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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Wednesday, January 15, 1960



THE COLLEGE NEWS

FOUNDED IN 1914

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EDITORIAL BOARD

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Betsy Levering, ‘61
Lois Potter, ‘61



Reorganization: Comments

As reported on page one of this issue, the Legislature,

by Toby C. S. Langen

On January 2, “The Warm Peninsula,” a
comedy by Joe Masteroff starring Julie Harris,
closed in New York’ after a run of eleven weeks,
For a year previous to the New York run Miss Har-
ris had toured coast to coast with the play, being
received everywhere wanmly by her audiences, some-
what more coolly by the press. Almost all the
critics said that Miss Harris was delightful, but
asked why she was wasting her time in such a play.
When the play reached New York, it reaped the
same comment from all reviewers except the one



Monday night in the Common Room, passed the plan which



without alteration. ie :

The major change involved voting rights; the Legisla-
ture guaranteed every student interested a vote in Big Seven
elections, feeling that students contributing to the support
of various organizations through Common Treasury dues
should have the right to elect the leadership is they so desire.
Such an arrangement is only equitable.

Arts Council, however, has voiced an objection to open
elections, threatening to relinquish her right to Common
Treasury funds and her seat on the Executive Board. Such
an action would be regrettable. Receiving no Common Treas-
ury funds, Arts Council would be forced to charge for any
and all services it performs, including concerts and lectures.
In addition, the ticket agency, which has been such a wel-
comed convenience for many students, might face dissolution.
\That.the campus as a whole would suffer from such action is
undeniable, but Arts Council- would lose much by. isolating
itself from the rest of the campus activities:

The new election system offers many advantages if ad-
ministered properly. To have each one of the Big Seven place
a ballot box in every hall would represent no appreciable
progress from the old Unlectlonshdiny Poraavercaeee” sys-
tem; many of the evils from that system would be incorpor-
ated into the new one as aresult. It would be better to estab-
lish a central polling place, Goodhart preferably, where all
those interested could congregate specifically - purpose

of voting. |
Design

_Have you ever tried to draw a really accurate swastika?

- It is very difficult; the pen sticks somehow. The pen and a

lot of other things. You never really understood how de-
manding is the exactitude of history until you tried to
draw a swastika. History takes a turn at each right angle
and if you look very hard you can see millions who were left
for ash-heaps at each of the turns. Look now, a doodle with
the pencil and the angular symmetry of events is fished up
wherever it is that history hides between airings, between
appearances at ghetto gates and synagogue windows and
church doors. Blow tin horns at New Year’s and usher in
a New Decade and wonder what is so new about it. Swas-
tikas are as old as man. And they ed hard to draw.

Bryn Mawr to Go on College Bowl

On the screen you see before you, battling to stay there
next week, East Podunk University and Bryn Mawr College.
This will be a tense match, with two fine groups of students,
and we don’t have much time so we’ll start right in. —You
all know the rules? —General nods of assent. —All right,
here’s our first question.| What is the date of the French
Revolution? —Frantic buzzing at a Bryn Mawr station;
quickly echoed by Podunk U. —That question goes to Bryn
Mawr. What’s your answer, Miss? —Well, it’s a difficult



question. You could say) that it began with a storming of |.

