Barnard Debaters Place Third at Eastern Forensic Tourney
The Barnard College debate team finished third among 25 schools at the Eastern Forensic Tournament hosted by Kings College in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania last weekend. Debaters Marion Bachrach Sheila Levin Rosette Liberman and Corky Marcus helped Barnard defeat Vermont West Point Kings Point and Penn State.
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Barnard
Kings College
Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Marion Bachrach
Sheila Levin
Rosette Liberman
Corky Marcus
Vermont
West Point
Kings Point
Penn State
Richard Lapidus
Dartmouth
Changes in Curricula Across Three Departments for 1956 57
The Government Department adds four new courses including Modern Constitutional Democracies and American Parties and Practices while dropping sequences Government 3 through 21. Mathematics introduces a new analytic geometry and calculus sequence. Math 31 and 32 from the old sequence must be taken next year. Psychology replaces its education emphasis major with a clinical psychopathology focus.
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Government Department
College governance debates honor board reform and orientation
Barnard’s Faculty Committee on Student Affairs and both old and new Student Councils discussed a proposed judge jury system for Honor Board, freshman orientation changes, college teas, the fines system, and jurisdiction over non academic offenses. Ann Lord reported on the Seven College Conference. Dorothy Donnelly introduced a tentative Honor Board revision.
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Ann Lord
Barnard
Dorothy Donnelly
Donnelly
Honor Board
Jean T. Palmer
Miss Palmer
Powell to Explain Segregation Bill at Columbia Conference
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will present his plan to withhold federal aid from segregated schools at Columbia University’s third annual conference in Low Memorial Library. The event features three panels on education policy with lawmakers, educators, and editors as speakers and a series of four lectures. tickets are available for $1.00.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr
New York City
Columbia University Student Council
Low Memorial Library
Stephan R. McCormick
Nbc-Tv
Eleanor Roosevelt
Felix Wormser
Interior
Abe Stark
New York
A.A.U.P. Leader Discusses Academic Freedom and Tenure
Professor Harold Barger outlines the American Association of University Professors role before Students for Democratic Action. He says the group assists faculty facing unjust firings, censors administrations for violating standards, and emphasizes due process over party membership or Fifth Amendment claims in judging fitness to teach.
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Students For Democratic Action
Harold Barger
Columbia University
A.A.U.P
A.a.up
Association
Barger
Communist Party
Rep Assembly Caps Budget for Wigs and Cues
The Representative Assembly defeated an amendment to raise Wigs and Cues funding from 600 to 800, keeping grants at 600. Jean Houston spoke for the club about high production costs and deficits, arguing the extra 200 would stabilize finances. The rest of the budget, including 4500 for Bulletin 60 for the class, 300 for Debate Council, 1300 for Focus, and 5000 for Mortarboard, was approved.
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Representative Assembly
Jean Houston
Rep Assembly
Bulletin
Debate Council
Focus
The
Assembly
Fine Arts Professors Named Chairs at Barnard
Dr David A Robertson and Dr Julius Held are appointed chairmen of their departments effective July 1. Robertson becomes full professor of English after 16 years at Barnard and holds degrees from Princeton and study at Trinity College Cambridge. Held, Barnard associate since 1937, has taught at multiple institutions and earned a Freiburg PhD.
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David A. Robertson
Julius Held
Held
Marion Lawrence
Robertson
Professor Held
Barnard
Princeton University
Trinity College
Cambridge University
Henry
English Institute
Columbia University Press
Howard Foundation
England
New York University
Bryn Mawr College
The
New School
Yale University
Berlin
Freiburg
Heidelberg
Vienna
University of Freiburg
Guggenhein
Brussels
Seven College Conference Debates Student Government Roles
Delegates from Barnard, Jackson College and other Seven Colleges gathered at Radcliffe April 20 21 to discuss student government attitudes and structures. They compared honor systems at Vassar and Jackson College and considered NSA involvement, proposing a regional rather than geographic alliance, with Barnard hosting in 1957.
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Radcliffe College
Barnard
Jackson College
Tufts University
Ann Lord
Vassar College
Office of Supreme Justice
National Student Association
N.S.A
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Eastern Forensic Organization
Miss Marcus
Elfreide Kaniuk
Lapidus
Miss Kaniuk
Air College
Powell
C.U.S.C
Fine Arts
Prof
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