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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
Friday, December 13
editorial
Each year about this time Salem students go through
a ritual that most hate, abhor and detest — Registration.
The grumblings start the minute the proposed course sched
ule is handed out. Each student tries to arrange her schedule
for various reasons. For Spring term, the “sun time” has
a great deal to do with some schedules. Others aim for no
8:00 o’clocks and then there are the weekenders—from
Thursday till Monday that is. Of course some students
have trouble trying to fit requirements in a slot that has
no conflicts with other required courses. Most have gripes
for one reason or another and they flock to the registrar’s
office to try and change a schedule that has been made
months ahead.
Granted registration can be very frustrating, but I do
not believe that students realize how flexible our registra
tion can be. At universities the schedule is made out by
computers—there are no changes! Students camp out over
night in an enormous line to try and get a special course
or one in great demand. We stand in line for, at the most,
three hours — complaining how much time everything
takes. I am also an offender of this but — Salem students
things could be so much worse!
Everyone complains—but have we done anything about
our complaints? At Salem the student is listened to. We do
not have to fight a computer—only the registrar and we
can get results. Each department tries to have their own
required courses with no conflicts. But between the differ
ent departments they just can not fix a schedule with no
conflicts for each individual.
So, students, if you have any concrete suggestions on how
to better or radically alter our system of registration then
take these suggestions to the office. Voice your complaints.
That is the only way changes can be made. Our progress of
the past four years is obvious proof of that statement.
LLL
Corporations
Control Economy
By Victor de Keyserling
A penetrating view from the
Left of the break in the continuum
of American foreign policy that
began with the Truman Doctrine
and ended with the Johnson ad
ministration is provided by
America After Nixon by Robert
Scheer (McGraw-Hill, $7.95).
As the author notes in a Pre
face, “It is the essential thesis of
this ’book that the public political
process no longer rules this na
tion, that current political debate
does not deal with what is most
important, and that the basic
decisions about our future are
made for us by several hundred
super-large multinational corpora
tions, themselves out of control.”
Editor of Ramparts magazine
from 1965 to 1969 and author of
How the U.S. Got Involved in
Vietnam and co-author of Cuba:
Tragedy in Our Hemisphere,
Scheer offers a highly readable
book which is clear, concise,
written from a very specific point
of view, with a great deal of
polemical bite.
“The separation of a domestic
from a foreign policy is the first
act in the disenfranchisement of
the American public,” he writes.
“. . . The American economy is
now so hopelessly entwined with
the world economy and so fully
under the domination of its largest
multinational corporations that
any attempt to discuss our out
standing problems (be they in
flation, waste, unemployment, or
cultural alienation) without pri
mary reference to the role of
these corporations, is an act of
deception.”
Letter to The Editor
Dear Editor,
Since this is the last issue of
the “Salemite” until February, I
am submitting two letters to you.
Letter number one: Bravo for
Catherine Delbridge’s letter sev
eral weeks ago on the non-existant
Audio-Visual Room the library
claims to have in the catalog but
does not. The Gramley Library
serves as a sore spot for each
Salem student. We need to voice
our disappointment about the sad
state of existing conditions and
get some changes made. Then
perhaps the library can better
perform its function of serving
the students. Right now it is not
fulfilling its purpose,
Another seemingly false claim
the catalog makes is that the
“library can seat over one-half of
the student body.” (p. 21) Now
get with it. Who are they kidding?
Sure it can accommodate half of
us — on the floor and maybe the
lecture room, neither of which is
satisfactory for studying. If the
little ground floor study room to
the left of the front door as you
go in was unlocked more often,
that would be a big help. Another
drawback in the library that con
cerns students is that Salem stu
dents are not allowed to work in
the library at night. This is a
I
terrible oversight. With so many
of our girls willing and wanting
to work, why are the evening
hours given to outside students?
This hardly seems practical or
fair.
As for the hours of the library
being open, it is my understand
ing that they are to be extended.
This is certainly a welcome and
helpful change.
A final concern (maybe
should not say “final”, but its the
last one in my letter) of Salem
students is the rudeness they are
subjected to in the library by
some of the librarians. They seem
to resent us wanting to use
“their” books. This curtness does
not make for a good atmosphere
and is not conducive to an enjoy
able place for study. Salem stu
dents unfortunately are not re
ceiving the full value and benefit
of a college library. These are
just a sampling of student con
cerns. Let’s hope the New Year
will bring about many needed
changes.
Letter number two: Have you
made your Christmas wish yet? I
would like to share one with you.
It is my wish that the chemistry
department could formulate a
magic solution to duplicate and
multiply Ted Young. He has mi
raculously done more for Salem
College' than any one person
during his year and a half here.
It is obvious what a happy at
mosphere he has created which
permeates the campus in many
undefinable ways. Not only has
Ted given us a great Refectory
that we are proud to bring guests
to, he also has a genuine interest
in each girl which has made him
a personal friend to every stu
dent. What would Founder’s day.
Interclub and IRS weekends,’
Dating Games, Thanksgiving
Dinner and other special occa
sions be without him?
