Haake Bloch and Peterson win college office slate seats
Wilhelmina Haake Janet Bloch and Grace Peterson were elected to Undergraduate vice president treasurer and secretary positions. Four hundred seventy four ballots cast per office vs 636 in presidential race. Next week Honor Board chairman elections and April 10 installation set.
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Wilhelmina
Billie) Haake
Janet Bloch
Grace Peterson
Jake
Athletic Association
Rep Assembly
Miss Peterson
Miss Haake
Eleanor Engleman
Miss Bloch
Nancy Amsterdam
Ellen Schleicher
Jane Webb
NSA Subcommittee Chooses Student Travel Orientation
Barnard's regional NSA subcommissions select the Student Travel Orientation Program and a survey of graduate schools. The college delegation will organize work, expand STOP to all area colleges, and start by distributing questionnaires to Barnard students to gauge foreign travel questions.
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Barnard
National Student Association
Representative Assembly
NSA
STOP
Columbia University
New York
Faculty Poll Shows Mixed Views on Free Cuts
Poll of 387 faculty responses reveals 19 satisfied with the system while 7 want abolition or major change. Many oppose lateness increases and urge student responsibility. Overcutting seen as limited by 28 professors, moderate by 12, heavy by 9, with poorer students more likely to overcut. Some favor extending cuts only to above average graders.
College Greets Girl Scribes At University Press Confab
The 27th annual Columbia University Scholastic Press Association convenes with over 3,300 high school editors and advisers from 25 states and foreign countries. Frank Kelly of the New York Herald Tribune opens sessions at McMillin Theater while panels and workshops run through Saturday. A 600 strong tea is set at Brooks Hall today, and a Waldorf Astoria luncheon Saturday features Ambassador Ernest Gross as speaker. Results of school publications contests, with 1,300 newspapers and 800 yearbooks, will be announced.
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Columbia University Scholastic Press Association
Frank Kelly
New York Herald Tribune
McMillin Theater
Milbank Hall
Brinkerhoff Theater
Bradford selects lyric reader for Greek Games event
Final selection of sophomores and freshmen for speaking parts in Greek Games will be April 14 in the gymnasium. Holly Bradford 53 is lyric reader with Martha Distelhurst 53 as alternate. Distelhurst is the sophomore priestess and Ellen Lee 54 or Joan Goodman 54 will be freshman priestess.
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Holly Bradford
Martha Distelhurst
Miss Distelhurst
Ellen Lee
Joan Goodman
Mary Bridgeman
Micky Otani
Tessie Arandolus
Marcia Musicant
Queens College Drops Growth of the American Republic
NAACP students at Queens College protested the tone and bias in Morison and Commager's Growth of the American Republic. The History Department asked the college president to remove the volume as a text. Professors Commager and Hallberg warned of potential pressure by vested interests on universities.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Queens College
Morison and Commager
Rosalie King
NAACP
Henry Steele Commager
Columbia
Queens
Commager
Charles Hallberg
Barnard History Department
Con’t
Eleanor Roosevelt urges students to defend democracy and peace
Eleanor Roosevelt told Barnard students democracy must be lived at home to shine abroad. She urged women to become informed citizens, fight the battle of ideas, and support humanitarian UN efforts in education, agriculture, and health while cautioning against compulsory military draft for women.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Barnard
United Nations
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
Seniors cap and gown orders on Jake today and tomorrow
Seniors may order caps and gowns during lunch from 12 to 1 p.m. Gowns can be rented for two dollars or bought. Catalogues and price lists will be available for buyers. All seniors must have gowns to participate in graduation exercises.
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Jake
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Ruth Schachter
Pamela Taylor
Proctors
Lynn Loeb
Miss Potter
Bulletin Business
Miss Schachter
Miss Taylor
IRC Drive
University Press
Confab
Bradford
Queens Bans
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