College news, March 10, 1960

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ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1960

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VOL. XLV—NO 16

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Mr. Sahwell Vi

__ Discusses Existing Deadlock

“In the interests of peace and
stability France is under a moral,
over and above her legal, obliga-
tion to ‘pull out of North Africa.”
With this statement Aziz S. Sah-
well, Chief of the Research Sec-
tion of Arab States Delegation Ovf-
fice, concluded his discussion of
the Algerian situation, in the Com-
mon Room of Goodhart, 7:30 p.m.,
March 7,

Mr. Sahwell began by providing
his listeners with statistical data
concerning Algeria. It is an Arab
country occupying 847,000 square
miles, inhabited by 11,000,000 Al-
gerians and 85,000 Europeans.

Originally ruled by Benbers, it
was conquered by the Arabs in
the 7th century and was there-
after incorporated in the Ottoman
Empire. On June 14, 1830, French
troops landed in Algeria, defeat-
ed by the Arabs, and annexed the
territory as a French colony.

Along with the forceful annex-
ation of Algeria has come a col-
onial suppression of Arabic cul-
ture. ‘The Arabic language has
been neglected and the practice
ofthe Moslem—religion—has—been
interfered with, as witnessed iby
the fact that there were 106 mos-
ques in Algeria in 1880 and now
there are only eight.

A national resistance movement
to colonial rule was not organized
until 1928, and was dissolved by
the French only 14 years later, in
1987. For many years uprisings
were staged, the National Liber-
ation Frant was organized by the
indigenous Algerians, an army
was formed, and the present Al-



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Election Notice
President of Self-Gov.
Carolyn Goldmark

President of Undergrad
Betsy Frantz





Panel Considers
Religion, Society

For the second in its series of
three lectures on “Religion — A
Challenge to the Free Society,”
Interfaith brought to the college
four speakers to participate in a
panel discussion held on March 8
in the Common Room and modera-
ted by Mr. Kennedy.

Mr. Murray Friedman of the
American Jewish Committee of
Mr. James Mullen,
Associate Professor of Economics
at Temple University, and Mr.
Thomas Sanders of the Depart-
ment of Religious Studies, pre-
sented, respectively, the Jewish,
Catholic, and Protestant views on
interreligious tensions and . their
causes and remedies in our demo-
cratic society.

The humanist Mr. Algernon
Black txpressed his view that the
discussed interreligious tensions
need not exist; instead, “Our
American spiritual life needs
something that goes beyond spirit-
ual differences.” This spiritual life,
he said, can be attained without
adherence to any organized religi-
ous belief. In this statement. he
was expressing the viewpoint of
the Ethical Culture Scoiety,
which he is a member. Next week’s
program will be Mr. Kenneth



~ Thompson on Ethics anéProblems_

iews Algeria;

gerian os was started.

The cost of the war to France
has been seven soldiers a day and
one billion dollars a year, as well
as a considerable loss of prestige
in world politics and a dangerous
weakening of successive govern-
ments inside her own nation. The
General Assembly of the United
Nations has, on three occasions,
asked France to settle the Alger-
ian question on a democratic ba-
sis. At the most recent session,
‘29 members expressed support for
the Algerian cause for independ-
ence. The United States abstain-
ed from this »vote.

The issue as it now stands is
deadlocked because the French re-
fuse to negotiate until a cease-

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e
Notice

Tickets for the poetry read-
ing to be given by Robert Frost
on Tuesday, March 22 in the
evening will be available start-
ing this Thursday, March 10.
Distribution to faculty, staff
and graduate students will take
place at. the Office of Public In-
formation, Taylor. Undergrad-
uates must collect their tickets
between 1:30 and 2:00 on
Thursday of this week and
Monday and Tuesday of next
week on the first floor of Tay-
lor. Further announcement of
this will be made in the halls.







Speaker Presents

Two Likely Ideas



~iFor Cancer Cause

Mrs. Francisco MDuran-Reynals
of the Rutgers Institute of Micro-
biology discussed the different
theories dealing with the causes
of cancer on Wednesday, March
1, in a lecture sponsored by the
Science Club.

Mrs. Duran-Reynals stated
that, although cancer as a dis-
ease presents an interesting prob-
lem, her concern lies in cancer as
a biological phenomenon. Accord-
ing to the speaker, the two main
theories held today are the so-
matic and the virus theories of
cancer.

The first theory holds that one
cell becomes infected and begins
to multiply at an abnormally
rapid rate, destroying the healthy
cells around it in the process.
Some think that the single cell
is embryonic and undifferentiated.
Others believe that it is a cell
which, somehow removed from its
normal environment and _isolat-
ed in an adiverse one, reacts by
multiplying im this fashion.

In 1908 Borrel, a French sci-
entist, stated that cancer is caus-
ed by a virus. He based his the-
ovy on investigation of the benign
multiplication caused by the pox
viruses. Viruses cannot survive
on the surface of a tissue, but
must be within living matter. In
smallpox, for example, the cells,
by their multiplication, form a
growth which rises to the surface,



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Editorial Comments



Sunday Legislature Approves

Provisions for







Emerging from the tangle of
parliamentary procedure at Sun-
day’s Emergency Legislature was
a clear-cut resolution of the prob-
lem of write-in votes. Unfortun-
ately, the meeting’s Executive
Board planners seemed somewhat
frazzled by their three-day hassle
with the issues involved, and Leg-
islature could give only a vague
indication of the excitement which
had generated it.

Action to clarify the legality of
the Write-In was given official im-
petus at Thursday night’s regular
meeting of the Executive Board
when members were confronted

with a report of existing campus

of | interest in the write-in and asked

to formulate a policy regarding
its legality. With no constitution-
al -dictum-to- foHow-and--no—known.



of Foreign Policy.

precedent to consult, the Board



Write-In Ballot







James Kweeder, NSA advisor, observes as Marcy Tench,
Sue Harris, and Nancy Porter count hands.

decided initially by a vote of nine
to one to accept and count ballots
with irregular slates. _Nonethe-
less, despite the near unanimity
of the vote, objections were voiced
regarding change of procedure in
the midst of elections, and in view
of these, the Board voted for a
second meeting to reconsider
their earlier pro-write-in stand.
On Friday the Board reconven-
ed, its problem somewhat clarified
by information gathered from the
National Student Association
(NSA) regarding the nature of
the suddenly baffling Write-in.
Write-in votes are, generally in-
herent in prefe al voting sys-
tems (of which Bryn Mawr’s is a
varient) but can be cast only for
a first-choice candidate. Since the

-eonstitutional_ Bryn Mawr. proced-_|



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It was announced Monday, that
eight Bryn Mawr seniors received
Woodrow Wilson National Foun-
dation Fellowships for 1960-1961.

The awards, which carry a basic
stipend of $1,500 and full costs of
a year’s graduate study, went to
Maria Buse, Susan Downey, Jo-
anne Field, Sheila Gopen, Eliza-
beth Hansot, Judith Polsky, Kath-
leen Schueller, and Cynthia Secor.

