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COLLEGE NEWS

April 9, 1965



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EDITORIAL STAFF

Margery Aronso, * Peggy Wilber, ’65, Pilar Richardson, ’66, Jane Walton, ’66,
Suzanne Fed eaunek, S ren Kobler, ’67, Julian Schnakenberg, 67, Marilyn
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Vinee

We welcome parents to their day at Bryn Mawr -- a taste of the four
year mystery to which their daughters hopefully retreat every fall and
from which they return exhausted but regretful every spring.

A residential college, to quote a familiar phrase, is more than an
education; it is an educational experience. We study here, but we also
build our existence around a nucleus of dorm, library and classrooms.
Even the friendly Ville becomes a part of the Outside World that some-
how lives its life without paper deadlines and reserve reading.

One day is scarcely sufficient to introduce you to all our haunts and
pastimes, but we can.try. We'll present you to our professors; take you
to sample lectures, show you a student production, and give you campus
tours.

We don’t claim that this is a representative segment of Bryn Mawr.
Unless you have seen a freshman corridor the night before six-week
papers are due, or have tip-toed through the library reading room during
exam week, you haven’t seen it all.

Still, we’re delighted with the opportunity to bring our two worlds of
home and school together, however briefly. We hope you’ll depart with
at least a shred of comprehension of the Bryn Mawr way of life -- and
we hope you enjoy your day,



Exams

The student curriculum committee has been the source of an unusual
amount of concern all year. The change in the system of election of its
chairman was brought about largely becauSe it was felt that a campus-
wide discussion of the purpose and goals of the committee was necessary
if it was to be of any real value to the undergraduate body. During the

—— dinner system the candidates offered anumber of proposals by which the
committee could fulfill its function.

But these proposals were in the main suggested for next year. In
the meantime, the present committee concerned itself with a project
which it believed should be brought up and considered immediately. This
project was self-scheduled exams.

Right before vacation a detailed plan, Siaitiiding methods for execution,
was presented to the faculty curriculum committee and discussed. Al-
though no decision was taken, it seemed to be the consensus of the



| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Criticism -
To the Editor:

We would like to point out to
the mysterious ‘‘admiring fresh-
man” that the principal aim of
criticism is to offer constructive
advice on the problem-at-hand,
This aim is not accomplished by
only satirizing the flaws, if they
can be called such, without offer-
ing -a remedy for these faults.
Secondly, a criticism must pre-
sent the facts honestly - a cri-
terion which ‘‘the admirer’ did
not meet, The discussions she
criticized, which havg also taken
place in past years, were intended
to give some idea of dach candi-
date’s qualifications. When it was
seen that this purpose was not being
accomplished, the discussions

were ended. The failure of the

discussions is no reason for con-
demning the attempt to use them.

The ‘admiring. freshman’’
seems to deliberately ignore those
‘things which might invalidate her
criticisms, The ‘‘voice from the
crowd’? who said, ‘*That’s my
roommate,’? succeeded her re-
mark with a statement concerning
her roommate’s qualifications for
office. Almost any*freshman will
say that class meetings have great-
ly improved since the beginning
of the. year. : .

Amusing mistakes should be re-
.garded as just that, not as faults
which ruin the effect ‘ot the meeting.
It is only when class members
fasten on these mistakes, ignoring
the organized handling of business,
that chaos results, This chaos is
caused by the actions of the class,
not the officers, who cannot operate
without our support.

In conclusion, we would like to

thank the, class officers for their

effective representation of the

class of ’68, They have carried

out their responsibility in every
agea of campus life, :

Joyce Lincoln °68

Galen Clark ’68

Baiting?

To the Editor:

Re your’ editorial entitled
*tRights’’ in the ‘*College News’’
of March 19, 1965 -- you have
several uncomplimentary com-
‘ments to make about the memorial
assembly called on Bryn Mawr
Campus about the death of Rev.
Reeb. You talk about the ‘‘Dis-

turbing minority ... ardent agita-.

tors ... (who) promote more vio-
lent action ...’’

