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COLLEGE NEWS

May 31, 1965

 

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Contributing -osiegl . Anne Lovgren, ’°66 and Edna Perkins, 66
Business Mamagers 0000s coe Janie Taylor, ’68 and Nancy Geist, ’66

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Opinions expressed in editorials do not necessarily represent
those of the entire editorial board.

Innovations

A description of the academic year now ending can be largely
summed up in one word: innovation. New institutions have sprung
up like the spring dandelions, changing the governmental structure
of the_eampus, and the rules by which we live in the dormitories.

Within the structure of Undergrad, one organization has changed
its status, and another has been.created, Chairman of Curriculum
Committee became a campus-elected ‘office, after a small tempest
temporarily split the campus. In imitation of- Haverford, a Com-,
mittee of 39 was created to poll campus opinion. Both changes were
made conditionally, to be reconsidered after their efficacy has been
tested, Although the Curriculum Committee change cannot be judged.
for some time, the Committee of 39 has already brought action in
helping effect a system of meal exchanges with Haverford.

In the realm of social innovation, the beginning of the year saw -
liberalization of the rules regulating men in the rooms, and second
semester marked the demise of the driving rule. Both changes seem to
have worked out well and both bode good for any further considerations
of social rules changes.

Even the physical face of the eollege has changed. The new physical
sciences building opened for business last fall andeven Erdman became
a reality instead of a rather ephemeral dream.

Some changes, it is true, are not so good. The hiring of armed
guards to patrol the campus is an unfortunate, but necessary, evil.
The required meeting on the library to discuss abuses of its rules
reflects more directly on the student body, but hopefully this innovation
will not have to be repeated, —

The good, however, certainly balances the bad, and the year as a
whole must be chalked up on the credit side,

Hooray

It seems to be a tradition for us to complain about the slowness
of the administration when it comes to sending out important, at least
to the students, information, Twice a year we find ourselves asking
plaintively when the exam schedules will be posted, in late February
we beg for first semester grades. It is refreshing, therefore, to find

that the recorder’s office has been remarkably efficient this spring.

Senior grades were due Tuesday evening, and by Thursday afternoon
seniors had received their second semester grades and the results
of their comprehensive exams, The work. that went into this speedy
processing must have been tremendous, and we would like those re-
sponsible to know we appreciate it.

It is a great relief to seniors to know how they have done before
the weekend of graduation. Hopefully the undergraduates will be as for-
tunate, and will receive their grades before the summer is too far

Dye Lot

Haverford crossed the Rubicon, or at least the cloisters pool, this
year when they cast in the purple dye to contribute to the seniors’ swim
for good luck, Very clever. But: why, we wonder, did they choose the
color | Auta ae besides the fact that it is appropriately regal?

A bad pun? - Grape Expectations.

Romantic undertones? - Deep Purple.

A party prank? - Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we dye.
A dinner menu? - Spring chickens with cranberry sauce.

Their congratulations? - Orchids, no less.

Personally, we think they’re out of their minds, but they did do us
a good turn. Hereafter, no one will ever be able to accuse Bryn
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|| Letters To
Thanks

To the Editor;

To all Bryn Mawr College stu-
dents whoused the Library between
the hours of 10 to 12 P.M, during
the 80th academic year.

I wish to express my sincere
thanks for the co-operation given
me in carrying out the rules that
were set before me _ to enforce.
These rules have been observed,
with very few exceptions.

I have had the opportunity and
the pleasure of meeting many stu-
dents, and have been impressed
with the attitudes and conduct of
students at Bryn Mawr College.

‘I hope you have a very pleasant
summer, and are able to do the
things you would like to do.

‘Thank you very much,
Sincerely,
Everett C, Mullen
Library Porter 10-12 P.M.

Honors —

To the Editor:
We. were relieved to note that
the article on Honors papers: did not

 

now is a very special time of
; year
or so i hear
for not only is the english derby
coming soon
but next week is the 125th
anniversary of the first
descent in a balloon
by a woman. so tis very apropos
in this season of letting go
to let down your hair
and if you dare
let out a bit of a yell

with a yea anda ho
and a hip hip hooray
oh gladuation
here comes another graduation!
cum poeta,
applebee

Sheepskin. Psychosis Debunks

 

U.S. Diploma-Status Syndrome

ministrators and the’ periferal
personnel, and the powers that be
on the business battleground. The
hysteria imminent in the search
for academic eminence is evident
and is well documented by the
author.

The essential argument is that
evil nasty ol’ society required that
a man (for the majority of the
book’s presentation concerns the
masculine role and consequent
problems thereof) have a college
diploma merely because everyone
else seems to believe that he should
have one. The ensuing difficulties
are Obvious - there are only so
many places in the Heavenly Seven
and the Ivy (or Ivory) League. For
the ‘‘best’’ jobs, one must naturally
attend the ‘‘best’’ schools.

The result of the herd instinct
produced by ‘‘good, better, best’?
conscious parents is forceful dis-
position of frequently unwilling off-
spring in equaliy unwilling insti-
tutions of higher and higher learn-
ing. The’ chain of events becomes
more and more involved,

Mr. Keats deems that there are
few evils in the world. College is

by Margery Aronson '65

John Keats, a Philadelphian who
is ‘‘convinced that too many, not
too few, high school graduates go
to college,’’ has described the
situation in Vance Packard-ian
terms in his book, THE SHEEP-
SKIN PSYCHOSIS. One quickly sees
that society is wrong in requiring
the Latin or Gothically Scripted ,
parchment as a prerequisite for
almost everything.

