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Page Two THE SALEMITE Friday, April ig, 196 Conferences Close Discusses Blaik Problems Communication Gap Enlightens Salemites Salem has recently sent students to several area and national Salem has recently sent students to several area and national conventions such as the Southern Universities Student Government Association Workshop in Charlotte, the National Model United Nations in New York, the S.N.E.A. meetings in Atlanta and Char lotte, and several others. The benefits of these conferences to which Salem sends students are far reaching. They provide an opportunity for Salem students to learn what other students are thinking and doing on other cam puses. They enable Salemites to learn of projects and innovations at other schools which could be of potential benefit to Salem. These conferences are in many ways publicity for Salem. Student delegates "spread the word" about the "small Southern girls' school," especially at national conventions. Attending these conferences is a must. Each budget and non budget organization should investigate and evaluate the many conventions being held in their respective local and national or ganizations and publicize this information to club members. They should also concern themselves with the possibility of some finan cial backing for students attending such conferences. For attending these conferences and reporting their results to the student body is another way of bridging the Communication Gap— the one between Salem and the world beyond the Square. (Editor’s note: Following Dr. Rice’s assembly lecture, April 16, on “Africa, New Zealand, and the Present Situation,’’ a coffee was held in his honor in Strong Friend- Rooms. Here Dr. Rice expanded some of his views concerning the Blacks in South Africa and the United States today.) electronic recording of lectures and unnatural situation in a . , • . ro„„i;— “ sceat CiCCLiUlUC 1 '• frequent wire-tapping, they, as well as most churches, receive special treatment from the government. “Possibly,” surmised Dr. Rice, “the government views Non MEMBER Published every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College Feature Editor Sports Editor . Copy Editor ... Jane Cross Debbie Lotz OFFICES: Basement of Student Center Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price $4.50 a year - -Cyndee Grant Advertising Manager Carol Carter Photography Editor ....Pelham Lyles Chief Photog. Wtllle Everhart Headline Staff Jeanne Patterson, Sandra Pappas Editor-in-Chief Sandy Kelley Editors .L„ Carol Carson, Polly Smith Business Manoger Joy Bishop Assistant Editor . Pat Sanders Managing Editor Sara Engram News Editor Ginger Zemp Managing Staff Layout Cyndee Grant, Sandy Emerson Ginger Neill, Linyer Ward, Sandy Emerson Circulation Manager ..Libby Seibert Advisor Mrs. Laura Nicholson As a white resident in South Africa, Dr. Rice was quite aware of the government’s apartheid policy. The seminary at which he taught was founded ten years ago as a result of the apartheid policy’s Group Areas Act. In compliance with this law prohibiting non whites from attending seminaries already established, it was nec essary for churches to set up Adams for non-white ministerial students on specially approved land. On the threat of apartheid. Dr. Rice stated, I cannot tell you how much of a police state it is. Fear is simply the order for everyone.” Secret police and informers sire everywhere to insure the enforce ment of these laws. ’White profes sors are frowned upon, even in the small community of Alice, for strolling or bicycle riding off cam pus with black students. In most colleges white professors do not communicate with their students outside the classroom. Most Africans are so poor that they can be easily bribed by the government to spy on their comrades. the Church as the religious opiate of the people.” A distinctly African form of Christianity, Zionism, is strong in South Africa today. For Africans who are becoming more aware of themselves as a culture, this de- momination is forceful. It rejects western institutionalized Chris tianity and merges old tribal re ligion with basic Christian faith. A serv'ice may combine readings from the Book of Common Prayer and African chants set to hymn tunes. Dr. Rice aptly summarized the present situation at Duke, “Duke is not a happy place for the Blacks. Try as we may, we do something that intimidates them.” To establish feeling of security necessary for genuine integration not mere as similation, the Blacks need a small commun’ty within a large one. Asked why these students, if they desire to have their own campus within Duke, shouldn’t just go to a Negro college. Dr. Rice paused for thought. He answered that the Negro studies program is not com pulsory, that there would be inter communication among Blacks and whites until this self-respect, know ledge of self and race is achieved by the Blacks. “It would be an Carolina university such as h without a significant group of u students, and probably destr„q in. the long run.” Aside C ceiving financial aid not avail, at most Negro colleges, “a J student at Duke would achieve different image than a student a Negro college would achieve,’ Dr. Rice’s student, i„ jo, Africa were intent upon the problems in the United Sul “Its’s astounding,” Dr. Rice "to see that the headline, the world are focused on Amerit These Africans see in America different situation from their ov a place where the Negro has | freedom to organize protest a reform, which is completely , lawful in South Africa. They f, that only through creation of harmonious, workable multi-rat society in America, do they hi any hope for freedom. In answer to a question center ing the American Church’s role this multi-racial society. Dr. Ri mused that at present "If tl Church is the I ght of the wotl it’s the tail-light.” The wh church in America, which is no irrelevant to our racial situatio needs to deploy different resonro for becoming a more integral pa