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Peige'Two February 18^ PRESS (ArounJ ffl-te ofi^-are By Ann Ward Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College Copy Editors OFFICES: Basement of Lehman Hall 414 Bank St., S. W. Printed by the Sun Printing Company ...Quincy Stewart Bev Paisley Assistant Business Manager Tripp Tate Advertising Manager Nancy Hundley Photographey Editor Eleanor Lauck Headline Staff Catherine Davis Elizabeth Garro'S', Sallie King, Sue Subscription Price $4.50 a year Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Associate Editor Managing Editor - News Editor ..Jan Norman Ann Dozier Overbey, Karen Shelley Managing Staff Ginger Kinnaird Layout Boodie Crow Vicky Hanks, Connie Sorenson, Sally ..Cara Lynne Johnson Baird Brown Jane Hall Williams, Becky Porterfield Circulation Manager Harriet Funk Re-writers Terrie Allen Feature Editor ..Nancy Thomas Adviser Paige Bishop ..Miss Jess Byrd "Sugar And Spice” Fails To Make Everything Nice Everyone knows what little girls are made of, but what are the advantages of being sugar and spice? The most immediate advantage apparent is that Uncle Sam declines to send such a soluble composition to the wet swamps in Viet Nam. Surely this is an unmistakable advantage for those of us who prefer to remain in school, in the relatively safe confines of the square. As girls, we enjoy a choice existence with no threat of a sud den unwanted trip to Viet Nam if we fail to maintain the mini mum grade average. We must admit that the pressure of con tinual studying is certainly preferable to the constant threat of attack. If we were to become exempt from all of the painful experiences of living, then we would also have to relmquish its pleasures, since the rewards must be measured by the costs in volved. The narrator in The Fantastiks has asked us: Who understands why spring is born Out of winter’s labor and pain. Or why we must all die a Dit before we grown again? We must each decide how best to cope witn this in our own lives. It isn’t an easy question to answer but it underscores the hypothesis that we must all suffer to create the things that are most valuable to us. NET Well, St. Valentine has passed this way again bringing happiness to some and a mild form of bitter ness to others. But don’t lose hope, girls. There’ll alwaj^s be another time. Jane Bray has mixed emotions about receiving flowers. She got a beautiful bouquet of roses but the card wasn’t signed. She was over joyed until she thanked the wrong boy. Better luck next time, Jane. Betty Britt has been added to the first floor Gramley group of elite television watchers. Her father gave her a TV’ as a special gift for Valentine’s. Now there are three on first floor. The other two are owned by Bebe James and Jane Litton. Seems to me you girls don’t have enough work to occupy your time. Finley Stith complained so much that she wanted flowers for the big day, that her friends got together and sent her carnations (they’d run out of roses). Later Finley really did receive roses from her guy in Sumter. There’s nothing like the perfect squelch, right Finley? Peggy McPherson was quite ex cited about her Valentine flower. She got one red rose with the note signed “your secret admirer.” But disappointment later set in when she found out it was sent by her sister, Molly. Some girls gave some really uni que gifts to their pin-mates. Sandra Frazier and Bev Paisley decided that the “only” gift to give was a pair of kissing fish. Sandra was just sure that hers were uncora- patible and would die before Eddie Ross could pick them up. And Bev got excited about giving hers to Jim Armstrong until she found out she’d bought two males. Needless to say panic broke out. However, By Roberta Frost Brave New World is a twentieth century novel concerning essentially the scientific approach to life. Al- dous Huxley has projected our so ciety six centuries into the future with a startling portrayal of life in terms of possible scientific progress. He pictures a society in which man’s conquest over nature is com plete. The image of mankind is startling as we see babies produced en mass in the test tubes of govern ment laboratories and “conditioned” is infants to develop into a certain type of individual. In such a futuristic novel as this one finds comments on every phase of society. So it is with Brave New World. Huxley effectively uses satire as a means to communicate his criticism of life. His basic idea is “Progress” at a horrible extreme, the consequence of Science if it becomes the staff of life. There are several distinct differ ences between the moral ethics of our culture and Huxley’s theoretical “Utpoia” of the twenty-sixth cen tury : the social caste system, the attitude toward sex, the manner in which inhabitants escape to a so- called Paradise, and the religious values. First, this “Utopia” has a unique social caste system. Chemicals governing human traits and char acteristics are inserted into the em bryo’s surrounding medium while in the test tube, which may produce an individual ranging from the highest caste system of Alpha- pluses to the lowest Epsilon-semi morons. The scientific aspect here is the mass production of people; an absence of parenthood and love is created. The inferences Huxley makes concern an overconcern with science which will produce people like machines. As we examine the people of “Utopia” we find a second ethical issue—the society’s attitude toward sex. In this unique society sex is free, and based on the pursuit of pleasures. Because the State pro duces the people, parenthood is an ethical taboo; there are no families. Thus the very basis of our life, the family bound together by love, is considered barbaric. This is a fur ther inference of Huxley’s idea that our society is declining morally and that science is producing the cold, factual individuals