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BRYN MAWR, PA.

January 14, 1965.

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1965

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- Holben Elected Editor-in-Chief;
Plans to Provoke Controversy

The 1966 Editorial Board of the
COLLEGE NEWS was elected last
Wednesday night by the NEWS
staff. Nanette Holben, ’68, a for-
mer Managing Editor and Copy
Editor, became the new Editor-
in-Chief.

Laura Krugman, ’67, was elected
Associate Editor, She served on
the Editorial Board as Copy Edi-
tor and Member-at-Large, and is
knownfor her coverage of the Ker-
mode lecture Seriés this fall.

The new Managing Editor is
Kit Bakke, °68, who as a reporter
covered primarily political news
and served as Member-at-Large
(and “the minority voting mem-
ber’’) of the Editorial Board. Ele-
anor von Auw, ’68, whose reviews
and account of horrifying everits
in the library on Halloween appear -
ed in the NEWS this year, will be
the new Copy Editor.

Darlene Preissler, ’68, will con-
tinue as Make-up Editor and plans
to work for more variety in the

make-up and more definite de- .

partmentalization of the paper into
news and feature sections. Robin
Johnson, ’68, a reporter much ap-
preciated for her Thursday morn-
ing deadline articles, was named
Member -at-Large. —

Nanette’s plans include (theor-.

etically) using the NEWS as a step
in a *‘chain reaction’’ to provoke
activity on campus. She hopes to
instigate more student comment,
especially letters to the editor,
which would hopefully leadto more
meaningful and tangible response

Jobs in English
Outlined at Tea
By Shipley Head

Mrs. W. Perry Epes, a Bryn
Mawr alumna and headmistress of
The Shipley School, spoke on job
possibilities for. English majors
at a tea sponsored by Curriculum
Committee Wednesday, January
12, in the Common Room.

Mrs. Epes mentioned journa-
lism, both magazine and news-
paper work, as a field that does not
demand graduate work. Experience
in the field itself is generally con-
sidered more useful. A winner of
Vogue Magazine’s Prix de Paris
when she was a student, Mrs. Epes
stressed that writing fashion, thea-
ter, or other types of copy for such
a magazine allows the writer to
draw extensively on her literary
background.

There are two schools of thought
on the best method of obtaining a
magazine job. Mrs. Epes main-
tains that an applicant who stresses
her stenographic and typing skills
may remain trapped in a secre-
tarial position. Mrs. Louise Cren-
shaw, director of the Bureau of
Recommendations, has found that
many magazines and publishing
houses will promote promising
workers from_ secretarial to
editorial positions. She advised
students who hope to find such
jobs to present stenographic skills.

Discussing the field of teaching,
Mrs. Epes remarked that many of

her classmates have returned to —

~ the profession after many years but
regret not having a graduate de-
gree. ‘When she considers a poten-

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from all corners of the campus,

**Besides, the more activity
from the student body, the better
news for us.’’

Outgoing Editor-in-Chief Lynne
Lackenbach commented, ‘‘I’ve had
fun with the NEWS, and I think
Nanette will, Besides, we need
a humorist for the editorial col-
umn,””

Faculty Approves New Calendar,

More Co-ordination with H’ford

The faculty voted by a narrow
margin to instate a new calender
for the school year 1966-67,

This calendar as presently writ- -

ten is only ‘‘temporary, tem-
porarily’’ said Mrs. Dorothy N.,
Marshall, Dean of the College.
There will be further talks with the
Haverford College faculty and with
the student curriculum committee,



The new NEWS: Laura Krugman, Nanette Holben, Robin Johnson,
Kit oon Darlene Preissler. Missing from picture is Eleanor
von AUWe

“Right to Dissent”’ Topic
For Philly ACLU Head

Spencer Coxe, Executive Direc-
tor of the Greater Philadelpfiia
Branch of the American Civil
Liberties Union, spoke to about
60 people Wednesday night, Jan-
uary 12 in the Common Room on
the right to dissent, Coxe, who is
not a lawyer, is perhaps more in-
formed on the law, particularly
constitutional law, than any other
layman in the area. He pointed
out several times that although
he cannot deliver foolproof advice,
he has found to his ‘‘great joy
that anyone can quote Supreme
Court decisions.”

He gave his audience guidelines
for dissenting and protesting,

Freshman Show
Plans Under Way

For February 12

Laurie Adams will direct the
class of ’69’s Freshman Show, to
be given February 12. Susan Koch
will be stage manager and Holly
Maddux, dance director.

Casting begins Monday, January
31, and rehearsals will run for the
next two weeks. Other posts and
committees will be filled when
freshmen finish signing the lists
in Taylor.

Melanie Sherry and Robin Bas-
kind have blocked out the script,
which has no working title as yet.
Further work on the lines is now
in progress and it is hoped that
the script will be finished during
exam week.

The theme uses the idea of._the
modern political. candidate. who
must employ public relations
firms, use a computer, and be an
actor to get elected.

dividing this up into procedural
matters and substantive matters.
The former consisted of short
descriptions of where and when
picketing and parading is legal,
and where leafletting and sound
trucks may be used. He said that
everyone has a constitutional right
to voice opinions and gather in
reasonably sized groups without a
permit on public property or pri-
vate property given over to public
use. Though this may result in
public inconvenience this is one
of the penalties society pays for
the free exercise of speech. The
inconvenience is not protected,
however, when it is not reason-
able, such as sitting-in across a
main arterial,

Radnor Township has recently
passed an ordinance in this area,
which Mr. Coxe said is clearly
unconstitutional. The ordinance
makes illegal the assemblage of
eight or more persons, animals,
or vehicles (or any combination
thereof) without a permit, ex-
cepting the American Legion and
several other specified groups.

