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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Nol. LII, No. 9

BRYN MAWR, PA.

NOVEMBER IT, 1966

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966"

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Executive Council Plans Cuniculon Committees Suggest
Vote on Required Voting Experimenting With Lame Duck

At the meeting of Executive
Council this week, there were not
enough people present to vote on the
proposed abolition of required vot-
ing and preferential order. Since
only two-thirds of the members
were present, and the proposal
must have a two-thirds majority
to be passed, ballots will be sent
out to members of the Council.
The matter will be brought up at
Legislature later. A straw vote
taken at the meeting indicated a
Slight majority of people in favor
of the proposal.

Those who oppose required vot-
ing -object--to both the--practice.
and the theory. Some point out that
it is an infringement of personal
freedom and note that voting isnot
required in the real world. At
Bryn Mawr, they are afraid that
because voting is required, many
people vote arbitrarily, doing little
more than cheeking off familiar
names, instead of abstaining. In
practice, over one-fifth of the stu-
dent body whose ballots were
counted abstained. In practice, itis
impossible to get all the ballots in
unless the hall reps really go after
people, which they don’t. In the last
election, one-fifth of the upper-
Cclassmen ballots never came in,

On the’ other hand, Margaret
Edwards, president of Undergrad,

' points out that Bryn Mawr is an

Poverty Program
Next-on Schedule

In Alliance Series

Mrs. Ersa Poston, director of
the New York State Office of
Economic Opportunity, is the next
speaker in the Alliance series on
urban affairs.

Her lecture, ‘‘Poverty in the
Midst of Plenty,’’ will cover fed-
eral aid to cities through the pover-
ty program.

It is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Monday in the Common Room.



The Bryn Mawr College
Chorus and the Columbia
University Glee Club will
present a concert Saturday

at 8:30 P.M. in Goodhart.

The major work of the even-
ing is Juan Bautista Comes’
‘‘Beatus
free.

vir.’ Admission









educational institution while the
world is not, and required voting
serves as a form of self discipline.
No one thinks it is a good thing not
to participate in community life --
this was one of the major points
brought out in the Educational
Goals Committee meetings -- and
when we. must vote, we discipline
ourselves to be what we want to be.
In classes, we do papers whether
we are interested or not. Margaret
noted that people can abstain, and
that even abstaining makes people
more aware of their responsibility
in the community than throwing

“their -ballots in the wastebasket,

Traditional Thanksgiving Fast

The faculty Curriculum Com-
mittee met with Miss McBride,
Mrs. Marshall, and the student
Curriculum Committee Tuesday to
discuss joint plans for the future.

Almost incidentally, in a dis-
cussion on calendar revision, Miss
McBride mentioned that she
thought the one week of classes
after Christmas vacation (to which
practically every member of the
college community objects) was
supposed to be “sort of experi-
mental.’’ In effect, the «faculty
and students are being invited to
try something new and different
to_get away -from. the usually

To Aid Negro Groups in South

Bryn Mawr will again participate
in the voluntary ‘‘traditional’’
Thanksgiving Fast sponsored by
the U.S, National Student Associa-
tion, Thursday, November 17,

The work of this Fast for Free-
dom, says NSA, is the establish-
ment of economic independence
for Southern Negroes. Although
the legal barriers to equal rights
have been removed, economic in-
tirmidation has prevented Negroes
from achieving equal opportunity.
The fear of eviction or loss of
jobs prevents many Negroes from
exercising their rights as citizens,
and with economic independence
they will have less. to fear from
those who would like to bar their
rights.

Last year’s Fast involved an
estimated 75,000 students in the
country and raised over $26,000,
The money was _ then-distributed
through the Civil Rights Desk of
the National Student Association,
to several projects. working on
self-help cooperatives, and for
food distribution.

Some of the money is now be-
ing used for a cement-block co-
operative in Green County, Ala-
bama, which manufactures mater-
ials which are then used to build
low-cost housing.

Projects. in 20 South Carolina
counties ‘working for the intro-
duction of county food distribu-
tion programs were financed by
the 1965-66 Fast,

Work has been done in publiciz~
ing the idea of cooperatives... Two
books based on the experiences of

those involved in cooperatives have

been useful in adult education pro-
grams in the South,

Last year’s Fast helped to sup-
port the Poor People’s Corpora-
tion, a group of cooperatives run
locally by Negroes in Mississippi,
and this year’s Fast will con-
tinue the program,

Part of the money collected this
year (as last year) will be used
to buy lunches for over 300 chil-
dren attending the only pre-school
centers in Sunflower County,
Mississippi.

Saga has promised to match,
and will try to better the $,60
per person paid last year. Each
$.60 could easily meantwo lunches
to afive-year-old, Five-hundred-
forty such donations last year
helped to keep six Head Start
Programs going.

Alliance reps are posting sign-
up sheets in the dorms, and will
hold explanatory discussions in
the halls after dinner Thursday.
Sign-up sheets will be given to
Saga on Monday noon.

dreary month of January.

The main item on the agenda,
however, was the planning of a
report on the curricula within each
department. The students plan to
collect many ‘‘structured inter-
views’’ on requirements and
courses in the major fields.

This is intended as a follow.
up to the overall changes that
Bryn Mawr made in requirements
for graduation two years ago. Be-
cause of the method of interview-
ing as many students as possible
in as much depth as possible, the
faculty has asked _ the students-to
help them collect and compile
data,

The interviews will be con-
ducted on the basis of a question-
naire which the joint committee
will be putting together next week.
Miss McBride was anxious that
the group solicit the aid of an
‘expert adviser on interviewing
techniques.’’ Each interview will
have to be considerably stand-
ardized in order for the results
to have any validity.

Secondly, students and faculty
and Mrs. Marshall are making
plans to discuss together the cal-
endar for the year after next.
Some of the students presentagain
asked for a clarification of why

there was no possibility of chang-

ing the calendar for next year.
Mrs. Marshall made it clear that
the Haverford athletic teams
needed some kindof calendar
into which they could fit their
own schedule one year in ad-
vance, and that it was not true
that our calendar had to fit one
particular athletic. schedule, as
some students seem to think.

The third item on the facul-
ty’s program is a continuing study
of the grading system which was
begun last spring. They are com-
paring it with other schools’ sys-

Erdman Initiates New System
Of Destroying Past Sign-Outs

Erdman Hall President Andrea
Stark has launched a new sign-
out.system in her dormitory. The
new plan offers some interesting
variations and advantages on the
one presently in popular use.

Generally speaking the new pro-
gram establishes that each stu-



The Friends of Music will sponsor the American String Quartet in concert Thursday, November
17, at 8:30 p.m. in Goodhart. ;No admission is required of Bryn Mawr: Students. | Shubert’s Quartet
inA minor, Hugo Wolf's Serenade, and Bartok’s Quartet No. 2 are on the program.

dent fill out a file card, one for a
12:30 a.m. expected return or one
for a 2:00 a.m. or overnight ex-
pected return in the accepted man-
ner and place the card in the
appropriate of two boxes, If the
student returns on time, she with-
draws her card from the box and
destroys it.

If, however, she should be late,
she sets down the details of her
delay on the card and places it
in the mail slot of the hall pres-
ident. To compensate for the ob-
vious Lantern Man confusion that
would arise if student evening re-
turns were not known, the students
of Erdman have created a new
doorkeeper hour span from 12:30
- 2:00 a.m. which they run them-
selves and are paid for accord-
ingly.

The new plan of student sign-
outs is clearly and obviously based
on the premise of the honor code,
although President Stark can still
permit herself spot checks oS
card boxes to insure proper
filling-out procedure. An unusual
and beneficial amount of privacy
can thus also be “afforded to dor-
mitory residents since their pres-
ident alone, and not often, will
be the only person to know of
their whereabouts or activities.

