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Typing Ability Bwadens
Employment Opportunities
With the advent of warm weather, young girls' thoughts turn to
sunbathing, and more time in the Sunspot means less time m the
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study room. The inability to type will keep some would-be sun-
seekers laboring later, and longer, than their typist friends.
This first group has come to college having had no experience
with typing, either because they did not take it in high school or
because they attended schools where no such course was offered.
They spend needlessly long hours writing out themes and term
papers'in long hand. If more papers were typed, then the pb of
the professors who must read and grade them would not be as
great. If more typed papers were handed in, then less time would
be needed to decipher the somewhat less-than-legible handwriting
of many of us. .
The eager student seeking a summer job can cross more wel
come" mats if she assures her prospective employer that she cari
type. Even if she has no intention of ever following a secretarial
career, summer employment which includes some typing can be
valuable experience for almost any later job.
Student teachers, too, would be able to save time by typing the
tests they give. There are seniors each year who graduate cum
teaching certificate, as future "insurance." The non-teachers leave
with no such surety. What can they fall back on in addition to a
college degree?
A group of interested students who join forces and try to find a
way to include a typing course at Salem might succeed. They
also might have no success at all. Whatever the end results of
their efforts to add typing to Salem's curriculum, the crusade might
stimulate more girls to take typing as a summer elective.
Well, it’s come and gone. IRS
was terrific by general consensus
and the Square has finally settled
down. A group of seniors gathered
at Betty Brock’s house Saturday
afternoon for a party, while most
of the juniors appeared at the
Tavern.
Planned entertainment for the
seniors’ party was the singing of
Jack Ivey and Charles Van Wag
ner. However, a couple of the boys
brought along some surprise enter
tainment—the Serendipity Singers!
The boys met them at the Holiday
Inn, so they invited them to come
to the party.
Anyone passing the Tavern Sat
urday afternoon saw the juniors. It
was impossible not to see them!
According to the last count, they
had two kegs of coke and a crate
of beer!
Roses have been in the news
from an unknown admirer. Tuck
Smith received roses and has finally
narrowed it down to ten possi
bilities I
Elaine Beavers got some for her
birthday (only they were christened
"painted weeds” by her friends) and
Claire Haines got roses from the
boy she dated this weekend instead
of a “thank-you” note.
Eight third floor Gramley fresh
men packed the phone booth last
week in protest of the confiscation
of their “Pollyanna” game. Now,
girls. Don’t you know that when
you become a woman you “put
away childish things.”
An “un-birthday” party was held
recently for Kristin Jorgenson. The
girls thought it was a shame that
her birthday is in the summer, so
on a chocolate
they put a candle
pound cake and sang to her.
Picnics were the order of the day
on Saturday, Hordes of PeopR
flocked to Tanglewood, the Yadkin
River, and Pilot Mountain, But,
take it from me—the best place for
the Wake Forest in-
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you’re looking for your Sewaji
SAE pin, Suanne Brooks haj 1
I doubt that you’ll be able to: !
it back, though. ‘T
Nancy Richardson just loved f.
cold shower awaiting her when it
found
a picnic
firmary!
A lavalier and two pins
their way to Salem this weekend.
Freshman Sal Sanford received_ a
Lambda Chi lavalier from Rick
Huston who goes to West Texas
State University. Jim Strong,
if
returned with Ed
Forest Pika pin Saturday
Roses from the chapter arrive/J
Monday.
Finally, June 17 is the date j.
Richert and Kip Ferrell have l|,
cided upon. They will live in \(j
ston-Salem next'year, for Kip J
won a scholarship to Bowman gJ
U. S. Servicemen Reflect
On Situations In Vietnam
ATFENTION
The dialogue printed in the March
3 issue of The Salemite was errone
ously reported to be an excerpt
from “The Streets of New York.”
The article was written by Trisha
Pollock.
Stucjents, Teachers To Convene In
Reidsville To Study Student Stress
With the subject of student stress
and development in college, stu
dents and faculty members from
forty colleges in North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia will
convene today in Reidsville for the
Student Stress Conference. Spon
sored by USNSA’s Campus En
vironment Studies Department, this
conference will be held March 10-12
in the Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center
in Reidsville.
The three days of study on the
subject will be accomplished through
discussion groups and three general
sessions which will enable exchange
of ideas and findings among the
various groups. Within the discus
sion groups the delegates to the
conference will discuss a, series of
questions and situations involving
the pressures on students in the
college environment. Discussing
these problems as they appear at
Salem will be Dean Jesse Wood,
Lyn Davis and Sue Overbey.
