“The College Vol. LI, —_: BRYN MAWR, PA. November 19, 1965 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. 1965 25 Cents NDEA ‘Awards 4 Fellowships To Bryn Mawr Grad School The President’s Office has an- nounced the awarding of four National Defense Education Act fellowships to the Bryn Mawr Graduate School, The grants will become effective in the academic year 1966-1967. According to President Mc- Bride, the government chose four fields in which to award the fel- lowships from a list of possibili- ties suggested _by Bryn Mawr. These fields are German, Spanish, mathematics, and philosophy. In the event that the field selec- ted cannot be assigned, the Dean of the Graduate School can re- assign the fellowship to another field, The fellowships are awarded for the first year of graduate school and can be renewed for two more years, subject to a review of the student’s work. If the student wishes to continue her studies be- yond the three years covered by the program, she must look else- where for support. In addition to covering com- pletely the student’s tuition, the fellowships contribute $2000 a year towards living expenses during the first year, $2200 the second year, and $2400 the third year. In the past, the Bryn Mawr Graduate School has hada National Defense Education Act Fellow in only one field, Russian. Luba Hal- lat held this fellowship for three years, during which time she also gave an undergraduate course. She is now in her fourth year and will come up for consideration for a Ph.D, at the conclusion of this year, The number of fellowships was severely limited under the terms of the original Act of 1958, be- cause aid was restricted to only new or greatly expanded fields. Only Russian qualified under these terms. : The act, however, has been amended so that the fields inwhich fellowships can be awarded are in no way limited. Thus Bryn Mawr was able to apply for and receive the new fellowships. The NDEA fellowships are very similar to the NSF fellowships of which there are currently three in the Bryn Mawr Graduate School, one in geology and two in chemis- try. There has been great contro- versy in the past over the NDEA because the student is required to take a loyalty oath before receiv- ing assistance. At present this oath is only a positive oath of allegiance to the United States government, There is no clause disclaiming affiliation with any organization advocating the overthrow of the United States government, Johns and McDowell Investigate Possible Constitutional Revisions Undergrad President Popie Johns and Self Gov President Al- lie McDowell replied to sugges- tions made by. Haverford’s stu- dent council president about re- forms in Bryn Mawr’s student government, The response took place at Monday night’s Undergrad meeting. The first suggestion called fora union of Undergrad. and Self Gov. Popie explained that the Bryn Mawr student government is more in- clusive than the Haverford system. Self Gov deals with student con- duct, and Undergrad handles ex- tra-curricular activities. Popie pointed out that these are both SNCC To Aid Natchez . With “Meal for a Meal’ 585 Bryn Mawrters will give up dinner on Tuesday night, No- vember 23, so that the money or- dinarily spent by the Ad- ministration for the meal can be used to buy food for forcibly un- employed Negroes in Natchez, Mississippi. SNCC has_ organized. this Thanksgiving Fast, in which the Graduate Center at Bryn Mawr will also participate. The fast will also be observed at Haverford, where an estimated 360, or 75% of the student body, have =_— to take part. Natchez, a city of 23,706. -- 12,300 Negro and 11,400 white -- has frequently been a scene of racial violence, especially in the last two years; it is the home of E.L. McDaniel, Grand Dragon of the United Klans of America for Mississippi. During the first week in October over 400 were arrest- ed protesting an injunction against demonstrations of any kind, and many were taken to Parchman State Penitentiary, about 200 miles away. A number of these and others who participated in later dem- onstrations attending the filing of a school desegregation suit for Bennett’s Richard Is Praised; Set, Lights, Music Also Good by Joan L. Klein Lecturer in English It is not often that one can praise without qualification the perfor- mance of so difficult a role as Richard II. Stephen Bennett became Richard II, that intelligent, but painfully self-indulgent and self- lacerating king. Those great scenes where Richard most ex- ploits. his weaknesses to become the prisoner of his own visions were those most sensitively played by Mr. Bennett. For instance, -in the scene at Flint Castle, where Richard forces into reality his own morbid visions of deposition ‘and eventual death, Mr. Bennett was able to suggest all the complexities of the descent as act and symbol, psychological process and poetic evocation. Indeed, it was due in large measure to Mr. Bennett’ that the play was trans- ~ formed from diterature to drama, . Second only to Mr. »Bennett’s .. performance was Mr. Hicks’ fine performance of Henry Boling- ‘broke. Mr. Hicks projected onto the stage the controlled force that Shakespeare must have intended to contrast sharply with the un- controlled weaknesses of Richard. Mr. Hicks was admirably reticent and free from posturing in his con- ception of his role during the greater part of the play. Only dur- ing the last third was there less clearly evident on the stage in the person of Bolingbroke the con- tained and ruthless energy neces- Sary not only to pull down but also to murder a king. Many of the supporting roles were well done. Mr. Sinclair, as Bagot, gracefully provided the notes of decadent luxury which imperiled Richard’s rule. Gartner was,a more convincing and honest gardener than he was a bishop, but it is difficult at any time to sustain the weight of the latter office. Mr, Hillman was a very able Northumberland, though perhaps: his. attempt to. reproduce. “a north-country ‘accent < blurred the intelligibility of some of his (Continued on page 7) Mr.. Adams county have already been fired from domestic, department- store and other jobs, People whose children were in these demonstra- tions or who signed desegrega- tionist petitions were also subject to this kind of retaliation. ‘Most recently a boycott was called early in November against the entire Natchez downtown area. Businessmen threatened to fire all Negroes involved in such a boycott, and many have been fired already: they will be receiving the aid from SNCC, The exact amount of money going to Natchez from Bryn Mawr will " not be known until the menu for Tuesday is planned, Meanwhile or- ganizers of the fast stress that the Inn will remain open, and also that Popeye’s Pizza wagon will. be at Pembroke Arch from _ six p.m. Only dorm meals will be affected. 