Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Hilburn Moore Chesterman, Crookston, Ml,717l850id Stewart Clapp, Chevy Chase, Maryland Charlotta Kleppinger Clymer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Herman Huiet Confer, Dayton, Ohio Marjorie Cady Conover, Pacific Grove, California Douglas Irving Copeland, Rochester, New Yorli lean Coxe, Highland Park, Illinois Warren Bartlett Crane, Kalamazoo, Michigan Charles Rittenhouse Criss, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Adelbert DeWitt Cronk, Ir., Baguio, New Yorh 136

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rr. During the second year, 1929-30, the Parliament endeav- ored to be much less formal than previously, gradually elimi- nating all but the most necessary of parliamentary procedure. Its topics for consideration were mainly of direct campus in- terest. Some of these were: the Sophomore Policy of Hazingg Social Inadequacies at Antioch fthe interesting social experi- ment of Leap Week arose from this discussionjg Are Antioch Students Overrated?g The Evaluation of Student Achieve- ment in College Ccurricular and extra-curricularjg a Mock Faculty Meetingg Does the Antioch Program Pr6vide Desir- able Conditions and Opportunities Equally to Men and to Women Students Qcoop jobs, curriculum, extra-curricular ac- tivities, and dormitory social rulesj?5 and Organized Halls and Their Effects on the Individual and the Community funder the old system and under the present Rotation Planj. The chairmen for this year were Waldemar Ayres, 'Iames Fyfe, and Iason Sloan, while Mrs. Sontag lent. her aid as Fac- ulty Sponsor. 135

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1--ef,--1 ,. ,-- 1 i AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Antioch Student Chapter of the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers is an organization of those students, interested in engineering subjectsgvvlio A -ee' ' hnd value in association with a group of similarly interested men. The development of this chapter was due to the organization of the Engineer's Club in the fall of 1924. This original group saw the benefits of a national society and petitioned the American Society of Civil Engineers for priv- ilege to establish a student chapter at Antioch. The petition was granted in 1925 and since that time the club has been cooperating with the national society as a student chapter in good standing. Once each division the club, after dining together, assemble for an informal talk by a visiting engineer. These talks are ordinarily of a general nature so that students of branches other than civil engineering End them valuable. Through the courtesy of construction companies, industries, and government bureaus, the chapter is also able to promote motion pictures illustrating various engineering projects and activities. In addition to the local program, Contact is main- tained With the parent society, and the proceedings of its activities are available to the members of the student chapter. They are also greatly benefited by the privilege of attending the meetings of the Dayton Section of the American Society 137