anemee eee oct CLLR ELL LL LLL LOO I 5 —_ KCOLLEGE NEWS | Vol, LI, 21 BRYN MAWR, PA. April 29, 1966 © Trustees of Bryn Mawes College, 1966 25 Cents - Calendar of May Day Weekend Two Double Scholarship Winnere paren May Day started early this morning when sophomores rose at 5:15 to prepare breakfast for the seniors in their halls. At 5:45 the seniors were roused, and by 6 they were coming to full con- sciousness over a breakfast of coffee and doughnuts, Collecting their May baskets, seniors proceeded to Miss Mc- Bride’s house at 6:45, led by the class song mistress and Presi- dent Caroline Willis. Caroline carried two baskets, one for Miss McBride and her own. From 6:45 to 6:55 the Taylor bells rang, and the sleep of fresh-, men and juniors was dissolved. At 7 there was an informal step sing at Rock, Official May Day breakfast be- gan at 7:15. Students ate by classes, the seniors at Rhoads, juniors at Pembroke, sophomores at Erd- man and freshmen at Erdman, The meal was a traditional feast | of fresh strawberries, sticky buns, and eggs, along with much-needed coffee. At 7:45 Mawters lined up in two’s at Pembroke Arch for the grand procession. Students marched in class order, with the dancers leading each class. This year Merion Green boasted five May Poles, one in each class” color and a yellow and white one for the graduate students. The seniors skipped to Merion Green, where M Miss McBride and ‘Caroline delivered their May _ addresses. Pem East presented its annual dragon play on the steps of the library at 8:30. The performers were followed by the Renaissance .Choir’s presentation, Students gathered at Goodhart for the awards assembly at 9:00. -All 9:00 classes were cancelled. If time remains after the assembly, the seniors will prophesy. their future by some adroit hoop rolling down senior row and the Morris dancers will perform. If time ‘is short, these activities will be re- scheduled for Friday afternoon. From 10:00 to 3:00, the RE- VIEW will sponsor a clothesline art sale on Erdman Green, Dinner in the halls will be served at 6:00 this evening. At 6:30 College Theatre, under the direction of Jessica Harris, will offer a May Day Play in the Cloisters. May Day activities will just be gaining momentum by this time. Bluegrass singer Bill Monroe will (continued on page 4) The top academic awards and prizes for 1966 were announced at this morning’s annual May Day assembly in Goodhart Hall. Winner of both the Maria.L. Eastman Brooke Hall Memorial Scholarship and a Charles S&S, Hinchman Memorial Scholarship, each to be held during the senior year, was Sheila Burke, ’67. The Brooke Hall award is made annually to the member of the — Sheila Burke junior class with the highest gen- eral average, and the Hinchman scholarship goes to a member of the junior class for work of special excellence in her major subject. ‘Cheaper Living on the Main Line’ Is May Queen’s Budget Following is the text of May Queen Caroline Willis’ morn- ing speech -- Ed. The other day, while I was wait- ing for the free phone, I happened to hear a fascinating conversation. The topic was, it turned out, ‘‘How to Save Money without being Really Trying’’ or ‘‘Cheaper Living on the Main Line.’’ As I had a pencil and paper with me, I took notes and I wish now to share these with you. First, in the area of residence, the hall dining rooms will hence- forth observe all Fasts (both reli- gious and political) on a campus- wide basis. Those students who wish to eat may participate in group discussions, To help with maintenance, facul- ty members may find supple- mentary employment cleaning stu- dents’ rooms. This will be a Good Thing in two ways: a) it will encourage greater at- tention to detail on the part of the student body, as no girl would leave her room in its present state to be seen by her major professor. b) the faculty salaries will in this way be augmented, In order .to cut down electricity wastage following the example of New York, the campus power plant will be turned down at 6 p.m. and off completely at midnight. This is, you may have noticed, already in effect in the main reading room of the library. Also, to make full use of Daylight Savings Time, students will be awakened from now on at 5:45 by the sophomores inseach dorm. In the realm of the academic, those girls who do not participate in class discussions shall be re- quired to pay a higher tuition to compensate the professors for their increased work load. Those Bryn Mawrters wishing to listen to a course shall pay admission at the door. Due to the success of allowing Solution people with Haverford courses to walk there in the snow, by a joint agreement of the Gym Dept. and the Buildings and Grounds Dept., the bus will be used in the future to house the overflow of fresh- men. Student activities will be some- what altered under the new money- saving system. The outgoing A.A. president has announced that since the ’65-’66 sports season was so successful, BMC teams will turn professional to help meet costs of keeping the Gym open on week- ends. The social chairman cooperated fully by resigning; the money thus saved will provide more band- aids for Rock andindoor swimming facilities for the Pembrokes. In doing her part to save money, but ostensibly in order to secure more privacy in sign-outs, the out-going Self-Gov president has arranged for ail switchboards to be ‘removed from the halls, many of which were deteriorating from lack of use anyway. The switch- boards will be replaced by empty boxes labelled indiscriminately «¢‘Out’? and ‘‘‘In.’? Those students who fail to comply must file an Operation Match form with the Dean’s office. Due to the success of morning coffees in several of the halls, the Administration has decided to tear down the Deanery. The area cleared will provide space for 4a five-story parking garage, staffed by Burns men who failed to meet the «¢997’’ requirement for regular college patrol duty. Most exciting of all is the new money-saving plan outlined by the Calendar Committee! Due to~ the vast number of snags in the new calendar it was decided by unani- mous vote that for the academic year 1966-67 the college will not . Open. s Sheila, whose major is econom- ics, was originally in the class of ’68 but accelerated and will grad- uate next year. | Another Hinchman scholarship went to Katherine Sborovy, ’67, for special excellence inher major subject, English. She was also the winner of a Sheelah Kilroy Me- morial Scholarship in English. The latter award is given to a student for excellence of work in second- year or advanced courses in Eng< lish, Last year Katherine was one of the members of the editorial board of the REVIEW. Maysoon Pachachi, ’69, was awarded the Sheelah Kilroy Me- morial Scholarship in English for the best essay written during her freshman year, The Elizabeth S. Shippen Schol- arship in Science, which may be presented to students whose major is biology, chemistry, geology, or physics, was awarded to Mavis George, ’67,. whose major is phy- sics. ; Frida Attia-Stolowy, ’67, who is originally from Panama, won the Elizabeth S. Shippen Scholarship in Language for excellence of work in her major, Russian. This year Frida was vice president of: the Katherine Sborovy college’s Russian Club. Susan Scarpelli, *67, was also the recipient of a Shippen scholar- ship for excellence of work in her major, Latin. Granted the Elizabeth Duane Gil- lespie Prize in American History was Nancy Gellman, ’67. This prize goes to a sophomore or a junior for work of distinction in that field, Nancy is a_ political major, but won dhe prize on the basis of the history courses she has taken. During her past college years she supplemented her work load with Hebrew courses at Gratz me ge and .was-also a student at. th Barnes Foundation. Myra Mayman, ’66, isthe Hester Ann Corner Prize winner for ex- cellence of work’in literature. The award is made annually toa junior or Senior on the recommendation of a committee composed of the | Susan Scarpelli science ~Blends Tradition, Social Events Announced At Awards Assembly Frida Attia - Stolowy chairmen of the departments of English and of classical and modern languages, Myra is a German major who spent her junior year abroad at the University of Freiburg. Two Ann Pell Wheeler Prizes in Mathematics were awarded this year, to Mrs. Kathleen Thomits Merkin and Sylvia Young. Both of these winners are also recipients of Woodrow Wilson Fel- lowships in mathematics, Sylvia was originally in the class of ’67, but accelerated to the class of ’66. Mrs. Merkinis taking the second semester of her senior year away, at the Columbia School of General Studies. At Bryn Mawr she was active in WBMC and in the tutorial project. Finally, Margaret Edwards, ’67, was the winner. of three writing prizes: the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, the Bain- Swigget Poetry Prize, and the Katherine Fullerton Gerould Me- morial Prize for creative writing. Margaret, last year’s Arts Council president and this year’s Undergrad president, also won the Gerould Prize last year. An Eng- lish major, she is a contributor to the REVIEW and an active par- ticipant in College Theatre produc- tions. ak s< Mavis George Professed Radical Alinsky to Speak At BMC Tuesday Sol Alinsky, labeled by Mr. Mar- tin Rein of the Bryn Mawr . He later created the Industrial Roun- ~ dation, which he now heads, and which receives money from many sources, including the Catholic Church, He recently estabi:shed (continued on page 4) Page 2 _COLLEGE NEWS April 29, 1966 THE COLLEGE NEWS Subscription $3.75 — Mailing price $5.00 — Subscriptions may begin at any time Entered as second class matter at the B Mawr, Pa. 