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THE SALEMITE
March 9, 1962
Published every Friday of the CoLUEat year
by the Student Body of Salem College
OFFICES—Ba»«ment of Lehman Hall — Downtown Office—414 Bank St„ S.W.
EDITOR: Ellen Rankin
BUSINESS MANAGER: Sue Parham
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Subscription Price $3.50 a year
Editor Expresses Thanks
To All "Salemite” Workers
The last word is any woman’s perogative. Mine are in.the
form of thanks to . . .
. . . Gondemar for our only real scoop
. . . the writers without whom there would be no paper
. . . Sue and her management of the finances (with no help
from an ignorant editor) which kept debtors and creditors
happy
. . . Alice for her trips uptown to get ads, her ad layouts,
and her marvelous “Mr. Suavely says . . .”
. . . Miss Jess Byrd who let the Salemite be a student or
ganization
. . . Mr. Cashion, Bill, and Francis who patiently put up
with our mistakes year after year and still keep their sense
of humor
. . . Ginger whose excellent handling of the copy is matched
only by her humor which kept us from going crazy on Tuesday
and Wednesday nights
. . . the typists, proof-readers and rewriters who gave us a
year of issues with relatively few typographical errors
. . . Connie, Wanda, and Jean who risked their lives crossing
the expressway at 8 :00 in the morning to deliver the copy to
the Sun
. . . Anne for her little green notes that she faithfully stuck
in dorm boxes and for her coverage of her “beat”
. . . Kay for her green notes also and for the long walk up
the stairs to the engravers every week
. . . Wanda and Becky who got printer’s ink under their
nails and a Coke in return for an afternoon’s work of cutting,
rearranging, and leading
. . . Susan Ray, Tish, and Marguerite who enhance the
Salemite with their headlines
. . . Sheila and Sandra who folded countless issues and
walked many miles to deliver the paper to the students and
faculty
. . . Sally who made a weekly trip to the post office with
arms full of Salemites for the advertisers and subscribers
. . . Betsy, Mary Alice, and Mr. Griegg who provided us
with wonderful pictures through thick and thin
. . . the student body and faculty whose interest, coopera
tion, and comments made editing worthwhile
. . . Becky to whom I express my heartfelt thanks for her
lay-outs and her knowledge of newspaper publishing. To her
I say, as Jan Puckett, editor of the University of Oklahoma
Daily, said to the Daily’s new editor:
“When you take over the editor’s chair, you will be taking
the world—or at least the campus—on your shoulders. The
honor that you receive will be buried under the heap of' criti
cisms which will be piled upon you.
“You will be encouraged to create controversy, if there is
none available at the time. If you do not, you will be called
‘wishy-washy’. If you do, you will be called ‘sensational’.
When you take a stand on anything, you will be called
‘biased’ ...
“You will also be accused of deliberately changing the con
struction of letters by cutting out parts of them, when you do
this merely because you have more type than space for it on
your page. The writer of the letter will never know that, the
same day you cut part of his letter, you had to cut five inches
of what you considered your best editoral.
‘You will be greeted at the breakfast table,' in your classes,
and in your office with complaints about the paper. And you
will realize that there is no need to explain that you were not
responsible for that particular page, or story. Because, to the
majority of the campus, you ARE the paper . . .
“But you keep on working, because you realize that it is a
rare privilege to be placed in that niche. You realize this when
someone whom you criticized in your last editorial tells you
that, though you were critical of him, you were fair.
“So you sit back down at your typewriter and pound out
another editorial. You’re laying yourself open to another
avalanche of letters, another round of verbal criticism, but so
what? You will willingly print the other side, but you make
your stand clear. You advocate what you feel is best for the
students at your university. And you thank the powers that
he that you are editor, and have the chance to so
yourself.”
Mesmerization Hits As Flu Leaves;
ACC Draws Girls Over Weekend
By Betty Lou Creech *
With election returns and unex
pected March .snow being, the big
news on campus the Square has
been buzzing all week. Congratu
lations to all new officers, and good
luck!
Looking for a new experience ?
I have just the solution—try being
mesmerized. No one can explain
the sensations; you rpust experi
ence them. The idea started in
Strong and has caught on in South.
Applicants should see Kitty Whitty
or Sheena Warren. Pete Patton,
one of the initiated, recommends
trying it.
The flu has about run its Course,
and runny noses are less prevalent.
Welcome back to Jackie Baker,
Gay Myers, Mary Jane Crowell,
and all others who have been con
valescing at home. '
Liz Wilson and Jo Hiergersell in
vited the residents of Strong to an
open house in their newly deco
rated, finally clean room. Accord-
Strong Offers
Oslo Grants
ing to all reports, the party was a
success and the refreshments were
delicious.
Davidson’s St. B’s (an exclusive
junior club) party was great fun
according to Jane Kelly, Frannie
McClain, Nancy Kizer, Sara Swit
zer,, Nancy Umberger, and Virginia
.Anderson.
The Atlantic Coast Conference
Tournament drew many Salemites
—Kay Kearns, Martha Still, Sally
Glenn, Linda Wall, Anne Hutaff
and Mary Jane Crowell. Beth Nor
man went to Furman, while Han
nah Gillam, Bartlette Smith, Mar
tha Tallman, and Marsha Ray went
to Chapel Hill.