‘However, nowhere in your news-
paper do you report whatwasSAID
by these “ardent agitators.’’ You
do not even report that this meeting
was even held. This kind of
(probably unintentional) baiting,

without ‘accurate accounts of what

was said and in what context itwas
said, is unforgivable when found
in a respectable newspaper.

This editoriak may be areaction
to the rather intense and- vocal
liberalism of some of your so-
styled ‘‘not the most innocent...
ardent agitators,’’ on the campus.
Or it may be simply an attempt to
take a safe stand. Of course,
you do not want to disturb your
readers by wholeheartedly en-
dorsing demonstrations and re-
quests that Federal Troops be sent
to Alabama. This is- admittedly a
radical approach,

Whatever your reasons ‘for the
editorial, please do not cast as-

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Students Are Marching Again

by Marion Scoon
Mysterious messages have ap-
peared lately all over campus.
They generally read, ‘March On
Washington to End The War in

Vietnam,” or **Literature on Viet-
nam Here,” or *‘Sign Up For Bus.”’
What is the MEANING of all this?

The answer is simple; The Na-
tional Students for a democratic
Society (SDS), in cooperation with



persions upon conscious agitators
(who incidentally are much safer
than non-conscious agitators, who
simply explode in passionate
monologue and are impossible
to talk sensibly with) without pre-
senting their statements to your
readers.
Sincerely,
Marion Scoon ’68

Irresponsible? _

To the Editors:

Probably the first mass meeting
of its sort since the time’of the
Suffragette movement was held
on the Bryn Mawr campus on
Friday, March 12, Over one
hundred people came including
several professors. Few events
here attract that many people, but
there was no article about it in
THE COLLEGE NEWS of March 19.

The only mention of the meet-
ings was in an editorial entitled
**Progress.’’ This piece said that
**... a disturbing minority, not
the most innocent of whom were
ARDENT AGITATORS, seemed to
treat the gathering as an excuse
to promote MORE VIOLENT AC-
TION ...%’ (emphasis is ours)
We were there and we neither
saw any ‘‘ardent agitators’’ nor
heard any attempts to promote
*‘more violent action.’’? Without
an article reporting the events,
it is impossible for us to know
to what the editorial refers. We
feel it misrepresents the gather-
ing. We resent, as we are sure
the others who were there do,
the irresponsibility of THE COL-
LEGE NEWS on this matter.

Margaret Levi ’68
Alice Beadle ’°67

The editorial under attack did
not mean to imply that either the
organizers of the Mdtch 12 me-
morial or a vast majority of the.
listeners were lacking in
respect. It said so. It only ques-
tioned the attitudes of a few peo-
ple who made no public state-
ments of any kind, but Whose

attitude’ in listening disturbed - °

us. This is a fine point to. make

and perhaps the choice of words
was unfortunate — ed.



scheduled exams.

Women Strike For Peace (WISP)
We realize that the faculty is extremely busy now with the major

faculty that nothing should be done, at least at this time, about self- ‘7
| ‘, and Committee for a Sane Nuclear

| several adult groups such as

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curriculum changes to be effected next fall, and has not the time to.
spend establishing a new examination system. But the organization
and planning has largely been done already by the student curriculum
committee. Its plan includes all the details of adminigtration, and even
examples of the necessary printed forms that could be used. Very
little. additional work would be required to put the plan into operation.

It seems a shame that such..a.worth-while idea should die or be
indefinitely shelved when so little is required to set it up. It could
still be done, if not for this spring, then certainly for next January.

A Good Sign

We applaud the decision of the faculty, made at their last meeting,
to abolish the vacation registration procedure. Many of us have felt for
a long time that this requirement was the last vestige of pre-honor sys-
tem rulings; its removal allows a complete honor system to function
at Bryn Mawr. Four years ago, mandatory class attendance became
obsolete and the student was left to decide for herself whether or not to



the people come from. near and

Policy (SANE), is sponsoring a
nationwide march on Washington
to protest the war in Vietnam.

