LETTERS TO
EDITOR
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SALEMITES AT
TAVERN
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Volumn XLX
Kline Reveals Effect Of
Mathematics On Culture
By Jane Cross
Dr. Morris Kline, speaking on
“The Cultural Reaches of Mathe
matics," in Assembly February 26,
took an otherwise formal and rigid
discipline and transformed it into a
very pertinent and meaningful sub
ject. His major purpose was “to
give a view far beyond what the
technical forces of mathematics can
dictate" to our modern culture.
Launching into a historical dis
cussion of the role of mathematics
in relation to world view prior to
1600 A. D., he told of the old
Ptolemaic theory of the geocentric
and man-centered universe. He then
told of the Copernican heliocentric
theory which changed not only
man’s view of his world, but of
himself as well. He described man
as “a minute creature clinging des
perately to a ball,” in reference to
how the new world-view reduced
his role of importance. Relating
the new theory to mathematics he
stated that it was adhered to be
cause of its more simplistic nature.
The historical discussion con
tinued through the Age of Reason
and the role of mathematics in the
relation to political science. Giving
such examples as Hobbes, Hume,
Locke, and Montesquieu, he ex
plained how each looked for a
rational basis for correct or natural
government. This basis was found,
of course, in mathematics. “In a
democracy we are direct benefici
aries of math and reason.”
The next area of impact for math
Freshmen Set
Parents’ Day
By Susan Brooks
This week the campus will be in
vaded by the fathers and mothers
of the freshmen for Saturday is the
annual Parents Day.
The weekend will officially begin
Saturday morning with Registration
from 10:00 to 12:00 in the Clewell
dateroom. : Parents will receive
name tags and begin, an unforget
table weekend. Suzanne Wyatt is
chairman of the registration com
mittee!;
From 12:00 to 1:00 lunch will be
served in Cbrrin refectory.
Open dormsi and' a library tour
are planned for the parents and
their daughters from 1:00 to 3:00.
Peggy Williford, chairman of Open
Dorms, and Deane Lamm, chairman
of the Library Tour, have some
jreat plans for these two hours.
Parents will have a chance to
neet their daughter’s professors
from 2:00 to 3:00 in the Club Din-
ng Room at the Faculty Tea.
^ancy Moore has done an excellent
oh of organizing the tea.
At 6:00 Saturday evening the
'arents will be honored at a ban-
luet in Corrin Refectory. They will
lear opening remarks by Susan
■fendrick, freshman class president,
md invocation by Rev. Clark
fhompson, comments by Ivy M.
lixson, and Virginia Johnson, and
special speech by Dr. Dale Gram
my. Kathy Manning, banquet chair-
tian, has worked hard to make this
part of the weekend very special.
At 8:00 the real entertainment
begins with a skit performed by all
reshmen. The theme of the week-
nd. Time Tunnel, is the theme of
skit as the freshmen reminisce
bout everything that they’ve been
hrough thus far this year. Kathi
arter is chairman of the Song
ornmittee. Special recognition
nss to Becky Lucas for her pat-
nce and imaginative work in head-
ag the skit committee.
was that of religion. In this con
text, viewpoints ranged from ortho
doxy to complete atheism. With
the use of reason, borrowed from
he mathematical process, religious
toleration occurred, as well as the
elimination of the belief in witches.
During the Medieval period he
showed the gradual transition of art
rom a documentary to a universal
to a more humanistic style in the
Renaissance. He showed slides of
Cmabue, Martini, Duccio, Da Vinci,
Pierro Delia Francesca, and Rap
hael to show the role that mathe
matics played in the development
of the focus system of perspective.
Poetry too, has been heavily in
fluenced by math, according to Dr.
Kline, not only in meter and rhyme,
but also in an “intellectual element’’
which goes beyond the sheer me
chanics of the poeni. Examples
were read from Dryden (exempli
fying love of math and logic), Ten
nyson (which was a reaction to this
rationalism in the form of romanti
cism) and Arnold (showing modern
(Continaed oa page 3)
Jen Teaches
Asian Studies
Professor Tai Jen from Taipei,
Taiwan, is spending eight weeks at
Salem this semester lecturing on
Chinese literature.
