April 30, 1973 TH« 5AL€MIT« Page Three Yucatan Offers Mayan Ruins Salemite Enjoys Ancient Aura Laurie Daltroff former editor- By 11 a.m. the city’s inhabi­ Eyen the most casual tourist in-chief of The Salemite spent tants go into the Zocalo res­ enjoys the imposing ruins at one of her January terms in taurants for fresh shrimp cock­ and . , living the entire month tails and stimulating conversa­ Chichen Itza is the largest extant on the Yucatan peninsula. She tion. At 10 p.m. entertainment- min site today. It is divided into Icept an extensive journal of-her seekers and hungry residents fill old Chichen and new Chichen. experiences, recording them in the local bars and restaurants It was first established early in both writing and photographs. which specialize in Yucatecan Mayan history and later rebuilt The following article is an ex­ dishes and Mexico City musi­ during the decadent period a- cerpt from her journal. It gives cians. round 9-1200 A.D. detailed descriptions of the peo­ Everyone still sleeps in home­ At Uxmal one senses the ple as well as relating their life­ made hammocks ~ single, matri­ feeling of loftiness that must style. Dr. Kampen is offering a monial, or infant sized. These have struck the priests as they January program for 1974 which hang from iron hooks built into surveyed the plains and hills of Oslo scholars Peggy Bullard and Vickie Moir eagerly look forward rvill include a trip to the area all the buildings’ walls and are distant Campeche from their :o their summer in Norway. Laurie writes about. His pro­ more comfortable than any mat­ temple. And the grassy roof of gram entitled Yucatan studies tress. The hens still set under the Temple of the Gods is a will be a study of Pre-Hispanic the household altars. The owners thrilling place to picnic. Lux­ Oslo Scholars Anticipate and Hispanic cultures in the Yu­ pray that the Virgin Mary or urious hotels at Chichen and catan with visits to the Mayan Mayan fertility goddess will bless Uxmal accomodate gourmets, Summer Fim and Study ruins and major sites of the the home with many chickens. nature-lovers and recluses. -by Margy Dorrier She is very excited about having Spanish occupation. Most jungle communities are No one should miss the con­ the opportunity to go to Norway accessible only by jeep or horse. venience-laden Cozumel and Isla Peggy Bullard and Vicki Moir and says that her parents are January is a good month to In communities like the Mujeres. There one can lounge both have an exciting summer to excited, too. She plans to take visit the isolated Yucatan penin­ women still place lighted can­ in the tropic sun, scuba dive in look forward to. The girls have three courses at the University: sula of Mexico. The winter wea­ dles in front of stone fertility clear, calm water and deep sea been selected as the 1973 Oslo Literature, and Norway in a ther is dry and hot, the orchids gods. The men in rural areas use fish for plentiful tropical speci­ Scholars. Every year two Salem Changing World. About a week bloom and the scent of tree-rip­ carved stones for furniture. In mens. One must make reserva­ students are selected to receive before her summer school classes ened oranges perfumes the air, large towns, horsedrawn car­ tions in the island hotels months a scholarship to attend the Inter­ begin, she plans to meet her This is the best time to deer hunt riages from the turn of the cen­ in advance, and the prices are national Summer School of the sister, who is living in Nurem­ in the jungles. tury are more popular than exhorbitant, unlike elsewhere in University of Oslo. The scholar­ berg, Germany. Peggy is excited The Caribbean islands of Co­ mechanized taxis. the Yucatan. ship is provided for by the estate about visiting her, because she zumel and Isla Mujeres of the Average Yucatecan women The Yucatan offers delights of the late L. Corrin Strong, who has not seen her in two years. peninsula’s eastern coast have rarely trade their white, exqui­ for everyone. Americans are was a former trustee of Salem Peggy will be at the University some of the clearest water and sitely embroidered huipiles for taking advantage of newly- College and also a former U.S. of Oslo from June 25 through whitest beaches in the world. mini skirts. Women of Yucatan, opened roads to drive campers ambassador to Norway. Two stu­ August 3. After summer school, And archeologically significant Campeche, Quintana Roo and from Texas to the coast. Young dents are selected each year - she plans to travel in England. remains of the Guatamala specialize in different people find it exciting to hitch­ one sophomore and one junior Vicki Moir, who is majoring may be found from the Mexican native designs on the huipiles, hike from town to town. People - by a Faculty Committee. in History and English, is from coastlands to the dense Guata- which combine billowing over­ also camp in the life-filled jun­ All the applicants were re­ Mopresville, N.C. She is thrilled malan and Honduran jungles. shirts with calf length skirts. gles and plains. Some people quired to write an exxay con­ to have the opportunity to be Modern Yucatecans notice­ Every Saturday the women plan extended visits and establish cerning the role of the United able to live in another country able differ from other Latin join the men, who also dress in special rates with the hotels. States in world affairs in the and to learn, firsthand, about American peoples. In Mexico white. Together they dance the Flights leave daily for Merida 1970’s. They were also required the Norwegian people and their Yucatan, the people consider harana with bottles of Montejo and Cozumel from New Orleans to hand in two recommendations culture. She is interested in poli­ themselves Yucatecans rather beer balanced on their heads. and Miami. from faculty members and one tics and world affairs and will be than nationals. These people ex­ The antiquity of the country­ Life among the Mayans con­ from a student. The winners taking the same three courses hibit the inherent