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ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1957
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1957
PRICE 20 CENTS
VOL. XLII, NO. 14 4
Bernheimer Returns To Art Faculty;
Leave Spent in European Research
By Helene Valabregue
Dr. Richard Bernheimer, of the
History of Art Department, is back
at Bryn Mawr, after a year and a
half on sabbatical leave in Europe.
For the first year he hada Gug-
genheim fellowship to do research
on “The Italian Origins of Archi-
tectural Romanticism”.
He travelled a great deal through-
out Europe in search of theatrical
drawings from the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. There has
been very little work done in this
field, although there is a great deal
of important material lying around
unnoticed in places like the Acad-
emy of Fine Arts in Vienna and
the Besancon Library in France.
Most of Dr. Bernheimer’s time,
however, was spent in Italy and in
London where he used other librar-
ies as indices to that of the Brit-
ish Museum, which has an untold
wealth of material, but which has
its books catalogued by alithors
only and not by subjects. This
makes it impossible to find books
unless one knows just what one
wants.
The “Italian Origins of Archi-
tectural Romanticism” led Dr.
. Bernheimer to a study of operatic
libretti and their origins, for which
he found much material in the fic-
titious histories of chivalric tour-
haments. These, it appears, were
Wolfson of Harvard
To Speak on Plato
Harry Austryn Wolfson, Nath-
an Littauer Professor of Hebrew
Literature and Philosophy at Har-
vard, will deliver the Theodore
and Grace de Laguna Lecture in
Philosophy on March 4 at 8:30 in
the Common Room. Dr. Wolfson
will speak on “Descendents of Pla-
tonic Ideas.” ach year a distin-
guished scholar is selected to de-
liver the de Laguna Lecture.
Dr. Wolfson, an eminent histor-
ian of philosophy, has written
Crescas’ Critique of Aristotle, The
Philosophy of Spinoza, two volumes
entitled Philo and has completed
one volume of Philosophy of the
often “staged”, it being predeter-
mined who was going to win. He
also did a study of the peculiar
relationship between “devils and
drawings” which begins in fifteenth
century Florence, is prominent-in
seventeenth century theatrical dec-
orations in Italy and culminates in
the romantic notions of eighteenth
ventury “architectures of hell”.
Dr. Bernheimer is writing a book
on his research, the first chapter of
which will probably be an article
already published in the Art Bulle-
tin in November. Entitled “The-
atrum Mundi”, it is an attempt at
defining the concept of theater.
After the expiration of the Gug-
genheim fellowship, he devoted
his time to work on a book on his
own theory of representation asa
philosophic field independent both
of aesthetics and semantics. Rep-
resentation is of major significance
in art, but is present in many other
fields, such as language, law, and
science. Dr. Bernheimér hopes to
publish next summer his book on
which he has been working since
1941.
Although the past.year and a
half have been exciting and very
fruitful for him, Dr. Bernheimer,
glad to be teaching again, at times
felt that working with books and
ideas was not “quite enough”
Committee Begins
Parents’ Day Work
Parents’ Day this year will be
held on Saturday, May 11 from
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The fol-
lowing people have been elected
or appointed to serve on the Par-
ents’ Day Committee:
Chairman: Martha Fuller ’58.
Faculty: Joshua Hubbard, Mabel
Lang, and Bettina Linn.
Students: Jane White ’57, Shep-
pie Glass ’67, Diana Russell ’57,
Liz Kaplan Secor ’57, Lee Ellis
58, Patty Page ’58, Joan Shige-
kawa ’58. Bette Haney ’59, Sue
Gold ’59, Doris Morgenstern ’59,
Martha Faust ’60, Susan Downey
’60, Joan Strell ’60.
Advisors: Miss Carol Biba and
Mrs. Margaret Paul.
The program for Parents’ Day
Church Fathers. '
is to be announced.
COLLEGE ELECTION SCHEDULE
The electioz;
schedule for all campus offices is as follows:
Mon., March 11—Election of President of Self-Gov. Freshman meeting
to straw balllot Zor First Sophomore to Self-Gov.
Tues., March 12—Election of President to Undergrad. Junior class
meeting to straw ballot for Vice-President of Undergrad and Self-
Gov.
Wed., March 13—Election of Presidents of League and A.A. Sopho-
more meeting to straw ballot for Secretary of Undergrad and Self-
Gov.
fhurs., March 14—Election of Presidents of Alliance and Inter-Faith
Association.
Mion., March 18—Ele:tion of hall presidents. All four classes will eer
in Taylor to mcet the candidates for Vice-President of Self-Gov
and Undergrad, Secretary of ae etod and een win) First
- Sophomore to Self-Gov. -
Cues., March 19—Election of Vice-President, deena ar First ‘Soph-
omore to Self-Gov.
Wed., March 20—Election of Vice-President and Secretary of Under-
grad, Straw ballot of junior and sophomore classes for Vice-Pres~
ident and Secretary of League and Alliance.
Thurs., March 21—Election of First Senior to Self-Gov and Vice-Pres-
* jdent of A.A. in junior class meeting.
Mon., March 25—Election of Vice-President and ‘Secretary of League
and Alliance in junior -and sophomore class meeting. Freshman
meeting to elect First Sophomore to Undergrad.
fues., March 26—Election of First
Junior to Self-Gov and Undergrad
in sophémore class meeting. Election of Second Sophomore to
Self-Gov in freshman class meeting.
Wed.,
March 27—Election of Common Treasurer in senda class
meeting. Election of Second Sophomore to Undergrad in-freshman
class meeting.
Thurs., March 28—Election of Second Junio: to Self-Gov and eating!
grad and two representatives to A.A. in sophomore class meetin,
A.A. To Sponsor
Sports Day Here
Saturday, March 2
This Saturday, March 2, Bryn
Mawr will play host to Barnard,
Goucher and Hood Colleges at the
four-college Sports: Day. Sponsor-
ed by the Athletic Association, the
Sports Day will include basketball,
fencing, badminton and swimming
events as well as entertainment by
members of the Octangle at the
College Inn luncheon giiven the
participants. Aftr lunch, the visit-
ors will be given a chance to see
the sights around the campus be-
fore resuming the sports events of
the afternoon.
Three fencers from each school
will compete in matches which
begin. at 10:00 a.m., while four
from ach school will play in the
badminton matches, two playing
singles ,two doubles. The basketball
matches will be conducted round
robin with the final game at 2:45
p.m.
Dorm Visitors
Hood College girls will be spend-
ing Friday night in various Bryn
Mawr dorms. In order to spare
them the all-too-early-and-devasta-
ting shock of Saturday morning
breakfast in the halls, A.A. is
providing breakfast for them at
the Inn.
Steffie Hetzel, president of the
A.A., is chairman of the student
committee. The other members are
Grace Labouchere, in charge of
food; E. McKeon, supervisor of
registration and hospitality and
Diana Russell, chairman -of the
Octangle. Kitty Stoddert, Sandra
Colt and Donna Cochrane are in
charge of basketball, swimming
and fencing respectively, and
Gracie van Hulsteyn and Diana
Russell will supervise the bad-
minton matches.
An enthusiastic invitation is ex-
tended by A.A. to anyone wishing
to be a spectator at these events.
This is the only opportunity Bryn
Mawr has of meeting Barnard,
Goucher and Hood in most of these
sports, and the A.A. is looking for-
ward to this Sports Day with a
great deal of pleasure and enthu-
siasm.
Bryn Mawr Sings
In Choral Concert
Organized lung power nudged
the rafters of Haverford’s Roberts
Hall Saturday afternoon and even-
ing, February 23. The occasion was
the presentation of a festival
choral concert.
Participants included the choral
groups of six colleges: Bryn Mawr,
Cedar Crest, Franklin and Mar-
shail, Goucher, Haverford, and
Muhlenberg; the brass choir of
Lehigh University and instrument-
jalists from the orchestras of Bryn
Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore
Colleges.
The program was composed ‘of.
a number of little known choral
compositions. First came “Let Us
Now Praise Famous Men,” by
Ralph Vaughan Williams, sung by
the combined choruses with organ
accompaniment by Claribel Thom-
son.
Other works included “Four Mad-
rigals” by Claudio Monteverdi, sung
by Goucher; “Gesang der Geister
uber den Wassern (Song of_ the
Spirits over the Waters)” by Franz
Schubert, which the choruses of
Franklin and Marshall and Haver-
Continued on Page 7, Column 5
“The South—Yesterday’and To-
day” was discussed by Hodding
Carter, Pulitzer’ Prize award-win-
ning Southern writer and editor,
last Monday noon in Goodhart
under the sponsorship of the Alli-
ance,
Celebrating the twenty-fifth an-
niversary of his editorship of the
Delta, Mississippi Democrat-Times,
Mr. Carter noted that he sas less
proud of and hopeful for the South,
“that cursed, blessed, and ‘wonder-
ful part of our country,” and its
progress in human relationships
than he was three years ago. How-
ever, he said, to understand the
present situation in the South one
must recognize that a_ distinct
Friends of Music
To Present Concert
Next’ Wednesday,” March’ 6,a
Friends of Music c t will be
given in Goodhart in honor of Mr.
Horace Alwyne who is retiring
from the Music Department at the
end of this year.
The performers are Claude Jean
Chiasson who will play the harpsi-
chord, Carleton Sprague Smith
who will play the flute, and Paul
Gavert, a lyric baritone.
Claude Jean Chiasson studied
with Wanda Landowska. In addi-
Lion to giving concerts and lectures,
Chiasson builds harpsichords.
Mr. Smith, who received his PhD
at the University of Vienna, now
lectures at the Music Department
at New York University. He is
also Chairman of the Composer’s
Forum, and Director of the
Metropolitan Opera Association.
Paul Gavert received his Bach-
elor of Music degree from North-
western University. He is Associ-
late Professor of Music and head
of the Voice Department, Colorado
State College. He has been soloist
twice with the New York Philhar-
monic Symphony. Last summer he
sang with the North Shore Music
Theatre, Beverly, Massachusetts.
The program will include pieces
of Bach, Rameau, Couperin and
Scarlatti. Tickets may be obtained
in the Public Relations Office.
Calendar
Wednesday, February 27
7:15 p.m.—Special meeting to
discuss the Bryn Mawr Summer
Camp. Everyone welcome to air
views on the matter. Common
Room.
Thursday, February 28
5:00 p.m.—German Club Meet-
ing. Common Room.
Saturday, March 2 ~
All Day. Sports .Day. Gym.
Monday, March 4
8:30 p.m.—Harry A. Wolfson,
Professor of Hebrew Literature
pnd Philosophy at Harvard Univer-
sity, will give the Theodore and
Grace A. de Laguna Lecture in
Philosophy. Common Room. Good-
hart Hall.
