no excuse for class or dorm or floor consciousness. The process of becoming a mature woman which should be practically completed by the time we are seniors, is one which includes being able to stand on your own tAvo feet, to regard yourself as an individual of worth, and to be able to conceive of other people as in dividuals. f) V PRESS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY OF THE COLLEGE ATEAR BY THE STUDENT BODY OF SALEM COLLEGE Flnnr Main Hall - Downtown Off.ce-414 Bank St., S.W.._ Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price—$3.50 a year EDITOR Susan Foard business MANAGER Betsey Guerrant News Editor Mary Lu Nuckols Feature Editor Harriet Herring Headlines , Alta Lu Townes Joanne Doremus j Ity Advisor — Miss Jess Byrd Asst. Business Mgr.- Sara Lou Richardson Advertising Manager- Jo Ann Wade Circulation Manager .-Becky Smith Copy Editor Barbara Alfmon Managing Staff Elizabeth Lynch, Carole King September 25, 1955 UnteUectucd /Umadplte^ Americcin'lSJoTiveigicinCoTitcicts Are Related By Sarah Tesch By Sarah Tesch Of course the first contact between the U. S. A, and the land of the Vikings accurred about 1000 A.D.—and there is no question that Leif the Lucky, son of Eric the Red* sailed to a region probably in or near Massachusetts. The value of this accident may be questioned, because there ■ was no give and take—no real communication betAveen the In dians and the Vikings. From the ninth century, the Vikings terrorize in area of the world from Dublin to Constantinople; but with Kin; dlav the Saint, Christianity was established and soothed the pagai irutality and put an end to the expansion outside of Norway. During her union with Denmark in the Middle Ages, Norway played second fiddle—a “step-sister role, and Columbus stole her thunder with his discovery—a blow lasting to the present day, the Norwegians claim. But the Norwegians kept their maritime contact, and many sailed in Dutch fleets, thus participating in the colonization of New York. When America asserted her independence from Britain, Norway sym- lathized. Norwegian students read American writing and yearned for freedom from Danish rule. In 1814, she broke away from the higher-developed nation of Denmark. Like the United States, she looked forward to a simple form of demo cracy. In her Constitution of 1814 she stated that “Laws, not men, shall govern.” James Fenimore Cooper, Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irving greatly influenced Norway. Henrik Weregeland, Norwegian author and statesman, in a tribute to Washington and Jefferson, placed them in a category with Socrates. Toward the mid-nineteenth century came the mass exodus from Nor way for the New World, where flat open land stretched for miles, and where there were neither cliff-gardens in summer nor snoAv avalanches in winter. Norwegian immigration to the U. S. was stronger in pro portion to any other nation except Ireland. And once Thor and Kristin had settled in Minnesota or North Dakota (Continued on Page Three) Salem of 1959-1960 is on an academic kiclj In the library Tuesday night at least 50 goij and Avhite beanies were bent intently ovg; ^ “Setton and Winkler” and other equally ferent tomes. Among the upperclassmen, ovet ” and over the comment is heard, “I’m really going to study this year.” The lesson of tb seventeen who are no longer with us seenu to be well-learned. Even the faculty show some signs of active encouragement of “getting off to the riglt start.” Many professors have taken time oat from their summer vacations to make out as signment sheets. Besides the convenience ol these sheets, the psychological effect on tb students is great. Here, in two pages, is Avht the class will learn this semester. Ilaviaj digested this material in portions distribute! throughout each week, the class can be post tive that they have put into the course what the professor expects and can see exactly what the results of their efforts are intended to he, The Orientation Committee also contribute! to this studious atmosphere. An innovation, the Academic Night, took place after fresh men had been to one afternoon of classes.| The multitude of practical questions aboiit|' note-taking, etc., were answered. More portant, we feel, was the inclusion of a pki. that these neAv students fill up Memorial Hal ■ for the lecture series and recitals; that thei!; support IRC and the Humanities Club and tt([- clubs related to their majors. Only on a col-i lege campus are so many extracurricular acti-i( vities present which provide educational op-ji portunity as well as emotional enjoyment. | The freshmen have been approached. Thiih is an open invitation for upperclassmen to join[' in and support the purpose of Aeademiil Night. To raise the standard of thinking an! to develop an intellectual atmosphere on cam pus.” ! S- L. f,l it When each person you meet in the coJirse of a day appears as an unique individual, finally becomes