Lincoln University of Missouri - Archives Yearbook (Jefferson City, MO)

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Members of the Student Government Association: Seated left to right, Robert B. Patterson. Ronnie Miller. Hilda Lewis, Berda Smith. Ruby Topps, Renee Coleman, Don W. Cook. Standing. Eric Bryant. Wanda Brown, Earl Lewis. Turhan Brown, Mattie Blackmon, Mike Hamilton. Bwarama Wudiri. Za George Abram, Sharon AInutt, Arrelius VonLeggetl. Haeiand. LoMa Ande Al the annual SGA dmner. President Robert Newton, center, pre- sented awards to Dr. Charles M. Hoard. Dean of Students, left. for 25 years of service to the University, and to Librarian . . P. Marshall, SGA adviser, for 15 years of service. Both Facuhy men asked to be relieved of their special duties so as to devote more time to academic pursuits. Leaders left to guide student government in 1967-68 include, left to right: Turhan Brown, junior biology major from Kansas City, SGA president; James P. Parks, sophomore history major of Jefferson City, vice-president; Miss Lena Harvey, junior ele- mentary education major, St. Louis, Miss Lincoln LIniversity; and Miss Sharon AInutt, sopho.niore elementarv education major Kansas Citv, and Charles Smith, junior physical education major, Philadelphia, representatives at large

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Student Government Surely the Educated. . . Should Distinguish. Not since its establishment in 1953 has the Student Government As- sociation been challenged as sharply as it was in the opening year of the Second Century. Even when students were in rebellion against a considerable range of University Administration policy and prac- tice and marched on the State Capitol to say so. they still used the machinery of SGA to voice their concerns. Fittingly, Judge Juanita Kidd Stout, speaker at the annual SGA ban- quet Ma 11. remarked: ' Sureh the educated man should l: e discerning enough to distin- guish between the structured ceremonies of mass protest ... on the one hand and riots, revolutions, and mob action on the other. The purpose of the SGA as spelled out bv its architects is to en- courage student initiative, foster a feeling of mutual responsibility and high regard for both liberty and order, maintain high standards of scholarship and life, and create an intermediary between the ad- ministration and students in matters of general welfare.

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Key figures at the thwarted Headliner Awards Banquet: Left lo right. Irving Dilh- ard, former editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispateh and recently Fer- ris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, who was to have been princi- pal speaker at the banquet; William E. Giles, accepting the Better Human Relations Award for The National Observer as its editor: William ]. Raspberry, Citation of Merit as a columnist for The Washmgton Post; William Thomas, metropolitan edi- tor, The Los Angeles Times, Better Human Relations Award; Clarence L. Holte. marketing supervisor. Batten. Barton, Uurstme Osborn, Inc., Citaliun ul Mcril, and Lee Weston, assistant to the president, Newsweek, Better Human Relations Award. William C. Matney. Jr.. Midwest correspondent,NBC-Television, Citation of Merit, was unable to break through the police cordon around the Student Union, and Dons 0 Donnell, feature writer accepting the Human Relations Award for The Cleveland Plain Dealer, was in a telephone booth getting out the story of the stu- dent demonstration that stymied the banquet. Headliner Awards Banquet The Out-of-Town Guests Took It Plain The 1967 Headliner Awards Banquet was to have been the eighteenth in a series of such events that started May 3, 1949, with the award- ing of two Citations of Merit for Outstanding Performance in Jour- nalism. The recipients, now deceased, were Chester A. Franklin, editor of The Kansas City Call, and Joseph E. Mitchell, editor of the St. Louis . ' rgus. The Citations for 1967, presented at an informal dinner on the night of April 5 at the HoHday Inn after the banquet was frustrated by a student demonstration, became the thirty-first, thirty-second and thirty-third such awards. The banquet is traditionally the first event of Headliner Week, which includes workshops for editors of high school publications from several states. The workshop proceeded as scheduled.