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Nothing that appears in. it may be- reprinted wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief., 4 i 4 EDITORIAL BOARD Editorsin-Chief........., fate ede Wee We ed ate ee ee Christopher Bakke 68 ET NO a og boo Kin o's 0 he OO Ca wie ew a lee BM Kathy Murphey '69 EN ol y's wih Wisin. sof Velo wie be 648.6 Bee 6 pace Cookie Poplin ’69 ING 60a iiilp SN WA's oh Oho Rivik ebook ow wie oc wcaly Nancy Miller ’69 MN st a ey. Geo ee i lee W bs blaine eb bcos Janet Oppenheim ’70 Contributing Editors ...........005. Nanette Holben '68, Marcia Ringel '68, MIOMEM TUONGNNS 6. Gk G a hc bs bb Ob be be 8c th ba a Ellen Saftias ’70 Subseription Manager... ......ccccccrnvccvcess Mary Ann Spreigel ’68 Advertising Monager.’. 5.2.2... Cee mar Satbraink ay Ge Valerie Hawkins '69 Photographer... . . Wee De ee Hee no bce Ws eis eee » ¢« «Marian Scheuer ’70 EDITORIAL AND PHOTOGRAPHIC STAFF Dora Chizea ’69, y Masur '68, Mary Kennedy ° : y °70, Sue Lautin '70, Michel Langer ’70, Rob rantley °69, Marina Wallach ’70, Pea Nosco 68, lessgrsthe Holby ’70 Sara Bartlett °79 Judy Meyer °70, _ Offices in the Inn __ Phone: LA 5-9458 What's This SELF Government? ‘*As many of you already know, Haverford’s Board of Managers recently approved the Students’ Council proposals concerning the -elimination of hours for. women in the Haverford dorms,’’ _ So began the policy non-statement signed by Jane Janover, out-going Self-Gov president, and distributed on the Bryn Mawr campus Monday. It is a policy non-statement, because it explicitly calls itself a “request ... instead ... of a policy statement,” and was characterized by a member of Executive Board as being simply a ‘‘stop-gap measure’? until the new board takes over. However, we see it as very clearly a@ policy statement. It seems quite evident by the wording that any girl who signs out overnight to Haverford will be tried for violating the Honor Sys- tem, exactly as it was before the Haverford changes -- and this seems very much like a policy to us. This Self-Gov statement affirming the past in spite of present changes is justified by members of Exec Board in two ways. One, because they didn’t want to force an already formulated policy onto the new Board as a fait accompli; and two, because they see things at Haverford as being so chaotic and uncertain with respect to the interpretations of thé changes that they don’t want to interject anything which might ‘wreck it for them,’? In other words, they acted as they did out of consideration for the new Board and for Haverford College. We would like to put in a few words for the group apparently ignored (which is also the group most af- fected by the statement): Bryn Mawr students. We find neither of the two justifications in the above /paragraph strong enough to rationalize the creation of the statement without the student body’s knowledge or help, It seems that it was done in a manner just about as far from the idea of self-government as it is possible to get. We are not here suggesting what Bryn Mawr’s reply to the Haverford changes should be. We are merely suggesting that although Haverford Students’ ,, Council should certainly be told of Self-Gov activities (Council President Gene Ludwig has even proposed that a member of Haverford Council sit in on Self- Gov meetings and vice versa to improve communica- _ tions) ‘there was no need to tell them prior to telling . Bryn Mawr students (also according to Ludwig, the _ Situation over there is not so confused as Self-Gov - seems to think). And even more importantly, the - whole idea of Bryn Mawr students simply being - TOLD something by Self-Gov is contrary to its pur- - 908es as an organization. _ : There doesn’t seem to be any reason why a sys- em similar to the Haverford Plenary Sessions could 10t be set up here, Hopefully, this is what will be _Jone by the new Board when it is ready to make its 2 to the Haverford . Only in this Bi Peer a _ Letters to the Editor were flagrantly defying the govern- ment; rather they were making ‘personal decisions about the kind of people they ‘wanted to be and the amount of protection they felt they wanted from the government. We felt a government imposing more rules would be defeating its own purpose. Therefore, while trying to keep the constitution simple, we attempted to give the individual more personal respon- sibility to make her own decisions, yet retain a respect for the mem- bers of the college and commun- ity. The system does ask for trust in our fellow students, but that is asked in any working honor sys- tem, and certainly in any work- ing community. / The Constitutional Revision Committee has already served one of its purposes. Our “‘apathetic’’ campus is awakening and speaking out. It was forced to reevaluate the principles and philosophy of Faculty Support To the Editor: The Bryn Mawr Chapter of the Association of American Univer- sity Professors wishes to express its support for student activities, such as those undertaken by the -Educational Goals Committee last fall. Although there is a difference of opinion among chapter members about the individual proposals made at that time, we endorse the stu- dents’. concern with matters of cur- riculum and other educational goals. We feel that such openly ex- pressed concern reflects a sense of responsibility among the stu- dents, and affords an example of democratic procedure in education. The Executive Committee J. Anderson F. Cunningham J. Kronick E. Schneider G. Zybon Responsibility — Ta orth tata ns com To the Editor: munity within that system. If we have made some error in our judgment of student readiness for changes, I still do not think we should be condemned for pro- posing -them. Only in consider- ing change do some realize the validity of the status quo, and only in considering change do we give that change the possibility of becoming the new status quo. - As chairman of the