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Friday, October 11, 1968

THE COLLEGE NEWS



New Directors Reorganize
Bureau of Recommendations

The Bureau of Recommenda-

tions has a brand-new staff this
year. Mrs. Marcella Congdon, for-
mer head of the placement bureau
at Connecticut College for Women,
has replaced Mrs, Louise Cren-
shaw as director of the Bureau,
Miss Lila Gault,-a °68 graduate
of Connecticut College, is the new
assistant director.
"Mrs, Congdon left Connecticut
College because her husband works
in the Philadelphia area. Through
a friend at Smith, she learned of
the Bryn Mawr position which she
now occupies,

Most of her time, Mrs, Congdon
has discovered, is used in place-
-ment of seniors and graduate stu-
dents, and in employnient-of non-
‘academic college personnel, She
also counsels and encourages BMC
alumnae who, after several years
of marriage, wish to return to the
working world.

Working with the undererad’?
uates, Miss Gault is introducing
innovations to the Bureau, A re-
form in the baby-sitting system,
which monopolized most of her

predecessor’s time, was her first.

McCarthy Sweeps

Choice ’68 Survey

Although little more than cur-
iosities now, the following are the
results of Choice ‘68, Time maga-
zine’s collegiate referendtim on
presidential’ preference and vital
issues, administered last April 24,
Unfortunately, Alliance received
these results too late to be publish-
ed in the final issue of last se-
mester’s COLLEGE NEWS.

On a national basis, Eugene Mc-
Carthy won Choice ‘68 with 285,988
(28.07%) first-place votes. The late

‘Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was second

with 213,832 (20.99%) and Richard
M. ‘Nixon third with 197,167
(19.35%) first-place tallies. There-
were 31,775 write-ins, of which
Vice President Hubert Humphrey
.Teceived 18,535, or about 2% ofthe
total vote. The high scorers nation-
ally for second and third places
were McCarthy, Robert Kennedy,
Nelson Rockefeller; and Rocke-
feller, McCarthy and Kennedy, re-
spectively.

Here at Bryn Mawr, McCarthy
won Choice ‘68 with 296 votes
(66.22%). Rockefeller, with 66
votes (14.77%), and Robert
Kennedy. with 40 votes (8.95%),
scored closest ‘in the first-place
tallies. Second-place went to Ken-
nedy, Rockefeller. and McCarthy,
respectively, while Lindsay,
Rockefeller and Kennedy ranked
highest for third-place.

On the referenda questions, 18%
of the national sample voted for
immediate withdrawal and 45% for
phased reduction of military effort
in Vietnam; hence, roughly 62%
favored some sort of reduction.
About 7% favored. the current
policy, 9% chose ‘to, increase it,
and 21% wanted on ‘‘all out’ mili-
tary effort.. —

Bryn Mawr’s responses to the

referenda questions followed simi-
lar general patterns. Regarding
military action in Vietnam, 52.11%
(235 students) favored a reduction
in effort and 42.13% (190 students)
advocated complete withdrawal,
meaning that 94.24% of Bryn Mawr
students who voted sought a de-
escalation ‘of the war effort. The
remaining votes were distributed
as follows: ‘‘all out’? effort -- 11
votes (2.44%), maintain current
levels -- 9 votes (2%), and increase
present levels -- 6 votes (1.33%),

Anyone wishing to examine the
complete national and Bryn Mawr
tallies for Choice ‘68, as well as
the regional, age, and party af-
filliation analyses, will find them

“posted in the Alliance Room (se-

cond floor, College Inn, opposite
the Undergrad Room),

project.

