Page Two
THE SALEMITE
Monday, March 6, 1972
1972-2072 Looks
Good For Academics
In case you haven't heard by now, Salem College is entering
her third century. The last two have been great, but the one v/e
are all looking forward to could be the greatest.
There are many things which make Salem great now. We have
an excellent faculty and administration. The Admissions office is
hopeful that we will reach the goal to have 200 students in the
Class of .1976.
The celebration of the 200th anniversary is bringing many
events which are profitable to the Salem College community as
well as to the Winston-Salem community. The relaxed social regu
lations not only demonstrates the maturity with which the students
are credited, but also helps prepare us to assume a more indepen
dent role in society.
An important but occasionally overlooked asset to the school
can be seen in the large number of students on the Dean's List for
last semester. It is a credit to an institution to have such a large
Dean's List. This shows not a laxity on the part of the faculty, not
necessarily a larger number of smarter girls, but an increased num
ber of students willing to put out the needed effort to make good
grades.
There may have been a lot of talk about apathy on campus
lately yet it now seems evident that many Salem students are
directing their efforts toward the most important area of college
life—the academic side. With progress like this there is no doubt
that Salem's third century will be the best ever.
Salem Organizations Offer Variety,
Blossom Into Spring Activity
a a a a
To the Editor of the Salemite;
If I am not mistaken, in last
week’s issue of the Salemite I was
fired at by a certain Dr, Lewis.
Monsieur Lewis seems to think that
I am a RAT-fink for speaking
“meanie” about the Linen Shower.
I should like to take this oppor
tunity to remind the gentleman that
he has no room to talk. Last year
when we had the speaker from the
Contemporary Art Gallery, the
Monsieur acted in RAT-fink fashion
by informing the speaker, the audi
ence, (and anything with ears within
five miles of the Fine Arts Center),
that the speaker was inviting the
Salem College girls to place their
private opinions upon the work in
the gallery. Now, Dr. Lewis, why
not? We came to Salem to de
velop our aesthetic appreciation, our
imagination, our creativity, etc. I
HOPE you did not think we came
for any cold, dry facts! And in
addition. Monsieur, you are right
much of a RAT-fink to keep raising
By Dee Wilson
Salem has a rich heritage em
bodied in its two centuries of exis
tence, and the future holds a pro
mising outlook, but we the students
live in the present and as creatures
of the moment we are interested
in what is happening on the campus
right now. Your day to day routine
can be stimulatingly different by
participating in some of the planned
club activities.
For the politically oriented stu
dent and those with an interest in
world affairs, the I.R.C. is spon
soring a delegation to the Model
United Nations Conference in April.
The conference provides an oppor
tunity to understand the workings
of the United Nations and gives
insight into the decision making in
volved in settling world crises. As
a member of the delegation, you
will represent some foreign nation
•-and will participate in debates. Col
leges throughout the country will
be represented, providing an ideal
time to meet other students and
discuss their campus life. You
don’t have to be a political genius
to participate.
The drama workship is
the site of busy preparation
by the Pierrettes for their presen
tation of Wilder’s well-known play
day afternoon from now until the
first performance on March 16th.
“The Matchmaker.’’ It isn’t neces
sary to be an up and coming Helen
Hayes to be involved with this
group. Prompters are needed as
well as actors. Although stage
hands and set designers are not in
the limelight, they are just as
essential to the play. The Pier
rettes are having workdays in the
drama workshop between two and
five every Wednesday and Thurs-
Burd’s Eye View
By Debbie Burdick
For those oh you who haven't
noticed the lights or smelled the
food, there are six girls living in
the home economics house at the
present.
We are getting a head start on
home management. After finishing
college we will all be managing a
household and those of us living in
this house are trying out the new
life.
We plan our meals and then pre
pare them. Because we are all in
school, time is a very important
factor. It will also be important
for the working woman. Since time
is lacking, this practical experience
aids one in learning how to become
organized.
Aesthetics are a very important
part of our life. At 'meal time they
are just as necessary. It is enjoy
able to sit down to a nicely ar
ranged table. Also we have all
learned that manners aren’t such a
bad thing to have after all. We
don’t have to grab for our food
and we can enjoy talking to each
other. Would you believe that we
spend longer than fifteen minutes
at the table ?
Naturally every house gets dirty—
as do our rooms in the dorms, and
the roommates at this house clean
up. They clean their belongings
and also various parts of the house.
Sounds like a dream—but all that
is necessary is organization and co
operation. Everyone shares in her
duties and we are flexible enough
to change duties.
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Editor-in-Chief
EDITORIAL STAFF
Associate Editor Cori Pasc^uier
Managing Editor Laurie Daltrotf
News Editor Chris Verrastro
Assistant News , Clark Kitchen
Feature Editor Chris Moran
Assistant Feature Dee Wilson
Art Editor Barbie Pfiieger
Copy Editor Anna Burgwyn
Cartoonist Marcia McDade
Photography Editors Beth Wilson
Barbara Perry
Roving Photographer Billie Everhart
— Jeanne Patterson
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And if you can thread a needle,
contact Chris Moran or Mary Dor-
sett. As chairmen of the costume
committee, they always need help.
As an added extra this year, the
Pierrettes are giving a joint pro
duction with the Academy for the
Bicentennial on April 29th. The
play will be written by students,
having as its subject the past and
future of Salem.
The Y. W. C. A. is sponsoring
the annual Veterans’ party
on March 13th. The party
sponsoring the annual Veterans’
party on March 13th. The party
will be held in the Veterans’ Ad
ministration hospital in Salisbury
and a lot of smiling Salem faces are
necessary to make this event a
success. The YWCA will also be
holding a joint meeting with Ben
nett College (Greensboro) Y.W.C.A.
in March.
