College news, October 8, 1958

VOL. XLIV, No. 2

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958

PRICE 20 CENTS



Freshmen Emote;
Works Of Milne,
Coward Featured

If they had all put their heads
together and tried to be as differ-
ent as possible, the freshmen could
scarcely have come up with a

greater variety of hall plays than
this year’s assortment. Their
choices, to be presented in Skinner
Workshop on Friday and Saturday
nights, range from Yeats to Barrie
to just pure farce.

' Merion, which opens the compe-
tition at 8:00 Friday night, offers
a farce (“or comedy, or whatever
you want to call it”) by Frederic
Witney, To Hell With You. Those
responsible for making the play
live up to (or live down) its title
are Eleanor Snouck Hurgronje,
director, and Betty Ferber ’61, ad-
visor.

Following them are the Non-
Reses at 8:30 with a play by B. A.
Mattingly, orginally called Sorro-
ity Sisters, whose title is to be
changed to correspond with its
new setting in a college dormi-
tory. Its advisor and director are
Sallie Powers °’59 and Sandra
Goldberg, who says of the play,
“It was the easiest thing we could
do with six people who won’t come
to rehearsals,”

East House’s play is a kind of

drawing room suspense comedy,
Barrie’s Shall We Join the Lad-
ies?, with Kitsy Cushman as di-
rector and Tony Killip ’61 ad-
visor.

Probably the most serious of
the plays to be presented is M. A.
Kister’s The Hard Heart—Fran
Krauskopf, director, describes it
as a modern tragedy—which Rad-
nor is to present with Ethel Suss-
man ’61 as advisor. The evening
should end cheerfully enough,
however, since Rhoads North and

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Notice

The senior class announces
the election of the following of-
ficers:

President, Bette Haney.

Song-Mistress, Angie Wish-
nack, —

Vice-president Jan Aschen-
brenner, —

Secretary, Judy Davis.

BMC’s Changes Noted
Typical In Trend

The following is a selection
from the text of the address de-
livered by Katharine E. McBride,
President of the College before
the opening assembly of the
year.

Bryn Mawr’s changes in five
buildings this summer seem to us
stupendous, and they are. They
have their parallels, however, in
many of the institutions, perhaps
most of the institutions in the
country. They reflect the tremen-
dous development that is taking
place in higher education.

That development raises a good
many questions we should be clear
about. Is it rapid enough to meet
the needs of the time? How ac-
‘eurate jis our understanding of
the needs of the time? When the
race_ with. time.is so rapid how. do
we balance immediate needs and
long-term needs? In such a gen-
eral form, these questions are, I
am sure, unanswerable. Let me
add another that is certainly un-
answerable, but yet important to
keep always in mind. Should we







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PLACE: San Francisco
TIME: Now.

tionary Bar In The World!”

three unlikely couples create

Junior Show 1958

. . or was it yesterday?
SETTING: The Lower Depths Cafe, “with The Only Moving Sta-

PLOT: “The Group” makes a discovery which seems bound to alter
its creative pursuits. After a mad chase to Nirvana and back,

the saving Word.



























Calendar

Wednesday, October 8: 7:30
(Common Room, Marriage Lecture.

Friday, October 10: Freshman
Hall Plays. 8:30, Cornelia Otis
Skinner Workshop. Merion, Non-
Resident, East House, Radnor,
Rhoads.

Saturday, October 11: Freshman
Hall. Plays, Skinner Workshop.
Denbigh, Pembroke East, Pem-
broke West, Rockefeller: Awarding
of prizes by judges.

Sunday, October 12: Roost, Arts
Council Play Reading, King John.

Sunday, October 12: 7:30 p.m.
‘Chapel, Music Room, Goodhart ad-
dress by the Rev. Dr. Joseph Bish-
op. Chorus.

Kennedy Speaks

On Taiwan Crisis

‘Mr. Melville ‘1Kennedy, Jr. of
the Bryn Mawr Political Science
Department opened the weekly cur-
rent events discussions in the Com-
mon Room with the topic, “Our
Political Situation in the Far
East.”

Mr. Kennedy began his talk with
a brief analysis of the influencing
geographical and political facts of
the Quemoy and Matsu area. He
also emphasized the economic im-
portance of the blockade by the
Chiang Kai-shek government of
the Chinese communist ports,

_ The first shelling of the islands,
Mr. Kennedy explained, stopped
in 1954 after a conference which
included Senator Johnson. When



Biology Building Among Summer Additions;
Miss McBride Discusses Rapid Development



The biology building—one step in the development of the Science Center.

New Building Complete
Convocation Set

“It seems to me to be a perfect
miracle that a year ago there was
just a mud hole and this year we
are occupying the new building,”
commented Miss Mary Gardiner,
chairman of the biology depart-
ment, recently when asked about
the new building.

Beyond the neat aluminum-
windowed yellow brick exterior
there lies a very functional build-
ing, Miss Gardiner pointed out.
Along the spotless corridors which
feature pale green tile walls, gray
tile floors and white sound-proof
ceilings, small conservative’ black
plaques announce the various lab-
oratories: Growth and Develop-
ment Lab,‘ Biochemistry Lab,

Continuel on\ Page 6, Col. 1



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Notice

The News is happy to an-
nounce the elections of:

Betsy Levering ’61—Copy
Editor.

Freddy Koller ’61—Managing
Editor. .

Barbara Broome ’60—Mem-
ber-at-Large.

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Faculty Additions
Include Spanish,
Music Professors

Bryn Mawr College began the
academic year last week with eight’
new facylty members.

Hywel Davis Lewis, currently
professor of history and philosophy
of religion at the University of
London, joined the department of

philosophy as visiting professor.
Professor Lewis, a graduate of
University College, Bangor, and
Jesus College, Oxford, edited the
Muirhead Library of Philosophy.
Publications of Professor Lewis in-
clude: Morals and the New Theo-
logy, 1947; Morals and Revelation,
1951; and other work in the Welsh
language.

‘Bernard Ross, who was formér-
ly ‘assistant professor of social
work at Michigan State Univer-
sity, has joined the department of
social work and research as an. as-
sociate professor, While at his
previous post, which he had held
since 1950, Mr. Ross participated
in the Coordination of Social Work
Practice Series.

James W. Fowle, former as-
sistant professor of fine arts at
Harvard University, has joined the
history of art department: ag an
associate professor. Previous to
his position at Harvard, Mr, Fowle
was lecturer and curator of the
Walker Art Museum at Bowdoin
College. Mr. Fowle has published.
an article on Batissier’s Gericault,
the subject of his Ph.D, thesis.
The next edition of the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica will contain ar-
ticles by Mr. Fowle on Henry
Moore, Carl Milles, Emmanuel
Frémiét, and J. A. Houdon.

