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Page Two iHiiiiiiniiiHiimiiniiiiiiMiHininuiiiiiiitHitniiiiiiniimiiniiinitnHinmDiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiHiuiiiiiiiiHiiniiHiiiiminiiii The Salemite Editor-in-Chief Laurie Daltroff Associate Editor Chris Moran Business Manager Margaret Everhart Advertising AAanager Chris Minter Monday, November 6, 1972 Office Hours: 5:00-7:30 p.m. Weekdays Phone 723-7961 Ext. 250 or call 727-1337 lll□lmllilllll^llllllllllll□^llllllmlnlllHlllllMDlrmlnMll□lmllllllll□llllllllllllnllllllllllll^llMlllllllrulJll^llllll^nl^ml TH^ SAL€MIT£ Monday, Novembers 1972 editorial When school began two months ago, we of the Salemite staff were anxious to serve our community in the capacity of intercom munications medium among parents, students, faculty and admin istration. We kept our eyes and ears open, always ready to print news and initiate changes in the newspaper when we considered they would benefit our readers. During a period of three weeks in September 1 was approached by four students - none con nected with the others - who felt a need for bur paper to pub lish a column based on sexual questions and professional answers. After the fourth request I stopped laughing and seriously con sidered adding such a column to the Salemite. When student re sponse to my individual probing brought overwhelming assent, I actually did add a local question-answer column to the Salemite. Unfortunately for us, the questions and answers sent to us by the student and doctor who write the column for MiSC's Daily Tar heel were preselected: if the Salemite wished to maintain continu ity in printing this column we had to publish the questions sent to us. This decision resulted in widespread parental criticism of Sa lem’s administration, the Salemite, our advisor, and me because of a certain question printed in our October 9 issue. This criticism caused our staff and the administration to redefine our positions in the Salem community in relation to each other because freedom of the press was being attacked, because iht Salemite’s readership now extends to sets of parents, and because there seemed to be a deep- rooted need underlying the very presence of a “sex column.” At this point the Salemite staff and the administration have fairly resolved our anxieties. The administration throughout this situation has remained serene and principally opposed to news paper censorship while trusting the Salemite staffs student judge ment. Both we and the administration wish to serve our commu nity; therefore, at this time we are delving into the causes of a campus need for sexual guidance - if there is one. At this time the newspaper is unable to divulge specific infor mation pertaining to projected organizations and seminars being set up for Salem students. However we can state that there are at least two projects that will help Salem students in the future. Moreover, we wish to encourage students with individual questions or prob lems to visit the campus counseling service, the women of which are qualified to answer questions and counsel problems or refer students to professionals who are qualified to counsel us and pro vide us with more explicit information. These women might be wil ling to visit dormitories for rap sessions if they see that enough stu dents want such dormitory service; and they already are willing to bring qualified people - doctors, counselors, lecturers, etc. - to house sessions if girls want to listen to people with varying attitudes toward sexual practices and problems. This news appears promising to the Salemite, but until we under stand that such on-campus services are providing better medicine for student sexual difficulties, we will continue to treat the symp toms of student problems with a question and answer column. We realize, nevertheless, that such isolated questions often appear as fragments of a “how-to” manual and that the most important sexual values of love, self-honesty, and human morality cannot shine through the answers as brightly as they would in a one-to-one discussion. We hope, therefore, that our readers will act now to utilize available campus facilities which can provide a more suitable framework for the discussion of sexuality than our column now pro vides, and that students will support future facilities aimed at re solving our difficulties in adjusting to a sometimes frightening area of our lives. — LD EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS STAFF News Editor Laura f urnage Feature Editor Dee Wilson Layout Editor Cori Pasquier Copy Editor Kathy Bacon Fine Arts Editors. . . .Barbie Pfiieger Marcia Garrett Photographer ....... Anne Tillich Circulation Manager. . Lane Crawford Mailing Manager Evie Yancy Muse of I nspiration Mr. Bernhard von Nicolai Contributing This Week . Mopsy NeSmith, Marie Bissette, Dee Wilson, Gwen Smith, Allison Towne, Nell Merchant, Shirley Brobst, Sarah Dorrier, Katherine Skinner, Anna Moore Butzner, Nancy Jane Anderson Member U. S. Student Press Associa tion Intercollegiate Press Alternative Features Service Advisor Mrs. J. W. Edwards THE SALEMITE is the Uncensored Voice of the Salem Community. Published weekly, excluding exami nations, holidays and summer vaca tion, by Students of Salem College. Subscription Price $5.00 yearly Mailing Address P. O. Box 10447 Salem Station, Winston-Salem, N C 27108. Application to mail at second-class postage rates is pending at Winston- Salem, N. C. 27108. of People.. The following polls are inter esting to compare because of the time difference between them. The first poll which reached more people, was taken four weeks ago. The