Evening star., 1933-12-27
Report Requested.

in every college institute research com.
mlttees to investigate all questions o.
retrenchmen-increaSed tuition fees
reduction Of staff and reduction o.
salaries-and present their finding.
to the conference next semester. Thc
speaker quoted figures and gave illus.
trations of the effect of retrenchmen1
upon students and graduates of tht
Nations schools and colleges.
The group will hold dance tonight
closing the second day of the conven.
ton.
Anti-War Week.
The week Of April was set aside by
the students yesterday as a period when
anti-war meetings will be held in COL
leges and universities over the country
The week, chosen because it opens on
the anniversary of the United States
entry into the World War, was named
and the meetings planned as a part OF
the organizations anti-war plan
adopted late yesterday after several
hours discussion and reports from
delegates representing numerous uni
versitieS.
Another part of the anti-war plan
included the stimulating of meetings
among students in as many as possible
of the Nations institutions of higher
learning-with Michigan, Wisconsin.
California and Cornell Universities
among those mentioned specifically
The League voted full support to the
American League Against War and
Fascism
Ted Draper, Columbia University
discussed the Student Review and other
q yrrhI h.
and comment of the students in the
militant movements.
System Is Questioned.
The student must question an edu-
cational system not integrated with the
economic needs Of society, Adam Lapin,
New York, told the delegates at the
early session yesterday, presenting a
national student plan and pointing out
that more than As per cent of college
graduates since 1929 have failed to
secure employment.
The three high points in Lapin's
plan, which he said this convention
must strive to further" are national
lied fight against compulsory military
training as exemplified by the R. o.
T. c., against educational retrenchment
programs, and against race discrimina-
ton.
Gladys Stoner was to report on the
problems of the colored student this
afternoon, advocating equality of stu
dents, of all races, colors, creeds and
nationalities; abolition of segregation
in education, North and South; admis-
sion of Negroes to all institutions, edu-
cational and social; equal appropriation
per capita for Negro students and
white; destruction of all illusions Of race
supremacy as fostered by educational
systems, and discarding of school tests
derogatory to the Negro"
Others Present Views.
Other special reports were to be given
on the colored student problems by
Clyde johnson, Bella Gross, Anthony
Mayo and others, with special refer
ence to the points Of the leagues pro-
gram-anti-war, anti-retrenchment in
education and anti-discrimination.
Tonight the relation of student and
worker will be discussed, and reports
from various universities heard. The
Student League has proposed to the
League for Industrial Democracy that
the two groups work together in an ef-
fort to work out their problems together.
About 300 students from universities
and colleges in all parts of the country
are registered at the conference, which
will close tomorrow night.