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Show WESTMINSTER No? 7, U COLLEGE IRC Conference Stresses African f Fijft ' $ ?, f07"; '&fifjx' lm' 11 iJ fjL State Department Speaker v - f $7 - t 4 J- i V ' i V ; in W - :$ f. ffTS , .. w Outlines t .Knkrf s i $$$'iJ' I ::i .t r!,r(i J ! Jr uy' muon Lrf fv . - i v, 'C' X,V ' C v VVN & V ' ' t' s? v v- ' - s ' ' s ' fr, ' ,. y WESTMINSTER HOMECOMING parade forms up on State Street, as floats begin prade route Literary Magazine Issue Planned Campus publications will add another member this year, with the initial publication of a literary mag- ' A - ! 's ' v y ' through' Salt Lake City and Sugarhouse the days Homecoming activities. Homecoming Parade Goes Downtown After many hours of planning, authentic foreign outfits surround- fiction, organizing and constructing floats and costumes, Westminsters 1960 Homecoming Parade rolled down Main Street Saturday morning, October 15. This procession marked a great first for Westminster, the first downtown parade in many years. It also passed through Sugarhouse, the previous route. Westminster-Fu- n With a Future was the theme chosen this year for the homecoming activities. Immediately following the spirited music of the band, a small sports car carrying Grand Marshall Miss Diane 'Dick, Associate Dean of Bugs of the Students, portrayed Future. Anyone Choice not Chance azine. Dick Sharp and Keith McCarty, announced that they will publish at least one and perhaps two issues during the coming year. The publication will be sponsored by the English Dept but will be ena tirely student production. Mr. Sharp and Mr. McCarty said the purpose behind the project is to provide an for creative outlet talent which they feel exists on campus. The magazine will contain poetry, essay and art work. associated with Westminster is encouraged to submit material for the publication. Persons wishing to submit material should consider the followi' ng: i- - , All manuscripts must be typewritten. All material submitted will not necessarily be included. Judgment will be based on literary quality. 3 All manuscripts should be submitted under a pseudonym. The authors real name should accompany the manuscript inside a sealed envelope which bears the pseudonym on the outside. This envelope will not be opened until the manuscript has been judged for quality. Manuscripts may be left at the Reception desk with Mrs. Syme m Converse Hall. 5 Anyone desiring further information may contact either Keith McCarty or pick Sharp. begins ed a vgiant worldglobe. Lets Give Them the Future was depicted by children of various ages wearing freshman beanies on the Freshman Class Float The Registrar, and Dean of Students car was followed by the Political Science Club float This group worked with the Young Democrats and Young Republicans on a float featuring figures of the two major presidential candidates. Cheering the team to victory, the cheerleaders rode on top of a decorated automobile followed by a noisier group, the alumni aboard a Vice-Preside- nt Pi-Alp- By Dick Sharp International Relations Clubs of the Rocky Mountain region held their annual conference on Westminster campus this past week, calling to a close many hours of intensive planning by Westminster students of International Relations. The success of the event was marked by repeated remarks of praise from the 127 student delegates and their their faculty Sponsors. The organization of International Relations Clubs is a nationwide society with clubs located on virtually every campus in the U.S. There are 53 member Clubs in the Rocky Mountain Region alone. The purpose of the clubs is to promote better understanding between peoples of the world through better understanding in political, social, and economic areas. The subject of this years regional conference was, Political Explosion in Africa. The timeliness of this subject and the foresight shown in selecting it hardly need com- groups in four major areas of concern. These areas were Colonialism, Nationalism, Racial Problems and Economic Problems in Africa. Lunch was highlighted Friday by an address to the group from Mr. Eldon J. Eisenach. Mr. Eisenach is Vice President of the Association of International Relations Clubs. After lunch the panels again convened to finish their discussions. Friday night saw, the delegates attending a banquet where they were honored with a speech by Mr. Richard Sklar of Princeton University. As a Ford scholar, Mr. Sklar spent two years in Africa studying the political problems of that area. 1 ' Saturday morning wound up the activities with the holding of the second plenary session and a regional business meeting. During the second plenary session the panel chairmen presented the entire delegation with the conclusions reached in their separate sessions. The delegation then considered the recommendations and passed resolutions as the entire group saw fit on the outstanding ideas born of the conference. Within the next few days a report of the entire conference and these final ment