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Page Two THE SALEMITE October 6, 1%| PUBUCHCO EVENT FNIDAY OF THE COULEOB YEAN NY THE Student Body of Salem Collbob HONOR QUOTES OFFICES—Basement of Lehman Hall — Downtown Office—414 Bank St., S.W. EDITOR: Ellen Rankin BUSINESS MANAGER: Sue Parham Printed by the Son Printing Company Subscription Price $3.50 a year Associate Editor News Editor — Feature Editor: Copy Editor — Headlines Susan Ray Kuykendall, Tish Johnston, Marguerite Harris ..Becky Boswell Ann Romig ..Kay Long ..Ginger Ward Managing Staff — Wanda Cervarich, Connie Rucker Rewriters Liz Smith, Linda Wall, Jane Raynor Typists Susan Feagin, Lyn Ball, Lynn Hall, Nancy Griffin, Sue Humphreys. Asst. Business Manager Advertising Manager ... !rculation ...^Sheila and Sandra Smith .Sally Glenn _AI!ce Reid News Editor Anne Romig Lay-out Editor ..Becky Boswell Photography Editor Betsy McFate Cartoonist Betty Black Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd Proofreaders Connie Rucker. Mary Alice Teague, Ginny Padgett, Joan Lukens, Gee Gee Sapp, Liz Smith, Betty Lou Creech, Patty Nash, Anne Gore. gort . . e . ... is a college comic strip. It is aimed at the intelligence and awareness of the college student. It does not have, how ever, a college campus setting. The plots are not concerned with drunken students, beautiful co-eds, football games, and faculty members. Instead, Gort runs irom philosophy to my thology, from history to politics. There is usually a “message” just under the surface. Is Gort funny? We think so. We hope you will too. We wish to commend both students and marshals for their excellent conduct during assembly periods. The new checking- in procedure of individual slips has eliminated the mass con fusion in the aisles and has permitted chapel to start on time. The recessional of classes really works for the first time in the three years we’ve been here—and everyone still gets to lunch. We, especially the seniors, thank you. (Editor’s Note: The following are two of the many comments that resulted from the honor discussions Monday night and the Chapel pro gram Tuesday.) ^ I am signing the Honor Pledge. Either I do or I don’t and my choice to sign it is a personal evaluation of what 1 feel I am and what I want to be. To not sign it would certainly not permit me to be a neutral individual, void of standards and principles; but to sign it will give me the privilege of taking active measures to change what I believe is restricting the Salem community and me. I don’t sign it to demonstrate that I am good, honorable, loyal, trustworthy. I am not; but I can give it the old college try and signing the pledge is a good step. Neither do I sign the pledge in my closet so no one will see. I hope honor be comes a very contageous thing— and it can—only by being passed irom person to person. By signing the pledge I can walk through the Square. I can say “Hi bricks! You and I are traditions.” I can smile easier at the tourists because they know I’m a Salem girl and I am proud of the reputa tion. Who could feel this way if he hadn’t signed the pledge. Qnly an imposter! * * ♦ I am a dishonorable person. I have broken rules at Salem, violat ing the pledge I signed two years ago—a pledge to uphold the Honor Tradition at Salem and obey the rules which I accepted when I de Beyond The Square By Betsy Hicks and Colquitt Meacham Sceptically expecting to see the Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt of the “McCalls Magazine” question and answer column, we ij. stead found ourselves, like most of the capacity audience at Wait Chapel, filled with admiration for an American symbol Mrs Roosevelt’s plea for international understanding was not one we had not heard before, but her wide experience and her undoubted sincerity gave an added impact to the message. Salem’s Dr. Inzer Byers, in a speech on the same Thursday morning, was equally sincere but strikingly different in her approach to the same subject. Dr. Byers urged America to prepare to take a more militant stand in facing Communist aggression, critizing the attitude Better Red than Dead” cur rent among some Americans. Ideally, coupling the two points of view, there is apparent need in the present Cold War situ- ation for a blending of courageous national assertion and in telligent international understanding. More practically, we wonder whether America has awakened too late to the need for humility and understanding. Jolted five years ago by the Sputnik, America has given only token attention to the needs expressed by Mrs Roosevelt. We are still far from destroying the unattractive image of America which iis held abroad. Instead, we continue to pour more money into technology, defense, and indiscriminate foreign aid. Concern for individual self-preservation is overshadowing national unity. Assuming that we will safely pass the Berlin Crisis, what next? The Cold War will continue. It is harder for a democratic country to win this war, for it depends on the willingness of the people to make sacrifices economically, educationally, and spiritually. While totalitarian leaders can demand, democratic leaders can only plead. In the past, Americans have been will- ing to sacrifice in time of war. Our factories produced war materials instead of consumer goods; we rationed commodities; we supported our leaders. No less support is needed in the waging of a Cold War, yet Americans are failing to meet this challenge. A change in American attitudes toward other na tions is obviously needed if we hope to strengthen the free world against Communism. This change will be a long pro cess, as the past five years have indicated. A more immediate The Salemite places college newspapers in the main reading room of the library for the students to read. These are changed daily or weekly as the case may be. Students are urged to read thesp exchange issues but are requested to leave the papers on the rack. Anyone who wishes to have a parti cular issue, please see the editor. Salem Sings Senior Song Tune: A—lo—ah—ay You met her on the walk of the Salem Square She was a girl that had that flair She was a senior, a suave senior She was a cutie, a real beauty And there