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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, May 16, 1969
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Number 7
|1RC Speaker Says Student
Protest Is Counterrevolution
The case for the Rebellious Stu-
Idents and their Counterrevolution
Vvas presented by Kenny Jackson,
|a senior at Eastern Kentucky Uni-
[versity, at the IRC meeting Monday
|night.
He classified student protests not
las reactions to specific incidents or
[refused demands but to a more
Ibasic problem. Not a revolution,
[but a counterrevolution “by stu-
Lgnts—liberal arts undergraduates
[in particular—against a quiet, al-
|ni 0 s t unremarkable revolution
Kvhich has changed the whole struc-
Itrue of American higher education
within the last two or three dec-
lades.”
Kenny said that liberal education
[has been destroyed by this aca-
jdemic revolution against liberal
[arts which emphasizes instead the
[professional fields. These include,
[for example, law, medicine, science.
engineering and journalism.
Kenny placed the roots of this
initial revolution in the post World
War II Period when the demand
for higher education skyrockted
and the “increasing complexity of
our technological society required
a sharply rising supply of uni
versity-trained specialists.”
The faculty are the prime benefi
ciaries of the revolution, according
to Kenny. They alone could meet
increasing demands and they used
their new power to assume many
of the powers formerly held solely
by the administration.
It is against this academic rev
olution that students are rebelling.
Kenny cited Irving Kristol’s state
ment in Fortune (May, 1968) which
he said that “in the overwhelming
majority of universities, liberal
education is extenct.”
He noted that students are
Salem Faculty To Change
During the academic year 1969-70,
[Salem will lose seven of her faculty
[members: Donald McLeod, Mrs.
iMary Melvin, Michel Bourquin,
IDr. William Baskin, Dr. John Spitz,
[Miss Angela Burton, and Robert
(Morgan.
Mr. McLeod is taking a year’s
Isabbatical leave in order to com-
jplete his PhD. at UNC-CH. Mrs.
[Melvin is on sabbatical leave for
[a semester to study and travel in
[France. Mr. Bourquin is taking a
[year’s leave of absence in order to
[pursue his studies further at the
[University of Connecticut.
The other four faculty members
[have submitted resignations and
■will be working in various places
[Salem Selects
n Girls
Foreig
Next year Salem will be lucky
[to have three new exchange stu-
I dents. They will be from Sweden,
[Cyprus and Italy. Each one seems
to be noted for her friendly per-
Isonality, leadership and academic
I ability.
Elizabeth Herion is from Taby,
[Sweden. She speaks Danish,
Swedish, Norwegian, German and
French. As her interests she lists
golf, swimming, music, and travel.
She plans to major in English and
history of American literature; her
[minor will be American history
[with an emphasis on political
science. After graduation, she hopes
I to go into some branch of the Dip-
ji lomatic Service.
Niki Hjigavriel hails from Nico-
I sia, Cyprus. Her main interests are
swimming, basketball, volleyball,
music, reading, cooking, and sewing.
She plans to major in psychology
I and minor in philosophy. Even-
t tually she would like to wok within
a governmental institution helping
I the mentally retarded.
Emma Marras will come to us
from Rome, Italy. She speaks Ital
ian, French, English and has ex-
I celled in Latin. She is a Brownie
leader in her spare time. Besides
numerous academic awards, she is
j [he holder of a Bachelor’s Degree
in Secondary Teaching. She plans
I to major in English and American
literature of the 19th and 20th
centuries; her minor will either be
j m history, the classics or romance
languages.
next year. Mr. Morgan will take a
year off from academic life and
retreat to the North Carolina
mountains where he plans to finish
writing a novel which he has begun.
Dr. William Baskin has accepted
an appointment at the North Caro
lina School of the Arts, where he
will be Assistant to the Academic
Dean for Administrative Affairs
and Chairman of the Department
of Modern Foreign Languages.
This summer Dr. Baskin plans to
travel to Siena, Italy with some
students from the School of the'
Arts for whom he will serve as
Dean of Men.
Dr. John Spitz has accepted an
appointment as Professor of Eco
nomics at Roanoke College in
Salem, Virginia.
Several replacements have been
named for those professors who
are leaving. Francis F. Wellingham,
Jr., who has his BS from UNC-CH
and his MS from Wake Forest,
w'ill replace Mr. McLeod.
Robert P. Hill, who has his BS
and BA degree from North Caro
lina State University and his MA
in creative writing from UNC-G
will replace Mr. Morgan.
Miss Karla Johston, ivho did her
undergraduate work at Central
Wesleyan College and received her
master’s degree from UNC-G, vyill
replace Miss Angela Burton.
Miss Kaye B. Hughes will replace
Mr. Bourquin. She received her
BA from Old Dominion College and
her MA from UNC-CH.
searching for the answers to soci
ety’s problems and to their own
personal questions. They seek these
answers through a liberal arts
education, but find professors so
narrow in their background and
interests that they cannot help the
student achieve any perspective.
