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by the student body of SALEM COL.LE^
January 15.
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By Nina Ann Stokes
The United States Congress passed the]
N.D.E.A. (National Defense Educational Act)
Aug. 23, 1958. Jarred by the Soviets’ first!
Sputnik sent into space less than a year before,
Congress intended this bill “to strengthen the
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United States, especially in science and tech
nology, through programs designed to stimu
late the development and to increase the num
ber of students in science, engineering, mathe
matics, modern foreign languages and other
disciplines.”
Under Title II of this Act, Federal funds are
granted to accredited institutions of higher
learning for low interest student loans. Con
gress, in passing the N.D.E.A., authorized a
total of $295 million for the Title II loan pro
gram. For each nine dollars of Federal money,
a school receives, it must add one dollar of its
own.
Also under the N.D.E.A. a student is not
eligible for a Title II loan unless he;
(1) has executed and filed with the Com
missioner an affidavit that he does not
believe in, and is not a member of and
does not support any organization that
believes in or teaches, the overthrow
of the United States government by
force or violence or by any illegal or
unconstitutional methods, and (2) has
taken and subscribed to an oath or
affirmation in the following form; “I
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I
will bear true faith and allegiance to
the United States of America and will
support and defend the Constitution
and laws of the United States against
all its enemies, foreign and domestic.
Therefore, if an applicant makes any “false,
fictitious or fraudulent statements or repre
sentations” on the required affidavit, he is sub
ject to a fine of not more than $10,000 or a
maximum of five years imprisonment, or both.
The disclaimer affidavit (not the loyalty
oath) of the loyalty provision has greatly
aroused the academic community. Not only
students but faculty and college presidents
have protested. Seven prominent colleges-
Princeton, Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn
Mawr, Amherst, Antioch and Keed—refused
to participate in the loan program. Recently,
Oberlin, Harvard, and Yale reconsidered, with
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By Sue Froneberger
The sound of wedding bells has become a reality for several Salemite.-
- will be very real to them in the near future. Over the holidays
vhile some of us traveled around, attended the Dixie Classics, or re
named at home with our families, others were proudly showing off a
lew pin or engagement ring or better still, a wedding band.
Lucy Ann Phillips tacked a new name onto the end of her old one
ungratulations to you, Mrs. Parker. Vicki Roach also became a Mrs
ncl has set up housekeeping in Chapel Hill. Carol Cross added a hand-
ne accessory to her left hand in the form of a diamond. Yes, it
ruly, seems that “diamonds are a Salemite’s best friend.
Alice Dudley Howell and Elaine Drake both received fraternity pins
n their Christmas packages. Nice Christmas present, isn’t it?
Other Salemites spent their vacation traveling around to various places
Many students attended the Dixie Classics in Raleigh. Lena, one of
Sweden’s gifts to Salem went all the way to Miami to see the Orange
jowI game. Pat Howell spent one week of her vacation in Belle Haven,
irginia visiting a “friend.”
Most Salemites made it back to school after weddings, pinnings, anc
dps. Their return was in evidence on second floor Babcock Monday
light when they had an animal parade. In case you’re interested, there
re 100 animals on second floor (stuffed of course).
Girls, if you walk by Miss Simpson’s office and hear an alarm clock
on’t think our Recorder is sleeping on the job. During, the holidays a
lew electric bell system was installed and the alarm every 50 minutes
o remind Miss Simpson of her new duty of Official Bell Ringer!
We have a new prospective student at Salem—Class of 1978. On
diristmas Eve little Amy, Mrs. Heidbreder’s granddaughter was bo;n
fur dean returns today from a long visit with her daughter, son-in-law
nd new namesake.
With exams coming up, maybe we should^all follow the example of
dsters’ Dorm and get a Ouija board. It seems these amazing boards
.m foretell the future. I wonder how they would do on telling us what
xam questions will be?
Sophomores! Get your bids in early on 303 South, That room seems
o be lucky because both Libba Lynch and Ann O’Neal came back from
diristmas vacation with rings. It’s happened twice (sort of) and that
.lade it a tradition.
The senior class boasted the greatest percentage of diamond-clad
lands after Santa made his rounds. Sally Townsend received her gem
Federal funds, .must require, in effect, an
and affidavit in return for its own money.
Also, when the N.D.E.A. was passed, aeeori
ing to Kennedy and Clark, “no thought ^as
given to the question of how the (loyalty pt,,
vision) section would be enforced. This ptj,
vision would not prevent a subversive
from receiving a student loan, for such a pet,
son would not hesitate to perjure himself,"
Last year the Kennedy-Clark Bill failed d®
to lack of effective support from students,
Recently, the two Senators have stated thej
intention of pressing for the enactment of thej
bill, perhaps amended, in the coming session
of Congress.
Here is a public issue that affects students
directly. If students all over the countri
study the loyalty provision, decide whether it
infringes on their academic freedom, take theii
stand, and make that stand known, action ivi
follow.
Senior
Co44Aiei4f.
The seniors have a request to make. It has
been a long and honored tradition that tht
senior class is given its due respect during
assembly periods. Not only are we allowed to
stand for the introduction to hymns, but m
are supposed to get out of the auditorium
before the pushing, rushing, trampling, stomp
ing horde of starving juniors, sophomores anj
freshmen stand up. We have remained seatd
for three years (waiting for the somber sen
iors to file out). Now its our turn.