The new program also makes
it simpler for the hall president

“ (Continued on page 2)

tems, and with past years at Bryn
Mawr.

These three projects are ex-
pected to be year-long enterprises.
Other ideas briefly discussed were
the desire for increased contact
with graduate students, more pub-
licity for the available programs

‘for girls interested in teaching

careers, and the need on campus
for a department of social psy-
chology.

The Educational Goals Commit-
tee was also brought up, and an
attempt was made to define and
institutionalize it by Curriculum
Committee Chairman Andrea Lu-
rie. She said that its main pur-
pose is, to gather ideas, and not
to initiate or act on anything.
She would, however, like to see
it organize a series of seminars
each fall, like the ones last month.

Interfaith Presents

.

Reverend Shimano

Discussing Zazen

The Reverend Eido Tai Shi-
mano, sponsored by the In-
terfaith Association, will speak
on ‘*Zazen and its Relation to
Our Everyday Life,’? sponsored
by Interfaith Wednesday, Novem-
ae, oT le
the Common Room,

Reverend Shimano, who is cur-
rently the Director of the
Zen Studies Society of New York
City, was born in Tokyo, Japan.
The eminent theologian came to
the United States in 1960 when
he studied at the University of
Hawaii ‘and served in that state
as Resident Zen Buddhist Monk
for four years.

The topic under discussion on
Wednesday evening will consist
chiefly in the exposé of Za,
‘«sitting with no thought’? and Zen,
‘‘inward meditation.’’ The Rev-
erend Shimano, who practiced
traditional Rinzai Zen Buddhism
for nine years in Japan at a Zen
Monastery, will be speaking from
extensive experience as well. as
accepted dogma.

Student Members

To Join Faculty.
In Calendar Talks

Tuesday Margaret Edwards,
president of Undergrad, and An-
drea Lurie, President of the Curri-
culum Committee, presented Un-
dergrad’s proposal to have two
student members on the Calendar
Committee to Dean Marshall. As
a result, a graduate student and
an undergraduate student, to be
elected by Undergrad, will meet
with the faculty Calendar Com-
mittee at its next meeting.

Dean Marshall said that Un-
dergrad’s proposal, which speci-
fies that the two elected students
be permanent voting members of
the committee, cannot be acted
upon yet because the Calendar
Committee at present is an ad
hoc, deliberating group. :

If the proposal is accepted by
the faculty. it will involve revamp-

ing the present faculty Calendar ~

Committee. However, Dean Mar-
shall emphasized, the committee
is eager to meet with the student
representatives now, and will dis-
cuss the Undergrad proposal at
its next regular meeting in De-
cember,
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_ Lame Duck with a Crutch ©

After complaining for ages, students and faculty now have the oppor-
tunity to actually DO soinething about January. The one-week lame duck
session may well get up and walk.

According to Miss McBride (see p. 1) the session is completely open
to the experiments and ideas of the students and faculty. Some teachers
are even planning on not holding any classes at all. Most have #0t "Office, who handles the college
really considered the week, and we don’t think most students even
know anything about it.

The possibilities here seem to be limited only by the length of the
week, Of course this does prohibit it from becoming an intensive
series of seminars or colloquia or a ‘‘Free University,’’ but there
still will be room for creativity. Field trips, or listening to outside
speakers and concerts are just some of the activities that could fill
the week. If classes are held, they could be informal over coffee in
the Deanery or the Inn. Discussions, panels and debates could be
arranged on topics of current interest or on matters not fully ex-
plored during the semester.

All of these ideas are just general suggestions. Each class should
be able to think of activities that are particularly relevant to itself,
and the time to start thinking is now. We think that this is a mar-
velous opportunity for Bryn Mawr students to attempt to actually do
some of the things they are always crying that they never have time
to do in their classes.

Perhaps the lame duck session will turn out. to be a blessing in
disguise. Whatever happens, it will be a direct effect of the advance
planning made or not made, Since we would like to see the week made
into a time of successful experiment and innovation, we urge the
college community to begin thinking and planning for it now.

Required Voting

It ‘has been proposed that required voting for Undergrad and Self-
Government elections be dropped. Many students seem to be afraid
that if voting were not required, elections would become meaningless,
because no one would vote. Perhaps this is true, although it is a dim

view of the

interest of the Bryn Mawr _ student in her community.

In a sense, however, elections at the moment are equally meaning-
less. Many students do not participate in the voting process thought-
fully; they are forced into it. The privilege of voting, which should be
accompanied by serious thought about the person best qualified to lead
the campus in a certain organization, becomes a mere form. The
relationship between the voters and the representatives they elect to
improve the community disappears. Being forced to vote, students who
do not know all of the candidates or who haven’t bothered to consider

their views, hastil

check off their choices on

tthe basis of rumors

or trivial bits of information, Positions are filled, but not because
of any desire to see the community move forward through the new
ideas of a candidate. The elections continue year after year, but with
change being partly accidental. If voting were not required, perhaps
there would be fewer voters, but the voting process would be much
more meaningful.

One way to look at the question is to ask whether or not the means
justify the ends, In other words, does the means of forcing the electorate
to cast a vote justify the end of having a . 100% vote? In the first place,
a 100% vote is not achieved even in a required voting situation. In the

last required

election,

there were 412 votes cast, only about 80%

of the electorate. In the second place, is a 100% vote actually a good
end in itself, or is it a symbol of something else? We submit that it
is not good in itself, but rather that a 100% vote stands for an informed
and interested electorate, which is the ultimate end. The problem is
that a 100% vote in a required election is not at all related to the end
of an informed and interested electorate. Such a relation would only
be true if the voters were cast on a free choice basis, Aristotle holds

true here:

an action is only true and good if it is done on purpose

and with setae and by the choice of the agent. Otherwise it has

no meaning.

Perhaps college ‘niiiens are not very important, and it is best to

get through them-.as efficiently as possible, Students’ apathy about
elections can be fought on superficial terms by requiring votes, and
the community can continue to function, if a-bit statically. Yet when
the Bryn Mawr student graduates into society she. will be faced again
- with the problem of voting. This time, however, she will probably

~not= know’ any of “the candidates - personally, or indirectly as..school-
mates. Their actions as representatives will not affect her as im-

mediately aS in college. The government and the issues on which she
votes will be much farther away, and. -- apathy will be much more
likely, If the student has not learned in college to generate some
personal concern about the individuals who will be her leaders and their

opinions on the society she is a part of, without anyone demanding her

vote, she will have no reason to give it.
If a college — is a preparation for life, it should relate to
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Letters to the Editor

Fire Away

To the editor; ‘

Two weeks ago a fire started
in the living room of a South
Dorm suite at Haverford, By thé
time it was discovered the fire
had: spread from a lighted lantern
to a chair, and to the curtains
behind it. Five. boys set to work
with fire extinguishers and within
15 minutes the fire was out,

At Bryn Mawr, the general col-
lege policy is that girls should not
try to fight fires. They should set
off the fire alarm and leave the
building as fast as possible. This
is certainly a reasonable position.
The fire life of many of the dorms
here falls within a few minutes.
The South Dorm at Haverford is
much more fireproof, .

Yet there are cases, it seems
to me, where, for instance, a
wastebasket fire could be doused
with a fire extinguisher. Action
could-be taken by several students
after sounding the alarm, If such a
fire was left until the fire depart-
ment arrived, it might do a lot of
damage to property, and might
even take someone’s life who had
not heard the alarm.

