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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

Vol. LIV, No. 3.

BRYN MAWR, PA.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1968

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967

 

Poet May Swenson
To Visit Campus,
Talk To Students

During the week of Oct. 21 the
noted American poet, May Swen-
son, will visit Bryn Mawr,

Miss Swenson comes as _ the

. Donnelly Fellow for 1968-69.. She

is the eighth recipient of this fel-
lowship for distinction in writing
which was established in-memory
of Lucy Martin Donnelly, for many
years a professor of English at
Bryn Mawr.

A native of Logan, Utah, and
graduate of Utah State University,
Miss Swenson is now a resident
of New York City. Her publica-
tions..include ‘‘A Cage of Spines,”’
“Another Animal,’”’ ‘‘Tq Mix With
Time’’ and, most recently, ‘‘Half
Sun, Half Sleep.’’ ‘Poems to
Solve,” which she also wrote, is a
book "of poetry for. young people,

In addition to these collections
Miss Swenson has published poems

in most of the better known liter-

ary magazines, such as The New
Yorker, The Hudson Review and
Poetry. She has also served as a
judge in various national contests
of poetry, such as that of the Na-
tional Book Award.

Obviously skilled as a poet, Miss
Swenson also has other talents.
Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellow-
ship and grants from both the Na-
tional Institute of Arts and Letters
and the Ford Foundation, Miss
Swenson has been an editor atNew
Directions.. In 1966, a play ofhers
was produced at the American
Place Theater, Ain New York, From
1966 to 1967 shéwas writer in resi-
dence at Purdue University.

Several years ago Miss Swenson
came to Bryn Mawr on the Theo-
, dore Spencer Memorial Lecture-
* ship Fund. This year, the Friends
of the Library are sponsoring a
reading of her poems on Wednes-
day, Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. in Wyndham.
Students interested in writing are
encouraged to see Miss Swenson
during her week’s visit.

Legislature Slated
For October 16

Legislature will convene this
year on Oct, 16, it was announced
° at the Self-Gov advisory board
meeting last Sunday.

The initial session, to be held
in the Common Room ai 7:30p.m.,
as well as future meetings, will be
open to all students, Non-repre-
sentatives may enter into the dis-
cussions but may not make. formal
proposals or participate in the final
voting.

Also announced at the board
meeting was a new procedure for
8 a.m, signouts, It is now possible
fora studeht who has not asked her
hall president for a key before
going out tocalla permission giver
before 12:30 a.m, and tell her that
she wishes to sign out until 8 a.m

The permission giver will then
call Merion basement to give the
watchman the girl’s name. On her
return to campus, the student can
go to Merion to obtain an official
escort back to her dorm,

Also discussed was Undergrad’s
plan for a more ‘“‘comprehensive”’
student I.D. card. Hall presidents
were asked to poll their dorm
members to determine how many
students would be in favor of such
an innovation.

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photo by Phoebe Mix

mistress Brenda aon rehearses freshmen in song which
ing during their official welcomi ing ceremony. Lantern night

College Theatre Sats.
Cutback In Productions

Both principle and practicality
have become’ issues in the current
College’ struggte to resist ~
administration demands that the
drama group cut back its number
of yearly productions,

College Theatre, the cooperative
dramatic effort of the Bryn Mawr
College Theatre and the Haverford
Drama Club, has been asked to give
up its scheduled third production
this year.

Cathy Hopkins, president of the
organization, \ explained that al-
though ‘the Theatre only produced
two plays last year, definite plans
were made in the spring and dates
were lined up for three productions
in 1968-69.

‘‘There*was probably a basic
misunderstanding which triggered
all this,’’ Cathy said. “Miss Mc-
Bride seems under the impression
that a new policy was accepted by
College Theatre to produce only
two plays. However, we definitely
decided to have three plays, twoat
Haverford and one here.”’

In June Cathy. was asked to
come to discuss College Theatre

Juniors To Stage
Political Parody

The Class of 1970 will depart
from the usual theme of Bryn Mawr,
Haverford and associated
phenomena when it presents its
politically-oriented Junior Show on
Oct. 18-19.

The play, as yet untitled, will
be a*‘Lysistrada’*%type parody, ac-
cording to co-director Sharon
Werner. The plot centers on an
election between two candidates
who appear to be more creations
of the advertising industry than
real people. Enraged by the lack
of choice, women rise. in revolt
and initiate an anti-suffrage move-
ment (i.e., they vow to give up
the vote), The balance of the play
concerns the women’s campaign
and its surprising result.