For the socialminded, I. R. S.
I.R.S. weekend is going to be April
21st and 22nd. Although at this
time all activities are not definite,
Friday night’s entertainment will be
a band in concert at the Convention
Center. Tanglewood has been se
cured for all day Saturday with the
New Deal String Band from Chapel
Hill providing blue grass music.
Saturday night there will be a dance
weekend is going to be April
band at the Moose Lodge.
April Arts has quite a few activities
on the agenda for March and April.
Four movies will be shown, two in
March, on the 9th and 2Sth, and
two more in April, on the 7th and
19th. For all of you who have
ever facetiously been told to go fly
a kite, you can do exactly that on
the Ides of March (15th). For the
first time in Salem’s history, there
will be a kite-flying day with David
son College. So start building your
super kite now, you might get your
strings ' crossed with some good-
looking Davidson gentleman. In
case Mexican food. does not suit
your gourmet taste or your gastro
intestinal tract, .there will be two
more exotic dinners in March. Of
course, the highlight of all April
Arts activities is April Arts week,
planned for the 2Sth through the
28th. Included among the events
to be held are a student talent
show, a craft day in the Square, a
folk singer, and a play presented
by a group from Davidson entitled
“Trial of Caden’s Head Seven.”
Living on Salem campus involves
being active in the present, for
although we are influenced by both
past and future, the moment as
sumes first place in our lives. So
reach out—Salem’s clubs have a lot
to offer.
CAIN in this newspaper. You are
not acting like a good little trained
“mousie” either!
Vehemently, of course—
Jeannine Hurford
February 28, 1972
Editor, “Salemite”
If an artist is an artist is an
artist (“women” artist, “Christian”
artist and other such mixing up of
universes of discourse being non
sense) then it would seem to follow
that what he or she creates need
not (must not?) pertain to or re
flect anything—(Zeitgeist, Weiten-
schauung, contemporary scientific
law, etc. etc.), i.e. that the thing he
or she makes is autonomous. N’est-
ce pas ?
Sincerely,
William Mangum
(a give-a-damn reader)
Dear Salemite Editor;
O ironic shades of shaded irony
of irony I The scuttle-butt comes to
me by the good ole reliable grape
vine that Salem woman after wo
man went sympathetically to poor
Jeannine over my last contribution
to the Salemite and comforted her
for my calling her a “Skinner rat.”
They were furious with mean ole
Dr. Lewis for mistreating poor
Jeannine! Of course, said they,
“Jeannine, you are certainly not a
‘rat’! How dare that ‘dirty ole
man’ call you such! And, how
come, anyway ? I thought you were
one of his pet pupils.”
Well, I have never before appre
ciated the English Department
much as I do now — and sym
pathized with what they have '
put up with! They must really
have to be some sort of ‘heroes of
patience’ to put up with such stu
pidity: to patiently explain what^
satire and irony are, in their very
simplest forms. Of course, after
having been taught their English
from the simple-minded ‘Dick and
Jane’ series of readers—See the old
mother hen, Jane! Hear the pigs
spueal, Dick! Squirre's eat nuts ',
—is it any wonder the English De^
partment has so much trouble
teaching them to read satire and
irony, and teaching them that much
literature is not written on just one
good old journalistic level like the
morning newspaper! To ask them
to read James Joyce’s Ulyssei, much
less Finnegan’* Wake, to get them
slightly up into the 20th century is
just more than the English Depart
ment should be expected to under
take at present. Maybe Salem Wo
men should stick with Little Wo
men, and other books that 'mean
what they say’ and ‘say what they
mean’, for a while longer!
I learn from reading a little bit
of modern psychology that Thorn
dike’s cats got simply furious when
he tried to make them do their
tricks in the Skinner boxes and
mazes like Skinner’s docile rats had
done. So, maybe I should have
called Jeannine “catty” to get my
point across, instead of saying she
was a “vicious rat” instead of the
docile “Skinner” variety!
Furiously and “cattily” yours,
‘Nasty ole man’ Dr. Lewis
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements from the office
of the Academic Dean.
March 8
The Commencement planning
group will meet at 5:00 p.m.
March 9
Faculty meeting
March 16
January program open house
March 20
A list of the 1972-73 course offer-
ings will be available in Dean
Hixon’s office.
March 22
Midsemester grades will be sent
out.
March 24
Spring break begins at 5:00 om
April 4 ■
Fall schedule of course offerings
will be available in Dean Hixon’s
office. '
April 18-19
January program registration
April 25-26
Fall course registration. ■ Note
that three weeks have been al
lowed for student-advisor con
ferences since the publication of
the schedule of fall courses.
Sophomores and Juniors if you
have not picked up your Oslo
Scholarship applications from Dean
Hixon’s office, DO SO NOW' You
have nothing to lose and a fantastic
summer to gain. It only takes a
few hours to complete the applj'
cation and a 500 word theme. It*
really not hard. And I can honestly
say it was the best summer of my
entire life. If you have any quc*j
tions please feel free to ask any
the ex-Oslo-goers (Sarah DorneCi
Marily Saacke or Laura Grumpier)-
Remember the applications are du*
by the middle of March so
started soon!
* * *
“Pachyderm Power” is now present
on the campus of Salem C.! ‘f*'
ladies, it’s what we’ve all been
ing for—a chance for political parti
cipation ! Salem now has its
active College Republican Clu
Join now and influence issues an
politics!
It’s—a social outlet—a way to
people
—a good way to become involve
because CR is an active ot
ganization .
—a way to express support
work for the Republican P^r
and its candidates
—a means to learn about poHW®
—and . . . it’s FUN!
Contact Carol Perrin in 30S Stf
for further information.