the Bastille, and I suppose literally it did, in its violent aspect,
but actually I don’t think it would be unjustified to take it
back as far as at least the middle of the eighteenth century.
You see, it was really a revolution of the ‘Western World, to
my mind at least, and . .", —Your time is running out, Miss.
I didn’t get your answer. Just a date, now. Will you please
state it. —Well, as I say, I hate to fix any one date; but if
you insist, just arbitrarily I’d set about 1780 at the latest.
—Meanwhile Podunk U. has been buzzing continuously and
frantically. —Wrong. The question then passes to Podunk
— 1879. Help! No! I mean 1789. Right on the sec-
ond try. Our next question is to give the title and author
of this bit of poetry. “Water, water, everywhere, and all
the boards did shrink;/ Water, water, everywhere/ nor any
drop to drink.” A pause; then buzz from Bryn Mawr. —All
right, Bryn Mawr; have a try at the question. The author
and name of the poem it comes from. —“The very deep did
rot: O Christ!/ That ever this should be!/ Yea, slimy things
did crawl with legs/ upon the slimy sea./ About, about...
—Stop, Bryn Mawr, stop! Your time’s running out. Please
just answer the question. —Um, I never could get that man’s
name. Wasn’t it Sam; Samuel, I mean. Other Bryn Mawr
contestants signal wildly to coach her, meanwhile Podunk U.
buzzing furiously. —I’ve got it! Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner. —Right for Bryn Mawr.
You were lucky there. The time was just about to run out.
Next question now; let’s move along a little faster; take your
time now. What is the date... —Outburst of buzzing from
Bryn Mawr. —January fifteenth, nineteen sixty. —Bryn
Mawr, if you would please let me finish reading the question.
What . . . —Loud and prolonged buzzing from Bryn Mawr.
—I haven’t even read the question yet! Please wait until its
conclusion. —A member of the Bryn Mawr contingent. mys-
teriously hunched over and tugging at something on the desk

in front of her. —I’m sorry, I can’t help it. I got my knitting.

needle caught in the buzzer. It won’t go off. —Pandemonium

broke loose; one girl fainted with the strain. "There was a

brief intermission. os Bh ke
Of course we realize that a college education is more

: than just a knowledge of facts. Well, yes, but let’s get on
with ine |

show. A. B.

ly labelled the play “shallow” and “empty.”
“The (Warm Peninsula” is a good play. Th
mam from Cue was not the only one in New York
who thought so: surely more than the twelve peo-
ple I met went to see the play because, in spite of the
bad reviews, friends had said it was worth seeing.
Julie Harris and (Manning (Gurian chose to initiate
Gurian-Harris Enterprises with this play: they felt
it worth doing. =
The play is concerned with learning, and failing
to learn, Ruth (Julie Harris) has not much confi-
dence in or satisfaction with herself as a woman;
she uses her commonsense to shield herself from
situations she fears she cannot handle. All thé
same, she begins to wish to try the risk involved
in letting another person have an effect on one and
in responding personally. She goes to Florida for
a vacation, and through a series of relationships
with “peopleshe-meets_ there, relationships all of
them disastrous in a way, but fruitful also because
of the use she makes of them, she comes to realize

for Cue.” The New York critics almost thoughtiess-|~



‘The Warm Peninsula’ Found Appealing, Witty

that she, not others, controls her own value as a
person and as a woman. The ideas in the play are
sound and the characterization, true. The very mat-
ter of the play precludes any label of froth or vac-
uity.

The dialogue of “Warm Peninsula” is appeal-
ing, witty and, as speech, convincing,

The sets, costumes, staging impressed every-
one—even criti¢s—favorably,

Aside from “The Warm Peninsula” itself, crit-
ical objections seemed to center on this: what is a
great actress doing in a play that is not great, but

ed to appéar only in great plays; she is to be given

. no chance to develop and to learn, but must produce

something spectacular eveny time she appears. To
expect such a thing of an actress is as unrealistic
as it is unfair. (Great performances must be the
result each time of increased maturity; they must
come after more quiet periods of growth. Play-
wrights, too, must be allowed time to exiperiment
and develop. Broadway, where the critics’ [power-
ful gauntlet threatens, where soaring ibox office
gross barely keeps pace with soaring cost of orig-
inal investment and operating net (a play doing
$20,000 business a week may nonetheless fail), is
evidently not the place for an artist to develop: an
actor must appear only in great performances or the
very value of his taking up space on a stage will be
questioned. (Under such conditions it is impossible
for careers to make ‘progress. (Miss Harris’ tour
may herald the acceptance by: artists of this fact
and their ensuing attempts to find a better system
under which to cherish their careers.



