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THE SALEMITE
Friday, February 13^ ,,
From Peace To Ecology FAC HoUSeS Road Exhibit,
The Peace demonstrations have died down somewhat as anti-
Vietnam protesters apparently let off most of their "steam" during
the October 15th Moratorium. This does not necessarily make
them any less strong in their convictions about the war—but an
other interest seems to have caught their eye and the eye of many
others—Ecology.
Displays Carolina Talent
There is a nation-wide concern over the ecological crisis which
is facing the world. Students, politicians, professors, people from
many, many walks of life are having their eyes opened by the
recent publicity on water pollution, air pollution, overpopulation,
etc.—things that threaten the balance of nature as destructive
forces. These problems do not just hit at a minority, they hit at
everyone; and their effect is not temporary, rather it may affect
every generation that follows us. If we do not act now, if we do
not become informed about this crisis, we may leave a self-destruc
tive legacy to those generations which will follow us.
The Salemite staff feels that every student has a responsibility
to make herself informed about this ecological crisis. To facilitate
this. The Salemite will run a series of articles on this issue.
"What difference does it make if we don't wake up?'‘
North Carolina Crafts, a two-year
traveling exhibit, co-sponsored by
the Southern Highland Handicraft
Guild and the North Carolina State
Arts Council, is being displayed in
the galleries of the Salem Fine Arts
Center at Salem College. The ex
hibit, open 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and
7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily, will be
shown through February 21. It is
open to the public at no charge.
The self-contained exhibit fea
tures 100 examples of crafts by
North Carolina members of the
Southern Highland Handicraft
Guild. The show includes various
uses of wood, ceramics, metal, and
fabric. Wood is used in carving,
turning, and basketry. Ceramics
. enamels. Metal is used in dinner-
ware and jewelry. Fabric is shown
in weaving, knitting, and silk screen
printing. .
Many traditional and contempo
rary craft ideas are included in the
exhibit, which represents a cross-
section of work being done by
craftsmen in North Carolina’s
twenty-four mountain counties.
Photographs and printed materials
accompany the exhibit, giving fur
ther information about the crafts
men and the Guild.
The North
hibit is a
Carolin
‘ina Crafts i
part of the educatm
program of the Southern HirtT
Handicraft Guild, a nine 2
gamzation, with offices in A.), ■
Other Guild projects incfud;'':
annual Craftsman’s Fairs
operation of four shops for the
of members’ work, and a whole,
program. Under the guidance
Director Robert W. Gray the Gu
administrative staff works dosi
with the craftsmen of the nioii
tains. The growing members!
now stands at over 500 craftsmei
consists of glass, pottery, and
The
Cripple Creek Sound:
Band Is Number One
Reed 6- Barton Open
Sterling Silver Contes
By Jane Cross
After a couple of years of ear-
shattering, soul-screaming elec
tronic music there has been a broad
shift in rock music to a more subtle
and understated style. In such
groups as Crosby, Stills, Nash and
Young, Creedence Clearwater Re
vival, and The Band, the style of
natural music is growing, which ac
cording to TIME, January 12, 1970,
can be labeled “country rock.” It
is an urge to return to a rhythm
and blues, twangy, melodious ballad
style.
According to TIME country rock
is Symptomatic of a wish for cul
tural change following the unsettled
decade of the sixties. The wish is
one to escape “the corrupt present
by returning to the virtuous past,”
whether it be a fanciful or real
past, the longing is there, and The
Band unsentimentally capitalizes on
this sound.
Four Canadians and one Ameri
can, all drifters in search of the old
past, the five members of The Band
were drawn to the South and the
Mississippi River. Somehow magi
cally they were drawn together and
after long hours of daily practice
and playing a string of night
stands, they have finally found what
they were looking for when they
came “to look for America.” Deep
within their music beats a grass
roots heart, an almost “deceptively
simple” style. In their primitive
ness they approximate quiet spirit
uality. Their ties are to the land
which they sing about.
All five members of The Band
have been musicians almost all their
lives, which gives them a workable
knowledge of the fifteen instru
ments they are capable of playing.
They were called the Hawks in
their early years. They played
straight country until they met up
with Bob Dylan in 1965—their name
changed, their style changed, as
well as their philosophy of life.
Folk rock was born. Loud and
vibrating, they became the force
behind the prophetic Dylan — they
made songs such as “Like a Rolling
Stone,” “Visions of Johanna,” and
“Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat” come
to life.
In 1966, they went to Woodstock,
New York, to stay with Bob Dylan
after his motorcycle accident. When
he recovered. The Band and Dylan
turned out some amazing lyrics and
music, including “I Shall be Re
leased,” which appeared on “Big
Pink,” The Band’s first album.
Dylan left for the Village, but The
Band stayed on in Woodstock en
joying the country life.
It is their new way of life which
is reflected in the simple and na
tural style they have developed.
Informality, flexibility, little or no
help from expensive electronic
equipment, characterize their sound
on the new album, unpretentiously
called “The Band.”
A few notables:
“Up on Cripple Creek” probably
the most familiar has a blue-grass
sound, simple and humorous lyrics.
“Whispering Pines” has the quiet,
haunted feeling of a long-left pine
forest on a moonlit night in early
spring.
“Rockin’ Chair” takes an unideal
ized look at the problem of grow
ing old. A really poignant and
touching song, it sounds like a
country hymn . . . “oh to be down
in old Virginy to see my best friend,
they call him “Ragtime Willie”’. . .
“Look out Cleveland” is full of
rhythm, rambling freight train beat,
like an early Hank Williams or a
late Johnny Cash tune. '
“Unfaithful Servant” is a com
bination of Negro spiritual and
Mountain hymn. It gives hope for
the future.
