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THE COLLEGE NEWS

: FOUNDED IN 1974
Published weekly during the College Year (except during

Easter. holidays, and during | examination

Bryn Mawr College. 5
copyright. Nothing that appears in it may

wtihout permission of the Editor-in-Chief.
EDITORIAL BOARD

Sa Teen *-... Brooks’ R&bards, ‘64
grt cere eebgperrereeie Pauline Dubkin, ‘63
tea cise acl eka 2 POPES ot Charlene Sutin, ‘64
OTP EV ERE: neo Ellen Rothenberg, ‘64
AIPA NT RET "Constance Rosenblum, ‘65
Sheila. Bunker, ‘64; Patricia’ Dranow, »'64
Cynthia Brown, ‘64; Judy Zinsser, ‘64
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eeeeee pepecreseeee Anne Lovgref, ‘66~
. EDITORIAL. STAFF : :
63; Mary H. Warfield, ‘64; Sue Jane Kerbin,
‘65; Elizabeth Greene; ‘65; Gail: Sanger,
Diana Koin, ‘65; Christy Bednar, ‘66; Nancy Geist, ‘66;

‘65;, Eugenie Ladner, ‘65;

Vicky Grafstrom, ‘66; Lynne Lackenbach, ‘66; Edna Perkins, ‘66; Liesa Stamm, ‘66;

Ann Bradley, ‘66; Joan Cavallaro,
Gretchen Blair, ‘66. : ;
Entered as second class matter
of March 3, 1879.

‘66; Sandra Shapiro. ‘66; Karen Durbin, ‘66;

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- Elections -

In the recent campus elect

of Self-Gov., Undergrad, and .the
required....We question the wisdom and the democratic char-

———geter-of such-compulsery~-votin

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As ipso facto organizations,

N. S.A. must. reflect the i
campus community.

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The greater the number of voters,

ions, voting for the presidents
N.S. A. representative was

' Self-Gov., Undergrad., and
and
the

better are the chances of choosing leaders who accurately rep-

resent the-views ofthe electorate. sia cone
However, just as no one should be denied the right to

vote, no one should be forced to exercise this right. Students

should at least be made more aware

they can abstain from voting.

that in the present system

The vote of an uninformed or disinterested student can

be detrimental: to the election of

Many sttidents did not attend

the most capable candidate.
all the dinners and/or do not

_ know the candidates and their platforms well enough to distin-

‘you-if you sign..

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~~ We will all eventually be affected. as
___ Signing a petition'such as this is one of the ways in which
we can be of some help. The old. cli

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The most’ difficult part of any dramatic effort is to bring. .
of disbelief”. which involves the

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guish among them.
In. our preferential voting
place votes can be-erucial in

for the first place are counted,
candidate receives half, plus one,

system, the second and third-

determining election results. Votes

and if on the first count no
of the votes,, the second-place

votes of the:candidates with the smallest number of first-place
votes are redistributed. The process continues until one can-
didate receives the required number of Votes.

Since some students may

have a

strong preference for a

first-choice candidate only, their second and third choices may

be more or less arbitrary. We
cess can be reorganized so that

believe that the counting pro-
second and third choices would

not have to be given. This could-be one step toward.a-_more
a democratic voting procedure on campus.

- Petitions - :

. [Ed. Note: Signed editorials do not necessarily represent

the opinion of the entire editor
What’ is probably the mos
come up cn ca

us again with

ial board.]
t vital issue of our times has
the circulating of a SANE

(Committee For A Sane Nuclear Policy) petition to be sent to
the President of the United States-and-the two Pennsylvania

Senators.
- The petition: states

the well-known fact that “The United’

States and the Soviet Union each possess sufficient nuclear
weapons to destroy any possible enemy nation,” and calls for
support of governmental efforts to approve a treaty to end

nuclear “testing.
~ Just that.
for peace marches,

Yet we have
tion.. Some will not sign for f
will follow them unto the tenth
ly absurd. But even if there

No extreme unilateral disarmament, no call
nothing that is going to definitely blacklist

ea» that their signature there
generation. This is undoubted-
were a shadow of truth in it,

oa Translatés “Panis

sentiments of the entire.

heard all these objections raised to the peti- |

wouldn’t it be worth the risk if that signature ‘might help
towards relieving the unbearable tension that the possibility

of nuclear warfare has created
The petition does

NOT advocate

in the world? ;
a complete and-immed-

iate stoppage of all testing without adequate precautions.

this is what many have taken it to mean,

reasons for not signing on this

We as college: students can

us
and have based thir
erroneous opinion. :
temporarily ignore some, ‘of

the disastrous side-effects of eontinuing nuclear testing, such

as the ever-growing radiation
and the possibility

is as true-as it ever-was. We

of accidental war. ;
‘we will not.be able to.

danger to unborn generations »

But if we can ignore

-hope..s

the basis of half-truths gleayed from some darkly anonymous

source.

