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TH^ SAL^MIT^
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the uncensored voice of the salem community
co-editors AVERY KINCAID
LAURA DAY
associate editor MARILYN MYCOFF
business manager - - SALLY JORDAN
assistant business manager CAMERON HARRIS
Office hours: 4:30-9:00 p.m. Monday
4:00-6:00 p.m. Thursday
Telephone: 723-7961, Ext. 250—Salemite Office
May 8, 1973
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Thursday, May 8, 1975
Editorial Staff
news editor Jan Warner
feature editor Marilyn Turner
assistant news editor Betty Massey
assistant feature editor Anne Duncan
columnist Catherine Delbridge
headlines editor Anne Duncan
headlines assistants Sarah Parsons,
Kathy King
Cameron Harris
photographers Jan Warner
Marie Plonk
Donna Dismuke
sports editor Patt Hall
reporters Kem Mims
Sherrin Gardner
Betty Duncan
Betsy Roberts
Susie French
Betsy Sherrill
Kathy King
Rhett Huber
Business.. Staff
circulation manager Stoney Myers
typists Kathy Watkinson
Susie French
Sally Jordan
Sally Gamble
Janet Ross
Published bi-monthly, excluding examina
tions, holidays and summer vacation, by
students of Salem College. Subscription
is $6.50 yearly. Mailing address: P.O.
Box 10447, Salem Station, Winston- Sa
lem, North Carolina 27108.
Mailed by Third Class Permit No. 31 of
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27108
Member of United States Student Press
Association
advisor Mrs. J. W. Edwards
Dear Editors,
I have read some trite articles
in this paper before, but “Salem
Girls Play Futile Game” takes
the cake. Virgin Roulette??? Real
ly, now!!! Sure, girls (and boys)
talk about others, but why should
you care? Your true friends won’t
stab you in the back. As for my
self, I don’t give a damn what
people say about me unless they
are genuinely concerned and wish
to say something to my face about
my behavior. So relax, “concerned
student,” and the next time you
get upset about this problem, just
tell the girl spreading the rumor
to keep it to herself. Also, next
time you write in, define “typical
girls’ schools.” I also don’t give a
damn what “outsiders” say about
us. I love it here.
Sincerely,
Kathy Watkinson
Dear Editor,
A new game has been introduc
ed at Salem and has now passed
Virgin Roulette in popularity. It
is played primarily by girls who
have been out of circulation for
so long that they couldn’t figure
out what Virgin Roulette is. This
new game is called Sot Roulette. It
is played by anyone and the rules
are so simple that they can be
listed!
First—The players perfect their
hyperbolic skill.
Second—Starting at 10:00 p.m.
They make periodic surprise en
tries into the bedchambers of their
fellow students.
Third—Wastebaskets, closets, and
fridges can even be inspected
for a grainier game.
Fourth—After the session is over,
each player spreads all that has
been said as sure fire-water truth.
The results of this game almost
surpass the t r a g e d y of All My
Children. Too few are hurt and
nothing said can be remembered
for long. As “the concerned stu
dent” suggested, a student’s per
sonal life should be her own anH
no one else’s.
It is a ^shame that when
should
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skill
working, Salem students""'
use so little of their intellectual
ERA Supported By Salem Students And Faculty
The vote was close (especially
among students) but ERA won
out in the end. Results of The Sa
lemite sponsored poll on ERA are
as follows:
STUDENTS:
For ERA
Against ERA
Neutral . .. .
FACULTY:
For ERA
Against ERA
Neutral
155
103
3
45
11
1
Many of those voting for ERA,
however, expressed some reserva
tion about its implications. The
Salemite selected a few of the
most interesting comments, both
pro and con, from the many we
received. They are as follows:
FACULTY:
“The defeat of ERA is one of
the reasons I taped over First in
Freedom on my license plate.”
“I’m not against equality for
women or any other American
citizen, but I think provisions for
this equality are all in the Civil
Rights act passed in the 1st John
son administration. Our Constitu
tion is a very neat document and
I don’t want to see it cluttered
with superfluous amendments.”
