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Page 2, Salemite, May 15,1981 Editorial I The subject for this editorial is traditional for the final issue of The Salemite. It is a congratulations, thank-you, good-bye and good-luck for all. Classes are finished and in less than a week, the 1980-81 school year will be over for Salem students. With everything winding down and with tears and sen timent beginning to flow as fast as cars pulling away from the Square, it is time to pay homage to the individual classes. To the Freshmen, congratulations for surviving your first year at Salem. Through Fall Fest, term papers, blind dates and all the rest, you’ve proved that you can do more than you ever thought possible. You can look forward to next year, knowing that you won’t be the yoimgest and also knowing that Delta Theta Chi is behind you forever! To the Sophomores, congratulations for pulling it all off. We waited late, but then used super team work to put together Sophomore-Senior. We were too busy worrying about the classes massive debts to ever have sophomore slump. Many of our class mates are leaving Salem, and our ranks will be decreased considerably. To those going elsewhere - Good-bye - you will be missed by all of us. To the Juniors, congratulations are in order as you prepare to be seniors next year. Thanks for being so generous and giving parties for all the other classes. You have made sure that we will always be well-stocked with Salem cups. I’m sure you all look forward to next year, and I hope it serves you well. To the Seniors, congratulaUons for finishing four years at Salem: from what I understand, that is no easy task. You have served well as the “big dogs” this year. You have been a great sister class - thanks for all the support and encouragement you gave the sophomores. Yours is a class of class. I want to bid you a fond and sad farewell and to wish you nothing but the best in the future. It’s yours for the taking. So Salemites, this is it. We’ve finished another year of classes, we puUed all-niters, we’ve passed P.E. (barely), we’ve improved Salem, we’ve made lasting friendships, and most important of all, we have carried on the Salem tradition. I I Summer Jobs i I I Home Ec Major Speaks Out I College Student I Across North Carolina | X summer jobs for| Home Salem!! students may be scarce, v but there are more than I f economics at Why does a liberal arts college like Salem offer Home Economics? Isn’t it just cooking and sewing? Some persons do think of Home Economics in this old stereotyped way. Yet others are beginning to realize jinore jobs than could be I Home Economics is a ■filled, according to | much broader field. iNorman Pendleton, |Some evidence of the City Job 5 changing perception of 5500 openings at the ■ Outer Banks for| I students interested in | ( ^employment on the| beach. I beach. ( = For the past several years there have been lElizabeth City Job |changing perception ■ Service office manager. |the major was seen in a cThis reason is due isurvey made earlier ■largely to extremely |this term by students in "high food and lodging |the Home Economics I costs. I Senior Seminar. I “Rents are exhor-1 Home Economics rbitant,” Pendleton said, "graduates are able to ■ “An efficiency apart- ifind career op- "ment can go for $300 to Iportunities in many |$400per week. So unless xfields. Business uses Istudents live in the area Imany home economists, jor have contacts down "especially in marketing ■here, housing can be a land retailing. Home ■ “■ - - - fr Sproblem. The Outer fplanning and interior IB anks Cha mber of |design Is a broad fidd as f Commerce can help by lis foods and nutritioi. ■giving students some |Consumer resource ■contacts of course, four Imanagement is a Yor five students may zgrowing fidd. Govem- Ishare an apartment to iment agencies, the "cut costs quite a bit.” fmedia, institutions for i ln contrast to the high ?the elderiy and han- cost of living on the Idicapped all employ router Banks during the economists, ■summer, jobs tend to ■ Those studying Home minimum wage. fEconomics at Salem cpay ( Many of the service jCoUege are particularly i Ijobsrwhich include desk Ifortuna te. Home ( clerks wiitresses 2ind cEcononiicsis concerned maids, also provide tips. |with people, families Viaira fj Amaada Maya Job openings have land the community. Its ■ already begun with the Sgraduates need thinking ■ start of warm weather, labiUties - abUities to I Pendleton explained. =reason and apply “I would estimate |problem-solvmg met- 2 that we have about 50 fhods that a liberal arts ■ openings right now,” he leducation develops, "said. “A considerable I Perhaps one reason I number of these are jthe image of just I construction jobs which Icooking 5 aro p»tr(»melv difficult Xcame and sewing about was ( are extremely difficult I . to fill. Dare County is jtecause m its esmly going all out this year on Ihistory that is what it i cottages and there is idid teach. However, by I more construciton going (this avenue, young on than I can remember |women in recent years.” | found an ap- portunity for higher education they other wise would not realized. Ellen Richards, the first president of the American Home Economics Association, was also the first woman to graduate (by certificate, not diploma) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She and other women who spoke out for the higher education of young women in Home Economics in the late 19th century were looked on much as the founders of the Women’s Rights Movement today. A new name for this major at Salem has been discussed. Feelings in Senior Seminar are both for and against a name change. A truly descriptive name ap pears to be the major obstacle to a change. Among reasons for not changing the Home Economics name is the concern that a change may confuse people rather than clarify what is embraced by the field. Others feel a new name might better indicate the changes in directions and emphasis in Home Economics, resulting in greater interest in the depart ment. As a dbcipline. Home Economics offers great