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Three cheers for 4-1-4 Self-limiting hours In-town overnights and SUMMER! Is Your Detergent One Cause Of Water Pollution? Dear Editor, Recently a frightening incident involving the safety of Salem stu dents shocked not only the students and faculty of this campus, but also responsible citizens of the com munity. It seems that this incident would have hastened the end of this year's deplorable occurrences, since the campus patrolmen and city police must by now realize the im portance of their duties. Unfor tunately, several times this week, as in past weeks, girls walking on campus, including walking to and from the post office and Mayberry, U. S. A., have been harrassed by males in cars and on foot. What is disgusting is the knowledge that these men have been able to freely accost us without the slightest fear of intervention. Sooner or later, another inexcusable mishap is going to occur, probably without the for tunate outcome of the dormitory incident. A technical outcome of such a tragedy could be the restric tion of girls on campus to their dormitories. Ugh! Evidently it is up to the women of Salem College to create a minor uproar over the demolition of our safety, so that officials will be em barrassed into installing such pro tection as GOOD campus lighting, thought War is an excuse to kill. If you need an excuse, that's a good one. Feel free to kill And say you kill to be free. Freedom is a good excuse if you need one. Count the dead; killing by the numbers kills no one in particular, nothing personal, you know, which is a good excuse if you need one. The killer needs an excuse, and peace is no excuse. (A polite plea for peace written by Harry Pesin, President Pesin, Sydney, & Bernard, Inc. reprinted from "Time") frequent patrols of the area by police officers, and genuine night watching by the campus watchmen. It is sad that it takes a scene to accomplish just ends. Mr. Police man, where are you now that we need you ? Sincerely, Jane Martin Evie Yancey Laurie Daltroff HELP OUR DYING WATERS There is one crisis w'hich should take priority over all others—POL LUTION. There is much you can do as an individual to control the dangers you have been viewing in newspapers, magazines, and tele vision. You can write letters to your local state and national legis lators to take immediate action . against companies which contribute to pollution. Furthermore, as an individual and consumer you can patronize those companies which are trying to control their waste products. Specifically, in the detergents you buy, the chemical phosphate has been reported in the International Joint Commission on the Pollution of the Great Lakes to be a key Salem Sends Five Delegates To NMUN April 29 to May 3 was the big week for the National Model United Nations. Students from numerous colleges represented the member nations of the U. N. and converged upon New York City to attend five days of meetings and parties. Salem College sent five repre sentatives to the convention. Sandra Pappas led the delegation with Christy Davidson, Mary Leight, Marriane DeHart and Michel Sei bert as fellow delegates. The Salem Pianist Presents Now Message By Chris Verrastro The medium might well be the message, but Betty Talbot success fully used a nineteenth century medium to convey a twentieth cen tury message. Miss Talbot regards the piano, her medium, as a nine teenth century instrument since that century proved to be the most profuse in the production of piano literature. Miss Talbot’s lecture-demonstra tion exemplified such tools and techniques of twentieth century music as tone clusters, pentatonic scales, quarter tones, percussive effects, and unusual rhythms. Miss Talbot’s conception of twentieth century music came across as a sound one. The musician is aware of the absence of tradition and beauty in contemporary music. She feels contemporary music “reflects the age in which it was written." In concluding the assembly Miss Talbot performed Bartok’s Sonata for Piano. Her performance was excellent from both a musical and technical standpoint.' The speaker, surprisingly twentieth century her self, was informative as well as en joyable. The Assembly was one of the best Salem has had recently. represented Costa Rica, of the Latin American delegation a member Bloc. The Costa Rican mission to the UN gave the Salem girls a briefing on the policy of Costa Rica. Each delegate went to special committee meetings where various world problems were discussed. The resolutions passed in thise meetings were taken to the General As sembly. The Middle East was the main topic of discussion in the General Assembly. IRC sponsors the delegation going to New York for this conference each year. Anyone interested in the program for next year is en couraged to talk with members of this year’s delegation. link in the death of the now famous Lake Erie. Phosphates cause algae and other marine plants to grow wildly. These plants remove oxygen from the water which is vital for marine life such as fish. Further more, the growth of the algae re sults in foul odors and prevents re use of the water. Present sewage treatment cannot eliminate these phosphates except at extreme costs. And yet, 75% of phosphate pollu tion comes from detergents! Also, P. H. Jones of the University of Toronto has proved that the chemi cal NTA can be used safely and successfully instead of phosphates for detergents. So if your brand is high in phosphates, switch to a lower brand! The phosphate is used mainly to comprise volume or bulk and adds little