Liberal Club Votes Straw on Election in Unified Group
The newly united Liberal and Action For Democracy Clubs held their first meeting to plan election day actions and set goals. They announced a broader educational drive and a straw vote the Friday before elections, with ongoing member polls on a strike issue. Shirley Stout will host Community Service hours and coordinate help for agencies including a Thrift Shop staffing need.
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Liberal and Action For Democracy
Hewitt
Liberal Club
Shirley Stout
Community Service
Barnard
Miss Stout
Thrift Shop
Freshman Council Chooses Ursula Leebeck for PC Seat
Margaret Weitz announces Ursula Leebeck elected as freshman representative to the Political Council from ten applicants. Leebeck, born in Germany, led international relations work and was class president at Hunter High School. other applicants will form a committee to assist her.
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Margaret Weitz
Political Council
Ursula Leebeck
Miss Leebeck
Hunter High School
Leebeck
French Club Plans Activities After First Tea
The French Club met in the French room last Thursday for the first tea and laid out plans for upcoming events including the annual play a Christmas program and regular French conversation meetings. Gloria Coll welcomed members and urged dues to Maya Pines collected this month.
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Gloria Coll
Maya Pines
Simone Dreyfus
Men Outnumber Women At Coffee Dance At Barnard Hall
A Friday afternoon dance at Barnard Hall cafeteria drew a large crowd of Columbia students with far more men than women in attendance. Refreshments were served during intermission as a phonograph supplied continuous music and records throughout the event.
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Barnard Hall
Columbia
Barnard
Rip-Riding Rodeo Delights Crowds With Daring Feats
Dare-devil rodeo action features bareback and saddle bronc riding, wild Brahma bulls, and ten-second thrills. Gene Autry’s Champion earns praise as horses dance, while Ray Ramsey and the Flying Clouds showcase two horses guided as one. Yahoo crowds cheer the Garden Rodeo spectacle.
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Gene Autry
Champion
Ray Ramsey
Ray
Yahoo
Calendar notices of student activities and meetings
The schedule lists events from Thursday to Monday including a chapel service, Honor Board open meeting, IRC tea, Glee Club dance, Newman Club coffee hour, Initiation, Representative Assembly, Court of Senior Proctors, Welcome Tea, and History Majors Tea at various campus rooms and auditoria.
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Newman Club
Corpus Christi Auditorium
Columbia Strike Analyzed as Long Labor Dispute
Mr Grogan outlines Columbia University labor history from a 1948 union affiliation with the CIO Transport Workers to a wartime wage increase dispute. A two day postwar strike led to recognition and a contract, then extended negotiations for higher benefits failed, prompting mediation talks and an arbitration offer.
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Grogan
Columbia
Transport Workers Union, Cio
War Labor Board
University
State Mediation Board
Schley
Representative Assembly Considers World Service Fund Drive
Rep Assembly debates supporting the World Student Service Fund with Pat Haida urging continued WSSF backing as needs rise without National War Fund gifts. Isabel Sarvis reports on $2,862.29 raised aiding student centers in China, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Budapest, and Leysin. Barnard delegates Eva Maze and Carol Johns outline UN council work and a planned campus talk by Dean Gildersleeve on October 21.
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World Student Service Fund
Pat Haida
Representative Assembly
WSSF
National War Fund
Rep Assembly
Isabel Sarvis
China
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Budapest
International
Leysin
Switzerland
Eva Maze
Barnard
Finch Jumwor College
Bulletin
Carol Johns
Undergraduate
Dean Gildersleeve
Deutscher Kreis features Wilhelm Busch drawings by Braun
Professor Wilhelm A. Braun presented Busch drawings at the Deutscher Kreis meeting on Monday. He compared Busch cartoons to The New Yorker and discussed his action scenes and Max and Moritz. Hertha Haberlander ’48 presided as members sang German songs and enjoyed cakes and coffee.
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Wilhelm A. Braun
Wilhelm Busch
Deutscher Kreis
Busch
New Yorker
Hanover
Germany
Professor Braun
Max and
Moritz
Hertha Haberlander
Il Circolo Italiano Plans First Meeting and Play
The choral group Il Circolo Italiano will meet tomorrow at noon in Brinckerhoff Theatre. It gathers students keen on old and modern Italian music and will stage a thirteenth century Italian miracle play at Christmas time.
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Il Circolo Italiano
Brinckerhoff Theatre
Italy
Il Circolo
Church in Social Action Discussed at University Meeting
On Thursday October 17 the University Christian Association held the second meeting on church social responsibility. Rev Cameron P Hall executive secretary of the Industrial Relations Division of the Federal Council of Churches spoke on what churches are doing in social action. He previously served as a Presbyterian minister at the University of Wisconsin. The program included questions and answers and a presentation of New York community service opportunities for students.
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University Christian Association
Cameron P. Hall
Federal Council of Churches
Hall
University of Wisconsin
New York
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PICE
Edward W. Scully
The
Ass. of Catholic Trade Unions
Little Parlor
Glee Club
Brooks Hall
Braun
D. V. Bazinet, Inc
Amsterdam Avenue
Circolo Italiano
ST. Paul’s Chapel
Columbia University
Szervicz
Bayne
Willliam G
Helena Rubinstein
Kelena Rubinstein Salon
Fifth Avenue
York
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