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■ H / i I 'i Page Two Ssshhh! As the time for Dr. Gramley's retirement draws nearer, rumors concerning his successor are circulating. If the selection has nar rowed down, no official word of this has come from the Presiden tial Nominating Committee. It is understandable that the work of any committee of this sort must be confidential to some extent. But even if candidates' names cannot be released, it would be reassur ing to faculty, students, alumnae, and friends of the institution to have an official report from the committee indicating at least what progress has been made. This report would also help to clear up false rumors. Secrecy is evidently a hang-up at Salem, and not just with the Presidential Nominating Committee. For instance, one problem students have had on faculty committees is the lack of any definite policy concerning the confidentiality of committee work. As a re sult, student representatives often find it difficult to decide what information they can give to fellow students. Confidentiality may be important in some cases, but students should not feel intimi dated by secrecy. Another important area where secrecy sometimes causes prob lems is in Judicial Board cases. Although the Board's efforts to protect individual students are admirable, almost every case has a leak somewhere. And Salem's proverbial grapevine quickly manufactures spectacular rumors from any bit of information, true or false. Confidentiality is an ideal; its effectiveness at Salem, and in many cases its purpose, can be seriously questioned. more January programs Music. The Goldberg Variations. A study of the antecedents, form, and per formance of the Bach Goldberg Variations. Maximum of seven stu dents. Prerequisite is a strong background in piano or organ. Dr. Nolte and Dr. Mueller. A Month of Song. This course for music and non-music majors will include basic vocal techniques, en semble singing and song-leading, solo performance for those inter ested, and audio-visual exp"rimen- tation. A variety of methods and material will be explored along with performance. Mr. Peterson. The German Lied of the 19th Century. A study of selected Lie- der from the works of Schubert, Schumann, Brahmn, and Wolf. Singers and pianists may perform; others will be expected to contribute according to their ability and in terest. The course will be open to music majors and non-majors by permission of the .instructors. Mrs. Jacobowsky and Mr Sandresky. Beginning Piano for the Non-Music Major. . A jeourse acquainting the student with musical symbols, nota tion, scales and arpeggii, in order to play solos and duets. Regular class meetings' with private lessons. Book expenses, $5.' Maximum of 8 participants.; Mr. Heidemann. Class Harp for Beginning Students. A group of not rhore than eight will study beginning; harp in a class situation. The :class would meet daily, and skills will be practiced together; playing is approached through ensemble experience. Miss Pence. Biology. The Biology of a Tropical Island. This is a field survey of one, or more islands in the Caribbean Sea with emphasis on the ecological re lationships between the flora and fauna, both terrestrial and marine. Mr. Nohlgren. Overpopulation: The Last Plague? A national and international investi gation of the facts, theories, and predictions of the current population crisis. Variety of topics covered; a few are ecosystem contamination, family planning, population control and the effects of change on social, political, and economic systems. Pre requisite : Biology 10. Dr. Edwards. Psychology-Education: A Study of the Atypical Child. In this course the student will observe and work with the atypical child (emotionally disturbed, and/or men tally retarded or handicapped). Pre requisite : desire to work with this type of child. Dr. Karnes. Special Study of Childhood Psycho pathology. This provides the stu dent with the opportunity to be come familiar with a community clinic which is charged with provid ing child psychiatric services to children and their families in For syth County. The student partici pates in case conferences, observes diagonistic interviews, and psycho logical testing. Prerequisite: Intro duction to Psychology and Child Development. Two participants. Dr. Hills. Inter-Discip’inary: The Education of the Gifted. A Study of the education of the gifted students utilizing the facilities of the Governor’s School of North Carolina as well as the Gifted and Talented Section of the State De partment of Public Instruction. Out- of-town trips to observe operating gifted programs. Cost to cover out- of-town trips. Maximum of IS parti cipants. Mr Bray and Dr. Lewis. The Arts in London: An oppor tunity to experience varied artistic attractions in London. The course will include attendance at opera, dance, drama and concerts as well as visits to galleries, museums, and places of historic interest. Cost , N. Y.