VOL. XLVII—NO.5 ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1961 | %) Trustees of Bryn A College, 1961 PRICE 20 CENTS Foreign Newsmen Query College Press At Panel by Suzy Spain The foreign press met the col- lege press this weekend at Ham- ilton College in Clinton, N. Y. The conference, presented as a part of Hamilton’s sesquicentennial pro- ceedings, brought together thirty- two Foreign Press Association members representing twenty countries and about fifty college journalists representing thirty-two eastern institutions for a thirty- hour consideration of the American student, the American and foreign press and student participation (viz. apathy”). The conference, initiated by the more administra- tive Hamilton powers, was conduc- ted by student chairmen and mem- bers of the college newspaper, The Spectator. Panel discussions and a sympo- sium were the main events of the conference; the Yugoslav and Polish press delegates were the most queried; the female Pakista- ni press representative was the most outspoken, and the Washing- ton and Lee University editor held the most conservative view of the Student. After a briefing session and lunch Friday the delegates were divided for four pane] discussions. The one I was assigned to was composed of five members of the overseas press: Dr. Hans Steinitz, Bund, Berne, Switzerland and Pre- sident of the Foreign Press Asso- ciation; Mr. Zivko Milic, Borbo, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Mr. Wlady- slaw Pawlak, Polish State Radio; Mr. A. Arnold Vas Dias, Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant, Rotterdam, Holland; and Mr. P. G. Krishnay- ya,. Krishnayya’s Journal, Madras, India. Students from Hofstra, La- fayette, Lehigh, Lincoln, Mt. Holy- oke, Northwestern, Buffalo, Bar- nard, Washington and Lee and Bryn Mawr sat opposite the foreign press at the table. The two hour meeting was divi- ded inte two parts, one in which A.A. to Sponsor — Guest Play Day; Schools Compete Preparations for Bryn Mawr’s com- ing Sports Day, Saturday, October 28, prove that although physical ed- ucation for college women may be dying out in Massachusetts, it has suffered no such fate in Pennsylvania. BMC hockey, tennis and volleyball players will compete against teams from Barnard, Goucher and Wilson in a schedule of round robin tourna- ments lasting from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. At. 12:30 the visiting participants will pause for lunch and a brief view of Bryn Mawr dormitory life in Den- bigh,; Radnor, Rhoads and Pembroke. A synchronized swimming demon- stration conducted by Dale Benson will highlight the afternoon. _ Sports Day will be held in spite of gah, sleet or snow?, but A.A. has joined several frustrated Ivy League foot- ball coaches in plans for an October 28 sun dance. Anyone interested in participating in Sports Day is urged to speak to one of the hostesses: Penny Schwind and: Jo Rosenthal (hockey); Kathy Johnson (tennis); Anita Williamson (volleyball); Karen Blu (synchro- nized swimming) ; Roian Fleck (head of hostesses); or Ellie Biedler (chair- man). Spectators will be —— at all events. the foreign press quizzed us and one in which we quizzed them. We were asked to comment on the fi- nancial situation of our papers (Milic), on how a_ publication could begin (Pawlak), if there could be two or more papers on a campus so that opposite opinions could be represented (Milic), if our newspapers could run success- ful campaigns against administra- tive policies and practices (Paw- lak), on our sentiments regarding Nehru, India and neutrality (Krish- nayya), on our estimation .of the ‘American press (Vas Dias) and Barry Goldwater (Steinitz). In regard to the question on India, Mr. Krishnayya commanded each of us to “file” a statement of our opinions to him for publication; he is held somewhat in disdain by his fellows for his purely personal interests, i.e., Krishnayya’s Jour- nal. And in answering Dr. Stein- itz’s question we all made the front page of the Utica daily. : Milic and Pawlak The questions we asked the foreign press were rather heavily direc towards Mr. Milic and Mr. Pawlak. In defining the extent of news coverage in their respec- tive countries Mr. Pawlak and Mr. Milic emphasized their freedom in re- porting and considered this as comparable to our “freedom of the press.” Mr. Milic said that during two decades of free press, Yugoslavia was in a “very sad” state and the results of this were a very poor country and people recovering from war and internal revolutions in_which_ 1,700,000 people died. “Present-day Yugoslavia is the result of certain objective histor- ical considerations and not a bunch of Communist conspirators.” He believes he has a free press because the government does not intervene; “the paper belongs to the people.” Mr. Milic said “We don’t believe that there is an un- political press. We are leftist, we are socialist; we fight in the press ~'.