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Assembly Committee —
What Are Student Rights?
(Editor's note-the editorials in The Salemite are the opinions of
the staff unless the initials of a staff member appear after the
editorial.)
Wednesday afternoon the Lecture-Assembly Committee met to
consider three proposals made by members of the committee. Of
these proposals the most important was that the committee have
the power to make decisions in matters of assembly policy and
programming. Now the proposals will go to the administration
for a decision.
This raises the question of whether or not the students, or their
representatives, should have the right to decide what happens to
the $6.00 we each pay to the student budget for Lecture-Assernbly.
The student's representatives have the right to make sorne of the
decisions in Student Government Association, The Salemite, I.R.S.
and YWCA., for example. In fact, Lecture-Assembly is the only
organization in the student budget that is not at least partially
student-controlled. (There are students on Lecture-Assembly Com
mittee, but they have very little say in the decisions of the com
mittee.) Why shouldn't we have a voice in what happens to our
assembly money?
We all realize that assemblies are an important part of a liberal
arts education, but isn't there a difference in having a few mean
ingful assemblies and in filling every assembly period simply for
the sake of taking up fifty minutes? Would it not be a better idea
to use Lecture-Assembly's limited funds to have in one quarter one
or two good speakers who will have a wider range of interest for
students? These few assemblies and S.G.A. meetings (especially
next year with all of the changes this school will be going through)
could be required.
This is just one suggestion-there are many more good ideas
that would be workable. It is important to understand that giving
Lecture-Assembly Committee the power to decide assembly policy
will not necessarily mean radical change. Lecture-Assembly has
already done a great job in making assemblies better. There
have been several changes to improve assemblies, yet none of
these have been radical.
Isn't it time that someone questioned the values and purpose of
assemblies?
JEP
Salem Alumna Returns
To Discuss Women’s Lib
THE SALEMITE
Friday, April 23, 1971
American Foundation Course
Helps “Discovery Of Feeling”
April 28, Miss Sallie Craig Tuton,
a Salem graduate, is going to speak
in assembly on “Women’s Libera
tion and Issues of Abortion.” Miss
Tuton received a B.A. degree from
Salem in Sociology and Psychology
in 1968.
Since college she has lived in At
lanta, Georgia, where she is a Re
search Assistant with the Obstetrics
and Gynecology Department of
Emory University Medical School.
She is working with the Abortion
Surveillance Project, studying abor
tion as a public health problem.
Miss Tuton is primarily respon-
sib'e for the initiation of a Women’s
Clinic in the “hippy” area of At
lanta. This clinic has been in
operation for over one year and
presently treats approximately forty
women each week. The clinic
operates with a rotating staff of six
physicians and about fifteen coun
selors and other staff—all volun
teers.
Miss Tuton has also done abor
tion counselling for about two years
with a group of interested clergy
men and other lay people. This
group serves as a referral service
for women unable to obtain legal
abortions in their own state of resi
dence. They attempt to discourage
woman from illegal abortion but
rather refer them for legal abor
tions! n more liberal states.
Gramley Heads
Foundation
Dr Dale H. Gramley will leave
Salem this summer to head the Rey
nolds Foundation. The Reynolds
Foundation, founded in honor of
Zachary Smith Reynolds, is a
philanthropic institution which do
nates from three to four million
dollars each year to educational,
charitable, and health institutions
(such as hospitals) throughout the
state of North Carolina.
As Executive Director of the
eight-member Board of Directors;
Dr. Gramley will review the thou
sands of applications for grants
from the Reynolds Foundation and
present them to the board twice a
year. Decisions on the grant pro
posals will then be made by the
Board of Directors. Dr. Gramley
will continue to live in Winston-
Salem, his office being located in
the Wachovia building downtown.
Winston-Salem, N. C. — The
American Foundations, a course in
history, art, and music, for selected
graduate students and teachers, will
be held from June 13 through July
23, sponsored by Reynolda House,
Inc., Wake Forest University, and
Old Salem. Inc. This will be the
fifth year this popular course has
been conducted. The program is
being funded by the Z. Smith Rey
nolds Foundation.