Constitu- tional Revision Committee, I feel compelled to answer some of the letters in the NEWS and some comments heard around campus to the effect that the work of our committee was irresponsible and not representative of the student body. The committee was elected this fall by the dormitories, which should and did lead to a diverse ‘ere towne ot group. We have been meeting for 8 a few hours on a weekly basis for Dinner system a semester, during which time our constitution has been dissected and. put back together. Before we even considered changes, we examined the role of Self-Gov as our governing body, and the kind of constitution it should have. to make it most efficient and . powerful. Looking at the constitu- tion, we discovered that most of its rules required acts of common sense, not honor, nor responsibil- ity, (e.g. the after dark rules), As we. consider our community to be under a social honor system, we felt the basis of it must lie in personal responsibility of the in- dividual to the community. It is essential to the success of any government that the rules express the will of its members. Looking at our student body we could only see a trend of apathy towards the government and an unopposed disregard for many of its rules. However the students did not feel particularly that they To the Editor: With several commendable ex- ceptions, attendance at the Dinner System meetings during the recent elections was uncomfortably. low. This system which puts the can- touch. with each other and the is- sues at hand is one of the pri- vileges of a small college com- munity. It should be recognized as such - and furthermore, treated as such, Or, at the very least, it deserves a careful evaluation before it is modified or abolished. There has been no formal pro- posal concerning the Dinner Sys- tem, no inquiry into its usefulness nor. suggestion that it should be changed. But a time for such questioning is definitely at hand. As one who is about to leave the office of President of Under- grad, I would like to subniit an idea to be considered by the new ‘tregime”. I think one of those Film Group Begins Casting For Black and White Short The Bryn Mawr. film group is now in the process of choosing a cast for a fifteen minute black and white film to be shown hope- fully in early May. Steve Magers, a junior at Haverford, has contributed orig- inal screenplay--that is a“shot by shot analysis of the movie, since while’ there will be sound, music and even perhaps words, there will be no dialogue as such. The plot revolves around the emotional crisis of a college girl. This will be a 16 mm movie--. half-way between 8 mm home movies, and 35 mm commercial films, The camera belongs to Miss Ann Kish, director of the Arts Forum, who is acting as advisor. for the group. The movie will be financed by Arts Council and should cost about $200 to produce, an almost full length movie (an hour and a quarter) and a big The film group is eager for ad- ditional converts: anyone who wishes to participate should get in touch with Dana Rosen in Erd- man. ‘Review’ Chooses R. Gais as Editor Contributions to the spring issue of THE REVIEW are due by March 20 to Ruth Gais, the literary ma- gazine’s new editor, in Pembroke Hall, : Members of the literary board are Lois Portnoy and Ethel Pierce, and Ruth is looking for three or four more. Marty McIimoyl is bins is in charge of art and is also in need of assistants, _ te ar 4 chit league budget ofa thousand dollars. . ) odious questionnaires is in order- or an extremely efficient and de- tailed job of opinion gathering in all of the dorms. Questions such as the following should be asked © each student: 1) Did you attend the Dinner System meetings? 2) How many and which ones? 3) Why and why not? 4) Would an all campus forum or panel discussion involving all the: candidates be more effective? 5) Did you read the election issue of the COLLEGE NEWS? I hope that this suggestion will be handled by the next Undergrad Executive Council, It will be especially relevant to the tone ‘of the campus elections if the ruling to abolish the required vote passes in Legislature. Then the Dinner System - or whatever other sys- _ tem - will be even more.respon- sible for arousing student interest in campus issues and the candi- dates:”"’* “ Seem ; Margaret Edwards ’67 Tri-College Mixer BMC - H’ford - Swarthmore at Swarthmore Friday, March 17 Live Band FREE Bus from Pem Arch at 7:30 Sign-up sheets up soon. applebee didates and the students in close © suggested paper topics have you seen your mother, baby, stand- ing on a tadpole? a sweetroll?: a peephole? will next year’s candi- dates fulfil tomorrow’s promises? can the college ‘news last the year without resorting to dirty -pictures and obscene feature ar ticles? what does playboy have that we don’t have? what does esquire want that playboy hasn’t got? will the haverford news stand the test of time and become the only. persistently self-congratu- latory newspaper on the east coast? may the newly endowed art center prove the unwitting’ workshop of a modern-day frankenstein, as yet unreavealed?. will interfaith splinter? or will in fact the jewish discussion group ‘develop into a major campus power, recruiting weary catholics, spent protestants, exhausted quakers? has god a future? when will the college inn blossom into the cabaret that at heart it truly is and that inspired the musicial of the same name? will barbara garson grace the cover of next week’s ‘‘time,’? or will her hy- pothesis be proved instead by ‘framparts’” and ~ thence lose the public’s interest? is it -true that woodrow wilsons are supported by the communist party? by the cia? by upi? by grove press? did herbert hoover really teach economics at Yale? will sophomores be permitted to wear gym suits to gym in the near future? is tennis obsolescent as. an indoor sport? when will the sun truly explode? if so, why nih WME Friday, March 10, 1967 gi E3