He is head of the Graduate
School of English and Director of
the English Research Institute at
the National Tiawan Normal Uni
versity in Taipei, Taiwan.
Professor Jen received a B. A.
degree in English at Oberlin Col
lege in 1929. He studied English
poetry at Harvard University until
1934 and then became professor at
National Central University in 1936.
Professor Jen has also served in
the Ministry of Education, as Head
of the Department of Modern
Languages at Nanyang University
in Singapore, and as head of the
English Department at United
College, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong.
In his lectures. Professor Tai
Jen will speak on such subjects as
Chinese Mythology, Chinese Lit
erature, Influence of Confucius and
Tao, and the three schools of
Chinese philosophy.
Muhammed Ali Addresses Student
Editors After ’’Cassius Le Grand”
Carol Carson, Polly Smith, Anne
Wyche, and Sara Engram attended
College Editor’s Conference from
The Salemite staff in Washington,
D. C. February 12-16.
One highlight of the College
Editor’s Conference in Washington,
D. C. was a press conference with
Muhammed Ali on Friday morning,
February 14. In preparation for
this appearance, the film “Cassius
Le Grand” was given two showings
at the convention. The film was a
long and rather poorly organized
attempt to trace the rise of Cassius
Clay to the world heavyweight
boxing championship as well as his
transformation intb Muhammed
All, a Black Muslim convert. How
ever, the film did give some insights
into the personality of this out
spoken, confident fighter.
Muhammed Ali made his appear
ance on time, and posed for
photographers for several minutes
before the questions began. Mu
hammed Ali handled the questions
well and spoke easily on a variety
of topics. Most of the questions
dealt with the Black Muslim
oganization, which along with fight
ing, is his major interest.
In his responses, Muhammed Ali
made several observations about
the current racial situation. He
feels that all black groups, militant
as well as moderate, are results of
what America has created. He sees
white America as the blacks’ com
mon oppressor. His solution to
racial problems is that of his Black
Muslim leader, Elijah Muhammed,
who, Muhammed Ali says, is the
only man with a peaceful solution.
Black Muslims advocate a pro
gram which Elijah Muhammed has
been preaching for 38 years. This
program involves black unity
through separation from white
society. As Muhammed Ali said,
the solution for blacks is to “stay
with yourselves, clean up your
selves.” He feels that the strength
of the Black Muslim movement
comes from its unity under one
strong leader, Elijah Muhammed.
As he put. it, “Muslims are so to
gether and that’s why we’re doing
more than anybody. Behind Elijah
Muhammed, if we had 10,000 fol
lowers, we would be free over
night.” He emphasized the need for
one, strong leader for blacks and
Muhammed Ali answers questions for the press at the College
Editors Conference held in Washington, D. C.
in the courts concerning his refusal
to be drafted. In regard to this
situation, he said “My fight is legal,
but I’m being persecuted the most.
Priests go in and burn up the draft
records and get by with two years
(prison sentence). I get a $10,000
bail charge and five years.”
Muhammed Ali feels that by be
coming a Black Muslin he has
recognized the true religion and he
says that now he has found some
thing greater than himself in Allah
(God) and his leader Elijah Mo
hammed. This is another reason
why he is not heard to claim “I am
the greatest” as he used to do.
Salemites Welcome Three
Day Students On Campus
By Lynn Williamson
There are three more day stu
dents tramping in and out of the
day student center this semester.
Mrs. Barbara Eshleman and Deb
orah Haith were strangers to
Salem before. However, John
Hagan, we can welcome back for
another semester.
Miss Barbara Eshleman, orig
inally from Spartanburg, is now
residing with her husband in
Wiinston-Salem. She is a sopho
more majoring in history. Barbara
just got married three months ago.
Before moving to Winston, she at
tended Appalachian State Univer
sity. However, since her husband is
now working in Winston, Barbara
has transferred to Salem to finish
her degree.
