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September 29, d fflie G^cfi uare Caro Carson Published every Friday of the College year by the' Student Body of Salem College Feature Editor Copy Editor _ ....Carol Carson ..Pat Sanders OFFICES: Basement of Student Center Printed by the Sun Printing Company Advertising Manager ..Mary Lou Atkinson Photography Editors Ann Wyche Lisa Mabley Subscription Price $4.50 a year Headline Staff —Jane Horton Managing Staff Elizabeth Pridgen, Editor-in-Chief ..Carol Quick Associate Editor Vicky Hanks Business Manager Lillian Hewitt News Editor Sandy Kelley Hillary Masters, Sandy Kelley Jane Wilson Circulation Manager ...Debbie Lotz Layout Advisor Mrs. Laura Nicholson FITS Serves As Force To Bind Frosh To Salem what exactly is FITS? To the Freshman Class it may seem by now to be endless misery. The sole purpose of FITS is not to harass freshmen, however. The purpose is to introduce the new Salem- ites to their community. FITS provides the freshmen with an op portunity to meet many upperclassmen. Equally important is the opportunity for upperclassmen to get to know the individual fresh men. Each freshman has a sophomore FITS sister, thus encourag ing a strong bond between these two classes. An adage states, in effect, that a crisis develops a new and strong sense of unity. If "air-raid alarms" and beanies can be considered crises, FITS should catalyze a united spirit among the members of the Class of 1971. FITS is not a time to hide in one's room to avoid those "terrible" sophomores. One should not feel that she is being singled out and "picked on." The entire Fresh man Class is being "picked on," not maliciously, but with the in tent of involving the freshmen and having fun at the same time. Participating in FITS activities with the spirit of good sportsman ship can indeed be fun, and is remembered by many as one of the highlights of their four years at Salem. By Carol Carson Salem’s Square was still here to greet us when September rolled a- round, but a few observant girls no ticed the absence of telephone poles in the Village. Perhaps the wires are being hidden in those mole-hke tunnels we see men digging and filling in the vicinity. Freshmen and sophomores chose Sunday night to remind us of their might. For over an hour, both clas ses ran from dorm to dorm claim ing to be the best. Even some juniors and seniors succumbed to the urge to shout and helped little sisters make the walls of Clewell and Sisters’ House really ring. Before, during, and after the in vasion, Bitting helped Nancy Hold- erness celebrate a very Happy Un- Birthday with a party. The piles of sandwiches, sweets, and cups of punch comprised a beautiful spread (thanks to Jannet Bowers). The frosh had little trouble com ing into most dorms until they re turned to Clewell Monday night. It was rather difficult to climb all those stairs while singing and chat tering in the pitch-black darkness. But Babcock’s freshmen were pre pared for anything and took ap propriate measures. Before Monday evening’s meeting most girls in Al umnae Set Special Funds Founder's Day Follows Fairy Tale” Themes tf By Carol Carson “Hey, Tree ! Where’s everyone go ing? Feet come and go on me so fast that I can hardly tell to whom they belong. Someone please stop and tell me what’s going on around here.” “OK. Bricks, I’ll tell you what’s going on. Salemites are all prepar ing for the big day October 3. That’s when the classes all try to prove which class is the best class alive. That’s the day when the hockey field is really crowded with people . . . shouting girls, cheering faculty, and even a few male in vaders from that campus across town. “Relay races provide lively com petition for Salem sprinters. Life- savers are passed from toothpick to toothpick down a line of giggling girls. Ropes merge four legs into three for one of the events. Balls bob between legs and over heads as they move down lines of girls. If you’ve never seen two girls make themselves into a wheelbarrow ycu really are missing something. Bricks. They’re really funny as they race down the line. “But the best part of the whole day of events is the presentation of skits. About seven or seven-thirty on that fatal night girls really tread quickly over you. That’s because they’re getting ready for the skits they’ll present at eight. Each class will have worked up an elaborate skit based on some aspect of the theme for this year, “Fairy Tales.” They’jl sing all those songs and act and dance as they try to really make their class the winners in these catagories. What those girls turn up, why you’d really be sur prised. I’m so glad I’m tall enough to peek through