Wednesday, March 6,
8:30 p.m.—Concert by Claude
Jean Chiasson, harpsichord, with
Paul Gavert, lyric baritone, and
Carleton Sprague Smith, flutist,
under the auspices of the Friends’
of Music of Bryn Mawr College.
Goodhart.
Pulitzer Winner Speaks On
State Of Integration In South
southern “fgtk” exists which affects
all southern hehavior and thought.
Because ‘of this “folk,” the South
suspects intruders, condones vio-
lence, and insists upon group con-
formity as a means of maintaining
white dominance and its political
and economic strength.
“Mr. Carter listed three reasons
for the existence of this “folk:
1) the fact that immigration, which
parts of the United States, did not
affect the South; 2) the fact that
the South is the only section of
the country which has known mili-
tary defeat and occupation; and
3) the three century-long presence
of the Negro, brought there un-
willingly and used.
_ Integration in Colleges
Mr. Carter then referred directly
leges were not ségrégated at” the
graduate level at the time of the
Supreme Court decision, and only
at the University of Alabama had
there been violence. However, he
observed, an entirely different atti-
tude exists at the “mass” or ele-
mentary and secondary school level
of education; there the culture lag
between races is more obvious and
resistance to integration is greater.
Resistarce varies in three differ-
ent areas of the South. It is least
in the border states, divided in
states like Texas, and strongest in
“defiant South,” or states like
Mississippi and Louisiana. In gen-
eral, it takes the form of quasi-
legal suppression, threats of force
or violence itself.
No defeitse, Mr. Carter said, can
be made for the use of violence
or for the Ku Klux Klan, wihch
has been rising again in terroristic
movements against integration.
The leaders, however, of southern
communities are often found in the
White Citizens’ Councils, which at-
tempt to use the law. The legal
minds of the South are now poised
against the Supreme Court, and as
an ultimate legal weapon, the
abandonment of public schools has
been considered. The White Citi-
zens’ Councils also seek to insure
group conformity as a means of
preservation of the older structure,
but these attempts, Mr. Carter re-
flected, hdve ill results. They both
need too much energy and tend to
destroy. southern values them-
selves.
Where To?
What direction, Mr. Carter then
asker, is the South facing as it
confronts the changing social sit-
question, he discussed the primary
factors of unhappy race relations
as being the “numerical pressure”
dominant whites and the cultural
_|lag.
- However, let. pressure is
decreasing significantly with
changes in the southern economic
structure. As the South becomes
industrialized the Negro, for the
first time no longer needed in an
agricultural economy, ,is free to
migrate, With the reduction in the
number of Negroes, there. is a re-
duction of tension. Although this is
a negative way of solving race
problems, it has been effective.
Moreover, Mr. Carter went ‘on,
industrialization has revised ‘the
population. No longer an “agricul-
a
brought wider cultures to other *
to integration. Most southern col- |
uation? In order to answer his’
character of the general Southern 3
‘ . Continued on —_ ‘8, Column 2°”
_tof-Negroes-against the politically
serberer
»
Sa
va
THE COLLEGE NEWS
JS
Wednesday, February 27, 1957
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Vote
It is generally hoped that the ablest and most creative
people will lead the campus associations for the forthcoming
year. At election time, then, it is our duty to take an active
interest in the candidates, to read their. statements on plans
and objectives, to participate in the informal after-dinner
discussions with them, and to consider issues and nominees’
qualifications. :
In its second year, the new election system has again
been proving effective. Straw balloting has replaced the
cumbersome nominating committee, the prohibitive number
of class meetings formerly required has been reduced to a
minimum, and the informal questioning in the halls can es-
tablish the desired contact with candidates.
It is hard to justify apathy at a small college where can-
didates are known personally and where organization policies |-
so directly affect all of us. We hope election results will re-
flect a thinking, informed electorate.
Men At 10:30
A petition has been submitted to the Self-Gov executive
and advisory boards this past week for “modification of the
rules that men are not to be allowed in dormitory rooms un-
til 11:30 a. m. to ‘men will be permitted in girls’ rooms after
10:00 a.m.’ This change is requested for the convenience of
students with out-of-town dates in particular.”
After presentation of the petition, it was decided that
the request would be taken up in the various halls. If gen-
eral opinion is felt to be favorable towards the change, the
matter will be voted upon in Legislature. If passed there,
the final ruling wili rest with the administration. :
The question of entertaining men at 10:00 in the morn-
mg or one and a half hours later is hardly a burning issue.
Yet it is not an insignificant one and is well worth the con-
sideration of students who are being asked to voice their
ypinions on it.
Because of the present rule, girls with out-of-town dates
on weekends are unable to entertain them in their rooms until
11:30 a.m. Under these conditions, those not athletically
inclined to take walks on campus to use up the time between
9:00 and 11:30, are virtually “imprisoned” in the hall smok-
ers. With all due respect to the congeniality of Bryn Mawr-
vers, it must be admitted that a smoker-full of noisy bridge
zames and multitudes of girls is often embarrassing and in-
timidating to the college’s male visitors. The real root of
this problem actually lies in the well-recognized fact that, in
Bryn Mawr, there is no “place to go”. The college possesses
no “student union building’, no “hangout” ; not even a “soda
joint” it can call its own. Therefore, entertaining on the in-
formal level must he done in the halls. oes
We feel the petition to change the 11:30 rule to an earli-
ertime is of value and would not be an inconvenience. On, the
contrary, it would be a social advantage.
As usual, there are two sides to the story. The present
‘Jate” rule exists for the benefit of late-risers and late-dress-
ers. Those girls who would feel inconvenienced by the pres-
ence of males “early” in the morning would have a valid ob-
jection. Yet, let it be noted that the p resent-situation-oby
—ously-does hot deter bathrobes and curlers from being dis-
played in the smokers on late Saturday and Sunday mornings
and at 10:00 p.m. milk-breaks. - Indeed, the spiriting away
of-dates to girls’ rooms at an early hour might prevent their
witnessing this more spectacular variety of Bryn Mawr
sights. a ;
_ | However, a non-beneficial result.of the change is only too
possible, as far as noise is concerned. . If girls are to be per-
mitted to entertain dates at an earlier morning hour, they
should be especially considerate of their more soporifically
mcelined neighbors. For this reason, we recommend that the
petition be approved as a whole, but that the new time sug-
gested be 10:30 a.m., not 10:00 a.m. |
-. Of course, opinion on the subject will vary from hall to
hall. Differences in smoker arrangement between halls—will
some to consi
e change should be adopted.
a. * P feleome it. We feel
9 In general, we would like to congratulate the originat-
_.-ors of the petition, not so much for its substance, but for be-
_ ing concerned
about it!
Ea Baa:
n-Obvi=4
the change unnecessary, others to
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By
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Patty Page
Last Friday evening’s dinner in
Pembroke started out true to form.
The dining room was only. about
half-full as a result of 1) the menu,
which had sent a large segment to
the inn, and 2) the fact that it was
the end of the week, which was the
signal for-a mass migration
AWAY. The atmospheré was one
of general boredom — noisy, but
bored- nonetheless.
Suddenly, all this changed. A
momentary hush fell over the
dining room, everyone snapped to
attention and an intense but lower-
pitched sound filled the air. The
cause of it all? Fourteen (14)
personable young men accompan-
ied by only two girls had entered
the dining room and taken over a
whole table. The fact that the two
girls were from another hall added
mystery to an already inexplicable
occurrence.
* Rumors flew thick and fast—
“They must have come down from
Lehigh for the sophomore mixer
... Maybe they have something to
do with the Chorus concert.’”’ One
group guessed, correctly, that they
were members of the Harvard
swimming team who had just beat-
en Penn that afternoon, but they
couldn’t figure out why they were
honoring Pembroke with their
presence.
After a few minutes, a couple
of the boys rose from their table,
plates in hand, and approached an-
other where the ratio of girls was
more favorable to them. They sat
down and continued to eat, without
making any comment as far as we
could see. This was very disap-
pointing. Since they had gone to
all the trouble of joining us, the
least they could do was be aimus-
ing.
One girl, whose motives were
dubious, kindly decided -to help
them out. “Aren’t you going to ask
me a question?” she inquired.
“Where are you girls from, Bryn
Mawr?” one of them obligingly
asked. After obtaining the desired
reaction there was a_ painful
silence.
This was an inauspicious begin-
ning but, nothing daunted, she
tried again. “Well, aren’t you going
to ask me what I’m studying?”
The young man to whom the ques-
tion was addressed ‘hesitated a
moment, but not being able to
think of a sufficiently witty reply
he warily inquired, “What are you
studying?” “I’m not studying any-
thing, they’re: studying me,” was
the disconcerting come-back.
Silence reigned. The three girls
dcross the table who had remained
quiet throughout this friendly ex-
change rose to leave. The boys,
relievedly taking this as their cue,
beat a strategic retreat, gathering
courage enough as they got far-
ther away from the table to make
a few remarks about our hospital-
ity. They were visibly shaken by
their encounter.
=
Lots of interesting articles can
be found in the depths. of old
College News editions. But then
there are always those that don’t
seem too... well... they don’t
have the same meaning today...
perhaps.
For example, in a-College News
from February, 1917, we see under
the ambiguous heading “Sporting
News” (for it could mean “News
for those who are absolutely Good
Sports” or “News that we just had
to print, so we’re being Sporting
about it” or “this stuff isn’t really
News, we’re just Sporting around”’)
the following:
“Water-polo fans who watched
the hard-fought match between
1917 and 1918 at last Thursday’s
practice, predict a struggle bet-
ween them for the championship.
“Joe Wright signed a three year
contract last week as crew coach
for the University of Pennsylvania.
Wright, who coached Penn last
year without compensation, has
thus given up his standing as an,
amateur oarsman and become a
professional. (Isn’t this fascination
itself? Well, to continue—)
“The gymnasium contest will
differ from last year’s contest in
the introduction of a track exer-
cise to complete the free movement
drill. The free movement drill will
be learned this year like the In-
dian club drill, instead of last
not learned but done to commands
given by an outside instructor. The
drill will come first on the pro-
gram, followed by Indian clubs,
apparatus work, and stunts on the
parallel bars.”
. And so forth... sigh...
CURRENT EVENTS
“The American Jew and Is-
rael” is the title of the open
diseussion to be led by Mr. Ar-
thur Dudden of the History De-
partment next week at “Cur-
rent Events” in the ‘Common
Room at 7:15 p.m. Discussion
will include consideration of
about a campus problem and doing something
' American Mid-Eastern Policy.
year’s arrangement, when it was.
Current Events
Monday evening in the Common
Room, as a complement to Mr.
Carter’s speech on the South, four
Bryn Mawr students spoke about
chahges which have been taking
place in the southern way of life.
