and friends was the order o f the day for the 316 mem bers of the Class o f 1993. The seniors reached out and touched President Alfred H. Bloom with phone books—a parting shot a t the fact that all students will have telephones in their dorm itory rooms this fall. See page 22 for more on Commencement. PHOTOGRAPHS SY StEVgN QOLDBIATT‘67 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE BULLETIN • AUGUST 1993 4 O rganic A bstraction Sydney Carpenter, assistant professor o f studio arts, creates massive works in fired clay. Here’s a sample of her sculpture, which draws references from both the animate and the inanimate worlds. By Kate Downing 8 H e ’s the Top As editor of the entertainment newspaper Variety, Peter Bart ’54 is in the enviable position of being a journalist whose calls are returned, quickly. A call from the controversial editor can be among the best—or worst—things that happen to you. By Bill Kent Editor. Jeffrey Lott Associate Editor Rebecca Aim Assistant Editor Kate Downing Class Notes Editor Nancy Lehman ’87 Desktop Publishing: Audree Penner Designer Bob Wood Editor Emerita: Maralyn Orbison Gillespie ’49 12 One Dollar, One Vote “Whenever you spend money on a product, you are voting for the business practices o f the producer of that product, ”says Zachary Lyons ’85. In two boycott publications, he gives consumers information to help them cast their votes wisely. m By Jeffrey Lott 18 P lus p a Change Returning to campus after a 54-year absence, Molly Gordon ’39 wonders whether she’ll find the College much the same or much changed. Both, it turns out—but most profound is her impression of the “deep continuity between past and present. ” 111 Associate Vice President for External Affairs: By Molly Grinnell Gordon ’39 Barbara Haddad Ryan ’59 Cover “In Reserve II,” a 52”x36”x7” fired clay sculpture by Assistant Professor of Studio Arts Sydney Carpenter, is one of the artist’s typically massive works. Photograph by Sydney Carpenter. Story on page 4. r iMMiraTW 1 ¡ I By Jeff Hildebrand ’92 Printed in U.S.A. on Recycled Paper The Swarthmore College Bulletin (ISSN 0888-2126), of which this is volume XC, number 6, is published in September, October, November, February, May, and August by Swarthmore College, 500 Col■ ■ i «L V lege Avenue, Swarthmore PA 190811397. Second class postage paid at S Swarthmore PA and additional mailing r n n H offices. Postmaster: Send address i i n q changes to Swarthmore College Bul­ letin, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081-1397. 64 Endings From Du Pont to Crum woods, Beardsley, Parrish, Wharton, Crum meadow, Mary Lyon, the field house, Sharpies, and the Friends Meeting House—join Jeff Hildebrand ’92 in a goodbye tour of campus as he prepares to leave for good. _ ■j / O B rtfH tHH D epartm ents 2 Letters 22 The College 28 Alumni Digest 30 Class Notes 34 Deaths 46 Recent Books by Alumni wear garments touched by hands from all over the world,” wrote songwriter and cultural historian Bernice Johnson Reagon. “35% cotton, 65% polyester, the journey begins in Cen­ tral America /In the cotton fields of El Salvador /In a province soaked by blood, pesticide-sprayed workers toiling in a broiling sun /Pulling cotton for two dollars a day....” Reagon, best known as leader of the African American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, is a remarkable woman. Her hon­ orary degree from Swarthmore this year (page 23) was part recogni­ tion of her dedication to the advancement of freedom and part cele­ bration of her extraordinary talent. In his citation, President Bloom lauded her “enormous courage and spirit” in the cause of human rights at home and around the world. At last fall’s Sweet Honey concert in the Lang Performing Arts Center, the overflow crowd hung on every word, cheering and sigh­ ing as four majestic black women traced a trail of exploitation from El Salvador to Venezuela to South Caroli­ na to Haiti to. the corner store. Along the way they named names: Exxon, Du Pont, Burlington Mills, Sears. “Are My Hands Clean?” is the title of Reagon’s song quoted above*. Its message is responsibility—our responsibility. Zachary Lyons ’85, cre­ ator of a magazine called The Boycott Quarterly (page 12), asserts that none of our hands are clean. He urges us to consider the social impact of every purchase. Our dollars are like votes, he says. Can we really feed, clothe, or house ourselves without participat­ ing in some sort of oppression, some sort of exploitation of workers or the natural world? Of course not. Bernice Reagon admits as much in the first line of her song: “I wear garments....” she says. We all do, though most of us have boycotted at some time in our lives. Professor Tom Bradley told me he hasn’t eaten a grape for nearly 30 years. I stopped buying Exxon gas for a while after the Prince William Sound oil spill, and we didn’t eat a Nestlé bar in our family for a very long time. Consumer boycotts—whether they work or not—are a satisfying form of self-expression, but I wonder whether the social behavior of corporations should be the primary focus of our politics. If we don’t exercise control in the voting booth, is “vot­ ing” at the supermarket an effective substitute? And in the “econom­ ic democracy” envisioned by Lyons, do people with the most dollars get the most votes? Swarthmore and Swarthmoreans are constantly challenging us with questions like these. It’s one of the reasons that working on this campus—and editing this magazine—is so rewarding. —Jeffrey Lott I A L e ■ On Norman Rush and “Serious Reading” To the Editor: I suppose you could look upon this letter as fan mail. At least, I was inspired to write by the most inter­ esting May issue of the Bulletin. Sci­ ence, puffery, women baring their bellies, and above all, the essay by ' Norman Rush ’56. What a man! Are i you familiar with Hendrick van Loon’s observation, “Once you take the human race too seriously, you will either lose your sense of humor or turn pious, and in either case, you’d be better off dead”? At any rate, Rush intrigued me, not only with his fixations but with his dense, jargon-laced, “intellects j al” prose. How, I wondered, can such a writer win a prize for a novel? To satisfy myself, I obtained Mating and read it. Quite a book. If I hadn’t read Mr. Rush’s article in the Bulletin I would have sworn that Mating was a marvelously con- ' trived satire of the liberal establish­ ment. Since it was clear from the article in the Bulletin that this is not the case, I can only suggest that Mr. Rush is doing the liberal establish- ' ment a distinct disservice. On the other hand, the book was, in its way, fascinating. There were re­ markable passages suggesting the author is more comfortable with sex than with his intellectual message. I agree in toto with Mr. Rush’s proposition that the world is being I seduced away from “serious” read­ ing by TV etc. etc. But I wonder how he defines serious reading. Subject? Content? Style? Insights? Use of long words? Correct attitude (politically ! id est)l So thank you for exposing me to Mr. Rush and for the opportunity to read Mating. I would have missed this magnum opus had it not been | for your magazine. W.R. TYSON ’31 Aiken, S.C. Benefits for “Spousal Equivalents” Invade Privacy To the Editor: Providing nonmonetary benefits to an employee or his designee unac­ ceptably invades the employee’s privacy unless the employee need give no explanation as to why the * © SONGTALK PUBLISHING CO.. 1985 SW A RTH M O RE COLLEGE BULLETIN AU IT E R S designee has been chosen, such as that the designee is a “spousal equivalent.” Swarthmore should lis avoid the impossible task of definI ing “spousal equivalent.” Does an ix- employee get a “spousal equivalent” ici- by going through a “wedding equivr alent”? Does the ceremony have to >y ' be conducted in a “church equivare | lent”? Federal and state laws favor marike riage over other types of relationu ships, and this is both unfair and lor discriminatory. The solution is to ' eliminate financial subsidies such as I employee spouse benefits. Expandi, ing the benefited class to include th “spousal equivalents” only makes :u- the wrong more widespread. The only moral and rational position is for the employer to pay the employ­ ed ee with money and let the employee decide how to spend that money— cle without any need to explain to the n employer. m- 1 KRISTIN BELKO 72 shVenice, Calif. lo t “Political Correctness” Mr. Threatens College’s Mission h- I To the Editor: e | The recent articles and news items in the Bulletin on various controver­ sial matters, and the corresponie dence that these have engendered, sex have been most interesting—and e. yet also seem to me to present some cause for concern, ng ! The Swarthmore I knew in the id- ’50s and recognize in what I see today is a community seeking truth iow :ct? (“Mind the Light”) and committed ong to a free and open exchange of lly ideas. The portrait of a Chaucer seminar and its lively exchanges to [February 1993] seems to me the / to ideal of what we should be about. 1 My concern is that the the Col­ in ! lege could lose its breadth of vision through over-involvement in immei ’31 diate issues, could it sell its S.C. birthright for a mess of “political correctness”—and at that a “politi­ cal correctness” that is remarkably shallow, short-sighted, and doctri­ naire. This is surely a problem elseto where in society too, where “multiic- culturalism,” a distorted “feminism,” ; I and various other “isms” of narrow :d view are beginning to exercise the e riN Please turn to page 62 AUGUST 1993 ■ he thick, wet, hot blanket of sum­ mer has descended on Swarth­ more. Painting, pruning, and overall sprucing-up of the campus con­ tinue steadily, though the frenzy that preceded Commencement and Alumni Weekend has abated. Surges of people have come and gone for dance recitals in the Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center, the Strath Haven High School graduation in the Scott Outdoor Auditorium, and scores of weddings and wedding party photo ops. Most undergraduates are gone, but those who remain devel­ op an intimacy with the cam­ pus and an ownership of its spaces that most students never realize they lack. So what does happen at Swarthmore College during the summer? Plenty. There are adult and junior tennis camps in residence for eight weeks during the summer, as well as baseball, basketball, field hockey, and soccer camps. On any given week, there may be 200 to 500 sport camp participants here. Upward Bound, a yearround program that brings high school students from nearby Chester to campus for tutoring, funs an intensive six-week residential program in June and July with 50 stu­ dents and eight staff mem­ bers. Eight more local high school students and two of their teachers are here as part of the Howard Hughes Science Laboratory Summer Research