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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, March 15, 1961



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Congratulations and Thanks

The volngeafedliningne <>< —--oarineard and Sue Johnson
and Barbara Paul have been summoned to lead Self-Gov and
Undergrad respectively for the coming year. Our congrat-
ulations and best wi
wi e old, on with the new’, we pause to consider the fine,
competent work done in the past year by these organizations
and commend Carolyn Goldmark and Betsy Frantz for jobs
well done. | ncn aus ss |

Casting a slight shadow over these pleasant feelings of
satisfaction is the unalterable fact that in an election only
one person can win, and three, in each case here, must lose.
They deserve commendation for their courage and qualifica-
tions: Faith Halfter, Ruta Krastina, and Abby Wootton for

. Self-Gov and Ellen Corcoran, Judy Samuelson, and Virginia

Sitz for Undergrad. We hope that both the winners and the
campus will remember that these people are notably qualified
to aid in the work that will be done in the new year. Our
horoscope predicts that ipso-facto-wise it should be a good
one.

Round One: Freshman Comp-Ageinst

Freshman Comp is a much talked-about, little written-
about subject. It is one of those horrifying experiences in
life that defy the art of the denfiitive-statement maker. It
is an experience that more than ninety-nine percent of the
students survive. ‘lhe problem of the course is that of its
value. Students survive the course, but do they profit from
it? If English 15 were to make each student as verbally
proficient as it intended, its value ond piace in the curriculum
could not be disputed, but it is widely teit among the students
that the course does not. acomplish this aim. Many reasons
for this dissatistaction have been put forth in varying de-
grees of blind fury, righteous indignation and conscientious
consideration. :

Every freshman class is comprised of students of. vary-
ing backgrounds, capabilities and experiences, due to the in-
creasing distinction in the curricula of secondary schools.
As products of “specialized” or progressive schools, fresh-
men may offer a primarily scientific background, a literary
one or a traditional liberal one. Bryn Mawr recognizes ad-
vanced placement in languages, history and more recently,
science and math, but only in extra-exceptional cases does
it acknowledge achivement in English. Hence an appreci-
able number of competent students feel that the current
Freshman Comp course is conducted on a level below theirs
and is “a pure waste of time;” they desire a second semester
exemption or an intensification of the program.

Second, there is a difference in those faculty members
who teach Freshman Comp; this difference is based on their
approach to the subject matter and their students. Some of
the instructors follow a conventional pattern in exposing the
young minds in their command to the subtleties of litera-
ture and composition; others try a more imaginative and in-
dividual approach, often with results even more doubtful
than usual. In the two class hours a week some emphasize
the current reading fare by lecturing, discussing or grilling;
others repeat once again the principles of. composition while
a third group holds forth on amorphous sociologica.

Lastly there is the attitude of the student as expressed
in the procedure of writing. One quick glance around any
dorm on the eve of a deadline is worth six tomes of inflamed
debate on the Freshman Comp situation. . Have class, con-
ference and past greetings of dawn only led once again to
another midnight hair-pulling, Kent-incensed search for the
topic sentence whom which all will flow swiftly and superbly
to a conclusive conclusion? Under such pain and pressure
how will anyone ever learn to write?

The disparities in the incoming students’ abilities and
in the instructors’ approaches to their course, the problem
of what exactly English 15 is and the almost overwhelming
dissatisfaction on the part of students with the course in its
present form seem to necessitate a serious consideration of
the course by the Curriculum Committee or a more effective

“demonstration by the sufferers.
(Next week — Freshman Comp — Pro)



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Letter to the Editor
ete, yee ann adler
Dear Editor,
May some students write .con-
cerning Mrs. Carie Kirwan War-

Franzblau’s lecture as reported in
the College News? It is unfortun-
ate that Mrs. Warfield, an author
and pareht, was not present at
the lecture ‘given by Dr. Franz-
blau, M.D., psychiatrist, PhdD.,
Doctor of Divinity, author, and
parent, For had she been in at-
tendance she might have realized
that Dr. Franzblau was not con-
demning religion’s place in society.
Rather he was attempting to show
the different roles that psychiatry
and religion assume; but, that de-
spite the differences, they should
supplement each other in guidiig
the individual and helping him to
attain an enriched, well adjusted,
and adaptable life, i.e., a state of
emotional maturity.

