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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1957
Page
1
Atonal episode at Barnard College sees a symbolic campus lion mocked and the dormitory hazing spirit questioned. The piece frames the school as losing vigor and discipline after a chaotic week.
A letter decries the five college presidents for denying John Gates from speaking at their campuses during Academic Freedom Week. It argues the First Amendment protects open discussion including Communist ideas and supports inviting Gates to Columbia and city colleges to allow students to judge his views. The piece urges reinstating true academic freedom.
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association Conven tion opened idyllically with spring sunshine and pink tagged freshmen wandering College Walk. A Bar nard scene shows couples reading T S Eliot while a government professor jokes about world affairs. A freshman calls a nearby school “faggy” in a moment of casual campus chatter.
Barnard College expands upward with a new insulated music studio atop Milbank Hall. The project, due for completion in April, adds five small studios and two large spaces for groups, plus a kitchenette in the penthouse. Milbank’s main staircase will reach the new floor, with air conditioning and heavy steel-beam support.
A Barnard student criticizes an upper class delegate at the March 13 1957 Representative Assembly meeting for dismissing calls to revisit the rule on nationally affiliated organizations. The writer argues many dissenters seek principled discussion rather than mere controversy. Name withheld on request.
The Ivy Tower by Rachel Mayer critiques Ivy Magazine for parochial and overglossed coverage of eastern colleges. It singles out pages on Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, Columbia and Penn, plus depictions of students, spring vacations, and college week Bermuda, noting emphasis on sex and sport over substance.
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