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Volumn XLX
Number 21
SALEM 1969-1970
Date entered
Tuition
Total Cost*
1966
$1,100
$2,500
1967
1968
1969
$1,200
$2,700
SALEM 1970-1971
Resident Student
Date entered
Tuition
Total Cost*
1967
1968
1969
1970
$1,350
$3,000
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C, Friday, March 6, 1970
Tuition Fees To Rise As
Cost Of Living Goes Up
Resident Student
‘Covers tuition, board, room, laundry, library, science
laboratory costs, applied music instruction when
taken for credit, accident insurance, and diploma.
Parents Come To Visit
Freshmen This Weekend
The Salem campus will be inun-
ated Saturday by approximately
members of the “other gene-
ation.” March 7 is Freshman
arents’ Day.
Parents will arrive and' register
etween the hours of 10 a.m. and
,12 noon. Lunch will be served at
■4 noon, and the mothers and fathers
ill be furnished entertainment
ith their meal in the form of a
fashion show featuring clothes
styles and fads of the Thirties and
[Forties. From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
here will be a faculty tea in the
lub Dining Room where parents
ill have the opportunity to meet
the freshman teachers. All after-
oon the freshmen dorms and lib-
®e Sure To See
Round of Three
rary will be open for visitation.
Ping-pong and pool facilities will be
available in the gym and student
center for bored fathers or just
anyone to enjoy.
At 6 p.m. freshmen and their
parents will be the guests of Salem
at a banquet in the refectory. Then
while the parents enjoy traditional
talks by Dr. Gramley, Dean John
son, Dean Hixson, Mr. Gibson
(Freshman Class Advisor), and
Susan Gravely (Freshman Class
President), in Shirley the freshmen
will be madly preparing for the big
Parents’ Day skit to be presented
in Hanes. The theme of this 3'ear’s
Parents’ Day is “Peanuts” char
acters on an easter-egg hunt. This
is the idea that will support the
skit and be reflected in outdoor
decorations.
Beginning first semester of the
1970-1971 year, Salem students will
pay an increased fee voted upon by
the Board of Trustees at their
October meeting. The increase for
boarding students will be from
$2,700 to $3,000 and for day stu
dents from $1,200 to $1,350 per year.
The increase will affect all students,
regardless of what year they en
tered.
The reason for the increase is
primarily the rising cost of living
which, according to Dr. Gramley’s
letter to parents on January 14, has
risen between 12% and 14% since
1967. Comptroller Peter Smither-
man noted that the increase was
made to meet increased expenses
for faculty and administrative sal
aries and for increased wages for
other employees, primarily to raise
wage levels to the federal minimum
wage standards. Increased costs
for goods and services have also
contributed significantly to the ris
ing operating expenses of the col
lege. College expenses have in
creased at a rate of about 4% per
year for the last five years while
there has been no tuition increase
since 1967, and the coming fee raise
from $2,700 to $3,000 is only an
11% increase.
Out of an approximate budget
of $2 million for 1969-1970, Mr.
Smitherman revealed that about
45% of that sum is paid annually
for faculty and administrative sala
ries. He also noted that alumnae
contributions comprise approxi
mately 2% of the operating college
budget, and that $77,000 was appro
priated from the 1969-1970 budget
for scholarships. There are no
plans for expanding Salem at pre
sent, but renovations and redecora
tions, which have been put off for
the past year for financial reasons,
will have to be made if and when
funds become available in the
future.
It might also be noted that Sep
tember enrollment figures for Salem
dropped this year from last year,
from 538 (497 boarders and 41 day
students) in 1968-1969 to 517 (486
OTHER WOMEN'S COLLEGES
Entering '70
College
Entering '69
Total Cost
Bennington
$4,325
Same
Hollins
$3,350
$3,600
Mary Baldwin
$3,100
Same
Mount Holyoke
$3,550
Same
Randolph-Macon
$3,100
$3,400
Reed
$3,385
Same
Sarah Lawrence
$4,300
Same
Smith
$3,455
$3,680
Sweetbriar
$3,600
Same
Agnes Scott
$2,900
$3,000
Salem
$2,700
$3,000
boarders and 31 day students) in
1969-1970, thus decreasing the in
come of the college this year.
Whether Salem’s fees will be in
creased in the future depends on
the direction which the present in
flationary trend will take, although
the Board of Trustees estimates
that the fee increase for next year
By Mary Davis
The Pierrette Players are getting
^eady for a new spring production,
hey are trying something different
his time. March 11-14, “A Round
^f Three,” three one-act plays in
he round, will be presented in the
3§»3rama Workshop. Not only are
he plays student acted but also
* student directed.
