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Howard University Digital Howard @ Howard University The iH lltop: 1950-60 The iH lltop Digital Archive 3-25-1955 The iH lltop 3-25-1955 Hilltop Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_195060 Recommended Citation Staff, Hilltop, "The iH lltop 3-25-1955" (1955). The Hilltop: 1950-60. 32. http://dh.howard.edu/hilltop_195060/32 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The iH lltop Digital Archive at Digital Howard @ Howard University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The iH lltop: 1950-60 by an authorized administrator of Digital Howard @ Howard University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. • .. v.. J .- - ' Happy • Easter • • • • , . , ' VOL. 37, NO. 4 HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. • MARCH 25, 1955 • ~ \ SoYlet Sludents Allowed to Visit Eighty-four Howard Students Campus Chest Drive On University Honor Roll Now Underway·· United Slates by Slate _Department Thirty To Receive Magna Cum Laude . Organizations Urged. NEW YORK - The visit of States, Soviet propaganda made WASHINGTON, D.C.-Eighty Ayton, Bernard Dyer, Kingsley To Campaign eleven SoTiet 1tudent editon to much of the U. S. refusal to grant four College of Liberal Arts stu- Grant, William Jones, Perrylyn The period March 10-April 15 the United Statea has aroused in visas at that time. The visas dents at Howard were C'ited on Peyton, Jacqueline Shepard, and has been selected for the annual terest on~ American college were turned down becaU8e Ameri- the honor roll released by Dr. J. Henry Smith. Community Chest drive and again - campu, the Inatitute of Interna can universities were not then in St. Clair Price, Dean of the each student organization is be- tionakEducation announced today, aeaaion. The Soviet claimed that College. Magna Cu1n Laude Honorees ing urged to conduct a campaign are: Audrey Anderson, Jean among its members as it seems Student councill, campus news it was the United States that had '- • papers, faculty, an1 administra the Iron Curtain, not the U.S.S.R. The students, who represent Bottoms, Barbara Brown, Arthur most desirable. The Campus tive officers at •• colleges and Last year Russia allowed a group fifteeR. states, two foreign coun Fuller, Theodore George, Daniel Community Chest Drive is the universities in 28 atatea and the of American student editors to tries, the Virgin Island!, and the Hall, Florence Jackson, Louise last of the two major fund rais 'District of Columbia have invited visit there. District of Columbia, will receive Johnson, Kenneth King, Vernon ing campaigns which are con the Ru.. tan delegation to visit The visit of the student editors certificates of merit 2't the annual Straughn, Mary Tuggle, Thomas ducted at Howard University them. The U. S. National Stu is at the expense of the Soviets. College of Liberal Arts Honors Weaver, Irma Wright. each year, the other being the an- dent Aaociation has al1ro ex It is in ~o way a U. S. povern- Day Program w dn d H h nual District of Columbia Red pressed interest in the tour. ment proJect. e. es ay, rac Also: Gordon Baird, Keith Feather Campaign. It is in con Inclqded in the liat are a group Editorial comment in the na-. aO~h. Th~ pnnc~al ~peaker at Cassels, Amy Coleman, Marion formance with the University of stud'ent organizations which tipn's press has endorsed the pro- hbs year a affa~ will 1:.e Dr. Demmings, Carol Dibble, Roberta policy of participating in fund • banded together laat fall to ex- jected visit of the Soviet student J~hn Hope Frankhn, Professor of H arlan, Barbara Harvt!y, Town-· raising drives fop accredited tend a direct invitation to the editors. A New York Times edi- History at Howard. send Lucas, Ernestine Pierce, charitable organizations but at Talmadge Rob e rt s , Shirley the saine time keeping the num Soviet editors to visit their cam torial • stated, "If the Russian Twelve of the honoree! accum Government is willing to expose Spencer, Claudius Thomas; and ber of such drives on our ca1npus puses. Tbeae colleges also u·rged ulated averages of 3.8 or more the State Department to grant eleven student editors, aged 25 Patricia Trivera. to a minimum. • viaaa to the Russian editors. The to 39, to a close-up view of high during the past school year and Receivers of tbe Cum Laude The success of the drive is Swarthmore C o 11 e g e Student er education in this country,.Jt.is will receive Summa Cum Laude c ·fi greatly dependent on the Iextent Council acted as coordinator for wise of us to accept the certificates. Magna Com Laude erti Cftes are: Carl .