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College news, January 15, 1958
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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Vol. 44, No. 11
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Wednesday, January 15, 1958
THE COLLEGE NEWS
FOUNDED IN 1914
Publisned weekly during the College Year (except during
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examina-
tion weeks) in the imierest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore
Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.
The College News is fully protected by copyright. Nothing that appears
in it may be reprinted wholly or in part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief.
EDITORIAL BOARD
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Anna Kisselgoff,
Eleanor Winsor,
Gretchen Jessup,
Miriam Beames,
Editor-in-Chief
Copy Editor
Managing Editor
Make-up Editor
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Barbara Broome, ‘60; Sue Goodman, ‘60; Tulsa-Kaiser, ‘58; Frederica Koller,
‘61; Gail Lasdon, ‘61; Betsy Levering, ‘61; Lynne Levick, ‘60; Elizabeth Rennolds,
‘59; Susan Schapiro, ‘60; Judy Stulberg, ‘61; Alex van Wessem, ‘61; Janet Wolf,
‘59; Gail Beckman, ‘59, (Alliance reporter).
BUSINESS STAFF
ohen, ‘61; Jane Lewis, ‘59.
Elizabeth Cox, ‘60; Sybil
Staff Photographer .......\eeeeee cere ee eeeereeeeeeeeeeees Holly Miller, 59
Business Manager ......... Qe esc eee ceeeeneennseeeeeeees Jane Levy, ‘59
Associate Business Manager ..\.........csccceeceseeeeevece Ruth Levin, ‘59
Subscription Manager ........ esses eeeeeeeceeeeee Miriam Beames, ‘59
0; Barbara Christy, ‘59; Susan Crossett, ‘60;
“60; Sandy Korff, ‘60; Gail Lasdon, ‘61;
tta Stern, ‘60; Diane Taylor, ‘59;
Subscription Board: Alice Casciato,
Elise Cummings, ‘59; Toni Ellis,
Danna Pearson, ‘59; Lois Potter, ‘6
Carol Waller, ‘61.
Subscription, $3.50. Mailing price, $4.00, Subscription may begin at any time.
Entered as second class matter at the Ardmore, Pa., Post Office, under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
“Speak Now”...
Occasionally, The College News solicits articles from
non-News members because of their special qualifications to
write on the proposed topic. Knowledge or familiarity with
the subject on the part of the contributor, or the News’ desire
‘to present unusual or representative viewpoints are the rea-
sons for putting our pages at the disposal of others. It is in
- getting students to agree to submit articles that the News
has come up against a problem to which dittle attention is
paid.
Generally, there is an: unwillingness on campus to ex-
press an opinion in print. This is a fact most readily evident
in the emptiness of the News’ “Letter tothe Editor” column,
or rather, in the non-existence of the column (as in this is-
sue). As editors of the News, we frequently hear remarks,
good or bad, on each issue’s contents. Why do these com-
ments remain purely in the conversational stage?
By contrast, the “Letter to the Editor” columns of other
colleges are always filled. In fact, one can often attain a
clearer picture of the state of mind of other student bodies
‘from the letters than from the news articles; and this “epip-
hany through epistle” is not limited to the big universities,
but exists very strongly at our “sister” colleges among the
“Big Seven”.
It is in-asking for special contributions from students
not on the News that we have discovered a cause of the. sil-
ence. An October issue of the News featured a sagies of
views on Bryn Mawr traditions. Subsequently, an nder-
grad poll on the subject showed no drastic changes desired
by students but did reveal helpful suggestions for some mod-
ifications. Thus, anonymously and en masse, Bryn Mawrtyrs
were free to express a point of view. ee
Yet when the News approached certain individuals
known to have definite views on tradition, these declined to
write a somewhat critical article on the grounds that the
ADMINISTRATION WOULD GIVE THEM AN UNFAVOR-
ABLE RECOMMENDATION FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL
or FROWN UPON THEM DURING THEIR STAY at Bryn
wr!
ae It has been remarked ‘by some that the lack of class-
room discussion in the college is also due to fear of the effects
of disagreement with the professor. This conjecture is more
debatable (we suspect falling behind in the assigned reading
is partially responsible for classroom calm) than the view of
the administration expressed.
In any case, the student view taken is a deplorable one.
If the fears voiced had some basis, then perhaps the once
fashionable discusions on academic freedom should include
the liberty of the student as well as the professor’s. Second-
ly, to our knowledge, there has not been any tangible evidence
to support the incredible claims that Bryn Mawr possesses
a whimful “Big Brother” type administration. If such con-
ditions really exist here, pardon_us, for then it‘is we who are
hopelessly naive.
