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VOL. XLVII—NO.5

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1961 |

%) Trustees of Bryn A College, 1961

PRICE 20 CENTS



Foreign Newsmen Query

College Press At Panel

by Suzy Spain

The foreign press met the col-
lege press this weekend at Ham-
ilton College in Clinton, N. Y. The
conference, presented as a part of
Hamilton’s sesquicentennial pro-
ceedings, brought together thirty-
two Foreign Press Association
members representing twenty
countries and about fifty college
journalists representing thirty-two
eastern institutions for a thirty-
hour consideration of the American
student, the American and foreign
press and student participation
(viz. apathy”). The conference,
initiated by the more administra-
tive Hamilton powers, was conduc-
ted by student chairmen and mem-
bers of the college newspaper,
The Spectator.

Panel discussions and a sympo-
sium were the main events of the
conference; the Yugoslav and
Polish press delegates were the
most queried; the female Pakista-
ni press representative was the
most outspoken, and the Washing-
ton and Lee University editor
held the most conservative view of
the Student.

After a briefing session and
lunch Friday the delegates were
divided for four pane] discussions.
The one I was assigned to was
composed of five members of the
overseas press: Dr. Hans Steinitz,
Bund, Berne, Switzerland and Pre-
sident of the Foreign Press Asso-
ciation; Mr. Zivko Milic, Borbo,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Mr. Wlady-
slaw Pawlak, Polish State Radio;
Mr. A. Arnold Vas Dias, Nieuwe
Rotterdamse Courant, Rotterdam,
Holland; and Mr. P. G. Krishnay-
ya,. Krishnayya’s Journal, Madras,
India. Students from Hofstra, La-
fayette, Lehigh, Lincoln, Mt. Holy-
oke, Northwestern, Buffalo, Bar-
nard, Washington and Lee and
Bryn Mawr sat opposite the foreign
press at the table.

The two hour meeting was divi-
ded inte two parts, one in which

A.A. to Sponsor —
Guest Play Day;
Schools Compete

Preparations for Bryn Mawr’s com-
ing Sports Day, Saturday, October
28, prove that although physical ed-
ucation for college women may be
dying out in Massachusetts, it has
suffered no such fate in Pennsylvania.
BMC hockey, tennis and volleyball
players will compete against teams
from Barnard, Goucher and Wilson
in a schedule of round robin tourna-
ments lasting from 10 a.m to 4 p.m.

At. 12:30 the visiting participants
will pause for lunch and a brief view
of Bryn Mawr dormitory life in Den-
bigh,; Radnor, Rhoads and Pembroke.
A synchronized swimming demon-
stration conducted by Dale Benson
will highlight the afternoon. _ Sports
Day will be held in spite of gah,
sleet or snow?, but A.A. has joined
several frustrated Ivy League foot-
ball coaches in plans for an October
28 sun dance.

Anyone interested in participating
in Sports Day is urged to speak to
one of the hostesses: Penny Schwind
and: Jo Rosenthal (hockey); Kathy
Johnson (tennis); Anita Williamson
(volleyball); Karen Blu (synchro-
nized swimming) ; Roian Fleck (head
of hostesses); or Ellie Biedler (chair-
man). Spectators will be —— at
all events.







the foreign press quizzed us and
one in which we quizzed them. We
were asked to comment on the fi-
nancial situation of our papers
(Milic), on how a_ publication
could begin (Pawlak), if there
could be two or more papers on a
campus so that opposite opinions
could be represented (Milic), if
our newspapers could run success-
ful campaigns against administra-
tive policies and practices (Paw-
lak), on our sentiments regarding
Nehru, India and neutrality (Krish-
nayya), on our estimation .of the

‘American press (Vas Dias) and

Barry Goldwater (Steinitz). In
regard to the question on India,
Mr. Krishnayya commanded each
of us to “file” a statement of our
opinions to him for publication;
he is held somewhat in disdain by
his fellows for his purely personal
interests, i.e., Krishnayya’s Jour-
nal. And in answering Dr. Stein-
itz’s question we all made the
front page of the Utica daily.

: Milic and Pawlak

The questions we asked the
foreign press were rather heavily
direc towards Mr. Milic and
Mr. Pawlak. In defining the extent
of news coverage in their respec-
tive countries Mr. Pawlak and Mr.
Milic emphasized their freedom in re-
porting and considered this as
comparable to our “freedom of
the press.”

