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\ Page Two Published every Thursday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College OFFICES: Basement of Lehman Hall 414 Bank St., S. W. Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price $4.50 a year Editor-in-Chief Robbin Causey Business Manager Bitsie Richheimer Associate Editor - Jan Norman Managing Editor Anne Kendrick News Editor Cara Lynne Johnson Feature Editor - Linda Lyon Copy Editors .Marianne Wilson Baird Brown Assistant Business Manager Ann Dozier Executive Editor Ann Wilson Advertising Manager Tripp Tate Photography Editor Betsy King Headline Staff Betsy Patterson Beth Prevost, Ann Jennings, Linda Bowling Managing Staff Boodle Crow Ginger Kinnaird, Jan Norman. Circulation Manager Kathryn Wilson Typists - Betty Gardner Carol Weidner, Betty Morrison Adviser Miss Jess Byrd Editor Suggests initiative As Key To Improvement Traditionally the beginning of the new year means resolutions, change, turning over a new leaf. For this, the necessary ingre dient is evaluation. We live in a society that is composed of two elements: (1) the group and (2) individuals. Since this is the ease, we should, out of necessity and desire for improvement as well as out of respect for tradition, take a long, critical look at ourselves as members of the Salem College communijty and as the individuals we are. Progress comes from changes for the better. Student Govern ment has been evaluating all phases of Salem life this year. But you comprise the student body. If you see the need for change, speak up. State your views. This is true of any change. Don’t expect for change to come by itself. As an ordinary example, imagine that the light in your closet burns out. Unless you put in a repair slip, you will be in the dark forever. Perhaps you received D’s on your report card when you had an A average. If you don’t talk to your teachers or Miss Simpson, you may suffer from a drastic mistake. As members of the Salem community, we should look at the appearance of the campus, at our rules and regulations, at faculty-student relations, at our academic standards, at our op portunity for total development; most of all, we should set the goal of taking advantage of what is offered. As individuals, we should look long and hard at ourselves. Very seldom do we stop long enough to think “Where am I going?” “Who am I?” When we do, sometimes we are shocked to find that we don’t know. In the academic field, are we achieving up to our capabilities? In the social field, are we get ting along with our classmates and teachers? In the moral field, do we have standards and do we live up to them? Or do we have false standards and are we misled by the crowd? Have Perhaps a look in the mirror would do some good, too. we let our appearance go? Each of us, as individuals, have different capacities and in terests. Are we looking for our special talents, and once found, are we developing them? Perhaps one of the best means to successfully evaluate our selves is to look at ourselves in two ways. First, be positive. Ask yourself what is here that is good. Then look for weak nesses and seek means for improving them. Initiative is the key word. Salem Provides Answer To Dilemma Of Transfer SALEMITE January 14, 1%| Each year at this time some members of especially the sopho more class face the dilemma of the transfer decision. It is a de cision that must be made individually. One answer will not be the solution for all, but the answer in favor of Salem is a strong one. Salemites Provide Scholarships Fo "]'^0|y0 Students InThree Countriss By Susan Young Salemites are ready to start the new semester with a project to raise money for the World Univer sity Service scholarship fund which supports foreign students each year. This year there are twelve stu dents — 8 in Korea sponsored by the freshman and sophomore class es, 2 in Greece sponsored by the junior class, and 2 in India spon sored by the senior class. BOUNCING OFF THE BRICKS These outstanding students are selected by World University Ser vice and could not go to college without the aid of scholarships which pay part of their expenses. A fifty or one-hundred dollar scholar ship makes it possible for a Korean boy to take his last year in medical school or a Greek girl to become an English teacher. Through class projects and the “Y” auction, money is being raised for scholarships for next year. The goal is $1200 for the campus—$175 from each class and $500 from the YWCA. The freshman class sold By Nancy Thomas The eye of the post-Christmas returnee to Salem abruptly met mud upon her arrival, thus introducing to her the latest digging operations around Babcock. Uprooted earth as the subject of conversation was soon replaced, however, when sev eral attractive males appeared in assembly last Thursday. Anyone who has seen a flower decked turtle inhabiting the Farm ers Dairy this week knows that turtle race time is with us again. The race, which was held for the first time last year, is a charity drive for muscular dystrophy. The actual competition among turtles will not occur until Friday, Feb ruary 26, on the campus of Ameri can University in Washington, D. C. The three nominees for “Miss Student Teacher” will appear before a group of judges during the last assembly before EXAMS, Tuesday, January 19. Hopefully, this may pro vide a final