| for our-soeialist_ideas, Jourhalists | ; are politicians. We know what we want, and we fight for it.” As a foreign correspondent, Mr. Milic} never receives instructions from home. He said the United States press “completely distorts events in its policy of selecting news and items.” He thinks the Yugoslav press is more objective than the U.S. press; “we don’t think we have anything to hide from our people.” He wanted to know where the liberal] and leftist papers in the United States were. Mr. Pawlak expressed a similar view of the purpose of the press. “The Polish press stands on the ground set by the government. We think we are giving generally ‘a very fair coverage of what is going on. We do not claim to be or want to be objective in our appraisals. We are taking firm stands.” Mr. Paw- lak said ‘that in his country an extremely wide range of opinion was permitted, but the press could not afford to start issues. Its bas- ic approach was that of construc- tive argument to get things done. Mr. Krishnayya thought there was too much coverage of the United States in the Indian papers, and he blames U.S. aid to India and the free services of the Uni- ted States Information — for this. Cantinued on Page 4, Col. 4 | Administration To Answer Questions On Staff System The issue of the clarification of student-staff relationships has died down, yet there are still some ques- tions about the Maids and Porters system which remain unclear in stu- dents’ minds. In an*effort to. answer some of these questions and to present the point of view of the Administration, Miss McBride will have an informa! meeting with students in the near future. Although the financial implications of the Maid .system were discussed in an open meeting last year, this subject will probably have to be re- explained for the benefit of those stu- dents not present at the time. Stu- dents might also ask about the oppor- tunity for student waitressing, and the possibility of students cleaning their own rooms, Another question which concerns students is the lack of real integra- tion on the staff. The Administra- tion will moreover, probably answer questions in the merits of being on the staff at Bryn Mawr. This meeting with the Administra- tion provides‘ an opportunity to ask questions of the people who know most about the Maid system. If there are uncerain grumblings and com- plaints, this meeting give the stu- dent a chance to air them. The exact time and location will be announced shortly. Architect Louis Kahn, speaking in the first of a series of Under- grad-sponsored lectures: entitled Metropolis, presented several of his theories of architecture on Monday evening in Goodhart. His topic was ‘‘Rule and Architecture.” He told of several of the build- ings which he had planned, ex- tracting from them his general ideas on architecture. In his plan for a monastery FLASH For inside story, see Page 7 For True Self Is Nietzsche totally negative, or does he offer a concrete solution. to the problems he defines? This turn- ed out to be the core of interest among the participants in last night’s Phi- losophy Club symposium on aspects of Nietzschian philosophy. Mr. Kline moderated the panel which included Mr. Ferrater-Mora of the Philosophy Department, Mr. Schweitzer of the German Department and Mr. W. Harry Jellema, a Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Haverford. False Sops Nietzsche’s negative approach is shown, for example, in-his attack on Christianity, Mr. Jellema showed how, according to Nietzsche, the val- ues of the Church are false sops thrown to the weak. The true char- acter of Christ was that of a “naive idiot totally lacking in passions and in the qualities of a hero.” His life was a “thrust towards nothingness” and his death: had no meaning. Christianity as developed by St. Paul, provides an outlet for the resentment and the revenge of the weak. It is a false facade which engenders a lack of creativity, a submergence of the individual. The priesthood is a “Venus Observed’’ Rehearsals are now underway for the fall production of the Haverford Drama Club and Bryn Mawr College Theatre. The joint presentation of Christopher Fry’s autumnal comedy, “Venus Observ- ed,” will be in Roberts Hall, Hav- erford, on November 17 and 18._ Directed by Robert Butman, the comedy features Andreas Lehner