Program collaborat­ ing with eight Swarthmore professors on areas of mutual interest—like how better to use computers in teaching physics. Other faculty members are busy with research projects, and many have students assisting them. Administra­ tive offices are going full tilt too; some are busier during the summer than during the school year. They also employ some of the 140 students who kept their post office boxes because of summer jobs at the College. A stroll around campus one sun­ drenched July day during a particular­ ly brutal heat wave reveals even more activity: •It’s sweltering in the shade. Pat Thompkins of the grounds crew is pulling ivy off the trees. “It’s too hot to plant anything,” she says. “But all our work is outside. So we try to find jobs in the shade on days like this—and keep lots of drinking water close at hand.” On the athletic fields, the red and white caps of the boys playing baseball seem too vibrant for a day so oppressive. •In Pearson Hall, Associate Profes­ sor of Education Lisa Smulyan 76 is working with Beth Maloney ’95 on case studies of female elementary school principals. They are implementing a new computer program to code and analyze the qualitative data that Smulyan has collected. •A group of visitors is tak­ ing one of two daily tours for prospective students. There are only 30 in this batch, but som etim es th e re are as many as 70. Those who have dressed up for interviews look particularly uncomfort­ able on this stifling day. The Admissions Office does 600 to 700 interviews just during the summer months. •A lab in Du Pont smells faintly of toluene as Ben Vigoda ’96 and B ernhard Sturm ’93 help Peter Collings, professor of physics, study the basic properties of liquid crystals using lasers and other forms of light. •Down at Ware pool, 20 kids from United Cerebral Palsy are splashing happily, and noisily, in the water. •Two Swarthm ore stu ­ dents are living in Roberts dormitory while participat­ ing in President Clinton’s new Summer of Service pro­ gram. They’re educating kids in Chester about health and immunization. •At 5 p.m. faculty, staff, and stu­ dents of all abilities meet at Du Pont field for a pickup game of softball. The group tries to play every Monday and Thursday, but the 98-degree tempera­ ture may have something to do with today’s low turnout. Swarthmore’s summer ends official­ ly on Aug. 18 with the arrival of the fall sports teams for practice and the resi­ dent assistants for a warm-up of their own before the 410 members of the Class of 1997 show up for orientation on the 28th. Maybe it’ll be a little cool­ er then. —Nancy Lehman ’87 P 0 S T 1 N G S 3 SYDNEY CARPENTER ORGANIC ABSTRACTION She describes her work as organic abstrac­ tion, drawing references from the animate and inanimate to create ceramic sculpture. She is Sydney Carpenter, an assistant professor of studio arts, who joined the faculty in 1991 and last year was awarded a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to free her this coming aca­ demic year to work and travel. She returned last month from Indonesia, where she was introduced to that country’s craft traditions in wood, fabric, and architectural sculpture. She will spend much of her leave developing a I series of sculptures in her Philadelphia studio. Left: "Deep Roots” (50”x20”x l 2 ”), held in a private collection in New York, refers, says Carpenter, "to misjudgment of strengths, often presuming inadequacy where, in truth, there are resiliency and reserves.” Right: Carpenter with one section of a 12-foot, three-part piece commissioned by Bell Atlantic for its new Philadelphia offices. Inset: Currently hanging in provost Jennie Keith’s office, "A Part of a Chain” measures 60”x32”x7”. All of Carpenter’s works are in fired clay with layers of transparent ceramic stains applied to the surfaces. ■ O z < cc 0< z 1o SYDNEY CARPENTER Left: The contradictory nature of “Neutral Persistence” (44”x36”x20”) is that its energy is anonymous. “It is incessant,” says Carpenter. “You cannot conquer it— it’s always going to persist, but it has no stake in the results.” Above: “Tool” (42”x24”x6”) is based on a corkscrew, “an actual tool but one that takes on biomorphic form.” Right: "How Fragile Is It?” is nearly six feet tall. The piece, says Carpenter, "deals with unknown breaking points. It’s wise to ‘test’ before you proceed.” Below: Carpenter works on her Bell Atlantic commission. Below right: One of her earliest pieces,"Sheltered Life” (51”x40”x7”), presents a full figure surrounded by natural and architectural forms, giving a sense of being protected. by Bill Kent RE'S THE TOP f you make movies or TV shows, if you dream them up or merely star in them, if you make the deals that get the movies in the theaters, a call from Peter Bart ’54, perhaps the most controversial entertainment journalist in America, can be among the best— or worst—things that happen to you. As editor in chief of both daily Vari­ ety and weekly Variety, th e lively, slang-laced entertainm ent industry newspapers, Bart is much more than a busy shepherd of articles about movie stars and multimillion-dollar deals. In addition to editing stories before they see print and managing a staff of 75 reporters and editors in Los Ange­ les, New York, London, Paris, Rome, and Moscow, Peter Bart also writes a weekly industry analysis column. It stands out from the torrent of Holly­ wood media swill for its dry wit, lack of hype, and gleeful disrespect for sacred cows. Lamenting the decline of that old Hollywood staple, the biopic (Varietyspeak for a biographical film), Bart speared director Spike Lee for his por­ trayal of Malcolm X: “In three hours and 21 m inutes of screen time, he seemed determ ined to shoehorn in [Malcolm’s] every pronouncem ent, then end the film with testimonials, like an awards banquet.” Bart went on to criticize Sir Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin and David Mamet’s screen­ play for Hoffa, concluding th a t “it would be tragic if a combination of ideological zeal and just plain flatu­ lence prevented the biopic from being n o nfiction book, Fade Out: The hapded on to future generations.” Calamitous Final Days o f MGM, a Before assuming the editorship of scathing account of how Hollywood’s weekly Variety in 1989 and daily Vari­ most prestigious studio perished at ety a year and a half later, Peter Bart the hands of Las Vegas casino mogul was a m em ber in reasonably good Kirk Kerkorian. standing of the industry he covers. New York journalist Aaron Latham For 20 years he worked as a movie called Fade Out, published in 1990, “a p ro d u c e r and stu d io h o n ch o at Hollywood story scarier than Friday Paramount, Lorimar, and MGM/UA. the 13th." The book established Bart Before that Bart was a reporter for as the ultimate insider who had the The New York Times, The Wall Street gumption to name names, fix blame, Journal, and the Chicago Sun-Times. and celebrate ugly truths, a policy he He’d also written two novels and one has continued as editor of Variety. I Bart Boffo as Variety Helmer 8 Because so much money is made, spent, and lost in Hollywood on repu­ tation alone, access to the agents, stu-1 dio heads, stars, and financiers is cru­ cial to a reporter covering the enter- j tainment industry. Peter Bart is in the | enviable—if not downright astonish-1 ing—position of being a journalist whose calls are returned, quickly. M r. Scorsese returning your call.” Bart thanks his secretary, begs | your pardon, leans back in his chair in his Manhattan office, gazes skyward, SW A RTH M O RE COLLEGE BULLETIN and assumes the schmooze position. There is no need to explain that the man calling him is director Martin Scorsese. First comes the small talk: a round of how-are-you’s, how-is-he, she, it, etc. They exchange some buzz about films in the works. Bart, a trim, slightly built man in a gray tweed jacket and lavender painted tie, wears a charac­ teristic poker face: You can’t tell what he’s thinking under his tightly curled hair, though his eyes hint amusement. “How’d you like to speak at this meeting?” Bart says suddenly. “Beatty will be there. And Goldman, and the inevitable Guber, and the even more inevitable Valenti.” Beatty is the actor/director Warren Beatty. William Goldman is a novelist, screenwriter, and movie script doctor. Peter Guber is the immensely power­ ful head of Sony Pictures, which con­ trols both Columbia and Tri-Star. And Jack Valenti is the president of the Motion Picture Association of Ameri­ ca, which puts the ratings on movies. The “m eeting” is th e Variety/ Wertheim Schroder conference of 700 Hollywood ty p es and Wall S treet financiers at the Pierre Hotel. The yearly event was cooked up by Bart and Davia Temin ’74, vice president and marketing director at Wertheim Schroder, a New York investm ent banking firm that handles a good deal of entertainment industry business. Scorsese says no because he’s edit­ ing his next movie, The Age o f Inno­ cence. Still, they schm ooze a while longer and hang up. Bart stares at the phone for a second, m ysteriously amused. “Everybody talks to me,” he says simply. What about that other Italian Amer­ ican director, Francis Ford Coppola? “He and I are good friends. When I was at Paramount, I fought to keep him on The Godfather when people at the studio w anted to replace him. After he lost his shirt with One from the Heart, I helped get one of his credi­ AUGUST 1993 wrote that the best way to prepare for tors to simmer down.” a career in show business was to “get Marlon Brando? “I talked to Brando not long ago. the most out of your education. Par­ You forget, I was responsible for turn­ ticipate in extracurriculars. I found my ing his career around with The Godfa­ work on the College newspaper and ther. Paramount didn’t want him in radio station very rewarding.” B art’s te n u re as ed ito r of The that picture. I did.” Phoenix, which he took over from Vic­ Frank Sinatra? Bart’s eyes turn cold. “Sinatra and I tor Navasky ’54, now editor of The Nation, is legendary for an incident in do not talk.” which he ordered another student to he son of New York schoolteach­ rep o rt on th e Board of M anagers’ ers, Peter Bart chose Swarthmore m eetings by hiding in an air duct because he had attended New York’s beneath the Managers’ meeting room. “It was a tim e of c o n sid era b le Quaker schools. “The Quaker style of education is service-oriented, and that change at the College,” recalls Bart, had a great effect on me. It w asn’t who majored in political science and enough to be ed u cated . We w ere minored in English literature. “The made to ask what we would do with paper was being kept out of matters what we learned. Swarthmore, with its that were important, not just to the Quaker background, was a logical con­ students, but to the faculty and every­ body else involved at the