Mr. Smedley of. the Business

fire regulations, said girls should
use their common. sense in
handling small wastebasket-type
fires. He claimed that the fire
extinguishers in the halls are put
there for the purpose of fighting
such minor fires, Obviously the
fire department would not need
to use the hal] extinguishers, Mr.
Smedley said.

I think it is very important for
students to be aware of where the
fire extinguishers are in their
halls. I also think that girls should

know the location of the various
fire alarms,

It seems to me that our fire
drills are in a class by them-
selves, They are a ritual which
has little relation to many real
fire situations. We depend on our
fire captains to ring the bell, and
we don’t take into account the kind
of small fire which could easily
be caused by a carelessly thrown
match,

I am not proposing an end to
fire drills. But I think they could
be supplemented. Each student
should be aware of her respon-
sibility to alert her fellow students
in case of fire. She should also
be aware of her ability to stop.an
occasional insignificant fire from
becoming disastrous,

Kathy Murphey, ’69

At Last!

To the Editor:

I have read with interest the
last two issues of the COLLEGE
NEWS, but must say that
Bresler seems to me as stupid
and fuzzy-minded as any student
and by no means the sort of per-
son one would like to see have a
voice in policies attending any aca-
demic institution worthy of the
name,

He seems to say that there are
no problems at BMC (only the

‘‘problem’’ of the lack of prob- ,

lems, which he labels ‘‘dullness’’
and ‘‘conformity’’) so he sets out
to make them, or at least to try

(Continued on page 6)

“Record” Ad Pleasant Surprise

Occasionally, but not often, a
veteran movie-goer can be. pleas-
antly ‘surprised. Like suppose he
goes to see a‘ Brando flick and
they play a Pink Panther cartoon
before it instead of the usual Tom
and Jerry -- so much gravy. Or
he goes to see Annette Funicello
in BEACH BLANKET BINGO (just
for laughs) and they precede it
with an artsy short on grocery
stores,

Just such a surprise was in
store for the audience of LOST
HORIZONS, this week’s film ser-
ies offering. The surprise, in the
form of a three- or four-minute
commercial for the Haverford
RECORD, was particularly well-
timed since a goodly portion of the
audience had just discovered that
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY had
just been pre-empted by LOST
HORIZONS, a ghastly melodrama

Oberlin College Starts
Student Vietnam Press













The Student Senate and news-
paper of Oberlin College | in-
formed the COLLEGE NEWS
of a new project being set up
by the mid-western institution:
the establishment of a student
press center in South Vietnam.

The purpose of the program is
to provide ‘‘direct representation’’
of the collegiate political point

of view as regards activities in

Southeast Asia, as well as an
off-campus stimulus to direct na-
tional concern onto this trouble

‘spot. The estimated cost is $2,000
to $2,500 per semester.

Because there are no poe a

student reporters in Vietnam at
the moment, -and:because the col-
lege academic body is currently
intimately associated wheth

rectly or indirectly with foreign
policy in this area, it is thought
that by creating astudent presence

there, the press center wil be bead ar noe

serving a multiplicity ofpurposes.

The student reporters will not
only be covering vital points of
interest in their Far Eastern
assignment, but in addition re-
searching the possibility of
founding an ‘‘on-going Oberlin or
inter-collegiate service’? alliance
in Southeast Asia.

The Oberlin organizations that
are spearheading the program have
sought sponsorship from pro-
fessional correspondents, govern-
ment officials and other colleges
and established public service
associations all across the country.
with unreported success. Although

it is much desired that each

school send and support its own
agent abroad, the project, which
is to begin this February, is willing
to supply news articles on a sub-
scription basis to interested news.

chmpicpecnt ERR y ssa whe,

set in the Himalayas.
Now this commercial -- entitled,

appropriately..enough, JUST-FOR >

THE RECORD -- isdesigned along
the same lines as that popular
kind of short; the carefully-staged
candid. Made by a group of Bryn
Mawr and Haverford students (a
budding film-makers society) it
offers a panorama of Haverford
life, played to the tune of Her-
man’s Hermits: motorcycles,
stretch, and Kosman. The humor
was typical of college film group
efforts, but nonetheless funny. And
the actual filming was well-done --
something which can’t often be
said of amateur movies, Anyway --
jast for the record, we would
hope that they will soon come out
with a longer, non-commercial
piece of work, if only to save
us from the likes of Ronald Cole-,

man,
E. McD.

Erdman Sign-Outs

(continued from page 1)

to determine those students who
are subject to penalty for late-
ness since she is freed from the
tedious task of checking an en-
tire book of sign-outs. Because
there is nothing definitely pre-
scribed in the Self-Government
Constitution as to sign-out pro-
cedure, Erdman Hall has put its
novel undertaking into immediate
effect, with the understanding that
a short report as to its success
will be Submitted to Dean Mar-
shall after a reasonable period has
elapsed,



applebee

went searching out an approp-
riate place to spend the winter ...
sneaked into the library by whiz-
zing through the book-return slot,
feet first ... broke a talonnail
-e. found myself in a treasure-
house of tomes béing tombs, cov-
ers unlifted for a hundred years
-.- greek translated into french,
danish translated into’ various
shades of bolshevik ... flapping
speedily up the stairs i raised
great pillars of dust ... round to
the reading room where amidst
pencildroppings and paperclip-
pings i heard violence and cone
fusion off to my left ... soared
over the dictionaries and busts to-
wards the region of audible strife
eee passed a arrell containing
400 volumes and a sleeping sen-
ior, snoring ... half a league on-

q

b

ward to the reference room ... .

what found i but two freshmen .

in dead heat ripping rent a ref-
erence reading ... how mislead-
ing... here it was only midsemes-
ter tremens and i’d thought it at
least a gargoyle honing his fangs
es. guess i’m more naive than i
like to admit

‘ applebee

abashedly ..





| Friday, November 11, 1966

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



PRO:

In response to the Educational Goals
Committee’s suggestion that Undergrad
be abolished, I would like to bring up
several points. First, I congratulate the
spirit of inquiry and enthusiasm that
the committee has. generated in its wide-
sweeping evaluations of the campus. Surely
a constant, constructive analysis of stu-
dent organizations is necessary if they
are to continue functioning ata maximum
level of benefit for us all.

However, I must express my reserva-
tions about preposals made with little re-
search into»the, facts about the organiza-
tion in ey, I, as President of the
Undergradu ssociation, was never
informed of this proposal, and I first
learned of it in last week’s NEWS, My
opinion and the facts at my command
about the nature, function, and above all,
the RAISON-D’ETRE of Undergrad were
never sought by members of the com-
mittee,

Of course, it is true that I now have
the opportunity to express my views --
but I do so in the nature of a defense.
Whereas, had I been questionéd earlier,
I could have helped the committee con-
struct a proposal that would have been
a little more soundly based. SE:

In seeking to ‘‘simplify’’ student or-
ganizations, I fear we may be guilty
either of concentrating the responsibili-
ties on fewer people or of merely \pro-
moting new organizations in our disen-
chantment with the old onesg I might
point out here that the Educational Goals
Committee has hardly SIMPLIFIED the
structure of its overseer, the Curricu-
lum Committee, but it HAS extended
and enhanced the activitieseof that com-
mittee and stimulated more people to
get involved. This is a good thing. Com-
plexity, therefore, is not always a bad
sign. .

Undergrad is easy to attack because it
is a ‘‘miscellaneous’’ institution. Its gen-
eral functions are inherent in vague but
important «clichés about faculty-student-
administration communications and or-
ganized campus activities. Its specific
functions range from preparing the budget
and handling campus elections, to setting
up committees and holding weekly meet-
ings that give and take information.

