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P.,eTwo TH€ SAL€MIT€ ^ iillip Salrmttt Welcc The Idiot and the Oddit t. bj-. c~ .j. ^^sunda. ^„i.ht ^^fo„„d^ p,ay.„, ^ ; Business Manager Katherine Skinn se small- the first take a stance amid the fifth floor stacks nf^ti Assistant Business Manager Janet Kirkland still newlastVing. Forest library in the battle against ignorance S A Plans are to provide a collection enough, I got off to a pretty good start. NeS 4:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday include contemporary the works of fellow scholars (I prided mv«on Telephone 723^7961 Ext 250 Salem.te Oll.ce — Sc. ourreS. in' realization) I read and reread JndertS I Or call 727-1421 or 727-9002 |^g g and committed copious comments to the margina i Thursday, October 11 feature, but a sub-section on I always do, I glanced up to find some other object t a * the theater will include scripts of attention to. What chanced to catch my eye was T rr-ii T-t T. current Broadway and ofi-Broad- orange book belittled by an impressive expanse of F I dPttpr to I HP rdflltor wav productions. Non-fiction addi- pedia Britanica’s to the left and the bulging volnS* lU rue J_jU. LU tion^s will include travel, recrea- some ancient unheard-of encyclopedia to the right n Dear Editor: me that the library has not been biography and politics as my pencil in Wordsworth (or rather his book) and * As I read the 1974 Salem cata- equipped with stereos, that I could subjects. inspect this fellow oddity. ° logue, I was interested in the not take the records out of the ^ gift of $1000, Upon closer examination of the book I found in . ■ description of our newly reno- library and that if wanted to t^g gf fg74_ ^jn interestingly enough entitled. Some Things Wnw?}l vated library. One sentence states hear the records badly enough I the Browsing ing: A Generalists Guide to Useful Knowledel ? 5.™’ that a new Audio-Visua Room would have to have a professor Chase. I thought to myself that it must be a n?etf^ houses a large collection of micro- check he records out for me. Suggestions of titles for the little book judging from the title and the film and non musical recordings. Needless to say, I felt very B,g^si„g collection are always among all those brainy encvclonedias ClnunL with the latest equipment for their frustrated as I left the library. It ff ygu would like to chapter I discovered a trivia fuiz vvhich T use. ’ Since I was aware that seems as if students just cannot , ypgg ^fgj. addition to the ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ these recordings included the be trusted with recordings and ggUgction, please fill out this form who wrote the Divine Comedv-> plays of Shakespeare, I went that we must resort to elementary rpti.rn it to the I ibrarv vv nu vyiuie uie iJivine i^omedy . rushing over to the library as I school tactics to check out ma- and return it to the Library. What is a flying buttress ? studied for my Shakespeare terial that we need. All students Suggestions for Bavlov^. course. either own a good stereo or have Browsing Collestion: f Perhaps the Audio-Visual Room a friend who has one. The records A„fhnr Name a book by Karl Marx etc . . . exists, but I never saw it. When I would not suffer if we used them. “ Meanwhile back at Salem, the Sunday night ret,,™ asked a librarian about the rec- Professors have more to do than Title AV^ere having a pow-wow around the communal ords I was bluntly told that only to spend time checking out ma- popper sharing weekend experiences. The Idiot was tk teachers are allowed to take them erials for students, t is stupid • ^^^^g the natives of third floor. I bustled in bou e out of the library^ Remembering to even have materials that can- Title books on the nearest bed, and proceeded to tdl them ” the information abo^ the latest not be widely used. This is a Author the little orange book that I had found. I fished the k equipment I asked if I could ridiculous situation that has got to j -4- 4. 