Evelyn; Adler, Karen Carlson,

French Poet Talks
e 9 e

On Rimbaud’s Life

Arthur Rimbaud was one of the
first of the modern French poets
to use poetry as a means and not
as an end in itself, M. Yves Bon-
nefoy explained in his lecture,

“Rimbaud et la Poésie Contem-

poraine,” Thursday. evening in
the Ely Room. M. Bonnefoy is
himself considered one of the most
original French poets today. He
has -received—the Prix da la—Nou-
velle Vogue for his poetry and is
well known for his translations
of Shakespeare. At present, M.
Bonnefoy is preparing a— book
about Rimbaud.

The poet, Arthur Rimbaud, was
born in the French province of
Ardennes in 1854. His unhappy
childhood led him to the great re-
bellion which is evident through-
out his poetry. In fact, according
to M. Bonnefoy, Rimbaud’s great-
ness lay in his ability to realize
his. potential in spite of the cir-
cumstances in which he found him-
self.

Rimbaud’s revolt was directed
against three interrelated forces:
provincial life, his mother, and the
Christianity of his time. He com-
plained that life in the country
led only to death. There were no

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Protestant Music
Inspires Contrast

In his fourth Flexner lecture,
Mr. Lang followed the devleop-
ment of music, particularly in
Gemany, through the Reformation
and Baroque periods.

Baroque music has its roots in
the resurgent and militant . old
church which, when it realized that
Protestants could not be put down,
tried to win them back through
Jesuit eloquence and artistic splen-
dour. Italian musicians, ‘who
spread fhrough Europe, imposed
their own language and style on
the rest of the world, often set-
tling in foreign countries to found
a national style. Composers such
as Schutz remained Protestant,
but their music is unthinkable
without the Italian Baroque.

What made this music Protes-
tant not Catholic, sacred not sec-
ular? Mr, Lang said he did not
know. They are all first cousins.
There is too much sanctimonious
nonsense about it. Cantatas in-
clude belleanta pieces which are
no different, technically speaking,
from an operatic aria. The differ-
ence must be the spirit in which
the music is offered. All Baroque
music needs is an honest perform-



Eight BMC Seniors to Receive
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships

Constance Greenleaf,
Esta Lewin
mention.

At present, Maria Buse plans to
continue study in Geology, her
major subject, at Berkeley in Cal-
ifornia. Susan Downey will. prob-
ably do further work in the
classics at Yale. Joanme Field,
whose major is English, has also
received a Fulbright to Oxford
and has to decide which award
she will accept. Sheila Gopen
hopes to continue work in Econ-
omics at Columbia University.

The choice of the university
where study will be continued
does not have to be definitely de-
cided until May and so the plans
of these eight girls are still ten-
tative. Elizabeth Hansot, a phi-
losophy major, is uncertain as to
her plans, while Kathleen Schuel-
ler, whose major field is chemis-
try, plas to go to either Harvard
or M.I.T, Cynthia Secor will prob-
ably continue her work in Eng-
lish at Cornell University.

Nationally, there were

and Sara
received honorable

1259

Fellowship this year, chosen from
8,800 applicants representing 355
universities and colleges.

College Thespians

Present ‘Merchant’

Bryn Mawr College Theatre
and Haverford Drama Club_ will
present The Merchant of Venice
on March 11 and 12, at 8:30 in
Goodhart as their first venture in
a long time of one of Shakes-
peare’s ‘big’ plays. The group tra-
ditionally presents one Shakes-
pearean play a year but has usu-
ally done more obscure ones such
as King John and Measure for
Measure, The reason for this is
that most of the dramatic trage-
dies demand an actor with fantas-
tic ability to be done well, and the
popular comedies are done too
often. “This year,” says Nina
Broekhuysen, College Theatre
President, “we decided to do Mer-
chant because it is a good play
both dramatically and poetically,
and does not need one excellent
leading actor.” ‘A

Robert Butman will direct with
the assistance of Ginny O’Roak.
Mr. Butman does not adhere to
the modern interpretation of Shy-
lock as a tragic hero, but rather
insists upon a compromise be-
tween the Elizabethan interpre-
tation which made him a complete
villian and the modern one; in oth-
er words, Butman’s Shylock will
be as much as possible “straight
Shakespeare.” Shylock, Butman
feels, represents materialism and
in this sense is the force of evil
in the play; this moral thesis, he
believes, must be brought out.

The woman’s roles will be play-
ed by Nina Broekhuysen as Por-
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Notice

Undergrad announces the elec-
tion of Susan Szekely '61 and
Susan Johnson ’62 as the editors
of The Freshman Handbook.

The Senior Class announces
the election of Judy Minkin as



Hance, and then, it-is-good. church ||







music,





winners of the Woodrow-—Wilson-:

“chairman of Garden party. |="


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A Lesson Sans Texts

We learned a lot in Bryn Mawr between Thursday and
last Sunday afternoon, and not all of it in Taylor Hall, or the
library. We learned about legal rights, constitutional pro-

visions, political processes and parliamentary pressures in a|

lesson a good deal more graphic than any in a pol-theory
text book. Whether it be right or wrong to write-in and, if
right,, whether it is better to be right than stable was the
question; the method of first resolving it and then attaining
the preferred solution proved more important than the still
controversial answer.

A lot of good thinking went into the three Executive
Board meetings preceding Legislature. The immediacy of
the situation at the Saturday session demanded clear syn-
_ theses of the principles. and platitudes expressed earlier, and
these were given with an astonishing degree of ease and
clarity, while the marked partisanship of the participants
evoked not heated ravings but a delightfully keen vigilance
to_ legal technicalities and logical deduction.- The situation
called forth heretofore dormant talents in some and provid-
ed others with a real sense of political participation ; that the
qualities it evoked were not carried over in toto into Legis-
lature and that the student body itself got only the last
Mes od ripples of the excitement is alone somewhat unfor-
unate.

So much is said about the necessity for imparting polit-

A new exhibition entitled The
World of Prints: 1960 opened at
the~ Philadelphia ~Museunr “of Art}
last Wednesday, One hundred
and twenty-one American and for-
eign prints were selected to “‘il-
lustrate the various art trends of
today.” The exhibition emphasiz-
es the art of this country in that
| two-thirds of the artists-represent-|
ed are American.

The museum has ranged the
prints according to the more or
less indeterminate categories of
Abstractionism, Symbolism, Ex-
pressionism, and Realism. Beyond
these groupings, the arrangement
helpfully points up a distinction
between prints of formal and emo-
tional emphasis. Understanding
and appreciation is simplified by
the knowlédge that some works
are meant to be specifically of for-
mal interest. The viewer is spar-
ed the frustration of looking for
hidden meanings. The prints of
emotional emphasis are success-
ful in communicating the feelings
intended.

