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THE CO

Editor-in-Chief
* Christopher Bakke '68 |

Managing Editor Photographic Editor
Nancy Miller °69 | Marian Scheuer '70
Associate Editors
Robin Brantley '69, Kathy Murphey '69

Editorial Board
Carol Berman 69, Cookie Poplin '69 .
Editorial and Photographic Staff

Sue Auerbach '7], Carol Berman 69
Maggie Crosby '70, Beverly Davis '70
Sally Dimschultz '70, Steve Faust '68

Mary Laura Gibbs '70, Cathy Hoskins ’7]

' Bea Jones '71, Julie Kagan '70
Sue Lautin '70, Joan Mahon °70

Judy Meyer '70, Laurel Miller °70

Roni Rogatz '71, Becky Rawson '69
Barbara Sindel '70, Mary Yee '70

Advertising Manager
Valerie Hawkins '69 Adrienne Rossner "69

Business Manager
Ellen Saftlas °70
Subscription Managers
Sue Auerbach '71, Alice Rosenblum '71
COLLEGE NEWS is entered as second class matter

at the Wayne, Penna, Post Office under the act of
March 3, 1879.

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Schoolteaching

The symposium on schoolteaching last weekend |

was a tremendous success, Leaving aside for a
moment the very important topic of discussion,
the symposium gave Bryn Mawr students a néeded
opportunity to meet and talk to Bryn Mawr alumnae,
Contact with adults and people out inthe real world
is too infrequent for many students here,

The topic for the day, schoolteaching as a career,
was handled by all the speakers with excitement
and imagination, The alumnae who were invited
were all in teaching, but there the similarity ended,
Some had taught in schools in disadvantaged urban
areas, some in Africa, one specialized in educat-
ing retarded children, one had set up a bilingual
school in Washington. D,C, They were all able to
convey to their audiences their special feelings
about teaching; they explained beautifully the re-
wards and excitements of their jobs.

Schoolteaching is by far the most frequently
chosen career of a Bryn Mawr graduate, It is
easy to see why, At the risk of patting ourselves
on the back, Bryn Mawr students often have a
uniqueness, a stubbornness and an ability to
articulate that makes them well fitted to be good
teachers,

The alumnae, especially Mrs, Thacher, and the
Curriculum Committee, especially Susan Nosco,
are to be congratulated on the success of their
event, K.B.

Undergrad Dues

It would seem that an elected body such as
Undergrad should have the right to decide where
its funds should go without having to reassure its
constituents that the money is being delegated to
their personal organizations. ;

Students have good cause to think about what
a raise in dues means, but the argument ‘‘I don’t
want to pay for something I don’t participate in’’
seems a poor and childish reason for opposition.

Undergrad’s job is to keep campus groups alive
by offering them financial support, and to pay
for many services from which all Bryn Mawr
students benefit. Its job is not to discriminate
against certain organizations whose membership
is smaller than others’ and whose activities do
not receive as much attention as those of other
groups. By being so petty about the use of the
dues, students make it difficult for Undergrad
to perform its functions for the student body.

No student is asked or expected to participate
in every college organization, but surely by pay-
ing more in dues she will receive enough of the
benefit through her own groups to justify the

These college organizations create activity and
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

Coffee Nerves

   

To the Editor:

Morning Coffee Hours have de-
generated. Originally instituted to
provide an opportunity for girls
to meet friends from other dorms
and to entertain faculty, they have
now become an opportunity to make
up for a missed breakfast as glut-
tonously and as quickly as possi-
ble. The record now stands at
five donuts in about two minutes -
two chocolate, two glazed, and one
plain.

In addition, empty stomachs
drive chanting hoards into the
inner sanctum of dormitory kitch-
ens, leaving hostesses feeling
helpless and rejected and incon-
veniencing the cooks.

We don’t need more donuts; we
need a little restraint. We would
like to invite faculty members to

Offee hours we're em-
ffee Hours, but we're too

barrassed. *
Some Observers

Uncle Sam Wants You

To the Editor:

On behalf of the Ist Squad, 3rd
Platoon, Company B, Ist Battalion,
6th Infantry, I would like to send
you our cordial greetings on the
24th day of October 1967,

The idea of this letter being
written was thought up from the
idea of ‘‘Air Mail Viet Nam,”
I believe some of you have pro-
bably heard of this type corr-
espondence which originated two
years ago for the troops stat-
ioned in Viet Nam, It was and
still is a very good moral (sic)
booster and makes the troops feel
a little better about the anti-Viet
Nam demonstrations,

The main reason your school
was chosen was because the maj-
ority of the squad is from the
Pennsylvania area and would like
to correspond with a woman from
the same,

Support our cause and the men
in Viet Nam, Write if you see
fit. Thank you very much,

SSG Gordon B. Davick

RA 17532081

Co B Ist Bn 6th Inf 198 Bde
APO San Francisco 96219

The Editor-in-Chief (in Merion)
has a list of servicemen who
wish to correspond with Bryn
Mawr students.

