Sosa neastnarar aac ena, ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1960 * Philadelphia, VOL. XLV—NO 16 © Trustees of Bryn Muwr College, 1960 PRICE 20 CENTS Mr. Sahwell Vi __ Discusses Existing Deadlock “In the interests of peace and stability France is under a moral, over and above her legal, obliga- tion to ‘pull out of North Africa.” With this statement Aziz S. Sah- well, Chief of the Research Sec- tion of Arab States Delegation Ovf- fice, concluded his discussion of the Algerian situation, in the Com- mon Room of Goodhart, 7:30 p.m., March 7, Mr. Sahwell began by providing his listeners with statistical data concerning Algeria. It is an Arab country occupying 847,000 square miles, inhabited by 11,000,000 Al- gerians and 85,000 Europeans. Originally ruled by Benbers, it was conquered by the Arabs in the 7th century and was there- after incorporated in the Ottoman Empire. On June 14, 1830, French troops landed in Algeria, defeat- ed by the Arabs, and annexed the territory as a French colony. Along with the forceful annex- ation of Algeria has come a col- onial suppression of Arabic cul- ture. ‘The Arabic language has been neglected and the practice ofthe Moslem—religion—has—been interfered with, as witnessed iby the fact that there were 106 mos- ques in Algeria in 1880 and now there are only eight. A national resistance movement to colonial rule was not organized until 1928, and was dissolved by the French only 14 years later, in 1987. For many years uprisings were staged, the National Liber- ation Frant was organized by the indigenous Algerians, an army was formed, and the present Al- —e | e Election Notice President of Self-Gov. Carolyn Goldmark President of Undergrad Betsy Frantz Panel Considers Religion, Society For the second in its series of three lectures on “Religion — A Challenge to the Free Society,” Interfaith brought to the college four speakers to participate in a panel discussion held on March 8 in the Common Room and modera- ted by Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Murray Friedman of the American Jewish Committee of Mr. James Mullen, Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University, and Mr. Thomas Sanders of the Depart- ment of Religious Studies, pre- sented, respectively, the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant views on interreligious tensions and . their causes and remedies in our demo- cratic society. The humanist Mr. Algernon Black txpressed his view that the discussed interreligious tensions need not exist; instead, “Our American spiritual life needs something that goes beyond spirit- ual differences.” This spiritual life, he said, can be attained without adherence to any organized religi- ous belief. In this statement. he was expressing the viewpoint of the Ethical Culture Scoiety, which he is a member. Next week’s program will be Mr. Kenneth ~ Thompson on Ethics anéProblems_ iews Algeria; gerian os was started. The cost of the war to France has been seven soldiers a day and one billion dollars a year, as well as a considerable loss of prestige in world politics and a dangerous weakening of successive govern- ments inside her own nation. The General Assembly of the United Nations has, on three occasions, asked France to settle the Alger- ian question on a democratic ba- sis. At the most recent session, ‘29 members expressed support for the Algerian cause for independ- ence. The United States abstain- ed from this »vote. The issue as it now stands is deadlocked because the French re- fuse to negotiate until a cease- Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 e Notice Tickets for the poetry read- ing to be given by Robert Frost on Tuesday, March 22 in the evening will be available start- ing this Thursday, March 10. Distribution to faculty, staff and graduate students will take place at. the Office of Public In- formation, Taylor. Undergrad- uates must collect their tickets between 1:30 and 2:00 on Thursday of this week and Monday and Tuesday of next week on the first floor of Tay- lor. Further announcement of this will be made in the halls. Speaker Presents Two Likely Ideas ~iFor Cancer Cause Mrs. Francisco MDuran-Reynals of the Rutgers Institute of Micro- biology discussed the different theories dealing with the causes of cancer on Wednesday, March 1, in a lecture sponsored by the Science Club. Mrs. Duran-Reynals stated that, although cancer as a dis- ease presents an interesting prob- lem, her concern lies in cancer as a biological phenomenon. Accord- ing to the speaker, the two main theories held today are the so- matic and the virus theories of cancer. The first theory holds that one cell becomes infected and begins to multiply at an abnormally rapid rate, destroying the healthy cells around it in the process. Some think that the single cell is embryonic and undifferentiated. Others believe that it is a cell which, somehow removed from its normal environment and _isolat- ed in an adiverse one, reacts by multiplying im this fashion. In 1908 Borrel, a French sci- entist, stated that cancer is caus- ed by a virus. He based his the- ovy on investigation of the benign multiplication caused by the pox viruses. Viruses cannot survive on the surface of a tissue, but must be within living matter. In smallpox, for example, the cells, by their multiplication, form a growth which rises to the surface, Continued on Page 5, Col. 1 Editorial Comments Sunday Legislature Approves Provisions for Emerging from the tangle of parliamentary procedure at Sun- day’s Emergency Legislature was a clear-cut resolution of the prob- lem of write-in votes. Unfortun- ately, the meeting’s Executive Board planners seemed somewhat frazzled by their three-day hassle with the issues involved, and Leg- islature could give only a vague indication of the excitement which had generated it. Action to clarify the legality of the Write-In was given official im- petus at Thursday night’s regular meeting of the Executive Board when members were confronted with a report of existing campus of | interest in the write-in and asked to formulate a policy regarding its legality. With no constitution- al -dictum-to- foHow-and--no—known. of