Two contrasting alcoves of
prints. described in the museum
circular as representing the “New
Image of Man” form part of the
exhibition. ‘One of these is devot-
ed to the “Terror of the Situation”
and the other to “Benign Images.”

The images of terror are prin-
cipally concerned with protray-
ing the distortion of the human be-
ing and the cold, inhuman aspects
of the modern world. A_ black
and white lithograph on a man-
ila background by Graham Suther-
land entitled “Predatory Form II”
is one of the most interesting of
these. (It represents an abstract
form composed of elements such
as tusks and bones which the hu-

tic.

by Alison Baker
The question of expansion is
on the collective mind of the Hav-

Haverford Spreads Humor;
Comet Cruises To Victory

fruitful one.
What the sophomores attempted
proved bigger than they could





eriord’ student body and at

Night, which traditionally thrives
on the topical, it provided the
theme- for: the seniors’ winning
show, as well as a dash of humor
and one of bitterness in the jun-
iors’. On the whole, this |year’s
Class Night managed satire with-
out uncomfortable malice, a trend
whigh I ope will continue in fu-

enunciate and bigger than I could
understand, Their show had a
message, painfully apparent as to
its existence and rather obscure
as to its definition. The action
took place in the all too familiar
company of Haverford and Bryn
Mawr students. Perhaps a sub-
ject as unwieldy and positive as
the search for truth should be



The éreshmen got the han off
to an excellent start with Men of
Destiny, a cut at campaign tac-
tics and aims. Their show lack-
ed characterization, except in the
campaign candidates, where it
was purposely unsubtle. The dia-
logue was often too far removed
from realism to lend ‘itself to
speaking. The script was a clev-
er one, packed with obtrusive but
well-taken and well- expressed ref-
erences, and the acting enthusias-
In this case a writing com-
mittee didn’t seem the deterrent
it usually is to imagination, al-
though perhaps it did have some-
thing to do with the occasionally
rather transparent ‘manner in
which jokes and slogans were
strung together to make up the
script.

Critical Audience

The freshmen had a disadvan-
tage in their yet cool audience,
which was often slow in picking
up the more intricate allusions of
the dialogue and critical in ac-
cepting those less so. (Were it not
for a slight lack of polish and
some hesitancy in acting, owing,
I think, to the fact that most of
the characters -weren’t clearly
enough defined in their lines, the
freshmen show could nell be rank-
ed with the best of Class Night.
In any case, the move away from
immediate campus concerns and



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personalities was a welcome and

approached through
rather than realism. The acting
was excellent, the characters well-
‘drawn if overly mormal, and the
dialogue convincingly colloquial.
Nevertheless, the play as a whole
was too loosely drawn together
and too closely restricted to abso-
lute imitative realism to hold an
audience.
Sentimental Sincerity

The moral lesson didn’t ‘move,
had no real development through
the play, and although I was kept
listening and looking in an. ultim-
ately vain hope of catching the
message, the action itself hung
uncomfortably between humor
and vulnerable sincerity. This sin- |
cerity is too dangerously senti-
mental, I think, for any but an
extraordinarily skillful writer to
be able to cope with it.

With a little cutting and polish-
ing, the class of 1961 might have
produced a diamond bright enough
to warrant the bite of bitterness.
At it was, however, their shonw
moved along with great uneven-
ness. ‘At its best it was extreme-
ly funny, at its worst clumsy. A
very effective groping cello theme
and an equally effective groping
Quaker started the show off. . The
idea which provided a structure /
for the series of glimpses into the =f
history of the college was a very
apt and imaginative one, that / ‘of -
Dean Lockwood showing slides



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symbolism atone aoe

ical awareness and a sense of community responsibility to
college students that it might be valuable to see what made
this sortie into the ordinarily unprovocative realm of campus
politics a valuable learning experience.

The answer seems fairly simple.

The qualities evoked

were: the result of a genuine interest in the outcome of the
issue. The interest was a consequence of the belief that the
issue was in some way important, and the issue was impor-
tant only because it arose naturally and would have a per-
ceivable effect. Interest was real because the issue was real,
and from the interest stemmed the value of the experience.
Had Undergrad decided (as organizations are prone to do)
that the campus needed stirring and contrived the issue to fit
they would probably have met with little success.

This weekend we learned

a lot of things. Perhaps one

of them is that interest and excitement. for their own sake

are an illusion and a campus

not seething with Organiza-

tional interest is not to be disparaged. The student body
does not necesasrily need “shaking up.” When there’s some-
thing to be excited about it manages to rise gloriously to

the occasion.



Dormitory Ideas Gathered

Most people on campus _ are
q@ware that plans are in order for
building a new dormitory on cam-
pus, but many do not know what
definite steps are beimg taken. To
find out exactly what students here
want and what students in other

colleges have found satisfactory,
two measures have been taken: a
poll of student wishes has been
taken by Undergrad, and an ad-
ministrative committee has visit-
ed other colleges.

The tally of the poll = not yet
been completed, but the college
tours have proved successful, The
first, taken during the examina-
tion period by Mrs. Marshall, Miss
Howe, and Mrs. Delanoy of the
Board of Trustees, was to the
South to Hollins, Sweet Briar, and
Goucher.

The second trip, taken on the
week before last by the same ocm-
mittee plus Anne Marie Cusmano
representing the students, was to
New England where Jackson,
Wheaton, Brandeis, and Pembroke
were visited, Many points were
considered in. looking gg these
‘built-in furniture, and so on. It





was found that the highest ratio
of -singles to doubles.-was- 50-50.
At Bryn Mawr it is 80-20. Built-
in furniture ranged from having
everything built in to having no
permanent furniture. Miss Howe
feels that to much permanent fur-
niture gives inflexibility, but the
dressers and book shelves might

be fixed.

The committee also looked to
see how many suggestions made
by Bryn Mawr students were
working out. ‘Connecting singles
which can be turned into suites
are satisfactory when used as
suites, but as singles the noise
heard through the door is ‘trouble-
some. Where colleges have smok-
ers on every floor, students tend
to remain with the people on their
own corridors,

Another trip is being planned

Swarthmore, and the Moore In-
stitute of Art. Some of: these
have not yet started their new
buildings, but Miss’ Howe hopes
to be able to see the plans and
evaluate these buildings in rela-



to colleges in the area: Penn, |:

tion to ours and others they have

Letters to the Editor

Opposition Expounds



-To the Editor:

On the eve of a college-wide election, the Legis-
lature, by due process of democratic action, chang-
ed the constitution of the Bryn Mawr College Un-
dergraduate Association.

