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

* Philadelphia,









VOL. XLV—NO 16

© Trustees of Bryn Muwr College, 1960

PRICE 20 CENTS



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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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
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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



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music,





winners of the Woodrow-—Wilson-:

“chairman of Garden party. |="