It is also disconcerting to read
such unfounded generalities as:
“Psychiatry is a knife; religion is
a torch,” “The great fact is that
religion works and psychiatry does
not”.—On what grounds do you
base these statements?—on the
Crusades, the Thirty Years’ War,
the Nazi régime?—or on the ex-
periences of the thousands of peo-
ple who have had_ gratifying
psycho-therapy ?

Religion can help to open the
“Divine Door’(?), But psychia-
try can help us to understand what
is behind that door and why we
wanted to open it in the first place.

Sincerely,

Juliet Goodfriend 68
‘Alice Longobardi ’68
Janice Richman ’62

Ed. notes

The NEWS welcomes the
idea of controversial topics for
lectures and is glad to print
varying opinions on them. It
is especially important to ex-
pose ourselves to viewpoints
which seem strange and unten-
able to us: because we don’t
agree with them. The discus-
sion aroused by the Franzblau
lecture and Mrs. Warfield’s re-
ply is good in that it is discus-
sion—an exchange of opinion
on a subject of intellectual
merit.



Gy

Ap plebee







i have had a good but
frustrating week.

first, i practiced typing.
i subversive, of course)
this Was frustrating because

i can’t coordinate my beak and
claws.

i just can’t hit a capital.

so from now on you will
understand

why i use little letters.

(and of course, it’s more
avant-garde—

just because i have been here ‘
for years

doesn’t mean

that i can’t dig

e. e. you know who)

besides typing, i also looked
into this election thing.

spring always calls for

a turn-over,

worms churn up the ground
and then flowers grow.

so campaigns stir issues

and slowly
policies are churned, sor

and someone is elected.

‘i, am too wise to carry on

my metaphor.

athena will snicker

in her classical way and say
‘my olive tree doesn’t sprout
all new every year...

|instead, it twists itself from

the wind

and changes.’ :

she is right.

+that is what happens,

but ‘here :

‘while changing and adjusting
(policies; i mean)

|do they. become gnarled?

field’s reaction to Dr. Abraham |4nd the Haverford Drama Club

| students, anxious to put their years

"The Bryn Mawr College Theatre ,

will present William Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night on Friday, March
17 and Saturday, March 18 at
8:30 p.m. in Goodhart..The direct-
or, Robert Butman, is assisted by
Toni Seymour and Ted Hauri.

The play concerns: a group of
real, basically nice ladies and gen-
tlenmen, who tend to follow their
emotions and to fall in and out of
love easily, The only excéption,
Malvolio, a self-righteous charac-
ter, pathetic as well as comic, is
played by Peter Garrett, director
of Woyzeck. The play centers’
about Feste, the Clown. Andy
Miller changes completely from
his role as Woyzeck to enact this
unusually ‘perceptive personage,
who knows the other characters
better than they know themselves
and understands the causes and re-
sults of every happening.

[Major comic characters include



News Suggests

Summer School,

Finds Job Evils -

The News has unearthed the
cause for recent surges in summer
school attendance. It has to do,
our report contends, with summer
employment, procedure for secur-
ing such and tthe such that is pro-
cured through procedure. Late last
spring we observed many eager

of college learning to practical
test. A.” biology student applied
for a job in a fishery (fish hatch-
ery). She received an application
for federal employment and dili-
gently answered their queries:
height without shoes, feet and
inches? one’s availability informa-
tion;. one’s «veteran preference;
“Are you a citizen of the United
Sittates of America or as a native
of American Samoa do you owe al-
legiance to the USA?”

“Are you now or have’ you ever
been a member of any foreign
or domestic organization, group,
movement, or combination of per-
sons which is totalitarian, Fascist,
Communist, or subversive, or which
has adopted, or shows, a policy
of advocating or approving the
commission of acts of force vor vi-
olence to deny any other persons
their rights under the Constitution
of the United States, or which
seeks to alter the form of gov-
ernment of the US by unconstitu-
tional means?” (Self-Gov, ipso
facto organizations, sounds pretty
sneaky.) Eligibility for fishery em-
ployment is decided on tthe basis
of facts. “Admitted unfavorable
information about such matters as
arrests or discharges will be con-
sidered together with the favor-
able information in your record in
determining your present fitness
for Federal employment.” In-
structions for signing application:
sign your name in ink, use one
given name, initial or initials and
surname; if female, prefix Miss or
Mrs., and, if married, use your
own given name, e.g. Mrs. Mary
L. Doe.