Foreign Policy. precedent to consult, the Board Write-In Ballot James Kweeder, NSA advisor, observes as Marcy Tench, Sue Harris, and Nancy Porter count hands. decided initially by a vote of nine to one to accept and count ballots with irregular slates. _Nonethe- less, despite the near unanimity of the vote, objections were voiced regarding change of procedure in the midst of elections, and in view of these, the Board voted for a second meeting to reconsider their earlier pro-write-in stand. On Friday the Board reconven- ed, its problem somewhat clarified by information gathered from the National Student Association (NSA) regarding the nature of the suddenly baffling Write-in. Write-in votes are, generally in- herent in prefe al voting sys- tems (of which Bryn Mawr’s is a varient) but can be cast only for a first-choice candidate. Since the -eonstitutional_ Bryn Mawr. proced-_| Continued on Page 4, Col. 4 It was announced Monday, that eight Bryn Mawr seniors received Woodrow Wilson National Foun- dation Fellowships for 1960-1961. The awards, which carry a basic stipend of $1,500 and full costs of a year’s graduate study, went to Maria Buse, Susan Downey, Jo- anne Field, Sheila Gopen, Eliza- beth Hansot, Judith Polsky, Kath- leen Schueller, and Cynthia Secor. Evelyn; Adler, Karen Carlson, French Poet Talks e 9 e On Rimbaud’s Life Arthur Rimbaud was one of the first of the modern French poets to use poetry as a means and not as an end in itself, M. Yves Bon- nefoy explained in his lecture, “Rimbaud et la Poésie Contem- poraine,” Thursday. evening in the Ely Room. M. Bonnefoy is himself considered one of the most original French poets today. He has -received—the Prix da la—Nou- velle Vogue for his poetry and is well known for his translations of Shakespeare. At present, M. Bonnefoy is preparing a— book about Rimbaud. The poet, Arthur Rimbaud, was born in the French province of Ardennes in 1854. His unhappy childhood led him to the great re- bellion which is evident through- out his poetry. In fact, according to M. Bonnefoy, Rimbaud’s great- ness lay in his ability to realize his. potential in spite of the cir- cumstances in which he found him- self. Rimbaud’s revolt was directed against three interrelated forces: provincial life, his mother, and the Christianity of his time. He com- plained that life in the country led only to death. There were no Continued on Page 6, Col. 2 Protestant Music Inspires Contrast In his fourth Flexner lecture, Mr. Lang followed the devleop- ment of music, particularly in Gemany, through the Reformation and Baroque periods. Baroque music has its roots in the resurgent and militant . old church which, when it realized that Protestants could not be put down, tried to win them back through Jesuit eloquence and artistic splen- dour. Italian musicians, ‘who spread fhrough Europe, imposed their own language and style on the rest of the world, often set- tling in foreign countries to found a national style. Composers such as Schutz remained Protestant, but their music is unthinkable without the Italian Baroque. What made this music Protes- tant not Catholic, sacred not sec- ular? Mr, Lang said he did not know. They are all first cousins. There is too much sanctimonious nonsense about it. Cantatas in- clude belleanta pieces which are no different, technically speaking, from an operatic aria. The differ- ence must be the spirit in which the music is offered. All Baroque music needs is an honest perform- Eight BMC Seniors to Receive Woodrow Wilson Fellowships Constance Greenleaf, Esta Lewin mention. At present, Maria Buse plans to continue study in Geology, her major subject, at Berkeley in Cal- ifornia. Susan Downey will. prob- ably do further work in the classics at Yale. Joanme Field, whose major is English, has also received a Fulbright to Oxford and has to decide which award she will accept. Sheila Gopen hopes to continue work in Econ- omics at Columbia University. The choice of the university where study will be continued does not have to be definitely de- cided until May and so the plans of these eight girls are still ten- tative. Elizabeth Hansot, a phi- losophy major, is uncertain as to her plans, while Kathleen Schuel- ler, whose major field is chemis- try, plas to go to either Harvard or M.I.T, Cynthia Secor will prob- ably continue her work in Eng- lish at Cornell University. Nationally, there were and Sara received honorable 1259 Fellowship this year, chosen from 8,800 applicants representing 355 universities and colleges. College Thespians Present ‘Merchant’ Bryn Mawr College Theatre and Haverford Drama Club_ will present The Merchant of Venice on March 11 and 12, at 8:30 in Goodhart as their first venture in a long time of one of Shakes- peare’s ‘big’ plays. The group tra- ditionally presents one Shakes- pearean play a year but has usu- ally done more obscure ones such as King John and Measure for Measure, The reason for this is that most of the dramatic trage- dies demand an actor with fantas- tic ability to be done well, and the popular comedies are done too often. “This year,” says Nina Broekhuysen, College Theatre President, “we decided to do Mer- chant because it is a good play both dramatically and poetically, and does not need one excellent leading actor.” ‘A Robert Butman will direct with the assistance of Ginny O’Roak. Mr. Butman does not adhere to the modern interpretation of Shy- lock as a tragic hero, but rather insists upon a compromise be- tween the Elizabethan interpre- tation which made him a complete villian and the modern one; in oth- er words, Butman’s Shylock will be as much as possible “straight Shakespeare.” Shylock, Butman feels, represents materialism and in this sense is the force of evil in the play; this moral thesis, he believes, must be brought out. The woman’s roles will be play- ed by Nina Broekhuysen as Por- Continued on Page 6, Col. 1 Notice Undergrad announces the elec- tion of Susan Szekely '61 and Susan Johnson ’62 as the editors of The Freshman Handbook. The Senior Class announces the election of Judy Minkin as Hance, and then, it-is-good. church || music, winners of the Woodrow-—Wilson-: “chairman of Garden party. |="