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Room Drawing Shows
Students* Immaturity
Room drawing is over for another year. No one is more
relieved at this than the students. For weeks before the draw
ing actually occurs, girls bemoan the confusion, the waiting,
the threat of bad luck, and the other problems that accompany
the time. The system is verbally attacked by the girls; the
evening after they discover that their number combination has
placed them at the end of the list, they most loudly declare
that there must be a better system to assign rooms. A better
system may exist, but Salem does not as yet use it. It seems
to us that the present system is adequate and as satisfactory
as any in which all girls cannot have their own desires satisfied.
Our quarrel is not with the system; we are concerned with
the attitude of certain students during room drawing. Be
havior flourished in some girls which should have been ex
tinguished in them before they entered kindergarten. When
children realize that they are not the center of the universe,
but are members of a society in which all have rights and
privileges, they forsake the practice of demanding their own
desires be satisfied. To make a list of girls whom one wants
in her dorm and to attempt to enforce this list seems to us to
be petty behavior unworthy of Salem girls—indeed, unworthy
of any person toward another.
There should be no girls on this campus with whom one can
not live compatibly. Granted that there may be some whom a
particular girl would prefer having in the same dorm but this
is not always possible.
One should be mature enough by the time she enters college
to accept minor disappointments. One should most certainly
aot vent one’s feelings on other girls. Cruel, vindictive attacks
on girls such as “You will not go to Dorm next year,”
as happened during this year’s room drawings, should not be
permitted. No one can prevent or discourage this behavior ex
cept students. No administrator or faculty member can declare
it to be “wrong” at Salem. Yet students through their power
of influencing by their own behavior and of exhibiting openly
their disgust with students who attempt this sort of high-pres
sure can do much to abolish the activity on this campus.
It may be that such unwelcome behavior is active only on a
minor key here; we fervently hope so. But to infringe on the
privileges of each girl to select where she will room should not
be endured at all.
THE SALEMITE
Lay Scholars
Question,Probe
By Marguerite Harris
The Community of Lay Scholars
is sponsored by the Wesley Foun
dation of the Methodist Church
and is directed by the Rev. Bob
Younts, Chaplain at Wake Forest,
Salem, and Winston-Salem Teach
ers College. The membership of
the Community includes students
from all three colleges mentioned
above, and the number usually does
not exceed twelve members. Stu
dents who become members of the
Community find that the intel
lectual leadership and stimulation
that they encounter make the ex
perience unique.
Meetings are held weekly for
three-hour periods, and each meet
ing involves theological discussions,
controlled conversation led by the
members, and a brief devotional
period. Each week, the members
of the Community read an assign
ment that is part of the curriculum
set up at the beginning of the
semester, and the first hour of the
Community’s meeting is spent in
discussing the basic ideas of the
reading.
Included in the curriculum for
the Lay Scholars are essays, books,
and papers written by Helmut
Thielicke, Paul Tillick, Carl Michal-
son, H. Richard Niebuhr, Reinhold
Niebuhr, David Nayier, and Rudolf
Bultmann.
Controlled conversation is led
each week by a different member,
and the leader chooses a subject
concerning such things as corrup
tion in politics, the rational reason
ing behind refraining from sexual
promiscuity, vocational choice, and
life has been discussed. The Lay
Scholars’ philosophy of life was
dealt with in great detail, and each
member was required to present
his philosophy of life to the Com
munity, which in turn questioned
him about it.
The purpose of the Community is
not to arrive at definite conclusions
through the discussions; rather, the
main concern of the Community is
that pertinent questions be raised
in order to create in the members
the desire to find the answers.
Spring Brings
Sun, Weekends
By Heather Peebles
It was a big weekend because of
. . , Greek Week at Wake Forest
. . . The Four Preps at Davidson
. . . Dave Guard’s visit to the cam
pus and no one knew who he was
. . . Marsha Ray and Irene Rose’s
red faces . . . and rain.
I wonder why . . . Lucy Lane is
so excited with five roses . . .
everyone in the Victorian class is
hitting the library , . . Normie
Abercombie received a monogram-
med bowling ball . . . and Pat Bar
ber is so happy.
I’m positive . . . that warm wea
ther will never come . . . there will
be one-hundred per cent campus
participation in the Fund Raising
Campaign . . . Easter weekend will
find the Salem campus vacated . . .
“Crisis” will receive its just reward
. . . and Dr. Cassen will be proven
innocent.
Everyone is happy because . . .
room drawing is over . . . there are
only thirty-nine days of school left
. . . the stock market is fluctuating
. . . GGO was a success for Sue
Cook and Sis GiUam . . . Spring
Frolics is approaching . . . Billy
Butterfield is gone . . . the Junior
Class Beauty Bar is next week . . .
and summer plans are being made.
