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Page- Two THE SALEMITE Friday, April M 196s Petitions Attempt To Close Gap We Get Letters ... Administration, Faculty React The list of Standing Faculty Committees published in The Salem- ite last week revealed that there are very few students on these committees. What this article did not mention was that of the four committees listed (Calendar, Curriculum, Assembly, and Library), only the Calendar and Assembly Committees allow students to vote. This can and has resulted in a gross lack of communication. In last week's editorial The Salemite Staff challenged you—stu dents, faculty and administration—to do your part in closing the communication gap. Since that time, an opportunity for you to do this has risen. The Student Government, which this year concerned itself with the role of the student in the area of social responsibility, is now broadening its area of concern to that of the role of the college as a whole in the area of communication between students, faculty and administration. Legislative Board will write two petitions to the faculty to place student consultants (without a vote) on certain committees, which will include the President of Student Govern ment as a consultant to the Board of Trustees, and student repre sentatives (with a vote) on committees which directly concern stu dent affairs. The Salemite encourages students to sign these petitions. A large number of signatures will show the faculty and administra tion that the student body wants to communicate and share in the responsibility of shaping Salem College now and in the future. More important, however. The Salemite urges the faculty and administration to endorse these petitions. The fate of this com munication gap lies with these two groups. The students have stretched out their hand, but it takes more than one to communi cate. Professor Antics Prove Entertaining (ACP)—Going to class may some times seem a waste of time, but you often can get a sideshow of pro fessor antics that in themselves arc worth the hike, writes Donna Bible in the University of Alabama Crim son-White. Take Mr. English Lit for example. Ffe looks like a a sweet little ole [Robert Frost, but when he opens Ills mouth, he’s pure Basil Rath- bone. He orates. And he goes on orhting until you think his whole purpose is to let you hear that marvelous Fve-never-been-to-Eng- land English accent. But bless his little Elizabethan heart. He knows his Wordsworth, and you almost love him untd he starts cutting your major. The Bundle of Nerves is usually a chain smoker who has no ashtray to. play with. So he stands up there waving his three-inch ash that pep pers the entire room when he finally flicks it. He drops the butt under his desk and pats his foot around . . . There it. is . . . he has found it. Then he crushes the remains until he’s, blue in the .gills.' ,Aud all this time, he’s been recit ing those notes with religious cool. One tall ' and angular instructor has 3,467 sitting positions he goes t'.irough . during a lecture. One niimite he huddles like a polar bear, the next he arches like a vulture. F-Ie’s a sculpture museum in motion. The novelty in the whole group is The Pacer. He has to be in constant motion or his thoughts fait to come in an organized fashion. He flies across the room, outdoing any prior roadrunner records. Over . . . and back . back . . . until . . a big . . . headache. May they ever be so amusing and over . . . you get and Coming Events On Campus : April 11 Susan Gray Fowler, Senior Piano Recital Shirley Recital Hall, 8:15 p.m April 14 Lynn Cole, Senior Voice Recital Shirley Recital Hall, 8:15 p.m April 18 Rebecca McConnaughey, Soph omore Voice Recital Patti Hay, Sophomore Piano Recital Shirley Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. School of the Arts: April 11 Philip Ruder, violin Main Auditorium, 8:15 p.m. (no charge) April 18 John leuele. Conductor Orchestra Concert Main Auditorium, 8:15 (no charge) p.m. Dear. R. L. T. and H. ,E. W.: I was naturally interested in the comments you made in your letter- to-the-editor in the April 4 edition of The Salemite. I write in reply not to argue with you or your opin ions, for I couldn’t change your overriding viewpoint, I am sure ; but to correct the impression you seem to have that Salem College has not applied for nor received Federal aid and that Federal and State funds are available for the asking. (There they are: hanging on the lower branches of the tree. Just reach up and take a handful—or two or three.) One fact is that since 1958 Salem has received $139,204 under the Na tional Defense Student Loan pro gram and used all of this to help Salem students. This money has been administered .by the Scholar ship Aid Committee. A second fact is that Salem ap plied for and received $6,302 in 1967 and $6,255 in 1968 for books for the Library. (If funds are available again this year for. this purpose, Salem will apply again.) A third fact is, that a Salem faculty member, with administrative support, applied for and received funds in support of a research pro gram about 10 years ago. There is as yet no legislation at either the Federal or State levels that makes financial aid available to any private college or university for general operating purposes. Most funds available are in support of research programs, residential housing and certain other projects, practically all requiring additional funds from the institution itself. One nearby institution is approxi mately $1,000,000 out of balance in its operating budget because of ex panded research programs that it believes will not now be renewed . . . I. could name. some, private col leges^ which are seriously in debt (on a 40Aear Federal loan arrange ment basis) because they so eagerly embraced Federal programs. Much more might be said in re- gard to this whole matter. I would merely summarize by saying that you share the opinion so many un informed people have: that Federal and State funds are there for the asking and that' these “sources” CONGLOMERATE DORMS! By Tudie Brooks final After much discussion, the decision has been made to mix dormitories beginning next Septem ber. As proven by the survey taken by the Student Service Council, the majority of Salemites are anxious that this proposal be carried out. The survey showed an almost unanimous desire for mixing dorms, w'hich brought the idea to the at tention of Student Government. Sixty to seventy percent of the stu dent body voted to try the mixed dorm situation. The three large dorms, Clewell, Babcock, and Gramiey, will each be divided among the freshmen, sopho mores'-and juniors. The smaller dorms; Sisters and Strong, will be given to sophomores and juniors oh a mixed basis. The dorm presidents in the three large dorms will be juniors and the dorrri'presidents in the two smaller dorms will be sop- homore.s, , The class of. the hall presidents .iS: still undecided.