November 20. IQ^
On our front page heading this week you
will see two new reproductions of the Salem
seal. Now that the design can be distin
guished clearly, we decided to do a little re
search into its origins.
With Miss March's aid we referred to a copy
of the 1907 annual bound in some unusual
black material which rubs off and leaves its
readers with sooty hands (warning to future
editors). In the class history of 1907 there is
this comment: “Dorothy Doe had a talent so
different from the rest of us that she invented
a seal for our class, having upon it Pilot
Mountain, a scroll, and a wreath, representing
strength, learning and peace. And it has been
whispered that Dr. Clewell is going to adopt
it as the official seal of the college.”
As for the Greek letters written around the
center design. Miss Marsh compiled this infor
mation : “It is believed that Dishop Edward
Itondthaler aided in the design of this seal
supplying the three Greek words thereon—
Gamma, Kappa, and Delta, which the^ annual
states means “Knowledge and Virtue”.
If our present Greek class would like an
“extracurricular” project, may we suggest Jhat
they endeavor to have the present “Deata in
scribed on our Salem notebooks corrected to
read “Delta”. In this way even the study of
Greek can perform a service for Salem of
S. h. F.
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Sandra Gilbert
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor,
Last week we published a report of the set
up of Salem’s Self-Evaluation committees. We
understand that the general student body is
still not exactly sure what is going on. The
student body is expected to take a vital part
to the committees will not be expressing their
in this project. The eight students appointed
own opinions, but are representing all Salem
students. In various ways they will be look
ing for a consensus of student opinion.
If you have any opinions, pro or con, on the
Education Program, buttonhole Bobbie Mor
rison or Libba Lynch; on the library, Carol
Doxey or Katie Kocnitisky; on the Student
Personnel program, including Stee Gee and
extracurricular activities, Ann Dunn Joyner
and Jane Givens; and the Physical Plant, Bet
sey Geurrant or Matilda Woodard. And be
prepared, when they ask you, to make some
definite statements.
So4ft2>^e Net
The Salemite has arranged with Mr. Weis-
garber to reprint portions or the entirety of
his assembly talk on what we think we may
safely call “The Responsibility of the Creative
Artist”. This was an excellent speech. There,
we’ve said it, and we will accept no letters to
the editor disputing the statement.
However, we are well aware that assembly
was full of people leafing through hymnbooks,
etc., etc. But, we are not accusing you of that
cliche “apathy”. There were reasons why very
few people were attentive to Mr. Weisgarber’s
speech.
To take up the mundane first, the public
address system was off again. If it is a hope
less condition, perhaps we should place a
megaphone on the stool beside the glass of
water. It is a discourtesy to the speakers to
expect them to speak without a mike, unless
they specifieally request that it be turned off.
But there was, we feel, another reason why
few people were listening to Mr. Weisgarber.
They had not the slightest idea of what he
was talking about. We despair of making any
positive suggestions for quick remedies of this
ignorance. If no one has been struck by a
Picasso or bewildered by James Joyce or con
fused by some of the hi-fi demonstration re
cords, it is a little late to do anything about
it. Unless, of course, we recognize our ignor
ance.
But a newspaper is a mode of exhortation,
not of condemnation. We should say in blar
ing headlines “Come on ya’ll to the Gallery of
Fine Arts” or “Attention students, Schoenberg
is in the library”. We would print Joyce
chapter by chapter but for a matter of copy
rights and censorship.
In other words, we’re sorry more people
didn’t comprehend what Mr. Weisgarber was
talking about, but we don’t know exactly what
to do about the fact. As he himself said, cohia
munication is the most necessary thing in the
world to know how to do, but sometimes the
hardest thing to accomplish.
S. L. F.
While I find myself in complete
agreement as to the desirability of
coffee hours in conjunction with
lectures given at the college, J
think your editorial in last week’s
Salemite leaves the impression that
the college lecture committees are
indifferent to, and neglect of, such
gatherings.