Earlier this. weekend, there had been the real-
ization that nowhere in the constitution was there
provision for the counting of write-in ballots, We
will not go into the reason for Executive Board’s
discussion of the matter, be it rumor, discontent
at the grass roots level, or a tempest in a teapot
(how Bryn Mawr). It attempted to avoid the com-
plications inherent in a change of procedure at
this time by declaring write-in votes invalid. They
were acting in good faith. There was nothing on
the books concerning this matter (as a matter of
fact, there were no books), and they wanted to
avoid a situation for which there was no constitu-
tional provision.._._This was the case, despite the
fact that a committee had been appointed express-
ly far the punpose of revising the constitution of
the Undergraduate Association. Next step:a poor-
ly worded, narrow petition was circulated to demand
a meeting of Legislature. Next: The Executive
Board met: again, punched holes in ‘the wording
and tenor of the petition, and unanimously called
a meeting on its own.

It is to many facets of this meeting that we
object: 1) to the inattention /of. the participants.
The necessity of a four-time repetition of the vot-

ing procedure by the representative’ of N.S.A. is |-

but one example of this. 2) to the ignorance of the
basic procedural framework. General Robert must
be turning in his eat. the misinterpreta-
tions of such.calls
were used not to garner information; but rather: to
inform the body ef one person’s opinion: Robert’s





object was ord It was absent. 8) Ignorance of
the under] issue and its implications. The
issue at s that afternoon was not only the right

votes, this decision has opened the way for
ing legislatures to cite it as precedent. That
the ‘situation needed remedying is not to be denied.
It/eould have been handled as efficiently. by a pro-
sional measure which would have achieved. the

“piint of information” which.



Senior Congratulates

An Open Letter to the Old and New Presidents of
Self-Gov and Undergrad:

Dear Sue, Marcy, Carolyn, and Betsy,

To you, Sue and Marcy, I want to express my
deepest appreciation for the leadership, ability and
time you have devoted to us, the students, since this
time last year. You have maintained the strength
of your convictions. You have been forward-look-
ing in your ideas and, as a result, have given much
to the college. It has been a real privilege and a
high honor for me to have been a member of the
student’ body under your administration and to
have worked with you both.

_ ‘Carolyn and Betsy, to you my warmest “Con-
gratulations!” Your election gives me great pleas-
ure. Your year in office will be a vitalizing and
rewarding one for Bryn Mawr, I feel sure. The
challenge of and the possibilities for the coming
year-are-.great;--continue to display the qualities
you have shown thus far and yours and the stu-
dents’ hopes will be more than fulfilled. I am
looking forward to serving under and with you for .

the remainder of this year.

To all four of you go my praises, respect, and
thanks.
Sincerely,
Nancy Porter
President of the Senior Class

Letter Urges Liaison

To the Editor:

(Much has been said lately in regard to the conser-
vation of educational resources, and this’ especially
seems to be a probelm of small private colleges
such as Bryn Mawr and Haverford. Rising costs
of education followed closely by high tuition rates

| demand the maximum utilization of the resources

which we already have at our disposal. LY

‘Bryn Mawr and Haverford, having close geo-
graphical proximity, also share common interests.
However, as it now stands, our two colleges have
no program of coordinating cultural, scientific and
political activities and events. This unfortunate
lack of communication results in duplication, inef-
feleues and - — bo: is » ow, inatend of











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Wedriesday; :March: 10, 1960

THE COLLEGE NEWS

re.

Page Three’



‘Crossroads Africa’
Receives Students |

Having assured the manage-
ment that she had a strong stom-









ner

‘having described as “just fantas-

- way of African statesmen, repre-

‘Paris, where for a week there

“cized among the

~ last time felt that his visitors

the.180 students who are going to
West Africa this summer for
three months as a part of the
“Crossroads Africa” program.
Organized by Dr. James Robin-
son of the Morningside Commun-
ity Center in New York City,
Crossroads will send its second

Article By Karl Shapiro Brings Faculty Comment:
Professors Discuss Modern Criticism And Poetry

“Delightful” Music

by Kristine Gilmartin
» A bright snowy Sunday ‘after-
noon and delightful music—what



ach, Jan Douglass became one_of'| In a polemic against contemporary poetry published in the December 13 issue of the NEW

to| \ORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Karl Shapiro condemned it on the grounds. that it must be formally
taught before it can be appreciated. “An art which must be taught to adults in its own time is sick
. . . Criticism does not flourish in a time of greator healthy poetry.” Faculty members concerned
with poetry and criticism expressed their views on Shapiro’s controversial stand.

Nahm Considers
Role Of Criticism



theolgical and philisophical beliefs
held at the time. The artist did
not have to invent symbols. His
audience was familiar with them

‘Mrs. MacCaffrey
otes ‘Obscurity’



ward villages and in the modern,
luxurious African cities in a pro-
gram Jan quoted a veteran as

tic.” The diversity of the pro-
gram in store for her requires
her to bring “everything from
work’ boots to formals.”

Good Digestion Demanded

The participants range in age
and experience from high school
to graduate students; they come
from the United States, Canada
and England.. The largest group
is from Yale; it consists of 14 stu-
dents.

The applicants had to go through
an intensive screening program.
Aside from assuring the executive
director, Phillip Wei, that she
has a good digestive system and
has never had stomach trouble,
Jan and the others also had ex-
tensive applications to fill out. She
still has not completed her tasks;
a 15-20 page paper is due on some
phase of African relations.

Feels Like Pioneering

Jan, an Anthropology-Sociology
major especially interested in her
courses.on cultural anthropology
and social welfare, feels that she
will end up going to Africa again
after her school days are over;
“things are happening so fast
there and I feel like pioneering.”
The three-month trip will involve
a condensation in time, but not
degree of this excitement.

A meeting at Columbia Uni-
versity in June dor the partici-
pants will be an intensive session
in informing them on all the im-
portant phases of African life by

sentatives, and scholars who will
guide the activities. The group
will then split in two; one group
will fly to London, the other to

will be further briefing by the
British and French consuls. Both
groups wil] then leave for Africa.

The travellers will go in groups
of ten or twelve to villages in
the particular areas that they
have selected. Jan is headed for
Nigeria. In their new homes, the
tourists will be treated with re-
spect and ceremony but will be
immediately assimilated into the
village activities, including a five
a.m. rising hour.

Their advent will be _ publi-
natives and
among their urbanized counter-
‘parts who share an amazement
that Americans are concerned with
their lives, The Africans who
often greeted the visiting Ameri-
cans with displays of marked rac-
ial prejudice (against whites) ex-
perienced some change of attitude
as they became better acquainted.
with the Crossroaders.

Jan was warned by the charter
members of a few things; not to
make any promises to the natives
for which she might be indebted
to them for life, and to expect
gifts from their chiefs. One chief

merited more than the ordinary
food and beads; he gave them
bottles of prize whiskey.