-London-N. Y. air fare plus basic expenses $400.00. Additional costs for 2 meals daily and options, probably $15000. Maximum of 45 participants. Dr. Homrighous, Miss Rufty and Miss Samson. Impressioniim. An anabasis of the innovative music, painting and sculpture of France between 1860- 1930; their impact on the art and music of other countries ; and their roots in the philosophical and cul tural spirit of the period. Prerequi site Art 120'.or Music 110 or'per mission . of the instructors. Maxi mum of 12 participants. Miss Wur- tele. Dr. Kelly, and Mr. Mangum. The January Program Committee urges students to set up their own projects for the January Term. Such things as laboratory research, lite rary study, special field work come quickly to mind as possibilities. Guidelines for independent study are liberal, placing the emphasis on student planning and design of her own work. Each must have a Salem College faculty sponsor, for her in dependent project. The project, with the signed approval of the faculty sponsor, will be detailed on an In dependent Study Application Form and turned in at the time of the January Term Pre-Registration (Continuetl an 8) THE SALEMITE Monday, March 15, Dear Salemite Editor: You want some provocative ma terial, you say, to start the ball roll ing on the “mini-symposium” on education coming up in March. Sub mitted for your judgment as to their provocativeness are the fol lowing comments and questions. In an article in a magazine called MAIN CURRENTS IN MODERN THOUGHT, an outstanding physic ist and an outstanding mathematic ian wrote a joint article about what seems to me to be the meatiest thoughts, both educationally and in daily living, we can contemplate to day. Henry Margenau, formally of Yale physics department, and F. L. Kunz, formally in mathematics at Pennsyl vania (I believe), say some things like the following that I have ex cerpted from their article, and which, when put together thought fully by the reader, are simply as tounding. (The bold prints are mine, made to help guide reading) “. . . At the beginning of our century three specific scientific achievements put an end to one age and opened up another . . . “. . . In 1900 Max Planck initiat ed an ever-expanding endeavor to reveal the mysteries of atomic matter, planting the seeds of what is now called quantum theory . . . “. . . Again, in 1906, Einstein created the theory of relativity. Its importance as a purely intellec tual enterprise, quite apart from its curses and benefactions in the atomic world, is rarely made clear to students: the theory represents . a new way of thinking about the world of moving objects (and which objects don’t?) .... it pro claims and justifies a new freedom from hackneyed mechanical and materialistic constraints upon scientific thinking . . . “. . . Finally, by 19CX), Gregor Mendel’s experimental work upon heredity in plants had been redis covered, and its meaning began to be vigorously pursued . . . Thus, in. the life sciences, as in the science of matter and energy, system and meaning were no long er artificial formulations, tempor ary and precarious . . . “. . . All aspects of knowledge were involved in this new develop ment, and hence cultural institu tions were deeply affected. Espec ially obvious were the implications for education, which must neces- sairly proceed in a philosophical context, and this contest, in ignor ance of the new scientific know ledge just sketched, was unsuited to achieve significant pedagogical, let alone integrative successess . . . In simple language, a REVOLU TION in ideas is happening right under our. noses—in our very daily lives !—that makes the Copernican Revolution dividing the Middle Ages from Modern Times (16th-19th EDITORIAL staff Associate Editor Editor-in-Chief ... Linyer Ward Managing Editor Cori Pasqoier News Editor Jeanne Patterson Feature Editor Laurie Daltroff Special Projects Editor Catherine Cooper Copy Editor Jane Dimmock Photography Editor _ Beth Wilson Roving Photographer Billie Fverhart Sara Engram BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager - Phyllis Melvin Advertising Manager ... Martha Bernard Circulation Manager Libby Seibert Published by Students of Salem College Subscription Price $4.60 a year Member U. S. Student Press Association Printed by the Sun Printing Company Advisor. -Mrs. J. W. Edwards centuries) look like a tempest in a teapot. The questions that arise in my mind go something like these : Will students know more about these three great revolutionary ideas — what they mean, and why they make absolutely necessary a re-thinking of every life-relevant question from child care to religion ? Will stu dents, even if they don’t learn much about these matters, get turned on about them in the “mini-sympos ium”? or will the ideas almost never be even mentioned! On the other hand—instead of discussing the foregoing important IDEAS—will our students be pretty much as they are now: concerned oh so deeply! about moving the furniture around: 4-1-4 or 3-3-3; modular classroom and cubbyholes for all sorts of “different” activities; free assemblies or compulsive ones; why don’t some teachers