College news, February 26, 1958

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VOL. XLIII, NO. 13

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1958

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1958

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Mrs. MacCaffrey Lectures On Men,
Methods, Ideas Of “New Criticism”

The main purpose of the new
criticism is to place poetry at the
center of human life, explained
Mrs. Wallace T. MacCaffrey, As-
sistant Professor of English, at
the onset of her lecture, The New
Criticism, given on February 24 in
the Common Room.

Allthough those professing to be
new critics endeavor to relate
their work to other activities, such

Joint Concert Set,
Agi Jambor Splos

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford Or-
chestra, augmented by several
members of the Swarthmore Col-
lege Symphony Orchestra, under
the direction of William H. Reese,
will present a concert at 8:30 p.m.
Friday, February 28, in the Good-
hart Hall auditorium. Mme, Agi.
Jambor will~participate as solo-
ist with the orchestra.

Included on the program will be
a concerto grosso by Corelli and a
ballet suite by the eighteenth cen-
tury composer Grétry. The ‘Con-
certo For Oboe and Strings” by
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801),
will feature oboist Nathaniel Ward,
Swarthmore ’58. Mme. Jambor
will perform with the orchestra
Cimarosa’s “Concerto For Piano
and Orchestra In D Minor”.

Dr. Reese, in speaking of the
program, pointed out that it offers
both well- and little-known music.
He mentioned particularly the
orchestra’s good fortune in having
an opportunity to rehearse and
perform with Mme. Jambor, and
the fact that a number of fresh-
men are taking part.



Hynek Discusses
Tracking Satellites

The “exciting new problem” for
astronomers is the actual tracking
and. photographing of the rapidly
moving earth satellites, according
to J. Allen Hynek, Associate Di-
rector of the Smithsonian Astro-
physical Observatory, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Dr. Hynek gave
the Class of 1902 Lecture last Wed-
nesday night’ in Goodhart auditor-
ium. “Tracking Earth .Satellites
in Space and Time” was the sub-
ject of his illustrated lecture.

Since tracking satellites is a re-
cent innovation, the scientists in-
volved have had to design their
own equipment, notably high speed
cameras and movie cameras. Dr
Hynek exhibited the original model
of the telescope which has three
sets of rotating parts enabling a
photograph of the moving satellite
to be taken.

Photography, which “is still the
most precise method,” is used to
take the 30 or 40 shots of the sat-
ellite while it is traveling at the
rate of 25,000 feet per second. In

~—“ordér to take ‘these pictures the

camera must “stop” the space and
time of the satelelite within ten
feet during one-twenty-five hun-
dredth of a second.



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Notice

The Alliance will present Mr.
C. H. Lowe of the Chinese Em- .
bassy on “Should Red China be
admitted to the United Na-
tions?” Thursday, Renreary 27,

'| ether who stresses the object.
‘| also feels that it is the duty of the

as philosophy, there is no coherent
doctrine, or, in the words of one
critic, there is “an infrequency of
happy. solutions.” Albout the only
common denominator is that: all
provide some critical way to read
poetry.

Among the more prominent of
the new critics “school” is I. A.
Richards. As Mrs. MacCaffrey

put it, “all others are but footnotes

to Richards.” His book The Prin-
ciples of Literary Criticism, pub-
lished in 1924, shows his interest
in psychology and semantics; Rich-
ards concentrates upon communi-
cation, i.e., the effect a poem has
on the reader, According to him,
the poem itself controls the “stan-
dard experience”,

Since he felt that something was
lacking in the teacheing of read-
ing poetry, Richatds conducted an
experiment at Cambridge Uni-
versity. He distributed thirteen
poems, without the names of the
poets, and requested his students
to comment. The sometimes in-
credible results led him to believe
that the “noises” which interfere
with a proper understanding of the
poem must be overcome. uch
“noises” include a too active par-
ticipation of the reader, so that
the poem changes. It must not be
forgotten that Richards’ main in-
terest was pedagogical.

To him, the value of poetry lies
in its ability to organize our im-
pulses, so that poetry will “save”
mankind. This, and especially the
notion that poetry must necessar-
ily be complex, has infuriated
many a critic of the new criticism.
However, no matter how unfortun-
ate or silly some of his methods
may appear, it must be admitted
that his goal, i.e. the better com-
prehension of poetry, is good.

Another “disciple” of Richards is
William Empson, who in his work
The Structure of Complex Words
takes issue with Richards, at the
same time recognizing him as a
great source. According to him,
the need for compression in poetry
implies that each word has more
than one direction. As a conse-
quence, Empson evolves. many
ferent interpretations of poetry,

some of which are very far-fetched.
He has aroused much animosity,
some of which is due to plain jeal-
ousy, some of which is. based upon
the claim that he is inaccurate. In
any case, his definition and methods
do not cover all phases of poetry;
rather, they seek to improve read-
ing habits.

John Crowe Ransom is another
critic who feels that poetry has a
“cognative function,” in that it
provides us with added insight. He
de-emphasizes the emotion, while
stressing the objects of the poems
themselves. To him, those objects
are infinite and inexhaustible.

R. P. Blackmuir is one critic
who is difficult-to place, admited
Mrs. MacCaffrey. He is more of
an.ad hoc critic, in. that he deals
with individual writers, inventing
corresponding methods as he goes
along. He obviously has both love
and knowledge of poetry, and will
do anything to read it intelligent-
ly.

F, R. Leavis, of Cambridge, is an-
He

critic to evaluate as well as to an-
alyze. This is something unhap-

| pily forgotten by many lesser “new

critics.’’-

Harp and Quartet
Concert Will Be
Given March 4th

Edna Phillips,
known harpist, together with the
Juilliard String Quartet will give
a concert. at Bryn Mawr on Tues-
day evening; March 4 under. the
auspices of the Friends of Music
of the College. Included in the
program will be Peggy Glanville-
Hick’s Concertino Antico for harp
and string quartet. Miss Phillips
and the Juilliard Quartet will also

perform selections from Hayden,
Beethoven and Debussy.

In addition, Miss Phillips and
the Quartet will each conduct an
afternoon workshop March 4 and
5 respectively at Bryn Mawr. Miss
Philips’ subject will be “The
Sonorities and Uses of the Harp”;

internationally



the Juilliard Quartet’s subject

will be “The Classical String

Quartet: 1750-1828.”
Notice

Tickets for the Friends of
Music Presentation of Edna
Phillips and the Juillard String

Quartet are available between
the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
at the Public Information Office.



by Martha Bridge

The Friends of Music of Bryn
Mawr College are to be congrat-
ulated for having presented
Yehudi Menuhin in a _ workshop
program; for, as those who were
fortunate’ enough to be in the
gym last Thursday afternoon dis-
covered, Mr. Menuhin is one of
those rare musicians who is equal-
ly articulate in speech and in per-
formance. In fact, had it not been
for Mr. Menuhin’s talent for com-
bining talk and playing, the pro-
gram might well have lost the
character of a workshop.

The circumstances with which
Mr. Menuhin had to contend were
the lack of intimacy of the gym-
nasium and the fact that the work-
shop was being recorded on tape.
It was. Mr. Menuhin’s easy and
modest manner, his informality of
dress and of approach to his .sub-
ject, which preserved the ‘contact
between performer (or lecturer)
and audience which, the title of
“workshop” implies,

Mr. Menuhin undertook a study
and performance of the Chaconne
from Bach’s D minor partita for
violin. Mr. Menuhin remarked that
the piece is a milestone in the







history of music, having been
written at the zenith of develop-



Dyer Submits Petition For Rehearing
In Contest With Union Electrie Co.

Last December THE COL-
LEGE NEWS .contained an ar-
ticle concerning the proxy con-
test between the Union Electric

Company of St. Louis and Nancy
Dyer, a senior here at Bryn
Mawr who is a stockholder in
the company. Since. that time
there ave been several new de-
velopments in the case.



by Barbara Broome

On March 21, 1957 the Securities
and Exchange Commission handed
down a decision on Nancy’s case
which backed up the management
of the Union Electric Company.
Claiming that the SEC decision is
invalid under both Missouri and
federal law and that there was
“bias and prejudice in favor of
said management”, Nancy and her
father submitted a petition for re-
view of the SEC decision on March
29. On January 24, 1958 the pe-
tition for review was dismissed
by the United States Court of Ap-
peals for the Eighth Circuit “as
‘having become moot’.” Since then,
Nancy and her father have sub-
mitted a petition for rehearing and
to supplement the petition for re-
view.

False Ads and Restrictive Ballots

Two of Nancy’s main points
against this $500 million industry
are: (1) that the advertising of
the company and that some of the
communications sent to stockhold-
ers have been false and (2) that
the proxy ballots which the com-
pany uses are “restrictive” ones.
On this latter point, Nancy con-
tends, the provision which Union
Electric has in it proxy ballots,
stating that unless a stockholder
votes for or against a particular
issue, the proxy agents chosen by

the management can vote as they| .

choose on it. By such methods





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ies, pension plans, etc.

Two of Nancy’s main proposals
are “that the approval of the whole
board of directors be required be-
fore any money can‘be spent for
lobbying”, and that the company
accord to the parent or guardian of
a minor stockholder: “all rights in-
cident to stock ownership that - it
accords to stockholders who have
reached their majority.” These
and her points against the “re-
strictive” ballot and false adver-
tising, although they are by no
means all.of Nancy’s proposals,
constitute the body of her case.

