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I C A M P US Ml R R 0 R CAMPl S MIRROR STAFF Kditor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Circulatk n Manager Advertising Manager Eunice (loss Elise Fortson Wilma Anderson Eddye Champion Agatha Jones Ethel Minor FKATI Itli WRITERS Gladys Karl, Dolores Jones, Ophelia Conley, Virginia Moreland, Mary Shy. Mamie Seymour, Velma Graham, Klynor Pettus, Yvonne Crawl. REPORTERS Gladys Turner, Maurice Mitchell, Janet Bond, Dorothy Collins, Joan Purvis, Sylvia Potter, Rosalie Raglin. Anna Whittaker, Helen Marshall, Sadye Harris, Freida McGhee, Thelma Southerland. Artist .. Johnnie Lumpkin Faculty Advisor Mr. Henry Thomas COMMENCEMENT I SSI E STAFF Editor Assistant Editor Photo Editor Art Editor Business Manager. Jeralyn Young Catherine Southerland Dorothy Collins Anna Maxwell Wilma Anderson EDITORIAL Discontent has invariably been looked upon negatively by state and society. However, discontent can have positive as well as negative values and it is from this positive point of view that I wish to direct your thinking. As one looks hack, one will find that the skies of history are laden with dis contented stars. History contends that discontent and intellect are brothers in the same battle. The historical figures of Socrates, Jesus, Martin Luther, Vol taire and nameless others, tell us that discontent can be desirable. Any figure to which one can point in world history, first of all; has been a man discontented with himself; dissatisfied with his spir itual. intellectual and physical limita tions. True intelligence sees these per sonal, spiritual, physical and intellectual vacuums from which discontent ensues. At this season in our school calendar, it is customary for parents, friends and general well wishers to pat us on our backs and tell us what wizards we are. It is a natural thing for our chests to swell in pride and for us to say how pleased we are with our genius. After all, all day in chemistry lab with various and sundry smells is no slight matter. Writing report after report in the Social Science classes is no small ordeal. And so we, as the large bullfrog in the small pond, lose all sense of proportion as to our true size. I do not say that graduating from college is a triviality. We have worked too hard; our parents have worked too long; our professors have given too much to say that graduating is a “tale told by an idiot . . . signifying nothing." How ever. the greatest thing our graduation should give us is not the much-sought sheep-skin; but. rather, graduation should give us a severe case of divine discontent. For what need we be dis content? We should be discontent be- ( Continued on Page Id I Staff Eunice Goss, Editor-in-Chief Jeralyn Young, Commencement Editor COMMENCEMENT EVENTS 1950 WEDNESDAY, MAY 24 Morehouse College Class Day Sale Hall Chapel, 9:30 a.m. FRIDAY, JUNE 2 Spelman Col]ege Chapel, 8:00 a.m. Conducted by Ten-Year Reunion Class Spelman College Alumnae Dinner Morgan Hall, 6:30 p.m. SATURDAY, JUNE 3 Spelman College Chapel, 8:00 a.m. Presentation of Prizes and Awards Spelman College Class Day Rockefeller Steps, 3:00 p.m. Spelman College Alumnae and Senior Procession throug the Alumnae Arch, followed by Planting of the Class Ivy, 4:00 p.m. Spelman College Alumnae Meeting Howe Hall, 4:15 p.m. Atlanta University Alumni Meeting Exhibition Room. Trevor Arnett Library, 6:30 p.m. SUNDAY, JUNE 4 Baccalaureate Service Sisters Chapel. 3:00 p.m. President Read and Dean Rice at Home to Spelman Seniors and their Guests, Faculty and Alumnae Reynolds Cottage, 5:00-6:00 p.m. President and Mrs. Mays at Home to Morehouse Seniors and their Parents, Faculty, Alumni and Friends President’s Residence, 5:00-7:00 p.m. President and Mrs. Clement at Home to University Faculty, Graduates, Alumni and Visiting Friends President’s Residence, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Vesper Service and Orang Recital Sisters Chapel, 8:00 p.m. MONDAY, JUNE 5 Spelman College Commencement Exercises Sisters Chapel, 10:30 a.m. Atlanta University Commencement Exercises Library Quadrangle, 5:00 p.m. Morehouse College annual Alumni and Senior Meeting and Reception Morehouse College Dining Hall, 8:00 p.m. Atlanta University Alumni-Faculty Banquet University Dormitories. 8:00 p.m. TUESDAY, JUNE 6 Morehouse College Commencement Exercises Sale Hall Chapel, 10:30 a.m.