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w THE SALEMITE 13, 1964 PRESS Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College OFFICES: Basement of Lehman Hall 414 Bank St., S. W. Printed by the Son Printing Company Subscription Price $3.50 a year Editor-in-chief — Anne Romig Business Manager Alice Reid Associate Editor Bonnie Hauch Managing Editor Connie Rucker News Editor Brenda Bethel Feature Editor — Marty Richmond Copy Editor - Trudi Schmidt Assistant Copy Editor Robbin Causey Photography Editor Ann Rothfuss Circulation Manager Ann Dozier Asst. Business Mgr Mary Jane Harrell Advertising Manager Bitsie Richheimer Rewriters Beverly Butler Ann Rothfuss, Betty Bullard, Marianne Wilson. Headline Writers — Elizabeth Sykes, Betsy Patterson, Margaret Persons, Brenda Bethel, Chri Gray, Anne Jennings. Managing Staff — Boodie Crow, Jerry Crews, Brenda Bethel. Faculty Advisor.. .Miss Jess Byrd Randolph-Macon FOCUS Offers Stimulating Speakers, Discussions On Individual Ideals, Social Reality ciir^rival \xroo 1 r Editor Leaves Heritage Of Joy, Work To Causey, New Staff An Open Letter to Robbin Cansey; Hoping to be very eloquent and profound, I have thought about what I would say in the last issue sinee I took office. But in the end, all I can say is I have loved being editor. I have even loved the late hours spent reading last minute arti cles and writing editorials. Being editor has given me much. The most satisfying aspect has been the girls with whom I have worked; the ones on whom I have been able to depend with confidence that a job would be done. It has given me an opportunity to learn about other schools through their newspapers. It has made me force my self to be more aware of what is happening outside Salem so I could bring these events inside the Square. It has given me a ready-made spot in the Winston-Salem community with the engraver, the printer, the photographer. It has demanded more organization on my part of both my school work and the newspaper. It has given me a chance to state my opinions under the guise of ‘'editor.” And least of all (this I m sure will be disputed) it has given me an excuse to “snoop.” In the first paper of this year, I said that college life is un real. However, The Salemite has been the one big reality for me. There were so many deadlines to meet, and things went so quickly it seemed as if a paper would never be perfect. The fast pace has been the most frustrating part of this job. After spending all Tuesday and Wednesday night preparing the copy and Thursdays setting the type at the printers, I was often not ready for staff meetings Thursday afternoon. Now that the hurry and worry is gone, I would like to go back and do it over, better this time. I also have the urgent desire to print the paper in red to say that I and my staff have been here! Last year, before elections, I had a difficult time deciding to run for this office. I thought the editorship would be too de manding. Being editor has been demanding, but that is un important. What is important is how much you can gain by giving yourself to the job. I hope being editor will mean as much to you as it has meant to me. By Chri Gray Louisa Wilson The FOCUS Symposium at Ran dolph-Macon, March 6-8, was stimu lating and thought-provoking with a wide range of ideas among the speakers. The central theme was “Individual Ideals and Social Real ity.” Friday night the topic of the lecture was “Law and the Indi vidual.” Dr. Samuel E. Stumpf, Philosophy Department of Vander bilt University, gave the opening address. Dr. Stumpf said man’s basic needs are survival, then meaning which is necessary to make survival worthwhile. Last, the meaning which is invested must be good, hence just. Where to find these three, sur vival, meaning, and goodness, are the big issues of our time. He went further to define four ways in which meaning is being arrived at today. The first of these is skepticism—does man have an _ es sence? The second is determinism. There is a casual agency in which we find meaning (for the determin- ist meaning is not to be found by self). The next is existentialism- man must make his meaning. Ex istence precedes essence; there is not structure outside ^ of man, through which he can obtain mean ing. The last is theism — in the nature of things there is essence and purpose. Man is always search ing for the constants. He continued by discussing free dom in social reality today. Free dom is the essence of humanity, but social reality creates an adversary to it. Today social reality can be equated to the desire for security which restricts the freedom of in dividuals. District Attorney of N. Y. H. Richard Uviller, Assistant to the District Attorney of New York County, gave the definition of law as a “judgment making process.” He admitted that this was an amoral definition, but in social reality, we are more concerned with the process of law than with the re sult. Law should provide justice, but often in today’s society this doesn’t happen because people have become more interested in the pro cess than the result. John Brademas, Democratic Rep resentative from Indiana, outlined the typical day of a congressman. The only good quality of Mr. Brademas was candidness. He showed to the utmost the apathy of our political system: the moti vation of the congressman only for re-election and the lack of courage to stand up for political ideals. Saturday morning the theme was “Science and Morality.” The panel consisted of moderator. Dr. Robert B. Livingston of the National Insti tutes of Health; Dr. Raymond J. Seeger, physicist and special assist ant in the National Science Foun dation; Dr. Constantine D. J. Gen erates, Jr., Co-ordinator for the Space’ Medicine Program, and known as the world’s first Space Doctor, and Dr. Robert A. Nisbet, sociologist and author of Quest for Community. Dynamic Speaker Dr. Seeger was the most dynamic of the speakers. He