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College news, September 22, 1967
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
Bryn Mawr College (creator)
1967-09-22
serial
Weekly
8 pages
digitized microfilm
North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 54, No. 02
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/permalink/01TRI_INST/26mktb/alma991001620579...
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation.
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ett September 2 22, 1967
HE COLLEGE NEWS”
Editor-in-Chief
Christopher Bakke '68
Editorial Board
Nancy Miller '69, Kathy Murphey '69,
- Jonet: Oppenheim '70, Cookie Poplin '69
. Robin Brontley "69,
Contributing Editors ee Ce
Nanette Holben '68, Marcia Ringel '68
' Photographic Editor
Marian Schever '70
Editorial and Photographic Staff
Grethe Holby '70, .
‘Cathy Hoskins °7],. Julie Kagan ‘70,
Sue Lautin '70, 70
Advertising Manager
Valerie Hawkins °69
Business Manager
Elfen Saftlos °70
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% Published weekly during the college year except during Bs
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& The College News is fully protected by copyright. ss
& Nothing that appears in it may bé reprinted wholly or in 2
= part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. ES
. Offices in the Inn
Phone: LA 5-9458
It makes one wonder about the purpose of a college--
and of Bryn ‘Mawr in particular--to hear that the
Main Line Vietnam Summer project, headed by a Bryn
Mawr graduate student, was denied the use of a class-
room in Dalton (which was open) for a meeting,
and charged $25 to use the Common Room,
in, is more the policy of a hotel than of an intellectual
institution which seeks to understand the world around
_A liberal arts education should not focus only on
the values and ideas of our culture to be preserved
and upheld, It should face the problem of ‘that culture
and try to help students deal with them,
Mog: the college was thinking too much along the
of “it has never been done before,’’ and was too
cal fe tiasae of A cclieas ond
the. more conservative elements of the community.
Perhaps the Vietnam Summer Project could have ful-
filled a need in the kind of education we are pursuing here,
Hy
“Drug Use
“When a college, its administration and its student
body, is discussing drugs, it is groping. It is feeling
ite “way thegugh: & tid, and changing sltastion shout
which few facts are known.
Even the facts which are known seem-to cause dif-
ficulties. Outstanding are these two; 1) the hal-
lucinogenic and narcotic drugs (primarily LSD and
- marijuana) are illegal and the penalties are serious
and 2) possibly half the Bryn Mawr student body has
taken these drugs. Whether they will continue to do
so, and under what conditions they will do so depends
Se Se ae ee ce ee
and Self-Gov.
The first action to be considered is Miss McBride’s
“ Ietter to all students of August 25. It begins awkward-
ly and admits to confusion, but ends with an
absolute--‘‘She (the Bryn Mawr student) should hot plan
to return to Bryn Mawr unless she is convinced that
she will not be using drugs.” We wonder about
the purpose of this sentence. Was it seriously in-
tended that some students not return because
they weren’t sure if they might be using drugs some-
time during the year? Or was it meant to scare every-
body; Page so much that they wouldn’t return? Does
« it lay groundwork for possible expulsions during
the year?
United States Commissioner of Education Harold
Howe Ill said this summer on ‘*Meet the Press’’
that the proper reaction to a student using drugs
is not to punish him by throwing him out of school
and into jail, but to find out WHY he is taking drugs.
The school has a staff of psychologists to help stu-
dents with similar problems. - Why not this. too?
But Miss McBride’s letter indicates that the school
is not willing to provide any such services; rather,
the Bryn Mawr student is expected ‘‘to obey the
laws prohibiting’’ the possession and use of drugs,
and if she does not, she will not be a Bryn Mawr
student for very long.
The whole question of the drug laws adds to the
confusion. We begin with the assumption that the col-
lege will .never support conscious breaking of
the laws, (Although it might support civil disobedience
in some areas of civil rights, for instance the sit-
ins of the early °60’s, we doubt that drug use can
be put in the same category of importance.) We can
however also assume that laws are made by men and
can-- be changed, because they never embody ab-
solute truth.
But the NEWS does not here advocate smoking mar-—
ijuana for the purpose of trying to change the
laws, nor can it expect the college to lead sucha
battle. But we do ask that the laws NOT be used to
stifle all discussion about using drugs,
We have taken up considerable space this issue
to “present these
not. printing the laws in an attempt to scare anyone
into not trying marijuana, but to attempt to give a
more rational setting in which to make their decision.
This, we believe, should be the prime goal of the
¢ ‘
Letter to the Editor
Helen Lee Feldman
r ad
local and federal laws. We are ,
Exams...
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stubslaciates and felt-Gov: to give the problem
of student use of drugs a rational basis for individual
decision. No scare tactics, no Federal agents lurking
around, no mass expulsions. On the other hand, no
social pressure to go to pot parties, and. no dinner
conversation designed to glorify drugs and make non-
users feel out of it.
The purpose of Bryn Mawr is not to ignore or ex-
pell the immature and the unsure student, be-
cause .each one of us is immature and unsure
in. some way. Rather Bryn Mawr is trying, in four
years, to encourage maturity, to foster independence,
to teach rationality in method and content. The NEWS
hopes that the problems of students and drugs will
be handled within this framework, and not within one
of fear and closed minds. os
Thefts on Campus |
Even the ivory. towers are apparently no refuge
from crime,
First of all, hundreds of dollars worth of valuable
merchandise--typewriters, radios, record players, cam-
eras, a2 sewing machine--were stolen from locked
closets of students over the summer. The victims will
probably never recover what they lost.
