MBL IH DOSE ais ey ORS ame kia as RUSE ik Rua TETAS big Ne ee age “snap | % wisiicnc eae oe NORE iy ee, StH Se - Page he | “THE = COLLEGE NEWS: ‘Ghee ngs a ee Other Things pean teenyboppers, scholars, hippies and Future Mothers of America, Welcome to Bryn Mawr, sometinics described.as an oasis of learn- ing in a vast cultural and intellectual wasteland, In the welcoming speeches you have already heard and will yet hear you have undoubtedly been called the best class ever to come here, Every! class hears this. Every year, Bryn Mawr, recruits better and better students, on the theory’ that this makes Bryn Mawr a better and better school, This is for you to judge, | ’ ‘Bright as you are, Bryn Mawr’s extracurricu-| lar arrangements might seem a bit confusing at first, There are a great many organizations. Some of these are described in articles through- out this issue, The Alliance for Political Affairs, League, Athletic Association, Arts Council and Curriculum Committee are called the Big Five and make up a matrix under the Undergraduate Association, called Undergrad, Interfaith used to be a part of this group, but it has reverted to its former status as a simple committee under Undergrad, The Social Committee is another important Undergrad committee. Undergrad manages the overall budget and serves as a central communications center for these or- ganizations and committees, Completely separate and concerned with more fundamental matters is Self-Government. Self- Gov has control over the social and academic honor systems, It is important to canon’ that these two _ bodies, Undergrad and Self-Gov are separate, This system is often compared with Haver- ford’s, usually by Haverfordians emphasizing Bryn Mawr’s clumsiness, Haverford has all their activities, plus their honor system handled fs (Continued from page 1) © missible in the town of Bryn Mawr # were lifted to allow students to # wear shorts or long pants. The at- # tempt to eliminate the rule barring # liquor on the campus, however, = was defeated. Although 58% of the -# students supported the attempt, it * of the potential elimination feared = the effect that liquor, might: have # on the atmosphere of a small col- # lege community, where the in- ® dividual cannot hope to leave the = community unaffected by all of her # private actions, Es Self-Gov Statement % The following is the statement by Self-Gov’s Executive Board.on % the Committee of the Board of : Director’s approval of the 8 a,m, : sign-out. The Director’s statement : is in the box to the left. See also ; the editorial on the trial period. : The Committee of the Board of : Directors has decided to recom- : mend to the Board as a whole, : that the 8 a.m. sign-out be ac- : cepted. for sophomores, juniors, .22 and seniors with the understand- : ing that the increased social flex- : ibility which it provides is not to : be equated with increased sexual- : ity. : Haverford, and because of their liberal hours for women in the ‘dorms, the belief has led to the : Committee’s statement that the 8 Ea a.mf. sign-out is not to be used *: for the purpose of sleeping over- : night with boys in Haverford Col- : lege dorms. When the Board re- : vises the 8 a.m. permission four es SS e failed to obtain the necessary two- | “New Sign-Outs . student body voted for last spring. We recognize, -however, that the Committee of the Board, believed that it could not in conscience ac- cept, at this point, an unre-- stricted 8 a.m, sign-out. Because of the provisionality of the hours at: Haverford, and because of wide differences ‘of opinion on the Bryn Mawr campus and within the Self- Gov, Board.about the advisability of completely unrestricted sleep- ing at Haverford, the Board has decided to maintain the status quo whereby: it is unacceptable for a Bryn Mawr student to spend the night in a Haverford College dorm-. w Ss = see yugcamman paoy" itory. Board of Directors, riage there were sev- eral legitimate reasons for stay- ing on the Haverford campus after 2am. The system whereby a student returning after 2 a.m. is, admitted to her hall remains tobe worked out. Miss McBride is try- ? ing to figure out a system which . is not excessively expensive, but which. must. provide maximum’ safety for girls returning between 2 and 8 a.m. The success of the system which evolves depends en- tirely upon the cooperation of Bryn Mawr students, as does the future of this new privilege. - Because of the proximity of Committee of the Board Of Directors’ Statement Upon consideration of the students’ votes on new rules, and after consultations with the officers of Student