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THE SALEMITE
Ideas Need To Be Used
Last Wednesday was an exciting day at Salem. Institutions
rarely halt their machinery to take a good look at their goals and
their methods of working toward these goals. Salem's students,
faculty, and administration should all be commended for their
participation in this symposium.
Many of the ideas discussed Wednesday were theoretical. Salem
now needs programs which can put these ideas into practice. One
possible project is a dorm which would be set up on some basis
other than the present class system. A whole new living-learning
experiment should be tried.
For example, Lehman, a perfect dorm for this type of experi
ment, could be re-opened for a group of selected students. These
students would have some kind of commitment to the dorm in
terms of a group interest involving all the dorm members. Dorm
members should have free rein in decorating the dorm and per
haps some authority in making their own rules.
Innovations in education should not stop with the classroom.
Dormitory living is a unique experience, and it is a crucial part of
college life. Traditional dorm set-ups are far from perfect, but the
dorm situation-the idea of community living—has great potential
in our educational system. This potential should no longer be
overlooked.
Bridges Comments On ‘The Fight”
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 197,
Gradenhutten: 18th Century My Lai
“189 Years Later, A Peaceful Spot”
By Frances B. Murphey
Mention the word “massacre” and
most people think of My Lai on
March 11, 1968.
But Ohio had its My Lai on
March 8, 1782, in a place called
Gnadenhutten.
You can find a monument to those
massacred in the little Tuscarawas
County village.
A grey obelisk, rising in the mid
dle of Gnadenhutten cemetery, has
a carving at its base;
“Here triumphed in death ninety
Christian Indians.”
I had visited the memorial as a
youngster with my parents. Dad
was a native of Tuscarawas and we
periodically visited Turkey Flats in
Rush Twp., kinfolk and historic
spots throughout the county.
A co-worker at the Beacon Jour
nal, Jeff Sallot, went to Gnadenhut
ten on one of his parents “mystery
trips.” The Sallots would occasion
ally start out without any announced
destinations.
While attending Kent State Uni-
^.versity, Jeff remembered the mass-
By Sam Bridgers
Well, I was there.
One of the three hundred million.
One of the people who happily
shelled out a big hunk of the wee’s
pay to sit hidden in the rafters of
a coliseum and watch the fight of
the century, the event eQualed in
the history of mankind only by the
first moon walk.
And maybe someday, by the
second coming of Christ.
Of course, the talk already says
that it will be equalled by a second
meeting of Ali and Frazier, respite
pledges by both to retire after Mon
day night’s fight.
I, for one, hope there will be a
rematch, for two reasons.
One, so I can avoid buying a
ticket and keep the promoters and
closed-circuit, people from getting
more of my money.
Two, in the hope that Ali will
win next time.
It’s a pretty hard thing to take,
really. For years, I have been con
vinced that no one, not even Mar
ciano, despite the computer results,
could beat Muhammed Ali.
He was, and I guess still is, the
only real sports hero I ever had.
He first started making big head
lines when I was in high school. In
those days, we rooted for Cassius
Clay because our parents thought
he was uppity and arrogant. We
liked him because he thumbed his
nose at everybody and said, “I am
the greatest!”
He had a lot of class. He was
the only person in boxing that had
any class, and if you weren’t some
hung-up midlle class WASP or the
child of immigrant parents who
couldn’t stand the idea of a Black
man who thought he was better
than everybody else, you had to be
a Clay fan.
And then he became Muhammed
Ali and he pulled the biggest thumb
job of all. He said “Go To Hell
to the United States government,
something that a lot of us draftage
males wished we had the guts to do.
And he was martyred for it. Of
course, he did a lot to make him
self a martyr, but, even as late as
Monday night, he was still paying
for his decision to refuse induction
in the Army.
No one will ever convince me that
Ali in his prime could have been
beaten by Joe Frazier or anybody.
But, alas, it appears that his prime
is passed.
It’s not really right, but Frazier
will come out as the goat of the
affair. By being where he was when
he was, Frazier, despite being a
Black man and one who had a much
tougher life than Ali, ended up in
the position of the Great White
Hope.
Whether he means to or not, Joe
Fravier goes down in history on the
side of Spiro Agnew, Dow Chemical
Company, Stepin Fetchit, Selective
Service, My Lai and Bob Hope.
To kinds, and I think, to most
Blacks, Muhammed Ali is now the
fallen hero, the man who challenged
the monster and was eaten.