Frosh-tration

To the Editor:

' Every spring the Bryn Mawr
undergraduates nominate 6fficers
for the ‘‘Big Six.’? Campaigning is
not a part of the elections; the
nominees, however, are required
to visit each hall in order to state
their plans for the office, as well
as to answer any pertinent ques-
tions. Every fall the freshmen
hold a meeting to nominate class
officers and representatives. At
the close of the nominations, the
candidates remain in the auditor-
ium for a brief discussion period.
Anyone not present at the meet-
ing will have no other opportunity
to compare the. qualifications of
the different candidates.. There
are no speeches in the dorms;

“written statements are not dis-

tributed. :

Because of heavy rain, the at-
tendance at this year’s meeting to
nominate representatives to Un-
dergrad and a freshman social
chairman. was unfortunately mini-

. mal,-One of our larger dorms was

not represented at all, and by no

“means was there a majority of

the freshman residents from any
of the others.

A grand total of six freshmen
in Radnor had enough knowledge
of the candidates to feel qualified
to vote. The others abstained

yather than vote in complete ig-

norance for a familiar face or an
interesting name. Under these cir-
cumstances, it was not even possi-
ble to turn the election into the
usual popularity contest, which
would have been somewhat more
desirable because at least there
would have been strong opinions
one way or the other, We propose
that a written statement from each
candidate be distributed to all the
dorms. Perhaps even more effec-
tive would be a spetial Candi-
dates’ Night prior to the elec-
tions at which the nominees would
present their views. Either way,
the students would have at least
some knowledge of each candi-
date and would be more quali-
fied to vote. As freshman hall
representative, I investigated
these possibilities and found that
they aren’t ‘‘the traditional thin
to do.”? ‘
The biggest objection to these
propositions is that the fresh-
man class really doesn’t do any-
thing; and it therefore makes lit-
tle difference who is elected. This

is the very reason that we fresh- ~

“Letters to the Editor

men should have a better knowl-
edge ofthe candidates; for by know-
ing the potentials of the several
nominees, we can elect people
whom we are willing to support.
Participation of the freshman class |
will therefore be greater, and we
may come to have an actual voice
in the formation of Bryn Mawr
student policy.

Martha Pennington
Radnor Freshman
Hall Representative .

 

Confidential to 0.J. '70

Once again, ‘‘More Than Faint-
ly Disgusted ‘68’? was overwhelm-
ed by your kind gift of orange
juice, She asks me to relay
again to you, as guru of the cit-
rus cult, an invitation to get to-
gether some time, She was un-
able to meet at your suggested
time because your note contained
no hint as to where on campus
your room might be, She hopes
that the feason for this odd

omission can be made clear

some day,

Editor in Chief
COLLEGE NEWS

 

applebee

 

think of this: blue ocean, green
trees, white sand, a couple of
bottles of jamaica rum, flamenco
guitar, sleep, fried shrimp, bare
feet, tan legs, red noses, sand
between the sheets, conchs, shades,
and Josephine Tey.

now think of this;-snow fences,
bare trees, clunky boots, watered-
down orange juice, people with
coughs in class, white faces, red
ears, growling stomachs, sleep
from three to eight, no money
(and none in sight until your birth-
day -- if it’s in june, you’re out of
luck), and John Stuart Mill.

i never draw conclusions, just
comparisons.

lovingly,
applebee

montego bay -

jamaica

College Provides. Psychiatric Help;
Girls Bring Academic, Social Woes

Where does a Bryn Mawr stu-
dent go with a problem? If peers
and parents offer no help, she
traditionally takes the matter to
a dean. But deans are busy people,
and students tend to be shy if the
problem is anything more per-
sonal than a schedule conflict.
So the college offers further
sources of aid, and a student can
go far toward solving a problem
before: passing out of the school’s
domain.

If a student decides she has a
problem which neither friend, par-
ent, nor dean can handle, she goes
first of three psycholog-
ical social wo:
Waelder, Mrs. E
ton, or Mrs, Eleanor Beatty. The
interview the student and estimate
the gravity of the problem. If the

difficulty is not serious enough

to merit psychiatric attention, the

girl is sent to the Child Study

Institute at West House.
West House is a nondescript

 

Mrs. Elsie .

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the school. Therefore, the Insti-
tute performs a number of non-
Bryn Mawr College community
services: it runs a nursery school,
holds teaching seminars, spon-
sors parent education groups, and
tests hundreds of children a year.
In fact, its connection with Bryn
Mawr students has become a sub-
sidiary function, under another
name, the Student Counselling
Service.

A girl sent to West House goes
there mainly to talk. The Coun-
selling Service does not have ex-
tensive testing facilities; its pur-
pose is not to tell a student what

 

Bonny that appeared
last week_under the head
/“Bureaucratic Maze Traps
“ Students’® was written by
Sally Dimschultz. Since its
publication, the NEWS has

learned that the problems of
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her intellectual capacity is but
rather to teach her how to use
what she has. If a student is
terribly confused about where her
interests and abilities lie, a coun-
selor will run preliminary tests
which are used mainly as aspring-
board for discussion.
The Student Counselling Serv-
ice’ does not tell the student what
she should do; its function is to
clarify alternatives and leave the
decision to the individual. The
Service also respects the student’s

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privacy; it may recommend that ~

she inform the administration of

some academic matter but does not
check to see that she has done
so.

Last year, seventy girls found
their way to West House; a fair
- Number of these were self-refer-
rals. Each year brings a new set
of girls with fresh problems, but
basically cases fall into a pat-
tern depending on the student’s
class.

‘Freshmen account for the most

be routine. new-atmosphere ones.

  
 

| cases, and their problems tend'to ~~