variety. At Salem, foods and nutrition, interior design, fashion mer chandising or Home Economics education can be studied. Also included are child- development causes and consumer studies. Just “cooking and sewing,” it is not. f0 The Salemite Printed by Lindsey Publishing Co. and published every other Friday of the College year by the Student of Salem College. ( Pendlton saidi students interested in .. working on the Outer i Banks may apply for ■ jobs through any local 1 = Employment Security Commission office. “As job openings come in, we will put them on microfiche which are distributed throughout the state,” he said. “If students do not have a specific job in mind, they can fill out a Managing Editor - Amanda Mays Business Manager - Donna Smith Features Editor - Caroiyn McColium Arts Editor - Robin Eimore Circuiation Manager - Beth Mundin Layout Editor - Amanda Mays Reporters - Ginger Sprinkle Stephanie King Ann Biswell Karen Merchant of Commerce Infomration Center on the U.S. 158 By-Pass at Kitty Hawk. The office will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday from April 18 until schools close. Then the office will operate from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Employment Security of North partial summer em ployment application at Commission any Job Service office Carolina and it can be mailed to us. If they tell us what their primary interest y^J^ possess office is, when they can come you’ve got a good down for a visit and ojjance at landing a will be when they will ne gummer job.” So says ^ available for work, we Mitchell S. Fromstein, will take it from there.” president of Manpower, Students may also _ (.jjg world’s largest apply for these jobs by temporary service firm, visiting a mobile job ..jj, order to replace placement office which workers who will be set up at the -retire’ for the summer Outer Banks Chamber g^re for their I Fun Facts j Ye shall know them by their products. And y®*’ I those products shall multiply, c Take, for example, the fact that three out of ■ college students own hand-held calculators. H*. " have 10-speed bikes, and six out of ten own tenB|* ( rackets. What with calculating, biking and teni® „ playing, you’d think students would be kept I busy. But lo - 38 percent of college students si1 I they own a backgammon set. And a whopping ^ percent own a Monopoly game (perhaps they coun their money with their hand-held calculators). ( This is only a sampling of the findings from j| recent surveys, one by Monroe Mendelsolff ( Research Inc. and the other by Communications Advertising Services to Students (CASS). Toget^^ I the surveys are a veritable Who Buys What am'’™ I college students. Herewith, some of the more ’ ( - teresting tidbits: - The “natural look” notwithstanding, cosme^^ I use is booming on campuus. Eight out of 10 fem*’ I undergrads use mascara and blusher, and I as many (72 percent) use eye shadow. Two-th**''l I use naU polish. And - here’s a puzzler - lipstick j ( most apt to be used in the South and least in West. ' Witt. - The leather look is all the rage in footwear, 65 percent of women and 37 percent of men owni«, I leather booths. ' I - Next to the calculator, the most pi^ular 5 pliance is the Now-dryer. Eight out of 10 wo® I own one; six out of 10 men. ^ I - Here’s encouraging news: only 18 PerceoJ . I students smoke cigarettes, and 65 percent of th 5 undergrads who do smoke, smoke low-tar brapj I - Playboy is the leading m agazine among men = campus, reaching an astonishing 43 percent of ^ I male students. The leader among women I Glamour, reaching one in three female stude® ( - “School spirit” is high, with 83 percent of students saying they drink alcoholic bevers8 I ” The most popular inebriant is beer, with 70 ^ of students drinking it Among liquors, vodka i*^^ I favorite, used by 49 percent Rum is a close see I at 46 percent > 5 - In the soft drink department, students rank t® I favorites in this order: Coke, Pepsi, Tab, ^ c Pepper and 7-Up. Least favraite are Frc® ( Vernors, Schweppes and Diet-Rite. - Favorites in domestic beer, in order, are Marian Greene j ffigh life, Budweiser, Lite, Michelob and Among imports, the clear favorite is Molson Gol Ale. children, we’ll need about 25,000 college students or teachers to keep up the demand for our services. “Students may not consider themselves ‘office material’, but many will be surprised to find they have the skills in demand. We are able to discover and develop ‘hidden skills’ that many never know they have. And office work is an excellent way to get experience in the business world, which is a big plus for those graduating in June,” Fromstein added. Applicants are in terviewed, tested and assigned to work that closely matches their interests and aptitudes. “In a single summer, our temporary em ployee may work in one office or in several, and all the assignments will be comfortable and enjoyable,” said Fromstein. While U.S. Depart ment of Labor estimates are still incomplete, it is expected that the job market this summer will be tighter than one year ago, when ap proximately 28,000,000 sought summer em ployment. Most available jobs will pay the current $3.35 minimum wage, or close to it. “If you have the skills Manpower is looking for, you can generally earn a higher wage working temporary assignments,” From stein said. Although Manpower also assigns industrial, technical and health care temporaries, most of the summer op portunities are in off>® related positions, s® as typists, secretaU ' billing clerks, bookkeepers and ofn machine operator^ Most college studePJj possess some skills t® can be used on t®® porary office assie ments. To apply for sumi®‘ work as a temporaT?j contact the Manpower Ternpor®” Services office (listed the White Pages) or US‘ ' ' / pi a 24-hour toll-f®®| Employment Hotline , (800 ) 331-1000. By usi®* the toll-free numb® students will be abl® schedule an intervi® now with the Manpo'"'. office closest to th®’' hometown in order get a head start on ’ increasing struggle 1 summer jobs.
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