Co-directing the show with
Sharon is Maryo Gard. The two
girls also wrote the script and
for this reason were chosen to

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plans with the administration. It
was then that she was first told

that~the-group-would have to limit

itself to two plays.

‘At the beginning, the adminis-
tration, kept stressing that the de-
mands of College-Theatre were
‘overworking’ both the casts and
the production crews,” Cathy said,
*‘but at the start of school I polled
the membership and discovered, as
I had predicted, that. they did not
feel ‘overworked.’ @

‘*The kids want to put on the plays
and if it comes to dropping some-
thing because of time problems, it
will not be any of theC ollege Thea-
tre. It was also the general opinion
that even if we were overworked,
the administration has no authority
to dictate in this area,’’ Cathy con-
tinued.

The question of academic
responsibilities cannot be used as
an argument, because the list of
both cast and technical crew for
each production must be submitted
to the administration for approval
of the grade standing of each indi-
vidual involved.

“The cry of ‘overworked’ is no
longer being stressed,’ Cathy
pointed out, ‘‘and the real issue has
become evident. Bryn Mawr is hav-
ing a horrible time with its sched-
uling of space and time for college
activities.”’

According to Cathy, the admin-
istration considers that the time
required for a major dramatic pro-
duction monopolizes Goodhart
Hall. ‘**The schedule is so tight
‘that they had to get rid of some-
thing and so they picked College
Theatre because each of our plays
requires such a large chunk of
time,’’ Cathy remarked.

Four weeks are needed to pre-
pare for a play and during much of
this time, Goodhart must be kept

completely free for College Thea-.

tre purposes. ‘‘ The administration

‘feels that Goodhart should be used

for more lectures and alumnae
meetings,’’ Cathy said.

In a petition presently circulat-
ing on campus, Cathy has prepared
a three-page statement of the
College Theatre view of the situa-
tion. Consideration is given to the

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i Ross Foresees Changes —

In Social

Professor Bernard Rosshas be-
come the newly appointed director
of the Carola Woerishoffer Grad-
uate Department of Social Work and

‘Social Research of the College

at a time when the departinent may

' _ be undergoing dramatic change. .

‘After approximately three
years of committee considera-
tion,’? said Ross, ‘tthe members
of the department voted last spring
to inform the president that the de-
partment wished to move to school
status.”’

* Establishment of the department
itself was an innovation in 1915,
for the Bryn Mawr department of
social work: and social research
was the first graduate program of
social work education to be offered
by a college or university. The
department became in 1919 one
of the six charter members of the
American Association ‘of Schools
of Social Work. The degrees of
Master of Social Service and Doc-

- tor of Philosophy are awarded.

In her convocation address,

President McBride used Clark
Kerr’s term ‘‘mini-versity’’ to

describe Bryn Mawr. She thus rec-
ognized the possible effect of a
school of social work: that the
college may become fragmented.

The graduate school will be con-
cerned primarily inthe change, but

SAC Plans Sessions
For Apathy Probes

The first floor of the College
Inn will be the location of a coffee
hour and discussion on apathy,
to take place this Sunday at 3 p,m,

Sponsored by the Social Action
Committee, the gathering is being
held to explore the nature of apathy
at Bryn Mawr and to try to arrive
at- possible solutions to the prob-
lem, According to Vivien Schmidt,
publicity chairman of SAC, the
forum will be aimed at ‘‘trying
to get the campus activated some-
how,’’

The discussion will be moder-
ated by Margery Davies and will
include a panel of 3 or 4 students,
One of the panel members will be
Kathy Murphey, president of Self
Gov; others have not yet been
announced,

A possible starting point may
be the question of exactly what
is meant by apathy; i.e., whether
the ‘girl who chooses to devote
herself entirely to studies can be
considered apathetic. Topics for
discussion will be unrestricted,
however, and all who attend will
be encouraged to participate,

Margery emphasizes the fact
that Haverford students § are
cordially invited tothe coffee hour.
(Infact, a sign has been put up
in Founders reading, ‘‘Dissatisfied
with Bryn Mawr? Come to a
meeting on Apathy.’’)