The conference got under way findings will be compiled and sent officially Friday morning with the to all members clubs as well as inopening the first plenary session. terested organizations such as the Following this meeting of confer- U.S. State Department ence delegates the entire student Immediately preceeding the sumbody of, Westminster assembled mation of ideas, the conference atwith the delegates, and heard an tendants heard a very enlightening informative address by Mr. Freddelivered speech by Peter K. Lepp-man- n erick P. Picard, III. Mr. Picard is of World the University Servassociated with the Bureau of Afriice. can Affairs, a division of the U.S. State Department The business meeting which folAfter the first major address on lowed handled the organizations Friday the delegates and interested plans for the coming year. New students broke up into discussion officers were elected and a conference site for next year was proposed. large fire truck. Dream for the Future ll The recipients of next years Our Dream For Fun in the FuWestas students of many job ture, the float carried the hope for a football victory over the U in minster can testify. The rewards are great, however, and as long as 1980. was people see fit to go to the expense Music Will Always Be Fun and work involved in holding and Concert depicted on the College various of Choir float by figures attending such a conference, the directed creatures by eventual peace of mankind and the being space world is in sight. President Duddy. con-sma- GREAT DEBATE HELD ON CAMPUS A rocket ship inscribed with Choice not Chance, the entry of the junior class was followed by The phenomena of political devarious preteam drill doing the bate has invaded the campus. Wedcision steps, along the route. nesday, October 12, Mr. Democrat (Christian P. Beck) and Mr. RepubThe trustees and president of the lican (Walter Shelley) met and the automocollege rode in decorated battle raged. Here are some highbiles. Betty Ann Short, Homecomlights: ing Queen, was accompanied by Mr. Beck: Mr. Kennedy has inher attendants, Charlene Bordner r that the vacation is now ferred an open-aiand Phyllis Byrd in vacation from education, The over. convertible. the vacation from economic growth, Civic leaders, student government the vacation from military security folmust come to an end. officers, and the football coach, lowed in cars more appropriate to Mr. Shelley. What you must dethe chilly weather. A long canvas cide is this: is the Republican adsnake composed of many students ministration one of retreat, defeat weaved its way down the street and stagnation? and forth. flapping its head back Mr. Beck: I am asking the federal Pool in our government to take a greater role Therell entered in providing incentives, to give was the theme of the float greater aid to housing, to concenby the Intercollegiate Knights. trate upon medical care to the Prize Winner Announced aged, and provide more adequate to depressed areas. aid the The grand prize winner for Mr. Shelley. When you charge best entry was the float sponsored the Republicans with being the language by the Sigma of big business, remember if party Cosmopolitan fraternity, and the lower the taxes on big busi Club. Students dressed in various you s Theme Problem ness they expand and provide jobs. as serious as the Democrats say Mr. Beck: Eisenhowers adminis- it is. The states could provide for tration has not kept the peace. We themselves. have been at war for the last 15 To Mr. Shelley: Of what importyears. The Communists are trying ance are Matsou and Quomoy? , to subdue us. Ans: If we do not defend Matsou Mr. Shelley. During the Truman and Quomoy, where will we stop 8,000,000 people the Communists? There are people administration, slid behind the Iron Curtain. Dur- in Asia looking to the U.S. for deing the Eisenhower administration fense. How would this affect them? not one country has fallen to the Response by Mr. Beck: Lets Communists. Have we been defeatthe line at Formosa which draw ed? Have we retreated? Have we we can defend, rather than Quomoy stagnated? After these statements of policy, which we cannot Both debaters faced a barrage of the debaters welcomed questions from the audience which consisted questions for an hour and one-ha- lf summaries. of nearly 50 members of the stu- before making What was the outcome of the dent body and faculty. Questions debates? Who won? This is strictly flew and temperatures rose! To Mr. Beck: How can we have a matter of opinion, but for those increased government projects with- who watched, listened and particiout increased taxation? pated by questioning, there was Ans: I believe we can do it by taking place a process essential increased spending which broadens to good citizenship a weighing of the tax structure. issues, a savoring of personalities, To Mr. Shelley: What would you a contact with the heart beat of do about the education problem? politics. This was learning, and Ans: The school problem is not this was political action at its best. |