College.” tinuation of that.” After several published revelations, Bart says one of the reasons he hired Paul Young ’92 as his personal Bart says the reporter was discovered assistant in his Los Angeles office was by an “elderly lady on the Board of “that one odd bond, a Swarthmore Managers who looked down and saw education. He’s also very bright and a face between her legs. Our reporter was hiding behind th e grate, right very eager to learn.” Working with Bart, Young says, “is under her.” A Ford Foundation Fellowship sent a great experience for me. He has both a strong analytical understand­ Bart to th e London School of Eco­ ing of the industry and a lot of street nomics for a year. He came back to New York and landed a general assign­ smarts.” Responding to a 1980 Swarthmore ment reporting job at The Wall Street alumni survey, Bart, then president of Journal. After two years at the Journal film production at Lorimar (oversee­ and a brief stint at the Chicago Suning Being There and the steamy Jack Times, Bart moved to The New York Nicholson-Jessica Lange remake of Times, where he spent the next eight The Postman Always Rings Twice), years. Bart was both curious and wary of the entertainment industry when The New York Times sent him to Los Ange­ Scorsese, les in 1963 as a cu ltu ral affairs reporter. “I started to meet people Coppola, and found m yself pulled into th e Brando— mechanism. I figured that the worst that could happen would be that I’d “Everybody talks stay for two years and come out with a terrific book. I stayed a little longer.” to me,” In 1967 one of his first Hollywood says Bart. friends, actor/producer Robert Evans, asked Bart if he w anted to be his Except Sinatra. assistant at Paramount. Bart agreed. T 9 ;'a^usP**' The slanguage of n more than 80 years of covering the world of showbiz, the editors of Variety have never found them­ selves at a loss for words. If they couldn’t find a word for what they wanted to say, they made one up (and some words took on lives of their own, like “sex appeal,” “sit­ com,” or “soap opera”). If they thought a straightforward English word was too long or just too pedes­ trian, they made their own version (like “kidvid” for children’s video programming or “orbiter” for telecommunication satellite). They raised headline writing to an art of compression and wit—for example, the famous Variety headline “Sticks Nix Hick Pix” (rural and small town audiences reject corny “country” films). Here’s a small sample of “the slanguage of Variety." I Socko: Big hit (not quite as big as boffo) Boffo: Box office hit (not as big as whammo) Whammo: A sensation (bigger than boffo) Passion pit: A drive-in movie (also called “ozoner”) Hardtop: A regular indoor theater Terp: A dancer, a chorine Chirp: A female singer Thesp: An actor or actress Praiser: A publicist Crix: Critics Exex: Executives Diskeries: Record companies Leerics: Sexually suggestive song lyrics Telepic: A feature-length film funded by a network for first exposure on television They-went-thatawayer: a Western movie (also called “oater”) Chopsocky: a martial arts film COURTESY VARIETY INC., ‘THE SLANGUAGE OF VARIETY" 10 “It was a great time to be making pic­ tures,” he recalls. “Pictures weren’t nearly as expensive to make as they are now. Unless you were part of the industry, you didn’t hear people talk­ ing about how much it cost to make a picture. When people did talk, it was ab o u t th e way th e movie affected them. They were seeing things like 2001: A Space Odyssey and going, ‘Wow, did you see that?’ And if you had a commercial hit, you could get away with making pictures that you really wanted to make.” Bart received no specific instruc­ tions from Evans, or anyone else, in the art of being a Hollywood mogul. “It didn’t take long to learn what was wrong with a lot of the pictures that were losing money. For one thing, I actually read the scripts. Bob and I had a rule—we would never make a picture unless we both really loved the script. Another thing was, if you looked at the really big failures at that time, they were star-driven pictures th a t were m ade because th e stars wanted them made. We decided we would make pictures that we believed in and then go looking for stars to be in them. None of us thought Goodbye Columbus would be a hit. We ju st thought it would be a good movie. And Chinatown. How could we know that would go over so well?” Bart and Evans also scored with The Godfather, Rosemary’s Baby, Love Story, True Grit, Paper Moon, and Harold and M aude—a film w hose script was sold to him, Bart remem­ bers, by his swimming pool cleaner. Bart left Paramount in 1974 when, he says, “Frank Yablans, the president of P aram ount, was ab o u t to be replaced, and a whole new regime was about to move in.” From there Bart became head of an independent production com pany founded by industrialist Max Palevsky, making Fun with Dick and Jane and Islands in the Stream. After two years, he wanted to focus on writing, so he left the studio to finish his first novel, Destinies, a saga surrounding the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba that Bart had covered as a journalist in 1961. The novel, co-w ritten w ith Denne Bart Petitclerc, was optioned by Lorimar, which eventually hired Bart as president of film production. Ironically, Bart couldn’t get his own book made into a movie. “The script didn’t work,” he says, adding that he didn’t write it. Bart left Lorimar to write a second novel, Thy Kingdom Come, about the Mormon faith. “I had good friends who were Mormons who provided insights into understanding a very misunderstood people.” In 1983 he had an uneasy feeling w hen Frank Yablans hired him as senior vice president of production at MGM/UA. “The installation of a new regime at a movie studio is reminis­ cent, in nuance and ritual, of the trans­ fer of power within a powerful Mafia clan,” Bart writes in.Fade Out. “As a young studio executive supervising Goodbye Columbus, Chinatown, The Godfather, Rosem ary's Baby, True Grit, Paper Moon, Harold and Maude— Bart says the films he worked on were hits because “we made pictures we believed in.” th e production of The Godfather, I spent many hours in the company of ‘the family,’ schooling myself in the rit­ uals of Mafia power. Now, moving through the corridors of MGM at the side of Frank Yablans, I was overtaken with a curious feeling of déjà vu.” Bart sp e n t only tw o years at MGM/UA, overseeing such films as Teachers, 2010, and Youngblood, a riteof-passage formula film starring Rob Lowe and p re-Dirty Dancing Patrick Swayze. When he left, he began work­ ing on Fade Out, supporting himself by taking consulting jobs with companies involved in mergers and acquisitions. SW ARTHM ORE COLLEGE BULLETIN 9? cr > ■/.; ■' ■■■■■■... 1.......'“ .... i MMBB» ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■1 throughout my visit was of the deep co n tin u ity and in te rre la tio n sh ip between past and present. I remem­ ber my delight, arriving fresh from a Midwestern high school, to learn that at Swarthmore it was socially accept­ able, even commendable, for girls to have ideas and opinions; how much more so today! According to one stu­ dent, “We’re all just a bunch of com­ pulsive overachievers.” That certainly hasn’t changed. The old sense of social responsibili­ ty has greatly expanded; all the bul­ letin b o ard s w ere cro w ded w ith appeals to participate in labor dis­ putes, political issues, urban renewal projects, and multicultural programs. From all this diversity, Swarthmore hopes, as President Bloom so elo­ quently put it in the last issue of this magazine, to produce society’s future leaders, women and men who can “define the purposes of a technologi­ cally advanced society in ways that put human values in the forefront.” Hurrah! So after I had had time to sort out this tangle of the past and the present, I decided that my reaction was not primarily that of déjà vu or that you can’t go home again. It was really a combination of the two into a power­ ful feeling that “Plus ça change, plus c ’est (more or less) la même chose,” or, to q u o te from an anonym ous eig h th -cen tu ry so u rce, ilTempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.” And I think that the most poignant reminders of the connection between past and present were when I realized that all that territory I covered in the golf cart I once traversed on my own two feet, and when I received a check for my train fare from the College, made out in my maiden name. ■ Mary “M olly” Grinnell Gordon ’39 writes a biweekly op-ed column for The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass. She lives in nearby Lenox. She is the widow ofKermit Gordon ’38, who died in 1976. mm STEVEN GOLDBLATT ’67 AUGUST 1993 21 5COLLEGE Speakers call for social action at 121st Commencement Urging new graduates to “resist the seduction of simplifying solutions” to complex problems, Presi­ dent Alfred H. Bloom pre­ sided over the College’s 121st Commencement, awarding 301 bachelor of arts degrees, 21 bachelor of science degrees, and five honorary degrees. “We are often tempted,” he said, “to accept too readily a simple picture of things. At times because the simplicity is in itself appealing, particularly when it takes the form of aesthetically elegant, parsimonious, and easily generalizable theoretical models of the way the world might be. “Whether in the physi­ cal, psychological, or bio­ logical worlds or in the worlds of individuals, insti­ tutions, and societies, set yourself to imagining more complex conceptualiza­ tions and more complex responses than have yet been tried. In so doing you will open up for yourselves and for society new realms of knowledge and new realms of possibility and carry on an essential Swarthmore tradition.” Honorary degree recipi­ ents included Jonathan Fine ’54, an internationally renowned physician and human rights activist, who was awarded the Doctor of Science; Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62, sociologist and author, who received the Doctor of Humane Letters; musician and cultural his­ 22 torian Bernice Johnson Reagon of the singing group Sweet Honey in the Rock, who wets awarded the Doctor of Humane Let­ ters; Father Jon Sobrino, a philosopher and theologian from El Salvador, who received the Doctor of Humane Letters; and Sen. Harris Wofford (D-Pa.), who was awarded the Doc­ tor of Laws. In related commence­ ment activities, Tu Weiming, professor of Chinese history and philosophy at Harvard University, deliv­ ered the Baccalaureate address. Alexandra Juhasz, assistant professor of En­ glish literature at Swarth­ more, spoke at Last Collec­ tion. Following are ex­ cerpts from honorary degree recipients’ charges to the seniors. Jonathan E. Fine ’54 Jonathan Fine ’54 is the founder of Physicians for Human Rights, an interna­ tional organization dedicat­ ed to researching and reliev­ ing human rights violations. “I am guided by an abid­ ing optimism that with the application of intelligence and effort, even the most intractable situations can be improved. But for con­ sistent results, humanitarianism must become an imperative in foreign and domestic policies. For it is naive to think that we can have a peaceful world based on what has in the past been called ‘national’ or even ‘international’ se­ curity. We can only attain a peaceful world when the dignity of every human being is taken seriously, when majority populations accept that minorities should be treated with the same consideration, the same deference, that each member of the majority wants for himself or her­ self. That is the essence of the Los Angeles riots or ethnic disputes every­ where, of the revulsion from greed and megaloma­ nia, conditions that are rampant in so many cor­ ners of the globe. To effect these changes will take Jonathan E. Fine 54 Doctor of Science PHOTOS BY STEVEN GOLDBLATT '67 Bernice Johnson Reagon Doctor of Humane Letters Jon Sobrino Doctor of Humane Letters bring about the necessary change. Each of us is the key to the creation of a just and peaceful world.” Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62 Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62 Doctor of Humane Letters more than individual initia­ tives—a collective will of nations. Yet each of us by personal example and by bringing pressure to bear on our governments can Arlie Russell Hochschild ’62 is professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and author of the best-selling book The Second Shift: Working Par­ ents and the Revolution at Home. “This last fall I had the privilege of being a Lang Visiting Professor in the Sociology Department. Since during that fall I lived on Walnut Lane, right across the street from Woolman House, where 30 SW A RTH M O RE COLLEGE BULLETIN E years ago I had roomed as a senior, for me this was a resonant time. It was a time to remember my youth here—talking politics on long walks and much else. It was a time to revisit that youth, not as I had at the time experienced it—in some combination of fierce determination and utter uncertainty—but from the viewpoint of a teacher, a knower of how some things come out later on. It was a time to see what Swarthmore students are like these days: They’re bubbly and they’re smart. “As fretful, insecure, or restless as Swarthmore can make us feel, the place does something to us. It leaves its imprint. It be­ comes part of who we are, even if we’re not aware it’s doing this. Swarthmore has picked lively, committed students and helped you grow into your liveliness and commitment. It makes you better able to make good things happen and last.” Bernice Johnson Reagon Bernice Johnson Reagon is the founder and artistic director of the a cappella folk group Sweet Honey in the Rock and has been a major contributor to the civil rights movement as a singer, composer, and historian of African American culture. “My first introduction to the Quaker community had to do with stories about groups of white people who came to this country who believed in peace and sometimes had problems with slavery. Sufficiently so that sometimes when they built their houses, they built secret places to hide us if we ever got to their houses when we were es­ caping slavery. AUGUST 1993 C “I remember being in one of those houses in upstate New York and being inside of this little space trying to think about what it would have been like to be in that space if I were trying to get to Cana­ da. It was a Quaker house. And then I tried to think about the man who built the house, because you have to be really clear about who you a r e ... dur­ ing the 19th century if you’re building your home for your family and you build a secret space to hide black people escaping from slavery. You have to have that as your work equal to sheltering your family. “It was stretching for me to think about Americans of that commitment, and I thought, ‘I wonder when I was taught 19th-century American history. These people were not the stars of the 19th century.’ After all, during the 19th century these people, led by Afri­ can Americans escaping from slavery, ripped slav­ ery as an institution out of the structure of society. Why isn’t that the center post of what is great about what happened in the 19th century? And why aren’t these people, black and white, at the top and on the front of the tongues of all of those who studied the cen­ tury?” Jon Sobrino Father Jon Sobrino, profes­ sor of philosophy and theol­ ogy at the Universidad Jose Simeon Canas in El Salva­ dor, is an internationally renowned practitioner of lib­ eration theology. “Living in the recil world and demonstrating a sin­ cere commitment to the victims of its injustices are the two basic criteria for a 0 L L E university that wishes to call itself humane. We can­ not allow the university to become an island for the privileged who, whether in the short or long run, only reinforce the inequities of an unjust world. Again, the university must place its knowledge at the service of overcoming such injustice and the falsehoods that dis­ guise it. “This, then, is what I offer to the members of this college community and, in particular, to you, today’s graduates. You are about to enter a world of real possibilities for truth, justice, and life, but it is also one with a strong ten­ dency for deceit, selfish­ ness, and the violent elimi­ nation of the poor. I also offer you this legacy of our martyrs as ‘the good news,’ even though today’s soci­ ety does not normally pro­ claim it. Jesus of Nazareth said: ‘It is better to give than to receive.’ What I am asking is that you not only sustain your level of sup­ port for the poor, but that you increase it. And in this way, all of us together, by mutually helping one another, will one day suc­ ceed in finally becoming truly human.” Harris L. Wofford Jr. Sen. Harris L. Wofford Jr. is noted for his political activ­ ism in civil rights. The for­ mer president of Bryn Mawr College, he served as Penn­ sylvania’s secretary of labor and industry and as Demo­ cratic State Committee chair­ man. “So it’s time for the Class of ’93. It’s time for you to pursue happiness in the wider world. Yes, there is life after Swarthmore, and I wish you the best of luck in it. And for your sakes and G E for our country’s sake, I hope that in your pursuit of happiness you will enjoy what Thomas Jefferson and John Adams called the pub­ lic happiness. That is the joy felt by citizens who par­ ticipate in self-government and who make a difference for the better in their com­ munities. Many of you in this college of Quaker tradi­ tion committed to service have learned that it is bet­ ter to serve than to be served, whether you’ve done that building a home with low-income people or tutoring in Holmesburg or Harris L. Wofford Jr. Doctor of Laws climbing on the fire wagon to fight fires. “So now you’ve heard from us all. We’ve all been saying somewhat the same thing, the perennial com­ mencement charge. There’s really only one throughout history: An elder of the tribe comes and tells you that you are young and beautiful and that the world is complicat­ ed and full of dangers and opportunities. Well, you are all beautiful and the world is complicated. But don’t let complexity be an excuse for doing nothing. 23 E The world is waiting, so go out in it and build, go out in it and clean it up. Don’t be afraid of anything. Go for it.” Senior class speaker Quoc Tran Trang STEVEN GOLDBLATT ’67 “Our country is like the Ark of Noah. Aboard this boat are the people of the world. In the Ark of America, there are, as Walt Whitman once said, ‘a farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, Quaker... Chinese, Irish, [and] German.’ Aboard the Ark of America there are the ‘great mass of people— the vast, surging, hopeful army of workers.’ The Ark Quoc Tran Trang ’92 Senior Class Speaker of America is now entering the new ocean of the 21st century, but it is leaking and the storm will last more than 40 days and 40 nights. “And in the new ocean of the 21st century, the strength of the nation will not be determined by how many prisons we can build; it will be determined by how many productive workers we can produce. “In the new ocean of the 21st century, the strength of a nation will not be determined by how many talented athletes we have who are willing to perform; 24 C it will be determined by how many visionary pro­ fessors we have who are willing to train. “In the new ocean of the 21st century, the strength of a nation will not be de­ termined by how many armed soldiers we have; it will be determined by how many educated citizens we can produce.” New director of admissions aboard; two are promoted A new director of admis­ sions began work last month and two College vet­ erans have been promoted to new duties. Carl Wartenburg, former assistant to the president at Princeton, is the director of admissions, a post he will hold during this com­ ing academic year. He will become dean of admis­ sions in the fall of 1994 when Robert A. Barr Jr. ’56 retires as dean. Wartenburg has worked at Princeton as a senior admissions officer and as an assistant dean of stu­ dent affairs, in which posi­ tion he gained a national reputation for his work with alcohol abuse issues. He is a graduate of Davis and Elkins College and earned a master of divinity degree from Princeton The­ ological Seminary. Maurice G. Eldridge ’61 has been promoted from director of development to associate vice president and executive assistant to the president. In his new role, he will support the president's communica­ tions with alumni, parents, and donors as well as coor­ dinate Commencement and other major campus events. Eldridge joined the Col­ lege staff in 1989 after serv­ ing as principal of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C. Mark Jacobs, Centennial Professor of Biology, has been named associate provost for a three-year Carl Wartenburg Director of Admissions Maurice Eldridge ’61 Associate Vice President Mark Jacobs Associate Provost term. He joined the faculty in 1975 after receiving a doctorate from Stanford University. As associate provost, Jacobs will serve on a half­ time basis as liaison be­ tween the Provost’s Office and the faculty on activities that include budgeting for academic departments, preparation of grants to support faqjlty research and the curriculum, and curricular planning and innovation. Foreign Study Office opens The College has expanded its commitment to interna­ tional study by opening the Foreign Study Office, which will help students find ap­ propriate programs for international study and coordinate study abroad. Anthropology Professor Steven Piker heads the new office as foreign study