Bc earner AGT a a am THE COLLEGE NEWS Vol. Lil, No. 10 BRYN MAWR, PA. NOVEMBER 18, 1966 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966 25 Cents Little Theatre Chooses Play: “Thurber Carnival” for Dec. 9 *‘She’s all I know about Bryn Mawr and all I need to know,”’’ quoted Bryn Mawr-Haverford Little Theatre director Bob Sin- clair ’67, at the organization’s try- outs for THE THURBER CARNI- VAL in Skinner Wednesday night. The 50 prospective actors, pro- duction people and onlookers who made the turnout the largest ever known for a minor production, responded to these and other lines from the play ‘‘with an enthusiasm we only hope the audience will possess,’’ said Sinclair. THE THURBER CARNIVAL, which is an adaptation of the book of the same name by James Thur-" ber, will be presented in Skinner Workshop December 9. The pro- duction is a review, not a play, with short scenes tied together with music. The music will be furnished by a five-piece jazz combo, which will arrange its own selections, some of them original, to fit the scenes. ; THE THURBER. CARNIVAL contains such classic pieces of Thurber subtlety and wit as, ‘‘The Macbeth Murder Mystery,’’ ‘‘The Unicorn In the Garden,’’ and ‘‘ Word Dance,’’ which is an adaptation of some of his famous cartoons, One possibility, according to mem- bers of the production staff pre- sent Wednesday night, is to pro- ject the cartoons between scenes. Of the 35 actors and actresses, a third of whom were freshmen, who tried out, 20 -- ten men and ten women -- will be chosen. ‘‘We want as many new people as pos- sible,’? explained director Sin- clair. ‘‘Little Theatre is meant to encourage just such a turnout as tonight’s, with many more new faces than old.’’ The policy of giving anyone with ability responsibility will be carried to the production staff as well. ‘‘We would like to see as chairmen of committees people who are experienced, but who have never headed com- mittees,’? said last year’s pro- duction staff, Cathy Sims, Lessie Klein, and Pam Barald. Little Theatre was established as an off- shootof College Theatre and the Haverford Drama Club to give students a chance at direction and production of comedies, experi- mental theater and original plays. THE THURBER CARNIVAL was selected as this year’s pro- duction and Robert Sinclair chosen ‘ as director at an organizational meeting of the group Tuesday, No- vember 8. Many plays were sug- gested by the 30 members who at- tended the meeting, Thornton Wilder’s THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, Pirandello’s THE JAR, Day’s LIFE WITH FATHER, Shaw’s MAJOR BARBARA, and several Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (which the group might perhaps revive, at some future date since in past years, a Gil- bert and Sullivan was a popular custom on campus). val.’’ A concert by saxophonist Stan Getz in Roberts Hall at 8:30 tonight is the first of the activi- ties planned for Swarthmore- Haverford Weekend. Following the Getz performance will be a dance in the Common Room. Saturday night a buffet dinner by: candlelight will ‘be served at 7:00 in Founders Hall and in the Common Room. Dinner music, provided by a jazz band in Found- ers and by records in the Common Room, will accompany the meal. A showing of the Beatles’ movie, **A Hard Day’s Night,’’ is scheduled for 8:30, and at 10:30 a discotheque-type dance with music by the Monks will take place in Founders. 3:30 signouts will be in effect for Bryn Mawr students on Satur- day night. including - Rich Gartner and Marsha Feinland try out for “‘Thurber Carni- BMC Students Seem Uninterested In Vietnam War, Survey Shows by Kathy Murphey The results of the Vietnam ques- tionnaire recently distributed by Alliance in order to poll student opinion on the war were meager, according to Drewdie Gilpin, pres- ident of Alliance. Out of the ap- proximately 125 students who an- swered the questionnaire, about 80% expressed reservations about the war, and 20% supported the current U,S, policy in Vietnam, \ Alaskan Indian Alliance composed the question- naire in response to a letter from Cornell University, Last spring, the student government of Cor- nell held a referendum on U, S, policy in Vietnam. This fall, Cor- nell has asked several colleges and universities to run similar referendums to indicate the dis- tribution of views on the war. Drewdie hoped also that the ques- tionnaire would give Bryn Mawr students of various political back- grounds a chance to express