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THE SALEMITE
Friday, April 28,
EDITORIALS Letters Cause Community Thouglii
Recently there have been many meetings of campus organi
zations frantically attempting to organize their agendas for next
year. Among these groups is the Student Center Committee v/ork-
ing closely 'Arith Dr. Chandler, Susan Hendrick, Mr. Yarborough,
the Senior Class, other interested students, and faculty. These
people feel it is imperative for our future as a full time campus
(rather than a suitcase school) that all members of the Salem com
munity evaluate present and potential use of the Student Center.
At this time our Student Center is merely a nicely arranged
room. Granted it has a nice atmosphere—for people who enjoy
sitting in the dark with nothing to do. It also has two pool tables
—which amuse the novice who can play at pool without the aid
of a cue ball and its varicolored constituents. Our Student Center
once housed a piano, a radio and a change machine. They were
taken out. It once had a color television set which was stolen
some dark and lonely night. It still boasts an ancient, brokendown
juke box no thief has yet been induced to steal.
The Student Center Committee recognizes the degenerate state
of the Center's facilities and has undertaken the task of making
the SC an enjoyable gathering place offering luxuries not avail
able in our dormitories. At this time the committee has reinstated
the coffee setup, and hopes to handle more coffee, tea and dough
nuts. Other refreshments may be added next autumn. The com
mittee has located a piano for the S.C. and has purchased billiard
equipment (to be installed in the Center in September). A new
television set will replace the stolen one, and if all plans jell, a
new juke box or record player system might grace the SC in the
near future.
The committee plans, moreover, to remove several of the un
needed tables. Perhaps they can replace them with the furniture
from the TV room. This allows for more leisure space in the larger
room where the new TV will be set up. The small room could
be furnished with cast-off dorm furniture (several dormitories are
receiving new furniture this summer), and used by "quiet types"
and "retiring couples," instead of being used for storage as has
been suggested.
These tentative plans will provide us with a marvelous social
area, but there is no guarantee that students will take advantage
of it. We now have the privilege of drinking on campus. The
mere lack of alcoholic beverage sales in the SC does not preclude
our enjoying impromptu parties and casual drinking there. Several
dorms already have become centers of such social activity. Why
not the Student Center, which could draw off noise from the
housing areas?
Many people complain that we need a good food setup in the
SC. The Senior Class plans to leave $1000 to a specially-created
SC grill fund (subject to change, as of this printing). This would
be used with other funds within the next five years to install an
elaborate grill system. But what happens if the Senior Class must
reallocate their contribution after five years have elapsed and
sufficient money has not been collected?
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To Salem students (especially those
who attend Senior Follies):
I am frankly appalled by the lack
of manners shown at the refresh
ment period after Senior Follies.
I am aware that food brings out
the animal instinct in Salem ladies,
but this was absurd. The vicious
grabbing for cookies and cups ot
punch was altogether unnecessary.
I realize that I’m guilty of the same,
but I had never realized what we
looked like in our frantic attack
on free food until I saw it from
a server’s point of view. Servers
got punch spilled on them and they
had difficulty maneuvering the
approximate 10 feet from the kit
chen to the serving table. It doesn’t
seem at all necessary to swarm
around the back of the table as well
as the front. I was amazed at the
people who took it upon themselves
to clutter the small kitchen as they
could avoid the pack and get re
freshments at the same time.
Fortunately there were not many
visitors from outside of our Salem
community to witness such a lack
of manners and I hope the situa
tion will be corrected immediately.
it would be like to have a cafete
I
Kathy Bacon
Editor, Salemite
Re Symposium
The hallowed groves of academe
have been infested by a bunch of
frustrated Johnny Carsons.
Bill Mangum
Dear Editor,
I have some thoughts which I’ve
been wanting for a long time now
to get out of my head and into
somebody else’s.
Have you ever considered what
Podium: Students Speuk
Exodis Grips Students
WASHINGTON—Students on a number of U. S. campuses have
begun a campaign to turn the Nixon Administration around on
its refusal to hold public hearings on the issue of environmental
impact of the proposed trans-Alaska pipeline.
Working with the Alaska Action Committee, an organization of
conservationists living in the vicinity of Washington, D. C., these
students are distributing a pamphlet entitled "The Alaska Pipeline
Reading Lesson." The pamphlet deals with unanswered questions
and inconsistencies found in the government's pipeline impact
statement.
At issue is whether the federal government will grant, as early
as May 4, a permit for construction of the 789-mile, hot-oil pipe
line that would carry oil from Purdhoe Bay in the Arctic to the
Alaskan port of Valdez. There the oil would be transferred to
tankers for transport along the west coast of Canada to western
U. S. ports.
Canadians have expressed fears about the prospects of oil spills
on their coast along the route. In addition, environmentalists fear
that the pipeline, going through one of the world's most active
earthquake zones, might exact severe damage on the wilderness,
rivers, streams, wildlife and fishery resources of Alaska. All of
the land over which the pipeline would be laid is owned by the
federal government.
In its own study of environmental impact the Interior Depart
ment reveals there would be less environmental risk and no greater
economic cost involved in constructing a pipeline through Canada.
However, the consortium of seven oil companies seeking the trans-
Alaska permit already has pipe stockpiled and wants to go ahead
with the project as originally conceived.
The government, in refusing to hold public hearings on the im
pact statement, urged interested citizens to read the report and
render comments. Conservationists complain, however, that there
are only seven copies of the nine-volume study available for public
inspection in the "lower 48" states. Copies can be purchased
throuoh the mail, but they cost $42.50, and delivery time is still
uncertain.
