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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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_Wednesday, October 9,.1957



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Lament

So it goes—the USSR has launched Sputnik, the Ford
Family has produced Edsel. Still there is no joy in Brooklyn.

A very long time ago there were no Dodgers in Brook-
lyn. It was a lazy Dutch community that called itself Breuck-
elen (also spelled Breucklan, Breucklyn, Brucklyn, Brouck-
lyn, Brookland) where farmers and their cows lived in un-
enlightened bucolic harmony. The quiet island community
was not even bridged to the American mainland. Brooklyn
was to wait a few hundred years, until 1913 to be exact, for
any claim to worldwide recognition and fame. In that year,
the Brooklyn Dodgers settled in their spatious Flatbush
But-now- Ebbets Field; -hallowed-stadium of the Be-
loved Bums, is called antiquated’and one W. O’Mally by name
proposes to sell his soul in one of the most outrageous kid-
nappings of all time. =

Can the Dodgers be morally wrested from their filial
soil? Only the completely amoral are not outraged at the
suggestion. If one event can be labelled as indicative of the
cancerous cult of materialism in our times this is it. Can the
legend of the Brooks be maintained, three thousand miles to
the West in some foreign, inhospital location? Could Los
Angeles, encompassing the tawdry, pretentious, unreal movie
capital, ever offset the devotion, the “loud, raucous”, but
(unmistakable) devotion that Brooklyn has? Admittedly
in some far off city of beer drinkers the former Boston
Braves find their finances improved, yet the forsaking of
the Dodgers does not merely involve, economics stockmarket

tycoonery, impersonal bargaining. It is a question of loyal-

ties, of spiritual attachments, of magical legends. Surely
the voice of the poet, the lament of the bard must be heard

in this struggle of seats vs. sentiments and parking fields

vs. principles.

College populations and costs will continue increasing,
the “fair co-ed” will continue entering the male educational
scene, the Bryn Mawr science center will near completion
and even alumnae poets will continue proposing automobile
nomenclature, but will Brooklyn go on without them?

Back To School

Anyone who saw the photographs taken at Little Rock, |:

Arkansas during the last weeks of September was reminded
that “back to school” is an expression apparently not to be
used by all U. S. citizens legally entitled to it.

In his use of the National Guard to stop the entry of
nine Negro children to Little Rock’s, Central High School,
and through his subsequent actions and speeches, Governor

- Orval Faubus has shown that his aim was not really that of

preventing violence but of preventing court-ordered désegre-
gation. The mob action that followed the withdrawal of the
Guard was not the same violence Governor Faubus says he
had hoped to offset, but a logical outcome of the cue and en-
couragement he gave to the otherwise irrationally minded
group of hoodlums
The world has found the violence shocking. No one can
tell how many times the pictures of a young girl being spit
at by her classmates has been reprinted abroad. What.Amer-
icans*should have found equally shocking was the fact that
federal authority and citizens’ right were allowed to be tam-
pered with so flagrantly until final recourse on the part of the
president led to the sending of federal troops to guarantee
citizens the rights the state should have safeguarded.
» » Last year, in this, the first regular issue of the News in

oo ‘a pre-election editorial, we commented on the lack of strong
leadership shown. by the president. Unfortunately, he seem-

ed to exhibit this weakness again in his “neg6tiations” with
Faubus and in the belatedness of his firmness in reassuring
the country that the Constitution and federal court-ordered
decrees were still the supreme law ef the land.. However, as
long as the minority of hoodlums and the Governor cannot
guarantees that they will not try to create
‘peace” by denying rights, the president’s use of federal
We are glad to
non-interference

see that principles of law and



ressing its emotions outside the school.



In Medias Res

by Ellie Winsor









Well, anassa kata! Autumn and
hockey sticks and Greek classes

sailboats with bright red, yellow,
green, striped spinnakers glided in
from the bay—a setting as colorful
and magnificent as it was un-Eliza-
bethan. The same atmosphere
characterized the performance.

Miss Hepburn played Portia in
sumptuous robes and gowns: her
‘interpretation was consistent, but
instead of the dignity that is usu-
ally associated with the role, she
acted with a striking schoolgirl
abandon and capriciousness, One
wondered if perhaps she did not
subconscidusly base her character-
ization on certain types she might
have known in her famous college
days... for there was a familiar
ring to her giggle, and her cynical
scorn and horror of her suitors
(save one) had a_ well-known
charm...

Or if she did not’ learn from
“us”, we might indeed then learn
from her. (Picture the delight of
confronting some undesirable date
with three caskets, forcing him to
choose aright before you. signed
out to his fraternity.

Indeed what would our friend
Mr. ‘Merkin react. “So may the
outward shows be least themselves;
the world is still deceived by or-
nament.”

and squirrels and the wide-eyed
roving reporters have returned to
campus, Journalism presents won-
derful opportunities for any young
man ambitious of making a name
for himself. Enough to make any-

one wish for a tweed jacket, keen
observation and sparkling wit.