Melville T..Kennedy, Jr., former-
ly at Harvard, is now an assistant
professor in the political science
department. Mr. Kennedy, who
received his education at Harvard
and Oberlin, held a teaching fel-
lowship at Yenching University
for three years. He has traveled
widely in the East Asia area. He
has also held a three year Ford
Fellowship at Harvard University.

He was a research associa‘* on
the Résearch Project on Mem and
Politics in Modern China at Colum-
bia University. His publications
include The Chinese ‘ Democratic
League and His Han-min: As-



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College News, and further
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quadrennial Faculty Show:

remember and those who antic

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POSTORIPT: Goodhart, Oetober 17 and 18,





CELA AGC TRE: EAT 2 -cscipientssececinersrdnnsorvscsoodentenesosive Eunice Strong || these talks finally broke down, th
BIRERATMDO Sihssssocesosiovesccnsscovsererencsccenees Anne Stebbins || shelling was resumed,
Pe EE dined bscvsstinasetessernsesviniaininns Carolyn Morant The United States’ involvement
IEE seihctianssnssheinoscsserorsrtervoneyeritove Nancy DuBois || in this area is extensive—political-
BRIER. vitisinrciscsrememe aeasisipitheanieeies Joan Strell || ly as an outpost against commun-
| ilaihiiincrensovivesepseresonssanessys csoreieee Jean Yaukey |/ism and economically as a support
CA oractictaiinnwnnvatinnnna Judy Polsky || of the nationalist government of
I od deswiisericanrnirsianisenestersiice Julie O’Neill || Chiang Kai-shek.
PE eajensvescerssstcasinscessnonsstnsenssestees Star Kilstein Mr. Kennedy went on to makera
PM WE srnssiseisseseroscenesse Tony Thompson ||few conjectures concerning the
a i scsssminorenans Suzanne Swan || present situation of China, This
SHAREEN she ... Ronnie Wolffe Continued on Page 6, Col. 2
BI TL. cio hiss los viensenennennrecioanisebonmaal Beebe Cooper
I. sipvissdasetbevivesnesteonienss niin Barbara Northrop .
CHUNG Ginny Norton Notice
a MAISIE Fs Lou McCrea Tryouts for the News are due |
MAHONEY Trudy Hoffman on Saturday, September. 18.
MARA Cynthia Holley Taylor ||| Anyone who did not attend last
YO-YO Fay DuBose week’s meeting may consult the
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now the weekends of January tenth
we times for staging it; and to

The News felt that this letter was of general interest sufficient
to merit this prominent position.—ed.

To Professor\Broughton, as Secretary of the Faculty,
to be read at the Faculty Meeting:

Council, speaking for the undergraduates,
sis upon the senior class, and considering
sryn Mawr tradition about which none of

on for a pro-and-con discussion in the
perhaps we fear not concealing en-

do here petition the Faculty
schedule upon which we have

been keeping the watchful eye, present during the year the

With hopes. for a good\cause forthcoming beyond even
the call of artistic tradition ‘and the clamors of those who

ate, we would like to suggest
and seventeenth as poss-
the wish (hopefully) into

| cheer, We very much




ve

indeed want a Faculty Show!—But especially we would have

well—.

Sincerely, \
Cathya Wing,
- Chairman, Arts. Council
Katherine Kohlhas)

Vice-Chairman, Arts Council
Janet A. Myles, \— - sem
Of les sake Malate Ceaad cc cna

Chairman, Arts Forum;
Co-Editor, The Revue






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Wednesday, October 8, 1958



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Dulce et Decorum Sit

On the one hand dignity—but we hope that no one feels
that this isa question of dignity, and again tradition, but we
can hardly call on tradition to support us here. Miss Thomas
only knows what she would have said in this case, but all we
can recall is a rousing shout of “yea” from the senior class,
when last spring they discussed this very issue. There has
come, then, to the attention of the News something that can
not be said clearly and suitably in any words other than
those of the universal] scholarly language, and so we continue.

Vero id quod cupimus consensu omnium comprobatum
est, nam speramus nostram ordinem candidissumum sapien-
tium doctorum nos fabulam quadriennem dediturum esse.
Hiemem illustrabit, animos levabit, scientiam augebit. Nemo
putat, scilicet, doctores, risu indignos solere, sed putamus
fore ut eis placeat si risus modo ortus fuerit cum ipsi volu-
erunt neque cum ipsae voluerimus. Maxime speramus ex sen-
tentia collegarum nostrum doctores fabellam peragere cupere.

Arts Council Plans Ticket Service,
Will Negotiate for Academy Seats

In the interest of frustrated; Pre-Broadway plays cannot be



theatre-goers, uninformed and
ticket-less, Arts Council has de-
vised a plan for a What’s On in-
formation board and Ticket Agen-
cy. The calendar below will be
kept up-to-date in the News, and
information concerning each pro-
gram will be found on the Arts
Council bulletin board in Taylor’s

included, because Philadelphia’s
theatres no longer have subscrip-
tion lists, and announce plays late
and only in ‘the newspapers. Arts

‘Council, too, would like to be as-
sured of the merit of the perform-
ances for which it procures tickets.

The plan for the Ticket Agency





by Eleanor Winsor

Eugene O’Neill’s drama, A Touch
Of The Poet, is a play about illu-
sion and human existence. Because
its characters are all of them in
some manner supported by their
individual dreams or pretensions
the actors are faced with a double
role of make-believe. What O’Neill
has created, a jarring of several
small worlds disturbed in orbit, is
brilliantly portrayed by the cast of
this production,

O’Neill readers will not find the
situation unfamiliar; the play in-
volves a family group—domineer-
ing father, submissive loving wife
and child rebelling at her parents’
world. The drama itself is the
only completed work in a series
which was to trace the history of
an American family for a space of
over a hundred years.

Major Cornelius Melody, an
Irishman, and expatriate from his
race as well as his country has
the chief illusion. Not too well
born, Major Melody. was educated
on the tide of rising family pros-
perity, coming to think of himself
as the long-established heir of a
new Melody Castle. In the Napo-
leonic wars he had been able to
achieve the distinction he felt was
rightfully his and was commended
for noteworthy service by the Duke
of Wellington; but shortly after
he lost his commission because of
a duel with a Spanish nobleman
over a love affair. Taking his
Irish peasant wife and child he
immigrated to America where on
arrival he was tricked into buying
a. worthless inn, A decadent fig-
ure, Melody clings to his military
triumph and to the image of him-
self as a nobleman which he strives
to preserve even in the ene
of inn-keeper.

‘ Melody’s wife Nora, while oe
knows the truth of his pretensions,
and the weaknesses of her hus-
band, supports his illusions through
love, and cherishes her own image
of herself as a lovely young wom-
an whom her husband married (al-
though he will not admit it) for
love. Her own clarity of insight
is the result of love, but it is love
also by which she caters to. her
husband’s whims, allowing him to
preserve the rude semblance of
dignity which he demands.

