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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, February 29, 1956



Candidates

for Alliance |



Dorothy Innes, Paula Sutter, Charlotte Graves.

Questionnaire for candidates for
President of the Alliance:

1. Why would you like to be
President of the Alliance? .

2. What do you think should be
done in Alliance next year?

8. What should be the role of
Alliance in relation to the rest of
the college? In connection with
your conception of this role, do you
approve of the present system of
representation to the Alliance?

4, Have you pursued any politi-
cal interests or activities you
would like to add to the official
list?

The following is a list of candi-
datés for President of the Alliance,
listed in alphabetical order:

CHARLOTTE GRAVES
DOROTHY INNES —
PAULA SUTTER

CHARLOTTE GRAVES

Freshman:
Freshman Show
Soda Fountain
SDA Secretary

Sophomore:
SDA President
Soda Fountain Manager
Headed up SDA Vietnam Book
Drive for Alliance

Junior:
Alliance First Secretary
Permission Giver
Vocational Committee
Embreeville State Hospital sable
ect

The Alliance offers a challenge
to any Bryn Mawr student who is
elected President. In- helping to
make the campus program success-
ful the President ‘finds herself in
a variety of situations; she must
be ready to act as the official hos-
tess for visiting Alliance guests;
she must make the Alliance pro-
gram flexible enough in order to
take advantage of the many op-
portunities for political activity
that arise; and she must be willing
to give of her time and energy to
make the Board meetings and ac-
tivities useful and_ stimulating.
These factors, along with many
others, when once accepted as a
challenge, provide the President
with a year of hard work, along
with a great deal of enjoyment
and experience in carrying out her
interpretation of the function of
the Alliance on campus.

The role of the Alliance on cam-
pus is, of course, manifold, but its
two most important functions are
these: it should provide a channel
for the general interest in political
affairs on campus, by means of Al-
liance lectures and conferences. It
must also be in a’ position, either
through Board activity or club or-
ganizations, to establish programs
_ of special interest-to-those*partic-
ularly concerned with politics. In
putting these primary functions
into effect, the Alliance should con-

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tinue the Goodhart assemblies, but
it should lay stress on smaller ac-
tivities of the Board and the clubs.
These activities, in the past,-have
included the Alliance tours of Phil-
adelphia (an idea suggested in a
N.S.A.. manual), campaigning in
elections and work with local po-

litical organizations. and discussion
groups. Speakers on a more infor-
mal level have also been included.
Along these lines it might be pos-
sible to organize perhaps a visit
of a speaker for several days on
campus in order for the students
to have more time to talk with the
visitor. Again, we have tried this
year and are continuing to try to
invite more speakers from this
area. Since much of the activity
of the Alliance, as it is organized
at present, depends on a responsi-
ble Board, it should be stressed
that (1) the hall reps should elect-
ed or chosen because of their gen-
eral interest in and willingness to
participate in Alliance activities
and, (2) the Board meetings must
draw for their stimulation not only
on those who actively. participate
but also on other students who
cannot always come to every meet-
ing but would like to join in the
Board discussion groups. The club
program this year should be revi-
talized according to expressed in-
terest, perhaps separate from the
Board activities and not necessar-
ily drawing its leadership from the
Board.

During my two and one-half
years at Bryn Mawr I have attend-
ed various off-campus conferences
pertaining to political affairs, in
particular the NSA Congress this
past summer. I have been Secre-
tary and President of Students for
Democratic Action on this campus
and have participated in the cam-
paigns in the mayoralty election of
Philadelphia and in the guberna-
torial election of Pennsylvania. In
these I have organized the Demo-
cratic groups, who have worked in
these elections.

DOROTHY G. INNES

Freshman:

Temporary Chairman of the
Class

Rotating Member to Undergrad
Hall Rep. to Chapel Committee
Freshman Show
Chorus
Double Octet
Member of Chorus Council
Haverford Community Center

Sophomore:
Chorus
Double Octet
Octangle



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for
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and





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Campus Guide

Secretary of Chapel. Committee

Co-Chairman, Haverford Com-
munity Center

Junior:

Octangle

Campus Guide

Permission Giver

College Theater

Co-Chairman, Ticket Committee
for Junior Show

Freshman Week Committee

The Alliance for Political Affairs
eems to me a vital part of Bryn
Mawr College life. Without it, we
vould have no cooperative. outlet
for interest and active participa-
-ion in the very things which so
lirectly concern every one of our
oresent and future lives. But while
{ cannot too strongly urge the need
for an intelligent and informed
opinién on political issues, I am
certainly in sympathy with those
who feel that their all-too-crowded
schedules do not permit an exten-
sive acquaintance with the fast-
moving current of domestic politics

‘or foreign affairs, and that not ev-

eryone should be expected to par-
ticipate directly in discussion or
action.

I feel, then, that-Alliance has a
double role to play. First, to serve
as a listening post or lookout, the
one group within the college which
will bring to the attention of ev-
eryone the urgent issues of the
day and provide them with readily
available information, through the
Current Events programs and by
bringing top speakers to the cam-
pus. Secondly and equally impor-
tant, to encourage those who wish
to devote more time and interest
to political affairs, by sponsoring
discussion groups, clubs and work
with political parties.

As a devout political science ma-
jor, I am convinced that the wide
range which this subject covers in-
cludes almost all of the vital prob-
lems which directly concern us, be-
ginning with the question of war
or peace, and extending to the
question of whether the municipal
railway runs on time! If the Alli-
ance can get across to the college
community at large a sense of urg-
ency, a feeling of need for more
and better information on a given
issue, I think it will have accom-
plished a large part of its task.

With a national election to be
held next fall, the Alliance will
have an Onusual opportunity to de-
velop and direct interest in poli-
tics. Perhaps the place to start,
once the basic program for the
year has been delineated, is in im-
provement of the publicity system.
The Alliance program must be
good, but it must be known, so
that people will not only recognize
that the organization is on its toes,
but will be driven—perhaps in des-
peration, if not from interested
choice—to learn something of the
terrific problems which our nation
and the world face.





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PAULA SUTTER

Freshman: ,
Freshman Hall
to Alliance
Freshman Show (Chairman of

Lights Committee)

Representative

Sophomore:
Advisor to Freshman Hall Play
Counterpoint Editorial Board
Upper Class Advisor to Fresh-
man Show
Maids and Porters Show (Co-
Stage Manager)
Junior:
@ Junior Class Vice-President
Election Committee
Philosophy Club Vice-President
Revue Editorial Board

Junior Show (Chairman of
Lights Committee; Script
Committee)

Basketball Varsity

Alliance is a formalized body of
Bryn Mawr political opinion. It is
a stimulator of campus interest in
current affairs, providing “ins” for
active political work for students
and programs to maintain political
awareness in the entire college.
Alliance should keep its ear to



campus opinion to gain insight
into student political interest and
its eyes outward, on the watch for
developments worth consideration
in the college.

Our present Board, with hall and
freshman representatives, is a

good start in this direction. How-
ever, 1 believe that, instead of one
representative for the upper class-
es which we now have,from each
hall, two might be better, a) to in-
sure -attendance of at least one
upper class hall representative at
each weekly Board meeting and,
b) to keep the membership of up-
per classmen who were interested
and freshman Board members.
Alliance programs this year
should not necessarily be built
around a name, but around some-
one who..has. something vital to
say. Speakers should be fitted to
topics, not the other way around.
Our ’56-57 programs should be as
exciting as the election year in
which they are to be held.
Through November, Alliance
should direct its programs toward

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