Petition for Review

In the petition for review of the
SEC decision, Nancy and her fath-
er claim that it “sanctions alleg-
edly unwarranted interpretations
of Missouri law and federal law”
and that the SEC ruling should
“be set aside.” A further purpose
of the petition for review is to
study the question of whether the
SEC is “biased and prejudiced”
and whether it is upholding
things “contrary to ‘the public in-
terest and the interest of investors
and consumers’.” Because the court
decision of January 24 “held that
‘sole purpose of the proceeding
before the Commission’ was to’pre-
vent the Company .. . from solic-
iting proxies for the annual stock-
holders’ meeting to be held on
April 20, 1957”, the issue was de-
clared-“‘moot”. es

Nancy and eg feel that
this issue is decidedly relevant to
the coming stockholders’ meeting
in 1958. Another important point

concerns the “long-view” of any
lawsuit. This case is not merely
concerned with Union Electric but
with a re-evaluation of certain
erroneous points ‘in corporate law
as a whole. Therefore, they feel
-that the decision — if “moot” is_im





anything it likes, i.e. bigger salar-|

Menuhin Workshop Successful;
Reviewer Congratulates ‘Friends’

ment of polyphonic composition.
Bach, Mr. Menuhin pointed out,
“bridged two epochs,” for in his
music.can be found the rich in-
fluence of the modal tradition and
the beginnings of chromatic pat-
terns.

Mr. Menuhin’s discussion of the
composition was particularly in-
teresting in that it revealed his
attitude towards the study of
music history. Relating music to
the philosophy ‘and psychology of
the era in which it was written
is essential for real understanding,
he remarked. For example, chro-
maticism, the “equality of notes,”
is a musical development which
should not be seen in isolation from
equalitarian trends in society in
general.

The chaconne itself, said Mr.
Menuhin, is, like all of the music
of Bach, “the master chess player”
who is completely in control of
the “systematic relation of music-
al elements,” a severe, strict, and
highly disciplined form. Mr. Menu-
hin brought up the question of
musical freedom, of ‘instinct and
interpretation as against self-
control and precision, and came to
the conclusion that freedom and
self-discipline are not only - con-
sistent but interdependent, He



pursued ‘this point with a demon-
stration of how the trained violin-
ist starts from the fundamental
strictness of the written notes and
rhythm and builds, with his knowl-
edge of the structure, history, and
expressive possibilities of the
composition, an. individual — per-
formance of “spicy diversity.”

Mr. Menuhin went on to analyze
the chaconne for the audience,
illustrating some of his earlier
points with reference to the work
and making some quiet but point-
ed comments on the conflicting
interpretations of academic music-
ologist and performing musician.

Then, expressing the fear that
perhaps to know anything more
about the chaconne might spoil
the audience’s enjoyment of it, Mr.
Menuhin anonunced that he would
play “it through.

The gym is not an ideal place in
which to play a violin; especially in
the less quiet passages of the cha-
conne, such as the ringing chords
at the opening, one had the feel-
ing that the sound was jumbled by
echoing effects. But leaving aside
what acoustical. imperfections
marred the performance, it was
an interpretation of great clarity.
One felt that the same intelligence
and_ sensitivity with which Mr.
Menuhin had illuminated the pie
in his talk were embodied in his
playing. It is an overwhelming
piece of music to experience; and
the measure of Mr. Menuhin’s
success as a_lecturer-performer
was that one left the workshop
with a sense of direct musical _
communication. ~~

- The least successful part of the
workshop was the question period,
which was handicapped by the
exigencies of the recording pro-
cedure. Mr. Menuhin was consist-
ently courteous in his answers,
but the questioners were either
nervously timid, stiffly ‘proper, or
emparrassingly foolish. It was a
poor ending to a fine program; the
difficulties of the situation were
forgotten only in the presence of —.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

‘Wednesday, February 26, 1958



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Fish nor Foul nor Good Red Herring

Last week by a campus-wide series of hall meetings, the
Revisions Committee for the Self-Government Constivtion
proposed a modification of the rules concerning alcoholic

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-beverages and opened the question for discussion by the

student body. In some halls a tentative vote followed dis-
cussion. This issue, previously presented in the form of a
petition from the Executive Board of the Undergraduate

. Association to that of the Self-Government Association calls

for permission to serve a mildly alcoholic punch once during
the course of a major college weekend. As adopted by the
Revisions Committee, the proposal also suggests that sherry
be served once a year before Christmas Dinner. Opinions
expressed in the halls tended to favor both innovations.

A time there was, recorded in the annals of the Self-
Government Association, when students were allowed the
pleasantly civilized custom of drinking wine after meals,
secure in their own rooms, before the glowing hearths and in
the company of their roommates. With the increase in size
of the.college, and with changes in other areas of Self-Gov-
ernment’s social policy, this was discontinued and replaced
with the present system of rules. If a return to this plan

were the Committee’s underlying long-range policy, or even

if its plan were the designation of some area on or near
campus, where students might be allowed some such privi-
lege at their own discretion, then the proposal might tend
somewhat more toward definiteness.than to mere whimsy.

At first sight this revisions proposal seems to hold a
positive attraction for many, and yet we might question
whether that attraction appears in a vision of real value to
be gained by an addition to our social life, or in a slight mat-
ter of principle, an addition to the honor system in a region
that many feel that honor should be sufficient to cover.

The News does not believe, and we doubt that other
campus associations do either, that the proposal of drinking
on campus need be an ethical issue. The instant that a moral
stigma is attached to the problem it is. transferred to the
individual student. What has been suggested will not alter
campus atmosphere much, nor will it deluge Self-Government
with a host of cases to be be “severely dealt with.”’ Many stu-
dents who feel they are, by virtue of the mature responsibil-
ity involved in the honor system, able to make their own
ethical choice in this quarter, already have the opportunity
to do so—and indeed more opportunity—off campus. And
this is not the place to debate whether virtue unassailed be
no virtue at all. |

If alcoholic beverages are introduced on campus, as spec-
ified, a very slight victory of principle may have been gain-
ed; and yet, an instant flood of complications may well arise
to overwhelm the victory. We, ourselves, record a majority
vote for sherry, and yet we are willing to consider that gentle
touch of civilization in the light of the same drawbacks which
attend the first issue. If a mere substitute for the notorious
“Bryn Mawr punch” is sought, surely Dance Committee can
unearth a less controversial brew. If this be a question in-
troduced for the mere sake of controversy, the controversy
already roused should be rewarding.

Indeed the question of changing the drinking rules on
campus is one that, if it be continued, will need much further
discussion for solution, but we question whether so trivial a
propoal is really worth the effort of the solution.

Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright

For the past few weeks Princeton University has been
the scene of a disturbance that has been entirely of a social
nature. Twenty-three sophomores who: had not received
bids to any of the college’s sixteen eating clubs have not been
placed in any despite a ruling passed in 1949 that there
should be a 100% membership. In addition four boys have
decided to leave the college. To many college students who
are aware of the rigors of the academic procedure the con-
sequences seem alarming. Having compared the situation
with his own experiences, the outsider cannot help being
concerned that while the problem itself involved the so-
cial aspect of university life, it resulted in the disru
e academic careers of four stud

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and consideration.

This criticism, however, should not be interpreted as a



_ denial of the ne and educating influences of dormitory
and club life. y the club system at Princeton has
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A, B, and C, and oh yes, D
(D is significant because without
D there would not be any slate
at all since it would not be parlia-
mentary. D ever so kindly offered
her self up, but she is slightly
afraid she might win which would
be bad for everyone, even the
campus, she said modestly). Well
anyway, A, B, C and D were
drawn up. B and C were not too
sure what being drawn up meant
and A kept talking about being
quartered which was probably just
a bad pun depending on D’s con-
sent to be a fourth, though you
ean’t tell. D, with all this atten-
tion, suddenly decided she could
run just as well as A, B and C,
and may be even better. A point-
ed out that D already was run-
ning and D said yes, but she
thought now she might run fast-
er, since she already was.

So D wrote a campaign speech
which was a very fine speech in-
deed except that“it seemed to be
about the wrong office, but it said

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1B, and C and no one had ever









the right things so no one noticed
what it was about. Everyone said
“my isn’t D clever, we’re so glad
she’s revealing her little talents,”
and D realized with horror that
she was naked in the public eye
which is a very bad thing to be,
and she withdrew her little talents
which made more of a furor than
ever because then they had to get
E while the public was still clam-
oring for D. And to make things
worse D’s picture (a large round
head) was putin the papers with
the. name of E underneath, caus-
ing adlepatedness all around ex-
cept for E, who could now make
unethical comments about D. D
did not care since she had gone
to' the Canary Islands; but E was
pre-impeached for black politics,
and they had to get F. By now
everyone had forgotten about A,

heard of F except for Them, and
so They decided to leave the or-
ganization headless. A good idea
all things considered.



“We Stick to Our Guns,”’ Say Thesbians In Reply
To News Editorial On the Selection of Fry Play

To the Editor:

In your last issue, your editorial-
ist expressed disappointment in the
choice of The Dark Is Light
Enough as the March College
Theatre production. She felt that

Dark is one example too many of
the “intellectual modern British
drama” and that a change of pace
is called for. Obviously, we in
College Theatre do not agree with
your writer (although we feel that
she bent over backwards to do a
fair . and _ intelligent ~ editorial).
There are certainly many problems
involved in picking plays for pro-
duction, and we take this opportun-
ity to set down the standards that
guide our choice,

The reading committees of the
Bryn Mawr and Haverford drama
clubs look at each suggested play
from two points of view. Our
first consideration is whether the
play is “good”, That is, any play
we choose must have something
to say to the actors and technical
crew who produce it. There must
be some essential attitude or idea
in the play that will grow and de-
velop during our five weeks of con-
centrated rehearsal. If a play has
nothing to say, it seems hardly
worthwhile to give up our time to
do it; if it has a great deal to
say, then it is worth the time of
both the actors and the audience.

