College news, September 27, 1968

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FRIDAY, owen 27, 1968



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Vol. LIV, No. 2 BRYN MAWR, PA.

Symposium Participants
To Face Cities’ Challenge







A symposium on ‘‘The Challenge
of the Cities’’ will be held in con-
junction with the annual meeting of
the Alumnae Council Nov. 14-16
on the Bryn Mawr campus.

The program will begin at 4:30
p.m. Friday with a student panel
on ‘‘Three Cities, Three Summers
and Bryn Mawr.:’ Moderating the
discussion will be Marc H, Ross,

assistant professor of political

_ Norton (M.S.S., °60) and

science. The student participants
will be Kathy Murphey (’69), Ronnie
Goldberg (’69) and Pat Rosen-
field (’70).

At 8:30 Friday.evening Mrs.
Emily Townsend Vermeule (A.B.,
*50; Ph.D., ’56) will give a talk on
‘Muted Models of the Past.’ Mrs.
Townsend, a distinguished arch-
aeologist, is a professor of Greek
and art at Wellesley College.

Following Mrs. Vermeule’s
speech will be a panel discussion
moderated by Bernard Ross,
chairman of the department of
social work and ‘research. The
discussion, entitled ‘‘People ine
Collision,’’ will be conducted by
Mrs. Christine Philpot Clark
(A.B., ’60), Mrs, Sophia Yarnall
Jacobs (A.B, ’23), Mrs. Dolores
Dr.
Virginia Nichols“ Wilking (. B.,
41).

Mrs. Clark isa consultant for
the Commission on Prevention and
Catises of Violence and a board
member on the Black Women’s
Community Development Founda-

~ tion. She has also worked as alaw-=

yer for the Poor People’s

‘Campaign.

Mrs. Jacobs is treasurer of the
American Civil Liberties Union,
a board member and former pres-
ident of the New York Urban

Miss McBride Cites
Problems, Prospects
In Opening Speech

Challenges facing the Bryn Mawr
community and prospects for the
coming year were the subject of
Miss McBride’s convocation ad-
dress on Sept, 16th.'

One of the new developments of
which Miss*McBride spoke was the
inconvenience and confusion caused
by the construction of the new li-
brary, At the same time she noted
that a local strike had delayed
work on the building and would
probably necessitate a postpone-
ment of the projected completion
date,

Miss McBride discussed changes
in the administrative structure and
in various » departments due to
leaves of absence and new ap-
pointments. She also made mention
of the class of 1972, calling the
freshmen ‘‘able, interesting, and
ready to talk.’

In elucidating the challenges of
1968-69 the president spoke of the
problems facing a small college,
difficulties posed by rising costs.
and the possibility of creating a
school of social work, In her clos-
ing remarks she expressed the
hope that various members of the
college community -- undergrad-
uates, graduate students, and
Haverford College students --
could do more to unite the ex-
periences of their different sectors
in meeting these challenges,

League and honorary president of
the National Council of Women in
the United States.

Mrs. Norton, ap instructor inthe
department’ of social work, ‘has

completed a research study on -

‘Social Environment and C ‘ognitive
Development,’’ dealing with black
and white children in Philadelphia.

Dr. Wilking heads the division of
child psychiatry at
Hospital Center and is anassistant

professor of clinical psychiatry at ©

Columbia University.

The program for Saturday will
begin at 11 a.m. with a film. on
urban planning, followed at 11:30
by a symposium on ‘‘The Livable
City.’? Moderator will be Martin
Rein, professor in the department
of social work, and participants
will include Mrs. Eugenie Ladner
Birch (A,B., ’65), Mrs. Elizabeth
Lynes Hollander (A.B., ’61), Mrs.

Barbara Miller Lane, and Mrs...
bees |

Margy E. Meyerson (M.A.,

Mrs. Bireh. was a governmen
imtern i?Caracas, Venezuela, and
is presently ¢ompleting a master’s
program in ; rban planning at Col-
umbia University School of Archil-
tecture,. _

Mrs. HeHander, a consultant on
urban planning, is curretitly
involved..in a project on housing
code entige cement in Gary, Indiana.

Mrs. Lane is an assistant pro-
fessor in the historydepartment
and is the author of ‘‘Architecture
and Politics in Germany, 1918-
1945.”

Mrs. Meyerson, a sociologist, is

presently active in housing and
parks projects in Buffalo, N.Y,
Previously she worked as an
editor, teacher and consultant in
urban studies in Philadelphia,
Berkeley and Cambridge.

The Alumnae Council’s Urban
Weekend will close at 1 p.m. Sat-
urday with an address by President
McBride on ‘The Extended
Campus.’’ :

All panel discussions will be
open to the Bryn Mawr student

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Harry’s New Bus
Due Next Week

A new blue and white school bus
will carry Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford students between the two cam-
puses beginning sometime next
week.

Superintendent Thomas Trucks
announced this week that the 48-
passenger bus is scheduled for

delivery early in the week beginn-:

ing Sept. 29. He announced at the
same time that a new ‘69 Buick
station wagon is scheduled for
delivery in mid-October.

Both the smaller Bryn Mawr bus,
known as ‘Harry’s,” and the old
station wagon will be traded in.
Harry, however, will drive the new
bus, which was jointly financed by
Bryn Mawr and Haverford. The
station wagon was financed by Bryn
Mawr. —

Trucks hopes that the size of the
new bus will help cut down on the
number of extra trips it has to make
during peak classroom time.

This year the bus leaves Haver-
ford from Stokes instead of the
Infirmary so that students can have
a warm and sheltered place to wait.
The bus. still leaves Bryn Mawr
from Pem Arch.



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Freshman Deborah . Chadwick

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photo courtesy Public Information
if she were already

contemplating the lantern which will shed light for her for the first time

on Oct. 4.



Self Gov Plans Election
Discusses Rule Changes

First on the agenda of Self-
Gov business this fall is a campus-
wide election for Self-Gov secre-
tary. Ellen Lansky, elected sec-
retary last spring, is spending
her junior year at the University
of Texas.

Other items discussed at last
Sunday’s Self-Gov advisory board
meeting were 8 a.m. signouts,
the dress rule and drinking on
campus.

Advisory board planned smooth-
er functioning of the 8a.m.system
for upperclassmen, who were
having trouble finding enough keys
at the beginning of the year. A
limited number of keys had been
given to the hall presidents as
an economy measure, since a lock
change for all dorms was under
consideration. However, the pres-
ent locks will be kept, so hall

presidents should soon have
enough keys to accomodate
everyone.

This year’s Self-Gov exam is
slated for Monday, Oct. 7. The
board decided to cut the tedious
permission-giver period and grant
freshmen full privileges (except
8 a.m. signouts) in early October.

Lack of information has held
up consideration of the contro-
versial drinking on campus issue.
When Pinky Stamen’s petition was
originally submitted last spring,
the administration agreed to have
one of their members contact a
lawyer, to discover the legal im-
plications of making Bryn Mawr
a wet campus. -At the beginning
of this year, Self Gov had not
yet received any word on this
from the administration,

Self-Gov President Kathy Mur-
phey met with Miss McBride early
this week. Miss McBride ex-
plained that the college would have
no legal problems in establishing
a@ room on campus where drinking

would be permitted, provided that
liquor was not actually sold or
served, However, the alternate
proposal, to allow undergraduates
over 21 to drink in the dorms,

might involve the college in legal
complexities since the state
would’ naturally want tight

regulation of liquor to minors.

Self Gov will. reconsider the
drinking problem in the light of
this legal knowledge, as well as
discussing the dress and 8 a.m,
issues, in an open meeting, at
6:30 p.m., Sunday.

The Class of ’72 will take
its first competitive steps in Bryn
Mawr drama with the production
of Freshman - Hall Plays. this
weekend in Skinner Workshop.

