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Under the present system girls eat "sit-down" dinners for five meals a week in the brick dorms. Although during exam period the meal times will be slightly different to accomodate the exam schedule, there will be no change in the style of serving. Not until the number of girls in the dorms has decreased sufficiently (about Jan. 28) will buffet style be used...
Fifty-One Barnard Hall signatures indicate the girls' dissatisfaction with the present system of serving "sit-down" dinners Sunday noon and most weekday evenings. However, a counter petition was also posted in Barnard, with 15 girls expressing approval of the present arrangement...
...Shows Sit-Down...
Filmed on a Sunday afternoon in April, the day of a scheduled protest, the documentary shows folksingers staging a sit-down to assert their right to sing in Washington Square. The City Park Commissioner and the police met the demonstrators and broke up the crowd, arresting those who refused to leave...
Drasin and three of his friends filmed the sit-down in black and white, using a technical method known as "synchronized sound." In this process the pictures and sound are recorded simultaneously, and no artificial sounds or sound effects are used. The only background music in "Sunday" was the folksinging...