spark of entertainment prior to that dreaded period of intel lectual isolation. Good luck! Exams are looming already for all of us; but for five seniors, exams are only necessary steps to freedom. They are the January graduates. (Continued on page 4) Birth Control Poses Problem In Our Society By Susan Jones Salem offers a liberal arts program with four years of con tinuity that is not meant to be broken. The first two years offer general exposure to liberal arts study with the second two years offering more specialization in particular fields of aca demic interest. As an upperclassman, a Salem student has con tinuing and increasing opportunities to assert her independence within student government and extra-curricular activities, and to express herself in classrooms where her ideas as an individual are important. Salem as a small school can afford to concentrate on the development of the individual qualities of her students. And in relation to this emphasis, Salem, as a woman’s college, gears her program especially to the needs of women choosing each area of study and activity for its value to them. Thus in de ciding to stay at Salem, a student chooses not only the con tinuity of study in liberal arts but also the special education of women that a diploma from Salem represents. Here we are women—but we are individuals, too, A. K. punch and cupcakes during inte, mission of the Pierrette’s fall plj, For next semester they plan to si fresh fruit in the dorms and si chocolate bars. The sophomores at selling coffee and doughnuts eva Sunday morning in the basemen of Babcock and Clewell from 9; to 10:30. The juniors are sellit sandwiches and hope to have thi, traditional breakfast after the Ilj dance. The seniors are ready to i their share with a candy sale. the “Y” auction in the spring even one gets a chance to bid on pria given by the faculty and students. Johnson Delivers Address, Stresses "Great Society By Mary Ellen Lane January 6, Lyndon Johnson delivered his second State of tl Union Address. Having accomplished much in his short term office, the President spoke with confidence concerning his gi for a “Great Society.” He emphasized the need for a greatlj anti-poverty program, more plans for natural resources conssj vation, stronger educational programs, full employment and ■ ' versal suffrage. 1965 brings “a new quest for union.” We must have harmoi in order to have unity in our enlarging universe. Because complications in modern life we must be concerned with t! whole world not merely our own nation. The President thi stressed the importance of keeping Communism out of Lal|. America and especially out of Asia. This will be accomplish through the Alliance for Progress and military protection South Viet Nam. In Europe, our present program will continiti In the field of economy, full employment is the most imports \ goal. The economy must be kept growing in order to “impro j the quality of life for all.” There is much need to aid farmei laborers unprotected by minimum wage, and those in povert stricken areas. Although the President believes that America is making gri strides in equal opportunity for all, he stresses the fact that m people hindered by age, race, and ignorance must be helpf Through education, programs for better health, and urban provement, this goal may be attained. | The conservation of natural resources and the improvement cities and rural areas is another area of concern. Water ai air pollution must be controlled and prevented. Pilot plans i under consideration for the Potomac River at the present tii In order for these plans to be executed the government mi be reorganized for more effective oprations. For examp changes have been proposed for the Electoral College and more economical spending of funds. I In his closing statement. President Johnson stated he does plan to form a New America alone, but he will attempt to sk it from the ideas of pilgrims, pioneers, and imigrants, and the help of all citizens in 1965—his “Great Society.” ^ Birth control is a highly contro versial issue of our time and a new field in medical research. Each year better and cheaper contraceptives are produced. They find a waiting market. Many married women, according to their religious beliefs, are using the oral contraceptive, effective almost 100% of the time, to limit the size of their families. Has this wide-spread use (and they are not difficult to obtain) and effectiveness of birth control pills affected single women — the working girl, the col lege girl? Will it affect the morality of our nation? In our society, fear of pregnancy has for a long time kept numerous girls from being promiscuous. With contraceptives readily available many girls feel that there is no longer any barrier to sexual inter course before marriage. This view poses new problems in regard to our evaluation of the role of sex in human life and is a cause for con cern. In an article entitled “The Sexual Revolution” which appeared in the Greensboro Daily News January 6, Drew Pearson deals with the sub ject of increasing immorality as a result of contraceptives. He feels that these pills are presenting a pro blem that could reach the roots of American society. Both sociologists and church leaders are alarmed at this subtle change in morals which (Continued on page 3) Step by Step
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