Vol Lill, No. 15 SS DONT FORGET TO VOTE THE COLLEGE NEWS _ BRYN MAWR, PA. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1968 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967 25 Cents . _ senting the _Seven Sisters, some . pass-fail courses Statement Establishes Dual $.D.S. Chapter ' The statement of principles of the Haverford-Bryn Mawr chapter of Students for a Democratic So- ciety was presented ata meeting last Monday night by a committee appointed to write it, along with a more active statement about S,D,s, given by Neal Buckley; a full time organizer’ in Pennsylvania, An-— other’ meeting will be held next Monday night at 10:00 p.m, in Shar- pless 120 at Haverford, The purpose of the meeting was to officially instate the S,D,S, chapter here by approving the statement and sending it into the national office, and to create a - more concrete picture of S,D.S. by . talking with Buckley, who will bein: the Philadelphia area for awhile, “The statement as approved reads; ‘‘The members of the Hav- erford-Bryn Mawr chapter Stu- dents for a Democratic Society, - seek to create a community of ed- - cational and political concern, We share a visfon of a democratic so- ciety where the people determine the quality and direction of their lives, where the human potential for freedom, in reason, and love can be fulfilled, - constitution We see a contradiction between the rhetoric of corporate liberal- ism and the reality of poverty, rac- ism, and imperialism in an unfree society, And as students, we must confront an educational system which cannot offer a critical anal- ysis of this reality, We are not alone in our demands for fundamental changes. We recognize our solidarity with opp- ressed peopte, We seek to buildan organization on campus which will provide a radical perspective anda base for relevant social action.’’ . After approval of the statement, volunteers to write a constitution for the chapter were asked for, The will designate the structure of the chapter, so that after it is accepted at next weeks meeting, elections can be held, Buckley ran down a brief his- tory of S,D.S, The organization originated from student concern about civil rights in the early 60’s, Many members went to work in the South, The movement shifted to concern with the oppressive-ce (Continued on page 9) Four Sisters Join Ivy League To Compare Educational Philosophy Last weekend students repre- Ivy League and _ Seven Sister colleges met in con- ference at the University of Pennsylvania, , Representing Bryn Mawr were - Lola Atwood, Bonnie Cunningham, and Barbara Oppenheim, The purpose of the con- ference was to establish friend- ships among the schools, to discuss common problems and to compare the educational systems of the colleges, The Ivy League _ colleges have met before in such con- ferences, but this is the first time that the Seven Sisters were included, Of the eight Ivy League colleges only one, Cornell, was not represented, Only four of the however, sent delegates: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke and Wellesley. Friday evening included a cock- tail party and discussion groups,. so that students could have an op- portunity to get acquainted, There were two discussion groups on Saturday morning, Bon- nie attended the meeting on theory of education, Most of the discussion in this group centered around educational reform and philosophies of education, The stu- dents tried to see how cur- ricula tied in with philosophies of education, and attempted to draw comparisons between the various colleges represented, To Bonnie, this seemed impos- sible, since many of _ the schools? educational aims were so different, All the schools had ex- Bryn. Mawr, “They were Tecostnc Wes “peectbilities ‘of oem n seas 0, system - to more liberal systems without any grading at all, Students also discussed ideas such as individualized majors (a - field in which a student is inter- ested and can find a professor to work with him), and many types of independent study. There was also some discussion about | establishing free universities (no tuition, no grades) on the uni- versity campuses, Bonnie felt that most of the discussion did not apply to Bryn Mawr, especially talks about abolishing rigid requirements (which do not exist at Bryn Mawr), As _a whole, she thought that the academic systems of most of the Ivy League colleges made Bryn Mawr look very much - behind them, It seemed to her that the academic philosophies are so different (Bryn Mawr’s being more traditional) that the reforms discussed were not comparable. Most of Saturday afternoon’s meeting was spent on discussing the war in Vietnam, the draft and draft resistance, A statement pre- pared by several of _ the delegates was read and dis- cussed so that those attending the conference could sign it, Many of the delegates left this meeting because’ they felt that since the purpose of the conference was to compare academic and social life at the col- leges and to discuss problems, they would rather continue dis- cussion along those lines, They discussed the problems of administration-student relation- ships. At the University . of Pennsylvania, students sit. on almost all committees, includ- _ (Continued on page 3) - ee: Patten Accepts The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a fellowship for _ younger faculty members -in the humanities to Robert L, Patten of the Bryn Mawr English Department. The purpose of the En- dowment is to encourage good scholarship which can stimulate and reinforce good teaching. The younger scholar fellowship pro- gram provides time for reci- Re Research Grant blest from. many different universities to pursue research in all fields of the humanities, The 184 grants awarded to younger faculty will support in- dependent work of two to eight months duration. Davis, also of the English Depart- Gwenn Bryn | Mawr ment, stipend from the Endowment, has received a summer. Standing Ovation Follows McCarthy’s Philly Speec Senator Eugefie McCarthy looks exhausted, and his fingers trem- ble s ntly as he speaks. In order bring the immorality of the Vietnam War to the at- tention of the American people, “some of us may have to risk our political careers,’ he said, in an address given in Philadelphia Tuesday night, ‘He compared the possible destiny of men who take the risk to that which often befalls the first bearers of bad news. McCarthy spoke to an over- flow crowd of 1700 at a dinner sponsored by Business Executives for Vietnam Peace (BEM) at the Bellevue-Stratford. ~ Thir- teen ._members of Bryn Mawr’s Social Action Committee served as hostesses for the dinner. McCarthy opened his address by commenting on the introduction given him by Mr. Charles Simp- son, General Manager of Phila- delphia Gas Works. The in- troduction, he felt, had been overdone. ‘‘But I am delighted to encounter someéone--after my usual - scopifead i -by the press- ; thiat I am alive!” . McCarthy said has been accused of saat no personal charisma. ‘‘However, when I con- sider my opponents, to say nothing. of incumbents. ...’’ Laughter cut him off; McCarthy is not concerned about his lack of charisma. His entire speech reflected his belief that the bare facts of the War and of the Administra- tion’s domestic programs are sufficiently dramatic to carry his message and to convince Amer- icans. ‘“I have always been afraid of arousing apocalyptic feeling,’? McCarthy stated, ‘‘but the time has come when all of us must ask ourselves how we will answer when our sons ask ‘What did you do in 1968?’ ‘*‘The President has cut a total of 790 million dollars from the 1968 budgets of the De- partments of HEW, Labor, Trans- portation, Housing and Urpan Development, and OEO, These five important agencies spent only 4.95 billion dollars this fiscal year, about enough to finance the Viet- ; nam War for month months,’ ~Beeaing directly of the “eeetemied on page 11) MSA Reps Receive Curriculum Reports Dean Marshall and members of the Curriculum Committee madea comprehensive report on the cur- riculum and curriculum revision to the Middle States Association dur- ing its recent visit to the Bryn Mawr campus, The report, which was made on Tuesday, Feb, 27,-included. a re- view of the new and old curricula as they are presented in the cata- logue. Since the present senior class is the last which will grad- uate under the old plan, a study will be made after the gradua- tion of the-Class of 1969, This class would be the first to have studied under the new. plan for four years, The remainder of- the reportwas concerned with the mechanisms of the Curriculum Committee for continuing change, In the opinion of the Committee, which is compos- ed of five members of the faculty and ex officio College officers, *‘Between full scale revisions, the constant requests which it ap- proves, denies, or initiates, reflect new patterns in teaching and learn- ing and indicate new directions which the curriculum as a whole may be likely to take,’? For campaign platforms see page 4, BMC Plays Congo In Model U.N. Headed by Dianne Portelance, an eight-member delegation from Bryn Mawr represented the Congo at Brazzaville from February 14- 18 at the 1968 Model United Na- tions Conference, Held annually at New York’s Statler Hilton Hotel, the Confer- ‘ence attracts students from 140 schools throughout the country. A group from Harvard, functioning as the Secretariat, assigns coun- tries to each of the member col- leges. The selection this year was made on the basis of student United Nation groups and debating so- cieties on campus; Bryn Mawr, with none, was awarded the Congo at Brazzaville, an insignifigant country, Because of its size, the delegation had representation only in the General Assembly. The delegation was briefed upon its arrival in New York by mem- bers of the Congo’s embassy, After the briefing, the delegates attended special’ committee meetings and later voted on bills brought before the model general assembly, In addition, there were political games for selected groups of coun- tries; these nations simulated crises and resolved action upon them, The Bryn Mawr delegation was dissatisfied with this year’s con- ference, because of the insignif- igance of its country and the gen- eral disorganization oof the sessions. However, Bryn Mawr did Have one. bright. moment’ at the end of the confer- ence: Dianne was awarded “special recognition for having one of the top ten highest scores outof five hundred. students who took~a competency test at the outset of the conference, Page Two ~. 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Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted wholly or in/ part without permission of the Editor-if-Chief. ~ COLLEGE NEWS is entered as second class matter at the Wayne, Penna, Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. ; Self Gov Has the F acts | Three drug cases involving five Bryn Mawr students have been tried by Self Gov within the past two weeks. Directly-or indirectly, the entire student body is af- fected by these cases brought before Self Gov and by the additional instances of use or possession of drugs on campus which have not been detected. Some sort of clarification of Self Gov’s position and actions is ab- solutely necessary at this point, Rumors are spread- ing across campus, and the absence of any official word from Self Gov on the situation has generated a feeling of secrecy, Students are becoming suspicious of Self Gov, the very organization designed to represent them, | : _- Prior to this time, Self Gov has not had adequate information to present an evaluation of the problem; but after three long and carefully considered cases, particular information must-be available. Perhaps a petition to Self Gov asking for an explanation pre- sented in a campus-wide meeting would prove effec- tive. But still the question remains, why doesn’t Self Gov take the initiative? The students want a clarifica- tion, and Self Gov has the facts, The whole situation is obviously extremely difficult to handle, and the process of judging peers within the context of an honor system is a delicate and complex procedure. But some rationale for current actions and some indication of how the honor system is working in the recent cases should be offered, An important point which has been subjected to numerous rumors is the possibility of a federal raid on campus, Certainly the chance of suchan enormous threat to Bryn Mawr should be examined and presented to the students, Under an honor system there shouldbe no need for a statement of absolute punishments for specifically delineated offenses, Each case is tried individually in the most liberal context possible. In fact, the idea of a student deciding her actions on the basis of how much the punishment will inconvenience her, rather than on. What effect her actions will have on other. people, is completely alien to the actualization of self government. But the drug cases do offer Self Gov opportunities to demonstrate concretely ways in which the adverse actions of individuals damage the community as a whole, The drug statement called drug abuse ‘physically and psychologically’? dangerous, and certainly the cases at Bryn Mawr have caused problems, both in direct violations of the honor system and in creating a communications ‘between Self Gov and the stu- dent body. Definite information ina situation such as this is necessary to enable a student to exercise her - THE COLLEGE NEWS Friday, March 1, 1968 Self Gov on Brugs Self Gov, Statement on Drugs, adopted by Legislature on Oct, 24, 1967: Because drugs are illegal and potentially dangerous physically and psychologically, Self Gov will deal with every case of drug use by Bryn Mawr students which comes to its attention, on the basis that illegal actions within a community pose a threat to the continued existence of the community and that actions potentially dangerous to individuals. are potentially dangerous to the community in which the individuals live, ‘Serving as a vehicle of campus communication, the COLLEGE NEWS is pre- senting the following clarification, written and adopted this week by Self Gov, of the above. drug statement. In response to queries concerning the position and action of Self Gov in drug cases, the clarification is an attempt to evaluate the criteria of the drug policy. In view of the drug cases which have come to its attention in the course of this year, Self Gov makes the following clarifications of the drug statement approved by Legis- lature last fall: 1. It is evident that it is impossible to possess or use drugs on the Bryn Mawr campus and at the same time not pose the following threats enumerated in that statement: a. Potential physical and psychological danger to the individual. b. Threat to the community * 1. Threat of legal enforcement 2. Possible offense to other members of the community —s__— THEREFORE, there should be no possession or use of drugs on this campus. 