The Lecture Series cannot include
coffee hours in the scheduled visits
of most lecturers because it would
require the additional payment of
hundreds of dollars to do so. Con
tracts frequently stipulate that the
visit must be limited to a single
public address to the exclusion of
not only coffee hours but some
times even of newspaper interviews.
The Rondt haler lecturers are
brought to Salem to reach as many
students on as many occasions as
possible. For the past five years,
and perhaps longer, coffee hours
have played a part in the schedule
of Rondthaler visitors to the cam
pus. Carl Holty, Ernest Griffith,
Leopold Arnaud, Richard Water
man, Reed Whittamore, and Dexter
Perkins all spoke with students and
faculty at coffee hours.
This year Dean Shirley met stu
dents and faculty on four occasions,
including an evening meeting spon
sored by a student organization and
open to all. The coffee hour was
to have centered around a discus
sion of the role of the faculty in
dealing with the problems posed by
the growing college-age population.
General publicity was not given to
the session because of the topic,
but there was no intention to ex
clude any interested member of the
college community.
There will be an opportunity for
all to meet and talk with Harry
Golden when he is here if Mr.
Golden consents to stay overnight.
The Rondthaler Committee is put
ting up $200.00 for this express pur
pose.
Sincerely yours,
Philip Africa
Chairman Rondthaler
Lecture Committee
members, of which 405 are college
'.tudents. The other members come
rom the College and Academj^
acuities, the Academy students
and the city. From these four
groups tw'enty-six people were in
vited to meet Vincent Price, of
which thirteen were college stu
dents representing all four classes
and at least four departments (none
from the English department). If
you subtract the wives of faculty
and city guests, you will see that
the college students had a fair per
centage.
The Lecture Committee pays for
service and any extra food served
the guests.
The policies of the Lecture Com
mittee are open at all times to
criticism, suggestions, and changes
—c h a n g e s which should be ap
proached through an understanding
of the policies and the problems
involved.
Dear Editor:
Jess Byrd, Chairman
Dear Editor:
During the last several chapel
programs, I have sat with my hands
in my lap. Listening intently, try
ing to REMEMBER, and wishing
that I could take notes. I realize
the reasoning behind the rule that
we not carry books, papers, and
letters into chapel, and I have seen
the chaos that results at schools
w'here there is no such rule, but I
do not believe that unobstrusive
note-taking would seem rude to our
speakers. The rule against books
letters and newspapers could still
be effective if wq were allowed to
carry only small notebooks in which
to write down the facts and ideas
of which there are usually too many
for anyone but a person with per
fect memory to remember. Since
we have an Honor Tradition that
seems to work very well, it appears
to me that the students’ responsi
bility for the privilege of note
taking would be not to abuse it by
writing letters or doodling, or writ
ing notes to each other. I do not
believe that this privilege would be
abused any more than it is at the
■lectures given at other times when
we are free to take as many notes
as we wish.
I regret, as you do, that Vincent
Price did not have time to meet
personally 'all the students nor the
Lecture Committee the money to
pay him for an extended visit. I
am surprised, however, at the in
formation in your editorial which
indicates a lack of facts about the
workings of the Lecture Committee
—a committee of which you are ?
member and for which you are a
publicity agent.
Perhaps you have forgotten the
review of problems and the deter
mination of policies at the first
meeting last spring. One problem,
that of overcoming student indiffer
ence and securing a large student
audience, has been met by limiting
the number and presenting three
well known and high-priced speak
ers. We propose in the contract
what social engagements we should
like these speakers to accept, and
they dispose of most of them. One
engagement to which all have con
sented is an invitation to a small
dinner.^ We add without consent a
coffee after dinner to which addi
tional guests are invited.
You were given for your files and
the treasurer, Bobbie Morrison, also
has the financial report on which
you will note that we have 702
Susan Hughes
Dear Editor,
With reference to last week’s
iditorial, “No Sauce for the Broc
:oli”, we’d like to make a few
bservations.