The reasons for including
Haverfordians in the discussion
are (1) their relative objectivity,
(2) their concern and (3) the fact
that they too are apathetic, Second-

arily, the presence of Haverford ©

qualifies the meeting as a social
event, hopefully to be more suc-
cessful than the usual Sunday
afternoon coffee hour,

In the interest of making the
SAC get-together a regular event,
Margery has asked that anyone
with suggestions for future topics
speak to her in Rhoads.

 

Research Dept.

the under-graduates will also be

-involved since. the faculty of the

graduate department of social work
has taught courses to undergrad-
uates, Ross himself, for example,
has taught an undergraduate sem-~-
inar on the history and philosophy
of welfare, |

One reason for change is toclar-
ify the status of the department of
social work to those outside the
college. Most of the institutions
accredited by the Council on Social
Work Education are designated as
school or graduate school; ‘‘de-
partment”’ is usually related toun-
dergraduate programs in social
welfare. Often those dealing with
the Bryn Mawr department simply
assume that it is a school. **Most
of our mail comes addressed to
the ‘School of Social Work, any-
way,”’ Ross pointed out.

Other issues include the fact
that the graduate department of
social work has a slightly dif-
ferent calendar than has the re-
mainder of the college, for its.
graduate students must do field
work in various institutions as
part of their training. Ultimate
clarification may include examin-
ation of admission procedures,
representations on faculty come
mittees, and relations with the
graduate school.

Commenting on the present
arrangement, Ross emphasized
that ‘co-operation based upon
mutual understanding character-
izes the realtionships. The last
thing we’re interested in is separ-
ation or diminshing of relations,
but rather in codification ,’’ he
added. ‘‘We’ve flourished, and
Miss McBride has been first-rate
in her understanding.’?

A member of the Bryn Mawr
faculty since 1958 and associate
director of the department since
April, 1967, Ross has done active
work in the field of race relations,
particularly in the western states.
His particular responsibility at
Bryn. Mawr has been in the field
of community organization.

Photo courtesy Public Information
Bernard Ross

He is a member of the Montgomery
County Child Welfare Advisory
Board, and of the Committee on
Intergroup relations of the Nat-
tional Assembly for Social Pol-
icy and Development, Inc. He
serves as a delegate to the Health
and Welfare Council, Inc. of Phila-
delphia, “the Hospitals Council of
the Mental Health Association of
Southeastern Pennsylvania and is
chairman of the Commission on
Community Organization of ‘the
National Association of Social

Workers... Ashley Doherty ‘71

 
 

 

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As We Like It

Although the argument that the members are
‘‘overworked’’ is no longer being actively proposed
by the administration as a reason for a cutback in

College Theatre productions this year, the fact that,

this proposal was made in the first place concerns
all elements of the Bryn Mawr community.
The rationale of ‘‘overworked’’ students seems to

have been a false pretense from the beginning. ,

None of the dramatic casts or technical crews of
the College Theatre productions: had dropped below
their minimal academic responsibilities. In fact, a.
list of both cast and crew must be. submitted to the:
administration for a check of the grade standing of.
each student, Perhaps it can be argued that some
members of College Theater do not lead their classes
academically, But for some people, education is a
vital, expanding experience which encompasses more
than just atenosnic’ at lectures and reserve room

reading.

It appears peanuts incongruous that the College
Theatre controversy with its suggestion of an ‘‘over-
worked’? membership, should coincide with the intro-
duction of ‘‘apathy’? coffee hours at this college. On
the c**-shand, there is a move to have administra-
tion, faculty and Bryn Mawr and Haverford students
sit down together and discuss the whats and whys
of the apathy which supposedly clutches this college.
And at the same time, the administration, which)
claims a desire to overcome local apathy, is at-
tempting to stifle the endeavors of one of the most:

devoted and unapathetic groups on campus.

C.H,

Bi-College Student Group
Joins Resistance Effort

About 40 Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford students met Thursday night
with Ken Sherman of the Philadel-
phia Resistance to discuss plans
for bi-college participation in a
nation-wide effort of non-coopera-
tion with the Selective Service and
in other anti war activities,

Sherman, who turned in his draft
ecard in June 1967 and has since

been working with the Philadelphia |

group, explained that non-coopera-
tion meant essentially returning or
otherwise ridding oneself of the
burden of a draft card and ulti-
mately refusing to serve in the
Armed Forces. He stressed, how-
ever, that for students who still
had doubts in this respect, other
avenues of action were possible.

