Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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PUBLIEATIU S Lens-Horizons A safety valve for Queens Colleges more insistent creative im- pulses is provided by the student publication Lens-Horizons, a tasty combination of literary, art, and photography work. Not that the magazine, published once each semester, veers toward the Marty. Among the purple soul searchings of earnest sophomores have appeared such signihcant articles as an essay on 'ANeo-Machievellianism-a Study in Power Politics, Mel Krantzler's Hjingoes over Hollywoodfl Dave Sinowitz's 'iAmerican Baseball, other student discussions of the po- litical and social issues that loom so large on contemporary horizons. Chiefly, however, the purpose is to bring to the college audience some of the better student efforts in the realm of fiction and poetry. There was, for instance, Gabby Fontrier's Excerpts from the Diary of Apathy Feneantf' Irving Stein's poem, Drizzly Dayl' and Athena Lemniaf' by Patrick Flynn. All this, incidentally, under the literary editorship of Martha Lorenz, with Al Wfalther handling the photog- raphy end of it as usual. 20

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Student Council Student Council elections, long thought a popularity contest by the majority of students, are in reality one of the most important aspects of democracy in action at Queens College. Self-government, for which the council is a symbol, is probably the most necessary requisite to a democratic society. That students take a stand on such major problems as Civil Liberties, that they realize the full import of a War in which democracy is the stake - all issues of this sort are vital to their future Worth as citizens. These and the minor problems of college life are the issues which the council discuss, on which they offer student opinion. Twenty-eight members, four from each class excluding lower Fresh- men, meet every two weeks to attempt their solution. Queens College has been lucky in that its popular students are also its capable and responsible ones, for were it not so, that gal with the pretty legs from the Upper Freshman class, or that guy with the plaid sport jackets elected by Upper Juniors might spend valuable time discussing the Apple Orchard and the advisability of holding classes in the Huddle. As it is they recognize important issues. Let's hope our luck holds out. I9

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Crown A sounding off board for student opinion, a stimulus for many a pitched intellectual battle on campus, The Crown has proved a source of both joy and pain to Queens College students. Admittedly, rather defensively, Hthe student newspaper of Queens College, edited and published by undergraduates and reflecting their views alone and, working on the principle that what happens to the world happens also to Queens College, it has managed to run the gamut of topics from affairs foreign and domestic to those scholastic and mildly romantic. The Crown Oflice is a scene of constant and bustling activity, the Crown subscribers ever on the lookout for a good fight, and the Crown editors victims of moods ranging from healthy cases of dementia praecox to complete and abject despair. In many other cases such a continual state of unrest might be an unhealthy indication, but in the case of the Crown it is rather an indication of the dialectic in action in a democracy. 21