to the cleaning agents of the detergent. We urge you to consider what will happen to your water, your land, your children, and yourself if pollution continues. Please use the less harmful brands. The phos phates are used mainly to comprise bulk in detergents and to the active cleanii amg volume or add little agents. You owe it to all humanity to do your share in stopping pol- lution. HOW DOES YOUR DETERGENT RATE? Trend—1.4 Diaper Pure—5.0 Wisk—7.6 Cold Water All—9.8 Cold Power—19.9 FAB—21.16 Breeze—22.2 Cheer—22.3 Bonu.s—22.3 Duz—23.1 Gain—24.4 Dreft—24.5 Drive—25.3 Punch—25.8 Ajax Laundry—28.2 Bold—30.2 Tide—30.6 Oxydol—30.7 Salvo—35.3 Bio-ad—35.5 Biz-^.4 Axion—43.7 GRADUATION SCHEDULE June 6 Alumnae Day ' 10:00-11:00 Coffee and Registration 11:00-12:30 84th Annual Meeting 1:00 lunch 2:30 Class Reunions 6:00 Picnic supper honoring seniors, parents, and faculty June 7 11:00 Baccalaureate Service, Rev. James C. Hughes, Home Moravian Church 3:00 Commencement, Dr. Jerry t. Surratt, Dean, Wingate College, Hanes Auditorium Kent State Beyond The Square Will New Methods Replace Electoral College? By Laura Crumpler and Mary Watson After 182 years of existence, our present system of presidential elections has a very good chance of revision. Congress has been 'working hard on proposals to do away with the Electoral College and provide for direct elections by popular vote. Under the new system, a leading candidate for the Presidency must receive at least 40% of the total popular votes cast. If no one receives 40%, a runoff is held. For the first time In history an attempt to do away with the Electoral College has passed the ffouse. The new efforts to reform also include lowering the voting age to 18, which would add about 10 million potential voters—an 8% increase in the voting population. However, a problem emerges in that fact that the right to determine voting age requirements belongs to the states. A law passed by Congress may be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. With these new reforms, if they are passed, our whole system of elections will change. There will be more and younger people voting-which will in the end affect who is elected President. Source; U. S. News & World Report May II, 1970 Eye Witness Account PRESS MEMBER Editor-In-Chief editorial staff A..ociat« Editor Liayer Ward A.si.tont Editor Ginger Zemp . ... Cori Pasquier Managing Editor ., Jeanne Patterson News Editor Feature Editor Fin. Arts Editor :^ibby Com Special Projects Editor_-.Catherine Cooper Copy Editor Photogrophy Editor Tricio Allen Roving Photogropher _ Billie Everhort Sara Engram BUSINESS STAFF Business Manoger Advertising Manager Circulation Manager . Phyllis Melvin -Martha Bernard Libby Seibert Published by Students of Salem College Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price $4.60 a year Member U. S. Student Press Association By MIKE YORK, Kent Research Assistant and FRED KIRSCH, a Junior Psychology Major. KENT, Ohio — (CPS) (The MILITANT)—Four students were murdered at Kent State University, and several wounded when national guardsmen opened fire without warning. We were caught with hundreds of other students near a parking lot when suddenly a line of Guards men turned toward us, knelt down, and aimed, almost as if by an order. On Monday we both went down to the Commons, an open field, at noon. Someone climbed up on the base of a commons liberty bell and said, “it’s time to strike, its time to strike.” An Army jeep pulled up. There were four men, three Guardsmen and one state trooper in it. The trooper had a bull horn. He said, “Please leave the area. This is an illegal gathering. Leave before some one is hurt.” A few students —no more than a handful were heaving rocks. Thousands of students were in the area. A group of guardsmen approached. Before we knew it, we saw teargas cannisters in the midst of us. People started running. “Walk, walk,” people shouted, was an orderly retreat. gM masks, and started coming up the hill. Gas can nisters were lobbed. Students threw them back. again. The scary thing about it was t at the Guard was still coming, shooting teargas. The Guard came down toward the hill. Maybe as many as 1,000 students bed regrouped near a parking ot. The Guard came toward us. A few guys were romng rocks, more like pebbles. They weren’t big* ne uardsman brushed stones away 'with his hand. Guardsmen got to their knees, they aimed. ^ ere was no sniper fire. If the commanding general claims there was sniper fire coming from a building* Students walked. It « J*j y r —“ ... w AA why didn t they shoot at the building? Why did they they shoot at the crowd? At first no one was sure what was happening. here was a steady loud rattle like machine gu»»- Someone yelled, “Those are only blanks." Then we heard bullets whistling past our heads. Dirt flew up in our faces where bullets were hitting the ground landing only a few feet from us. Suddenly, after about 30 seconds the shooting stop- pe , We got up and looked around. One girl lying on the ground holding her stomach. Her face was w ite. There were others lying on the ground, some moved, some didn’t. The whole area was one of panic. We heard a girl crying hysterically. Right Advisor. Several truckloads of Guardsmen pulled up, got out. Mrs. Laura Nicholson formed a single line, fixed their bayonets, put on tear now, we re still in a sort of a state of shock, e can still see the National Guardsmen firing. Each o us tried to go to sleep, but you can’t—you put down your head and you keep hearing shoU.
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