Their daughter Sara is truly
caught .between; she mocks her

From the Balcony

A Touch of the Poet





father, while secretly proud of his
pride, and she defends her mother,
while deploring her peasant ways;
she admires the kind of humanity
her mother offers, while maintain-
ing that she will not be reduced
to such a condition by a similar
love. The focal point of the drama
is an unseen person, a young

American full of dreams amazing-|

ly similar to Melody’s own, pres-
ently at the Inn recovering from
illness caused by a Thoredu-like
existence in the woods.

The repetition of a pattern of
family existence is clearly deline-
ated by the growth of Sara’s love
for a man who parallels her fath-
er even to a taste for the poetry
of Lord Byron. This paradoxical
situation. is admirably played by
Kim Stanley with an alternation
of sympathy and defiance, a clear
separate reaction to each person
of her world—Miss Stanley con-
veys Sara’s confusion, her un-
awareness of this confusion, and
a developing and inevitable vision
which reaches its climax when
she, like her mother, discovers that
love is in itself a pride, but one
which must be founded on illusion.
With the shattering of their elders’
own dreams, the pathetic-tragic,
the next generation succeeds uncon-
sciously in their parents’ course.

Eric Portman, as Major Melody
has an impressive carriage, storm-
ing through the play with violent
and desperate pride, and steps
skillfully along the borderline of
the ridiculous. Helen Hayes” as
Nora possesses the real insight
of the play—a knowledge, by her
peasant divination of reality, and
yet a kind of intuition that some-
thing else is necessary to life,
something which must be preserv-
ed at all cost and is a kind of bet-
ter reality. She combines peasant
brogue and manners with a kind of
universal woman’s dignity.

Supporting characters who play
the earthly immigrant Irsh peas-
ants from_whom.Melody—wishes-to
separate himself, by their clear-cut
rowdy humor lend a supporting re-
ality as well as comedy. The direc-
tor, Harold Clurman, has balanced
his great individuals _ skillfully,
preserving above all, the structure
of the play and revealing slowly a
network of crossed sympathies
which composes the human situa-
tion.





student foyer. is as follows:

1. Announcement of coming theatre, orchestra or dance group to be
posted in Taylor, along witha-date and price list for tickets, to be
signed by interested students and faculty members, without their
being committed to tickets.

Approximate number of tickets, at e eeremnane. prices and dates,
to be sent for.

8. Annoussement in Taylor of the arrival of tickets, to be posted
with a list for all seriously interested to sign. Those signing both
lists.to be given priority.

4. Tickets to be sent by Campus Mail to those on list. Charge to be
put on Payday.

5. Tickets may be returned to the Agency only in the case of an err-
or. Should a student decide not to use her ticket, it will be up to
her, and not to the Agency, to resell it. She may either be paid
back directly, or may send the Agency a note, requesting that the
name be transferred at Payday.

The plan will go into effect in the next couple of weeks, for tickets to
the Metropolitan Opera, to the Philadelphia Orchestra’s concert with

the Three-College Chorus, and to the Old Vic (when it’s dates are

known). Watch the Taylor bulletin board, and know What’s On.



King John is to be College |
Theatre’s first play of the year.



| ~The junor class announces the

With next week’s tryouts in mind, election of:

King John will be Arts Council’s|| Marilyn McKinney ....President
first play read aloud, this Sunday || Nancy Porter ......... _.. Secretary
in the Roost, at 4:15. College|/ May Jen ............ Vice President
Theatre urges familiarity with the NOTICE

_ play on the part of anyone inter-
ested in the production.
Sunday, Oct. 19—Folksinging.

The Undergraduate Associa-
tion is pleased to announce the
appointment of Mary n ’60
as new chairman of Lost and
Found. This agency, located in
Taylor basement by the Bureau
of Recommendations, will be



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Notice

Visitors and graduate stu-
ents are requested to sit at









ARTS COUNCIL’S WHAT’S ON
at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Oct, 10-11 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy
Oct. 17-18 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Janice Har-
sanyi, Soprano

| Oct. 23-25 (‘Thurs.-Sat): NEW YORK CITY BALLET

Oct. 80 (Thurs.): PHILADELPHIA KORUM, The Strings of Mela-

chrino

Oct. 31-Nov. 1 (Fri & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Or-
mandy :

Nov. 6 (Thurs.): PHILADELPHIA FORUM, Luboshutz and Nemenoff
(duo-pianists)

Nov. 7-8 (Fri. & Sat.):
Leonard Pennario, Pianist

Nov. 10 (Mon.): same as above

Nov. 11 (Tues.): METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY (Boris Godu-
nov)

Nov. 14-15 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Robert
Casadesus, Pianist

Nov. 20 (Thurs.); PHILADELPHIA FORUM, the Danish National
Orchestra

Nov. 21-22 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Ormandy

Nov. 24 (Mon.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Robert Casadesus

Nov. 28-29 (Fri, & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Lorne
“Munroe; Violoncellist a ; a Se

Dec. 2 (Tues.): METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY, Cavalleria
Rusticana & Pagliacci

Dec. 5-6 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Three-College
‘Chorus

Dec.-11-(Thurs.): PHILADELPHIA FORUM, Roberto Iglesias, Span-
ish Ballet

Dec. 12-18 (Fri. & Sat.): PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, Nathan
Milstein, Violinist

Dec. 15 (Mon.): same as above

Dec. 16 (Tues.): METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY, Manon Les-
caut

Vacation

Jan. 5 ee ee en i en Hn Ml

PHILADELPHIA reac hav Ormandy
‘these bounds ...

Interfaith

by ‘Helen Ullrich

The Reverend Dr. Bishop will
speak on the topic “Religion and
Science Confront Each Other,” in
chapel this Sunday evening.

Mr. Bishop, a Presbyterian min-
ister, is a graduate of McCormick
Theological Seminary in Chicago ~'
and Edinburgh University in Scot- -
land. Upon graduating from sem-
inary, Mr. Bishop became a chap-
lain to the United States Naval
forces in several different theaters
of the war,

Speaking to college students is
not new to Dr. Bishop... He was
pastor of the Presbyterian Church
of Swarthmore before he accepted
his present position of pastor of
the Church of the Covenant, the
only metropolitan Presbyterian
church in Boston,

‘Discussion will be held in the
common room after the chapel
service,

Sayre Addresses
Baptists’ Service

. The one hundred and fiftieth an-
niversary of the Lower Merion
Baptist Church was celebrated at
a special service held last Sunday
evening in the sanctuary of the
church. Prominent persons from
the Main Line area took part in
the service.

The guest speaker of the eve-
ning was the Reverend Francis B.
Sayre, Jr., Dean of the Washing-
ton Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
In discussing the ancient city of
Jerusalem, Dean Sayre said that.
the world was broken up into hos-
tile groups. of people who-~did not
understand each other, He com-
mented that this is the kind of
world in which we live today, one
made up of “barricades between
which there is no communication
at ail.”