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Madeleine Sloane, 68, Mary Ann Spreigel °68 MOVE WG MONGOR on ccc bs concecccececeeccecsadiane Ostheim °60 EDITORIAL STAFF Anne Lovgren, °66, Lois Magnusson, °66 Joan Cavallaro, °67, Ma 4 » Marilyn Williams, °67, Judy Masur, °68, Emily McDermott, °68, Marcia Ringet, °68, Poses ‘idiom °68, Dora Chizea, °69, Nancy Miller, °69, Kathy M 69 Cookie Poplin, °69, pesca Sheinutt, oe y wmPh ey 69, Rayetta Nee, °69, Pass - Fail As many seniors have discovered, Bryn Mawr’s grading system ° sometimes makes it difficult to get irito graduate school. Underclassmen majoring in the humanities, when they discover this, often decide not to take a math or science course that interests them because they fear for their grade average, For the same reason, science majors decide not to take an upper level English course, or psych majors don’t take history of art, All of this tends to force a student who came here for a liberal education to stay in her major field more than is perhaps neces- sary. One solution, recently instituted at the University of Pennsylvania (see page 7), is a pass-fail system in courses outside one’s major and outside the basic course requirements for graduation. We think that such a system could be adapted to Bryn Mawr and recommend that Curriculum Committee look seriously into this possibility. A pass-fail plan allows a student, if she wishes, to take courses out- side her major, ‘‘for no end other than knowledge of the material,’’ says U of P’s Student Committee on Undergraduate Education. We agree that. a pass-fail system would indeed encourage and reinforce the idea that learning is an end in itself. There are other advantages. It might make it easier to take a fifth course. It might increase inter-departmental communication, It all depends on the specific plan and, of course, it is quite possible to have a pass-fail plan which does none of these. However, the potential is definitely there, and certainly deserves the consideration of students, faculty, and administration, NEWS Stand At the last Undergrad meeting, a proposal was offered to append a charge for all campus publications except the Yearbook to the suggested increased student activities fee. Students who did not wish to subscribe to any or all of the publications included would be responsible for individually requesting the removal of the charge. The motive of the measure is a noble one at heart -- raising sub- scription figures for some starving or at least partially hungry pub- lications. Its effectiveness hinges on a tried and true feature of campus life: student apathy in the face of such administrative nuisance tasks. At present, opinion gatherers are collecting opinions on the issue throughout the dorms and the COLLEGE NEWS would like to add its collective voice. We were not consulted about the plan, and we dis- approve. Although the NEWS is always cordially receptive to new subscriptions, we do not accept such an arbitrary method of obtaining *them. We hope to convince students, by the merit of our newspaper, that their college life is incomplete and uninformed without the NEWS. We do not agree that forcing them to subscribe is the proper method of drawing their admiration. An inclusive activities fee that benefits the entire campus is the responsibility of all ipso facto members of the Undergraduate Asso- ciation. The cost of a private subscription to the NEWS or any other publication is a decision that should be left up to the discretion of the consumer. : The COLLEGE NEWS appreciates the thought behind the suggestion, but in this case we must insist that, the end -- however attractive -- does not justify the means, , oo Tradition This is a world in which each of us, knowing the evils of liberal- ism, and the horrors of innovation, wil! have to cling to what is close to him, to his tra. ition and his love, lest he be dissolved in a universal confusion and know nothing and love nothing. This time has been long in coming; but it has come, It is, we think, for us and our children, our only way to make partial order in total _ chaos. There remains a tradition at Haverford both beloved and sal- vagable; the annual Rape'(sic) of the Maypoles... HAVERFORD NEWS, April 22 Since the COLLEGE NEWS is printed on a Thursday afternoon, we have no idea if Haverford successfully upheld the tradition the above _ quotation implies, ’ tf -Bespite-the administration’ s: contetmpt ‘for Haverford's intrusion in- our traditional May Day festivities, we feel that Haverford is nonethe- less an integral part of them, The weight of our non-coeducational institution lies heavy upon us sometimes, especially in the spring. - : We hope Haverford made the scene last night. Application for re-entry at the Bryn Mawr, Pa. Post ‘A Nitkk : Wo od’ To the Editor: The day of the first perform- ance of College Theatre and the Haverford Drama Club’s produc- tion of ‘‘Under Milk Wood,’’ an unfavorable and highly subjective description of the dress rehearsal was published in the NEWS, Sub- sequently there was a letter from Karen Durbin objecting to this unfair and unjust treatment, but a review of the actual performance did not appear, Several of uscom- pletely unconnected with the production wished to supply this lack. We are glad to have this opportunity to express our own views, for we feel that ‘‘Under Milk. Wood’’ was one of the finest College Theatre productions to date, The set was a surprise and a delight. In addition to a skeletel composition of the usual dark plat- forms there was a realistic rep- resentational scene appearing through a veil of harborside mist, constantly changing and moving to show the action of wind and sea and the passage of time. The sway- ing masts of the boats augmented the enchanting, hypnotic effect of the play. Lance Jackson’s lighting was, as always, superb, and greatly facilitated the smooth shift from scene to scene. Dawn and high noon and sunset came con- vincingly and beautifully. The lyric power and beauty of Thomas’ lines, obvious throughout and the extra work the actors did with music and poetry was well worth the effort. The crowning touch was the delight of Gwen Aaron’s warm Welsh accent as she read Second Voice. Robert Butman as First Voice was ade- quate despite his regrettable ten- dency to pronounce ‘‘milk’’ as ‘é¢melk.’’ The actors handled the difficult job of playing more than one part with ease and skill. This was one performance in which the quality of the acting was consistently high, with no special ‘‘stars’’ or ‘*weak’’ characters. The casting, left until all the actors had worked.with the play long enough to get well into the feeling of it, was especially apt. The moods ranged from slap- stick to lyric sorrow, in a flaw- lessly flowing progression. The fragmentary tendency of this play was held firmly in check, and the overall impression created was one of unity and continuity, The action moved smoothly from one scene to the next and from mood to mood with no hesitancy. One of the evening’s most im- pressive performances was given | applebee afl of spring whirls around the maypole ... dancing daffodils jig and bob... trees drop snowflake- confetti ... tons of«it ... and flowers there only yesterday dis- appear not so mysteriously over- night ... dawn dawns, blooms bloom and strawberries just straw- Derry eee all warmth, all green, all grow- ing ... Swirling madly on ... sleepy-headed, groggy-eyed, all are swept along __Spring “springs, dance ‘dances, hoops oops, dawn dawns, blooms bloom, strawberries strawberry and may is. happy mayday, applebee [LETTERS TO THE EDITOR by Joachim Von Der Thusen who played afiercely poignant but never pathetic Blind Captain Cat. There is no single starring role in the play, and every actor turned ina superior performance; but some of the scenes highlighted in our memories were of Priscilla Rob- bins as the maid. Lily Smalls carrying on an animated dialogue with herself in the mirror; Mar- garet Cool as Polly Garter singing in her beautiful untrained voice of her lost love; Lynne Meadow and Howard Bush as Mr. and Mrs. Pugh hating each other over the lunch table; Lynne Meadow, this time as Gossamer Beynon, twitch- ‘ing; Rich Gartner as the Rev. Eli Jenkins, reading. what must be some of the world’s best bad poetry; Nimet Habachy andFelicia Folk as the two Mrs, Dai Breads trying to tell their bedroom for- tunes; Chris Kobler as Sinbad Sailor, lusting after Gossamer Beynon; and Munson Hicks as Mr. Waldo singing in a riotously ribald manner a song that could perhaps be perfectly innocent. There were many other ‘excel- lent performances, and many more *thighlights’® than we have been able to mention. The evening wasa thorough delight, and we hope that none of you missed it at the in- stigation of the pre-performance review. . Liz Roueche ’66 Ellen Dubrowin ‘67 Sally Boy ’68 .Leslie McShane ’69 Inn Kitchen A few weeks ago, I went to the student kitchen in the College Inn to bake .a birthday cake, and as I entered the kitchen I nearly col- lapsed. Filthy dishes and cooking pans were scattered among piles of garbage which had been left on the counters. The new stove which was purchased to replace the stove that was burned out by careless- ness was not working. It too had suffered from improper use and a failure to wipe off inches of grease which had accumulated on its surface and insides. Needless to say, the