2. Self Gov reiterates that. when off-campus use of drugs poses the above threats to the Bryn Mawr community, it will act in those cases as well, Viewpoint The Marijuana Morass The officers of Self-Gov would have us believe that the new drug statement contains nothing not- implied in the old drug statement, The new statement is merely a clarification of the old, I disagree--the new statement is an edict; the old statement was an attempt to deal in a human way with a human situation. According to Self- Gov, the old statement _has failed to ‘‘control’’ the drug ‘‘problem.’”’ Hence the necessity for a clear ruling: no drugs on campus, My complaint is that the students on Self-Gov have not perceived the necessity for this clear ruling by themselves, They have been forced -4into their present stand by the college adminis- tration, Be Miss McBride made it quite obvious in her now- notorious August drug letter that Bryn Mawr students do not take drugs (the letter specifically mentions LSD ‘and marijuana), Girls who take drugs are, ex cathedra, not Bryn Mawr students, Sheer Co-optation The point is not so much that this is not true, but that it is the administration, and not the maj- ority of the students who believes this, and who is opposed to students taking drugs. It is sheer co-optation for some students, in the ferm or the Self-Gov Exécutive Board, to punish other\students for an activity which a majority of stud them- selves do not morally disapprove, The administration is USING Self-Gov.. It is pretending that the students have the right to govern themselves, while making it very clear that self governing is a privilege which will be man- ipulated when necessary to obtain compliance, to administration stand, in this case to'Miss Mc- Bride’s belief that taking drugs and being a Bryn Mawr student are incompatible, , Rather than acquiesce to this masquerade of self government, students as a whole (each of us, remember, is a member of Self-Gov) should vote: Do we or do we not want to make any or all forms of taking drugs on or off campus an offense pun- ishable by Self-Gov? If the majority votes ‘‘yes’’ then the new Self-Gov statement is on its way to being legitimatized, and Self-Gov has a role in punishing student drug users, If the majority votes ‘‘no’’, then Self-Gov ob- viously has no right to be adjudicating drug use, Miss MeBride’s letter sets to precedent for drug ear pe PE ee vo ee in the ideal use being | = administration: if they by class? by major?), But let’s not have it happen under the guise of student government, ’ Self Gov’s Quandary This points out Self-Gov’s quandary. They seem to think that by keeping jurisdiction over drug use (by issuing the new statement) that they can prevent the administration and possibly the Fed- eral authorities from moving in on the students full-force, This is not very realistic. Eventually when the administration discovers that Self-Gov’s statements and its light punishments for convicted violators (campusing for a month or so) are not cutting down student ‘drug use, it will step in any- way. If the administration is really serious about having no Bryn Mawr students taking drugs, it will not be patient with Self-Gov’s performance for very long. This new statement will fall into the void that most of the other rules on campus are in, and it will only convince the administration that student self government is a farce, and that they ought to step in, the sooner the better, In Case of Expulsions If the administration begins dealing directly with drug users, Bryn Mawr students must band to- gether to protect themselves, Any student who is ‘tasked to leave’’ or outright expelled for a drug reason should immediately _ make hér. situation public. Leaving quietly will just make the next expulsion that much easier, Other students must publically state that they have behaved similarly to the expelled student, If they are expelled as well, the publicity will be ten times worse than. it was over the Air Force Academy’s academic cheating scandal; Hundreds of Bryn Mawr stu- dents expelled would literally cripple the school, I doubt very much if the administration would allow it to happen, On the other hand, if only a selected few were “expelled, EVEN THOUGH hundreds of others ad- mitted to doing the same thing, the administration would be in an untenable position, In some parts _ of the country, students are suing their schools for similar selective expulsions, The hypocrisy of Bryn Mawr’s handling of the fact of student drug use is stifling. Self-Gov is losing whatever autonomy it may once have had, The administration’s Victorian attitude coupled with its eye on Public Relations, is contemptible, Gouldn’t-we, for once, define the situation as it oo ee a 7 u : > : Friday, March 1, 1968 THE COLLEGE NEWS * _ Page Three * Coarse Evaluations? To the Editor: According to an article in last week’s NEWS, some members - of the faculty and administration complained of ‘‘slanders’’ in last semester’s course evaluation, The course evaluation committee, too, apparently wished that the comments had been more “objective” -- whatever - that means, I wrote three of the evaluations in the booklet, and read the entire booklet with care, I did not find anything that could remotely be described as slanderous, or even cruel, There were many adverse criticisms of professors, and not all of these comments were tact- ful, However, there is a con- siderable difference between - bluntness and slander, The purpose of the course evaluation is to guide students in selecting their courses, The students are the only people who regularly < the professors teach; therefore;they are the ones best>- equipped to judge the professors’ competence as teachers, at least in the short run, In these .cir- ‘cumstanees, honesty is far more important than tact or objectivity. Let me take an_ illustra- tion from my own experience, In the questionnaires for one of the cqurses I evaluated--one I had.-not taken--nearly all the stu- dents _ reported that the in- structor was incompetent, I reported this opinion in the evaluation in terms as blunt as those used by the respondents, In honesty and fairness to my fellow students, I could not have done otherwise, If a teacher is incompetent, the students who may consider tak- ing his courses in the future have the right to be so informed, so that they will not waste their time, And they should be so in- formed in clear and explicit terms, without having to interpret nice-- ‘Nellie evasions in which ‘‘incom- petent’’ becomes _indistinguish- able from ‘could be improved,’’ Tact is great when you’re tell- _ Letters to the Editor ing your roommate that her new hairdo is unbecoming. But when you’re trying to help your fellow students make the best pos- sible use of their four years in college, tact and objectivity just aren’t of the essence, Even an_ incompetent -in- structor should not be subjected to vicious personal attacks, No human being should, But does describing someonw as a poor teacher constitute a vicious per- sonal attack, or a _ slander? Are all of us here, students, fac- ulty, and administration, such babies that we cannot take crit- icism except in a sugar- coated pill? For $1850, we are entitled to teachers who have a firm com- mand of their subject, and “who are capable of communicat- ing their knowledge and of stimulating and challenging the students’ minds, Anything less is inexcusable, If the faculty fails to provide such teaching, and the administration fails to hire such teachers, they are cheating us, In four years here, I have. had enough incompetent, dull, un-~ inspired, and apathetic teachers to know that, in many cases, we " are being cheated, (I have alsohad several excellent teachers; and, indeed, the booklet indicates that students recognize superior teach- ing and do _ not hesitate to praise it highly.) A faculty and an administration which fail to carry _ out their obligations to - their Students have no_ right to complain about the tone of the criticism they get, Judy Baer °68 Corrective Measures To the Editor: I would like to correct two in- accuracies that appeared in the NEWS last week, First, I never said, as is stated on page one, ‘‘Bryn Mawr has to learn to ac- cept the 8ams as outlined or aban- don them.” I think that there are numerous possibilities for chang- ing the ‘‘Rock basement system” by which girls return to the halls end of february blues when the sun shines gray on the horizon (and the leaves look badgered and dead) when the grades you get are surprisin’ (and the dean says off with your head) when your boyfriend says he don’t love you (and the grass in the cloisters won’t smoke) when even bob dylan won’t save you (and you’re broke, god knows, you’re broke) when the aiarm clock goes off in the morning (and you ain’t got nowhere to go) when your draft status goes up without warning (and then you’ve got somewhere to go) when summer’s a memory of childhood (and flowers are only a dream) when hope’s what you once understood (and your life is out on a beam) ‘ then it’s time for march! en as ie oe cere Sea BAD AE aa SIR an = eas eg ae eae t “ os : . eae and for discussing with the Board of Directors change in the re- striction with which the 8ams were granted, I do not think, however, that this discussion can be sep- | arated from the large issue of the overnight signout, especially the question of the signout to Haver- ford. As many of you realize from the discussion held in the halls two weeks ago, Self-Gov is working on a statement about the overnight signout which it plans to discuss with the Board at the meeting in March, Within the next week or so, the Self-Gov Boards will have a proposed statement to submit to the students for dis- cussion, Secondly I would like to correct Dora Chizea on her information about the boy spending the night in a dormitory as a result of his drugged stupor. According to Dora, the Hall President said nothing about this incident, A boy did spend the night in a dormi- tory, He had not beenusing drugs, but was drunk, The Hall Presi- dent dealt with the girl involved in the incident, and Executive Board came to the hall in-which this had occurred to insist to the dormi- tory as whole that greater re- sponsibility be taken by each per- son for the maintenance of the Men in the Rooms rules, Drewdie Gilpin Few Whites To the Editor; For those students who know little of last Wednesday’s vigiland rally beyond what appeared in the COLLEGE NEWS, we suggest that they read the HAVERFORD NEWS account of those activities, and we also offer the following com- mentary. Not only were the vigil and boy- cott initiated by the Bryn Mawr- Haverford Negro Discussion Group, but participation in these was almost exclusively on the part of black students. Ofa total of thir- ty students who were disturbed enough about the Orangeburg mur- ders to give up precious classroom time and stand outdoors in sub-free~ zing weather, at least 15 were black students attending Bryn Mawr (where the toal black enroliment ‘is 24); and additional half dozen were black Haverford students who, having led a vigilon their own campus, came over to support the protest here; of over 1,000 white Bryn Mawr undergraduate and graduate students, we counted less | than a dozen active protestors, While it is true that the audience at the rally was ‘‘predominantly white’ we think it significant (and sad) that so many white students saw fit NOT to come, Again, there was almost complete attendance by black Bryn Mawrters and Haverfordians --not to mention the support of black students*from Princeton, Temple and Franklin and Marshall. : Those who consider the gunning down of black students a ‘‘black problem’’ with which whites need not be concerned are ignoring a number of important facts: white men did the shooting; white offic- fals condoned the shooting; white America not only created but also daily sustains a social system which breeds hostility, contempt and hatred. Those who turn their backs © are offenders. To those whocontributed neither bodily nor monetarily to Wednes- day’s protest, to those who don’t care how many black people are gunned down, we have nothing to say. ~ But we do want to set the record straight. The number of black students on the Bryn Mawr ' campus may be small, but we’re together, we’re sincere and we ARE acting on the situation, When the white students at Bryn Mawr the black students (and we look forward to the day), WHEN you can report ‘predominantly white’ participation in our rallies without further qualification and we won’t say a thing--we’ll be too shocked to . notice! Patricia Burks ‘71 Valerie Hawkins '69 Out of Concern To the Editor; I agree with Patricia Burks and Valerie Hawkins that I probably made a journalistic error in not emphasing the part played by the Negro students in organizing and participating in the activities pro- testing the Orangeburg ‘‘mass- acre.” Inmy enthusiasm over Don- aldson’s speech Inot only neglected to give credit to those, who made the rally possible but also reported the speech itself perhaps too sub- jectively. What I. reported that Donaldson said is accurate (compare the Haverford News Ac- count), But my interest in what I could do as a ‘‘concerned ‘white student”? unfortunately superceded: my intentions to present in “an accurate journalistic fashion the ‘twho, what, when, why and how’? in the beginning paragraphs of the article. I do resent, however, the impli- cation in the above letter that my failure to emphasize the role of ..the- Negro. students in Wednesday’s events stems from any other reason than my journalistic error. I had no intention of slanting the art- icle out of prejudice to make it seem as if the white students were the main innovators and/or participants in the protests. Robin Brantley Response? To the Editor: Perhaps I should be writing this letter to myself, because it is a sort of expiation of my sins, but because I think these ’’sins’’ are rather widespread, I have addressed it to the OTHER stu- dents at Bryn Mawr as well, and hope for some response, ‘‘Re- sponse’”’ -- that’s the word which stands for the most important