Students learned that they could
be trained as draft counselors and
advise young meninthe community

who are currently facing the draft .

and to whom information is not
otherwise readily available (i.e.
the black community in Ardmore)
of possible deferments and other
alternatives to military service.
Philadelphia Resistance regularly
gives draft counseling courses
consisting of three three-hour
sessions at their office at. 2006
Walnut St,, Philadelphia.

Sherman offered to send some-
one to Haverford or Bryn Mawr to
teach such a course. He also sug-
gested that students obtain from
local draft boards names of people
who have been classified or
reclassified 1 A whom they could
contact and inform of the availa-
bility of free counseling, He noted

that girls were especially effective
in this area,

Sherman also told the group that
there was a need for researching
local draft boards, some of which
appear to be illegally constituted.
He noted by way of example thatin
some predominately black areas
members of boards are largely
whites who do not live in the com-
munity they purportedly represent,
In such cases, all action taken by
the board is illegal, and Resis-
tance has access to legal counsel
who handle proceedings,

Other areas in which Bryn Mawr
and Haverford students can be of
help are ‘general dissemination of
information and_ fund raising.
Other. colleges in the Philadelphia
area are currently leafleting high
schools and induction centers, ar-
ranging films and speakers espec-

ially in high schools and compiling

‘¢We Won’t Go’’ statements signed,
by students, Sherman noted that
people are always needed to plan,
publicize and attend various de-
monstrations such as the one held
last Wednesday when Dean Rusk
spoke at a dinner in Philadelphia,

The next large ‘rally, a national
draft card turn in, is scheduled
for Nov. 14th,

The group appointed various
people to look into each of these
areas and decided to hear their
findings at a dinner meeting this

‘Thursday at 6 p.m. at Founders

Hall. Anyone who is interested is
urged to attend. Meal tickets for
Bryn Mawr students will be pro-
vided,

 

photo by Cynthia Friedman
Anti-Wright-wing Radnorites protest the new library in their show “For Love of Ivy.”

Rhoads Production Wins Acclaim

With Original Thematic Approach —

College is in, but Bryn Mawr

is out, That’s the moral of Fresh-,

man Hall Plays 1968, and it’s a
good one, After all, we’ve all
heard the Haverford Harry jokes

in freshman hall plays. (We’ve all.
SAID the Haverford Harry jokes,

in freshman hall plays.) The two
shows which-carried this year’s
honors wete Rhoads and Radnor,
and both’ exploited the college ex-
perience as a common meéeting-
ground between audience and ac-
tors, but shunned Bryn Mawr as a
bit too common,
Prize-winner

The genius of the prize-winning
Rhoads entry, ‘‘My Mother Went
Here, or How Many Books Have
You Got In Your Library?’ lay
primarily in the choice of its
theme: college admissions, It’s a
subject which, unlike Bryn Mawr,
the freshmen know more about
than the upperclassmen, And even
though the freshmen have been
through the experience most re-
cently, it’s something which no-
body in the audience had forgotten;
even the oldest senior could iden-
tify, since, as we’re reminded at
the show’s end, ‘‘There’s always
graduate school.’’
_ The Rhoads show used its theme
to draw caricatures of different
colleges through their admissions
policies. These well-paced vi-
gnettes had no logical order, but
instead gave a good dizzying effect
of a sub-freshman visiting
hundreds of colleges to please her
mother and insure admission in at
least one school, The only un-
necessary scene was wherejtwo
girls changed clothes wordlessly
on stage. It wasn’t a bad idea, but
it slowed the pace of the play, and
it was never recovered. Without
that scene, the Rhoads entry would
have been an exceptional show;
with it, it was a very good fresh-
man hall play,

Protest Satire

Radnor’s ‘‘For Love of Ivy: A
Thrilling Story of Social Protest
on the College Campus,’’ runner-
up in the competition, was the
only show which actually had a
plot. Instead of being a series of
scenes strung loosely together,
the show presented and resolved
a problem, Its heroine, Martha
Krudd (i.e,, Mark Rudd) gathers
student forces to storm the Pres-
ident’s office to protest the new
library. Why? Because it’s new,
These derriére-garde radicals are

calmed by Thoroughly Modern Mc-

Bride,
donate lice, dank and dust, to in-
sure that M, Carey Thomas
atmosphere, The Radnor show had
the advantages of a tight script,
fine acting (especially Martha
Krudd), good lyrics and great scen-
ery. Above all, it used Bryn Mawr
only as a background setting.
Rockefeller’s ‘*The Rape of the
Seven Sisters’’ was the only other
play which didn’t center directly
on Bryn Mawr, Like Rhoads,
Rockefeller attempted todraw car-
-icatures of other colleges, notably
the seven sister and Ivy League
schools. Rhoads’s method of char-
acterization through admissions