Opening. the ‘Friday night
performances will be Erdman’s
‘“‘The Undergraduate,” directed
by Elaine Ciulla. Rhoads will fol-
low with ‘My Mother Went
Here,’”? or ‘*How Many Books
Have You Got in Your Library?,”’
directed by Diane Lipton.

Robin Schauffler will direct
Denbigh in ‘‘Mission Impossible:
Our Fair Ladies.’? Pembroke

~ Best--will. close the Friday night
performances with ‘‘The Gospél*’” *

According to Pembroke,’ di-
rected by Shirley Kidd.

“The Rape a. the Seven
Sisters,’’ Siayed’ by Rockefeller
freshmen, with Judy Jackoway and
Judy Mittleman directing, will open
Saturday’s show. Merion’s play
will follow. It was untitled as
of Thursday, but directors Mindy
Mitnick and Sandy Baum said its
subject is *‘ the passionate story
of the founding of Bryn Mawr.”

Radnor’s’ play’ is. entitled
‘‘For Love of Ivy: A Thrilling
Story of -Social Protest on the
College Campus.” Cindy Friedman
is the director. “‘‘The Mummy
and the Hummingbird,’’ co-
directed by Pam _ Berich and
Julie Williams of Pembroke West,
will conclude the competition,

Winners “will be announced
after the last play Saturday by
a committee made up of College
Theatre President. Cathy Hopkins
and faculty judges including Miss
Mabel Lang.

Performances both nights be-
gin at 8 p,m,,.,andare free.



Today —
on the inside:
Bryn Mawr girls aid
Biafra movement

Student traveler views -
Middle East tension







New College Physician
Changes Campus Infirmary

Dr. Frieda Wagoner Woodruff,

who replaces Dr. Pearl S. Pitt as |

College Physician, has instituted
several changes in the school’s
infirmary this year.

One of the more obvious changes
is in decorating. The entire infir-
mary has been painted, and posters
are being put up to make the rooms

more cheerful; Anew TV andanFM |

radio have been provided for pa-
tients. All these innovations, ac-
cording to Dr. Woodruff, are to be
combined -with ‘‘ apolicy of smiling
at the customers.’’

Improvements have also been

made in the area of food service. |

Saga has provided the infirmary
with a ‘sick pantry’’ stocked with
individual servings of such items as
soup and canned fruit. Coke and
ginger ale will also be available
in large quantities, Meals. will be
modified from the standard menu to
meet the needs of the patients.

Dr. Woodruff noted that rules
governing visiting hours and rest
periods will be about the same as
last year. She does hope to use-a

photo courtesy Public Information

Dr. Woodruff
‘‘lighter hand’ where warranted,
however, in letting patients out,
Office hours have been added on
Wednesday evenings from 7 to9, At

that time Dr. Patricia Fenn, the new
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Of Relevance

Now that we are-already deeply plunged into the
academic life of Bryn Mawr, it is time for a reminder
that there is and always will be a, Work: outside Bryn.

Mawr,

This is an extremely important year for politics,
One must realize that after leaving college one
steps into that ‘‘outside’’ world with the responsibility
of being an adult. This should be enough incentive
for anyone to want to take part in its activities right

now,

In the realm of activism, many students on campus

have worked hard and planned well in the formation
of student political groups, Their aims and activities
cover a wide range: from conservative to’ liberal,
from letter writing to demonstrating, from support
to protest, They are enthusiastic and they welcome
any support or help from the rest of the campus,

Many students complain about the general irrele-
vancy of Bryn Mawr. Involving oneself in the polit-

ical events.of this year

can be a partial solution

to this problem, It is one way to occasionally step
out of the old ‘‘ivory tower’? and re-establish some

contact with the present,

2 N. M.





Fall at Bryn Mawr again, and
with the start of the 84th’ aca-
demic year, we find ourselves
confronted with another fund-rais-
ing campaign to finance a project
about which we know very little.
‘The project is a ‘long range
plan,’’ it will begin with shipments
“of food, there are members
‘there’? already, a Quaker group
has organized it, it is ‘‘a little
like the Peace Corps,’’? ... and
it will hopefully help save the
Starving Biafrans or at least im-
prove their situation.

Students will ask us individually
to. contribute; they will ask the
faculty, teams will canvass the
surrounding Bryn Mawr homes.
Needed money will be raised and
sent to Philadelphia, and the pro-
ject will come into being. With our
pockets a little emptier, we shall
be left with the feeling of having
helped -- but how?

The present situation in Biafra

Series to Offer

This year the Bryn Mawr film
series will offer a greater variety
of more current movies in order

- to provide an arena for discussion

as well as entertainment,

By presenting more _ topical
films, Vicky Yablonsky, whois or-
ganizing the series, hopes to en-
courage more faculty members as
well as students to attend the Tues-
day night showings.

Rather then have a standard
rate for the entire series as has
been done in the past, there will

| Letter to the Editor
a the fitior:

is truly outrageous and something
must be done about it, but is this
project the best way to aid the
Biafrans? We have no way of
knowing. One can argue that any
effort at all is better than none,
but is it wise to contribute blindly
and then consider that we have done
at Bryn Mawr what we can for the
Biafrans?

It would seem that if one has
committed oneself to aiding the
starving Ibo even in a minimal
way, One ought to accept the re-
sponsibility of studying the pro-
posed project more carefully. One
ought also to consider not one
but several ways of contributing
aid before making a decision, The
project for which Bryn Mawr (or
part of it at least) is now busily
raising funds has not been ade-
quately presented to the students,
and it would seem unfair to ex-
pect them to contribute to a pro-
ject so sketchily described.

Ellen Hooker ‘71

Current Movies

be a $.75 charge for each film,
which can be billed to payday. The
profits from the series will be
used by Arts Council to finance
additional projects on campus.
The series of 22 films, which
begins Oct. 8, will include ‘‘La
Dolce Vita,” ‘Loves. ofa Blonde,’’
*‘Eclipse,’ ‘‘The Gospel Accord-

ing to Saint Matthew,’ ‘‘Darling”’
and ‘‘Persona.”’ In addition to the
regular Tuesday night 7:30 and
9:30 shows there will be weekend
showings of more important films.

Chicagoan Blames Mayor Daley

For Slanted Convention Coverage

\ The nightmare of events surrounding the Demo-
cratic Convention in Chicago was shocking beyond
explanation to people across the: ‘country. Tosome-
one like myself, a life-long resident of that city,
emotions took on an added dimension of horror and
dismay.

There is no way to describe the feeling that
comes of seeing armed troops lining thé streets
of one’s city, as any resident of a riot-torn area
must know. The realization that residents of
Chicago (to say nothing of visitors) were being
deprived of the right to walk along downtown
streets by police overwhelmed me with anger.
The fact that one had to pass through a police line
to get into the Conrad Hilton Hotel left not one

iota of exaggeration in the epithet ‘police state.” ;

The comparison between Chicago and Prague could
not have been more appropriate.

The vicious actions of many of the Chicago police
and the’ authoritarian control. which Mayor Daley
held over the convention are familiar to nearly
everyone, What may not be so apparent is _ the in-
credible rationalization which has been constructed
since the convention to save face for both the city
and the mayor. The leading element in this pro-
paganda campaign (there is no other word for it)
has been the ‘‘Chicago Tribune”, an arch-con-
servative newspaper which, for as many years as
I can remember, has endorsed only one Democrat
for any public office; Richard Daley.

Beginning at the time of the first demonstra-
tions and continuing for several days after the
convention, words such as ‘trioters’> and ‘mob
action”? pervaded the news reports. Daily tallies
of the mayor’s mail were given, always stating
overwhelming support for the police. Mayor Daley
pouted about the ‘‘unfair and one-sided reporting
by television of the Grant Park disturbances. He
implied that charges of Niolence perpetr ated against
newsmen were not to be taken very seriously, and
he accused many reporters.(except Walter Cron-
kite) of being hippies or teft-wing radicals.

