Volume XLVII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Thursday, October 14, 1965
Number 1 0
‘‘Block System” Begins In 1967-68;
evamps Educational Student Study
tjpor several years Salem College
and the N. C. State Board of Edu
cation have been trying to reach
an agreement concerning various
points in question of Salem’s
teacher-education program.
;In 1964 Salem was granted a
tliree year provisional approval be
ginning with the 1964-65 school
term. During these three years,
the provisional approval stated that
Salem must reorganize its program
to meet the State requirements.
After many meetings and discus
sions between Salem and the State
Board, Salem was granted, this past
August, an extended time to last
until the 1968-69 school year to re
vamp her program incorporating
tlie “Block System.” Becoming
effective during the academic year
of 1967-68, the new block system.
Salemites Take One Week
To Discuss, Study Honor
Jlfour honor and Salem’s honor
will be on trial the week of October
1^'22. During this entire week our
honor code will be discussed, our
honor tradition studied, and your
0^11 personal honor analyzed,
fionor Week this year has been
planned and will be executed by
the Honor Assembly Committee
headed by Susan Young. In con
junction with Judicial Board this
group decided to change the pro
cedure for honor study this year.
Instead of one day, a whole week
wHl be devoted to honor as it ap-
plfes to Salem and her student
body. This week, the committee
feels, will allow a more concen
trated effort on the part of every
student to discern how she should
efjectively utilize her concept of
honor.
There will be two assemblies cli
maxing this week of study. Wed
nesday’s assembly, October 20, will
feature Rev. Tack Wilson from
Duke University. Mr. Wilson did
his undergraduate work at Duke as
well as his graduate training in the
Divinity School there. His present
position is Associate Director of
Student Religious Life at Duke.
Mr. Wilson will speak on the im
portance of personal honor and its
effect on your life.
The assembly scheduled for Fri
day, October 22, is a student pre
sentation “Shades of Gray.” Pier
rettes will assist in the production.
The student body will also have a
role to play. Will you be ready to
play your part ?
^)ottie Girling, Kathie Okie, Lucy McCullum, and Linda Tunstall
stop work for a while to pose for a picture.
Five Seniors Participate
In Special Honors Work
By Susan Kirby
For the fourth consecutive year,
an I independent study program is
available to Salem students in their
senior year. This program provides
fojlial opportunity for special study
under the guidance of faculty ad-
. visers. It requires a formal paper
I or project and gives opportunity for
: academic honors and college credit.
: The seniors participating in
honors work this year are Dottie
Girling, Lucy McCallum, Kathy
. Okie, Linda Tunstall, and Dale
Walker.
Dottie is doing a study of the
closet dramas of Shelley and Byron.
She plans to do a great deal of
reading this semester in preparation
for (the writing of her paper. Mr.
Jordon is her faculty advisor.
Lucy is undertaking a study of
nfoliere’s plays. After reading
thirty-four plays, she will write a
paper making comparisons and dis
cussing the development of a cer
tain character from Moliere’s early
Works to his later works. Dr. Lewis
's Lucy’s faculty advisor.
to be taken by all students in edu
cation during the first semester of
their senior year, will include Psy
chology 120, Developmental Psy
chology, a three-hour course, along
with specialized courses for the two
areas.
For those students in secondary
education, the first six weeks of the
semester will include a three-hour
methods course. Education 226,
along with a one-hour course in
reading. The latter course. Edu
cation 240, newly instituted, will be
a study of principles, methods and
materials for the development of
effective reading skills needed by
the student to read in the content
areas taught in the secondary
school. Following these courses,
will be all day student teaching for
six weeks, a six-hour course.
Education 224, Teaching Tech
niques in the Elementary School, a
four-hour course, will be taken by
the students in elementary edu
cation. Along with this, during the
first six weeks of the fall semester
of their senior year, those girls
will be required to take Education
230. This one-hour course. Teach
ing of Reading in the Elementary
School, will deal with a study of
principles, methods, and materials
for the development of effective
reading skills as applied in both
developmental and remedial pro
grams. This new course will also
include directed observations in the
school and work in the reading
library.
During this fall semester, it is
likely that these students will not
be required to take any academic
courses other than the seminar in
their respective fields. Preceding
the “Block System” during the stu
dent’s senior year. Psychology 110
will be offered in the sophomore
year for both elementary and se
condary students, along with Edu
cation 220, Foundations of Edu
cation, during the junior year. Also
during the junior year, for the girls
in elementary education, courses
must be taken in Education 200 and
Education 210.
This approved plan for elemen
tary education and for secondary
education in the fields of English,
French, Latin, mathematics, science,
social studies, and Spanish, will not
affect students in the present junior
and senior classes.
Hugh Miller
Speaker Enchants Salem;
Gives Dramatic Readings
Hugh Miller’s presentation of
“Bare Boards and a Passion”
showed the actor to be an expert
in conquering the bare boards of
Hanes auditorium to portray the
passion of selections from dramatic
writings which sj>aimcd a period of
2,000 years.
