Word: beichman
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...problem he could not ignore confronted Dean Hawkes when, after months of quiet sleuthing, Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's Spectator and another senior presented him with evidence of "financial irregularities" in the management of two student dances. Object of the charges was their classmate Robert M. Tierney, editor-in-chief of the Columbian (yearbook), senior member of the Student Board of Representatives, last year's president of his class. Last week Dean Hawkes announced that he had asked Senior Tierney "not to register for the spring session...
When Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's troublemaking Spectator declared for a free college press, his resolution was snowed under. Several scholarship-holding editors leaped to their feet to defend a college's right, through faculty censorship, to keep "its dirty linen from being washed in public." Similarly swamped was a resolution by Student President Sara Mentschekoff of Hunter that R. 0. T. C. funds be diverted to general educational activities...