Students Aim High as WSSF Bazaar Seeks Funds
The World Student Service Fund drive has raised 611 of its 2000 goal as of last Thursday. Class gifts total 383 contributors with 188 from Class of ’51 and 131 from Class of ’54. A charity bazaar planned for Friday features an Artist’s Corner portrait drawings, baby pictures gallery, and daily new auctions to boost the fund for Miranda House refugees and general WSSF needs.
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Term Drive For World Student Service Fund
Sara Chapman
Term Drive Business
Miss Chapman
WSSF
Ruth Canter
Miss Canter
Helen Parkhurst
John Smith
College Meeting Tomorrow Plans for Atomic Attack Prep
A required all College meeting is set for 1 10 pm in the gymnasium. The administration will outline cooperation with New York City's defense program for an atomic attack contingency. Attendance will be taken and Professor Henry A Boorse will discuss a pamphlet You and the Atomic Bomb What to Do in Case of an Atomic Attack. A ten minute World Student Service Fund drive presentation by Jeanette Houseplan 2 Term Drive Chairman follows. Defense procedures for Residence Halls are being formulated.
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New York City
Henry A. Boorse
Physics Department
World Student Service Fund
Jeanette
Houseplan 2
Term Drive
Comps Policy Starts in May
The Registrar announces a study week for seniors from May 14 to 16 to prepare for comprehensives. Exams are slated for May 17 to 19, with potential extra sessions on May 16 for certain departments. The plan follows Associate Dean Lorna F. McGuire and NYS Education approval amid student opposition to a crowded schedule.
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Margaret Giddings
Lorna F. McGuire
New York State Department of Education
Placement Office Hosts Job Clinic for February Grads
The Placement Office offers a February graduate job clinic this afternoon 4 to 6 in Room 409 Barnard Hall. Grace Harrison Haynes guides sample interviews while Ruth Houghton notes demand across nursing social work secretarial elementary teaching and science fields amid Korean War uncertainties. Part time jobs and graduate aid also available.
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Barnard Hall
Grace Harrison Haynes
Community Chests and Councils of America
Ruth Houghton
Life
View Barnard Speaker Rules
A clash over campus speaking rights unfolds across the street at Barnard College where Representative Assembly controls outside speakers. Barnard rules require club requests four days ahead and involve Martha English and two committees before Assembly can decide or appeal to the full body.
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Columbia University
Columbia Board of Student Representatives
Spectator
Columbia
Howard Fast
Barnard
Representative Assembly
Martha M. English
Office of Student Affairs
Faculty Committee
Body of Representative Assembly
A A Cancels Folk Festival
The annual Folk Festival sponsored by the Athletic Association is cancelled due to inadequate student participation. Rachel Solomon 52, chair of the Folk Dance Committee, announced the cancellation with the Physical Education Department.
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The
Athletic Association
Rachel Solomon
A.A. Folk Dance Committee
Department of Physical Education
A.A
A.A. Board
Margaret Holland
Physical Education Department
A. A
Columbia University Blocks Howard Fast Speech Again
Columbia University officials deny Howard Fast a platform for the Young Progressives of America and later state that controversial speakers must receive objective examination. The dispute traces back to 1947 when Fast was barred and unfolds amid changes in student speaker policy and governance at Columbia.
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Columbia University
Howard Fast
Young Progressives of America
Columbia
Fast
Albert C. Jacobs
University
Columbia Committee On
Columbia University Student Council
CUSC
CSO
Gussi
United States
Marxist Society of
UPA
McCarran
W. Emerson Gentzler
German Christmas Carols Recorded by College Group
The Song Group of Deutscher Kreis directed by Lenore Fierstein will record German carols today from 12 to 1 p.m. in the College Parlor. The tape recorded program will be shipped to Germany and broadcast locally to German audiences via Voice of America. Featured carols include In Dulce Jubilo Est ist Ein Ros Entsprungen Thr Kinderlein Kommer O Du Fröhliche and Stille Nacht.
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Deutscher Kreis
Lenore Fierstein
Germany
Voice of America Broadcasting System
Faculty and Students Debate Speakers Policy at Columbia
Columbia University Student Council discussed plans for a joint Executive Committee and Administration review to create a faculty student speakers committee. Proposals also urged restoring CUSC judgment on invited speakers and allow student organizations sole control. The group set 1954 charter deadline talks and allocated term drive relief funds among World Student Service Fund and Negro student scholarship.
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Columbia University
CUSC
Vivienne Feigenbaum
Barnard
Richard Gibbons
Students For Democratic Action
American Veterans Committee
Miss Feigenbaum
Howard Fast
Fast
United World
World Student Service Fund
Scholarship applications open for emergency aid funds
Associate Dean Lorna F. McGuire announces that only emergency applications for scholarships and grants in aid will be considered for the second semester 1950 51. Application blanks are available at Room 135 Milbank beginning today and must be returned by 5 p.m. Friday January 6.
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Lorna F. McGuire
Milbank
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