Arts & Science Formal Friday Night FIAT JUSTITIA at the PEREAT MUNDUS Jubilee Boat Club Reg Quinn's Orchestra VoL XCII HALIFAX, NOV A SCOTIA, NOVEMBER 4, 1959 No.5 P. C.'s Sponsor Panel 'SUBcom Alive and Kicking On Legal Murder • The efficacy of capital punishment as an instrument of lans and raw1ngs society will be the subject of a panel discussion at 12:00 noon on Thursday, November 5, in the West Common Room of the Men's Residence. The discussion, entitled The Question of Legal MuTder, will be sponsored by the Dalhousie Progres­ sive Conservative Club. Near Com let ion Panelists will include Bob Mc­ Cleave, Federal Member of Parlia­ Dalhousie Students' SUBcom is starting to move! An organizational meeting of the ment for Halifax; Peter O'Hearn, Students' Union Building Committee held last Monday, got down to concrete planning, as Crown Prosecutor for Halifax City members prepared for a long winter of campagning for the start of construction of the and County; Dr. James H. Aitcheson, much-needed student centre. head of the Department of Political Science; and Margaret Doody, a sen­ In the near future, the committee will finalize a submission to be presented to the ior English Honours student. Student Council, which will include complete plans and drawings of the SUB, detailed At the conclusion of the discussion financial arrangements, and proposals for going to the student body to obtain an overall vote the floor will be thrown open to the of support for the project. audience for the expression of their Up-to-date material on the pro­ thinking positively with regard to views on the subject, with an op­ posed building will soon be circulat­ this venture. portunity to ask questions of the ed on both Dal campuses. During the last week of November a meet­ As yet membership of the student panelists. ing of the heads of all student or­ committee has not been finalized. Attending last Monday's meeting Mike Steeves, President of the ganizations on the campuses will be called to discuss the plans. Photos were Kempton Hayes, Doug Cud- ~ Dalhousie P.C. Club, will chair the of Union Buildings on other cam­ more, Johnny Graham, Bill Dick­ panel. puses in Canada will be distributed son, Hilary Bonnycastle, John Stew­ and students are urged to start art, Bud Kimball, Jim Boutilier and During both first and second the Co-Chairmen, Murray Fraser tenns this year, the Dalhousie P.C. and Dave Matheson. Club will be sponsoring a number of discussions, debates and round A permanent Advisory Committee, table groups, making campus poli­ consisting of Faculty and Alumni representatives, is being formed ROBERT J. McCLEAVE tics a little more accessible to the Hallowe'en student not generally interested in and will meet within the next two politics itself. In the past, campus weeks. Already four leading figures political acivity has been centred on the campus have agreed to serve primarily around Model Parliament, on this cammittee - Professor Art this year tentatively scheduled for Meagher of the Faculty of Law and Afro-Asia the last week in January. At Kings President of the Alumni Association, Prof. Ed. Harris of the Faculty of This single-mindedness of thought Hallowe'en at King's this year was Law, Prof. A. Chisholm of the En­ has tended in the past to make probably bigger and better than gineering •department, and Mr. campus politics a foreign quantity ever before. Whereas local frater­ Bruce Irwin, Director of Alumni Discussions to most students. This year the nities and sororities sponsored gay affairs. Other prominent members P.C. Club is endeavouring to alle­ and colourful masquerade parties, of the Faculty and of the Halifax viate this idea. the atmosphere at King's was that Business Community will be asked DAVE MATHESON The next discussion will take of a combination of this sorority­ to serve on the Advisory body, At McGill place November 26, possibly on the fraternity relationship. which will continue to operate when cuss the Students' Union Building. general subject of Canada, the the building is erected. They may be contacted at the Law This year the McGill Conference About forty masqueraders and on World Affairs-the third annual Commonwealth, and the United The Co-Chairmen said they hoped School. States. more than sixty unmasked persons Conference-will convene 100 dele­ gathered in King's Haliburton Room to meet with several members of In a survey of twenty universities gates and observers from Canadian There will be a general business on Saturday Night to make the the Board of Governors today or in the North Eastern United States and American universities for four meeting of the P.C. Club on Novem­ "Forest Masquerade" an unprece­ tomorrow. The next meeting of and Canada, nine, varying in student days of round