A box of cards outside Miss
Gault’s office now lists every
available baby-sitting job, Any

student may use the file to obtain’

a job. She then calls the parent
to confirm the baby-sit and make
transportation arrangements,:
There is no longer a required
sign-up list of sitters, The only
current restriction is a limitation
of weeknight jobs,

Miss Gault plans to spend her
newly-created free time contacting
employers about part-time and
summer jobs. Several weeks ago,
she descended on the Ville, asking
‘businessmen if they would like to
‘hire Bryn Mawr students,
discovered few had realized that
the students were interested, and
she returned with many new part-
time opportunities,

Standardization of the wage scale
for campus jobs and up-dating the
‘Bureau’s library are Miss Gault’s
other projects, Lining one wall
of her office are clipboards con-
taining information on careers,

In addition to the up-dated li-
brary of the Bureau, the weekly
newsletter also makes jobinform-
ation available to students, The
newsletter has been expanded, and
Mrs. Congdon is considering send-
ing it to all students if there is a
demand for this service,

To aid placement counseling, the
Bureau of- Recommendations wants
to sponsor. talks by alumane on
their careers, Mrs, Congdon also
hopes to increase the number of
employer representatives visit-
ing the campus and talking to un-
dergraduates,' This projéct also
depends upon student response,

Speaking enthusiastically “of to».
day’s students, Mrs, Congdon feels
that they are much more intensely
involved in the world than were
students of her generation, and
finds ‘them expressing their con-
cern to her in the frequent query,
‘What can I do to help?’’

Although Mrs. Congdon speaks
of Bryn Mawr students as ‘lovely,
capable, interested i young women, "
she adds that they*just don’t know
anything about jobs.” Therefore,
she believes’ that the fundamental
responsibility of the Bureau is
in counseling the student
to know what career would be
most satisfying to her, and min-
imizing the identity crises caused
by the shift from the academic
community to business, Being
in contact with and serving as a
liaison between these two worlds
is what Mrs, Congdon finds most
exciting about her own career,

Grapes...
"(Continued from page 2)

hard in the fields, Their parents, on
strike, are being defeated by
imported labor, the mechanics of
which they don’t understand, Their,
leaders and heroes are under pub-
lic attack in the big city newspaper.
Who can know the pain?

“fhe ‘‘Grapes of Wrath’? did not
stop with John Steinbeck, Well,
perhaps the highly emotional and
biased tone of this article offends
you, Téo bad. Respond as a human
being today. There are people
somewhere fighting valiantly to
realize the ideals of this nation, If

; we have lost those ideals, and it

certainly seems that they are tar-
nished -- in Harlem, in Saigon, ;
and all over the world, here is an
opportunity for one last try at

‘honesty. Maybe the country’s not

worth saving these days, but the





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photo by Roy Goodman

Sophomore Cathy Hoskins’ “lantern girl” as she appeared last Friday
night. He isin reality Ted Winfield, Haverford ‘69.



BMC,

H’ford, Swarthmore

Join In Computer Center

Three Philadelphia-area col-
leges -- Bryn Mawr, Haverford
ard Swarthmore =~ navé“estab-
lished a $796,000 joint computing
‘center,

The center will be mainly for
student instruction and for faculty
and student research. Human-
ists and social scientists, as well
as natural scientists, will use the
‘new facility.

When the new center is in full
operation and. the computing de-
mands of the three. colleges are
determined, officials will invite
other local schools -- colleges
and secondary schools -- to share
the computing facilities, »

This will mark the first time
in the United States that a group
of small. colleges has joined to
form a computing center which will

then be shared with secondary and’

other schools.

The project is supported by-the
Federal government with grants
totaling $499, 800 made through
the Natiowal Science Foundation.

Some of these federal funds

“ will help cover operating costs

over the first three years.
Computer Pioneer

Creation of the center also was
supported by a gift from the late
T. Kite Sharpless, a Haverford
alumnus who was a pioneer in
computer technology, and by other
funds from all three colleges.

The main, jointly owned com-
puting equipment is located at
Haverford, and the center’s full-
time director is headquartered
there. Smaller computers at
Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarth-
more handle simple local tasks,
while referring more ambitious
computing projects to the main
equipment. Initially, the colleges
will staff the center with up to 10
persons,

The director of the new computer
facility is George A, Michael,
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of the nation’s- leading experts on
graphic data processing.