A Winston-Salem native, Deborah
Haith, is now at Salem and is
possibly majoring in Latin. Last
semester, Deborah went to Ameri
can University in Washington, D.C.
to start off her freshman year.
However, she said that she wanted
to come back home and go to a
school where she, could “get a lot
of individual attention.” She picked
Salem, and says that she already
likes it much better here.
One of the men walking around
Salem’s campus is John Hagan.
John used to be on the faculty at
the North Carolina School of the
Arts in the drama department.
However, he decided to finish his
degree when his contract ran out
at the School of the Arts. He had
heard that Salem was a nice, quiet
college and decided to come here.
John made all the arrangements to
enroll over the telephone and did
not realize, until after a day of
classes, that Salem was mostly an
all girls’ college. However, John
has come back for a second semes
ter and is now a junior, majoring in
English and minoring in drama.
made it clear that he feels Elijah
should be his leader.
In commenting about his well-
publicized boasting prior to his
fights, he compared his fights to a
political campaign. “Nixon (when
he was campaigning for the
Presidency) was running all over
the country making speeches. Now
you need a necktie and an appoint
ment to see him. I don’t need
bragging now either.”
Muhammed Ali now has a case
Pierrettes To Give
“Italian Straw Hat”
By Eleanor Ann Harrell
The forthcoming production of
“An Italian Straw Hat”, by the
Pierrette Players, should provide
the audience with an evening of
hilarious entertainment. The male
lead will be played by a Wake
Forest law student, and the
principal female part will be played
by Carolyn Hughs. Others in the
play will be Katherine Clark, Mary
Davis, Jan Longley, Pelham Lyles,
Linda Smith, Lee Torrence, and
Chris Verrastro.
The action of the play takes place
outside of Paris at the turn of the
century. While driving through the
city in his carriage, Fadinard, the
leading male character, loses
control and his horse gets away
from him. When he finds the horse
in a public garden, it is eating a
straw hat hanging on a tree; near
which a couple is standing. One
member of the pair happens to be .
the owner of the hat. Fadinard is
so upset over his horse’s action
that he tosses a purse of money at
the couple and leaves. The woman
who owns the hat sees him leave
and follows him to his home to
demand replacement of her hat.
(It seems that she was meeting her
secret lover in the park. She must
have her hat replaced because her
husband will demand an explana
tion for its loss when she returns
home.) This happens to be Fad-
inard’s wedding day, and the wed
ding party members arrive before
he sets out on his search for the
straw hat. They have no idea of
what is going on, but chase around
Paris with Fadinard, anyway, in
his search.
Be sure to see the play, which .
will be presented on March 5-8,
and accompany Fadinard on his
adventures.
IRS Enlivens
Salem Campus
By Alice Potter
: “Eyerything was just so neat!”
“The Platters ? Fabulous!”
Those two quotes may be taken
as a complete summation of the
traditional IRS weekend. Through I
Represent Salem campus organiza
tion, Salem College played host to
the Disciples of Soul at a dance in
the Link Road Armory Friday
night, The Platters entertained Sat
urday night, in concert in Hanes
Auditorium, Salemites and various
inales impbrted from numerous
schools especially, for the occasion.
For rriost girls here at Salerh the
best aspect of the weekend seemed
to be their dates and the Platters.
Cdiiples could be seen wandering
over the campus all weekend and
enjoying themselves Saturday night
at the Fine Arts Center. Salem took
on a new aspect with the appear
ance of boys for three days.
' Mother Nature appeared to re-
'alize the importance of the Valen
tine’s weekend of ‘69. Snow began
falling during the intermission of
the concert Saturday night much to
the delight of many Salemites.
Anne Beattie exemplified this ex
uberance by exclaiming “Is it
snowing. Really snowing?” and
charging to the nearest door for a
look. The cuts resulting from the
snow gave a fitting end to this
Valentine’s weekend.
The Salemite staff wishes to
extend its sympathy to the
family of Russell Crews. Russell,
who passed away last Sunday
night, had been chef for Salem
College for fifty years.
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