During the week following the convention a
scathing attack was leveled against the National
Mobilization Committee, primary organizer of
the demonstrations. Reports from administration
and ‘¢Tribune’’ ‘‘undercover agents’’ told of pre-
parations by. N.M.C. for. violence and for take-
over of both the convention and the city. The
charges were refuted by David Dellinger, head of
the Mobilization, but his rebuttals were never
printed. In one of his rare interviews the mayor
declared that most or all of the leaders in Grant
Park had~been communists, implying that this

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fact alone justified every retaliatory action from
summarily arresting them to beating them uncon-
scious. Anyone who‘was not a communist, accord-
ing to Daley, was a dumb kid who didn’t know what
he was doing. Many of those arrested were reported
to be ‘‘outsiders” from such havens of subversion
as New York and California.

Accusations of this, type were aired extens.vely
in newspapers like the ‘‘Tribune,’’ on. certain
television programs, and in the. mayor’s 77-page
analysis of the convention week. In many instances
they were flatly erroneous, ‘in others they totally
excluded one side of the issue from their coverage.
Naturally, this was not true of all the news media.
Several newspapers and broadcasting networks
made honest attempts topresent stories objectively,
and many were openly critical of the city’s handling

of the convention.

Nevertheless, the effect on hundreds of people
was to erase the vision presented by TV cameras
during the convention and to completely obscure
the critical issues. The police were portrayed as
benevolent defenders of the city. The numerous

injuries to demonstrators, newsmen and bystanders

were ascribed to a few policemen who ‘“‘may. have
over-reacted.’’ Similarly, Mayor Daley became an
immense municipal father-figure to people who
could not (or would not) look beyond the platitudes,
with which he surrounds himself. On the other

~ hand, all those involved in the demonstrations
~-were indiscriminately characterized as armed
communists out to destroy the city. \

_ This manipulation of the public was, in. my
opinion, as tragic and as frightening as the events
themselves. Erroneous presentation of facts and
blatant yellow journalism were unchallenged in

many cases; and where they were challenged, the.

cries of outrage frequently went unheard by the
majority of citizens. Meanwhile, the vicious de-
struction of democracy inside the convention hall.
was forgotten in the commotion over ‘*Who Threw
the First Stone?’

If the 1968 Democratic Convention is to be a
model for political events to come, then the cities

of America should avoid them ‘at all costs, No
selfish politician, no political party has the right
to sacrifice the beauty and warmth of a city, as

Mayor Daley and the Democrats did. AsaChicagoan, * .

I hope it is many years before another convention
comes to Chicago. By then, perhaps, the dignity of
the city will be restored and a new administration
will have the wisdom and open-mindedness to cope
with such a responsibility.

Sally Dimschultz

Student Answers Doves

In Vietnam Controversy

The following article was re-
ceived in response to the suggestion

that the editorial page might serve’

as a vehicle for student opinion on
college issues or world affairs. '

The opinions expressed in
“Viewpoint” do not necessarily re-
flect the opinion of the editorial
board of the COLLEGE NEWS. --
Ed.

Much of the opposition to the
Vietnam war centers onthe charge
that this country is morally wrong
in attempting to contain com-
munism, And, all too frequently,
this charge has not been answered,
for one reason or another, thereby
giving credance to the claim.

But we are not interfering with
self-determination and national
rights; rather, we are defending
them. So this country does have a
moral right to join with the South
Vietnamese in their effort against
communist aggression. The gov-
ernment of North Vietnam is a
one-party dictatorship which does
not recognize the rights of the in-
dividual, which holds that a few
are allowed forever to rule the
majority. We have no desire to

topple the government of North

Vietnam; we merely wish to keep
that country from extending. its
dominion by terrorism and subver-
sion.

Every man has a right to be

free, or so we say. The South

Vietnamese, then, as men, have
the same right to be free that we
‘claim for ourselves. If we deny



them that right, we deny our own
freedom, just as when we defend
their right to be free, we protect
our own freedom. ‘‘Every man is
‘a, part of the whole, and every
man’s death diminishes me.’’
There is, of.course, the anti-
war contention that we are inter-
. vening in a civil war and that, be-
cause it is a civil dispute, it’ is
wrong for us to aid one of the

combatants. Even if we grant the

assumption that Vietnam is em-
broiled in a purely civil conflict,
the United States still has a right
to intervene. The Viet Cong are
depriving the South Vietnamese
of their rights. Now, even if the
Communists could do so by vote,
they do not have the right to take
away the liberties of others. For
rights are not subject to majority
rule. Free men anywhere have
the moral obligation to assist other
free men fighting for their liberty,
whether it be in Vietnam, Hungary,
Cuba, Auschwitz or Mississippi.
If, in 1778, the French had not
recognized this obligation, Ameg-
ica might not have existed today.

While we believe that the U.S,
has the right to help the South
Vietnamese, however, we cannot
believe that the policy to which
President Johnson has committed
this nation_is necessarily the
wisest or the best by any means.
Our foreign policy is at present
so fraught with contradictions that
fighting in Vietnam makes less

sense than it would under happier .

circumstances, We tolerate a dic-

tatorship in Cuba while defendinga
government in South Vietnam which
is only less questionable than that
of the aggressor. We encourage
trade with the allies of that aggres-
sor. We send American soldiers
into combat to stalemate the war.
And here is the immorality, a
President tilting at windmills and
a thoroughly baffled set of ad-
visors committing American citi-
zens to fighting a war that the
said President and advisors have
clearly shown themselves incap-
able of conducting. It is time to
give someone else a chance.
Roberta Jacobs



Because Self Gov is such a vital
part of student life at Bryn Mawr,
the campus should be kept
informed of its activities.

We urge students to attend the
open meetings of Self Gov Sunday
nights at 7 p.m. in the College

-Inn. Your opinions will be
welcome.





All freshmen are invited to
have coffee and to meet
members of the Bryn Mawr
College Theatre and the
Haverford Drama Club in the
Common Room of Goodhart
at 3 p.m. Sunday.









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Campus ‘Rallies to Support Biafra Former College Employee

A group of Biafran students from
the Phila, area, under the direction
of Bryn Mawr Senior, Dora Obia-
julu Chizea, will present a per-
formance of African music and
dancing for the benefit of the
Biafran Relief Fund this Sunday.
at 7:30 p.m. in Erdman Hall,

The program will also feature
a speaker who will explain in
greater detail the conditions now
existing in Biafra due tothe
Nigerian Civil War,

The performance will be the
second major fund raising event for
Biafran Relief to be held in the
Philadelphia area during the past
two weeks, The first event was a

vigil held last, Friday at City Hall _

in Philadelphia, The vigil started
at 7 p.m, and continued until almost
midnight. Passers-by stopped tg.
watch as 50-100-students circled
in front of the Hall--each holding
a candle--marching to the beat
of an African drum,

' The vigil was organized primar-
ily by a group of students at
Templé University, whose growing
concern over the plight of the Ibo
people has resulted in the forma-
tion of the Philadelphia Chapter of
the American Committee to Keep
Biafra Alive. The Committeewas
first established in New York, but
now under the-direction of Pro-
fessor Jim Mullins .of Temple
University and his student co-
worker, Don Calabrese, Phila-
delphia has become yet another
center for Biafran Relief.

Interfaith Plans

Worship Series

Interfaith will hold the first of
a series of ‘‘sample worship ser-
vices’’ Sunday evening Sept. 29, at
5:30, The service has been tent-
atively .scheduled to be held in
Erdman’s pit.

