non ss ee A AE em eR | pp----.-« ont d OLLEGE NEWS Vol. Lill, No. 12 BRYN MAWR, PA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1968 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967 25, Cents tt RRS S el Es alll Community Project Set At Social Action Meeting Discussion at last Wednesday’s Bryn Mawr-Haverford Social Action Committee meeting cen- tered around the question of pro- grams for the spring. A strategic discussion grew a- round the proposal for a program, which was presented by Mindy Thompson, The aim of this program drawn up. by several Bryn Mavr girls, is to build lines of communication between the colleges and the com- munity of Bryn Mawr. The program will initiate contact by teaching and working with child- ren from the community in the field of Language Arts. The statement Mindy. read claimed that deprived children suf- fer from. an inability to express themselves and to communicate with others. Through Language Arts, they can learn to articulate their thoughts and feelings. The Language Arts program would be structured in workshops of Dance or Dramatics which would draw out the ideas and problems of every child. In giving these children con- fidence in themselves, and the abil- ity to express it, the program will strive to make them more domi- nately able to compete in middle class society, to get good jobsand ‘get —into good colleges. The program is designed to be a learning experience for the col- lege students who participate also. To confront a totally différemt way of life may’ shake the student into seeing beyond thé limits of his or her activity at college. At the same time it is hoped that in becoming aware of poverty, discrimination and poor education in the immediate community, the student will see that the seemingly far away problems of the Vietnam war are echoed, or perhaps rooted, close at home in the problems of the cities. This connection between the war » and the state of the country will be underlined in April, at a fast and teach-in which is also part of the proposal. In a coalition with the Negro Discussion Group, the new group focused on ‘the Bryn, Mawr community will emphasize’ urban. problems during the: teach~ : Mle ' There were many different opin- ions flung back and forth about this proposal at the meeting. Some felt that though the aims of the program in increasing political conscious- ness among gq pathetic students and in a poor community were good, that teaching children to ex- press themselves better would not basically or permanently change their situation, and that young children were nota group ready to organize for change. They felt that high school students had more potential for political con- sciousness. Members of the Negro Discussion Group warned _ the meeting of wisdom of white middle-class students speaking to black kids. Later during the meeting Rick Hathaway announced the forma- tion of a Speaker’s Bureau for speakers and films. Peter Gold- berg brought up a proposal for sending draft information to near- by high school students, Literary Prize Deadline Set For March 21 Joining the host of sponsors announcing spring literary con- tests, the Alumnae Office has set Mar. 21 as its deadline for all entries to the Katherine Fullerton- Gerould Memorial Prize. The competition, which carries a $75 prize, is open to all Bryn Mawr undergraduates. Entries may be made in any of three cat- egories; narrative (long or short); informal essay (excluding critical papers and formal essays); and verse. Work from class or,from a student publication is not excluded, but entries should have been written or completed since Com- mencement of last year. Contestants may submit more than one entry and in the case of verse, the Committee advises the submission of a group of poems. Manuscripts, typed and double spaced, should’ be submitted to the Alumnae Office unsigned. . « of originality,and mastery of lang- uage. iIt.is given only if, in the opinion of the Committee, material submitted ‘justifies an award. _ ‘The prizeisawardedon the basis _ HTT tt CE EEE Bd — re a etl A, photo courtesy Public Relations e iS Much of the furnishings of the Dorothy Vernon Room in the Dean- ery will be transplanted to the common living room of the new language house in the fall of 1969. To add to the atmosphere, the architect plans to use the wooden beams on the new ceiling. He is also investigating the possibility of moving the tile floor. Freshman Viking Saga To Run This Weekend ‘*You’re the kind who, if you were hanging by your fingertips from a cliff, would say you were climbing a mountain,”’ Every year about this time, the dazzling talent of the freshmen surges out of the depths of academia and pre-Hell Week terror to produce a show or u- paralleled literary and musical value, And-for a_ by fingertips.’’ sp But this year, as pS Sar, the cliff is in reality the upward sYope of a mountain of achievement, ‘*Who Put the . Vie. in Viking?’ .- Class of ’71, will be staged tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30 in Goodhart with tickets for both performances avilable at the door. A tale of Viking daring-do, the presentation tonight and to- morrow evening will demon- strate the credibility of dra- maturgical evolution, Starting with a rather amorph- ous suggestion from a gloat- ing upperclassman (probably a ‘friendly’? sophomore), ‘‘Say, don’t you kids have some sort of little production to throw to- gether,’’ the show staggered from ‘ e A . : 1 FR ety tt gly mo ee ee Sees ee ee ve oa x a Fore EE Bg earners fib dh tape 4 ms Sb iN ety sta ire iene - . £6 nae Come to HELEN’S for gifts and jewelry Earrings, earrings and earrings, $1.00 up! the little shop with a big beart and small prices Bryn Mawr Theater Arcade Philadelphia Social Science Forum presents CLAUDE LIGHTFOOT, Secretary, National Committee, ‘Department of Negro Affairs, U.S. Communist Party; and WALTER PALMER, Black People’s Unity Movement, in a discussion of “BLACK LIBERATION: TWO VIEWS” Friday, Feb, 16 - HOTEL PHILADELPHIA, Broad at Vine St. . 