 

who gets professors to

 

in abundance,-The gym jokes*were
there. So were bad puns, Drug
jokes, which last year got. big
laughs (if only from people who
wanted to prove to their neighbors
that they were cool - enough to
catch them) tended to fall flat
this year,

Erdman’s ‘‘The Undergraduate’
was this yeir’s first play; and pro--
vided a sound beginning, Parallel-
ing ‘‘The Graduate,’ the show’s
central figure is named Benjie, a
shy and uncertain student, out to
discover who she is in college.
She’s helped along by a tuneful
chorus (a la Simon and Garfunkle)
singing good lyrics, There the

   

photo by Cynthia Friedman

Innocent III, hero of Rockefeller’ s “Rape of the Seven Sisters, reads
from “The Main Line Chronicle’ that all God-fearing Main Line
mothers should keep their daughters away from Haverford boys -- and,

for safety’s sake, their sons, too.

policies, however, was more subtle
than Rockefeller’s one-of-each-
type-of-student technique, But
Rockefeller had clever cari-
catures; especially good was a
Nixon’s-the-One Smithie who ex-
claims to her abductor, ‘‘Oh, I’m
so glad you feel just the way
Daddy does!’’ Rockefeller’s pro-
duction was also the most polished
of any. Its scenery and costumes
were outstanding. Songs were very
popular this year in all the shows,
but the Rockefeller freshmen
belted theirs across in real musi-
cal comedy fashion with the help
of a good pianist.

The other five plays were all
variations on the Bryn Mawr
theme, It would be unfair to say
that they were therefore indis-
tinguishable or unoriginal, but
there were certain freshman hall.
play standard elements that came
up in all five with monotonous
regularity. Haverford Harry was

resemblance’ to ‘*The Graduate’’
ends, and Standard Freshman Hall
Play begins, Benjie never finds
herself, but she finds out a great
deal about Bryn Mawr (which the
audience already knew), Erdman’s
show had no continuity, but it had
good sight gags, and Benjie gave
the best performance -of the eve-
ning. a

Denbigh’s ‘‘Mission Impos-
sible: Our Fair Ladies’’ was also
mainly a string of. scenes about
discovering the horrors of Bryn
Mawr life, The freshmen arrive,
all their dreams are -shattered,
but they adapt. (This acceptance
is symbolized by their changing
clothes on stage; stripping is big
this year.) The show had a few
too many songs, a bit too little
action and rather too wistful a

.quality for the jaded upperclass- “

man audience, It did have, how-
ever, the most coordinated, visu-

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With Sporty Variety

The Athletic Association at Bryn
Mawr is for those who love gym
and those who hate it. There are.
activities planned for fall which
will appeal to just about everyone,

For those who are organized-
sports-minded the volleyball team

Friday, October 4, 1968

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——~ Guide To The Perplexed—— Black Students Seek Link
With Ardmore Community

# FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 ©

"7:30 p.m. Lantern Night. Library cloi-
sters. Tickets $1.00,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
9:00 p.m. Fanflashtick, an out-of-this- .
\ world patrons’ party, with the Com-
pany of Us, Museum of the Phila-
delphia Civic Center.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6

3:00 p.m. SAC ‘Apathy Coffee Hour,”

College Inn. :

5:00 p.m. French Coffee Hour. Good

practice. Erdman,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8

7:15 p.m. First movie o f art. series.
Biology lecture room. $.75 (also

at 9:30).

8:30 p.m. Premiere of “up
About and enacted

Concept.”?
ug addicts.

| Theatre of the Living Arts, Phila-
: delphia. (from $2.50),

8:30 p.m.

‘‘Marriage U.S,A,’’,
Lecture Room. ,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9

Physics

8:30 p.m. Alliance Student Forum on in-

ternational political and social-de-
velopments, Common Room,

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

4:00 p.m. Alliance Freshman Tea, Com-

mon Room.

