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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1954
Page
1
Barnard College semi weekly student publication lists community notices and staff names. The bulletin notes second class mail status as of October 19 1928 from the New York post office with a yearly subscription rate of three dollars fifty cents.
The administration and Residence Halls allocate permanent dorm space for day students starting in September to ease crowded facilities. The plan provides weekend and weekday overnight options, easing long commutes and late library study, lectures, and activities. It aims to boost day student participation in college life.
A Barnard notice reviews the long standing honor system for exams now posted with senior and junior proctors. It notes the privilege of mature self supervision and the obligation to report offenses, detailing three steps to report cheating and urging broader communal responsibility beyond personal integrity.
Audrey Gellen ’54 wins the $400 first prize for two long short stories with a preface, a study of cultural ties and breaking away. Lillian Firestone ’54 receives $100 second prize for an in progress novel The Crossing about undergraduates meeting new social milieus. Firestone, born in Manchuria, speaks multiple languages and aims to write for newspapers or magazines after graduation.
Barnard delegates join 60 colleges at Alfred University for the 27th Annual Model General Assembly. Four Barnard students participate in four committees, debating apartheid, refugee issues, and UN budget cuts, with Benjamin Cohen addressing the plenary on trust and UN charter reform.
Robert Lekachman argues that trade with adversaries should be controlled not fully banned or unregulated. Beneficial exchanges require careful balance of scarce American commodities and strategic aims, acknowledging propaganda effects but stressing selective withholding where it serves national interests.
The piece weighs the pros and cons of easing embargoes on Soviet bloc trade versus maintaining strict limits. It cites allied positions on non-strategic items and Churchill’s line of trade not aid, arguing that Western unity hinges on how far the United States opens trade with the East.
The author argues for allowing East West trade with export controls on strategic materials, noting barriers stem from Communist aims and suggesting Western business and government committees advise. Trade should focus on non essential items to foster stability, with Western Europe needing liberalized policy to avoid dependence on the East.
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