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Page Two Friday, March 8 (^rouni sfc/uare Carol Carson Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College OFFICES: Basement of Student Center Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price $4.50 a year Editor-in-chief - - Carol Quick Business Manager Lillian Hewitt Managing Editor Sybil Cheek News Editor -—Sandy Kelley Feature Editor Carol Carson Copy Editor Pat Sanders Polly Smith Advertising Manager—Mary Lou Atkinson Photography Editors Ann Wyche Lisa Mabley Headline Staff —Jane Horton Managing Staff -- Sandy Kelley Layout -Jane Wilson Circulation Manager - Debbie Loti Advisor -Mrs. Laura Nicholson Voting Procedure Causes Confusion; Needs Change The confusion which arose over the counting of preferential bal lots during the elections last week indicates a need to evaluate the present system of voting for Student Government offices. The system is easily misunderstood and is excessively time-consuming. Could ballots be counted on a strictly popular basis? Two as sembly periods could be alloted for elections. During each period students could vote for offices which do not have repetitions in the list of candidates. Each student would vote for one nominee for each office. If one person did not receive a majority of votes, a majority being one over half of the number of voters, a run-off could be held the same period between the top candidates. Even if two run-offs were necessary, the ballots would have to be counted fewer times than now; for under the preferential system, if a majority is not received in first place, the ballots must be counted for each of the four or five choices. A "vote-for-one" procedure would insure that the candidate that the majority of students want as their first choice would win. Perhaps you have recovered from Salem’s big weekend enough to gather your wits and wardrobe to gether for another rousing week end. Only this time its activities must be entirely left up to your own resources, instead of having some thing to plan around. Meanwhile the weekend and week brought with it some events which really need to be revealed to all Salemites, so prepare yourself for an informative and inventive session. Recently Jacque Touchton has re ceived a new addition to her jewel ry, only this is the kind that you wear most everyday. Jacque is lavaliered to Wake Forest Pika, Bill Preston. Bill is a junior. Linda Larkin is planning an Au gust 24 wedding to State sophomore, Ross Boyer. Her fiance is from Linda’s hometown of Washington, too. Linda’s plans include her fall enrollment at Meredith while Ross will be at State. If anyone notices the pin that Sybil Cheek is so prominently sport ing, do not panic and feel that she is being snatched from the cradle of spinsterhood so soon. However, she is very proud of that hardware, as it represents a semes ter of hard work and study at USC while she was head of her Delta Zeta pledge class. This past Sunday she spent taking a long, trouble- filled trip to that fair campus to receive full acceptance into the Beta Delta Chapter of DZ. Even though she missed some of the cere mony because of car trouble, she received recognition as Best Pledge, too. Carilee Martin’s bRthday was quite an event in Bitting. She felt that all the dorm had neglected to recognize her special day until 11 p.m. Then she decided that it really couldn’t be too important that she go to the living room right away. While she stood in front of her mirror on second floor, the candles on her cake on first floor melted Reading Selection For Symposium Explores Mechanization Of Man By Anna Cooper THE MYTH OF THE MACHINE: TECHNICS AND HUMAN DE VELOPMENT, by Lewis Mumford The main thesis in this title by Lewis Mumford is that the machine was invented by man to aid him, and it is only when it is used as a “meganiachhie” that it robs him of his individuality and personal ex pression. The word “megamachine” seems to have been invented by the author to describe a technology centered civilization or a collective organization for power, modeled on the mechanics of the human body with man supplying only the brain. This description certainly applies to the industrial civilization up to the twentieth century. However, uo\, wc have moved into the phase I'f the industrial sequence with auto mation and the computer supplying tlie brain. The present danger is tin t the brain power will be that of a master brain with the average in dividual serving only as mechanical parts. The author rejects the statement that man is a “tool making animal” because, as he points out, this ac complishment is not his only or most inportant distinction. He has developed language, art, social or ganization, and rituals. What is more uniquely human in man is his capacity to combine this wide variety of capacities into the human personality. Until recently, even the simplest article, the cook ing pot, for instance, bore the stamp of the human spirit and personality that produced it. Until the later phase of the Industrial Revolution, civilization represented an interplay between man’s use of technology and the development of the arts. An interesting comparison is made between the Egyptian civilization of the Pharaohs and our modern capitalism. In both, the “megama chine” is the organized center of power. In the first case man was used as a machine for the glorifi cation of the sovereign who was able t(.' accomplish this by the threat of punishment. Under capitalism, man .s organized for production which is used by the state to foster nation alism and prestige. .