Williams Discusses Student Action and Social Issues
Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. spoke at ATID on social action and moral responsibility urging students to share clear views with Congress. He criticized mindless protests but praised quiet movements like the Peace Corps and campaigns for integration as effective. He proposed a migrant labor summer education program and opposed expanding education funding for construction.
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Harrison A. Williams, Jr
N.J
ATID
Willams
Peace Corps
Southern Negro Students
Williams
Senate
Kkneth
Berlin
Casas
Undergrad Paper Attacked Over Liberal Editorials
The Rocky Mountain News reports a Colorado controversy over a college newspaper the Colorado Daily. A professor writes the paper shows campus bias and is irresponsible for promoting a soft stance on Red China and Cuba while opposing traditional homecoming festivities.
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Boulder
State Department
Pelicy
Ces Thas
Cuba
Morningside Groups Push Condemnation for Housing Plan
Riverside Democratic Club President Jean Flatow seeks approval from Housing and Redevelopment Board chair Clarence Davies to condemn Woman's Hospital land for low middle income housing. Morning side Citizens Chair James Murphy defers statement to their newsletter. Education committee member Dorothy Gillam supports housing, citing overcrowded PS 125 and PS 62 delays.
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Jean Flatow
Riverside Democratic Club
Clarence Davies
Housing and Redevelopment Board
Woman’s Hospital
James Murphy
Morningside Citizens Committee
Morningside Citizen
Citizen
Dorothy Gillam
Education Committee
Morningside Citizens
Community petition drives for housing land condemned for low income use
Action petitions in New York target condemnation of the St Luke's Hospital land for middle income housing. Robert Aaron and Martin Rubinstein lead a campaign to gather 3 000 signatures and post bilingual fact sheets in area apartments south of 110th Street. Local politicians will join a Riverside Club event to sign. The drive aligns with Columbia's Action and Riverside Democrats against a Con Edison substation plan and seeks mayoral and city officials support.
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Women's Hospital
Housing and Redevelopment Board of
New York City
Robert Aaron
Aaron
Martin Rubinstein
Morningside
Tey
110Th Street
William Fitz- Ryan
Herbert Evans
Riverside Democratic Club
West 106Th Street
St. Luke’s Women’s Hospital
Columbia’s Action
Riverside Democrats
Franz Lichter
Consolidated Edison
St. Luke’s
Con Edison
Democratic Club
Hospital Board
Housing and Redevelopment Board
Paul Dudley
James Felt
City Planning Commission
Wagner
Juniors Evaluate Japanese China Show Funds Plan
Juniors evaluating imported china earned 75 dollars for the class of 63 after a Tuesday display featuring Noritake samples. The class plans to raise the Junior Show fund to 400 dollars with a January 9 meeting to discuss fund-raising, show tryouts after vacation, and the 60s series continuation at the Morningside Carnival.
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Barnard
Noritake Company, Inc
Emerging Africa’s legal political gap in new states
Miss Ruth Schachter of Boston University analyzes the divergence between legal authority and real power in newly independent African states. She notes sovereignty as a thin concept, weak links between UN delegations and home governments, and the prioritization of political loyalty over technical competence in diplomacy and military planning.
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Ruth Schachter
Boston Univers
Afrcan
Miss Schachter
Portuguese Africa
South Africa
Africa
Congo
New York
United States
Soviet Union
Quorum Shortfall Delays Student Group Elections
At a Young Republicans meeting only five members attended with three full members present, insufficient for a quorum to elect officers. Names were proposed for confirmation at a later meeting. D Agostino attacked the Student Peace Union as “quite left” and claimed you can’t be left of SANE.
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D'Agostino
Student Peace Union
Merton Discusses Social Structure and Sociology Growth
The speaker argues that individual character and achievement are shaped by social relations and that understanding these relations improves grasp of society. He notes institutions rest on various social assumptions and that sociology is maturing as an academic field.
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Merton
Meton
R.K
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