adviser. “Study abroad is not separate from the Swarthmore program but rather is integral to it,” said Piker. Thus, a major focus of the office will be “to encourage and help some depart­ ments to become more involved in foreign study as one of the ways in which the academic mission can be fulfilled.” In addition, the office will work to evaluate the quality of programs of study and to develop stan­ dards for work done abroad that will provide the basis for ensuring cred­ it when the students re­ turn. Students will get help in integrating work done abroad with their continu­ ing studies on campus and in planning their foreign study so that they will be able to graduate with their original class. SW A RTH M O RE COLLEGE BULLETIN E C E G E To enable the College to fulfill this new commit­ ment, beginning next spring full tuition and fees will be charged for all cred­ its received for foreign study. Financial aid will also be applied to study abroad. “At the sound of the tone...” Beginning in late August, callers to the College will have their incoming calls answered by a personal­ ized voice mail system when no one is available to answer the call. Swarthmore marked another technological mile­ stone this summer with the completion of an all-cam­ pus computer and tele­ phone network. When stu­ dents return for the fall semester, they will find pri­ vate telephones and com­ puter hookups in every dormitory room. The fiber­ optic system will give them—and the faculty and staff of the College—on-line access to an extensive menu of library and data base resources, specialized software applications, elec­ tronic mail, and voice mail services. Students will be charged $175 per year for the computer hookup and local/campus telephone service. Long distance ser­ vice will be bought by the College and “resold” to stu­ dents at discount rates. AUGUST 1993 More than 1,100 alumni and guests attended this year’s Alumni Weekend, June 4-6. Student worker Maura Volkmer ’93 transports some precious cargo. Only Apple Macintosh computers will work on the network, but the College’s own computer store sells those at substantial dis­ counts for students. Stu­ dents who do not have their own personal com­ puters will still have access to College-provided ma­ chines at public areas in Beardsley, Du Pont, and Trotter halls, and in McCabe and Cornell libraries. Three faculty members retire, four get endowed chairs Three faculty members retired this year, and four were appointed to en­ dowed chairs to begin fall semester. Harrison M. Wright has retired. He will become Isaac H. Clothier Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations and Provost Emeritus. A spe­ cialist in African history, Wright joined the faculty in 1958. He served as chair­ man of the History Depart­ ment from 1968 until 1979, when he became provost. During his term as provost, he served as acting presi­ dent of the College from July until November of 1982. Professor of Anthropolo­ gy Asmarom Legesse took early retirement from the College in order to return to his native Eritrea. He had two stints at Swarth­ more, from 1968 to 1970 and again from 1976 to 1993. A self-described “hu­ man ecologist,” Legesse had been active in the Eritrean independence movement and will be a research adviser to the new government on mat­ ters ranging from health practices to land reform. Susan Snyder, a Shake­ speare scholar who joined the faculty in 1963, be­ comes the Gil and Frank Mustin Professor Emerita of English Literature. She served as department chair from 1975 to 1980 and as Eugene M. Lang Research Professor from 1982 to 1987. Kenneth Gergen replac­ es Snyder in the chair as Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of Psychology. Gergen has been a member of the fac­ ulty since 1967, and his research on the American personality and the impact of communications tech­ nology on cultural life has brought him wide national attention and numerous grants, including a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, and several from the National Science Foundation. Peter Collings is the new Morris L. Clothier Profes25 E sor of Physics, replacing Mark Heald, who retired last year from the Depart­ ment of Physics and As­ tronomy. A member of the faculty since 1990, Collings has been the principal investigator under grants for liquid crystal research from the National Science Foundation and Research Corporation. He was a National Academy of Sci­ ences Exchange Scientist to the former Soviet Union in 1991 and is an associate editor of the American Jour­ nal of Physics. Amy-Jill Levine is the new Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Associate Professor of Religion, and Tyrene White is the new Mari S. Michener Associate Professor of Political Science. They are the first recipients of two new endowed associate professorships, which were made possible by the gift of James Michener ’29. Levine has been a member of the faculty since 1985 and spe­ cializes in Jewish and Christian Biblical tradi­ tions, feminist interpreta­ tions of scripture, and the historical relationship between Judaism and Christianity. White has done research in the Peo­ ple’s Republic of China on political change and institu­ tional development in rural China, child-bearing policy, and women. She has been a member of the faculty since 1986. North campus plans include new building This summer a team of architects and landscape designers has been draw­ ing detailed plans for the construction of a new aca­ demic building north of Parrish Hall and the com­ plete renovation of Trotter Hall. The Board of Man­ 26 C agers gave its approval in May to a proposed plan to erect the new building on a site between Beardsley Hall and the Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center. Parrish Annex will be demolished as part of this project. The new classroom building is expected to house the departments of economics, modern lan­ guages and literatures, and sociology/anthropology. In addition to a centrally located commons for the north campus with limited food service, there will be a faculty lounge and the North Campus Forum, a multipurpose lecture/meeting space. Changes to cam­ pus roads, particularly a proposal to convert the road between Beardsley and the new building to a pedestrian walkway, are being considered as part of a long-range plan for the north campus. The renovated Trotter Hall will likely include the departments of classics, history, and political sci­ ence. Both buildings will have faculty offices, seminar/resource rooms, and classrooms with up-to-date communications and com­ puter hookups. Interdisci­ plinary programs will also have increased space with­ in Trotter. On June 21 the College steering committee that is overseeing the project saw three preliminary designs for the new building. The committee has encouraged the architects to pursue solutions that will vary the roofline of the expected three-story structure to complement the design of neighboring buildings. The architects and the steering committee will continue work over the E summer on the design and internal layout of the two buildings. The Board of Managers will then review the plans and their estimat­ ed cost at its October meet­ ing. The College currently hopes to raise funds for the entire project from a small number of interested donors. Two publications win national awards Two Swarthmore publica­ tions were honored by the Council for the Advance­ ment and Support of Edu­ cation (CASE) in its 1993 Recognition Program. The Swarthmore College Bulletin received a silver medal in the category “Peri­ odicals Resources Manage­ ment,” one of only four medals awarded. Since 1991 the average produc­ tion cost per issue of the magazine has dropped by 17 percent. At the same time, the usual number of pages has increased from 56 to 64, and additional color photography has been added where needed. Major savings have been achieved in the cost of typesetting, paper, and printing. The Bulletin is now composed entirely on Apple computers at the College and is printed on recycled paper at The Lane G E Press in Burlington, Vt. The 1991-92 President’s Report, issued in December of last year, won a bronze medal as an individual institutional relations publi­ cation. The redesigned report, President Alfred H. Bloom’s first, was honored for the way it presented Swarthmore’s identity and for its content, organiza­ tion, and graphics. It was designed by Landesberg Design Associates of Pitts­ burgh. Of more than 225 entries, it was one of just 20 honored by CASE. Many moral victories for Swarthmore teams this spring Baseball (10-14): The 1993 nine got off to a poor start but turned the season around when they opened MAC play, winning three of four games in doublehead­ ers with Washington Col­ lege and Ursinus. In one of the most competitive MAC Southeast seasons ever, the Garnet split a pair of one-run games with archri­ val Haverford, setting up a season-ending doublehead­ er with Johns Hopkins for the division title and a berth in the MAC playoffs. Behind the pitching of Jeff Johnson ’93, the Garnet won the opening game 5-3 but lost the second 7-6, stranding the tying run in the last inning. Though the offense struggled early in the year, it picked up enough to bring Swarth­ more home with a 10—14 record overall, 6-4 in the MAC Southeast. Seniors Art Selverian, John Crawford, and Ben Montenegro led the Garnet offense, with Selverian finishing among the MAC leaders in RBIs and slugging percentage. The pitching staff was led by Johnson and two senior SW A RTH M O RE COLLEGE BULLETIN E additions to the team, Chip C h e v a l i e r and Erik DeLue. Todd Kim ’94 and Gene Lam ’94 w i l l form the back­ bone of next year’s pitch­ ing staff. Golf: The men’s golf team, under coach Lee Wimberly, had another successful spring cam­ paign. Its numbers were diminished by injuries to key players, and only three - golfers qualified for the MAC tournament. Thus, Swarthmore was ineligible for the team competition, the team was led by Andres Zuluaga, who has been a key player for the last three years and will be looked to for senior leader­ ship in the 1994 campaign. Women’s lacrosse (6-9): 1993 marked the inaugural campaign of coach Karen Yohannan, a former stand­ out player for the U.S. World Cup team. Attack player Julie Noyes ’95 led the team with 75 goals and was named to the MAC AllStar team and All MidAtlantic Region. Noyes received crucial support from co-captain Hadley Wil­ son ’93. With Noyes on the attack for the upcoming season, a good crop of young players, and coach Yohannan’s knowledge, experience, and recruiting ability, the women’s la­ crosse program looks to be on the rise. Men’s lacrosse (7-7): Under the tutelage of coach Jim Noyes, the men’s lacrosse team finished 7-7 against the best lacrosse competition in the region. With