Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Student Council 1948. Standing: R. Dickinson, A. Hunt, P. Pinsker, Sec ' y-Treas., R. Gushing. Sitting: P. Knaur, H. Valtin, E. Bush, Pres., B. Muller, C. Prentice, V. Pres., C. Stabler. Absent: C. Pederson, L. Welslcrantz, W.SIcipp. ,1 Student Council Student Council 1949. Back Row: P. Brickner, W. Bat+in, R. Hall, G. Farley, A. Van Deusen. Middle Row: A. Al Yasir, A. Segal, D. Montgomery, Pres., R. Roy, V. Pres., C. Stroup. Front Row: M. Herndon, N. Heffernan, Sec ' y-Treas. Absent: H. Dickinson. 28 The 1948 Student Council was under the leadership of Coke Prentice and Ed Bush, with Polly Pinsker assuming the secretarial duties. Much of the time of the Council was consumed with routine, seemingly unimportant, matters, such as selection of committees, approval of the budget, and appointment of student representatives to various conferences. Among its more enjoyable accomplishments were the extensio.i of breakfast hours for Freshmen, and the opening of all dorms to both sexes on Sunday afternoons. The Council may also be credited, however, with a few more glam- orous undertakings. It made a valuable contribution, for example, toward student-alumni relationships by invit- ing alumni to sit in on Council meetings. Both groups were pleasantly surprised to learn that the proverbial chasm between them is not an unbridgeable one. The Council was instrumental, furthermore. In placing student members on the Curriculum Committee to aid the faculty in mapping out Swarthmore ' s academic future. The Council established, as well, ' a Course-Rating Com- mittee which, though still in its embryonic stages, will, it is hoped, offer helpful criticisms to the professors on the courses being presented. Finally, the Council was instrumental in establishing the new Student Employment Office. This office, which co-ordinates student employment both on and off campus, has had a very successful first year under its student managers, Chuck Stabler and Keeny Scott.

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: The new Council which look office in February was the first to be elected under the new system of rotating tenure. Five of the members are to be replaced at the end of the semester, while the other five Councilmen will continue in their places during the first semesier of next year. For the present term Zeke Montgomery was elected chairman, Ralph Roy, vice-chairman, and Nancy hleffer- nan, secretary-treasurer. Many of the tasks which occupied the attention of this new Council early in the semester consisted of bringing to a close projects originally undertaken by the previous Council. The most important of these problems concerned the administration policy on Freshman rooming. Later the Council set about, with moderate success, to estab- lish a program of joint activity on the part of itself and the fraternities looking to the elminiatlon of fraternity mem- bership requirements which discriminate on the basis of race or religion. Most of the time of the Council was occupied by informal cooperation with the administration on such problems as improving the collection programs, revising the system of faculty advisors, formulating more explicitly the procedure of the Student Affairs Committee, and civilizing the dining room. The Council was given Invaluable help in the administra- tion of student affairs by the Budget Committee, the Commons Committee, Elections Committee, and the Com- munity Service Committee. A.nd Cawnwnittees Budget Committee. Standing: E. Mahler. J. Chapman, E. Bush. Absent: A. Hay. Elections Committee. Sitting: D. Singer. N. Weber. L. Levy, Absent: C. Bush. J. Litchard. L. Hodges. Community Service Committee: Standing: B. Lea, E. Graves, P. Price. J. Lewis, B. Hill. M. Olds, J. Baker. Sitting: M. Johnson. H. Phillips. Absent: G. Farley, H. Houser. Commons Committee. Sitting: S. P. Merritt, J. Lawrence. A. Megoni- gal. Absent: G. Lane, M. Sollub. 29 JJ