ne - Friday, October 11, 1968 THE COLLEGE NEWS New Directors Reorganize Bureau of Recommendations The Bureau of Recommenda- tions has a brand-new staff this year. Mrs. Marcella Congdon, for- mer head of the placement bureau at Connecticut College for Women, has replaced Mrs, Louise Cren- shaw as director of the Bureau, Miss Lila Gault,-a °68 graduate of Connecticut College, is the new assistant director. "Mrs, Congdon left Connecticut College because her husband works in the Philadelphia area. Through a friend at Smith, she learned of the Bryn Mawr position which she now occupies, Most of her time, Mrs, Congdon has discovered, is used in place- -ment of seniors and graduate stu- dents, and in employnient-of non- ‘academic college personnel, She also counsels and encourages BMC alumnae who, after several years of marriage, wish to return to the working world. Working with the undererad’? uates, Miss Gault is introducing innovations to the Bureau, A re- form in the baby-sitting system, which monopolized most of her predecessor’s time, was her first. McCarthy Sweeps Choice ’68 Survey Although little more than cur- iosities now, the following are the results of Choice ‘68, Time maga- zine’s collegiate referendtim on presidential’ preference and vital issues, administered last April 24, Unfortunately, Alliance received these results too late to be publish- ed in the final issue of last se- mester’s COLLEGE NEWS. On a national basis, Eugene Mc- Carthy won Choice ‘68 with 285,988 (28.07%) first-place votes. The late ‘Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was second with 213,832 (20.99%) and Richard M. ‘Nixon third with 197,167 (19.35%) first-place tallies. There- were 31,775 write-ins, of which Vice President Hubert Humphrey .Teceived 18,535, or about 2% ofthe total vote. The high scorers nation- ally for second and third places were McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller; and Rocke- feller, McCarthy and Kennedy, re- spectively. Here at Bryn Mawr, McCarthy won Choice ‘68 with 296 votes (66.22%). Rockefeller, with 66 votes (14.77%), and Robert Kennedy. with 40 votes (8.95%), scored closest ‘in the first-place tallies. Second-place went to Ken- nedy, Rockefeller. and McCarthy, respectively, while Lindsay, Rockefeller and Kennedy ranked highest for third-place. On the referenda questions, 18% of the national sample voted for immediate withdrawal and 45% for phased reduction of military effort in Vietnam; hence, roughly 62% favored some sort of reduction. About 7% favored. the current policy, 9% chose ‘to, increase it, and 21% wanted on ‘‘all out’ mili- tary effort.. — Bryn Mawr’s responses to the referenda questions followed simi- lar general patterns. Regarding military action in Vietnam, 52.11% (235 students) favored a reduction in effort and 42.13% (190 students) advocated complete withdrawal, meaning that 94.24% of Bryn Mawr students who voted sought a de- escalation ‘of the war effort. The remaining votes were distributed as follows: ‘‘all out’? effort -- 11 votes (2.44%), maintain current levels -- 9 votes (2%), and increase present levels -- 6 votes (1.33%), Anyone wishing to examine the complete national and Bryn Mawr tallies for Choice ‘68, as well as the regional, age, and party af- filliation analyses, will find them “posted in the Alliance Room (se- cond floor, College Inn, opposite the Undergrad Room), project. A box of cards outside Miss Gault’s office now lists every available baby-sitting job, Any student may use the file to obtain’ a job. She then calls the parent to confirm the baby-sit and make transportation arrangements,: There is no longer a required sign-up list of sitters, The only current restriction is a limitation of weeknight jobs, Miss Gault plans to spend her newly-created free time contacting employers about part-time and summer jobs. Several weeks ago, she descended on the Ville, asking ‘businessmen if they would like to ‘hire Bryn Mawr students, discovered few had realized that the students were interested, and she returned with many new part- time opportunities, Standardization of the wage scale for campus jobs and up-dating the ‘Bureau’s library are Miss Gault’s other projects, Lining one wall of her office are clipboards con- taining information on careers, In addition to the up-dated li- brary of the Bureau, the weekly newsletter also makes jobinform- ation