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THE HAVERFORD NEWS - THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, May 6, 1966

 

Student Activities
Show Cooperation

Mike Bratman, President of Hoverford’s

Students’ Council, gives several examples of

students attempting to increase communico-

tion and action between the two campuses in
areas of curriculum.

Bi-college cooperation is a much talked-about notion
that means different things to different people, It tends
to be a vauge notion which some see as.a kind of panacea
for both Colleges’ ills, It is not that, However, that it
can. be something both worthwhile and possible is
witnessed by the publication of this bi-college edition,
I’d like to touch on two major aspects of bi-college
cooperation, The first has to do with its desirability
. and extensiveness; the second with its implementation,

Drawing lines, whether in foreign policy or in
romances, is usually an unwise thing to do. Bi-college
cooperation is no exception, Clearly, there are areas
of cooperation, yet unexploited, from which both schools
could profit, Cooperation is, in itself, neither good nor
bad, Rather, in each area--for each separate problem
--we must consider the advantages and disadvantages
of the various degrees of cooperation and integration
of facilities that are possible, There are no a priori
limits to cooperation which can be applied to all areas
and problems, On the other hand, we must be prepared
to recognize the many difficulties which face any ex-
tensive integration between the schools, Bryn Mawr has
a graduate school; Haverford does not, Haverford has
self-scheduled exams; Bryn Mawr does not, And so on,
Surely one of the first steps toward integration is to
take into. account and, where possible, eliminate these
diverse factors, Only then can the second step,--
intense discussion between the schools about each
particular problem--have any chance of success,

This brings me to the second aspect of the topic:
the concrete means of achieving mutually beneficial
bi-college cooperation, Here I'll concentrate on the
roles that students can play. I’ll not try to set down
any vague, prescriptive generalizations. Rather, Pll just
note some of the things which have been happening
recently in this area and hope that they can, in some
way, be suggestive of possible future courses of action,

A sort of bi-college student curriculum committee
has been formed, combining members of Joan Caval-
laro’s Bryn Mawr committee with Haverford student
alternates on the student-faculty Educational Policy
Committee and Academic Flexibility and Standing Com-
mittees, The obvious immediate problem for these
people to consider includes both the desirability of, and
the means of achieving increased opportunities for Bryn
Mawr students to take Haverford courses and for Haver-
ford students to take Bryn Mawr courses, This might
entail the possibility of Bryn Mawr students receiving
some major credits for Haverford courses and/or
Haverford students receiving some limited electives
credit for Bryn Mawr courses,

The Haverford ‘‘Culture’’ Committee and the Bryn
Mawr Arts Council have recently met together to talk
about and begin planning such things as regular bi-college
trips to the Barnes Foundation and an extensive bi-college
art exhibit making use of the anticipated Haverford Art
Workshop.

The Haverford committee which is working on putting
out a course-evaluation booklet by next January hopes to
consider a possible bi-college publication next year with
the Bryn Mawr traditions committee,

These are just a few examples, and ones which, I
think, show much promise. In each case there is a par-
ticular objective, In no case is there any a priori limit
placed upon the extent to which integration between the
schools would be mutually beneficial, The citing of
particular, realizable, goals is intended to incite con-
structive action, not to place any limit on it.

Mike Bratman
President of the Students’ Council
Haverford College

 

Despite increased encouragement and

   
 
   

opportunities afforded by Bryn Mawr and Haverford for close social

Tower Provides

Last Thursday I was wandering around campus picking
flowers. Beware the Haverfrod! I had been warned before
leaving the dorm, and heeding the admonition I was pok~-
ing under bushes and tree stumps, searching out scouts
and other nefarious types. I found one Haverford fresh-
man hiding in a tree and sternly ordered him to scram.
He gobbled something about inter-college cooperation but
1 turned an unrelenting cheek and knifed him in the back.
I felt a twinge of guilt as I dumped his body into the
Cloisters pool, but after all, it had been done in the name
of Virtue and Bryn Mawr College.

Bat, alas, every Eve has her apple. Temptation came

along in the form of a white Fiat. Within ten minutes
I had beéh seduced into joining up with the Haverford
troops in their annual May Day effort. As we drove
away I felt keenly the loss of our innocence, and yet
whole new vistas seemed to be opening up before me.

The troops were meeting in New Dorm basement. I
walked into an atmosphere much like a grade B war
flick. John Wayne ‘stood on a chair waving a map of
Bryn Mawr and allotting areas of attack to the various
squadrons. It was all terribly thrilling and reassuring,

‘the flower of American manhood and all that, I watched

meekly, a woman grateful for the opportunity to be in
on a Great Event, to witness all this masculine organ-
ization and splendor.
Scaling the Tower
WE HIT AT 3:15! Thus spake John Wayne (and a solemn

. pronouncement it was)..An admiring buzz passed over the

room, The words stirred my soul and echoed dramatical-
ly in my mind even after we were tucked safely in the
dorm. So at 3:00 I abandoned my bridge game and

climbed the. four (puff). flights to the tower. It was cold ~

and drizzly, but could that stop me? No. The wall lI
had to climb was fifteen feet high, but could that stop
me? No. The ladder was still down on the second floor
--. and if THAT couldn’t stop me, nothing could, I re-

trieved the ladder and scaled the wall. Once I had.

reconciled myself to being eighty feet off»the ground
(and had begun to remember not to look down) I turn-
ed my attention to an aesthetic appraisal of my sur-
roundings,

Bryn Mawr looks different from the top. Especially
in the fog. The Library looks very Scottish and for-
bidding, the science building (believe-it-or-not) is ethe-
real, (Seen through trees) the campus seems a minor
Camelot. I couldn’t see the Burns Guards. Occasionally
I saw a beam from a flashlight, the only sign of life in
an idyllic setting. And yet, deep in my heart, I knew that
somewhere out there in the dark, Bernie and Alfie (and
Frenk) were subtly protecting Bryn Mawr’s honor.

