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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1950
Page
3
The Student Curriculum Committee recommends moving comprehensive exams to shortly after Easter with April 7 and 14 as possible dates. Seniors would take finals in their major field, and papers would be due two weeks before finals begin.
The Barnard College Placement Office opens a 1 to 2 pm registration for seniors in Room 139 Milbank, urging February and June 1951 graduates to register. Officials note they obtain faculty recommendations, maintain detailed student records, and assist with actual job placements including teaching, librarianship, lab work, social work, and office posts.
Miss Joyce Siegan, UM graduate and Columbia PhD student, replaces Mrs. Leslie Johns as supervisor of the dormitory work program. She works at Barnard with floor councillors to design floor task lists and enforces student discipline through the House Council. A new emphasis on individual councillor responsibility and a revised evening sign out require each girl to state destination and escort.
Dean Millicent C McIntosh and General Dwight D Eisenhower will attend a Thursday dinner meeting to select a Development Plan Committee. Nearly 30 trustees alumnae and others will hear talks on aims and progress of the plan with Mrs Frank Altschul reporting methods and campaign progress.
The school issues a directive replacing homeroom with strict military discipline, pledges allegiance, shoe checks, captains and sergeants, Bible reading optional, and military drills in gym. Teachers Union condemns moves as authoritarian and Nazi Germany reminiscent. Dean McIntosh backs the Crusade for Freedom promoting student signatures and a democracy message.
Barnard Coop Committee Chair Eve lyn Munzer announces possible merger with Columbia by year end unless Barnard students oppose. She cites advantages of keeping separate coops but notes Coop could offer 60 percent resale value versus 50 percent at off campus stores, with opportunities to join the managing committee, especially for Economics majors, and benefits of location and service. (Cant. on Page 2)
A memo notes an error in the winter calendar where Thursday November 30 was listed as Thanksgiving Day. It states national observance falls on Thursday November 23 and that the University and Barnard will observe that date.
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