~lexander, to which every student is con- .. this collegiate group. At the challenge." awards for averages of 3.5 or Everett Allen, Dolore&bArtuhr tacted and urged to make some Juanita Banks, Glaister a\vkins: contribution to the Chest Fund. ~ same time a number of other .col William Randolph Hearst, Jr., beter go to 30 students.-while the leges invited the editors to visit editor-in-chief of the Hearst remaining 42 \\•ill be gvien Cum Isabell Finley, Carolyn Fitchett, Contributions by students in the their respective campuses or en newspapers, has advocated the Laude certificates for averages of Thomas Hawkins, Barba1·a Hicks, past nave been very poor, and dorsed the visit independently. idea of admitting Russian stu 3.2 or better. At Howard 4...Q. is R~g~nald -~ol~~ge_ne Jlppson, it is hoped that through a little All of these groups welcomed the d$ts to the United States so that perfect. Okon!don,Jesse Johnson, Ifenry · more effort and interest on the March 10 decision of the State they may observe American life. JoneS, Wilbur Jone~. Sylvia part of every9nc, Howard Univer and Justice Departments to grant Mr. Hearst, who has just re Those to be awarded Summa Peppers, Rosa Ware, Phyllis sity's contributions to the selected visas to the Soviet delegation. turned from a trip to the Soviet Cum Laude certificates arc: Washington, and Cora \V'hite. agencies· will compare favorahly To acquaint themselves with Union, made th~ statement .in Newton Adams, Donald Hill, with contributions made by other American academic life is the recent speeches in Washington \Villiam H. Pitts, Ann A.. Sim -V (Continued on Page 8) outstanding colleges, universities stated purpose of the Soviet tour. and Los Angeles. nlons, Ribton M. Wade, Nigel in the Middle Atlantic Region. The Institute of International Within the period designated Education, which was asked by Howard Entered in for the drive, organizations are the State Department to adminis University Forum Considers privileged to sponsor fund-raising ter the visit, is planning an itin Bridge Tourney activities on the campus and to erary that will show a cross-sec Trusteeship Council C~iteria solicit contributions from mem Students at Howard University tion of American higher educa-· low in France studying the ad· bers of {he University Commun The 1955 series of the Univer along with more than 4,000 other tion. It should include visits to sity Forum of Howard Univer ministration of French Overseas ity. A trophy is awarded an large private and public univer men and women undergraduates nually to the organization making sity got under way February 28th Territories. at 141 colleges and universities sities, a private college under re and P.nded four lectures later on The second lecture was given the most outstanding performance ligious direction, a Negro college, throughout the United. States in connection with the raising of March 21. The overall theme of by Dr. Horace Mann Bond, Pres competed the weekend of March and a small private college of the Series was "Criteria for New ident of Lincoln University, on the Chest funds or in the de • good atandine. The Soviet stu 14-18 in the 1955 National Inter velopment of. student interest and Self-Governing Countries." The the topic of the criteria of self· collegiate Bridge Tournament. dent editors will be given oppor underlying idea was to invest government as they affect the participation in the camp!'!gn. tunities to meet American stu Forty-four states and the District The trophy becomes the perma igate the ways and mean.a where Gold Goast. Dr. Bond, like Dr. of Columbia were represented in dents and to participate in dis by an area achieve1 independence Logan, bas traveled and written nent possession of the group cuulona with them and' with their the entries, it was announced by which receives the honor three and self-government at the pres extensively in th&-ai:ea of his J. Wayne Stark, Tournament professors. subject. times. For the past, two years, ent time. Chairman, Memorial Student the trophy has been won by Academic institutions to be vis Thia topic was of burning im ited by the Soviet editors have On March 14., Mr. A Babatunde Center, T)le Agricldtural and Alpha Phi Alpha. portance in view of the number Fafunwa, Assistant to the Ni Mechanicil College of Texas. Agencies which will share in not yet been detAmnined. A ten of nations that have come into tativ'1!lnerary includes atopa in geria Liaison Office of Washing Directing the tournament at this year's Chest funds are: existence in the past few years ton, D. C., delivered the third lec The Miller House was Dr. Her New ~k City, WuhfnP,n, United Negro College Fund, and the increasing number of ture, applying the criteria to man Tyrance. Heart Fund, World University Detroit, Ann Arbor, Chicaao, San countries now standing on the Franciaco, and Tuske1ee, AJa Nigeria.