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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914

Published weekly during the College Year (except during Thanksgiving,
Christmas and .Easter holidays, and during examination weeks) in the
interest of Bryn Mawr Pt ne at the Ardmore Printing Company; Ardmore,
Pa., and et fe Mawr Col fs:

The College News is fu protected by ‘copyright. Nothing that appears
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EDITORIAL BOARD

DOIEIEE boc ib chee rbue senwessssicocsreesedeesegs Marcia Case, ‘57
sid kvsececvesceibacredsrbinsadosecvess * Epsey Cooke, ‘57
Managing Editor teeeeeeeeeseeeesseeeeeeee seg eneeees Carol Hansen, ‘57
ee SOOT Gren ie error Pan or ner Ruth Rasch, ‘57
we “= Molly Epstein, ‘56
EDITORIAL STAFF

Paula. Dunaway, 258; Marcia Goldstone, ‘56; Anna Kisselgoff, ‘58; Joyce Mit-
chell, ‘55 (League Representative); Linda Notkin, ‘57; Joan Parker, ‘57 (A. A.
Representative); Helen Sagmaster, ‘58; Leah Shanks, ‘56; Catharine Stimpson,
58; Harriette Solow, ‘56; Elizabeth Warren, ‘55 (Alliance ise nn ge
Staff Photographers Ann Harris, ‘56 — Amy. Heinel, ‘
Business Manager ........--..sseecsseeceeeveess Gloria Strohbeck, 157 ’
Associate Business Manager Virginia’: Gavian, ‘57
Business Staff: Annabelle Williams, ‘56; Rachel Epstein, ‘57, Christine Wallace,
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“Time For A Change”

The College legislature, in making the recent changes in
election procedure, was rightfully concerned with “cutting
down the work of the nominating committee.” We'd like to
go a step further. We'd like to cut the work of the nomin-
ating committee down to nothing. In short, we’d like to
eliminate it altogether, as the primary offender in Bryn
Mawr’s elaborately organized election system.

The nominating committee seems to us undemocratic,
inefficient, and unnecessary. It goes through a complicated
process of selecting, checking and eliminating, without any
assurance that it will come up with the best qualified candi-
dates. Because it deals with the candidates through second
and third hand sources, it must often rely on the reputation
and personality rather than the ability of those who are run-
ning. The fact that the same names appear over and over
for the different campus offices would seem to verify this—
that the committee, when confronted with the choice beween
a lesser and better known name, will play it safe and pick the
latter. The people who are interested in an office have no
way of making this known to the committees. They can only
hope that their name, when read out of the finding list, may
be selected.

Then the committee begins the job of collecting, sifting
and sorting write-ups of the opinions of the friends of the
candidates, thereby, dws say, assuring that only the finest
survive. But when eight names are finally submitted to the
class, the rule is that names can be added to the list from the
floor. How risky! These names have been approved by no
: hierarchy, and are probably only those of the few people who
are terribly interested but somehow got left out in the scram-
ble.

Why not eliminate all the amount of work and bother
connected with the nominating committee, and let those peo-
ple who are interested nominate themselves for the various
offices? If there were a limit set on the number of offices
for which a person could run, for instance two, the candidates

for each office would be the ones most interested ont most.

able in the school.

In order to make the students better acquainted with
the candidates, we advocate eliminating the tradition that
the candidates are never allowed to speak in their own behalf.
To those who maintain that this present system assures an
election that is based on thought and reason, rather than on
campaign hurly-burly, or the personal appeal of the candi-
date, we answer that no system could encourage less thought,
for the simple reason that no. system gives you less to think

about.
~""Also;candidates. now. are judged much more on person-

ality and appearance than they would be if they could also}.

be judged on their opinions and ideas. Why not let the indi-
vidual candidates for offices hold meetings in the various
halls, there discussing with reasonably small groups their
“program” for the coming year, their plans for the office they
-are seeking. Students could have a chance to question the
dates, the candidates a chance to show their ability to
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Wednesday, February 23, 1955

 

Letters to the Editor

 

February 20, 1955.
‘he Editors of ‘ihe College News,
woodhart Hall,
Bryn Mawr College.
Wear Editors:

My dog Toni, who has always
shown great interest in your es-
teemed publication, was most upset
after reading your article on Bum-
ble in the last issue. He immedi-
ately sat down and wrote an open
letter which he begged me to type
and forward to you.

