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Page Four THE S A L E M I T ^ November 13 Salem Wins Construction Law Suit L. A. Reynolds Construction Co., Inc. was found negligent last week in a suit brought by Salem Aca demy and College. Salem was awarded $5,000 to help defray the expenses of damages done during the summer of 1959 at the Academy. During construction of the ad dition to the gymnasim, a gas pipe was broken and the gas escaped into a tunnel carrying steam pipes to the Academy. The gas accumu lated in the basement of the Aca demy and caused an explosion. Sre was approximately $11,000 worth of damage done. Moravian Synod Holds Annual Freshmen Class Holds Election Of Officers Freshmen elected Jackie Baker j, Charlotte as class president mass meeting Monday. The group chose Dean Major oi Columbia, S. C. as vice-presidem. Lucy Lane of Durham as secretarj', and Carroll Roberts, also from Dut! ham, as treasurer to complete slate of officers. Each of these girls agrees in Ik, praise of Salem, for it was tlit only college to which she applied Jackie, who served her class i, temporary chairman prior to tk recent election, said she Meeting Here Were you excited by the in creased number of male visitors to our campus this week? Were you pleased at having a change from the routine—a buffet supper on Thursday evening? Well, for this we are indebted to our founding fathers, the Moravians. Home Moravian Church in Win ston-Salem is headquarters for the ^ Southern Province of the Moravian ■ Church. This week the Provincial Synod, the annual business meeting for the province, was held here. Activities included daily meetings with lunch and dinner served in our club dining room. The group elected new members to the Provincial Elders Conference, the governing body of the province. They also chose a bishop and six new trustees. Resolutions occupied the bynoa continually, T uesday through Thursday. The session opened with a com-, munion service Monday evening at Bethania Moravian Church. Dr. Raymond Haupert, president of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was the speaker. Wednesday evening a public wor ship service took place in Home Moravian Church where Dr. Edwin Kortz spoke on “Changes and Chal lenges in Missions.” The Province welcomed visitors to these services and at all of the meetings, to ob serve the workings of the Provin cial Synod. *** — ^ ' Ing-Marie Fredrickson and Lena Lundgren btop hor Mugs ^ I *f* Swedish Students Talk Of Socialism, Social Ute few bus lines, the bicycles which crowd the streets, and the horses and wagons, were under the super vision and control of the state. Then we more or less left the By Susan Hughes departments with professors, asso ^ , j riate nrofessors, assistant profes- If you would like to spend a de- ciate proiessors, ^ lightful — and educational — time MORRIS SERVICE Next to Carolina Theatre * * ♦ ♦ * sometime when you have a free period and can find Lena and Ing- Marie “at home” in Bitting, just clear your mind of all previous ideas about Sweden, its customs, daily life, government, and educational system, and have a chat with our two Swedish girls. One of the things that interested me was the fact that the govern ment controls so many of the things that we in America try so hard to keep separated from the state. There is one department in the government that is set up to con trol just the church and the schools and since we are in an academic situation, I was particularly inter ested in the schools. There are no private schools in Sweden, and all the money to support the schools comes from the government, with some little help from the communi ties. The school system is geared so that when a young person finishes high school he is two years ahead of the high school student finishing at the same time in America. Ing- Marie said that a fifteen-year-old would more than likely be taking twelve subjects at one time, and all of these subjects are compulsory, which means that the student does not choose his curriculum as we do here. The high school teachers all have M.A.’s and Ph.D’s and each one is his “own boss” so to speak; they are usually engaged in some out side research, too. This leaves them less time to work with the students, and the girls said that in all phases of life, there is no close relationship between the young people and the older generation Sandwiches - Salads - Sodas "The Place Where Salemite* Meet” sors,. and instructors. As for exams and tests, in high school there are tests every week, but no real final exams until the year of graduation. When the last year of high school comes, the students take written exams in March and oral exams in May. In the universities the stu dents have no exams at all until they have finished their whole course of study and take one final exam. , „ , The beautiful teeth of the Swedes was explained when Lena told me that every school has a dentist who checks all the children’s teeth at least once a year—and some of the children wear braces, too. the state also provides each school with a physician who examines every child each year. Every one pays a general insurance fee when he pays his income tax, which is used to pay for this medical care. This insur ance also pays hospital bills, makes medicine cheaper, and when a Swede goes to a private physician, part of the bills will be paid by this insurance. The government in Sweden also controls the television and radio facilities. There are no commer cials on the Swedish stations, arid the people pay a fee to have this non-commercialized entertainment. Of course they have to be very careful not to let any certain pack age of cigarettes, or box of soap powder, or cereal box show in any of the shows. Once they put ori a big quiz show on which the prize was a new car. The car had to be kept covered up the whole time so that nobody could tell what make and model it was. When I asked them about govern ment control of transportation, the around for the ideal school for Id “But I stopped looking when I found Salem.” Lucy added, "I juii don’t know what I’d have donei: I had not been accepted.” Boll Carroll, who was “thrilled fromtli very first sight of Salem, and E who says Salem is everything expected it to be, listed Salem is their only choice. Tentative majors include scientt for Jackie, French for Dean, Eif lish for Lucy, and math for Carroll subject of socialism in Sweden and turned to the social life. The first thing Lena said was “Be sure to tell them that WE DON’T DATE As an after-thought, she added, “Thank goodness.” In S vy e d e n everybody goes to everything to gether, the boys can be with any body, and the girls can “try to be with who they want to.” The girls can even go to the dances without an escort or a chaperone. The schools sponsor dances every week, but they said that in Sweden they do not have the parties that just “keep on going” like the ones Mary Lu and Sarah told us they went to in Norway. Ing-Marie said that they go to the movies a lot because they do not have the wide-spread television that we do. They have the best of the French and German films, and many of the American films, not to mention the great Swe dish films. There isn’t room here to put down all the things we talked about in that hour Wednesday. Ing-Marie and Lena are going to talk to us in chapel Monday, so we will all have a chance to learn more about their part of the “land of the mid night sun.” WRA Forms VolleyballTea Volleyball, headed by Betty Wilkins and sponsored by began this week at Salem., Tk recreational group invites ail to come to the gym to participali in this sport. WRA wents to get a team i: ganized as quickly as possible, t: fulfill the games scheduled rf Wake Forest, Woman’s Colleji and Greensboro College this sea» Girls, don’t let Pat Week '“shiner” discourage you. Miss Pi mer promised not to hit so tali next time. Volleyball is really a lot of lit so come on down to the gynt 4 ;45 every afternoon. BAR Fountain favorite* for co i-ftli ?nMe"unEersitles there are no girls said that everything except a Want To Ck> ■When You Want To Go TOWN STEAK HOUSE TWO FINE RESTAURANTS TO SERVE YOU PAY A LITTLE MORE . . . 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