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~ Albof us who ‘saw’ the performances of Air
Ends Well, given this weekend in honor of Mr. .Sprague;~were —
job done by Mr. Butman apd the

impressed with the excellent

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‘Bryn Mawr and Haverford:drama groups. No’ play, however,

can fight a rude auience,

about the “willing suspension
tator in the play. Let's
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and-people
both

were still arriving at Good-
Friday and Saturday nights.

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hope that in the future, ‘late-

s will think to sit in the back or that the ushers will

make sure they do,\so the rest of us won't be interrupted in

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_Empty_ Holes. Arouse Curious

Alumna Bemoans.

Missed Meaning,

To tis’ Editor:

“As a former Latin major, and as
an ardent reader of the College
News, I am writing to you to ex-
press my distress over the lack of
editorial care and accuracy display-
ed in the penultimate paragraph of
Miss Cavallaro’s article “Numerous

Thoughts.”

A quick iook in a Latin dictionary
will reveal that Panis means bread,
not Pan:. I therefore submit that
some member of the editorial board
should have verified Miss Cavallaro’s
translation. .

Although it is many years since

I-have seen the marble placque in

the Dean’s Office, I believe it is a~

sort of shrine (Renaissance?) which

was meant to hold the communion
bread, and that the inscription
means, “This is the Bread which de- °

“scends to us from-Heaven.” ~

Phyllis Goodhart Gordon
Class of 1935 _

(Gratias tibi mawimas censor

Agit pessimus omnium scriptor

Tanto pessimus scriptor

Quanto tu optimus omnium littera-
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Librarian Answers Students’ Objections.
‘And Notes Need For More Co-operation

To the Editor:

The issue raised in the February
15 edition of the News on the desire
for extended library hours has awak-
ened quite a bit of comment. The
original article chose to emphasize
that the cost of keeping the’ build-
ing open for these additional hours
was a major factor and that this-cost
had been found to be virtually neg-
ligible. o
, One ofthe purposes of Miss Wal-
ker’s rebuttal (February 29) was
to show that the safety factors in-
volved, the reserve rooms unprotect-

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with the outside, would demand the
employment..of. watchmen at both
ends of the Library. While ngt an
overwhelming financial problem, it
is on a somewhat higher scale than
the cost of heat and light, the main
considerations in the original article.,
Her second point was whether such:
extended hours were indeed neces-
sary. cus
The replies to these observations
in the last issue of the News*(March'™
6) have raised three points: 1. that
student conscientiousness and self-
discipline have been impugned)» 2.
that there is*indeed a problem with
reserve books; and 3. that the stu-
ts were being urged to follow a
foolish and unreasonable tradition.
1, would. like -first. to say that
I feel we have been unusually fortu-
nate this year in the undergradu-
ates manning the reserve desks dur-
ing regular hours. Even so, there
have still been many occasions when
the person responsible has failed to
show up and the librarians have had
to scout around to find a fill-in or
do without this help.. |
The atttitude at Bryn Mawr ap- .
pears to be (and I do not at all dis-
agree) that the student is-here- pri-
marily for her education and that -
other commitments. must go by ¢he
board’ when academic. pressures
mount. The, result, is thatthe Li-
brary ‘is léft unmanned, often at the:
most critical moments. I say this
with ful] appreciation of the stu-
dents’ probiems, but it does not less-"
en the fact that student, assistance
is notoriously unreliable in this col-.
lege. We, as librarians, can all too

easily foresee the. time .when .we

would be’called in to. supervise
-these-—-projected- extra—hours, .-and.
this too will cost money. Either-that

or it will cut back seriously on our.

sérvices. during normal. hours. :
2. The librarians. are guided by
two things in’ providing adequate .
numbers of: copies of books on. ye-
serve, the professors’ estimates of:
class needs, and our own review of

‘the showings on the reservé slips.
While I am a-firm ‘believer in the .

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necessary material, we will be grate-

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year.

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Pick two students at random on

this campus: and ask them to debate. -

onthe financial situation, of. any
student-run activity; most likely
neither will be able to. This finan-

__vial ignorance is, due not only to a

lack of interest but also to the great
scarcity of publicized facts.
The Bryn Mawr student body has

- been’ given the privilege of manag-

ing its own organizations.- At. the
meetings of every organization, the
executive and judicial powers are

discussed and their minutes~ posted~

—not so’ for monetary matters.
, Detailed financial reports” are

rarely made. The student body hears
nothing unless by rumors, and’ these

are generally: rumors of doubt. Even _

at election times when the organi-
zation heads come to the halls, they

are able to give only vague replies —

to questions concerning their finan-.
cial status, i.e., their initial funds,
expénditures and: -eurrent balances.

This uncertainty is not so much
‘the fault of the individuals as the

superiority of Bryn Mawr students,
I do not think that even they ‘are

totally immune from the common .-

weakness of leaving required read-
ing until the last minute. I am quite
sure that, with any advance know-
ledge of a genuine need, the Library
will make every~ effort to secyre
added copies.’ And if the studénts
themselves note real shortages of

ful to be alerted to the situation.

