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Students Cite Criticism,
Personal Participation
Chief Functions

‘by Janice Copen

In preperation for the April 8
conference’ on “The Role of the In-
tellectual in American Society,”
sponsored by Alliance, League and
Interfaith, the News has been ask-
ing for some student opinion on
the topic. Most of the girls ques-
tioned felt that the intellectual has
an important function in society
and an obligation to fulfill his role.

(Marion Coen, a junior and for-
mer editor-in-chief of the News,

believes that “the intellectual has:

an obligation to jump right into
society and to be one of the forces
that make it move. His energies
should be a motive force of change
and growth in his community—in
its architecture, education, enter-
tainment and government—as well
as in the fine arts, the sciences
and foreign affairs. This is not
to say that every intellectual
should be professionally involved
or that every intellectual should
be. involved in activities which
seem to have social significance;
onthe contrary, the theorist has a
distinct calling whose successful
practice may depend on an aloof-
ness from practical policy making
and the limitations it imposes.”
Like Artist

A freshman, Beverly Carter,
links the intellectual with the art-
ist because “both are intimately
involved in finding out just what
it is that we are all about. Com-
munication is implicit in both of
their callings. It is true that the
more abstract forms employed by
the artist or the intellectual lack
immediate ethical implication, but

certainly one of their prime func-.

tions, literature, is criticism of ex-
isting values and forms and the
creation of new ones,

“One can be particularly hopeful
about the role that artists and in-
tellectuals are assuming now in the
United States. Intellectuals enjoy
greater prominence in the present
administration than they did in
the previous one.”

Angel (chrode, a sophomore,
based her answer to the roving
reporter’s question on a quotation
from Thoreau: “I know of no more
encouraging fact than the unques-
tionable ability of man to elevate
his life by a conscious endeavor...
You conquer fate through thought.”
Angel comments: “I believe that
the intellectual is capable and re-
sponsible through conscious en-
deavor to elevate, to exalt his own
existence and that of others less en-
dowed.

Strive for Peace

“The American intellectual must
also bear in mind his more specific
responsibility concerning world
conflict. Some people consider
war and even poverty and disease
to be expected, part of man’s fate,
they call it. The intellectual in
America should be aware of his re-
sponsibility to the preservation
of individual and collective liberty
by using his intelligent ‘thought’
to ward off this piece of stupidity
which is called war.”

(Furthermore, Angel feels that
the intellectual “must have faith in
himself and remember that it is
not only what man does which ele-
vates him, but also what he would
like to do.” ,

Betsy Frantz, a senior and for-
_ mer President of Undergrad, sum-
med up the feelings of most of the
girls interviewed when she defined
the role of the intellectual, in. con-
temporary society as two-fold:
“critical and creative. On the one
hand,” says Betsy, “he should of-
fer critical analysis of existing
institutions, values and cultural
achievements, Concommitantly, the
intellectual should present con-
structive alternatives, an dcreative
contributions to our ideology and
culture.”

A fuller discussion of the many

p————gapeets of the topic: will take place |~

on April 8 at the Conference.



‘Conference to Consider
Three Points of View
Of Noted Speakers

Intellectuals must do more than
increase their wisdom. They must
play a human role as well. But
what kind of human role should
the intellectual play? Should he
be a beatnik, or a social critic, or
a Presidential advisor? What is
the role of the intellectual in con-
temporary American society?

This question will be discussed
in an all-day conference on April
8 by three distinguished speakers,
Russell Lynes, Elmer Hutchisson
and Germaine Brée, representing
three different areas in the intel-
lectual community.

The conference will begin at
9:30 on Saturday morning with a
coffee hour, During this time there
will be registration for visiting
students from the 180 invited col-
leges, and the speakers will be in-
troduced to Bryn Mawr students
and visiting students. At 10:30 in
Goodhart, the conference will be-
gin with an introduction by Rus-
sell Lynes, (Mr. Lynes is known
to the public as the Managing Ed-
itor of Harper’s Magazine and
author of Highbrow, Lowbrow,
and Middlebrow. Mr. Lynes repre-
sents the “Generalist” in the in-
tellectual community.

Elmer Hutchisson will follow
with a “Scientist’s” discussion of
the question. Mr. Hutchisson is
the Director of the American In-
stitute of Physics and has come
to Bryn Mawr mainly through the
influence of Mr. Michels,

The conference will stop for
luncheon in the halls at one o’clock.
The speakers will be entertained in
three halls, giving further oppor-
tunity for students to meet them.