To illustrate this, Dean Sayre
described one of the borders be-
tween the) Eastern and Western
worlds which he had the opportun-
ity to visit at one time. As creat-
ed by nature, this boundary is a
very peaceful one —a_ pretty
stream. However, Dean Sayre con-
tinued, it is guarded by uniformed
men who cannot even understand
each other’s languages. One need
not go to Hong Kong or Russia to
find these boundaries between men,
Dean Sayre emphasized. They are
to be found right here in this very
community—“lines fixed by men
between races, employer and. em-
ployees, summer people and winter
people.” The same border is every-

where and “the same misunder-

standing’ stare.”

According to the Dean, aaa
borders are symbolic of the world
in which we are living, They. can-
not be dreamed away. There is
only one answer to these barri-
cades which men place between
them.

“God it is who can leap over
who alone...
can heal the brokenness of man-
kind.” He further — enrphasized
that “peace is always of God’s
giving—not of man’s achieving.”

Other dignitaries participating
in the service were; President Mc-
Bride of Bryn Mawr College, Dr.
Norman A, Baxter, the present
minister of the Lower Merion Bap-
tist Church, the Reverend Lau-
rence T. Beers of the First Baptist
Church in. Ardmore, Dr. Rex S.
Clements of the Bryn Mawr Prés='
byterian Church, Dr.” Arthur
Younger of Saints Memorial Bap-

‘tist Church in Bryn Mawr and

Ethel Clossen Smith, Assistant
Professor of Music at Eastern
Baptist College.



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to facilitate monitoring.





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January OLD VIC “Theatre as yet undecided











- Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Henry V



Cummings ’61 to its editorial.
staff,













-nhounce’ the addition of Gloria} ~~


Wednesday, October 8, 1958

THE

COLLEGE

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Page Three



Integration Discussed By Five Bryn Mawr Students;
Viewpoints Of North and Deep South Are Expresse

Northerner Relates Conversations
Concerning Segregation In South

by Alice K. Turner

Logically I am a poor choice for
an article explaining the Southern
point of view on the raging Battle
of the Schools as I am not only a
Yankee, but a strong supporter of
integration. However, as I have

just returned from a summer in
Atlanta, I have necessarily (no
matter how hard I tried to avoid
the subject) been exposed to a
great deal of opinion, most of it
couched in strong terms, whether
pro or con. No-one seems to be
able to talk about integbation
without getting excited. Most
Southerners feel duty-bound to ex-
plain their feelings to any North-
erner who has been so unlucky (or
unwise) as to be led into a dis-
cussién of the issue.

‘Most of the people I talke to
were college students, as I attended
the summer session of Atlanta’s
Emory University. Qollege stu-
dents are expected to take a lib-
eral and fairly radical attitude to-
ward situations such as this one.
This is true of Emory students in

many cases—at least it is true on|

the intellectual level. As an intelli-
gent boy pointed out to me, many
Southerners do understand the
reasons and the necessity for in-
tegration and on the Ideal or Large
level they agree with it. But on
the Immediate or Small level, they
shy off. Why is this so? There are
a number of reasons offered, some
better than others. I will try to
list as many as I can remember
together with my own impressions
of facts as they are.

1. “One thing you Yankees just
‘don’t understand. Up North your
Negroes are in a minority, and
most of them are fairly civilized,
but down here in some places they
outnumber the whites. And honest-
ly, the way they live and the way
they think is just a cut above the
animals. It would lower not only
our educational standards, but qur
moral standards and our safety,
to let them go to school with our
kids. Do you know what the Negro
crime rate is?”

I am sorry to say that this
statement is accurate. It is true
from my own experience that the
Atlanta_Negro_in many cases is
just as described. I will not go into
the argument about suppression
and maltreatment leading to this
—as it stands it is true. Atlanta
was shocked to discover from the
Time magazine survey this sum-
mer that she had the second larg-
est crime rate in the country. The
number of Negroes involved in
these crimes is out of all propor-
tion to their percentage of popu-
lation in the city. Atlantans have
no desire to lead the list, and with
the large part that juvenile de-
linquency plays in general crime

today, it is very possible that
school integration would lead to
just this.

2. “It’s not that we don’t provide
for them. Why, in lots of cases
their schools are better than the
ones our own children attend.”

True again, in a few cases, if
you consider the new plants and
equipment which have recently
been built for Negro students in
parts of the city. However, these
are definitely in a minority; it is
a fact that school conditions are
far worse for the Negro student
than for his white counterpart.
Crowding is worse, teachers are

fact that the state universities
which offer teacher training will

this equality (at least in educa-

Structive handling of the problems,



tion is complicated because Negro
students often may not attend the
schools which are most convenient
to. their homes. Yet it should not
be forgotten that intelligent
Southerners are not opposed to
Negro education. They are willing
to build more all-Negro. schools,
to try to ameliorate the Negro
situation, so long as their own
children can receive a separate
education. “Separate but equal”
seems really to be their motto—or
so they say. I believe that with
the scare thrown into them by



Because any discussion needs
background and a point for be-
ginning, The News presents the
following series of articles cen-
tering around the current school
integration problem in the
South. None of the statements
here are dogmatic assertions nor
do they pretend to any absolute
definition of regional opinion.
On the contrary, they are of-
fered as a guide to ideas, with
the intention of stimulating
other ideas.

Both The News and the au-
thors of these articles will wel-
come ‘responses —in agreement
or contradiction of these opin-
ions from students, faculty or
any other interested spectators. -





recent happenings they would
really make an effort to achieve

tion) if segregation could only be
preserved.

3. “They don’t want to mix with
us any more than we want to mix
with them. They’re perfectly happy
with things the way they are.”

I can’t make an honest retort to
this statement, because I did not
get the Negro opinion either first
or second hand (reliably, that is).
I am sure that. many Negroes
would agree simply because they

Continued on Page : Col. 3

Carolina Re Report:
Token’ Integration

by Catharine Lucas

Two years ago in North Caro-
lina, an all-white school board met
a crisis by passing a bill identical
in purpose’ to the plans Virginia
and Arkansas are passing now in
an effort fo avoid or delay integra-
tion in the public schools. The edu-
cationalists were attempting to
offset the storm of protest which
would surely arise at the first
steps by offering offended parents
tuition aid for private schools. The|
Pearsall Plan, however, has been
rarely referred to since its in-
stallation, and there have been
only negligible funds allotted in
support of it.

The situation in North Carolina
is described by many as “hopeful.”
There have been stories of courage
and understanding as the young
people have made their various
adjustments. There is yet very
little integration, however. This is
evaluated in the North as “token”
integration as if the forward steps,
or the lack of them, were entirely
in response to or reaction against
prodding by Northern lawmakers.
That the South is a great sluggish
mass of emotional reaction to be
manipulated skillfully and force-
fully, is the attitude of many out-
side of it.

