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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 26, 1960
Number 1 5
itions Pass: Boards Extend Evening Hours
Students Hear
During Annual
Candidates Views
Kick-Off Banquet
Politics swing into high gear on 1 she was elected as class represen-
he Salem campus next Tuesday ptative to Salem’s Stee Gee in^ her
freshman and junior years and has
light as Nan Williams presides
3ver the formal Kick-Off Banquet.
Nan will review the requirements
for a student body president, call
ing on her own experience to tell
the student body the necessary
qualifications.
Then she will introduce Jane
Giyens and Churchill Jenkins, can
didates nominated Monday by the
Legislative Board for office in 1960-
6k The Board serving as a nomi
nating committee took into account
the student body suggestions, the
junior preference sheets filled out
recently.
{The new division of powers ?
Why, it’s the best thing that’s hap
pened around here!” was the en
thusiastic reply of Jane Givens, a
candidate for president of Student
Government.
served on many committees from
student personal evaluation to lost
and found. This English major has
been a hall president and a Salem-
ite reporter and is now a junior
marshall and a member of the Lec
ture Series Committee. Having
been a consistent Dean’s List stu
dent, she was recently inducted 1
into the Honor Society.
Student Government brings out]
the real w'orth of a person, because
it shows how well the leaders can
lead and how well the followers
follow, according to Churchill
Jenkins, the girl from Conway, a
nominee for president.
Churchill believes that a person’s
attitude toward rules is just as im
portant as his attitude toward hold
ing an office. She emphasized that
the Honor Tradition has grown
stronger just in the three years
that she has been at Salem, but
she recognized that the attitude of
an important minority must become
more wholesome before we can be
satisfied with the Honor Tradition.
In addition to being a proving
ground for leaders and followers,
Churchill also sees Student Govern
ment as a means of making every
girl feel a part of her school, for,
as she observed, if a person is given
a certain amount of authority and
priviege, he will not feel inferior.
Churchill wished for more student
interest in Stee Gee and especially
in the Stee Gee meetings in as
sembly.
Churchill has served in Student
Government since her sophomore
year when she was the house presi
1J:30 p.m. permission on Friday
nights for all students and 12; 15
permission on Saturday nights for
all students has been granted by
the Faculty Advisory Board, acting
on petitions from the student body
as revised by the Legislative .Board.
This change is effective today, Feb
ruary 26. Special late permissions
will continue to be granted for cer
tain occasions.
The Legislative Board received a
petition signed by over 250 girls
two weeks ago requesting one
o’clock permission on Saturday
nights. The Board substituted for
this request the following propals:
1. That 11:30 permission be
granted on Friday nights,
2. That 12 ;30 permission be
granted on Saturday nights.
3. That a one o’clock permission
on Saturday nights be possible once
a rnonth for each student.
In making the final decision, the
Faculty Advisory Board took into
account many aspects of the situ
ation, including health, safety and
general welfare factors; parental
viewpoints which reach the College
direct from time to time; the Col
lege’s obiligations to its neighbors,
to' its church relationship and to
the community; administrative
problems; the deportment of men
escorts of Saturday nights; and
other matters.
Junior Cars
Juniors will be permitted to have
cars at Salem on or after March_ 1.
providing they file written permis
sions from their parents in the
Dean of Students office and abide
by all the usual rules for on-campus
cars. The Faculty Advisory Board
felt “the very late date of Easter
recess this year makes your request
a reasonable one.”
Top Ten’ Author, Editor
Delivers Closing Lecture
Churchill Jenkins
dent of Babcock Dormitory. This
year she has held one of the pri
mary offices, that of Treasurer of
Student Government. Churchill was
an I. R. S. Council member for
two years and appeared in the 1959
annual as a “Feature Girl.” Her
plans include a primary teacher’s
certificate with a major in religion.
YWCA Sponsors Auction
For Benefit Of The WUS
Jane Givens
^There are still flaws even in this
improved form of government, as
Jane pointed out, such as the need
for closer Legislative and Judical
Bqard co-operation and for a liaison
between the Legislative Board and
the,house councils. To remedy this
latter weakness, Jane suggested
that Stee Gee re-establish a council
made up of all the house presidents.
By thus having a more uniform
policy among the dorms, but also
by encouraging greater participa
tion in the sister teams, Jane would
seek to unify the classes.
Election procedure could be im
proved, she decided, if the nomi
nating committee were composed
of |the heads of the organizations
and of class representatives who
were chosen for the sole purpose
of [serving on this committee. Be
lieving that the purpose of Student
Government is “to promote tho
Welfare of the students,” Jane
lauded the new, more positive atti
tude toward petitions, but she
wished that the suggestion box
would be used more by students
who have criticism or constructive
ideas. Jane stressed that before
she would attempt to deal with
specific issues on campus, she would
first promote the Honor Tradition,
which “really works” at Salem, but
which must continue to work.
hair
Having acted as parlimentarian
in jher Richmond, Va. high school
By Susan Hughes
‘Steak House dinners . .
cuts . . . breakfast in bed . . •
manicures . . . car washing . . .
