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M.rch 14, 1974 TH€ SALtMIT-E Blue Jeans Prove A Fashionable Attire Page Three Panels and Conferences washed, a finish added, and a high price tag attached. The main problem with these is that once washed, the finish is removed, and the customer is stuck with a really worn out pair of limp jeans. A solution that a few ingenious souls have tried, is to hire some one to wear-out the jeans for you. Think about it, you’d be help ing the unemployment rate tre mendously! Not only is denim used for jeans, but also for pocket books, shoes, back-packs, shoulder totes, skirts, notebook covers and al most everything imaginable. Perhaps this denim-western look is directly related to the bi centennial in 1976. The upcoming bicentennial is a period when people tend to reminisce on the simpler, freer style of life . . . hence blue jeans. Fad or fashion, jeans seem to have become a part of the Ameri can way of life. Spring is sprung the grass is dead Go buy some more and blow your head! EDITOR’S NOTE: Every catastrophe has some lighter side and the current short ages of about everything once held to be in abundant supply has offered writers a lot of feature possibilities. The Fountainhead, publication of East Carolina U. at Greenville, ran |this story in its Dec. 6 edition. by CAROL WOOD What are you wearing? —- why blue jeans of course! Blue clad torsos seen every where, from the classroom to parties may not be such a com mon sight in the near future. The reason? ... a shortage of cotton. The Fall-73 cotton harvest was approximately 2 million bales less 'than the previous year. Heavy rains flooded the cotton producing Mississippi delta, and severely damaged the crop. July cotton prices hit their highest level since the Civil War. Textile mills can’t keep up with the ever growing demand for jeans, even if they could get as much cotton as they need. Why are blue jeans so popular — certainly not because they are a new technological development! One of the oldest companies in the business, Levi Strauss, intro duced their first denim overalls to Gold Rush miners in 1850. Levi Strauss Company recently announced they are making strides toward almost total auto mation. By 1978, the company hopes to increase production 50 per cent, and double its sales to one billion dollars. American Fabrics and Fash ions stated that over 400 million yards of denim are sold annually. The Strauss Company alone produced over 100 million pairs of jeans in 1972, says Business Week, yet stores still can’t seem to keep them in stock. What is it about blue jeans that has such universal appeal? Per haps blue jeans are a statement of the 70’s. Only in the 70’s do you find people actually wanting to look alike. Only a few years ago, if some one walked into the room with ‘your outfit” on, icy daggers shot forth from your eyes, pierc ing to the very soul of the cul prit! Today, practically everyone wears demin jeans and it is con sidered the height of youthful fashion. To be really “in” your jeans have to look well-worn. New blue jeans are simply not Kosher! To solve this problem, depart ment stores are selling well worn blue jeans for approximately $6 to $7 more than the price of new jeans. Wten times these jeans are dis carded blue jeans that have been recycled. That is they have been ‘Death and Dying’ Reviewed Students Recommend Book By Debbie Warner and Deborah Scott In an effort to share with other students and faculty members some reading we have done in the area of “Death and Dying,” Deborah Scott and I will be pre senting several book reviews in this and other issues of the SA- LEMITE. We have read these books out of common interest in the subject and out of our respec tive January terms this year. It is our hope that both faeulty and students will read some of the books which are to be reviewed. Hopefully by doing that we shall all be more prepared to fully participate in a significant way in the upcoming symposium with the Hastings Institute. ON DEATH AND DYING by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is cer tainly one of the widest read books in the area of THANATOL- OGY, or the study of Death. Dr. Ross wrote her book out of her experiences with some of the medical profession, clergy and patients at the University of Chi cago Hospital. The subject with which Dr. Ross deals ranges from the problem of fear we (or at least I suppose most of us) feel towards acknowledging our own death, or the death of a close family member or friend; atti tudes we have towards death and the dying; various stages we go through in coming to terms with death and the reality of its pres ence in our lives; and, finally a sharing with the reader inter views Dr. Ross had with term inally ill patients. The Old Salem Store A convenient place to find that special gift for parents, for friends, or — just for yourself.. ■ CHINA PEWTER CRYSTAL FRAMED PRINTS WOODEN ACCESSORIES OLD SALEM REPRODUCTIONS 614 South Main Street Monday - Saturday 9:30 AM.-5 P.M Held At UNC-G Register Now to Attend Workshop As she says in her Preface, Dr. Ross was not writing a textbook on how to deal with the ter minally ill, although her book is widely read in Death seminars in medical schools and in seminaries across the country. Rather, Dr. Ross is trying to help her col leagues who serve in various ca pacities in the hospital, and the public at large to understand and know what it means for any of us to face Death. For she states the following in her Preface: “I am simply telling the stories of my patients who shared their agonies, their expectations, and their frustrations with us. It is hoped that it will encourage oth ers not to shy away from the “hopelessly” sick but will get closer to them, as they can help them much during the final hours. The few who can do this will also discover that it can be a mutually gratifying experience; they will learn much about the functioning of the human mind, the unique human aspects of our existence, and will emerge from the experience enriched and per haps with fewer anxieties about their own finality.” We highly recommend this book for anyone who is seriously con sidering the question of what it means to die, and therefore by a negative implication, what it means to live. Dr. Ross’ book speaks to both of the sides of the question of existence in an honest and open way with the hope that she can share with us all some of her experiences with the “hopelessly” ill. By Cindy Greever Traditions in Transition — an examination of the concerns of women in many aspects of soci ety in an effort to clarify, under stand and take action on these concerns will occur in conference Saturday, March 23, 1974 on the campus of UNC-G. The conference, sponsored by the Committee on Women’s Stud ies of UNC-G with a grant from the North Carolina Committee for Continuing Education in the Humanities, has a full day’s pro gram including lectures, panels and workshops. Registration at 9:30 in Cone Ballroom commences the day. First on the agenda is “Re curring Images of Women,” a lecture by Dr. Helene Roberts, Assistant Professor of Art and History and curator of Visual Col lections at the Fine Arts Library at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. Following panel discussions in clude: “The Changing Roles of Women and Men in the Family,” with a panel of distinguished North Carolina scholars; “Politi cal Decision-Making,” with Mar garet Keese, Republican represen tative and youngest member of the General Assembly, as well as several other women active in N. C. politics; “Religion and Cultural Change,” with students and educators in the field; “Ca reer Patterns; New Direction,” led by Jean O’Barr, Director Ca reer Development and continuing Education, Duke University; “Contemporary Feminist Move ment,” with Jane DeHart Math ews, UNC-G faculty, chairperson of the American Historical Asso ciation Committee on Women Historians, and Nancy Dunn, State Coordinator of NOW; “Im ages of Women in Literature and the Arts,” led by Elaine Show- alter, editor of Women’s Libera tion and Literature. After a luncheon honoring Ellen Black Winston, U. S. Commis sioner of Welfare (1963-1967), who has donated her papers to the UNC-G library, workshops will occupy the afternoon. “The Status of Women: Wages, Housing, Wel fare”; “Women Writers in the Marketplace”; “Child Care”; “Changing Concepts of Self”; “New Research on Women”; and “The Problems of Re-entry” are the workshop topics. A general meeting will conclude what should be an informative and exciting day. In order to register send your name, ad dress, and school or organization, plus $2.50 for a luncheon ticket to: Committee on Women’s Studies University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, N. C. 27412 BUD SMITH’S FLOWERS FloNA/ers Are The Perfect Gift THRUWAY SHOPPING CENTER 725-0489 Salem Student Charge Accounts Welcome ff’s been Reznick’s for Records For Years TAPES - SHEET MUSIC - RECORDS DOWNTOWN 440 N. 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