Undergrad is essentially a ‘‘talky’”’
organization which makes it disagree-
able to those who crave action. I am
sure that more than one member of the
Executive Council has fumed after a
meeting that for an organization respon-
sible for student ACTIVITIES, Undergrad
manages to sit around pretty INAC-
TIVELY.

Believe me, I sympathize with all of
this. But the sad truth of the matter is
that somewhere, somehow, somebody has
got to organize and do the talking about
what is going on. And as for its ‘‘mis-
cellaneous’”? ‘functions, Undergrad acts
like a traffic cop. Its meetings are like
a crossroads for the student reps, com-
mittee heads, Big Six presidents, class





























we

‘by Margaret Edwards
Undergrad President

presidents, and the rest. Undergrad keeps
the channels open and keeps things mov-
ing.

Now the proposal as it was put forth
in last week’s NEWS did not seek to
abolish the functions of Undergrad, only
Undergrad itself. The proposal recom-
mends that Undergrad parcel out its
duties to ‘‘CollegeC ouncil, informal meet-
ings ofthe Big Six, ... and theall campus
meeting suggested by the communica-
tions subcommittee.’’

But this» solution makes no provision
for such student committees as the Fresh-
man week committee, social committee,
traditions, etc. Suppose then that the
committee heads met with the presidents
of the Big Six in those ‘informal meet-
ings’? just so that activities might be
better coordinated. Then suppose that
these girls felt the need of some repre-
sentative student opinion. Well, they might
invite in some students -- like one from
each dorm. And ‘‘put ’em together and
what have you got?’’ -- almost Under-
grad meeting! (Bibbety Bobbety Boo!)

There is -another— -aspect—of—Under-
grad business which would require the
same appointment of an ‘‘ad hoc com-
mittee’? (which the article suggests as
a solution to the formulation of the an-
nual Budget). We would need a similar
committee to take care of the campus
elections, which are now organized by
the vice president of Undergrad and the
dorm representatives.

The office of the Presiderif of Under-
grad carries diverse responsibilities. One
of these is presiding over the Undergrad
meetings. The president determines the
agenda and is open to suggestions from
faculty, students and administration con-
cerning points of campus interest that
should be brought up for discussion. She
is the one that everyone can go to if
they want to haye a say in what’s going
on. She directs questions to people who
know the answers. She is the one that
the administration questions to find out
what is happening and to find out who is
in charge of what.

One-could-argue that the proposed_all-
campus meeting would take care of stu-
dent opinion, That may be true BUT that
all-campus meeting is not yet with us.
Also the COLLEGE NEWS might serve
Undergrad’s publicity function -- but
ONLY if the NEWS reaches every mem-
ber of the student body -- i.e. total sub-
scription. But this is not yet the case.

Therefore, it seems that proposing to
abolish Undergrad is a bit premature,
since it hinges on so many other changes
in campus organization that are not yet
realities. If abolition of Undergrad be-
comes warranted, it should happen by all
means. But if ‘‘change’’ is only a move
to. call old organizations by new names,
then we are guilty of ill-founded

enthusiasm and a lack of creativeness.

: The proposal to abolish Undergrad involves, for
: one, a desire to simplify the organization of stu-
dent government and the interaction of student
: organizations, Although we must agree that even if
: Undergrad qua Undergrad were abolished some
: similar catch-all organization might persist(Mar-
: garet Edwards’ ‘‘almost Undergrad’), there re-
: mains the possibility for a decrease in its status
by narrowing down its function in the name of
: simplification.

For example, many of its committees could be
rationed out either to classes or to the Big Six.
= The social chairman and traditions chairman might
easily be placed in the domain of Sophomore Class
activities, and the library committee seems to fall
naturally into Curriculum Committee’s hands.



: Undergrad.reps, in short, seem unnecessary, for the
: Big Six reps and the NEWS could easily replace

But fotice we are talking in terfns of a sim-
plificdtion of Undergrad, not an abolishment, What
ould like to see is Undergrad’s status be-



Editorial .

come commensurate with its catch-all opera-
tions, It should meet, perhaps once a month, with
the heads of the Big Six and class presidents to
establish coordination and prevent duplication of
effort. These people should then report back to
their individual groups, whose own reps would

.. SE eI
SS

by Margaret Levi
Educational Goals Chairman

One of the Bryn Mawr mottos for the
year is ‘*communication’’ -- communi-
cation between faculty and students, ad-
ministration and the college generally,
students and students. Yet the student
organization of Bryn Mawr is set up in
just such a way, it seems to me, that it
makes communication between students
very difficult and the public lines lead-
ing to the President’s and Dean’s offices
almost impossible to find.

There are too many groups, perform-
ing too many overlapping functions, and
too limited in their institutional means
of presenting proposals from the students
to the rest of the college community. As
Mr. Bachrach said in one of the Educa-
tional Goals Committee sessions, there
is too much private discourse, not enough
in public,

Students seldom decide club or or-
ganizational policy in open meetings, but
more often than not a few friends gather
and draw up the plan of action for the
group. The same is true when policy
decisions._must..be._ made. which. cross
student-faculty-administration boundar-
ies; the head of a committee will meet
with the President or Dean and present
the idea, It is discussed and decided then
and there. No open forum and often no
publication of what has happened is thought
necessary.

Private discoursg on policy is perpe-
_tuated in another way as well. Bryn Mawr
is a small college, and the girls are often
on very informal and friendly terms with
particular members of the administra-
tion and faculty, This is all to the good.
However, when. a girl is acting in an
official capacity and talking tu a dean,
the President, or professor in his or
her official capacity, this is a com-
pletely different situation ‘than’ the so-
cial one, and must be recognized as
such, Of course, this is acknowledged
in theory, but the practice often takes
the’ form of a personalization of the is-
sues and the participants in the discus-
sion of the issues. There are two ways
in—-which_this—is_done:_1) a disturbance
with the individual who takes some posi-
tion rather than disagreement -with the
position itself; 2) a tendency to embody
the issue in an, individual rather than
seeing the issue for itself.

It seems to/Educational Goals Com-
mittee that what needs to be done to
rectify this ‘situation is a simplification
of student organizations and an institu-
tionalization of a greater openness in the
processes of policy~making. One step
towards this would be the aboliton of
Undergrad along with a re-arrangement

of the student organizations, According

to our plan, Self-Government, Alliance,
Curriculum Committee, Interfaith, Ath-

letic Association, Arts Council andLeague ,

would all continue to operate. Supple-

work from there.

As for the head of this ‘‘almost Undergrad,’’
let her also be the National Student Association
The NSA coordinator
is currently the vice president of Undergrad,
and the job as well as the potential value of NSA
seems to be shoved into the background -- at least
we never hear about it, Elected by a campus-wide
vote in the usual manner, this officer would con-
tinue the function of liaison between the adminis-

coordinator on campus.

tration and the undergraduate body.

It is an awkward fact that a clearing house
m like Undergrad ranks above. the
genuinely active Big Six. Hopefully the Educational
Goals group will conduct a more thorough evalua-
tion of Undergrad’s present structure, and be able
to formulate an all~encompassing proposal for its
simplification. With Bryn Mawr’s dual Self-Gov
and Undergrad organization, it is. doubtful that
“Undergrad can become more active. As a medium
abolish Undergrad,
but Undergrad’s status, and AWvith it the creaky
bureaucracy that is really/ an impediment to

organization

for ‘‘talking,’’ then, let’s not

efficiency.










