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Salemites Question Worth
Of GRE Requirement
Salem seniors, as a class, took the Graduate Record Examina
tions in January in accordance with a two-year-old Salem College
Policy". Is this a worthwhile policy?
The seniors' understanding is that the requirement gives Salem
an index with which to rank her students nationally. This corn-
parison would, in turn, enable the college to raise academic stand
ings. Yet, how true an index are GRE scores unless every senior
in the United States takes the tests? Salem seniors, instead ot
being ranked with all the other students in the nation, are com
pared to the minority of students who intend to enroll in graduate
the administration wishes to raise academic standings,^ could
it not redirect the money that covers the cost of the GRS's into
library funds? Additions to the library are an improvement that
benefits all. If the administration considers the GRE's a vital re
quirement, however, could they carefully explain the reasoning be
hind the requirement? This hopefully would add to the students
motivation to achieve on the tests.
Dr. Myers To Present
Unique Talk On Words
“The Romance of Words” will be
the subject of a lecture by Dr.
Rowland Myers in Assembly, Feb
ruary 14.
Dr. Myers is a native of Brook
lyn, New York and graduate of
Dartmouth College. He received
his Ph.D degree in Romance Lan
guages and Literature from Johns-
Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland. Dr. Myers has done fur
ther study in France, Germany,
Italy, Spain, and Mexico and has
traveled in the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe as well as Greece,
Turkey, Egypt, and the iHoly Land.
He has taught languages and litera
ture at five leading colleges and
universities in this country and at
the American School Center for
Military Government Officers in
England.
In his unique- lecture. Dr. Myers
will present a series of ordinary
- Courses -
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Art 211, 212 Three Dimensional
Design (3, 3)
A course in sculpture involving a
variety of techniques including clay
modeling, plaster casting, and carv
ing in stone and wood.
Nine hours of studio work per
week.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Who has a birthday soon? Well,
if you do, be sure and tell your
friends that the Home Economics
Club has started their birthday cake
service once again. Contact Barbie
Barton—124 Clewell—to place your
order. A choice of delicious flavors
is available.
♦ * *
All students who work on The
Salemite — proof readers, typists,
writers, runners, layout, etc.—please
come to The Salemite office after
supper, Monday, February 12, to
make nominations for editor for
1968-69.
words, explain their origin, and
show how they reflect the past his
tory of man on this planet, his acti
vities and his thoughts, his mo
ments of confusion, his hopes, and
his fears. He will also discuss the
vital question of what is correct in
language.
According to Dr. Myers, words
are like coins: the more they are
used, the faster they wear down
and change their form and mean
ing. He suggests that some day
everyone in the world will speak
the same tongue, using a universal
language which will evolve from
existing languages.
Dr. Myers believes that a word
can be a great power for good and
for evil and that words are impor
tant weapons in life. His lecture
promises to be a fascinating one, as
he will attempt to show not only
the importance, but also the fun of
words.
Many additions are in evidence
as Salemites walk from class to
class. Those cars that whizzzz by
you belong to Juniors. 'Have you
seen Muff Tarrant’s white Merce
des, and Sue LaPan has a greenish
Mustang, Be careful if you live
near Mary Shepherd . . . she’s quite
a driver at the wheel of her car.
Marsha Dietz cuts a cool corner in
her VW, with Nancy Holderness
impressing most everyone with her
steel-blue car, complete with tape
deck.
A late bulletin on pins must in
clude Jennie Hall, a sophomore, who
is pinned to an ATO at Mercer
University. This lucky man is Gary
King.
Semester break was a welcome
event for all of us, after all those
exams we were put through. But,
aicn’t you glad you didn’t have to
grade ’em, too! For Randy Chas
tain, Jill Silverstein and Anne Stu
art, the break gave them a perfect
opportunity to tie things up neatly
and receive those special gifts.
Randy Chastain is now the proud
6 Girls Present
New Exam Plan
Dear Editor:
After completing two semesters
of the extended exam schedule, we
feel that the student body should
now express its opinion of this sys
tem This schedule has not allevi
ated the problems of the previous
system. The major problem of .the
other exam schedule was that stu
dents had three or four exams in
a row. Under the present system,
a student may still have three
exams in a two-day period. Leng
thening of the exam period does
not necessarily evenly distribute the
tests for the individual over the ten-
day period. For many students the
pressure during this long a time
greatly reduces their morale and
ambition. It is also distracting to
many students to have other stu
dents leaving early.
In conclusion, we feel that the
best solution to this problem is for
students to schedule their own
exams over a ten-day period. In
this way, each student can arrange
her schedule according to her aca
demic needs. This system has been
used on other similar college cam
puses and has proved very success
ful. Perhaps the faculty would
study this proposed change and
allow the student body to voice its
opinion by a vote.
Sincerely,
D.M., M.D., L.M., B.C.,
C.C., A.L.
fiancee of Jerry Carpenter, North
Carolina State student. Jill Silver-
stein’s pinmate is a junior at UNC-
CH, a Beta, and a Morehead Scho
lar from Burlington, named Jim
Newlin.