“The students who expect a visible
relationship betw'een knowledge and
action, betw'een the questions asked
in the classroom and the lives they
live outside of it get instead a
hollow shell.”
Kenny attributed the underlying
reasons for campus rebellions to
this academic revolution and the
student counterrevolution. He
pointed out that although incidents
such as the dismissal of a favorite
professor may trigger a rebellion
or protest, students are seeking
to reverse the academic revolution.
As for the methods of student
rebellion, Kenny encouraged the
exhaustion of all non-violent means
possible to effect students demands.
If, at the end, students have been
continually refused and disregarded,
Kenny advocated violence—not the
takeover of administration build
ings, however (what could anyone
do with it anyway?).
He ended by predicting that stu
dents will continue to rebel until
they secure a reasonable amount of
power for themselves.
Kenny Jackson, IRC student speaker, explained the reasoning
behind the student protests last Monday.
Final Assemblies To Feature
Student Compositions, Awards
Music Compositions
By Libby Cain
Are you tired of the standard
repertoire ? Bored with Bach, Bee
thoven, and Brahms? Want to hear
something new? A group of the
most exciting young composers of
today would like to invite you to
the world premier concert of their
very newest works (all composed
within the past year and still in
manuscript.) The concert will be
presented in assembly on Wednes
day, May 21. Composers represented
will be Fowler, Schaub, Orser, Cole,
Hart, Camp, Messick and Vance.
The composers are, of course, the
members of Mrs. Margaret Sand-
resky’s composition class. The class
is concerned with twentieth cen-
t u r y compositional techniques;
several different techniques, from
tone row to non-tonality, will be
represented in a variety of per
formance media.
The order of the program has
not yet been determined. Susan
Gray Fowler will be represented by
the song “Oiseaux tristes,” which will
be sung by Carol Watson. Mary
Schaub will play her own “Sonata.”
Amy Orser’s “Hickory Dickory
Dock” will be sung by Lynn Cole.
Lynn Cole’s “Piano Trio, Allegro
con rubato” described by Mrs.
Sandresky as “the hardest thing on
the face of the earth,” will be
performed by Eugene Jacobowsky,
violinist, Charles Medlin, cellist,
and Patricia Barnes, pianist. Lynn
will also sing her song “Flea.”
Faculty Recital
Wurtele To Perform Beethoven
Miss Nancy Wurtele, who is
working on her doctorate from the
University of Southern California,
will present a program of four
Beethoven sonatas on May 23, at
8:15 p.m. in Hanes. She has chosen
those sonatas which best represent
the different periods of Beethoven s
life.
The first one she shall play will
be Opus Z number 3 which is one
of his earliest sonatas and follows
the classical style set by Haydn and
Mozart. This is the most developed
and brilliant of the three sonatas in
Opus 2.
Opus 31 number 2 will be next
on the program. This piece repre
sents Beethoven’s middle period
(it is also the middle mark of
all his sonatas). It is nicknamed
“The Tempest” due to a comment
Beethoven made as to the sim
ilarity between the mood of the
play and that of the sonata. It is
filled with many new ideas which
foreshadow a new period in his
musical language.
Opus 78 is a later work of a
much quieter nature. It also hap-
to be one of the shortest he wrote.
In this sonata Beethoven pays even
more attention to delicate detail.
The mood is tender instead of
stormy and passionate, and the
work’s success is due to its per
fection of the “understatement.”
The last piece is Opus 110 which
is the next to the last sonata
Beethoven wrote. In this piece
it is easy to see how far from the
conventional sonata form of his
first pieces he has come. It has a
very dreamy, emotional, and some
times painful mood and shows
many romantic tendencies.
Peggy Hart’s “Sarcastic Waltz” will
be performed by Eugene Jacob
owsky, violinist. Linda Camp will
present “Air for Balloon,” a tape,
as well as “Kyrio,” a song in which
she will be joined by Deedee
Geraty. Lynn Messick offers an
“Invention for Percussion” and a
sonata; and Jenny Vance presents
“Sonata for Organ” and “Invention
for Harpsichord.” All in all, this
is a program no one should miss.
Closing Convocation
Closing Convocation will cul
minate the 1968-69 academic year
at 11 a.m., Friday, May 23.
After comments by President
Dale H. Gramley, Academic Dean
Ivy M. Hixson will announce win
ners of the President’s Prizes.
These prizes will be awarded in 20
fields in' recognition of the recip
ients. outstanding work in the re
spective areas.
Other awards to be announced
include the H. A. Pfohl faculty
and student awards and the Kath
erine B. Rondthaler awards for
creative work in writing, music and
art. In addition, the dedication for
the 1968-69 edition of Sights & In
sights will be made public prior to
the distribution of the books later
that day.
NOTICE
Comptroller’s Note: Treasurers of
all student organizations, including
dorms and classes, are urged to
check with the Comptroller’s Office
prior to the end of the term to
insure that all bills from the College
have been paid. At this writing,
several organizations have outstand
ing bills for supplies.