4. BMC Students Injured Saturday In Auto Accident Four Bryn Mawr students were involved in an automobile accident last Saturday evening. They were on route to a mixer being held that night at Lincoln University. The four girls were .Josetta Williams, fifth year student, Erd- man; Jessica Harris, Pem West; ’68; Jackie Williams, Erdman, ’68 (no relation to Josetta), and Eu- dora Kombo, Denbigh, ’66. The girls described the acci- dent as follows: Around 8 p.m., before the dance, they were pro- geeding along Lancaster Pike at about thrity-five miles per hour when their car was struck on the left side by another car which drove out of an intersection lo- cated a block or two from the Vik- ing Inn, Their car was spun around and hit frontally by a third car. A Lincoln student was driving the car with the Bryn Mawr stu- dents. He suffered internal in- juries. All were hospitalized overnight, examined and treated for shock, cuts and bruises. The girls were then tranfered to the informary, except for Eudora, who is still in Pa) Bryn.Mawr Hospital. Jessica was released from the fhfirmary, and Jackie and Josetta will be out ‘in a few days.’’ large areas and can be more ef- ficiently managed by separate ad- ministrations. She referred to the impressive list of changes in recent months: dress rule, driving rule, smoking in rooms, the bus between Bryn Mawr and Haverford, and meal exchanges for weekdays and week- ends. The present system is ob- viously capable of answering stu- dent needs. Students are also asked to par- ticipate in many administrative matters, including Erdman dec- oration and design and the academ- ic calendar, Popie noted that the Board of Trustees has never vetoed: a request made by Undergrad, Undergrad and Self Gov -are responsible for the students in many respects beyond the reach of the. Haverford structure. Both organizations are respected by the administration andthe faculty, said Popie. A second reform supported by Haverford is the integration of stu- dent and faculty power structures. Popie prefers the present arrange- ment, since students are asserting their freedom through an indepen- dent student government, Social Chairman Ruth Levy Drops Undergrad Duties Ruth «Levy, ’67, announced her resignation as campus social chairman at the Monday night un - dergrad meeting, She explained that the duties of the office have become too demanding and too varied, and she strongly recom- mended a. reorganization and strengthening of the Social Com- mittee, Ruth emphasized her belief that students are interested in attend- “ing social activities, both those on campus and those arranged with other colleges, as she elaborated upon the planning that these func- tions entail. For all-campus parties and mix- ers, there are arrangements for lighting, a band, microphones and refreshments, as well the decorat- ing and clean-up. Off-campus mix- ers require coordination with the other college on setting the date, arranging transportation, and sometimes packing meals. There are also, Ruth continued the constant letters to be written and answered, and phone calls that must be received, She said that one person cannot handle work of this scope, and pointed toa limita- tion of the duties.of campus social chairman, with delegation of some of these to a larger and more re- sponsible Social Committee. At a meeting on Tuesday, the Social Committee, at present com- prised of the hall social chair- men, began tocarry out Ruth’s sug- gestions. It invited the membership of everyone interested in working with it, and set a meeting for Thursday night to elect a new campus social chairman, The duties of the campus chair- man have been reduced, Until the functions of the Social Comittee --members have been clearly de- fined, and other officer's have been elected, ‘Barbara Mann and Mary Little are handling correspondence and telephone calls. Haverford has missed the’point of the Bryn Mawr system, said Popie, since we already have a true student government. Self Gov President Allie Mc- Dowell added that government im- plies a certain amount of sta- bility. Many factors must be main- tained in operation. A government does not need to be in constant turmoil to be active, Stability, ~ Allie emphasized, is just as im- portant as change. Popie and Allie discussed pos- sible methods of instituting a cam- pus-wide re-evaluation of student government, especially since this is a year of constitutional revision. Antioch Exchange Not Taking Place The exchange committee has started .an information campaign concerning the schools with whom we are’ planning exchanges. The exchange with Antioch won’t be taking place this Thanksgiving va- cation as planned, because nobody was_able to go. This was partly due to the fact that arrangements were made too late and people had already made other plans. Also it’s midsemester time and work is piling up. But the main reason is that people just don’t know enough about Antioch to know if they would be interested in going or not, Hopefully in the future we can make plans further in advance, The problem of too much work is per- haps not as big a problem as people think. Students who partici- pate in exchanges ought to be able to find time to study, since the host students will certainly have studying to do too, , _ The exchange committee has de- cided to do something about find- ing out more about the schools we will exchange with, and publiciz- ing it. There.are catalogues of the colleges with whom we are plan- ning exchanges this year on the reserve shelf to the right of the reserve room door. We will also try to get the exchanging schools to send us further. information on student organization and the like to put on reserve too, and on an exchange bulletin board (location to be announced!) We’d like to set up a news article exchange both before the student exchange, to interest students in participat- ing and to give them an idea of what to look for, and afterwards, to publicise what the participating students learned from _ the exchange. At any rate the exchange committee will write for the NEWS a series of articles on the schools we have planned exchanges with, and write a short article on Bryn Mawr to be sent to our exchanging schools if they are interested. (At present we are planning exchanges with Antioch, St. Johns, Howard University, Radcliffe, The-Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and possibly Swarthmore. We hope the exchange with Anti- och will still come off, as w@ll as the others we’ve planned. Watch the bulletin board in Taylor, and the NEWS, and take a look at the information on reserve in the li- information on reserve in the library.