part of the ‘‘meaningful dialogue’’ bet- ween students and faculty, between faculty and administration, between students and administration, and above all, AMONG STUDENTS, which we hear about so often and Conference... (Continued from page 1) ing those which select. the deans. Harvard. students have a policy committee which seems to have more say and respon- sibility in college policy than the other schools. They are often permitted to investigate de- partments, in order to de- termine weaknesses in _ the faculty, curricula, and teaching methods, Wellesley has no self-govern- ment system, but instead has a committee which consists of three members of the adminis- tration, five members of the faculty and eight students, The among the worst {committee holds open meetings every week, and the stystem seems to work very well, Barnard students have very little voice in college policy or discussion of problems, and as a whole they seem very inactive, The students have very little con- tact with their administration and do not seem anxious to establish any, . Mount Holyoke students want tration and to sit on college © very rarely think about, Response was the very element lacking at the Tuesday meeting of the student body (or should I say a VERY small limb of the student body) with the candidates for off- ices, ‘Unfortunately, the speeches were simply too long, and the peo- ple left at the questioning period too few to allow for a true inter- change of ideas, Perhaps Monday’s session was very different, but the same problems were certainly pre- sent, The first of these problems was duplifation, The areas covered by the various councils SHOULD be well known by the students who participate in meetings of the type held Monday and Tuesday nights, What needs to be discussed is not a set of general problems, but the NEW ideas which each specific candidate has to present, What is needed is ENTHUSIASM of the type shown by Faith Greenfield, and true INTEREST as shown by all the candidates involved in the Curriculum Committee, The second problem was time, which is not only ‘‘of the essence,” but part of the very essence -of Bryn Mawr. ‘‘Ivory Tower’ or not, there is simply never enough time in the class hour, in the week, or in the semester to do all that needs to be done or even all that we, as a community or as individ- uals, desire to do for Bryn Mawr or for ourselves, Even though elections come ‘‘but once a year,’’ the mechanics of meeting the can- didates should be shortened and made more personal in order to draw a larger number of students, Popularization? Yes -- certainly, but greater involvement of Bryn Mawr students in curricular and co-curricular concerns should be the MOST popular movement on the campus, Because ’ of these problems connected with Tuesday’s meeting I was one of those who left at 8:30, The duplication annoyed me and the time was running short, All of us had reading to do and papers to write, I made the wrong choice, How about some RE- SPONSE from those who DID stay to talk to the candidates either night, and from the candidates themselves? Let’s try to start a real dialogue! Judi Hurwitz '71 Letters and articles sub- mitted to the NEWS should be double spaced and typed on a 35 space line. committees, but are largely pre- vented by the ‘iron rule’ of the administration, Although the problems of the Ivy League and the Seven Sisters did not seem comparable, those who attended the conference felt that the discussions were very in- teresting, and the exchanges very valuable, INTERESTED??? Enthusiastic support is needed for a joint Little Theatre - OLMG Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in the spring. Anyone interested in directing, acting, choreog- raphy, backstage work or any other area should send a note to Lessie Klein or Cathy Sims in the College Inn. ‘«Lying in bed would be an al- together perfect and supreme ex- perience if only we had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the CeO MEE he sey a i tee Page Four THE COLLEGE NEWS Friday, March 1, 1968 } wipes Self Gov, Big Six Candidates Self Gov Dora Chizea A few days ago somebody met me in Denbigh Hall and siad to me, ‘‘Hi, you are Dora Chizea,” ‘‘Yes,’’ I said, ‘You are running for Self Gov, What are you? A Liberal, Moderate or Conservative?’ “si I said, “T never thought about Self Gov in such absolute terms, Well, I am a Liberal, but with reasoning,” Sure I am a Liberal or at least, would like to be a Liberal. I do, however, advocate careful examination and eval- uation of actions, policies and reactions before they are taken or made, Before I say what new ideas I have, I know you expect me to give an op- inion about important campus issues like signouts and drugs. However, I wish to remind you that if you disagree with my views it does not necessarily follow that I will not be a responsible President, or that my view will be THE accepted view, After all, this is a democratic campus and the majority opinion should rule, Briefly, therefore, I will say that I bel- ieve in our signout system, I will not encourage drug abuse on campus, but I would lift ALL restrictions on overnights, I would like to point out that I am NOT a reformist, Changes. should be allowed to come and go according to maj- ority opinion, after satisfactory consid- erations, But changes should notbe FOR- CED just for the sake of changes, I am, however, interested in introducing new di- mensions into life on campus. I do not know if it is wholly under Self Gov or if Self Gov and some other organizations will work together, However, we have got to expand our social environment here on campus, We should invite one school after another every two Sundays or so for Sunday afternoon informal get-togethers | over coffee, tea, punch and what-have-you in the Common Room or somewhere else. This will provide a basis for inter coll- egiate exchange of opinions and provide a meeting place for Bryn Mawr girls from different dorms, who are not away for the week-end, We should also have two week-ends a year, one each sem- ester, when we would make ‘‘a lot of things happen’’ and end it up with a big dance which people should look forward to. This kind-of contact will help ex- pand our area of choice of friends bey- ond those we bump into at mixers and in the trains, Fof lack of space, Iam unable to detail these suggestions, but I will be glad to answer questions inperson or on the phone, I would like to state in concluding that I believe in order, not chaos, in life not transformation, Rules should be obeyed for order, but the rules must be accept- able. Unacceptable rules should be fought constitutionally and diplomatically, But after all is said and done the major- ity opinion must dominate and every- one in a democratic community in ex- pected to abide by this majority opinion, I believe in action, not empty words, I am a candidate for students who believe in words supported by actions, This is integrity, That’s all. The choice is yours! 4 Claudia Lazzaro Whether or not we choose to call our- selves a community at Bryn Mawr is irrelevant at this point, We have an honor system ve wee meee it ® =. to help them, We do have to be realistic and accept certain limitations of Self Gov, Though we don’t have to unflinchingly adopt the proposals of the Board, the administration and even the government, now, we dohave to recognize their existence and we will have to compromise, Other restrictions emerge from within the system, from the fact that we must live with other people, We have given a structure to our living together so that one girl’s values and sensibilities can not violate another’s. One way to respect other people’s con- victions is by keeping private that which is private, Otherwise it is public know- ledge and subject to public opinion and judgment, The other aspect of that ubiquitous word, ‘‘discretion,’’ is think- ing about’ what you are doing BEFORE you do it and deciding if you are stepping on anyone’s values, For instance, in spending the night at Haverford, consider the girl who somehow knows and is.then in: the position of deciding whether she must report you or not, For those in dorms with a three-minute fire life, real- ize that smoking in your room could very decisively affect everyone else around you, Realizing this responsiblity to the other people under ‘the honor system is vital. The same responsibility on the level of Self Gov is translated into enforcement, which isthe only way that it canbe an effective and respected system of govern- ment, Still, the emphasis is on the indi- vidual and the unique circumstances of her case, This flexibility should develop into ‘‘creative punishments,” through more discussion within advisory board, rather than into a pre-determined set of punishments for specific violations, Greater consistency from hall to hall in dealing with the more common minor violations is needed, but the emphasis Should continue to be on the individual’s needs rather than on consistency within the system, The final move in confronting the ‘‘Self Gov crisis’ is change within the system, so that it may accommodate as many: different values as possible, This means that the biggest problem to face the next administration will undoubtedly be the con- frontation with the Board of Directors over the Haverford overnights, This must be presented as an hypocrisy in the Self Gov system, since it is the only rule which has not come in some way from the students, It is instead arbitrarily im- posed on them, and because of this in- sgrioissaeticd f is not respected by the student body. There are other specific issues in this year’s election which are important but not ‘crucial. Signouts can be modified, but if the basic premise of protection is adhered to, they must be kept in some form. Sign-outs, 8 a.m’s and drugs should be dealt with according to the guide-lines of discretion, enforcement, compromise and change, Kathy Murphey The ideal of self government by the students of Bryn Mawr is a pretty excit-_, ing one, To me this ideal means that at Bryn Mawr, students have the power to create a community which is defined by rules and policies -- by a govern- ment -- which fulfills their needs and expresses their values, In this community, students can act, relate to each other, and grow in the fullest and most reward- government is that ALL the students have a part in forming the rules which struc- ture their lives at Bryn Mawr, I think ‘ it can be easy for Self Gov which is ’ represented by the Executive and Advisory Boards, to become isolated from most of the students, There must be a system through which all students can deal with the constant changes in the college com- - munity arising in the four years between the periodic campus wide overhaul and vote on the Self Gov constitution. It seems to me that halls could be meaningful political units for students to consider new problems, such as. sign- outs, overnights to Haverford, or increase in drug use, and help make policy about them, An example of Self Gov’s isolation is last year’s Executive Board ruling about overnights to Haverford. The ruling was brought to the halls, not for evaluation or a vote, but only as a way of explain- ing the new policy to them. This year’s hall discussions on what Seif Gov. should do about drugs on campus and overnights to Haverford I think have been good in involving many students in the process of deciding rules which will affect them. - The rules must derive from student val- ues, and thoughts about consequences, not Self Goy’s fear of the trustees or an isolated decision about what’s best for the campus, or they will be ignored without thought, and without any sense of dishonor, [If certain existing rules are faltering because students feel they are unnecessarily limited, it isn’t enough to enforce them without discussion, Then the breakdown is mended only on the surface, But no rules, whether meaningful or articificial in relation to student actions and beliefs, whether enforced or unenforc- ed, can alone work out the individual and ‘social problems which develop when stu- dents live together. Rules only structure, they can’t sustain a community of respect for student needs and values, The second implication, then, about student self, government, is that students not only participate in making policy, they share in facing and understanding the problems that exist among students within or outside of the rules. This is our responsibility to each other, expecially to the so-called weaker members of the community and the freshmen, Again, I think halls can act more as communities within a community for stu- dents to bring out questions or offended feelings, Public notices about the general nature of Self Gov trials might also in- crease student awareness of problems, As things are now, students who dis- agree with the rules are urged to be discreet about their ideas and actions. No one learns from a student’s experience or thoughts, And she doesn’t learn respect for others.whom she may be hurting, or become more self-aware about her own situation by listening to others, Even if the rules are loosened to allow greater individual freedom, students may, in a more open, but still isolated, uncommun- icating way, Bs their r thing” without a second thought, When students are together in their handling of situations, as well as their rules, then Self Gov will really express our voice, Last spring, after the campus wide meeting of the 8 o’clocks, the Ex- ecutive Board entered into a dialogue with the Board of Trustees with the stu- dents behind them and with worked-out ideas, As between students, I think this dialogue could be more public. But Self Gov remains isolated from the . Bryn Mawr, “for a more realistic approach to Self : meaning in her education, she will prob- ably find the social honor system mean- ingless, Students aren’t completely in- dependent of other groups in the college community, such as the administration, the faculty, or the employees, but, are affected by: and have thoughts about them. I think Self Gov should work closely with Curriculum Committee and other campus groups in order to be a mean- ingful organ of student expression, Stephie Skiff _How feasible is the honor system under the present seeming emphasis on the indi- vidual? Since the summer of freshman year we’ve been bombarded with vague theories of innate responsibility to others and idealistic discussions of individual versus community, none of which seem to have achieved any concrete effects in changing the apathy and general lack of concern for others that has become characteristic of Perhaps the time has come Gov. Bryn Mawr students ‘have been com- plaining about an ivory tower existence for years; how in all good conscience can Self Gov persist in attacking concrete pragmatic situations with ivory tower platitudes? : ‘The question has been raised ‘‘Is there a community at Bryn Mawr?’ It would be far more fruitful to ask ‘‘What is the nature of the Bryn Mawr community?’ for its existence cannot be denied -- we live, eat, work, sleep in close quarters and can’t help but influence each other by our thoughts and actions. In coming to Bryn Mawr we accept a responsibility towards others in the community at least to the extent outlined by the rules approved by the majority with the aim of main- taining viable conditions. But this sense of responsiblity falters early in the Bryn Mawrter’s college career -- by the endof_ freshman year she has already seen too many instances of infractions go unchecked for the ‘‘preservation of the system’’ to have much personal relevance, Each hall president (and as a member of Ad- visory Board this yedr, how well ac- quainted I am with this!) has been saddled with the unenviable task of manufacturing penalties for infractions in her form, The result of the inconsistency in the ex- tent and nature of such enforcement is an unmistakable feeling on the part of the offender that the hall president is taking sanctions as an individual rather than as an agent of the community, Even more glaring is the dearth of punishments appropriate to each infraction: that good old standby, the ‘‘Late Minute Penalty,” for the girl who escorts a man out of her room at 11 p.m. is more likely to alien- ate’ her from the ‘‘senseless system’? than to make her think of the discomfit she might cause neighbors by repeating her action, If we are to keep individuals on this campus aware of the community we must make the will of the community felt! Granted, Bryn Mawr is a dorm- oriented community, but Self Gov applies (or, at least, should apply) to all dorms equally, The hall presidents desperately need a common meaningful yardstick for enforcement in order to set the all-cam- pus tone, STARTING IN THE DORMS, of responsibility and thoughtful action which is necessary for the continued ex- istence of any viable community, If Self Gov wishes to perpetuate the honor system, if we are to expect our peers to report themsleves, to confront of- fenders and, most importantly, to re- __Spect the rules themselves, then we peat ‘CREATE ~~ - AN ATMOSPHERE N | “Ro: WHICH THEY CAN DO $0. : A | iy, March 1, 1968 - aR ARO I A 6 A ge ae RO ane At ig ns eh an 3 2H SGI PRS AA Raa PN eS MOMBASA LOA LEIEE : bap CAT] 4 THE COLLEGE NEWS Present ag Undergrad Doris Dewton The Undergraduate Association is faced with many problems, but few people are willing to try to solve them. Thus, there is one lonely soul who has offered to try and make Undergrad what it should be -- the coordinating organization for all kinds of extra-curricular as well as academic ac- tivities at Bryn Mawr. To have only one candidate-places that individual in a diffi- cult position, ‘having no constrictive op- position and no pressing need to éxert herself to invent clever new ideas. So, instead, one can offer to listen to every- one else’s suggestions, and. try to im- plement them if they are practical. Is there something really wrong with the job, that no one wants to run for it, or is there a need for Undergrad at all? There is a definite need, for Under- grad on this campus. We have many projects we would like to see accom- plished, and they all require organiza- tion. Many people have been screaming *‘¢community”? and ‘‘communication’’ all year, and since I have been one of thege people, and no one opposes me, then I assume that silence indicates consent, if indeed more than apathy. So, I will work for both,. but total participation is necessary. A short poem is a good indication of what may be the general tone on cam- pus: ‘¢A dead tradition! Hollow shell! Outworn, outmoded -- time it fell. Let’s make it new. Rebel! Rebel!’ Said cancer-cell to cancer-cell. J. F. Nims True, there are many glaring inconsis- tencies in life at Bryn Mawr. But sim- ply discarding the whole system will ac- complish nothing. Perhaps it is time to revise things but we need new healthy cells, not malignant ones. One could make the usual platform promises, but why bother? You should know them all by now, for they are long- term goals. A student union or common room _is‘still a question, as is the pres- ent speaker system. Do you want speak- ers, or would you prefer some other form of exchange of ideas? We do have an increased budget for the coming year, but it is still small, and effective use must be made of it. As always, we want more effective inter-college participa- tion, with Haverford and the other Seven Sisters, particularly. A bi-college coun- cil is in the planning stages. Bryn Mawr needs to passfrom its pres- ent stage of introspection, into a stage of healthy interaction both within its walls (with both faculty and administration, as well as with all the students) and without. If some of us feel that-our values are all right, and the Mainline values are all wrong, why don’t we go out and enlighten these sheltered people? Or, if we agree with them, why don’t we go out and en- courage them? There are many other topics which should be of interest to you all, but there will be time, and many issues of the NEWS, in which to continue. Among them are the questions of more non- credit courses, the implications of the construction of the new library, faculty- student relations. There is also, in my opinion, need for a much closer tie be- tween Undergrad and Self Gov. If Self Gov suggests the values we should try to encourage, and Undergrad plans the activities we participate in, then there should be a philosophy of purpose which , links them together. The college calen- ized, so as to reflect the interests of the most people, catering to the masses, as self government attempts to do, The goal of Undergrad should be this: to-try to get as many individuals as possi- ble actively and creatively participating in something at Bryn Mawr, something which will make it more complete as a community, and that will make the col- lege incorporate some of your personal values into its total framework. A.A. Anne Alden A. friend once remarked to me _ that she had been asked by an elderly alum- na, ‘sAre you a greenie? I was a green- ie.”? After a pause the second Bryn Mawrter said to the first Bryn Mawrter, ‘J beg your pardon?’’ A brief conversa- tion revealed that the lady was referring to the different colors of the class tunics, It seems that once there was competition in various sports between the classes. (The wooden plaques in the gym indicate that class basketball competition was last held in 1920.) As AA President I would attempt to revive such competition. For those who regard the gym requirement as odious at best, I would make a plea to the gym department to have inter-class competitions count toward the sports re- quirement. Judging by the success of last year’s ‘Bryn Mawr-Haverford basketball game and this year’s touch football games, . competition need not be restricted: to members of the same sex. Any rivalry in sports between the two schools would o certainly prove interesting. In addition to encouraging inter-class games and events with Haverford; the AA could investigate the possibility of spon- soring trips to see the United States women’s hockey and lacrosse teams play teams from other countries. Games played at the Merion Cricket Club on Montgom- ery Avenue often involve the best hockey players in the United States. As AA President I would recognize that sports are not a major campus concern, but that for anyone looking for some form of afternoon excitement there should be an open gym, or a mixed bad- minton match or a trip to Merion Cricket Club, Meredith Roberts In the AA meetings this year, we have been talking about AA’s place in the Bryn Mawr community, a popular topic among all organizations. AA was organized to provide a ‘‘physical rest?’ from studying for all students, But the question keeps coming up: Who should AA concentrate on - the people already on varsity teams or those who aren’t? This year, we have mostly tried to or- ganize activities for those not on var- sity teams, | games, I know they were a .succéss for Since A MEMALY nae ' gar’ should be more ‘ettectively organ~ ~. going: to the Friday. afternoon. volleyball. those who came, The typical answer given by ‘a student asked to join us was, “Pm not good enough.” This is just the kind of thing we are trying to get away from. We weren’t playing out of an intense desire to win, but rather just to have a good time. This is part of what AA should do - provide acti- vities (even swings and the use of Apple- bee Barn) for those who want to have fun, The varsity teams need our help, too especially along the lines of publicity and support, . Nobody knows when the meets, games and matches are held or whether or not we won, Last week, the basketball and badminton teams won their game and match; and the fenc- ing team came out tops in a triangular meet, AA provides the refreshments, and I think we should provide enthusiasm and spectators, too, What all this means is that I think AA can branch out an serve a dual purpose; providing activities and support- ing varsity sports, To do this, there has to be some reorganization of the AA board, At the last meeting, it was suggested that one member from each varsity team be added to the board, Thesé~ girls could be in charge of the publicity, sending schedules to the fresh- men dorm representatives, That would leave the regular dorm reps free to plan activities such as a student-faculty tennis match or volleyball game, a trip to the zoo, a picnic at Valley Forge and the . regular Friday afternoon volleyball games with the grad students and Haverford, The sophomore class reps, traditionally the publicity chairmen, could work with the freshmen reps, too, and have ‘more time to make better use of the AA bul- letin board, I would like to be AA president, be- cause I enjoy AA and would like to ‘help others, who are willing, enjoy it, too. Jean Wilcox If I am elected president of the Bryn Mawr College Athletic Association, Ihave two major objectives which I plan to aim for, The first of these objectives concerns a small group of people who might ° be called, in a mild sense of the word, the Bryn Mawr ‘‘Athletes,’? How many people are aware that there is an entity known as a fencing team at Bryn Mawr? Or a badminton, hockey, lacrosse, tennis, basketball or swimming team? All of these teams do exist at Bryn Mawr - BUT, as it stands now, they exist chiefly for the team members; most of the rest of the students know nothing about them, My point is this: the only way people find out anything about the teams is by asking someone they see in a gold tunic rather than a class tunic, ‘‘What’s going on???’ . This situation should be remedied, The teams, no matter how good or how bad, deserve recognition for their time and effort given for ‘‘the glory of Bryn Mawr.’’ Other people on campus should be aware of the dates and times of athletic events, This could be achieved by an article in THE COLLEGE NEWS stating the days and times of forthcoming athletic events and the outcome of previously played games, The hall Athletic Associa- tion representatives should also play an active part in informing the people in their respective dorms about the teams, My - second objective concerns all the students, The Athletic Association shouldn’t exist solely for the teams, but should play an active part on campus for everyone, Haven’t you ever felt like doing something different on a Friday or weekend afternoon? This is where 'I feel that A, A, should take the lead. It should sponsor activities that everyone can participate in - Frisbee, volleyball on Merion Green, softball. How about a tennis tournament in the spring or fall? If you don’t want. to do anything that vigorous, maybe a scavenger hunt, or a bridge tournament or a picnic could be planned, All these activities should be open to faculty and graduate students as well as undergraduates, Haverford and other schools can be invited to participate, I feel. that tho bell Sepconsateliveg.are- © cis sheer folly. fo merceierser direct - (Continued ow page 6) students to see what A.A, can plan with them in mind, What I erpat te idean gan the students, so that \AA, can plan ac- . wl} rr cordingly and have events that are actively supported by a large number of students, Again THE COLLEGE NEWS can be instrumental in letting people know when things are happening. What I’d like most to see as president ,of the Athletic Association, would be “the Athletic Association functioning as an effective organization - recognizing the intercollegiate teams and planning _ enough varied activities so that everyone “could find something to interest her;, through such means I believe the A, A, could become an integral part of campus life, Alliance Barbara Elk The Alliance for Political Affairs, as you know, is responsible for the co- ordination of all political activity on campus, The academic year 1968- 69 will be a busy one in that respect -- encompassing the crises of the urban ghettos, the war in Vietnam and the U.S, presidential elections, in particular, Believing that political action should originate on a local level, I would like to see Bryn Mawr students raised from their apathy, or rather, from their pre- occupation with academic trivia and weekend enjoyment, Obviously, I do not deny the importance of the roles played by the academic and social life here, but I do think that political awareness, and in many cases, its concomitant mauieons is just as necessary, Specifically, as president of Alliance, I would encolirage some real debate on cur- rent issues. Student-faculty panels and seminars on the quality and relevance of Bryn Mawr’ . educational and social phi- A losophies would be an excellent point of departure (1) because their topical nature would involve the entire campus, ‘and (2) because of the possibility of achiev- ing some _ significant results (e.g. the elimination of the barriers involved in using Haverford courses to fulfill both distribution and major requirements here; or perhaps the implementation of a ‘‘pass- fail?’ grading system in_ elective courses, at least). Any discussion of the social honor system here at Bryn Mawr would also have a similar relevance to events outside the ‘‘ivory tower.’ Does the college administration, for in- stance, have the right to impose its own morality on us any more than ‘does the United States on the people of Vietnam? Perhaps such parallels are slightly exaggerated, but to pretend that our individual problems here are not in some ways similar to those of national and international magnitude Rbrace cyber only by ss ene Page Six. Hea fe Be eres ky “USA . : ey tie gutter say, PRA mR eee Friday, March 1, 1968 Platforms such as the educational myopia here, the draft, the war and the ghetto problem on our daily lives can we expect any response from the usually ‘‘apathetic” sectors (witness the sudden antagonism to the draft on the part of graduate stu- dents now’ that their deferments are to cease). Once students have found tangible objects which they deem in need of re- form,, their. discontent can be turned from the path of frustration and cynicism to that of. constructive social action. In this respect, Alliance should serve asa ‘‘clearing-house’’ through which con- cerned students could become acquainted with the appropriate channels for their energies. At the moment, this campus has three politically oriented organ- izations; the Social Action Committee, the Negro Discussion Group and a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society which is now in its incipient - stage. As president of Alliance, I would * call an. open meeting early in the fall semester at which a representative of each group could speak to the student body at large, informing it of the pur- poses and activities of her respective organization. Similarly, any sentiment not already echoed in one of the establish- ed..groups here could be heard with the additional possibility of forming a new group if student support were forthcoming. Finally, I would continue Alliance’s past efforts to obtain controversial and relevant speakers and to keep the campus informed of inter-college political con- ferences. Hopefully, open Alliance meetings. could. be. held bi-monthly .at which dorm representatives and other interested people could plan. the seminars and debates previously men- tioned and .hear progress reports as well on the activities. of those groups under Alliance’s aegis. Thus, my platform is two-faceted, involving both the means of stimulating political awareness on campus and also the mechanism through which such aware- ness can be transformed into the re- quisite action, Kathi Hartford Bryn Mawr College .is_ not an ivory tower, Yet a large proportion of truly concerned § students have dif- ficulty finding: those who share their interests and who could work to- gether on problems outside this com- munity, Alliance is the organ which can provide all students with a forum for their views and with an opportunity to meet and organize with those of similar interests, : I propose to stress the function for which Alliance was formed: as an um- brella organization for all political interests on campus, This function can continue and be extended to two veins simultaneously, First of all, I consider it of vital importance that Alliance itself stress the importance of what is going on in the world outside the college campus. Secondly, Alliance can play a dynamic role in bringing specific political interests on campus together in groups that can work effectively for their own ends, In the first vein, I propose to have Alliance provide an informative function THE COLLEGE NEWS 3 groups are interested in presenting, The April teach-in on the problems of. the ghetto, planned by SAC and the Negro Discussion Group, is one such program which can provide a jumping-off point for future programs, We need films on all topics of political interest, and I would . enthusiastically support presentation of purchased documentary films and would assist students who want to film. their own documentaries on whatever topics they find inviting, There is also a huge need for pre- senting speakers of national importance, Since our funds on campus are limited, I propose to work towards setting up a joint fund among local colleges to pool our funds and make available to the largest possible number of students an opportunity to hear speakers.in prominent positions, As a second point of approach to Al- liance’s role, I propose to aid any group of students in. setting up their own political organizations, Presently, Young Democrats and Young Republicans groups are forming again, For any other groups, Alliance can and should provide the information, the campus and outside contacts, and the organizational as- Sistance for formation of viable political -organizations. We need to maintain constant exchange of political information and viewpoints, We need dis- cussion groups where interested stu- dents can meet with their fellows and with professors for an airing of facts: and opinions, We need a political concern which will carry into the life-of every student so inclined, All of these things Alliance can provide, I want to see every student on this campus haye an opportunity to follow her political persuasions and work, effectively with those of the same inclinations, We are, some argue, a social community; we are definitely, by one definition or an- other, an academic community. We can also use the brains and abilities on this campus\ for the formation of an active political-community, involved with the world into which we will all eventually move, Lou Kotler I favor, first of all, a change in the membership structure of Alliance. Cur- rently, the entire school belongs to the organization, with one or two members from each dorm making up an elected board. In theory, these few board mem- bers are supposed to act as representa- tives of the entire memberhip, I think that this system fails for two reasons: first, many potentially active people are never encouraged sufficiently and their opinions are never heard because they are not board members. Secondly, Al- liance has too many responsibilities and varied interests to be managed by such a small board. I propose to change Alliance from a representative body to one made up of all interested people who are willing to put effort into the organization. These are the girls who should form the nucleus of the group. This will insure both the participation of the politically-inclined members of the community and also provide Alliance with the diversity it needs to encourage different types of political activity. i This brings us to the function of Al- home Aimer gin gmat lead the Papp et activity on campus. For example, not poe orreergah ete gh Mt ciel eg ee fa ea low through more on its projects. _In fact, I would rather see fewer speakers come to the campus but who meet with groups of students more than is cur- rently the custom. liance, then, the chance to participate in any phase of politics which she finds interesting. There are a few other points I would like to make. I think that by.checking with Penn, Temple and Princeton, we could find out what speakers will be in -the area ard invite them to Bryn Mawr. This will perhaps give us some new ideas, in addition to better speakers. On the subject of Young Republican, Young Democrats and Young Conservatives, I think that it has become rather clear that Bryn Mawr needs help in getting its groups revitalized. I would suggest ei- ther working with Penn-or Haverford, or using the upcoming election as a definite rallying point. Alliance took a survey several weeks ago to determine where campus political Ynterest lies. 1 think that the results should be followed up’ immediately, with the spring and summer still remaining to plan- for next. year--especially in regard to the November elections. Ob- viously, there are people at Bryn Mawr for whom politics. is, at most a peri- pheral interest. But, there are other girls, whose potential activity Alliance can st- imulate and benefit from. Iwould like to make certain that Alliance provides the leadership needed to realize the pol- itical potential of the campus. Barbara Rosenberg . Participation and significance will be the key elements in the 1968-1969 Al- liance activities. Participation applies on . both a campus and a societal level, to each individual student and to the cam- pus as a whole. Significance refers to the type of participation developed and to the quality of activities provided. On the campus level, I would like to encourage all students to take part in | Alliance planning and programming, by means of a committee system. This struc- ture would enable interested individuals to voice opinions concerning allocation of our joint resources -- time, money and energy -- as well as to communicate with and. meet speakers and political figures with whom we will work. Such personal ‘contact would provide deeper insight into salient issues. Outlets for individual interests can be stimulated through Alliance support of issue-oriented organizations, such as ad hoc committees concerning specific events or situations. Partisan, or problem-based groups, such as Young Democrats or SDS, might also provide outlets for incipient interests, The ingredient of significance enters in, our choice of speakers. If possible, I would like to invite important political figures, if necessary reducing the total number during the year in favor of well-known men and women who will be of general interest to the campus community. The problem of funds might even be alleviated by promising a large audience and de- livering it by extensive community pub- licity. Our most obvious potential source of. exciting political activity is the approach- ing national elections. Nominees of every outlook and degree of prominence will wel- come our aid in campaigning. We can exploit this opportunity for practical ex- perience by contacting interesting or con- -troversial figures and offering our’ aid. Finally, Alliance-will continue to pro- The function of Al- is to offer: each student , + to. recognize whe - right direction. See (rh 2 Oen he 8 pete cinating. Through a program such as this, we can learn about it and influence its functioning. I hope that you will give me the opportunity to help you find signifi- cant forms of participation. Arts Council Faith Greenfield In 500 words or less, Arts Council has only one function: to bring art to the campus and spread it around. That means we could run a Film Series and send busses to the Barnes Foundation. That way everyone would know where to get their art,.and we could all. go home and get some work done. It’s a shame art is not more like that; maybe the board could get away with it. But you couldn’t get used to no Student Art shows, Faculty Art shows, Little Theatre, trips tomovies in Phila., Symphony Orchestra tickets, Arts Night, the use of the Arts Forum (it?s an old stone mansion between here and Haverford with vast practice rooms and dance studios, a theatre, a movie-— making club, a printing press. You're welcome to the facilities if you. ask.) There’s also the Grad Center gym, which you don’t know about yet: it has extra rooms and we have some extra money donated for some sort of student center, and we thought of supplying craft rooms with equipment (sewing, etc.) but it’s still being planned, so submit your ideas.- . Which brings me to another point. I’m sorry I said ‘‘Submit your ideas’’; it’s an unfortunate phrase, I’m fully aware that I’m going to have to go and get your ideas. Art and entertainment, ex- cept for the people immediately involved, has to be persuasive. This is one system that won’t accuse you of apathy, because_ if Arts Council lets you get to that point, you need a new system, After I’ve told you our resources, I need to find out yours, I’ve got a few new strategies; More student art and entertainment appending other activities (an art show for every College Theatre production, a music en- semble for every Dance Concert inter- mission). More outside entertainment coming in when students can’t do the work but ‘need the diversion (during exams, at the beginning of semesters). Collaboration with H’ford Art Series for one or two famous and expensive at- tractions. More frequent board meet- ings to maintain yearly projects (thea- tre-workshop, speakers). You'll hear more as the ideas. jell. I’m grateful to Judy Masur for supply- ing momentum; I can think of many dir- ections for it. I’d like to persuade you to see how impoftant it is. Curriculum Robin Baskin More than self-scheduled exams, more than a variety in divisional requirements, even more than classes at Haverford ... What is a liberal arts education? It is more than promises of ‘personality growth”? or of. ‘breadth and depth’’ in education (see Bryn Mawr College Calen- dar 1967-68). It is even more than prom- ises of ‘‘opportunity for the students to participate actively in their own educa- tion.’