Students who live at a distance are almost forced
to leave valuable equipment here during summer va-
cation. How can one girl,. travelling alone, manage
a typewriter or a sewing machine with all her luggage
back and forth, say, to the- Midwest? Whom else in:
the area could she trust to store these items beSides the
college?
‘
The administration has made it clear that it cannot
assume responsibility for articles left here over the
summer, Nevertheless, there is no excuse for the
negligence that allowed workmen and others to go in
and out of the dorms all summer, unwatched, A typewriter,
after all, is not easily concealed.
Perhaps next year the college should select a cen-
tral location where people may register valuable
possessions and then insure it and guard it scrupulous-
ly all summer. In any case, plans for a new
arrangement should begin ight away, sq that
it will be completely ready by the spring. We cannot
afford to repeat this summer. _
Such a straightforward proposal, however, will not
solve a related problem which is potentially even
more dangerous. Substantial amounts of money
disappeared from rooms and wallets Freshman Week,
We do not know who is responsible, and can oity
hope to eliminate temptation by keeping only “Small
amounts of cash on hand.ahd locking doors and Closets,
Locked doors, however, afe unnatural at Bryn MawWt..
There is no justification for stealing. If a liberal
_education has not established that, then it has failed.
Respect for learning means nothing without respect
for other people, Cc. P,
applebee
® against the draft, We are the only
But the Philadelphia Anti-Draft
Union is, quite frankly, desperate,
If you visit our office, you will
Phlledelphis Aati-Dreft Union ~ — o/al'we are working hard but
KI 6-6535 : are struggling for lack of funds,
office supplies, and help, Those
To the Editor: who must grapple with the draft .
and we of the Union would sin-
cerely appreciate any financial or
material help,
Thank you for your cooperation,
Yours in Peace,
The Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Anti-Draft
Union is a newly formed group of
young men and women dedicated to
building a resistance movement
group of this nature in the Phila-
delphia area, Some of our members
work full-time; others work part:
time, Some hold deferments, and
some are, or plan to be, non-
cooperators,
We intend to organize, leaflet,
demonstrate (we are coordinating
the Philadelphia activities on Octo-
ber 16 -- Draft Resistance Day), op, campus unless’ they have ob-
counsel, and help to form other toined parking stickers by apply-
anions, a ing to the President’s Office, Stu-
dent organizations which require
the use of a car may keep cars on
campus with the permission of the
administration. These rules apply
to weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and
5 p.m.
The presence of many cars with-
out stickers (or last year’s stick-
ers which must be renewed this
Parking .
(Continued from page 1)
students may park on campus at
Erdman only. Resident undergrad-
uate students may not keep cars
_ Babysitting
a There will be 6 ndeiive
‘Monday, September 25, at 5
Anti-Draft Union:
p.m. in the Common Room in| year) have created ms for
—Goodhart of all students who staff of \the col-
wish to do babysitting this |/ lege. The cooperation Bryn
“year. There will be ‘Maia ‘Mawr and Haverford is
— and rates will be sei | Deeded to bring the situationunder ©
| fer the “current year. All :
‘those who plan to babysit | guards are checking care nad oill
issue warnings to students illegally
- parked. If the problem continues,
J: cats may have to be towed away. (im
Helen Lee Feldman, of the
class of °68, was killed in an
automobile accident last August
21st in Philadelphia.
Helen was going to be taking
man of the Curriculum Committee.
When the idea of self-scheduled
exams was first suggested by the
student body, there were many ob-
jections from the faculty. Some
Professors felt that the new sys-
tem would be an inconvenience
for the faculty, creating more
paperwork and giving them less
time to correct exams. Others saw
the exam schedule as being equit-
ably fair to all students. When
a concrete plan was presented to
them, however, including valid
reasons for a change in the sys-
tem and suggestions for its fun-
tioning, most of the faculty saw
the benefits of such a change and
the proposal was accepted.
Self-scheduled exams were then
approved on a trial basis with
overwhelming faculty support
Although the actual mechanics of
the new plan have not yet been
decided and the position of the
Honor System has not been clearly
defined, Mrs. Marshall is opti-
mistic about the success of the
new system.
dite
¥ should. be sent either to the
. Editor in Merion.
The COLLEGE NEWS
will consider letters for pub-:
lication until Wednesday
noon of each week. They
NEWS in the Inn or to the
lines ,.. .straight lines on note-
book paper, broken lines on
graph paper, broken-hearted lines
in the book store, crinkly lines
on foreheads, limping lines of
iambic poetry, diagonal lines of
wielded hockey sticks ... look .
out for flying pucks ... and ‘hot
Shoppe trucks ... for you vaca-
tion buffs, there’re only nine
Shopping weeks till thanksgiving
es. meanwhile jeans, beans, un-
cooked greens, and hardboiled
deans fill the scenes .,, and don’t
worry, freshinan, that marauding
upperclassman won’t harm youl, .
she’s too weak from shock to be
nefarious ...
‘J
an ode to the school year 2a
read read read
writhe ahd shout
you may get
the eyeball gout
write write write
creativity reigns
fill your teapot ed
and boil your brains
work work work
you'll grow sager
if you can’t pass now
you can always change your major
* *
and as my great-uncle the chicken
hawk used to say, ‘‘in the plenitude
of today’s subconscious dis-
‘equilibrium it~
wt
“less fortunate than ourselves.”
let us pray.
is’ not Only ~~
~ perquisite but also improper to sy
_demand more braincellsthanthose _ sy
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