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Page Two THE SALEMITE Sunday, September 14^ 196! Organizations Need You - -(^rouJ ffL gU uare Be Active, Get Involved Cl6well Hosts Surprises For Frosh You're a Freshman now—and this is just the beginning. You have a new way of life, new horizons opening for you with your college career. Your academic work is of prime importance—but what I want to emphasize are the activities other than school work which college offers to you. Traditionally one of the advantages of a small school is the opportunity for everyone to get involved in campus and civic or ganizations and projects. There is much truth in this statement. But it only becomes a reality when YOU take the initiative.. Your academic life is important, but it is through campus activ ities that you make new friends, find outlets for your interests and take "breathers" from your schoolwork. With the large number of campus organizations, it's obvious that YOU are needed to keep them functioning. And often Organizations Heads don't have the time or knowledge to recruit a sufficient number of interested people to staff their organizations. Consequently, the respon sibility is upon you to let yourself be known, to become involved in campus activities. There is no doubt that you will benefit from your involvement in campus activities, but the entire college community will benefit also. As you enter Salem, you bring with you new ideas, interests, talents and energies just waiting to be tapped, and this can only be done if you become involved and active in campus life. SK By Celia Watson Attention Clewell Kids! As the lucky newcomers to carpeted Cle well, you may find the following dormitory highlights interesting and informative : 1. Clewell is the only dorm at Salem that has ah ice machine; and if the gods are with you, you may find ice in it two out of every six trips you make downstairs. 2. As residents of Roach City (as some affectionately call Clewell), you have several washing machines right at hand in the basement. So, when you’re tired of cracked but tons on blouses and board-stiff jeans that the laundry readily sup plies, you can collaborate with a friend who’e washing her red Salem nightie and get back still-dirty socks tinted a putrid pink. ■ 3. Another illustrious feature of Clewell are the pay telephones for out-going calls located for privacy in the laundry room. If not a single one of the five hundred resident Salemites is using a vyasher and if the ice machine isn’t running you might hear the operator the fourth or even the third time she asks for your number. 4. When winter rolls around and the heating is turned on, all you jazz lovers can practice bongo ac companiment to the clickety-clang- clap of the pipes (which tractively throughout the run room providing a trellis for paper flo,,; and a rack for drying stocking sometimes until 2 a.m. Such are the bounteous bene in store for you envied-by-everyi Clewell cuties. But don’t disp Salemites of Gramley and Babci —you’ll get a shot at Pandemoni Paradise next year. Class Of 73 The Statistics Scoop Patience And Prudence — Not The Now Generation (ACP)—While patience may be regarded as virtuous by the older generation, it is not a virtue coveted by the growing student generation, says the Ball State News of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. The newspaper’s editorial con tinued : History, in many cases, reveals the futility of patience. “Be patient,” the elder statesmen of four generations said to the en slaved Negro. “You will have your day.” So the Negro was patient. And “his day” was put off until to morrow. The main hope for the student generation lies in its rejection of the belief that patience will be re warded by “the gift of a better day.” “Listen to all that protest,” says the older generation which fights wars, domestic and foreign, from their desks. “There’s no respect for age. These students are irre sponsible. They make a mockery of freedom.” Freedom does demand responsi bility. But responsibility also re quires freedom and a voice in the course of events. If an individual’s life is put in jeopardy for a cause, then he has a right to question re sponsibly the reasoning that says his dying is necessary. The same holds true in a univer sity. If an individual is getting a second-rate education, he has the right to demand something better. If he is treated like a child in the determination of important policies that affect his campus life and as a “young adult” in the less impor tant areas, he should be able to actively seek a cure to this admini strative schizophrenia. If he’s a second-class citizen in the campus community because of age, race, or the length of his hair. he should question the middle-aged, closely-cropped, white administra tion which says this role is best for him. If the individual chooses to wait for academic reform to descend from Mount Olympus, he must be patient. Things come to those who wait, but only those things which aren’t very important. The 1969 freshman will have a variety of names, but will probably be called Elizabeth, Ann, Mary or Susan. The tallest is 5 ft. 10 in ches, the shortest 4 ft. 11 inches; the average girl is 5 ft. 5 inches. Her average weight is 118 pounds, though possibly