The Boor by Anton Chekov is
i|directed by Carol Hewitt with stu-
ent actresses Margaret Floyd and
anet Ward. Reed Potter, a law
fudent at Wake Forest, will also
Appear in the play. Mary Davis and
ary Ann Patterson are co-star-
ing in Save Me a Place at Forest
awn which is directed by Celia
vatson. A one act opera, Sancta
jjjSusanna by Paul Hindemith is
irected by Dail Mahood and Dee
Geraty. Rebecca McCon-
aughey. Heather Wemyss and
Libby Cain are all in the opera.
of these are different and
should prove to be an evening of
?ood entertainment.
Tickets go on sale Monday,
^rch 9. All student tickets are
free and can be picked up any time
'’"ring the day.
Curtain’s at 8 p.m.!
Salem Representatives Attend
Ecological Press Conference
By Laurie Daltroff
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D.
Four Salemite representatives at
tended the February 27-March 2
College Editors Conference spon
sored by USSPA in Washington,
D. C. Jeanne Patterson, Cori Pas-
quier, Sara Engram, and I, Laurie
Daltroff, had the unforgettable ex
perience of mind-expanding en
counters with editors and anarch
ists from Montana to Maine.
The convention was entitled
“what’s the difference if we don’t
wake up?” and covered various as
pects of ecology, causing us to won
der if in fact there would be a
difference. We attended panel dis
cussions, lectures, .and happenings
concerning pollution, overpopula
tion, women’s liberation, Indians,
Blacks, and the ever-burgeoning
movement for revolution. We sat
through press conferences staged
by political figures and ate to the
words of Dr. Margaret Mead. We
went to special midnight screenings
of' movies: We ached through
“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They ?”
jeered through “Tropic of Cancer,”
and cheered throughout “Zabriski
Point.”
Walter Hickel displayed his
ignorance to our highly indignant,
very obnoxious crowd. The harm
less Hog Farm people flitted among
us, carrying a spark of childish
gaiety into the tensest atmospheres.
Individuals passed out every con
ceivable type of literature, includ
ing college newspapers, women’s
liberation pamphlets and papers,
pollution booklets, and radical
underground newspapers. It is
unfortunate that every Salem girl
could not expose herself to the in
tense environment abounding at the
Marriott.
Facts and attitudes shook us:
the fact that the news media can
change, challenge, or influence the
ideas of individuals, thus, those of
society. We hoped that Barry Weis-
berg and Murray Bookchin repre
sent only a minority feeling, and
that Doyle Grabarck was too pessi
mistic when he stated that govern
mental birth controls will evolve as
a result of individual irresponsi
bility. We warmed to Garret De
Bell’s plea for rationalism and his
quest for help in lobbying for anti
pollution bills in Congress.
We learned more in five days
than we usually learn in three
months; we discovered that a little
knowledge can be a frighteningly
powerful tool. Now we wish to use
this unique experience and the facts
to inform everyone on campus of
the necessity for awareness and
action in the next few years. We
realize that a lukewarm approach
to the world’s ecological problems
cannot possibly save the human
race.
It is questionable whether an
idealistic revolution can save us.
But the only alternative lies with
responsible actions by concerned,
informed citizens of all ages.
will be adequate for the next three
to four years. Economists have
noted that President Nixon’s efforts
to curb inflation do not at this
time seem to be very effective since
national estimates of the cost of
living for November, December and
January have not declined when
compared with previous months.
One must consider that in order
to maintain academic standing and
present standards of service to stu
dents, Salem must meet the rising
costs of operating the college. The
accompanying chart reveals that
other women’s colleges have also
had to increase student fees and
that Salem, along with Agnes Scott,
will have the lowest total cost for
students of the women’s colleges
listed on the chart for 1970-1971,
and the lowest of all these colleges
listed for the present year.
NOTICE
Help make St. Patrick’s Day,
March 17, happy for disabled vete
rans. The Y is sponsoring a fun
party at the Veteran’s Hospital in
Salisbury. We’ll eat early and then
leave at 6 pm., returning by 10 p.m.
Transportation will be provided. We
hope to see you all.
» » *
You have to hear it to believe it 1
Four Fun Plans for European Sum
mer. Ten weeks of the most edu
cational, economical, meaningful,
and just plain fun ever. All in
clusive, also accredited. Come hear
all about it March 11, 1970. Infor
mal talk by Claude Shotts, director
of Guilford Seminars Abroad Pro
gram. Don’t miss it 1 For more in
formation contact Jane Cross, se
cond floor Strong.