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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 3, 1975
Number 1
Salem Gets N. C. Subsidy
Mrs. Foster roots for the Junior Class while Mrs. Machen looks on.
Wake Holds Career Week
By Sandra Spear
Are you one of the many Salem
students who still has a question
mark under the ‘future career’
column? Have you been giving
lip service to having a ‘definite’
career choice already, but are
having second thoughts? Does a
medical career still denote ‘nurse’
to you? Are you turned off by the
thought of secretarial work but
know of no other way to enter the
business field?
If you answered yes to any or
all of these questions, then circle
the week of October 6-10 in red
ink on your calendar (red for
EMERGENCY!!). Wake Forest’s
Placement and Career Develop
ment Office is holding a “Career
Awareness Week” program for
Wake Forest and Salem from
9 a.m.-12 noon Monday thru Fri
day in the main ballroom, 3rd
floor, Reynolda Hall.
Every student at Salem, from
Freshmen to Seniors, would really
benefit from the sessions. Why?
For several reasons. First, to
quote Sarah Engram, the head of
Salem’s Placement Office, “thou
sands of new jobs that were never
heard of ten or twenty years ago”
are now available for women.
Who knows, one of those might be
right up your alley!
Second, the general economic
condition of the country makes
early career exploration a real
necessity. 'And thirdly, you would
not want to miss a chance to talk
with representatives of over
seventy companies, school sys
tems and graduate/professional
By Margaretta Yarborough
The parents of many Salem
students are getting a welcome
surprise in the mail these days—
almost as good as a tax refund.
North Carolina taxpayers are
now paying part of their Salem
tuition fees, regardless of stu
dent financial need.
The reduction, however, only
applies to in-state students. North
Carolina’s 1975 General Assembly
has made available the sum of
$200 for all students who have
lived in North Carolina for the
past twelve months and are at
tending an independent college
or university. Students must be
full time, undergraduate N. C.
residents enrolled in an approved
independent institution.
Salem College must certify the
eligible students and will do so
with information provided by
each student at registration. That
was the reason for the yellow form
which was sandwiched between
the two white ones and the pink
one, underneath the green and
blue forms. The $200 will be sent
to the College after the N. C.
State Education Assistance
Authority receives our list of
eligible students. The College will
receive $100 per eligible student
for the fall term, and $100 for the
spring term—January is not in
cluded.
Actually there are two separate
programs. For the past three
years, independent N. C. colleges
have been given $200 each year
for every in-state student. This
money has been channeled into
a pool for students based solely
on need. While the old program
continues, the new one, which
goes by the formidable title of
North Carolina Legislative Tui
tion Grants, will allocate $200 for
Topic Chosen For Symposium;
Focus Is Woman And Her Image
schools who will be there to aid
Salem and Wake Forest students
in their career choices.
While students should attend
each session, this may prove im
possible. Therefore, you might
choose the two or three sessions
which interest you the most. The
schedule for the week is as
follows:
Monday, October 6
Medical and Allied Health
Careers
Tuesday, October 7
Business and Industrial
Careers
Wednesday, October 8
Teacher/Educators Careers
Thursday, October 9
Government Services Careers
Friday, October 10
Graduate/Professional
Schools Information Day
If you either need or can provide
transportation to Wake Forest on
these days, you may sign the
sheets which will be in the Career
Reading Room or in the refectory.
Suzanne Oakley, resident counsel
or in Sister’s and intern from
Wake Forest, can answer any
further questions you may have
about Career Awareness Week.
By the way, you might want to
stop by the Career Reading Room
and the Placement office in
Lehman before you go to the ses
sions to familiarize yourself with
their many materials and ser
vices! Sarah, Suzanne, Marian
Elliott and Carol Murray would
love to help you to educate your
self on career opportunities.
By Marilyn Turner
Salem’s Lecture-Assembly has
been meeting one, two, and three
times a week since school has
started to finalize plans for this
year’s symposium. 'Thus far, plans
are inconclusive, but some head
way has been made.
The date for the symposium has
been tentatively set for February
24, 25 — a Tuesday and Wednes
day. The choice was between April
21, 22 and February 24, 25: the
latter being chosen because the
weather would be more conducive
to attendance.
The topic of the symposium was
agreed upon after much delibera
tion. Here again the choice was
between a symposium on the Free
dom of Women: Reality or Illu
sion, and a symposium on cre
ativity. The final topic was really
a compromise between the two
alternatives. The subject of the
1976 symposium will be the images
of woman: her self image and her
image of other women as is de
termined by her historical, cul
tural, religious, and social back
ground.
Therefore, the objective of the
symposium will be to increase the
student’s awareness of why she,
as a woman, sees herself as she
does. Such questions will be asked
as: What is society’s image of
woman? What is woman’s image
of herself? What is the relation
ship between society’s expecta
tions of woman and her ability to
meet her potential and aspira
tions?
As things now stand, Salem Col
lege has proposed to put up $5000
to acquire the speakers for the
symposium. However, the com
mittee is hopeful of receiving a
grant from the North Carolina
Humanities Committee that would
double the symposium funds. Con
sequently, the whole symposium
plan and format are pending upon
the grant.
Idealistically, if the grant comes
through, the symposium will con
sist of single speakers, panel dis-
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every N. C. student, regardless of
her financial need status. The
need pool will continue unchang
ed, but N. C. students without
financial need will get a tangible
break as well.
North Carolina now joins other
states which subsidize independ
ent schools in this manner. While
in-state students in state-support
ed institutions are heavily sub
sidized annually, those in inde
pendent colleges have received
little or no assistance. Money is
now being voted to independent
N. C. colleges and universities by
the General Assembly as an al
ternative to further expansion of
state schools. This should encour
age enrollment at independent
schools, many of which are on
shaky financial footing.
Not all independent schools are
eligible for the new tuition grant.
Those schools which prepare stu
dents exclusively from careers in
religious vocations, such as Pied
mont Bible College and divinity
schools, are expressly excluded
from the terms of the General As
sembly’s grant.
Any questions about the new
grants can be answered by Dean
Johnson, who is thoroughly fami
liar with the program by now—
she had to make the change-over
from the old allocation system to
the new in three short weeks this
summer. However, after signing
several hundred yellow forms,
she may not want to discuss the
subject further.
Have you ever considered
working in the Refectory as a
part-time job? Well, here’s
your chance. Not only do you
have the chance to serve your
friends and help out in the kit
chen, but you also earn a little
“greenback” for your efforts.
If you or your friends are in
terested, apply in person to
Jim in the dining room of the
Refectory or downstairs in his
office. Future openings include
waitress for dinner from 4 to 7
on weekdays and for lunch
from 11 to 2 on Saturdays.
The Class of ’77 displays their spirited form during Founder’s Day entrances.