(Continued on page three)
April 20, 1962
Editorial
Fund Campaign Needs
Student Participation
“More Doorways for Salem” is one of tke themes for the
two-and-a half million dollar fund-raising campaign being eon-
ducted at Salem. The goals for this campaign are the Pine
Arts Building and an 85 girl dormitory. Certainly no theme
could be more appropriate for such a program than “More
Doorways for Salem.” Since doorways open both inwardly
and outwardly, the slogan is indicative of the hope and pur
poses of Salem as an educational institution.
No group of people should be more interested in the success
ful attainments of Salem’s goals than its students. By their
very presence as members of the student body, they have ex
pressed their belief in Salem. Now there is a more tangible
way in which the students can express this belief. This means
is the new fund-raising campaign.
In soliciting outside the campus, nothing is more helpful than
the knowledge that the student body is supporting the program
100 percent. Although this solicitation may not bring in the
amount which will shoot the campaign over the top, it will
serve as most potent influence over potential contributors.
Student participation will indicate to Salem’s other friends in
the community that its best friends have faith in the institution.
Many students seem excited at the prospect of being included
in progress at Salem. Others seem almost apathetic to the idea.
The apathy is to be expected on this campus; it is also, how
ever to be combatted. Those who do not seem interested in
this project are also not interested in other activities; it is
much too easy to find excuses for not doing something. The
experience of giving of one’s means and talents for the satis
faction of the act is an experience of education. It is not neces
sary that one receive tangible proof of the gift. One need not
purchase something in order to give; in doing so the act of
giving is destroyed.
Through the Moravian Church, news of the Salem campaign
reached the Missionary of the Church in South America. He
returned the pledge card with a five dollar bill enclosed. A
like incident occurred when a lady at the Salem Home returned
the same amount. Not as impressive to some as a larger gift
would be, it seems to us to indicate the spirit of giving. Cer
tainly if these two people can give to an institution in which
they do not actively share usually, the Salem students could
give as abundently.
Definite plans for the on-campus participation will be pre
sented next week. It is an opportunity for students—an oppor
tunity that we cannot afford to ignore.
Salemite Appearance
Portrays Unconcern
Dear Editor:
As a former Salemite, I am ap
palled when I see the depths to
which neatness and lady-like dress
have fallen among Salem girls.
I work in Winston-Salem and see
them on the streets every day. It
seems to me that no . matter how
busy one is, she should take time
to remember IRS.
My colleagues at work, not al
ways remembering that I came
from Salem a short while ago, talk
constantly of the change in the ap
pearance of the “typical” Salemite
in the last few years. Overhearing
some comments from townspeople
makes me ashamed.
It seems to denote a lack of self-
respect as well as a lack of Salem
Announcement
Dr. Gramley, Dean Hixson, and
Dr. Welch will attend a special
meeting of the North Carolina Col
lege Conference on Tuesday, April
24, in Raleigh. A discussion will
be held concerning the proposed
standards for approval of institu
tions for teacher education.
♦ ♦ *
Dr. Gramley will speak at a meet
ing of the High Point Alumnae
Club on Wednesday, April 25.
spirit on the part of students.
Salem has a fine reputation in all
the communities I have visited since
I graduated, but there are signs of
decay along the way when it ap
pears that Salem Girls don’t care.
“You can’t tell them from some
of the high school kids who have
a right to wear socks and loafers
uptown sometimes, except that
sometimes they don’t even wear
socks,” is a frequent comment of
older people.
A case in point is a recent visit
made to an out-of-town art gallery
where, in the midst of elegance, not
one Salemite was “dressed.” A
photograph was taken for tentative
publication and it was sent to the
local newspaper.
Salem’s reputation for producing
well-educated ladies could be im
paired by students who should love
her and want to uphold her stand
ards.
A comment from another person
in Winston-Salem was “In my day,
they didn’t let girls who didn’t act
like ladies in Salem.” Another
said, “They look so cute when they
dress up, but that seems to be only
for church. They even want to
dress down at the biggest social
events.”
No doubt we all have our days
when we aren’t at our best, but
should we take it out on the people
who have to look at us ?
Maybe dressing for dinner ^for
practice—should become the ruk at
Salem and not the exception. It
at many other girls’ schools. _ .
At any rate, I hope that it is
just a phase and will pass .
and
that college girls will begin to wan
to look like young ladies again.
Especially when they’re on dates
with handsomely turned out young
men in coats and ties.
Hopefully, ,,,
Susan Hughes Pleasant
Winston-Salem