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Monday, November 20, 1972
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Dr. James W. Edwards peruses the Salemite in his leisure time.
Every Day Is Holiday
NOVEMBER 20 - First Na
tional GAR Encampment ....
The Ground Army of the Repub
lic, composed of men who had
served in the United States Ar
my, Navy, and Marine Corps
during the Civil War, held its first
encampment at Indiannapolis,
Indiana in 1866. From this
group emerged the observance of
Memorial Day on May 30 and
the gar’s present day equiva
lent would be the American
Legion.
NOVEMBER 21 - Invention
of the Phonograph ... On this
day in 1877, Thomas A. Edison
announced that he had invented
a phonograph. To the sonorous
cries of “So what!” Tommy pre
sented his gadget which consis
ted of a funnel with a diaphragm
at its base, to which a pointed
needle was attached. He pro
ceeded to outline the mechanies
of a phonograph and before their
very eyes reproduced the sound
of the human voice. This was
definitely a great teclinological
advancement but since John
Lennon and Paul McCartney
weren’t around yet, the reply
was still, “So what!”
NOVEMBER 22 - Feast of
St. Cecilia ... St. Cecilia, whose
feast is celebrated on this day, is
one of the best known and most
venerated of the Christian saints.
She is the patroness of church
music (Cecilia, you’re breakin’
my heart: you’re shaking my
confidence daily ...”
NOVEMBER 23 - Birthday
of Franklin Pierce the 14th Pres
ident of the U.S.A. He was born
in Hillsborough. N.H. in 1804.
Hooray Frankie! And don’t for
get that this year our great
American holiday of Thanks
giving falls the day of Frankie’s
birthday, so. don’t forget to toast
him with your hot toddies while
you eat your pumpkin pie.
NOVEMBER 25- Evacuation
Day in New York . . . This is the
celebration of the anniversary
of the evacuation of New York
by the British in 1783. Arrange
ments for the evacuation were
made by General Washington
and Governor Clinton due to a
widespread epidemic of diarrhea.
NOVEMBER 26 - John Har
vard Day ... It has been the cus
tom of the authorities of Har
vard Memorial Society to decor
ate the statue of John Harvard,
benefactor of the college, on the
anniversary of his birth.
First semester exams will be
gin on Saturday, December 9
and will continue through Fri
day morning, December 15.
Each day will have three, three
hour exam periods (with the ex
ception of Friday, December 15
which will have only a morning
exam period). These three per
iods are at 9:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m.,
and 7:00 p.m.
Exams can be picked up in
the building in which your class
is held, anytime after 30 minutes
before the beginning of the
exam period and must be turned
in within 15 minutes after the
exam period (i.e. for a 9:00
exam, you may pick up the
exam at 8:30 and it must be
turned in by 12:15.)
The exams will be filed alpha
betically, according to last
names and will be given in the
building in which the particular
class is held. The points of dis
tribution are the office of the
Science Building, a classroom in
Main Hall to be designated later,
and the Seminar Room (behind
Dean Sandresky’s office) in the
Fine Arts Center. So to pick up
an exam, you go to the correct
building (i.e. Science Building for
Biology) and give your name
and the distributor will find
your exam under your last name.
Exams must be taken in the
building where distributed. The
last days - December 13, 14, and
15 all exams will be given out in
Main Hall and they must be
taken there. There should be
more than one person in a room
during the exam and no books
the room,
should be
Committee Plans
Changes, Additions
The Admissions Committee
has been meeting regularly since
the beginning of the year, with
the exception of a brief period
of two weeks, while the financial
subcommittee met. During its
meetings, the committee has
done its yearly editing of the
Admissions section of the cata
logue, has set up certain academ
ic policies to be used in admit
ting qualified students, and has
begun to read the folders of the
Early Decision Plan students.
The date of notification of these
students is by December 1. As
of November 9, the Admissions
Office had received 120 Fresh
man Boarding applications, 56
more than this time last year,
with 36 of the 120 applications
being Early Decision applica
tions.
The students on the commit
tee are not permitted to read
folders because of the confiden
tial nature of its contents. We
will, though, be working closely
with Miss Kirkland in getting
names of students interested in
contacting prospective students
during Thanksgiving or Christ
mas vacation. We also are going
to try to work on a special pam
phlet to recruit students of dif
ferent backgrounds to apply to
Salem. If you have any questions
or suggestions that you want
brought up before the commit
tee, please get in touch with one
of the student members:
are allowed inside
Open book rooms
used for open book exams. They
are Room 106 in "the Science
Building, Room 302 in Main
Hall, and the Fine Arts Center
Library.