their opinions, The--general response to the questionnaire was disappointing, Drewdie felt. Many students re- vealed ignorance of some basic facts about the war in Vietnam, One girl believed that the North Vietnamese were bombing South Vietnam. Another did not know what the NLF, the political branch of the Viet Cong, was. The small number. of question- naires turned in seemed to indi- cate a very faint interest in the war in Vietnam on the part of Bryn Mawr _ students, Drewdie thought, She said she had es- pecially hoped that the conser- vatives on campus, who often com- plain about. being overwhelmed by the liberal element, would use the referendum to speak out. Apathy, she felt, was’ the dominant re- sponse. Drewdie wondered if Bryn Mawr students were too busy to think about the war, if they. knew nothing about it, or if they just did not care. Drewdie realized that the over- all results of the questionnaire Songs to Join Bach, Chopin, Schumann Trio What are Tlinglit Songs from Alaskan Indians doing on a con- cert program with Bach, Chopin and Schumann? Mme. Agi Jambor hopes the question will answer it- self at her musicale this Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the Music Room of Goodhart. With the assistance of members of her Bach and Ethnomusicology class- es and several other willing stu- dents, Mme. Jambor will present three Bach chorales, the Chopin Sonata in B Flat Minor, Opus 35, Schumann’s CARNIVAL, and, Baratz Gets Million-Dollar Grant To Study Poverty In Baltimore Mr. Morton Baratz of the Bryn Mawr Economics Department and three other men have been given a three-year grant, amounting to al- most a million dollars, by the Office of Economic Opportunity. Mr. Baratz, William Grigsby at Penn, Homer Faver at Morgan State College in Baltimore and John Kettelle,a mathematician and operations researcher, began working officially in July on their project -- an evaluation of com- munity action program effects on poverty in Baltimore. This study will bé’ one ‘of eight in the country which the OEO is sponsoring to try to evaluate the anti-poverty program. They will be-looking at the struct- ure of the various community action _- programs in Baltimore and at the 2 characteristics of the target popu- lations. to which they are aimed. The programs include Head Start, legal services, and foster day care centers, among others. In Balti- more, these are ‘all under the complete control of the City Couh- cil, as opposed to Philadelphia where ‘there are elected members of the poor serving on the plan- ning commissions, For the first six months, they will be working on the ‘‘research design phase.” They will be de- ciding what, they want to look for, . and. then how to,measure it, They are working from the point of view that poverty is not just an economic problem. Itis a collection of problems that now happens tobe highly, .although not completely, correlated with low income, A suc- cessful anti-poverty program would break the relationship and problems would be randomly dis- tributed throughout all income ranges, and hopefully they would be less frequent and less serious. Mr, Baratz’ group has coined a term for the various aspects of the community action program. They call it the ‘‘welfare industry.”’ The welfare industry actually goes beyond the OEO. activities to public housing, police and fire services, Part of their inquiries will be to see how the OEO services have fitted in to. the.existing programs. Before the three years are up, the four men expect to recruit about 25 other workers. They have already called in Mr. Bachrach of the Political Science Department — (Continued on page 3) lastly, the Alaskan Indian songs. The .concert does not represent a random selection of works. Mme. Jambor has a guiding philosophy behind the choices for all her pro- grams. Saddened by the conditions in the world at the present, she found great. comfort in the state- ment of an old Alaskan Indian woman, author of one of the songs to be presented. ‘‘Nobody taught me this song,’’ she said. ‘‘It lived in my heart.’