and Peter Moscovitz of H’ford and Wendy Westbrook, Nina Sutherland, Kusha Gula, and Rob Colby. bY Nietzschian Concern Probes Behind Mask sham-encouraging hypocrisy. Many of Nietzsche’s predecessors agreed that “God is dead” but they did not realize that since He was the only justification of these false values, they can no longer have any significance. Nietzsche has, there- fore, destroyed not only religion but all our “cultural activity” as well. Replacing Christ ‘Mr. Jellema believes that Nietz- sche’s “will to power” is his positive. teplacement for Christianity. It is not.a desire for physical or political power but rather a search for self- mastery, without.a_reference.to God or tradition. Mr. Ferrater-Mora expanded this positive note in Nietzschian phi- losophy by attempting to sum up the importance of Nietzsche in our time. As the early Greeks set the tone for the ancient world with their onfology and Descartes did for the modern world with his epistomology so Nietz- sche did for the contemporary world with what Mr. Ferrater-Mora called “authenticity.” Behind the mask of false values can lie only another mask or noth- ingness. Since one cannot escape the mask, Nietzsche asks that it be truly the mask of the self—that one’s values be set by the individual. Anti-Systematic The anti-systematic tendencyin. Nietzsche not only makes his phi- lsoophy difficult but his writing beau- tiful, Mr. Schweitzer said. His dis- Kahn Asserts Architects’ Duty Is To Make Institutions ‘Great’ & near Los Angeles, he described the planning of the monastery wall, drawing from this example the idea that while the law is un- changeable, there is freedom in its execution. The wall as an ex- pression of a law is a solid entity the exterior of which must fend off wind and rain, and the inter- ior of which must give protection and warmth. Mr. Kahn showed how he separated the exterior and interior parts of the wall to cre- ate a walk in between. This walk had functional as well as aesthetic value in that it cooled the interior more effectively than _ insulation would have done. The wall ac- quired curves which created places to sit in in the walk area and helped to ward off the wind on the outside. Thus new freedom was brought into a law which remain- ed essentially unchanged. Before beginning a building for biological research, Mr. Kahn talked with the scientists who would live there. In this manner he was made aware of the archi- tectural incompatibility of the sci- entist’s laboratory with his study, which, however, needed to be close to the laboratory. He then went on to plan the buildings, creating a compa- tible unit in the “architecture of the clear air, the stainless steel” (the laboratory), and the “architecture of the oak table and the rug” (the study). The duty of the architect, he said, since he always builds for institutions, be they the institu- tion_of the home, the school, the government, is that he make these institutions great. This is accom- plished through the use of space, architecture itself being a “thoughtful making of spaces.” Through a uniting of the material and the idea, ie., the measurable and the immeasurable, an area be- comes a space; the corridor be- comes a gallery; the lobby an en- trance place. Mr. Kahn mentioned the im- his_plans~for the new dormitory which he is creating for Bryn Mawr, and said that he had at- tempted to distinguish each space, just a series of partitions. He felt that the building of a dormitory was one of the most difficult prob- lems that he had encountered, and remarked that he was still look- ing for qualities which make a “school” great. The building as it typifies the idea of “school” is an important function as in rela- tion to its lesser functions as “an institution” and “a school.” A dis- cussion and question period in the Common Room followed the lec- ture. Chamber Music The Bryn Mawr-Haverford Ensemble Group will present a chamber music concert, Sun- rection of Agi Jambor. Virginia McShane, James Garson, Deena Klein, Barbara Dancis, Ellen connected thoughts are expressed in concrete images.’ His works, espec- ially Thus Spake Zarathustra, show his tremendous linguistic hpi: and appeal to the reader. Overheard outside the Dean’s Office “It’s not the monitoring I object- to; it’s the classes.” 2 Magaziner, Harriet Swern, Mar- ion Davis, Christina Gasparro, Susan Morris, Emily Bardack, Nina Greenberg, Donald Rein- -feld_and Mark Hartman will play in the program of works of Haydn and Beethoven. Music Room, 3:00 P.M. each_room_as.a_single. entity, not. - portance of spaces in_ relation to ——_-— day, October 29. Under the di- |