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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1942
Page
4
The Office of Price Administration urges every citizen to support the wartime price control program. With many college students as consumers, public cooperation is essential to prevent inflation and job loss. Learn the rules, report only justified overcharges with receipts, and avoid waste by buying only needed items.
The Alumnae Office Placement Bureau with headquarters in the Riverside building helps graduates do volunteer war work. The National Service committee places graduates in war jobs through the Occupation Bureau. Last May a survey was sent to determine skills and interest for defense work.
Barnard announces the first coffee dance of the season at Earl Hall Friday from 4 to 6 30 pm to welcome freshmen and transfers. Men provided. tickets go on sale Wednesday and Thursday at Miss Maack's office after sign up on the Jaketoday poster. Anne Vermilye leads the Barnard Hall social committee planning three dances.
The Maison Francaise at 41 West 117 Street expands its slate of activities under director Eugene Sheffer and assistant director Bluma Lang. New offerings include a beginner conversation course, a literary discussion group, a French Glee club, and Thursday lectures by French writers and professors. A Friday tea dance invites Columbia University members and guests. The house features French furnishings, a daily library from 10 to 6, and a large French music record collection.
The article argues that post slavery, blacks are poor while whites are rich, with class division following economics rather than race. It defines Negro as an economic group one may rise from, not a fixed birth Fact.
Ruth Benedict, Ph.D., associate professor at Columbia University, led six field trips to southwest Indians. She served as president of the American Ethnological Society from 1926 to 1928 and edited the Journal of American Folklore from 1925 to 1940, authoring Forms including Patterns of Culture and Race, Science and Politics.
Dr Benedict argues against racial superiority as the Pacific war broadens its reach Asia watches how America treats minorities. He warns that race prejudice undermines allyship, threatens white supremacy credibility, and risks a white man's war and peace as global sentiments shift.
The article notes Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a 26 year old heroine who killed 309 Germans and trained at a snipers school before joining the army. She fought at Odessa and Sevastopol and was awarded the Order of Lenin. Vladimir Pchelintsev earned the title Sniper of the USSR after destroying 152 sazis in eleven months on the Leningrad front. Beverly Vernon, 44, appointed to Barnard’s student arrangements committee, says a reception may follow the meeting.
Professor Robert S. Lynd of Columbia, author of Middletown, will discuss postwar problems with students at an organizational meeting of a postwar planning group tomorrow evening at 9 15 in Avery Hall social room on the top floor. Barnard and Columbia students invited.
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