The research for this study
incorporates interviews of col-
legians, contents; malcontents, re-
jects, dropouts, and parents of
those in-aforementioned categor-
ies; those who make a college, in-
cluding the professors, the ad-

Clock-Watchers!
Haverford Seeks
Sundial Sketches

Haverford College is offering
prizes for the best drawings of
the three viriles, uh, sundials on .
campus. Replicas of these draw-
ings will be used as symbols
appearing on the literature used
to promote the new bequest in-
quiries program among. alumni
and friends of the college,

Open to students of Haverford
and Bryn Mawr, the contest con-
cludes Friday, June 4, Entries
should be left at the development
office in the basement of Founders,
Judging will be done by a committee
of faculty members headed by Paul
des Jardins, Top prize will be
$25 and two other awards of $15
will be made, according to Alfred
R, Crawford, development officer
of Haverford,

Two of the sundials appear on
buildings. One on the southeast
wall of Founders dated 1918 bears
the title Anelemmatic Dial, and the
Latin phrase ‘‘pereunt et impu-
tantur,”? The other on the south
wall of Union is of conventional
design and has the’ Latin phrase
‘*Horas non numero nisi serenas,”*

The oldest dial is the one stand-
ing on the terrace between the
Library and Lyman B, Hall build-
ing, dated 1870. Its pedestal bears
a, plate reading ‘‘Stone marks the
site of the Observatory of John
Gymmere (1784-1843) erected
about 1834,”

Line drawings and sketches are
preferred but entries using any
medium are invited. All entries
Should include the summer
addresses of contestants. The
winning entries become the prop-.
erty. of the development office. .
Others will be ae.

Pate eeteees

inal Newman and Stephen Leacock,
among others. Keats, in most un-
romantic terms, decries this tenet
in Saying that college provides the
facilities which may be found else-
where (night school, library and
even rooming house) and that its
uniqueness. is~ found only ‘‘in its
aspects as a contentious forum.”’

The terminal note of the Keat-
sian diatribe suggests that itwould
be meet -and-just for society, in
‘looking at itself, to rapidly grasp
the following series of ‘‘’cepts’’;
College is good, but not for. all,
not necessarily at the same period
of life; a diploma is not ‘‘a guar-
antee of anything much’’ nor does
its absence mean that one is con-
demned to meaninglessness for
eternity. One can do otherwise than
go to college.

Since the larger part of the
points presented allude tothe male
difficulties in the. big bad world,
we Bryn Mawrters do not have to
fret, except that the arguments
illustrate that maybe a piece of
parchment doesn’t equal a large
plus sign for achievement in the
great beyond, But, can’t we please
hope that it puts us out of the
minus column, even if we can’t
all type? THE SHEEPSKIN PSY-
CHOSIS suggests that security isn’t
where one might suppose... . diplo-
ma deoression doth disappear - at
least while the old parchment re-
mains undusty! —

the people who attend it, say Card- -

the Editor

necessarily reflect the opinion of
THE COLLEGE NEWS. We find the
‘article both confused and exag-
gerated. We could mention many
points which are clearly laughable,
for example: weekly traumatic
conferences are neither weekly nor
traumatic; nor is it necessary to
write 100 pages with three carbons;
nor is an 85 average the universal
criterion for eligibility.

On a more serious note, the cen-
tral point of the article is
illogical and ambiguous. The
author claims that an Honors
project is both rewarding and an
unfair reward. In answer to the
first point, we can only say that
we found our own papers highly
satisfying. With regard to the
second, it is clearly unfeasible that
all students in the College
undertake Honors projects, due in
large measure to the lack of time
on the part of the faculty; for this
reason if for no other, some cri-
terion must. be established. When
students with the minimum ‘re=-

 

quirement are asked to do Honors,.

there is no pressure on them -
psychological or otherwise - to
accept. The decision rests
entirely on their * own interests,

Both the responsibilities and
the rewards of the Honors program
at Bryn Mawr are made apparent
to all potential Honors students.
We sympathize with the author in
her post-paper depression; how-
ever, we. Still find it impossible
to concur with either argument
put forth in her article.
Marcy Anderson,’’65
Margaret Atherton, ’65
Joan Deutsch, ’65

Meal Exchanges
Eftfected For Fall
In Joint Meeting

Going into effect next September
will be the meal exchange program
between Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford to facilitate students taking
courses at the opposite school.

The plans are as follows:

1.) A program will be adopted
that will permit students to have
lunch at the school where their
lunch-hour classes are taken,

2.) As far as. possible, a meal-
for-meal system will be adopted
with the Haverford students eat-
ing at those dorms from which
exchanging Bryn Mawr students
are absent.

3.) Access to dining halls will
be on a recognition basis rather
than using tickets or any other
device, The two schools will ex-
change student catalogs for this
purpose,

4,) Financial arrangements for
extra students not included in the
one-for-one exchange will be
worked out between the two
schools.

To provide for guest exchanges
between the colleges, a sign-up
list arrangement has been tenta-
tively adopted, Careful account
will be kept of the effectiveness
of the list, and it will be dis-
continued should any abuse. occur,
The provisions of the plan are
that:

1.) The arrangement willbe kept
only between the two schools.

2.) The list will include only

‘Friday dinners, Saturday lunches

and dinners, and Sunday lunches
and dinners,

3.) The students themselves,
through a committee or other
means, will manage the lists.

4.) Those coming for meals who
do not replace a person dining at
the other school will pay the regu-
lar price.

5.) Neither school: will change
meal hours or Sunday meal pat-
tern to accomodate the exchange.

These plans are a result of a
discussion May 11 among students
and faculty of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford; Popie Johns, Sue’Stan-

hard, and Judy Masur represented

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