I would like to suggest, for
those of us interested in a con-

several points-of-view which should
be avoided as well as. the ap-
proaches which might be made.

First, it is best not to think ih
terms of The Problem or even of
The South. Fifteen miles may
make the difference between a
community where students ask to
be integrated and an area where
integration would be disastrous for
both races; There are even’ places
where Negroes fight integration;
for their new schools, built in
appeasement are far better than
those they would find ina nearby
white community. The diversity of
preparation for integration is tre-
mendous also.

And communities must be pre-

our thinking is that racial integra-
tion regardless of individual situa-





not accept ‘Negroes) and the situa-



Continued on Page 5, Col. 4 -

integration.

In Violent, Grave
Little Rock Crisis
Faubus Is ‘Villain’

by Hanna Woods
The Little Rock Situation. .

a year ago I had all the answers
and I thought I understood the
predicament and most of its as-
pects,
come much more confused, there
and in my mind also.

Now the situation has be-

It shouldri’t have happened in

Little Rock. Little Rock was a city
long (twenty-five years) undis-
turbed by any serious racial] diffi-
culties.
quiet and peaceful acceptance of
Soon after the Su-’
preme Court ruling refuting the
doctrine of “separate but equal”,
the Little Rock School Board for-
mulated a plan—perhaps not the
best plan, but an apparently work-
able one—for the gradual integra-|.
tion. This plan was explained be-
fore most civic and business clubs
and organizations,
attempt to change, thwart or hin-
der. the plan—until a very few
weeks
were scheduled to begin in Sep-
tember, 1957:>-~

The stage seemed set for

There was no
before

integrated classes

In the meantime, the city bus

system had been integrated with-
out incident or furor.
board elections to fill two vacan-
cies in the spring of 1957, candi-
dates supporting the plan for in-
tegration overwhelmingly defeat-
ed ardent segregationalists,
general tenor of opinion, especial-
ly-_among students, during this
pre-integration period seemed to
be that regardless of personal sen-
timents on the isue, compliance
with law and court order was de-
sirable.
to organize any sort of white su-
premacy group until the summer of
1957. Even then, and after hasty
test cases in a state court and the
federal district court, there was no
evidence that there would be any
real trouble—until the unmistake-
able villain of the story, Faubus,
moved,
tions public feeling was whipped
up (not without consistent effort),
and the basic issues were confus-
ed with unfounded fears and be-
liefs.
Governor Faubus gave a frighten-
ingly dangerous stamp of approval
to further - open resistance.
effects of this can’ be seen not
only clear across the South, but
also elsewhere in the world.

In school

The

There was no effort made

Through his manipula-

In his defiance of the law,

The

Southern students in general, 1

believe, realize that the business
of getting an education is too im-
portant to be foregone because of
integration. If given the opportun-
ity, most would return to inte-
pared:Another fallacy-in-much-of| grated..classrooms. The trouble
within the school last year was
caused by a small group of stu-|({and this is again different from

Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

by Susan Downey

Mississippi is probably the most
determined of the “hard core”
states and probably will be the
last to have integration. So far
there has been no serious, organ-
ized attempt to enter a Negro child
in the public schools. One Negro
adult, Clenon King, tried to enter
the University of Mississippi. Po-
lice took him to the state mental
institution, where a band of psy-
chiatrists judged him sane. This
fall he planned to enter his child
in the public schools but his wife
took the children to Georgia. No
other attempt has been made and
there has been no agitation about
integrating the buses.

I am firmly convinced that most



South’s Reasoning

Not To Be Ignored

by Betsy Levering

When the Northerner (and we
use the term in the sense of “other
than Southerners”) takes time off
from 1) the morality of segrega-
tion-integration, and 2) the effect
on world opinion of the same prob-
lem, to consider with care and
perhaps sympathy the “Southern”
point of view, there are some exact
distinctions he must make.

The first and most important of
these is, that proverbially fine line
between reaction and reason: that
is, between an emotional, condi-
tioned response, and some real and
relevant observation and use of
facts. Unquestionably this distinc-
tion exists. However, it is meager-
ly recognized by integrationists,
and therefore both the facts and
their segregationist exponents
are lumped with the emotional
extremists. This is not to say that
plenty of rationalizing does not go
on: it does indeed, as witness any
of the legal escape hatches. But
there are realities that integration
cannot afford to ignore in theory,
and will not be able to ignore in
practice—the great economic dis-
parities, an exodus from the cities
parallel to that in the North, a
real and abiding fear of inter-
marriage, and the humiliation of
hundreds of thousands of white
farmers and millworkers who will
be declassés.

Parenthetically, the last ex-
ample is perhaps more than any-
thing else at the heart of South-
ern resentment and defiance. The
others, and there are long lists of
emotional and actual facts, are
often minimized by analogy with
the North. But in the South, there
exists a class distinction that fol-
lows the color line, and has little
or nothing to do with income or
social status. This distinction is,
in fact, more one of caste than of
class; if obliterated, there will be
a large poor white population
stripped of the pride of being
white, faced with the reality of
being poor. Of course, integration
of the schools can at best make
this a paper revolution but South-
erners know, and some fear, that
social actuality will one day follow
legal right.

There is another jmportant dis-
tinction to be made: there is a

difference lbetween the ‘Southern |:

attitude toward integration and

decision and its implementation.
|Many Southerners have known for

Mississippian Considers Her State
Among Anti-Integration’s Hard Core

Mississippians _ would close — the
schools rather than see them inte-
grated, Though many people would
not want to see their children’s
education interrupted, most would

prefer this state to integration.
Mississippi has a law on the books
like that in Arkansas, authorizing
the governor to lease the schools
to private conporations. If there
is an attempt to integrate Missis-
sippi schools, I am sure the state
will try to carry these laws into
effect. Mississippi will fight inte-
gration with all legal means and
quite possibly with violence.

Morality and “Hate”

whole are strongly pro-segrega-
tion. Almost nobody believes that
segregation is morally wrong.
Even staunch Christians use Bib-
lical quotations to “prove”~ that
segregation is God’s will. Many
of the intelligent men and leading
citizens of Jackson are members
of. the Citizens’ Council which
circulates “hate literature” stat-
ing that the Negro race is inferior
and other similar ideas.

mination to prevent integration
lies in a strong emotional fear of
the results of integration. There
is a widespread belief that the
Negroes are an inferior race and
that therefore integration would
lower the academic level of the
schools. There is also a stronger
fear that integration of the schools
would lead to social integration and
then eventually to intermarriage.
Many people and among them the
more intelligent, believe that inter-
marriage would corrupt the “pure”
white race and lower its level of
intelligence, All of this fear and
prejudice is influenced by the-fact
that a majority of Negroes in
Mississippi. live in slums with
large families crowded into small
rooms and without proper sanita-
tion, .Whites do not wish to min-
gle with slum people, especially
slum people of another race.