Returning to Goodhart at 2:15,
Germaine: Brée will discuss the
question from the “Humanist”
point of view, ‘Miss Brée, Re-
search ‘Professor for the Institute
for Research in the Humanities, is
teaching at the University of Wis-
consin for this semester, and is
the author of Camus: A Definitive
Biography. She is especially well
known at Bryn Mawr where she
was once a Professor of French.

At 38:30 following Miss Brée’s
talk there will be a panel discus-
sion in the Deanery where the
question will be given a final con-
sideration, and tea will be served
to student and faculty participants.

The conference, sponsored by
the combined forces of Alliance,

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In. Brazil Jungles

Adventurer Sasha Siemel was
the guest speaker for Undergrad
on Wednesday, March.13 in the
Biology lecture room. He lectured
on his experience hunting “tigres”
in the Matto Grosso of Brazil, The
“tigre americano” is actually a lo-
cal name for the jaguar or South
American leopard which preys on
the cattle of large plantations in
Brazil, Mr. Siemel explained. the
method of tigre-hunting which he
uses and which he learned from a
Brazilian tribesman. seven-foot spear with a one-foot
steel blade is used to down these
three hundred and fifty pound ani-
mals. The spear is especially suc-
cessful because the tigre does not
know the difference between wood
and steel, and is not afraid of the
spear. Instead of shying away
from the blade, he pays no atten-
tion to it, but heads for the man
behind it; the animal is literally
committing suicide by impaling
himself on the blade of the spear.

While Mr, Siemel demonstrated
to the audience the technique of
approaching, spearing, and throw-
ing the tigre, he explained that
the only danger to the hunter is
panic. As long as the hunter faces
the tigre with his spear, he is safe.
But if he panies and tries to turn
and run, the animal is sure to get
him from behind.

After this explanation of spear-
hunting, Mr, Siemel showed mov-
ies of the Matto Grosso cattle
country, Ant-eaters, armadillos,
crocodiles, deer, cattle, and all
sorts of birds abounded in the col-
orful pictures of Brazilian marsh-
es, rivers and jungles. Ina second
film, Mr. Siemel told the story of
one of his hunting episodes in
which he tracked and hunted down
'a three hundred pound tigre with
the aid of hunting dogs.

After the movies, there was a
question period during which Mr.
Siemel told how he had become an
adventurer, He ran away from
home at the age of sixteen “to
heip Buffalo Bill fight the Indians.”
After. working in Chicago, he de-
cided that he wanted to go to Bra-
zil-for adventure. He took a job
with a. boat which was heading for
Brazil and jumped ship at Buenos
Aires. At the beginning of World
War I, he left for Matto Grosso.
At first he-hunted only as a means
to acquire food, but when he saw
that the local Indians did it for
sport, he decided that he had
found a new calling, Later he be-
gan to film his hunting experi-
ences'and to show them to inter-
ested groups. In this way he has
been able to finance further hunt-
ing expeditions.





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Mr. Skip Geller,’ who describes
himself as an “interested layman,”
addressed the Discussion Club
March 16 on current conditions in
Cuba. Basing’ his remarks chiefly
on his personal obesrvations in
Cuba, Mr. Geller urged that con-

ditions there are not as the Amer-

ican press represents them and
that we must “wake up to the true
aspirations of the Cuban people.”

Mr. Geller said that nearly
everyone he talked to there seem-
ed sincerely in favor of the revo-
lution but that those few who op-
posed it were uninhibited. in -their
criticism.

“There was no deification of
Castro,” he said, “but the people
are grateful to him for giving
them land and jobs. Although
there are many local elections of
town officials and factory foremen,
the Cubans have no desire for a
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MX Geller described many per-
sonal .experiences which impress-
ed upon him the friendliness of
the Cuban people and their willing-
ness to befriend Americans who
do not have closed minds about
their revolution. He .stated.that
Russia’s influence on Cuba is pure-
ly economic and cited Cuba’s stand
on the Congo as evidence of her
political independence.

“The speaker reasoned that Cuba
is not a communist country be-
cause people can leave the coun-
try freely, can own small business-
es privately, can’ send their chil-
dren to private schools and can
worship as they please.

Mr. Geller concluded by urging
that we do not close our minds to
the possibility of friendship with
Cuba and that we give Castro’s
activities and policies fairer. cov-
erage in our newspapers.






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