Rabbi Theodore H, Gordon of the
Main Line Reform Temple, Beth
. Elohim, Wynnewood, will, conduct
the first service, Following a gen-
eral format Interfaith has set up,
a compact half-hour service will
be held and will be followed by
dinner and discussion with Rabbi
Gordon,

As a part of the service the
Rabbi will speak on Jewish folk



photo courtesy Interfaith
Rabbi Gordon

and sacred music, a subject which
has been of special interest to
him, He. studied under one of the
foremost authorities in the field,
Dr, A, Z, Idelsohn. For a number
of years Rabbi Gordon has inter-
preted Jewish music from the pul-
pit and platform through lecture
and song. ’

Rabbi Gordon received his B.A,
Degree from the University of
Minnesota and was ordained rabbi
at the Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion in 1933,
He received an honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity from the In-
stitute in 1958,

Interfaith’s series will continue
with samples of Unitarian,
Mormon, Quaker, Christian Scien-
tist and Buddhist worship services.
They will be held on the last Sunday
_ of every month at 5:30 p,m.

Since the beginning of. the
summer Biafra has. been in the
headlines, yet few people are aware
of the extremity of the situation
in. that country, where millions

have died of starvation--mostly

small children and babies--and
thousands continue to die with
each succeeding day.

Many have expressed their con-
cern over the plight of the Ibo
people and this’ ‘‘crime against
humanity,’’ but in most cases the
inability to DO anything to help
has been . an overwhelming
problem, The Red Cross was able
to ship food. and necessary supplies
for a brief period, but their efforts
at reaching the people have been
continually thwarted by political

red tape--and so the deaths
continue, — .
The vigil in Philadelphia on

Friday was called '‘‘a symbol of
hope,’’ but it was much more than
a sympathetic gesture. It was an
attempt first to make people aware,

‘then concerned, then actively in-

volved, It was.an attempt to gain
public support and personal com-
mitment. And all in all it was
a successful one, Donations re-
ceived amounted to approximately
$300; publicity was invaluable,

The Philadelphia Chapter of the
Committee to Keep Biafra Alive
has only been recently organized.
It has sprung into existence within
the past two weeks and is rapidly
gaining momentum as more and
more colleges and universities
lend their support. The vigil was
its first fund raising event to reach
the general public, 4nd since then
Bryn Mawr has become actively
involved in the campaign, Students
all over campus are contributing
money and signing petitions which
will put pressure on the U.N,
to prevent the shipment of arms off
any country tothe Federal Govern-
ment of Nigeria, which has so
far been receiving arms from
Britain,

The Committee’s: primary
purpose, of course, is to supply
Biafra with the food and medicine
it so desperately heeds, and
specific steps are being taken
now to do just this, The money
collected since Es beginning of

~~ Guide To The Perplexed

ALL WEEKEND

Shubert Theatre

‘«Her First Roman’’
Spectrum Theatre

*‘The Queen’s Guards’’
Arcadia

‘«Rosemary’s Baby’
Boyd

‘«The Sand Pebbles’”’
Bryn Mawr

‘¢Hagbard and —
Cinema 19

‘*For Love of Ivy’’
Eric

**Tsabel’

- Fox

*«The Stranger Returns’
Goldman

‘*Hang ’Em High’
Lane

‘
Midtown

**Rachel, Rachel,’’ and ‘‘Helga’’

Milgram
‘‘Deadfall’’
Palace

‘‘Fever Heat’? and “Five Card Stud’’

Randolph

*<2001: A Space Odyssey’’

Regency
‘*The Odd Couple’’
Stanley

*‘¢Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’’

Theatre 1812
*«The Producers’’
' Trans-Lux
‘«Therese and Isabelle**
World
*«Hagbard and Signe”’
Yorktown
‘«The Fifth Horseman I

Alcove >



ear’’
Bruce Davidson Photography Exhibit, East

this week will go. directly to the
Israeli pilot, Abie Nathan, who will
be making his third flight into

Twenty-eight. years ago George

Biafra with relief supplies today, Bryan came to Bryn Mawr to assist
Nathan has made two previous at the Maid’s Bureau for two weeks,

flights and continues to risk his
life. with each new shipment,

He has been here ever since, Octo-
The ber 22 his ‘two weeks’’ will end

Committee will continue tosupport as he becomes the proprietor of
Nathan as long as he continues the Progress Bookstore. He is one

his flights; but it is also coopera-

ting with the World Council of make
‘Churches and the Catholic Relief Plaza,

of nine small businessmen who will

history. when Progress
the nation’s first black-

Service to give aid wherever the owned shopping center opens Oc-

possibility of helping exists,

The Committee is not politica
in nature, It is a humanitarian
effort to alleviate starvation and

tober 22 in North Philadelphia.

Progress Plaza
Zion Investment Associates. The
650 stockholders are all mem-

prevent the extermination of the bers: of the Zion Baptist Church.

Ibo people of Biafra, and it will
continue to enlist the support of
all those willing to help in this
effort throughout the Cee cones
and. months,

The student response here at
Bryn Mawr has been good, and is
expected to grow as more people
are made aware of the extremity
of the situation. Nathan has made
films on the present conditions in
Biafra which he himself witnessed
during his two previous visits
to that war-torn country. These
films as well as more information
on the subject will soon be made
available to students at Bryn Mawr
and Haverford,

Mary Schopbach |

World Affairs Forum
Planned for October

The Bryn Mawr College Alliance
for Political Affairs plans to hold
a student forum on international
political and social developments
at 8:30 p.m., Oct. 9, in the Bryn
Mawr Common Room,

Students who have travelled or
studied abroad recently and would
like to share some of their exper-
iences and insights with the BMC-
Haverford community should notify
Barbara Elk in Erdman by sorts
Sept. 29.

Similarly, any BMC or Haverford
students who were in Chicago
during the Democratic National
Convention are requested ts con-
tact Barbara regarding a possible
discussion of the Chicago events.

Mitten Hall,



photo courtesy George Bryan
George Bryan anticipates new

career in. business.

Each investor paid $360 - $10'

a month for 36 months. The

‘Program began’ in 1962 with 50

investors, Today, the total in-
vestment has reached $250,000.

Zion Investment’s first project
was Zion Garden, a middle and
low income housing complex. Last
June it opened Progress Aero-
space Indutries Inc. which has
already signed a 2.5 million dol-
lar contract with G.E, Last month
it opened Progress Garment. Co,

~The idea for the shopping cen=..
‘ike the previous projects,

tex,
was conceived within the Zion
Baptist Church. In George Bryan’s

Temple University (Ad-

mission Free)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

8:00 p.m. Freshman Hall Plays, Skinner
Workshop, (Admission free)

9:00 p.m.-Dance. Internationale, featur-
ing Al Raymond’s Orchestra, Audi-
torium, International House, Phila-
delphia (Admission $2, 00)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
8:00 p.m, Freshman Hall Plays, Skin-
ner Workshop, (Admission Free)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
: 2:00 p.m, Walking Tour of Historic Phil-
adelphia, International House (Ad-
mission $1.50)
3:00 p.m, Coffee Hour, Spanish House
3:00 p.m. College Theatre Tea, Common

les,
Bells,

Room, Goodhart
7:00 p.m. Stage Show featuring Ray Char-
Patti La Belle and the Blue
(Philadelphia Civic Center,
Admission $3 - 5,00)
7:30 p.m, Judy Collins Concert, Acad-

emy of Music, Philadelphia (Admis-
sion $2.75 - 4,75)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
4:00 p.m, Bryn Mawr-Haverford Philos-

phy Departments present Dr, Ivan
Svitak from Prague,
‘*Marxist

speaking on
Humanism,’’ Common

Room, Goodhart,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1
7:30 p.m, Opening of National Theatre
of the Deaf, ensemble from clas-

sical drama to poetry to comedy
and modern vignettes, Theatre of

of the Living Arts, Philadelphia.

is owned by,





Opens His Own Business

words Progress Plaza was a‘ ven-
ture in faith.’’