disagreed with Dr. Stumpf by saying that meaning not survival was the basic need of man. Hence, it is not enough to have knowledge alone, but commit- ment is also necessary. This is the place of religion. Dr. Seeger said that technological revolutions have always been the important ones not the scientific ones. It is from these revolutions that sncial problems Sosial science Ideals must hold man and use him. He also said that we are advanced in phy. sical science because we can isolate facts. In the social sciences have arisen, can’t save man . VVC cannot isolate and this is why so- cial science is more complex. He added that in any school in which the science courses are harder than the sociology courses there is some thing drastically wrong. Dr. Generales said that in con temporary society man is too hasty to accept as final all previous knowledge. He quoted Einstein's “Einality always lies ahead of us." (Continued on Page 3) Romney’s Bid For Power Arouses Much Speculation By Feme Houser Workman Answers Criticism Dear Editor: In answer to questions which have been raised about the changes in the handbook with regard to major violations, I will try to ex plain what I consider the reasoning of the Judicial Board to be. With regard to lying, Judicial Board feels that since we operate on a system which has its founda tion set in personal honor, any de liberate attempt to hide the truth from one who is investigating a case is a direct violation of the very principal of honor. Thus we feel that lying undermines the en tire honor system and is extremely serious. As far as the second addition is concerned, the purpose of this was to make clear to the student body the fact that it is erroneous to be lieve that only those offenses listed under major violations can merit probation, suspension, or expulsion. If you will read the black print in the handbook, you will find a state ment to the effect that if a girl so conducts herself as to bring disJ credit upon Salem at any time or at any place, she may receive a major penalty. The attitude among some stu dents is “as long as I do not violate the ‘majors’ I will be safe.” This false assumption and in many is a cases situations have arisen which are not covered in the handbook, but which in the eyes of the judi cial and Faculty Advisory Boards are equally as serious as those vio lations listed. They have in the past warranted a major penalty. Therefore, it is not the intention of the board to extend its power (it already has the power), but rather to call the power to the direct at tention of the student body so they will be aware of the fact that there are many things which are equally or more serious than those violat ions listed. As a member of the Faculty Advisory Board has said, “Arson isn’t on the list either.” Wookie Workman George Romney, the honorable Governor of Michigan, hs promised apprehensive Republican legislators of the state tMt he will not actively seek the Presidental nomination. But h plans to make out-of-state speeches all the way from Florida to Hawaii which has aroused much speculation as to the motives involved. George Romney was bom on July 8, 1907, in Chihautma, Mexico. His youth was colored with many financial reverses and Romney says that these experiences in overcoming difficul ties influenced his life and business career. From 1922-26 he worked his way through Latter Day Saints University in Salt Lake City, Utah. He then served two years in England and Scotland as a Morman missionary. In 1925 Romney worked at a typing job in Washington, D. C., in tie office of Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusettes. In 193(1 Romney became an apprentice for the Aluminum Corporation of America and returned in 1932 to Washington where until 1938 he was lobbyist for Alcoa. In Washington, Romney attracted the attention of men ii the auto industry who invited him to direct the Detroit office of the Automobile Manufacturers Association in 1939. He h- came general manager in 1942, a position he held until 19tt As director of the major trade association of the auto busme^i Romney became the industry’s chief spokesman during Worl War II. He helped organize and became managing director« the Automotive Council for War Production. In 1953 Romney was elected executive vice-president a director of Nash-Kelvinator. Thus when American Motors Cor poration was founded from the Nash-Kelvinator-Hudson mci ger in 1954 Romney became chairman, president, and gen'"'" manager. After a complete overhaul of the company and i years of steadily losing money, American Motors moved W thirteenth to seventh in car production standings- George Romney is tall, graying, athletic looking, the m of a handsome, virtuous, dynamic corporation executive, man who shaped up American Motors, a go-getter. Howeve, eleven months after he became governor the glamor had fan® Romney failed to muster even the support of his own pafif the degree enjoyed by the Democratic Governor he repw® Thus it is difficult to see how Romney would be able to ® fluence much of anything at the convention, where power the “coin of the realm” and he possesses precious little o In view of the Governor’s troubled relationship with Republicans, his prospects of capturing the nomination se® reasonably remote. Sources: Current Biography, 1958. New Republic, Jan., 1964. Ohf Dijja heaK what happened at the ^11 last night?! 9es!... 4 mgsterious wench appeared and danced with Qort!.„ ...Then disappeared at midnight, leaving only her slipper behind! I hear (Sort was quite overcome by her! Um htnwm... He's been out all day trying to Pind tJie shoe's owner! Lode!.. Here he conies now!! Symposium n® Drama Speak®^ A speaker in the field ol, has been secured for Sakw posium. Specializing in criticism, he is Richard writes for Commonwealth Mr. Gilman will be, with us^I complete posium. duration of
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