The purpose of the talks was to
shed light on issues other than that
of desegregation, which was en-
tirely avoided except in the dis-
cussion following the talks.
All four girls live in the South
but in different types of commun-
ities and were therefore able to
present quite varied viewpoints.
Epsey Cooke, who is from Her-
mando, Miss., a town of about 1200
inhabitants, spoke about the small
town and how it is affected by the
changes going on. Although the
small town retains many provinciaf
traditions, such as the “Big Day”
on Saturday afternoon, when every-
one comes to town, there is a real
effort for growth and improvement
taking place. The influx of industry
from the North is helping the in-
come of farm families, and north-
ern industries like to move south
because of the lower taxes. They
are, however, hindered by the
problem of whites and Negroes
working side by side. Planning ex-
perts are being called in to im-
prove roads and general living
conditions. The progress and im-
provement in small towns is a good
proof that the South is. not “de-
cadent.”
Elizabeth Ewing spoke of the
striking contrasts provided by~her |
Hhomeé, Nashville, Tennessee. Al-
though Nashville is advanced eul-
turally, boasting a Parthenon and
symphony orchestra, and attracts
northern industry, it has very bad
slums and is surrounded by back-
Continued on Page 7, Column 1
Chapel
On Sunday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m.,
the Bryn Mawr College Chorus,
under the direction of Robert L
Goodale will sing the “Mass in E
Flat” by anz Schubert with the
Lehigh University Glee Club,
directed by Robert Cutler, in Good-
hart. The Invocation, Prayer and
Benediction will be given by the
Reverend Lowell Lentz of the Stu-
dent Christian Movement. This is
lintead of the regular
Chapel
ser V ice . ¥
i\Letter To The Editor
Ex-Camp_ Director
Appeals for Funds
To the Editor:
The fund drive for the Bryn
Mawr Summer Camp begins next
week, and as is well known, the
future of the camp is dependent
upon the student body’s response
to this monetary appeal. As a
past direcor who has directly wit-
nessed the genuine worth of a few
weeks of sun and sea, instruction
and creative group-living to an in-
verracial group of country-and-
attention-starved children, I- should
like to express my belief in the
very real value of -this college ac-
tivity both as a charitable institu-
tion and as a basic part of Bryn
Mawr College.
Although the actual location fo
the camp has been changed many
times, Bryn Mawr girls have con-
tinued to provide valuable camp-
ing experiences for Philadelphia’s
underprivileged children for more
than half a century. In What
Makes a College (p. 245) Miss
Meigs describes the formation of
the Christian Union in 1891 and
speaks of the summer camp’s be-
ginnings as a part of the college’s
charitable activities. Furthermore,
I am sure that Miss McBride will
not mind my mentioning her coun-
selorship at the camp during her
undergraduate days. ~~
Although we fondly joke about
the Bryn Mawr tradition of tra-
ditions, this is perhaps one of the
few which continues to have a
practical significance for persons
outside the college community. It
is one of the few opportunities that
Bryn Mawr students have, while
still undergraduates, to go beyond
the college boundaries in a repre-
sentative group and to put into
practice some of their cherished
idealistic views about democracy
and education.
Joan W. Parker
‘Director,
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp
Summer of 1955.
Wesleyan Student
Against U.S. Policy
Box 127
“Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn.
Dear Editor:
In an age possessing the power
of tnthinkable destruction, it must
be the primary concern of every
citizen of this country to establish
international understanding, and
to abolish the ever-present possi-
bility of war. The United States
today is in a position to lead the
way towards peace, and it must
meet this grave responsibility. We
feel that our present foreign pol-
icy, founded as it is on the strug-
gle to maintain military suprem-
acy, is leading us towards, rather
than away from, war.”
The outcome of every arms race
in history has been war, and this
same direction. The accumulation
of military strength implies the
threat of using that strength as a
means for protecting our interests.
It is unthinkable that we fully in-
tend to unleash the destructive
powers of our atomic weapons on
even our most bitter enemies.
Yet even if we do not intend this,
and our threat is a bluff, it is naive
to suppose that this bluff will
eventually be called. When it is
called, we will be compelled to car-
ry out our threats, and the use of
arms will cease to be a bluff. It
will be a necessity. Our race for
military supremacy draws us in-
evitably to the use of military pow-
er.
Our military policy has repeated-
ly failed to achieve its objectives.
spel
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2 for keeping students more aware
Wednesday, February al 1957 -
THE COLLEGE NEWS_
page Three
Special College Election Supplement
Candidates for Undergrad
Lee Ellis Catherine Stimpson,
The following question was ask-
ed the candidates for the presi-
dency of Undergrad:
* What do you consider to be the
function of the Undergraduate
Association on the campus and how
would you suggest that this func-
tion be fulfilled?
The following is a list of candi-
dates for the presidency of the
Undergraduate Association, listed
in alphabetical order:
ELINOR AMRAM
LES BLUIS
PATTY PAGE
CATHARINE STIMPSON
S
ELINOR AMRAM
Freshman:
Freshman Hall Plays
Freshman Show
Permission giver (3 years)
Campus guide (3 years)
Sophomore:
Sophomore Rep to Curriculum
Committee
Spanish Club Secretary
Bryn Mawr Hospital Volunteer
Freshman Week Committee
Junior:
1st Junior Member to Undergrad
Russian Department Rep to Cur-
riculum Committee
Freshman Week Committee
The Undergraduate Association’s
main function is to act as a chan-
nel for “information between the
students, which it represents, the
faculty, and the administration.
To act most efficiently it must be
in a position to know and appreci-
ate the views of these three groups
on campus, and to transmit fac-
ulty-administration opinions to
the campus at lange. Undergrad
comes into contact with the stu-
dent body through the members of
its board who should be generally
well informed about student opin-
ion and specifically well informed
about their individual positions.
Much’ depends on the efforts of
each individual on the board to
keep abreast of combined faculty-
administration-student opinion and
to carry information between the
faculty and administration and
~the-students.
Here Undergrad has excellent.
opportunities, which should be tak-
en full advantage of, in the new
Advisory Board of hall reps, the
Curriculum Committee head, the
vice president as director of clubs,
and the head of Arts Council, also
new this year. These offer chances
for contact with the faculty and
the student body; perhaps the
channel of communications which
most needs to be widened is that
between students and administra-
tion. I would suggest that Under-
grad concentrate on ” opportunitief|
of pertinent changes and develop-
ments in the policy of the admin-
istration.
Elinor Amram, Patty Page.
LEE ELLIS
Freshman:
Director Freshman Hall Play
. Freshmgn Show
Chorus
‘Campus Guide (3 years)
Lacrosse Varsity (2 years)
Sophomore:
‘Class Hall«Rep
Co-editor Freshman. Handbook
Payday Mistress (2 years)
Election Committee
Junior
Class President
Sec’y of College. Council
Freshman Week Committee
Hall Rep to Undergrad Advisory
Board
Junior Show
The key function of the Under-
graduate Association is co-ordina-
tion. This is felt on many levels,
from the mechanical scheduling of
social events and student activities
to the fina] handling of opinions
and ideas—both from the students
and the faculty-administration. Be-
cause of the many. different areas
of campus activity it is concerned
with, through. the clubs and com-
mittees, the Executive Board, and
the Advisory Board,. Undergrad
becomes a natural ground for dis-
cussion and organization of college
problems.
Under the mechanical scheduling
of activities falls the important
duty of seeing that the connection
is made smoothly from one year
to the next. I feel that much im-
provement could be made along
this line, to save committee heads
from being able to get information
only from their predecessors; and
thus from wasting a great deal of
time and energy. Through the Ad-
visory Board perhaps, a more rigid
system of recording the organiza-
tion and execution of all of the
campus functions could be achiev-
ed.
Next year I feel will be an im-
portant one to Undergrad. An ex-
cellent channel has been found
in the newly formed Advisory
Board. This year its possibilities
were investigated and tested; next
year it should be operating with
great efficiency. It has proved ex-
tremely valuable in assuring
|Undergrad a direct and responsible
contact with each hall (and there-|—~—
fore the entire student body)—
valuable enough to merit voting
power in Legislature, and greater
importance in the hall elections.
It could be particularly useful next
year in co-ordinating discussion on
the pending question of Arts Coun-
cil and the changes which will un-
doubtedly become necessary.
Due to lack of space, the
statements of the candidates
were limited to approximately
250 words.
PATTY PAGE
Freshman:
Freshman Hall Plays
Freshman Show
College Theatre Work
Bryn Mawr Summer Camp
Counselor
‘|Sophomore:
Make-up Editor of the News
Library Committee—Sophomore
Rep
Maids’ and Porters’ Show—
Publicity Chairman
Soda Fountain crew
| Junior:
Copy Editor of the News
Freshman Week Committee
Campus Guide (2 years)
Permission Giver (2 years)
Junior Show
Parents’ Day Committee
The main function of the Under-
graduate Association is that of
coordination. As the one organiza-
tion on campus in touch with o
student associations, the fatulty
and the administration, Undergrad
has a unique opportunity to serve
as a sounding board for student
opinion. Its purpose, as the word
“Undergraduate” suggests, is to
give students, both as representa-
tives of organized groups and as
individual members of the college,
being of the college community.
Besides this most
function of coordinating and acting
necessary one of organizing stu-
be a minimum of friction and
confusion.
relation to the individual is needed
before it can best fulfill its func-
tion as the voice of campus opin-
ion. Since the concept of “ipso
facto” implies*passivity on the part
of the students, there is a danger
that Undergrad may lose contact
with them. The initiation of a
board of Hall reps, providing for
a closer exchange of ideas, was
a big step forward; but it should
be supplemented by occasional
open meetings where interested
students may discuss their views.
More publicity in the News in
the way of feature articles about
Undergrad’s activities, a greater
effort to explain faculty and ad-
ministration stands to the students
and more student participation
would help to fulfill Undengrad’s
role as the coordinator of student
opinion.
CATHARINE STIMPSON
Freshman:
Campus Guide (3 years)
News Staff (2 years)
Freshman Hall Plays
Hall Class Rep
Freshman Show
Rotating Freshman Member of
Self-Gov
Philosophy Club (2 years)
Sophomore:
2nd Sophomore Rep to Under-
grad
Delegate to NSA National
Congress
NSA Coordinator
Treasurer of Alliance (2 years)
Permission Giver (2 years)
Maids’ and Porters’ Show
Soda Fountain Crew
a chance to air their opinion on]?
any subject relevant to the well-|)
important | J
upon all levels of student opinion, | ¥
there is the more mechanical yet] |
dent activities so that there will
A clarification of Undergrad’s|
of a community which. might be
described ‘as autonomy without
anarchy, and the execution of
traditions and specific duties.
