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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Monday, October 9, 1972
Number 8
hapel Hill Aids VD Drive
(CHAPEL HILL) ... A nation-
,de campaign against venereal
sease will be led by the nation’s
4 public television stations (in-
uding the University of North
arolina Television Network) with
series of special TV broadcasts
lis month.
The campaign will be launched
ith a special, hour-long program,
D BLUES, to be broadcast coast-
)-coast at 8 p.m., Monday, October
Host for the program will be late-
ight talk show personality, Dick
lavett.
VD [blues will be seen in this
,rea over Channel 4, WUNC-TV.
The TV presentations will be fol-
awcd(up nationally by an extensive
ampaign on the part of over a doz-
n national medical, educational and
locial ! organizations to combat the
ipread of venereal disease. During
he last few years V D has reached
;pidemic proportions in the United
states and gonorrhea is currently
)ur most reported communicable
lisease.
VD BLUES is being produced by
A^NET/13 in New York with a grant
from the 3M Company and content
tssistance from the American Medi
cal Association. Other national
groups will provide follow-up cam
paigns in their own areas and are
disseminating material to the local
public TV stations for their viewers.
Following the hour-long national
presentation, the UNC-TV network
will produce a local follow-up pro
viding information about programs
to combat VD in the state and
where they are located.
VD BLUES will consist of drama
tic vignettes and songs combined
with a hard-hitting, frank presenta
tion of facts about the symptoms
of venereal disease, its various
forms, causes, how it can be pre
vented and cured, and what happens
if VD is left untreated.
Among the performers and writers
who have contributed to the program
are Jules Feiffer, who has written
an original sketch, “Silverlips” for
the program and .>\rlo Guthrie who
will sing “Child of VD”, an unpub
lished song written by his father,
Woody Guthrie, in b.MO.
A major segment will feature
Broadway stars James Coco and
Robert Drivas as gonorrhea and
syphillis germs in a sketch which be
gins on a humorous note but ends
Darwin F* Turner Joins
■Salem’s Piedmont Series
Darwin T. Turner, a professor of
English and Afro-American studies
t the University of Michigan, will
peak [at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Oc-
ober 10th in the Drama Workshop,
lis topic will be “Literature by
tfro-Americans ; Past and Present.”
Dr. Turner is being brought here
IS part of the Visiting Scholars
’rograni of the Piedmont University
leiiter. This program was establish-
d in 1963 to provide its member in-
ititutions with a number of distin-
Dr. Turner received a fellowship in
a North Carolina-Dukc University
Co-operative Program for research
in Afro-American Literature. He
will be listed in the next edition of
Who’s Who in America. Dr. Turner
is a consultant-reader for PIEW for
NDEA institutes in English and for
Title III proposals. With these and
many, many more qualifiations. Dr.
Turner should be an exciting speaker
— don’t miss him!
in a frightening depiction of how the
diseases work their torments on the
human body.
“The show has its frivolous mo
ments as well as its serious ones,”
said Cavett, “but the purpose is dead
serious.” This is an entertainment
show, not a documentary program,
aimed primarily at the young folks.
It is a show they’d watch, not a pro
gram they’d be told to watch. “It
is very worthwhile to have the op
portunity to contribute to the lessen
ing of a disease that has descended
into 100 generations,” he concluded.
“The show not only will dramatize
the human predicaments of the in
dividuals faced with venereal disease,
but will impart to viewers vital in
formation,” said producer Don
Fouser of WNET/13. Fouser was
formerly with the Emmy-winning
series, THE GREAT AMERICAN
DREAM MACHINE. ,
Other public television programs
that will be related to the subject of
venereal disease include BLACK
JOURNAL’S October 3 study of the
controversial Tuskegee Study con
ducted by the U. S. Public Health
Service in 1932 in which some 400
black men suffering from syphilis
were purposely denied medical treat
ment. Williiam F. Buckley’s FIRINCi
LINE on Sunday, October IS will be
devoted to the subject of sex edu
cation and W^ORLD PRESS on
October 12 will look at the venereal
disease problems in other countries
as reported in their press.
Among the national organizations
contributing to the VD campaign are
the American Academy of Family
Physicians, the National Education
Association, the American Librar>
Association, the National Council of
Churches, the National Congress of
PTAS, and the American Osteopath
ic Association.
For More Information Contact:
Mrs. Frances Dressman
Leah Laine McDonald enjoys Founder’s Day.
Founder’s Day has, once again, passed into the annals of Salem tradi
tion. This year’s participants seemed to enjoy the activities, ivhich in
cluded sports, skits, songs and no classes. Will they enjoy it next year,
or will we have a “Founders Day” as we now know it?
uished lecturers from colleges and
niversities throughout the United
dates and Canada. Over the past
ine years more than one hundred
venty scholars have participated.
Dr. Turner, originally from Cin-
innati, Ohio, received his B.A. and
^.A. from the University of Cm-
innati; he received his Ph.D. in
956 from the University of Chicago.