Cherry Bombs and Cop Cars

Then BAPPO, a cherry bomb went off and 100 Haver-

ford feet stormed the Maypoles, bearing 50 whooping

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“Sure, you expect to meet strange people at a

_mixer. But Boy Scouts??”’

Haverfrods against five or six Burns guards, I discerned
an enormous mass converging from three directions (as
directed --- one group up from the science building,
one through Pem Arch, and one from behind Merion).
Things started happening then. Cop cars streamed out
of nowhere, long lines of them came from the Ville
and around by Miss McBride’s house, Lights started go-
ing on in the maids’ quarters. Inspired, I added my own
noise to the clamor on the Green:

Rip *’em up, tear ’em up Police brutality Every-

body out for volleyball (more fuzz, more fuzz)

Anassa kata kalou kalei Munson Hicks is over the

(give *em hell Quakers) proverbial hill,

Then, amid all the excitement, there was a sudden
quietus, Retreat? I thought, Oh surely not, And yet,
in the silence, I distinctly heard John Wayne’s voice:
Aw, whut the he-yull, As if on cue, the troops disap-
peared (were they serving doughnuts in Pembrooke)?
and there I was -- abandoned, forsaken, and wet.

It seemed like a disappointment at the time. But
they did redeem themselves the next day with the
Chinese dragon they brought onto Merion Green in the
midst of the actual May Day festivities. Yet even then
one could derive a certain feministic satisfaction from
the symbolism of their dragon bowing down to Miss
McBride. Emily McDermott

‘Coordination Through Governments

Demands Patience, Understanding

Mrs. Dorothy Marshall is Dean of Bryn Mawr

College. While noting the increase of cooper-

ation lbetween Bryn Mawr and Haverford, she

emphasizes that there are differences between
the two schools which must be considered.
when evaluating student governments.

Nowadays, Bryn Mawr and Haverford students co-
operate over a wide range of extracurricular matters.
Joint theater ventures, joint concerts, joint literary
reviews and joint political activities have all been
successfully and profitably undertaken, Although current
undergraduates probably take such cooperation for
granted, as a matter of fact it is relatively recent.

In the very recent past, academic cooperation between
the two colleges has increased as well. Departments
have planned complete joint programs, others have

~ planned closely together but without entirely combining

  

relationships as well as academic ones, some Haverford students are unwilling to avail themselves. of
‘these chances. Bill Yates and Gregg Jackson share o happy, carefree moment aboard the bi-college bus.

 

 

their offerings. Student exchange registrations have
increased and will, I imagine, continue to do so as
disciplines become more and more complex, In addition,
from the students’ point of view, exchanges are easier
than ever because of the availability of transportation
and meal exchanges. :

The kinds of cooperation which I have mentioned have
all been special in the sense that each has had a definite
and limited purpose--the production of plays, for example,
or the presentation of concerts. .

As the kinds of ‘‘special’? cooperation have increased,
naturally more students have become involved. Con-
sequently the relationship between the two colleges which
historically has been based on the common interest of
specialized groups will change to a relationship in-
volving total communities. More over-all and long-range
planning will probably beconie necessary and the interest
of each college in the procedures, aims, and government
of the other will no doubt, increase. Thus the student
organizations whose responsibilities are general rather
than special (at Bryn Mawr, Self-Government Association
and Undergrad) will, I think, find two-campus issues to
be within their jurisdictions. So far such organizations,
as I see it, have tried to be mutually helpful but without
loss of autonomy, and it is the evolution of these or-
ganizations which will be interesting to follow in the
future. Cooperative efforts between the ‘‘generalist”
organizations is infinitely more complex than in the case
of the ‘‘specialist?? ones, Their responsibilities are
broader, they have different procedures; their goals and
purposes are not necessarily the same. As I have talked
with students, I sense that the relationships of student
governments to the undergraduate body and to the colleges
as a whole vary. Some of these differences merit con-
sideration to assure that there is mutual understanding.
I have heard Bryn Mawr student officers express
puzzlement over Haverford procedures and a Haverford
suggestion to re-structure Bryn Mawr student organiza-
‘tions seemed to me to show that the nature of these
organizations was misunderstood. :

Whatever the differences and problems, the governing
organizations will need in all probability to assume wider
responsibility for two communities which are not
identical. A good future for the two governments is
essential to the continuing strength of both colleges, and

‘to keep them abreast of the times will require wisdom

and patience on the part of all.Dorothy Nepper Marshall
Dean of the College
Bryn Mawr College