Events in Philadelphia
MOVIES:
“Pursuit of the Graf Spee’—Mastbaum, Wednesday, British drama
of one of the more remarkable naval stories to come out. of
World War II, with Peter Finch, Anthony Quayle,
sanova”—Studio, Gabrielle Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet, Marina
Viady in Italian film import on double bill with French drama,
“Forbidden Desire,” with Francoise Arnoul, Daniel Gelin, Trevor
Howard. :
“I Was a Teenage Werewolf”—Goldman, Wednesday. Horror drama
with Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, on double bill with “Invasion
of the Saucer Men,” science-fiction thriller. eee
“Sunrise at Campobello”—Forrest, opened Monday for two weeks.
Dore Schary’s new play dramatizing years of crisis, 1921-24, in
the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt following his polio attack. Ralph
Bellamy stars. »
“Oh, Cantain!”—continuing—the new musical which opened at the
- Shubert last Saturday, for two weeks.
of Music, Thursday, 8:30.
.| study the structure of the Big Six
|. “Susan ‘Schapiro ’60
Kraken Replaces
by Theo Stillwell
The kelpy is dead and drowned.
This is an age of manufacture,
(“a world of made is not a world of
born”) (e.e.c.) The new symbol
must be manufactured and mean-
ingless to all but the author. The
kraken, then, must take the place
of the kelpy. It has defied all at-
tempts to imbue it with a general
meaning, and it is, after all, only
a synonym for a rather prosaic
beast, the giant squid, which is
made from rubber, plastic and steel
and eats similar manufactured
creatures like Cap’t. Nemo,
The kraken has had a short, frag-
mentary and largely unnoticed lit-
erary history, In 1948 was written:
“. » you are mad,
You have taken a
kraken
For firm land of the past.”
There is here an unsuccessful at-
tempt to attach whale symbolism
to the kraken, since whales com-
monly slumber on the waters and
strongly resemble islands. (Hence
if you are claiming an island, first
light a fire on it to see’ what you
have actually got.) This identifi-
cation, of course, ends in madness.
The kraken is mentioned in
Moby Dick, but obviously could
never, unlike Gregory Peck, play
slumbering
Common Terminology Is Whale
Former Kelpu;
its limitations). Incidently, the
kraken is a good subject for poetry,
since no one knows anything much
about it, and you can have it do
virtually anything.
Tennyson did his best to found
a kraken cult, resembling the kelpy
worship carried on by Scott, but
he failed, and lamented the fact,
bitterly (“But O for the touch of a
vanished hand/And the sound of
a voice that is still”) (“Tears, idle
tears.”) The story of his attempt
will be found in his poem, “The
Kraken.” Tennyson was, in fact,
only one of several Victorians to
worship the sea (cf. Matthew Arn-
old; “A long, long sigh, For the
cold strange eyes of a .... Mer-
maid,” and Swinburne; “I will go
back to the great sweet mother...
the sea,” and Masefield, who car-
ries on the tradition; “I must down
to the sea again.”) “The Kraken”
has been assigned, with the rest,
to a sort of collective Victorian
womb complex.
So, for~anyone who wants to
write obscure, difficult and abstruse
poetry, the kraken may provide a
basis for a new mythology, since,
so far, all attempts to interest
people in him have failed, and it
is certain that those who will
understand. his nature, much less
his abortive literary, history, will
the title role (Melville recognized
be few.
Dr. Bernheimer Discusses Representation
In Learned Philosophy Club Dissertation
Dr. Richard Bernheimer of the
History of Art Department spoke
on “Principles of Representation
before a meeting of the Philosophy
Club last Wednesday night. Dr.
Bernheimer who introduced him-
self as a “summer vacation philo-
sopher” gave a detailed discussion
on the difference between repre-
sentation and substitution.
Substitution is the replacement
of one entity by another, which is,
or serves as its equivalent. A rep-
sentatamen, besides standing for
something else, has an intrinsic
value of its own. Representatamen
can be subdivided into three -as-
cending classes which are: cate-
gorical, legal and mimetic. The
latter two are subdivided into an
active and “arrested” stage.
Substitution and representation
are most closely connected at the
categorical level: an example of
this level is the selection of one
apple to represent the whole class
of apples.
The second phase, legal repre-
sentation, can’t exist without sub-
stitution but a legal representa-
tion is not only or entirely a sub-
stitute for a person or people he
is representing. A Congressman,
for example, cannot xpress all
the views of each of the persons
he is representing. The rationale
of this phase is the awareness of
che person on the other side. This
example of the Congressman is
in instance of the “active phase”
of local representamen as it is
geared for the handling of concrete
issues. Besides this there is an
arrested phase which is character.
ised by its non-active, symbolic
aspect. An example of this is the
~~Notice
The names of the members of the
Reevaluation Committee set up to
soca
have been announced. The Commit-
tee will submit its report to Under-
grad sometime in April. ; :
Jan Wolf ’59 is chairman of the
Committee, The members, two
from each class, are:
Lucy Beebe ’61
Roberta Holder ’61
Marti Faust ’60
- Mimi Gisolfi ’59
Pat Cain ’59
'—Concert version of Offenbach’s|
Sue Safier ’58
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ceremony and pomp ’ associated
with kingship.