As your editorialist pointed out,
we have stuck thus far to the Brit-
ish-American tradition of drama,
feeling that this drama has, on the
whole, the most to say to us. In
our opinion, the modern English
verse drama is an important part
of this tradition. Fry, without a
doubt, is a major verse dramatist.
As an added attraction, we are
fortunate enough to have a director
who has worked closely with him.
Under these circumstances, it
would be a shame to neglect Fry’s
work. NS

In spite of the fact that four-
ninths of our recent productions
have been both modern and Brit-
ish, we try to consider a wide
range of plays, including some con-
tinental drama. We drew up this

list of serious plays for March (to
Beggars’ | -

ince the earlier Be
): The Dark Is Light Enough
(Fry); The Wild Duck (Ibsen);
Uncle Vanya ~“(Chekhov); The
White Devil (Webster); Antigone



fulfill our first condition in that (in
our sense of the word) they are

(Giradoux’s version) and Oedipus| -
Rex (Sophocles). These plays all|





in a practical way all sorts of
problems appear.

Our colleges are small, and our
technical staff and actors are
therefore in short supply. Web-
ster’s White Devil was impossible
simply because it calls for too
many men, There are difficulties
with Chekhov and Ibsen too. If
they are to be done at all they re-
quire the most subtle naturalistic
acting. Even if we spent our five
weeks working for precision and
polish of tone and gesture—these
effects—which are absolutely es-
sential in realistic drama—would
be lost because of the immense
size and acoustical limitations of
Goodhart Hall (the March produc-
tion is scheduled for Goodhart).
Oedipus Rex was an appealing
possibility for March but it calls
for a huge chorus of soldiers and
townsmen. We couldn’t see turn-
ing them all into Bryn Mawr girls.
On the other hand Garcia Lorca’s
House of Bernarda* Alba consider-
ed in past years contains this stage
direction: “The stage slowly fills
with two hundred women dressed
in black.” Here are practical
problems indeed.

The point we want to make is
this. iWe belfeve heartily in the
value of the “modern British intel-
lectual drama”. We stick to our
guns on The Dark Is_ Light
Enough; it is a rewarding play to
produce. This does not mean,
however that we are willing to
limit ourselves to any one drama-
tic period. We would like to pro-
duce a variety of good plays (and
would ‘be especially happy to find
them with more women’s parts).
Choosing a play is a long and ted-
ious business, since finding the
perfect play—from both artistic
and practical standpoints—is never
easy. ‘We are glad to have had the
chance to talk about our process
of selection. We would be even
happier were we to receive more
specific suggestions from the cam-
pus,

__ Adrian-Tinsley

President _
Bryn Mawr. College Theatre
David Morgan
President
Haverford College Drama Club





‘of the “new” school.



Letters to the Editor

Use of Living Animals
For Show Is Protested
To the Editor of the News:

This is a letter of protest at the
use of living animals for the Fresh-
man Show. To say that it is un-
kind to the animal is putting it
mildly. At times—as in the casé
of this year’s horse—it verges on
cruelty. For twenty-four hours—
often longer—the animal must. be
kept in strange and usually un-
comfortable surroundings. The
horse “was “stabled” under the
porch at Yarrow—where wind and
snow could get at him—surrounded
by junk—old windows he might
have kicked and broken, cutting
himself in the process—old pieces
of wire and metal, and even an
ancient basketball hoop! We lis-
tened to his neighing in protest
all Saturday. (Where were the
sophomores’ ears?)

Granted that the snow and cold
were bad luck—but such things
should have been considered, as it
is not at all unusual to have weath-
er like this at this time of year.

Add to the hiding part, the fact
that most animals are thoroughly

frightened when faced with the
bright lights and screaming audi-
ence of Goodhart it seems to me
it all adds up to a picture of
thoughtlessnes and lack of consid-
eration for our fellow creatures.

Why not go back to the idea in
use some time ago of a mythical
or imaginary creature—represent-
ed by a model or a student in cos-
tume—in some way tied into the
plot of the show so it could be
brought on at the climax? This
would be just as much “fun” and
would not subject a live creature -
to the ordeal that is required by
the present system.

Respectfully yours,
MartHa Hubbard



Is New Criticism
New: MacCaffrey

Continued from Page 1

Cleanth Brooks, in his book,
‘Understanding Poetry, has offered
the most satisfactory synthesis
Again, his
mission is to educate.

There have been many criticisms
of the “New Criticism,” the most
stressed of which is the way in
which these critics ignore history.
In other words ,they eliminate all
which is irrelevant, since it is the
reaction of the reader which
counts. However, this does not
mean that we can exclude the per-
iod in which the poem was written,
the poet’s life, etc. Some other .
comments have been that the
methods are not universally ap-
plicable, that they are one-sided,
and that the critics “murder to
dissect.” Some of the complaints
are less defendable, however; many
have been irritated by the state-
ment that poetry is complex; oth-
ers are merely upset that their
techniques, which they have been
using quietly for years, are now
being touted as being “new.”

Before closing, Mrs. MacCaffrey
gave a brief background of this
kind of literary criticism, which
actually began with Coleridge. In
his criticism“ of “Shakespeare, he
combined analysis with evaluation,
and came up with many interest-
ing comment on metaphors,

However, the problein for each
critic, be he new or not, is to
decide what is essential, and for



this he needs common sense, As
Richards says, “Methods cannot
choose for us, but we cannot
choose without them.” It now re-
‘mains to be seen who will be the ©





methods in order to


















— The _president...of Undergrad}

&

Wednesday, February 26; 1958

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Page Three



Special College Election Supplement



Candidates for Undergrad

Moira MacVeagh, Sallie Powers, Alice Todd, Lucy Wales

The following question was ask-
ed the candidates for the presi-
dency of Undergrad:

If you took office as president of
the Undergraduate Association,
what would be the first things you
would do and why?

The following isa list of candi-
dates for the presidency of the
Undergraduate Association, listed
in alphabetical order:

MOIRA MAC VEAGH

SALLY POWERS

ALICE TODD

LUCY WALES



MOIRA Mac VEAGH
Activities:
Freshman year
Temp. Class Chairman
Rotating member to Under-
Grad
J.V. Hockey (2 years)
Varsity Basketball (3 years)
Class Hall Rep.
Ticket Committee Freshman
Show
Campus Guide (3 years)
Sophomore year
Second Soph. to Under-Grad
_ Permission Giver (2 years)
Basketball Manager
Class Vice-President
Soda Fountain ‘Crew
Stage Crew, Maids and Porters
_ Show
Junior year
Secretary of Under-Grad
Basketball Captain
Varsity Hockey
Freshman Week Committee
Business Manager Junior Show

The executive power of the
Undergiraduate Association rests
in a body comprising approximate-
ly one-fiftieth of the student body.
Herein lies both its strength and
its weakness. A small group of
interested people carefully elect-
ed to specific positions provide the
vitality, mobility, and efficiency
necessary to any organization, The
problem in the case of Undergrad,
which derives its reason for exist-
ence from the ideas, needs, and
activities of the entire college
community, is one of communica-
“tion. |

I would enlarge to its fullest
extent the present policy of hav-
ing reports to the Executive and
Advisory Boards from. the heads
of the clubs and committees under
Undergrad; and also that of in-
viting as many people as are con-
cerned with a particular topic
under discussion, including not
only the head of an organization
but also interested members.

must concern herself at all times







contact to and from halls and in-
dividuals, at the same time ex-
perimenting with new ones. I
woul like to see every hall rep-
resented at all times on the Execu-
tive or Advisory Boards, whether
through elected members as now,
or through hall vice-presidents, as
has been suggested.

Of major importance to the
campus is the impending report
of the Re-Evaluation Committee.
In connection with the findings of
this group, I would be in favor of
an investigation and clarification
of all college financing from that
of the Big Six to the class dues.
Surely car-washing isn’t the only
way to increase a treasury.

It is hard to say exactly what
one would do first, since there are
many matters to be taken care of
immediately, such as appointments
and schedules; and the planning of
definite projects, which is after all,
up Ao the board as well as the

resident. As soon as the business
matters are over, I would be in
favor of holding open meetings in
the halls, as Self-Gov did this
year, so that more people may not
only express their preferences
whether for plain or jelly donuts
or for washing machines in all

people may see exactly how a
meeting is run and what topics
are discussed.

Finally, one of the major acti-
vities under way is that of the
Student Center which must be
finished as soon as possible to
provide for the overworked and
the underfed.