The second half was devoted
to substantive matters, that is,
what can and cannot be said. All
opinions on this stem from Supreme
Court decisions declaring speech
which involves a clear and pres-
ent danger, fighting words or ob-
scenity as not constitutionally
protected. If some jdea is pres-
ented, which does not involve in-
citement to riot but does involve
fighting words, however repugnant
they may be, the ACLU would
consider it protected. Coxe gave
the example of the Nazi pickets
carrying signs in Philadelphia say-
ing. ‘85% of.all Jews are traitors.’’
His organization decided that there

‘ was an idea there and .for that

reason, it must be protected, The
Philadelphia police agreed.

With improvements, a new sys-
tem could be voted in for a trial
period of five years. Swarthmore
College has also contacted Haver-
ford in respect to calendar reform,

According to thé new calendar,
next year classes will start
September 19, 1966, and classes
will run to December 16 with a
break for Thanksgiving vacation.
Classes. will begin again after
Christmas January 5, 1967, and
continue until January 10, There
will be a review period from Janu-
ary 11 to 18. Final exams will run
from January 14 (Saturday)
to January 25.

The second semester will be
similar to this year’s, with com-
mencement May 29. Spring
vacation. will run from March
23 to April 3 and include Easter.
Final exams run from May 15 to

26,

No formal review period for
the second semester is included
in the plan, but instructors may
include one ‘at their option. Thus
the schedule will be flexible.

Improvements: in the calendar
plan include an earlier opening
and more _ co-ordination with
Haverford’s ‘schedule, There is a
longer Christmas vacation, The
earlier opening will have the addi-
tional benefit of fewer difficulties
in co-ordinating the Bryn Mawr
graduate school with that of the
University of Pennsylvania,

Mrs. Marshall also said tha
since there is no clear-cut cor
census of either faculty pr
student opinion as to what is need-
ed in the new calendar, it be-
comes impossible to please every

200 Bryn er ‘Students Sign

Letter on Vietnam to Presid

Two BMC: students circulated
letters to President Johnson
around campus last week support-
ing his recent moratorium on
bombing in Vietnam and subse-
quent ‘‘peace feelers.’’

Approximately 200 = students
signed the letters, which read as
follows:

‘‘We appreciate your recent ef-
forts towards a negotiated peace
in Vietnam . We think only such
moves as cessation of the bomb-
ing and discussions with world
leaders can lead to negotiations.
We hope that you will continue
such measures until a settlement
is reached.’’ °

The two students, who prefer to
remain anonymous, feel that more
signatures might have been obtain-
ed if they had not wished to send
the letter so quickly. The number
of signatures ranged from 67 in
one hall to none in another. Again,
the students felt that this was owing
to rather hectic methods of cir-
culation and did not reflect polari-
zation of political opinion on cam-
pus.

The idea for the letters origin-
ated with a suggestion by the Rev-
erend William S, Cdffin Jr., who

BMC, Haverford
Plan NY Trip
For February 12

Plans are underway for a pos-
sible trip to New York Saturday,
February 12. Two buses would be
provided to take Bryn» Mawr and
Haverford students to see either
one of two plays or an opera,

The theater enthusiasts have
their choice of Osborne’s INAD-
MISSABLE EVIDENCE or Schaef-
fer’s ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN.
Opera fans can hear Puccini’s
FANCIULLA DEL WEST.

Undergrad. and Haverford’s
‘Student Council are sponsoring

the trip. There would be a charge

of probably $6.00 per person,
Hence, ‘*Dutch treat’’ would seem
to be the order of the day. It is
hoped that this project will be well-
received and perhaps set a prece-
dent for similar excursions in the
future.



spoke last week at Haverford.
Also. the Bryn Mawrters felt that
the action was significant, because
as one of the girls remarked,
*‘It is important to respond posi-
tively as well as negatively to the
actions of the government.’’

Fast for Vietnam

Planned at H’ford

A statement of fast for the pur-
pose of thought and discussion on
the United States’ position in South-
east Asia has been signed by about
forty students at Haverford and
Bryn Mawr. The students plan to
drink orange juice and hold infor-
mal discussions in lieu of eating.
The time period involved will
average about eight days, or be
more or less as each individual
feels fit. It is tentatively planned
to begin the first Thursday of 2nd
semester, February 3, but it may
be postponed or called off,
depending on the world situation.

Ed Hazzard and Dave Parker re-
leased a statement on the fast
Wednesday night. It is a detailed
questioning of what is happening
nowy.and what is to be expected
in the next five years. ‘‘We are
suspicious,’’ it states, ‘‘of apeace
offensive which on one hand ends
the bombing in North Vietnam and
yet continues’? such things as
widening the war to Laos, satura-
tion bombing of South Vietnam and

.the poisoning of 70,000 acres of

rice because the peasants in that
area are sympathetic to the Viet
Cong.

It sums up by saying that Pres-
ident Johnson’s peace offensive is
a step in the right direction, but
that it ‘*has been accompanied by no
apparent change in policy or re-
consideration of the role of the
US in Southeast Asia.”’

These are matters which the
students think need discussing.
The statement says that they re-
alize that what they are doing
probably won’t affect US policy,
but that. the point is to help eachof
them“ feel and understand the
immediacy -of -what-is happenrng.

*They invite anyone to join them,

to fast as long as they like, or
not at all, but just to join in the
discussion.