S.L.P,
Fifties Roar On
j 1 rom Jack Hart of Randolph-Macon fame. May Terry’s Don Drum
drew from the loan program, and returned exchanged his Sigma Nu pin for a ring on her finger
funds that had been granted to them.
Antioch’s reaction was typical. Samuel P.
Gould, President said, “We cannot accept the
idea that young men and women of college | jucleosis and Dora Bryran’s Fred is now engaged
age should be singled out from all other citi-
Day students, members of the senior class, Marie Stimpson and Gerrie
Mcllroy, also joined the ranks of those now engaged. Rosemary Laney
eceived hers from Jerry Crow while home recovering from mono-
zens of the country to sign special affidavits
and take oaths of allegiance, in order to bene
fit by provisions of the Act.”
Senator Kennedy, w'ho with Senator Clark
last year introduced a bill to repeal the
N.D.E.A. loyalty provision says:
“It is easy to argue that test oaths have
become a common place ritual which need not
arouse the sensitive concern of students and
teachers. The authors and defenders of these
provisions in the N.D.E.A. point out that, in
recent years, legislation which provides for
government assistance to students has char
acteristically contained loyalty oath provis
ions.”
“The N.D.E.A. loyalty provision however
has no place in a program designed to en
courage education. It is at a variance with
the declared purpose of the Act in which it
appears; it acts as a barrier to prospective
students; it is distasteful, humiliating, and un
workable to those who must administer it.
This is not a quarrel over the principal that
Americans should be lawful; it concerns a
doctrine which singles out students as a group
who must sign a rather vague affidavit as to
their beliefs, as well as to their actions.”
As Senator Kennedy said the loyalty pro
vision is nothing new. For eight years the
National Science Foundation has required an
identical oath and affidavit from applicants
for grants and fellowships. The difference,
from the standpoint of colleges and univer
sities, is the way the provision is administered.
Under all other Federal programs of aid to
higher education, a government agency makes
final selection of recipients, and allocates the
funds. However, with Title II loans, each in
stitution selects recipients and since it matches
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We have added another decade to our 1ms.
Add your own reminiscencs to these personal
recollections:
The furor over Gen. MacArthur’s retnra
from Korea, the first big political issue yot
remember ...
Pasting an I Like Ike tag on the kitchen
door . . .
The first rock-and-roll song, “ShBoom”...
Listening to Queen Elizabeth’s coronation
on the radio . . .
The day the T.V. set came and everybody
sat down to watch (and some never got nf
again) . . .
Changing from canned peas to frozen
ones . . .
The first drip-dry blouses which really
weren’t . . .
Learning to pronounce Khrushchev . ■ ■
The Jerry Lewis movie when you saw you
first rocket blasting up and fading away
S. LF
By Grace Walker
Dr. Karlis Leyasmeyer, European educator, author, and editor, spoke
o Salem—students and faculty—in assembly Monday. Dr. Leyasmeyer,
\ Latvian born in 1906, lived in Russia, saw the Communist Revolution
hr 1917, and had first-hand experience under Communist terror and
torture. He is now a citizen of the United States, and since his arrival
n America in 1949, he has lectured in more than 250 colleges and uni
versities.
This is a return visit for Leyasmeyer to our campus. Last spring he
discussed Communist ideal and reality. Monday he spoke on “The New
Soviet Policy and the Future Outlook.”
In his vehement and effective delivery. Dr. Leyasmeyer said that under
Communism one is a slave—economically, politically, educationally. He
described it as “the worst slavery in human history.”
Khrushchev, he believes, is a more powerful dictator than Stalin, for
Khrushchev is far more dangerous, more inflexible, more unpredictable,
more active.
One of Khrushchev’s tactics in reaching the “ultimate goal of con
querors of the world” is his psychological attack. Khrushchev gives
false hopes, false expectations, and false promises to his people, while
■making agreements with capitalistic western nations in order to para
lyze the actions of these people. The Communists create situations,
thereby putting us in a precarious position. Khrushchev knows he can
threaten us, and he knows we are frightened.
One of the greatest defeats America has ever had, according to Leyas
meyer, was Khrushchev’s invitation and visit to America, because by
our invitation we actually were accomplices to a violation of our own
policy. This has made Khrushchev feel as if he is “master of the situ
ation” (like Hitler after Munich).
Leyasmeyer ended his talk by saying that when our society becomes
religiously weak, -we are lost. We must take a stand and use all the
resources at our disposal. These resources do not lie in our materialistic
comforts and boasting, but in our inner dedication, the hope to attain a
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solution, and our realization of the need for “crusaders in the crucial
hour.”
One result of tbe Legislative Board’s invest
gation into the general area of book store o]
eration is announced on the front page “
week. The existence of unnecessary eM
tickets has been abolished.
The Board is also in the midst of raves*
gating the sale of textbooks. First of all)'
recognize that the bookstore is an indepenae
business in the fine American tradition of P
vate enterprise. We cannot ask that bo
prices be lowered for our benefit.
However, the area of most discord coi
from the bookslips which are signed wif
the first week of each semester, usually at
first class meeting. These slips are contrat
as valid as any contract to which a
sigris her name. They cannot be revoked.
Since nothing can be done after the H
slips are signed, the Legislative Board has
cided to work in the area of time before
slips are presented. They will spousal
mimeographed sheet of books which
members expect their classes to use. This
will be posted, it is hoped, at least a J
before classes begin in order to allow studf
to find second-hand books. With the coop^
tion of the faculty, this should prove to
the solution to the problem of booksUpS'
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