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The Salem ite
Editor-in-Chief Laurie Daltroff
Associate Editor Chris Moran
Business Manager Alden Hanson
Advertising AAanager Chris Minter
Monday, March 5, 1973
Office Hours: 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. Weekdays
Phone 723-7961 Ext. 250
or call 727-1337
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editorial
The Sale mite staff and other
interested students met for a
journalism clinic with members
of the Journal-Sentinel on Feb
ruary 27 and 28. Pat Kelly, exe
cutive news editor for the Jour
nal-Sentinel, Bill East, Journal-
Sentinel public relations mana
ger, and Ms. Jo Dawson and
Tex Newman, news editors of
the Sentinel and Journal respec
tively, led the discussions.
They talked to us about pro
per procedures for obtaining
news, tracking of accurate infor
mation, and newspaper ethics.
As a result of what we learned at
the clinic, the Salemite will mod
ify its editorial procedures; all
letters submitted to the editor
are eligible for printing provi
ded they are signed. The writers
of the letters may request that
their names be withheld from
publication. We may delete parts
of letters if they are offensive to
individuals or - as in the case of
profanity - to the general reader-
ship. Any deletions will be
checked with the writer for ap
proval.
The Salemite will maintain its
position as a separate institution;
we will continue to pursue news
as a student publication and will
not be a voice of the administra
tion. This policy is one currently
followed by many college news
papers in the United States. The
EDITORIAL STAFF
BUSINESS STAFF
News Editor Laura Turnage
Feature Editor Dee Wilson
Layout Editor Cori Pasquier
Copy Editor Kathy Bacon
Fine Arts Editors . . . Barbie Pfiieger
Marcia Garrett
Photographer Anne Tillett
Advisor Mrs. J. W. Edwards
Circulation Manager . . .
Lane Crawford
Mailing Manager
.... Evie Yancy
Nancy Anderson
Muse of Inspiration
Mr. Bernhard von Nicolai
Member U. S. Student Press Associa
tion, Intercollegiate Press, Alternative
Features Service.
THE SALEMITE is the Uncensored
Voice of the Salem Community.
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postage rates is pendingaat Winston-
Salem, N,'Q, ^7,108.
Published weekly, excluding exami
nations, holidays and summer vaca
tion, by Students of Salem College.
Subscription Price $5.00 yearly.
Mailing Address P. 0. Box 10447
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MEANING IN STRUGGLE
policy allows the administration
to absolve itself from responsi
bility for libel and errors. It also
allows the newspaper to be an
instrument through which the
students may learn journalistic
techniques, in addition to in
forming readers of events.
The newspaper will establish
news contacts and trace infor
mation on the basis of the con
tacts’ information. We will feel
free to protect the sources from
whom we obtained the informa
tion.
Once an article appears in
print, the individual reporter is
absolved of responsibility for
the article’s contents. The Sa--
lemite will assume responsibility
for the article. In the same man
ner, the student advisor is ab
solved of responsibility for any
article’s contents once it appears
in print. The advisor does not
make policies or influence edi
torial positions; he or she advises
when called upon for help.
The Salemite looks forward
to an exciting journalistic future.
We have experimented in policy
techniques this year with varying
effects. We thank the communi
ty for its interest and support
and hope that we can continue
to maintain open lines of com
munication between students,
faculty and administration.
I,
On a midwestern campus re
cently a white male student told
me: “I have no sense at all of
who I really am. What is my
identity? Blacks are together.
Now women are defining their
reality. But I feel lost.”
Nina Simone sang “To Be
Young, Gifted, and Black” to
black students in Atlanta. The
moment burst with exuberance,
creative energy and hope. I won
der what can be sung, said, or
exemplified to many other stu
dents who are momentarily
trapped in frustration or even
despair. “We Are Ourselves,
Gifted, and Human” might be a
start.
I sha.’-e fully in the personal
anxiety that inevitably accom
panies this moment in history
with its political action and re
action, existential dilemmas and
radical spiritual questioning.
These are simply a few guide
lines to my present philosophy
of life.
I want to be an organic part
of social responsibility and com
munity building. Yet I also want
to nurture my individuality -
even at the risk of being consi
dered eccentric.
I want to weigh myself in the
scales of liberation movements --
Black, Native American, Women,
Gay, Chicano and others - and
hopefully come up with human
identity. Yet I do not want to
live in a melting pot that denies
deep and honest differences be
tween people.
