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THE SALEMITE
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Published every Friday of the College
year by the Student Body of
Salem College
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..Anne Romig
Business Manager
Alice Reid
Associate Editor
Ronnie Hauch
Managing Editor
Connie Rucker
News Editor
Brenda Bethel
Feature Editor
Marty Richmond
Copy Editor
Trudi Schmidt
Assistant Copy Editor
Robbin Causey
Photography Editor
Mary Alice Teague
Writers — Lucy McCallum, Betsy Fowler,
Jean King, Tavy Seawell, Jane Hall,
Jay Jones, Anne Wilson, Barbara Spet-
nagel, Bebe Moore, Sue Ann Brooks,
Carrie Newman, Diane Youngs, Pat
Schram, Judy Campbell, Susie Robin
son, Louisa Wilson, Anne Kendrick,
Beth Provost, Alice Reid, Wendy Mc-
Glinn, Feme Hauser, Bitsie Richheimer,
Elizabeth Sykes, Landis Miller, Frances
Mock, Ross Clark, Dotty Girling, Susan
Leigh, Barbara Gottschalk, Carol Ann
Derflinger, Dale Eyerly and Marty
Plummer.
Advertising Manager Bitsie Richheimer
Headline Writers — Elizabeth Sykes, Betsy
Patterson, Margaret Persons, Brenda
Bethel, Chri Gray, Anne Jennings.
Layout Editors .. Jerry Johnson, Al Bruton
Asst. Business Mgr Mary Jone Harrell
Circulation Manager ...Ann Dozier
Art Editor Liz Irwin
Faculty Adviser ...Miss Jess Byrd
January 17, 1954
Rec©nt D©velopment In C6nal Zone
Affords Russia With Propaganda
Lack Of Student Support
In Library Kennedy Fund
Draws Editor s Criticism
Eighty dollars have been given to the Kennedy Memorial
Fund, set up to buy books in memory of the late President.
It is not a bad sum. According to Mrs. Anna Cooper, this
amount could buy 20-25 books with the library s discount
The amount of money collected equals about 16 cents per
person which is not bad at all. However, it appears that eighty
girls contributed a dollar each rather than 500 giving 16 cents.
What is bad about the small percentage of students who sup
ported the fund is that only two girls voted against it in stu
dent government meeting.
The fund is a voluntary project; no one cares how much each
student gives. However, if girls sit in a student government
meeting and overwhelmingly vote for a pro.]eet, it is expected
that they will support it. . , ^ « •, *
This lackadaisical attitude is what is meant by silent con
sent”—afraid to vote for it, afraid to vote against it; afraid
to support it, afraid not to support it. ^e “it” can be any
thing and the “anything” can be more than a Kennedy book
fund.
Reading Day Transforms Salem
Into Hub Of Academic Trauma
As First Semester Exams Near
out ’til next Reading Day. But
for the sophomores, who must this
one day go back to an 11 ;30 bed
time, “lights out’’ marks the be
ginning of exams.
NSA Warns Us
Of The Worker
By Carrol Craun
Reading Day, 1964, and Salern
College is suddenly transformed
into a close-knit hub of intellectual
activity. The dorms are strangely
quiet and study tables line even the
living rooms, while girls who
haven’t studied all year pour dili
gently over the books. Exam ten
sions vent themselves in various
ways—frantic room cleaning, iron
ing clothes not touched since
Thanksgiving, even scrubbing floors
not noticed since the first of school.
A calm junior may sleep through
most of the day.
Girls in wool slacks and frat
sweaters come from the Dean s
Coffee with sugar cake on their
face and fruit bulging from their
pockets. One dress will henceforth
carry most students through exams.
Pigtails, tied with multi-colored rib
bons. make their first appearance,
and faces are devoid of make-up.
Seniors with cars wonder why
they never minded staying on cam
pus before and even the non-
smokers pull out packs of cigar
ettes. For a brief week, life seems
changed around. Small groups get
together to talk in hushed tones of
the meaning of life and early philo
sophers. As we sit rvith work piled
high, it is the wish of almost every
one that there be just a few free
hours to curl up with a good book.
Freshmen suffering from first
exam panic, are startled by the
rowdy screams of the more sopisti-
cated sophomores releasing pent up
tensions during noisy hour. Frosh
are living through their last “lights
By Mary Dameron
NSA Coordinator
The president of the National
Student Association, Gregory Gallo,
has issued a statement concerning
certain Communist publications
which NSA member schools, includ
ing Salem, have been receiving.
Since many of the mailings, in
cluding copies of Communist View
point and The Worker, have been
sent to NSA co-ordinators, the
NSA felt it extremely important to
inform member schools that at no
time was any such group persuaded
or permitted to use the mailing
list, in which member schools are
publicly listed.
Gallo expressed the fact that “the
leaders of NSA deeply regret that
we have been put in the awkward
position of being used by a group
so clearly alien to that of the Na
tional Student Association.”
Member schools were assured
that NSA had nothing to do with
the mailing and that “we disasso
ciate ourselves from the views of
both publications.”
Salem has received copies of
Communist Viewpoint, which will
be posted on the NSA bulletin
board.
By Dottle Girling
Developments of the past week
in Panama have offered Cuba and
Russia much material for propa
ganda against the U. S. interven
tion and “Yankee imperialism.”