an attack led by senior captains Kevin Bewley, Greg Ferguson, and Sandy Watkins, the team jumped out to a 5-1 record, including two one-goal vic­ tories. They then lost to fifth-ranked Washington AUGUST 1993 C College before falling to Haverford 17-11 in a slop­ py, rain-drenched game. The Garnet added late-season wins against Fairleigh Dickinson-Madison and Widener, finishing 3-2 in the MAC East. Bewley was named to the All-MAC sec­ ond team. He also received the Avery Blake Award as the team’s most valuable player. The team’s outlook for next year is strong, with the return of standout goalie Tim Gasperoni ’96 and a strong defense. Softball (2-20): The softball team struggled in 1993, despite the return of sever­ al key players from last year’s strong team. The enthusiasm surrounding the arrival of Cheri Goetcheus, in her first year as head coach at Swarthmore, was dampened by the team’s disappointing record. One highlight for the team was the develop­ ment of Margy Pierce ’95, who hit .300 for the season and led the team in slug­ ging percentage and RBIs. Women’s tennis (11-6): O L L E Though a second consecu­ tive NCAA tournament berth eluded the Garnet women, they didn’t miss by much. They are a young team showing great prom­ ise for the future, compiling a 3-1 mark in the MAC Southeast. Leaders on the court were sophomores Becca Kolasky, Ayanda Nteta, and Kim Crusey. While Crusey, the 1992 MAC singles champion, Weis sidelined throughout much of the season with ankle injuries, Kolasky and Nteta provided the Garnet with strong play through­ out the season, most notably in a hard-fought 5-4 win over Haverford. They came close to their second consecutive MAC doubles title before losing in the finals. The team’s development under firstyear coach Mary Hudson should make Swarthmore a continual contender in the MAC and on the national scene. Men’s tennis (4-12): The Garnet’s appearance at the NCAA Championships was G E a surprise to many in the tennis world, given its rather poor record. The strength of the team’s schedule, however, gave it the berth in the tourna­ ment, where it finished a respectable 10th. Leading the team throughout the season was senior captain Phil Rosenstrach ’93. Rosenstrach won his sec­ ond Rolex Small College Eastern Regional Tourna­ ment and compiled a 16-10 record in singles for the season. Rosenstrach and sophomore standout Jere­ my Shweder both qualified for the NCAA Divison II sin­ gles championships. Men’s and women’s track and field: The high­ light of the track and field season was its finale, as Swarthmore hosted the 1993 MAC track and field championships. Though the Garnet was not in the running for any team titles—with the women fin­ ishing seventh and the men 14th—there were some exciting moments for the Garnet fans in attendance. Kate Dempsey ’95 won the women’s 400-meter dash, and her sister Liz ’93 placed third in the 400meter hurdles. Tina Shepardson ’94 and Jennell Ives ’93 both placed in the triple jump, and the women’s team set a school record in the 4x100-meter relay. For the men, the highlights were in the distance events, as Scott Reents ’95 placed sixth in the 1,500 and special student Guian McKee ’92 charged home with a second-place finish in the 5,000-meter run. Hood Trophy: This year’s head-to-head compe­ tition with Haverford ended in a tie, with each college gaining 7.5 points. — Willie Young ’94 27 ALUMNI ALUM N I C OU m n response to last spring’s ballot for election to the Alumni Council, we received the following letter: I Dear Alum Friends: I’d like to explain why I didn’t vote in the recent polls for members of the Alumni Council. It’s not because I don’t care. It’s not because I think it doesn’t matter. It’s simply because I have no rele­ vant knowledge of the tasks before the Council and no knowledge of what the candidates would do or how they’d do it. All I could do would have been to distinguish those candidates I know (hardly any) from those I don’t or those candidates who attended the College when I did (a few) from those who didn’t. That didn’t seem relevant. I considered falling back on age or gender as my voting guide, but that seemed silly. Having no rational basis for mak­ ing a decision, it seemed better not to vote than to fill a ballot at ran­ dom. Sincerely, Paul Berry ’55 Palo Alto, Calif. Since the percentage of alumni vot­ ing in the seven geographical regions ranged from 20 percent to 31 percent, this sentiment was not shared by all, but it reflects a problem that we’d like to overcome. Unfortunately, those of us who’ve been connected with the Council have come up with no quick fix, nor did our correspondent offer a solution. But we’d be interested in hearing suggestions as to how we can improve the election process—or any o th e r a sp e c t of Council activity. Please send them to me c/o the Alum­ ni Office. (See coupon, opposite page.) According to “The First Hundred Y ears,” a history com piled for the Alumni Association’s 100th anniver­ sary, the Alumni Council dates back to 1875, when members of Swarthmore’s first two graduating classes (which 28 together totaled 13 alumni) met at the home of President Edward Magill to organize the Alumni Association. The Association was incorporated in 1882 “to promote union and good feelings among the Alumni, and to advance in all p ro p e r ways th e in te re s ts of Swarthmore College.” The official history reports that the 1930s saw changes in th e Alumni Association. The Alumni Council was formed to serve as the Association’s central agency and to select an alumni representative on the Board of Man­ agers. An executive secretary (the Gretchen Mann Handwerker 56 President, Alumni Association precursor to the Alumni Office) was ap p o in ted , and The Garnet Letter began p u b licatio n as an alum ni newsletter. The first Alumni Fund drive in 1941 raised $17,481 and began a tradition that in the past year added $1.98 mil­ lion to the College’s coffers. In past years additional sum s were raised through the sale of commemorative china and an album of Swarthmore songs. Early on, how ever, it was decid ed to keep fund-raising and friend-raising separate, and the Coun­ cil concentrated on the latter. The Alumni Council has done much of its w ork th ro u g h com m ittees, which have changed in response to differing needs. Early com m ittees focused on vocational guidance and placement (now professionally recast as the Career Planning and Placement Office) and admissions. Other Council work has included women’s athletic facilities, engineering, continuing edu­ cation, class reunions, health facili­ ties, Alumni College, the Extern Pro­ gram, Somerville Day, the teacher education program, and the Alumni Association structure. In addition, Council representatives have participated in College commit­ tees concerned with curriculum, ath­ letics, chem istry, th e Honors Pro­ gram, and the hiring of college person­ nel. Considerable effort has also been expended to make the Council more representative of alumni and more responsive to their concerns. As a new slate of Council officers begins its two-year term, a number of earlier concerns remain: its relation­ ship to other College constituencies, com m ittee functions, alumni pro­ grams, and the role and makeup of the Council itself. Other concerns are rela­ tively new, such as the Council’s rela­ tionship to other alumni groups and its involvement with the non-Swarthmore world. And overriding all this, as Paul Berry has reminded us, is the need to ensure that all alumni are kept informed of Council goals and activi­ ties. That is the purpose of this sec­ tion of the Bulletin and especially of this column. More than 30 years ago, an Alumni Council member asked: “What is, or should be, th e role of th e Alumni Council and, for th at m atter, of all alumni collectively? W hat are the needs of the College (other than finan­ cial) that alumni might help fill? What are th e special c h a ra c te ristic s of Swarthmore alumni that would enable them to assist the College (again, in other than a purely financial sense)?” The response then was that “the ques­ tions are valid and worthy of further probing.” The same is true today, and we on the Council welcome the help of all alumni in examining them. Gretchen Mann Handwerger ’56 President, Alumni Association SW ARTHM ORE COLLEGE BULLETIN Alumni Elect New Council Members Recent Events Philadelphia: A record num ber of alumni, parents, and seniors attended the May 25 Philadelphia Phillies game against the New York Mets. Bob Hay­ den ’81 engineered th e evening in which 90 seniors joined 80 Connection members to see the best team in base­ ball (at least at that time!) take on the lowly New York M ets. W hen th e Swarthmore name came up on the scoreboard, the roar could almost be heard back on campus. New York: Though he’s not an alum­ nus, Robert Mondavi got center stage at the NYC C o nnectio n ’s May 11 event. “The Swarthmore Symposium VII: Mondaviganza” featured the Cali­ fornia winemaker’s vintages and had its New York area manager as guest speaker. Fifty-five alumni and parents attended th e evening arranged by David Wright ’69 and Don Fujihira ’69. The annual outing by the New York Connection to Ike Schambelan’s [’61] Theater By The Blind was held June 23. The show, Whattaya Blind?, includ­ ed works by several blind playwrights. Boston: The B oston C onnection repeated its popular summer jazz con­ cert and picnic at th e DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lin­ coln, Mass., op July 26 with the help of Ted Jensen ’67. On Aug. 28 the Con­ nection is planning an outing on the Essex River to view som e of th e wildlife areas inaccessible by car or on foot. Upcoming Events The Class of 1963 had so much fun at its reunion that class members are expanding it to the Classes of 1960 to 1965 in the D.C./Baltimore/ Philadel­ phia corridor. Ben Cooper ’63 is work­ ing on the October mini-reunion. If you’re interested, contact him at work, (202) 224-5360. AUGUST 1993 Fourteen new members were elected to Alumni Council in balloting this spring. Members are elected from seven geographic areas for three-year term s. They join 28 o th er elected m em bers serving on th e Council, w hich m eets at th e College th re e tim es each year. More th an 3,500 alumni cast ballots in the election. Zone A Lucille Handwerk Cusano ’50 West Chester, Pa. Charles C. Martin ’42 Wilmington, Del. Zone B Elizabeth Dun Colten ’54 Upper Saddle River, N.J. Elizabeth Helen Scheuer ’75 Bronx, N.Y. Zone C C. Russell de Burlo Jr. ’47 Belmont, Mass. Sherryl Browne Graves ’69 Greenwich, Conn. Zone D Janet Hostetter Doehlert ’50 Arlington, Va. John A. Riggs ’64 Washington, D.C. Zone E Lou Ann Matossian ’77 Minneapolis, Minn. Lawrence Jean Richardson ’78 St. Louis, Mo. Zone F Barton W. Rope ’37 Columbus, N.C. Tracey Werner Sherry ’77 New