Mayan humor side astounds visitors. The in­ tinues amid splendor and sim- were announced during the week that Peggy will be taking. Vicki that gives them perseverance. numerable Mayan ruins blend phcity. The infuriating contrasts before spring vacation. is planning to travel after sum­ They retain a mysterious dig­ with Spanish haeiendas and 19th of the modern culture merely re­ Peggy Bullard, who is an Eng­ mer school is over. She would nity. Outsiders feel that they are Century Erench mansions of the mind outsiders that the Mayans lish major from Belmont, N.C., especially like to visit Sweden, spying on the original Mayan ci­ hemp barons. At Xlapak (pro­ appear meek, but that they un­ is the junior who was chosen. England, and France. vilization, complete with taboos, nounced shlapok), an isolated like other Latin Ameriean abo­ legends and facial characteristics. site in the state of Yucatan, the rigines, have adopted enough of Modern Yucatecans combine decaying Mayan palace is still their invaders’ practices to sur­ Twentieth Century conveni­ used by a Maya family. This fam­ vive. Unfortunately, the curious ences with their bonds to the ily rarely sees outsiders and uses are unable to determine exactly past. Every minute town boasts the palace facilities to house what spawned the ancient' a coca cola stand and bicycles cattle and turkeys. They also Mayans’ culture. This has led to for traveling the limestone trails. cook in the palace when heavy speculation that they arrived in Big industry has hit the sisal mar­ rains drive them from their brush papyrus boats from Egypt, that kets. Now, Cordenes of Mexico hut. they were lost fishermen from provides a living for thousands Hemp haciendas, expro­ Japan, and that they were na­ of Mayans, and manufactures priated from the Spanish barons tive inhabitants of the Americas outdoor carpeting for the entire in the 1920’s, furnish village who coincidentally developed in world. residents with communal gra­ patterns similar to the classic Merida, Mexico, the peninsu­ zing lands and sisal refining Greeks and Egyptians. la’s largest town, is lively. No­ plants. In Yancopoil, Mexico, Whatever the reason for a person’s visit to Yucatan, he body ever seems to go to bed. one may wander the once-mag- Seniors display their artistic skills in the Fine Arts Gallery. Local university students min­ nificent rooms of a hacienda leaves confounded by the mys­ gle with American students. and gaze upon items necessary tery that has frustrated Maya They study in cars, in all the for survival in the 17th and 18th Civilization scholars. The Mayans Senior Art 'lighted pards and in the Zocalo, Century wilderness. exist as a people in a time when I the town square. Strains of pop- Books of medicines, liquor­ hybridization is fashionable. Per­ Exhibit Opens jjular music complement the making and philosophy crowd haps their intrigue lies in the J technique in “Color Study: f| shouts of basketball games and the ancient printing press in one people’s int - by Joan Spangler Phase Three” and “Color Study: T late-night soccer matches. room. Other rooms are decorated people’s refreshing closeness to Fine Arts Editor The meztisos from the coun- life’s spiritual and earthy basics. Phase Four.” with hundreds of archeologically Maureen Mulhern’s works can T try overwhelm the Zocalo mar- priceless Mayan dishes and vases. This closeness piques the very This spring there will be two 4|ket by dawn. They bring the instincts of people jaded wiA senior art exhibits in the foyers be recognized by the graphic The Mexican government, like style of design and studies of 1 city’s daily supply of fresh fowl civilization and modern sophis­ of Salem’s Fine Arts Center. other Central American govern­ inner emotions which verbally I and vegetables as well as the tra­ ments, cannot afford to buy its tication. April 24, 1973 at 8:00 P.M. The exhibit for the works of Scottie are hard to express. She uses a il ditional tourist crafts. treasures from the people. Newell, Dorthy Bailey, Kennie different medium in her paint­ Lupton, Maureen Mulhern o- ings, egg tempra. This process of Somerville Attends 4-1-4 Conference pened. painting can be very tedious and Scottie’s exhibit has works in timely. Some schools represented at - by Laura Turnage ary calendars among the differ­ various medias, these including Carved talc in natural and in­ the conference have what is ent schools. plaster sculpture, acrylica, seri- teresting designs affirm the tal­ known as “modular scheduling.” Jan Sommerville attended a Ms. Sommerville said there graphy, needle-crafts and an ent of Kennie Lupton. Another This means that students take ^ Llonference on February were basically two kinds of Jan­ etching. Her work expresses a interesting design among her one course per month; in other 1 in Chicago. There were uary programs: 1) regular courses spontaneity only Scottie could serigraphs and etchings is the words, you have January nine over seventy-five colleges repre­ (that were also taught during capture. Her study of the Fauves “Strawberry” print. months a year. Ms. Sommerville sented at the conference. Some the school year) offered in Janu­ (artists at the turn of this cen­ May 7, 1973 there will be was not convinced of the effec­ sc ools had had a January pro­ ary, and 2) unusual courses (like tury) influenced her painting another exhibit featuring Barba­ tiveness of such a schedule. She gram for as long as six or seven ours at Salem ) offered to encour­ style and use of vibrating color. ra Pflieger, Andrea Fregosi, Beth raised the question, “Can you years, others were just beginning age students to do something dif­ Serigraphy dominates the Snoddy, Christina Spence and compress learning into such a a January program. One of the ferent. Ms. Sommerville also works of Dorothy Bailey. She Alden Hanson. main purposes of the conference noted that there was much inter­ short time?” uses an experimental and origion- i"'as to better coordinate Janu­ est in off-campus studies.