Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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towards informed citizenship. Pictured left to right arc: James Baldwin, Ossie Davis, and eal Thclwcll, editor of the Hilltop; Owen Dodson, head of John Killcns. These three Negro writers discussed the role the Drama Department; and John Lovell. Jr., professor of of the Negro writer in American society, and participated English, in a panel discussion with Howard University panel: Mich Project Awareness is an action committee formed by the Student Council of the College of Liberal Arts. Its purpose is to bring to the Howard University community speakers of national reputation to discuss great themes and controversial issues. Because the functions which attend each Project Awareness presentation arc so numerous, the Project is actually a complex of many sub-committees working as an integrated whole. In addition to the chairman. Tom Kahn, Project Awareness has a co-ordinator, Courtland Cox; and a treasurer, Stokely Carmichael. Of the several subcommittees which represent the division of labor that is necessary for the type of program that Project Awareness produces; Jean Wheeler is chairman of the Hospitality Committee, Ed Brown and Bernard Conn arc Co-chairmen of the Publicity Committee, and Ed Goode is the chairman of the Printing Committee. Among the speakers brought to the campus by Project Awareness are: Malcolm X, Norman Thomas, Fulton Lewis. III. Bayard Rustin. Michael Harrington. James Baldwin, Ossie Davis, and John Killcns. The Project intends to present next a debate on Is the Soviet Union a Progressive Society? with Dr. Herbert Aptheker, editor of Political Affairs, the theoretical organ of the Communist Party, taking the affirmative side; and Mr. Saul Mcndclson, lecturer in History at Roosevelt University in Illinois and a student of Marxism. raking the negative side.

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 criminal anarchy. Charles MeDew, SNTCC chairman (standing on the steps of the School of Religion Building at Howard) told Howardites of the illegal charges brought against Diamond, and told about the horrid conditions of the Baton Rouge jail. The students marched around in the upper quadrangle of the campus singing, We Shall Not Be Moved and We Are Not Afraid. Howardites later met with other students from other colleges and universities in the Washington. D. C. area to decide on a plan of action. Still later, Howardites demonstrated in front of the Attorney General’s office building. Howardites arc never discouraged in their efforts to improve the condition of the mankind, in general, and the Negro race, in particular. -27-

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towards wider horizons. The Student Exchange Program contributes to the education of the Howard community by first providing for the individual student ar opportunity to live in a different geographic, intellectual, social, economic, and academic environment, and. secondly, by providing for him an opportunity to prepare himself to participate constructively in the rapidly changing pattern of contemporary society. It provides the entire Howard community with the opportunity of including in its family, temporarily, student members of different backgrounds and experiences, and of becoming known and understood by the parents, friends, and communities from which these students come. Last Spring, two Howard students, Robbie McCauley and Goldie Battle, availed themselves of these opportunities as exchange students to Whittier College. Jacqueline Buckman of Drew University is currently a member of the Howard family. Paula Jewell, Sanford King, and Jean Billings plan to go to Whittier College Spring semester of 1963; and Norma Nickens is planning to go to Drew University. This program also allows students to become exchange students for the week of their spring vacation. In turn, students from other colleges and universities spend their respective vacations here. The faculty sponsors of the Student Exchange Program arc Dr. Annette Eaton. Classics Department; Dr. Winston McAllister, Director of Admissions; Miss Joan Murrell, English Department; Mr. Harry Mciscl, Assistant Director of Admissions; and Mrs. Patricia Harris. Associate Dean of Students. Here two Howard exchange students pose with two Fisk exchange students at Whittier College in California. Pictured left to right are: Robbie McCauley from Howard, I.ana Turner from Fisk, Goldie Battle from Howard, and William McKinney from Fisk.