7:30 p.m. Scottish Folk Dancing, beginner.
class, Graduate Center Gym.
9:30 p.m. Scottish ee

advanced,

G.C, Gyms

 

Curriculum Committee
Plans Teas, Symposium-

The changing of Miss McPher-

“‘son’s. freshman teas from the
spring to the fall is Curriculum |

Committee’s first accomplishment
this year,

The teas are now being held in
the fall as a continuation of the Sun-
day night coffee hours given at
faculty homes during Freshman

 

AA Tempts Inactive

opens its season against Swarth-
more on Oct. 10, There will also
‘ber informat vollé yball games every
Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. on

Merion Green. Anyone, including

- the faculty and Haverford, is wel-

 

; “‘MADS

come to play, watch and/or have
refreshments.

The gym will be open Sundays

from 3 to 5 p.m, for volleyball,

badminton or even basketball on
Yequest, For special equipment of
any kind, contact Linda vers in

Pembroke,

The gym pool may also be used
Sundays from 3 to 4 p.m, and
Monday and Thursday nights from

8:30 to 9:30, This applies to fe-

males only. The Batten House pool
may be used for co-ed swimming
4 to 8 p.m. weekdays and 1 to

6 p.m. weekends,

For those who like to go back

a few years every once in a while

there are now two swings on cam.
pus: a tire on the path between
Rhodes and the hockey fields and
a seat swing at the end of Senior

Row. An afternoon of kiteflying is
planned for Oct. 12, complete with
refreshments,

The Athletic Association alsohas
possession of a barn, Appleby

near the hockey fields, It is larger

than the Common Room, contains
a huge fireplace and some
furniture-in fact all it lacks is
heat and running water, Hopefully
the former problem will soon be
solved. AA is planning an open
house to acquant the student body
with the end less possibilities of
its barn,

These are only the AA fall offer-
ings - can you wait for winter?

 

Campus representative for
folk concerts. Commission. Call
Lenny: -WA 5-8081 between 8
A.M. and 10 A.M.

 

 

 

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Week. The _ teas, as yet un-
scheduled, will probably be held

on Sunday afternoons in the Com-

mon Room of Goodhart.

(eF aculty members will be invited
‘to the teas to speak about research

or travels relating to their fields.
Mrs. Maria Luisa Crawford of the
geology department has agreed to
speak about her work in California

and Howard Kee, the new religion
‘professor will tell students about
Jhis research in Israel. Miss Fran-
ices de Graaff (and hopefully Mrs.

Ruth Pearce) will speak about her

trip across Siberia last summer.

Interested upperclassmen will also
be invited to these teas.

Also being planned is a joint

symposium with Haverford in
which several colleges will be
invited to send student represen-
tatives to discuss their respective
curricula. The.Committee is con-
sidering inviting. - Brown,
Wellesley, Oberlin, Antioch, Ben-
nington, Sarah Lawrence, Columbia
and tlie University of Pennsylvania.
Faculty will be invited to this sym-
posium, which is being planned for
first semester, perhaps in Decem-
ber.

Yale,

Meeting weekly under the direc-
tion of chairman Pat Rosenfield,
the Student Curriculum Committee
has been organizing sub-com-
mittees to deal with innovations
such as the pass-fail system, pro-

ject courses and self-scheduled
exams.

One question they have discussed
is the possibility of a second reli-

gion course for second semester.
Since only one course has been

scheduled so far, the subject for
another is open to any ideas from

the student body. Students with
suggestions should either attend
a committee meeting(they are held
every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in
Room G, Taylor) or contact Pat
Rosenfield in Pem West.

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League Activates
Socially Minded

League, coordinating body for
all Bryn Mawr social work
activities, will sponsor seven pro-
grams this year. Five of these
programs involve volunteers
working directly: with people
throughout the Philadelphia area;
the other two programs will recruit
task forces to collect funds and
clothing.

The Bryn Mawr Tutorial Project
sends volunteers. to work with
Negro junior -high-school students
in West Philadelphia on a one-
to-one basis.

until next Friday, Oct, 11,
Those interested should contact
Sassy Edmundson or Cheri Morin
in Pembroke East.

The Callowhill Children’s Re-:
ception Center.headed this year
by Eleanor Colby (Denbigh) sends
students to Philadelphia to enter-
tain pre-school-age children.