? Mme. Jambor’s Sun- day musicale is designed to show how artists can contribute to a greater atmosphere of peace and tranquility in the world through expressions from the heart. The three chorales, for ex- ample, written while Bach was’ still very young, inspired such feeling in the congregation that Bach was dismissed from the church where he was employed. The minister had observed that the music attracted more atten- tion than his sermons. Whether or not these chorales actually con- tributed to goodwill in Bach’s community, they certainly prove the power of music to. influence (Continued on page 3) Begins After Your Last Class Wednesday. — were not conclusive. However, some of the individual comments were interesting. On the question of whether John- son has made every possible ef- fort to begin peace negotiations, opinion was largely negative, One answer claimed, ‘‘According to the citizen’s white paper put out by Lin Mattison and other Midwestern academicians, Johnson has con- sistently allowed the war to ese calate every time conditions ap- pear to be ripe for negotiations.’’ On the other hand, some justi- fied Johnson. in —his- refusai—to compromise the ‘‘U,S, position.’ ° A clear majority of students supported a coalition government, including communists, for South Vietnam, Many stressed that such a coalition should represent the will of the South Vietnamese, as demonstrated in popular elections. The right of communists in South Vietnam to representation in the government was widely expressed, A few students, however, seemed afraid of the subversion of the South Vietnamese communists by the Chinese and by other groups who might try to impose com- munism on all of Southeast Asia. Only a third of the students an- swered the question about invit- ing the National Liberation Front (NLF) to negotiate. Almost all the rest felt that no real negotiations could occur without the NLF, since this_group controls_a_large per- centage of the population. Some claimed there should be no ques- tion about asking the NLF to par- ticipate in a peace settlement, since they are one of the two war parties in Vietnam. A few sup- ported the view that the United States must concentrate on main- taining a superior military posi- tion so that an invitation to ne- gotiate would not sound like plead-: ing. _ Students had different opinions on the level of military activity in Vietnam, About half showed a wil- lingness for immediate withdrawal of U,S, troops, One answer stated, ‘‘Every day that we become more involved in this war, we come closer to WW IIl.’? Withdrawal should be accompanied by some plan for a future government in South Vietnam, or by the entrance of the United Nations into the coun- try, some thought, Interfaith to Host Professor Snyder On Art Mysticism Mr. James Snyder will deliver an. address on ‘‘Mysticism in Medieval Art?’ as part of a series of lectures sponsored by Interfaith this semester. The talk will take place at 7:30 p.m. inthe Art Lecture Room, Wednesday, November 30. Mr. Snyder, who is an associate professor in the History of Art Department here obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University, He pres- ently teaches courses here in Medieval Art as well as in other art subjects, and will center his lecture on the phenomenon of the icon as a graduate influence on the development of Medieval religious and cultural expression. . The so-called mysticism which played an important role in the spiritual nature of Middle Ages life and customs was intricately related to the idea of a tangible deity. THE COLLEGE NEWS Friday, November 18, 1966 Faculty Members Reveal Plans For Lame Duck Experimentation by Cookie Poplin Once again Bryn Mawr professors assert their ndividualism and independence. Their responses to ; the ‘‘lame duck’? session -- that last, week of school in between Christmas vacation and exams -- : were as varied as their personalities and their Page Two THE COLLEGE NEWS Subscription $3.75 — Mailing price $5.00 — Subscriptions may begin at any time Post Office, under Post Entered as second class matter at the Bryn Mawr, Pa. the Act of March 3, 1879. Application for re-entry at the Bryn Mawr, Pa. Office filed October Ist, 1963, Second Class Postage paid at Bryn Mawr, Pa. FOUNDED IN 1914 Published weekly during the College Year except during Thanks-~- giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination weeks in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the R.K. Printing Company, Inc., Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College. 