Step right up! We have all these
for sale, and more, to the highest
bidder . . .” Echoes from last
year’s “Y” Auction-
Yes, it is time again for the an
nual “Y” auction, so students and
faculty are invited to offer their
talents and services to be auctioned
Wednesday, March 2, in Assembly.
The nioney collected will be sent
to support the World Univepity
Service. Leading man will be
Salem’s own built-in auctioneer,
Jim Bray.
Freshmen, you have a treat m
store! Just ask any of the upper
classmen who went to the auction
last year—it was quite a success.
Mary Scott Best, who is chanr-
of the event, plans to post
lists in each dormitory so that you
can sign to sell.
Day Students can sign, too, and
what about selling some of those
nights out in town on week-ends
and homemade goodies .
wouldn’t it be a g°°d idea for som
good baby-sitters to sign up, so th^
faculty members can ha
nights out? ^ ^
What about you girls with cars.
Lots of people would like rides to
Farmer’s Dairy Bar some
man
nights. I've heard complaints like
‘Golly, all my skirts are too long,
and my waist-bands are too loose,
but I just don’t have time to sew.”
That seems like a good ^ hint for
you Home Economics majors.
Do you like to walk—to the
laundry? Sell your services as a
laundry carrier. Most people hate
that hill, and the piles of sheets
and towels they have to lug back
to the dorm, so why not do it for
W. U. S.?
Last year there were even a few
energetic souls who volunteered to
do Spring Cleaning. If you have
cleaned your room and are at a
loss for something to clean, then
clean other people’s rooms.
After the horrid weather we need
some car-washers, and around
term paper time people search
frantically for typists — And we
know the faculty has a lot to offer
-what about Spaghetti Suppers?
Please no kittens—!
You can probably think of things
that haven’t been mentioned here,
Harry L. Golden, famous writer,
editor, and publisher of the Caro
lina Israelite, will appear Monday
night, February twenty-ninth, as
the third speaker of the 1959-1960
Salem College Lecture Series. Carl
Sandburg has said of Mr. Golden
“As the editor of the Carolina
Israelite he has been called to many
cities from coast to coast for talks
and lectures. He knows the Ameri
can scene and the American people
as few men do. He has written the
most interesting pro-semitic book
that I have ever read—barring pos
sibly the Old Testament, There are
pages to give you rollicking laugh
ter, others a pleasant smile, still
others- that might have you somber
over our American scene and its
human conditions. He drops the
sheets of writing in a barrel. Comes
the time of month to get out his
paper ... he digs into the barrel
and finds copy. As you go along
in this book or in copies of his
paper you may be saying, “That
fellow doesn’t miss anything—he
has ears to hear and a pencil to
write it down.’ ”
The Salemite will sponsor a cof
fee for Mr. Golden in the Strong
Friendship Rooms after lunch on
Monday,
Mr. Golden was born in New
York City, on May 6, 1902. His
father was a reporter on the Jewish,
Daily Forward. Harry, an avid
reader and youthful entliusiast in
the Hnry George movement for
agrarian reform, was graduated
from City College in 1924. He has
been an institution in Charlotte
since his arrival there in 1939. A
social historian by interest and
training he was drawn initially to
Charlotte because he felt that one
of the most profound chapters in
so why not run down to your bulle
tin board and sign up before you
forget. And even if you don’t have
anything to sell or can’t possibly
think of anything you need, come
to chapel Wednesday. It will be a
-Lots of fun—And you
National Head
Of Council
Begins Series
Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, presi
dent of National Council of Christ
ians and Jews, will launch a three-
part series of assembly programs
on “Individual Values” in chapel
Monday.
Dr. Jones, speaking in conjunc
tion with Brotherhood Week, will
discuss individual values as revealed
in man’s prejudices—his attitudes
toward his fellowman.
Dr. Jones was president of Rut
gers University prior to his NCCJ
appointment.
The assembly committee, recog
nizing that programs must often of
necessity be scheduled as isolated
entities, presents this series hoping
the student body will find meaning
ful continuity among the programs,
and ideas which need not be for
gotten when the 12:30 lunch bell
rings, but which may be pondered,
discussed with others and in edi-
at
good show—... — , j 1 j
might find there is something you torials, and further deve oped
want after all. programs.
Harry Golden
tlie development of the country was
being written in the Soutli. The
scope of that story has not intimi
dated him. He has advanced some
plans to solve the problem of inte
gration that have won wide notice.
He has written two best sellers.
For Two Cents Plain, and Only In
America, and the ‘ Golden Rule
opened on Broadway in November;
the brilliant character actor, Nehe-
miah Persoff plays the part of the
rotund sage in the play adaptation
of Only In America. Meredith Wil
son is thinking of producing a musi
cal version of For Two Cents Plain.
The Carolina Israelite, which is a
sixteen page bi-monthly publication,
is his compilation of his reflections
on “anything under the sun. It
has grown from an initial circula
tion of 800 to 20,000 because of its
unique combination of homespun
philosophy, whimsy, and erudition,
set forth in tightly filled columns
and is unadorned by photographs.
Mr. Golden has written mainly
to please himself and' discovered
thousands of kindred spirits.
The