It is a six weeks course in Ameri
can history, art, and music, carrying
six semester hours of graduate
credit towards a Master’s Degree in
history or certificate renewal. The
course includes tours to sites in
North Carolina and an eight day
tour of New England. Classes will
be held at Reynolda House, in Old
Salem, and on tour.
The sponsors are actively seeking
applicants and 5000 brochures and
application blanks have been mailed
to colleges, museums, teachers, and
students, principally in North Caro
lina, including participants in pre
vious programs.
Nicholas - Bragg, Executive Direc
tor of Reynolda House, Inc., is Co
ordinator of the program. Mr.
Bragg states that the purpose of the
course is to provide a stimulating
learning experience for people who
are now teaching or who will teach
in the future. It is planned around
intellectual content co-ordinated
with discovery of feeling toward
each other and objects.
First offered in 1967, the course
has undergone steady change based
on experience, and now deals with
selected periods of American De
velopment from 1580 to the present
including art, architecture, litera
ture, music, decorative art, town
planning, restoration, and the meth
od of using objects in teaching.
The faculty and administration in
clude Cyclone Covey, Professor of
History, Wake Forest University;
Mrs. Barbara B. Lassiter, American
Art Lecturer and President of Rey
nolda House; Mr. Bragg; additional
faculty from Wake Forest Univer
sity; and members of the staff of
Old Salem, Inc.
Through a grant from the Z..
Smith Reynolds Foundation to Rey
nolda House, students accepted for
the course will be awarded a
scholarship to cover tuition, room
and lunch, tours, and special acti
vities. Tuition for eligible North
Carolina in-service public school
teachers may be paid from State
funds.
The application deadline is May
15, 1971. Introduction will be at
Reynolda House May 22 and 23, and
the program will begin with regis-
tration at Reynolda House June 13
with classes starting June 14. The
New England tour will be held July
4 through July 11.
Complete information may be ob
tained by calling or writing to
Nicholas B. Bragg, Reynolda House,
P. O. Box 11765, Winston-Salem'
N. C. 27106.
On behalf of the Campus Community
THE SALEMITE
expresses sincere sympathy
to Dr. and Mrs. Clauss and family
Bayes To Speak On
"Eggs And Empty Nests"
Mr. Ronald H. Bayes, Writer-in-
Residence, St. Andrews College, and
Consultant to the National Founda
tion on the Arts and the Humani
ties, will speak to the Annual Meet
ing of the Friends of Salem College
Library at eight o’clock, Tuesday,
April 27. Mr. Bayes will speak to
his audience in the Reading Room
on “Eggs and Empty Nests,” laced
with reading from his poems.
Born in Oregon in 1932, Ronald
Bayes received his education from
such diversified institutions as
Easter College, Colorado State Col
lege, and U. of Pennsylvania, U. of
British Columbia, and Trinity Col
lege in Dublin. In addition to his
job as Writer-in-Residence, con
sultant, and Director of the North
Carolina Poetry Circuit, he is the
editor of the 72-page St. Andrews
Review, Foreign Editor to the
Tokyo-based Subterraneans, Poetry
Editor of Human Voice, and Con
sulting Editor of the West Coast
Review.. Author as well as poet,
his books include Ejection, History
of the Turtle, Books I-IV, X-ing
Warm, and John Reed and the
Limits of Idealism, a monograph.
His works have been reviewed by
members of such well-known so
cieties and publications as the Aca
demy of American Poets, the Japan
Times, the Paris Review, and the
Yale Literary Magazine. Ronald
Moran of the University of North
Carolina made this comment to Mr.
Bayes: “Your poetry cannot be ex
amined, evaluated, what-have-you,
by the usual methods of criteria.
It is establishing its own rules . . .
you surely will have a go at a place
in our literary history . . . the writ
ing of poetry that is stylistically
prophetic has always been a lonely
business . . . There is a great learn
ing behind your poetry, as well as
a sincerity hard to paraphrase but
nonetheless genuine.”
Editor*in-Chief
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