I want to be sufficiently sober
and serious about the overwhel
ming questions of this day, this
age: poverty, emptiness, ecology,
identity, racism, loneliness in a
mass, war. Yet I do not want to
lose my sense of humor, capacity
for sheer abandon and fun, and
awareness of the absurd as a qua
lity of life.
I want to nurture protest and
lend fire to dissent. Without
them a democracy perishes. Yet
j, want to avoid slipping into
paranoia, destruction for its own
by Malcolm Boyd
(Ordained to the ministry of
the Episcopal Church in 1955,
Malcolm Boyd served as chaplain
of Colorado State University
from 1959 *o 1961, and Wayne
State University from 1961 to
1965. In 1965, he became the
national field representative of
Episcopal Society for Cultural
and Racial Unity, and since 1968
he has been a resident fellow at
Calhoun College of Yale Univer
sity. Former president of the
T.V. Producers Association and
a motion picture reviewer for
the Christian Century, Mr. Boyd
has written such books as Crisis
in Communication (1957), Are
You Running With Me, Jesus?
(1968), Free to Live, Free to Die
(1969), and As I Live and
Breathe (1969).)
sake, and the morbid malaise of
hopelessness.
I want to build an intellectual
spirit interlaced by commitment
and capable of passion. Yet I do
not want to succumb to the ar
rogance of mere fashion by deni
grating authentic tradition, aca
demic discipline and the goal of
objectivity.
I want to respond to ideas
instead of charismatic personal
ities whose programmed chic
(for whatever cause) is the pro
duct of exploitation.
I want to beheve sincerely in
the aspects of faith that under-
- gird my life, yet also want to re
sist narrow chauvinism and self-
righteous fanaticism that claims
mine is the “only” faith or ideo
logy, life-style or system. I want
to fight the conviction that “we”
(people who share my views and
1) are “good guys” versus “bad
guys” (people who hold differ
ent views).
I want to be a loyal and de
pendable (therefore always criti
cal) member of movements and
organizations to which I belong
yet do not want to forget that
moral ambiguities mark all
movements and institutions (in-
eluding mine).
I want to participate in com
munity with persons who share
my views, yet do not want to
lose the capacity for listening to
totally different views and en
gaging in communication with
people who hold them.
It is therefore obvious that I
choose to hve in creative tension.
I do not want to shut other peo
ple out of my life, avoid shatter
ing human experiences and rela
tionships, or reject the growth
processes of becoming fully hu
man. The alternative is, I be
lieve, dehumanization. Success
and failure are meaningless terms
to me. The meaning of life I find
of
in its struggle.
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Greetings! Today’s news is brought to you by the Salem Forum.
“As mankind stumbles into the pitfalls of war, he has begun to
realize more so with time, how valuable is the gift of peace. To this
end, he has created law, established law enforcement, administered
justice, and joined hands in forming the United Nations.
“In a like manner, the various universities throughout the nation
have come together annually for the past forty-six years to study
and scrutinize the methodology of international diplomacy which
has developed as a result of this association of nations. This year
will mark the forty-seventh session of the National Model United
Nations, a session which is planned to adapt itself to the changing
world in the scope of international affairs.” '
The 1973 NMUN will convene on Tuesday, April 24th at the
Statler Hilton Hotel in New York City. Over 1300 students and fac
ulty members are expected to attend the six-day session.
Each school delegation represents a specific member nation of
the United Nations. Country assignments are based on the schools
preference, general qualifications, and past performances at the
model UN. This year the Salem College delegation will represent
Iceland.
Iceland is a member of the General Assembly. The Salem
group will attend the plenary sessions of the General Asserribly
and will send a representative to each of the five committee sessions.
These committees are political and special political, legal, economic,
trusteeship, and social and humanitarian. General Assembly mem
ber nations will also send representatives to two special working
groups: the Conference on the Law of the Sea and the Conference
on the Human Environment.
Delegates to the NMUN will also have the opportunity to al
tend a special speaker series, a cocktail reception with ambassador
rom the various United Nations delegations, a movie series, and
Saturday night dance. There will be time provided to explore Nev
York City and to “sample some of the sights and delights that onl]
Fun City can offer.”
Anna Moore Butzner, president of Salem Forum, encourage
any interested students to contact her immediately. As of thi
reporting the Salem delegation numbers only three students. Un
less there is more interest exhibited. Miss Butzner predicts that tin
trip will be cancelled.
(Quotes taken from the 1973 NMUN brochure.)
One last news item: Applications for the Hattie Strong Mei
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icnolarship for study at the 1973 International Summer
usio, Norway, are due March 15. Forms are available in
ixsons office and additional information may be obtained
ison owne and Sarah Dorrier, student consultants.
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