Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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Right: Those 21 and older enjoy their legal privi- lege to consume alcohol in the drinking jail at a mixer. Below left: Organizations take extra care this year to abide by the new legal drinking age. Below right: Favorite bars such as Corbin ' s are now off limits to the majority of Salem ' s population Underclassmen look forward to turning that magic age — 21! 18 STUDENT LIFE

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A Fairytale Experience ' .-.« Left Page: Above left - Lynn Turpin and Beth Williams show their spirit during Fall Fest. Above right - Timothy Litzenburg enjoys being mascot for the seniors Below left — Juniors and sophomores compete during Fall Fest. Be- low right - Ann Bikle portrays a Snow White of the 80s during the junior Fall Fest skit Center: Rosalie Hill and Dr. Mowbray show their spirit for the sophomore class during skits Right Page Above right — The seniors pull together during the afternoon games Center — The freshman class shows the entrance committee their spirit during entrance. Below - The sophomores portray elephants from The Jungle Book. Above — Hungry Salemites wait in line for lunch during Fall Fest STUDENT LIFE 17

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September 1, 1986: The Passing Of An Era North Carolina Legislation Changes Nightlife Our nightlife changed a great deal this year due to the raised legal age for consumption of alcohol. When the law allowed 19 and 20-year olds to drink beer and wine, students frequented lo- cal bars such as Baity ' s, Corbin ' s, Ziggy ' s, and Penelope ' s. With the rais- ing of the drinking age, these bars are no longer as popular. Some bars in town have been sympathetic of the college students ' dilemma, and have continued to allow underage students into the bar to hear the bands, to dance, and to spend time with friends. These bars allow the students to enter, and give them arm bands identifying them as being underage. Many stu- dents do not like the alternatives which bars like Baity ' s offer. They pre- fer to seek out other forms of night- time entertainment. As an alternative to town bars, un- derage students spent more time on the campuses of other schools. We took more road trips. More bands were playing on college campuses than ever before, so we went where the bands were: Chapel Hill to hear the Producers, Wake Forest to hear Urban Edge, and Davidson and Hamp- den-Sydney for various other bands. We are fortunate at Salem in that our campus did not become totally dry, unlike many colleges in the area. The twenty -one year old students on our campus still have the option of drinking. Everyone on campus now ea- gerly awaits turning twenty-one more than ever. We are fortunate in not being a to- tally dry campus, thanks to the ingenu- ity of a committee who devised a sys- tem by which we can allow twenty-one year olds to drink at dances and mix- ers. The drinking jail is a sectioned- off area in which legal-age students are permitted to consume alcohol. It is nice for legal-age students to be able to drink, but it is frustrating for under- age students to be separated from their 21-year-old friends and dates. Left: Baity ' s is one of the few bars in town which stiil lets those 18 and older in Right: One of the few, the proud, the 21 year olds, Nanette de Groot, enjoys her privilege of being able to consume alcohol on Salem ' s campus. STUDENT LIFE 19