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And Anacin gives you more of this | a medication than any other leading tablet. - e Anacin is a special fortified formula. It promptly , relieves pain, helps reduce swollen tissues, and so re- 8:30 P.M. at the é leases pressure on sensitive back nerves. Then notice ‘ hes s how stiff muscles loosen up and you move around with ® greater ease. - Only Anacin: has this special fortified : formula. It’s not found in any other prod- : uct. See if Anacin’s exclusive formula we On Nov. 15, 1959, in Holcomb, ~ Herbert Clutter family were mur- dered by two men whoescaped with 43 dollars and a portable radio. The men were subsequently caught, tried, and hanged. In the fall of 1965, ‘*In Cold Blood,’? Truman ‘Capote’s account of the case-in non-fiction. novel form. was published, an effort to simultan- eously introduce and epitomize this literary form. On Feb, 14, ironi- cally enough, the movie version of “In Cold’ Blood,” directed by Ri- chard Brooks, opens at Cinema 19 in Philadelphia. In eight years, but mostly in light of Capote’s efforts, so much knowledge and speculation about the Clutter case has accumu- lated -*- here one avoids puns with difficulty --- as to have created what amounts to a mys- tique. Capote saw toitthat we knew everything about the Clutters down to what kind of pie they ate, and everything about killers Smith and Hickok down to what kind of gum they chewed. He picked the brains and, one suspects, the imaginat- tions of Holcomb, Kansas, until the murders were recreated with smo- thering exactness. His unswerving investigations were challenged only by those of Richard Brooks, who did not so much merely direct the movie as both inseminate and nurture it. Hardly had the Holcomb locals settled back onto their por- ches after Capote’s visit when Co- lumbia pictures moved in.. The entire movie was filmed on loca- tion, using authentic roads, authen- tic houses, authentic Kansans. Au- thenticity is its middlename. With the public kept abreast of every technical step, it showed promise of being a tedious documentary to be studied rather than enjoyed. It manages, with little struggle, to be a completely engrossing crime movie, Part of this is due to splendid BRYN MAWR RECORDS - 1026 Lancaster Ave. 527-1175 Coming: A Great Clearance Sale 1000 LP’s Ranging From $1.00 to $3.00 10,000 45’s 10 Cents to 50 Cents Kansas, the four members of the Capote Novel Brought to performances by Scott Wilson and Robert Blake ‘as the murderers. Contrasted to the rather un- appealing Clutters, they are fas- cinating studies, and live more on film than they ever did in print, Freed from mires of recorded tri- via, they become really men with humor and nerves and tempers. Both actors steeped themselves in their characters, so that their lines lose artificiality and have spon- taneous impact; this filming was ‘‘not fun,’’ nor does it appear to be. . Filming was sequential, and especially the middle portion of the movie has a wrenching urgency. John For- sythe, the only well-known actor in the cast, was chosen partly because he bears a striking re- semblance to the investigation _agent he plays. His smooth per- formance is a vivid and appro- priate contrast to the candor of the unknowns. The movie’s direction is almost flawless. Rarely is black-and- white’ documentary technique used as subtly and as effectively as‘ this. Smith’s Freudian fantasy in a sleazy Mexican hotel and his autobiographical soliloquy in pri- son, with the shadows of rain- drops cast on one side of his face, are brilliant scenes. The dis- covery of the Clutter bodies, while completely predictable, «is still wholly stunning. The main fault is the movie’s length -- two hours and 15 min- utes. There is too much heavy- Blake says that. “Stop! Final Sale DRESSES $10.99 Were to $26.00 SKIRTS $7.99 Were to $16.00 SWEATERS $7.99 Were to $19.00 Gloves, Slacks, Shells: Great Reductions Her Clothes Tree Life > In Documentary Film Form handed irony at the beginning--Mr. : Clutter buying life insurance, for. Anstance--and too much totally superflous authenticity throughout, Daily newspapers were reprinted, only to be seen fleetingly. Seven original jurors were: recruited, . though only four are ever shown. The death house was reconstructed stone by stone, though one ware- house is véry like another, The major editing lapse is the lengthy, maudlin ending. Very little needs to be said against capital punish- ment these days, and the movie speaks for itself without its coda, This ‘comes perilously close to ruining an otherwise taut film.° Sociologists will probably com- mend this movie, although it is. closer to ‘‘Anatomy of a Murder’? than to ‘“‘An American Tragedy.” Robert Blake says, ‘‘There are six innocent people here: Smith and Hickok. killed four of them and ‘we the people’ killed the other two.’’ The innocence of the last two seems highly du- bious, but a good bit of sympathy is mustered for them. Certainly one feels a twinge for Smith when he says seconds before his hanging, ‘*I’d like to apologize, but --- who to??? ‘ Just as Capote’s novel evaded comparison, so does this movie. It is animpressive introduction to 4 technique which will be difficult to develop and intriguing to follow. 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