SALLY POWERS
Activities:
Freshman year
League Hall Rep
Technical Director of Show
Freshman Hall Play
Director of Lacrosse
Sophomore year
Management of Soda Fountain
Hall Rep
Technical Director of Maids and
~ Porters Show —
Lacrosse
Junior year
-_| Director of Junior Show
Hall Rep
Undergrad Hall Rep
Lacrosse



Aside from the routine jobs
which come to Undergrad every
year, the next president will have
to continue on issues which an
active president has initiated this
year: -Thefirst things ‘to be~con=|
sidered are the old things, which

the halls, but also so that more}

ALICE TODD
Activities:
Freshman year
Vice-President of Class :
Director of Freshman Hall
Play 5
Temporary Class Chairman
Chairman of Class Blazer Pro-
ject
Freshman Show
Election Committee

Sophomore year
Undergrad Advisory Board
Temporary Class President
Sophomore Carnival
French Club
Graduation Marshall—two years
Varsity Lacrosse—two yéars

Junior year
Hall Rep to A.A.
Junior Show
Chorus
German Club
Basketball J.V.—three years
Campus Guide—three years
Permission Giver—three years

Why can’t we have telephones
in our rooms if we are willing to
pay for them? Why are we com-
pelled to attend our last class be-
fore vacations? Why are there so

jmany required courses? Why do

we have to make utter fools of
ourselves on Mayday morning?
Why do we spend nearly $4,000.00
a year on a tradition culminating

Hell Week? The purpose of

Undergrad is~to express publicly | ,

such typical undergraduate ques-
tions, to work with the faculty
and the administration in solving
the various problems they raise,
and, most most important, to put
the best possible. solutions into

grad should, together with the
various boards over which she pre-
sides, decide which problems are
most urgent

deserve to be dealt with first.
Most people are unaware of

what goes on in Undergrad and

don’t know which part of its com-

plicated structure to go to with
their complaints and suggestions.
I suggest that the new president
place in every student and faculty
mailbox a 2 page (maximum) dia-
gram and description of the whole
set-up (with the diagram on the
first page so that the majority of
the recipients,- who won’t bother
to read any of it, cannot avoid
seeing the most essential informa-
tion before throwing it out).
The new president should con-
tinue the work on the new Stu-
dent Center and the examination
by the Re-evaluation Committee of
the antiquated arrangement of all
the undergraduate organizations
as a whole, She should see that
any rearrangement of the present
system co-ordinates rather than
consumes the various organiza-
tions like Soda Fountain and Cur-
ricalum Committee. I hope she
will carry out the present attempt
to install a free inter-hall tele-
phone system, which would be an
invaluable aid to nearly every
campus organization. The present
amorphous election process should
be clarified. The Advisory Board
should, perhaps, be composed of

_|the Hall vice-presidents. The first

Junior, as chairman of social ac-
tivities on campus, should. choose
a committee and plan next year’s
schedule this spring.

The rotating Freshman Member
should be elected only twice a
year so that she doesn’t leave
office just as she discovers what
the job is about. On the other
hand, I feel it is very important
to give as many freshmen as pos-
sible a chance to work on Under-
'grad;~so~there—should be ~two"
rathr than one freshman elected





«...47a.With improving old methods ‘of

Continued on Page 8, Col. 1

for each of the two terms.

in regard to the hi
general welfare of the college and|~ >

LUCY WALES

Activities:
Freshman year

Hall Rep to Alliance

Rotating Class Rep to AA

Campus Guide

Permission Giver

Freshman Show

Chorus

College Theatre
Sophomore year

Class Secretary

Campus Guide

Permission Giver

Chorus

College Theatre

Freshman Week Committee
Junior year

Head of Campus Guides

Secretary of Chorus

Permission Giver

Junior Show

What is Undergrad? The ques-
tion sounds foolish for a candi-
date to ask, and irrelevant to the
one which has been asked. It is
neither. The Freshman Handbook

Association, it has been remarked,
deals with all that which no one
else does,” and that all members
of the student body are “ipso
facto” member of Self Gov, and
AA, not to mention Bryn Mawr
College itself. Undergrad, in doing
all that which no one else does,
seeks not only to coordinate the
various campus activities which
come under its jurisdiction, but to

tells us that “the Undergraduate |:

represent the students on matters
which concern them. Would you
like to have a Cooperative House
at Bryn Mawr? Or, would you like
to have a. system of faculty ad-
visers, or, no onions, please, on
Friday nights? Would you like
to have more activities on campus
for that afternoon when all work
is done, a friend calls up, and
there’s nothing to do? Would you
like to change the form of stu-
dent government? Questions of
ithis nature may be *those which
could be investigated and) answer-
ed by Undergrad,

One of the most important mat-
ters which will concern the new
president of Undergrad will be
the report of the Re-Evaluation
Committe@. In considering this re-
port, I feel that it is important
to maintain the representative
nature of the Undergradute Asso-
ciation and to effect those changes
which. are to the general college
interest.

Because of this, I would like
to see open meetings of the
Undergrad Executive Board, to
which those who were interested
would feel free to come. New ideas
are always helpful, and having
open meetings might bring out
those which are as yet unspoken.
In addition, it would: enable more
people to acquire more than an
“ipso facto” familiarity with
Undergrad.





Candidates

effect. The president of Under-|°

The following is a list of cand-

Government, listed in alphabetical
order:
PATRICIA: CAIN .
RUTH DEITELBAUM
BLAIR DISSETTE
BETTE HANEY

——

PAT CAIN

Activities:
Freshman year

Freshman Hall Plays

Badminton Junior Varsity

A.A. Hall Rep

Freshman Show

Tennis Varsity (2 years)
Sophomore year

Permission Giver (2 years)

Freshman Week Committee

(2. years)

A.A. Class Rep

Alliance Hal Rep
Junior year

Secretary of A.A.

College Re- Evaluation Commit-

- tee

Junior Show (Stage Crew)

Synonymous with the idea of
Self-Government at Bryn Mawr,
in the minds of many, is the honor
system by which the rules of the
Self-Government are carried out.
Feelings of pride and responsibil-
ity work together through the stu-
dent to make our system of gov-
ernment an almost self-perpetu-
ating. one.

The sid overineunt of Bryn
+ Mawr “becomes a ~—part—of each

idates for the presidency of Self-|.

for Self-Gov



Ruth Dietelbaum, Blair Dissette, Bette Haney, Pat Cain
(not in picture).

RUTH DEITELBAUM

Activities:
Freshman year

Freshman Show

Freshman Hall =

League

Alliance

Science Club

Business Staff of College News

United Service Fund
Sophomore year

Social Chairman (Merion)

League Board

League Reporter to the News

Chairman of Coatesville Little

Theatre Group

Young Democrats

Permission-giver (2 years)

Sophomore Carnival
Junior year

Hall President (Merion)

Revisions Committee of Self-

Gov Constitution

Self-Gov Advisory Board
_ The Self-Government Associa-
tion of Bryn Mawr College is a
system flexible enough to “allow
many interpretations. Its general
philosophy lies within the state-
ment found in the foreward to the
Constitution. “The conduct of the
student lies Mi ot within her
own hands.” Every student is, of
course, responsible to Self-Gov,
but, just as important to its exist-
ence is the fact that she is also
responsible for it. She may change
or supplement any rule or policy
if enough members of the Associa-

4



student almost before she arrives
Continued on Page 7, Col. 5

4



power of Self-Gov is apparent, in
Continued on Page 7, Col. 4

'







-tion-feel-the~need: -The~practieal


’ with individuals, are not ;



Page Four

}

THE COLFEGE NEWS

~

Wednesday, February 26, 1958



BLAIR DISSETTE

Activities:
Freshman year
Temporary Class Chairman
Class Secretary
Director—Freshman Hall Play
Elections Committee
Lights Manager—Freshman
Show
College Theater (3 years)
Varsity Basketball (3 years)
Campus Guide (3 years)
Chorus
Soda Fountain Crew
Sopohmore year ©
First Sophomore to “Undergrad
Director — Maids and Porters
Show
Freshman Week Committee
Permission Giver (2 years)
Advisor to Freshman Hall Play
Hall Bookshop (2 years)
Junior year
Secretary of Self-Government
Association
Junior Class President
Secretary of College Council
Junior Show Cast
Freshman Week Committee
Self-Government must deal
primarily with the individual per-
sonality, and yet, at the same |
time, certain standards must be
maintained. Neither the system
nor the individual can be sacri-
ficed to each other, and a flexible
balance between the system and
its precedents and each individual

case must be attained. The effect-|'

iveness of Self-Government de-
pends on its ability to achieve this
balance.

To increase this effectiveness, I| |”
feel that the Advisory Board of|

Hall Presidents should become a
more definite body; the hall pres-
idents should take more authority
in matters concerning their own
halls. The hall presidents. should
present the facts of a problem
and state its solution to the Board.
In this manner, the hall president
acts decisively on. her. knowledge
of the individual, and the Board
as a whole evaluates the case in
terms of theoretical standards.
This policy would have time and
still preserve the necessary bal-
ance between the individual] and
precedent values.

Self-Government has never been
clearly defined because its prac-
tical activities, dealing mostly
blicized
and because the values upon which
it builds its policies are intangible.
Consequently, no one is very
aware of Self-Gov unless. she
comes directly in contact with it;
this contact often appears as a
limiting factor to her personal
freedom. But freedom is a term
found and appreciated within cer-
tain social restrictions, Democrat-
ically, the student body as a whole
imposes the limiting factors, and
the individual is left to determine
the nature of her own freedom
within the system.

Self-Gov, then, is three things:
it is the means through which the
student body and its individual
members create their own limiting
factors; it is the statement of
those. factors; and it is the judge
of whether or not those boundaries
have been transgressed,

It is a commonplace that the
strength of Self-Government lies
in the individual student. And it
is the job of the president of Self-
Government to act, not only as a
calculator of snow-fall, but ‘more
properly as the represdntative of
the thought and action\of Bryn
Mawr as-a community of\individ-
uals.

BETTE M. BANBY

Activities: ip
Rotating TSelf-Gov Member
~Freshman Year :

‘Freshman Show
First Sophomore Member Self-
Gov
_ Sophomore Class . President
Maids and Porters Show—Stage
Crew, Posters
First Junior Member Self-Gov
_ Junior Show
‘Susan, what can I say? This is

eet eee and as a good
> roommate you should cheer me on

humanitarian. I keep remember-
ing the discussions we have had
about the honor system...