“Why ERA? We already have
equal rights!”
“Yes. I agree that women under
the law should have the same
rights. I don’t agree ERA is need
ed! Women are part of the citiz
enry of the USA. I actually agree
with Sam Ervin. Women have
those rights guaranteed by the law
and should challenge any which
are not in accord. Why should
women make the same mistake
men have made and believe that
everything can be brought about
by a constitutional amendment?”
“I support the ERA—most def
initely!”
“I do not oppose ERA, but I
haven’t a c t i v ely supported it—
given speeches, marched, written
letters, tried to win converts. I
am certainly in f a v 0 r of equal
rights—a n d responsibilities—for
women. I am not sure, however,
that a constitional amendment is
the best method of securing and
insuring those rights. The whole
matter has been terribly obscured
by the hot rhetoric from both
sides. ERA is a means, not an
end. Unfortunately, most of those
who speak on the matter seem
to regard ERA as a means by
which they may avenge them
selves on the male or as a threat
to Manhood, Motherhood, and the
American Way—True Believers
all.”
“I support the ERA ... up to a
point!”
“Historically, American society
has been racist and sexist, de
spite the rhetoric about the equali
ty of all people, thus, race and
sex must be specifically referred
to in civil rights legislation and a
constitutional amendment. See:
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) —
Blacks cannot be citizens of the
U.S.
Minor v. Happersett (1875) —
The 14th Amendment did not con
fer the right to vote upon females.
The 14th, 15th and 19th amend
ments were consequently neces
sary to overcome these adverse
Supreme Court decisions.
“You should include the trustees
in your poll.”
“I’m opposed because the most
knowledgeable constitutional law
yer in the country (ex-Sen. Ervin)
says it’s a lousy bill.”
STUDENTS:
“I like being treated inferior. I
like having my doors opened. I
like being taken out. I like being
a girl under my man.”
“I am opposed to the ERA—I
don’t think people are aware of
all the clauses in the amend
ment.”
“I see the ERA as a means to
help relieve women of sex roles in
stilled in them and for men as
well. I don’t see the ERA as a
threat to those who are happiest
in the traditional sex roles.”
“I support equal pay for equal
work, of course, but there are cer
tain things in the ERA that I feel
would be detrimental more than
good to society, and do not feel
that I could support them under
any circumstances.”
“. . . a careful reading of ERA
reveals that the proposals would
take away many of the privileges
which women now enjoy . . . wo
men will not come into their own
until attitudes change—and no
clause of ERA guarantees that.”
“Women have more rights with
out the ERA.”
“I think ERA is ridiculous for
various reasons too numerous to
mention here, and I will never
support it! I like being a woman—
apart from a man!”
“I don’t support equality for
women in everything—I don’t
think, for instance, that a war is
a woman’s place.”
“Passage of the ERA will insure
equal rights for everyone.”
“I think it’s more than we’ve
asked for! or bargained for.”
“It is time for women to be in
dependent-women should be on
the same level as a man!”
“I don’t want to be drafted! !”
“The ERA is unnecessary as
the changes that it proposes are
already taken care of in the civil
rights act of 1985—why clutter the
constitution with unnecessary a-
mendments. W'e need to get the
ones we already have to be rec
ognized and obeyed.”
“I think it would be good if we
had a program concerning just
the basic statements of ERA—in
Fresbman Studies we are going
to take it up.”
“I am opposed to the ERA—in
creases bureaucracy, by tying up
more court cases in high Federal
courts.”
“I think it most important that
we insure the rights that were
established in the history of the
U. S. Supporting ERA would be
this insurance.”
“If someone does not support
it, it is because they don’t under
stand it.”
“I enjoy being treated as more
than just one of the guys, some
times, not all the time. Legisla
tion is not the answer to equality
—changes of opinion will have to
be the deciding force.”