Extracts from Antigone, by So
phocles, initiated the narrative, after
which Mr. Miller interjected that
the drama which had disappeared
in Rome returned under the Christ
ian Church with morality plays like
Everyman, by Peter of Dienst.
From the century-long silence
following the production of Every
man emerged Shakespeare’s Golden
Age, where a new freedom of verse
and play structure appeared. Se
lections from As You Like it, Rich
ard II, and Romeo and Juliet were
chosen by Mr. Miller to exemplify
Shakespeare’s “Superhuman detach
ment in the observation of man
kind.”
Mr. Miller’s audience audibly ex
pressed amusement during The Re
lapse, by Vanbrugh, which con
tained an illustrated description of
a man who considered it unhealthy
to rise early, for the sake of his
complexion.
Next in succession was a selec
tion from the English comedy of
manners. School for Scandal, by
Sheridan. This type of comedy was
historically followed by the “grand
manner,” represented by Edmund
Kean, a play originally written by
Dumas and rev.-ritten by Satre. Mr.
Miller admitted also to having com
posed a play on the same subject.
P arasites and Vagabonds, by
Dickens, was embodied in char
acters to which Air. Miller referred
as being respectively like a water
color, a steel engraving, an oil, a
charcoal drawing and a pencil
sketch. The rendition of Man and
Superman, by Shaw w^as follow'ed
by End and Beginning, by Mase
field, in which Mary, Queen of
Scots W'as dramatically portrayed
immediately prior to her execution.
Mr. Miller excerpted from The
Lesson, by Ionesco a ticklish epi
sode concerning an old professor
wlio “masked lechery with loqua
city.” A dark aura next ensued in
the account of the crucifixtion,
dramatized through Judas’ agony in
The Dark Hours, by Marquis.
The concluding selection of Don’t
Listen Ladies, by Guitry, restored
light and humor and Mr. Miller re
tired before a standing ovation.
Kathie Okie is trying to learn
how Antonin Artand’s Van Gogh,
le Suicide de la Societe, a view of
modern artists, applies to these
authors in the followdng works:
Nadfa, Breton; Que Ma Joie De-
meure, Giono; Voyage Du Bout Do
La Nuit, Celine; L’Exile Et Le
Royaume, Camus. This is with
particular concentration of each
writer’s view and presentation of
reality. Kathie’s advisor is Miss
Byrd.
Linda Tunstall’s study topic is
The Development of the Integral
through the Stieltjef Integral, be
ginning about the time of Archi
medes. Mr. Burrows is Linda’s ad
visor.
Dale Walker’s study is concen
trated on Personal Reality as seen
in the Works of Miguel de Una
muno, Jacinta Grau, and Garcia
Lake. Her preparation for this
topic involves reading novels and
plays by these authors and showing
how the various characters inter
pret reality in different ways. Dr.
Lewis is advising Dale in her study.
Computer Information Circulates;
^^Cupid’^ Machine Arranges Dates
Two research concerns have made
it possible for Salemites to arrange
their own dates by computer. Dur
ing the last week girls frequently
have debated the advantages and
disadvantages of the programs.
Among the several “Cupid” com
puter questionnaires circulating on
campus is “Hey, Look ’Em Over,”
printed on the last page of the
Salemite. This particular question
naire is handled and processed by
Computer Research Services in
Greensboro, whereas “Operation
Match”, brought to Salem by the
Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at Duke,
is processed at Cambridge, Massa
chusetts. The colleges participat
ing in “Hey, Look ’Em Over” are
Duke, Carolina, Salem, N. C. State,
Wake Forest, UNC-G, Meredith,
and Greensboro College—all nearby
schools, which make meeting your
ideal mate relatively easy. The cost
is only $2.00 and Salem does get a
profit from each application.
In similar robot matchmaking at
Davidson, boys in answ'er to “How
did it w'ork ?” are quoted as follows
from an Associated Press article:
“Great!” said Cader Howard of
New Bern. “My date was a real
Southern belle from Charleston,
S. C. But we found she was a
Southern conservative while I’m a
liberal. After that we avoided
politics and got along fine.”
“Ugh,” commented another fresh
man topped with a red beanie.
“Obviously my date lied about her
looks. If that’s my type of girl.
I’ll stay single.”
John Napier of Bennettsville,
S. C.: “My computer date from
Converse was very quiet. She was
a v e r y—er, uh—nice girl. My
date from Queens was a nice girl,
too. The only problem was she
was wearing an engagement ring.
But we had a good time, anyw/ay.”
Garee Thomas of Jacksonville,
Fla.: “The first computer date was
such a letdown, I didn’t trust it for
the second week-end. I didn’t go.”
And from a chap who insisted on
anonymity: “Some of us were so
dismayed by the computer pairings
we drove to Salem College in Win
ston-Salem to find dates. We were
afraid to rely on the computer any
more.”
ATTENTION
On Wednesday, October 20, the
Day Students will sell fruit in the
dorms from 10:00-10:30 p.m.