Please note that I don’t share
my dog’s opinions. I like Bumble
and respect him. Nevertheless,
since 1 strongly believe in the dem-
ocratic system and in freedom of"
the press, I felt I should not refuse
my dog’s request. However, should
you find his letter unfit for publi-
cation, I would only be most grate-
ful to you. My own work keeps
me busy and I am not looking for-
ward to becoming my dog’s secre-
tary, which well might be the case
if initial success should. encourage
him to become a regular contribu-
tor to this country’s publications.

Sincerely yours,
Frances de Graaff

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Students Thank Profs .
For Reduction In Price
To the Editor:

We wish to express our thanks
to the Faculty Show Committee
for their consideration in making
available student tickets at a re-
duced price, —

We have looked forward to the
show for four years, and wish ev-
ery success to The Profs in the
Pudding.

Sincerely yours,
Chris Fischer, ’55
Polly Oatfield, ’
Ursula Wolff, ’55
Jeff Jones, 55

 

 

The NEWS has received a
letter signed with a pseudonym,
It is a policy of this paper not
to print anonymous letters, al-
though we will print them un-
signed if requested. We will be
glad to print this letter as is, if
the author will make himself

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F. de Graaff, Secretary, Approves Of Bumble;
Toni Finds All Black Dogs Can’t Be Any Good

Dear Editors: ‘

How could you write such non-
sense about Bumble! He is the
most revolting dog I have ever
met, and I’ve met many. He is a
traitor, leaving his owners and
hanging around the men I hate.
He is a coward. When we meet he
doesn’t even dare to fight, we just
walk around each other and leave.
But he curses me most ungentle-
manly when I am in a car and
can’t get at him, Dogs that gre all
black can’t be any good.

Yours truly,
* Toni

Chapel’s Efforts Achieve
‘Cloakroom Conversion’
i'o the Editor:

The Chapel Committee is very
pleased to announce that its read-
ing room is now ready for use. The
room, located next to the Common
Room in Goodhart, at one time was
shared by -the Chapel Committee
and “Non-Resident. students. The
former used it for its weekly Tues-
day meetings, while it was open to

the latter as a cloak room. How-:

ever, whether or not history pro-
gresses, the Chapel Committee has
seemed to, and its expanding at-
tendance necessitated a move to
larger quarters for meetings, viz.
the Rumpus Room.

The College has since given this
ex-cloak room to the Committee to
be’ used as a place for quiet,
thought, and reading. It has been
supplied with appropriate furnish-
ings and a table upon which may
be found religious books (which
may be signed out) and other lit-
erature of interest, such as the
friends’ Intelligencer and Com-
monweal. From time to time books
are to be added, as when Rabbi
Agus gave a copy of his newest
book on Judaism this fall; and
whenever possible, books written
by those who speak in Chapel will
be placed in the room a week or

two. before the service.
The roo s thus far remained
untitled, alth Asuggestions have

ranged from “Chapel Committee
Meditation Room” to “Room for
Thought!” We hope that evéryone
will feel welcome to make use of
this room, no longer as a cloak
room, but as a place to spend some
quiet moments in a busy day.
Phyllis Hall, ’56

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week or ten days.

Students would put themselves up for

Current Events

Hunter Reviews Russia
In Period After
Malenkov

On February 21, Mr. Hunter, of
Bryn Mawr and Haverford, gave a
Current Events talk.on “Russia
After Malenkov.”

