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Salem Adopts Students From Four Countries Congratulations to the student body in their decision to adopt twelve foreign students through ' the services of the World Univer sity Service. Salem made a decision—and de cided wisely. She decided to do the most possible good with her money—to educate twelve instead of one, and to educate them in their own countries where they will be able to use their education to help their fellow countrymen. Salem considered the needs of twelve students’ instead of her de sire for personal contact with one student. Salem has answered why she wanted to adopt this program. But with decision comes re sponsibility. Salem is the first school to ever undertake such a project. We have a definite re sponsibility to ourselves, to other schools which may wish to adopt similar plans, and to the students themselves. We must consider ourselves just as “required” as the adopted stu dents to keep in touch by progress reports, letters, tape recordings, and pictures. Each student must take it upon herself to participate in -the corresijondence and not to leave the work to some vague com mittee. We must provide a work^ ing plans that - dther schools may adopt to their wishes. The Salemite staff has the fullest confidence in the student .body’s ability to meet these responsi bilities. And as L’l Abner says, “Thar ain’t no better deal fo’ youn^ folks, nowhar, nohow!!” Fault In Honor Tradition Lies In The Individual Dear Editor, In the letters to the editor printed in the last issue of the Salemite, I was concerned to note that several people seemed to think that: the trouble with the Honor Tradition was the Honor Tradition itself. The trouble, as I see it, is that the Honor Tradition is an idealistic system that depends en tirely upon the individual student’s accepting Honor seriously in every Abound ^Ue. By Rooney Nelson j stayed in New York and commuted Straw hats, suntans and limbo to Connecticut, records returned to campus, after i After returning to school, many ten days of spring vacation, stuffed events occurred. Kay Shugart be- into the back seats of Salemites came engaged over the holidays, cars and deeply ingrained with Anna Leigh Thornton got pinned sand.'' ' ■ . I to 3 Delta Sig at Wake Forest. Salemites spent the ten days in Anne McCarver got pinned to a Jacksonville, Bermuda, Nassau, Sigma Chi at Wake Forest before Fort La-uderdal'e, and other points' Easter' vacation, south. Jane Thompson, Anne Cun- | All of Pfhol House went to Libba ningham, and Sandy Sheets found Lynch’s wedding this weekend, and motor-bikes a convenient way tojjette Seear and Nancy Hackbarth see things in Bermuda. Penny were bridesmaids in her wedding. Bell and Anne B. Austin visited Shannon Smith received her dia- Gay Austin in Ocala, Florida. Anne , rnond over the holidays and is B. is now, “The brown one, not planning her wedding for June 4th. Anne B !” Betty Lou Creech stayed i Betty Ann Meador O’Neil with Ginny Kay Fortson in Jack- 3 months old, over to sonville. Ricki and Meggi visited Salem. Betty Ann was a member Linda Leaird at Lauderdale. Sue q£ ££10 present sophomore class. Cook, Lettie MacDonald, Susan 1 Many people went to the Azalia Wainwright, Anne Sellars, Martha Festival this past weekend and Ann Braswell, Sally Hudson, Sis' from some who know—the Azalia Gilliam, Anne Hutaff, Sally Smith, Festival was like Lauderdale! and Betty Black went to Nassau. Sara Wetherill, Gayle Venters, Trisha Weathers, Anna Transou, Craig White, and Martha Tallman Rooney Nelson, Mimi Farquhar, I were interested to read that Gary Barbara Mann, and Bonnie Bean player won the Masters Golf Tour- went to the Bahamas. Northward, nament which they saw this past Jane Givens and Carolyn McCloud weekend. Published every Friday of the Colleqe year PRESS BY THE Student Body of Salem College OFFICES—Basement of Lehman Hall — Downtown Office—414 Bank St., S.W. EDITOR: Ellen Rankin BUSINESS MANAGER; Sue Parham Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price—$3.50 a year Associate Editor Becky Boswell Asst. Business Manager Sally Glenn News Editor — Ann ROmig Advertising Manager - Alice Reid Feature Editor Betsy Hicks Circulation Manager .. Becky Bartak Copy Editor Ginger Ward Lay-out Editor Becky Boswell Headime Editors—Susan Ray Kuykendall, Photography Editor Betsy McFate Madge Kempton, Tish Johnston. Typists-Becky Bartak, Elise Vitale, Kate Managing Staff — Wanda Cervarich, Caswell, Jane Raynor, Rooney Nelson, Connie Rucker. Cartoonists Eloise Upchurch, Betty Black Proof Readers Liz Smith, Linda Wall Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd aspect even to the point of respect ing some trivial rules which are under this system. An evaluation of the Honor Tra dition is necessary; an evaluation of how we, the students, accept the responsibility of being under such a system is necessary. Why do so many Salemites take it iightly? It is unreasonable for anyone to expect the incoming ' freshmen to take the Honor Tradition seriously when they c o n t i n u a 11 y hear it abused in dorm conversations-; The Honor Tradition then becomes something that was discussed dur ing orientation and is immediately forgotten or abused—abused either for the thrill of “getting away