alemite
Vol. LXV
No. 1
September 1984
On The Inside...
SGA Leaders Speak Out page 3
The Lighter Side page 4
Sixties Music Still Popular page 5
A Need Fulfilled page 6
Salem Spruces Up — Changes Welcome
By: Beth Butler
While students were away this
summer, Salem College seems to
have sneakily undergone a grand
transformation.
The Clewell Pool area, the
Refectory, Main Hall, and other
campus landmarks, "just shadows
of their former selves," showed off
for returning students for the first
time on August 28. Most of the
changes had been in the planning
stages since last spring, and
construction began during the
summer.
Tom Macon, Chief Financial
Officer for Salem College, said in
an interview September 18th that
the goal of many of the refurbish-
ments—most notably the new
Clewell patio—is "to improve
student life." "No one even focused
on the need fora Student Union or
Commons (until recently)," said
Macon.
Money for the cost of the patio,
raised by parents and outside
donors, totaled $23,000. This cost
includes the $2,000 spent for new
lawn furniture. Plans for the patio
were drawn this past spring by a
landscape architect and construc
tion had already ended by mid
summer. Further plans for the
planting of new shrubbery around
the patio are being considered.
One of the most welcome changes
on campus is the transformation of
the Corrin Dining Hall — 'The
Refectory." Over the summer,
maintenance men repainted the
interior and installed new molding.
A total of $6,000 of the college
budget for maintenance was spent
on the dining hall. Macon said here
that the "adjustment of the food
service contract" made possible
some of these improvements.
New carpet was also installed in
the Refectory at a cost of $13,600;
this venture was financed by the
Epicure food service. By the end of
September, the transformation
should be nearly complete; an
estimated $20,000 will be spent on
100 new dining chairs. The cost per
chair is $194. Funds for the chairs
will come out of the Special
Projects fund, which also covers
the upkeep of the tennis courts and
the "Pit" parking lot behind
Gramley Dormitory. Macon
added that there is a possibility
new tables will be ordered for the
Refectory as well.
Problems with the structure of
Salem College land have impeded
Summer Minority Program Successful
By; Unda Linton
This summer Salem College,
along with Wake Forest and
Winston-Salem State Universities,
participated in "Medicine As A
Career: An Awareness Program
for Minority High School Stu
dents" sponsored by Bowman
Gray School of Medicine and a
grant from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.
The program attempts to make
academically talented minority
students (Black, American In
dians, Mexican Americans, and
Appalachian Whites) aware of
medicine as a potential career field,
and foster participants' aspirations
and preparations for medicine.
The objectives are to;
• Develop a program to expose
academically talented minority
high school students to the
profession of medicine at the
Bowman Gray School of
Medicine.
• Expose academically talented
minority high school students
to medical role models (stu
dents, teachers, and clinicians)
at Bowman Gray.
• Inform participants of the
academic and nonacademic
requirements and preparations
for entry into medical schools.
• Develop a personalized system
of communication and "follow
ups" with program partici
pants.
• Instill respect for learning in the
student and his family that will
promote success in an academ
ically competitive environment.
The program identifies talented
minority students in North
Carolina who are in the 10th and
I Ith grades and have scored in the
97th percentile on the California
Achievement Test in language,
reading, mathematics, and science.
Bowman Gray would like to
identify these students early,
follow them through the remain
der of their high school and
undergraduate studies with the
hope of encouraging them to enter
the graduate program that it
offers.
A good undergraduate program
to prepare students for graduate
school is essential.
Salem hopes to encourage as
many of these minority students as
possibly to spend their undergra
duate years at Salem College.
"The college and administration
have made a commitment in the
area of minority students to have a
more diverse student body," said
Paige French, Salem's Dean of
Admissions,
"Bowman Gray's minorities are
much broader than Salem's
because there, women are a
minority," added French.
Though this summer's partici
pants resided on the campus of
Wake Forest University, they also
visited other campuses around the
city.
While on Salem's campus, the
students were given a sundae
party, taken on a lantern tour, and
heard lectures on women physic
ians such as Elizabeth Blackwell,
the first woman to graduate from a
medical school.
"Through studies of Elizabeth
Blackwell's life we tried to show
the difference between medicine
then and medicine now," said
Patricia Sullivan, Dean of Salem
College.
The program was such a success
that next summer it will be
expanded. "I feel that the program
was a phenominal success. We are
now working on giving the
program a more "hands on"
experience—social along with'
academic," Dean Sullivan added.
During their two week stay, the
students studied anatomy, cell
biology, genetics, medicine in
society, medicine and diseases, and
blood pressure and diet screening.
other repairs on campus. The
complicated reconstruction of the
tennis courts is expected to be the
largest expense this year. Macon
said that heavy rains over the
summer and the nature of the land
have made rapid repair of the
tennis courts very difficult.
The twenty-year old composi
tion courts, which cracked and
buckled because of the boggy land
beneath them, are now being
reconstructed. Macon also said
that this year new subsurface
drainage lines will be installed to
carry excess water away from the
courts. In addition, a crushed
stone base will be laid beneath the
courts and topped off with a crack-
preventive chemical "similar to
that used on highways."
Macon said that the Special
Projects fund anticipates a cost of
$58,000 for reconstruction already
begun. About $ 15,000 will be spent
on each court. Repairs are
scheduled to be finished by mid-
October.
The rock slopes skirting the
sidewalks of the FAC have also
posed serious problems. Workmen
have been cleaning up the remains
of a minor avalanche caused last
year by improperly compacted fill
dirt. The slopes created at the
FAC, Macon said, are not "natural
slopes." The present sidewalks
were moved away from the FAC in
1979 because they were in danger
of crumbling if they followed the
natural structure of the land.
An estimated $9,000 in labor
costs will be spent on repair of the
slopes, which should also be
completed by the end of Septem
ber."fo prevent further rock slides,
Macon added, "Erosion control
materials and steel reinforcement
rods will be driven into the ground
to create a shelf for the rocks."
Efforts toward improved energy
conservation are also a concern of
Salem College officials this year,
Macon explained. "One of the
main things we've done is to install
a new boiler. This will bring about
significant savings in the cost of
our natural gas. We'll save $30,000
a year or maybe more."
More changes for the campus
are still ahead. Blueprints for a new
Student Center have been drawn
up, but nothing has been accepted
yet. Salem College has raised $7
million of its $12 million goal.
Grads Work With Duke, Vandy
By: Barbara Teates
Salem math and science majors
considering graduate studies in
engineering now have the oppor
tunity to participate in a 3:2
program with Duke or Vanderbilt
University.
This program, conceived and
approved after students expressed
interest in engineering, opens up a
whole new field of study to Salem
students, and allows the comple
tion of a bachelor of science degree
from Salem as a student begins
studies in an engineering school.
This program consists of three
years of undergraduate work at
Salem followed by at least two
years of study in engineering at
either of the universities.
Students will be completing a
degree in math, chemistry, or
biology while fulfilling require
ments for qualifying for the
program.
Approved courses taken during
the first year of engineering study
will complete the requirement for a
Salem degree. Students in the
program are assured a college
degree after four years of study and
completion of course require
ments. The courses required for
students participating in the 3:2
program are listed in the 1984-85
academic catalog.
Students must have a 3.0 overall
grade point average to qualify for
the program at either university,
and Duke University requires an
average better than 3.0 in math to
enter its engineering school.
More information about the
program may be obtained from
Dean Sullivan or the pre
engineering coordinator at Salem,
Dr. Charlie Pate. Students are
urged to contact their advisor as
soon as possible if interested in this
program so they may begin
preparing for entry into the
engineering schools.