Mr. Milic said that during two
decades of free press, Yugoslavia
was in a “very sad” state and the
results of this were a very poor
country and people recovering
from war and internal revolutions
in_which_ 1,700,000 people died.

“Present-day Yugoslavia is the
result of certain objective histor-
ical considerations and not a
bunch of Communist conspirators.”
He believes he has a free press
because the government does not
intervene; “the paper belongs to
the people.” Mr. Milic said “We
don’t believe that there is an un-
political press. We are leftist, we
are socialist; we fight in the press

~'.| for our-soeialist_ideas, Jourhalists | ;

are politicians. We know what we
want, and we fight for it.” As a

foreign correspondent, Mr. Milic}

never receives instructions from
home. He said the United States
press “completely distorts events
in its policy of selecting news and
items.” He thinks the Yugoslav
press is more objective than the
U.S. press; “we don’t think we
have anything to hide from our
people.” He wanted to know where
the liberal] and leftist papers in
the United States were.

Mr. Pawlak expressed a similar
view of the purpose of the press.
“The Polish press stands on the
ground set by the government. We
think we are giving generally ‘a very
fair coverage of what is going on.
We do not claim to be or want to
be objective in our appraisals. We
are taking firm stands.” Mr. Paw-
lak said ‘that in his country an
extremely wide range of opinion
was permitted, but the press could
not afford to start issues. Its bas-
ic approach was that of construc-
tive argument to get things done.

Mr. Krishnayya thought there
was too much coverage of the
United States in the Indian papers,
and he blames U.S. aid to India
and the free services of the Uni-
ted States Information —
for this.

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| Administration To

Answer Questions
On Staff System

The issue of the clarification of
student-staff relationships has died
down, yet there are still some ques-
tions about the Maids and Porters
system which remain unclear in stu-
dents’ minds.

In an*effort to. answer some of
these questions and to present the
point of view of the Administration,
Miss McBride will have an informa!
meeting with students in the near
future.

Although the financial implications
of the Maid .system were discussed
in an open meeting last year, this
subject will probably have to be re-
explained for the benefit of those stu-
dents not present at the time. Stu-
dents might also ask about the oppor-
tunity for student waitressing, and
the possibility of students cleaning
their own rooms,

Another question which concerns
students is the lack of real integra-
tion on the staff. The Administra-
tion will moreover, probably answer
questions in the merits of being on
the staff at Bryn Mawr.

This meeting with the Administra-
tion provides‘ an opportunity to ask
questions of the people who know
most about the Maid system. If there
are uncerain grumblings and com-
plaints, this meeting give the stu-
dent a chance to air them. The exact
time and location will be announced
shortly.

Architect Louis Kahn, speaking
in the first of a series of Under-
grad-sponsored lectures: entitled
Metropolis, presented several of
his theories of architecture on
Monday evening in Goodhart. His
topic was ‘‘Rule and Architecture.”

He told of several of the build-
ings which he had planned, ex-
tracting from them his general
ideas on architecture.

In his plan for a monastery

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For inside story, see Page 7



For True Self

Is Nietzsche totally negative, or
does he offer a concrete solution. to
the problems he defines? This turn-
ed out to be the core of interest among
the participants in last night’s Phi-
losophy Club symposium on aspects
of Nietzschian philosophy. Mr. Kline
moderated the panel which included
Mr. Ferrater-Mora of the Philosophy
Department, Mr. Schweitzer of the
German Department and Mr. W.
Harry Jellema, a Visiting Lecturer
in Philosophy at Haverford.

False Sops

Nietzsche’s negative approach is
shown, for example, in-his attack on
Christianity, Mr. Jellema showed
how, according to Nietzsche, the val-
ues of the Church are false sops
thrown to the weak. The true char-
acter of Christ was that of a “naive
idiot totally lacking in passions and
in the qualities of a hero.” His life
was a “thrust towards nothingness”
and his death: had no meaning.
Christianity as developed by St. Paul,
provides an outlet for the resentment
and the revenge of the weak. It is
a false facade which engenders a lack
of creativity, a submergence of the
individual. The priesthood is a





“Venus Observed’’

Rehearsals are now underway
for the fall production of the
Haverford Drama Club and Bryn
Mawr College Theatre. The joint
presentation of Christopher Fry’s
autumnal comedy, “Venus Observ-
ed,” will be in Roberts Hall, Hav-
erford, on November 17 and 18._
Directed by Robert Butman, the
comedy features Andreas Lehner
and Peter Moscovitz of H’ford
and Wendy Westbrook, Nina
Sutherland, Kusha Gula, and Rob
Colby.