“It is not the first time some-
one has thought of it but it is
the first time it has ever suc
ceeded. In the past, fraudulent
agents undermined similar plans, ©

“It was a venture in faith be-
cause faith was the only path
left.’?

George got into Progress Plaza
on request. When the American
Baptist Convention learned of the
plans for Progress Plaza they
asked if a bookstore could be
opened there. The Rev. Leon H.
Sullivan, pastor of the Zion Bap-
tist Church, asked George to run
the bookstore because of his con-':
nection with Bryn Mawr,

George, a deacon of the church,
sees the store as ‘‘another means
of putting people to a better way
of life through the selection of,
books.’’ The store is not a ‘black
bookstore,’’ George ‘said, ‘‘but you

-@an.be sure I'll find the best

books that tell the black peoples’
history.’’

Bryan speaks of Zion Invest- |
ments’ achievements with hope
and pride. All of them were cre-
ated by church members’ ideas
and investments. ‘‘The Negroes
are learning to compete in the
white man’s business world,’’ he
said. ‘‘We’ve learned how_to ap-
peal to the government and e
foundations for grants and loans.
We don’t want to compete with
the whites, we just want to com-
pete,’’

He leaves Bryn Mawr: with re-
gret. ‘‘We’ve had a lot of fun to-
gether,’’ he said.. He enjoyed
the drama here most. He first —
came to help the maids and por-
ters put on ‘Porky and Bess.’
He later married the girl who
played Bess. He leaves with re-
gret - regret and hope for the
future,

Phoebe Mix

Grad’ Records: First
In Series of Exams

Three examinations will be ad-
ministered during the 1968-1969
academic year for seniors whose
plans,for next year include gradu-
ate school, teaching, or govern-
ment service.

The Graduate Record Examina-
tions, required for admission to
many graduate schools, will be .
offered at Haverford College on
October 26 and will include an
aptitude test and advanced tests of
achievement in 22 major fields
of study. Other test dates are:
Dec, 14, Jan, 18, Feb. 22, April
26, and July 12. Full details
and application forms for the GRE
are contained in the ‘‘Bulletin of
Information for Candidates,’ —
which is available in the Dean’s
office.

Prospective teachers’ should
plan to take the National Teacher
Examinations, given on Noy. 9,
Feb. 1, April 12, and July 19.
The exams are in two parts, one
measuring professional prepara-
tion and general cultural back-
ground, and the other measuring
mastery of the subject expected to
be taught. The ‘Bulletin of In-
formation for Candidates” con-
tains a list of test centers, a
registration form, and other
information.

On November 16, the Federal
Service Entrance Examination will
be administered on the Bryn Mawr
campus for students interested in
government employment, This
test, open to all seniors and grad-
uates in any academic major ex-
cept engineering, the physical
sciences, and a limited number of
technical fields, covers only verbal

and reasoning abilities ~and
requires no_ specific subject
matter. For details about the

FSEE, the Bureau of Recommen-
dations should be consulted.




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Friday, September 27, Si al



‘Sala Visits New Britain:

Lives in ‘Hillbilly’ Environmen

For those of you struggling in
‘various courses with the concept
of ‘primitive man,’’ with a pic-
ture of a Tarzan-ish savage liv-
ing (remarkably) without the bene-
fits of our ‘‘highly advanced”’ civi-
lization, Miss Jane Goodale’s ex-
perience should be enlightening.

Miss Goodale, a professor of
anthropology here at Bryn Mawr,

spent her leave last year on the .

island of New Britain in the South-
western Pacific ‘‘studying the
natives,’’

Actually this was Miss Goodale’s
third trip to this island, the other
two being in 1962 and 1963-64,
This time she stayed ten and one-
half months in the village of Ange-
lek, ten miles from “‘civilization,’’
which in this case meant agovern-
ment outpost at Kandrian. The.
purpose of her trip was to fill

in some of the data gaps-of-her—

previous trips and: to study how
the Australian government and
Catholic missionaries have affect-
ed these people,

The obvious question to ask is,
‘‘What are the differences between
this primitive, pagan culture and
our own civilized one?’’ Strange-
ly— itis the-similarities. and not
the differences which prove most
interesting.

Hillbilljes and Cannibals

Differences do exist of course,
These people are the ‘‘hillbillies’’
of Melanesfa, said Miss Goodale,
and thus are unsophisticated rath-
er than primitive. Technologically
they’re hortoculturists, their main
crop being taro, a starchy root.
With the advent of modern ideology
they are. beginning to ‘think in
terms of cash crops, and coffee
and coconut are planted for profit.
Along with the crops, their sub-
sistence includes wild fruits and
vegetables, small game and birds
and bats hunted with an eighteen-
foot blow-gun.

Their social organization is not
reminiscent— of ‘*home’’ either.
Argelek, where Miss Goodale lived
in a government rest house, is

_ the ‘official village of the area,
where married couples must main-

“is

tain homes; its population is about
130 on Mondays, when community
projects are organized; but the rest
of the week, they scatter into small
hamlets, a mile or two apart, living
in extended family situations of
no more than 10 people.

There still persist a few tra-
ditions which we would term prim-
itive, like binding the heads of
children to elongate them and
blackening boys’ teeth, both signs
of beauty.
with. white teeth were termed
‘¢cannibals,’’

But as time marches on and
civilization marches in, these
superficial traditions are subtly
fading. Traditions. of a more
deep-rooted nature still persist,

since these Melanesians, or Kaw-

long, are conservatives.

Difficult Converts

Missionaries have told Miss
Goodale that these Kawlong are
the most difficult converts they’ve
ever had. They are quite ready
to accept the Catholic religion and
participate in all the rituals, but
God to them is just another spirit
who helps control their daily lives.
They have many _ taboos--con-
veniently pertaining to anything
out. of the ordinary and not done
anyway. They practice magic
frequently and, surprisingly,
magic formulge are increasing
with the advent of modern tech-
nology. Sorcery is also practiced,
since it-is illegal now to just
go and kill your enemies.

The main targets of sorcery
are naturally the leaders of the
community. These leaders and
their situation provided a home-

like atmosphere for Miss Goodale.

They were the wealthiest men in
the area, and thus comparable to
our Wall Street giants, since the
Kawlong society focuses ona cred-

, it economy where everything has:

a monetary value and the main
aim is one of buying and selling--
primarily pigs.
predominately | gold-dipped
shells found only‘on another island.
A crisis occurred when there was
a great influx of these due to
more young men going to this

In fact, those people:

The cucc®icy

island to work.

The community leaders, how-

ever, ate not leadérs in the realm
of law and order. There is very
little order here because of the
social disunity. The family \has
_jurisdiction over its members
and, since most people e
apathetic, the only formal legal
process occurs in a trial by or-
deal. The trial consists of the
accused drinking or washing his
hands in sacred water,
guilty the water will deform or
even kill him. -Since the sup-
posedly innocent may drink safe-
ly, this water can have no
physical poisonous effect, but there
is so much superstition connected
with it that the guilty often expose
themselves by refusing to drink
or if they do, it can have a
psychological effect.

Today the Australian govern-
ment, which has dominion under
the U.N. over New Britain, is
trying to establish a new, more
modern system. They are hitting
the Kawlong where it hurts them
most--in their pocketbooks -to stop
the apathy. When someone’s
property is stolen, all the people
are taxed to pay for it unless the
culprit is turned in. The two
legal systems, like Christianity
and animism, are coexisting at
the moment.

Old and New Coexist

The old and new coexist in the
case of marriage customs also.
Traditionally pre-marital sex was
punishable by death or marriage
in the form of a shot gun wed-
ding but, since today the death
punishment is outlawed, parents
marry their daughters off as soon
as they reach puberty to avoid
their committing what is consider-
ed a dreadful sin. Men, on the
other hand, marry much later,
primarily out of fear of the tradi-
tional taboos, which say contact
with women can kill, The society
-is polygynous but most marriages
seem to be monogamous, probably
under the principle that one woman
is bad enough.