- . The MEMBER Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College Feoture Editor Sports Editor ... Copy Editor OFFICES: Basement of Student Center Printed by the Sun Printing Con^^any Jane Cross Debbie Lotz -Cyndee Grant Carol Carter ...Pelham Lyles rising seniors, voted sepa rately and, decided to remain alone in senior dorms. Their isolation this year as juniors brought ad vantages as well as disadvantages; however, as seniors they feel they should remain unmixed. answer to all our prob- hold the lems. Cordially, Dale H. Gramiey President p.S.—I am intrigued by the H.E.'W. initials. These are also the initials of the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, whence many people think cometh our help ... It may, in time, but not yet. D. H. G. Dear Staff, May I congratulate the Staff of The Salemite on an excellent and provocative issue last week. I found the expression of student opinion, the articles on contemporary issues, and the report of forthcoming events at Salem and in the com munity most helpful and interest ing. Keep lip the good work. Clark A. Thompson Dear Editor: In the past three weeks, over fifty prospective students and their parents visited Salem and were given a tour of the campus, ft, find It difficult to recall one failed to about the grounds. comment enthusi: sheer beaut ^sticall) of till The members of our staff take this opportunity to agree i those visitors from far and nesi t find ^ --11- we campus colorful a walk around the Colie, this Spring to be a Z ‘proud” and 17 , oxperient, From the numbers of students meet on the walkways, we befe they, too, must be aware of % rare quality of the care and effon tliat has caused green flowering shrubs grass to grow, tlowenng shrubs to flourisi and tulips and hyacinth to pop J in unexpected little beds just wait ing to be discovered. We hope Salem students an( faculty will join with us m express. ing sincere appreciation to donor of the bulbs and, particiilarlj to Mr. Holder whose tender, lovinj care has helped to make Salem's campus “a joy forever.” The Admissions Oflioi Beyond The Square Duke Blacks Make Demands By Joy Bishop On February 13, at 7:55 a.m., it was reported that 30 to ^ members of the Afro-American Society barricaded themselves in the first floor of Allen Building at Duke University, which contains the University's Central Records Office. The occupation occurreii two days after the conclusion of a week-long celebration of "Blod Week" and three days after a group of Negro students presented a nine-point list of "requests" to President Knight. The Afro-American Society hod a list of 11 demands including the establishment of a department of Afro-American studies, estaL lishment of a black dormitory, 29 per cent block enrollment by 1973, reinstatement of blacks who failed academically last semeS' ter, a block student union, and on end to grading of block stU' dents. Those protesting threatened to destroy the records in the Central Records Office if their demands were not met immediately. This event sparked a series of further demands, threats, verbal abuses, force, counterforce, and arrests, causing the activities at Duke University to become prominent in notional and international news. The issues at Duke are among those which have divided us as a nation, and which we ourselves, like everyone else in the cow try, have felt at times to be the sharpest issues of national dis' agreement in these last years—the issues of equal rights and op' portunities for oil people in this country. In an attempt to leara what lay behind and beyond the specific demands in the wayo deep human concern, and at times of human indignity or injustice, three important items concerning the particular list of demands should be noted. First, on February 4, almost ten days before the occupation Allen Building, Duke announced two major decisions affecting Afro-American students. They included the decision to launch a summer program to assist all students who want and need special academic assistance, and the decision to hire on effective odvisof for minority groups and in particular, on advisor for Afro-Ameti can students. These decisions were achieved in the normal course of the University's operation and they ore only two among many decisions in which the University has token positive action last few months. Second, in a number of cases, the University is actively at worb on problems which it will take some time for Duke or any othef university to solve adequately—for instance, the finding of a tW advisor who is absolutely right or the development of a progmi* u studies which has academic solidarity and, d the same time, has relevance to many students in our community' Third, a misunderstanding seemed to exist about requests am demands which hod been made. The, real concern of the Afru- American students is that the enrollment of black students at Dub* increase beyond its low level. This is a concern which many shaft to speak of one particular percentage is not wise—to speak® increase is not only wise but honest. The discussion of a gradW system for Afro-American students may very well be a discussi»[j of the nature of grading systems in the University world for o students. To select only one group and talk about a special gi“"' Subscription Price $4.50 a year ..Sandy Kelley Editor-in-Chief Editors - Carol Carson, Polly Smith Business Manager -Joy Bishop Assistant Editor Pat Sanders Managing Editor Sara Engram News Editor Ginger Zemp Advertising Manager . Photography Editor .... Chief Photog — Willie Everhart Heodline Staff Jeanne Patterson, Sandra Pappas Managing Staff Cyndee Grant, Sandy Emerson Layout Ginger Neill, Linyer Ward, Sandy Emerson Circulation Manager -Libby Seibert Advisor Mrs. Laura Nicholson The idea of mixed dorms was re jected by a- slim majority for the 1968-1969 session when voted upon last year. However, after much consideration and a sincere interest by the. student body, it has been realized a very advantageous situ ation. As Louise Sherrill stated, “I think it’s just great! It will pro mote a greater communication throughout the school.” mg system for it would clearly be unwise and insulti ' ■ , , ...v.v,njr uc unwise ana msumng. • ,i pretends that any one grading system is the ideal for the the wW academic community. A No 0®' great deal must still be done to create within the learm®9 experience at Duke programs which are meaningful and sign'"' cant, not only for the black student but for all students at the versity. Illegal occupation of a building on any university cawp"' for any reason at all should not be condoned. This sort of 099^®*’ sive action is no way in which to resolve a problem-it simpl)® ' DOUnHc 1+ r ~ . . ...I: C0I«’, pounds It. Peaceful confrontation among human beings wit!' iL I \jt vjiic unumt;i :> '■‘>''4 'O'- University. Conll'«> ™'d,Xy bllTi,"''"’ They do not c\oor till
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