cake didnot turn out as well as it might have. This kitchen is our kitchen, and I refuse to believe that Bryn Mawr students could have such a lack of consideration for others. The thought of eating food cooked in this kitchen is enough to make anyone sick. I have also heard that pots, cooking utensils, and dishes have been disappearing from the kitchen all- year, and that often food left in the refrigerator is missing the next day. What is most shocking is that a stove had to be replaced because grease left on it had caused it to burn out, and that the new stove is being’ treated in the same manner. I am thoroughly disgusted with the lack of responsibility towards the Inn kitchen and will make no further attempts to cook food in it until I feel sure that more care is being taken towards its im- provement. Nancy Miller ’69 NCUP Request Margaret Levi received this re- quest for Bryn Mawr’s ‘aid and wished to share it with the cam- pus. »- Ed, A thousand million thanks to people at Bryn Mawr for the much needed help! On May 10 and May 31 there will be municipal elections here (first a primary then .a runoff). Newark Community Union Project is supporting two militant candi- dates for City Council anda liberal insurgent Negro candidate for Mayor. The candidates are com- mitted to a number of exciting radical proposals concerning urban renewal, the war onpoverty, education and police brutality. If the candidates Win (the coun- cil candidates are engaged in ex- tremely close contests) the move- ment here will receive a great boost. We need election day workers -- to babysit, take voters to the polls, challenge, etc. A number of girls from Bryn Mawr would be very welcome ... They would come the evening of May 9 and stay over. Hopefully, victory parties will fol- low election day. David Gelber M. Carey Thomas $5,000 Prize Won By Eudora Welty Miss Eudora Welty, noted author and ‘‘writer-in-residence”’ at Bryn Mawr this spring, will be pre- sented the M.Carey Thomas Award Thursday, May 5, at 8:30 p.m. in Goodhart Hall. In 1922, as a tribute to M. Carey Thomas upon her retire- ment as president of Bryn Mawr, the Alumnae Association of the college established a foundation for prizes to be awarded at intervals to American women in recognition of eminent achievement, The award is in the amount of $5,000 and is one of the largest prizes given to women in this country. Former recipients have been M. Carey Thomas (1922), Jane Addams (1931), Florence Rena Sabin (1935), Marion Edwards Park (1942), Eleanor Roosevelt and Anna Lord Strauss (1948), Marianne Moore (1953), and Miss McBride (1960). Haverfroddy ‘Haverfroddy’ is a new tradition. It has’ been reprinted in the COLLEGE NEWS every May Day since last year, -- Ed. ’Twas Brynig, and the frisby girls/Did gyre and grimble in the May:/ All climsy were the boropoles,/And the tome wraths outbray. ‘‘Beware the Haverfrod, my maids!/The minds that plot, the hands that catch!/Beware the grubgrub boys and shun/The stewmious May- polesnatch!”? . They took their vestal swords in hand;/Long time the pranksome foe they sought--/So rested they with their Old Dog Tray/And stood awhile in thought. And, as in hopeful thought they stood,/The Haverfrod, bereft with shame,/Came sniffling through the neighborhood/And burpling as it came! Three, four! Three four! fine sophomore/The yestal blades went to the aid/They panty raid. left. it hide, and with their pride/They stopped a ee ‘¢and hast thou throd the Haverfrod?/Come tothe pole, my squeemish maids!/O Cassius Clay! Ako-oo-ue!’’/They dancled in their joy. ’'Twas Brynig, and the frisby girls/Did gyre and grimble in the May:/All climsy were the boropoles,/And the tome wraths outbray. * « ; | SY | | a | April 29, 1966. - tee - dremnnses gn aren Page 3 ‘Educational Goals Committee’ Develops Bryn Mawr Branch The Educational Goals Commit- tee, organized to develop an over- all framework of educational theory, plans to hold a series of seminars on ‘*The Meaning of Education at Bryn Mawr’’ early in the fall of 1966. This committee was recently formed by a group of students who feel that the increased discussion of the university in America and the growing importance of organ- izations such as Curriculum Com- mittee points to a need for defining the goals of education. In order to know what issues are important and to avoid jumping into a program of widespread change without having an idea of what should be retained and what, if anything, should be chariged in the present system, it is neces- sary to form a total view of what an education should entail. Dorothy Dow, Nancy Gellman, Bev Lange, and Margaret Levi are organizing the seminars here, to provide an open forum for discus- sion of the goals of education and for evaluation of education at Bryn Mawr in light of these goals. The seminars will be plannedas working sessions in which all members of the college community students, faculty, and administra- tion, will be encouraged to examine critically all aspects of education and to work towards implementing the theories and policies developed in the sessions. The Educational Goals Commit- tee called a meeting for those interested in contributing to the planning of these sessions Thurs- day afternoon. The meeting was Alliance Sponsors NATO Discussion Drewdie Gilpin, president of Al- liance, has announced that there will be a discussion of NATO at 7:30 p.m., May 9 in the Common Room. Lt. Cl. Orley Caudill of the Air Force'‘will be there to speak and listen to comments, He is now connected with the Pentagon, in the Military Committee and Standing Group. Although he will speak, he is also very interested in what people think these days about the future of NATO, especially with the French withdrawing their troops. by Peter J. Leach = me etn spout, %, Connie , ponds. : aah our rading ( ste 5 concerned with developing a format for the _ sessions, speakers, and finalizing the topics to be discussed. Suggestions included having stu- dents from other schools come to explain what kind of framework they have; having sessions in the dorms with professors invited to lead discussions; ending the series of sessions with a re-evaluation of the nature of an educated person to see how ideas will have changed; and printing up formal evaluations to be kept as future working papers. Further questions to be dis- cussed next year are: What frame- works are possible for the devel- opment of an educated person? -- the role and value of requirements, of major work, of grading, of in- dependent work and of work outside the academic sphere. Is participation a valuable and necessary part of education? What constitutes student affairs? Do stu- dents have a legitimate part to play in the administration of he college? What is the role of the admin- istration of the college community? What is the role of the professor? Researcher? Teacher? Criticisms and suggestions on the above topics should be directed to the four students named above. proposing, __ COLLEGE NEWS ‘Long Day’s Journey’ Rehearsals Experiment for Emotional Qualities Rehearsals for College Thea- tre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s ‘‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night,’’ scheduled for May 6 and 7 at 8 p.m, in Roberts Hall, Haverford, are now entering their final week. Completed in 1941, this play is one of O’Neill’s last, and one which he intended not to be presented until 25 years after his death, It is in fact a searing picture of O’Neill’s own family, with only slightly disguised details: he is the consumptive younger son Edmund, his brother Jamie the play’s al- coholic brother, his parents, James and Ella O’Neill, the Tyrone par- ents who preside over the destruc- tion of their family life. The feeling O’Neill had toward the play is probably best expressed in its dedication, to his wife Car- lotta: “I give you the original ~ script of this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood ... I mean it as a tribute to your love and tenderness which*gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play -- write it with deep pity and un- derstanding and forgiveness for ALL the four haunted Tyrones,”’ Director Robert Butman said that the. play is *‘so undervalued in Little Theatre Advances On Opening Production Little Theatre is making ef- ficient progress in its work on the production of ‘‘The Man WhoCame to Dinner.’’ The final performance is scheduled for Thursday, May 12, in Skinner. The cast began rehearsals on April 27. The members of the cast include; Al Brown, Howie Bush, Missy Cusick, David Elliott, Felicia Folk, Rich Gartner, Bar- bara Grant, Chris Kobler, Chris Kopff, Pam Lawson, Claire Neely; Andra Oakes, Sue Orbeton, Bob Primack, Mike Punsso, Bob Sin- clair, Margaret Weiss, Jona Wil- liams, Jane Wilson, and David Whiting. The set has already (April 26) been painted and needs only to be put up. It will be a simple set, with simple colors. Animpression of depth is being striven for, to I am in this delicate rhetorical situation because Assistant siatiaal of English I filled out one of those COLLEGE NEWS question- naires, Like you, dear_students on many Sunday mewhere else. which the Skinner stage is par- ticularly suited because it is nar- row (about 15 feet) but quite deep (25-30 feet). Pam Barald, one of the organ- izers of Little Theatre, comments that the extent and degree of stu- dent and administration response to the venture has been highly gratifying. The furniture for the set, for example, has been col- lected from all over the campus, the wheel chair coming from the infirmary. Many students who have not participated in the activities of College Theatre are contributing their services to Little Theatre. A minimal admission fee will be charged, since the group plans only to break even. As is the case with the class shows, the dress rehearsal will also be open to the public, nights, I wish I were On second thought, many of the suggestions in the NEWS editorial and the NEWS report on the questionnaires make excellent sense. Mrs. Mac- Caffrey and others are paying a good deal of at- tention to them, and I believe there well may be some substantial revision of freshman comp. I predict it will still be recognizable as Bryn Mawr freshman comp. Four years ago I would have said And That’s Too Bad. Now I am not so Co Whatever it is, it is Gewtullg) Bryn Mawr, and it is about as different as it can be from what I had; English One at Amherst. ven Instead of answering the NEWS point by point, I would rather Talk Big about English One versus Freshman Comp and Bryn Mawr versus Amherst. My ready theme is: Amherst practices liberal education; Bryn Mawr trains people for graduate ee ae a aid school Freshman comp is a course in concise academic paper writing about fiction and verse. English One is a writing course, The strategy of Amherst English One was to make its viciim think he can’t write. It was to make him take diftcrent points of view onthe same thing and find it wasn’t. the same thing any more. It was to make him switch terminologies, and see that what he It was a course in re-writing. _. saw changed as he’ changed how he saw it. | It seemed to show that there is no truth, only different kinds of practical fictions as opposed to recreational fictions like novels. It left him feeling that All is Rhetoric and semi-conscious metaphor Rice nt | Saas Danavrous eae a <> amme did. Tak Tek Journey into Night.” general critical esteem’’ that it should be seen if only to become acquainted with O’Neill’s work. ‘Without exaggerating, without romanticizing, without, inasense, ‘dramatizing’, O’Neill hasturneda diary into as subtly planned a work ofvart as Shakespeare ever wrote, The structure, the subtlety of the characterization, the grace of the poetry, are all Shakespearean,”’ Thexpérsonal quality ofthe play, the idea that it ‘‘touches so little -- but becomes so big,’’ Mr. But- man says ‘*makes the play even ‘Munson Hicks and Margaret Edwards in a scene from Long Day's more impressive .... I do not think that the play can be hurt by an imperfect performance; by an in- sensitive one it could be.” To. achieve the emotional quali- ties the play requires, the director has had the actors experiment during the course of what College Theatre President Nimet Habachy has called ‘“some of the most im- pressive rehearsals I have ever seen,” so as to fully realize the true tragedy that O’Neill has created from a painful personal experience. Creative Arts, Undergrad Fee Discussed at Monday Meeting Official recognition of the crea- tive arts was the first item dis- cussed at the Undergrad meeting Monday night. A petition asking for a reevaluation of the Bryn Mawr curriculum and requesting credit for creative courses other than creative writing will be posted in all dorms by May 9. The Curriculum Committee, headed by Joan Cavallaro, cur- rently is working on this problem. Joan brought up specifically the possibility of students’ receiving credit for instrumental instruc- tion, Margaret Edwards feels that if more notice is given to the arts on campus by the administration, facilities will improve. The question of a raise of Un- dergrad dues was discussed also. Representatives gave reports on the opinions in their dorms con- cerning a raise. It was apparent that many students favored an in- crease up to 20 dollars, The extra money could be used to provide more exciting activities on cam- pus, including speakers, confer- ences, workshops, and professional per‘ormances, A substantial num- ber wanted the new fee to be paid by parents with tuition;--others agreed to have it included on Pay Day during the year. Se God. Especially God. It implied that one’s nervous system does not make such perfect models of Everything Out There as one might have thought. It was a course in models, in historiography as one kind of model-formation, in mathematical statement as another, and mental hygiene cliches as)another. It was a sumptions with( Mr. course that/probably shared some as- Bitterman, and J.Z, Young on the coding of animate and Cybernetics. It was a great silly impious and amusing enter- prise. It amused the most senior people in the Amherst English Department to teach it, and they My general impression is that Bryn Mawr teaches people what it thinks they need to know, and some- thing of how to do what they should know how. to do. Amherst teaches people how to know, with a sample of what it is to know a few things very well. Bryn Mawr seems more interested in giving information and orthodox methods, Amherst was more in- terested in the destruction of information and the criticism of methods. After he graduated, the smug alumnus could rebuild his models of the world or even make new ones, Bryn Mawr teaches people the old models and old games to play with then: without much sense of humor. So freshman comp remains and no doubt will remain what it is because of what Bryn Mawr is, because of what Bryn Mawr does, and what it values, and what it does not value. This is not necessarily bad. If it is done. energetically, it.is a lot better than “some of the vague and pretentious results of Amherst. A lot of people go from Amherst to graduate school; a lot of people come out of Bryn Mawr liberally educated. Sometimes the way to _ oe is to work toward preeneen nH else. Page 4 COLLEGE NEWS April 29, 1966. - Galbraith, Kaufmann, Boorstin Yr, Phillips, Miss Mellink Plan At North Carolina Conference by Kit Bakke A trip to Chapel Hill is nice any time, but I found it especially delightful during symposium week, The 1966 Carolina Symposium, ‘ entitled Man, Mind and Myth, in- vited 40 students from other cam- puses to stay at the University of North Carolina, April 17-20, free " of charge, to attend the symposium lectures and seminars. The budget for the symposium was over $14,000, so the’ university could afford to treat us well, both with food and lodgings, and with the treat of hearing and questioning interesting and learned men on everything from Vietnam to cab- bages. z The first event Sunday night was a terrace buffet at the Morehead Planetarium, given to the college by one of their richest benefactors. John Kenneth Galbraith, the key- note speaker, was there, towering over the rest of the guests, His speech, like several others, was rumored to be on Vietnam. It was, and the audience reaction was very strange. He was against our being there, but in a very quiet, reasoned ‘way, and the audience, which was relatively conservative, didn’t seem to get the point because they clapped very heartily at the end. It may be that they were just being polite. In fact, I was over- whelmed with Southern Hospitality during my whole visit. The sorority where I stayed (it had a color TV) went out of its way to be nice,and all the kids and the professors I met were marvelous, On Monday, Dean Alan Richard- son, a bishop of the Church of England, and Daniel Boorstin, pro- . fessor of American history at the University of Chicago, spoke. Richardson was a very sweet Eng- lishman but his ideas were not well received. He felt that the ‘*God is dead’? movement had no merit and that of all religions, only Christianity was not a myth be- cause it had historical basis. Most interestingly, he actually said that everything had already been thought of, with the exception of matters of scienc®. In other words, all the philosophical questions that could ever be answered had been answered, It was not a very ‘en-. couraging thing to say, especially to a group of idealistic young col- lege students. H’ford Professor To Deliver Talk On Amer. Indian Theodore B. Hetzel, chairman of Haverford’s Engineering Depart- ment, will discuss ‘The Religion of the American Indian,’’ Wednes- day, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Common Room, The lecture, spon- sored by Interfaith, will be illustrated with Mr. Hetzel’s own photographs of Indian life. Mr. Hetzel’s.-*tavocational in- terest,’”? the religious life of modern American Indian tribes, has in the past 14 years taken him all over the U.S, He is par- ticularly interested in the mis- sionary work of the Quakers, in working with tribes such as the Seneca and Mohawk of New York - State, where Christian beliefs have been grafted onto the old ‘*Long- house’? religion with its corn fes- tivais and healing ceremonies. The Native American Church, or the ‘peyote religion’’ of the Oklahoma Indians, is another ex- arcole of a ‘‘blend that’s uniquely theirs’? of aboriginal white _» den, for instance, are still ex- " ..