4.1, nsneu me ix« listen to the record in the library, be rectified. Shakespeare deserves he... p_ A ^ _ e sarne trivia quiz tl Apparently the “latest equip- to be heard as well as read, and Author ^ .® ment” is pure myth, at least as students deserve the right to use Title ® H had retaito far as stereo systems are con- all library materials. Please return to ^^^i learning. Most agreed that they had cerned. The librarian informed Catherine Delbridge Gramley Library. ^ subjects at some time, but had just ^ them until now when they were resurrected. There was one question, however, that no one was al Versatility Prevails Amonsr Students All of the science majors insisted that they had\ad iti » O micro, or physics, or one of those courses. The remainden ^ J • TA • A T • us, the un-science majors admitted that it may have crosif 1 rivia ana l^liaues Uominate Lives our paths maybe once, but that it really did not fom 1. ' lasting impression. So while the Idiot and her sdei By Charlotte Pepper expendable. There is the rustle of way to a rapidly-filling table of unshelved numerous science books, the Odi “. . . Guess who was at the starched lab coats, and they dis- others in her own likeness. With abandoned the search and went to bed. White Horse last night?” (Click, perse, leaving behind a distinctive apparent relief, she finds a va- sooner had I pulled up the sheets, than ray roorania click. Change programs.) aura and a lingering cloud of cant seat and without hesitation, I heard a strange scratching on our door. It contiif “. . . And he’s a Sig. Ep.” entering into the ongoing dia- irregular intervals for quite some time. Realizing (Click, click.) We watch as the Refectory be- logue: probable source, I whispered to my roommate that it r “. Boola, boola . ” (Click empty. Group leaders “• ■ • What'd ya do this week- be the second law of thermodynamics. Although it u End of program. To be continued ^^eir disciples depart and go end? What ya doing next week- dark, I could have sworn that I heard her brow wrii or repeated as is necessary ) ’ ^^eir separate ways, and with end?” (Click, click. Change pro- rate, when the noise subsided, she got up to die Now Hirppt vn„r ottontion pwpv ‘^em goes the potential for mak- grams.) Sure enough, there it was: “There is a tendency tow from the group engaging in social ^ stimulating, maximum randomness,” with the additional comment, '1 JSc«ukr"nT„S'tos S Book view* Gmsbei-P- ““f* «»“■-.supreme.” the “not-so-Salemish” girl the ^ ® purchase of * VrinSDei g ^ And so it started . . . third floor’s true liberal arts edii questionable Jr. Leaguer. ’ She ^udividuality has By Victor de Keyserling Won. Jan Somerville would be proud of us. The Idiot pos represents the ones who, follow- own Hp JraWp ^’ "^den Ginsberg’s candid and ^ ball with the invitation ing graduation, will not immedi- j^ool to be’dliS^S P™vocative views on subjects ®^bmit any trivia questions, and every Sunday night ? ately exchange their jeans for ground aSorlg to in.lTn ranging from contemporary Ss ^ ^^bvia party and find the answers Byt Talbert’s of Boston, the ones who, feres^s tastes and values and ™r™Ption surrounding who was the only wife of Henry VIII to bear ln« mo thP mm- " assimilate course, fraternities). Yet at legislation on nar- ^ ’ into the sta ion wagon set quite galem, this has been exacted to book which also so gracefully as their Salem -,.„u „ Hparop thot no ° 4 abounds in rich and colorful anop ■ ■ ■ w rootTf h nti S?ed tariett a^d tts^: '^^^batim — Lectures Hockey Team Strives for a Great Yeoi A f Furthermore, unless there is a i R^btics, Conscious- to the salad bar for bean sprouts individualism, I see the “"^Pb^d and edited by and hippie-type food And how chances of Salem remaining a Ball (McGraw-Hill, $6.95). after reaching for the parsley multi-faceted, multi-dimens"L1 The book resulted from a series A institution lessened wit of “cross-country exchange wards an empty corner and sa- ^^^ase of Topsiders i^ctures, rhapsodies’’ of vors her meal in solitude. In fact, P Allen Ginsberg with “fellow noets she remains detached, isolated While participating in this great