To the Editor:

I would like to thank the members of Co-
ordinating Council and the Legislature and all
students either on or off organizational boards
who worked on and gave time to the formulating
of this Plan.

The plan below is the one voted upon and
accepted by the legislature on Monday, January
11, The Undergraduate Association is going to
have copies of this plan mimeographed and sent
to every student.

Thank you again; we all hope it meets with
everyone’s approval.

Marcy Tench,

(l. Punpose of this Plan: To establish the relative
positions and distinct functions of all college
- organizations
II. Ipso Facto Onganizations
A. The Bryn Mawr Students Association for
Self-Government
1, All undergraduates are (ipso Facto mem-
bers of the (Bryn Mawr Students Associ-
tion for Self4Government
2. The purpose of the Bryn Mawr Students
Association for Self-Government is het
government of the Undergraduate Stu-.
dent body
There are no recommended changes for
the structure and function of this Asso-
ciation
B. The Bryn Mawr Undergraduate Association
1. Definition: The Undergraduate Associa-
tion provides for the representation and
reception of undergraduate feeling and
opinion; provides a liaison between the
undergraduate body and the other areas
of the college (e.g. administration, fac-
ulty, Alumnae Association, graduate
school); provides for the administration
of undergraduate activities on campus.
2. Membership
a. ‘All undengraduates are Ipso Facto
« members of the Undergraduate As-
sociation. Undergraduates are, there-
fore, no longer Ipso Facto members
of any other onganization (e.g. Alli-
ance, League, Interfaith, Athletic
“Association or the small clubs) other
than the Bryn Mawr Student Associ-
ation for Self-government and the
Bryn Mawr Undergraduate Associa-
tion
b. Because the structure of the Under-
graduate Association offers the op-
portunity to each undergraduate to
enter the activities of her choice or
enjoy the benefits of any club, organ-
ization er social activity, and because
as a member of a class she may par-
ticipate in any class activity or tra-
dition, she is an Ipso Facto member
of the Undergraduate Association,
which membership she may not re-
linquish.
3. Structure
+ a. Executive Board:
1). Membership
a). President of the Undergraduate

aa 3.

uate (Association



c). Secretary of the Undergraduate

__ Association _
b). Vice-president of the Undergrad- |



— Complete Reorganization Text

Association

d). President of the Self-government
Association

e). President of the Alliance for
Political Affairs

f). President of the Athletic Asso-
ciation

9). President of the Interfaith As-
sociation

h). President of the (League

i). President of the Arts Council

j).. Common Treasurer

k). Editor of the College News

1). The four Class Presidents

m). The Natiomal Student Associa-
tion representative

n). The Chairman of the Curricu-
lum Committee .

Self-government jurisdiction shall not

be infringed upon by the Undergradu-

ate ‘Executive Board.

Note Two: The onganizations and classes shall re-
main autonomous im all matters con-
cerning their internal structure and
function,

Note Three: By a vote of the legislature, the mem-
bership of this body can be changed.
2). Voting Procedure

a). All above members may vote
except for the Secretary, and
the Chairman may only vote in
case of a tie.

b). Any vote requires a two-thirds
majority.

8). The President of the Undergrad
Association will chair all meetings
of the Executive Board

4). Purpose and Powers of the Execu-

tive Board

a). Punpose: The Executive Board
will coordinate and initiate

Undergraduate Association ac-

tivities at the highest level

b). Powers

1)). Budget

a)). The Executive Board has

the power to specify and

collect Common Treas-
ury dues in accordance
with the ‘budgets submit-
ted by the member or.
ganizations; to determine
the common treasury
budget.

b). The Executive Board has
the power to grant itself
adequate funds which will
be used to bring an emin-
ent person or persons to
the campus for a sub-
stantial stay

2)). Legislature

a)). The President of Under-
graduate and Self-gov-
ernment may call Legis-
lature or by a majority
vote of their boards, may
Legislature be called.

b)). dif 10% of the Student
‘Body sign a petition,
Legislature will be call-

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Note One:

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