ay, November 3, 1967 Pe aattr. Past: Mtr hes ee ee "THE COLLEGE NEWS _ Page Three On Saturday morning we left the Warwick, situated nicely togiveus a view of the pickets in front of A.B.C,, and walked to N,B,C. We were taken up in a gigantic ele- vator and stashed in a sligtitly .. smaller. dressing room, _ It be- - came noticeable at this point that being on College Bow] is like being the little man who does not read the INQUIRER: you are perfectly certain of your own distinctive- ness, but somehow can’t quite convince anyone on the show that you are any different from the hun- dred of college students who have passed through their portals. We spent a lot of time (stading around) or (wandering) aimlessly in hall- ways, while the stir of show busi- ness went on around us. Once out of the dressing room, ‘we were led by someone to a con- ference room, Along the route we picked up the Riverside team, Never formally introduced, we stated our names in the corri- dor outside the conference room and, when the room turned out to be locked, stated our names again, A poligeman finally. came to un- ‘ lock the door, or we might be saying those names still, As we were going in, a man in a grey suit came up the hall, He was ' Robert Earle (never anything but “Mr, Earle’? to us; hearing him called ‘‘Bob’? was quite eerie), and he is a peculiar, stagey color in person, We had an hour’s lunch looking out on the ice ring, and were careful to keep our conversation general and free of all facts, lest we reveal something to River- side, They seemed perfectly calm and friendly, but we saw each one as an information spy. After lunch there was make- up from a TONIGHT SHOW drop- out, as many of the technicians seemed to be. He was a man who could scrutinize two square inches of skin without seeing the person ft belonged to, Skins ready for living color, we were shown into a studio decorated with all the restraint of Disneyland, Sal- mon, turquoise, and mustard were the dominant tones, One by one an accumulation of crew arrived to fill this studio, Even the cameramen wore suits, and all ‘ollege Bowl . (Continued from page 1) were incredibly ‘T,V,-looking’’, This is one degree more breezy than ‘theatrical-looking’’, Some of ‘these people must surely have been extraneous, but all managed to bustle around intently. The screens began to light on the pro- fusion of monitors, and men began putting on headphones, Mr, Earle ‘photo by Robin Johnson Ruth Gais being made up. for her College Bow! debut. put on dark glasses against the overhead spots, and, not to be out-done in professionalism, Ruth Gais and Diane Ostheim whipped out their dark glasses, ‘ ‘There were two sample games, the scores of which no one can agree on now, The teams sat patiently for endless lighting and color checks, Mr, Earle denied our audibility frequently, Finally, the teams were released to go and stew in their dressing rooms for half an hour, in order to be thoroughly nervous for the show, As the audience began arriving, the bustling men began saying direly, ‘‘We’ll never make it, Never.”?’ The spectators were seated by neophyte ushers who had clearly never done a television show before, but had taken ex- tensive training as subway con- ductors, They did, however, make it by five-thirty, After the pro- gram, they served in a Berlin Wall guard-function, placing them- selves bodily between the victor- ious team ‘and its well-wishers, but allowing them to touch hands briefly, While viewers heard praise for an electric toothbrush, the teams filed cooly to their desks, Mr, Earle strode to his podium, - A man with an oleagenous voice began talking about a ‘‘Battle of brains”? and a ‘feminine four- some’’, The rest, as they say, is history. Mary Laura Gibbs Council Hallowe’en Party ‘Spooks’ Well for Itself , The Arts Council Hallowe’en Haunting was a happening -- as it happens. Wild costumes began the festi- vities on the porch of the College Inn. The Hallowe’en regulars -- witches, Frankenstein and ghosts -- were supplemented by the Great Pumpkin, Uncle Sam, a walking Confederate flag, Roman soldiers and a grizzly bear in a shaggy fur jacket with long feminine-type hair combed over its face for a mask, rs Second in a ghostly trio of events was Faith Greenfield’s Horror House in the basement of the Inn. A shriveled little witch at the door cackled (what else?), ‘‘All right, dearie,’? and herded unfortunates into the corridors of terror. The spook house displayed a masterful balance of psychedelic lights, subterranean darkness, .~Guide To The Perplexed~~ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church ‘¢Cry the Beloved Country’’ 8:00 p.m. Merion Mixer 8:30 p.m. Gym French Club Movie ‘‘Last Year at Marienbad’’ Biology Lecture Room 7:30 p.m, 75¢ donation SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4. ~ Alumnae Program ‘¢A Symposium of Schoolteaching Today” Goodhart 10:00 a.m, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Haverford Film ‘The Bicycle Thief?’ Vittorio de Sica (1949) Roberts 8:00 p.m. Denbigh Coffee Hour 3:00 p.m, to 5:00 p.m, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Sixth Mary Flexner Lecture Wolfgang Stechow: ‘‘Transformation Literature” Goodhart 8: Arts Council Film Series :30 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 “Bringing Up Baby’? with Cary Grant and Kathryn Hepburn Bio Lecture Room 7:15 and 9:15 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Lecture, Department of Italian Rocco Montano, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland; ‘‘Humanism from Dante to Petrarch Common Room 8:30 Haverford Film Series ‘¢Ninotchka’’ Stokes 8:30 p.m. Bryn Mawr College Theatre and Haverford College Drama Club ‘Taming of the Shrew’’ by,Shakespeare | ~~ “Roberts-Hall 8:30 pam, seen THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 * Mary Eagan Stokes Lecture Alfred Simon, drama critic for ESPRIT and member of 1967 faculty at Institut d’Etudes Francaises @avignon: ‘‘Ou va le theatre en France” Common Room_ 8:30 p.m. and Variation in Music and fluorescent paint, -hellish groans, cheesecloth cobwebs and unearthly forms, Halfway along the treacherous path, a threesome of timid, well mannered Haverford monsters roamed behind a cage-like struc- ture, ready to leap at unsuspect- ing victims who let out sincerely terrified screams and then sheep- ishly grin, ‘‘I scare easily.’ Obviously unaccustomed to the idiosyncrasies of Bryn Mawr-Hav- erford life (as is about four-thirds of the American population), one strangely Ivy-League-type visitor commented on the party. Gazing at the laughing painted faces and Viking helmets and burning crosses and pulsating shadows around him, this lost soul breathed, *So this is Bryn Mawr. Man, I’m getting out of here.’’ Cathy Hoskins Undergrad Releases New Exchange Plan Slater and Marriott Food Serv- ices have agreed to expand, the Social Meal Exchange System, Un- dergrad announced this week. Now four meals will be cov- ered: Wednesday, Friday, Satur- day, and Sunday dinners. Tickets for both Haverford and Bryn Mawr meals are now available free in 52 Lloyd from Greg Wilcox. A ticket is good for one meal. A total of eighty free tickets are avail- able for meals at each school, 20 for each school for each of the four meals covered. A maximum of 160 exchanges are thus possi- ble in contrast to 90 up to now. The continued expansion of the program depends on the coopera- tion of the students who partici- pate. It is especially important that BMC tickets be given to the waitresses since, if the tickets are not collected, the food serv- ices cannot see that an equal ex- change has occurred -- which is essential for the present sys- tem. The results of the Social Life questionnaire for the most pre- ferred men’s college are, respec- tively, Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia. A formal dance was the most favored means of social activity. Undergrad has tentatively scheduled one for April 6. A folk concert was the second place choice. __A final Undergrad annouiice- ment is that the Lehigh Mixer ~ was a failure since many of the freshmen who signed up did not Nosco Unscrambles Academic Calendar Because of the confusion and misinformation regarding the aca- demic calendars for this and the following year, we have investi- gated the issue and feel certain that our results would interest students, In the first place, the approval of this year’s calendar in Septem- ber by the Haverford and Bryn Mawr faculties was more or less a formality. The student calendar committees of both colleges were, or ‘should have been, aware that there Zould be only minor changes -- e.g. the accomodation of Bryn Mawr’s new self-scheduled exam program -- inthis year’s calendar, already approved last year. Secondly, contrary to the infor- mation published in the September 29 issue of the ‘‘HAVERFORD NEWS,” the calendar for the aca- demic year 1968-69 will not be identical to this year’s, A major calendar reform hasbeen approved by both faculties which corresponds to the model calendar most favored ‘by Bryn Mawr students and faculty in last Spring’s calendar -polls. Specifically, the approved 1968" 1969 academic calendar provides for a first semester of approxi- mately 14 weeks, beginning Sep- tember 16, with classes ending before Christmas. Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations will be the usual length with students returning January 6 for a three-day review period. The exam period will be eight days in length, enabling the student to self-schedule her exams so as to allow a day between each. Intersessions will extend from Saturday untif the following Sunday, a period of eight days. Second se- Keys, 8 a.m.’s Go In Nov. 13 The trial 8 a.m, signout sys- tem will go into effect on a modi- fied basis on Monday, November 13, according to Miss McBride, Until the new keys for each dorm are ready, Miss McBride explained, lantern men will ac- company each girl to her dorm and unlock the door for her with, his key, The three extra lantern men included in the Self-Gov proposal have been hired by the College. The lantern men will be sta- tioned in Rockefeller or Merion basement whichever the adminis- tration decides is the most suitable facility, Both are centally located and are accessible by car. The way the system is set up enough keys will be available for girls in each dorm wishing to use the 8 a.m, signout, No one will be able to keep a key after letting herself into the dorm. After a four-month trial period the executive board af Self-Gov, the hall presidents, will review the system and report to the Board of Directors. The system was chosen as the safest and most convenient proce- dure for an 8 a.m. signout. If it turns out not to be im- portant to many girls the expense might not be justified, On the other hand, if it is used too much and a larger staff is needed adding to the cost, then changes will be made, Miss McBride said granted that students want this opportunity, the plan is a good one, November 9 10 p.m. Sharpless, Haverford Voyage of the Phoenix’’ . +A hour fong color film about a voyage to North Vietnam mester will begin January 27; it will contain fourteen weeks af classes, Spring Vacation of usual length, a three-day review period, and a nine-day exam weéek*Com- mencement will take place May 26. ) The 1968-69 calendar as pro- | posed includes each of the items for which students indicated a dis- tinct preference: first semester classes before Christmas, review periods in both semesters, a sub- stantial break between semesters, and provision for self-scheduled exams, In addition, the starting and ending dates and the semester length meet faculty approval. Finally, the 4-1-4 calendar, favored if not by Haverford stu- dents, at least by the Haverford Student Calendar Committee, has aroused little enthusiasm on the Bryn Mawr campus, among either students or faculty. In addition, Mrs. Marshall has stated that the implementation of the 4-1-4 calen- dar would require some form of curriculum adjustment. Since the college is presently experimenting with its curriculum, the school would prefer not to make additional curriculum adjustments, Mrs. Marshall pointed out that the 4-1-4 program has been tried and aban- doned on many campuses. We hope’ that we may have clari- fied the calendar controversy somewhat with this information. We feel that next year’s calendar will be a marked improvement over the calendars of the two previous years. and is in accordance with the pre- ferences of both faculty and stu- dents at Bryn Mawr. Susan Nosco Chairman, Curriculum Committe MADS DISCOUNT RECORDS 9 W. 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