Lisa Lyons

How To Be A TV Quiz Kid:
Ashley Doherty Tells It Like It Is

‘‘T have a total lack of discrim-
ination --- [ll read anything,’’
revealed .sophomore Ashley
Doherty in the September issue of
Seventeen Magazine.

During three one-hour long-dis-
tance calls from New York this
summer, Ashley,. captain of last
year’s College Bowl team, dis-
cussed everything from SDS to the
literay content of cereal boxes,
helping Seventeen feature writer
Susan Isaacs prepare a story on
College Bowl, the intercollegiate
battle of brains. %

Seventeen, which co-sponsors
the program ‘with General Electric,
wanted a special report on various
aspects of College Bowl, and Ashley
was one of eight collegiate com-
petitors who were chosen‘to de-
scribe their preparations for, ex-
periences on and evaluations ofthe
show.

Claiming that her indiscriminate
reading habits were the basic .of
her four television appearances
last fall, Ashley is quoted as having
re-read her Bobbsey Twins books
this .summer; “I was horrified;
"they were so patronizing toward |

their maid!’’
Contacted three times by Seven-

teen, Ashley was uncertain from the
beginning as to what part her tele-
phone comments. would play in the
article,

We talked about such a variety
of topics and they would call right



were - iN

photo courtesy Revanteen Magazine

Lack of discrimination brings
‘success.

in the middle of the day. I kept
watching the minutes tick by and
wondering how much the calls would
cost.

‘‘The first call from Susan Isaacs
was devoted to facts about College
Bowl and how IJ had been chosen,”
Ashley said. “But the second one
was an attempted indepth analysis
of my personnality. Unfortunately,
I was in an off-depth mood,’?

After asking a number of pro-
found questions which Ashley
countered with fittingly vague ans-
wers, Miss Isaacs ‘admitted that
she. was trying to make Ashley
into an “alienated intellectual,’’

‘She kept asking me if I had been
lonely in high school and. wanted



me to say that I was an intel-
lectual. Of course I didn’t. I had
wild visions of someone at Bryn
Mawr writing a letter to the editor
of Seventeen saying ‘Oh, so she
thinks she’s an intellectual. Well,
I sat next to her in Freshman Comp
and: .. 7’

A second writer for Seventeen
also contacted Ashley for another

.September article. The woman had

heard from Miss IsaacS what a
‘«swell gal’? Ashley was and wanted
her comments for. the story, ‘What
the College Catalogs Don’t Tell
-You,’?

**T spent two months worrying
about what strange things they were
going to print and attribute to me,’’
Ashley said. ‘‘I built up a reserve
supply of intestinal fortitude just to
face people when the magazine
came out, but none of my-profound
‘‘words of wisdom’’ were used. In
the second article,
anonymous remark was that the
Bryn Mawr college catalog doesn’t
warn you that your underwear will |
turn green if you. wash _ it -with
your class of ‘71 gym suit.”

Cathy Hoskins

If he is:

my single

Journey Across Siberia
+ Features ‘Motley Crew’

Miss Frances de Graaff, chair-
man of the Russian department,

and Mrs, Ruth Pearce, assistant*

professor of Russian, spent an un-
forgetable month this summer rat-
tling through Siberia onthe Trans-
Siberian Railroad, This is how
it happened:

Miss de Graaff and Mrs. Pearce
flew to San Francisco, where they

New gilt or ‘ancient domes?

wite -joined by William Fry of
Franklin and Marshall’s Russian
department. Then they flew on to
Tokyo.

In Yokahama, a portnear Tokyo,
they boarded. a Russian steamer,
A three-day and two-night trip
with ‘‘a motley crew,’’ as Miss
de Graaff put it, brought them to
Nakhodka in Siberia, The reason
for such divergenée among the
passengers was that the Trans-
Siberian Railroad provides the in-
expensive way for Orientals, Aus-
tralians and others to get to
Europe,

Miss de Graaff and Mrs. Pearcé
can. testify that many of their
fellow passengers made the trip
on virtually no money. They be-
friended and nourished an English
boy and a Japanese boy who were
subsisting during the trip on bread,
the cheapest food available,

The train was dirty and uncom-
fortable- too hot in the daytime,
too cold at night, Nevertheless,
the Russian professors concur that
the trip was worth the physical
discomforts, for it gave them the
opportunity to meet a true cross-
section of the people--starting with
the big, red-faced woodsman who
apologized for his lack of edu-
cation, explaining that he was
originally from Lithuania and that
every time he would finish a grade
of school, the country would be
captured by a different power, and
he would have to begin again;
and ending with ‘the woman of the
streetcar who really wanted to hear
about the standard of living in
America, but after having heard,
added, ‘‘But, then, you have a lot
less freedom there, don’t you?’

Miss de Graaff and Mrs. Pearce
found the people proud of their own
cities and each city. flourishing
with much new construction, From
Irkutsk, ‘an old city in eastern
Siberia, they made an excursion to
Lake Baikal, the largest fresh
water lake in Asia and the deepest
lake in the world, There they ate
specially prepared fish, admired
the crystal clear water but
declined to bathe because of the
frigid water,

The. next stop on their trip was
“Novosibirsk, a center for science
and research, The brightest stu-
dents in Siberia are brought there

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icine in Russia is quite effective,

‘better-dressed, she said, and the

‘upon discovering that the three









to prepare for careers in science,
Miss de Graaff noted especially »
how healthy the school-children
looked and the fact that most of
them did not need glasses. She
spoke with many people about this
and concluded that preventive med-

In Middle Asia camels were a
main. attraction for the traveling







































photo SOuRtNET George Kline

professors, Mrs, Pearce even.
ventured to ride ohe.
The professors’ said _ that

throughout the trip they had good
luck with their guides, who were
students or teachers and therefore
interesting to be with,

. Miss de Graaff broke her arm
in Sochi, and thus she hada chance
to become acquainted with the state
of Soviet medicine, All medical
care is free, Salaries are getting
higher, Miss de Graaff spoke
with a ‘‘feldscher’’ (whose training
is between that of a doctor and a
nurse), who did not plan toBecome -
a doctor, for he said that he would
hardly earn much more money than
he already. did, There are,
apparently, so many people with
training that it is hard to find a
cleaning woman,

Mrs, Pearce, who had last been
in Russia nine years ago, found ©
Moscow much changed, Steel
buildings and new gilt on the ancient
domes make a special impression
on the visitor, The people are

women, are more _ fashion-
conscious, Some women even dye
their hair now; red is the fashion-
able color, :

Both Miss de Graaff and Mrs,
Pearce think their trip was a suc-
cessful one, Mrs, Pearce enjoyed
especially the hospitality of the
Soviet Georgians. A jovial group
of Georgians that they encountered,

professors were Americans, tried
to make them feel at home by
mentioning in friendly fashion the
name of Nixon, apparently unaware }
of Nixon’s cold-war stance toward |
the USSR;

Color slides taken throughout the
trip by Miss de Graaff and Mrs, |
Pearce will probably be shown soon
to the campus Russian Club,

Bunny Kline |

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Evokes Cheers, Jeers

The crowd stretched out indef-
initely on either side of Chestnut
Street last Friday afternoon, Sept.
20, waiting for the motorcade that
was to mark the opening of Rich-
ard Nixon’s campaign in the Phila-

_ delphia area._The crowd was'thick,
but the mood was ill-defined. Nixon
fans handed out campaign buttons
to , passers-by “a **Nixon’s the
One.”” Many accepted the buttons,
but almost equally as many re-
fused to commit themselves, It
was rather an uneasy mixture of
‘ardent enthusiasm and speculative
curiosity -- and it was not with-
out elements of total disapproval.

The motorcade itself was
marked by the usual cheering and
confetti throwing. Confetti poured
out of-windows and off balconies

of every building lining Chestnut ,
Street, at times-hitting spectators.

