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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1944
Page
1
The Barnard College Undergraduate Association paper lists staff including Miriam Burstein and Carol Ruskin with Annette Auld as Assistant Managing Editor for this issue. Published semi weekly during the academic year with a 3.00 yearly subscription, this February 21 edition is labeled No. 22.
This week two events focus attention on student government. Nominations for Undergraduate president treasurer and secretary will be held at the Undergraduate Association meeting in Room 408 Barnard. Every student may nominate a candidate and participate in this democratic process, though past attendance has been low. Peggy Cummiskey urges revitalization by active participation and nominating a candidate who will execute the students mandate.
Reform drive asks for written suggestions from Assembly delegates and constituents to the Committee on Constitutional Revision. The panel faces issues on Representative Assembly and Student Council powers, Undergraduate Treasurer duties, vague constitutional wording, and aligning practice with provisions.
From last September to today the Freshman Class has not chosen its delegates to Representative Assembly. The committees request says suggestions be submitted to Assembly Representatives, highlighting an apparent neglect of democratic procedure.
Professor Clare Howard surveys The Barnard Quarterly, now Barnard Bi-Annual, praising its wide range of fiction poetry and criticism. He highlights The Homecoming as strongest story, notes timely pieces on unemployment and romance, and applauds humorous items and poetry variety across authors like Mary Jane Daly Elizabeth Murray and Margaret Dahm.
The Barnard student body expands with two new transfer pupils Mary Boyang from Hunting College and Madeline Li from George Washington University. Mary plans social work in China after 1947 or 1948 and majors in sociology with a psychology minor. Madeline notes a twin brother in the Army Air Corps and earlier Washington work with the Export Import Bank. Betty Jane Smith and Betty Kemp Smith, freshmen, anticipate student mail complications amid renamed peers and prior work at Sperry Gyroscope in Great Neck.
Theatre review voices sharp disapproval of Ernita Lascelles in Euripides Medea at Columbia's Brander Matthews Theatre. It praises Gloria Hoffpauli as Medea's Nurse and notes competent design by Richard Bernstein and Gretchen Burkhalter while condemning Lascelles as theatrically miscast and melodramatic.
Mrs Louise Spor has presided at Barnard Hall for many years as guardian of the lower realms. She wears a white cap and blue apron and enjoys helping girls with tasks and dusting the library shelves. She values youth and the chance to be with students.
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