“Nine Students Jailed,” an article from May 10, 1973 reads. The students were “enacting a social deviance experiment” in order to test “the effectiveness of violence on the college administration.” Click the image to read the full article.

New issues from The Salemite have been added to DigitalNC. The Salemite is the Salem College Student Newspaper, continuously published under that name since 1920. Salem College was founded in 1772 in Winston-Salem and is one of the oldest women’s colleges in the United States. The newly digitized issues are from 1970 through 1978. They focus on student life, events, athletics, arts, clubs, announcements, and news. In the image above, students were arrested for conducting a social experiment to see how the school’s administration would react to a riot.

You can view all of the digitized issues of the Salem College Student Newspaper, from 1920 to 1990. View more from Salem College here, and learn more about the school on their website.

The Salemite, March 10, 1950.

Additional issues of the Salem College student newspaper, called The Salemite, have been uploaded to DigitalNC. The newspapers date from September 24, 1948 to March 3, 1970. The Salemite includes articles ranging from Salem College news to international news, frequently featuring students’ activities both on- and off-campus.

You can browse The Salemite by year, and more materials from Salem College can be found here.

The Salemite, January 13, 1967.