’ I look at Self-Gov three ways:
what it means to me individually,
if it has meaning in my relation
to the other: girls, and how it
might affect my attitude after
school. I heard a speaker once
say there must be something at

;jthe very core of every individual

that can never be bought or flat-
tered from him. I think our honor
system offers the opportunity ‘to
discover this mysterious core or
honor. Of course our rules need
and under almost constant spec-
ulation and revision. It is necessary
that we watch carefully to keep our
academic integrity and social dis-
cretion consistent with academic
achievements, keeping in mind not
only our welfare but that of form-
er and future Bryn Mawr students.

There is a terrifying aspect of
our rules. The other day after an
unfortunate mix-up about sign-out
rules I realized how many people

“officials” but other girls. It is
amazing how we are forced to
care about what we do if only be-
cause of how we might be in-
directly affecting someone else.
Our rules and ways of dealing with
them often look very petty. Yet
they don’t seem petty at all if we
look beyond Taylor Hall into the
outside world. People are needed
who care how their actions affect
others, people who have discover-
ed during their four years. of col-
lege life an inner core of integrity
that no one can buy or flatter
from them, people who have learned
they are only truly an individual
when they see themselves and
their actions in relation to others.
When we look at self-government
from these three aspects it
emerges. from its myriad of seem-
ingly petty rules and gains valu-

able meaning for ourselves, our
college life, and our life after
school.

It’s almost time to turn in my



my mistake affected, not just

article, Oh Susan, what can I say?



Candidates for Alliance



Penny Eldredge, be Minkin, Gail Beckman, Kathy Ros-
enberger.

The following question was ask-
ed the candidates for the presi-
dency of Alliance:

What is the role of Alliance on
campus?



The following is a list of candi-
dates for the presidency of Alli-
ance, listed in alphabetical order:

GAIL BECKMAN

PENNY ELDREDGE

JUDITH MINKIN

KATHERINE ROSENBERGER

a



GAIL BECKMAN

Activities:

Freshman year
Alliance Publicity
League
Maids and Porters’
College Theater
Philosophy Club
Fencing Team
Freshman Hall Plays
Freshman Show
Arts Night

Sophomore year
‘Alliance Publicity .
Debate . Team

Dance

+—Cos=head of Young Dems

IRC
College Theater
Fencing Team
Maids’ and Porters’
German Club
Freshman Week
Junior ‘year
Secretary of Alliance
Alliance Reporter for News
German Club : es
Song Book Committee
Freshman Week Committee
Junior Show
The Alliance is a beautifal- or-
ganization. Potentially it can

Show

reach every student on this cam-| —

pus. I feel that a strong policy
would consist of using the estab-
lished clubs and channels, stress-
ing publicity, and introducing new
ideas.
Recently, the Alliance has
reached undergraduates through] on
its lectures, club activities, trips
to grind coneranont: and infor-





PENNY ELDREDGE

Activities:
Freshman Rep to A.A.
Member of College Theatre
Stage Manager of Maids and
Porters’ Show

President of Young Republicans | |
"58 q

Treasurer of Alliance, ’57,
Member of WBMC

The. Bryn Mawr Alliance for

Political Affairs is an organiza-
tion designed to promote better
understanding of and greater par-

ticipation in the politics of ‘our|

country. As the Alliance derives
its strength from the vitality of
the politics of the outside world,
more emphasis should be placed,
I believe, on contact with the out-
side world, Although this: requires
that more effort be exerted by the
participants it would seem that a
program devoted, for instance, to
local politics during off election
years, as well as the concentrated
campaigns of the _ presidential
election years, would be most re-
warding.

‘The Alliance should be a sound-
ing board for the opinions of the
campus and should provide facil-
ities whereby anyone might form
an organization to promote her
ideas.
an emphasis on current events,
something that is necessary not

only for political science and his-

tory majors. "
Moreover, it seems that the
Bryn Mawr Alliance. should in-
crease as much as possible its
contacts with the other colleges.
{This would bring new ideas, new
organization, and a new outlook
to many facets of campus politics.
I believe that the Alliance
should increase its efforts to co-
ordinate its activities with those
of the other “Big Six” on campus.
The idea of the joint. conference
o nissues important to all Bryn
oe is an extremely good
League4Alliance conferences
penned ap themselves first, but I
feel that there are many subjects
for conferences that eoala include

There should be more of|.



will be of more campus-wide inter-
est. Politics affect our lives daily,
and this fact is too little account-
ed for, especially at Bryn Mawr.
The Alliance should try to bring
the politics of the outside world
to the campus as vigorously as
possible. Open Alliance board
meetings with discussions of cur-
rent news ar€-enly the beginning.
We should pte pe’ afraid “to
bring up thé most controversial
questions, as we are going to en-
counter these issues outside col-
lege, and a lack of information
often could prove more than em-
barrassing.

A greater emphasis, then,
should be placed on contact with
the outside world. Hall reps should
be given more responsibility and
should above all, make an effort
to promote interest within their
halls. Only by personal contact can
interest be aroused on any sgub-

Continued on Page 7, Col. 4



JUDITH MINKIN
Activities:
Freshman year

Freshman Hall Play

Freshman Hall Rep. to Alliance

Bryn Mawr-representative at the

National Student Association
Congress (summer 1957)
Sophomore year

Sophomore Class secretary

Freshman Week Committee

Permission Giver

Hall Rep. to Alliance

Treasurer—United Service Fund

The Alliance for Political A¢-
fairs should form the link between
this college, other campuses and
the nation. The relationships of the
individual students to the organi-
zation vary considerably, and it
isthe job of the Alliance to sat-
isfy as many of these interests
as possible.

To make the working of the
organization understood by those
who may be interested, it should
be emphasized that Board meetings
are open to the entire campus. For
those who have an active interest,
conferences are continually held

at other colleges, as are meetings
of inter-collegiate political and
student organizations. In addition,
the Alliance sponsors several clubs
on this campus.

Even though the active parti-
cipation of the majority of the
student body is channelled in other
directions, these people are still
interested in current national and
world events, For. this reason, the
most important job’ that the Al-
liance has is to develop this in-
terest by bring speakers to the
college, both “big” names in the
world of politics, and _ lesser
known, but qualified people.

Another aspect of the Alliance
work which I feel is important is
its co-operation with the other
major organizations on campus
through’ Under-graduate Board.
This inter-action allows for the
pooling of resources and ideas in
sponsoring conferences and speak-
ers of general interest for the
campus as a whole.



KATHIE ROSENBERGER
Activities
Freshman year

Hall Rep to Interfaith

Chorus
Sophomore year

Hall Rep to Interfaith

Chorus

Double Octet

Permission Giver

1956 Young Republican Cam-

paign

Junior year
Chorus
Double Octet
Permission’ Giver
Alliance Hall Rep
The Alliance, I feel, has the dual
role on the Bryn Mawr campus
of stimulating interest in current
affairs and providing active out-
lets for political interests. If I
were to rate the two parts of this
role, I would more heavily weight
the first, for in it probably rests
the present greater task of Al-
liance. Promoting active interests
on this campus is an obvious prob-



Continued on Page 7, Col. 3



Candidates

a8



for League .

Emely De Molin, Margaret Hall, Kate Collins, Lynne Kaplan.
\EMELY de MOLIN

The following questions were
asked the candidates for the pres-
idency of League.

1. How do you define League
and its role on the campus?

2. What would you like to
achieve as president of League?
3. What League activities have
interested you the most?



. The following is a list of cand-
idates for the presidency of Lea-
gue, listed in alphabetical order:
KATE. COLLINS
EMELY DE MOLIN
LYNNE KAPLAN °

KATE COLLINS

Activities:
Freshman_ year
Freshman Hall Rep to League
Freshman Hall Play
Sophomore year ~
League-Chairman of Weekend
Work Camps
College News subscription board
Junior year
‘League-Chairman of Batweetitis

os ae eee gene a eae eee

Activities:

Chorus

Freshman Show

Hall Rep to League

Some of ,the most satiafying « ex-
periences one may have during
college come from volunteer work;
not something that has to be done, .
but time and effort given willing-
ly to some worthy cause. This ‘is
basically what League provides on
the Bryn Mawr campus. The acti-
vities under its sponsorship offer
sufficiently different opportunities
for any girl who wishes to give,
or make, some free time to help-
ing others; it may be chess or a
theater group with mental pa-
tients; a week-end work camp in
Philadelphia; a week-end as an
aide at Embreeville, the state
mental hospital, with others from
surrounding schools; volunteer
counselling at the Bryn Mawr
summer camp; or participation in
the numerous campus programs
often given in conjunction with
Alliance or Interfaith Association.

_.My mer







way events ean be sponsored that!
















. mental hospital.

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Wednesday, February. 26,. 1958.

