Page Two
"Piggy” Assembly Conduct
Proves Disgraceful
From the stage it looks disgusting to see people jabbering away
and the "expanding-pink-mouth" epidemic spreading as more
people chomp on bubble gum. Doesn't it seem reasonable that
girls between the ages of 18 through 22 should know when it is
not polite to pop bubbles?
Maybe this was just a thoughtless oversight on the part of many
students.
Maybe it won't ever happen again here—to any speaker.
WRITE A LETTER
TO THE EDITOR!
Senior Selected As
Miss Student Teacher
The Department of Higher Edu
cation in North Carolina began, in
1950, a “Miss Student Teacher”
program on all North Carolina
campuses to promote teaching as
a profession. Each campus selects
one representative to the North
Carolina Association of Educators’
annual convention. These student
teachers are selected on the basis
of basic personality characteristics,
essential understanding of education
and children, professional compe
tency in the classroom, and pro
fessional attitudes.
Salem’s method of selection is
unique in that the Senior Student
Teachers are screened by a com
mittee of J u n io r members of
S.N.E.A., then those selected are
voted on by the entire S.N.E.A.,
and the top three^ choices appear
ill an annual assembly.
Each candidate presents a three
minute speech on her beliefs and
philosophy of education. Immedi
ately following, the candidate spon
taneously answers questions from
the judges.
The panel of judges this year
included representatives of the-
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
school system, the members of the
Education Department, the mem
bers of the Teacher’s Education
Committee, the President and Deans
of Salem, as well as a sponsor
chosen by each candidate.
This years candidates were:
Laura Grumpier, Mary Flowers,
and Laura Huddleston.
Laura Grumpier, from Clinton, is
a history major who completed her
student teaching at Dalton Junior
High School. She taught language
arts and history on the seventh
grade level.
A math major, , Mary Flowers,
from Richmond. Va., taught vary
ing areas of mathematics at Rey
nolds Senior High School.
Laura Huddleston, a psychology
major from Bowling Green, Ky.,
taught on the middle elementary
level at Moore Laboratory School.
The preferential voting resulted
in Laura Huddleston winning the
“Miss Student Teacher” title. In
Laura’s speech, she dealt with two
facets of education, the child’s edu
cation and the teacher’s education.
She felt that all children must be
treated as individuals and even
though she taught over 100 stu
dents in an open classroom, this
task was not unrealistically diffi
cult. Also, this work in an experi
mental school will prepare her to
teach in a traditional classroom as
well as in an innovative situation.
In the future Laura plans to con
tinue working with children either
in the field of child psychology or
teaching.
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THE SALEMITE
Monday, February 21, 1972
• • • •
Dear Editor:
We were all really excited last year when they did away with
compulsory assemblies. The assemblies we have now are fewer
and better.
In the midst of all these people-pleasing assemblies comes one
little necessity of life called the S. G. A. meetings. These are com
pulsory because if no one came to them, no one would know
what is going on.
if Student Government is going to work, then we the students
have to support it. (Would you rather have a police state?)
Why then, do so many people dislike S. G. A. meetings so much
that a few people caused a display such as we saw last Tuesday?
If we had a speaker from some place other than Salem, would
we be as rude to him? Let's hope not. Still, there is no reason
to be rude to a speaker whom we know—especially if he is making
an announcement that we all need to hear.
Roving Photographer
Barbara Perry
..Billie Everhart
Member U. S. Student Press Association
Advisor
..Mrs. J. W. Edwards
I wou'd like to make a few com
ments regarding the called Student
Government meeting on Tuesday
of this week. I have never witnes
sed such rudness, on the part of
Salem students, in my life. The car
situation is not being taken seri
ously. Perhaps when we lose the
privilege we will finally recognize
what is at stake. The disrespectful
behavior of some of the students
only shows me that we are not the
mature adults we claim to be. I
have been to Mr. White to person
ally apologize for the behavior of
some of the students. I hope that
some of those involved will have
the maturity to see him as well.
Sincerely Yours,
Sandy ' McGlinn, President
Student Government
Dear Salemite Editor:
Your implied wholesale condem
nation of faculty members in the
February 11 editorial, where you
said, “If faculty members don’t even
give a damn about the news
paper . . .” is unfair, if not down
right unethical, in its anonymity.
I, for one, H. Michael Lewis, am a
■faculty member, and I resent the
condemnation! Look back over my
contributions to The Salemite (and
those of other faculty members, too)
and I think you will agree that at
least SOME faculty members DO
“give a damn” and actively partici
pate.
I learned long ago that wholesale
anonymous condemnations of a
group on account of the actions of
only a few members is at least
psychologically unwise, probably un
fair, and possibly highly question
able ethically. If there are indi
viduals who deserve such condem
nation, call them squarely by name:
dc not implicate others that do not
deserve the condemnation in whole
sale anonymity—an unwise, rather
cowardly procedure.
There will be those who disagree
with what I say here: I hope so!
The more the free discussion of
such ethical problems, the better
clarified becomes the issues. It is
a serious question that needs care
ful consideration by all of us at
Salem, both students and faculty!
In another place in the same
editorial, you say, “Actually The
Salemite is supposed to be the voice
of the college community.” I won
der how true this is ? Recent his
tory of events right here at Salem
College prove at least the state
ment’s ambiguity. Go back and
study the history of the “Vietnam
Moratorium” issue on campus in
October of 1969. I protested vigor
ously Salem College’s official parti-
pation in joining in the nationwide
observation of the “day of protest.”
