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Page Two TH£ SAL-EMIT€ April j " Time to Turnover, Mudglobs - Fry the Other SiJ, Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: A college is an institution whose purpose is to educate. Its fore most responsibility is to provide its students with opportunities to learn, and its library is one of the mosli important and neces sary tools for learning. Here at Salem, however, it seems that this important tool is being denied the students. On Saturday, April 13, I went to the library to begin research work on a term paper. It is work that requires almost exclusive use of recent periodicals. It is work that can be done only in the li brary. When I got there, however, I found that the library was closed. There was a note on the door saying that the library would be closed from 1:00 p.m. on Satur day, April 13th, until Monday, April 15th at 8:30 a.m. I found this to be most disturbing for two reasons. First of all, I was dis tressed because this note was the first I had heard of the closing. To my knowledge no communica tion was sent to the students in advance to inform them that the library would be closed during this particular weekend. Even the Leg. Board Rejects April Arts Changes April 8, 1974 I. The meeting was called to order by President Black. II. President Black announced that SGA was to nominate two faculty members to serve on next year’s Faculty- Advisory Board. Three members of the faculty were nominated for next week’s vote. III. President Black announced that two former Student Government presidents were presented a $50 award to the outstanding leader of this year’s senior class. Serv ing on the committee to choose the recipient of this award are: old executive members, the faculty-advisory board, and underclassmen of both Inter-Dorm Council and Leg. Board. Chosen to represent Leg. Board was “Dee” Stout. IV. The constitution of April Arts was read by Kathy Black. Proposed election changes were not passed. The constitution will be returned to April Arts with sug gestions as to the election procedure changes. V. Lucy Rose and Barbara Perry explained several pro posed _ changes concerning the office of treasurer and the Finance Board. Both proposals were approved and will be brought before the next Student Government meeting. VI. The meeting was adjourned by President Black. Respectfully submitted, “Dee” Stout Secretary April 22, 1974 I. Leg. Board’s meeting was called to order by the president, Kathy Black. II. The importance of the attendance of every Leg. Board member was stressed by President Black. Because of her great responsi bility to keep the students informed, only one absence per semester will be excused before action will be taken toward the member’s replacement. Members were reminded of the regular meeting time: every other Monday at 5:15 in the Student Center. III. Voting for the students’ representatives to the Faculty Advisory Board took place. An announcement of the faculty members’ names will be made following their acceptance. IV. For security purposes, students are asked to never be outside the dorms alone after dark and to simply exercise good judge ment in remembering other safety measures. V. Marion Patrick represented the Food Committee’s request to break away from their status as an IRS committee and to form a separate non-budget organization. The proposed constitution was approved and will be presented to the Student Body for aonroval at the May 7th SGA meeting. VI. With no other business, the meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted. Dee Stout SGA Secretary ie Editor-in-Chief -- Lockhart Ledbetter Associate Editor... - Business Manager ..Katherine Skinner Assistant Business Manager Janet Kirkland Office hours: 5:00-10:00 p.m. Monday 4:30-7:30 p.m. "Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Telephone: 723-7961, Ext. 250 — Salemite Office Or call 727-1421 or 727-9002 Thursday, April 18, 1974 by Maggie Guerard What is wrong? Where is the intelligent life reported to be at Salem — festering in a base ment? Get up — go to class — sit there - and it happens all over again. That feeling builds up and up until my soul explodes by the very power of it — FRUS TRATION! I don’t think I can take another class where nothing is being said, but then I get up and go to another class — sit down — start to focus — and it begins again. . . . Salem bookstore posted a sign in the Refectory announcing that it would be closed on Easter Mon day. Why then, couldn’t the li brary, the supposed center of our academic community, inform us of its plans. Secondly, I found it absolutely ridiculous that a college library would remain closed for such an extended pe riod of time when its students were not on vacation. I do realize that this weekend was special, it being Easter, but if Salem stu dents and faculty are not given a break for Easter why must the library close? Spring break ended two weeks ago for us and the coming of Easter, although an important religious event, does not affect the academic needs of Salem students. / I hope that, in the future, the j library will be able to coincide (its vacations with the vaca^tions ' of the students and the faculty. I also hope, that in the event that it must close, a special effort will be made to inform all students of the closing in advance. Sincerely, Katie Allen USA Sponsors Programs Abroad The Institute of International Education has just published a new edition of U. S. College- Sponsored Programs Abroad: Academic Year, for the growing number of U. S. students who want to study and travel abroad while earning U. S. college credit, as inexpensively as possible. The book