who search only the matter was settled with another trip to Woolworth’s where an ex change was made. Things, now, have returned to semi-normal. Susie Materne was probably the most satisfied with her Valentine. Taylor Benson called her from Bab cock pretending he was calling long distance from Richmond. He told her to go to the pump house^ in the square to pick up her valentine. When she went, she found the per fect gift, Taylor himself. Ah, love! lean King has the right idea about the hearts and flowers oc casion. If you’ll notice her left hand you’ll see the beautiful dia mond she received from Larry Par sons, a student at Wake Forest. Best wishes are in order also for Tippy Cox. She became engaged to George Maron, a senior at Bel mont Abbey, last weekend. Dan Cupid shot both Carol de Jongh and Nancy Thompson with his arrows. Nancy got a lavalier from Dan Dolan a Sigma Phi Epsilon at Wake and Carol pinned to Joe Wilson Sigam Phi Epsilon at Wake-C gratulations, girls. Well Nickye Yokely decided tbt things at Carolina were too ta and took off for a weekend at h""' tired. It seems her date convince her just how tried to really did like him. What much she final decision, Nickye ? was you, We all know that sometimes one has to make sacrifices for love' sake and Martha Laird is livi„„ proof. Martha has had her con- tacts since last summer but hadn't quite gotten use to them yet. How ever, since the boy she’s datb from Richmond can wear his all day and he’s only had his tivo weeks, Martha has decided she can make the supreme effort. Now ii you notice her blood-shot and blinking eyes you’ll know there walks a girl who’ll do anything for love. Pacifist Groups Oppose U S On Moral Qrounds Brave New World Portrays Man After Nature Completes Conquest for individual pleasures. When this “happiness” and “security” is threatened, his characters take sev eral grams of SOMA and depart from the real world on a “soma- holiday.” This leads to a third moral issue. Huxley appears to be equating SOMA, this cure-all for human dis tress, to the alcohol and narcotics of our society. The only differ ence is that soma has no after (Continued on page 4) By Laurie Williams The February 11 issue of the Winston-Salem Journal brought together on page 13 many views of the Speaker Ban contro versy, which, it can be assumed, colleges and universities, publii and private, are eyeing with curiosity, and perhaps, sympathy. An account of Governor Dan Moore’s reactions and statements regarding the appearance of Aptheker and Wilkinson led the discussion on page one, beneath which was a report of the for mation of the “Committee for Free Inquiry,” organized by UNC-CH students to express student reactions and attempts change. Their juxtaposition points up the two basic interests involved. In the first article, the four conditions to be applied to each speaker were stated; all were indefinite, particularly the first This required that such speaker appearances should be judged by “the frequency of such a speaker on campus.” Obviously because the former Speaker Ban Law prohibited this type oi speaker, “frequency” is nil. Also somewnat difficult to understand is the Governor's de fense of his statement that free speech has not been violated or censored; “In order for any person to speak they must meet the four conditions of the speaker policy.” There are levels to the controversy, however, which are easy for a college student to ignore. One is the fact that the Univer sity system is tied to the state. In refusing to allow the speaken invited by SDS—and subsequently by other Carolina groups- to appear, the Board of Trustees was exercising its decisive powers granted by the law change. That the Governor is on tie Board of Trustees is an interestmg point, however. Moore is confident that North Carolina will continue to prove the four conditions prescribed by the law, and the Speaker of the N. C. House of Representatives backed him by sayia? that 90 percent of the people of the state are opposed to bavin! a Communist speaker on the campus. There is an intriguing tangle here: the taxpayers of the stab help support UNC, on whose campus are many people at wid( varience to the state’s majority view. If the law could again bi changed, where should responsibility lie ? With potential auc" enees at the university, paying for much of their education- organizations and student body—or with the Board of Trust6CS| representing, it seems, the majority of off-campus taxpay® who also help its support? Who is closer to the problem? Class Of 1905 Dedicates Steps By Greek Letters By Paige Bishop In hurrying to and from the Fine Arts Center or the Science Build ing, have you ever noticed the Greek letters on the granite steps leading to the -walkway to Main Hall and wondered what the letters Literally translated they mean “Virtue bears off the palm”, but the words have a much deeper significance than their literal trans lation. In days past when each senior class had a motto, the Class of 1905 adopted ApeTn Kai Nikn as their motto and a seal bearing the letters AKN. On May 22, 1905 the new granite steps bearing the motto and seal were presented by the Class of 1905 at a Graduation Class Exercise by Miss Cammie Lindley. They were designated as the Memorial Steps. The ste no real purpose at the tun were built except to repla wooden steps which were t use and to beautify the c Since the Science building w existence at that time, the were used very little after tl stallation except in getting May Dell where the girls kei went for walks. As Miss Louise Griinert, present c(^ dent for the Class of “We walked a lot in those a- cause we couldn’t get off as much as you girls do now. the steps are used almost cov as Salemites go to and Science building and the Dv Building, and they remain morial to the Class of 1905.
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