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The Reflector, June, 1936 Kean University Kean Digital Learning Commons Reflector 1930s Reflector 6-1-1936 The Reflector, June, 1936 New Jersey State Normal School at Newark Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/reflector_1930s Recommended Citation New Jersey State Normal School at Newark, "The Reflector, June, 1936" (1936). Reflector 1930s. 12. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/reflector_1930s/12 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Reflector at Kean Digital Learning Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Reflector 1930s by an authorized administrator of Kean Digital Learning Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE REFLECTOR NEW JERSEY STATE NORMAL SCHOOL NEWARK, N. J. JUNE, 1936 I'm Not An Agnostic! We'll Remove It Gratis! By WALTER KABIS By WALTER WILSON EDITOR'S NOTE: We reprint here a, copy of the text of President Leo­ The word nrt has been defined by I am of the opinion that the faculty nard Johnson's address to the Student Webster as the embodiment of beauti­ of this school favors student govern­ Body early last Fall, in order to point ful thought in sensuous forms, as in ment. In fact I am positive that it out the dfre need for the Student Gov­ marble or speech. He states that the does. After reading the General Or­ ernment reform and to set the stage esthetic, or fine arts are the arts of ganization Constitution, that docu­ for a new Constitution to be presented beauty, as painting, sculpture, music ment which you have never read, ap­ soon by the Council. and poetry. pearing in your freshman bible-the We do not presume to be art critics one you threw away after initiation­ -far from it; but we do have pretty I find that all of the legislative power ---•--- definite ideas about what we like and is delegated in the Student Council, dislike in art. We are inclined to agree which is a representative body of the Student Reorganization with Mr. Webster and do not like the school, while the power of the Execu­ mural in Room 29. tive Board is that of directing the If memory serves me correctly, the Modernists contend that "art may finances of the school. Neither power opening remarks of the Organization ignore the senses and appeal only to conflicts, one with the other. Yet, President when I sat out there as a the intellect." So states one of New along with the power given to the Ex­ Freshman, were "Newark Normal Jersey's best editorialists. They insist ecutive Board to guide the finances of School has gone modern." Now Web­ art has other purposes not connected the school is another, namely that it ster tells us that the meaning of with beauty and pleasing things, upon shall act as a check on the Student "modern" is "Of, or characteristic of, which grounds they justify its use as Council should any piece of legislation present time," All of which would a mode of making one of our most-used be submitted to it by that body. lead you to believe that if I were to lecture-rooms more "attractive." make a similar assertion today the The trouLle with their theories is The distinct trouble with the entire assumption would be that our pro­ that art for the average individual is set-up as it is at the present is our­ gress during the past three years has not a thing for the intellect. Real selves, because we are not interested in been commensurate with and is char­ poetry has no message, only music. the government of the school; not in­ acteristic of the times. Unfortunately, Music preaches no sermon, it only terested enough to take the responsi­ I do not feel that I can justifiably bathes the soul in melody. Painting, bility that the administration and stu­ make such an assertion. it seems, should thrill the eye with line dents of previous years have given us and color and harmony. to exercise; not interested enough in My experience during these three years has lead me to believe that our When art abandons grace and beauty, the machinery of the school to know it is no longer art, but merely self­ whether there is a surplus in the treas­ worthy predecessors, in laying the foundations of our student govern­ expression. Mr. Cohen's work in Room ury, or whether the Tudor Room is ment entertained the belief that every 29 is purely self-expression; his con­ being used for the activities of the ception of the Almighty indicates that. faculty or the students; nor do we person, be they selected or otherwise, is directly interested and active in And where has any individual ever care whether or not a class is to be affairs of government. This, it seems been permitted to so publicize his own found in the student's room when pet thoughts as has Mr. Cohen? other classes are free to use the room to me, is entirely contrary to the dic­ tates of the ages which have brought If the few people who like this sort for recreational purposes. We don't democracy and representative govern­ of thing want to encourage it, let them care whether the room is improved or fill their homes and private museums not and we don't give two raps whether ment into being. It is to this bit of fundamental. and proven civic philos­ with it instead of a public college the ping-pong table is set up so that ophy that we attribute the more or less ninety-eight percent of whose students we may use it. lamentable failure of Student Organi­ and faculty can neither understand nor Why most of us don't even care to zation meetings in the past. I say this appreciate it. know that the Student Council is pe­ in humble deference to those of my The mural in Room 29 is ugly, un­ titioning the State Board of Educa­ predecessors who have worked hard pleasant, pessimistic, annoying and, in tion through Dr. Townsend for the and faithfully to bring these affairs the opinions of many, sacriligious. We right to have our name changed from up to the expectation of the founders, are ready and anxious to remove it at New Jersey State Normal School at meanwhile working in contradiction a moment's notice-gratis. Newark to The New Jersey State to the philosophy previously alluded to. This group is in name and should be Teachers College at Newark. It might be well to deviate a moment in fact the legislative body of our I am not, as you would suppose, an to review briefly for the benefit of the government. Officers are elected within agnostic, but it is almost impossible uninformed the system under which the group. The Executive Board con­ to continue seeing the machinery pre­ our student government has been oper­ sists of a group of six people elected pared for us to use in a professional ating during the four years of its through popular vote by the student manner and finding no one person in­ existence. There have been two bodies body. It reviews all matters brought terested enough to prepare for our of government known as the Student before it by the Student Council, con­ posterity a background of intense in­ Council and the Executive Board. The stitutes the finance committee of the terest in student government; of pride Student Council membership consists Organization, and is in general re­ and of thankfulness so that we could of the presidents of all clubs and sponsible for the conduct of the Stu­ he proud in the future to identify our­ c:lasses together with the delegates-at­ dent Organization meetings, which the l5Clves with the New Jersey State large from the classes and the chair­ eonstitution prescribes shall be held Teachers College at Newark. men of the four standing committees. at least once each month. 2 THE REFLECTOR EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief: Fred M. Lavenburg Editor of Reflector: Paul A. Meister Associate Editor: Gertrude Nachbar Business Manager: Albert L. Rothbard Chairman of Reporters: Catherine Fitzgerald Reporters: John Markowitz Mollie Buchanan Perry Zimmerman Perle Greenspan Carolyn M. Byrd Saul Bosek Typists: Jonas Daniel Virginia Siegel Miriam Heidenreich Faculty Advisor SH Mrs. Lenore Vaughn-Eames ---•--- OFTH The mention of Organization meet­ ings returns us again to the theme of this discussion. It has been the custom and tradition in the past to attempt to bring the entire student body into these meetings and to whip them into a legislative group. The result was, as history might have told us, that a great many were not only disinter­ ested but frankly bored. This is perhaps typical of an age in which people may demand a fine car to take them from home to polling place in order that they may exercise a fran­ chise purchased with the blood of our forefathers. As the months went by a special period, free of academic or social interference, was set aside but this only resulted in a gradual falling off in attendance. Thus this situation gave birth in the Council last Spring to an amendment ( among others) to section 4 of Article 6 which now reads: SECTION 4. All legislation shall originate in the Student Council and pass to the Executive Board for con­ sideration. Should a bill be vetoed by the Executive Board, the Student Council may pass over the veto by a two-thirds vote of that body, if no action is taken by the Executive Board within ten days of the presentation of the bill, the bill is passed.
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