Perhaps the most essential fea-
ture of Undergrad is its duality of
‘purpose, which causes it to be an
administrative organization whose
usefulness depends upon the depth
of its contact with the student body.
Undergrad’s first purpose should
be to receive, express, and un-
derstand opinion ‘and new ideas.
Secondly, although all students are
members of Undergrad, not all
can be expected to be interested in
it; consequently, Undergrad must
administer effectively, but unob-
trusively.
However, I believe that certain
actions are needed before Under-
grad* ean fulfill its purposes. The
present Big Six structure has been
called unwieldy and unrealistic,
Mind I feel that Undergrad, as a
member of the Big Six, should ad-
vocate a study of those criticisms,
and if they are valid, offer plans,
for the reorganization of campus
activities.
Moreover, the Undergrad. Asso-
ciation itself, whose constitution
is subject to revision this year,
should undergo self-examination to
determine the meaning of its co-
ordination and principles, to remove
obsolete measures, and to insure
that it has neither defunct nor un-
recognized purposes.
Because of its obligations to the
individual and to the the entire
campus, I further feel that Under-
grad should undertake the follow-
ing actions: 1) resolution of
the position of Arts Council; 2)
consideration of financial problems,
including Undergrad’s unused sur-
plus and the possibility of creating
a committee to deal with financial
problems common to Bix Six mem-
bers; 3) examination of the pro-
posal that Legislature elect its own
permanent chairman, to replace
the present plan where one presi-
dent of a major organization acts
as chairman, whereby Legislature
might gain greater unity and val-
ue; and 4) expansion of the fresh-
man handbook to include activities
in. the Philadelphia area.
Candidates for Self-Gov
Joan Shigekawa, Nancy Dyer,
The following is a list of candi-
dates for the presidency of Self-
Government, listed in alphabetical
order:
NANCY DYER
MAGGIE GORDON
BETSY NELSON
JOAN SHIGEKAWA
NANCY DYER
Freshman:
Freshman Rotating Member to
Self-Gov
A. A. Hall Rep
Soda Fountain Manager
Permission Giver (3 years)
Sophomore:
2nd Sophomore Member to Self-
Gov
Class President
Swimming Team (3 years)
Manager
Junior:
Secretary of Self-Gov
1) Academic Honor Board
2) r eeeeiary of Advisory Board
my trying to Hescribe my philo-
sophy of Self-Government, a good
place to begin would be with the
‘ipso facto” member. As a part of
a community, each student has a
practical responsibility to the sys-
tem subscribed by the Association,
| Bryn Mawr potential —
|. Counselor
Junior:
Secretary of Undergrad.
Junior Show
Basketball Varsity
USF Drive Treasurer
Freshman Week Committee
Summer Camp Advisory Council
Maids’ and Porters’ Class
Instructor
The duties of the Undergraduate
Association are manifold; its acti-
vities and offices, concerned first
with the entire college, are also
related to the faculty, administra-
tion, classes, and halls. It is res-
ponsible for the coordination of
campus events, for the existence
-as-a-more subtle-responsi-+}
bility for the welfare of the col-
lege. The Advisory Board, the Ex-
ecutive Board, and the permission
givers deal with the administna-
tion of these two aspects, and it is
important to realize that every
rule must be. tuned. to the actual
working community.
On the practica] level this is the
necessary means to assure a well-
ordered community and the safety
of the individual. On the more
theoretical 1 it should be point-
ed out that certain of the rules are
concerned with standards of the
college. An example of this would
Maggie Gordon, Betsy Nelson.
MAGGIE GORDON
Freshman:
Class Hall Rep
Chapel Committee Rep
Freshman Show
Sophomore:
Permission Giver
Junior:
Junior Show
Freshman Week Committee
1st Junior Member to Self-Gov
The Bryn Mawr Self-Govern-
ment Association as an adminis-
trative body needs a clear-cut con-
cept of the ideal relationship be-
tween each student and the group
to insure justice in—its dealings
with all individual problems. .
This ideal seems to me to be the
willingness of every receiving
member of the community to ac-
cept the personal responsibility for
insuring that every other member
may have the same opportunities
she has, not only to enjoy the bene-
fits but to use creatively the free-
dom which the system offers. The
administrative body of Self-Gov
must have the insight and ‘sensi-
tivity to be aware of this growing
ideal and realistically to interpret
in relation to it. It must also
have imagination and a sense of —
perspective in’ making the spirit
of this larger idea evident behind
the framework of mechanical and
seemingly petty rules.
Academically, a standard of un-
compromising professional hones- .
ty must be maintained, and on the
social level, a flexibility and free-
dom within the limits of commun-
ity living in which the individual .
must discover her own social and
moral standards. Socially, the sys-
tem can not dictate an official mor-
ality which would kill the very
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, February 27, 1957
BETSY NELSON
Freshman:
Temporary ‘Chairman of Class
Vice-President of Class
Hall Rep to League
Asst. Director—Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp
Sophomore:
1st Sophomore Member to va?
dergrad
Sophomore Rep to Size of Col-
lege Committee
Maids’ and Porters’ Show
Freshiian Week Committee
Junior:
2nd Junior Member to Under-
grad
Junior Show
The Self-Government Association
has a two-fold responsibility to
the college: to insure the operation
of whatever rules are necessary to
best provide for the interests of
afl members and to allow the stu-
dent sufficient freedom to work out
the relation of her individual prin-
ciples. to those of the college com-
munity.
‘As a practical system, Self-
Gov covers two areas: conduct
within and conduct. without the
college. As attitudes within change,
a constant re-evaluation of the
rules governing them is necessary }.
so that the rule and the accepted
practice do not diverge, invalidat-
ing the rule and undermining the
system. Responsibility for the
reputation of the college has also
been placed upon Self-Gov,
this area must be strictly dealt
with, for loss of reputation in
relation to the community, of which
the college is a part, would destroy
the practical value of education
at Bryn Mawr for present: and
prospective members _ alike.
The world does not work on an|
honor system; however, this does
not* destroy the honor system’s
value. Because of the responsibil-
ity and a certain amount of free-
dom given the student under such
a system, she is forced to work
out her own relation to the govern-
ment. :
This is the one organization
which loses all value if a few
members refuse to relate them-
selves to it. The reappraisal of the
constitution due next year and a
revision of the Self-Gov exam to
make it less easily anticipated and
more thought-provoking should
make this relating a more con-
scious process on campus. :
h
JOAN SHIGEKAWA
‘Freshman:
Hall Class Rep
‘Freshman Show
Permission Giver
Campus Guide
Sophomore:
Freshman Week Committee
Alliance Hall Rep (2 years)
Sophomore Rep to Curriculum
Committee
Maids and Porters Show
Junior:
Junior Show
Parents’ Day Committee
2nd Junior Member to Self-Gov
The respect for each of us as an
individual acknowledges our free-
dom to reach our own decisions
and places the responsibility for
our acts where it ultimately must
rest—on ourselves. While scarcely.
the most comfortable situation, it
is to me the most vital element of
the Self-Government System. Or-
iginally the college community. had
' no “rules” as such and depended on
the interaction of opinion among
its"members to act as the self-gov-
and |:
Candidates
for Alliance
Jackie Winter, Martha Bridge, Ina Fleegler, (Anne Wake—abroad)
The following question was asked
the candidates for the presidency
of the Alliance .for Political
Affairs :
‘What is your conception of the
role of the Alliance for Political
Affairs on campus?
The following is a list of candi-
dates for the presidency of the
Alliance for Political Affairs, listed
in. alphabetical order:
MARTHA BRIDGE
INA FLEEGLER :
ANNE WAKE
oe WINTER
' MARTHA BRIDGE
Freshman: ;
Freshman Hall Play Director
_ Freshman ‘Show
“Chorus and Double Octet
(2 years)
Sophomore:
Hall Rep to Alliance .
-Co-founder of Alliance -Discus-
sion Club
Chairman of Record Collection
‘Permission Giver (2 years)
Maids’ and Porters’ Show
Junior:
Vice-President ‘of Alliance
Junior Show Director
Junior Class Song Mistress
Vice-President of Philosophy
Club
The role of the Alliance for Poli-
tical Affairs should be based upon
tthe principle that politics is neither
ia personal hobby nor a public
‘chore, but rather something of
‘the nature of a birthright. The
| Alliance is responsible not only to
those who have special political
interests, but to the entire student
body; it is up to the Alliance to
bring the campus into contact with
politics~as part of its way of life.
Of course, I realize that not
everyone can be expected to res-
pond to political affairs with the
same enthusiasm; but Alliance
should, at the very least, bring
information and awareness of poli-
tics to all students, by sponsoring
speakers, conferences, and clubs.
I believe that informed awareness
is potential activity in politics, so
that the goals of the Alliance
should be 1) at least, to inform,
and 2) at best, to inspire and
channel enthusiasm for activity.
_ The goal of general information
is furthered by a balanced program
of “personality” speakers, people
“town meeting” to campus politic-
al projects. Above all, I believe
that the Alliance should be dedi-
cated to bringing the challenge and
excitement of political affairs with-
in the range of every Bryn Mawr-
ter’s experience.
INA FLEEGLER |
Freshman:
Delegate to United Nations
Princeton |
Permission Giver (2 years)
Freshman Show
attributes of the Alliance is the
flexibility of its* organizational
structure. First of all, interest in
current and political affairs is stim-
ulated by the educational aspect
of the clubs. Current Events, Debate
Team, and the International Rela-
groups whose programs are, in
part, oriented to the informative
nature of the Alliance’s activities.
As new issues arise in domestic or
national politics, the clubs can pre-
sent, an authoritative background
for or opposing viewpoints regard-
ing such issues, in the form of
lectures, discussions or debates.
The Alliance gives students the
opportunity to voice their opinions
and encourages them to carry their
ideas into the sphere of action.
Every student is, in a sense, a
member of the Alliance at the level
of the Alliance Board, where she
is represented by persons elected
by her hall. Board meetings are
open so that any individual may
meeting-and may present opinions
regarding the business at hand or
suggestions for additional items to
be considered. Should a student feel
the need for an additional outlet
for active participation, and the
Board recognize such a need, she
may form a new club to provide
the opportunities desired.
The Alliance also brings together
related spheres of interest in pro-
grams such as the coming confer-
ence on the Middle East. I should
like to see more programs of this
type in the future.