table discussions, and ber 19, at 12:00 noon in Room 222. dented success for a Hallowe'en the SUBcom will be held at 5:45p.m. populaltion from 1350 students at panel debates on the subject of­ Dance. next Monday in the Women's Com­ U.N.B. to 13,000 at U. of T., indicated "Afro-Asia: The Problems of Under­ Conference plans also include a mon Room in the Admin. Building. that they possessed a student union developed Countries". panel discussion, featuring leading The Haliburton Room was gaily All interested students are asked to building. Since that time Acadia figures in the journalistic and edu­ and appropriately decorated for familiarize themselves with the University has completed plans for The Conference will be held No­ Hallowe'en by members of the cur­ plans to date and are invited to vember 17 to 20, 1959. cational world to be held on the such a structure. Of the buildings second or third evening of the Con­ rent Junior Class of King's Most attend the meeting. Your support is surveyed seven used building funds, needed. In addition to the regular debates ference. instrumental in this decorating and one was financed by the university, other preparations were Mary Jane and discussions which have become The Executive of the Conference Finally, in an effort to publicize along with bequests and loans, while a feature of past Conferences, dele­ Craik, Ann Michael, Sandra Oxner, still another was donated by a under Stuart L. Smith, a medical Dave Chard, Judy Coates, Don the project, the Co-Chairmen have gates will be fortunate in having an student, is hard at work preparing stated that they are prepared to foundation. opportunity of hearing the views Crawley, Sue Bell and Torrey Lang­ for what is hoped will prove to be with. meet with any students, informally A student union building is more and ideas of three distinguished in­ an even more successful Conference or at an organized meeting, to dis- ternational statesmen, who will than a giver of dances, a dispenser than last year's. Invitations have Master of Ceremonies for the Hal­ of information, a cafeteria, or a speak at the evening sessions and been sent to leading American and lowe'en Dance was Basil Cooper. banquets. theatre. Its role consists of being Canadian Universities and in keep­ He distributed numerous "spot" the communiJty centre of the univer­ The Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson. ing with the spirit of international­ prizes for the various dances and sity. It ds not just a building, but Opposition in Parliament, Nobel ism, the invitations have specifically best costumes. Highlight of the an organization and a program for Prize Winner, and former Minister asked for a strong representation of dance at King's was the perform­ all the members of the college fami­ of External Affairs will address the Afro-Asian students as delegates. ance of the new Dalhousie West ly. Moreover, it is part of the edu­ first evening plenary session, Tues­ In the past years one of the most Indian Steel Band. The band is cational program of the university, day, November 17. frequently heard complaints was comprised of: Alroy Chow, Trini­ as it provides a culrtural, social and that the McGill students derived dad, Michael Whitehead, Trinidad, recreational centre. Later in the week, Dr. Arthur only marginal benefit from the Con­ John Davidson, Tobago, Kirtland Smithies, Australian-born head of ference, since their participation Culmer and Basil Cooper, Nassau. Students at Dalhousie can con­ the Foreign Aid Division of the was for the most part indirect. Pro­ tribute much by expressing their United States' State Department visions have been made to amend it: "In relations of Afro-Asian na­ opinions on the various aspects of and former chairman of the Harvard this situation and the majority of tions, both colonial and emergent, the student union building being University Department of Economics the round table discussions and to the economic, social and political proposed here. Through the medium will deliver an address to the dele­ plenary sessions will be open to the problems that best them, is mirror­ of inter-facu1ty debating, construc­ gates. student spectators. ed the face of the world tomorrow." tive discussion can take place on such topics as the role of student Sir Leslie Munro, former presi­ The forthcoming Conference is The third annual McGill Confer­ government in the operation of the dent of the General Assembly of ~oncerned with a broad and vital ence on World Affairs hopes at least building, the pros and cons of situ­ United Na~jons and currently New field. There can be no doubt of the to trace the substance of these prob­ ating a bookstore there and the con­ Zealand's Ambassador to the United importance of discussing the prob­ lems.