But to people who made up his
rooting section, at least in the
Greensboro Coliseum, Joe Frazier
was the good colored boy who clob
bered that nasty, arrogant, uppity
Cassius Clay.
It’s unfair, because Frazier is a
great fighter, but when the books
are written, he’ll go down as the
one who knew his place.
But you have to give Frazier
credit. He thumbed his nose at the
world’s greatest nose-thumbrr and
got aw'ay with it. There’s probably
not another person in the world who
could have done it the way he did it.
acre site and decided to w'rite a
paper on it for an Ohio history
class.
He and his wife, Lynne, went to
Tuscarawas County to research the
Moravian missions of the late 1700s.
The Moravians who came to the
Ohio country wanted peace, avoided
war, refused military service and
“relied on prayer and remonstrance
only to save them from the perse
cution of their enemies.”
It wasn’t enough as the Revo
lutionary War came. The mission
communities of Gnadenhutten,
Schoenbrunn and Salem Village
were in the war paths between the
colonials and the British forces to
the West.
Jeff found that a Wyandot war
party, led by Chief Half King and
accompanied by two British agents,
urged the Moravians led by David
Ziesberger and their converts to
seek refuge behind the British lines
in the Sandusky area in September,
1782. Half King permitted a large
group to return to their village on
the Tuscarawas.
coni
Meanwhile, the Pennsylva„ij
frontier situation worsened. A ban|
of British-allied Shawnees abducte,
a Washington County mother
three children. Military men fouj,
the woman dead and became intej
on revenge. They arrived at Gna
denhutten on March 7 and took th
Indians prisoners. After son
squabbling, the majority voted t
tomahawk and scalp the converts
Jeff’s paper opened with the
ment:
“Perhaps there is no chapter
Ohio history which is more sordid
than the wholesale massacre of the
Indians at Gnadenhutten. A party
of militia men from Pennsylvania
and parts of Virginia slaughtered
96 men, women and children in two
‘slaughter houses’ and thus com
mitted one of the most grisly crimes
of America’s early pioneer period.'
Six were killed on March 7 ai
90 on March 8.
Only two teenage boys were all
to escape. One survived his sup
posed execution and the other hk
under a building until nightfall
Teacher Evaluation
TEACHER: Socrates
PERSONAL APPEARANCE
Personal appearance Dresses in an old sheet drape
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Self-confidence
Use of English
Adaptability
about his body
Not sure of himself — alwoy
asking questions
Speaks with a heavy Greek ac
cent
Prone to suicide by poison when
under duress
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3.
TEACHER-PUPIL RELATIONSHIPS
Tact and consideration Places student in embarrassing
situations by asking questions
Attitude of class Class is friendly
TECHNIQUES OF TEACHING
Daily preparation Does not keep daily lesson plan!
Quite flexible — allows students
to wander to different topics
Does not know material-has to
question pupils to gain knowi
edge
PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE
Professional ethics Does not belong to professionnl
Attention to course of study
Knowledge of subject mat
ter
In-service training
Parent relationships
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KATHARINE B. RONDTHALER AWARDS
The Alumnae Association of Salem College each year presents to
students awards for the best creative work in:
ART—any media
MUSIC COMPOSITION
LITERATURE-separate awards for:
Prose
Poetry
The deadline for entering work in the competition is—
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1971
The places to turn in work are:
Mr. Shewmake’s Studio entries in ART
Dean Sandresky’s Studio entries in MUSIC
The Alumnae House entries in LITERATURE
Entries in literature should be typed and double spaced. You
may submit any number of entries; they will be judged indi
vidually. Do not put your name on your entry, but put it on a
separate sheet of paper along with the title. Entries are judged
by qualified persons off-campus”, not members of the faculty.
We urge you to participate in this competition. If you have ques
tions, please call Mary Lucy Bivins in The Alumnae House.
Jess Byrd, Chairman
Scholarships and Awards Committee
association or PTA
Complete failure here — has ml
even bothered to attend college
Needs to improve in this oreo-
parents are trying to get rid of
him.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The deadline for submitting wo'i'
to Incunabu'a is March 26. Anyol>*
interested in submitting poeW
prose, art, etc. to Incunabula
give it to Mary Pickens on or !>*
fore this date.
The Salemite apologizes to Susl
Nelson who wrote the
article last week. The article '
attributed to Em Lackey by
take.
, Wei'
Mid-term grades go out on
nesday, March 24.
Dean Hixon and Dr.
attended the National 4-1-4
tion in Chicago on March 1