Forty-seven delegates from 18 colleges brought new ideas and contributions to the discussions. Polit added innovations to conference technique this weekend: the pamphlet, We're in the Army Now, which has already earned praise for its dramatic yet factual approach; the living newspaper play, in which students, employees and residents of Poughkeepsic cooperated to present a picture of army life; the informal and varied panel discussions. We express our genuine delight at the large turnout which was Vassar's answer to each session's challenge.

And that challenge was tremendous. It brought to us the message of hope in our new citizens army, not only as a first-rate military body, but as a nucleus about which can be built the solid structure of a better world order.

That building can begin at this moment, in every community in the United States affected by nearby army camps and there are thousands. These communities are facing problems of recreation of housing, of education. Fayetteville faces the responsibility of entertaining the Draftee in his leisure time. Holsburg, an industrial town, must adapt itself to the influx of defence workers, by building new houses for them by keeping its schools open at night so that they may learn new techniques.

In every one of these communities, as well as in every draft camp, Americans are coming face to face with the problems of discrimination which have too long blemished our national scene. This time these problems can not be dodged. Out of the racial and class melting pot of the army camps can come a new understanding which will spread over the nation. --From the Vassar Miscellany News.