I believe that the major factors
‘which aid in Gaecomplishing the
two-fold purpose of stimulation of
erning~ force, This —is—important
in considering the operation of the
rules as they stand today, which
are essentially a- formalization of:
the opinions held by the Associa-
tion’s members. ~
The actual interpretation of the
rules comes from ourselves, with
the Executive and Advisory Boards
serving as a focusing point. And,
- eonversely, it is in these Boards,
composed solely of students, that
it is most evident that the Self-
Government Association does not
. function in isolation but is re-
sponsible for factors in the Col-
lege policy: hence the “Discredit
who are really “names in the
news,” and, on the other hand,
speakers who are qualified to an-
alyze politics with knowledge and
perspective. A ‘similar balance is
necessary on the active level; there
is a need for partisan political
activity under the auspices of Alli-
ance, and there is also the largely
action on vital issues.
On the organizational side, I
would like to see the all-campus
role of Alliance fulfilled by having
more = non-board members partici-
Recall en aeotietle: Be- yiie
3 Pa “6, Column 3
|pate directly; in short, Alliance
should restore some quality « the
unexplored field of non-partisan!
Model Security Council held at| |
Sophomore: |
Chairman, Internatioshl Rela
tions Club
Delegate to Model General ||
Assembly to be held a
Princeton :
‘tions Club are but a .few of the]!
listen to the proceedings of the}.
ANNE WAKE
Freshman:
Hall Class Rep
Freshman Show
Alliance Rep
Outing Club
Parents’ Day Committee
‘WBMC (2 years)
; Sophomore:
Soda Fountain Manager
Hall Alliance Rep
Sophomore Rep to Size of the
College Committee
Junior:
Junior Year Abroad
Member of Student Government
—Geneva
«
JACQUELINE WINTER
Activities
Freshman:
Alliance Board
Debate Team Chairman
Representative to Princeton’s
Model Security Council
WBMC
Freshman Show
Sophomore:
Campus Guide
Young Democrats
Board of Tour Directors
Co-chairman of the Young Demo-
crats of Forest Hills:
ICG
The Alliance for Political Affairs
has a two-fold role on campus:
first, to stimulate political inter-
est and second, to supply the means
through which these interests can
be expressed. Varied and interest-
ing programs are the key to suc-
cess in attaining these goals. Yet,
this alone is not enough unless
these § activities are effectively
publicized.
This year the publicity has been
greatly improved, but the personal
touch, which to me is absolutely
essential in order to arouse inter-
est, is to a great extent lacking.
In my opinion the hall representa-
tives should be made a more active
part of the publicity structure by
talking about the coming events to
students in their halls.
It is through the clubs that the
campus is intimately connected
with and able to participate active-
ly in the programs of the Alliance,
Discussion Club should be revived
to plan programs of student panel
discussions on various controver-
sial subjects which the members
think would be of interest to the
student body, thus giving Bryn
Continued on Page 6, Column 3
Candidates
I feel that one of the greatest|
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 can-
didates for the presidency of the
League, listed in alphabetical
order:
BETSY GOTT
» SANDY GRANT
LYNNE KAPLAN
BETSY GOTT
Freshman and Sophomore at Duke:
Glee Club
House Council
Treasurer of House
YWCA Cabinet and Elected Vice-
President
“Sandals” — Sophomore Honor
Society
Self-Gov—Social Standards Com-
mittee
Girl Scout Leader
Junior:
Hall Rep to Alliance
News Staff
Chorus
Permission Giver
Junior Show
Election Committee
for League
Betsy Gott, Lynne Kaplan, Sandra Grant.
terest to make each individual pro-
ject a success.
This is a problem that almost
every organization faces, but with
work for which there is no reward
and perhaps not all the prestige
you would find in other organiza-
tions, the job of recruiting active
members and stimulating inter-
est is apt to be difficult. The Lea-
gue can, however, offer a certain
personal reward, a feeling of «elf-
satisfaction that not-all organiza-
tions can offer.
In working with the League I
would first concentrate on publi-
cizing its activities in such a way
that there might ensue an active
interest among the students. Then
I would start with the class of ’61
and try to instill an interest in
League as soon as they arrive on
campus. With a freshman class
that is well-acquainted with an or-
ganization and interested in work-
ing for it, interest can often be
sustained for four years.
Z + SANDRA GRANT
Freshman:
Freshman Hall Plays
Freshman Show
Hall Rep to Chapel Commitee
‘Weekend Workcamp
interest” and provi 5
outlets for such interest are: 1)
those encouraging greater parti-
cipation through the flexibility of
organization and 2) the correlation
of individual programs into com-
prehensive conferences. I feel that
upon these two themes should be
based the future plans of the
Alliance. .
The Bryn Mawr League drive
to collect funds for the Summer
Camp will be held on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, March
4, 5 and 6, under the. direction
|more on active members. than does
The many branches of the Bryn
Mawr League offer students an op-
portunity to be of help to others
and to,prepare themselves for act-
ive life in any community. A col-
lege life can all too often become
dent becomes too involved in her
own work to remember some of
the obligations of community living
which she will have to assume after
graduation.
I think that the League depends
any other organization. If the suc-
ces of the League is not all that|-
a selfish existence when the stu-7.
it could be, the fault most likely
saad with the lack ‘of sufficient in-
wig A sdiceeat ss
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Chorus (2 years)
Summer: Volunteer — Metropoli-
tan State Mental Hosp., Wal-
tham, Mass.
Sophomore:
Hall Rep to Ledgue
Chapel Committee Board
errr ene Hosp. Week-
end
Assistant—Girl deent Troop in
Berwyn
Psychology Club
Summer: Counselor—Bryn Mawr
Summer Camp 3
resident, Inter-Faith Associa-
tion
Continued on Page 5, Column 1
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~ministrational set-up. The speak-
Wednesday, February 27, 1957
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Five
Grant.
Continued from Page 4
Assistant Director, BMC Sum-
mer Camp
Junior Show
The League exists in order to
sponsor and coordinate. volunteer
social service activities for Bryn
Mawrters. By its very existence,
it also encourages and urges stu-
dents to engage in this kind of ac-
tivity. In this it appeals—and cor-
rectly so—both to the satisfactions
derived. fronf’@oing constructive
and needed work, to our enjoyment
of the work and to its value in
teaching us, objectively and sub-
jectively, about people, human re-
lations and economic and _ social
é eae
conditions.
To function adequately as a
member of any community an un-
derstanding of the problems faced
by other members of the immedi-
ate or broader community is, if
not essential, desirable and ex-
tremely . valuable. Although the
League is basically an organization
of “doing”, I think it should spon-
sor a social theorist as a speaker
next year to investigate the more
theoretical side of social action.
I think people in League activi-
ties find that many of their talents
and interests which otherwise
might not receive adequate expres-
sion in a purely academic setting
are provided with an outlet through
these activities. Furthermore, one
often receives~a renewed sense. of
aliveness, almost asa direct result
of “such éxpériences. :
I myself have received such deep
and varied benefits educationally
and in understanding individuals
and human social situations from
doing volunteer work that my pur-
poses in League: are-involved with
strong feelings about the values
and satisfactions of this kind of
activity, both for the volunteer and
the people with or for whom she is
working.
”
LYNNE KAPLAN
Freshman:
League Hall Rep
WBMC Announcer (2 years)
Freshman Show
College Theatre Work (2 years)
Maids’ and Porters’ Dance Com-
mittee (2 years)
Sophomore:
League Publicity Director
WBMC Secretary
WBMC Business Manager (re-
cently elected)
Hall Christmas Play, Director
Campus Guide (2 years)
The League is the organization
on campus providing students with
the opportunity to participate in
a variety: of social service activi-
ties, which range from working at
a mental hospital to being a coun-
selor for under-privileged children,
to teaching your favorite subject
to interested adults.
This diversified program achieves
several things: it supplies an out-
let in roles very different from
those of the student living between
Taylor, the bridge table and the
library; it opens new fields which
are so interesting that the student
probably will “make time” for-so-
cial service work as an adult;
provides welcome aid to the insti-
tutions involved; it reminds stu-
dent and community that the
undergraduate’s role extends be-
yond the Ivory Tower. « .
“Becausé “participation-in—League|
is mostly due to its appeal, my im-
mediate ‘concern would be to im-
prove activities which have not
been of as much value as_ they
might have been, The Soda Foun-
tain needs a complete reorganiza-
tion, including an overhauling of
its facilities and changes in its ad-
ers’ program should include ad-
dresses by students who have help-
ed at one of the hospitals or taught
in the Maids’ and Porters’ classes.
The excellent work already done in
planning the Summer Camp must
be carried out so that this summer
The following questions were
asked the candidates for the presi-
dency of the Athletic Association:
1) Which activities of the Ath-
letic Association or other organ-
izations have given you the most
interesting, valuable or pleasurable
experiences ?
2) From your experience with
AA are there any ideas of the or-
ganization which you think ‘should
be -strengthened ?
3) There are many kinds of ac-
|itvities offered by AA at present,
requiring time and organizational
ability on the part of the president.
Does the latter serve as a challenge
to you to direct activities in such
a way as to increase interest, not
only for the varsity player, but for
others of the student body as well?
The following is a list of candi-
dates for the presidency of the
Athletic Association, listed in
alphabetical order:
DONNA COCHRANE
JUDY KNEEN
GRACE LABOUCHERE
DONNA COCHRANE
Freshman:
Temporary Song Mistress
Rotating Member to AA
Swimming Team
Fencing Team (3 years)
Freshman Show
Campus Guide (3 ‘wear
Sophomore:
Soda Fountain ae
‘Co-Manager of Fencing Team
Permisison Giver (2 years)
Maids’ and Porters’ Show
Freshman Handbook
Junior:
Diving Team
Co-Chairman of ICG
Pool Committee
JuniorgShow.
Hall Book Shop
Awards Night has been a most
interesting experience for me be-
cause it is a gathering of people
representing all of the AA acti-
vities on campus—where one can
actually see the great number of
people who participate ,jn these
activities. Being co-manager of the
fencing team has been valuable
because it gave me experience in
working in cooperation with other
schools and the members of our
own gym department.
Since AA exists to encourage
and coordinate “athletic” events of
all kinds, it is flexible and sensitive
to the changing wishes of the
campts. AA is and should continue
ito be an organization. which is
arrange for whatever the college
to decide the camp’s future.
‘My visit to the Bryn Mawr Hos-
pital last year prompted me to
spend much of my free time this
summer as a hospital volunteer,
and I found spending a week-end
at Embreeville this year, a very
worthwhile experience. The Lea-
gue’s ‘work is important and I
would like to magnify its achieve-
ts through strengthening its
activities and increasing participa-
will | provide: fair basia on which
sas RR
ae cen a TED
tion.
reonesalip.-aware. $v the col-
ege wants and which tries to’
Candidates for A.A.
Donna Cochrane, Judy Kneen, (not in picture—Grace Labouchere)
would like to have changed or
introduced.
I would suggest that the pro-
gram for using the gym and pool
on Sunday afternoons be strength-
ened. New areas might be opened
ing and folk singing. We might
organize a guitar and banjo jam
ball lecture to include other sports.