UNDERGRAD on.

menting them would be the budget and
finance committee, the social commit-
tee, and other groups of that ilk. If a
clearing house type organization was felt
necessary, it could be set up as. one of
these supplementary committees, but it
would be subordinate, not over the seven
major organizations,

Undergrad undoubtedly serves a com-
munication function at the present time,
but this could and should be taken over
by the COLLEGE NEWS, College Coun-
cil, and the dorm and other representa-
tives to the major groups. Most impor-
tant, there would be a provision for
college-wide meetings in which issues
of major importance could be discussed
and challenged by everyone who is inter-
ested and not just the representatives.
There could be such meetings of stu-
dents only or could include everyone
who is a part of Bryn Mawr in any capa-
city whatsoever,

Undergrad as it now exists compli-
cates and confuses the processes of policy-
making and communication, First of all,

‘ Undergrad is not an issue organization

but a catchall group for the trivia or
detail whichis not under .the jurisdic-
tion of Self-Gov or one of the Big Six.
In_other words, it subordinates the Big
Six and their ideas to the trivia of bureau-
cratic details -- which are necessary but
not in the important position they are
given now.

Second of all, Undergrad is a referral
agency for any issues which may belong
to one of the other groups but which are
brought first to Undergrad in order to be
taken to their proper committee. By act-
ing in this intermediary capacity, Under-
grad slows up the process of dfScussion
and subordinates the issue to the chan-
nels when the channels are inadequate
and badly structured.

The abolition of Undergrad would only
be one step towards a simplification of
the campus organizations and a clarifica-
tion of their functions. The most impor-
tant thing which needs to be done, how~-
ever, is to construct clear and well-
defined lines of communication between
the students and other facets of the col-
lege community. Issues cannot be decided
in a private office but must be debated as’
well with the vote or concensus reathed
in’ public. Committees should first draw
up proposals (this is especially true in
the case of student-faculty meetings of
committees where one group comes well
prepared and thus dominates the other)
and then meet with whatever group is
concerned. Along with this, a copy of
the proposal and the results of the meet-
ing should be publicized in the COLLEGE
NEWS,

The aims of clear and/ public policy
making cannot be accomplished through
one gimmick or another, but will require
a series of related restructurings of both
organizations and attitudes on the cam-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, November 11, 1966



Subject of Bach

Student radicalism and the
function of protest was the subject
of a discussion led by Mr. Peter
Bachrach of the Bryn Mawr. Po-
litical Science Department last
Sunday afternoon,

Mr. Bachrach began the seminar
by throwing out a few thoughts on
the direction student radicalism
should take. He = talked about a
general dissatisfaction with con-
temporary society felt by many
people today. Much of this dis-
satisfaction lacks purpose, he said.
He mentioned the ‘‘leather boys”
in England who defy society’s con-
ventions with their long hair and
motorcycles. This kind of pro-
test, while better than no protest
at all, might be more meaningful
if it were supported with a
theoretical base.

A general theory behind protest
would include, a sense of the re-
lationship of the problems protest
is directed towards, It would es-
tablish some goal .for _protest.
Radicals should be aware of the
historical developments that have
led to this society. At the same’
time they should be able to pro-
pose new institutions for a future
and improved society.

Mr. Bachrach pointed out that
neither the internal problems of the

United States or the‘‘berserkness”’ |

of its foreign policy could be
straightened out by ameliorating
specific issues such as civilrights
or the war in Vietnam, Radicals
must have a general notion of what
they want after individual problems
have been settled.

The theory of the welfare state
was mentioned by Mr. Bachrach
as one-proposal for a better so-
ciety. Mr. Bachrach refuted this
theory. He said that it merely pro-
vides for a wider distribution of
goods from those in power to those
in need, It does not change the basic
relationship between . the two
groups. Mr, Bachrach briefly men-
tioned his own goal for society,
which is a democratization of the
relationship between the masses
and the power elite.

The university, Mr. Bachrach
felt, functions in encouraging
students to form theories about how
to change society. He thought that
students should not be interested
primarily in demonstrations, They
should concentrate on creating an
ideology which will give their pro-
test a place in the context of a
whole philosophy about the nature
of society. Students should ask for
courses which relate the specific
issues they are concerned with to
general principles.

West Philadelphia
Teachers, Tutors

To Meet at BMC

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford
Philadelphia Tutorial Program,
this year for the first time in
conjunction with the Philadelphia
Tutorial Project, began operation
on October 25th. Thirty-four girls
from Bryn Mawr-and three boys
from Haverford are now’ tutoring
37 Negro eighth-grade students
at the James..Rhoads Junior High
School in west Philadelphia.

A meeting between the tutors
and the faculty of the Rhoads
School is scheduled for Tuesday,
November 15, at 8:30 p.m. in
the Common Room. At this time
the tutors will be able to present
specific problems and questions
to the faculty as well as be better
prepared to understand the back-
ground of the students. The
principal of the Rhoads School
Mr. ~ Frank © Foti, ~ guidance
counselor Mrs. Mary Delgado, and
various eighth-grade teachers will
be present.

The Philadelphia Tutorial Pro-
jeck held its fall workshop
at Temple University on October
15th. Another session is planned
in the spring.

rach Discussion

The general discussion follow-
ing Mr. Bachrach’s talk partly
concerned the value of protest,
It. was. mentioned that a demon-
stration can set up a barrier be-

tween the group which is participat- |

ing and the group outside the

demonstration. Protest can often
alienate rather than convince
people.

Other members of the discus-
sion felt that protest, although it
does have an alienating influence,
can serve in increasing the aware-

(Continued on page 7)

“Right to Dissent”’
Topic for Lawyer
At SAC Seminar

The next seminar sponsored by
the Bryn Mawr and Haverford So-
cial Action Committees will take
place this Sunday, November 13, at
4 p.m. in the Common Room.

Mr. Harrison Barton, a Phila-
delphia lawyer associated with the
American Civil. Liberties Union,
will lead a discussion on the right
to dissent. The ACLU has recently
published a pamphlet called ‘‘ Your
Right To Dissent In A Time of
Crisis,’?

The pamphlet deals with free-
dom of expression about the draft
and the war in Vietnam, with thé
legality of demonstrations and sit-
ins, and with academic freedom.

Andy Warh

Student Radicalism and Protest iS ful Spirit Throughout ‘Tale’

Balances Poor Diction, Mumbling

by Robin Johnson

‘cA’ -Winter’s Tale’? is a
strange play, with an odd mixture
of emotional qualities. It is there-
fore a difficult play to produce,
but at its best the C ollege Theatre-
Haverford Rrama Club’s produc-
tion last weekend successfully
achieved a spirit of effortless,
even delightful suspension of ra-
tionality, but not feeling, neces-
sary to the enjoyment of the play.

It is a comedy, witha plot hardly
suggestive of uproarious farce: a
king in a fit of jealousy imprisons
his wife, causes the death of his
little son, abandons his baby daugh-
ter; an old courtier gets eaten by
a bear and another courtier gets
exiled for sixteen years; another
king disinherits his son and tries
to prevent his marriage; strangest
of all, a lady of the courtand close
friend of the jealous king keeps his
queen hidden for sixteen years,
telling the king that she is dead
but never ceasing to remind him of
her.

Although these scenes are in-'

terspersed with really farcical
scenes involving shepherds and
pickpockets, the main plot cannot
be intended as the tearful melo-
drama it seems in outline, because
it takes place in a never-never-
land where Bohemiahas a seacoast
.and a king with a Greek name; and
where wicked kings reform, loyal
friends and dost children return,
everyone who should be married

gets married, and everyone for-
gives and forgets past wrongs.
This mixture is obviously a diffi-
cult one in which to create and
sustain belief, and “it may explain
why one of the biggest laughs of
the evening Saturday night came
at the end when the exiled courtier
Camillo, who has been nobly suf-
fering throughout the play, is re-
united with his king only to get
handed over in marriage more
or less as a reward to a formid-
able old widow he hasn’t seen in
sixteen years; and we never even
knew they liked each other.