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The new Erdman system, which involves. discarding of sign-out cards upon return and informing the hall’ president of late minutes, is a noteworthy experiment which lays _more-stress-on the individual's responsibility to the honor sys- tem, and we encourage all dormitories to try it out, there being no regulations in the present constitution as to sign-out systemsthem- selves, But as the constitution comes up for review, it is time to question the regulations that do exist, especially in terms of curfews. We approach the subject after reading the newspaper of Muhlenberg College, where upperclassmen have no curfews and enter the dorm with a key. Granted the system exists at other colleges, such as Radcliffe, but we cite Muhlenberg because its Women’s Council sent a questionnaire to parents to ask if they would object to a key system, and 87.6 per cent were in favor of the program, If the key system were used at Bryn Mawr, the privilege should go to all undergraduates, not only to juniors and seniors. We suggest that such a system is perfectly feasible here, operating as follows: Every student would not possess a key; rather, she would sign one out if she planned not to come back before 2:00 a.m. and would sign it in when she returned. There should still be a 2:00 a.m. sign-out, with no keys needed up until that time and student doorkeepers on the job until that hour. If a girl planned to be out past 2:00, she should sign out until 6:30 a.m., at which time the dorms would open. If she planned to be out later than 6:30 a.m., she should sign out in the overnight book. There should be no stipulations as to where or where not the 6:30 a.m. sign-out could be used. The main objection to the system is that Bryn Mawr girls have no locks on their. room doors, and if keys to the dorm were lost or dupli- cated, it could be dangerous., The only answer is that the respon- sibility for the keys rests with the students, and loss or misuse of them would not be treated lightly. We propose that the Constitutional Revision Committee poll the campus, as well as send’ out questionnaires to parents, And we invite parent subscribers to submit their reactions to the NEWS if they feel violently pro or con. In conclusion, we add that the system we propose would be an even greater expression of the integrity of Self-Government at Bryn Mawr. The Undergrad Affair The NEWS? stand on the so-called abolition of Undergrad has been widely misinterpreted. Our point has been all dlong not to abolish Undergrad, but rather to de-emphasize and decrease its status. The _ Executive Board itself admits that Undergrad is a ‘‘catch-all or- ganization.’? We simply do not think a ‘‘catch-all organization’? de- serves to be on the same plane as Self-Gov, a body which is not only unique in function, but which represents the social and academic integrity of the whole Bryn Mawr community, Undergrad mistakenly seems to symbolize Bryn Mawr in many cases where instead it should be Self-Gov. The letter from the heads of the Big Six states that Undergrad has not hindered any one of them, Yet we think the example of Alliance’s calendar proposal clearly illustrates how Undergrad, because of its position ‘‘over’’ the Big Six, slows procedure and generally bogs things down. Alliance wrote a proposal several weeks ago onthe method of select- ing the college calendar. It intended to submit it to Curriculum Com- mittee, in whose jurisdiction the matter falls, Instead of being able to do this directly, Alliance had to submit it to Undergrad (on one Mon- day night), Then Undergrad gave it to Curriculum Committee, who expanded it and took it back to Undergrad (the next Monday night), But it was not brought up at that meeting, but at the succeeding one (the next Monday night). It was then approved and the next day it was sub- ‘mitted to Mrs. Marshall, This process took over three weeks when it should not have taken “ much over three days. This is what we mean when we say Undergrad bogs things down. Undergrad is now in the process of revising its Constitution. It will be voted on by Legislature sometime in 1967. Unfortunately, it is not considering the reduction in status that we advocate, but rather the reduction of NSA’s status on campus, which we most strongly do NOT advocate. Therefore we ask that Amendment 9, which adds ‘‘if she is so needed’? to ‘‘The Vice President shall serve as NSA Co- ordinator’? be defeated. This campus would greatly benefit from closer ties with the National Students? Association, and we do not see any reasons a —. it to the asandeervcie, 38 the 08 whe aio needed’? ‘implies. ~~ ~ On the other hand, ~we- are” wienied to see othe woutis abeintica-er reality which is manifested in the changing of the ‘‘Tri-College Standing Committee” to the ‘