' White Supremacy

Then, too, there is fear that if
all Negroes were allowed to vote
the whites would lose their suprem-
acy. They are determined to keep
white pro-segregationalists in of-
fice which would be hard to do if
all Negroes were allowed to vote.

Mississippians feel that North-
erners who don’t understand the
problem are trying through the
N.A.A.C.P., which they think is
communist, to force integration on
the state. Many believe that Neg-
roes would rather attend their own

tent this is true, at least in the
case of the churches,

Separate But Equal

Mississippi maintains separate
but equal school facilities for
‘Negroes, and most people believe
there is nothing wrong in. this.
These facilities, at least in Jack-
son, are genuinely equal, but they
are .allsin one. part of town, and
children from many sections must
go there. Obviously this is not
fair. However, Mississippi will
continue to maintain its séparate
but equal policy as long as poss-
ible.
The strong emotional fear and
prejudice against Negroes are at
the heart of the integration policy
in Mississippi, Until this fear
and prejudice are removed, integra-



some time - that the Negro ¢lass|



Continued on Page-5, Col. 1

|tion will be forced from outside

and will almost certainly result



in violence.

The people of Mississippi as a,

The reason for the great deter-:

schools and churches. To some ex- .

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THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

Wednesday, October 8, 1958



Four Indian Stud

ents Impressed

By America’s Great Friendliness

“We were expecting something
very different,” report the four
Indian students now settled in the
Graduate Center, “but though it
is different, it is not so different
as we expected.” For one thing,
everyone doesn’t chew gum as
they’d anticipated, and they
haven’t seen any rock and rolling
in the few weeks since they ar-
rived.

Radhika Jayakar, who is work-

ing in philosophy, and Neela
Deshpande and Vinal Patel, eco-
nomics students, are all graduates
of the University of Bombay;
while Anand lLakshmy _ received
her degree from the University of
Madras before coming to this
country on a Fulbright to study
education.
Since English is spoken exclu-
sively in Indian schools from kin-
dergarten on, all four speak it
fluently. The Indian gavernment
is now making an attempt to re-
vert to Hindi, which is a required
course in many colleges, but most
texts, are still written in English,
and it is difficult to find equivalent
Hindu terms for many basic con-
cepts.

The university system in India
is modeled on the British and is
far more impersonal than Amer-
ica’s; moreover, a teacher shortage
makes the smallest undergraduate

‘class number around a_ hundred

students. While some professors
have studied in England, there are
many eminent scholars who have
been educated entirely in India.
On the graduate level, says Anand,
there is less difference—seminars
are conducted on the same princi-
ple as the American ones. In gen-
eral, the girls think students work
harder here, where there is more
check: on them and less concentra-
tion on exams.

Though villagers ‘are lucky’ to
graduate from high school in
India, it is very common for girls
in cities to attend college; and
most of those who can afford’ to
go, do. Since the usual age to-enter
college is fifteen or sixteen and
since it is difficult to find jobs at
that age, it has become accepted
for girls to continue their educa-
tion beyond the high school level.

The majority of those who go
to college-live with their families,
though the universities do have
hostels, where students can stay.
Hostel life is very restricted—
students must be in by 6:30 every
evening and are allowed very few
nights away. Those who live at
home conduct their social life
within the family, and eventually
their marriages are arranged for
them. Dating is not unheard-of,
but it is looked down on, except
in large groups. The caste system,
though no longer enforced by law,
still holds great authority among
the people; for instance, marriage
between a Brahmin and an un-
touchable would be a calamity for
the entire family.

American mévies are an integral
part of Indian city life. Tickets
are bought in advance for the|!
Sunday night performances, and
everyone goes in his most elegant
clothes.

Among the things the Indian
students have particularly noticed

Little Rock

“Continued from Page 3, Col. 3
dents directed by adults outside
the school. Should these partic-
ular students be strictly dealt with,
this type of trouble would cease.
What. doesthe~future hold?



“With Faubus, an ambitious man

devoid of principle, holding the
reins the road chosen seems to be
a long obstacle course with de-
struction of public education ag its
end, unless people can throw off
their blindfolds of prejudice and
misunderstanding and. call this dis-





astrous ride to a halt: alt

a a.

since their arrival in America are
the excellent roads and the con-
venience of transportation — in
India, travel is extremely difficult.
They are also impressed with the
friendliness of Americans; as one
remarked, “I don’t feel out of
place here.”

President's Speech
Continued from: Page 1, Col. 2

be doing better what we are al-
ready doing or are there major
changes around the corner, hard
for any of us to conceive?

The last year has put education,
learning, research in a dangerous
place—on a pedestal. It is easy to
be knocked off a pedestal and it’s
easy to fall off. You could make
my picture absurd by adding that
it is particularly easy for an egg-
head to roll off, but I want to draw
your serious attention to the fact
that some two years after the
height of criticism of the egghead
we have—not, to be sure, a direct
reversal in the form of admiration
for the egghead — but, what is
more important, a new and wider
interest in education of high
standard.

We see this interest in parents,
who not only want to know what
their children are doing in school
but want to have a part in décid-
ing the program or even, in special
cases, in teaching. We see it in
students, who take for granted
some form of education beyond the
high school. We see it increasingly
in business and industry with a
great variety of programs to help
support higher education. We have
seen it this year in congressional
action on bills supporting educa-
tion and research, one of which }
want to comment on later.

This new interest and support
may permit us to gain in this race
with time. It may, but only if we
are accurate in ‘judging our needs,
and that means our goals, and able
to make these clear to ourselves
and to others.

Sputnik was a great achieve-
ment, and also a tremendous chal-
lenge to the United States. It is
responsible for some of this new
interest in education, and yet for
the long term we shall strengthen
education not through competition
with any one nation, including
Russia, but through providing op-
portunity for the development of

in relation to scholarship that is
world-wide and needs that are
world-wide.

A first. report this summer of a

McGrath indicates that the cur-
riculum of the liberal arts college
has become increasingly directed
toward vocation after college.
That would not be true .at Bryn
Mawr probably, but every year I
talk with students who are very
much interested in a field of study
which, however, they are about to
relinquish because they do not
know what. they would “do with
it” after graduation. It is easy,
but of course not enough, to put
the question in terms of what the
field of study would do to the
student.

I am very much encouraged by
the rapid development of colleges
and universities in the United

are new and greater changes

point we can clearly see.