available to students, The newsletter has been expanded, and Mrs. Congdon is considering send- ing it to all students if there is a demand for this service, To aid placement counseling, the Bureau of- Recommendations wants to sponsor. talks by alumane on their careers, Mrs, Congdon also hopes to increase the number of employer representatives visit- ing the campus and talking to un- dergraduates,' This projéct also depends upon student response, Speaking enthusiastically “of to». day’s students, Mrs, Congdon feels that they are much more intensely involved in the world than were students of her generation, and finds ‘them expressing their con- cern to her in the frequent query, ‘What can I do to help?’’ Although Mrs. Congdon speaks of Bryn Mawr students as ‘lovely, capable, interested i young women, " she adds that they*just don’t know anything about jobs.” Therefore, she believes’ that the fundamental responsibility of the Bureau is in counseling the student to know what career would be most satisfying to her, and min- imizing the identity crises caused by the shift from the academic community to business, Being in contact with and serving as a liaison between these two worlds is what Mrs, Congdon finds most exciting about her own career, Grapes... "(Continued from page 2) hard in the fields, Their parents, on strike, are being defeated by imported labor, the mechanics of which they don’t understand, Their, leaders and heroes are under pub- lic attack in the big city newspaper. Who can know the pain? “fhe ‘‘Grapes of Wrath’? did not stop with John Steinbeck, Well, perhaps the highly emotional and biased tone of this article offends you, Téo bad. Respond as a human being today. There are people somewhere fighting valiantly to realize the ideals of this nation, If ; we have lost those ideals, and it certainly seems that they are tar- nished -- in Harlem, in Saigon, ; and all over the world, here is an opportunity for one last try at ‘honesty. Maybe the country’s not worth saving these days, but the She © photo by Roy Goodman Sophomore Cathy Hoskins’ “lantern girl” as she appeared last Friday night. He isin reality Ted Winfield, Haverford ‘69. BMC, H’ford, Swarthmore Join In Computer Center Three Philadelphia-area col- leges -- Bryn Mawr, Haverford ard Swarthmore =~ navé“estab- lished a $796,000 joint computing ‘center, The center will be mainly for student instruction and for faculty and student research. Human- ists and social scientists, as well as natural scientists, will use the ‘new facility. When the new center is in full operation and. the computing de- mands of the three. colleges are determined, officials will invite other local schools -- colleges and secondary schools -- to share the computing facilities, » This will mark the first time in the United States that a group of small. colleges has joined to form a computing center which will then be shared with secondary and’ other schools. The project is supported by-the Federal government with grants totaling $499, 800 made through the Natiowal Science Foundation. Some of these federal funds “ will help cover operating costs over the first three years. Computer Pioneer Creation of the center also was supported by a gift from the late T. Kite Sharpless, a Haverford alumnus who was a pioneer in computer technology, and by other funds from all three colleges. The main, jointly owned com- puting equipment is located at Haverford, and the center’s full- time director is headquartered there. Smaller computers at Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarth- more handle simple local tasks, while referring more ambitious computing projects to the main equipment. Initially, the colleges will staff the center with up to 10 persons, The director of the new computer facility is George A, Michael, formeriy associated with the Law- five million chicanos are, ‘‘Viva rence Radiation Laboratory Hl the la Causa!?’ , University of California at Liver- Gwen Field more. Michael is recognized as one ee eer ; All the Goodies for Your 8 9 W, Lencester Ave. A Tea Parties! Many Kinds of b aha, 6 ¢ Tea — Cookies — Fruit 0 angee Selection Folk Music: o 834 ont . Mawr 2 ea Cinesiens tae” DB ~ of the nation’s- leading experts on graphic data processing. College officials say today’s stu- dent: is likely to find a ‘‘computer world’’ waiting after graduation; so they see a mounting need for students to be at home with com- puters and to be familiar with the -many possibilities which they offer to reduce the amount of routine work done by humans. : In classrooms and laboratories, the computer is used to speed routine calculations, thus giving the student more time to consider the meaning of the results. Tenths of a Second Working by hand on a desk cal- culator, for example, it takes an experienced operator approxi- mately 30 hours to determine the wave function of one electron in a specific atom or molecule. Thenew computing center can produce the same calculation in a few tenths of a second. = Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore all place heavier~ than-usual emphasis . on indepen- dent study and research as an im- portant aspect of undergraduate education in all disciplines. Stu- dents will use the new computing center to speed and broaden this work, In addition, many faculty members on the three campuses will be aided by the new center. Use of the facility will not be limited to the natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chem- istry, engineering and physics. Social scientists, such as sociolo- gists, psychologists, economists and political scientists, are already major users of the exist- ing smaller and slower facilities at the three colleges. They are expected to use the new center heavily. Bryn Mawr and Haverford have operated a joint computing facility for seven years, “and Swarthmore has had its own for four years, - although neither unit was nearly as large or as fast as equipment in the new joint center. STATION CLEANERS Pay Day Pick Up and Delivery One Day Service LA 5-9126 — 22 N. Bryn Mawr Ave. (next to the Post Office) [Blow Yourself Up| ‘Recent Film Greats To Highlight Series Acknowledged by Director Frederico Fellini as his ‘greatest work,’’ ‘‘La Dolce Vita’’ will be featured Wednesday night at 7:15 and 9:30 in the Biology Lecture Room, 75 cents a showing, This 1961 Cannes Film Festival and New York Film Critics winner will be ‘the second in the Arts Council’s slate of recent movie ‘masterpieces scheduled for this year. . a A new system has been put into operation for the 1968-69 series, according.to Vicky Yablonsky, film coordinator, The movies are being provided by a non-profit organi- zation and will not bé financed by a single flat rate as in the past, but by a percentage of the week- to-week profits, In .an_ attempt to ‘‘make every week a valuable experience,’’ Vicky has tried to be aware of origins, nationalities and film . movements in her. selection of 22 ‘first run’’ movies plus a few *¢specials,’’”: Collaborating with the Haverford film series managers, Vicky has cut out repetitions and considers that the bi-college offerings pro- vide a- ‘‘good balance” of film types. Because of certain regulations set up by this new non-profit film agency, there will) be no season tickets available, Instead, students will pay on a show -by- show basis, either in cash or on payday. Vicky explained, ‘‘We will be certain of getting better movies this way. With a single payment for a whole series of films, as in the past, we would get a few good ones, but mostly fillers.’ Some of the upcoming features will be ‘‘The Gospel According to St. Matthew,” ‘Darling,’ ‘**Eclipse,’’ ‘‘Loves of a Blond,’ ‘*The Magician,’ ‘‘ Through a Glass Darkly.’’ and ‘‘Knife in the Water,’? BMC Hockey Teams Match Penn Scores Both the varsity and junior var- sity hockey teams were lite ches w Pennsylvania, Holding its squad’s home grounds, the Bryn Mawr varsity held a 1-0 lead with Madeline Ewing’s goal until the last-minute of the game when the. _ opponent s forward to score the-tying point, leaving the game in a 1-1 draw. Racking up an identical 1- 1 score, the junior varsity stayed on equal terms with the U. of Penn, with both teams making a single goal during the first half, Bar- bara Warren brought home scor- ling honors for BMC. IF YOU SEW you can now order fabrics, patterns, notions here on campus. Price reduc- tions. Contact CAMPUS ORIGINALS. Reps: Val Hawkins and Pat Burks, in Merion. TO POSTER SIZE 2 ft. x3 ft Send any Black and White or Color Photo from 2% x 2% to 16 x 20°. We will send you a 2 ft. x 3 ft. BLO-UP .. . perfect $4.99 A$25. VALUE FOR Sorry, No C.O.D. Add 45c for postage & handling Send Check or Money Order to: HASTINGS PHOTO CO. P.O, BOX 607 FREEPORT, N.Y. 11520