be better “sports” and “play with us” more so we can develop a closer relation ship with them; why can’t we all, some, or none have “comprehensives with seminars” or “comprehensives without seminars” or both made optional for both teachers and pupils (how many know what a “seminar” is, anyway — is it just another “course”? or something else very special?); why can’t we each choose our very own individually “tailor- made” curriculum; etc., etc., etc., ad naussam, all in order to solve the great problems of the revolution happening in education by arguing about what “gadgetry” we’re going to try next! I’ll end up with the pertinent question: Which will help students understand best why Einstein’s phy sics makes the conventional doc trines of “materialistic” America and Russia highly questionable and almost certainly obsolete, the 4-1-4 plan, or the 4-)4-4-plan ? What will the “mini-symposium” be? a talk-binge on “how to shift the furniture about in the edu cational establishment” ? or an ef fort to understand why modern phy sical “field theory” makes obsolete that grand old rule that “that gov ernment is best which governs least”! Which will it be, dear editor? Wanna bet? Dr. Mike (sandbagger) Lewis Dear Editor: Friday, March 5, David Schoen- brun spoke at Wait Chapel to an audience of approximately 1700 citi zens of this area. The North Caro lina Committee to End the War in Indo-China sponsored this lecture. This committee is composed of pro minent citizens in North Carolina whose objective is to put pressure on Washington to stop the Indo- China War. The aims of the com mittee are put forward in the fol lowing statement: “The committee is organized to further a rapid end of all US mili tary involvement in the Indo-China War. This can be accomplished and . expedited by'one or a combination of several actions. These include complete withdrawal of U. S. forces by the end of this year by order of the President, by congressional prohibition of the use of funds for the war after Dec. 31, 1971, and by prohibition of the use of funds to support any invasion of North Viet nam.” Is your liberal arts education making anything happen to you? Are you stretching? The committee further plans to educate the Winston-Salem com munity on the history of the war as well as take action by pressurin both Congress and the President to end all U. S. military involvement in Indo-China by December, ig?) Periodic trips to Washington by citizens are planned to arrange in. terviews with various senators and congressmen. Also, a letter-writing campaign is being organized. Peo. pie are urged to go and meet their congressmen when they are in their local districts in order to communi cate personally their feelings con cerning the war issue. Salem should be involved in this campaign. An important factor in the next election will be the 18-21 year-old vote, and politicians are not going to disregard student opinion. Get registered NOW and write (even if it is the twentieth letter you have sent) to your U. S. congressman and senator. Go meet him and talk to him when both of you are home. If some students are interested in going to Washington, the committee would love to get in touch with you. The anti-war effort is no longer solely a student one; there is a great deal of support from the out side community. Let’s not give up on a hope for p'-ace, but renew our efforts through constructive action. Sincerely yours, Mary Leight Dear Editor, The freshman class would like to ask the faculty a question. Should we recommend to next year’s fresh man that they try to have a faculty tea on Parent’s Day, even though our failed? This year’s Faculty Tea Commit tee did all it possibly could to as sure the facidty’s attendance. Fifty- two invitations were issued to the heads of departments and to those faculty members that teach fresh men. Only twenty-five replied to the R.S.V P. on the invitation. On the Thursday before Parent's Day, members of the tea committee re minded all of the faculty possible of the upcoming tea. Nevertheless only ten teachers came. Needless to say, the tea didnt fulfill its purpose of allowing parents to meet their daughter’s t''achfrs- If the whole faculty invited had the common courtesy to reply to the R S V.P., the class could have seen the lack of interest and trieo new tactics on the faculty or de cided on an alternate plan. As ij was, there were many disappointe parents and students. Much was said about the supposedly close stu dent-faculty relationship. M anf parents were left wondering whe her such a situation actually exists- This year’s freshmen would hate to advise the upcoming freshmo" that it is hopeless to plan a facu y tea because a major part of 1 faculty is not interested. That fflO well be the case. In any event, freshmen would like some faca opinions on this matter. Freshman Class notice Pierrettes will have a workday Saturday at 9:30. Please come, will need your help! ♦ * ♦ Is the classroom a safe for you to experiment? flounder?
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