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r ‘ Nesoranduz of February 22, 1956 Profile of Millard Univers! ‘My visit to Dillard University waa very disappointing. In the first place, I spent zore than four eat a half hours trying to locate John Quincy Adame, the forner SSA Seminar participant. After finding hin, 2 found that bis activity in the nast year had deen virtuelly nil. He explained thie by mggesting tt his studies had taken up an extraordinery amount of bis tine, but thia vas a very poor excuses for not eves answering letters which had been written to him, requesting informatica, also cor the Sexine> evalu ation sheets, etc. In trying to seek out sone of tho adninistration pesrle as well as : other student government personalities on camrue for discussions about SA locally as : well as regionally, we struck an absolute rero, aot having located the first peraon after two bourse or so of walking around various offices and various doraltories, ca ene renee eee ROO OS However, in the foar hours or fo in which I was trying to track down Jchn Grincy Adans himself, I dic have an opportunity to speak to other students who nad no pertioular Teeponsidtlity for student government or any other sajor atudsnt organizational activity ° on cams. 2 vas lanressed wich the sicciler lack of entimsiacn or interest even in any ‘ : kind of student crogram other than the little contests for cazmus queens, athletic pro- : gvane and eo forth. (I might ad4 thet my low opinion ebout the student srograms et Dillard University is almost universally shared by other vecple in New Orleens who hove © closer contact vith the situation than I have.) Insermch es I sd several other appeintments to fill the der that I was at Dillard and the following day, I had to leave with virtuelly no results in terms of finding out about the degree of interest iz KSA or other student activities cn camue from any really responsible source. One rether curious anf inex. plicable fact ts that I learned from John Quincy Adaus that curing lunch, we had been sitting at a t2atle across from the table at which aet the President cf the Student Coun- cil, who was a delegate to the Xighth Hational Congress and whom I had met. Presunabdly, | he saw me and recognised me tut did not even bother to make himself mown or to say anye | thing to John Quincy Adams. Adame offered no explanation for thia rather od’ situation, | and needless to say, my impression of Diilard University was not enhance? by it. | i | i q ! ee ee ee t t