¢luded -- and Christian beliefs and terminology. Mr. Hetzel will also touch upon relations of var- ious American Christian sects to the modern Hopi, Navaho and Alaskan ladians, Boorstin very pointedly ignored Vietnam and revealed his dislike of Galbraith, by saying that the term ‘‘affluent society’’ was very crude and by making disparaging remarks about Harvard. His lec- ture itself was good but fairly self-evident. Tuesday was very exciting. Wal- ter Kaufmann, the philosopher from Princeton, spoke about myth in literature, religion, and philoso- phy. That night, Nelson’ Algren gave a fascinating speech, He was very bitter about our being in Vietnam and, though it wasn’t really relevant, had no com- punction about saying that Lady Bird ought to have a pillowcase put over her cage to.stop her flutter- ing. He was the one who talked about cabbages. He felt that cab- bages were neurotic and that their peaceful appearance shouldn’t fool anyone. He also said that anyone who got up in the morning HAD to be vaguely neurotic. Tuesday, I also fell in with the small and -harrassed end-the-war group on the UNC campus, Ap- parently several other symposium guests did as, well, because one UNC boy told me that he couldn’t figure out why all of a sudden so many people were agreeing with his stand. At the moment UNC isplan- ning a fast somewhat like ours, I had to miss Wednesday’s speakers because of plane times, geology field trips and psychology papers. But the formal speeches themselves weren’t really the best part. The best was. talking WITH the speakers and the other stu- dents. Mr. Janschka’s.__ Work on Exhibit Five works by Artist in Resi- dence Fritz Janschka are featured in New Dimensions, an exhibit sponsored by the Arts Council of the YM/YWHA of Philadelphia. Twelve artists have each con- tributed five selections for the display. Most of Mr. Janschka’s works are collages. The exhibit, at. 401 S. Broad Street, opens April 28 and closes May 20. Italy, Turkey Archaeology Digs Mr. Kyle Phillips and Miss Machteld Mellink will be leading archaeological expeditions to Italy and Turkey respectively during the summer and early fall months, Mr. Phillips will be uncovering Etruscan and Roman tombs and Miss Mellink will be concentrating on Bronze Age pots. Mr. Phillips is leading a sum- ; mer expedition to an Etruscan dig & about 15 miles from Siena, Italy. * Mrs. Phillips and one Bryn Mawr | Sevin Bulug, are Pi: going, as well as Karen Davis, a 4 Timothy ,: grad student, Swarthmore _ student; Gantz, a Haverfordian now at the Intercollegiate Center in Rome; and W.W. Comer and his future wife, Sarah Boll, both grad stu- Palade’ dents at the University of Penn- % sylvania. The expedition is sponsored by §& *% by Bryn Mawr, with the permission ‘of the Florence Archaeological Museum. Funds have been donated from -several generous sources, notably the Am- erica-Italy Society of Philadelphia and Italian Consul General in Phil-- adelphia. These funds will help defray some of the transportation and living costs, They will live at the excavation site itself in a Workers museum in Antalya. rented house suitable for eight people. The cost will include hiring — a cook. The site is called Murlo. They plan to spend about ten weeks ex- cavating individual tombs, rather Etruscan and Roman town from about 800-50 B.C. From their excavation, they hope to document a change from Etruscan to Roman political control. Also they would like to develop a pottery chronology for that area. They will not be allowed to take any of the material they dig up out of Italy because of Italian laws. However, they will be allowed to study and publish their discoveries. If the plans this summer go well, this could conceivably become a regular training session for grad- uates and undergraduates at the four schools. No academic credit will be given, but the experience could provide material for later studies, Miss Mellink’s site is called Karatag-Semayiik, which is near Elmali, Turkey, in southwestern An early Bronze Age pitcher from Karatag, C. 2400 B.C. 3 Win Fulbright Grants To Spain, Latin America Florence Castelle, Ellen Elias- off, and Melissa McCarty have won Fulbright Scholarships: F lorence’s for study in Spain, and Ellen’s and Melissa’s both for, study in Latin America. Florence’s work will begin in September and last for nine months. She will study: trends in Modern Spanish Theatre in the last 25 years, and will take courses at the University of Madrid. A Spanish major, Florence hopes to attend graduate school in the United States after next year.and has plans to teach, | A sdciology major, Ellen plans to take undergraduate courses in sociology and social work at either Andres Bello University or °the Central University of Caracas, while sampling Venezuelan stu- dent life. She hopes to observe Venezuela’s approach to sociology and social work as related to its national structure and problems, with spe- cial attention to the way in which it deals with difficulties resulting from rapid industrialization and urbanization,’ ae ~“Duritig her stay, She would also like to do social work in the bar- riadas, or slums, of the city. Melissa will be spending her year in Ecuador. She is majoring in history, and Latin America is her field of special interest. For her project, Melissa would like to compile a case study of political-economic situations. She plans to spend this summer im- proving her Spanish to assist her in Ecuador. Holders of Fulbright grants from the State Department participate in an orientation program in Wash- ington before they go abroad. May Day Presents A Busy Schedule (continued from page 1) perform at Haverford Friday night to end off a long day. Saturday’s events start at 6:30 in the evening with a steak dinner at Haverford served to the ac- companiment of a jazz band. MARNIE, an Alfred Hitchcock film with Sean Connery, will be shown at Roberts at 8:30. From 10:00 to 1:00 the Body Snatchers, a rock-and-roll bandfrom Prince- ton, will.play in the field house. There will be hay rides conducted simultaneously, and at 3:30-a.m., when May 1 is just arriving, Bryn Mawr’s May Day will draw to a close. November. This allows most ofthe work to be done in relatively cool weather. She is taking three Bryn Mawr grad students, Nancy- Bookidis, and. Richard Louise Alpers, Radical Organizer Speaking Tuesday (continued from page 1) TWO -- the Temporary Woodlawn Organization -- in a Negro dis- trict of Chicago. Alinsky’s method arousing a community to improve itself*in- volves the use of conflict as a source of power. An enemy, such as a school board, is singled out and attacked, and in the process of the fight, the resources of the community are organized, The ex- perience gained through conf ronta- tion with an enemy enables the community to negotiate with him at the proper time. With the increased public inter- est in the War on Poverty and the _ Civil Rights problem, Alinsky’s influence has grown, according to Mr. Rein. He has received much publicity in the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine. Charles Silverman included a chapter con- cerning.Alinsky’s participation in TWO in his book ‘‘Crisis in Black and White.’’ Alinsky’s methods have recently been applied outside of Chicago. load the largest excavated jar for transportation to the than the city itself. Murlo was an Asia Minor. She is the field di- rector of a graduate field seminar held every year for the last four years in Turkey. They will start digging in the middle of August and finish around the middle of dePuma, and one undergraduate, Tami Stech.They will live in Elmali with a cook from Ankara and hire workmen to do most of the digging. This is the last season they plan to spend at this site. It is an early Bronze Age cemetery and settle- ment house. Their finds have con- sisted of primarily pottery, with some copper or bronze jewelry, a few stone idols and some bone needles. The pots were both burial gifts and coffins. People were buried in the large ones and the small ones were given as gifts. These par- ticular pots are dated at about 2400 B.C. This project is sponsored and financed by the college. Like Mr. Phillips’ expedition, they will not be allowed to bring any of their discoveries out of Turkey. This site is the only large cemetery of the Bronze age in southwest Turkey. Beethoven Mass Outstanding Work In Joint Concert by Alice Ely Chapman, '66 The Bryn Mawr College Chorus and the Haverford College Glee Club, with the College Orchestra, joined in concert Saturday night, directed by Robert Goodale and Robert Goss. The concert began with a con- certo for oboe and string orches- tra by a Baroque composer, Mar- cello. Ed Hazzard, the soloist, gave the work a warmth and vitality which is often lacking in Baroque music. He used ornamentation with moderation. Alexander Blachly (H’ford ’67), the conductor, showed an acute understanding of the music he’ was performing, keeping avery good balance between the soloist and the rest of the orchestra. This was especially true in the slow second movement, which was very moving. The only factor which did not enhance the work was the pitch problem, especially in the violin section. The major work of the evening was the’ Mass in C Major by Beethoven, The high point of the entire -work. was the Credo, in which Mr. Goodale brought out the great contrast between the delicate and robust often found in Beethoven. The soloists, Pat Pastore, soprano; Sarah Matthews, alto; Howell Zu- lich, tenor, and Robert Goss, bari-~ tone, blended very well.with them- -selves and with-the entire Orches- tra, On the whole, the concert was enjoyable and a very elegant ending to the season, April 29,1966 COLLEGE NEWS Page 5 Vietnam Commitment Justified, Says Former HUAC Worker by Cookie Poplin - ‘‘Our commitment here (in Viet- nam) is legal and justified.’’ In this statement Fulton Lewis II, former research director for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, summarized his posi- tion in regard to the controversial issue April 18 at a lecture,spon- sored by the Conservative Club and Alliance. Mr. Lewis considers himself a ‘*libertarian’’ rather than a ‘‘con- servative’’ and based his subse- quent argument on the thesis that ‘tthe rights of the individual are supreme and cannot be subjected to the dictates of the collective will of society.’’ He began by trying to explain the considerations behind the pres- ent U.S, policy in Vietnam. ‘‘We have respect for the sovereignty of independent nations and inde- pendent people,’’ he said; we have no desire to expand. We are'merely saying ‘‘no’’ to an aggressive dic- tatorship. Mr. Lewis then con- sidered the objections to govern- ment position. He refuted those who advocate isolationism or ‘¢status-quoism;’’ Vietnam is very close to us, and ‘‘we are involved in the world whether we want to be or not,’’? He called the assertion that the war in Vietnam is a civil war ‘‘a fallacious interpretation,’’ and reminded the audience that other aggressors, such as Hitler in the Sudetenland, have used this tactic to disguise aggression. One should ask not where the members of the NLF were born, but where their allegiance lies, Since they are loyal to the communist government of North Vietnam, and, if the NLF were set up in power, South Viet- nam would not be independent of’ the North, Mr. Lewis concluded that the war in Vietnam is not a civil war. He is not against negotiations; the question, he insists, is when, how, and with whom. He warned the audience against what he con- sidered Chgmberlain’s mistakes at Munich; negotiating from a posi-. tion of weakness, and appeasement. There has as yet been noassurance, the speaker continued, that nego- tiations will end communist ag- gression in southeast Asia, and he pointed to the unrest in that area over the extent of our commitment. ‘¢‘Where do we stop? If we sur- render South Vietnam, will we come to the defense of Thailand? eee This is a showdown theater that we are involved in ... The ‘price tag is the destiny of the en- tire area.’?’ We must demonstrate through strength that we will not tolerate aggression. Mr. Lewis considered — it *tidiotic’’ to negotiate with the Viet Cong; we must negotiate with the real aggressors. He went on to the problem ofthe government in Vietnam, The height of war, he said, is not the time “TS eve eT eV VTP eee Te UT TCT VVVWVVWVYVCVVVVUVUWVVUVUVVUVUWWWWY ++ +464464646446444444+444444444444444444444444444444444444444 ~ t .of Schopenhauer, to have elections or self-deter- mination; our first task should be to bring peace to Vietnam. ‘‘We are not just talking about elec- tions,’’? he declared, ‘‘We are talk- ing about FREE elections.’? He admitted that the government in South Vietnam has been far from ideal, but he felt that as we joined with Stalin to fight Hitler, here too we should accept the lesser” evil in order to overcome the greater. We must seek, above all, stability in the present govern- ment. Where do we go from here? Mr. Lewis protested against a policy according to which troops weré ordered to do enough to die but not enough to win. He noted that we could put Haiphong, Hanoi, the Ho Chi Minh Trail out of commission from the air; he claimed further that Red China has too much to lose to enter the war, The government and the country must support their fighting men, and in particular we should ensure that dissident elements here do not give support to. the enemy, as he said Ronald Ramsey in Los Angeles and the ‘*‘May Second Movement?’ have been doing. a Mr. Lewis concluded emphati- cally, ‘‘We should alter our at- titudes as a nation and do what is necessary in Vietnam.’’ Current May Day Rites Revealed As Abridged Version of Original by Mary Berg, °69 Today’s May Day festivities will be Bryn Mawr’s 66th celebration of this ancient holiday. In a 191; May Day speech, President M. Carey Thomas traced May Day back to the grotto of the nymph Egeria, This tradition of revelry and games evolved into the traditional English May Day, from which the Bryn Mawr § festivities adopted. Rockefeller Tower was planned so that Bryn Mawr students might Sing to the sun oh the first of May, as the custom at Magdalen College, Oxford. At seven o’clock Friday morning, the seniors will sing the **Magdalen Hymn.’’ The. first May Day. celebration at Bryn Mawr was held in 1900 to raise money for a ‘students’ building.’’ Since then May Day has been celebrated annually. In 1920, the scope of activities was increased tremendously, by pro- ducing an authentic Elizabethan May Day. The 1920 COLLEGE NEWS gave the following account: ‘¢A merry pageant of four cen-- turies ago passed through Pem- broke Arch last Friday at 2;30, when the flare of the herald’s trumpets announced the approach College Curriculum Adds Variety of New Courses Several new courses have been added to next year’s curriculum, and structural changes in some of this year’s courses have been made as well. The Biology Department will be offering a course in Advanced Gen- etics and Evolution andthe Philos- ophy Department will offer a 300 level course entitled Philosophies Marx, and Nietzsche, The Greek Department will be offering a full unit of Homer next year. Many new courses have been added by the History of Art De- partment for next year, all at the advanced level. Two semester courses will concern Gothic Paint- ing and Jan van Eyck, A third course will concern the iconog- raphy and style of Poussin and the impact of his painting on the de- velopment of Baroque:art. This course requires a reading knowl- edge of French. In addition the department is offering a course on Modern Architecture. This will in- clude a brief survey of nineteenth century developments and a study of several twentieth century archi- tects. A course in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha will be an addi- tion to the department of History highly acceptable. of Religion. The Mathematics De- partment has added several new courses, including one on Number Theory. The Latin Department will have two types of 100 level courses in 1966-67. In addition to the present 101 there will be a 103 for students whose preparation is not as extensive. The Psychology Department has also made a change in its cur- Yriculum. After the first semes- ter of Introductory Psychology, students will be able to choose one or two courses at the same level to complete their first year of study. The second semester choices are Comparative Psychol- ogy and Social Psychology. A new course entitled Medieval Narrative: From Beowulf to Malo- ry will be offered by the English Department next year, This course is open to juniors and seniors only. The French Department is of- fering a new advanced course en- titled Realism and Naturalism, while the. Political Science De- partment has made quite a few changes and added several courses, including The Soviet Union and Eastern European Gov- ernments, and India: Culture an Politics. ’ Who is your ideal date? Thousands use Central Control and jits high-speed computer for a live, flesh-and-blood answer to this question. Your ideal date — such a person exists, of course. But how to get acquainted? Our Central Control computer processes 10,000 names an hour. How long would it take yqu to meet and form an opinion of that-many people? You will be-matched with five ideally suited persons of the opposite sex, right in your own locale (or in any area of the U.S. you specify). 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Morris men, shepherds, milkmaids, and tumblers danced and frolicked to the jingling tunes played by the bands. F lower-trim- med floats bearing the gorgeously costumed casts of the plays won loud applause from the ‘spec- tators,’’ An Elizabethan village was created infront of Denbigh, com- plete with thatched. cottages where refreshments were sold. After Robin Hood crowned Maid Marian May Queen there were masques in the Cloisters, a chimney sweep play, a Robin Hood play, often a Mummers play, Such full-scale celebrations were staged every four yearsfrom 1920 on. Admission was charged, and it was a large public attrac- tion. These Big May Days re- quired an entire semester of prep- aration, involving the whole cam- pus, _By 1940 students were too con- cerned with World War II and other events to devote adequate attention to.the scheduled Big May Day, and celebrated a Little May Day instead. Big May Day has not been observed since then. 1966 Fund Drive Now Under Way This year League’s Campus Fund Drive began April 28. Sally Ewer has stated that all pledges to go on Pay Day must be in by May 2, but that cash can come in for a few days after that. The goal this year is 100% par- ticipation. League is putting a thermometer on the Bulletin Board in Taylor to record the donations. The organization has decided not to include the family of Mr. Moses, the Haverford alumnus murdered in Chicago on their list of receivers. However, anyone who would like to donate money can do so through Haverford, as itis con- ducting a fund drive for the family. HE: | called home last night. SHE: Yeah? HE: My father says he misses me—can you believe it? SHE: No. ’ & We believe it—parents are funny that way. Phone home often. The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania fe “COLLEGE NEWS April 29,1766 ‘Cul-chah’ and ‘C ul-ture’ Alternate Page 6 Alaskan Bootlegger Facilitates Miss de Laguna’s Eskimo Find Following is the second in a se- role in the establishment of the ies of articles sponsored by cur- riculum committee on members of the Bryn Mawr faculty. -- Ed. by Dorothy Hudig, '68 Miss Frederica de Laguna, chairman of the Anthropology De- partment here, is a Bryn Mawr girl from childhood. Both of her parents were professors of phil- osophy here, She remembers sleeping on the porch on Faculty Row, and coming to Taylor for entrance exams several times dur- ing her high school years. During her junior year of high school, Miss de:Laguna’s parents went on sabbatical to Europe, and sent her to a lycée at Versailles, Later she entered Bryn Mawr, where she lived in Pem West and Radnor, and earned her degree from the joint department of political science and economics. No courses in anthropology were available here then, Her interest in the subject was inspired by her father’s stories of life in the Philippines and the diversity of alien cultures, and by Elisha K. Kane’s book “Arctic Explora- tions,’? which she read when she was about 13, Since that time she has always been especially inter- ested in Arctic Eskimos. When she went tograduate school at Columbia (Ph.D. 1933), Profes- sor Franz Boas told her ‘there would be no jobs in anthropology.’’ Unfortunately, he was right. When the depression came, she found her work at the Pennsylvania Mu- seum was no longer funded, and she was delegated as a ‘‘cata- aaa receiving $15 a week nder WPA, and later only $13.45 a week. But job opportunities or not, Miss de Laguna had already com- pleted much work in anthropology. As a doctoral candidate, she went on a Danish government survey to Greenland with the Eskimo expert Therkel Mathiassen. : Also, as a graduate student, she ‘discovered’? the Eyak In- dians, or rather rediscovered their true identity. The tribe of about 20 surviving members was believed to be Eskimos with Tlingit in- fluences, but from a follow-up on a clue, the tribe was established as independent and ‘‘forgotten.’’ The clue came from the U.S. marshall in Prince Williams Sound during a 1930 survey of the Indians there. Miss de Laguna had gone to the marshall to try to geta skiff that belonged to the local bootleg- ger. One of the marshall’s re- marks was, ‘‘There are three breeds of cats hefe,’’ which in- trigued Miss de Laguna with the possibility of a ‘‘third breed.’’ Differences in language and cul- ture provided supporting evidence for the claim, Dr. Edward Sapir completed the, language ‘‘diag- ‘nosis.’? Today Michael Kraus (University of Alaska), the main expert on Athabaskan Indian languages, is doing further work on the Eyak, He found Miss de La- guna’s field notes ‘‘invaluable’’ because she wrote down phonetic text sentences, rather than merely vocabulary. Last Sunday, her re- search was paid the high compli- ment of a 1-1/2 hour cross-con- tinent phone call. Yukon Island in Cook Inlet, which was first ex- cavated and surveyed by the party . led by Miss de Laguna, was de- clared a national historical monu- ment by the U.S in 1965. Miss de Laguna greatly prizes a medal awarded her by the Homer Society of Natural History in honor of her SPORTSWEAR Sere... BLOUSES JUMPERS landmark. Even the Alaskan boot- legger gained from the discovery: he was in jail, and was delighted to get rent for his skiff. In 1938,.Miss de Laguna taught the first anthropology course at Bryn Mawr, later became chair- man of the currently joint Depart- ments of Sociology and Anthropol- , During Artistic- Artsy Arts Night by Eleanor von Auw It is a remarkable fact. about this year’s Arts Night that no single number and no ‘‘repre- sentative’’ selection from thepro- gram could be taken as indicating or containing the essence of the whole show, the spirit that warmed ogy. Right now Miss de Laguna \the audience assembled in Skinner has been elected President of the American Anthropology Associa- tion, and will assume office this November. What is ‘*Bryn Mawr’’ to Miss de Laguna? She is just as devoted as she was when she was an under= graduate when she claimed, ‘A broken rule undermines the com- munity,’? and led a campaign to allow smoking on campus because infraction of rules reflected on the reputation of the college. Her bro- ther went to Haverford. Today she is seeing further development of her vocation, as the Anthropology and Sociology Departments become separate next year. om)Friday evening, April 22, toa m of delighted enthusiasm. Perhaps its source can be found in the sparkling introductions and inter-act frolics of Lynne Meadow, Ronnie Scharfman, and Mike Moore. Mike’s_deviltrously grin- ning face seemed to peer through every interstice in the action. Maybe too it is to be found in the marvelous interplay, some- times overt (even to the point of blatancy), sometimes unobtrusive- ly silent, of ‘‘cul-chah’’ and *cul-ture.’’ For this was.a pro- gram that mingled the artistic, the artsy, and.the unpretentiously hilarious in an exuberant variety that yet could boast unity and co- herence. This particular ‘‘two cul- tures’ dialogue’’ was a very happy and pleasant one, no element of ten- sion intruding except possibly in Vernon Haskell’s. description of his **Theme and Variations’’ as “real culture,’’ which epithet, while ostensibly humorous, was not entirely convincing as toits having been spoken in good humor. The renditions of the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Jug Band and the excerpts from the Dance Con- cert in their marked contrast to one another perhaps best represent the extremes in tone of the whole. The former capitalized on the general informality and careless gaiety and on the close contact betw¢en those on the stage and those_in—the seats below them. The latter (parts of Liz Schneider’s ‘‘the mind is its own beautiful prisoner’’ and Alice Leib’s ‘*Synapse’’) instead The J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Jug Band. created an artificial sense of distance, the dancers seeming to be elevated far above the spectators. This performance was easily the most serious, surely the most in- tense, number on the program. The Renaissance Choir’s sing- ing of several madrigals, led al- ternately by Ed Hazzard and Steve Bonine, was the first feature of the program, And even asthe excerpts from the Dance Concert would naturally have been shown to better advantage in an auditorium that placed a greater distance between the performers and the audience, so the Choir’s selections could have been given with more effect in a hall with greater possibilities of resonance. Nonetheless, the light, fine tunes provided a pecul- iarly appropriate introduction to the eyening. Perhaps the most original per- formance of the night -- particu- larly in the medium (or mediums) it employed -- was Janie Paul’s reading “of a narrative prose-poem illustrated with her drawings, The University of Pennsylvania gives you a choice of 324 courses this summer. KITTY MCLEAN Summer study gives you the op- portunity to broaden your edu- cation, accelerate your progress toward a degree, or pursue your particular interest or specialty. Pennsylvania has a wide range of courses, both undergraduate and graduate, including some evening courses. All are taught in air conditioned classrooms. Choose from the following categories: Business Administration Education English European & Asian Languages — | Greek & Latin Literature Mathematics & Science " Music & Fine Arts Nursing . Social Sciences TWO 6-WEEK SESSIONS: MAY 19TH TO JUNE 29TH AND JULY 5TH TO AUGUST 12TH For further information, write Summer Sessions, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penna. 19104 UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Summer Sessions" ~~ > VLU st Ul ii perry UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA SUMMER SESSIONS | mi : _ Bryn Mawr, Pa. which were shown as slides. This was a particularly effective blend- ing of two media, for the poem , dealt with painting and made ex- tensive use of colors. Another unusual piece was Ver- non Haskell’s ‘“*Theme and Varia- tions for Flute and Violin,’ un- usual particularly in this com- binations of instruments. While a fine and intriguing display of tech- nical possibilities and technical skill, this was not possessed of the compelling intensity of, for example, the dance selections, Sharon Shelton’s singing of three songs, two of them French, of a rather dreamy, drifting tone, while accompanying herself on the guitar, was only marred by a slight af- fectedness in manner, an attempt ‘to achieve an effect not particular- ly appropriate to the place or occasion. The program also included blue grass music with Pete Peterson, Jack Bowers and George Stavis, which would have been quite en- tirely delightful had it not lasted a bit too long. A jazz combo in- cluding Fern Hunt, Cris Kane, and Fred Szydlik wound up the evening with a performance that was alltoo short, the concluding number being -- almost inevitably -- the **Mickey Mouse”’ theme song. to make Manhattan your home town Register with a unique consulting service for new New Yorkers apartments / roommates / jobs socializing For free booklet, ‘The Easy Way,” or for more information, clip, fill out, mail the coupon below. To: Mrs. judy Weil, MIM, 140 East 72nd Street, New York, N.Y. : (CO Please send me a copy of ‘’The Easy Way....” P April 29, 1966 COLLEGE NEWS Page a ®@ MADS SUMMER SUBLET ¥¥*. CAM— Penn Institutes Pass-Fail § ystem: DIscaUNT RECORDS Baibge Foe 2 ey Would It Apply To Bryn Mawr? by Lynne Lackenbach “The University of Pennsylvania will institute a pass-fail grading system next fall in its undergrad- uate schools. The new system will allow students to take a limited ‘number of.courses under pass- fail grading. The new plan is entirely the work of the student body. In Jan- uary, the Committee of Instruc- tion