The final category of repre-
sentamen is the mimetic phase.
This is the stage which deals with
all forms of artistic representation
Dr. Bernheimer emphasized the
importance of this phase, but
spoke least about it because ade-
quate explanation would involve a
detailed discussion of aesthetic
theory. In contrast to legal repre-
sentation, sbsutitution participates
least in this phase, The success of
mimetic representation depends
rather upon the eclipsing of the
active stage by the arrested stage.
In a purely aesthetic response, the
objective nature of the subject
matter depicted loses its import-
ance and is supereceded by the
artistic realization.
Goetze
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of it, and Dr. Goetze was able to
translate the inscription on a pivot
stone which named the temple as
the Bond between Heaven and
Earth, and stated that it had been
restored by King Shulgi around
2000 B.C.
Five air tight compartments
found in the bases of the temple’s
towers. proved to contain copper
statuettes. of a man holding a
basket on his head, doubtless Shulgi
(who was again inscribed as the
Hrestorer-on the top brick of each
compartment) himself bringing
earth to build the temple. Each
compartment also contained a mud
brick in the shape of a loaf, prob-
ably reflecting an anvient ritual,
the remains of a wooden statuette
identical to the bronze one, and
some semi-precious stones.
Among the other finds in the
temple were many clay tablets,
giving accounts of the temple’s
money, the salaries paid employ-
ees, and lists of the gods worship-
ped there, and some fragments of
sculpture, including several heads.
Below the temple of Inanna
been found an earlier one, dated
around 2700 BC, of which two
College Educations
Wasted on Women
Words on the education crisis
from the Mount Holyoke News,
issue of November 15, 1957:
“A Florida newspaperman named
Robert Hunter, father of a Wesley-
an sophomore, recently did the
Wesleyan ARGUS the honor of
presenting his “campaign” for the
solution of the education crisis
which has been developing in our
institutions of higher learning.
The basic premise of Mr. Hunt-
er’s campaign is “to persuade girls
to stay home so more boys, the
future bread-winners, can be edu-
cated in these trying times charac-
terized by the dearth of room and
teachers in higher education. Mr.
Hunter feels that ‘someone is going
to have to stay home’ and while
it is ‘unpractical and not advisable
to prohibit girls from going to
college,’ we must have an educa-
tional campaign which would im-
press upon each girl contemplating
college ‘should I deprive a man of
higher education?’ It seems that
each college girl does do just that
and after all girls, as Mr. Hunter
reminds us ‘the man you educate
may be your own!’ These catchy
little slogans emanate from the
contentions of ‘how inefficient it
is to give a girl four years of ad-
vanced education . .-. plus at least
a year of training on the job after
that, only to have her work two
to four years, quit and get married,
which she should have done in the
first place.’ This is Mr. Hunter’s
‘logic’.”’
The Mount Holyoke News argues
against Mr. Hunter:
“In failing to recognize the ‘great
reservoir of feminine talent,’ Mr.
Hunter has failed also to see that
college need not only be a ‘means’
to the ‘end’ of a vocation alone,
for it must above all provide an
intellectual experience that will
carry on during one’s entire life-
time . .
Finally, in reply to Mr. Hunter’s
argument, we must ask him to con-
sider the wisdom of the words
which reminds us that ‘When you
educate a. man, you educate an
individual; when you educate a
woman, you educate a family.’ This
Mr. Hunter, may be the answer to
one of society’s major areas of
concern, the so-called ‘younger gen-
eration.’ It is fine to educate only
the father, Mr. Hunter, but after
all, every child has two parents,
and can you honestly say that only
the ‘breadwinner’ is important
enough to merit higher education.”
At Radcliffe the vital issue seems
to be food as reported in the No-
vember 22 Radcliffe News.
“Contrary to persistent rumor,
there is no cottage-cheese endow-
ment at Radcliffe..This disclosure,
as shocking to many as the Great
Santa Claus exposé of a few years
ago, was made at a recent Food
Committee Meeting by Miss Russ;
head dietician for the college.
Wild rice, on the other hand,
seems destined to disappear from
our kitchens unless a skillful ad-
ministrative member can prevail
upon some beneficent alumna to
establish a ‘Wild Rice Endowment.’
Among other student petitions
granted were the agreement to
serve no onions Friday evening,
Saturday noon or Sunday noon or
Saturday night. Breakfast Satur-
open season.”
Chapel
Chapel this Sunday, January 19,
will be a Quaker Meeting. Several
Quakers from the Bryn Mawr and
Philadelphia area have been jn-
..|vited to sit on the facing bench.
They include Miss McBride, Dr.
and Mrs. Michels, Dr. Henry Joel
Cadbury, and Mrs. Elizabeth Gray
Vining.
ue NOTICE ‘
Lost and Found, located in
Taylor basement, is open daily,
day..morning,—presumably,~is~ still
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