It has been pointed out to us
hat as a result of a five year sur
vey, Salem’s menus meet the re
quirements for. a well balanced diet.
Therefore, if students do have
(‘colds, dull complexions, and lag
qing feet,” wouldn’t it be because
they don’t take advantage of the
’ood the school prepares ?
Proteins smothered? This is out
of the question! Although the meat
is often covered with gravy or
sauces, this doesn’t mean the pro
"eins are smothered. Proteins, un
like vitamins, can’t be cooked out
of food.
Salem’s food is truly superior to
that of most institutions. However,
no institutional cooking can taste as
good as home-cooking. At home,
food is prepared for individuals, but
can you imagine preparing food to
suit the whims and fancies of 400
students ?
Martha Parrott
Jean Warthen
Home Economics Majors
By Sarah Tesch
Friday afternoon, Nov. 6, Joan Brooks
Susan Foard, Nina Ann Stokes and I set on
(much later than we anticipated—but that'
another story) for an eventful (and that, sti,
another) drive to Duke University to attenl
the Fall Regional Conference of Carolinas-Vi
Region of the United States National Student
Association.
Like most conventions, this three-day
started late, fortunately for us, for we regis,
tered just in time to be rushed upstairs foi
the opening banquet. We munched our turkej
and cranberry sauce while the others did ar
with the dessert, and devoured our cake as
we were welcomed by Duke’s Dr. Herring anl
by Charles Jones, Regional Chairman of
NSA, whom we were very happy to get ti
know better.
The group gathered represented the National
Staff of NSA, the Regional officers, and Stet
Gee heads, NSA co-ordinators and interested
student representatives from colleges and uni.
versities in Virginia, North Carolina, ail
South Carolina. The most active partieipanti
seemed to be those from Duke, Sweetbriar,
UNC and Randolph Macon.
A1 Lowenstein, speaking on the topic, “Tli!
Role of the American Student,” presented Fii
day night’s keynote address. Through kis
speech he painted in a most dynamic anl
startling manner the pathetic situation of stu
dents in other parts of the world—espeeialli
South Africa, Latin America, and the Fat
East—and our duty to take positive action t«
better their situation in the face of the Coni'
munist threat.
From the beginning, we felt that the eon
ference was a powerful thing—well organizel
and potent—and we tried to separate propa
ganda and emotional pressures from concrete
programs pertaining to Salem. Of the eiglt
workshops we chose four—“The Role of Stet
Gee on Campus,” which I attended, “Increas
ing International Awareness on Campus,
heard by Joan; “Student Editorial AffahS]
Susan’s choice; and, “The Role of NSA Ci-
ordinator,” selected by Nina Ann. Thest
groups met two hours Saturday morning ail
afternoon, and held one and one-half ho®
sessions Saturday night and Sunday mornii}
In addition to meetings, Saturday nights
saw a film put out by WUS (which our
sponsors on our campus) showing what *
being done for students all over the world h
other students. It stressed that World
versity Service is not “United States gh®
to poverty-stricken countries,” but an orgai
zation through which students in every ffio"
her country give to needy students ever,
where.
Isabel Marcus’ (Barnard College, head
USNSA International Affairs) address aft
the film told us how this student aid—far
being a hand-out, amounted to rehabilitate
textbooks, jobs, etc. She explained hoW
NSA aids when students voice and freedom
organize is suppressed—as in Cuba, for ‘
ample; or when students’ education is resti
ted beyond a certain “safe” level for fo^r
racial uprisings, as in South Africa.
USNSA traveling staff members are sent
gather information and report. If necessi
a statement—a resolution—of the U. S.
dent feeling against this suppression is ®
to the country’s officials. Material aid
lows.
The day seems to be past when we on ^
campuses can retire in complacent isolation
behind our ivyed walls. Well, we oan,
course, and do, but we might wonder in a
years where we were when the world g®
such a mess anyway.