The date of the march is Satur-
day, APRIL 17th. Buses leave
from Goodhart at 7:30 a.m. Satur-
day, after a breakfast of coffee
and doughnuts served in the Com-
mon Room. Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford are going on the same buses.
Cost is (a mere) $4.50, but those
of the body politic declaring them-
selves impecunious will be suf-
ficiently subsidized. Buses return
to campus at 9 p.m. Saturday at
the latest.

Marchers will gather on the

Louis Kahn

To the Editor:

I would not -have thought that a
Bryn Mawr audience. expected its
Eminent Speaker to talk AT them.
Louis Kahn wanted to converse
with us, to allow us to understand
him as an artist in order tobe able
to interact with his work, He asked
for an active intellectual atmos-
phere, a willingness to examine his
buildings as proof that his artistic:
philosophy. can be represented
materially, and that his verbal and
artistic expressions are but dif-
ferent media for the same inspira-

far Washington Monument Grounds at tions.
HET © oleehs Syed # tagene oF enndemic, Srentem someseind oddly to find out where their daughters around noon, to hear speakers, In other words, Louis Kahn asked
with the still lingering required vacation signout. The present faculty pu sing, talk, etc., etc. Speakers tous to “ in his lecture,
decision, which will go into effect in the fall (since there are no more ond: Wied. they: do end how. thay pony pri L F. ‘st ah de 0 Pr ek rth posi xtrapolate from
vacations during this year), demonstrates the faculty’s trust in students’ Gave Gruening of Alaska. Sub eatly geographically Menersed works 10
ability to undertake the responsibilities of an academic honor system. and see if the campus is saw or the-March will march st st the the one closest to us. And ifwe had
Of course, the new ruling has its practical aspects. Transportation Nii Mall to the Capitol building, where arrived at the lecture without a
problems for students who must travel long distances are now easily 114 Grink some coffee and shake students and adults will present Preconceived image of what Louis
solved. The clock-watching and fidgeting which used to characterize . Kahn should be and without ex-
some hands a statement to Congress request

‘last classes’? are eliminated: ‘‘I would rather have two interested, pectations of a defense of Erdman
t full of , tally already °¢ maybe even find out what ing a halt to the War. oacy “es ’

faithful students in a class than a room full of peopie mentally already ceil i No elaborate policy statements We Wou ve learned to un-

on a train to East Podunk’’ (the speaker, a Bryn Mawr professor). Thus,
for its wisdom and practicality, we applaud the faculty’s decision.











but we’re prepared we’ll welcome
them

and show them taylor and rock’

will be made. Marchers will call
for a halt in the war and for nego-
tiation of peace terms.

derstand Erdman -- by analogy. '
We would have learned that Erd-
man IS not: it DOES -- and it is
this temporal aspect that is the

and pem Further information may be ob- Kahn’?
yes we’re prepared and roomsare tained from any SAC member, a nip ni =
clean and/or by coming to the SAC

and by some effort herculean things
are just the way they are

meeting next Tuesday, April 13, at
5 p.m. in the Roost. Literature

man or even comes to appreciate
it is irrelevant: the main point is
what the criticism of Louis Kahn

everyday and buttons are for sale from the a ~
because today’s a very special SAC lit table in Taylor (see Jody rn ge a scien at Geant toe
day Strom, Pem East), and on the SAC ception of ideas and information,

the only one reserve shelf in the Reserve room interspersed by frantic cram ses-
when this place really is of the Library, to the right of the sions for exams, and character-
_loco parentis. entrance (or see Marion Scoon, jzeq by lack of discussion in
Rhoads). Everything can be classrooms, at dinner tables and

familially, charged to payday. in hall smokers,
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‘Donna Daitzman ’66
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