evident that all men are equal in the fact that they exist. Therefore, no one group of girls at Salem can be “better” than another. Each individual is as important as everyone else and she has no right to Avithhold herself from another class, dorm, floor or group of girls on campus. Olso Scholar Nuckols Tells Of Many Serious Discussions ''''Qap.italiitf Jtaue. ^utUUed %fouA. Jtot After all, Salem’s Honor Tradition itself is based on the assumption that each girl is an individJial, deeming herself of equal, but of neither more nor less, importance to the other members of her eommunity. Communism could, therefore, be defined as a belief in per sonal honor, at least here at Salem. S. L. F. Off Limits Handbook instrnetors during Orientation Week, noticed that, technically. Memorial Hall, the Post Office, and the Dairy Barn are off campus at night. The handbook, the official codification of campus rules, specifies Academy Street as the northern boundary for AAmlking at night. Surely Salem girls can protect them selves long enough to buy a doughnut! Or would music students like for this rule to stand ? By Mary Lu Nuckols Before we went to the Oslo Int'ernational Summer School, I’m afraid that Sarah and I shared the “only in America” feeling of most of our countrymen. We had never had contact with anyone from England, France, Nonvay, India, or Poland in their own environment. The sum mer school gave us a chance to meet students from those and other countries outside the American way of life and to learn by exchanging ideas in an atmosphere marked by an absence of racial or religious pre judice. We often gathered in informal groups and discussed every subject from the advantages of eating in the continental style (fork in left hand) to the different views of communism (with real Communists). We also had organized International Evenings sponsored by * the school. These programs gave the students and opportunity to listen to speakers and then talk about such issues as “Segregation” and “Why I would not like to be an American.” The students from other countries helped us to see American habits, customs, and problems from a different view. They always started off with “You Americans, you always come over to spend your money and have a good time.” They were astonished at our lack of knowledge of languages. This time we were the foreigners, and segregation and racial dis crimination were much discussed topics. Norwegians, French, and other Europeans could not understand why the land of freedom should have to use federal troops before people would let Negro children attend an integrated high school. They politely but honestly told us that segre gation seemed to them to be a great injustice. The five American Negros at the school were not bitter, but merely acknowledged the existence of segregation. We will also r-;member discussing Communism with the five Polish boys. Edwin was a devout Communist who believed that the United (Continued on Page Three) The good Chairman Khrushchev at last hai[ set his sturdy peasant feet on American soil;! and has proceeded to blast out blunt coiii-|- ments and complaints; such as the one abow to Henry Cabot Lodge. “ .. . Well, here I am. I wanted you to set a Communist in human form without horns oi tail.”—N. Y. “ . . .We sincerely say to all countries: Ltl us disarm. Let us compete in who builds moii homes, schools, hospitals for his people, pw duces more grain, milk, meat, clothing anl other consumer goods and not in who has moii hydrogen bombs and rockets”—^U. N. “ ... You believe in your system and wouldn’t waste my energy trying to eonveil you to ours.”—N. Y. “ . . . There are only two nations which an powerful—the Soviet Union and the U. ^ You people must accept the facts of life. You must recognize we are here to stay.”—Wasl ington. “ . . . The question of Hungary has stuck in some people’s throats as a dead rat. He feeli that it is unpleasant, and yet he cannot spij it out ... We for our part, could think ol quite a few dead rats we could throw at you —Washington. , “ . . . Every duck praises its own marsh. N. Y. welcoming lunch. “ . . . When a person dies, he is eventualli buried. A coffin is made for the dead KOi and he is taken out of the premises of tb living. Why then must China be representet in the United Nations by the corpse of r® actionary China, that is, by the Chiang Kai shek clique?”—U. N. “ . . . I am confident that war is not i» evitable, and that man can and must be fro®' from fear of its horrors.”—to U. S. from Wasli ington. “ ... We want to build a land where tber is no enmity, where there is complete equaW such as was preached by Christ.”—Des Moines Iowa. “ ... I am disappointed and surprised • ■. you tell me I cannot go to the Disneylan® What is wrong? You have rocket launehei there? Is there an epidemic of cholera? H®' the gangsters taken over the city?”—HoL wood.
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