The general tone of the album is
optimistic — an emotion sometimes
hard to find in today’s anxious and
noisy world. If you get fed up with
the screaming and noise of the com-
merical rock world, turn on The
Band—you’re in for a pleasant sur
prise.
During the months of February
and March, Reed and Barton,
America’s oldest major silversmiths,
are conducting a “Silver Opinion
Competition” in which valuable
scholarships totalling $2050 are be
ing offered to duly enrolled women
students at a few selected colleges
and universities.
Salem has been selected to enter
this Competition in which the First
Grand Award is a $500 cash scholar
ship ; Second Grand Award is a $300
scholarship; Third Grand Award is
a $250 scholarship; Fourth, Fifth,
Death To Dullness
Assembly Schedule Posted
Feb. 18 A. G. McKay, Piedmont
Lecturer, “The Etruscans: New
Discoveries and Ancient Con-
troveries”
Feb. 20 Open
Feb. 25 Departmental Assemblies
Feb. 27 Dr. Carla Waal, “Women
in Ibsen”
March 4 Norman and Sandra
Dietz, Vaudeville, short acts,
satire sketches
March 9 S. G. A. Elections
March 11 Archway Singers, Dee
Dee Geraty, Susan and Nancy
Nelson
March 13 Departmental Assemb
lies
March 15 N. C. School of the Arts
ballet and demonstration with
Job Sanders
March 20 Student Power and
Politics
March 25- Moravian Tradition
April 8 Joanna Featherstoue,
Black actress, “A Program of
American Negro Literature
from pre-Civil War to Today”
April 10 S. G. A. Meeting
April 13-15 Symposium, “Violence
as Human Expression”
April 15-17 April Arts Week
April 22 Departmental Assemblies
April 24 Open
April 29 Open
May 1 Robert Watson, poetry
reading
May 6 S. G. A. and Faculty
Meetings,
May 8 Betty Tabot, Lecture-
Demonstration, “Twentieth
Century Music for Piano”
May 13 Open
May 15 Departmental Assemblies
May 20 Music Composition Class
May 22 Closing Assembly
and Sixth Awards are $200 schola
ships; and Seventh, Eighth, Nin
and Tenth are $100 scholarships,
addition, there will be 100 oth
awards consisting of sterling silvf
fine china and crystal with a ret:
value of approximately $75.
In the 1970 “Silver Opinion Con
petition,” an entry form illustrati
twelve designs of sterling and eigi
designs of both china and crysti
The entrants simply list the thn
best combinations of sterling, chin
and crystal from the patterns ilte
trated. Scholarships and awart
will be made to those entries mate!
ing or coming closest to the unan:
mous selections of Table-settin
editors from three of the nation
leading magazines.
Donna Daisley is the Studet
Representative who is conductin
the “Silver Opinion Competition
for Reed and Barton at Salen
Those interested in entering th
“Silver Opinion Competition” shoul
contact her at 112 Gramley fo
entry blanks and for complete de
tails concerning the Competio:
rules. She also has samples of!
of the most popular Reed & Bar
ton designs so that entrants cai
see how these sterling pattern
actually look.
Through the opinions on silvei
design expressed by college womei
competing for these scholarship!
Reed & Barton hopes to compile:
valuable library of expressions ol
young American taste.
Beyond Tho SauarB
Panthers Outline Program
Coming Events
February 14
Patricia Pence, harp soloist,
Saleth College School of Music,
■ ■ in Winstdn^Salem Symp hotly
Concert.
MEMBER
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Reynolds Auditorium, 8:15 p.m.
February IS
Movie: Juarez
Drama 'Workshop 7 p.m.
February 17
Focus: “Black Economy and
Labor”
Choral Ensemble Room 6:30 p.m.
February 18
Alexander McKay
“The Etruscans: New Discoveries
and Ancient Controversities
11 a.m.
SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
February 13
Marc Gottlieb, violin and Clifton
Matthews, piano
Main Auditorium 8:15 p.m.
No charge
February 19
NCSA Dance, Drama and Music
Students
Main Auditorium 8:15 p.m.
No charge
February 20
Claremont String Quartet
Main Auditorium 8:15 p.m.
No charge
By Joy Bishop
At a recent seminar held at Wake Forest University and led by
Black Panthers from the area, the contradictory yet powerful
na^re of the Black Panther movement was pointed out.
According to government estimate, the Black Panthers number
about 1,200 members in the United States. The Winston-Salem
society of Panthers is the only such organized group of Pontberf
in the state of North Carolina.
However, the Panthers have emerged as a symbol of militant
black rage. They are convinced that the black man will never get
what he deserves without the force of violence. The PontbeK
asked those students present at the seminar to discontinue their
apathy, to burn buildings at the University and to kill if necessor/.
One very interesting request of the Panthers was that whitesg®*
out of the black ghetto areas. The Panthers do not claim to be
black racists--instead they say that the work in the ghettos mw'
be done by blacks and not by so-called "white liberals" who doin'
° instead exploit the black man.
the Panthers asked that the whites work in their own
munities to convince other whites that our present capitalistic g>^'
ernment is corrupt and should be destroyed. The Panthers eX’
pressed their desire for a socialistic government but offered
plan for ,ts organization. Among other demands, the Pontb«
asked for immediate release of all imprisoned blacks and thatd
black rnen be exempt from military service.
**■1 , r- iisiiiiuijr dorviwe. .
themselves heavily in the nom^j
self-defense and they have used their weapons-not only in
Panthers ask for peace and racial justice and
pose that violence and revolution are the only means of reach"'5
these goals.
The Black Panthers claim to want all of the some thing*
w ,xj wuni an or ine •"
Martin Luther King wanted-only their tactics ore different.
tnAr inrii ■ AM
Pam
, . -S' —\jtiiy meir racrics are
tner mtlueiice Continues to spread in black and white comm