Mr. Hunter “set the stage” for

his discussion by listing first the
men most important in the crucial
period between Stalin’s death on
March 5, 19538, and February 10,

1955.

Within this period he took up
three important questions his audi-
ence would presumably want an-
pate taking into consideration
current political speculation. Fi-
nally, Mr. Hunter came to what. he
called some “unwarranted conclu-
sions.”

The six most important men
were Molotov, important in foreign
affairs; Beria, Minister of. Interior
until his recent and controversial
death; Malenkov, recently demot-
ed; Krushchev, the party man who
is said to pull the strings; Bulgan-

in, the new premier, who«may’

prove to be merely a figurehead;
and Zhukov, popular representa-
tive of the army, whose importance
is purely military.

Beria’s Death

During the two-year “testing
process,” Mr. Hunter outlined some
important events. After Stalin’s
death, Malenkov moved into the
two top party posts, but resigned
the key post to Khrushchev after
a week. The next event was Beria’s

death on- June 26.
I 53 there were two outstand-
ing’ speeches, the first by Malen-

kov, outlining the general policy of
the U.S.S.R., the second by

 

office, there would follow a week of conversing and discuss-
ing in the halls. At the end of the week one whole day could
be set aside for the elections. Instead of the extremely slow
procedure of voting for one or two candidates at a time,
which dampens any enthusiasm that one might possibly have
once had, printed ballots, listing the candidates for all offices,
could be circulated. At a given period at a polling place,
students would mark their ballots. Besides shortening the
election period, it would arouse interest in the election, and
make for a more thoughtful one. oe

We realize that it is easy to offer an entire new system,

claiming that it will solve all the existing evils. This one ob-
viously has its faults. But it does solve the problem of get-
ting first-rate candidates, and of making the election period

'}at Bryn Mawr a pleasure, instead of a pain.

Thank You...

providing student rates for “The Profs in the Pudding”.
We believe they have been most generous in offering the ma-

Everyone hears about faculty show from the moment
she enters Bryn Mawr, and we are all-looking forward to
March 19 with great anticipation. There is no doubt in our

minds that it will be a most hilarious and worthwhile evening.
We feel that the entire student eee or show. |

 

 

 

 

We wk to express Our appreciation-to the faculty for |"

jority of the seats in Goodhart to us at a price of $2. “5

Khrushchev, unusual because he

admitted that the agricultural sit- .

uation was in a worse state than
it had been in 1913; this marked
the beginning of a series of reme-
dial programs.

The first of the three questions
was, “who has political power
now?”, Mr.:Hunter does not see
how we can possibly answer this
definitely, for the party members
themselves cannot.

“What does this mean for Soviet
Foreign Policy?” was the second
topic. Under the new regime, in
spite of the public emphasis on
light industry, there has been a
marked decrease in appropriations
for this, as opposed to an increase
in appropriations for heavy indus-
try. This is obviously mot a reas-
suring shift.

Two Year Test

As to the Soviet domestic policy,
this emphasis on consumer goods
has been part of a two-year exper-
iment to increase labor produc-
tion by improved morale and or-
ganization.

So far, this’has not been partic-
ularly successful, and Mr. Hunter
believes that the policy on this
subject will probably continue to
change every three years. In addi-
tion to this problem, the basic food
supply, while adequate, is not
growing as the government thinks
it should.

Mr Hunter’s main “unwarrant-
ed conclusions” are that, first, the
U.S.S.R. is concentrating on heavy
industry chiefly from fear, and

-| that we should compete with them,
not in that field, but in technolog-

ical aid to underdeveloped coun-
tries.

Mr..Hunter believes that
Khrushchev and the Soviet army
will sustain a rapid growth; this
is a real worry, and raises the se-
rious question of what our rate of
growth should be. In conclusion,
Mr. Hunter feels that we should
definitely be dissatisfied with . our
present rate, and should concen-
trate on increasing it, instead of
| “bravely going sideways,” as we

 

now are.

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