Those changes will be madein
a time of mounting” dangers and
préssures in the world. Through-
out we shall have to remind our-
selves again and again that
education is’ concerned with the
development of talent in all fields,
that Scholarship has its own ends
and is valid only in achieving them |
and that the student like the scholar
must be free to set his’ own goals.
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Wednesday, October 8, 1958

\ THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

Page Five



Virginian Views Southern Reasoning

Continued from Page 3, Col. 4

“race”) must advance toward that
middle economic status currently
being deplored by the sociologists,
if only to provide a market, and
an excellent one, for the new
manufactures of the South. This
advance implies integration in one
of the most important areas of
human contact, that of occupa-
tional challenge and competition.
There is real reason to believe that
this particular integration has
been slowed by legislated integra-
tion at another point of possible
contact. Some Southerners who
approve of, or acquiesce to, the
principle and practice of integra-
tion, question the wisdom of the
form that aspiration is taking, and
painfully watch resentment build
up. The bandied slogan, “You can’t
legislate social justice,” is partly
rationalized defense, partly a
natural annoyance (or worse) at
being the object of corrective en-
actment.



These words “legislate” and “en-
actment” are exact in that the
“Topeka vs. Brown” decision was
a: policy-making one. Policy-mak-
ing is a proper function of a
court, but one often underplayed,
as is the executive function. Be-
cause this decision is of great
importance, and because the policy-
making. functions of a court are
here in bas-relief, the South even
feels some cause for complaint on
quasi-legal grounds. The feeling
that the Supreme Court was using
its powers to or past the limit

gave rise to the bills introduced in
the last session of Congress aimed
at stri¢ter:and more: limited defini-
tion of these powers. Of course, the
fact that in the $ast the Supreme
Court has been badly wrong—that
is, out of step with changing social
conditions, and with the concur-
rently changing ideas of what is
“right¥ or “wrong’—is part and
parcel of the anti-Court argument.

Indulging in understatement, this



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ugly absurdities, the force, South-
ern arguments must and should be
weighed as arguments, Southern
reason is quite often reasonable,
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been temperate.

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by Ellie Easton and Anne Farlow
Co-chairmen of Record Library
In 1938, a generous gift from
the Carnegie Foundation gave the
college enough records to start a
lending library. Under the aus-
pices of Undergrad, this record
collection in the West Wing of the
Library now numbers over 1,300
works, at least one-third of which
are on—long-playing records.
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Token Integration
Continued from Page 3, Col. 2

tions will accomplish the same
good as evaluative integration
procedure, and bring it about
sooner. We do well to remember
there are two races to be freed;
that. before the Negro enjoys the
full rights of citizenship, the
white man, all over the United
States—must be freed from an in-
sididus prejudice that catches the
wisest off guard. A war and two
Amendments: were only the first
steps in freeing the Southern
Negro, and in some places he is
still as much enslaved mentally
and spiritually as he was a century
ago. He must be freed first from
his own complacency, then in the
minds of his fellow citizens. This
will be achieved as much through
education of the prejudiced as
through education of the victims.

Much good was being done in
this respect before, the first Su-
preme Court decision by a process
that may be described as “thawing
out.” Border States having not
quite the same problems as those
of the deeper South were making
a great deal of quiet progress.
Baltimore, Maryland, is perhaps
the best example. In Virginia, how-
ever, where signs of thawing were
becoming evident there has been
a complete reversal, since Faubus
made a political issue out of his
state’s struggle. The great tension
created by the focus of attention
on\the South has caused blocks to
be erected which will be long in
down.

freedom from this bane
in the achievement of a
unique degreé of “color-blindness.”
But in this generation that quality
will be hard to adopt even for the
Northerners of relatively unpreju-
diced backgrounds; for the. antag-
onism between’the races is second
only to imminent war as-the focus
of the nation’s attention.
The most valid study any of us
can make now is one of our own
attitudes. Unless we belong to the
dedicated few who are called to
work in the South for understand-
ing and better race relations “The
South” should not be the object of
our. beseechings or our invectives.
The South struggles with practical
problems different from those of
the North, but not greater in terms
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rary is open to anyone connected
with the college, and entails only
registration with Mrs. van Hul-
steyn at the West Wing desk, and
the payment of a dollar (whici: may
go on Payday if you wish). Aside
from a plea to treat the records as
you would your own, the rulés
governing the Record Library are:

1. All records must be signed

in and out at the Librarian’s desk,
and only when the Librarian is at
the desk.
2. Records may be kept seven
days. Fines of five cents per rec-
ord per day will be charged for
overdue records, Only two record-
ings at a time may be borrowed,
with the exception of single 78’s,
five of which may be taken at once,
Money accumulated from member-
ship fees and overdue charges does
towards the purchase of new rec-
ords,

We have just bought more than
twenty new LP’s which will be in
circulation soon.

Your suggestions and, of course,
your dues and fines are more than
welcome!

Freshmen Plays

Continued from Page 1, Col. 1
South have joined forees to. pro-
duce a dramatic version: of A, A.
Milne’s famous Winnie the Pooh
stories, directed by Nan Jamieson
and advised by Sarah Bosworth
61.

Saturday night gets off to a mer-
ry start at 8:00 with Denbigh’s
Let There Be Farce, with Mimi
Gisolfi as advisor, a play of which
its director, Katherine Yablonsky,
says only, “It’s full of surprises.”
Nothing could be farther removed
from this than Yeats’ poetic Land
of Heart’s Desire, the story of a
young bride tempted from her hus-
band by fairies, which Pembroke
East will present, directed by
Agnes Moncy and advised by Cath-
erine Lucas ’61.

Kate Evans and Cisca Duran-
Reynals ’61 are advising Pembroke
West’s The Dear Departed, a satir-
ical comedy by Houghton, directed
by ‘Peggy Hartley. Finally, to fin-
ish off the evening, Rockefeller is
presenting Noel Coward’s “sophis-
ticated farce’, Fete Gailante,
with Kate Nilés and. Penny Eld-
redge ’59 as director and advisor.

Faculty Additions

Continued from Page 1, Col. 5
pects of His Political Thought.

Returning to Bryn Mawr from
Johns Hopkins University, Rene
N.-Girard-has- joined the faculty
of the French department as a
visiting lecturer, M. Girard taught
at Bryn Mawr until June, 1957.
Marcel M. Gutwirth of Haverford
College has also joined the French
department as a visiting lecturer.

The Spanish department has add-
ed two more lecturers, also. They
are Joaquin Gonzalez-Muela of the
University of Manchester, Eng-
land and Mrs. Edmund King of
Brown University.

Horace Alwyne, profesor emer-
itus of music, who has been John
Hay Whitney Professor for the
past year at Grinnell College in
Iowa, rejoins the department of
music.



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Page Six

THE

COLLEGE

NEWS

Wednesday, October 8, 1958



Biology
Continued from Page 1, Col. 4

Microbiology Lab, Isotope Lab
Counting Room, Glass Blowing
Lab, Isotope Lab, Animal Room,
Green House, and innumerable
Research Labs to name a few.