of society, through efforts such; free-lance ministry, work in tl ghettos and, on the whole, revoli tionary programs. At Adams, however, the apartheid was not as well enforced. Although under constant surveillance, with Beyond The Square Head Start Needs Chang Forsyth Students Contribute Colorful Art Exhibit In FAC By Joy Bishop By Karen Park As you can’t help but notice on the- way to Assembly, the Fine Arts Center is filled with the art work of the school children of Forsyth County, from kindergarten through high school. between the intricacies of her shawl and the simple stripes of her skirt. Sunday afternoon, I tripped over to see the show and found the place swarming with approximately 95% of the enrollment of the Forsyth County schools, phis parents. Moving down the hall, a wire bird sits on the window sill. The simply flowing lines of the body are set off by the more complexly twisted wings and head. Space flows through and around the wires giving the bird an airy feeling, but his feet, almost incongruous in their size, keep him from floating off. Naturally, the majority of this crowd seemed to think it was a pretty good display, though each adulfseemed to favor the work of his bw'ii progeny—and I agree. In fact, much of the art rivals the products of Salem’s Art Depart ment. In the show are a number of stitchery-on-burlap wall-hangings. One that interested me hangs on the left wall and captures the feel ing of an Oriental or Medieval walled city. The variation of tex tures and patterns is unusual. Starting with the wing nearest campus, ■, going through the main, foyer (junior and senior high school) and on down the farther wing (elementary school), I will point out a few of the individual pieces I found most notable. Before I go into this, however, I would like to remind the reader that one, person cannot judge or interpret a work of art for others, because each viewer brings different ex periences, tastes, values, and view points to art. Another group, with examples around the cloth for tress, employs a technique that gives them exceptionally bright colors and clearly delineated forms. They are made of gaily colored tissue paper with black construc tion paper dividing the colors into designs, much like the lead in stained glass windows. to the tenth and last in the fore ground, with a grieving hangman. In striking contrast is the charm ingly delicate flower picture on the other end of the line. The un involved attitude, indicated by the meandering stems and cool colors of the flowers, contrasts sharply with the concern for others shown, in the stark and brooding red painting, expressing two entirely different facets of man. Now we are in the main foyer 1 There are two pictures here I rate above the others: one is on the right, a red-and-black woodprint of what looks like nothing so much as a very skinny guru. Surprising depth is given by the black-mottled background. Across the foyer is an intriguing picture of eggs —one several broken —that got h for- ° comments, a good example (continued on paee 31 A recently made comprehensive study of the U. S. Governme Head Start program has revealed information stating that p children who participated in the program are not apprecia better off than equally disadvantaged children who did not. The authors of the study have made recommendations to present administration concerning the fact that the program is worth its cost os it is presently formed, and should be radici revised. The Westinghouse Learning Corporation and Ohio Univen carried out the nine-month long study under contract with Office of Economic Opportunity which administers Head Start o other antipoverty programs. The researchers studied 104 Head Start centers in all regions the country. Graduates of the program in the first, second, a third grades were subjected to a battery of tests which were tli compared to the test results of a control group of equally disc vontoged children who hod not attended Head Start. The authors stressed the fact that although the study proved! tailure of the Head Start program, programs of this type shoi not be discontinued. Presidential aides fear that the report's d couraging conclusions could be used as a weapon against fl kind of expenditure for disadvantaged children, especially Negn As reported in the Winston-Salem Journal, one White Hoc ai e SOI ast week: "One of the principal implications of this i por IS t at we really do not know as much os we thought i knew about improving the lives and the minds of poor childre ihus, the question is whether we proceed down the same old pal which might soothe our egos but will certainly damage the chil ren; or whether we take a new look and surround this thing wi Therefore, my purpose is not to judge the work done in this show, but to point out things I see in the pictures, sculpture, and wall-hang ings, and to stimulate you to see and even think'about these pictures yourself. As, you enter,-look over the door, where an orange cleaning woman is depicted in pen and ink. I found my eye was caught By the contrast Moving around the corner into the entrance of the main foyer, there are some paper mache sculptures that show humor and individuality. There’s a rather fatuous pink elephant, an alarming penguin, and an orange what’s-it, the result of the efforts of four imaginative young artists. On the right wall are several paintings. I was struck by the difference in the feeling of the first and last pictures lined on this wall. The first is a red one, bleak in character; in the background is series of hanged men, leading up Editorials are from the I tor’s desk unless otherwise dicated as a staff editorial by writer’s initials. Opinions pressed in editorials do ^ necessarily reflect those of newspaper staff, student b® faculty, or administration. Salemite welcomes editon from the student body, facu and administration. Such a torials must be so designate the signature and address o writer. 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