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Nietzschian Concern Probes

Behind Mask

sham-encouraging hypocrisy.

Many of Nietzsche’s predecessors
agreed that “God is dead” but they
did not realize that since He was
the only justification of these false
values, they can no longer have any
significance. Nietzsche has, there-
fore, destroyed not only religion but
all our “cultural activity” as well.

Replacing Christ

‘Mr. Jellema believes that Nietz-

sche’s “will to power” is his positive.

teplacement for Christianity. It is
not.a desire for physical or political
power but rather a search for self-
mastery, without.a_reference.to God
or tradition.

Mr. Ferrater-Mora expanded
this positive note in Nietzschian phi-
losophy by attempting to sum up the
importance of Nietzsche in our time.
As the early Greeks set the tone for
the ancient world with their onfology
and Descartes did for the modern
world with his epistomology so Nietz-
sche did for the contemporary world
with what Mr. Ferrater-Mora called
“authenticity.”

Behind the mask of false values
can lie only another mask or noth-
ingness. Since one cannot escape
the mask, Nietzsche asks that it be
truly the mask of the self—that one’s
values be set by the individual.

Anti-Systematic

The anti-systematic tendencyin.
Nietzsche not only makes his phi-
lsoophy difficult but his writing beau-
tiful, Mr. Schweitzer said. His dis-

Kahn Asserts Architects’ Duty
Is To Make Institutions ‘Great’

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near Los Angeles, he described the
planning of the monastery wall,
drawing from this example the
idea that while the law is un-
changeable, there is freedom in
its execution. The wall as an ex-
pression of a law is a solid entity
the exterior of which must fend
off wind and rain, and the inter-
ior of which must give protection
and warmth. Mr. Kahn showed
how he separated the exterior and
interior parts of the wall to cre-
ate a walk in between. This walk
had functional as well as aesthetic
value in that it cooled the interior
more effectively than _ insulation
would have done. The wall ac-
quired curves which created places
to sit in in the walk area and
helped to ward off the wind on the
outside. Thus new freedom was
brought into a law which remain-
ed essentially unchanged.

Before beginning a building for
biological research, Mr. Kahn
talked with the scientists who
would live there. In this manner
he was made aware of the archi-
tectural incompatibility of the sci-
entist’s laboratory with his study,
which, however, needed to be close to
the laboratory. He then went on to
plan the buildings, creating a compa-
tible unit in the “architecture of the
clear air, the stainless steel” (the
laboratory), and the “architecture
of the oak table and the rug” (the
study).

The duty of the architect, he
said, since he always builds for
institutions, be they the institu-
tion_of the home, the school, the
government, is that he make these
institutions great. This is accom-
plished through the use of space,
architecture itself being a
“thoughtful making of spaces.”
Through a uniting of the material
and the idea, ie., the measurable
and the immeasurable, an area be-
comes a space; the corridor be-
comes a gallery; the lobby an en-
trance place.

Mr. Kahn mentioned the im-

his_plans~for the new dormitory
which he is creating for Bryn
Mawr, and said that he had at-
tempted to distinguish each space,

just a series of partitions. He felt
that the building of a dormitory
was one of the most difficult prob-
lems that he had encountered, and
remarked that he was still look-
ing for qualities which make a
“school” great. The building as it
typifies the idea of “school” is an
important function as in rela-
tion to its lesser functions as “an
institution” and “a school.” A dis-
cussion and question period in the
Common Room followed the lec-
ture.

Chamber Music

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford
Ensemble Group will present
a chamber music concert, Sun-



rection of Agi Jambor. Virginia
McShane, James Garson, Deena
Klein, Barbara Dancis, Ellen



connected thoughts are expressed in
concrete images.’ His works, espec-
ially Thus Spake Zarathustra, show
his tremendous linguistic hpi:
and appeal to the reader.

Overheard outside the Dean’s
Office “It’s not the monitoring I
object- to; it’s the classes.”



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Magaziner, Harriet Swern, Mar-
ion Davis, Christina Gasparro,
Susan Morris, Emily Bardack,
Nina Greenberg, Donald Rein-
-feld_and Mark Hartman will
play in the program of works
of Haydn and Beethoven. Music
Room, 3:00 P.M.







each_room_as.a_single. entity, not.

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portance of spaces in_ relation to ——_-—

day, October 29. Under the di- |