Having passed the test on the
basis of her aesthetically curious
fingerprints, Mrs, Mary L. Doe,
once Sally Jones, BMC ’62, trotted
off to Woods Hole, and put her
quickly - accumulating _ biological
kowledge to work in a number of
fields. ‘So successful was she on
veteran preference determination,
her summer job status was revolv-
ing; shé now has experience in
each of the following: kitchen help-
er, bread and butter girl, dining
room assistant, dormitory janitor,
chambermaid, mail boy, apparatus
assistant, groundsman, supply de-
partment boy and lastly, night-

Bryn Mawr-Haverford Thespians ‘Join

For Fresh Prodveficir'v: swelfth Night



ran-Reynals as Maria, and Linn
Allen as Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
Ted will be remembered as Azdak
in Caucasian Chalk Circle; Cisca
was Prince Arthur in: King John;

‘More serious characters are Jane
Parry as Olivia, Rob Colby as Vio-
la, and Andreas Lehner portray-
ing the Duke. Jane returns to the
Bryn Mawr stage after a year in

College Theatre plays, is under-
taking her first major Shakespear-
éan role; Andreas is well remem-
bered as Antonio in last year’s
Merchant of Venice.
Set Design

Set designer, Dietmar Haack, is
being assisted by Nancy Myers.
Sue Travis is the stage manager,
and Lindsay Clemson is in charge
of lighting. The unit. set, built to
look both indoors and out, was in-
spired by the work of Inigo Jones,
designer for the masques at White-
hall, The basic color of the set,
blue, muted with shades of green
and gray, portrays comedy but re-
flects the play’s melancholy back-
ground of frustrated love and re-
cent death. The modified Elizabeth-
an costumes, arranged by Sam Fer-
‘per, have been chosen in colors to
blend with the scenery. Overall
responsibility rests upon Ginny
O’Roak, production manager.

Music

Traditional music is being com-
bined with original pieces by John
Davison, whose compositions were
heard in Caucasian Chalk Circle
and in The Merchant of Venice. A
recorder group will perform this
incidental music. _

Nancy Myers, President of Col-
leg Theatre, comments: “Twelfth
Night depends upon mutual action.
For this play ;we have a cast and
crew of unusually diversified ex-
perience, who have worked togeth-
er to create a unified and, I think,
an exceptionally fine production.”

Tickets to Twelfth Night will be
sold Monday through Friday from
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.sat Goodhart Box
Office. Charges are $1.00 for stu-
dents, and. $1.50 for everyone else.

Juniors Evaluate
College Education

‘Participating in the first annual
scholarship day. of the Bethel Afri-
can Mesthodist Episcopal Church
in Ardmore, juniors Marion Coen
and Pixie Schieffelin addressed the
congregation March 12 on “The
Values of Higher Education.”

Speaking extemporaneously, the
students discussed practical points
on college entrance and opportun-
ities for jobs after college, as well
as the general merits of a college
education. They emphasized the
values of meeting people from all
over the world and developing pre-
viously unsuspected talents and
interests. :

The scholarship day, sponsored
by a group of young people who
have raised funds to send members
of the congregation to college, fea-
tured a number of speakers, read-
ings. and musical renditions. The
Bryn Mawr students enjoyed the
social hour after the program-when
they were able to talk with the
other speakers, many of whom
were from Africa. :

‘Commenting on the program,
(Marion and Pixie said, “It was ex-
citing to be able to share our views
on education with others..who feel
the way we do about it. We had
the dual satisfaction of being able
to stimulate our audience and give
them information on a number of
practical points, and at the same

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Linn played the doctor in Woyzeck...

Italy; Rob Colby, seen in many >

time of having our listeners re- —







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affirm our own belief in what we



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were saying.” .