Cornell University - Cornellian Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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ufePdn6 Cornell happily Welcomes many veterans, vvho, For the First time in many months have an opportunity to resume their schooling. Some of the veterans are starting vvhere they left oil before the vvar, while others are just be- ginning their college lite. Approximately thirteen hundred veterans have enrolled this year. Gi this number one hundred and sixty had been at Cornell before the opening of the Fall term after discharge from service, three hundred and eighty were either Cornellians vvho had talqen leave to go into service or vvere here in the V-'IQ program, tour hundred had college vvorl4 elsewhere, but had never been at Cornell beiore, and three hundred and sixty are entering Freshmen. About tvventy-Five per cent of these veterans are married, and most ol them enrolled in the School ol lndustrial and Labor Relations, the College of Agriculture, and the College of Engineering. The University Qllice of Veterans Education under the directorship oi Professor Loren C. Petty, and the United States Veterans Administration Qttice under Co-ordinator Mr. Claude Cornwell have done much to help the veteran become adjusted to college life more ciuiclcly through the indi- vidual appraisal program and vocational guidance. Q6

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owne! moclef Yjnifecl Wafiona Cornellians began an experiment in international education this year with the establishment of a model United Nations Crganization. Designed to stimulate thought and action concerning the UNC, to integrate foreign students into campus activities, and to bring the campus closer together by virtue ol common interest, the program became etlective early in March. The experiment is sponsored by Donald Kerr, counsellor to Foreign Students, William Mendenhall, director ol the Cornell United Religious Work, Dean l-larold Speight, and F. M. Cotlin. Campus organizations backing the venture include American Veteranis Committee, American Youth For Democracy, the Bulletin, Cosmopolitan Club, Cornell United Religious Work, Foreign Students, lnterlraternity Council, panhellenic, Student Council, Womens Sell Governing Association. and Willard Straight. Administration of the model UNC is carried out by a Steering Committee headed by Miss Jean l-lorovvitz. The Committee is divided into tour sectins: the Crganizing Committee, the Membership Committee, the Speakers Committee, and the Publicity Committee. Members of these committees are chosen from student applications. Work on the UNC is divided into ten geographical areas. These include: 'l. United States and Philippines, Q. France and Western Europe, 3. Russia and Eastern Europe, 4. Near East and Africa, 5. India, 6. Latin America Cexcept Argentinaj, 7. Argentina, 8. Great Britain and the Dominions, 9. China, 'l0. Greece. The commissions and nations are addressed by professors on the campus in related Fields. Acting in a consultative capacity are Professors l-l. W. Briggs, M. Einaudi, R. G. Cush- man, W. F. Willcox, al. P. Bretz, and P. M. Mitchell. During April weekly lectures open to the public and meetings of individual committees were held in preparation tor the liirst meeting of the entire UNC. These groups discussed Atomic Energy, -lrusteeship, and Economic and Social problems both as vvorld problems and as relating to their particular area. At the end ol this period the group elected representatives to the General Assembly of the UNC which is composed of 5'l member nations with from one to three persons from each delegation. The UNC General Assembly met in May to receive and to act on reports ol the Economic and Social Council, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the -lrusteeship-Security Council. Members of these groups and ol the Security Council are from the General Assembly. By the establishment ol a model UNC at Cornell, students and Faculty members alike have displayed the kind ol spirit that vvill insure freedom to Cornell and to the vvorld. A 28