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Page Five



MARGARET HALL

Activities:

Freshman year
College News (2 years)
Campus Guide (3 years)
Stage Manager Freshman Hall

Play

Sophomore year
Hall Rep to League
Freshman Week Committee
Permission Giver (2 years)
Hall Bookshop (2 years)
Science Club (2 years)

Junior year —
Junior Show

There are still some people who| |
have been at Bryn Mawr for three},

years and do not know the dif-

ference between League and Alli-|j

ance. This is not the fault of
either organization, but it does
necessitate a definition of what
the League is. League is the or-
ganization on campus which pro-
vides a channel for the interested
student to partitipate in various

|\through the League projects. If

possibilities. Another aspect of its
role is to interest students in the
reward of helping. self and others

this organization is to continue ser-
ving a worthwhile purpose, it
must alert some people to the
benefits and fascinations of social
service in addition to providing an
adequate outlet for those who
have already—realized. such an in-
terest. This part of League’s res-



ponsibility to the college is a ma-

jor problem. Since the coming

year is the year in which we are

to study the League constitution,

it is an excellent time to re-evalu-
ate the lack“of stimulation which
has become somewhat character-
istic of League’s role on campus.
It is not likely nor perhaps even

desirable that: every undergradu-
ate will be vitally interested in the

Continued on Page 7, Col. 2



Candidates for A.A.

kinds of social service work. The|*.

differdnt areas of activity have
chairmen who provide the mechan-
ism through which the student can
take part. League is flexible: if a
lack of interest is shown in one



area, the activity can be dropped,
and if something new is desired,
it can be organized. League offers '
a worth-while outlet for student
energies and also performs a ser-
vice to the “outside world” in pro-
viding volunteer workers where
they are needed.

The League, as it now is, ac-
complishes a great deal. The vari-
ous, activities are accessible
through the committee chairmen
and are brought to the hall by the
Hall Rep. The League must always
be Aensitive to student feeling
and needs. Opportunities to pur-
sue a range of interests are open
but full advantage is not always

taken of them. There is a gap/

between the interest shown on the
activity sheet in the fall and the
actual participation. People decide
later that they do not have time
or are not really needed. Perhaps
the organizational set. up of. Lea-
gue could be streamlined to pro-
vide a quicker “follow up.” The
problem now seems to be not in
the activities offered but in get-
ting the student and the activity
together.

I do not feel that one activity
is any more important that an-
other as long as it fills a campus
and outside need. At the present
time student attention should be
focused on the Summer, Camp. The
camp must have councilors, if it
is to operate this summer. In addi-
tion to already established acti-
vities such as Summer Camp, new
ones have been suggested. These
(which may or may not prove
feasible) are more work with
children, such as an orphanage,
and trips to a slum area and a



LYNNE KAPLAN
Activities:
Freshman year
League Freshman Hall Rep
‘WBMC Announcer
Cast and Props for Freshman
Show
Cast of Freshman Hall Play
Summer work as volunteer in
outpatient department of a
hospital
Sophomore year
Publicity Director of League —
Secretary of WBMC and an
Announcer
Director of Hall Christmas Play
. Co-Chairman Publicity, Maids
___and Porters’ Show — -.—
Campus Guide

Junior year
Vice-President of League
USF Co-Chairman *
Assistant Director, Junior

Show; Script Committee
Permission Giver
Campus Guide ©



LYNNE KAPLAN
Basically, League is the co-ord-
inator of the social service activi-
ties in which students are inter-
ested. League has never remained
passive in its role but has encour-

‘|the Association, but play-days and

-_}echronized- swimming, but something
.jshould be arranged for those who

-}sical- activities, picnics and song

Edie Trubek, Jean Hoag, Alice Todd, Weecha Buse (not
in picture).

The following is a list of the

candidates for the presidency of |°

the Athletic Association, listed in
alphabetical order:

MARIA LUISA BUSE

JEAN HOAG

ALICE TODD

EDITH TRUBECK



MARIA LUISA BUSE
Activities:
Freshman year
Hall Rep.—A.A.
Temporary Class Rep.—A.A.
Basketball Varsity, Lacrosse
Varsity
Captain Class Hockey Team
Sophomore year
Hall Representative—A.A.
President Outing Club—
Permission Giver
Campus Guide
Manager Lacrosse Varsity Team
Business Manager Maids and
Porters’ Show
Hockey, Basketball,
Varsities
‘The Athletic Association is the
only major organization on cam-
pus which stresses the purely rec-
reational side of extra-curricular

activity. It should provide for
everyone, as everyone belongs to
the A.A., a.means of counteract-
ing the so called “sedentary tenden-
cies” of the student body, and it
should do this in such a way as
to include the interests of every-
body. Required and varsity sports
do not come under the control of

Lacrosse

inter-hall meets do. These are one
good and important feature of the
A.A., but they have been highly
specialized in the past. I think
that in addition to them a campus
wide play day which could include
everything from baseball games
to tennis matches to relay races,
and which would be held one Sat-
urday would be a good way of
stimulating’ the competitive ath-
letic spirit campus.

Much is already being done in
smaller and more __ specialized
fields such as dance club and syn-

have no _ strong or particularly
directed interests. Hikes and
bicycle trips should be arranged,
and I think a beach party in the
spring, comparable to the ski
weekend in the winter would be a
good idea. Even for those who
have little interest in purely phy-

sessions should be arranged.

The A.A. should make an effort
to make known to the campus its
many facilities, and it should try
to make them more available.



aged students to suggest new ac-



tivities “and 6 Raat





Thus I think that the gym should



JEAN HOAG

Activities:
Freshman year

Freshman Hall Plays

Freshman Show

A.A.

Science Club
Sophomore year —

A.A.

Foreign Student Councillor

The Athletic Association has not
been able to adequately fulfill the
above functions due to the lack of
support from the student body as
a whole. This is not entirely the
fault of the students themselves.

An organization needs enthusias- | #
tic leaders and good publicity in| |
order to elicit this necessary sup-|’
port. In the area of publicity is|/

where I think our A.A. falls short.
I believe that
of interest inthe A.A. at Bryn
Mawr is partially due to the lack
of knowledge of what A.A. rep-
resents and sponsors. The leaders

of A.A. seem to possess the enthu- |

siasm needed, but they do not sup-
port this with enough publicity.
As an example, the hall repre-
sentatives do not know when
inter-hall sports are to be held
until a week or so before they are
scheduled, By this time many peo-
ple have already made plans and
are not available to participate in
the games, even though they
might have liked to. If the stu-
dents and the reps had a schedule
of such events, much of this type
of conflict would be eliminated.
More publicity is also warranted
in many other areas connected
with A.A. (I daresay that very
few students realize that Bryn
Mawr participates in play days
at other colleges and had ‘one here
last year.)

I believe that, more than any-
thing else, we need the support
of the student body behind our
Athletic Association. An enthusi-
astic leadership, with adequate
publicity is the first step towards
fulfilling this basic requirement.
Once the .A.A. has this support,

it -will_ be better able to achieve}.

the goals we have set for it.



ALICE TODD

On the whole, I think the Bryn
Mawr Athletic Association does
fulfill these functions. It co-ordin-
ates and aids many recreational
activities representing a wide
range of interests. It provides op-
portunity for those who wish to
participate in
sports to do so. Equally important,
it provides more informal physical
activity in the form of inter-hall
games, a life-guarded pool open
to anyone at certain times of the}

he apparent lack,’

inter-collegiatey -

utmost importance for those who
hate sports it still fulfills its “rét-
reational function” by sponsoring
bridge tournaments, etc. In re-
gard to this kind of importance, I
think the newly created chess club
really belongs under the jurisdict-
ion of A.A. rather than Under-
grad.

The Outing Club is perhaps the
most important single club spon-
sored by A.A. because it offers a
variety of informal, non-compet-
itive activities like ski-trips,
picnics, and square dances. In
respect to skiiing, the club has
done an excellent job this year
on taking advantage of local as
well as vod ie Ab conditions.
A picnic at Rho Farm in the
spring and the early fall hve
been requested and should b put
into effect.

This spring and next year,
shouldlike to see A.A. initiate a
number- of improvements. This
spring it should provide for the
Rumpus Room a whole ping-pong
table (and ping-pong balls) and
a checkerboard or two, with a
set of checkers and one of chess
men.

These should be moved into the
Student Center when it is finished.
Members of both parties involved
have expressed a genuine interest
in having “another Student- -Faculty

I

‘| softball game this spring. A.A.

should stand behind the request
of those people playing softball
this year to form a Varsity and
have a chance to play other col-
leges. The Administration has
considered building a few box-

.|stalls at Rhoads Farm to provide

a nearby place for students to
board their horses. Since the sug-
gestion seems profitable from
every point of view, I think the
building should be done this sum-
mer’ so the idea can be carried
into effect at the beginning of next
year. A.A. should also co-ordinate
Continued on Page 7, Col. 5

EDITH TRUBEK

Activities:

A.A. Rep—2 years

Hockey Team—2 years

Each one of us from time to
time feels the urge to escape th
library or lab for a time and
ticipate in some competely non-
academic activity. Since most of
our time here is spent in very
sedentary occpation, this need
should, in part at least, be met by
activities that involve some phy-
sical exertion.

for this need. There are many
varsity sports so that any com-
petition-minded girl can find at
least one suited to her talents. For
those who haven’t the time to de-
vote to a varsity sport, there are
the interhall competitions, Any or-
ganization which sets out to ful-
fill a recreational function has to
realize that there are girls who,
for many reasons, do not care to
participate in competitive sports.
The Outing Club, Dance Club, and
Synchronized Swimming Club en-
compass activities which appeal to
this latter girl.

At. present, the competitive
sport function of A.A. seems to be
emphasized over the more leisure-
‘y recreation. This is an unfortun-
ate situation since A.A. should try
to reach every girl on campus.
Activating the Square Dance Club
and reviving the movies, arrang-
ing picnics and holding more folk-
sings would improve A.A. for
those who enjoy being outside
without having to compete in a
skilled sport. Since A.A.’s activ-
ities in the recreational field can
be very informal and can be in-
tegrated with activities at other
colleges, both men’s and women’s,
there is great opportunity to meet
many new people and to get to
know old friends better. There is
room for expansion along this line,
which expansion would improve
A.A.’s function considerably.