8:
a complete misunderstanding of the
original statement. The quote is
. one has chosen four years of
college and: in so doing has commit-,
ted oneself to a pattern of life for
those years.” ‘The “pattern” here
does not, 1 think, mean tradition,
but the way in which one adjusts
one’s life to..a—particular situation.

The lines imply to me simply that
one cannot eat one’s'cake and have
it, that one cannot commit oneself
to an exacting academic regime and
still “enjoy all the social pleasures
that. a less arduous schedule might
permit.. I am not prepared to com-
ment here, on whether this position
is truly applicable to this situation
since. it seems to me a highly sub-
‘jective interpretation. I am merely.
trying to set the record straight.
Yildiz van. Hulsteyn
Librarian

BMC Juniors Awarded Ford Grants.

the Social Sciences, .

For Research in

Four Bryn Mawr students have
been. awarded Ford Foundation
-grants enabling them to fo indepen-
dent work during the summer in
their respective: fields in the social

sciences. The girls; all juniors, will «

continue their summer work as hon-
ors projects during the next school

Caren. Goretsky, a political -sci-
ence major, will stidy some aspecty
of. Presidential power in light ‘of a
theory advanced by Richasd Neu-
Stadt. Her test of the theory will
center around ‘the Medicare bill in-.
troduced in the-last Congress, Caren
will. spend most of-her summer. in

“ Washington, where she also worked.
Jast..year.with..Sen.._Kuchel, a co-_.

sponsor of the bill. At Bryn Mawr,

she will work on “the project. with j

Mr. Bachrach, -

In the field of econgmics‘the grant
was. awarded to Marjorie Heller,
whose. project will be a study of the
impact of the Teamsters Union on
the trucking industry. Marj, who

_«will work with. Mr, Baratz, hopes

this summer to. gather background.

I think this .comment..shows _.

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Concerned Students Chu and Tsien
Cite Financial. Ignorance on Campus ©

~ To. the»Editor:

_caifipus-wile practice of discussing ~

executive financial activities: In oth-

know what the left is doing.
EXAMPLES

- Some specific examples ofthis sit-
“uation are? mr ?

“1, The editorial board of the Col,

lege News !acks communication with
the business board, despite the fact
that each is dependent on.the other.
Further confusion- results from’ a
subdivision of business authority.
For example, the branch responsible
collect from the advertisers and has
only a vague notion of the amount
of money in the treasury—this being

- under the management’ of the sec- _

ond branch.

Soda Fountain, never gave a fuli re-'
port to the Executive or ‘Activities
Board explaining the weaknesses of
that financial activity. Instead, it

was just casually stated that. the
Soda Fountain had ss ea quite .

a “debt.”

3.
present budgets at the beginning of
their terms, some of, the campus-
wide organizations report their ex-
penditures to. the student. body.at
the end of their terms.

SUGGESTIONS

We. therefore suggest that:
(1) The College News should in-

‘vestigate their publication, adver-

tising, and subscription policies;
- (2) Business Managers and Trea-
gurers should keep their advisors and

“committees well informed in their

activities; .
(3) A final report*on the expen-
“diture of each campus-wide organi-

- gation should be sent to the halls at

the end of the year;

cerning the orders of blazers, lan-
terns, and other traditional. articles,
because ‘too’ often companies have
established monopolies. .

It is our opinion that a complete

reassessment of student-run finances
is of primary importance of we are
to operate our organizations with
-greatest. efficiency.
Pauline Chu ’65
Ying Ying Tsien ’66

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... Peace Corps .
Saturday, March 23, at 8:30
a.m. is the date for the Peace
Corps Placement Test. The test
center is in Philadelphia: Room
311, ‘Custom House, 2nd and
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for the study by using the-files of
the McClellan investigating commit-
tees and the minutes of Teamster
conventions. ai

Sushila Goshal, working in Soci-
ology..with. Mr.. Schneider, has enti-

“tled her project. “The Role of the
. Press:-Its Influence gn Public Qpin-

er, words, the right-hand -does not”

-9-“The people’ who worked in the--

for getting advertisements does not ~

Although some organizations _,

(4) Careful consideration should ~
be given by each of the classes: con-

ion and Political. Process With Spe- — -

cial. Reference to the McCarthy
Era:”
summer, ‘traveling between New
York,. Philadelphia, and Washing-
.ton, studying newspaper ‘articles: of
the-McCarthy — era,
journalists, and exam¥ning the ree-
ords: of relevant congressional ‘hear-
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Dalé Greenbaum Blumen, a ‘psye
chology major; will make a study of
“Atttitudes and Community Deci-
sion-Makinzg; Sayre, Pennsylvania,

and the Robert Packer Hospital.” -

This project will be especially con-
venient for: Dale, as she lives‘in the
town of Sayre and her husband is in
residency at the hospital where her

interviewing .

She will have a corhmuting — :

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