With Spring Vacation only a
week away, can warm weather and
sun tans be far behind?
express
Attention all students who would
like to study abroad. The Honor
able L. Corrin Strong, former Am
bassador to Norway, and former
Trustee of Salem Academy and
College will offer the opportunity
for grants of $800 each to two stu
dents of Salem College to provide
travel and expenses for the sum
mer session of the University of
Oslo, June 30-August 10, 1962.
The application forms for the
scholarship may be obtained in the
Dean of Students office. The re
cipients of the scholarships, to be
selected by a Faculty Committee,
will include a rising junior and a
rising senior for the year 1962-63.
Members of the selection commit
tee are: Dr. Gramley, Dr. Hixson,
Mr. Sandresky, Mrs. Heidbreder,
Dr. Denton, Mr. Jordon, Miss Sam
son, Mr. Sanders, and Miss Wood
ward.
Application^ must be submitted
before 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 27.
Announcement of the winners will
be made on Tuesday, April 3.
Fifteen years ago, Oslo Univer
sity started the American School
for students of the U. S. A. and
Canada interested in learning about
Norwegian culture. However, the
English speaking students from
other countries began to participate
and in 1950 the name was changed
to the International Summer
School. The 1961 enrollment, big
gest in the school’s history, in
cluded 295 Americans and 11 Nor
wegians, plus 50 students from 24
different countries. The program
includes daily lectures, orientation
trips, guided weekend excursions,
and evening concerts.
The Oslo Summer School has
proved a valuable experience to
many students. The News of Nor
way, January 11, 1962, printed a
quote from a letter by one of the
students who attended the 1961
Summer ■ School session. The stu
dent is Dean Major, Salem College,
Winston-Salem, N. C. She wrote;
“A hearty thank you for the hos
pitality of your country- and your
people. I thoroughly enjoyed my
six weeks in Oslo; there was only
one flaw — the time was all too
short. I think most of us from the
International Summer School now
share one common ambition: to re
turn some day to Norway.’”
Beyond The Square
By Helen John
“We are going to win in Vietnam. We will remain until we
do.” These were the words of Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy during his stopover in Saigon. They reflect the policy of
Washington’s expanded aid program to South Vietnam. Secre
tary of Defense Robert McNamara explained the U. S. involve
ment in South Vietnam. The Army, Navy, and Air Force are
training men to fight Communist “subversion and covert aggres
sion” not with big weapons and large forces but with com
panies, squads, and individual soldiers. Furthermore, he said,
the U. S. is providing similar training to nations threatened by
Communist “wars of liberation.”
Actually the U. S. has been involved in Vietnam since 1949,
based on the fear that Communist control of this country would
threaten all Southeast Asia. Aid was “escalated,” until today
$2 billion has been spent in Vietnam, but it has not been
enough. The expanded aid program to South Vietnam’s govern
ment, launched several months ago, began with the appoint
ment of U. S. General Paul Harkins as commanding general of
the newly created U. S. Military Assistance Command. He de
scribed his mission as, “doing all we can to support the South
Vietnamese efforts to eradicate the cancer of Communism.” The
program emphasizes the need to train and equip the govern
ment army for mobile counter guerrilla tactics, and to promote
administrative and social reforms. The U. S. involvement falls
somewhere between advice and outright alliance. President
Ngo Dinh Diem remains firmly in charge, and U.- S. personnel
must be careful to make “suggestions,” not give “orders” to
the Vietnam army and administration in order to avoid offend
ing national pride.
The U. S. role in South Vietnam carries with it the risk of
increased Chinese Communist assistance to the Viet Cong, and
of the ‘ escalation” of aid on both sides to major proportions.
Peiping broadcast a strong statement charging that the U. S.
was ‘‘in an undeclared war in South Vietnam,” that China’s
security was threatened, and that “this state of affairs cannot
be allowed to continue.” The Kennedy Administration, they
declared, “is more reckless than its predecessor” and it “has
openly declared Indochina as a springboard for U. S. aggres
sion against (Red) China.”
The Kennedy Administration seems convinced that Red China
won t become actively and openly involved in South Vietnam,
thus developing a full scale war. They dismissed the blasts
against U. b. aggression” as predictable propaganda reaction
to intensified American aid. Communist China faces the cer
tainty that the U. S. and other Western powers would react
ecisive y against any open Chinese aggression. They realize
that moving toward Southeast Asia would bring unfavorable
reaction from neutralist India, Burma, and Indonesia, uniting
them against Red China. Further grounds for optimism are
based on the strained Moscow,Peking relations, in view of
which the Russians seem unlikely to back the Chinese as they
1 in orea. Also, the Chinese face the staggering problem
0 supplying any large body of troops over 20,000 miles of
single track Chinese railroads and through hundreds of miles
of jungle paths.
General Harkins reminds that the task will not be swift or
■*. £ ^^i^iunists^can prolong it for years; the lowest
ma e o time required to eliminate the Keds being five years.
However, our prestige has been committed. The deepening of
it'throulb struggle and the determination to see
g ^s acknowledged in the words of General Robert
Kennedy. We are going to win in Vietnam,
until we do.”
New York Times
Time Magazine
WinstonSalem Journal
We will remain
WSf
Mm!
-And
X felt
so sure
it would
work.,.
Method In Our Madness . . •
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