The {following questions twere
asked the candidates for the pres-
idency of Interfaith:

1. How would you interpret the
purposes and function of the
Interfaith Association,

2. What are your plans and
‘suggestions for changes and im-
provements for next year, What
suggestions do you have for en-
listing the further interest and
support of the student body?



The following is a list of candi-
dates for the presidency of Inter-
faith, listed in alphabetical order:
SUSAN.DOWNEY f
POLLY LARSON
ELIZABETH RENNOLDS
RUTH SIMPSON

per

SUSAN DOWNEY

Activities:
Freshman year
Rock’s freshman representative
to Interfaith Association

Board

Member Parents’ Day Commit
tee

Stage Manager for She Stoops
to Conquer .

Sophomore year _
_ Permission Giver



o

et for Interfaith





pi:
sei

Sue Downey, Polly Larson, Liz Rennolds, Ruth Simpson.

In charge of Chapel programs—
member Interfaith Associa-

tion Board

Stage Manager for Maids and
Porters Show

Treasurer Student Christian
Movement

The purpose of the Interfaith
Association is to help fulfill the
religious needs of the students.
In order to do this, it should pro-
vide opportunities for students
both to worship and to gain great-
er knowledge ‘and understanding
both of her own and of other reli-

_jgions. The Sunday evening Chapel...

services are primarily to fulfill the
first aim, though they also help
toward the second; the mid-week
programs are primarily for the
second,

I think that more should be done
to provide opportunities for wor-
ship. For example, last year
Passover fell while school wag in
session, and many girls then

wanted to have a Seder supper
which’ they could attend. If this
should happen again, I think that
the Interfaith Association should
make some arrangements for such
a supper to be held, |

a should hrs nes aetna

A.A. exists to provide an outlet ;.

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Downey

Continued from Page 5
of the facilities of the Interfaith
Associations’ reading room, which
has books on many religious sub-
jects. This reading room is badly
neglected, though it contains
books which can help students to
deepen their personal religious
feeling and to gain a wider know-
ledge of the beliefs of other faiths.

I think that there is a need for
a quiet room for meditation some
place on campus. It is often hard
for a student to find a place away
from noise in which she can sit
and think. I realize that the pre-
sent crowded conditions make
finding such a, place. difficult, but
I do believe that an effort should
be made to do so.

It is my belief that a strong
program of mid-week speakers on
such topics as how contemporary
religious thought is revealed in
literature and philosophy would
help to strengthen student inter-
est in the Association and would
be beneficial in helping them to
see the applications of religion to
daily life.

I believe that -the Interfaith
Association has an _ important
function to fulfill on campus. as
an organization which should
make people aware of the im-
portance of religion in their own
life and to provide opportunities

for greater knowledge: and under-|'
_|this year. Perhaps the Association

standing of other faiths.



LIZ RENNOLDS
Activities:
Freshman year
Freshman Hall Play
Freshman Show
College News staff (3 years)
Student Christian Movement
(3 years)
Permission Giver
Sophomore year
Hall Rep to Interfaith Board
Interfaith Constitution Commit-
tee
Co-Head Chapel Usher (2 years)
Campus Guide (2 years)
Junior year
Junior Show
1st Junior Member to Under-
grad
Interfaith Board
Freshman Week Committee |
Fire Lieutenant
We all know that the purpose
of the Interfaith Association -is
to meet the. religious needs (re-
gardless of their nature) of every
girl on campus. This purpose can
be fulfilled only by enlisting the
support of the Student body.
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foundation -upon::which - rest - alld
other ‘activities of life: To othérs,
religion is something very person-
al; these people feel no need of
religious services and worship to-
gether, they are satisfied with
other ‘means of expressing their
faith. The third group is that gen-
erally referred to as “agnostic”;
it: includes the people who consider
religion: only as one: manifesta-
tion of cult e, to be studied. as a
very imp nt intellectual,’ philo-
sophical fand social aspect. All’
three of these groups must be rec-
ognized, satisfied, and enlightened.
Obviously, this poses quite a prob-
iem. :

I think there is no one single
answer. It’s the job of the Inter-
faith Association to try new
methods, new approaches to reli-
gious problems, and to decide
which ideas are most profitable
toward making spiritual pursuits
balance intellectual ones. To
achieve this much-needed enthu-
siasm, we need an active Board,
consisting of efficient and interest-
ed hall reps (who not only trans-
port ideas from but also to the
Board meetings). We need more
publicity, particularly on the back-
ground and importance of the
speakers, (The job of Interfaith
Association Publicity Manager
could be more than satisfying in
this capacity.)

So many things could be tried

could sponsor a party or picnic in

,week--speakers are quite~-success-
ful. Also the officers should visit
the halls for dinner and discussion
instead of restricting this wonder-
ful contact to election time. But
most exciting and most important
of ail, this year the Board should
look into the (very good) possibil-
ities of having the chapel services
partisan ... not non-partisan. For
even with the new form introduced
last year, the service still tends
to be very Protestant-like. It
wouldn’t hurt to try having some
Catholic, some Jewish and some
Protestant devotional services on
Sunday evenings. This would give
girls of the same faith the wonder-
ful opportunity of worshipping to-
gether; and, at the same time,
give the girls of other faiths;a

learn.

These things are so profitable
and so easy while we’re in college.
It’s a pity to miss the opportun-
ities.



POLLY LARSON

Activities:
Freshman year
Hall Rep to League
Hall Rep to Interfaith
Election Committee
Sophomore year
Hall Rep to Alliance
League Clothing Drive
Permission Giver
Campus Guide
Chorus



the spring? Religious people often

Curriculum | Committee '

(soph

do have fun. The trips and mid-

chance to observe, question and



rep)

1, All of us ‘have certain beliefs
which-are a part of our lives—
ones that are still in the process
of growing. During college, as is
popularly known, many of the
ideas we have been sure of are
suddenly questioned, and we are
presented with many new thoughts
concerning religion. ;

The Interfaith Association is
an organization which can help
the members of the college to
come more fully to know what
they believe and why. There are no
separate religious’ groups directly
affiliated with Bryn Mawr, but this
one association, if realized and
supported, can become a vital and
integrating part of all who are
concerned with their faith.

Its three functions are: the
Chapel Service on Sunday eve-
nings where interested and well-
informed speakers come; the open
board meetings where, with busi-
ness matters, there axe“often dis-
cussions; and lectures on topics of
particular concern to the campus.
These are all valuable means of
stabilizing one’s own _ thoughts,
and of coming to understand those
of others.

2. Interfaith includes everyone
on campus and should have pro-

grams which are of interest to the

majority, with speakers on per-
tinent subjects relating theory to
practice. Board meetings could
conduct weekly discussions on
topics of interest, including, per-
haps, a series concerning various



religions, with publicity extending
an invitation to everybody.

The chapel services have been
somewhat altered, and I think that
the program should be further ex-
tended, so that it will in reality
provide a service of a type which
all would be free to attend, as
ritual should not hinder us in
hearing the excellent speakers.

Interfaith has an _ important
place on campus. It can fulfill its
potential capacity largely by en-
listing the full support of the hall
reps, and thereby create an active
interest throughout-the campus.



RUTH SIMPSON

Activities:
Freshman year
Freshman hall play
Freshman Show
Freshman hall rep. to Interfaith
Association

Sophomore year
Interfaith Board
College News Subscription
Board
Junior varsity swimming team
Junior varsity tennis team
Junior year
Interfaith Board

The Interfaith Association
should not be principally designed
to supplement the work of the
neighboring churches and temples
which aim to answer the student’s
spiritual needs. It should serve
as a means of awakening the stu-
dent to the realization of these
needs. By providing the stimula-
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Beckman

Continued from Page 4

These should be retained and em-
phasized. Graduate students, how-
ever, must also be allowed greater
participation in Alliance through
their representative and frequent
contact between the many fascina-

ting foreign graduate students and
the undergraduates.

No organization can hope to
play an important role on campus
unless its activities are publicized
and it can recognize the students’
interests. Publicity at Bryn Mawr
is achieved through taking — full
advantage of posters, WBMC, the
News, and the hall announcements.
Student opinion, in turn, is tra-
ditionally expressed by hall re-
presentatives. Their role can be
made even more important by
their distributing frequent ques-
tionnaire bulletins or canvassing
for opinions in Taylor or the halls.

Finally, new ideas make a suc-
cessful year. I should like to see:
more and more frequent lectures
or conferences using specialists
at the near-by consulates, em-
bassies, and universities, an at-
tempt to bring the Alliance into
the halls themselves by holding
after dinner coffee meetings; and
the introduction of a_ bi-annual
Alliance bulletin summarizing its

Kaplan
Continued from Page 5

League, but it is possible for
everyone to know what the organ-
iation is, and what it can offer
the individual in terms of social
experience and growth and pure
enjoyment. One path of. attack
must be through reconstruction of
League’s publicity channels, How-
ever, it is necessary that we also
face the fundamental question of
what League’s role should and
could be.. Active members must
look at League often during the
year and discuss what League is
accomplishing, and if it is enough.
Since League meetings consist of
people interested in social work, a
possible change is that: such meet-
ings sometimes be used as an op-
portunity for exchanging ideas,
and answering questions about;
this subject. For. a number of
years League has handled well the
social service activities of the
students; it is time now that it
increase its contribution to the
college.

——

de Molin

Continued from Page 4

one year’s standing, during which
time I have been a hall representa-

Rosenberger

Continued from Page 4

lem. It’s the job of Alliance to do
this by sponsoring speakers, con-
ferences and informal discussions
on political problems, These have
been successful in the past and are
probably the best stimulators. I

feel the success of these-and of
the whole Alliance effort to stim-
ulate interest rests in an. active
Alliance board. The elected reps
from the halls should have the
initial interest in political affairs
and should serve as more active
‘provocateurs’, while also carry-
ing campus opinion back to the
board.