Orleans, La. Zone G Margaret Morgan Capron ’42 Mountain View, Calif. Don Mizell ’71 Los Angeles, Calif. The Alumni Association and the Alumni Council want to hear from you! Please write to Gretchen Mann Handwerger ’56, president, Swarthmore College Alumni Association, in care of the Alumni Office, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore PA 19081-1397. Good candidates for Alumni Council: _________________________________ Good candidates for Alumni Managers: ________________________________ Good candidates for Nominating Committee:____________________________ I’d like to serve as a resource for the Career Planning and Placement Office. I’m willing to: _serve as an extern sponsor _ talk to students or alumni about career opportunities in my field _provide leads for summer jobs _participate in a career panel on campus Your job/career description: _____________________________________ ____ I wish Alumni Council would do something about: Name: ________ ___________ ._____________________ Class: 29 LETTERS continued from page 3 tyranny of the loudest voice. A liberal arts community exists to provide balance and dialogue, a sense of history, and an opportunity for genuine exchange. It exists also to bring young people into a wider world, not to con­ firm them in the shallow thought pat­ terns of the immediate culture. Instead I am afraid I see signs of an emerging culture where only the mis­ named “liberal” views and nontraditional lifestyles are acceptable, and signs also of a fragmentation into isolated and wrangling subcultures rather than a community in dialogue. This seems to me a sad betrayal of the College’s mis­ sion. It is much to be hoped that Presi­ dent Bloom, the Board of Managers, and all responsible for the direction of the College—surely themselves all people of breadth, depth, and vision—will not lose that vision for the excitement of immediate “relevance,” fashion, and “correctness.” MOTHER MARY JEAN, CSM (Jean Manninen ’59) Peekskill, N.Y. Remembering the Boys in the Band To the Editor: It was delightful to read Ken Hechler’s [’35] piece in the May “Our Back Pages.” I knew all the “boys in the band,” espe­ cially the late Ward Fowler ’37, who sat next to me in premed classes (Eves, Fowler). I myself played violin at Danville High School and at George School, but I consider it a boon to the band that coeds were not invited. Inci­ dentally, the young man with the tuba is Camill “Buddy” Peter ’37, not his broth­ er Paul ’36. ELEANOR EVES COGSHALL ’37 Doylestown, Pa. To the Editor: Thank you for printing Ken Hechler’s article about the band. The animal in the photo is not, however, a bear, but a lion. It came from the Hamburg Show song: “Oh, we’re going to see the lion and the wild kangaroo.” I can’t remem­ ber a kangaroo costume, but the lion was always there, skipping beside the band. During my years at college, many different men wore that costume, so I will not venture a wild guess at the iden­ tity of this one. ANNE BROOKE SMITH’37 Warrenton, Va. 62 sen d me speak for them selves. If ¡ng they’ve done their homework, it can se< be very compelling. We have a society ¡ we th a t believes th a t if you don’t get Ai mentioned a lot on the national news, stc you somehow lack credibility. I don’t on agree.” ne Another concern about boycotts is de] that they can hurt innocent workers. is t W hat ab o u t th e tru ck driver who Continued from page 16 delivers Budweiser beer? If he loses do me of companies that sponsor shows the his job because of a boycott, is that group finds objectionable, and a num­ fair? Lyons says he hates to be callous l ciz col ber have withdrawn their ads. Pepsi about it, but “whether you are a truck the dropped its corporate link with rock driver for Budweiser or a member of ad video star Madonna after a boycott the Busch family, you are still profit-gfo th re a t, and B urger King, a m ajor ing from th e business practices of advertiser on many shows considered Anheuser-Busch, and you need to be i ed an offensive by Wildmon, took out full- held acco u n tab le for that. I know page newspaper ads pledging to sup­ that’s going to upset people, but they wil port “traditional American family val­ want to hold me accountable for what th ues on television.” The Boycott Quar­ I do, so why shouldn’t I hold them aft terly lists an ongoing boycott of S.C. accountable too? Where do we draw in Jo h n so n Wax p ro d u c ts called by the line?” me CLear-TV, another Wildmon organiza­ here indeed? Even if boycotts a] tion, because the company “is and do work, a re n ’t th e re tactics op has been a leading sponsor of TV sex, that are inappropriate? Kinsley of The | fur violence, and profanity.” m Censorship, cry the watchdogs of New Republic suggests several rules pr: free speech, but Wildmon told Time that might civilize the boycott boom: •Don’t use a boycott to deny other magazine, “I’m not infringing on any­ ep body’s rights. I have as much right as people their rights. Economic preswc any other individual... to try to shape sure is inappropriate when it leads to no society.” And his American Family censorship or punishes political decior Association is just one of hundreds of sions made in a democratic manner, se pressure groups that have sprung up in th e past 20 y ears—all trying to orporations * shape society. Many are large, but you don’t need a fancy office in Wash­ can get caught J ington to start a boycott. “It doesn’t take a big organization in the middle, to make a boycott work,” says Zach especially with ■!! Lyons. “A group of 15 or 20 high school students from West Milford, their philanthropy. N.J., galvanized the boycott of McDon­ va ald ’s over polystyrene packaging. m They cre a te d a c h a ra c te r called such as the boycott of Arizona after nc Ronald McToxic for an Earth Day its citizens voted against a holiday in dc demonstration in New York, and they honor of Martin Luther King Jr. “The dc became the straw that broke Ronald purpose of the holiday is to honor a is McDonald’s back. In another case, a great man. But you shouldn’t try to bs small group of environmentalists has ram honor down people’s throats,” le: taken on giant Mellon Bank because says Kinsley. •“A boycott is more compelling if it bi of the way the bank, as trustee for an th estate, has managed a wildlife sanctu­ is aimed at th e item th a t actually causes the offense.” Kinsley probably up ary in upstate New York.” Companies often com plain th a t wouldn’t agree with the current boy­ T1 these groups lack status, but, says co tt of Seagram p ro d u c ts, called $2 Lyons, “You don’t have to be a super­ because Seagram owns a significant D< group like Greenpeace or People for share of Du Pont, which still produces $ the Ethical Treatment of Animals to ozone-destroying CFCs. •Target the “real nemesis” by makT1 have credibility. The materials people ONE DOLLAR ONE VOTE W C SW ARTHM ORE COLLEGE BULLETIN AU ing a distinction between primary and secondary boycotts: “A refusal to [ wear a fur coat is a primary boycott. y Arefusal to shop in a departm ent t store that sells fur coats is a sec­ ondary boycott. A refusal to buy a X newspaper th a t runs ads from a department store that sells fur coats s is too much, too much.” 5. •“A boycott shouldn’t be a shake0 down. The more selfless its goal, the s more appealing it will be.” He criti­ it cizes the 1990 Operation PUSH boy­ s cott of Nike shoes because although k the stated purpose was to protest the )f advertising of $125 sneakers to poor t"ghetto kids, the demands also includ­ )f ed hiring a black advertising agency e N and putting blacks on the Nike board. Zach Lyons isn’t sure he agrees y with Kinsley: “There are times when it n there’s no prim ary pro d u ct to go 1 after. Seagram plays a significant role in decision-making at Du Pont, so many activists believe that Seagram is S a primary target. The groups th at :s oppose furs are trying to stop sales of \e | furs, not just get people to stop buy­ is ing them, so they think the stores are primary targets. ir “As for Arizona, to me that was the sepitome of economic democracy. It o was a grass-roots boycott called by :ino particular group. Individuals and r, organizations took it upon th em ­ selves to say, ‘If this is the way the state of Arizona feels about one of the greatest heroes to African Americans, then we can’t see ourselves giving them our business.’” To Lyons, it’s a matter of individual freedom within the economic system, j “If you went around and asked every­ one, ‘Do you think you should do the right thing? Do you think that your values should be respected?’ I believe most people w ould say yes. I’m in nowhere near perfect. I certain ly le don’t boycott everything I list—and I a do stuff that deep in my heart I know to is wrong—but I try very hard to shop based on my values. If I have a prob­ lem with the way a com pany does it business, I tell them. And you know, they listen. It works because I speak iy up.” ■ ly i id The Boycott Quarterly is available at nt $20/year from the Center for Economic ss Democracy, P.O. Box 64, Olympia WA 985074)064. For nonprofits and co-ops, ikThe Boycott Monthly is $35/year. riN AUGUST 1993 DENG-JENG LEE f n ‘We’re living in a time of great change in the TV and film industries,”says Peter Bart ’54, editor o f 'Variety. “The film industry goes in cycles, and we’re in a relatively pedestrian period right now of unoriginal, insipid remakes and even more unoriginal Continued from page 11 remakes of those remakes. Filmmak­ Cole Porter. (Bart has two daughters, ing has always been an exercise in Colby, a Hollywood costume designer, risk-taking. But with costs as high as and Dilys, who has just finished medi­ $40 million now for an average pic­ cal school, intending to be an eye sur­ ture, risk-taking is itself a high risk. In geon.) Though Bart still spends some general, American pop culture, which time every m onth in Variety's New still dominates the world, is in a down­ York office, he calls Los Angeles turn. But then along comes something home. as successful as Jurassic Park, and it “The pace is different in Los Ange­ redefines the business.” les,” Bart says. “They work harder, Bart, now 61, has no thought of but it’s less intellectually demanding. retiring. “I’ve been very, very fortu­ In New York I feel that I’m never doing nate to be able to get involved and enough or seeing enough. In L.A. I can then leave the film industry at the play ten n is and not feel as if I’ve right times. I see journalism as part of missed something.” the entertainment industry on a par He also travels to Variety's bureaus with movies, theater, and fiction writ­ abroad, attends the Cannes Film Festi­ ing. To be in the catbird seat, to watch val, and has been spending more time the ebb and flow of popular culture— in Tokyo, which each year becomes even if the culture isn’t that great—is m ore influential in th e A m erican very, very entertaining.” ■ entertainment business. “We’re living in a tim e of great Bill Kent is a free-lance writer and a reg­ change in the TV and film industries,” ular contributor to the Bulletin. His sec­ Bart says. “They’re becoming melded ond novel, Down by the Sea, was pub­ to a global infotainment business. lished in June by St. Martin’s Press. 