Thom Flory, a graduate student
at UVa. has decided that Anne Stu
art is definitely the girl for him. To
finalize the decision, he gave her a
bright, sparkly diamond to sport on
her left hand.
The Day Students have devised a
great weigh to encourage chubby
(?) Day Student-Salemites to lose
weight or pay up. Girls who de
cide to participate in the plan pledge
to weigh in and record their weight
on a chart posted in plain view. A
gain in poundage costs the over
eater a quarter at the end of the
week. But there is a reward for
the Salemite with the most “stick-
toittiveness.” At the end of the
time period the girls have set, who
ever has lost the most weight in
proportion to her size will get half
of the cache to which she and her
cohorts have contributed. The re
maining funds will go toward future
day student projects. Pat Carter
will sum up the group’s results in
a few weeks, so look for her com
ments in a future issue of The
Salemite.
Meanwhile, other Salemites have
been reducing by making long and
frequent trips to the library. Sop
homores and Freshmen, (and Jun
iors and Seniors!) isn’t this the
semester you slave over those term
papers for weeks, only to have your
prof, tersely comment at the end
of your finished masterpiece that it
reads like the project of one long,
sleepy night . . . the night before
it is due, he might add? Oh well,
think of all that experience you will
get in using the card catalogue, the
dictionary, those resumes and criti
cisms of books and all that
you will consume.
Have you been up to second flo,,
Mam Hall and seen that clean 2
pet? During the snow, our griJ'
wet boots really put them to til
test but somehow, with lots of ha
work. I’m sure, most all the trad
of snow are gone. The only proh
lem is that the cleaning left %
rug with a striped effect. Good fd
a change of atmosphere, I suppoj,
Well, until spring comes andtnort
news rolls in, look at the few yelb,
blooms on the bushes outside Bit.
ting. There’s still hope, Salemitei
. . . Meanwhile, if things get dullh
your dorm on Saturday nights, co®
on over to Bitting. The four’of ts
that were in for the “Saturday
Night At the Movies” spectacular
this past weekend had quite a time!
Contest To Begin
Salem has been invited to hdf
Glamour Magazine find the “Ten-
Best-dressed College Girls for M"
Each college participating conducts
a contest on campus to select tk
best-dressed girl, and submits
photographs of the on-campus win
ner in three outfits to Glamour for
the national judging.
The ten students selected as Gli-
mour’s 1968 “Ten Best-dressed Col
lege Girls” will be photographed tor
the August College Issue and will
visit New York in June as guests
of the magazine.
IRS sponsors the best-dressed
contest on Salem campus. Nomina
tions will be accepted through Wed
nesday, February 14. Aboxwillk
placed in the window on first flooi
Main Hall for these nominations
From these, three finalists will k
chosen, and the on-campus winner
will be elected later this month.
Pueblo Crisis Suggests
Information Now Withheld
By Lyn Davis
Crew members of the U. S, S. Pueblo have now been prisonet
of the North Korean government for over a week for supposedi
violating the twelve-mile international limit while spying, fw
of them are wounded; one has been reported dead by South Koret
The President of South Korea has been the aim of concerted oi
sasination attempts. The U. S. Embassy and Ambassador Willi®
J. Porter have been subjected to more terrorist attacks. A blot
Cadillac with the American flag has been traveling the streets!
Moscow, to and from the Russian government center.
The world waits. Will the United States be plunged into»
Asian war? Or will the conflicting powers back down in the to
of a nuclear holocaust, as the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. did in I"
Cuban missle crisis?
No one knows. And no one can get any information
to draw even the most faint conjecture as to the fate of the eig ^
two and of the world. But during the crisis, several rather sho
ing facts concerning the power structure of the U. S. hove come
light.
President Johnson was not notified of the crisis until the ship ®
been captured. Far Eastern military officials saw fit to dispo
the Enterprise to the Sea of Japan, but none of them wool
the responsibility for releasing jets to defend the helpless ship-
President, although possessing this power, could not act beco^
he was not aware of the situation until little could be done,
was not given the facts until it was too late.
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And, in turn, the American public is not being giveri t ®
at the proper time. Like so many other crisis, the creduiy
of the Johnson administration is being widened. Already -u
cated columnists, such as Murray Kempton, are beginning '
press national sentiment over the President's unwillingn®*® '
form^ the public with the least amount of knowledge possib®-
President has never been known for the consistent veracity
statements; the Pueblo incident is enhancing this reputation
more.
The crew members of the Pueblo wait. The American n'
waits. In a sense the whole world waits to see if tB® P®.
me world will be plunged ipto an ever-escalating "J
And no one even now can ascertain if the ship violated th®
mile limit or not. Least of all, the American public.
Other writers contributing this week are Barbarc
Karen Park, Sara Engram, Diane Dalton, Mary Schaffi
Carson, Sandy Kelley and Kathie Carpenter.