Everyone who wants a chance
to play a team sport or to have
a swim or to watch an exhibition
of good tennis should be encour-
aged to do so: Because this is’ a
small ,college, everyone thas a
chance to participate in whatever
activities she likes without having
to be an expert. I would be inter-
ested in organizing all of the ideas
and wishes of the college into an
A.A. program to serve as many
people as possible.
JUDY KNEEN
Freshman:
Freshman Hall Plays
Freshman Show” ~
Sophomore:
Haverford Community Center
Varsity Basketball (3 years)
Maids’ and Porters’ Show
Junior:
Junior Show
College Theatre
Junior Song Book Chairman
For our activities we choose
those which seem to offer the most
broadening and enjoyable experi-
ences and opportunities to form
lasting friendships. I have found
all that I sought along these lines
in the team sports of A.A. Partic-
ipation in games of any kind offers
beneficial demonstration of the
value of fair play and cooperation
as well as a change of pace from
the tense mental concentration of
study.
For such reasons as these, every-
one should be kept aware of the
holds for. her and, correspondingly,
that potential must be maintained
and extended in all its many facets.
Square dances and bridge are as
varsity sports, each appealing to
its own following. A.A. should
provide more recréation opportuni-
ties for those upperclassmen who
enjoy athletics but may feel that
they lack either time or ability for
varsity sports.
There can be little doubt that
the presidency of A.A. offers a
challenge. In a school such as
Bryn Mawr with its indisputable
academic emphasis, it is naturally
difficult to determine the role of
the athletic organization—At-Bryn
Mawr there will always be many
persons who have little or no con-
cern for the A.A. Of course, since
all here are ipso facto members,
the organization should be directed
in such a way as to provide inter-
est for and increase the existing
interest of as many persons as
possible. -However, I feel that the
most important obligation of A.A.
is to those who are sincerely inter-
ested in athletic activities and that
A.A.’s function is to provide the
facilities with which to meet the
needs of these persons.
up in connection with square danc-|"
session and also enlarge the foot~|\
GRACE LABOUCHERE
Freshman:
Hockey Team
Basketball Team
Softball Team
e
|| Sophomore:
Hockey Team
Basketball Manager
Maids’ and Porters’ Show
Junior:
Director of Summer Camp
A.A. Hall Rep
Freshman Week Committee
Junior Show
Providing an opportunity for rec-
reation is perhaps the *most im-
portant role of the Athletic Asso-
ciation here at college. There are
many ways in which a person can
have fun by participating in A.A.
activities: she can attend the Fri-
day evening movies, she can take
part in the “‘non-athletic” tourna-
{ments such as bridge and possibly
chess in the future or she can in-
vite a group of her friends up to
Applebee Barn to roast marsh-
mallows on weekend afternoons.
Another
important aspect of
A.A. is the coordination of inter-
hall and inter-class games. I think
that the inter-hall games are much
more fun than the inter-class ones.
There seems to be more enthusias-
tic spirit involved; there is almost
enough class competition as it is.
More: people can. participate in
inter-hall games and so more peo-
ple-are directly involved.
But the varsity games must not
be forgotten either. There is not
nearly enough all-college interest
in these games; the only people on
the benches are those on the team
who haven’t had a chance to play
yet. Perhaps if these games were
better publicized beforehand, more
people might attend. Varsity games
also. provide the opportunity of
meeting girls from other colleges.
At the Play Day we are having
next weekend, there will be girls
from Barnard, Goucher and Hood.
A.A., therefore, is not simply
freshman and sophomore sport re-
quirements; it is an organization
providing fun, excitement and re-
laxation.
Ottilie Pattison, Liz Rennolds,
recreational potential. which A.A.|.
much a part of all this as are the| .
The following questions were
used as general guides by the can-
didates for the presidentcy of the
Inter-Faith Association:
1) How would you interpret the
purposes and function of the Inter-
Faith Association ?
2) What are your plans and sug-
gestions for changes and improve-
ments for next year? What sug-
gestions do you have for enlisting
the further interest and support of
the student body?
The following is a list of candi-
dates for the presidency of the
Inter-Faith Association, listed in
alphabetical order:
CONNIE BROWN
GISELLE DE NIE
OTTILIE PATTISON
LIZ RENNOLDS
CONNIE BROWN
Freshman:
Freshman Hall Plays
Freshman Show
Dance Club
Hall Rep to League
Temporary Rep to Self-Gov
Classics ‘Club
Sophomore:
Co-President of Classics Club
Campus Guide (2 years)
Student Christian Movement
’ Weekend Work Camp
Junior:
Junior Show
Classics Club
College Theatre
Every person at Bryn Mawr has,
regardless of how much considera-
tion she. bestows upon them,, at
with which the Inter-Faith Asso-
‘ation is concerned. The function
of the Inter-Faith Association is
to channel this interest and encour-
age it to grow till it assumes a
proper and oriented dimension in
our lives.
The Inter-Faith Association
should, moreover, offer us the in-
centive and opportunity to become
increasingly informed about vari-
ous religious beliefs both within
and without our particular cul-
tural tradition for two reasons.
least a latent interest if the issues}
Candidates for Inter-Faith
Giselle De Nie, Connie Brown
1) No personal belief that is un-
able to withstand the challenge of
alternative beliefs can honestly be
called a faith. An agnosticism,
moreover, that stems from laziness,
unquestioning naivete and that
complacent insularity which char-
acterize the- person of “immature
faith” (and much agnosticism,
though not all, is of this nature)
is in no stronger position. 2) It is
essential that to be responsible
citizens today we overcome pro-
vinciality in religious belief as well
as in political and other cultural
matters, that we understand even
if we do not accept others’ views.
The Chapel Speakers are among
the foremost religious leaders in
the country. We are given a unique
opportunity to learn from these
men of their much wider knowledge
and :experience and, in discussion,
to challenge them, find out why
they believe as they do and then
to adjust our beliefs accordingly.
I will discuss my recommenda- -
tions in the halls: 1) More mid-
week programs of an informative
nature (tours, speakers, etc.), 2)
better publicity about the back-
grounds of the speakers, 3) a
questionnaire to assess student
needs, 4) study-groups, should
student interest warrant them.
GISELLE DE NIE
Freshman:
Hall Chapel Rep
Sophomore:
Upperclass Hall Chapel Rep
Co-head Chapel Usher :
ot ee Gr
Junior Show
Co-head Chapel Usher
Chapel Librarian
I see the Inter-Faith Association
as being oriented to deal with the
religious ideas, interests, and needs
of any or all of the students.
Through the representatives in
each hall, the Association hopes to
keép in contact with the individual
student’s questions and opinions,
as well as to ask for suggestions
about ways in which the Associa-
Continued on Page 6, Column 1
_—
“Page Six THE. COLLEGE NEWS Wednesday, February 27, ‘=
* LIZ RENNOLDS tial that every student have the oe. : .
DeNie cabanas > Jopportunity to express her own|hemistry «Essay. _|JV Wins Fencing
Continued from Page 5
Freshman Hall Plays _ , opinion concerning these ‘rules. All
Freshman: Show rules should be clearly ‘defined, Contest Is Open
College News staff minutes of the Board meetings
Bryn Mawr-Haverford Student |should be posted whenever they
Christian Movement (2 years)|deal with general clarifications
Sophomore: which would benefit the college as graduates was announced by the
Hall Rep Inter-Faith Association|a whole and students should be en-| University of Southern California.
College News staff couraged to come to meetings.}The contest is sponsored by the
Co-Head Chapel Usher Grass roots are what will keep the|Continental Oil Company of Hous-
Inter-Faith Constitution Com-|system in working order and are ton, Texas, and Ponca City, Okla-
mittee consequently what will keep the|homa.
Self-Government Board as an ef-| gtudents of chemistry and chem-
fective means of interpretation of ical engineering in all accredited
this system. colleges and universities in the
United States and Canada are
eligible if they are full-time under-
graduates on April 1.
Continued from Page 4 A ee — 3 original
; : research in the fields of colloid or/97 at
tel Rule.” Our part in formulat-|surface chemistry or an’ essay on Aon Janie Wairwe Siren:
ing the content of the rules will|*The Contribution of Albert Ein- will take place.
lege of meeting so many people |be particularly evident in 1957-1958 jstein to Colloid Chemistry” may_be |-
Meet ‘on’ Saturday
In the first meet of the season |
on Saturday, Feb. 28, the Bryn
Mawr fencing team met New Jer-
sey State Teachers’ College. The
Jersey varsity defeated Bryn Mawr
in a series of hard-fought duels
with a score of seven to two. Fenc-
ing for Bryn Mawr were Gail Dis-
ney,. Donna Cochrane and Marisa
Gori.
The Bryn Mawr JV team was
victorious over the visitors, win-
ning seven to two. Gail Beckman,
Ann Lank and Lucy Sherman were
the Bryn Mawr fencers,
The next meet is tonight, Feb.
tion might better serve the stu-
dents’ religious needs.
For those who prefer to worship
| in off-campus religious groups, it
provides connections with theelocal
ministers and rabbis, and makes it
possible for interested students to
visit churches of any denomination.
As an inter-faith organization it
thus attempts to make it possible
for each student to choose or be-
come familiar with particular re-
ligious groups.
On campus, the Association pro-
vides an opportunity for the stu-
dents to worship. together, and, by
bringing in speakers of diverse
viewpoints, attempts to stimulate
interest in and discussion about re-
A contest in colloid and surface
chemistry among. college under-
In my opinion, the Inter-Faith
Association should meet the reli-
gious needs of every girl on
campus. As these needs vary, so
should the Association’s program
include. enough variety to be -ap-
pealing and satisfying to each girl.
The opportunity we have in col-
Shigekawa
ligious ideas, Whether in general) and discussing ideas and views with when we shall be reconsidering |SUbmitted for a $500 first prize, ° |
or pertaining to particular denom-|them should not be limited ‘to them as is required every four|*220 Second prize, $100 third prize,}- note: Movies :
a inations. It provides opportunities academic pursuits alone, but should 4 y excellence prize of $500 or honor- - Bpyw :
for organized discussion after a Clas ‘ TT able mention prizes of $50. The YN MAWR
religious matters,
Chapel services as well as in varied :
which are to many of us the most
mid-week programs designed to in-
crease and deepen the student’s un-
derstanding of other religions and
thus broaden her own. religious
thinking.
Feb. 27-March 2—Lust for Life.
March 38-5 — Ladykillers and
The Best Things in Life Are Free.
March 6-9.— Westward Ho the
Wagons and Disneyland USA.
