je ciet TH oy thn em acent So Kanata ann age agers, "meee COLLEGE NEWS Vol. LI, 22 BRYN MAWR, PA. May 6, 1966 C Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966 25 Cents “as THE ERFORD NEWS| VOLUME 56 NUMBER 32 Friday, May 6, 1966 $4.00 PER YEAR Self Gov Surveys Arrests End Escapades Men-Rooms Rule by Carol Cain Members of the Self-Govern- ment Association’s Executive Board conducted campus-wide student discussions at Bryn Mawr this week concerning the social and academic honor system. The Board “members visited each dorm on a dinner-system schedule and dis- tributed questionnaires about self- government to be completed by the students. According to. Jane Janover, President of Self-Gov, the immediate purpose for the discus- sions and questionnaires is to de- termine majority opinion of BMC students concerning the present interpretations placed on Self-Gov social regul S, specifically the provisional men-in-rooms rule and the unchaperoned overnight sign-out privilege. Jane empha- sized that. the poll would serve, not as an index for student opinion . on individual moral behavior, but as an indication of how students feel about the BMC social standards written in the Self-Gov constitution as regards the respon- sibility of each member of that community to adhere to those stan- ” dards. Jane indicated that the impetus for the campus survey came from problems arising when students expressed dissatisfaction with so- cial behavior in the dormitories as well as uses being made of overnight signouts. Interpreta- tions of the men-in-the-rooms and overnight signout privileges, she added, have changed since original student legislation and approval by the Board of Trustees. Self-Gov will announce the re- sults of the student discussions and questionnaires, but no immediate action to change the existing constitution is anticipated, said Jane. The questionnaire distributed to students by the Executive .Board consists of four sections, headed Community, Off-campus, and the Role of Self-Gov, with questions about the nature of BMC as a so- cial and academic complex, as well as the problems implied by aresi- dential student community. Stu- dents were asked to state their attitudes toward community stan- dards of behavior, whether or not they believed in privatism or stu- dent obligation to respect’ ‘such standards. The section on off-campus actions questioned the girls’ atti- tudes toward her responsibili- ties to Bryn Mawr’s reputation in the outside world, as well as the College’s responsibility for the in- dividual student while she is away from the campus, Dennis Stern Chosen “Freshman of Y ear’’ Dennis Stern has been named in extracurricular activities, with Freshman of the Year by the juniors needing a somewhat better record to be picked, . Founders Club, an organization which honors students for extra- curricular activities and academic achievement, At the same time, nine juniors and seniors were made members of the club, Stern, a native of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, tentatively plans to major in psychology. His primary activities this year have been his show. on WHRC and his active participation on the NEWS, of which he is currently serving as an as sociate editor, The Freshman of the Year award is given annually to an outstanding freshman who combines extra- curricular and academic ex- cellence, Last year the award was given to Chris Kopff. Founders Club itself is a purely honorary organization, which meets once or twice a year and does very little actively. Already: members of the club, chosen as juniors last year, are Joe Eyer, Alan Raphael, and Hunt Rawlings, who was also named the under- graduate secretary. The newly-admitted seniors are Peter Barnett, Andy Balber, Dennis Carson, Kent Campbell, Clark deSchweinitz, Don Dodson, Ed Haz- - gard, and Mike Punzak. Mike Brat-_ . man was. the only junior selected, Juniors and seniors are chosen for membership solely on two factors -- their academic record and the extent of their participation Of H’ford May Day Raid by Terry Jones In the wee hours of last Friday morning, five Haverford students participating in the annual attempt to confiscate Bryn Mawr maypoles were arrested, taken to the Merion police station, and fined a total of $306,. The arrests came in two separate installments, Installment | ‘We were setting off fire- crackers at Bryn Mawr,’’ said Ed Sleeper, one of the students ar- rested, ‘‘Cherry bombs.’’ ‘*There was nothing terribly ex- citing going on,’’ he continued, ‘*so we started back about 11:45, On the way back we were picked up by Rakove, and we went back to Bryn Mawr. We wandered around and watched for a while,’’ Sleeper then explained. that he and Tom Forehand again started back toward Haverford, They were joined by four other students and soon afterward by Spence Hipp. The seven were proceeding down Lancaster Pike when a police car stopped them about a block before they had reached the Blu Comet, The policeman emerged from the car and said that he wanted to talk SCLC Leader Speaking At BMC Baccalaureate The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will deliver the sermon at this year’s Baccalaureate Serv- ice, which will be held at 6:15 p.m., Sunday, May 29, Miss Mc- Bride’s office has announced that Dr. King, who has recently been touring Alabama preliminary to the primary elections there, will definitely come to Bryn Mawr unless unforeseen. circumstances at the last minute prevent his so doing. Dr. King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was invited to Bryn Mawr gradua- tion activities two years ago. Po- litical events in Washington in May of 1964 made it impossible for him to come. . The invocation at the Bacca- laureate Service will be delivered by Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr. A Psalm will be read by Cantor Frank B, Ruben, Execu- tive Director, .Central States Re- gion, Zionist Organization of America, father of Marjorie Ruben, °66, this to be followed by Dr. King’s sermon and a benedic- tion said by the Right Rev, Beverley D. Tucker, retired Bishop of Ohio and grandfather of Tollie Drane, ’66. Also scheduled for the 29th is Garden Party, which will take the form of a tea given on Wyndham Green, 3-5:00 p.m. The Baccalaureate Service will be followed, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, by the actual Commencement ceremony on Wyndham Green, at which Presi- dent Robert Goheen of Princeton, father of Trudie Goheen, 266, will deliver the Commencement address, Seats for approximately 1100 people will face Erdman. The front of the seating arrangement will duplicate that of Goodhart Audi- torium, but seats will extend back past the College Inn and over onto Wyndham lawn, The orchestra will be gathered on the College Inn porch, This year is -.Chemistry Professor Joseph Varimby’s first as Faculty Chairman of Com- mencement, Miss Mary Gardiner of the Biology Department retired last year after serving in the post for many years. President of the Senior Class Caroline Willis has yet to finish choosing the 46 marshals and ushers who will take part in the procession at Commencement, As yet, only the Diploma Marshals, traditionally the heads of Under- grad and Self-Gov, have been de- finitely named, These are Margaret Edwards and Jane Jan- over. to them, At this point, Sleeper quickly, clandestinely, discarded the three firecrackers in his pos- session, ‘“‘The cop asked if we had any firecrackers,’’ said Hipp, At this point, the officer searched Sleeper and found none, When he searched Hipp, however, he discovered eigh- teen firecrackers, ‘*While he was talking,’’ Hipp continued, ‘‘another police car pulled up, The driver got out, The first policeman called the station, Meanwhile, the other was just look- ing around on the ground, He found Council Statement The Haverford College Stu- dents’ Council questions the wisdom of the Bryn Mawr Col- lege Administration’s use of Lower Merion Township police to patrol the Bryn Mawr campus during last weekend’s festivi- ties. If Bryn Mawr College is so intent on keeping Haverford students off their campus at this traditional time that it is willing to subject Haverford students to the arbitrary con- trol of the township police, this should be made clear to the Haverford student body. If, how- ever, their intent is not to destroy what has become a tra- ditional part of the May Day celebration, we suggest that any guards Bryn Mawr College feels are necessary should be pri- vately-hired ones. These would be able to prevent Haverford students from actions Bryn Mawr considers undesirable, without subjecting students to arrests and heavy fines. We strongly urge the administra- tions of Bryn Mawr and Haver- ford, if they are interested in not subjecting students to the local police force, to jointly finance such a procedure. three firecrackers and asked whose they were, Ed admitted that they belonged to him.’’ According to Sleeper, the police- man next asked them where they had been, They said they were coming from Bryn Mawr, Sleeper here interjected that it was stupid of them to have ad- mitted that, and more stupid still for him to have confessed that the firecrackers were his. Since Hipp had already been caught, he said, it would have been simple to say that the three discarded fire- crackers were his, “‘The cop told the other five to go to the Comet and then back to campus,’’ said Hipp. The policeman ushered Sleeper (Continued on ‘page 16) The Bryn Mawr COLLEGE NEWS and the HAVERFORD NEWS | staffs have collaborated on this special issue for the purpose of} ‘Levaluating bi-college coordination as well as to facilitate com- plete May Day coverage. The symposium found on the inside pages is the gesture of the two newspapers to the atmosphere of joint endeavors which characterize Haverford and Bryn Mawr. 2 #