This is all part of the difficulty
of the play;

the much-publicized ‘‘Chagall
motif?’ was a surprisingly good

‘idea. Chagall’s art was mostly

reflected in the production’s
colors: the costumes were daz-
Zlingly: beautiful, and the very
severe set, with its bare screen
in the back on which colored lights

and in creating as
“production to reflect this spirit,

were projected, was often highly ~

effective. However, there were a

“fw more significant touches which

could be justly compared with
Chagall, notably the satyrs’ dance
during the pastoral scene of the
second act. This dance was pro-
bably the highlight of the produc-
tion. One rather small touch --
the fact that the dancers began
with satyr masks, and then got rid
of them before they started romp-
ing around -- was an absolutely
perfect reflection of the combina-

ol and Howdy Doody

Are Features at Penn Weekend

by Marcia Ringel

The University of Pennsylvania
hosted two evenings of Camp films
last week: Thursday, Andy War-
hol’s ‘*The Chelsea Girls?’ at the
Annenberg School of Communica-
tions; Friday, television greats
from the ’fifties, highlighted by
the guest appearance of Buffalo
Bob Smith and sponsored by Cam-
pus Chest, a fund-raising organi-

zation for scholarships and other ~

necessities,

‘‘The Chelsea Girls’? -is a four-
hour bog of sequences, each last-
ing about 45 minutes, It stars sev-
eral frustrated homosexuals and
two frustrated heterosexuals. I
stayed for three hours. During
that time, a man (?) put on egg-
plant earrings, a cowl, andaneck-
lace, proclaiming them the proper -
ty of the Pope and himself amem-
ber of the Pope-si Generation;
one homosexual asked another, in
bed: ‘‘What’s the best thingtyou’ve
ever done?”’ ‘*Applied to Harvard,
got an education’; a male trans-
vestite sang that ‘‘she”’? was Lana
Turner and, erotically, shared
enough food with a man (?) to re-

make ‘‘Tom Jones’?; a boy and |

girl sitting in a closet spoke in-
anities and did nothing.

All the traditional Pop symbols
were there -- coke bottles, re-
volving colored lights, exagger-
ated offdrifts of the population,
What was lacking, however, was

cohesion, a bit of sanity, enough
humanity to tie the thing together
without snapping the bow -- that
scrap of compassion that leaves
the viewer with a scrap of com-
prehension. Someone yelled,
‘¢where are the subtitles???’ The
film seemed as pointless as the
lives of its cast, who spoke to no
apparent script and pretended no
apparent caricatures. It was really
them, It was really pathetic.

But Howdy Doody’s pal was a
delight. Buffalo Bob walked on-
stage after movies of ‘‘Flash Gor-
don’? and ‘‘The Howdy Doody
Show.”? He wore a yellow cowboy
suit with red fringe and the mo-
ment he appeared he was given
several minutes of roaring stand-
ing ovation from 3000 devotedfans,
There he was, and there we were,
15 years older. It was our whole
generation thanking somebody we
loved at five and still remem-
ber. When he shouted, ‘‘Hey, kids,
what time is it??? -- we all knew.

As Buffalo Bob answered ques-
tions from the audience, we learned
that he has a son who was grad-
uated from Cornell and is now at
Buffalo (!) Med School; that the
original Howdy Doody puppet was
destroyed before it got to tele-
vision, but that the second, more
famous * puppet will soon be on
display with. its cohorts in the
Radio City lobby; that what
Clarabell would say if he

SUPPORT

could talk would be, ‘‘Let’s have
a drink before the show.”?

And on to ‘‘Andy’s Gang,’? after
a_ unanimous shouting vote to pro=
ceed without intermission. Inter-
mission would have earned a tro-
phy for-Warhol, Buffalo Bob was
given a trophy; honorary chair in
the Penn Department of Adoles-
cent Humor. It was a wooden
baby chair, Our hero made no
speech, but grinned .broadly as
he carried ° the little chair off-
stage.

Before Friday’s show had be-
gun, Penn students carried picket
signs through Irvine Auditorium.
‘‘Get the Puppet Regime out of
Doodyville.’? ‘‘Don’t Make War,
Make Summerfallwinterspring.”
‘‘Mr. Bluster is Head of the In-
ternational Jewish Money Con-
spiracy.?? *«Chief Thunderthud
Smokes Pot.’?

But they were.kidding, A joke
meant to be funny, not by virtue
of its inherent lack of humor.
‘¢The Chelsea Girls?’ was stopped
before its four hours were up
because of a shocking scene (it
hadn’t been reviewed or cen-

sored) -- but not before one
DRAMATIS PERSONA had _ the
chance to tell another, ‘‘God,

you’re boring.’?

If someone should. ask Andy
Warhol, ‘‘Hey, kid, what time is
it?’?, I wonder if he would know
the answer.

Bryn Mawr - Haverford



©

tion of supernatural and earthy,
of fantasy firmly rooted in very
human emotion, which Chagall uses
in his paintings and Shakespeare
in his,play. The dreshness. of the
choreography and the exuberance
of the dancers were carried into
all the best scenes of the produc-
tion.

It becomes obvious that the
actors have been left for last. The
atmosphere was the important
thing for the play, and in certain
key scenes -- the trial of the
queen, Hermione, and the last
scene, when her ‘‘statue’? comes
to life -- the cast beautifully
sustained the atmosphere and
brug the play to life. The scenes
where the production faltered and
dragged were mostly ruined by a
number of infuriating technical
problems. The principal one was
diction. Every actor in College
Theatre or in the Haverford Drama
Club: knows, or ought to know,

A

how acoustically bad Goodhart is. ©

Many of them on Saturday night
seemed to think that this was some-
thing the audience had to grin at
and bear. So the cast was rife with
mumblers.

None of the more experienced
principals were as excruciatingly
annoying as some of the nfumblers
who forgot their lines, got prompt-
ed, and then. mumbled on again,
louder than before but more
garbled, at a ferocious pace trying
to. make up for lost time. But
there was no excuse for someone
like Steve Bennett to garble most
of his opening speeches, partic-
ularly since his_ role
Leontes was - such an
important one; his jealous lines
called for a certain amount of
ranting and raving, but to rant in
a loud mutter is to rant boring-
ly and rather ridiculdusly. When
he was_.intelligible, as he was
toward the end and in a few ex-
cellent flashes at the beginning,
he did communicate a character
of misguided authority and, at
the end, of humility.

Margaret Cool, as Perdita, and
Richard Olver as her suitor
Florizel would also have been
fine if they had been heard a bit
more. At one point this was not
entirely their fault, when --.be-
cause of staging, or their low-
key delivery, or something
they had to compete against a
background of Chris. Kopff and a
crowd of shepherdesses engaged
in a very funny bit of business
which was far too busy for the
scene.

This complaining about diction
and staging déés not mean that
there were no scenes in which
character, poetry and atmosphere
came across superbly. There
were. There was Nimet Habachy
as Paulina, the only character
with perfect command of the sit-
uation throughout, fighting off
palace guards ‘so that the king
might see what must have been
a deaf baby, with Bob Sinclair
as old Antigonus, Paulina’s hus-
band, wheezing and squealing
magnificently around her. There
was Barra Grant, with an equally
queenly warmth and control when
joking with her son (Shakespeare,
unfortuhately, did not give Ter-
tius Berwind enough lines), ‘or
standing trial, or greeting her
lost daughter. There were all the
scenes with Chris Kopff and Rich
Gartner, who were hilarious as ex-
pected. And the good and near-
good scenes were generally enough
to carry their joyful spirit through-
out the play.

