State College News 1936-03-06

Over two hundred students, repreBontntivcs of New York state colleges and student organizations, crowded the Senate chambers on Tuesday afternoon at the open hearing to pro test the Nunnn student oath bill. This bill, introduced by Senator Joseph D. Nunnn Inst year, passed the Senate, but was not reported out of committee in the Assembly, largely due to a public hearing in which more than thirty colleges and high schools, student and teachers' organisations, protested its passage. Thus, although the bill passed the Senate, it never came to a vote in the .Assembly, but lias been reintroduced this year. During the hearing, students from over twelve colleges spoke, expressing the view taken by their student body. Representatives of the American Student union and of the National Student Federation of America, representing twenty-five colleges, came out in opposition to the bill. Among other speakers were communist and socialist representatives, high school and college instructors, and a speaker for the American association of University Professors.