College officials say today’s stu-
dent: is likely to find a ‘‘computer
world’’ waiting after graduation;
so they see a mounting need for
students to be at home with com-
puters and to be familiar with the
-many possibilities which they offer
to reduce the amount of routine
work done by humans. :

In classrooms and laboratories,
the computer is used to speed
routine calculations, thus giving
the student more time to consider
the meaning of the results.

Tenths of a Second

Working by hand on a desk cal-
culator, for example, it takes an
experienced operator approxi-
mately 30 hours to determine the
wave function of one electron in a
specific atom or molecule. Thenew
computing center can produce the
same calculation in a few tenths
of a second. =

Bryn Mawr, Haverford and
Swarthmore all place heavier~
than-usual emphasis . on indepen-
dent study and research as an im-
portant aspect of undergraduate
education in all disciplines. Stu-
dents will use the new computing
center to speed and broaden this
work, In addition, many faculty
members on the three campuses
will be aided by the new center.

Use of the facility will not be
limited to the natural sciences
such as astronomy, biology, chem-
istry, engineering and physics.
Social scientists, such as sociolo-
gists, psychologists, economists
and political scientists, are
already major users of the exist-
ing smaller and slower facilities
at the three colleges. They are
expected to use the new center
heavily.

Bryn Mawr and Haverford have
operated a joint computing facility
for seven years, “and Swarthmore

has had its own for four years, -

although neither unit was nearly
as large or as fast as equipment
in the new joint center.



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‘Recent Film Greats
To Highlight Series

Acknowledged by Director
Frederico Fellini as his ‘greatest
work,’’ ‘‘La Dolce Vita’’ will be
featured Wednesday night at 7:15
and 9:30 in the Biology Lecture
Room, 75 cents a showing,

This 1961 Cannes Film Festival
and New York Film Critics winner
will be ‘the second in the Arts
Council’s slate of recent movie
‘masterpieces scheduled for this
year. . a
A new system has been put into
operation for the 1968-69 series,
according.to Vicky Yablonsky, film
coordinator, The movies are being
provided by a non-profit organi-
zation and will not bé financed by
a single flat rate as in the past,
but by a percentage of the week-
to-week profits,

In .an_ attempt to ‘‘make every
week a valuable experience,’’
Vicky has tried to be aware of
origins, nationalities and film

. movements in her. selection of 22

‘first run’’ movies plus a few
*¢specials,’’”:

Collaborating with the Haverford
film series managers, Vicky has
cut out repetitions and considers
that the bi-college offerings pro-
vide a- ‘‘good balance” of film
types.

Because of certain regulations
set up by this new non-profit
film agency, there will) be no
season tickets available, Instead,
students will pay on a show -by-
show basis, either in cash or on
payday.

Vicky explained, ‘‘We will be
certain of getting better movies
this way. With a single payment
for a whole series of films, as in
the past, we would get a few good
ones, but mostly fillers.’

Some of the upcoming features
will be ‘‘The Gospel According to
St. Matthew,” ‘Darling,’
‘**Eclipse,’’ ‘‘Loves of a Blond,’
‘*The Magician,’ ‘‘ Through a Glass
Darkly.’’ and ‘‘Knife in the Water,’?

BMC Hockey Teams
Match Penn Scores

Both the varsity and junior var-
sity hockey teams were lite






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Pennsylvania,

Holding its
squad’s home grounds, the Bryn
Mawr varsity held a 1-0 lead with
Madeline Ewing’s goal until the
last-minute of the game when the. _
opponent s forward to score
the-tying point, leaving the game
in a 1-1 draw.

Racking up an identical 1- 1
score, the junior varsity stayed on
equal terms with the U. of Penn,
with both teams making a single
goal during the first half, Bar-
bara Warren brought home scor-
ling honors for BMC.



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