of the College asked the Stu- dent Committee on Undergraduate Education to draw up a plan for a pass-fail grading system. The re- sulting proposal was presented to the Committee and approved, and similar action was later taken by the corresponding committees of | the College for Women and the Wharton School. The faculty ap- proved the proposed system on April 5, clearing the way for its introduction next fall. The system itself, in which a designated number of courses may be taken without a specific letter grade other than ‘‘pass’’ (A-D) or ‘¢fail,’’ includes the following pro- visions: - Each undergraduate may elect to take six of the 40 course units re- quired for graduation on a pass- fail basis. No more than two of these courses may be taken in any given term, and-no pass-fail option may be used in major, school, or group (distribution) requirements. Freshmen may not take courses for pass-fail, and students are not ‘obliged to take any courses as pass-fail. Further, students must register as pass-fail students at the beginning of the course. Should a student decide to major in a field in which he has previous- ly taken a pass-fail course, and the department will not accept this as fulfilling its major requirements, the student has two options; he may request that the letter grade he received in the course be con- sidered by the department, in which case he will still have used one of his six pass-fail options; or he may, with departmental permis- sion, take another course to fulfill the requirement, In crowded class_ sections, majors and graded students will always have preference for places over pass-fail students andvaudi- tors. Under the proposed pass-fail plan, professors will continue to -grade all students -according to normal procedure; the final. mark will be transposed to pass or fail by the recorder. There will be no need even to inform professors Erdman Hall on Display With Kahn Architecture Erdman Hall will be among the buildings featured in a display called ‘‘The Architecture of Louis I. Kahn,’’ which opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City April 26. Arthur Drexler, Director of the Museum’s Department of Archi- tecture and Design and the man directing this exhibition, has writ- Peace Corps This Saturday, April 30th, a Placement Test for the Peace Corps will be given in Room B of Taylor Hall at 9 a.m. Juniors in- terested in the summer Advance Training Programs should take this test, as well as seniors and graduate students thinking of en- rolling for overseas assignments. Students interested in taking the test should inform the Bureau of ~ Recommendations, Taylor Base- ment, and pick up the Preliminary Questionnaire, which must be filled out and filed at the time of the test or before. 4 This is the last time that the @. test will be given at the college this year. For dates of oppor- tunities in other places, students may consult the poster in the Bureau bulletin board. PEASANT GARB FASHION SHOW MAIN POINT FRIDAY NIGHT, APRIL 29 BETWEEN ERIC ANDERSON’S PERFORMANCES EVERYDAY AND PLAYWEAR ALL CREATIVE DESIGNS PEASANT GARB ° B68 LANCASTER AVE. ~ BRYN MAWR ten of the architect’s work,‘‘Kahn’s effort to make architectural form coincide with real and symbolic functions _has — profoundly _im- pressed students and influenced his peers -- more perhaps than any other architectural philosophy since Mies’ work in the forties.’’ Vincent Scully, Professor of the History of Art at Yale, says in his recorded narration at the ex- hibition, ‘‘Structure, light, the re- lationship to nature and to other buildings -- how many the funda- mentals of architecture are. Over the years, over the past 15 years especially, Louis I. Kahn -- surely America’s most inventive archi- tect -- has grown step by step in them all.’’ which students have registered for pass-fail, though the information will probably not be classified. According to the student com- mittee which drew up the plan, the proposed grading system will offer five unique advantages; 1) It will lessen pressure for grades by offering the student a chance to study a certain number of courses for no end other than knowledge of the material. While the committee feels that grades are to some degree necessary, ‘the pass-fail system would reinforce an attitude towards learning as an end rather than as a means,’’ 2) The pass-fail system will allow a student to explore areas of knowledge in which he has in- terest but little talent or aptitude and provide him with an opportunity to obtain a more liberal education. 3) Since a pass-fail system should encourage cross-disciplin- ary study, a variety of viewpoints will hopefully be introduced into more Classes. 4) The pass-fail system would provide -an opportunity to~ study the effect of grades on student motivation and performance, since for the first few years at least, all teachers.would report letter grades for their pass-fail students along with the grades for their regular students. A committee could compare the grades of the two groups to check on the effects of the system. 5) The system should encourag. the addition of experimental courses to be conducted strictly on a. pass-fail basis. If such courses proved valuable, they could then be included in the regular curriculum under the standard grading system. s Opponents to the pass-fail sys- tem object that it would tend to ~fower overall class quality and overload certain classes with pass-fail students. They also fear that some departments will erect barriers to pass-fail students, especially in advanced courses. The student committee respon- sible for the plan feel that the pro- posed system will minimize these difficulties if they appear at all. a eT GANE & SNYDER 834. Lancaster 4-enue: Fresh Fruit %» Handiest Way to Bank! Subunkseam _ CHECKING ACCOUNT THE BRY si \WUUA N MAWR PARVIN’S PHARMAC James P. Kerchner Pharmacist , 30 Bryn Mawr Ave. Bryn Mawr. Pa.) octal ie TRUST COMPANY TTT ¢€ 9 W. 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One thousand points may sound im- possible, but points are awarded generously and it is amazing how quickly they add up. Denton To Head Alumnae Officers Of Senior Class The senior class has electea “tts officers to direct alurinae ac- ~ tivities in the coming year. Cabbs Denton is the new Alum- nae President for the Class of 66. Treasurer for the class is Sheila Dowling. Three class collectors, who will supervise financial contributions for the almost alumnae, were also selected. They are Florence Cast- elle, Tollie Drane, and Pilar Richardson, Heather Stillwell is in charge of organizing the first reunion for her class, which will be held five years after graduation. Editor of the notes that appear in the Alumnae Bulletin to keep class members informed of their fellow graduates’ activities is Mary Daubenspeck. The girls who received owl patches are Anne Alden, Lola At- wood, Mary Berg, June Boey, Doris Catlin, Donna Cross, Mary Daub- enspeck, Doris Dewton, Madeleine Ewing, Sandy Gilluly, Louise Her- man, Ann Lie, Alice Leib, Ellen Nelson, Sue Nosco, Marti Plum- mer, Penny Sholars, Liz Thatch- er, Candi Vultaggio, Winifred Wal- lace and Toby Williams. Sally Boy, Beth Chadwick, Karen Flack, Mal Nickerson, Vee Wathen, Val Winston and Cile Yow were awarded BMC pins. Only three people received an award for 4000 points: Grace Ham- ilton, Sandy Phillips, and Kitty Taylor. June Boey was awarded the Har- riet G., Gordon Memorial Trophy for fencing contribution and sportsmanship. She also was chosen as the best fencer.- The best swimmer on the var- sity is Candi Vultaggio, and Fran LaBarre is the best J.V. swimmer. Lola Atwood won the tennis singles tournament, and Melissa McCarty came out on the top of the bad- minton tournament, Campus Events | Saturday, May 1 Denbigh takes on the faculty in the annual May Day baseball game on the green. Tuesday, May 3 Poet Daniel G. Hoffman will read selections from his work, under the auspices of the English Department at 4:30 inthe Deanery. Wednesday, May 4 Professor Theodoré Hetzel of Haverford will speak in the Inter- faith Series on ‘‘The Religion of the American Indian’’ at 7:30 p.m. in the Common Room, The lecture will be illustrated, Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7 College Theatre presents Eugene O’Neill’s ‘*Long Day’s Journey into Night,’’ directed by Robert Butman, in Roberts Hall, Haver- ford. Tickets are $1,00 and may be obtained from Haverford at MI 2-7644 or Ann Stehney in Denbigh. Monday, May 9 Alliance presents Orley Caudill, a lieutenant colonel in the Air speaking on the role of Force, NATO, at 7:30 p.m. intheCommon Room. Tennis Players Hosting Inter-Collegiate Tourney The Middle States Lawn Tennis Association Inter -Collegiate Tour- nament for Women will take place this weekend on the Bryn Mawr campus tennis courts, The matches began Wednesday at 1 p.m. Quarter-finals will be played Saturday morning at 2 p.m. On Sunday, finals will start at 1:30. Eighteen colleges will be repre- sented, ranging along the. coast from New England to' Washington, D.C. and to the west as far as western Pennsylvania. There are 34 participants including Marilyn Aschner of Queens College, whois a nationally ranked player. Representing Bryn Mawr are Lola Atwood and Ann Johnson. They will be attempting to unseat the defending champion, Jane Hart- man of Gettysburg. This tournament is an annual event at Bryn Mawr and it pro- vides a chance for both tennis buffs and spectators to enjoy good tennis playing. 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