A greater awareness of how and |excellence prize may also be award-
why Self.Government functions is|ed to the best entry if it sat-
important thing. This is how the essential beca ’ tioni isfies exceptionally high standards
Inter-Faith Association should - eh neste ano worthy of $1000.
function, by taking advantage of ak a =o Se Entry blanks may be obtained
the situation; for a great deal can|4iminishes the value of the system immediately from Professor K. J.
, ‘ , “ARDMOR
I shall, if elected, try to further be gained from this type of ques-|for ourselves. There is the danger|Mysels at the University of South- SER es saeae
to the best of my ability these ob-|tioning and understanding of be-/of taking its existence for grant-|ern California. Awards will be an- lel Bibied: Se ee
jectives and functions of the As-|liefs other than our own. ed without
nen realizing that our|nounced and distributed by anony-
The Association has grown this|thoughts are the initial source for | mous judges by Sept. 1.
year in size as well as in scope|the coftent, of the system on both| As contest chairman, Dr. Mysels
March 3-5—Crime of Passion and
Wild Party.
March 6-9—Written on the Wind.
sociation, placing special emphasis
upon closer contact with the ideas
and interests of the students|of ‘influence and material. I think}a practical and theoretical level. |is being assisted by an advisory ;
through the representatives and|that by means of more publicity committee composed of V. K. La- SUBURBAN
the discussions, so that the Asso-|and more stimulation of interest * Mer, .Columbig-University;-J:"W2)"Febo 8% March 1 Guys and
ciation may be better able to ful-|through the Board, this material Winter Williams, University of Wisconsin, | Dolls.
fill its role towards the entire-stu*;can™ be appreciated by a greater Continued from Pace 4 and A. C. Zettlemoyer, Lehigh Uni-
dent body. i number of people. ‘The .mid-week —— versity. GREEN HILL
_..the year seem to be the most cru-|
OTTILIE PATTMON
Freshman:
Permission Giver (3 years)
Campus Guide (3 years)
Hall Rep to A.A.
WBMC
Nominating Committee
Sophomore:
; all Bookshop (2 years)
*(Class Rep to A.A.
Freshman Week Committee
Dance Committee
Lacrosse Varsity
Junior:
Class Vice-President
Secretary of Alliance
Now that the Inter-Faith Asso-
ciation has taken its place as one
of the Big Six, its role has expand-
ed. The group has a new respon-
a’
sibility to enlist the support and} ‘
interest of the student body which
voted it into existence. Its pur-
pose, to bring to the can‘pus inter-
esting speakers in worship serv-
ices that fulfill a challengingly wide
variety of personal needs, is un-
changed. But the students have
a new responsibility to express
their interest by their suggestions
and by attendance at the Sunday
evening Chapel services; the ongan-
ization has an added responsibility
to register campus opinion and act
on suggestions offered.
Judging from conversations in
the halls, students have definite
ideas as to the people they would
like to hear at the chapel services.
Lists posted in the different halls
this year got an enthusiastic re-
sponse and many of the speakers
who came for the services were
those suggested on these sheets.
Once the campus has made work-
able suggestions, the organization
goes on to put these suggestions
into effect. The responsibility does
not stop there, however; it is re-
turned to the interested students to
be fulfilled by their attendance at
the services. .
The first few Chapel services of
cial. Many freshmen attend these
services and those who are satis-
fied and interested generally regis-
ter their satisfaction and interest
by continuing to attend services|
throughout the year.
Have you been tearing
prow hair? We'll patch it
speakers, the Quaker meetings,
concerts, and special trips should
be emphasized just as much as the
regular Sunday evening chapel
speakers. However, they too have
a great deal to offer, particularly
in discussions. The main fault is
|that so few girls take advantage
of all these opportunities. Publi-
city, particularly the word-of-
mouth variety, would be quite help-
ful.
Most of all, the Inter-Faith
Association should continue to
grow and improve as it has this
year, so that everyone will know
why it is now one of the Big Six
organizations on campus.
Gordon
Continued from Page 3
freedom the system is designed to
protect.
However, this freedom is not
based on indifference to personal
standards. By living with people
who are asking the same questions
and having to solve the same prob-
lems, within a framework where
investigation and experimentation
is possible, personal values can be
discovered through living relation-
ships which will be of more worth
and use to the individual than ‘any
ready-made, official moral code.
Dyer
Continued from Page 3
be the Discredit to the College rule,
which assumes a particular respon-
sibility by the student for college
policy.
So far I have tried to explain
my position towards the systeritf
rules and what I feel to be the two
aspects of their interpretation.
Since Self-Government and _ the
Honor System assume an entire 1 re-
spect for the individual and indi
‘Mawrters a club in which they
could discuss their opinions.
There are those on campus who
feel that one should not just talk
about what one thinks should be
done but should do something about
about it. Since the Alliance is sup-
posed to serve as a “liaison with
the community” and to answer
the above problem, I would like to
see a non-partisan political action
club organized. This group would
analyze the issues and the condi-
tions in the community around the
College and take steps to bring
pressure to bear for what it con-
siders to be desirable changes.
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On Monday afternoon Pem-
broke West carried off the
honors for the inter-hall swim-
ming meet, while Pembroke
East came in second.
Feb. 27—Tears for Simon.
Feb. 28 — The sai and the
Battleship.
ANTHONY WAYNE
Feb. 27—Private’s Progress.
Feb. 28-March 2—The -Girl He
Left Behind.
March 3-5—The Wrong Man and
Istanbul.
vs
Next time one of her da
| Holstein question, she’
1967 THE COCA-COLA COMPANY.
Ready for that test tomorrow, too... if that bottle of
Coke keeps her as alert tonight as it does other people.
SIGN OF GOOD TASTE
4
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ee February 27, 1957
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Seven
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THEATRES
Events in Philadelphia
Forrest: Maiden Voyage with Melvyn Douglas, Mildred Dunnock, Wal-
ter Mattheu; beginning Feb. 28 for 12 performances.
Shubert: Damn Yankees with Bobby Clark, Sherry O’Neill;
more weeks.
for two
Walnut: Orpheus Descending with Maureen Stapleton; opens March 5
for two weeks.
MOVIES
Arcadia: Teahouse of the hanes Moon with Marlon Brando, Glenn
Ford, Machiko Kyo.
Goldman; Battle Hymn with Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea.
Mastbaum: The Big Land with~Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Edmund
O’Brien.
Midtown: Around the World in 80 Days with David Niven.
Randolph: The Ten Commandments with everybody.
Trans-Lux: Anastasia with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes.
Viking: Top Secret Affair with Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas.
World: Don Giovannni with Cesare Siepi, Lisa Della Casa.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC
_Friday—afternoon-and-Saturday-evening; “March~1- and~2:; (Munch~con-
ducts the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Honegger, Ravei, and Rovssel.
March 7: Jussi Bjoeriing, tenor, in recital.
The program includes Berlioz,
Tickets now on sale.
Current Events
Continued from Page 2
- ward communities. It has nine col-
leges and universities, three of
which are for Negroes exclusively,
but the public schools are bad and
as Tennessee salaries are low, it is
difficult to get good teachers. The
church situation is a good example
of the: conflict between the older
-generation; which does not want old
buildings to be given up, and the.
younger, which wants ‘more space
and better buildings. Although this
conflict has helped to revive an in-
terest in religion, Elizabeth ques-
tioned Mr. Carter’s statement that
th South will be a leader in a spirit-
ual revival. Most of the city church-
goers go for social reasons and in
the backwoods religion takes the
form of intense emotionalism and
fanaticism.
‘Pat Cain, the only speaker who
is not southern-born, has been for
several years a resident of Lake
Charles, La. The population of
this city has grown from 20,000
to 43,000 in the past 15 years as a
result of industry, but it is still
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educationally backward and many
of the natives speak no English,
the popular language being a kind
of mangled French dialect. Al-
though industry has brought many
advantages there is opposition to
it, especially on the part of big
landowners for. whom
ments mean "Tnsreased taxes. The
rise of industry has also caused
housing shortages and the tearing
down of many beloved old man-
sions. Pat also spoke of the strong
family ties among southerners who
have less of a tendency ‘to leave
their homes than northerners.
The “beautiful traditions of the
Old South” were staunchly upheld
by Liz Rennolds, from’ Richmond,
Va. Memories of the~“war” are
still very. vivid, to southerners, and
they =< 2 landmarks filled
with rt romance and
beautiful build? being defiled by
the presence of ugly modern “im-
provements.” Many associations
such as the “Daughters of the Con-
federacy” are making great efforts
to preserve these shrines of the past
in which are retained symbols of
the pride and glory of the South.
To Liz, Richmond is a beautiful
city and it is a shame to see it
spoiled by the presence in its very
center of industrial _ buildings.
There is indeed a great deal of
beauty in the heritage of the South,
the loss of which would be a sad
price \to pay for “progress”
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Religion and Life
Common Room, Feb. 25: — The
Inter-Faith Association’s speaker
here today was Madonna Faulkner,
a native of Sierra Leone, British
West Africa. Donna a junior at
Bryn Mawr, spoke on “Religion in
West Africa.”
There are two main religions
there, she said, the Moslem reli*
gion, which is the greater, and the
Christian. She spoke briefly of the
histories of the-two-and-the effects
that this has on their position in
the country today. For example,
the Moslems have been in British
West Africa since the very begin-
nings of its spread over the world.
The Christian religion is compar-
atively new in that it came much
later by means of missionaries and
suffered set-backs such as opposi-
tion from the Moslems, disease and
other troubles in coming from the
coastal regions.
An interesting fact was s brought
out by Donna who said that Chris-
ittle-cpp
from the womén. of her country be-
cause they welcomed a religion
that does not condone plurality of
wives as does the Moslem. This
has been a major factor in the
growth of the Christian faith in
West Africa.
EVES
Benefits of Christianity
Christianity has brought with it
education, hospitals, scientific
knowledge and many ,other things
fact has hindered the Christians
somewhat because the people na-
turally associate the religion with
British imperialism since it came
along with it. The Christian miss-
ionaries of today are fighting this
idea. and trying to impress upon
the people the importance and'sin-
cerity of their beliefs.
There is now in West Africa,
somewhat because of this, a move-
ment toward independence, Donna
said. Steps are being taken in that
direction in the government this
year.
After the talk, Donna answered
questions from the audience on
other aspects of life in her coun-
orought out here was the fact that
uhere is now absolutely no friction
petween the two religions at all.
‘As a matter of fact,” .she said,
we celebrate each other’s holidays
and everyone enjoys them both.”