In this tight little community
we are so often haunted by the
presence of the observer, the Out-
sider among us. This is, admitted-
ly, a modern literary trend; and
yet, one longs for a dash of orig-
inality. For this, those young la-
dies are to be commended who
plan to invite Mr, Merkin of
the Daily Pennsylvanian to a sort
of matriarchal tea. Surely it is a
sad fate to be left on the outside
looking in.

On Mr, Atkinson’s recommenda-
tion, we struck out towards the
Housatanic this summer for a
glimpse of our renowned alumna
(she must be famous, as Mr. Mer-
kin also mentions her) in the hop,
skip and jump Shakespeare. A
stiff afternoon breeze was blowing
up the river and a fleet of small





; Opus I

"Twas the night before deadline with nothing to write,
The lectures were covered, no more were in sight,
But a page was found blank

So it’s panic you thank e

For the sudden large splash of poetics: (?) tonight.

Opus II a

There once was a young flu bug called Asian
Whose publicity work was amazin’

But the worry and fret

Of what you may get

Causes sickness more western than Asian.

Opus III

O’er the land of the free there is burning

An issue to concern the discerning

Now the flicks (R.I.P.)

Hide ads you can’t see:

We await subliminal learning. a
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THOUGHTS OF FALL
Activate!

Don’t vegitate!
Extra-Curriculate!

Comes Social Pressure’s call.

Scintillate !

Don’t Hesitate!

Grab that Princeton Date!

Comes the former bookworm’s fall.

Nominate!

And Congregate!

Girl, Participate!

but will we GRADUATE at all ;



Student Directors
Announced by ‘59

‘Listed below are members of
the Class of. 59 who are directing
the. Junior Show, Speak Easily,
which is to be presented Oct. 18-
19: ; :
Director—Sally Powers
Assistant Director—Lynn Kaplan
Musical Director—Angie Wishnack
Technical ‘Director—Sandy Scott
Stage Manager—Libby Foshay.
Business Manager — Moira Mac-

Veagh
‘Dance Director—Faith Kessel
Technical. Staff: : ,
Properties—Miriam Beames Tg
Costumes—Cathya Wing
(Make-up—Jackie Winter
Staging
Lights—Laura Pearson
Business Staff .
‘Posters—Lucy Sherman
Tickets—Natalie Naylor
Program—Binnie White





Ushers—Ann Wayland






Fire Laws Require
Keen Proficiency
In Rope Climbing

Members of the physical educa-
tion department announce that
they have _ scheduled Thursday,
October 10 as the day when “all
freshmen must report to the gym
between the hours of 1:30 and 6:00
p.m. for their required rope test.
This year ‘Miss Dexteria Nodus,
former leader of the Swiss Girl
Guides will supervise the rope test.

‘Miss Nodus explains that the
test is simple, consisting merely
of demonstrated ability to descend
hand over hand, slide or wiggle
down a twenty-foot foot rope. Be-
cause rigid Pennsylvania fire laws
require round-the-clock protection
all students must pass the test, al-
though rope drill will not be in-
cluded in routine fire drills.

Freshmen are also asked to bring
with them 75¢ to cover the cost of
the ropes which will be theirs for
the next four years. These are to
be hung in the closet ready for
emergency use. Departing — stu-
dents, expcepting those who elope
without permission of the Deans’
Office, will receive a 50¢ refund.

Freshmen are also reminded that
rope practice will be confined to
specific hours at the gym and is
not to be conducted from dormitory
roofs, from the cloisters, Goodhart,
Taylor tower or trees on the cam-
pus.

Faculty
Promotions

Leaves

The following is a list of Faculty
Promotions and Leaves for the year
1957-1958: a

Promotions
To Professor

Joshua Hubbard

Bettina Linn

Katherine Lower
To Associate Professor

Warner Berthoff

Donald Brown

Robert’ Davidon
To Assistant Professor

Raymond Betts

Robert-H. Butman

LEAVES
Professors
Jose Ferrater Mora—leave for

Semester II

Caroline Robbins — leave for
Semester II

Alexander Soper —. leave for
Semester II

Associate Professors
Peter Bachrach—sabbatical leave
Warner Berthoff—sabbatical
leave
Donald Brown—sabbatical leave
Gertrude Leighton—sabbatical
leave
George Zimmerman — sabbatical
leave
Assistant Professors
Frances Berliner—leave for the
year

Chapel |
' Dr. James T. Cleland, Professor
of Preaching in the Divinity School
and Dean of the Chapel at Duke
University, will. be the chapel
speaker for next Sunday, October
13.. Dr. Cleland was born in Scot-

_|land and received both his MA and

BD degrees from Glasgow Univer-
sity. In 1927 he came to the Unit-~
ed States where he studi at
Union Theological Seminary in
New York City>” He was ordained
into the Presbyterian ministry in
1938. From 1931 until 1945, Dr.
Cleland was on the faculty of Am-
herst College, and since 1945 he
has been at Duke University.

‘Dr. Cleland has spoken at Bryn
| Mawr trae ie and has always
been received enthusiastically. He
is known not only for the content
of his sermons but also for an un-
usually fine delivery of them, en-
hanced. by a Scotch accent, and a

~|-warm sense of humor. His topic

this. Sunday will be “Jonah, a Very



Minor Prophet”.

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