The active outlets for political
interests are important —they
too should be used to provoke
more interests, and here is Al-
liance’s purpose as liaison be-
tween the students and the com-
munity. One of our problems as
girls, and girls without cars, is
transportation, which, I think
stands as a barrier to much of
the present interest. It should be
the job of Alliance with its con-
tacts to arrange transportation to
political events when enough in-
terest is expressed.

Of the many ideas for Alliance,
my pet is increased co-ordination
in joint projects with the political

Deitelbaum

Continued from Page 3

that no one is expected to enforce
a rule to which she has not agreed.

Self-Gov is a working system
because of its vitality. It is aware
of and subject to opinions of the
campus as a whole. The very
mechanism of Self-Gov as seen
in its two boards demonstrates the
feeling that self-government be-
longs to the entire student body.
If ‘ipso facto’ is repeated often
enough it evokes laughter, but the
strength of Self-Gov is determin-
ed by the participation of every
student. The degree of health of
a system of government can per-
haps be measured by active ‘cri-
ticism, so long as the government
has the judgment to decide what
criticism is valid and the power to

progress in order to comply with’

this.

Fortunately, this year is the
time of revising the Constitution.
Because of this, and a series of
Advisory Board meetings _ held
within the halls, students not in-
volved with the administration of
Self-Gov have been able to see the
internal areas of their system of
government. With this continuing
interest and awareness, Self-Gov
cannot fail as a liberal expression
of the attitudes of the student
body.

&
Cain
Continued from Page 3

here. What rules or definitions a
freshman has not memorized be-
fore she arrives, very soon be-
come just a part of her everyday
college life,

This system is good. It gives
students as much freedom as pos-
sible without infringement ‘upon
the comforts of others and with-
out discredit to the name of the
college, and at the same_ time
keeps the neceSsary rules at a
simple minimum.

However, there is an ever-pres-
ent danger, as with any liberal,
self-perpetuating type of govern-
ment, that the student, while
aware of the rules, will forget the
meaning of the system for herself.

Put simply, each student is on
her honor to abide by certain
liberal rules formulated, agreed
upon, and enforced by a majority
of her fellow students and though
to be conducive to-as' much free-
dom as is possible in an organized
community.

What Bryn Mawr students must
not be permitted to forget is that
simply obeying the rules should
not be the extent of their parti-
cipation in the government of the
college community. They are the
members of the association and
the elected officers merely repre-

’ policy and achievments or con-| 4, e; a higher office, however, clubs of other area colleges— es- ee : sent them in matters of Self-
} taining stimulating articles by : ‘piliti pecially Swarthmore and Haver- Eldredge Government.

professors or students. would bring more responsibilities |¢5.q. Each of us is small and I Unlikely as it may seem, once

A president who has worked|@nd consequently more of the par-|feel all will benefit. The other Continued from Page 4 the active interest in one’s gov-

with the organization, knows its
system, and is willing to devote
her time to it can:make the Al-
liance an organization for every
student. She must not only use the
existing club but also create in-









ticipation I would like to take in
the coming year. The fact that
my career will most probably be in
some field of social work. is the
primary influence for my interest







ideas will have to wait for lack
of space—but just ask me some-
time.

Buse

and thus justify its positions as
one of the “Big Six.”



jectt Announcements and posters
are not enough. It is the duty of
the members of the Alliance
board to stimulate more interest
on campus. Too many people know

it is part, or should be part, of
our everyday life.



erning machinery dies, there is
danger that the feelings of honor
and responsibility toward the sys-
tem will decay also.

It is the duty of the elected

terest in its programs through|in League; this nomination for Continued from Page 5 : : . |mission givers, not only to call

good publicity and interesting’ office offers me the chance to be- . ete “- Roan about the acti-' attention to the activities of Self-
| innovation. twat aint te the be kept open more on weekends,|vities of the Alliance, people who|Government, but also present to
Ne. art. ee ee and that an effort should be made|are not necessarily disinterested, the students issues whose consid-
direct management of the organ-|+, open the swimming pool es-|but merely need prodding. eration will require a mature
i I DREAMT I ization. And my lack of experience pecially during the spring. The Alliance should try to make| judgment of their own views con-
i a ! ! Is ! ||is one of the main reasons for ac-) T¢ these things could be carried |its activities universally interest-| cerning what they want from their
WITHOUT MY cepting the nomination, since*this| out the A.A. would more complete-|ing and direct its activities to as own self-government and honor
| SAVAFACR will be the chance to gain such ly fulfill its purpose as a recrea-|many as possible. Politics is more system.

experience. tional organization for the campus|than a campaign or a committee,

_

Todd

Continued from Page 5

with the Administration in com-
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for building an outdoor fire-place
beside Applebee Barn early next
fall. Next winter, I hope we can
persuade the authorities concerned
to let us flood a tennis court for
easily available ice-skating.





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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 26, 1958



Powers
Continued from Page 3

must be kept going and completed,
most specifically the Student
Center which will just be getting
under way. Only when all expected
duties are running smoothly can
a new officer begin to consider the
reasons which first induced her
to run for office. It may be a
desire for the removal of tradi-
tions, breakfast in bed or a re-
newal of Big May Day, but there
was. doubtless one strong reason
for her to give over a segment of
her precious time. Some may have
specific purposes, mine are rather
vague, and have something to do
with loyalty—or the lack of it.

If there is one thing I would
‘like to accomplish, it is to find
out why there is so much apathy
on this campus—and to try and
remedy it. It is not something
which each new student brings
with her, one glance at a new
crop of freshmen tells you that at
least they are full of enthus-
iasm. But what about the same
students the following year, the
majority of them will be uncon-
scious of what goes on except in
their own small immediate world.
How does the college so success-
fully kill all the ties within it—
class, hall, etc.? Is it the fault
of sthe Student Body, are we all
striving so hard toward being
“individuals” that we have forgot-
ten that people can enjoy each
other as a group without fear of
losing that individuality? - And
have we forgotten that a college
can mean something more than
just a good education?

e
Marriages
Jeanne Hoenig to Robert D.

Miline.
Georgia Dahl ’56 to Donald
Lashley.

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Hall Rep to Undergrad Advisory
Board
Hall Payday Mistres:

Summers

1956—F riends
Mexico

1957—Friends Institutional] Ser-

vice Unit in Mental Hospital
The program of the League
tries both to provide students with
opportunities to participate in var-
lous kinds of voluntary services
and -to -- educational activities
to thoSe interested in learning
more about social problems and
social services, League’s service
program consists of individual
groups and committees, organized
when student interest and oppor-
tunity for service coincide, which
offer the student a variety of ser-
vices—from hospital work to camp
counseling to selling at the Soda
Fountain—in which she may be in-
terested. While the actual running
of these groups is the responsibi-
ity of their chairmen, the League
board helps new groups get start-
ed, helps existing ones organize
and simplify their functioning,
and, when necessary, re-examines
the adequacy of groups in which
interest is declining or which no
longer have real services to per-
form. Through its hall representa-
tives the League tries to find out
students’ interests and to place
them in the activities which in-
terest them most, and to make
sure that students are aware of
opportunities to participate in ser-
vice activities. League does not
and should not attempt to pro-
selyte on a large scale; it seems
to me more important that those

Service Unit in



who do participate have sincere
interest and sufficient time to give
their volunteer activities than
that a very large number parti-
cipate in them. :

I have no real changes to sug-
gest in this aspect of League’s
program; I feel that thé*present
system, when conscientiously and
enthusiastically carried out by
board members, hall representa-
tives, and committee chairmen,
does succeed in its purpose of pro-
viding opportunities for service.
However, I do feel that League
must reconsider its educational
program, since some of League’s
speakers have had very small
audiences this year. It is unfair
to League, to the students, and
to the speakers, to ask outside
speakers to come to Bryn Mawr
when there is little interest in
them or théir topics. For this
reason I would like to see League|*
consider the possibility of obtain-
ing speakers of more genera] in-

terest, or of curtailing the speaker

program.

Alliance |
by Gail Beckman

Alliance has announced many
speakers scheduled for February-
April. In March, Anne Hobson,
former head of Self-Gov., will at-
tend one of the weekly Thursday
meetings to speak and show slides
from her trip to Russia last year.
Then on March 24, Mr. Irving
Howe of Dissent will speak at a
12:30 Alliance Assembly. His talk
will be about the roots of Ameri-
can Communism in American left
wing thinking which he will trace
since the last depression.

Continued from Page 6

tion and opportunity for healthy
interchange of ideas, by acquaint-
ing the student with the concepts
and ideologies of different faiths,
and by presenting provocative
speakers, the organization can
foster both intellectual and emo-
tional awareness in the student.
To achieve this goal, the Inter-
faith Association should attempt
to ease student hesitancy to speak
in board meetings and after-chavel
discussions, for the fundamental]
weakness of the organization is
lack of communication within the
Interfaith board itself, and the re-
sultant lack of communication
with the campus as a whole, It is
apparent that the efficacy of the
Association must rely upon stu-
dent participation and_ support.
These are necessarily limited be-
cause of the diversity of student
interests. Consequently, the Or-
ganization should first meet its
primary obligation of increasing
spiritual awareness within the
board itself and among its enthu-
siastic supporters. This restrict-
ion should not imply that Inter-
faith goals are addressed solely to





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