Constitution Group
Chooses Chairman

The second meeting of the Con-
stitutional Revision Committee
took place Wednesday night. Terry
Newirth, the Denbigh representa-
tive, was elected chairman, and
Doris Dewton, the Pembroke’ East
representative, is secretary.

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Winter's Cale

Photos by Marian Scheuer
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, November 11, 1966





Interfaith Asks to Communicate Religious Group Sees Necessity
With Denominational Interests For Reflection On Social Action

by Madeleine Sloane
Interfaith President

The role of Interfaith should
be to act as a platform for lec-
tures, ideas, and discussion, and
as a coordinator for the denom-
inational discussion groups pres-
ently meeting on campus.

Interfaith is not an ecumenical
‘¢movement’’? where such a move-
ment heads towards a definite
goal of religious unity. It should
be an ecumenical ‘ ‘organization’?
insofar as it brings together stu-
dents of different religions
(through the discussion groups)
to try to reach mutual under stand-
ing (not necessarily agreement),
Interfaith cannot ignore the fact
of religious disunity (the mistake
of. some ecumenical attempts), or
lump different religions together
and pretend they have a great deal
in common, If it does, then false
understanding and bad feeling re-
sult, ee
What is Interfaith’s relationship
to the University Christian Move-
ment (UCM)? (See Mary Ann Sprie-
gel’s article.) Interfaith does not
really relate at all to UCM since
Interfaith includes all religions,

At Last!

(Continued from page 2)

to show that they MIGHT exist
under the BMC set-up if people
will look hard enough for them.
But the sort of change just for
the sake of change, student in-
‘volvement just for the sake of
“democracy”? etc, that he advo-
cates is not needed at BMC--at
least he has not demonstrated that
it is!

I don’t advocate complacency.
But I think he is confusing the
problems of a big university
(where he came from 7?) and a
small college -- he even talks
of ‘‘the .issues of university
government,’’ and imposing the
former willy-nilly on the latter,
without recognizing that the small
college has its own virtues and
weaknesses (important among the
latter I would ‘put the inability --
compared to 25 years ago and
earlier -- to attract and KEEP
really top-flight faculty in almost
all fields, in competition with the
large universities).

Catherine Hemphill Brown ’39
(Mrs. Stuart Brown, Jr.)

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in facilitating communications be-
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is, at present, a lack of commun-
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groups. Theoretically, every group
has a representative to the Inter-
faith board who keeps the board
informed of what her group is
doing. In practice, this isnot work-
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Two weeks ago, at EarlhamCol-
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for the fall committee meetings
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ing process of Quaker business
procedure emerged the decision
to accept charter membership in
the new University Christian
Movement, formerly the National
Student Christian Federation.

In recent years, individual Young
Friends have actively participated
in NSCF but YFNA was a ‘‘related
movement’? because of NSCF’s
credal requirement for member-
ship. UCM is a radical trans-
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not only in name and structure
but also in direction in order to
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and in today’s world.

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‘upon a creed but on the ‘‘desire -

to participate in a movement which
considers its aims and motivations
to be Christian,’? both for action
and to ‘‘reflect theologically’? on
the basis of social action. Small
local groups as well as national
groups of various Protestant de-
nominations, Roman Catholic, and
Greek Orthodox make up the pre-
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conferences and action projects
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people need not deny that the basis
of their concern for peace and
human rights is religious in order
to act effectively.

In confrontation and interaction
with individuals of different faiths
one’s understanding of his own
beliefs can be deepened. For ex-
ample as the only traditional
‘‘peace church’? in UCM, Young
Friends will have not only the re-
sponsibility to provide leadership
in this area butalso the opportunity
-to learn from those for whom a
concern for peace is the result
of inner searching in reaction to
U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Friends, especially need to ask
themselves what they really do be-
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religious basis of traditional
Quaker concerns.

The main emphasis of the new
University Christian Movement is
on the ‘‘grassroots’”? level. For
most Young Friends this means
seeking contact with individuals
from different religious traditions;
participating in interdenomina-
tional and ecumenical activities,
and being actively concerned with
religious life on campus. Demon-
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highly acceptable.

aspect of campus religious life,
need not be divisive where there is
communication and interaction
with other groups on their own and
other campuses. Bryn Mawr-'
Haverford Young Friends are look-
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with Swarthmore and Philadelphia
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groups on campus. One of the cur-
rent possibilities is work with
the Friends Project Center in
Chester where Negro teenagers
are deeply concerned about the
Vietnam war and alternatives to the
draft. Other possibilities are sem-
inars and specific topics ora non-
violence workshop. All of these
would draw on the resources of a
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Bryn Mawr-Haverford Students
Form Jewish Discussion Group

For those many critics who com-
plain that Bryn Mawr students lack
the initiative to pursue their aca-
demic interests outside of the
classroom, a weekly meeting of
about ten Bryn Mawrters and Hav-
erfordians should provide some
conflicting evidence. Every
Thursday evening at 17:30, these
students ‘meet in Stokes Hall to
study. and discuss Hebrew scrip-
ture. At the moment, they are
reading the Song of Songs in He-
brew. The following discussion
‘of the text and various commen-
taries on it is conducted both in
Hebrew and in English.

This Jewish study group de-
veloped under the guidance of Mel-
anie Sherry, ’69, and Carl Grun-
“feld, a Haverford junior. It not
only serves intellectual interests,
but also fulfills a social and re-
ligious need.

Melanie felt very strongly that
there should be some Jewish or-
ganization on campus and wrote a
letter to the NEWS stating her
opinion. Receiving a reply from
Interfaith*to go ahead with what-
ever ideas she had, Melanie joined
forces with Carl to form the pres-
ent group.

Present at the Thursday evening
meetings to help the discussions
are Professor Aryeh Kosman of
the Haverford Philosophy Depart-
ment and Professor Richard Bern-
stein, head of that department.
Last year, Mr. Kosman gave a
formal discussion session at Hav-
erford on Saturday afternoons in
which the Book of Jonah was ex-
amined. These~sessions provided
the germinal idea for the de-
veloping, informal group.

All of the participants of the

Jewish study group have had eight
years of Hebrew at the pre-col-
lege level as Well as some post-
high school courses. Several have
been in Israel, and one Haver-
fordian spent his junior year there.

The group can, however, also
serve a very important purpose
for those who have no knowledge
of the language. Melanie hopes that
there will be enough interest to
organize another study session in
English, possibly even to estab-
lish a Beginning Hebrew class at
Bryn Mawr or Haverford. Fur-
thermore, the group plans to make
arrangements to facilitate the ob-
servance of Jewish holidays. The
possibility of joining the Hillel
organization, the National Colleg-
iate Jewish Club, is even being
considered. Whether the group
joins or not, however, Melanie
intends it to be an organ for pub-
licizing Hillel activities at such
neighboring campuses as Prince-
ton and Penn,

Sometime in the beginning of
December, Carl plans to hold a
panel discussion at Haverford.

