Washington Square Folksinging Faces Park Policy Clash
Israel G. Young leads Washington Square folk singers in a bid to obtain a permit for Park Service sanctioned gatherings. After failed appeals to the Park Commissioner, demonstrations occurred on April 9 with police arrests. Court date set for April 20 as supporters fundraise at Judson Church and Village Gate.
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Washington Square
Israel G. Young
MacDougal Street
Mr. Young
Newbold Morris
Hals Moody
Cunningham Park
Queens
Marine Park
Brooklyn
East Side
Judson Memorial Church
Village Gate
Clancy Brothers
Eric Darling
Cynthia Gooding
Shanty Boys
Young
Freedom Ride 1961 Aims at End to Segregation
CORE invites college students to join the Freedom Ride 1961 from Washington to New Orleans May 2 to May 17. Volunteers will endure nonviolent confrontation with segregation in buses, restaurants, and restrooms with James Farmer leading the inter racial group.
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Deep South
Washington, D.C
New Orleans
James Farmer
Jewish Teachers Seminary
East 70Th Street
New York
N.Y
Police Use Clubs To Stop March In Jackson
Tension rose as nine Tougaloo College students faced breach of peace arrests at a white city library in Jackson Mississippi. Police used tear gas and night sticks to break up a march by about 50 Negro students toward city hall, with dogs on leashes and no serious injuries reported. Over 100 demonstrators gathered at the courthouse Tuesday as the trial for the nine began.
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Tougaloo College
Jackson State College
City Hall
Panel weighs Castro influence on Latin America
A Spanish Club panel at Columbia discusses The Influence of the Castro Revolution on Other Latin American Countries. Four students Adolfo Kort Argentina Gustavo Ortega Chile Raul Jonneaux Ecuador and Guillermo Diestal Mexico share views. Most see sympathy for Castro. Mexico remains unsympathetic.
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Columbia
Adolfo Kort
Argentina
Gustavo Ortega
Chile
Raul Jonneaux
Ecuador
Guillermo Diestal
Mexico
Diestal
Castro
Kort
Latin America
Ortega
Mr. Drestal
Columbia Announces Ocean Floor Earthquake Recording
Columbia University scientists placed a seismograph on the Atlantic sea floor recording the first oceanic earthquake. Dr Maurice Ewing said the depth was about three miles 120 miles southwest of Bermuda using the Grace and the Sir Horace Lamb ships. This breakthrough could vastly expand data on Earth's structure.
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Atlantic
Columbia University
Maurice Ewing
Columbia
Lamont Geological Observatory
Earth
Bermuda
Columbia Research
Grace
Sir Horace Lamb
John Ewing
Barnard Columbia Princeton debate on coed Ivy Legislation
Multiple campus events including a April 18 debate between Columbia and Princeton on coeducation at Barnard 304. Art exhibitions, lectures, and panels run April 17–May 5 across Ferris Booth Hall Earl Hall Philosophy Hall Barnard Campus with speakers from Cathedral College St Vladimir’s Seminary Technion.
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Barnard Debate Council
Columbia
Princeton
Barnard
Barnard-Columbia
Ferris Booth Hall
Ferris Booth
John Meyendorf
St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
Philosophy Hall
NSA Poll Questions on Defense and Rights
The poll lists five issues for reader consideration including continued defense drills, rights of individuals under HUAC, training and arming anti Castro forces in the U S, the nuclear test ban amidst Soviet testing, and U N sanctions versus unilateral U S action against South Africa.
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House Committee On Un-American Activities
U.S
Soviet Union
U.N
Union of South Africa
Junior Class Appraises Silverware Patterns
One hundred junior girls will evaluate Reed and Barton silverware patterns this afternoon from 1:00 to 3:30 in College Parlor. The survey offers 50 dollars to the class as a whole, and is led by Ann Sue Koben, 1962 class president, who urged three minutes of participation to provide 100 opinions.
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Reed and Barton Silverware Company
Pembroke
Ann Sue Koben
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N.S.A
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Jackson
Mississippi
Bulletin Board
Newman Club
Dodge
Earl Hall
David F. Rea
Cathedral College
Newman
Frankie Stein
Harry Fleischman
National Labor Service
John Birch Society
Seixas- Menorah
Peter Kenen
Coumbia University
America
East-West Association of
United States
Far East
Barnard Hall
Jacques Barzun
Wollman Auditorium
The
van Am Society
New York State Congress of Parents and Teachers
New York City
Washington Irving High School
Irving Place
Manhattan
Paul R. Mort
Teachers College
Otto Schneid
Somtine
Technion
Israel
NSA
Bulletin
Michael Selkin
American Irving Savings Bank
11Th Street & Broadway
Irwin- Jacobs
Mitte
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