The Panama Canal Zone (“in effect,
a U. S. Government reservation”)
has been a trouble spot ever since
November, 1903, when Panama,
then a province of Columbia, re
volted and declared, with U. S. pro
tection, its independence. A strip
of land, 10 miles by 50 miles, was
granted the U. S. under treaty
terms.
At present, the Canal Zone (with
its 36,000 United States citizens) is
important commercially and, especi
ally, strategically for the U. S. hold
on its Guantanamo Bay base in
Cuba. It is thus unlikely that the
zone will be nationalized.
Basic in the conflict in Panama
are alleged “discrimination against
Panamanians in employment in the
zone” and American resentment to
wards orders that Panamanian and
American flags be displayed only
side by side and that neither flag
be flown in front of schools. Stu
dent grievances were particularly
responsible for the latter action.
The problem is complicated by the
Seniors Realize
Open Minds
Of Freshmen
Dear Editor:
As seniors we are delighted to
see that we are not the only ones
looking to the “outside world.” If
the letter to the editor written by
Melvin, Newman, Gokhale, and
Rothfuss, is any indication of gen
eral social consciousness on the
part of the freshman class, perhaps
they should be the ones registering
to vote.
For four years we have written
about and discussed the civil rights
problem at length. Many of us
have condemned the conditions
existing in the South, but we have
failed to take any constructive
action to remedy the situation.
These freshmen, however, do not
stop with condemnation. They have
investigated and found ways that
we, as concerned students, can DO
something about the wrongs we
have so easily denounced for many
years. What will be done remains
to be seen. We hope that their
words will not stop with the printed
page.
Sincerely,
Alice Reid
Frances Bailey
absence of a U. S. ambassador to
Panama. The death of President
Kennedy delayed appointment of
successor to Joseph S. Farland,
who retired four months ago.
On January 7, students raised the
U S. flag before Balboa High
School. “Panama was incensed,’
and the Panamanian flag was
planted at the same school. Thurs
day, January 9, Panamanians tried
to storm into the zone. Rioting
ensued. And Panama’s President
Roberto Chiardi severed relations
with the United States, demanding
“ ‘complete revision’ of the treaty
provisions.”
Charges of “agression” were
brought before the United Nations
Security Council and the Council
for the Organization of American
States. The Security Council called
for a cease-fire; it was left to a
special O. A. S. Peace Committee
to conciliate. On Friday, January
10, after a talk between Presidents
Johnson and Chiardi, peace was
quested on both sides.
Possible conciliatory steps might
include a larger annual fee paid
the republic; employment of
Panamanians within the
“new gestures to Panamanian
vereignty and strict measures „
U. S. citizens from flouting them
economic aid (which has increase!
under the Alliance for Progress)
reduce the contrast of living o
ditions in the zone and in the
public; and, of course, the appoint-
ment of a new and “fully accept
able” ambassador to the Republic
of Panama.
Source; The New York Timet,
Sunday, January 12, 1964.
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Students Enjoy Weekend
Before Semester Exams
By Linda Lyon
As the semester draws to a close,
we observe the following sign up
and down the halls! Flunk now,
AVOID THE JUNE RUSH!” A
cold deep panic weaves itself in and
out the dorms as piles of books,
legal sheets, and notebooks are read
over and over. The study rooms
have twice as many girls in them,
with twice as many empty Coke
bottles, pens, cigarettes, and empty
candy wrappers. The panic is on
and tomorrow begins the big day—
EXAMS I
Many Salemites sit and reminisce
in their spare time over the past
weekend. Carlotta Faircloth, Lucy
McCallum, Mary Dameron, Pat
Redfern, Celia de Gama, Hunter
Gourdon, Carolyn Dawson, Bebe
Moore, Janice Glenn, Frances
Mock, Scott Mclver, Valerie Den
ning, Al Bruton, and many others
were among those who danced to
the “Shirelles” at Wake Forest
Mid-Winters. Other Salemites who
preferred out-of-town weekends
were Judy Gillespie, Betsy Patter
son, Tish Johnston, and Jill Stew
art.
Caught in the panic—not totally
from exams—but from future plans
are Linda Hodges, Becky Mat
thews, Judy Gillespie, Roddy Stout,
Debbie Linton, Pam Truette, Maty
Alice Teague, Susie Johnson, and
Ann Bull who became engaged (
Christmas I Not to be left out
Jean Anne Werner, Pat Wilson,
and Betty Lou Schutt who
sporting new pins. Congratulations,
girls 1
If you happen to come out of se
elusion and see a certain suntanned
senior sliding across the icy Square
—it will most likely be Jackie La-
mond who recently returned from
a Brazilian Christmas.
Carolina rooters Gail Carter, Bit
sie Richheimer, and Betty Jenkins
saw the Tar Heels beat the Ait
Force Academy at the Gator Bowl,
Again the “hush” envelopes f
room, and Salemites attempt
make the best of the remaininj
hours—soon it will be over and th
“panic” will be a memory—a mem
ory either pleasant or sad. Good
luck 1
Youth Conference Request
"For Heaven’s Sake ” Cast
February 8, the Pierettes will give
their controversial play, “For
Heaven’s Sake 1” for the Methodist
Youth Conference. This was re
quested by the conference and will
be gfiven here on campus. At pre
sent the three one-act avant-gstil*
plays to be presented this spnjl
are being chosen. After exams t •
cast of “For Heaven’s Sake! w’
reassemble to rehearse and re®)
the sets for their production