second poll, which was taken October 31st, was not participated in by as many students as the Salem For um had hoped. ANNOUNCEMENT Stephen and the Farmhand Tuesday, November 21st Cone Ballroom, UNC-Greensboro Free Letter... Dear President Chandler, My wife and I subscribe to the Salemite, and wish to ex press our deep concern ... We feel [one of the “sex questions”] to be extremely inappropriate, improper, pseudosophisticated and a blatant appeal to sensa tionalism. [In my profession] I am natur ally aware that many people have sexual problems. However, I would consider any discussion of sex without emphasis on love, knowing and sharing qualities as shallow, superficial and demean ing ... I hope that in the future the total experience of love will receive greater emphasis than technique. I would appreciate your com ment. Sincerely, Name withheld This represents an edited vf, Sion of the letter, removing a„ that migh make the letter either traceaS or embarrassing. The letter is however, representative of ’ number that have been received m the President’s office as wed as in the office of the Dean of Students. We share the concern of the writer of the letter and would very much welcome dis- cussion of this important topic taking into account the qualita! five difference between “value- free” discussion of sex and dis cussion in a context that does take into account the distinctly human values associated with human sexuality. John H. Chandler (See Editorial) The following tabulations are the results of the Salem Fomm voting which took place in Main Hall on Tuesday, October 31. Faculty and students participa ted in this poll. McGovern - 61 Nixon - 203 Schmidt - 3 Ted Heath & Tories - 1 Eric Severeid - 1 (Communist Party & Gloria Steinam) Total voter turnout = 269 which is 40% of the Salem community. of cabbages and kings bjr Sarali Oorrier Putting aside politics for this week. I’d hke to editorialize a little on a subject that has interested me for several years: the “one” of 4-14. In some respects, Salem’s January Program has turned into the January Problem. Weekends have never been the most exciting time at Salem C., and with a third (or more!) of the student body planning to be away, January looms ahead as one long twenty-eight-day weekend. Souni pretty gruesome, doesn’t it? We give ourselves top billing as a school with a close student/facu- ty relationship, a sense of community, and a meaningful campus life. But do we really live up to all that? From what I’ve heard about last January, I think not. The Salem College Republi can Club recently conducted an Election ‘72 survey of every dorm on campus, polling a total of 428 girls. The poll was distri buted by the Helms for Senate Campaign Headquarters in Ra leigh, North Carolina. The re sults in both nation and state wide races were as follows: 1. Do you consider yourself a Republican or Democrat? Republican - 203 Democrat - 107 Undecided - 118 2. Are you registered to vote in North Carolina? Yes - 170 No-253 Undecided - 5 3. If the election for Presi dent was held today would you vote for Nixon or McGovern? Nixon - 344 McGovern - 39 Undecided - 45 4. If the election for Sena tor was held today would you vote for J. Helms or N. Gali- fianakis? Helms - 63 Galifianakis - 90 Undecided - 275 5. If the election was held to day for Governor would you vote for Holshouser or Bowles? Holshouser - 77 Bowles - 77 Undecided - 274 The January Program (in fact, the whole 4-14 calendar) is an ef fort to loosen up the stmcture of a classical curriculum by providing students and faculty with the opportunity to pursue individual inter ests, either on or off campus. Because so many students choose to go off-campus and because the academic life on campus is less struc tured, it seems to me that we must make more of an effort to struc ture community. Perhaps I should point out that the “we” in the sentence above is not merely editorial. It includes students as well as the faculty and administration — and especially the faculty and administration. Janu ary on campus will be a much nicer experience if the students have the extra added bonus of getting to know the faculty better. One of the January facts of life is that professors have a light student load. Why not offer extracurricular academic “happenings? For instance, Mr. Thompson might lecture on some aspect of relig ion and the arts, or Dr. White might discuss his favorite author. The informal exchange of ideas would expose students to faculty me® bers other than their January sponsor and would do much to encour age a sense of intellectual community. What is a college if it snot a group of people (students and faculty) interested in learning fro® each other? Socially, there is much to be done also. We need to tap resources at Wake Forest - including providing some sort of transportation over there for students without cars. We need to investigate the activities availabte in Winston-Salem. And we need to plan things here on campus. Volleyball, sherry parties, game night, bridge tour naments, eating clubs. .. the list could go on forever. In the next few weeks, the January Program Committee and so®e interested students will be brainstorming for ideas, trying to g® activities organized, and setting up a January calendar of evenly they come knocking on your door, think before you say no. person can make a big difference at a place like Salem. Potent Quotable from Barefoot in Boogar Hollow. , Our mayor is a politician who stands fur what he thinks other o around here will fall fur. WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR! J
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