? A liberal arts education is an unde- lineated dream of what can be. With that dream comes the nagging realization that SOMETHING in a Bryn Mawr educa- tion is lacking. ya We need not pin down and thoroughly ‘define the term ‘‘liberal arts education’’ | we are heading in the lf-scheduled exams is & "Friday, March 1, 1968 THE COLLEGE NEWS Page Seven Platforms . system as well as a plan for instituting various kinds of opportunities for indepen- dent study, both already in the planning, suggest the way to fulfill some of the gen- erously abstract promises” printed an- nually in the college calendar. Then too, we face.a specific unfulfilled promise. I refer to the mythological three- college participation designed-to augment the resources of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore while preserving the autonomy of each college. Why not make three-college participation an academic reality? Swarthmore course lists should be made available and transportation to Swarthmore should-be provided if enroll- ‘ment warranted it. Meanwhile, we continue to seek a satisfactory solution to the ques- tions of a religion major, more depart- mental and inter-departmental coopera- tion -- the list is endless. These suggestions seem to me to be feasible steps to be taken in the near future toward more depth and breadth in ‘our ‘‘liberal arts’’ education. Mean- while, I nourish in my secret heart a dream of no grades, small lectures and seminars, independent study -- Join me -- SCHEME, DREAM ... Pf * Bess Keller On short notice I was asked to write my ‘‘platform,’’ and I was put in much the same situation as the Curriculum Committee has and will find itself. On the one hand, I felt rather prepared to hold forth on Bryn Mawr academia, hav- ing been (I hope) ‘an interested and thoughtful observer for a while now. And, of course, some “problem areas’’ (e.g. _classes) are inescapable or, if they are not, they are made so by endless and often aimless discussion concerning them. & But, on the other hand, the old Bryn Mawr bugaboo-- that one doesn’t yet know enough to take a stand-- plagued me. So in. regard to Curriculum Com- mittee, I would like to assert that not only are many of Bryn Mawr’s academic problems, failings and strengths known to the administration, faculty and students, put also that the student Curriculum Committee and the student body it re- presents need ‘not be put off by the very informal system ‘of communications between the three groups mentioned ab- ove, although it has been in the past a wonderful obscuring mechanism. Indeed, Curriculum Committee will have failed next year in fulfilling a large part of its potential, if it does not begin to make clear how academic decisions are reached at Bryn Mawr and where the impetus for academic change arises. Therefore, some representative of Curriculum Committee must sit in on the entirely separate (and powerful) faculty Curricu- lum Committee and, of course, keep in close contact with the administration. Furthermore, Curriculum Committee should take this validly-obtained in- formation to the student body through a re- gular feature in the NEWS (which this year has published thought-provoking articles of: the type that would have been more ‘effective backed by an informed Cur- ‘riculum Committee). Finally, aware that — at Bryn Mawr the most effective dis- content is often demonstrated by the* individual student attempting to get her own education worked out (witness maj- oring at Haverford), the Committee must know about and direct its efforts toward smoothing the way for reasonable creat- ive requests. Yet Curriculum Committee’s task will be far from completion even though the Committee itself may be informed and informing. After’ one knows, one must have the insight and the courage to act. Acting is particularly important at Bryn Mawr where the faculty many times gives the impression that their business is KNOWLEDGE, the students’ business ed- ucation. For example three years ago the -faculty Curriculum Committee turned down a student request for self-scheduled exams because ‘‘the students’ reasons seemed not very compelling and their plan lacking in detail’’(from a report issued January, this year by the Committee). Only when the STUDENTS presented a ‘‘fa- irly detailed document describing the pro- cedure and spelling out the responsibil- ities which students would assume’’ was the plan accepted. Apparently, whether we know it or not, we are expected to present the ideas which will improve and . transform our education... Accepting this lesson, I would want Curriculum Com- mittee to continue next year to examine and advocate that others examine: apass- fail system, project courses, ways to make the course evaluation booklet more help- ful to professors, faculty advisors (whatever happened. to that 15-1 ratio?), a sensible policy toward Haverford cour- ses and an investigation--more system- atic than has ever been tried before--of the educational beliefs of the members of the Bryn Mawr faculty. Finally, the idea of a comprehensive report on both the academic and social aspects of the College’s life written by educators brought in from outside--along the lines of Sw- arthmore’s--definitely bears looking into. The freedom and potential that Curricu- lum Committee has shown this year should -be broadened next, regardless of the tang- les in Taylor Hall and the difficulties of getting some Mawrter out of her dank cell--our education is worth it, don’t you think? Eve Roberts. *"A foremost aspect of the Curriculum Committee at this time is that it is uniquely equipped to play a meaning- ful and vital role in clarifying and imp- iementing our concerns over the character of. the ‘‘college community” at Bryn Mawr. In reviewing current discussions of Bryn Mawr’s general condition, we find matters of academics--size of classes, the nature of the student-teacher relationship, freedom in construction of courses and majors -- mentioned more and more frequently. I feel that on these questions we can take definite steps for improve- ment. In the first place there is no contesting that these problems lie within the domain of the College’s responsibility and also that they affect all the students. to some appreciable degree. Already delineated, they are somewhat easier to handle: if possible solutions are not specifically indicated, at least the general region of where to find them is. I believe that if we can make gains in. dealing with and -solving these problems in re- gard to academic life, the whole com- . plexion of the ‘college community’’ will be improved: we will be in a better situation to see and articulate what sort of community we want Bryn Mawr to be-- in all aspects, social and intellectual, as well as academic. The. prevailing tenor of most Curricu- lum Committee projects is to put each ‘Bryn Mawr student in more immediate control of her academic life: aside from self-scheduled exams, we find this tone in Curriculum Committee’s present con- siderations of pass/fail grading and for ’ more opportunities to do independent study units. This aim is one I whole-heartedly endorse. However, the Committee has been less active in cultivating a comple- mentary e ent of this outlook: to help stude to be effective in their in- dependence. This problem is difficult to speak of directly, but it involves the quality of the relationship of the faculty to the students and the extent of student participation in molding the trends of the College. Here the Curriculum Committee has several prerogatives and responsibil- ities. It must promote discussion of these matters but also supply concrete oppor- tunities for progress -- interest courses and egies for those who want enrich- i ment and diversification, arrangements for those who wish or need it to learn study skills such as typing and notehand, more frequent gatherings of students and professors together for talk and acquaint- ance, And of course the Committee must continue to be--but again, more effect- ively-- a channel for communicating stu- dent thoughts on academic matters to the faculty and administration, The College welcomes each student as an independent scholar and seeks to show each’ one the: challenge and pleasure of this endeavor. I see the role of Curric- ulum Committee, and the particular con- cern of its chairman, to try to keep these two factors in productive balance -- so that the challenge does not loom large and unmanageable and that the pleasure is genuine and exhilarating. Pat Rosenfield An educational experience must pre- pare one for the needs of the future, A flexible curriculum, open to innovation, is a most reasonable means of achieving this preparation, The administration, fac- ulty, and students at Bryn Mawr have demonstrated their inclination to change academically by revising the curriculum, by successfully experimenting with self- scheduled exams and by profiting from student course evaluations, These im- provements are valid and should be used as the basis for further enhancing our educational experience here, Three major dfeas should be, I think, the concern of Curriculum Committee for next year: re-vitalizing the curriculum; attempting a new type of learning exper- fence, i.e, project courses; and, employ- ing a new system of evaluating the stu- dents’ work, Allied with these areas is the necessity for increased coordination among the faculties of the different de- partments, increased communication both between faculty and students and between students in various campus organizations, and increased cooperation with near- by colleges and universities, es Bryn Mawr should expand the curricu- lum to include courses that are directed toward a changing world. Fields such as architecture, ecology (both animal and human), urban sociology, non-Western cultures and languages and actually any course in which merely a few students ex- press an interest should be available, Complementing increased course choices is a new method of learning: learning by doing. Bryn Mawr should of- fer project courses, However, these courses should be structured so as to ob- tain maximum participation of and benefit for the student. an es ~ a I feel that the more attention paid to the organization of the project, the more the student will learn through individual and original thought and research, The third area of concentration aims at the need for a change of at aes BB eat bata serio ain pa Mawr but still students measure the results ofa course by the amount of the mark re- ceived rather than the amount learned, Some competition is healthy, but the pres- sure for grades detracts from the purpose of education, Thus, either a series of written comments or'a system of pass- fail, or some combination is worth trying, to-make learning, not the grade, the essen- tial element in a course, To re-enforce these areas, we should extend the above mentioned attempts at coordination and communication, More interdepartmental courses and majors, connecting activities concerned with ed- ucation in the broadest sense both extra- curricular and curricular, a system of personal faculty advisors so that the stu- dent realizes that some member of the faculty recognizes her as an individual, and increased utilization of different courses and styles of teaching at, for example, Haverford and Penn, all help provide for the desired academic expansion at Bryn Mawr, In effect, our academic ..community should supply traditionally taught and classically oriented subjects for. those students thus trained, but Bryn Mawr ‘should also encourage additional chances and changes for the students who prefer the future. Interfaith Jerri Bond The main purpose of Interfaith, as I see it, is to plan lectures, to be given twice a month, about trends and ideas in religion and philosophy of religion and to acquaint’ students with the viewpoints on these issues of as many leading minis- ters and religious thinkers as possible. Here are some timely ideas for lec- ture subjects, some new to Interfaith, that I would like to propose; 1, Eastern’ religions, “As an in- troduction, a speaker could show in what ways eastern religion and philosophy differ from those of the west; and the specifics of Tawism, and Zen Buddhism taken up, What about in subsequent -talks, Hinduism could be the topic ‘¢Mysticism and Drugs?’ 2. The attitudes of various churches to pacifism and war resistance. 3. A minister speaking in favor of Black Power - really exciting! 4, The renovations going on within the Catholic Church and particularly, having a nun talk about the re-evaluation of vows and habits and the greater degree of freedom she now has. 5. Religious and theological education. I would like to see Nathan Pusey, pre- sident of Harvard, and William Sloane Coffin, head of Yale Theological Seminary, speak on this subject. . 6. More about church involvement in social aétion. 7. The beliefs of the esoteric sects, Interfaith could sponsor Mormon, Seventh Day Adventist and Unitarian speakers, (What about a speech by a Fundamenta- list?) 8. The position the Christian and Je- wish churches take vis a vis the New Morality. The possibilities for lecture subjects are endless! In addition to the lecture program, Interfaith must encourage the formation and activity of denominational groups, which now represent only the Jewish, Christian Scientists and Episcopa- lian faiths. As president this year of one of these groups, I know how worth- while and how much fun it is to meet with fellow students of my religious per- suasions Interfaith should urge girls of CONE: “denominations to ‘Set up their own ' Comte page 8) Page Eight THE COLLEGE NEWS Friday, March lL 1968 Platforms groups. And wouldn’t it be a good idea ” to have interchanges and panel discussions among the groups, exchanges which could be open to the whole college? One sub- ject for such a conference might be: the Significance of religion to a church- affiliated college student, Interfaith should continue to bring the interested student in touch with her own church, A coffee with local rabbis and ministers, for the special benefit of in- . ~@oming freshmen but open to all, would be a nice idea, Finally, Interfaith should tuse new spi- rit into its avowed goal of establishing a worship service or several types of services which would be significant to and in harmony with the gamut.of re- tae views at Bryn Mawr - admittedly, a very difficult task. One service could be designed for Jewish thought, another for Christian and still another for Eas- tern. There is the possibility of having an hour of chamber music and meditation every Sunday afternoon. Monthly concerts sung in the Library Reading Room at Sunday noon could be reinstituted, Interfaith can do and contribute so much, and it should! Margaret Byerly Over the past few years, I have be- come interested in the relation between religion and the problems of life. Do we practice what is preached? Churches take collection every week. Some build extensions on their present buildings; some send missionaries out to convert others, But how much does the church do in its own neighborhood about the racial situation, for instance, or poverty? How many people think about their react- ions to their church service longer than througti Sunday dinner? How many go to church because it’s the thing. to do? Are Christians being distracted from the main goals of Christianity through the rivalry various sects? In England, the huge cathedrals all over the country hold services for a mere handful of people, and even in mostly-Catholic Italy, attendance is poor. Doesn’t bad atten- .dance reflect on the influence and worth of religion? I am not saying that we could solve all these problems in Interfaith, but I do feel that it would be beneficial and interesting to try to find the cause of religious apathy and to define the place of religion in society ahd its responsi- bility to help to improve some of the pro- blems of society today. I speak not only of Christian and American churches, but of religions all over the world. I also feel, myself, a lack of knowledge about some American religious sects, ‘Mormons or Mennonites, for instance. I have met people who did not know that Mormons