Chester’s Eastern State School
and Hospital needs ,weekly volun-
teers to work with emotionally
disturbed children aged 4 to 16,
Contact Giga Madej, Erdman.

Students interested in teaching
positions with Opportunities Indus-
trial Center in Philadelphia should
talk with Astrid Lipp in Batten
House.

Debbie Harris (Rhoads) is
arranging work camps with the
Friends Social Order Committee
in Philadelphia, and would like
volunteers. -

In addition, task forces under
the direction of Astrid Lipp are
needed to collect used clothing
on campus and to canvass the
area surrounding BMC for the
United Fund in late October.

Finally, League has $300 to
bring speakers in social _ work
to Bryn Mawr. This year, it
hopes to invite the Rev. Leon
Sullivan of OIC to speak. Debbie
Harris (Rhoads), in charge of
speakers, would welcome any
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Work with the youth in the black
community of Ardmore has been
chosen as the major project for
the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Black

-Student League this year. The pro-

ject represents an effort to in-
crease black awareness as well
as to improve relations between
the colleges and the community,

The members of BSL hope to
begin work by establishing re-
lationships with the youths in order
to understand their needs and de-
sires, The League has been cun-
sidering the possibility of tutor-
ing as the main focus of the pro- |
ject, but have decided to wait until
they know the community better so
that they can ‘give them what
they want and need and not what
we think they n

Work in Ardmore will also in-
clude helping at the Gate Library,
a library for the education of
blacks about blacks. This is a
continuation of a project which was
started last year by some of the
group’s members, During the 67-68
academic year the Haverford Post-
Bac students raised $400 for the
library.

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Junior Show
(Continued from page 1)
direct its performance. Faith
Greenfield, who was_ elected
director last spring, resigned be-
cause of difficulties involved in
directing a show which did not
appeal to her own creative style.
The music for Junior Show was
composed by Stefani Schwartz and
Joan Briccetti. Maryo, Sharon and |
Dardis McNamee are writing the
lyrics. Ames Sheldon is production
manager, and stage managers are
Michele _ Langer and Barbara {
Knight. Choreography will be hand- (
led by Chris Woll, Leslie Comassar '
and Patche Poindexter, ._

  
 
 

‘Préedom Theater, a drama troupe
‘of young black actors from the

Philadelphia area. The group pres-
ents plays of special interest to
black students, either because they
are written by black playwrights
or because they deal with black
people and their problems.

The BSL also plang to make the
Black Arts Festival an annual
event. The first Festival was spon-
sored by the political science de- .
partment last year. The second —
is being planned for Feb, 14-16,
1969. °

The League is also working in

.an attempt to get black educators
‘for their campuses. Haverford has

one black professor and Bryn Mawr
has none. Members of BSL have

spoken to departmentheads at Bryn

Mawr about the possibilities of
hiring black professors in the
future. The problem seems to lie
in finding peopie both qualified and.
willing to teach at a small private
college in this area,

The Swarthmore BSL has joined
Bryn Mawr and Haverford in this
project. In addition, the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford BSL ‘is maintain-
ing close ties with the Villanova-
Rosemont BSL, Temple University
BSL, Lincoln BSL and Frankline
and Marshall BSL in an attempt
to form a cohesive group of all
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Plays. . 3

(Continued from page 2)
ally pleasing and generally careful
direction of any of the shows.

‘‘The Gospel.According to Pem-
broke’ (East) made a strange
ending for the-first night of fresh-
man hall plays, Viewing Bryn Mawr
in Biblical terms, it said nothing

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an impressive familiarity with the’
Bible, The high point of the show
came when the slothful Katie (Cain)
rose up and slew her obnoxiously

‘ diligent roommate Arabella, Acry

of righteous approval went up from
the audience; everybody obviously
had someone in mind for asimilar
fate, The play ended, however, with
a wish for peace, which was de-
livered in such a strange tone
that no one was quite sure whether
humor or sincerity. was intended,
and no one wanted to commit
himself by laughing. The audience
just drifted out feeling puzzled,

Merion’s ‘‘Passionate Story of
the Founding of Bryn Mawr’’ had
more coherence than most of the
plays. Hugh Heffnerfellow is
thrown out into the world and forced
to make his way. He comes to a
colony of Indians, who promise to
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only brin’ one girl? Next time
brin’ mawr,”’