This semester, Sophomores
and Seniors will be responsible
for the stamping, filing, and dis
tributing of exams. Because
there are more Sophomores than
Seniors, Sophomores will be re
sponsible for all stamping, filing
and distributing of exams in the
Science Building and in the Fine
Arts Center. Seniors will distri
bute in Main Hall. Posters for
signing up will be taken to Soph
omore and Senior class meetings
and will then be kept in Nan
Wilson’s room (210 Clewell). Her
phone is 727-9122. In case some
one needs to change the time
for which she has signed, she will
be responsible for getting some
one to take her place and letting
Nan know of the change. For
the convenience of the filers and
distributors, they will receive
letters of information with a
blank at the bottom which will
tell them their time and place.
It will be helpful to save this and
to put it where it can be seen,
because there is a $10.00 penal
ty for forgetting whatever one
signed up for. SO TAKE HEED!!
This is necessary because of the
lack of responsibility on the part
of students in the past.
Filing will be December 7
from 11:15 to 1:30.
Tuesday, November 28 and
Wednesday, November 29 enve
lopes and white slips will be
given out in classes. If you do
not sign these, you will not have
an exam. If possible, sign these
on Tuesday and Wednesday of
that week; but if not, be sure to
check with your teacher and
make sure you sign an envelope
and attach the corresponding
white slip to it.
Members of the Exam Com
mittee are: Nan Wilson, Chair
man; Sarah Tucker, Becky
Hewitt, Dee Wilson, Joan Spang
ler, Mary Ann Campbell, Melinda
Vick, and Jenny Snead. You
may contact any of these if you
have questions.
On behalf of the Student
Government, Honor Council
would like to make the followin.
regulations concerning exams: ^
1. Students must take exams
IN THE CLASSROOMS
of Main Hall, the Science
Budding, and the Fine Arts
Center, exams may not be
taken in hallways, labora-
tories, etc. Also, a student
is not to take an exam in a
room by herself, she
should see that at the be
ginning of the exam pe-
riod, at least one other
student is in the room.
2. Under no circumstances
are books to be taken into
the classroom in which an
exam is being taken; all
books and paper should
be left either in the dorm
or outside the exam area.
Blue books may be used
for the scratch paper, if
such paper is not provided
by the professor in the
exam envelope. ALL UN
USED BLUE BOOKS
MUST BE RETURNED
TO THE DISTRIBUTION
POINT.
The above regulations were
set up upon recommendation
from both students and faculty
members; they are solely for the
protection of the student, to
eliminate any possibility of sus
picion of cheating. We have had
cases in the past in which the self
scheduling system has been jeo
pardized by students putting
themselves in awkward situa
tions that could have been
avoided. When a student is sus
pected of cheating because of
the circumstances under which
shet
she takes an exam, it puts every
one involved under a great deal
of pressure. We hope, with these
regulations, to avoid such situa
tions.
Please do your part to make
our system successful. If you are
a Sophomore or Senior, this in
cludes your willingness to help
stamp, file and distribute.
Pam Langston
203 Bitting 727-9557
Debbie Warner
Aca. Annex 725-5222
Barbara Perry
5 Sisters 727-9200
Cynthia Warren
208 Babcock 727-9526
by Lana Starnes
and
Dr. Takey Crist
Question: I've been told by
numerous sources that a girl will
gain about eight pounds when
she goes on the pill. In fact my
sister gained exactly eight
pounds when she began taking it.
What causes this weight gain? -
Signed, H.D.
Dear H.D.: Yes. weight gain
may be a problem with some
girls on the pill. Weight gain is
thought to be due to a number
of factors. One reason is that the
hormones in the pill causes the
individual to retain salt and with
salt they retain water. The sec
ond factor is thought to be due
to protein anabolic properties
of some of the agents. Although
fluid retention and weight gain
are probable in some patients
these are usually self-limited.
Most studies show that by the
end of the first year most pa
tients’ weights are similar to
their pre-treatment weights.
(Questions should be ad
dressed to Lana Starnes and Dr.
Takey Crist, in care of The Daily
Tar Heel, Student Union, Chapel
Hill, N.C. 27514.)
COPYRIGHT (C) 1972 by
Lana Starnes and Dr. Takey
Crist. .Ml rights reserved.
Dr. Gratz chats with students while waiting to enter the rel
tory on Thursday, the teachers' meal day with students.