According to Donna, things are
amproving in British West Africa
and people are very interested in
education, medicine, science and
progress in this forward-looking
country.
ae
Madonna Faulkner
“Talks on African
sition |
West Africa did not have under
the Moslem regime. However, this
sry. The most interesting point
by Rarbara Broome
Pen Pals, Anyone? or How to
Obtain National Fame might well
be the title of a book written by
two Merion Hall freshmen: Its
authors, Carol Porter and Karen
Northam, can speak from experi-
ence,
The special issue of Life maga-
zine, “The American Woman,” in
which the article about Bryn
Mawr appeared was the beginning
of this “national fame” for Carol
and Karen. Their picture taken in
the chemistry laboratory has at-
tracted “fan mail” from all over
the_nation,
“IT guess this will surprise you
. Perhaps you are wondering
who Iam...” These phrases are
typical of most of the letters
whether they be postmarked
Princeton, West Point or Alton,
Illinois.
The reasons given for writing
are a bit more varied. A fraternity
pledge from the University of Ver-
mont wrote requesting that the
girls save him from the wrath of
his fraternity brothers by auto-
graphing the picture from. Life.
“Sometimes a person is -intrigued
with what he sees, and bold ideas
will follow ....” These words were
the reason offered by. another ad-
felt that his only hope for an
answer to his letter lay “in my
playing upon the ever present
feminine ¢uriosity.”
(By the by, Karen and Carol,
having a normal amount of said
“feminine curiosity,” have answer-
ed all their “fan ‘mail.’)
A bet among several of his room-
mates was the reason for’a letter
from a senior at Yale. If he won,
he wanted Karen to celebrate with
him over dinner at Mory’s in New
Haven. (His next letter informed
her that he had won half the bet.
Half a dinner, perhaps?) -
The authors of the epistles are,
for the most part, college students.
mirer. He proceded to add that he
Life: Magazine’ s Gold Coast Circulation
Brings Ambassadorship to Bryn Mawrter
by Jana Varlejs
FLASH—Latest dispatch reaches
News room:
Did you know that LIFE’s cir-
culation extends as far as Africa?
Carol Porter’s studiously bent head
and bare knees caught the eye of
a young male,Gold Coaster, whose
ideas were no less “bold” than
those of our West Point man.
Fan mail, it seems, is an inter-
national institution: witness the
‘words of Hassan Sanni, Accra,
Gold Coast: “It is quite a long time
I have been searching for Ameri-
can pen pal all over USA because
I_likeAmerican—attitudes— more
than all nations.” (Hassan proves
his knowledge of “American atti-
tudes” by his opening phrase of
“how you do-baby?”)
Among his reasons for writing,
Hassan gives his desire to “work
out method of becoming friends
with them (Americans), for life is
to be fortified by many friendships;
to love, and to be loved is the
greatest happiness of existence.”
Hassan is 23 years old and em-
ployed as a . delivery clerk in
Accra’s harbor. His interests range
from his nation’s forthcoming in-
dependence to the Gold Coast’s
parakeets, not to mention a healthy
curiosity about Americans.
“Please kindly send all Jour ee
letters by air mail and’ I will be
giving you promptly PODIY 56
Dearest Carol, if you have any
questions at all to ask me please
do without making hesitation.”
Carol, of course, ambassador of
good will that she is, will make
no hesitation!
in addition, there have been letters
from an-instructor at the Western
Military in Illinois and from an-
vther young lady named Carol
Porter who is attending Cortland
State Teachers College in Cortland
New York.
Chorus
Continued from Page 1
ford sang to instrumental accom-
paniment; “Benedictus” by Giovanni
Gabrieli, performed by Bryn Mawr,
Haverford and the instrumental-
ists; and Randall Thompson’s
“Pueri Hebraeorum,” sung by
Bryn Mawr and Goucher under the
direction of Robert L. Goodale, con-
ductor of the Bryn Mawr chorus.
William Reese, host and Haver-
ford ‘chorus conductor directed
Bryn Mawr, Cedar Crest, Haver-
ford, Muhlenberg, and instrument-
alists, in “Saul, Saul, Was Ver-
folgst du Mich?” by Heinrich
Schutz. o
The combined chavases and brass
brought the program to a resound-
ing elose with “To Music,” from
John Dryden’s “Ode to Saint
Cecelia,” written for the occasion
by Ludwig Lenel, conductor of the
Muhlenberg College chapel choir,
and conducted by the composer.
Engagements
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Monday afternoon, March 4th:
Mr. Winslow from the Near East
College Association would like to™
see students interested in teaching
at the American College in Istan-
bul or the Community Schools in
Beirut. Sign for appointments at
the Bureau of Recommendations.
Mr. Sarrat from. an independent
government agency concerned with
intelligence will hold an open meet-
ing in Room E of Taylor Hall at
5:00. Students of all classes are
invited.
Tuesday, March 5th:
Mr. Sarratt will have individual
interviews with seniors and gradu-
ate students interested in positions
with the agency next year. The
positions open are for typists and
secretaries who may go to aver-
seas assignments after" year and
a half or two years of experience
in Washington.
Wednesday, March 6th:
Miss Whitfield and Miss Ward
of ‘the WAVES. will be in the
~}Bureau--of--Recommendations_for
appointments between 11:00 and
112:30, 1:30 and 2:00. Please sign
for interviews in the Bureau of
Recommendations, Assignments are
in this country and overseas.
Thursday, March 7th:
- Miss Moulton of the United Air-
craft Corporation in Hartford will
be at the college from 12:00 on
to see’ (1) seniors and graduate’
students of any major interested
in semi-technical positions with the
Research Division; (2) mathe-
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Wednesday,. February 27, 1957 :
ee Reports Work
Voters’ League
Common Room, Feb. 21 — The
League of Women Voters is
dedicated to educating responsible
citizens who, by participating in
government, gain a satisfying and
rewarding experience, stated Mrs.
John G. Lee, national president of
the organization, It often it-
self rather nebulous, long-range
plans; it is difficult when working
with the public to estimate a shift-
ing climate of public opinion.
Mrs. Lee emphasized-younger cit-
izens’ ignorance of their political
heritage and apathy about the val-
ue of the vote. After the Seneca
Falls Convention of Women’s
Rights’ in 1848 and reformers like
Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone
started the suffragette movement,
it took 70 years of consistent ef-
fort to win the franchise. The suf-
fragettes encountered vicious op-
position; in Congress itself the
amendment was voted down at least
five times. Forceful resistance to
women in politics continued after
its passing in 1920. Today League
women involved in pushing a Bill
of Rights Reappraisal Campaign
are labeled “subversives” just as
predecessors engaged in advancing ,
welfare legislation in the ’20’s were
disparaged.
~~ Non-Partisan, Instrumental
The League, organized on local,
state, county and national levels,
has been instrumental -in effecting
many city manager systems, in
improving election laws and in re-
vising state constitutions. Non-
partisan, it refrains from backing
political candidates but does for-
mulate policy at national conven-
tions. It is often difficult for it
to take stands on national issues,
as. indicated by its present. silence|}
on segregation. A similar situa-
tion arose last fall during the Suez
Crisis when there was the grave
threat of a Third World War. The
League, always staunchly behind
the U.N., channeled its efforts to
educating communities across the
United States about the causes for
the crisis, rather than risk inter-
Carter
Continued from Page 1
tural folk,” the South is living less
in the past, although old patterns
have not died, and is entering the
national main stream.
Always a source of cultural
strength, the South can contribute
still more.as it becomes more close-
ly allied to the nation. Mr, Carter
noted particularly the “tremend-
ous spiritual reservoir of the
South.” If, he said, the southern
states can learn to apply their
morality to all races, they can
arouse in the nation the greatest
spiritual revival of the twentieth
century.
In conclusion, Mr. Carter re-
marked that at least two genera-
tions will be needed before integra-
tion can become stable, but it will
despite the interim of “terrible
ordeal.” Seen first on a college
plane, intergration will be com-
pleted last on the level of mass
education, but it will quicken with
Negro migration. “I have enough
faith in my people . ... as Ameri-
cans,” Mr. Carter said to be sure
‘that they will accept the. Supreme
Court decision. What is now need-
ed is faith in humanity.
This is your College Election!
Speak to the candidates at your
Read their state-
And Don’t
hall dinner.
ments in the News.
Forget to Vote!
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ference with crucial foreign policy.
Haverford Speakers
Notice Announced
The following is the schedule for
the Collection programs at Haver-
ford College this semester:
March 5—Edward Steichen, Di-
rector of Photography, Museum of
Modern Art, New York City.
March 12—Hugh Borton, Direct-
or, East Asian Institute, Columbia
University.
March 19—Wright Morris, novel-
ist.
April 2—Norman Rockwell, art-
ist,
April 9—Bosley Crowther, mo-
tion picture editor, The New York
Times.
April 16: B. F. Skinner, Profes-
sor of Psychology, Harvard Uni-
versity.
April 23—A program of student
musical compositions.
April 30—Gilbert F. White,
Professor of Geography, Univer-
sity of ‘Chicago.
May 7—John T. Edsall, Profes-
sor of Biochemistry, Harvard Uni-
versity,
May 14—Victor Reisel, column-
ist.
Collections are held in Roberts
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Wesleyan Letter
Continued from Page 2
China and northern Indo-China
have both hecome communist in
spite of such a policy; military ac-
tion in Korea has solved nothing.
Communism has to
spread without regard for military
alliances.
about us, -reflected. in the nervous
plunge into accelerated military
production, is an index of this ex-
pansion.
We must come to the realization
that our military-policy cannot halt
this advance. The appeal of com-
munism is ideological. On this
front we haye failed to meet the
communist challenge. Do we feel
that we have no strong alternative
co offer the new nations of Africa
and Asia?
We submit that there is much in
the democratic ideals of the United
States to inspire these new na-
tions. But instead of showing the
world the strength of our way: of
life, we show them a military pol-
icy deeply in conflict with the very
ideals upon which this country is
founded. Can we talk to the Arabs
about democracy and freedom
while still supporting the absolute
monarch King Saud?
‘With our military outlook we
cease to view the nations of Asia
continued
ings to whom our-moral standards
apply. This very way of thinking
will lose the ‘respect, friendship,
and cooperation of these nations
for us.
We have just witnessed another
colossal failure of policy based on
military force. Let us not repeat
the mistakes of Britain and France:
in the Middle East. Such action will
cripple us in the ideological strug-
gle, and place us in immediate dan-
ger of the total war which we can-
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The growth of fear.
not afford.
To our militaristic foreign policy
jis now to be added the Eisenhower
doctrine committing us to military
involement in the Middle East. Ex-
pression of public opinion received
by mail in Washington has been
eight to one against such involve-
ment. We feel it our responsibil-
ity as citizens of the United States
to add to this manifestation of
opinion. As students we have the
unique opportunity to do so. If
you feel as we do:
1) Write individual letters to
your senator, expressing your
views.
2) Urge your student government
to draft a petition against- our
policy in the Middle East, to be
sent to the President.
Committee of Wesleyan Students
John S. Mann, Chairman
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