Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 1963-1964 Student Newspapers 2-27-1964 Conn Census Vol. 49 No. 15 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1963_1964 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Conn Census Vol. 49 No. 15" (1964). 1963-1964. 6. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_1963_1964/6 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1963-1964 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. CONNCENSUS CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Vol 49-No. 15 New London, Connecticut, 'Thur-sday, February 27,....!-964 Price 10 e-.. College Faculty Votes to Join IMidani to Discuss Court Releases Mardi Walker Princeton Language ProgramAr IaBh-IsdraeliFights" On Bail; Sets April Hearing . n or erAr eas The faculty of Connecticut Col- ing or of pursuing a second year Th A b I li b d di On Monday morning Mardi lege voted at its last meeting to of intensive work at Princeton, or t e . r~ . srae 1 . o~ ~r IS- Walker returned to Connecticut PU to begin classes for second semes- accept the invitation of President of going abroad for a year. This t estwillbe e .the sbUbJecMoAkalee- · t t nct-Hs i t ddt ure 0 given y f. ram ~ tel'. Her return was made possible Goh een 0 f P rmce on 0 par rei- IS no a egree program, an 5 U-I Mid . Chi f f R h f th pate in the "Cooperative Under- dents will return to their home am, teD0 e~arc ffl .e by the posting of a $15,000 bail by graduate Program for Critical campuses for senior year and the Arab States ele~atio~s? ce In two Atlantan Negroes. The bond Languages." In his letter of invi- A.B. degree. INew York. Mr. ~Idam WIll speak was set on Thursday, Feb. 20 by . h to the International Relations Judge Durwood Pye after she had tation President Go een wrot.e, It is expected that most inter- CI b Wed M h 4 t 7'15 "Th '11 make avail - u on ., arc a ., been convicted of violating Geor- e program WI - ested students would plan to do· C . Willi S t d t gia's anti-trespass law and fined able to talented students the op- post-graduate work in the Near ILIn rozler'd lliJamt~ . ~ etds - portunity to study intensively Eastern East Asian or Russian I toudnget' an .a 't°ed etr !nttered e ,., $1,000 and sentenced to eighteen hi h t t ht' s U en s are mVI 0 a en . months in jail. Ianguages w IC are no aug areas. Their graduate studies J .. at an advanced level at the stu- would benefit greatly from the M~. Midani was born In ~am<3;s- The $5,000 collected by the stu- d~nt's ~ome campus, a~~ to co.ro. linguistic competence the Prlnce-] cus In 1927, ~nd has studied In dent committee here is being held bme. thl~ language traul:Ing wlt~ tori program offers. Experience D.amascus, Cairo, and New York. in escrow in an Atlanta bank as studies In the area of Interest. has shown that the national need Smce 1947, he has been a mem- collateral for the property which - Th~ Program include~ Arabic, for persons thoroughly familiar I bel' of the staff of the League of was posted as bond. The value of ~hmese, Japanese, Persian, 'I'urk- with these languages and cul- Arab States. In 1954, he. tour~d the property is $40,000 and the Ish, RUSSIan, and relevant area tures cannot be met by education the Arab Stat~s on a special mrs- donors would have been reluct- s~die~ in the humanities and 50- at the graduate level alone, and s~on to esta~IIsh Ara? Informa- ant to post the bond without the cial SCIences. Princeton has been one of the tion Centers In the U.mted State. s. secur-ity of our $5,000. Under the th b Ch f f Ad Joanna Warner and MaJ'di Walker Students participating in the pioneers in making provision forH . e .en. ccame ie 0 mm- anti· trespass law bail must be in program will spend their junior ins'truction in these subjects at Istrahon In the Office of the Per· -------------- the form of unencumbered prop- yea!' at Princeton. They must the undergraduate level. manent Observer of the. League erty in Fulton County. have at least an elementary Undergraduates apply for ad- ~f Arab States at the UnIted ~a- Connecticut College Mardi's case is being appealed. knowledge of the language they mission to the program through tlO~S, and later served as Its To Follow Brandeis She need not be present at the wish to study, acquired either at their own colleges. Mr. Lloyd C~lef of Research. He has con- hearing on April 24. If the appeal the home campus or at an