Barnard Apathy Explained as Weighing Democratic Values
The piece argues student disengagement stems from incoherent student leadership and undervalued input. It stresses representative democracy requires expressed public opinion, urges officers to actively solicit student views, and warns that apathy feeds from misperceptions of voting, governance, and campus social life.
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Barnard
Representative Assembly
Freshman Advisor Byram Combines Arts and Mentoring at Barnard
Professor Marianna Byram marks 25 years at Barnard as freshman advisor and arts educator. She notes the 1955 class leans toward sciences and math, discusses limited studio art offerings, and praises upperclassmen forsupport during freshman weekend. Byram enjoys tango and travel, walks between Milbank and Schermerhorn for exercise, and emphasizes student contact over teaching one course.
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Marianna Byram
Barnard
Eagser
Byram
Radcliffe
Student Arts Programs Offer Discounts This Fall
The Students Affairs Office introduces discounts for Broadway tickets through the Theatre Ticket Club and Met Opera Guild. Opera tickets at 2.65 each can be bought in advance with choice of operas. Guild members receive Opera News and rehearsal access. Reduced-rate Philharmonic concerts at Carnegie Hall are also offered, plus Met Museum lectures and Cloisters tours and medieval music performances.
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Theatre Ticket Club
Metropolitan Opera Guild
Guild
Opera News
Metropolitan Opera
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Carnegie Hall
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum
Toulouse-Lautrec
Fifth Avenue
Americans Seem Very Friendly Barnard Foreign Students Say
In a Gallup survey, eight foreign Barnard students rate Americans as friendly and helpful while faulting New York subway life as impersonal. Mary Anne Nylander of Stockholm aims for social work in Sweden after Barnard. Christophe de Menil, Parisian by birth, endorses Barnard-Columbia fellowship. Anna Borowik from Poland says Barnard meets her high hopes as a pre med student. Marina Galvis from Cuba plans to return home for laboratory research. Imbi Pebo of Estonia pursues chemistry and possible future medical research, favoring staying in the United States over Estonia amid Russian tensions.
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Gallup
Barnard
New York
London
Paris
Stockholm
Mary Anne Nylander
Sweden
Mary Anne
United States
Philadelphia
Texas
Christophe
Columbia
Anna Borowik
Anna
Poland
England
Marina Galvis
Cecilia
Marina
Cuba
Imbi Pebo
Imbi
Estonia
New Yorkers
Steam Pipe Brings Noise and Change to Barnard Words
On September 25 a new steam pipe and upgraded walkways open at Barnard. The project adds better heat to Barnard Hall Milbank classrooms and a new stone path from Barnard Hall to the Jungle. A metal mail board draws attention as students adapt to campus disruption and security improvements.
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Claremont Avenue
Barnard
Barnard Hall
Columbia
Milbank
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Schermerhorn
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