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THE COLLEGE NEWS

 

Vol. LIl, No. 6

BRYN MAWR, PA.

OCTOBER 21, 1966

C Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966

25 Cents

 

» This Years’ College Calendar
Passed by Faculty for 1967- 68

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The Bryn Mawr faculty voted
at a recent meeting to put this
year’s academic calendar into ef-
fect during the 1967-68 year as
well,

Mrs. Dorothy Marshall, head
of the calendar committee, said
the .vote took place September
‘28 to extend this temporary calen-
dar one more year. Mr. Berliner
and Mr. Dudden also serve on
the committee.

The vote occurred at this par-
ticular meeting at the request of
Haverford College, which needed
to know. the calendar. before Bryn
Mawr’s_ next faculty..meeting in
December in order to set up its
athletic schedule.

The Bryn Mawr faculty, not the
Haverford faculty, determines the
calendar each year, with an eye
towards coordinating the programs
of each school. Haverford does
have a calendar committee, con-
sisting of Dean Spielman and two
faculty members, who met. with
Mrs. Marshall’s group prior to
the Bryn Mawr vote.

The present calendar is a com-
promise, said Mrs. Marshall, with

imperfections and no real concen-

sus on the committee, ‘‘We’re
passionately interested in elimin-
ating the lame duck session,’’
she pointed out, and since there
wasn’t time to produce a new
calendar before the Sept, 28 meet-
ing, work will go on this year for

a new calendar for the year af-
ter next.

A special student calendar com-
mittee had a hand in producing
the present calendar two years
ago, and Mrs. Marshall hopes
that Curriculum Committee will
contribute to the project for a
new one. Plans ranging from the
Penn calendar to a trimester sys-
tem to finishing classes before
Christmas are under considera-
tion. (Because of Bryn Mawr’s
graduate school, the college pre-
fers an earlier beginning so that
grad students would not lose th
first semester at Penn.) :

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Students Petition

To Open Library

For Extra Hours

In each dorm representatives
from the Curriculum Committee
are circulating petitions request-
ing that the Bryn Mawr Library
be kept open until 10:00 Saturday
night and be opened at 10:00 Sun-
day morning.

The Committee feels that this
extension of library hours would
alleviate sdme of the pressure
on the use of reserve books; stu-
dents would still be allowed to sign
out reserves over the weekend.

Only the Reserve and Reading
Rooms would be kept open, so that
no more than a few students would
be needed on duty.

Arts Forum Offers Opportunities
To Frustrated Creative Students

According to Ronnie Scharf-
man, president of Arts Council,
Bryn ‘Mawr students are being
offered an excellent opportunity
for outlet of creativity by a Main
Line group called the Arts Forum,

Miss Ann Kish, a_ local
musician and artist, is head of
this organization, which is

presently housed in a large man-
sion near the Haverford Hotel,
which itis hoping eventually
to buy. It has dance practice rooms
with new floors, and soon there will
be full length mirrors, rooms to
paint in, a little theater which
seats 80, and printing and screen-
ing equipment, ~among~ other
things, Miss Kish has offered all
these facilities to interested Bryn
Mawr students, to the ‘‘frustrated,
suppressed, creative Mawrter.’’

The combined Bryn Mawr-
Haverford film-making group has
been told by Miss Kish _ that it
may use her equipment, She was
in California several years ago
and became interested in film
production and bought some of
the necessary equipment and
learned some of the basic tech-
niques, The’ group will be
meeting with her every Saturday
morning from 10:30 to 12:30 in
the Arts Forum building,

The Forum, while it has
all these facilities, is virtually
penniless. Although it is offering

Chagall Theme in ‘Winter's Tale’
To Determine Color, Movement

by Pam Barald

College Theatre’s design for this
fall’s production of Shakespeare’s
THE WINTER’S TALE aims to
create ‘‘dynamic interactions of
color, form and sound which will

give the play an impetus enlarging’

the range possible to classic

drama,’’

This will be done by adopting a
Chagall-like theme of contrast and
prilliance in color and moyement,
which will be especially apparent
in the set, lighting and costumes,
The Chagall approach, originated
by director Robert Butman, was
received with enthusiasm by the
production crew. ‘‘The idea be-
came more exciting as we began
to think of it as a complement
to the play which would bring out
the movement of the themes through
its seasons,’’ says production man-
ager Janet Ohle ’67,

The .stage contains a four-level
et with an expanse of black drop
aac which the colors will. move.
and mutate, The costumes will be
bold and gaily colored, according
to designer Debby: Jones and com-
mittee head Constancia Warren,
Christopher Fry’s music is be-
ing adapted for the production by
John Davidson, professor of music
at. Haverford College, The instru-
sments used in the play will be
simple and clear toned, probably
recorders and violin,

Alice Leib will choreograph the

--Jdances for the play, The set des-

ign committee was composed of
Janet Ohle, Rich Gartner, Jean

Farny, Bert Kritzet,-Pam Barald,

‘and Bill Wilke,

’ The poster was designed by Kathy
»Pottow. Jean Farny and Henry
‘Tarris are the heads of stage con-

guttuction. Marion Evans and Joe

Purvis designed the lighting
plan; Connie Warren and Debby
Jones are heads of costuming;
Harriet Tamen is in charge of
the makeup committee. Pam Barald
and Susan Gear are in charge of
props and special effects, Betsy
Kreeger, Jeff Gamble, and Dave
Lowry are the heads of the pub-
licity committee,

The. production will take place
in Goodhart November 4 and 5.
The curtain rises at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets ‘cost $1.00 for students
$1.50 for the general public, and
may be obtained from Ann Stehney
in Denbigh,

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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford little
theatre will hold its organization
meeting in the Common Room in
Goodhart Hall at 7:30 p.m, Tues-
day, October 25, The meeting will
be held to select a play to be per-
formed Friday, December 9 ih
Skinner workshop,

All students interested in direct-
ing, acting, or production are urged
to attend, Freshmen are welcome
and reminded that they are allowed
to act in little theatre since its
productions are. ‘‘minor’’ pro-
ductions, taking only two weeks
of rehearsal time,

Some suggestions for this year’s
production already offered area
Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta,
several modern comedies, and ori-
ginal plays by students or faculty.