ap- Eastman is the Connecticut Col- t~lbuted to a numbe~ of maga- With Freedom Fast is rejected, her lawyer, Donald L. proved summer school. Financial lege representative, and pro spec- ZInes and ryewspapers In the ~ear On March 11 members of the Hollowell, will take it to the Geor· aid .for intensive summer courses tive applicants should contact him ~ast, 3.1?'dISpresently a contnbu- student body may voluntarily gia Supreme Court. Mardi's bond is avallalble through the Pro- before March 13. A preliminary tl1:g ~dltor of A~Ada~, one of the is also being appealed in a few give up their evening meal in gram Irom the Carnegie Corpora- selection will then be made pnnclpal magazmes In the Arab weeks. Had it not meant dropping tion. After junior year at Prince- among the aspirants from this world. order to provide food for unem· out of college, Mardi would have ton, there is the possibility of a College. The deadline for final _ ployed citizens of Mississippi. The stayed in jail during the appeal. second summer of language train- applications at Princeton is April JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD Fast for Freedom is a nationwide U. S. Senator Thomas J. Dodd 1. There are two requirements for fast in which numerous colleges of Connecticut has asked Attor- admission: a distinguished aca· Applications to study abroad ney General Robert Kennedy to and universities are participating. demic record and one year of a next year must be submitted intercede for Mardi. Dodd tenned critical language, or the equiva- to 1\lr. Philip Jordan by The money which is saved by th.e the girl's conviction and sentence ~larch 10. lent at an intensive summer College will be used by the Stu· 1I0utrageous." In his letter to the course. ---------~---- dent Non-Violent Coordinating A·ttorney General he said "Mar- ______________________________ Committee 'for the purchase of di Walker's only crime was uJr holding the Constitution of the food for Negroes who~e welfare United States. The outrageous Lukacs to Give Opening Talk payrnents have been denied them. sentence imposed upon her by the The fast is headed by a group Geor·gia Court should shock and At World ,Affairs Conference of students at :Brandeis Univer· outrage the American people!' sitY"who originated the plan last Mardi Was the first of twenty- nine demonstrators to be tried The opening speech of the Con- back); U. W. Kitzinger, The Poli- year. The Brandeis students 'are under the anti-trespass law. She necticut College Annual Confer- tics and Economics of European handling the funds for the pur- refused to accept the $1,500 ence on World Affa1.rs will be giv- Integration (Praeger Paperback), which her father, Captain D. P. en by Professor John Lukacs at and Winter 1964 issue of Daeds.- chase of the food and the Te.am- Walker, would have given to pro- 8 p.m" March 13. The subject of Ius on HA New Europe?" ~ters Union is providing transpor· vide a professional bondsman be· the Conference is "The United tation for the food to Mississippi. Books Available at Bookstore, cause this privilege was denied to States and Europe." Library Representatives from each dorm the other prisoners. Professor Lukacs was born in Those planning to attend the will post sign-up sheets for those Mardi was convicted by an all- Hungary. He was educated in Conference are invited to study who wish to participate in the white jury after fifty minutes of Hungary and in England. During these books. For convenience, fast. Participation is voluntary. deliberation. Prosecuting attor- -w the SeCond World War, he was in they will be placed on reserve at Cereal will be provided in lieu of ney William Spense told the jury his native country, and came to the main desk in the library. Sug- dinner for those who feel they that Mardi's acquittal would lead the United States only il'l 1946, be· gestions ~or further reading can cannot partictpate in a complete to more violence in Atlanta. Shov- Robert Lowell fore the Sovietization of Hun- be found in a library display and fast. ing and fisticuffs were reported gary. Since 1947, Mr. Lukacs has a display at the Bookstore that Miss Voorhees of the Residence during demonstrations in Atlan· been a professor of history at will be offered for a week pre- Qepartment will determine the ta's segregated restaurants last Poet Robt. Lowell, Chestnut Hill College, Philadel· ceding the Conference.