Among these tribes, the highest
form of compliment in one’s work
consists of a man’s offering his
old wife to aid in the task, Jan’s
friends told her. They themselves
were once approached by one such
old woman as they undertook the
back-breaking task of laying pipes

“Tt doesn’t follow that because
art must be taught,. it is sick,”
stated Mr. Nahm when asked his
opinion: of Mr. Shapiro’s contro-
versial statements. “Isn’t the
kind of art produced a product of
the age?” he asked. “Isn’t the
fact that it must be taught a
comment on our times which are
so concerned with highly abstract
terms and such a complex view of
the world? Present times have
produced the ‘Modernism’; the
times have also produced tht crit-
icism, Both are an expression of
the same wenplexing problems
that we face. Modernism is only
one aspect of the general situa-
tion,

“Shapiro seems to say that,
basically, criticism and poetry
are separate arts—arts that are
mutually exclusive. However, I
believe that wherever you find
poetry you find criticism as well.
Criticism and poetry flourish

because of a common background
that poet and audience shared.
“The world is so complex to-
day that art is subsequently so.
Many find it difficult to interpret
symbolism today because of the
lack of common background. One
can’t go back to the time of com-
mon symbols. Either the artist
today offers his own symbolism or
expresses symbols of science or
mathematics, The poet and critic
may also have been misused. The
common symbols of art today may
exist in the form rather than in
the content of specific works.
Continued on Page 4, Col. 1

Lattimore Argues
For And Against

(Mr. Lattimore discussed points
relating to two articles by Sha-
piro—one on Eliot in the Saturday
Review of Literature, and an earl-
ier one on modern poetry as a
whole in the New York Times
Book Review Section.

Of the article on Eliot he said,
“I would hate to have anyone say
that it is imipertinent of Shapiro
‘to attack Eliot’s intrenched posi-
tion. The comparison of Eliot to
castles in Bavaria (ugly but in-





‘Where you
have civilization based on a com-

at the same time.

plex culture, poetry must concen-
trate .on meaning, symbols, and
significance rather than on style.

“Criticism and poetry’ them-
selves display this distortation of
concentration on specific elements.

The predilection in present per-
plexed times’ is for significance
and meaning and solution to con-
temporary problems. Ewen if this
is emphasized in the poetry that
is being written, Mr. Shapiro sure-
ly has abstracted that aspect from
the genuine stylistic and expres-
sionistic contribution these people
have made.

“He has a just right, however,
to criticize some aspects of con-
temporary poetry. There are, for
instance, some poets who speak
in philosophical terms without
having completely transformed
their theories into poetry.

“The poets, painters, and sculp-
tors of the Renaissance had com-
mon symbols derived from the



pipes and the girls ran nursery
schools for the children, the men
of the tribe sat around and watch-
ed the strange Americans.

Adter the momth’s residence in
the villages, the group will meet
to tour the West African area.
It will visit the seats of govern-
ment, the universities, cultural
centers, and so forth. Their hosts
on this part of the program will
be native students and statesmen.
It is at this point that some of
the most challenging interchange
of the trip will take place, in that
here the Americans will have to
demonstrate their interests and
capabilities to the urbanized and_

destructable) with which the ar-

ticle opens is magnificent rhetoric,

and not without some truth. I
wish he had gone on in that style.
“Unfortunately he is trying to
ittack Eliot simultoneously as a
ritic and as a poet. This he nev-
er really brings off.
“Shapiro’s analysis of individ-

good. In writing about them ‘he
uses the word ‘masterpiece’, or its
equivalent, in spite of himself. If
you acknowledge masterpieces,
why not be grateful? Give poetry
all her right; she’s not to be form-
tied.
“Generally he doesn’t pay enough
attention to whether Eliot wrote
good poetry. He seems to want
all poetry to be like one or anoth-
er of a very few models, These
models—/Whitman, Blake, Frost,
Lawrence and Thomas—all have
something in common: slightly
bucolic, prophetic. In, insisting on
one style, Shapiro is ignoring a
dazzling amount of good poetry.”
Mr. Lattimore denied Shapiro’s
Continued on Page 4, Col. 2

Miss Woodworth
Contradicts Critic.

“When Mr. Shapiro makes the
statement that an art that must
be taught is sick, he is suffering
from a complete misunderstand-
ing of art,” stated Miss. Wodd-
worth when approached on this
subject. “Poetry is an art and art
is never simple. To understand
any great art, it is necessary to
discipline yourself. An objective
understanding comes only after
long training and a cultivation of
taste. As far as the expression a
‘contemporary art’ is concerned
most artists are at least 50 years
ahead of the people.”

In commenting on Mr. Shapiro’s
statement that criticism doesn’t
exist in a time of great or healthy
poetry, Miss Woodworth said that
history just doesn’t bear this out.

ual Eliot poems is at times very:

commenting on GShapiro’s
statement that “an art which must
be taught to adults in its own time
is sick,” Mrs. MacCaffrey said
that it is true that in the past ed-
ucation dealt with the literature
of previous ages: people didn’t
usually study the poetry of their
own time, But in pursuing the
classical curriculum, they learned
to read difficult poetry. We have
to teach all poetry nowadays be-
cause people do not learn how to
read carefully, They are not ac-
|customed to reading poetry. For-
merly, the people who read Mil-
ton had read Virgil.

Concerning the comment that
“criticism is a branch of philos-
ophy and in rare moments a liter-
ary art. In our time it is neither,”
‘Mrs. MacCaffrey went on to state
that she did not feel that criticism
is am art, although sometimes it
may share certain attributes of
art (for example, Sidney’s Defense



of Poesie).

In our time some crities are try-
ing to make criticism a_ science
(an example, perhaps, is Kenneth
Burke). People are interested in
seeing how the minds of their fel-
lows work, and the study of poet-
ry. is one method of doing this.
In considering modern critics and
comparing them with those of the
past, however, we must remember
that only the best of the past has
come down to us. It is true that
many contemporary critics are
poets, but it is also true that
many great critics of the past
have been poets: Arnold, Dryden,
Sidney, Coleridge.

Poetry reflects the whole intel-
tellectual activity of an age. In
an effort to revitalize the medium,
poets employ different uses of the
language. This may bring about
some distortion and therefore “ob-
security.” But Mr. Shapiro has
vastly oversimplified the problem
in his article. Not all the poetry
of our time is obscure, and the ob-
scurity which exists might be seen
as part of.a cycle in the history of
literature, a cycle which has mov-
ed repeatedly from complexity to
simplicity and back. “Finally, who
is to be the judge of obscurity?
Even newspaper poets are obscure
to some readers,



e
_ Notice

Bryn Mawr’s Debate Club will
send a team of four to Brooklyn
College March 11 and 12. The
Bryn Mawr Team, Susan
Gumpert and Miranda Marvin
on the affirmative and Mary
Lou Leavitt and Ginny Copen
on the negative, will debate
the following issue:--Resolved: .
that Congress should be given |}
“i éecisions

more Could anyone askt
wer is, nothing, especially when
the music is as well performed
and as spirited and lovely as it
was in the recital given on March
6 in the Music Room of Goodhart
by music students and members
of the chamber music group, di-
rected by Mme. Agi Jambor.

gram opened with Bach, this time
the Sonata in E flat major for

ine Hoover and Jane Hess. The
first movement} the allegro moder-
ato, was just that—moderate. In
the Siciliano, the flute carried a
lovely, swirling melody. The final .
allegro was a devilish one, full
of swift interchanges of flute
and piano which left the flutist
breathless from exertion and the
audience in a similar state from
admiration.

Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet (the
third and fourth movements) was
just lovely, done by Joan Gettig
and Renata Knoke, violins, Ellen
Magaziner, viola, Marion Davis,
’cello, and Nina Greenberg, clar-
inet. The music was somehow
suggestive of a spring afternoon
in a park, especially the delight-
ful melody of the clarinet bounc-
ing up from the lower register.
At the beginning of the fourth
movement the tempo was a bit
uncertain and rushed, but Miss
Greenberg’s runs in her playful
theme were flawless, and her ex-
cellent work helped greatly in
making the performance such a
success.

Next, Barbara Shoemaker play-
Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata No.
6, consisting of a chorale and
andante sostenuto of majestic

chords and a charming, running
allegro. In the Suite Gothique by
Boellmann, the chorale was im-
pressive and the minuet was full
of cheerful good nature and dig-
nified high spirits that the organ-
ist made a joy to listem to.

Suite for Viola and Piano by
John Davidson was played by
Marcia Leigh with the composer

Continued on Page 4, Col. -2

Search For Rocks
Yields Cacophony

For those people who have
noticed the hydraulic drill in the
Cloisters and do not ‘know the rea-
son for all this activity, the pur-
pose of the drilling is to find out
if there is rock beneath the sur-
face. A plan is in progress to ex-
tend the library underground to
connect the main stacks with the
stacks in the West Wing.

Overcrowding the library has
long been a problem. Mr. Charles
David, formerly Professor of His-
tory here and later librarian at
the University of Pennsylvania,
was the first to suggest the solu-
tion of building underground, as
there is no land adjacent to the
main building suitable for this
purpose. Mr. Douglas Orr, an ar-
chitect in New Haven, suggested
that it would be possible to build
two floors underground. Connect-
ing the stacks would be a great
advantage as less personnel would
be required to manage them.

whether or not there is rock in
the ground, because the expense
of digging through rock would be
prohibitive.

Drilling is being done at 30 foot —
intervals, and so far no lange ex-
tensions of rock have been found.
If none is found building will
start as soon as funds can be rais-
ed. If the construction is done,
the (Cloisters will remain much as
they are now except that the





iiage. While the
donated wife laid



be ck

educated segment of the native

For example, in two periods of



African citizenry.



Continued on Page 4, Col. 5



of the Supreme Court.







The fountain-swimming tradition
will not be interfered with.

Neary

Reviewer Praises * -

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In traditional fashion, the pro-———

flute and piano, played by Kather- -

It is important to determine ~~

beech trees will have to be remov- =.
Hed and replaced by smaller ones.






Pege Four

“THE -COLLEGE NEWS-°

Wednesday, ‘March: 10,:1960°



Letters to the Editor, Continued. .

‘Continued from Page 2, Col. 5

over the course of tne year, often times two ex-
cellent. lectures will conflict, or if there is no such
conflict, there is, in many cases, a definite absence
of publicity for an event at the other college.

Realisticaily, this is the type of waste which is
most re for it is tne easiest to correct.
Eo in: of stromger relationships and more
er and utility, I pe propose that -repre=—
sentatives of your Undergrad and our Students’
Association meet for the purpose of providing for
some.type of liaison between our colleges so that
this duplication and lack of communication may be
eliminated and replaced with a sensibie, organized
and oveneiiated program of events.

- : : Sincerely,
Philip S. Krone, ’62
Haverford College

Constitutional Change

Continued from Page 2, Col. 3

same end, witaout formaiy setung tais dangerous
precedent, But, alas, it was six o’ciock, and people
were tired. So they changed the constitution.

Granted, the constitution itself is no “sacred
cow.” Yet, there is something basic to be said for
the fact that the constitution stands for more tnan
expediency. There is innerent danger in setting a

with an awareness that is only to be expected of
our student body. 3) There must be careful thought
on the part of the members of Legislature concern-
ing the underlying values implied im a constitution.
4) There must be thought along the lines of making
the constitution less open to snap judgments,
‘through further strengthening of the constitution,
itself, with due consideration to situations which

might arise 5) A Parliamentarian other than the

Continued from Page 1, Col. 3

ure is a “perversion of the sys-
tem,” and since it calls for a fif-

usual simple majority, it not only
has no legal provisions for Write-
In candidates but also would put
them at a marked disadvantage |



vice-chairman for the meetings of Legislature must
be instituted, to provide for the chairman’s relin-
quishing of the chair if she should wish to express
her opinion, as is customary,

_ The above changes are necessary to raise the
Legislature to a level of functional responsibility.
Perhaps in this way we can avoid the kind of deb-
acle that occurred on Sunday.

-\Amn Levy, ’61
Jane Franzblau, ’61

New Course Sought

To the Editor:

After hearing Gilbert White talk about the need
for examining material resources and combining
knowledge with principles action, I would propose
a Bryn Mawr-Haverford interdepartmental econ-

presiding officer must be specially delegated. 6) A

precedent whose implications contradict this.
‘With the reorganization, the Executive Board
was made, and rigatly so, very powerful.

ent, the Legislature has acted as

feel that this is an important role.

can perfonm’ its function properly,

must be. made: 1) The participants must become
familiar with the rules under which this body con-
2) The issues brought under
discussion at the meetings must be considered fully,

ducts its meetings.

possible.
At pres-

its check. We
But before it
certain changes

raphy—seventh

ally broadening



omic geography course to be offered as soon as

(Most of us know little about the world’s geog-

grade often saw the end of it.

Learning economic geography would offer a way of
understanding the
governments and their policies as well as realistic-

various forces which influence

our intellectual horizons.
(Margaret A. Norman ’62



Mr. Nahm

Continued from Page 3, Col. 3
“The world now is not one in

Mr. Lattimore
Continued from Page 3, Col. 3

claim that criticism does not flour-

hich th mn syanbol
w me om Se aneearrtish ina time of great and healthy

The poet must express him
intelligibly. Great poetry is cre-
ated through the capacity of man
to express his individual thoughts
in a way that is communicable.
This becomes more and more diffi-
cult“ as language becomes more
abstract and complex.

“There is a challenge to the
critic to make criticis;n into an art
that makes art intelligible. The
function of the critic is to inform
us amd to achieve a kind of au-
tonomy within his art.

‘We are now in a world where
we think that the clearest and
most profitable explanations are
to be found in the’ principles of
mathematics, physics, and ~ logic.
Today what the poet expresses
must have to do with the compli-
cated problems of today’s world
and the abstract answers to them.

“The critic must know about
the mature of man and yet must
deal with the poem or the product
in front of him, It is true that
criticism is a branch of philosophy.
The critic must compare state-
ments about the nature of man
and the nature of art. The crit-
ical attitude exists even in poets.
The poet inevitably tells us about
the nature of man and the world.
The critical and poetic attitude
always exist together. They can
work together and have. Poetry
isn’t immediate experience but is
experience. which has been given
form by a critical attitude.”