describes nearly 500 undergraduate and graduate pro grams to be held in 48 countries during 1974-75. It is the only single reference source in which the study-abroad programs of all rec ognized U. S. colleges are de scribed. Most of the programs listed are open to students of colleges other than the sponsoring institutions. All award U. S. col lege credit. The programs range in length from one academic quarter to a full calendar year. The 85 fields of study they offer include all basic hberal-arts studies and, in spe cialized fields, range from African studies to urban affairs. Program descriptions give dates, fields aca demic level, prerequisites, credits awarded, language of instruction whether courses are taught by U. S. or foreign faculty or both costs and travel and housing in- U. S. College-Sponsored Pro grams Abroad: Academic Year may be ordered from the Institnio of International EI„S“'S uui/, tor $3.50 per copy. Payment .firsts from globs of mud — but not enough, yelled for more. Maybe they’re just not hungry enough — been spoon-fed for too long — sigh — Mud globs — don’t you want to grow to be big and strong like God Knowledge? What is wrong — where is crea tive life? I feel as though it is lost in a file cabinet in an aban doned office. Mouths that open and shut and yell during all meals, suddenly disappear in a classroom — teacher up front fu- tilely trying to create discussion, but it lapses into a monologue TO a deadpan, mind-travelling audience. I don’t want to be talked TO — I want to talk WITH - thoughts, feelings, words, ges tures, gazes — "Where is com munication? Don’t always go wading alone — sometimes people join me — sometimes EVEN mud globs. But that doesn’t last long — might lose their place in the mud line. Where is challenge — "Where is abstract thought communicated? In a bathroom? What is wrong — where are stimulated minds and bodies — Memo: pray to monument — i.e. God Knowledge — ask for some intelligent beings to think with — for Christmas. Been thinking ’bout buying me some Super vision X-ray eye glasses — put ’em on and see what is really cooking behind those silent mouths — Heard a lady say once: When you dig down deep, you lose good sleep, and it makes you heavy company — I feel as if I’m in a mud-filled ditch — long and narrow. It sits stagnant beside a road of fast moving objects — are they thoughts, are they ideas, are they creative? I’ll never know until I get out of the mud — Great Knowledge — send me some paddles! New Course Offered Where are questions — ran across some the other day — still going over the conservative ideas projected at symposium — good but — Hmmmmm. . . . Why are they so conservative? Go to a deeper level and try to expand. Symposium good — got reaction For the 1974 fall semester, the English Department is offering an exciting new course entitled Se lected Southern Writers. This course is an outgrowth of Dr. Louise Gossett’s January program on North Carolina writers. Dr. Gossett stresses the fact that her course is selected; it is not a sur vey course, and its content can be altered from year to year. An historical perspective of the South will be obtained from the works of the Antebellum author William Gilmore Simms and from the writings of post Civil War novelist George Washington Cable. Most of the study will con cern 20th century writings includ ing those of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Conner, and Eudora Welty. The reading will stimulate re sponses to such questions as “Is there a Southern literature?”, “What does the region offer a writer?”, and “What image of the South emerges from her writers?”. The course will also be concerned with the speech pat terns, the interest in the past, the code of honor, black and white relations, North-South tensions, the value of the land, and the status of women; these are prev alent issues existing in most Southern works. too t «es are spileat'? Moving is such a task now — am hitting thicker obstructions. Nice weather — good for thinking — looking up and seeing clouds and beyond — looking down and seeing moss families and ideas going there — But mud doesn’t seem to agree — too nice a weather for thoughts. An hour’s up — time to roll over and fry the other side — Hey, mud globs — gonna fry your brains one of these hours! Or does it matter? Heard another ladyasLi one feels the presence o , derground Man inside ttpir No one could say -! J '* * just roved the room wa,™ another to speak, taj. Not a single Unde,g,5' around ain't we H-m-m-m-M . . , seems body’s gonna say a it looks safe - gonna atti megaphone to your grave Time’s a leaving me-kij — good riddance. Don’t wn; be pestered by some mantf me to step lively - gress — just let me ke own pace, Buster! through all this gluck ing my thoughts - ideas — maybe dancing iij-f Come on mud globs - tini turn over — fry the J 5 > i ^ Siu ^ P V ^ Ui S uj O S P V CX ^ J) lU X h- m vn g tx t ^ m Editorial Staff News Editor Jen Warner A, Marilyn Turner ssistant News Editor Pam Brown Assistant Feature Editor Claudi, r. ( ■ ■— ^iduuid Lane Copy Eidtor c n , i I . r I Jordan Layout Editor i/„ .. ■ Jen Morris Business Staff Circulation Manager iypi"9 “J,> Sally Jait" Headlines Editor a" p-- -j ,|. ^‘JNor Avery Kincaid Headlines Assistants Janet Jones Cartoonist DL^* I Aggie Cowan Ann Pitt • I /- , French Editorial Contributor Beecher Mathes Published weekly, . if' holidays and summer dents of Salem College. ^ Price is $6.00 yearly. P. O. Box 10447, Salem Sta i ' Salem, North Carolina 2 Adviser Mrs. J. W. Edwards !i* Member of the United St Press Association. of Uncensored Voice fhe Salem Community. 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