Judy Campbell, a Salem senior
who is Chairman of the Carolinas-
Virginia Region of-NSA, is heading
the conference and the Steering
Committee for the conference, of
which senior Florence Pollock is
a member. This steering commit-
of a two-year program involving a
total of eight regional conferences
and sixteen pilot campus projects,
amended in both houses before be
ing passed. All die approved bills
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tee has engaged a number of com
petent consultants to work with the
conference: Dr. Peter Breggin,
from the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare; Dr. David
Goldberg, Planning Officer for the
Bureau of Research of the U. S.
Office of Education; Reverend Ro
bert Albritton, Presbyterian minis
ter to the students of the Univer
sity of Virginia; Robert Greenway,
from the Peace Corps; and A1 Re-
Staff members in the Campus En
vironment Studies Department.
The Carolinas Conference is part
Undefeated Freshmen Take Prizes
Salem Tops Queens In Basketbal
Delegates To SSL Attend
Mock Assembly Convention
The State Student Legislative
Convention, which took place March
1-4, began Wednesday night with a
reception for the delegates at the
home of Chancellor Caldwell of
North Carolina State, The dele
gates, who were Kathy Clements
and Margie Winstead in the Sen
ate, with Jane Wilson as alternate,
and Kathie Carpenter and Palmer
Smith in the House, with Christy
Davidson as alternate, stayed in the
Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel. Jane
Horton accompanied the group of
delegates as an observer.
On Thursday, Jerry Surratt, Suz
anne Mallard, and Judy Campbell
arrived for the day. During the
first session the delegates elected
the Speaker of the House and Pre
sident of the Senate. In the after
noon session the bills from different
schools were presented. Salem’s
bill, “A Course in Contemporary
Political and Economic Systems as
a Requisite for Graduation for all
High School Students.” was pre
sented by Margie in the Senate and
Palmer in the House. The bill
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,enil
sophomores were unable to i'*
The captain of the Fres
team, Chris Little, was outstan®
in her play, scoring high ^ *
game. Other outstanding i®
of the Freshman team
Farrar, Debbie Lotz, Susan *
Paige French, and Lee Woo4
Celia Watson, Be vie
Henry, Gail Nicholls, andt
Ackroyd-Kelly adding strengi"!
the team.
Martha Eubanks, Mary Anna Redfern, and Nancv Richardcnn
of ,ha Solom baskofboll ,earn,'si, »i,h °rch Murtoo
Woodward to watch Salem defeat Queens March 7 in the avm
The final score was 31-27. 97™'
Outstanding players for
phomores were Sue _ Slocu®
Mary Shepherd, while
Johnston, Dabney Kelley, ,
Eubanks, and Olive Jenkins
Junior-Senior team. ,|J
On March 7, Salem
played Queens Collese
Salem, with Salem winning
score of 31-27. . jj
The pool tournament ® ^
final stages, with DeeDee
The Freshman basketball team re
mained undefeated in its last three
games and won the annual WRA
basketball tournament which ended
on March 2. The freshmen beat
the Junior-Senior
— team 34-22 on
arch 1 and won by a sophomore
forfeit on March 2. The Junior-
senior team came in second with
three wins and three losses, and the
and John Burrows in the
the’ winner of the SpitZ'®, .J
and Nicholls-Wendt mzW
the other finalists. T*’®
results of the tournarne®
announced in the next issu^
Salemite.
Most people are either "for" or "against' the war in Vietno^f ti
but what do the boys themselves think? Here is a poem wrilts| v
by several servicemen expressing their feelings. ^ c
It was sent on a tape to a Salem girl by a boy in Vietnam wilj e
whom she corresponds.
You sit at home and watch T.V.,
And sip a glass of icey tea.
The news comes on and then you hear
The .All Star game is drawing near
And then you see a far-off land
Where men are dying on the sand.
A frown appears upon your face;
You're tired of hearing about that place.
"Who cares about Vietnam across the sea?
It's far away and doesn't concern me."
You'd rather hear the Beatles play
Than learn about the world today.
It's great to be alive and free—
Forget that guy across the sea.
He's far away and waging a war
To keep the fight from your front door.
This fellow faces death each day.
Yet has something light to say.
"No mail today"—a wave of sorrow.
Then, "what the hell, there is still tomorrow."
He walks all day and fights by night
But yet he finds time to write.
The college girl thinks he's a fool
But that's what makes it hard and cruel.
Do you appreciate what he'll do.
Like giving up his life for you?
Yet he asks nothing in return
So you can stay in school and learn.
The days are hot, the nights are too—
What wonders those letters from home can do.
He dreams of a nice juicy steak—
Then someone yells, "There's a hill to takel"
Some will be heroes because they are brave.
Still others won't hardly reach the grave.
You'll spot him as he passes by.
There's a sad but proud look in his eye.
He's called the world's best war machine;
He is the United States Marine.