Algeria
Continued from Page 1, Col. 2

fire has been carried out, and the
Arabs remain firm in their insist-
ence that some guarantee first be
given that the national plebiscite
promised to the Algerians in four
years will be held.

The Algerians have been inform-
ed that the French government
shall have to approve whatever
decision the Algerians eventually
make concerning their national
status before it can go into effect.
This considerably dims Algerian
hopes for nidependence, especial-
ly in the light of De Gaulle’s re-
cent statement insinuating that

Algerian independence. .
Until the Arabs are provided

art. “Theré*is criticism all through
Attic comedy and tragedy. In the
tragedy it is implicit, rather than
explicit as in the comedy.”

Shapiro-also stated that “a
temporary art must be taught to
adults before it can be enjoyed
is sick.” This, Mr. Lattimore re-
plied, is “only true if the poetry
has to be taught before it can be
enjoyed at all; them you could call
it mistakenly obscure. I would not
use the word ‘sick’, as I don’t
really understand what it means.
A lot of good poetry is very diffi-
cult. I don’t think that Hamlet
Was ever easy, even at the time it
was produced; not to mention Sha-
piro’s favorite, Blake.”

Mr. Lattimore objected to Sha-

piro’s “choosing to ignore some-
thing that is going on because he
doesn’t like the direction it is tak-
ing. He never even mentions Ran-
som, Jeffers, Cummings, Wilbur,
Aikens, Bishop, or Lowell, all very
good and absolutely established
poets. There are many newcom-
ers too. When all this is going
on, you can’t just ignore jt.
- “I expect we'd ibe bourd to dis-
agree,” Mr. Lattimore’ added. . “I
don’t care for Whitman, Blake,
Lawrence, Frost, or Thomas. He
isn’t justified in Jamping them to-
gether, except, ff course, just as
they are all modern poets.”

Student Recital —

Continued from Page 3, Col. 5

himself at the piano. This was
perhaps the highlight of the af-
ternoon. From the opening bars
of the fantasia, the virtuosity of
the performers and the fineness
of the composition ‘were evident.
The pavane had a slow, strong,
almost mournful feeling, but the
musette was sheer exuberance.
Brahms’ Sonata in E™ “minor,
Op. 38 concluded the program in
high style as performed by Rob-
ert Martin, ’cello, and David Hem-
ingway, piano. The two different
qualities of tone in the instru-
ments was particularly noticeable
and a good contrast. The music
itself alternated furious, strong
passages, in which Mr. Martin



| seemed almost to attack his ’cello,

with sections of quiet, beautiful



melody, first stated by the piano.

Class Night

Continued from Page 2, Col. 4
and providing a connective link in
short transition passages. John
Gould as Dean Lockwood amply
deserved his award as best actor.

A magnificent opening and good
framework go far towards making
a ‘Class. Night show, but it needs

“la more tightly- organized filling

than that supplied by the juniors.
Individual bits of dialogue and
characterization were the best on
the Class Night program, but. the
general impression made by the
show was scattered and marred
by its prevailing bitterness.

The seniors had a great deal of
polish, a good deal of imagina-
| tion, music, and warmth, all of
which combined to produce a con-
sistently pleasurable show. Their
theme was expansion, removed
from its immediate campus sur-
roundings to the Comet.

The music succeeded in convert-
ing what might have been rather
flat dialogue into quite clever lyr-
ics. The acting was on the whole
not as good as in the juniors’
show, if such a comparison serves
any purpose. Huey, however,
made the warmth and personal
touch of the old (present) Comet
a very lively reality.

This warmth and the consistent
briskness of pace, as well as a very
creditable script, pushed the show
well above its competitors. The

most delightful moment in the ac-
tion was perhaps the charts, show-
ing swastikas, trends, and possi-
‘bilities with future expansion.
Here, as_in-the show as a whole,
it was ensemble and timing which
brought success,



me
Notice

In recent years there has been];
growing interest in eloping a
social psychology of the education-
al process, Investigations show
that at so-called “highly product-
ive” colleges—such as those with
a lange number of Ph.D.’s—stu-
dents have different attitudes to-
wards their college environment
and its demands and incentives
than those at less “highly pro-
ductive”. institutions.

An attempt is being made to
standardize on Bryn Mawr an in-
strument developed elsewhere that
tests the student’s perception of
the college. Next week a random
selection of students will receive
letters asking them to help this



”

Linvestigation-by-spending a couple |.
-|of hours answering true-false
ee ee et ots Biers, meet but he is in-

should they run.

With this information in mind
members of the Board and non-
voting Hall Presidents reconsider-
ed the issue and split into two
clearly definable camps. The pro-

the privilege of expanding a slate
is a basic legal right and tradition-
al to the democratic election, Those
opposed protested that the grant-
ing of the privilege would consti-
tute a change in the election sys-
tem, and that the right to expect
stability in the laws of a proced-
ure for the duration of that pro-
cedure is as essential as the right
to add a cadidate to an existing
slate.

A motion of the second camp to
nullify Write-In ballots and keep
the issue from the campus was
defeated seven to six; a modifica-
tion of this proposal in the form
of a second motion to nullify the
Write-In but to communicate this
decision to the student body via the
Hall Presidents satisfied enough
of the Pro-Write-Ins to be passed.
It should be emphasized here that
the decision was based not. on the
inherent qualities of the Write-In
ballot or on a denial of its legal
“rightness”; Executive Board vot-
ed to nullify the Write-In because
it did not feel justified in effecting
a change in voting procedure dur-
ing the course of an election.

The rationale for the clause re-
quiring communication of the de-
cision to the student body was a
willingness to see it revoked if
campus opinion-so-decreed. Since
a petition of 10% of the student
body can call a Legislature, and
Legislature can “in turn override
decisions of the Executive Board,
it was felt that grass-root agita-
tion, if present, would determine
the issue.

A petition for an Emergency.
Legislature was drawn up shortly
after the meeting but by members
of the original pro-write-in camp
rather than grass-root agitators.
In a few hours they collected 138
signatures, considerably more than
the necessary 10%, and a Legisla-
ture was called “to over-ride a
measure” which was felt to un-
dermine a “basic legal right.”

Saturday .afternoon a third Ex-
ecutive Board meeting was called
to omece again air views and clar- |
ify issues for Sunday’s Legislature.
Since it had become Obvious that
validating write-in votes would

Miss Woodworth

Continued from Page 8, Col. 3
the



great artistic flourishing,
Renaissance and the
era at the end of the 18th century,
the level of art of criticism was
very high with new innovations

in both fields. Criticism keeps pace

- | with any vital art. It is an active,

creative movement in literature
along with poetry and playwrit-
ing.