I tried repeatedly but unsuccessfully
to get a democratic vote by the
faculty. Finally, in a minority meet
ing of the faculty (merely the Aca
demic Council), full faculty partici
pation was denied, but a statement
was released in the Twin City Senti
nel of Oct. 11, 1969: “Gramley said
that although faculty and students
are free to act as individuals, the
college must be aware of ‘inadver
tently or otherwise becoming offi
cially a partisan in the issues of our
time’.” Just the same day (a day
after the date of publication, Oct.
10), The Salemite appeared with the
lead headline: SALEM COLLEGE
TO PARTICIPATE IN NATION
WIDE VIETNAM MORATOR
IUM.
The issue was never voted on by
the student body. I have it also
(by indirect statement, I’ll admit)
that the decision was not even made
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Pierrettes’ New York trip has
been called off due to lack of in
terest. At least thirty people were
needed to sign up, and only fifteen
did.
by full vote of the Salemite staff:
only by the Editor, who had made
the statement previously in an open
meeting at which I was present:
“I have the right to print what I
wish in my newspaper.
Does the history of this highly
crucial issue and its handling by The
Salemite fit in with yOur calling it
“the voice of the college com
munity?”
Forever the ‘trouble maker’,
L’il ole Mike Lewis.
Dear Salemite Editor
I wish to protest the nonsensi
cal illogic tlaying bare the super
ficiality of some modern thinking
about very crucial issues) of a
recent announcement appearing on
campus concening the works by
“WOMEN ARTISTS.”
“Women” is a biological concept,
belonging to the universe of dis
course of natural physicality. “Art-
tist” is a pure ‘concept by postul
ation’—an artifactuall'y ideal one—
belonging to an entirely different
universe of discourse. As any soph
omore student in logic SHOULD
know, the mixing of universes of
discourse, by assigning a predicate
from one universe of discourse to a
subject belonging to an entirely
different universe of discourse, is
not only a logical fallacy, it is
simple NON-SENSE!
Nobody seems to know why (or
care) the famous Disraeli made
the classic statement: “The Queen
has no legs!” The biological being,
named Victoria, had legs (they usu
ally do!) : but the purely arti-
factual, ideal, political entity
“Queen” does not have legs! It is
stictly non-sense to say so. One
makes exactly the same logical
mistake of non-sense when one
makes such statements as: Elec
trons are pink,” or “Doorknobs are
naughty”. When the lovable Harry
Truman, in an official press con
ference, threatened to punch a re
porter in the nose for saying that
his daughter Margaret was a failure
in her bid for consideration as an
opera singer, he showed his great
est failure as President: no matter
how lovable he was as ‘Harry', he
failed to understand something
VERY important: the President of
the United States has no daugh
ters !
Trivial, you say PThink again!
Many of us bCileve, and have strug
gled hard and are still struggling
hard to get all people to believe,
that a “citizen” is such regardless
of biological factors such as ‘race’
or ‘color’. This can be justified
meaningfully only on the ba^lo
the LOGIC: a “citizen" .1'
have color! The term “citizen” •
a purely ideal ‘concept by po;,'
lation’, belonging to one univer
of discourse, whereas the ten
“black” is a physically naturalist!
concept, belonging to an entire!
different universe of discoursi
Therefore, to apply the predicat
“black” to the subject “citizen
is to utter NON-SENSE!
Now that I have belabored ft
point, is it not true in exactly tli
same way that “women artists” i
strictly NON-SENSE? If ont
then, realiy wants to establish tb
“liberation ' of women—as the ex
pression goes—shouldn’t one insis
unambiguously upon making th'
“equal” in the only MEANINGFl
sense: disregard their “biology"
connection with such terms
“citizen,” “profession,” “artist,” e
ect. ?
(Of course, now all you who
perverse enough to consider thi;
diatribe against the “women’s '
movement” have plenty to sh
at. So, try out your marksrr\ans:
—let’s hear from you!)
From a really SERIOUS
and THINKING
“womens libber”,
“Picky” Mike Lewis.
Dear Salemite Editor:
I hate to write all the letters-
to-the-editor for this issue. But
just simply can’t let the last issue
of the Salemite slip by without
comment on the saucy and improper
article by Jeannine HurforJ
LINEN SHOW, “FANTASTIC*
BARGAIN ASTOUNDS WOMEN.
So, here’s my “open letter”
paternal advice (she’s one of my
majors and advisees) to Jean-
Dear Jeannine:
You must mind your manners
You sounded just like an “anti-
womens-libber,” which is bad ii
this great year of liberation.
Besides, you are a vicious little
“rat.” not at all the nice docile kind
that is likely to be chosen by psy
chologist Skinner and his Madison
Avenue followers as a candidate
for “operant conditioning” in
beautiful and cozy little “Skinner
box” or “maze.” If you don’t mend
your ways, you will not learn ho*
to push the right bar with your
paw so you can get your nicey ilty-
witty pellet of goodies!
Your dutiful advisor,
Father Lewis.
FRANKLYSPEAKING hf Phil
VEARS NOW
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VOUVE GOTTEN ITTOQ^ERVET?
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