\u important difference is that under capitalism, reward, in the form of abstract money, is used instead of punishment. However, in the twentieth century the desire of re ward has increased mechanical pro duction until it has become a Mam mon. War and military operations have become necessary to siphon off the excess production. The author has used the historical approach to develop the many forces that have helped shape modern man. Scholarship is evident throughout the work which takes the form of long essays, each an entity. Mr. Mumford has devoted his long life to the study of man and technology. This book leaves no doubt in the reader’s mind which the author thinks is more important. His two down into the cake, taking th, frosting with it. Only when two “superivvomen” went upstairs and half-carried, half-pulled her, wouy she come down for the celebration Nancy Richardson had quite a celebration, too. She received roses from that certain someone, and the they went out for a real funtimei (Continued on page 3) I Part of the "Great Ideas of Western Man" exhibit of Containef Corporation of America now in the FAC is this interpretation or o quotation from Albert Einstein; . . "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my op ion—to characterize our age." (Out of My Later Years, 1950) Medium: photography Artist: Art Kane older titles: Culture of Cities and Technics and Civilization bear witness to the authority he brings to this work. Frequently, he becomes philosophical and even imaginative, which may be frowned upon in an historical work, but from a person of Mr. Mumford’s statue, this is not only permissible but provocative. In spite of the sad state man finds himself today, the author makes it clear that he thinks man is resource ful and, given the knowlege and understanding of his predicament, can and will, as he has in the past, change his direction. There is no hint of pessimism here. Rather, the conviction is that man can control his destiny and that now is the time to begin is evident in each essay. Note: The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development is suggested as preliminary reading On the Symposium book list. National Figures Become Light Sleepers With War By Lyn Davis The President goes to bed at 1 a.m., under orders from his phi sician and urging from his wife. But he cannot fall asleep i ^ diately, because this is the hour when American flyers 1^°''® _ bases in South Viet Nam to bornb North Viet Nam. ° .J how tired he may be. President Johnson awakens nature y 3 a.m. to call the Defense Department to find out u were killed in the nightly raids. If the toll is unusually >9 f cannot rest comfortably until dawn. mi ot be In Boston, two of the nation's leading figures also wi n able to sleep until the war in Viet Nam is concluded to t eii" * CIWIC IW Wlllll IIIC TTWI III T IWI Ilwrii aCCmfl faction. But in the meantime they must face trial for expr their views. Dr. Benjamin Spock, 64, author of ihe all time selling piece of literature by an American, and 'ii J Coffin, Jr., 43, chaplain at Yale and veteran of World Wai" the Korean War, have been indicted for urging this men to follow their consciences and resist the draft. o firmly believe that the conflict in Southeast Asia is illega tion of the UN charter, and un-Constitutional [*’_*^°* Johnson is running the war without the consent UQneo have also declared that our troopr have no right to be s a in Thailand, because our government and that of the jjJ, not signed any treaty that mentions foreign troops on * Because they so firmly believe that the war is morally ^ wrong, both men urge all young men who feel os t avoid the draft and thus avoid contributing directly 1° effort The trial of these two is very possibly a test case for United States. Federal governmental officials had t e I u* ^ .1 . . :,.»:on, Boston'SjJf' conservative] allofl^' brought in Boston in hopes of insuring a conviction, yel dominantly Roman Catholic and, hence, more the Council of Bishops in South Viet Nam have nounced President Theiu, Vice President Ky, and their The irony of it all is that Dr. Spock was an ardent |.g5seb Johnson when he first ran for re-election. The Z/se*' his desire that, as President, he would never fail in the a- pectations of him. Although not personal l then portedly had a warm admiration and respect for each o But the war has been and will continue to be a tern 7' cally ironic thing. , Other writers contributing this week are Debbie Lotz, f Grant, Diane Dalton, Cathy Dealy, Sallie Barham Kelley.
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