The purpose of the critic is to
recreate the production of the ar-
tist. Part of good criticism has
to be analytical but this problem
has been approached differently |
by critics of different ages.
the 18th century, critics were most
concerned with the artist’s genius
and his personal source of inspir-
ation. They attempted to free the
artist from the bondage of the
past and placed their emphasis on
the creative powers of the indi-
vidual, -The modern ‘New Critics’
have put new life into criticism.
They look at a work of art for its
own sake, rather than as a product
of a particular individual. Each



evitably affected by his own age.



teen vote plurality rather than the’

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write-in contingent argued that

Romantic |

In’

the various approaches and devel-

Board Splits, Two Camps Debate

necessitate a constitutional change .
allowing for victory with a simple
majority, the issue evolved into a
question of the legality and wis-
dom of changing the system in the .
course of electioms. The petition
for this movement was considered
technically invalid because it pro-



of “over-riding”, mathe than. dis-
cussing the measure and because
it was based upon the assumption
of a non-existent “legal right”.
The Executive Board, therefore,
| closed_its_third—two-to-three-and-
a-half-hour session. with the pass-
ing of a motion that Legislature
be called “to discuss the Election
System”, both camps unanimous
in their approval of leaving the
resolution of the problem to this
langer body.

Under he guidance of parlia-
mentition Mr. James Kweeder,
Program Vice-President of NSA,
a full Legislature, showing little
indication of the agitation whose
alleged existence had prompted
the original Executive Board ac-
tion, almost immediately passed
a motion to allow Write-In votes.
The arguments against this action,
articulated convincingly enough
to carry the Executive Board two
days. before, were only sketchily
presented, and Legislature mem-
bers already familiar with the
ipro-write-in case, seemed to find
little difficulty in voting,

A second motion to strike opt
the requirement for a fifteen vote ©
plurality met with more opposi-
tion. The arguement in favor was
that the requirement had in the
past necessitated revoting and with
the additional candidates in a
write-in contest would prove even
more cumbersome. The angument
opposed, agaim that of timing, was
given emphasis by Mr. Kjweeder’s
comment on the undesirability of
‘setting a precedent which might
one day be-used as the justifica-
tion of changing the system im-
mediately prior to an election to
suit the whims of a particular in-
terest.

An ammendment to tht Second
Motion which called for a proviso
that it not be put into effect until
after the present elections was de-
feated; this ammendment would
have made the motion acceptable ,
to the opposing camp but would
have left unresolved the problem
of counting write-ins in this year’s
elections.

Despite a rather vituperative
accusation from the floor that “the
legislators do not know what they
are talking about” they at this
point seemsd to know enough to
fight their way through parlia-
mentary procedure to pass the
Second Motion. sans amendment,
making feasible by dinner time the
write-ins they had legalized earl-
ier. M. C.

Print Exhibit
Continued from Page 2, Col. 3

man mind associates with death
and terror. This work is not pure-
-lyrepresentational and is calm
and composed in-form; however,
it’ succeeds in communicating
terror to a far greater degree
than its more tortured neighbors.
In contrast, the “Benign Images”
concentrate on the human and nat-
ural elements of life. The works
in this alcove have titles such as
“Fountain of Youth,” “Morning,”-
“Summer Bird,” and “Summer.
Day in Central Park.” The use
that contemporary art makes of
the eternal symbols of youth,
morning, children, and nature as
a means of saying -something
pleasant was exemplified here.
The artists represented in this
exhibit have succeeded in over~
coming the difficulty of mak-
ing their work intelligible while
maintaining the originality of
contemporary art. No print in



frustration that is the result of
the failure of an artist to com-
municate with his audience.

comes




THE COLCCEGE NEWS

Page Five



~~ Cancer Viruses Attack Cells ‘Actively’ or ‘Lazily’:

Continued from Page 1, Col. 3
finally becoming destroyed. This
is benign multiplication, but unh-
der appropriate conditions, ac-
cording to -Borrel, it would be-
come malignant;

Between 1908 and 1955, many
experiments with animals were

ive viruses multiply in a cell the
cell is destroyed and the viruses
Zo on to new cells. Only in this
period between cells can the vir-
uses be attacked by the anti-bod-
ies produced by the infected or-
ganism, «= ° =

The “lazy” viruses enter_a_celi!



conducted which supported this
theory’ that cancer is caused by
viruses. Leukemia in chickens,
sarcoma in rabbits, caranoma in
frogs, and breast cancer, leukemia,
and polycoma in mice were proved
to be caused by viruses.

“But are these cancer viruses
like any other viruses?” Experi-
ments conducted by Mrs. Duran-
*Reynal’s husband in 1940 inves-
tigated “lazy” viruses. When act-



but do not multiply and ‘destroy
the cell. They therefore do not go
through intra-cellular period and
cannot be attacked by: the: anti-
bodies. They divide and multiply
only when the cells divide and mul-
tiply. It is this kind of viruses
that produce cold sores. They are
always in the tissues, but only
when irritated in some way do
they become active, causing the
sore to break out.



As experiments seem to show
that many varied and seemingly
unrelated things, including tobac-
co, X-rays, and tar chemicals,
cause cancer, it has been suggest-
éd that these may tbe the irritants
that’ stimulate the ‘dormant virus-
es into action, Mrs, Duran-Rey- |
nals ‘qaded her lecture by describ-
ing some of the experiments
which she and her husband are
carrying on to explore this theory.

They are applying chemicals
and radiations to virus-infected
sites on experimental animals to
see if cancer will occur with great-
er than average frequency. She
reports, however, that these ex-
periments are not yet producing
any substantial results.





Ke by Kristine Gilmartin
A recent addition to scholarship
from Bryn Mawr is The Story of

in- the Relationship. between Arch-
edlogical, -Ethnological, and His-
torical. Methods. by Frederica de
Laguna, Chairman of the Socio-
logy and Anthropology Depart-
ment. The ‘material for this work,
which was published by the Smith-
sonian Institute, Bureau of Amer-
ican Ethnology, was gathered dur-
ing two summer expeditions to
Alaska, in 1949 and 1960.
“Ideally, of course, the arch-
eology of a people should enable

a. Tlingit Community: A Problem|

Miss de Laguna Publishes New Book
Of Cultural History of Alaskan Tribe

interpretations are interesting, in
addition to the information about
the northern Tlingite which the
book contains,

Miss de Laguna first describes
the Angoon tribal territory, the
people and the locations of their
villages and the archaeological
sites. This section also contains

descriptions and plates of the
various artifacts found. One of
the most interesting discoveries
was evidence that the Tlingit
baked clay or clay-stone for paint
and that the children modeled clay
into toy dishes,

The history of Angoon in native

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More on Merchant
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~ tia, Trudy Hoffman as Nerissa,
and Mickie Webb as Jessica. The
male cast includes Andy Lehner
as Antonio, Ray de Ris as Bass-
anio, Preston Mears as Solanio
and Frank Bowles as Salerio. Gra-

~ Rimbaud Lecture

Continued from Page 1, Col:"4

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