Government, the Com-~- mittee will recommend to the Directors that the directors approve a rule that would permit sophomores, juniors and seniors to sign out until 8 a.m. The sign-out would be with the student’s hall president, who would record the student’s name, her destination, whom she would be with, how she could be reached, and when she expected to return, Upon return, the student would be admitted to her hall. The precise procedures. of admission remain to be worked out, for possible procedures will differ as to efficiency ‘and expense. ‘This rule is not to be interpreted to include action that will j reflect adversely upon the student or the college. For example, the “rule would not saction a student signing out until 8 a.m, so that she might spend the night in a Haverford dormitory. How- ever the- Committee recognizes that there may be many approp- riate social occasions, at Haverford or elsewhere, which a stu- dent could more readily attend under the new rule. The Committee will also recommend to the Directors that the new rule be temporary only, and that after it has been in effect for four months, it be reviewed sothat the Committee may inform the Directors regarding the extend and nature of the use of the rule, and the-incidental expense, with a recommendation regarding _ whether the -rule should be continued, modified or eliminated. be spirit, class togetherness or community spirit? Does the faculty see by one group, the Students’ Council, At first, this may seem to me a much easier and less complex way of doing things. The NEWS it- self has thought so. But it should be re- membered that Haverford is a smaller school ] than Bryn Mawr, and that boys don’t seem to # be as addicted to forming committees as girls are, So greetings again. Please keep in mind that when the Freshman Week Committee and the deans tell you to ask questions of anyone about anything, they mean it, Ask upperclass- men, ask Connie in the bookstore, ask teachers, ask Miss McBride, ask the NEWS, you could = even ask the squirrels, They’ve been around = longer than some of the rest of us. Working the Trial Period The NEWS is pleasantly surprised at the Committee of the Board ot & Directors approval of the 8.a.m. sign-out. We are not so sure about #: the procedures of the four month trial period. We understand that: stu- e dents intending to use the 8 a.m. sign-out may have to ask permission : a of the hall president. We also understand that the hall president will be : keeping track of the number and length of stays at Haverford and : ES elsewhere of each girl. If they are signing out and staying out too long = and too often, the hall president may assume that the student is not # a typing papers or attending parties, and ask that the girl ‘‘cut down’? 3: (as one member of Self-Gov put it yesterday). Ba These records of the hall presidents will be transmitted to Self- = = Gov’s Executive Board. They will then be compiled and presented to & e the Board of Directors at the end of four months, and will be used = to determine if the new system is working. The NEWS is worried : about what ‘‘working’? means. Does ‘‘working’? mean ‘not used’’? = Or not used very much, or only a little, or what? : We think ‘‘working’”? has nothing to do with the number of girls who # . utilize the new sign-out, but rather has to do with the well-being of Ea the college. The Board should pragmatically set out to see if the “3 dent body has been harmed by the four months trial period, Ha . there been fantastic drops in academic efforts? Have there been = increases in psychiatric problems? Do students notice a loss of EDs any difference in their students? By gathering such impressions and opinions, we believe the Board = will have a much better idea of how the new system affects Bryn Mawr than by keeping statistics and making records, THE COLLEGE NEWS Entered as second class matter at the Bryn Mawr, Pa. Post Office, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Application for re-entry. at the Bryn Mawr, Pa. Post Office filed October ist, 1963. Second Class Postage paid at Bryn Mawr, Pa. FOUNDED IN 1914 The College News is ful otected’ by copyright. Nothing thet appears in it may be reprinted who See a wettest permission of the Edit EDITED BY ee. : Christopher Bakke Kathy Murphey Bee : months after it goes into effect : they will decide whether or not to ontinue it according to how itis eing used in-relation to their = # stipulations. Self-Gov: will report: = to the Board in detail, the number = and purposes of girls using the new ign-out. We realize that this system is not entirely what the | applebee | you’re here, you’re here, a fresh batch, and i hardly know whattodo . : with myself ... first i’1! say who 1 : am, i’m a campusbound tradition : that brings you song every week from the friendly pages of your friendly neighborhood paper, shiv- ering when it’s cold but warm in the knowledge that there is so = much of you out there to love... : and 1 will bring you snowdrops once they’ve put up snow fences, s and the first orange leaf, and * when it is spring again as it.al- ways must be i may leave on = your sill the hint of a blossom- laden summer ... i soar with the = seasons and hum to taylor chimes and watch you as you pursue your = sweet human business ...my-home is on the pregnant library (who will give birth after two years’ gestation), in and around its tur- rets, but i make visits to the in- # firmary for the incommunicado, at a Pagel concep nace tgs a grey-brown blur whizzing past a sickroom window ... in general = 1 try to be a benevolent and harm- : less type oftradition ...toominis- = actually quite venerable, humor : me ... O i have great wishes for you, i have waited for you all this long summer long, you will fulfil my expectations in your very . Patagonian gid © fiction, and that's what itis from __ here on in, baby _all my love, ~—- ~~ applebee *™" ees: san Alliance To Activate,* Awaken Political World The Alliance for Political Af- fairs is not really an alliance. An alliance is a difficult proposition, one that looks promising on paper, but when finally it exists, it canbe either dynamic or static. An alliance is supposed to con- sist of groups with differing basic interests and goals, yet all are directed to one basic purpose -- in this) case, a more complete knowledge of political affairs. During the time of the last Presidential election, Alliance was a functioning group, with several active clubs under. its umbrella, Slowly the umbrella wears out, leaks develop, and everything washes away into a current. One drop of water is just like the next. This seems to have happened to Bryn Mawr’s Alliance. Specifically, in these years, we had political clubs, as the Young Democrats, the Young Republicans and the Young Conservatives. We had general interest groups, such as the International RelationsClub. This past year, we had a Social Action Committee (see page 4) and a group of 200 students working with the Committee of Responsi- bility "for War-Burned and War- Injured Vietnamese Children, a private medical aid project. Alliance needs interested peo- ple -- people who want to feel informed, who think about the world, who try to solve impossible problems. Every drop. of water is distinct, both drawn and repelled by its neighbors. So are students, drawn by common interests into communication, ‘‘repelled’”’ by conflicting information, but finally joining in shared. knowledge. So a drop becomes part of a river, @ flow of information. (Continued on page 4) Akoue Breaks Class Bar Asks Non-Seniors To Help You. may have heard that Bryn Mawr is tradition personified. But during the past few years, AKOUE (the Bryn Mawr yearbook), which means Listen}: in Greek, has broken through the crusty de- posits of former decades to be- comé a less stilted, more alive work of art. By this we mean that the year- book has changed from an unin- spired aggregation of photographs to a unified collage of ideas. [t was only two years ago that can- dids replaced formal senior poses, reflecting the acknowledgement by AKOUE that students are in- dividuals, not just members of a department, as they used to be listed in AKOUE, — It. has been traditional in the past for the AKOUE staff to be comprised of only seniors, This year, however, we.plan to widen our ranks to include underclass-. men as well, particularly in the fields of art work, advertising, and, especially, photography. Lack of communication between outgoing and incoming officers has always been an unfortunate ‘‘tradi= tion”? at Bryn Mawr; working with - the present editors will help elim= inate the confusion and inexper+ ience of future editors. Further= more, there is only limited out= lets on this campus for them who is interested in writing. Please call or otherwise con tact one of us -- via campus mail or in person--by Sunday, Sep= tember 24, and let us know who you are and what you would like to do. (For those interested in - photography, we would be hap- pier if you had a camera, but even if you don’t, call anyway.) — Janet lives in Denbigh 58, LA 5- Merion 22, LA 5-2225. There is a free phone for local calls in every hall, inet Kole 4 Marcia Ringel 500, and you'll find Marcia in” 4