students, scholars saddhus ” Tn from the rest of the school much academic decathalon, I have ob- most of them he speaks dirpctl of the time. (And she never goes f rved a distinct and rigidly- to the vast constituenev nf tZ out with the girls for a burger!) defined caste system, here at Sa- young who see in him the A Yet, there are those among us iom. There are, within our midst, bodiment of the escane fmrr, T’ who pattern (or is that “patent”?) certain groups around which life “prison of conditioning ” ™ themselves after her, suggesting seemingly revolves. As these colo- In the area of coZmnr^ to outsiders that Salem is no nies transmit trends, they breed American poetrv this ^ longer a school for “nice” girls. conformity, and orthodoxy infects vides valuable material nAZ' Still another prototype indigen- our campus. Pound, WillZ Carlos Win■ ous to Salem can-be discerned Behold the Salem Refectory at Jack Kerouac Charles o?A’ if you 1 let your eyes rove to the mealtime: a mirror in which to Robert Duncan and manv nth! ’ book^luttered table occupied by catch a glimpse of yourself as as well as Ginsberg’sZn th A hunch-shouldered members of the others see you. (Look closely, on prosody and sneecrrhA ' academia. The intelligentsia: well- being careful not to mistake an- in poetry ^^ech rhythms versed m the arts and sciences, other’s reflection for your own ) Another asnect nf r- u these gifted few act as shining Follow the girl with the bottle of pears in the sect o^ of Z beacons for the deplorable souls diet dressing, an excellent sped- Traffic.” Some Sanw 1 floundering in the darkness of man for observation. She is a indicate the senn!^ ! Illiteracy. With forks held like member of the common species proach- “AddicS p°^P" pencils, they grudgingly allow Promo Collegias. It is believed 1970’’; '‘‘CrSe in tf ime to refuel - to restoke the t^hat this species reproduces itself Caused by Mdidion p r A')*' furnace of their minds - to re- by mitosis, based on their ever- “Narcotics Ann! Politics”; kindle the blazing flame of knowl- increasing population. She thriv- Peddl edge. 'These brief moments spent on beer and has a life expectam in esoteric discourse also serve of Friday-Sunday. (Or rather si as a comforting reminder that is expected to live Frid their participation in our educa- through Sunday.) Don’t’lose sig tional community is, indeed, in- of her as she urgentlv makp; h Are you looking for an excuse to abandon the books? Are you tired of watching Wake Forest lose every gam.e? Well here’s your chance to see some victori ous action. The Salem College Hockey Team will “roll-in” to the hockey season starting Tuesday, Oct. 15 at Averette College in Dan ville. After they push past Aver ette, they will tackle Guilford, N. C. State, and Wake Forest. Now that you’ve got the scoop. make your goal to attend the® game and cheer the Saleniitesi to victory. Here’s the schedule: Tues., Oct. 15 . Averette Col (1 Thurs., Oct. 24... Guilford CoU* Tues., Oct. 29.-Averette Col (I Fri., Nov. 1 N. C. Statejj Tues., Nov. 5 .. .. Wake ForesJjJ Tues., Nov. 12. Fri., Nov. 15 ... Thurs., Nov. 21 _ Guilford d' j N. C. State |I' Old vs ‘Narcotics Drugs”; “CIATnwiveTOnTwm Opium Traffic at Its Source " a^rKadth!"'" - «»"•' Editorial Staff Jan Warner Feature Editor Marilyn Turner ssistant News Editor Pam Brown Assistant Feature Editor Claudia Lane Sally Jordan Penny Lester H Editor Avery Kincaid Headlines Assistants Marilyn Mycoff r * . Kathy Watkinson Cartoonist a • ^ DL^. I Aggie Cowan Photographers ^nn Pitt CJ-. . , ^ Kiki French ^■tonai Contributor Beecher Mathes - Mrs, J. W. Edwards Uncensored Voice the Salem Community. Business Staff Circulation Manager Typing Mary Kathy Wa*'--, Sally Sally Ca’;' Janet Published weekly, excluding ® t holidays and summer dents of Salem Price is $6.00 yearly- P. O. Box 10447, Salem Sta^' Salem, North Carolina ^ ]—^ Member of the United States Press Association. —-Z No. 3'* Mailed by Third Class Perm'* ' ^ i Winston-Saleit' Salem College, 27108.
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