63 II Endings by Je ff Hildebrand ’92 oming out of Banana House, I take a deep breath. It’s finally stopped raining; all around insects buzz and chirp the unmistakable sounds of late summer. Everyone else here is think­ ing about starting the academic year. I’m not. I still have a pile of things to pack before I leave, essentially for good. I’m sick of it right now, so, crossing the street, I head onto cam­ pus. The summer field hockey camp finished last week and the College ath­ letes and RAs d o n ’t show up until tomorrow. So tonight as I walk, it’s my campus, left to me and my memories. The memories flow thick and fast. I could almost be on my way to class in Du Pont. Something’s missing, though; I should have my backpack on. Since it’s fairly late in the evening, all the buildings are locked, but being outside is enough. Cutting across the grass, I sit on the steps in front of the fishbowl, a windowed seminar room in Du Pont. Inside, the table and chairs are all in their usual position, where we sat staring at the board trying to understand some proof and where we clustered around munching seminar break goodies. Looking in this way, I realize what it must have looked like from the outside when Benj Thomas crawled under the table and took a nap one seminar. F urther back in time, th e re are more memories. Memories of crazy spring Wednesday nights when sever­ al of us g ath ered in [Prof.] Gene Klotz’s lab for pizza, then invaded the fishbowl to play cards. That w asn’t th a t crazy in itself. But th e social dynamics that were happening behind all of it were crazy. It was a whole new world for me; I was drawn in emotion­ ally, took some risks, forgot about planning what I would do in advance, and ju st lived from m om ent to moment, enjoying the thrill of it. A short walk takes me to the edge of the woods. It’s too dark to actually C 64 go down into the Crum, so I go no fur­ ther. What comes to mind is not any specific event but general feelings— feelings of going into the woods upset or stressed and of coming out more relaxed. Heading back th e o th e r way, I notice that the grass is so thick and damp that I left footprints in it where I walked up to the steps. Leaving my impression on Swarthmore. Across the road and suddenly I’m heading to Beardsley to check my Email. But I can’t; everything’s locked up. So I swing around, look at Slide Rock, realizing I’m from the last class that remembers when the sculpture was put there. A glance at Hicks, and then back the way I came. Over to Cornell Library, staring into the stacks of books. The hours spent there working on problems for seminar, often talking with other folks in the seminar instead. Or the times when the shelves of science fiction would be too much temptation and I would spend an hour browsing. On down the walk to Parrish. Going I to check my mail before going on down to Sharpies. Four years ago was th e re really a hole in th e ground where the Lang Performing Arts Center is? It seems hard to imagine it any other way than what it is now. As I come around the circle, more , old habits come to mind. I remember coming by as Asa Packer played his bagpipes in the amphitheater. I veer off the walk and head in there. Lean­ ing ag ain st a tre e , starin g at the grassy stage, I remember the evenings a few years back when I came here. My social life was in shambles at the time and I was worried that I couldn’t cut it academ ically, leaving me to | wonder just what the hell I was doing. SW A RTH M O RE COLLEGE BULLETIN c j ^ j ^ . ^ g n . c | u I i I t | l i n CD | Ks 1 6S ,j j ° a§ | ! •s in_ ® ^ ,Q , TIN In retrospect I have to smile; I didn’t do too badly after all. I need to remember to ju st keep on going; things will turn around eventually. Coming out of the amphitheater, I reach the most dangerous emotional ground of the trip. Walking down the sidewalk, I could be heading to Whar­ ton—to see Deb. Outside D section I kneel down and let it all wash over " me. A sudden smile. There was the day I was walking past and said, “I wonder if Deb can hear m e” right under her window. She could and bounded down to see what was going on. Standing up, I walk through the archway and go up to the door. The levels of nostalgia and wistfulness arising from just standing there tell me how much that meant. This is a good-bye to u r for me. Time to let go. So after a m inute I move on. Back through the arch and on toward Dana and Hallowell. I look up at Dana. Second floor, window just to the left of center. Nope, no lights. Eric must not be home. Even three years later, I can find the window of my first room. I’m now the person I used to enjoy watching, sitting com­ fortably in my room, looking at people wandering through this pleasant little corner of th e w orld. The cin d er blocks inside may be ugly, but this littie pocket right outside is a place that feels good, feels safe. My mind takes me up to the door, then down the stairs. Through the winding hallway into the lounge. To the couches, chairs, and tables. I actu­ ally head behind the building and look in through the glass doors. As remem­ bered. Where I sat having deeper and closer conversations that I had ever had before. Where I paced when I was unhappy, restless, or pensive. By now the room itself is an old friend. But one I must leave behind. Back around to the front, down the path, turn, and walk across the bridge over the railroad tracks. Shortly I reach the path th at leads to Crum meadow. I want to go down there, but it’s already late and very dark. In the distance I can clearly hear the hum of the Blue Route. That noise is not part K of th e meadow I know, so I go on, remembering my meadow. Sitting on the stones of Crumhenge, listening to the wind whisper through the leaves and the water ripple in the Crum as I watch the outline of the trees blowing against the sky lit by a spring moon. Down behind Ware pool, heading toward Mary Lyon via the back way. I look up, looking for geese flying over­ head. Out to Harvard Avenue. Around the curve, down the hill, and there in front of me is ML. I glance over my shoulder to see if the shuttle is going to pass me as I head toward the door. What I’m going to miss are the rhythms of Swarthmore. The comfort of the routines, the feeling that this is my home. It’s everyday life that I’ve enjoyed most. Sitting on the stonework outside th e front door, I can im agine th e crowd of people gathered in the TV lounge to watch Twin Peaks or Letterman. I can count th e steps as I go upstairs to see if anyone wants to play cards. It strikes me th a t w hat I’m going to miss more than anything are the rhythms of Swarthmore. The com­ fort of the routines, the feeling that this is my home, where I belong. It’s everyday life that I’ve enjoyed most. There’s a feeling of completeness, a feeling that this tour is nearing its end. Another routine, the walk to campus from ML. Coming back, passing the field house. More sudden memories, more routines. The nights inside keep­ ing stats for the basketball games; th a t crazy stre a k 18 m onths ago where we fell inches short of making G the NCAA tournament. Before I p ass u n d er th e train tracks, I get a jarring reminder that things continue to go on and change. The area near the tunnel is all dug up; things are not frozen in time. Up the hill, past Sharpies. Looking in, I know I won’t miss the food there, but I will miss eating there. Knowing that I can come in and find friends. Finally up the long, steep slope to Parrish. A little thought conjures up the crowds leaving lunch, headed to labs or to classes. It’s too late for the bells to chime, though. The long walk in front of Parrish. There are some people who will run screaming from this building when th ey are done, p eo p le for whom Swarthmore was a horrible place. But I am not one of them. I came here a sm art b u t very young, innocent, incomplete person. In four years I dis­ covered, I grew. I learned what it was like to deal with people I felt I fit in with. I discovered far stronger feelings of love, anger, and hurt than I had ever im agined before. I found out what it was like to be intellectually challenged. I confronted the challenge of learning things that didn’t come as second nature to me, and I learned w hat it m eant to have th e very assumptions I base my life on chal­ lenged. I came out of it all intact and immensely enriched. The experiences I have had are a part of me forever. By now I’ve reached the Friends Meeting House. One last stop. I now really have com e full circle. Four y ears ago I sat in h ere on a hot, sweaty afternoon listening to David Fraser welcome us to Swarthmore. I have no idea w hat he said, b u t I remember sitting there, scared and nervous yet at the same time excited, thinking that I was about to embark on som e great adventure. W hat a strange and wonderful adventure it was. It’s late and I still have much pack­ ing to do before I leave. There’s a tear in my eye for all th a t I’m leaving behind, but a smile on my face for all that I’m taking with me. Tear, smile, and all, I head back to Banana House. ■ CAN You 56U6V& IT? — Trtey US&P LtNNON'S NWStc To se u NllteS... Was Elvis Presley “the greatest cultural force in the 20th century?” T h at’s w hat Leonard Bernstein once called him. And if th at d o esn ’t make you think abo u t th e influence of pop culture on society, consider this: •Time Inc. is testing a new celebrity photo magazine—its second stab at a periodical for “read ers” w ho find People magazine too cerebral. •W hen Bill Clinton was elected president, he gave his first interview not to Peter Jennings o r Tom Brokaw—b ut to Tabitha Soren of MTV. •An entire generation is growing up convinced th at Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, and Michelangelo are only Teenage M utant Ninja Turtles. •A survey of 10-year-olds found th at they could nam e m ore brands of beer than presidents of th e United States. “Pop! Goes th e Culture” will be th e them e of a lively program Saturday, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. highlighting Fall W eekend at Swarthmore. Faculty m em bers, students, parents, and alumni will look at aspects of pop culture in th e ’90s. Also scheduled are Homecoming sp o rts events and a Saturday evening perform ance by th e award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. Plan to be at Sw arthm ore for this special O ctober weekend. SWARTHMORE FALL WEEKEND OCTOBER 8, 9,10