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Volume LXIII
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February 13,1981
serving the salem college community since 1920
Praise for
Our President
l)r. Morril Starts S>ni-thinf! his*-
“There is a crying
need for books like this
today," says a
spokesman for Jossey-
Bass Publishers whose
records put Teaching
Values in College near
the top in sales for their
1980 Higher Education
Series.
The book by Dr.
Richard L. Morrill,
president of Salem
Academy and College,
wouldn’t have done so
well a few years ago, he
thinks, but says the
“timing was perfect.”
“People are realizing
something has gone
awry, that education
has gone wrong, and
they are looking for
answers in such books as
Morrill’s,” said Steven
Piersanti of the San
Francisco publishng
firm.
In his book, Morrill
addresses many of the
issues exposed in
Levine’s When Dreams
and Heroes Die and in
the Carnegie study. Fair
Practices in Higher
Education: Rights and
Responsibilities of
Students and Their
Colleges in a Period of
Intensified Competition
for Enrollments.
Some of these issues
are cheating, grade
inflation, theft
(especially library
books), and abuses of
financial aid -- patterns
that came to full flower
during the 1960’s.
Sates of the book have
been primarily to
college administrators,
boards, and faculty
leaders, but, says
Piersanti, “society as a
whole is sobered by
what has happened to
values and is looking to
education for some
answers.”
Salem College .News Bureau
Learn A Little Law
College News Bureau
8o to bed with it.
' If j it- It surrounds
ij, *the LAW ... that
' ifl ’ mysterious
itj'hieration of in-
that affects
On. of every day
moment we
( the radio to get
,f,°*'ning weather
and are
C'^^ed” by FCC
' ’ the law is with
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packaged
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as are the
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itspl*'cn to school --
a veritable
of complex
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are dcter-
are dcter-
Sffj^law. And when
work, the
there, with its
heavy hand on our
paychecks and its laws
regarding hours, equal
pay, retirement. The air
we breathe is the
government’s business,
and where we live to
breathe it is wat
chdogged by the law -
through fire and safety
laws in its stores, food
laws in its restaurants,
taxes we pay on pur
chases, and how and
where we cross its
streets!
Anything this
relentlessly pervasive
should be understood.
Unfortunately, the
complexity of our lepl
system makes for
confusion, and tne
system remains a
frustrating
most of us. The LAW.
established FOR us. >s
badly misunderstood
and, in some 'J
nothing more than an
esoteric exercise for
well-paid lawyers and
judges.
Attorney William
Pfefferkorn plans to
throw some light on
some of the murkier and
less-understood areas of
the legal system when
he teaches a six-weeks
evening course,
“.Justice on Trial,” at
Salem College begin
ning Wednesday,
February 18, at 7;’30
p.m.
Participants will
consider actual court
trials, the strategy of
lawyers, and concrete
questions such as How-
do I make the law work
for me? How can I be
effective in influencing
social decisions? and
How can we creatively
deal with the law and
prevent it from being a
set of regulations that
stifle us?
Issues like the
relationships between
the media and the legal
system and the effect of
opening courts to
television will be ex
plored.
Pfefferkorn, J.D.,
University of Chicago
Law School, is' a senior
partner of the law firm
of Pfefferkorn and
Cooley. He is a member
of the Board of
Governors of the North
Carolina Academy of
Trial Lawyers and has
18 years’ experience as
a trial lawyer.
His course is one of
many in Salem’s in
creasing effort to make
it easier for more people
to take regular and
special college courses.
Evening courses and
noontime courses
downtown are both part
of the Continuing
Education Program.
A Different View of the Release
After our group from
Salem spent the mor
ning of January 20th
seeing the sights of
Amsterdam, we went
our separate ways to go
shopping. We recon
vened in the hotel bar
for a pre-dinner Holland
brewed Heineken, and
someone announced
that the 52 American
hostages had been
released. 1 immediately
felt an undescribable
joy, but quickly realized
1 had no one to share it
with except for the 12
other Americans on the
tour.
The apathy of those
around us was un
believable; in fact,
when our British tour
guide mentioned the
release later, there was
no feeling of emotion or
excitement whatsoever
in her voice. It is a
strange - perhaps, scary
feeling to see
foreigners give such
little notice to a
significant happening in
one’s own country. They
(English and Dutch)
celebrated the joy of
victory at the end of WW
II with Americans.
Have we fallen in their
eyes, so that they no
longer care what goes
on in the United States
of America?
I want to express what
we Americans felt when
we heard of the long-
awaited release. We
were glad that
President Carter had
gotten the hostages out.
His Administration paid
the price for the
defacing of America by
the Iranians; now, they
can leave office
gracefully with a
grateful country behind
them. We also felt relief,
as did every other
American, that the
ordeal was over. Soon
the hostages will be
back in the country and
out of the news, where
they have been for too
long. Finally, as
American citizens
abroad, we could hold
our heads a little higher,
and say “I’m from the ■
United States” with
more pride. No more
feeling a little low about
the world opinion of the
United States. We
opened a tightly shut
window that many other
nations would have
cracked.
That is how it was to
hear the great news of.
January 20th, with 12
fellow Americans
amidst apathetic
Europeans.
' .Amanda Mays
VALENTINE’S DANCE
DATE: February 14, 1981
TIME: 9:00-1:00
PLACE: Convention Center, Exhibition Hall
DRESS: Semi-formal
BAND: Steve Bassett’s Virginia Breeze Band
TICKETS: $2.00 Salem Students, $4.00 Guest couples
ANNOUNCEMENTS: No food, mixers or beer allowed in the
Convention Center. You are only allowed to bring liquor in.
Mixers: $2.50 a bottle.
75 cents per glass;
Wine and beer: $1.00 per glass.
THESE ARE CONVENTION CENTER RULES
AND THEY WILL BE ENFORCED AT THE DOOR!
Remember we are still on social probation.
IRS hinges on this dance.
Be on your best behavior.
THANK YOU!