Queens College - Silhouette Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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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

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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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Star Dust An outlet for the dramatic Hare which seems to be the prerogative of youth is well provided for in the Queens College Playshop. But woe be unto him who, believing himself possessed of both acting ability and temperament, joins the club for the sole purpose of becoming a star. The Playshop is not run according to the star system. Every role is won in open competition. Every member of the club has the right to enter the competition, and the person who is fortunate enough to win it does so according to merit. Thus, in Queens College, democracy enters even the realm of dramatics. What the democratic system has worked in the held of dramatics is proved on the evidence of fine productions. This year Biwl in Hand, complete with surrealistic advertisements, three one act plays and a varsity show aided and abetted by the Playshop members were the fruits of thespian labor. And the fruits, worthy of the labor involved, were found good.