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Page Four THE BENNETT BANNER Nu-vember, 1957 Faculty Members Attend Carolina CollegeConference LEAF RAKING—These four girls, Mattie Sellers, junior; Ruby WiUiams, senior; Peggie Alex ander, freshman; and Yvonne McBride, sophomore; demonstrate the plans of the Student Senate to have a campus-wide leaf raking. This “beauty work’” was tentativly scheduled for November 26 when the members of each classwill donate their free time to raMng up the ’eaves on the campus. A College Sing and outdoor supper will follow that night. USNSA Agent Confers With Student Senate Mrs. Mary Coleman and Dr. C. G. Winston reported to the College student body on the an nual North Carolina Negro Col lege Conference held in Fayette ville. The purpose of the conference is to discuss administrative pol icies and problems of junior and senior colleges. Dr. J. H. Sayles and Mr. Ed ward Lowe of the faculty also attended the one-day meeting. Bennett will be host to the con ference next year. Deeming the section of the con- feemce which dealt with student participation of special interest to the student body, Mrs. Coleman sumarized the address of one of the guest speakers who spoke on this topic. The three areas of concentra tion of the report were student participation in administration policy making „ln academic pol icy making and in disciplinary matters. The speaker had, beforehand, sent to several colleges a ques tionnaire which included the fol lowing questions: 1. Are student representatives members of ad ministrative body of the college or university? 2. If no students are members, may student repre sentatives present matters related to administrative policy to the ad ministrative body? 3. Are student representatives members (>f the overall academic policy making body? 4. If not, may student rep resentatives present matters re lated to academic policy to the overall academic policy making body? 5. Are student representa tives members of the discipline committee? 6. Does the Discipline committee have any policy mak ing powers? The tabulation of answers re ceived from four-year colleges shown: 1: Five colleges had stu dents in administrative body, and 18 did not. 2. Seventeen coleges allowed students to make recom mendations to the administrative body. 3. Four colleges had stu dents representatives on the over all academic policy, making body, and 19 did not. 4. Eighteen col leges allowed students to make recommendations to the overall academic poUjcy making ibody, and five did not. 5. Sixteen col leges had student representatives on their discipline committee, and seven did not. 6. In 13 colleges disciplinary committees had pol icy making power, and in 10 had no policy making power. From these results, it was con cluded that the idea of democracy in college operation has become a fact to some extent in North Carolina because some colleges and universities do have student members on both administrative councils and academic policy mak ing body s. However, the number of col leges which do permit this par ticipation at policy making is too small to indicate that there is a sweeping trend toward allowing students to take part in policy making in the colleges and uni versities of North Carolina. From the reports made by colleges, it was seen that more progress has been made in the area of partici pation in handling discipline prob lems as well as in giving power to students to recommend policy to the overall governing body. This was believed to be a step toward greater participation on the i>art of students In the operation of colleges and universities. College Placement Annual Dr. Winston brought before the students the College Placement Annual (1958), a book that is part of the Conference’s attempt to acquaint students with job op portunities. The book has been placed in Holgate Library. It was published by the College Placement Council Inc., the of ficial international body serving and representing the eight Re gional Placement Associations of the United States and Canada. Published as a service to col lege and university seniors, grad uate students, and alumni of the United States and Canada, the Colege Placement Armual presents the anticipated occupational needs of more than 1400 employers in '►le forthcoming 1957-58 recruit ing period. The publication serves a dual purpose of providing the stu dent with data concerning firms which will recruit on the campus as well as alerting him to the full range of opportunities in busi ness, industry, and governmental service. o A THOUGHT FOR THANKSGIVING We plow the fields and scatter The good seed on the land. But it is fed and watered By God’s almighty hand; He sends the snow in winter. The warmth to swell teh grain. The breezes and the sunshine, And soft refreshing rain. He only is the Maker Of all things near and far; He paints the way-side flower, He lights the evening st^r; The winds and waves obey Him, By Him the birds are fed; Much more to us. His children. He gives our dally bread. We thank Thee, then, O Father. For all things bright and good. The seed time and the harvest Our life, our health, our food; Accept the gifts we offer For all thy love imparts. And, what Thou most desirest, Our humble, thankful hearts. —MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS. Kay Wallace, a representative from the United States National Student Association, visited the Bennett campus, November 7. Miss Wallace, in conference with the Student Senate Cabinet, ex plained the functions of the stu dent organization and offered sug gestions for some campus prob- lenis. Prom the Senate Session held with Miss Wallace, it was found that the U.SJJJ5.A. is “the of ficial voice of the students in the United States,” and that it is rec ognized by the Federal Govern ment and the United Nations. It is one branch of the worldwide student movement. The purpose of U.S.NJSA. is to “sound our voices on what is t» be done.” Miss Wallace also stat ed that a primary fumction of the organization is “to get students I interested in education.” According to Miss Wallace, the UJS.N.SA. has helped to present and to pass many issues in Con gress. Examples are: (1) students Students Draw Ire Of Legislators The State Student Legislature drew the ire of Representative Harold D. Cooley (D-NC )and Governor Luther Hodges for its resolutions to legalize inter-raical BENNETT VISITOR BRIEFED—Miss Kay Wallace (center) of Cambridge Mass., international administrator for the U. S. National Student Association, talks with these two Bennett College seniors on her recnt visit to the campus of the Greens, boro institution. At left is Miss Yvonne Wynne, of Jamaica, N. Y., president of the Senior choir, and at right. Miss Addie Watson, of Charlotte, N. C., Vice-president of the Student Senate. may earn $600 over tuition and not pay income tax. (2) The Civil aeronautics issue which would provide students with inexpen sive flight rates, in order to get them home faster. Other functions of U.SJIJ3-A. include the International program, inexpensive travel tours abroad for students, aind the international educational program which en ables students the world over to study in different coimtries. Suggestions offered for the im provement of the Bennett campus activities were: (1) general cam pus wide participation, (2) im provement of international rela tions program, (3) initiation of an honor system, and (4) improve ment of campus publications. Miss Wallace is a 1956 graduate of Syracuse Univeristy and is on the Intemationai Education Com mission of the United States Na tional Student Association. She was on tour of the colleges in this area discussing current campus problems and student government. marriages and prostitution. ' Addressing the closing session, of the three-day assembly, Cooley said, “You have shocked the sensi bility of our people. I regret very much the actions taken by this assembly. —- The resolution on inter-racial marriages, introduced by the del egation from Duke’s woman’s College, was approved by the stu dents representing 21 white and Negro colleges in North Carolina. Hodges Raps Stndents Governor Hodges told a news conference that he felt the 212 students had ‘‘taken advantage” of the state’s hospitality when they met in mock legislation in th eCapitol earlier in the month and adopted a resolution urging repeal of the state law which for bids inter-racial marriages. The governor further state that if the students seek the use of the Capitol earlier in the month meeting, they would likely be questioned as to whom they rep resent. DO YOU KNOW OUR ADVERTISERS! 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