Last year’s premiere perfor-
mance was Kauffmann and Hart’s
MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER;

it was characterizedasa‘‘wonder- ,,
fully. funny sticcess’’ -by students. ©
‘and faculty alike,

Little Theatre was organized as
a supplement to College Theatre
to absorb any extra talent not being
used by major productions.. It also

offers students the opportunity to
direct, and produce plays,

Anyone with suggestions for
plays or who wishes to direct is
asked to contact Pam Barald in
Rock or Lessie Klein or Cathy
Sims in Pem West,

 

At 10:40 a.m. Tuesday in
Roberts, Haverford Stu-
dents’ Council will hold an
open plenary Session to dis-
cuss five amendments to
their Constitution and the
social regulations of the
Honor System. Bryn Mawr
girls are invited to attend.

 

 

 

its facilities gratis to Bryn Mawr
students, the opinion of the Arts
Council is that those students who
use the Forum could, at the very
least, join it for the subscription
fee of $3 a year, Not only does
this allow’ members to use all
its facilities, but it gives them
reduced rates on its film series,
lectures, concerts, anddramapro-
ductions,

In order to express its
appreciation, Arts Council is
hoping to arrange a dance concert
or a Renaissance Choir concert
to be given at the Forum, to
be open to members of the Main
Line community only. The pro-
ceeds would all go to the
Forum,

The Forum is_ also. sub-
mitting an application for a
Rockefeller Foundation grant, If
it gets it, it will be the first time
such a grant has been given for
creative work to an institution
and not to an individual.

The Forum has ‘been in
existence for several years, This
is the first time that it has made
an effort to interest the students

along th in Line in its pro-
grams, — Ronnie scribes it
as providing ‘ anded oppor-

tunities’? to everyone, and
urges that all students Who have
complained about the lack of art-
istic opportunities on campus
to look into the many possibilities
the Forum offers,

Readmissions, Honors Program
In Curriculum Committee Plans

Although the Educational Goals
Committee was originally formed
as a part of Curriculum Com-
mittee, . this® group has been
autonomous for most of its exis-

_ tence, for since Curriculum Com-

mittee had no chairman until re-
cently, the committees have been
working separately.

As a result, the Educational
Goals Committee, headed by Mar-
garet Levi,” Nancy Gellman, and
Dorothy Dow, planned on its own
the series of discussions, ‘‘The
Meaning of an Education at Bryn
Mawr,’’? and has—received many
comments and ideas from the stu-
dent body. Now that Curriculum
Committee has a new chairman,
Andrea Lurie, the two plan to
work together, with Educational
Goals Committee as a sub-com-
mittee of Curriculum Committee.

A tentative executive commit-
tee of Curriculum Committee has
been appointed, including mem-
bers of all classes. In the com-
mittee are: Andrea Lurie, Ruth
Levy, Gill Lowes, Margaret Shep-
ard, and Norma Dudde.

The two committees are plan-
ning to write a joint report and
evaluation of what can be done
to improve the academic situation
at Bryn Mawr. This report will
be modeled after a similar re-
port made at the University of
Pennsylvania. The report will be
based on ideas and suggestions
from the student body. At an

open meeting Thursday, the com-

 

Director Butman confers with Joe Dickinson, who plays Polix-
enes, and Assistant Director. Kay Ford during a rehearsal.

mittee divided into groups to work
‘on separate areas of the report.

Curriculum Committee, will
work with the Faculty Curriculum
Committee on many of the prob-
lems that were discussed in the
recent series, the most: impor-
tant of which is the need for
smaller classes (which should be
possible in a college of Bryn
Mawr’s size).

Some of the other problems to
be considered in the report are:

1) more cooperation with the
graduate students;

2)a new honors program;

3) a new readmissions policy;

4) the formation of a student
vocational sub-committee which
will work with the Bureau of Rec-
ommendations to familiarize stu-
dents with. the job opportunities
in their fields, and keep them
posted on application deadlines
and interviews.

Another idea which has come
out of this committee is that of
a booklet which will include course
descriptions and evaluations, as
well as reading lists.

Company To Fix
Defective Lanterns

With Glass Panes

Three of the lanterns given to
the freshmen at Lantern Night
last Friday burst into flame, con-
trary to the promises ofthe Pres-
colite Company who supplied them.

The lanterns are faulty on two
accounts: first, the panes are plas-
tic; and second, the holes are
punched in the bottom instead of
the top. The company has now be-
gun the process of recalling them
and will replace the plastic panes
with glass ones, and will bore
holes in the top, where they will
be functionally useful. a

The big problem is in getting
all the lanterns back to.the com-
pany. Those Haverford boys who
have them are asked to return
them to Pinkie Stamen in Pem
East.

 

Legislature will meet next
Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in the
Common* Room to discuss
the Driving Rule situation.
Any persons wishing to at-
tend, other than the stan-
dard members of Legislature,
should first contact Beverly
Lange in Denbigh.

 

 

 

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