With this magic formula we
could put Ted Youngs all over
campus. Just think how nice even
the library would be with a dupli
cate Ted checking out our books.
With so many Teds, Salem would
be the only school around where
the students had no complaints.
Well, wish as we might, I
guess its only wishful thinking.
So now I would like to take this
opportunity on behalf of the whole
student body to wish Ted and Jim
Robinson and their fantastic staff
a very merry Christmas and
thank them for making fall se
mester ’74 such a great one.
-Betsy Sherrill
Christmas
is the shining
festival of the unselfish.
It is the homecoming of
the spirit ... the glorification
of all that is good.
The Moravian Candle Tea
has become a welcome
tradition in Winston-Salem since
its inception in 1929. This yearly
event combines warm hospitality
and fellowship and marks the
opening of the Christmas
season for many people.
It also serves to link
the present with the past
through the various phases of
the candle-making, the sugar cake
and the special blend of Moravian
coffee. In this way
it gives emphasis
to the religious significance
of Christmas.
Visitors to the Old Salem
restoration
are shown how candles
are made and trimmed.
The ingredients of the candles
are beeswax and tallow.
The pure and slow-burning
beeswax
represents Christ’s steadfast
love for us. The red
crepe collar signified Christ’s
blood shed for all people.
The Idiot and the Oddit
By Sherrin Gardner and Marilyn Turner
With the coming of exam time and the nervou
tion accompanying it, the Oddity and I have found of '
suddenly unable to grasp the subject at hand. Consen^
we are dropping out. We did not arrive at this drast'^^"*'*
elusion at the drop of a hat; it took a considerable
of events to lead us to this point.
On the Eve of the Term Paper, I was absorbed
pleting my academic challenge. Only a rhymthic crun?'
of ice from the opposite side of the room distn^Jj
1 y-.-*-. A 4- y-Wr»/^4-l\r 1 n yvi 1/Z4XT t J. _
silence. At exactly 10:34, Gramley Dormitory'expeiT *
an explosion rivaling only the bombing of Hiroshima ?■*''
mediately rushed from the room wondering if \ '
need to administer mouth to mouth resuscitation to thp”'
conscious victim. Yet, it was only a fellow third floor'
sident announcing her arrival by dropping her portable t
writer down three flights of stairs. Thinking back on\l
incident, I believe the vibrations from the crash inflit
third floor with Dropsy Syndrome or some such malady
Sandwiched among the fans in Reynolds Coliseum tii
Oddity was unaware of the significance that the ball jam
would have on the remainder of her pre-exam, warm
week. Little did she realize that the drop in Wake Forest’
score would be synonymous with the upcoming events
The following evening having readied herself for sw
ious work, the Oddity began her usual Thursday evenij
at the typewriter. So engrossed in the rhythm of her key
board activities, the Oddity failed to realize that her
was endangered. Slipping from a precarious position ale
bookcase above, the highly prized, memory-filled rum be
terrarium crashed onto the trash can below. It produiei
a dent worthy of mention which could have as easily alter
ed the cranial capacity of the Oddity. Just because she hap
pened to miss the Messiah, there was no need to fabricate
the sound of the kettle drum.
When the crashing noise subsided, it was then appareii
that the Seniors were singing Christmas carols beneath tli
window. Wishing to be in the holiday spirit, I climbed ini
the window sill to open the window. As I reached for it,
was able to supplement the melody of Jingle Bells as
allowed the metal desk lamp to crash to the floor. Tl,
Oddity tried to compete with the lamp as she listened from
the laundry room window. Still clutching the dust pan
broom from the terrarium incident, she managed to co
with a loaded laundry rack which came down in three
harmony. I am certain that I heard a famous Anglo-Saxon
phrase uttered from the confines of the laundry room
With more than a week before exams, it frightens®
to think of all the breakable items that we will encounter
Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep a hold on things. At aiij
rate, when speaking of exams, we are both quite ready ti
drop the subject.
A Christmas Wish
By Marilyn Turner
Twas the night before exams
And all through the college
The students were trying
To cram in more knowledge.
The student teachers were nestled
All snug in their beds
While visions of kiddy- lit.
Danced in their heads.
The rest of the seniors
Taxed in the study room
The brain that would hopefully
Bring them a magna-cum.
The girt in the next room
Became quite kinetic
After fruit flies and notebook.
She had finished genetics.
The sophomores and freshmen
With countenances grumpy
Attributed their idleness
To the soph-o-more slumpy.
When up from my brain
There arose such a scene
That I dropped all my work
And fell to day dream.
For there in a twinkling
From out of my head
Robert Redford appeared
And sat down on my bed.
His eyes how they twinkled,
His dimples how merry.
His cheeks were like roses,
His nose un-comparey.
His drawl little mouth
Was drawn up in a kiss
And this burdened scholar
Was suddenly in bliss.
But then in an instant
Like snow on your skin.
My ultima Thule
Vanished again.
I exclaimed to myself
As he passed from my sigM
In spite of exams—
I’ll remember this night.
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