What interested students can do is send a letter—or a telegram—
to the President, asking for 90 days to review the statement fol
lowed by full public hearings to bring the knowledge and wisdom
of the American people to this important decision-making process.
Student action is needed, and it's needed now. Write or wire:
President Richard M. Nixon
The White House
Washington, D. C. 20500
In spite of the imposing concern on the part of conservationists,
ecologists. Congress members and students, the Nixon Administra
tion appears determined to bow to oil industry demands to issue
the pipeline permit.
As at many girls’ schools, there
exists here at Salem a mass stu
dent exodus on the weekends. An
opinion poll was taken to discover
student awareness and reactions to
this situation. The question asked
was: What can be done to make
more girls stay at Salem on the
weekends? Some answers and
opinions follow.
Meg Hutchins: “There is nothing
for a girl to do if she brings a guy
here, so consequently she goes
where he is. Why should we be
expected to stay?”
Leslie Bass: “A convenient, in
expensive place for the boys to stay
is needed.”
Malinda Mitchell: “Have more
things like IRS, and have open
dorms on the weekends. If you
have these things the girls have to
support them.”
Donna Daeke: “I don’t think that
anything can be done to make girls
stay here because if boys aren’t
here the girls are going where they
are.”
Madelyn Rankin: “Go Co-ed and
have better meals.”
Mary Dorsett: “I guess what girls
want is some place they can bring
their dates to—nothing formal, just
something casual — like cheap
movies, WRA softball games with
bring your own beer, or picnics with
folk singing. Also try to get an
other TV.”
Caroline Gaver: “Have more
activities on the weekends that
dates would enjoy and also have
open dorms on the weekends, Make
good use of the student center as a
gether with the opposite sex. I
don’t see how Salem can be any
thing but a suitcase school. This
might be changed if we had open
dorms.”
Joan Spangler: “Activities must
be planned with the student being
responsible for herself and her
guest. I am making this a direct
comment towards what happened to
the gym over IRS weekend. More
dances, more open dorms as this
weekend proves open dorms can be
a success. Girls should use facili
ties here, but I also agree that as
long as Salem is a girls’ school, it
will be hard to have student parti
cipation. Therefore, I care about
what happens.”
Anne Tlllet: “There’s no reason
to stay because there’s nothing
going on here. Plan other week
ends that have something for us to
do. I’d like to see more people to
gether like they might have been
last weekend.”
Libby Bragg: “You have to look
for things to do. There’s nothing
to do. It’s a vicious circle. (Beth
Duncan agrees with Libby.) I wish
there were more we could do with
dates—places to go and things to
do.”
system here instead of our pre.
family-style set up? Well
about it Think about ,
amount of food that is wasted n
at each meal-and I mean thr
kway because of state laws »]
require that leftover food once,
fered for consumption not be u
Think of the amount of time '
money required to have peopled
up tables and then stand aroj
to wait on five hundred girls 5
then clean up their mess.
Our family-style dining room
considered by many to be one
the nicest things about Salem. {
instead, it seems to be a farce !
is ridiculous to have ten girls jj
ting around a table SUPPOSEDU
sharing the food as a group, co
versing nicely, and being al«t'
each other’s needs, when rarely;
people even wait for the blessiJ
to begin helping themselves as fa
as they can. It seems then thati
have held on only to the out
manifestation of a way of dinii
while its actual and real purpo
was abandoned long ago. A cal
teria system would not rule
eating with friends, and we coi
even keep our white tableclotl
having the food lines open I
several hours or even having ti
lines would mean a minimum
waiting time.
Look at it from another viej
point. How practical is it to expJ
that close to six hundred pcoj
should be able to sit down and t
a meal together and that the toi
should be hot and satisfying to*
majority? Perhaps many of 1
gripes about the quality of our foJ
would be quieted if people had)
variety of dishes to choose frot
And it might be the case t
students could do some of the wo:
in a cafeteria-for scholarship pi
poses, thereby saving college raon
The present maids could possiblyEj
put on shifts, so that they coi|
get other jobs as well and mal'
more money.
This has obviously been a p
idea of mine for a long time. Wki
do the rest of your think?
—Catherine Coop
Dear Editor,
Frere Srinds: “A lot of girl’s
schools are girls sick of campus
and you want to leave. More dances
with other clubs sponsoring more
mixers especially with Freshmen,
sk‘, weekends, tennis tournaments
with faculty members.
I certainly enjoyed having tl
opportunity to relax with my di
in my room on my hall in my dot
on my campus at Salem Colle(
last weekend on an overcast Satii
day afternoon. I am looking ii|
ward to other opportunities.
Sincerely,
Dean Cecil
coffee house.”
Sarah Tucker: “Greensboro has
concerts like Andy Williams, Chi
cago, and the Sth Dimension; why
not Winston-Salem?”
Lee Simmons: “Nothing can make
me stay here on the weekend.”
Debbie Warner: “Yes, I do care
about this name tagged to Salem.
I feel somehow we must delegate
some funds towards some kind of
entertainment, over the weekends.
However, more importantly I wish
we could have ‘rap sessions’ with
each other over some of the things
going on here and at other places.
The weekend is a good time to
talk over those things we never
have time to talk about during the
week, for example the war in Viet
nam, economy. Women’s Lib, etc. I
also believe we must get together
and involve ourselves in community
activities, for example weekend
playgroups for youngsters, volun
teer work at hospitals, or maybe
do some serious work with the drug
programs. I hope that by involv
ing ourselves with things outside of
the campus we can find more pur
pose in what we’re doing or at-
tempting to do here. It’s worth a
Irene Kimel: “As long as Saem
remams a girls school, the weekend
remains the best time to get to-
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