“in huge. wads. Ardent Nixon fans
carried signs reading, ‘“Get Law
and Order - Vote for Nixon.’’

As-the motorcade progressed a
group of about 10 students ap-
peared out of the midst of the
crowd, walking in the opposite

_direction.. .They were members
of the counter-demonstration for
Nixon and were carrying signs of
protest “Youth -Says No to
Nixon’’ and ‘Nixon for Sheriff.’’
Most of the students were from
University of Pennsylvania’ --
many of them disillusioned Re-
public ans. One girl identified her-
self‘4as an Independent. Her point

of view was more or less rep-
resentative of the group. .
*tThe country needs a change
and the Republican party should
offer this change,’’ she told this
reporter, ‘‘but Nixon offers only a
phase of change. We need more
than recourse to law and order.
We need creative, effective solu-
tions to correct the disorder from
within, If Nixon getS the Presi-
dency this time the really effec-
tive Republicans -- among them
Lindsey and Rockefeller -- will
most likely lose a chance at the

“Presidency in 1972.’’

But she could only foresee four
or possibly eight years of lead-
ership under Nixon followed by a
return to a Democratic adminis-
tration. As far ‘as she was con-
cerned, Humphrey offeredfew good
alternatives, -but'-was the lesser”
of two evils. ‘‘Indeed,’’: she said,
‘¢twe have little choice. The pros-

pect for any change is dim,” .

As we talked many passers-by
stopped to show their disapproval.
Several commented on this anti-
Nixon display. %

“Do you want more taxes??
asked one elderly man. He was
obviously enraged. ‘‘That’s what
Humphrey has to offer. You’re
young -- too young to know.” One
woman looked long and hard at
the sign ‘‘ Youth Says No to Nixon,’’
‘‘That’s just why I want. to vote
for ‘him,’’ was her only commeént.

Mary Schopbach

Alabama Candidate Branch
Poses Threat to Backlash

The Reverend William McKin-
ley Branch needs money. Not
very much -- enough to provide
meals and beds for those working
in his campaign, enough to pay
his speechmaking way ,around the
Sth District in Alabama -- but he
still needs it.

Branch, the candidate of the Na-
_tional Democratic Party of Ala-
bama, is running for the U.S, House
of Representatives from the 5th
District of Alabama. Organized
early this year, the NDPA is a
coalition party which combines
the forces of white and black
students, ‘‘black belt’? Negroes,
old-style white radicals, young
professionals. and upper-mjddle-
class liberals. Although they are

running candidates at all levels

in the upcoming elections, they
are focussing much of their hope
and efforts on Branch, a fairly
well-known fundamentalist mini-
ster.

Opposing Branch for the Con-
gressional seat are a ‘‘regular”’
Democrat who supports George
Wallace, a Republican and a con-
Servative ‘‘independent.’’

_ A man who abhors all wars, and |

particularly an unjustified one,
Branch stands solidly against the
Vietnam War. Another plank in
his campaign platform is his con-
firmed racial neutrality. He calls
himself ‘‘color-blind,” and - is
particularly aware of the prob-
lems shared by the poor, black
and white. Stan Murphy, a Hav-
. erford student from Tuscaloosa
who worked in the Branch cam-
paign this summer, gsays of him,
‘‘He’s so unblack and sounwhite.’’
With lots of experience in how

.. to run a revival meeting, he is a

‘magnetic speaker. So magnetic,
in fact, campaigners stopped car-
rying money with them ifthey knew
there was a chance they would hear
Branch speak, for fear of’ going
broke.

But Branch, an abjectly poor

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man, needs all the money he can
talk out of the pockets of his
audience. He was planning to take
the bus to the National Democrat-
ic Convention in Chicago, where he
hoped to take the place of one of
the ‘‘regular” Deimocrats (pledged
to Wallace). When the McCarthy
campaign got wind of this, how-
ever, they bought him a plane
ticket in order that he might ar-
rive in time to testify before the’
Credentials Committée, (Itturned .
out that Branch was not seated in’
the Alabama délegation.)

What, then, are Branch’s

chances of winning? Firsthe bene-'
fits from the fact that none of his
opponents is an incumbent, which,
would have been a rather awesome
advantage, Second, the political
make-up of the 5th District pro-
vides him with at least two areas
of support: Tuscaloosa, a univer-
sity town where there are many
students and professors who back
him; and a ‘‘black belt,” a band of
five counties which are predomin-
antly black. By the middle ofSep-
tember, it was estimated that
Branch had about 40% of the vote
behind him. If the other three
candidates divided the remaining
60% between them, this could send
Branch to Washington.
_ However, even if Branch loses
in November, his campaign still
will have made an impact, There
will have been the creation of a
political bloc, uniting the liberals
and the blacks, which will have to
be reckoned with in future Alabama
politics. It is also an opportune
time to convince many poor blacks
not only that they need not be afraid
to vote, as they have been in the
past, but also that they CAN have
some political effectiveness.

The Reverend William McKinley
Branch needs money. Both Haver-
ford and Bryn Mawr (under the aus-
pices of SAC) are running fund-
raising drives. SAC is baking
cookies, organizing people to so-
licit funds’ from the neighboring
communities, and collecting mon-
ey on campus. Anyone who is
interested in helping to get Branch
to Washington should contact Lee
McGeorge jin Rhoads North or
Laura Hershey in Pem West.

Margery Davies

_ other nation.
- ably free of hatred now=-there is

tudent Traveler

in Middle East

Listens to Problems of Natives

‘This summer I had the oppor-
tunity to visit and speak with the
people of both Israel and Morocco.
I naturally was very interested in
discovering some of the attitudes
and motivations of the two sides

in the Middle Eastern Conflicts.:

Every time the chance arose, I
asked questions or tried to ob-
serve the ideas of the Jews and
the Arabs, although I must stress
that I only garnered impressions
and do not pretend an -in-depth
knowledge. I was seeking a little
more satisfactory explanation of
the Arab side than ignorant fana-
ticism and of the Israeli; more
then self-righteous Zionism. I
found that both. of these ideas,
though widely believed here and

by the opposing sides, seemed

fundamentally false.
Militaristic Atmosphere

Israel, when I first arrived,
was disturbingly militaristic to
me. The army camps were fes-
tooned with flags, the. highways
lined with young men and women
in uniform hitchhiking, and the
newspapers filled with articles on
the reasonableness of the Israelis
and the unreasonable aggres-
siveness of Arabs.

But under the obvious self-s atis-

faction at the new-found war-
prowess of Judaism, there is, I
think, a much more pragmatic
attitude to war. The Israelis ex-
plained their situation in the most
matter-of-fact terms: e.g.
‘*We’re- sitting on the Canal and
Egypt is losing $5 million.a day--
they’ll HAVE to come to the con-
ference table.’’ There .appeared
_to be little of the emotional fervor
that would make Israel really the

: belligerent aggressor that the
| Arabs believe. At its most ob-
| jectionable, attitude towards Syria,
Egypt, Jordan, etc., is one of
pitying ridicule. For Israel, I
think, has long abandoned any
strong loves or hatreds for any
Israel is remark-

very little overt hostility to Ger-
mans (for the War), British (for
the colonialist situation) or Amer-
ica and Russia (for the Mid-
Eastern power play),

Live and Let Live

The sabras and the im-
migrants assured me __ that
they were through with looking
for~love and favors from anyone
else. They wanted nothing from
anyone except to live as they wished
in Israel and whether the Arab
countries accepted or rejected
their presence emotionally was of
complete indifference. This prag-
“matism will, Ithink, permit amuch
-freer dealing with peace settle-
ments than one could expect from
a nation bound by hostilities and
ideology. For example, the sur-
render or holding of the conquered
territory will not (with the ex-
ception of Jerusalem) be dictated
by any attachment to the soil, but



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the lands to force a settlement be
fore their return.
The Arabs with whom I spoke,
however, manifested much the
opposite position. For the most
part I spoke to students or younger
people, who were, | believe, sin-
cerely interested in peace in the
Mid-East, and without a great
. deal of hard prejudices. Yet in
contrast to the cold (perhaps too
cold) realism of the Jews, the
Arabs seemed driven against
Israel by a dominating fear. Why
should 80 million Arabs ever fear
two million Jews, the outside world
demands.?