wasn’t any need for much improvement She had Salem in every movement She said a—lo—ah; I got to go The Salem way—a—la— A-—^lo—ah—ay, we SENIORS say We love you and We hope that you’ll remember Each heart so true The friendships too Until we meet again . . . Junior Song Tune: Camptown Races We came to Salem our freshman year Beanies, Beanies Lots of luck and blind date fear Good luck to ’65 Chorus: So we sing to you Spirit takes you through You’ll be here for 4 (3, 2, 1) more years Good luck to ’65 The second year found quite a change I Slump, Slump ophomore majors rearranged Chin up ’64 Big Sister time is here at last Pseudo, Pseudo We’re supposed to work but what a blast That’s us ’63 Quite a climb but there they are Panic, Panic Graduation’s not too far Best to ’62 Sophomore Song Tune: Jingle Bells We arrived last year, young fresh men scared and green Through the year we learned, from what we’ve done and seen Some of us got F’s, we thought we’d never last A few even made Dean’s List, but most of us just passed! Chorus: Oh Sophomore Class, So phomore Class, Salem we love so Because this is our second year It’s the best we’ll ever know! Now we are sophomores, not scared as before (Continued On Page Three) ^ ^ need, in the face of persistent Communist encroachment, is a cided to come to Salem. My con-1 8.SS6rtioD. of our policy. Our Ica/icrs can not take such a science bothered me when I first stand without the support of public opinion, and only well- informed people- can give effective impetus to their govern ment’s policy. We can not go back to 1945 and the partition of Germany, or to 1955 and the Hungarian revolt, or even to 1960 apd the loss of Cuba. It is indeed too late to rectify these past mistakes, but it is not too late for America to defend her integrity—and that of the entire free world, in Berlin, Geneva, the Congo, and the United Nations. started breaking rules; it no longer does. I am not signing the Honor Pledge. Signing it would be a re affirmation of the pledge I signed as a freshman, a pledge I no longer honor. I realize that I am violat ing my honor in breaking rules, but I am not violating it so much in this as I would be in signing the pledge and then continuing to break rules. I will petition for changes in rules at Salem; I will also sign petitions initiated by others. But until I condon and obey all of Salem’s rules, in con science I cannot repledge myself. Board Reports Tuesday, October 3, the Legis lative Board passed a petition re questing 12 o’clock permission on Friday night. The petition now goes to the Faculty Advisory Board for consideration. Dean Heidbreder has reported that there has been some confusion resulting from students leaving campus during the day and return ing unexpectedly after 7:30 at night. The office needs some re cord of students’ whereabouts after 7:30 p.m.; therefore Legislative Board decided that if a student is Around The Square By Kit Foard and Ginger Ward Drippy weather hasn’t slowed down Salem girls or ex-Salem girls at all. Sis Gillam and Sheena Warren made a big hit as they greeted visitors to South last Tuesday They were dressed in men’s cos-, tumes from the 18th century. Donnis Mauney Sills and Carol Cross Browning have each had a baby 'boy; Mary DeNeale Long -Gilbert had a girl. Sisters announces that the Open ..louse they had scheduled for this Sunday has been closed. Julia Johns had just a little bit of trouble with a black cat in South. Superstitious, anyone ? Marcella Sears visited Salem last weekend; She’s working at the Telephone Company here in Win ston-Salem. * Signs have been popping up all over. We like the one Strong Dorm has up for the edification of her male visitors—“Don’t yell ring bell.” First-floor Cleweli coming in after 7:30 p.m. and she freshmen not only had a welcome has not signed out, she should call: back sign on the reception the Dean of Students’ Office and let them know where she is. Nina Ann Stokes was elected chairman of the Honor Evaluation Committee. Other members of this committee will come from the door for returning sophomores last weekend, but also put one on each individual door! We wish that ■whoever “borrowed” South’s recep tion room sign would return it. We were disappointed that the Legislative and Judicial Boards and Sigma Chi serenade to the fresh from the student body. i men which was Student Government will have Monday didn’t charge of Freshman Seminar on j happen’? October 30, November 1 and 2. The Choral Ensemble performed rumored .for last come off. Wha’ o> twice last Monday. First at the Robert E. Lee Hotel and second in the bus coming home where Susie Robinson’s “Would You Like Me Any Better?” was heartily ap proved of—even by Mr. Pete. Brandy Hughes got a letter from the University of Aix-Marseilles. Talk of independence! Salem girls are making a hit in Carolina sororities: Page Bradham, Letty MacDonald, and Grace 't'ownsend are in Chi Omega; Beth Wallace, Lynn Boyette, and Gayle Venters went Pi Phi. Few can tell a spooky story as well as Marie —■ look for her in ‘Strong Dorm. Barbara Dawson Best, now in In diana, is expecting her baby this month. Suzanne “Gomez” Edwards is at school in Patricia Stevens School in Atlanta, where she is learning ‘o be a secretary. Gayle Venters has "been named sweetheart of the Phi Gams at Carolina. Congratulations! Salem has a celebrity on campus —Kenny McArver is Miss Char- 'otte! We’re proud of you, Kenny, and hope you do well in other con- *^ests. We really have two cele brities — freshman Susan Leigh is Miss Gastonia. Three freshmen making names for themselves ori campus are Janet Wales, chairman of the freshman "lass; Sandra Morgan, vice-chair man ; and Diane Shull, secretary- treasurer. Julia Jones spent an afternoon with Ingles Fletcher. North Caro lina historian, in her home in Eden- ton this weekend. Kate Caswell will be on cafflpus this weekend; she will be in Bab cock Dorm. Welcome to Lis Jensen, our se cond foreign student. Lis is from Copenhagen, . Denmark. Tate Graham Blake plans to .re turn to Salem next year while her husband goes to Wake Forest. Yes, the “monsoon season” has set in—but it doesn’t seem to be slowing Salem girls down at all!