are Christians or what Quakers are. I think that as well as being conversant with foreign religions, we should learn about the various groups in our own country. How do they differ? Why were they formed? Perhaps an- swers to questions like these will help in a search for the answer to the bigger problem of the worth of religion in gen- eral, I would like to hear some atheists tell what caused them to reject their faith. How did their churches fail to reach them? The theory that God is dead has been _ argued both ways, but the fact that the rumor arose in the first place indicates religion somewhere. Why do in not to bring speakers to the campus and arouse student interest in religion. Because of the diversity and general interest of the | speakers and programs, such as the 2) EY we sigs ’ film, ‘‘The Phoenix,’? Interfaith carries out the aims of the Committee on Reli- gious Life in a way that is relevant to the college community. Interfaith’s most active role on cam- pus has been the sponsoring of q lecture series. Many of the speakers in the past have talked about subjects of general interest to students rather than on speci- fically theological subjects. Most of the Jecturesare—of--interest to more than a single denominational group. I would like to continue this program of spea- kers, with topics that would be interest- ing to more than a minority of stu- dents, Interfaith itself is non-denominational; it represents the religions of all stu- dents on campus, Several denominational discussion groups have been organized on campus, and more would be welcome, I would like to encourage communication among the groups. This year I have worked with Interfaith as a dorm re- presentative, Peggy McGarry The fact that there are five candidates .. running for the presidency of Interfaith this year, ii comparison to the situation of last year in which no one was willing to run for the office, can be taken hope- fully as a sign of a renewed interest in Interfaith on campus. This interest should be pursued and’ encouraged, I think, through the organization’s main activity, its lecture series. Through the use of a campus - wide questionnaire, much like the one the Social Committee distributed at the beginning of this year, the suggestions for topics and speakers of interest to many students might. be uti- lized to make the series an important and constantly relevant part of the general ‘campus life. As one of the Big Six organizations with dorm representation, in light of the funds available for this series, and surely by virtue of its na- ture, Interfaith owes to the campus apro- gram of wide appeal. If this kind of lecture series and accom- panying interest could be realized, I think arrangements should be made where- by students wishing to do so could come together at some time after the lecture for discussion. In relation to this a speaker should be urged to come pre- pared to provide those interested with a bibliography on his topic. In connection with such a drive toward a wider appeal in its, lectures and a reater impact on the life of the college, Int th must expand its efforts to in- crease the cooperation between itself and the other organizations on campus, particularly Alliance and League. With the emphasis today in religious circles, especially those in which younger people are involved, being put increasingly on the ‘‘witness’’ aspect of faith, the col- ‘ house, - taining her non-sectarian policy, has a of these might be increased and: new programs initiated. Forums and panel discussions combining the political, social, and religious moral aspects of topics like the above, abortion, the use of violence in social change, the impli- cations of imperialism on another culture, ~-etc., would make use of the resources of many groups, have a broader appeal and further integrate life outside the col- lege with that within it. This cooperation between campus groups might also help in renewing the much-discussed ‘Bryn Mawr com- munity.”? In addition, I would like to see this policy extended within Interfaith itself; to see the various religious dis- cussion groups, some of which are now quite strong, participate. in this effort. An endeavor to enter into dialogue with one another in the coming year would be both beneficial to them and their mem- bers, and would aid in increasing the all- over impact of Interfaith on the campus. Finally , I think Interfaith must act, as it has not in the past, as a vehicle for communication between interested stu- dents and groups on campus and the va- rious--national- student’ religious groups and movements. Mary Schrom I believe we are in the’ midst of a religious revival. Let me hasten to ex- plain myself. I certainly do not mean religious in its institutional sense nor revival with all its Billy Graham connot- ations, The phenomenon is indeed limited, But I do méan that in the past year, along with increasihg. eS SSS TTSBVASASAABAS SS UNUSUAL AND LARGE SELECTION GIFTS AND CARDS RICHARD STOCKTON 851 Lancaster Ave.. 9. GIFTS SOCIAL: . °Valentine's. Day Cards & Gifts Friday, March 1, 1968 Page Nine | ~ Campus Best-Dressed- _ Identical twins who dress iden- tically will be judged as one entry,’’ read the handbook, But not even the question of fraternal twins came up as Social Chairman Clarissa Rowe tried to awake student interest in ‘*Glamour’s’’ Ten Best Dressed College Girls Contest, (‘‘This is NOT a joke,’? she announced at dinner,) . The ‘qualities to keep in mind, the handbook explained, were: 1, clear understanding of fash- iontypé : 2. workable wardrobe plan 3, suitable campus look (she’s in line with local customs) __. 4, appropriate -- not rah-rah-- look for off-campus occasions, 5, individuality in use of.colors and accessories, 6. imagination in managing a clothes budget 7, good grooming--not justneat, but impeccable, 8, clean, shining, well-kept hair 9, deft use of makeup 10, good figure and beautiful pos- ture, Of the sixteen girls who were named as the fashion conscious, well groomed members of the col- lege community, the judging com- mittee selected semi-finalists on the basis of these ten criteria, The judges, led by Clarissa, also included Amy Bell, Bonnie Cun- ningham, Carol McGill, .and Bar- bie Oppenheim, Day Thompson, Kathy Pitcoff, ~“‘Janine Harris, and Lynn Mead-— ow--the four semi-finalists--then had their posture, hair, and ward- robe subjected to further scrutiny. This included a round of picture taking with David Whiting, Haver- ford photographer, with the girls modeling the outfits they consid- ered appropriate for certain occa- sions--party, campus, and daytime off campus (Haverford?) When a finalist from Bryn Mawr is chosen she will have, a 1,000 word assignment; ‘‘describe the evolution of your fashion taste and then tell us what you think it will' be like ten years from now.’’ Her, PAUL BLOOMF! . ELECTRIC FLAG : Also The Mandrake Memorial and Woody's Truck Stop -—_ —<—_ ‘ditions . Head for Contest Finals pictures will be used in the na- tionwide judging, IF she is selected as one of the Ten Best Dressed, she will appear in the August college is- sue of ‘‘Glamour’’ and will have a two week trip to New York in June, all expenses paid, Her chief award will be national recognition for herself and her college, may seem a big ‘‘if,’’ but Bryn Mawr girls should not be en- tirely hopeless about having their unique fashion sense nationally acknowledged, As recently as 1965 Katherine Ellis was chosen one of The Ten. Katherine Ford re- ceived~ an honorable mention in 1966 and Suzanne Klempay in 1963. aD Ea en (Continued from page |) in- the northern cities, where the Economic Research and Action Projects (ERAP) were set up, and with the lack of freedom of students themselves in their universities, /Today, S.D,S, has begun to re- alize that it is not possible tocre- ate a free university in an unfree society, and is attempting to make students and other groups in this society aware of the whole system they must change in order to instill freedom in this country, to see their struggle as part of! a larger one. ; Buckley described the localized, at times anarchy bent structure of S.D.S. where chapters develop their own actions in dealing with their particular constituencies, National policy if made by the chapters at the National Councils held four times a year, Next week programs will be. proposed and priorities set, The University City Science Center, the draft, possible study _ groups, ' research into the nature of Bryn Mawr-and Haverford as colleges will be ‘discussed. Study. in Guadalajara, Mexico The Guadalajara Summer School, a fully accredited University of Arizona program, conducted in co- operation with professors from Stanford University, University of California, and Guadalajara, will offer July 1 to August 10, art, folklore, | geography, _—ihistory, language and literature courses. Tuition, board and room is $290, Write Prof. Juan B. Rael, P.O. Box 7227, Stanford, California 94305. the little shop with a big Free Gift Wrapping SEE Come to HELEN’S for gifts and jewelry Earrings, earrings and earrings, $1.00 up! Bryn Mawr Theater Arcade heart and small prices Lay-a-Way Plan LA 5-2393 er Oe eee eee IT IS HERE! 1,000 MONO LP’S - $3.00 $2.50 10,000 45’s 10° 20‘ 30‘ 40° 50° | JAZZ POPULAR BRYN MAWR RECORDS 1026 LANCASTER) $2.00 $1.00 FOLK CLASSIC - THE COLLEGE NEWS Undergrad Shop To Open Soon Oxman Views Do you have a sweater or skirt you never wore this winter? Books you will never open again? Are you trying to sell hand-decorated stationery? Seniors, do you wonder WHAT you’re going to do with all those odds and ends? ; wer Bring everything to the basement of the College Inn this Saturday. This is the last day things’ will be collected before the new second- hand shop opens, sometime next week. The shop is run by Laura Her- shey and sponsored by Undergrad. The main business will be in sec- onhand clothes, books, records, furniture, and jewelry. Items Should be clean and in good con- dition and labeled with your name and price when brought to the Inn. If you are unsure about pric- ing, Laura can make suggestions. Some things are priced high but - the owners are open to bargainé ing. \ When an article is sold, the owner will be paid in cash within a few days. .There will be a 10% com- mission to cover the costs of runn- ing the store. Customers may charge things to payday. There will also be a corner for handmade arts and crafts -- jewelry, stationery, pottery, paint- ings and drawing, posters, and artificial flowers. A bulletin board will be available for adver- tisements for services or for more expensive items for sale. Pop Sculptors Mark Oxman, Haverford artist- in-residence, will give a talk en- titled ‘‘Three Contemporary Art- A ists; on Thursday Mar. 7 at 8:30 p.m. in Room 8 of: Chase Hall at Haverford. He will show slides and discuss the works of Frank Gallo, Michael ‘Williams, and Tony Greenwood. These artists have done ‘‘Pop” sculpture which is figurative, often painted or made of colored plastic. In addition to his present Tue- sday evening sculpture class, Oxman is starting a drawing class on Thursday evening, beginning Mar. 14. Both are open to Bryn Mawr students. ¢ a, This little night owl leads a daytime life when the first spring sun appears. A neo-classic nicety, impeccably tailored like all John Meyer sleepwear convertibles. It comes in an appealing Barclay open stripe (a soft mix of Dacron® polyester and cotton). And, as befits a pinafore, it is demurely edged with lace. In good-little-girl colors: blue, orange, yellow or green ona pristine white background $10. Now being shown at discerning stores everywhere. av’ =a f/f _s © JOHN MEYER OF NORWICH, INC. THE enn NEWS Friday, March 1, 1968 Page Ten : Ou cas ‘Masako Yamanouchi is a Japanese girl who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1966. She has spent the past year in Vietnam working with Volun- tary International Service | Assignments, a Friends pro- gram. oo Ed. P;O, Box 863 Saigon, South Vietnam ', November 12, 1967 Dear friends, The past year which I have spent as a volunteer in Vietnam has been one of great contrast to the four years before that were spent at Bryn Mawr College. Life here is so different from the peaceful and beautiful life on the Bryn Mawr campus where ideas unfolded and took shape in the very air of the crisp autumn; the sharp winter; and the warm lazy spring when one could least afford to be lazy! After a year here I have adapted quite well to the customs of Viet- : nam, and my language has advanced to the stage where people in motor repair shops (the old French Moby- lette I use often breaks down) think I am an overseas Vietnamese. Once a woman I was talking to asked me after five minutes whether I was from Hue, the an- cient capitol city of central Vietnam. I asked her why she thought so,and she, a Southerner, replied that the Hue dialect is very hard to understand. This anecdote amuses my Hue friends no end But a more sobering experience is when I am walking with Carl and Mark, two of the other vol- unteers in our small group (Vol- untary International ‘Service As- signments of the American Friends Service Committee) and people cast hateful glances while small child- ren throw stones. They invariably throw the stones at me, the ‘Viet- namese” girl for forgetting my national pride in following the ‘trich’’ American. . This illustrates best the situation ' and atmosphere here in Vietnam. The presence in Vietnam of the United States government and military today is very extensive and serious and the Vietnamese are fighting back in every way imaginable to throw off this yoke. The stone throwing incident is just one expression out of hundreds of real feeling towards the U.S, that exists in the Saigon govern- ment controlled areas. “*Quakers!”’ I live closely with the Vietnamese people; have travelled much and find that the Vietnamese are a peace loving people. One of the best illustrations I can think of is when I explain that the pro- gram I belong to is one of many organized by the Quakers. ‘‘Quak- ers!”? a face suddenly lights up.| ‘“‘They are the six who came and demonstrated for PEACE last year,” (referring to the group led by A.J. Muste) ‘‘and aren’t they the people who sailed on the Phoenix to take medical aid supplies to the North Vietnamese?’ And after that Iam accepted whole- heartedly by individuals and fam- ilies, This has happened. over and over again even in the remotest country-side. The main desire of the Viet- namese is PEACE, and they wish to be left alone to live their own lives and to decide their own fate. But we live in» a world where force and violence seems to be the only common denominator, and that is why the National Liberation Front (NFL, Viet Cong, or VC) is gaining in power and member- ship. It’is impossible for young Vietnamese men to carry out their non-violent _ convictions because they are sooner or later subject _ to the Saigon regimes drastic measures to draft every able- bodied man into the ARVN ‘command. _ This being the case, many young people judge it better to channel the use of violence to the side with the ‘‘Just cause,”’ the NLF. For the NLF is the strongest organized force engaged in meeting violence with violence to rid the country of ‘foreign domination’; Communism Preferable The South and Central Viet- namese feel that ‘‘communism”’ is an alien ideology, and would prefer not to live -under a communist regime, but as the war continues and it becomes increas- ingly difficult to take a neutral stand, most Vietnamese (with exception of the 1954 Catholic ref- ugees from the North) feel that even communism as practiced by the North which has stayed as independent as possible’is pre- ferable to the humiliating and ex- asperating situation existent in the South in their relationship with the U.S, and its Allied Forces. The main question then is this; where do those who cannot condone violence; who believe that non- violence is also a viable force, stand in the present situation? I was disturbed to learn that Viet- namese° peoplé who want to help ‘their own suffering people are severely handicapped in their efforts. Individuals and organ- izations are too poor to do relief, .~ work, and even those who have the money. find that they cannot buy the necessary materials on the open market. Many find that they must go to USAID for material aid even, though they are loathe to ask for aid from the people who share a large part of the responsibility for having created the suffering. In the midst of this deplorable situation I was fortunate tg come in touch with a group of young Vietnamese _ Buddhist students. engaged in voluntary service to help a School_to train young people for community development work. Based on the Buddhist spirit of love and compassion, the School of Youth for Social Service was founded in order to carry out the teaching of non-violence in an act- ive and constructive way. The more I got to know them, the more my desire deepened to work under their guidance for the reconstruction of Vietnamese society. Without U.S. Aid The School’s ‘two year curric- ulum stresses four main areas of study - education, health and san- itation, agriculture and animal hus- bandry, and community™- co- operation. The School has been aware from the beginning that they must learn to do their work with- out depending on U.S. government materials. They feel that the Viet- namese must learn to do without many things, or to create their! own substitutes in order to be really independent. Only by main«| taining this independence and auto-, nomy can they be true to their, philosophy of self-help. In accor-| dance with this philosophy, the: School started a fund-raising: program all over South Vietnam’ for their work, and over the two: years has_ succeeded in getting. pledges of monthly support from over 1500 families (predominantly though not entirely Buddhist) rang- ing from the very poor who sell in the market place to the rich. Private foreign individuals and . organizations abroad also give support to this unique Vietnamese initiative and effort. The Schog?’can not pay good sal- aries to aftract qualified teachers, but almost from the beginning some of the best professors and lecturers from Saigon University and other schools have come out to the School to lecture with no pay. The School is situated five kilometers outside of Saigon city, yet these pledges by the gad ‘have been kept- Though based on the Buddhist spirit and teaching the School is .cal motives. ~ the people.” An Open Letter not evangelical and stresses acom- bination of social and ~spirit- ual action. The door is open to all who volunteer to sacrifice their lives to the cause of improving the Vietnamese society and furthering human understanding. This is the first school of its kind not only in the Buddhist com- munity but in the whole of Vietnam. The students come from every- where. The School provides modest rooming facilities ‘in a simple cement building which is being ex- panded room by room as the budget allows. The building is still in- complete after two years, although there are enough rooms for the number of students. Terrorist Attacks However, from the very be ing the uniqueness of this ool has caused many difficul- ties, Starting with the work train- ing camp of spring 1966, the School has been under repeated terrorist attacks. It is hard to understand why people would want to destroy the ‘School when its efforts are humanitarian and it has no politi- The problem is that in Vietnam every action has a political effect, and there is a con- test between the fighting powers to ‘‘win the hearts and minds of The peasants are constantly under pressure of. the Saigon regime, the American mil- itary, and the NLF, and are weary of them all. They long for peace and a chance to improve their war- torn lives. When the students of the School go out to work with no motives other than a simple desire to help sooth and encourage their fellow countrymen to help themselves, they are accepted warmly by the people. This alarms all the fighting parties whofeel that they are losing political leverage. They realize that the violent means they ‘use are effective only for ‘immediate results but can never capture the spirit of the people as love and _ constructive non- violence can. But those versed in violence know only violent means to answer the ‘threat’? that they think the School poses. In May. 1966, a_ grenade was tossed into afarm house where several of the students were stay- ing, and critically injured one of the boys’ head. Today his left limbs are paralyzed and there is the possibility that he will become epileptic sometime in the future. I did not start working at the School until early this year, 1967, so did not, know the details of the first grenade incident, but have shared _ intimately in the subsequent trag- edies, Thirteen Grenades On the evening of April 24th, after supper at the School I left. for Saigon with a friend at about 7:30, An hour later, thirteen grenades were tossed into the girls dormitory and open study hall kill- ing two girls and wounding ten, others. Later that night when I learned of the attack and rushed to the hospital, the emergency ward was crowded with the girls I had been talking and laughing with only a few hours before, their faces ashen and the tattered sheet-band- ‘ages covering their bodies soaked in blood. The understaffed hospital seemed incredibly slow and we spent a sleepless night waiting out- side the operating rooms praying that no more would die. Everyone survived and has since recovered, ‘but one of the girls had to have her lower leg amputated, Another girl was in mental shock for along time afterwards. - The days following were busy with funeral arrangements and visitations to the hospital to care for the wounded. Since the govern- ment police refused to investigate the matter or to come and protect the School against further attacks, the boys began taking turns at night doing guard duty. Of course they have no desire for weapons and feel that if there is any threat of repeated violence, they can call to the neighbouring farmers for help. More and more evidence came to light that this was not ‘Viet Cong terrorism,’’ as the government was wont to spread. Sometimes I would stay up with the others to do guard duty, and looking out into the night would feel terribly sad that there should be so much impersonal violence in ‘this society. Surely those men who tossed the grenades would not have done so if they had known these innocent and lovely girls; if they came face to face with the suffering parents; if they knew the tenseness and yet thecalmness of spirit amoung them all in the face of danger; and above all their forgiving spirit. Rapport with Peasants The curriculum of the School was delayed but resumed when all of the students felt that more than ever they could not let their spirit or work be defeated, and that they wanted to show whoever wished ‘them ill that their sorrow would: not turn to bitterness and hatred. was conan to an end and the School was planning its final work training camp before graduating the first class. When the training camps began in June, however, almost immediately eight boys were kid- napped from the village ancestral pagoda where they were staying. Alarmed, the School was helpless to do anything because once again the government made little gesture to investigate the matter. To this © day we do not know where those eight students are, and whether they are living or dead. The kidnapping was meant to “intimidate the School, but the Stu- dents asked to stay on in their villages and continued to work shoulder to shoulder with the peas- ants, gaining’ wonderful rapport with them. They learned much from the villagers and in turn provided first-aid services, taught the children, built sanitary lat- rines, and experimented. with new vegetable plafits with the peasants.- The best indication of their success was that within three weeks the farmers had opened up their homes so that the students could eat and sleep with the farmers’ families entirely free of charge. Seemingly because of their success, tragedy struck again. In the early hours of the morning on July 5th, armed strangers came around to the villages where the students were scattered and de- manded of the farmers that they open their ‘doors to let the stu- dents out. The farmers refused to comply, saying through the door that any business they had could be done when: daylight came. It so happened that five boys were not staying with farmers but were sleeping in the village dispensary which served as one of the teams’ meeting place. When the armed men came to them they forced the boys to open up with threats to burn or grenade the building. The boys were then tied up and led to the Saigon River, where, an hour later, they were shotto death. When the boys were discovered at dawn, one of them, a young monk was found to be miraculously alive, rushed to the hospital, and has since then recovered to tell the nightmare happenings of that night. A Grateful Father The graves of the two girls were not yet green, but once again we were cast into preparations for the funeral, and the rains poured down to grieve for them all. It'was painful to meet the families of the: four boys because there was so The yds year course of the School - ITPCG staff member on campus Monday, March 4 at 10:00 a.m. See Placement Office for appointment. Intern Teaching Program for College Graduates TEMPLE UNIVERSITY _ Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education Philadelphia, Pa. 19122 nee a 4 Friday, March 1, 1968 THE COLLEGE NEWS From Vi much family resemblance, and I understood where each of them had received their beautiful simplicity and quiet strength. The father of one of the dead boys, who used to sing and charm us all with his warm smile. and cheerful personality, came to me after the funeral and expressed his deepest gratitude to me for helping the School and for having been his son’s good friend. When I pro- tested that there was very little @ “I could do to help he said, ‘It is your loving spirit that is im- portant. In this war-torn country, the School is doing important work, and it succeeds because the work is done with love. You are help- ing by giving that spirit and en- couraging the students. Much of the actual work cannot be done by you. They are Vietnamese prob- lems and must be worked out by the Vietnamese. Buthumanunder- standing and love is without national boundaries, and you serve us with your presence,”’ I learned later that this parent had told the School that he had three more boys at home, and if any one of them expressed adesire to come to the School to serve the people as his eldest son had done, then he would gladly. send them. Such is the atmosphere I work in, where people give their all for their country and their fellow men. War Victims In early October the students graduated and departed with wonderful spirit to various regions ‘of South. Vietnam to start their ‘work. I hope to visit them in a few months to share in their work and to understand better the problems of Vietnam. One of the teams went to Quang Tri to sur- vey the refugee camps there and sent a bleak letter reporting the miserable--conditions of the place. One of the refugee camps has 12,000 people, little water, very little food (things promised them by the government get waylaid), no education, and very poor health and sanitary conditions. They have heard unofficially that at least a hundred’ children die each month from malnutrition and disease, and yet more keep pouring in because of the destruction of their villages. Until recently, the School. . has ‘been unable to-give any relief to the war victims (especially the war wounded). This was because they had their hands _ full in community development train- ing which is a long range con- structive plan, and they could not cope with the vast physical destruc- tion of the war. They had neither the personnel, the funds, or the medical know-how to be able to do anything meaningful in the'war relief field. However, as the terrible knowledge of the physical suffering. everywhere weighed heavily on each person at the School, they had béen pondering hard how to overcome their in- adequacies of personnel, funds and know-how. Dedicated Vietnamese Now they have opened a branch to help the war casualties. Their approach is thus. One of the pro- blems of the war has been the num- ber of wounded people who do not reach the) hospitals and_ die unnecessarily from lack of treat- ment. For example, many doctors from abroad have come to survey the casualty cases and remark that there are few napalm burn cases ‘in the hospitals, and those few are being adequately treated. The truth is that there are hundreds of people wads DISCOUNT RECORDS 9 W. Lancaster Ave. Ardmore - MI 2-0764 st Selection Folk Music op - Classics - Jazz ~ o~ ee Gn ne hs tH ymca i geiiens pe a Pa ‘able, letnam -burned by napalm who die agonizing deaths because there is no way for them toreacha hospital. Similarly, peoplé