with something” or because it interferes with our pleasure. There are only two times aside from orientation which place an emphasis on this tradition. The’ first is when a prospective student files an application for Salem. On the application she is asked to sign a pledge. As far as I know, the pledge is never mentioned again during her stay at Salem. Honor’s chapel, when the fresh men sign the Honor Book, is the other time of emphasis for the Honor Tradition. After hearing a few speeches about Honor, the freshmen remain while the sopho mores, juniors, and seniors hurry out to get in a hand of bridge be fore lunch. They are then herded like cattle onto the stage where two or three at a time sign their names before joining the stampede to lunch. Is it any wonder that the Honor Tradition is not taken seriously by so many Salem girls ? A sentence or two on a handbook quiz is the only time that you are asked to think of Honor after the first six weeks of your freshman year. To remedy this situation I would propose the following changes so that any changes in the Honor Tradition which come as a result of the evaluation might be effec tive. 1. The signing of the Honor Book in smaller groups such as in handbook study with the ad visor looking on, or in small groups before a joint meeting of Legislative and Judicial Boards. 2. A discussion of the Honor Tradition or even better the meaning of individual Honor in hall or house meetings at the first of the school year and at least one more time during the year. Without an emphasis on Honor as j an ideal, we can have no successful system of any kind that is based on Honor, I sincerely hope that each Salem ite will take the cases of the in effectiveness of the Honor Tradi tion of which she knows and think of ways by which she as an in dividual could have made it more effective. If taking the Honor Tradition more seriously in your individual life would not make it effective enough, then it is time to change the Honor Tradition it self. Sincerely, Elizabeth Smith By Martha Cole Glenn * Not long ago, I heard some interesting statistics on the radio: if the population of the earth were reduced proportion ately to 1000 people, only 60 of these would be Americans, but these 60 people would control one half of the wealth of the world. This reveals two very interesting things—The U. S. ia at a great disadvantage population-wise in comparison to the rest of the world. We must realize that we cannot depend on our strength alone to preserve the principles of liberty. We must depend on other smaller nations to help us if we are-to win the struggle against Communism. Secondly,, because of our tremendous wealth, we have a great responsibility^ to our selves and to the rest of the nations to take an effective lead in the struggle against those who would destroy the freedom of others. We have the responsibility of preserving the liberty of deserving smaller nations. But, the balance of power in the world will not be tipped to the West or to the East by any amount of wealth that the U. S. possesses. This depends on the so-called “have-not nations. The victory or defeat of liberty to a large extent de pends on which side these nations choose. So far, our foreign aid has consisted mainly of outright monetary gifts to foreign countries. We really need a more effective foreign aid program. In many cases this type of aid has only given the people of underdeveloped countries a feel ing that they were being treated as “charity cases” which has led to resentment rather than appreciation. In other instances, our money has gone to armed dictators who have later turned against us. We must realize that these people want aid, but they want to feel that they are not becoming dependent on us. A program which includes a giving on both sides would be more acceptable. What can be done to change the unfortunate image of the United States abroad! How can we best aid these “have-not” nations and at the same time promote the cause of liberty and the free world; First, we can encourage our representatives abroad to change their attitude. Many tourists go to Europe and elsewhere with the attitude, “What can these people offer me?” Why can’t they reverse that to, “What can I offer them? Often businessmen see only how much profit they can accuinulate with no regard to the country they are in. Also, men in the armed services have often made it very plain that they do not wish to be stationed overseas. Why don’t they make the best of it while they are there? The attitude of Americans abroad must change before any type of foreign aid can have a lasting effect. Secondly, the Peace Corps which President Kennedy has pro posed may prove to be one of our most effective types of for- eigji aid. This will give young men and women an oppor tunity to lend their services for 2-3 years to the underde- ve oped areas of the world. A very important stipulation is that the members of the Peace Corps will go only to the countries who sincerely want them. One year will be spent in raining. The members will learn something of the language and culture of the country where they will go. This is a very important thing which has often been neglected before and has caused misunderstanding.
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