Last and least ofthe freshman
hall plays was Pembroke West’s
“The Mummy and the Humming-
bird,’’ The. cast stood in a-box
formation on stage, chanting lyrics
about Bryn Mawr to dubious tunes,
These were supplemented by ir-
relevant readings, The leader of
the group was lively throughout
the whole performance, and showed
admirable stage presence, but
there was little she could do,
The show lacked’ costumes,
scenery, action, relevance and,
above all, a cast, Of the 21 fresh-

man in Pembroke West, only six
appeared: this made the show’s
comments about student apathy at
Bryn Mawr most appropriate,

Non-participation, however, was
not a big problem at freshman
hall plays this year. Skinner was
quite full both nights, and the
audience was anxious to help the
freshmen and to like their plays.
And they didn’t: have to try very
hard, The class of ’72 has good
acting ability and exceptional sing-
ing talent; when not in competition
with each other, they should com-
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College Theatre. . .

(Continued from page 1)

fact that College Theatre offers

the only opportunity for supervised
dramatic study and performance
at Bryn Mawr and that the bi-
college basis of the organization
requires that Haverford be con-
sulted concerning’ any schedule
changes.

Cathy sees_one of the major
difficulties to be the administra-
tion’s reluctance to schedule
events for other available, but
little used facilities, such as the
science building, lecture rooms,
the Social Research Center room
‘and the Erdman living room.

She has suggested that if such
facilities are not thought suitable
for visiting lecturers and similar
events, then a system of schedul-
ing priority must be instituted.

‘¢Since it would be a matter of
concern to the entire college com-
munity, assigning priorities to all
events should be done by the whole
college or by someone who has an
accurate picture of what the com-
munity wants,’’ Cathy explained.

Robert Butman, faculty director
of College Theatre, has suggested
to the administration that a posi-
tion -be created for a cultural-
events coordinator for both Bryn

determination for

Mawr and Haverford, Such a per-
son would also serve as a needed

- communications link between the

two institutions.

‘‘One of the most curious aspects
of the whole thing is that only one
of the three plays scheduled for this
year will be held at Bryn Mawr. The
other two will be produced at
Haverford,” Cathy . commented.
«The whole move seems to be a
precatitionary move against next
year when it will be Bryn Mawr’s
turn to host two productions. There
is really no question about the three
plays this year because Haverford
will let us have two over there, and
the Bryn Mawr administration
would hardly deny the use of Good-

‘hart for just one production.”’

Explaining that Miss McBride’s
last comment on the issue was ‘‘to
find out what the girls wanted,’’
Cathy is urging all students to read

_ the petition that is posted at various

points on campus and to sign it in
support of the principle of self-
the College
Theatre and as a directive’ for a
new plan of scheduling college
events.

Cathy Hoskins

~ Computer Course Wins Credit
With Gain Of IBM System

With the recent acquistion of a
large-scale IBM 360 model 44
computer system, the problem of
computer education has received
more attention than in the past.
Previous efforts have concentrated
on programming instruction; they
have been hampered by the lack
of credit for such courses, and
‘the absence of computing facilities
here at Bryn Mawr. This year a
new half credit course is being
offered by Martin Snyder, assist-
ant professor of mathematics and
George Zimmerman, professor of
chemistry.

It was ~ strongly, felt that
teaching computer programing by
itself was inadequate preparation
for successful use of the com-
puting facilities, One must be aware
of the special problems caused by
the limited-accuracy arithmetic of
a computer, andalso the techniques
used to carry out mathematical
operations such as integration and
differentiation on a computer, The
lectures of this new course (inter-
departmental 220C) concentrate on
these and other aspects of numer-
ical analysis. To make this mater-

an .

ial available to a wide variety of
students the mathematical level is
restricted to that of first-year
calculus,

The laboratory portion of the
course (under the directionof Zim-
merman with the help of Mrs,
Suzanne Wolfson, a systems an-
alyst) enables the students towrite
programs, making use of the ideas
and algorithms presented in the
lectures, As much as_ possible,
these small groups concentrate on
the solution of problems arising in
their major field of interest,

It is expected that students com-
pleting. this course will be quite
versatile with the computer, and
form anucleus of computer orient-
ed students, It is hoped that this
group will be continually enlarging.
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