“The time has long since passed
when men and women should have
had equal opportunities in the
job market. ERA will replace the
piecemeal, spotty legislation exist
ing today with a blanket guar
antee. Unfortunately, much of the
ERA debate has become a shout
ing match in which neither side
has the maturity to listen to the
other.”
“Fm very disappointed N. C
voted down the ERA and hope
that its decision will not defeat
passage of the ERA for good.”
“I am in support of the ERA
all the way. Any career woman
(or prospective) is crazy not to
be! I am a member cf 'the Vir
ginia chapter of NOW. I think
more women and men need to
know exactly what the provisions
of ERA state.”
“Women are so used to being
weaklings that they have becomi
comfortable in their inferior posi
tions in society. Many will accept
this position rather than be count
ed as a person rather than just a
woman.”
“Milton would hate me—a wo
man’s place is back in man’s rib
cage! ?!?!”
“I see no harm in reiterating the
fact that there should be no dis
crimination based on sex.”
Salem has much more in
f thrills af.
forded by Sot Roulette.
For instance, a good morning
game is “Endurance Roulette ’
conditions for this game are an
open dorm window over a drive
and the player must be in bed in
this room on a morning with no
classes. The object is to see how
long one can remain in bed (teeth
clenching allowed) before the
revving and changing gears of
trucks and the shouts of their
drivers force a reaction from
player. People who sleep through
the noise are disqualified (this is
an endurance test, remember), so
winners are those who can get up,
shut the window, and go back to
sleep. Losers are the poor devils)
who just get up for good.
Another game—where, however,
one is rarely a victim, is Pasta
Roulette. The object is to
out before 6:00 p.m. if the refec
tory will feature its infamous,
lasagna. Variations on this game
.afford the skilled a week of epi
curean bliss. By going out for a
good meal on Pasta Night, one
usually returns the next for a
meal with meat and cooked vege
tables that are served in their)
recognizable forms.
You see? Any idiot can play
A Concerned Sot
editorial
Saigon fell. ERA in North Carolina failed. And once|
more Salem slept, or so it seemed.
Six or eight years ago the defeat of the Equal Rights
Amendment in North Carolina would have been an excuse
for a demonstration (or at least a sit-in or two) on many)
college campuses. This was the exciting and often disturb-i
ing era of the vocal Sixties, when individuals said what
was on their minds, whether it made any sense or not
The Seventies are different. Demonstrations are passe.
The once-loud voice of student rebellion is silent, not be
cause of administrative force but by the choice of the stu-
aents themselves. College students today prefer to keep
their individual thoughts to themselves, and Salem is no
exception. The last time we “demonstrated” for or against
anything was the Great 1973 March From The Lily Pond
To Chandler’s Office when intervisitation was being dis
cussed.
The silence of the Seventies is probably an over-reaction
to the boisterous Sixties. But to assume that college stu
dents, and Salem students in particular, are no longer opin
ionated just because they are quiet is wrong.
When the North Carolina legislature defeated the ERA.
Salem did seem to be sleeping. Because Salem is a womens
college, one would think that this issue would have beer
an important one to many students. As it happened, ERA
was scarcely mentioned one way or the other in dorms or
classrooms. It was only when The Salemite conducted a
poll of students’ and faculty/administration’s feelings on
ERA that we discovered that Salem was still alive an
kicking.
The response to the poll was interesting. Over 300 bal
lots were returned, which is a pretty damn good respons
for this campus. But more importantly, the poll also poi8
ed out that while the Salem community might, not be wi
mg to vocalize about the ERA or anything else, when
comes down to writing what they believe, they really co
through. We were amazed at the quantity (and quality)
written comments on both sides of the ERA question anu
wish to thank those who participated.
Hopefully, this poll has helped stimulate at ^
more campus-wide discussion of important issues. „
what one feels is fine, but discussing it certainly na
college life more interesting. Salem students and g
certainly don’t need to return to the often disruptive
of the Sixties in order to express their views, but a
more vocalizing around here certainly couldn’t hur •
Avery Ki«.a
Laura
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