those windows in the gym! “But I can’t tell you anymore than this. Bricks, because the whole day’s events are sort of secretive. ’Specially for you since you’re every class’s friend. Now don’t breathe a word of what I've told you. After all, we want all the classes to have an equal chance. Shhhhhhh. Here comes someone now. NOTICE!! The Senior Class hopes you enjoyed the New Christy Mins trels. Thank you for your sup port. the class of ’71 locked all fheir worldly treasures out of Mischief s way. But Mischief wasn’t interested. Why should she be ... in just a few more days she’d get her fill! Clewell’s offering for the better ment of Salem was a unique one this week. For ten cents anyone could buy a full Pepsi cup of ice with which they might supplement the ice machine’s supply. Not all drink machines offer such an op portunity. What’s this about a new addition to Lehman Saturday night? Not many eighteen month old girls get to spend an evening on Salem’s campus tended by such devoted young women. Mary Sch.iffner’s niece must have been a real dell. Lehman’s got a new idol. Monday night third floor Eittip held a phone contest. All its rtsf Pet- secom] dents competed for the title “Miss Telephone Call, Fall iijJ'. The winners, with fifteen to twent phone calls within a .fi. ir hour ' iod, was Jannet Bowers. In place was Oonetta Ceor. e only received auout ten ca'l' wit||j the time limit. ' That movie the other night cuj have been really good. Leila SHn- ne- and Rem Harris took unsj. pected sho vers but LelL d'.dhi la it bother h "r at all. She ran had to *he TV set to finish lu. vie,hip in spite of her drenched state. Already study rooms are hegin ning to be 'r.t’ib'ted h dawn |j dawn. But wl.at’s the trouble j, Gramley? Your study rooms Im,, (Continued on page 3) ' ff 1' During the recent meeting of the Executive Board of the Alumnae Association sums in addition to the regular budget were appropriated for a variety of special purposes. Appropriated towards the cost of printing a history of Salem to be published in 1972 for Salem’s 200th anniversary was $1500. $1500 was allotted for general scholarship en dowment. $500 was appropriated to wards the cost of art exhibits this year, and $200 was given for the framing of the maps found in the Inspector’s House this summer. These were not included in the regular budget appropriations which were $500 for the symposium to be held in April, $1000 for the Presi dent’s Prizes, $500 for the Rondthal- er Lectures, $150 for the Catherine B. Rondthaler creative arts awards, and $1200 for support of the Grace L. Siewers Historical Room in the Library. The beginning of the end? Black Power Receives Note In Twentieth Centurq Eye By Lyn Davis It was only ten summers ago that Little Rock erupted as 1 federal government took its first of many steps in its campaign try to insure the Constitutional rights of every citizen in the Uni» States. Many "long, hot summers" have followed. The trendso patterns of the struggle have taken on many faces. The newest movement has taken the old theme of "Black Powtf but this is a new black power—one that is fighting to free its* of the evil connotations brought about by militancy of the bn separatists. Like the old movement, the new one does not call for immsdin* integration in every phase of life. Advocating equal oppodW - ■ • of bs™ Black Power is trying to build in the Negro race a sense age. They feel that only with a common identity—that of all ^ originally from Africa—will the blacks be able to unite to builn themselves a better American society. Many leaders of the Black Power movement want the aid them in their search for the dignity of the individual to be lacking in the habitat of the majority of their | ghetto. Feeling that middle class white society is not the bes P tern of life for the poor peoples of America, they want to bsP the autonomy necessary to improve the standard of education of their own people by themselves and in theit ^ manner. Projects such as Head Start are accomplishing their objectives. But these programs are not moving enough or in the right direction. And so it is that the new Black Power movement is try'^^ IllVr Ilf^TV rwWCI II IV./ T • II forge its own segment of society, one that is now not ful or productive, into a group that will enrich American help to make it better. They do not want to pull established element out of its rightful place in the want to create their own spot, mold people fof '' Source: Twentieth National Student Congress. Writers contributing this week are Beth Hunter, Joy Mary Day Mordecai, Debbie Lotz, Louise Sherrill, and Kelley. . if I
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