Youth Fare Abolished?
Dr. Darwin F. Turner speaks
uesday, October 10, on Afro-A-
lerican literature. There will be a
ip session between Dr. Turner and
alemites following his lecture,
hich is at 9:.00 a.m. in the Drama
l^orkshop.
Washington, D. C. —While nine
million college students are return
ing to campus, the Civil Aeronau
tics Board is wondering when to
break the news of their decision.
In January, 1968, CAB examiner
Arthur S. Present ruled that dis
count fares limited to persons 12 to
21 years old are “unjustly discrimi-
nitory” because age alone isn’t a
valid distinction between passen
gers. Shortly thereafter, Mr.
Present received mail from college
students by the sack load. Iheir
expression of opinion was so over
whelming that the CAB ruled that
airline youth fare discounts don’t
unjustly discriminate against adults.
The board put off any decision on
a petition to abolish the discounts
a study of whether the fares were
reasonable in relation to carrier
costs was completed.
After four years of study, the CAB
planned to make an announcement
of their decision in August, an of
ficial stated. Sources at several air
lines agree the announcement will
probably be delayed until after the
November elections. They concur
Forsyth Mental Health
A panel comprised of Dr. John
Compere, Dr. W. J. Grant, and
Reverend Andrew Lester, with Mrs.
Ann Ryder as moderator, will be
the speakers at a special free public
meeting at 8 p.m. 1 uesday, October
10 in the Brunson School Auditor
ium.
that chances for the fare to con
tinue look bleak.
Originally youth fares were chal
lenged by National Trailways Bus
System, a trade association of bus
companies, and by TCO Industries,
Inc., formerly Transcontinental Bus
System, Inc.
U. S. Airlines were split on the
issue during the examiner’s investi
gation; 14 of the carriers offering
youth discounts supported them and
10 opposed them or didn t take a
position.
Over $300 million is spent by
young people on youth fare tickets
annually. Each year over 1 million
youth fare cards are bought by
young people who believe they are
entitled to its benefits until age 22.
If the fare is abolished, privileges
of the card would be revoked.
It is interesting to note the de
layed announcement of the CAB de
cision comes in the first election
year allowing youth to vote at age
18. Such news might play an impor
tant part in the elections if young
people sent inquiries to the presi
dential candidates.
Their topic for discussion will be
“Depression and How to Deal with
It.”
In summarizing their presentation.
Dr. Compere said:
The phenomenon known as de
pression has been around for a
long time. The ancients called it
melancholia and variously ascribed
it to such things as an imbalance
in body humours (fluids), consti
tutional factors and demon posses
sion. Although there still exists
theoretical disagreement about the
nature of depression, we have
made considerable progress in
understanding what the experi
ence of depression is like and how
to deal with it theraputically.
Almost everyone experiences
some mood swings, that is, there
are times when ,we feel on top of
the world and times when we feel
“out of it”, times when we are
more optimistic and times when
we are more pessimistic, times of
extreme happiness and times of
extreme sadness. In general, when
negative emotions are tied to some
traumatic event (such as the death
of a loved one, job loss, etc.) and
when the accompanying dysphoria
is relatively short-lived, there is
little need for concern about the
person’s emotional condition.
When this is not the case, that is,
when no specific loss-event has
occurred and depressed feelings
persist over weeks or months,
there is reason for concern and for
attempts to alleviate the situation.
The purpose of the proposed
panel discussion program on de
pression is to share information
on the nature of it, danger sig
nals, sources of help, and practi
cal ways of dealing with it.
The Forsyth Mental Health As
sociation is sponsoring this meeting
as part of its endeavor to promote
better mental health in the commu
nity.
Kansas City Organizes
Lucrative Poetry Contest
...KANSAS CITY, MO. - The
Kansas City Poetry Contests are a
combined effort to discover poems
of excellence. Deadline for entering
the $1,600 competition is Feb. 1,
1973.
Top prize in the tenth annual e-
vent is the Devins Award of $500
cash and consideration for publica
tion of a book-length poetry manu
script by the University of Missouri
Press. The Devins Award is open to
all poets.
Hallmark Honor Prizes of $100
each will be awarded to six poets foi
individual poems. Only full-time un
dergraduate college students are eli
gible for the Hallmark awards.
Kansas City Star Awards of $100
each will go to four poets for single
poems, without regard to age or resi
dence within the United States.
H. J. Sharp Memorial Awards of
$25 each will go to four high school
pupils from Missouri or a bordering
state.
Poets with national reputations
will judge the contests.
Winners will be announced April
26, 1973 at the final program of the
1972-73 American Poets Series con
ducted by the Kansas City Jewish
Community Center.
For complete contest rules, send
a stamped, self-addressed business
envelope to Poetry Contest, P. O.
Box 5313, Kansas City, Mo. 64131.