The student lounge to which
the students can go to relax or to
read the latest scientific journals
is tastefully decorated in modern
decor. While’ this lounge is not
luxurious, Miss Gardiner empha-
sized that it is very comfortable
as well as functional.

In the more scholarly vein, the
main lecture room is built on a
slope, enabling all students to see;
this arrangement also facilitates
the showing of slides or movies.
Becayse this well-iluminated
room is windowless, it is
air-conditioned. The first year
biology lab, according to Miss
Gardiner, has been proportioned
like.MIT labs. The benches in the
first year lab are unique in that
they have slots in which the dis-
section trays are stacked; she
pointed out that this was an in-
vention of the department. This
particular laboratory is considered
by the architect one of the best
designed rooms in the building,
Miss Gardiner added.

The new building also features
some new equipment: two steriliz-
ers, which resemble small bank
vaults, a laboratory dishwasher
which permits more sterile test
tubes, a 5°C and 15°C room which
is large. enough to work in, and a
cage-washer which is used to
cleanse the animals’ cages. The ani-
mals (rabbits and mice) have their
own new quarters; unlike those in
Dalton where they were exiled to
the top floor, they now live in “air
conditioned splendor” with their
own private entrance in the base-
ment, Miss Gardiner revealed.

The greenhouse, which is a pre-
fabricated structure, has a minia-
ture pond in which there are at

also}.

Building

\present some small fish and some
pond greens. This room is unique
in that any desired temperature
can automatically be maintained
through an elaborate system of
louvers which open and close.

This new building, Miss Gardi-
ner asserted, is very quiet and con-
venient since it was designed with
a minimum amount of mechanical
labor in mind. Most of all, how-
ever, Miss Gardiner emphasized
that this new building was not
designed to be a luxurious show-
place, but rather to be a practical
and functional center for the bio-
logical sciences.

The new building will be form-
a opened at a convocation on
Saturday, October 18, 1958.

Current Events
Continued from Page 1, Col. 3

new power has just emerged from
a period of great economic, po-
litical, and social change, The
demonstration of the people last
year against the government
awakened and alarmed the Chin-
ese communists who had fallen
into relaxed liberalism.

In addition to these tangible
changes, Mr. Kennedy added, Mao
Tse Tung has become ‘a leading
personage in the communist world.
He is considered to be one of the
“patron saints,”

In conclusion, the Chinese lack
a powerful navy which, Mr, Ken-
nedy believes, will prevent an at-
tack on Taiwan in the near fu-
ture.

Secondly, the United States is in
a powerful position in that area
of the Far East. Withdrawal of
U. §. troops’ would mean the fall
of the Nationalist government.

Thirdly, we are in an untenable
position in Formosa. We _ should
get out but cannot, On the other
hand we must contend with an
expansionistic ‘China.



‘think they feel



Northerner Visits Georgia

Continued from Page 3, Col: 2

have no desire to stir up the
trouble which will inevitably fol-
low, or because this is what they
really feel. However, I seriously
doubt that any underdog likes be-
ing an underdog, It is perfectly

obvious (to me) that segregation
denies equality, no matter what
the claims for it may be, and
where is the man that does not
wish to be equal to other men?
With this one -belongs the next
argument. ;

4. “At least they have a chance
now to“mix on equal terms with
members of their own race? You
inferior now?
What are they going to feel like
when they go to school with whites
and have this shoved down their
throats all the time?”

I have no argument for this
one. It’s true, and the Southerners
will be sure to see that it con-
tinues to be true when integration
is finally enforced. .

5. “I guess it’s hard for anyone
who doesn’t live here to under-
stand. Sure, I know that they’re
equal to us and that. they have
just as much right to these things
as I do, but the feeling’s just sort
of inbred in us—in them too. Intel-
lectually I accept it, but emotion-
ally I can’t. It’s like—well—invit-
ing the streetcleaner to a formal
dinner—it simply isn’t done. It’s
sort of unthinkable. He wouldn’t
want to come either.”

This is a pretty honest state-
ment of how the majority of in-
telligent sympathetic Southerners
feel. It’s a genuine feeling, and it’s
this which has led many to say
that the inferiority of the Negro
must be a congenital fact—the
white simply knows in his bones
that it must be so, and. I imagine
that a good many Negroes must
feel it in their bones too. It’s use-
less to point out that a few cen-



turies of relationship such as has
existed in the South would lead to
just this. Leaders in India have
exactly the same mixed feelings
about their own untouchables.
I'll leave out the rest of the
arguments, some of which verge
on the ridiculous, and get down to

what I consider to be the basic
problem. It’s easily stated in one
word — miscegination. Nowadays
even Orvil Faubus_ doesn’t stomp
around crying “How would you
like it if your daughter married
a Negro?” In general (although
this may be hard to believe),
things are conducted on a more
sophisticated level. However, .al-
though I cannot prove this with
anthropological records, it does
seem to me that people tend to
fear and to hate other people who
are different from themselves,
especially when those people ap-
pear to present some sort of
threat to them. The Negro is dif-
ferent because of his looks and
the color of his skin, just as the
Oriental is different. I. do not be-
lieve that this hatred is part of
the basie structure of mankind—
vis the number of Japanese wives
to go to some lengths to avoid
the Korean affair. However, it does
seem to me that the. desire to
stick to one’s own race is a power-
ful emotional feeling. And it is
this, I believe, that is back of all
the trouble in the South—and the
North—even though it is seldom
mentioned either in the news-

papers or in discussion, In fact, |

for some odd reason, people appear
to go to some.length to avoid
mentioning the subject, even
though (to me) all other argu-
ments are merely subsidiary to
this central fact. After all, it’s
pretty silly to bar anyone from
going to school with anyone else—
that is, it’s silly if you ignore the
fact that the integration achieved



here will eventually lead to social
integration and from, there very
probably to intermarriage. A cyni-
cal Southerner told me that the
problem could easily be licked if all
the girls, white and colored, were
sent to one school and all the boys
to another. “Voila—no fuss!” he
said, and I tend to think that he’s
right.

There’s no easy solution that’s
practicable though. When Atlanta
comes to the point where ‘she’ll
have to do something about inte-
gration (nothing has been done

yet) there’s going to be trouble,

and that in no small degree, be-
cause Atlanta likes to think of
herself as the leading city in the
Deep South. She is honor bound to

fight integration. Meanwhile, At-
lantans will vote solidly Demo-
cratic in-the elections, continue to
read the newspapers, and hope
that their turn will not be soon.

It should be mentioned again
that the people with whom I talked
were the so-called “intelligentia,”
not the less-informed people. Also,
that no matter how a Southerner
may feel personally about the sub-
ject of integration, all of them are
against the strong-arm methods
employed by the Federal govern-
ment in the case of Little Rock.
The South has long been known
for its stubbornness; actions such
as this serve merely ‘to inflame
their pride and irritation. Wait
till next year; I predict that
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