The speaker he hopes to have will
be Samuel Tobias Lachs, a visit-
ing lecturer at Haverford and
Swarthmore and a well known bib-
lical scholar. The following dis-
cussion will question the ‘‘Incon-
gruity of a Judeo-Christian So-
ciety,’? with Professor Kosman
and Professor Gerhard Spiegler
of the Haverford Religion De-
partment participating.
cussion is open to all, and im-
mediately following it will be an
organizational meeting of the group
to measure the extent of interest
in its activities,

If there is sufficient enthus-
iasm on. the two campuses, the
Jewish study group hopes to have
professors and rabbis in the area
speak On such topics as ‘‘Jews and
Existentialism?’ or ‘‘Jews and
Greek Philosophy.’’? Although the
study sessions do require back-
ground knowledge, the panel dis-
cussions certainly do not. Melanie
would appreciate all suggestions
for issues to examine and speak-
ers to address these meetings,

Bachrach on Radicals

(Continued from page 4)
ness of an individual about an
issue. After walking past ademon-
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shocked into thinking about the
war,

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can be of value is that the per-
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requires can_ relate political
issues, such as the war in Viet-
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, November 11, 1966



LSD Is Not ‘Instant Ecstasy’

Says Dr.

by Mary Kennedy

‘LSD is not here to develop
instant psychiatry, instant ecs-
tasy,’”’ emphasized Dr. Harold
Abramson in a League-Interfaith
sponsored lecture in the Common
Room last Wednesday night.

Dr. Abramson, the Director of
Scientific Research of SouthOakes
Hospital in Amityville, New York,
was discussing ‘‘Current Research
in Psychotherapy.’’ For the past
decade he had done research work
on LSD and its related compounds,
“and is presently one of the recog-
nized authorities in the field of
psychedelic drugs. The lecture
was illustrated with slides Dr.
Abramson had made of his graphs
and of such things as the effect
of LSD on snails (they writhe),

LSD;--Said Dr. Abramson, is
‘¢a new thing in our culture’’. be-
cause it is ‘‘so safe, from a
pharmacological point of view,
and yet so powerful.’’ Its enor-
mous value to psychiatry arises
from the fact that an infinitely
small amount produces a ‘‘model
psychosis.’? However, Dr. Abram-
son~ said, LSD does not produce
madness, Its effect is akin to the
delirium produced by alcohol, high
fever, or lack of oxygen. In large
doses, it produces a feeling of
‘‘transcendental experience,’’ just
as a very high fever does,

For the last nine years Dr.
Abramson has experimented with
the effects of LSD upon hisfriends
and associates (rewarding them,
he says, with ‘‘$25 and a good
meal’’), One of the first things
he found out, he’ said, was the
extreme importance of the ‘‘set-
ting’? when a dose of LSD was
administéred -- the ‘‘setting’’ be-
ing the physical surroundings and
the mental attitude of the patient.
Dr. Abramson’s experiments
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relatively low, doses of LSD. His
subjects were asked extensive
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His experiments have con-
vineed him that LSD can have a
very large part in future psy-
chotherapy, particularly in the
field of psychoanalysis, where of-
ten a mild LSD trance coupled with
a good relation with the therapist
can aid in ‘‘removing roadblocks”
in analysis, Dr. Abramson also
spoke of experiments which have
tentatively indicated that some al-
coholics can be cured bya ‘‘trans-
cendental?’? LSD experience,

Dr. Abramsou said that he per-
sonally was against curious per-
sons ‘‘just taking?’ LSD, because
there are too many factors in-
volved in an LSD experience which
must be handled by a doctor. He
said. that he wasn’t in favor of
high-dosage experiments’ with
LSD, because they do not help in
psychoanalysis, but that he had
nothing against the work of Drs.
Alpert and Leary -- except that
people who aren’t doctors of med-
icine should in no case prescribe
drugs. If they used LSD under
the auspices of a competent doc-
tor; said Dr. Abramson, he’d say
go right ahead.

In spite of the published fears
of the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, said Dr. Abramson, ‘‘I
know of no case in which LSD
has caused brain damage.’? Ad-
verse effects of an LSD ex-
perience, he says, are often caused
by a bad setting ‘or something
wrong in the mental attitude of
the taker. He says he has no sta-
tistics on the effects of unau-
thorized self-doses of LSD, and
that they have ‘‘nothing to do with
medical treatment.”’

As regards the present statutes
of the Food and Drug Administra-
tion with regard to LSD, Dr.
Abramson says that the work that
has been done in the United States
with this drug-is unusable to him;
there are too many punitive and
controlling elements. He said that
to his knowledge LSD could be
legally used only in certain vet-
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Harold Abramson In Alliance City

“We. live in a very special
time. We are not at a cross-
roads, but at the end of a road,
and beyond that road lies uncharted
wilderness. We are the primi-
tives of an unknown culture.’’ In
this way Percival Goodman, Pro-
fessor of Urban Design at Colum-
bia, opened his lecture last Mon-
day night, and the confusion of
the rest of the talk in some mea-
sure reflected the uncertainty he
describes here.

The lecture, jointly sponsored
by Alliance and Arts Council was
called ‘‘A Plan is a Forecast?’
and presumably was to deal with
city planning: in fact, it can best
be understood as a series of
remarks about a number of gen-
eral problems related in a gen-
eral way to planning in general.

Dr. Goodman recalled a state-
ment by Picasso: ‘‘What’s really
interesting is the start.’? What’s
important is not the realization
but the idea, he explained. This is
crucial in planning, because a
plan really should not merely deal
with existing problems but should
cope with problems which will
arise in the future. The incredible
rate of technological change in this
country in the last 30 years has
thus made planning for the future
even more difficult. One cannot
simply project past trends; the
classic example of the failure
of this technique is the Maginot
Line, where the French built 600
miles of fortifications based on the
strategy of World War I and in
World War II the Germans simply
walked around it. No, the best
planning comes instead from a
strong projection of the imagina-
tion to see the possibilities in-
herent in the present situations;
‘fonly in stretching the imagination
can we find reality.’? In Dr. Good-
man’s opinion, George Orwell, H,
Ge Wells and Aldous Huxley have
done better than most city plan-
ners.

The speaker went on toconsider
the existing situation. With modern
means of transportation, com-
munication, and power, ‘‘there
is no reason for a city to exist
today except a social one,’ and
New York City is a ‘‘social dis-
aster’? for most of the people who
live there, he added.

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of the present trends in society:
with computers and automation,
we can look forward, not to a
time of full employment, but where
the job is suited to the man (in-
stead of the reverse, as now)
and not everyone need work in
order to eat. We can also look
forward to the grimmer possi-
bilities of a technological society:
enslavement in a vast organiza-
tion, drift toward depersonaliza-
tion, rootless, continuity, repeat-
ability, uniformity. We must count-
eract the ‘danger of centraliza-
tion by local control, and partic-
ularly self-control. Because we
have an over-abundance of things,
we can afford to do without some
of them; ‘‘we shouldn’t drown our-
selves because we have enough
water to do it in.’’

In a somewhat unrelated fashion,
the professor next divided all goods
into three categories. There are
‘‘machine style goods,’’ like ball
bearings, designed exclusively for
efficiency. All of one kind must be
exactly the same, there must be
many of them, and they must be

‘usable’on a mass Scalé. Then there.

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goods are ends in themselves; any
practical function they have is
incidental. The third type of good
is found somewhere between
the two, “‘something like a chair

which could be mass produced but /

is so simple you don’t need abso-
lute uniformity.’’ Thus a chair can
be machine-made or it can be made
for simple aesthetic pleasure, and
Dr. Goodman spoke briefly of a
rising ‘‘handicrafts movement?’
where more people are making
things because they have the lei-
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provide for giving elements for %‘4

planning.

And finally Dr. Goodman return-
ed to planning, his point of depart-
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ning: measures to alleviate des-
perate need, measures to eliminate
needs which are not desperate, and
long range commitments. In the
first and possibly the second areas,
one may make use of pre-existing
values and interim plans, building
schools and housing to satisfy
present needs even if‘‘they are not
the ‘best thing, for the future.”
The real problem lies in planning
for the future, and since ‘‘no one
has real knowledge about the so-
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involved in the planning process?!

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