as heavy as 160 pounds and as light as 96 pounds. Thirty-three of the freshmen wear contact lenses. Forty-four of the freshmen (in cluding the five new' day students) come from North Carolina but over all will represent 19 different states and one foreign country. They’re from as far north as Groveton, New Hampshire, as far south as Goulds, Florida, and as far west as Albu- qerque. New Mexico. In high school she was most likely on the annual staff or news paper staff, a member of the stu dent council, and a cheerleader. Approximately 74% of the fresh men attended public high schools. She averages 18 academic units for her four years of high school preparation; 4 in English, foreign language (usually Fr 4 units in math, 3 in science, in history. At this point she to major either in English or field of science, or math. WANTED: Staif Members For Sally Salem Writes Home Of Orientation Experience Beyond The square PHOTOGRAPHERS ADVERTISING STAFF Writers Headline writers layout designers proofreaders typists No experience necessary Dear Mom and Dad, I just can’t believe I’m really here. Since you left, we haven’t sat down for two minutes. Every body is so nice, and I love it al ready. My roommate is beautiful and has more clothes than I’ve ever seen. Do you know that she car ried at least fourteen boxes of shoes up all three flights of stairs three different times ? There’s really no room at all for mine but that’s okay. I know we are going to get along well. We really don’t have a thing in common, but that doesn’t seem to matter. We pro bably won’t have to get bedspreads, curtains, etc. for at least three weeks—she’ll still be unpacking! We discussed colors; she wants red and I told her that was fine with me (although I’d really like blue). We went to dinner and had de licious sandwiches. There are candy machines downstairs which will be nice for a midnight snack; but since we can’t stay up after 11 p.m. I guess that will have to do. And everyone talks about the “F. D.” I can’t wait to find out what that is. I’ve heard you gain twenty pounds a month—but I know I won’t! Already I’ve met three girls—the ones in my Orientation Group. My adviser is so sweet and her room is just darling. All the upper-class men here now have really been nice to us, but I wonder what it will be like the day everyone else arrives. They’re great one at a time—but not all at once. Misconceptions Hurt Peace Corp Image (ACP) The Peace Corps has been one victim of the re many students feel toward the "establishment," comments I versity of Pittsburgh's Pitt News. MEMBER Publithed every Friday of the College year by the Student Body of Salem College OFFICES: Basement of Studer.r Center Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price $4.50 a year Editor-in-Chief Sandy Kelley Business Manager _ Joy Bishop Assistant Editor Pat Sanders Managing Editor Sara Engram News Editor Ginger Zemp Feature Editor Jane Cross Sports Editor Copy Editor ..Debbie Lotz Advertising Manager Photography Editor _ Chief Photog. -Cyndee Grant —Carol Carter —Pelham Lyles -Willie Everhart Ooops! I’m supposed to be at a meeting right now. According to Attention Please! I’m out of time. Oh no, the meeting is in Hanes, and I don’t know where that is. Write soon and say “hello” to Rover and Fluffy, and Grandma and Granddaddy, and Susan, Bob, and Joe. I miss you, but I am really happy—don't worry. Because it is a government agency, the newspaper cc m an editorial, people tend to identify it with Johnson odr bon policies and thus dismiss it. This is unfair, because tf orps exemplifies the kind of solution being advocated b letnom war critics—namely, o means whereby underde nations can be strengthened on the grass roots level throw cation and economic development. This winters crop of recruiters has noted that large cc ore not os responsive to the Peace Corps os they once we as I a feeling of disillusionment has set in. We think t correct analysis; we see the futility, the feeling that one c ange t e status quo, in other situations, such os parti in student government elections. Headline Staff Managing Staff Layout —leanne Patterson, Sandra Pappas Cyndee Grant, Sandy Emerson -.Ginger Neill, Linyer Ward, Sandy Emerson Circulation Manager Libby Seibert Advisor Mrs. Laura Nicholson Love, Sally P. S. Please send a “CARE” pack age big enough to wipe out the dust in my Post Office box at Salem Station. I’ll probably call tomorrow night to find out how everyone is (if you don’t call first). cannot criticize this alienation too harshly, because o I reasons for it. Too many hopes hove not been rea stiJdents asking them to name Showed that many were unable to cite anyone. The voi Pres dent Kennedy's deoth hos not been filled. On a tn Ir politics or the Negro revolution, the to keep hove not been kept. u*'°L accept-ond for too dongerc in Virt° ^ ^ bs accept defeat so quickly, n Vietnam will not end automatically. The establishment mgton will not alter its courses rJi * disiilu Ml . me esTaDiibi But thnwl ° course in response to our oes not bar us from making our mark, stnf.r^ '■emam armchair critics, ore we not really acce trihiif,.^^?u Other alternative and mo bpmi O'" VISTA? Then we first s"ep journey-we will hove token
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