The Plan for the Permanent Organization of the Students and Community of Bennington College proposes forms of student governance including house committees, house chairs, and student council.
A meeting of all members of the community met in the theatre at 7:45 on Wednesday evening, November 9. The purpose of the meeting was to unite the opinion of the entire college on policies and standards and to hear the ...
President Leigh gave a brief explanation of Parliamentary forms. The chairman asked Mr. Leigh to explain the aims of the College. The Social Policies Committee presented for consideration a policy for community rules and ...
Four motions were passed:
1. To give up the meat course once a week thus saving $50. 00 a month to help unemployment.
2 . To omit smoking during the evening meetings until the question period.
3 . To show consideration ...
President Leigh’s talk on the “Functioning of the College Program” presented at the Community Meeting on December 6, 1932. Leigh outlined his discussion of the functioning of the College plan into the following parts: the ...
The following points were brought before the meeting: 1.There should be no smoking on the third floor of the Commons. 2. There are prowlers on the campus which makes sleeping out dangerous. 3. College material should not ...
A report of the Faculty Staff Conference was read. Topics discussed in the conference: How much time from class work should. project work take, when both are in the same field? Absences from college interfering with students' ...
The plan for next year's student election was read.
The following announcements were made :
1 . No student may leave college before one o'clock on Wednesday, June 28, without special permission from Dr. Leigh. 2 . All ...
The first Community Meeting for the second college year was held in the Theatre at 7:45 on Thursday, September. Elizabeth Shurcliff presided, starting the meeting with a welcome to the new students. The method of electing ...
Margo Suter gave a report of the Commission on Religion. Eleanor Alexander and Mary Kent gave a report of the Store Commission. They presented the plan for a Cooperative Store to take the place of the college store.
It was moved and seconded to have the member-at-large to the Community Council abolished. Carried. Mrs. Jones spoke about the Parent Education and Child Development Conference to be held on October 9 and 10. Mr. Thompson ...
It was moved and seconded that the revised Plan for the
Permanent Orgnization of the Bennington College Community be
adopted . Carried
It was moved and seconded to have the quiet hour in the
Commons on Saturday nights ...
"After discussing the whole question of rules we felt
that here we had the opportunity to try a more ideal system
-one based on the theory that most of us had learned to
govern ourselves and that those who hadn't could ...
The following announcements were made:
1 Donations for a Christmas fund for the employees is to be taken in each house
2 The Parent Teacher Association of North Bennington would appreciate all old clothes
3 People are ...