The fear is an historical fear,

stemming from the colonialist re-
gimes; it is the legitimate fear
a third-world, poor nation feels
before a Westernized, prosperous
power; it is the fear bred of a
misconception of Israel’s ideolog-
ical position. ee

The colonialist era has left a
tremendous stamp on the minds of
the Arabs. First of all, they find
it difficult to credit that Israel
could have been abused by England
at her founding-they reason, Israel
is Western, we are Eastern,
therefore Israel is with England,
France or the United States in a
neo-colonialist stance. (Israelis
believe themselves to be friend-
less when the chips are down, and
in that sense absolutely self-
reliant and isolated from any
‘‘bloc’’ with America or Europe.)

Fear of Neo-Colonialism

This fear of neo-colonialist col-
lusion is abetted by the Arab past;
but it is also a product of the
present, The Arab nations are
poor, abjectly poor, with statis-
tics of.70% illiteracy, starvation
and malnutrition, non-existent in-
dustry and technical corps and
tremulous monetary systems, The
contrast between these under-
developed nations and Israel is
staggering; and the Arabs have a
very understandable fear of falling
AGAIN under the domination of a
technological power.
were made, it would be very easy
for Arab countries to accept Is-
raeli development capital, techni-
cians and industrial exploitation.
But as friends, the Arabs might
have more to fear than as enemies.
Unquestionably, the countries
would benefit from the Israeli
development; but this development
sounds too much like the colonial-
ist argument for Arabs to wish
to risk a détente that might signal
domination.



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Finally, the irrational element
of fear of’Zionism contributes to
Arab hostilities. It is not so easy
for the Jews to convince Arabs
that the drive for a homeland is
completed (as I really believe
it is) while ‘they hold the con-
quered territory. The myth of
displacing all of the Moslem
countries to enlarge Israel is very
real to Arabs,

In addition, they feel the Arab
minority in Israel is unjustly
treated, as it is bereft of any
power of self-government. The
Israelis cannot comprehend this,
because the Arabs in Israel are

_materially well-off, with full po-

litical rights, and with protection
as a minority (e.g. learning Arabic
in their schools),

Fear of Identity Loss

I think that the attitude of the
foreign Arabs may be explicable
as seeing the Israeli situation as
a microcosm of the Middle East
if peace came; an Arab popula-
tion, possibly more prosperous,
but living in an Israeli world.
The life would be Western, with
the Arabs as permanent strangers,
After the colonia] experience, after

‘being corvinced that they were
-inferiors in their own homelands,

the Arabs are nearly phobic about
a similar situation.

For these reasons, I was rather
pessimistically convinced that a

* meaningful peace will only come to

the Mid-East when the tremendous
disparity of development changes.
The Israélis are neither willing
nor able to assure underdeveloped
Arab nations that they will.not
dominate the area (not militarily
but technologically), And the Arabs
cannot rid themselves of their
fears, real or imaginary, till they

‘can face Israel as modern equals.

Barbara Sindel



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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, September 27, 1968



Arts Center to Open:

Varied Activities Planned

A new arts center will open in
the College Inn next Tuesday, Oct.
1.

There will be a pottery center
in the basement and an art studio
in room 20 on the second floor.
Pottery classes taught by Mrs.
Schneider, who regularly teaches
at Swarthmore, will begin Oct. 2.
Sixty students have signed up for
the class.

The facilities for pottery include.

two electric wheels, a kiln and a
kick wheel, which will be avail-
able soon. The pottery center will
be open one night per week if
there is sufficient interest. To

New | D Cards :
To Provide
‘Solid Proof’

Plans are now under way to
provide Bryn Mawr students with
I,D, cards which may prove more
useful than the present identifica-
tion cards given each student at
the beginning of every academic
year.

The new ID. cards will include
a picture of the student, as well
as. her name, age and local address,

Discussion and planning of this

System began last year during |

Lola Atwood’s term of office as
president of Undergrad. Students
felt that these new ID, cards would
give solid proof of identification
and would thus prove useful to
students as a means of charging
items in off-campus stores and
cashing checks.

Hopefully these -I,D, cards will
also help to eliminate dishonesty
. which crops up now and then in
the Bryn Mawr-Haverford meal
exchange system, as well as in
the present charging system where
students have been illegally billed
through false signatures,

Although--Undergrad budgeted
$809 to this project last spring,
the acministration has expresseda
Willingness to pay the expenses for
the new cards since the new system
would be beneficial to the college
as well as all students, Undergrad
plans to place the previously alloted

improvement of the College Inn’

or into the funds being set aside
for the new student union.
According to Undergrad Presi-
dent Doris Dewton, use of the new
I,D, cards will begin this semester,
hopefully within a few weeks,

ensure attendance at: the elaiste
a preliminary fee and a fee of
one-half cent per cubic inch per
pot will be charged.

An art studio in the —
room with lockers to store
terials will also open on Tues-
day. Arts Council will sell brushes
and paint on the second floor of
the Inn at the following times
next week:

October 1

1:15 - 2:00

5:15 - 6:30

7:00 - 7:30
October 2

1315.=.2;00 ©.

Arts Council will supply free
paper, The only stipulation is that

eaeh/ Student must clean up after

using the studio.

Eventually the center will have:

a room with two sewing machines
for general use. All of the facilities
will be available to students, and
the art studio will stay open all
night,

Symposium . .
(Continued from page 1)
body.

In addition to the special cities
program, the alumnae will give a
tea on Thursday, Nov. 14, for
regional scholars. Also on Thurs-
day, the 10 Councillors, the
Alumnae Directors and the stand-
ing committee chairmen will meet.

Alumnae have been invited to
bring high school students to the
conference. The girls, who will be
staying in dormitories as guests
of the College, will attend the
“Challenge of the Cities’? pro-
gram, as. well as a-special dis-
cussion, ‘‘Beyond the S,A,T.’s,”
on Saturday. ‘

The annual meeting, usually held
in the spring rather than the fall,
is co-directed by Mrs. Barbara
Auchincloss Thacher (A.B., ’40),
president of the Alumnae Associa-
tion, and Doris Dewton (’69), pre-
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(Continued from page 1)
assistant physician, will be avail-
able for conferences. Dr. Fenn,
whose area of specialtyis arthritis
and rheumatology, will also be

- working with Miss O’ Toole of, the

physical education department on a
program of remedial exercise.
Dr. Woodruff is a graduate of

Models are needed for
_ afternoon and evening work at
both Arnecliffe Studio at Bry
Mawr and Yarnall Arts Center
Haverford. Pay is $1.75 an hour.

Students i
should contact the Bryn Mawr
Bureau of Recommendations or

.Mark Oxman at Yarnall.

Bryn Mawr and the University of Se Ss

Pennsylvania Medical School. She Es
is the daughter of the late pr. ©
Marjorie J. Wagoner who served as .
College Physician at Bryn Mawr =

from 1924 to 1934,

A former member of the Medical
Advisory Committee of ‘the
Community Health Association in
Ardmore, Dr. Woodruff has also
served at the Presbyterian Hos-
pital Well Baby Clinic. Since 1956
she has been in general practice
with her husband, Dr. D. Stratton
Woodruff.

Dr. Fenn graduated from the Uni-
versity of Vermont and the Uni-
versity of Vermont Medical School.
Prior to her appointment as as-
sistant college physician, she was
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