Robert Young ('56) spoke to Dickinson students in the social hall on March 6th about lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.  Young was the State Senator George Wade's administrative assistant and Senator Wade was originally planned to speak but couldn't attend because of committee hearings. 

Dr. Arthur L. Bacon, chairman of the biology department at Talladega College in Georgia, delivered a lecture entitled "The Loricate Peritichs" in Dana Hall on Thursday, October 16. After the lecture, attendees were invited to attend an informal tea held in the Baird Library in Dana. Dr. Bacon...

Rhody McCoy, administrator in the Oceanhill-Brownsville demonstration school district in New York, discussed the Brownsville Crisis during a lecture in Dana Hall on Friday, January 30. The Crisis involved a teacher strike and the lack of funding for school districts.

Professor Bernard S. Morris of Indiana University gave a lecture on imperialism sponsored by the Russian Studies Program and the Political Science department.

Andrew Young, Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the guest speaker at College Church held in Mathers Theatre on Sunday February 7. Young's sermon was part of the 1971 Public Affairs Symposium on privacy.

As part of the 1971 Public Affairs Symposium, a panel composed of Jerry M. Rosenberg, Lawrence Speiser, John Kyl, Harold Fitzkee, and Marx Leopold discussed "the use and misuse of informational systems."

In the final address of the 1971 Public Affairs Symposium, Professor Alan Westin of Columbia University spoke on "Ways to Protect Privacy in the Technological Age".

The Congress of African Students Conference was held at Dickinson beginning on Friday, February 19, 1971.  Three hundred African American students from twenty Pennsylvania colleges attended the conference and voted to make Dickinson the seat of the organization. This conference took place during...

Dr. Arthur N. Eastman, a Shakespearean scholar, gave a lecture entitled "Hamlet, More Things" in Memorial Hall on Thursday, February 25, 1971.

Harold Howe II, Vice President of the Ford Foundation and United States Commissioner of Education from 1965-68, addressed the College as part of its 1971 Commencement exercises.

Professor Rito Llerena, the College's program consultant for Latin American Studies, gave a lecture on "Politics and the Spanish-American University." The political situation in Columbia was discussed at length.

The Mock Convention opened its platform hearings on foreign and domestic affairs and other current issues. The purpose of this convention was to educate the College about current events. The hearings opened on April 4 and continued on April 5, 6, 10, 11, and 12 in the Social Hall. All members of...