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The Reporter, November 7, 1956 City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works The Reporter Archives 1956 The Reporter, November 7, 1956 How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bb_arch_reporter/312 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] THE . ���ili ( .. r,.•3) � r\ "Have WondeTful : (S .. P,g•5) • I<. Ep QR1!!1��t� COCCICf'JtU•� Only Volume LI . 1 ·o. 8 By Subscription Former City Mid-East Conflict Affects Students E.�. student t Council' Pres. the male gathering, felt more than shor survey by this paper f?und WI ns $44,000 By James Cox t r t t t a little relieved. For to them, �n- tha mo e studen s a he Busmess The overflowing crowds in the t . t r t o her Korean-tyre ?ol!ce ac 10n Center are reading mo e news- elevision lounge and Lounge C t . t r r n OW l Wins M al t t would mean_ rad g m their tex - pape s to bone, up on the wa Q TV sh ed watching and lis ening o President m t t t t r t t agains Isa:real, Eisenhower speak to he na ion books f�r ifles; to some for he Egyp is figh ing Herb Stempel who was once ewbold Morris, former pres­ t t France, and England. r t t Wednesday e,,ening pointed up he second ime. conside ed a "slow" student by his ident of he Ci y Council and chair­ t t r t t t t t t t t t t r keen in eres which Ba uch stu- If any hing, he Presiden 's talk Perhaps he a ti ude of mos elemen ary school principal, won man of he board of he ew Yo k t t t r t oi t t t t t t den s are showing in he s rained aroused a spi i new in eres . studen s a the Baruch School can $44,000 las Wednesday evening on Ci y enter of Music and Drama, r t t r t t t t r t t t Mediter anean si uation. Ques ions and c iticisms of he be summed up by a s a emen the guiz prog am "2L" Herb, a was recen ly named as he enth t t t t t The crowds in both lounges hung speech, in erna ional discussions, made by Jim Robinson, club ed­ his ory major, attends Ci y, 1-fP· annual winner of he John H. Fin­ t t t t t t t on to every word he Presiden and par icularly, queries on the i or of The Reporter. His hought town a nigh . ley Medal for significant service t t t t t t t spoke. When a last he firmly draft and veterans' reserve s a us was: "I haven't bee1;1 able o sleep Twenty-eigh year old S empler to the City of New York, i was t t t t t t t t t r t tt sta ed ha he Upi ed Sta es flew all over he sc;hool. Classes, these pas fe nigh �. I keep is ma ried, l,as a small son, and announced by Mor on Go schall, t t t t t t r r . t t "; . t t would not en er he Eo-yp -Israel eleva ors, and he cafe e ia buzzed d eammg ha Im back 1n umform. is supporting a ,vidowed mo her. presiden of the college's Alumni t t t t t t t t war, many students, p°ar icularly wi h alk about he war. Even a Wha a errifying though !" He served eight years in he Army. Assoqiation. t t When Herb lef he program, The award was established in t t which is on .Channel 4, a , 10 :30 memory of the late John Hus on p.m., lie was tied with his oppo­ Finley, thfrd president of City Col­ t t r nen 21-21. Tha means when he lege and edito of The New York Get goes back to the program each -city Grads t rt Times, as a means of symbolizing ques ion will be wo h $1,000. For the Ephebic Oath taken at the com­ t t r every ques ion Herb fails o an­ r t mencement ceremony by gtoaduates. swe and his opponen does, $1,000 The Oath pledges them "strive t t t Most Doctorates will be deducted from his $44,000. o transmit this ci y not only no t t tt Even if he doesn't answer one.. less bu grea er, be er and more The City College of New York led all colleges and univer­ question correctly, the minimum he beautiful than it was transmitted sities in the metropolitan area in the number of graduates will go home/with is $23,000. • to us." According to the contest rules, t t who went on, to receive doctorate degrees in the sciences, t r Pas winners of he award in­ t t Hel·b can s ay on the prog am and r r t humani ies and social sciences • t t clude Berna d M. Ba uch; he ar s, con inue o win money as long as t from 1936 to 1950. t Rockefeller family; Ar hur Hays r r he answers more questions han his Sulzberger, Publisher of The New 'Dhe 15-yea ecord was revealed opponent. The game is played with York Times; Mrs. Ogden Reid, for­ in two reports issued by the Na- The Pan h an di.er two people, each one is placed in mer publisher of the New York t t t t r ional Academy of Sciences - Na- an isola ion boo h and mus an- Herald Tribune; Mrs. Cha les S. PacJ<ed A Knife . swer the questions from two sub­ r tional Research Council on the un- t t Guggenheime , chairman of Sta­ r t t jec s chosen by he players. Each r t doctora es t t t dium Conce ts, lpc.; and las year's dergraduate o igins of . The panhandler w�o accos ed subjec_ has 11 ques ions, he high­ ties; . ana· City - College st�aeifC Joel Harris t recipient, Mrs. David M. Levy, in sciences, arts,humani r er )he number, he harder the ques­ president of the Citizens' Commit­ r t 'l'hursdays ca ried an umbre�a, r t r r t social sciences awa ded in he t r . tion. The fi s playe to answer 21 t g eq p- t t tee on Children of New Yo k Ci y. ted States. r tha period, :::!1�0: �:�! f ?:��; m ques ions correc ly, wins. Each t Uni Du ing ict r t Presentation of he award will -Bernard M. Baruch t r question is at fi st wor h $500. t t t a to al of 999 CCNY g aduates Harris, 18, of 2865 Faber Ter­ t take place at he associa ion's '76 h r t t t During las Wednesday's pro­ were awa ded heir doc orate de- race, Far Rockaway, turned he r r t Annual Dinner on Wednesday eve- Townsend Ha,nis Medals for dis­ t g am, P esiden Buell Gallagher t man down and con inued walking t t . ning, November 14 in the Grand tinguished pos -graduate achieve­ grees. t t t was seated in he s udio audience . t t t 1 r down Conven avenue owards he Ballroom of he Shera on-As or ment will go to Rabbi Mo1·decai In New Yo k, City College was p t school. The panhandler followed. Ho el. Kaplan, 1900; Dr. Philip Levine, followed by Columbia University t t "I got a knife in his umbrella," Five other City College Alumni '19; Dr. Morris Meister, '16; Albert with a total qf 871 and NYU wi h t t r t t he told young Harris. "Gimme all will also be honored a he dinner. P. Andrea, '18, and Berna d Hersh­ a to al of 616 s udents earning t Urges liberal t doctorates for the same period. you go ." The annual presentation of he kopf, '06. Harris turned over $15. ' In one report, on the origin of t t t r t When Harris old he police, i Arts Courses science docto a es, \ City College t t r t turned ou he was vic im number anked second in he nation from t r r t t t t wo. Hali an hou earlier CCNY T ustees of he Carnegie Foun­ Design School Of The 1946 to 1950 wi h a o al of 296, student David Shelupsky/ 18, of t t t and eighth from 193.6 to 1945 with da ion for he Advancemen of t Brooklyn, had been approached by t a otal of 229. t Teaching called recen ly for ,in­ t t the umbrella-man as he left he t In he second report, on he IND's 145th Street station on the creased emphasis on he liberal arts Future and Win Money t r t t t origin of doc o a es in he arts, way to school. Sheplusky only gave in all phases o:f; educa ion.
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