Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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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

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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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EAU. SAO dances, an SAO sponsored Carnival, student rebates on roller skating, bowling, and basketball games would seem to indicate that the Student Activities Organization is just too, too socially inclined. Actually it is an organization run by decidedly hard headed and capable business men and women. Originally designed as an aid to student organizations it has done much more than it expected to do. NOW one of the IHOSI important institutions on the campus, it makes appropriations to Financially embarrassed organizations, aids the Dean's scholarship fund, obtains student rates in sports activities and provides a general sinking fund for organizations so important to a well rounded college life. r