College news, March 3, 1967

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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Vol. Lil, No. 15-

BRYN MAWR, PA.

~ FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1967

25 Cents -

©: Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966



Sunday Marks Beginning of Elections
For Self-Gov., Undergrad, Big Five

Now that the Dinner System has
been completed, the Bryn Mawr
campus can look forward to a week
of elections for all the major stu-





photo by Susan Nosco

Bryn Mawr’s entry in the
1967 Glamour Best Dressed
College Girl contest is Kath-
ryn Grossman, a senior French
major, from Glen Cove, New

York.

dent offices, It is to be hoped that
the poor turnout of students to
many of the after-dinner speeches
does not indicate general apathy
towards the elections. This will be
the first election run without a
required vote of all students.

The calendar for Election Week
has been set, and the first day of
voting, from Sunday, March 5 at
6. p.m, until Monday, March 6 at
7 p.m., will be devoted to the
presidential candidates. The of-
fices to be filled and the nomifees
are:

President of Self-Government -
Beth Chadwick, Drewdie Gilpin.
Presdent of Undergrad - Lola
Atwood, Pat Monnington.
President of Alliance - Doris Dew-
ton.
Arts Council - Linda Anderson,
Betsy. Kreeger, Judy Masur,
A.A, - Donna Cross, Madeleine
Ewing.
League - Cheri Morin.
Curriculum Committee - Carole
Collins, Nicky Hardenbergh,
Margaret Levi, Susan Nosco.
The Big Six is being reduced to
five, since Interfaith is not run-
ning any candidates this year.
The second election day will be
concérned with any primaries
which may prove necessary,

On Thursday, March 9, a tea
will be given to introduce all the
candidates for offices of Vice-
President, Secretary and First
Sophomore. These offices andcan-
didates are:

Vice-President of Self-Gov. -
Deborah Brown, Liz Thatcher,
and any of the defeated candi-
dates for Self-Gov President who
choose to run_for this . office.

Secretary of Self-tov. - Judy Lis-
kin, Claire Neely, Carol Reische,

Vietnam Colloquia Begin
With Question of Loyalty

After deciding that not much else
is going on, two Haverford stu-
dents Tom Weisman and Ron
Freund have set up a series of
three ‘‘Vietnam Colloquia’’ to be
held the next three Sundays, March
5, 12 and 19,

The first will include a panel

of three Haverford philosophy pro-

fessors discussing questions of
loyalty: ‘‘What should be the ex-
tent of our loyalty to the govern-
ment and where does it end?”
The three, Paul Desjardins, Rich-
ard Bernstein and Josiah Thomp-
son, will conduct an informal dia-
log among themselves and then
open the floor to the audience,

Richard DuBoff, economics pro-
fessor at Bryn Mawr, Harvey
Glickman, Haverford political sci-
entist and Herbert Spiro, in the
University of Pennsylvania Polit-
ical Science Department will con-
duct the second colloquium, The
topic will revolve around the ques-
tion, ‘‘Is the US sincerely inter-

ested in a negotiated settlement,

and_ if so, what is perpetuating
i war?” y

ford and Melville Kennedy of the
Bryn Mawr Political Science De-

partment will handle the last col-
loquiam, Their topic deals with
the role of China in the war: ‘Is
there any truth to the domino
théory, and what in general is the
effect of China on the war and
on the possibilities of negotiations,

All ‘three will begin at 7:30
p.m, in Stokes Hall at Haverford,



Christopher Fry’s

‘Phoenix Too Frequent”



Starring ————
Jane Robbins '65

Munson Hicks, Haverford '66
Nimet Habachy '67

75¢ Students; $1 Others

Saturday, March 4
Skinner - 7:30, 9:30



Barb Rosenberg, Martha Taft,

Vice-President of Undergrad -
Ruth Gais, Barbara Oppenheim,
and any of the defeated candidates
for Undergrad President.

The candidates for Undergrad Sec-
retary have not yet been defin-
itely announced.

Voting for these offices will take
place from March 12 at 6 p.m, to
March 138 at 7 p.m.

Along with all the voting for of-
fices, there will also be the op-
portunity on one of the election
days to vote on the referendum
concerning the COLLEGE NEWS.
It will be the only referendum
appearing on the ballot this year.
See the Editorial for an explana-
tion of the issue and its impor-
tance.

New Arts Center
Open to BMC

The Haverford Arts Center,
which is located in the Leeds base-

-ment, opened Tuesday night with a

pottery.demonstration by Mr. Pau-
lus Berensohn and Mrs. Kit Sny-
der.

.. The. pottery...shop..will-be -open..

evervday from 9 a.m, to mid-
night, and the facilities include
three potter’s wheels and one kiln.
Wednesday and Friday nights either
Mr. Berensohn or Mrs, Snyder
will be present to give individual
attention to interested people.

Bryn Mawr students’ who want
to reserve a potter’s wheel for
either of these two nights should
check the sign-up list posted in
the Arts Center.



Haverford’s Board of
Managers has passed the
Students’ Council propos-
als to abolish hours for
women in the dorms.

Self-Gov officers are
meeting secretly to form-
ulate a policy in reply to
this. They expect to re-
lease it Monday.







Administration.

Alliance Conference

The Student and the University in Society
Saturday, March 4
Erdman Hall, Main Smoker

Program:

10:00 panel discussion THE UNIVERSITY IN SOCIETY (panel mem-
bers to include Miss McBride, Martin Kenner of New School for

Social Research and others)

To what extent should the university’s function be to provide society
with professionals to fill its needs, to act as a ‘‘refueling station’’
for society, and to what extent should it be an institution which con-
cerns itself with the fullest development of each individual student,
independent of the presssures and needs of society? What are some of
the forces in society which exert pressure on the university?

11:30 Break for Coffee

12:00 Speaker. reer adniy; President of Duquesne University.

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Speaker. Marvin Wachman, President of Lincoln University.
2:45 - 4:15Panel Discussion. The _ Student, the Faculty and the -
(panel to include Mrs. Marshall,

Does faculty have a role other than teaching? Should they have a
role in making policy which determines the character of an institution?
What is the proper sphere of action for a college administration?
_ What, if any, areas of student life should be apart from adminis-

tration and faculty involvement?
4:15 - 4:45 Break for tea

4:45 Final discussion. synthesis and speculation about the fture

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of February we couldn’t even afford to publish ©
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Editorial: —
No News Is Bad News

We know of no other college newspaper in
the country which supports itself solely on sub-
scription and ad revenues. And now we know
why ; it can’t be done; it’s impossible.

There are two important things that a stu-
dent newspaper does for a college. First, it
acts as a forum for student opinion, a catalyst
for debate and clarification of issues_on. va-
rious decision-making levels. This is its most
important and most exciting job, _ Second, the
newspaper reports the news: it covers what
has happened and provides information about
what is going to _ happen. It is a central
clearing house for all notices of lectures, con-
certs, drama productions and social events as
well as being a link between Undergrad - Self-
Gov activities and the students,

Both jobs entail editorial accuracy, Both

: require a staff willing and able to spend the

: time necessary to find out what is going on,

and an Editorial Board willing and able to re-
flect on the facts, make some sense out of them

and use them to form responsible editorials.
As it stands now, this cannot be fully achie- :
ved, We have to spend too much time worrying |

- about the money situation, worrying about sub- '

scriptions and soliciting more ads. This na-
-turally .demeans.the quality. ofthe paper---and
from the middle of November to the middle




The solution appears obvious. It will give #

the newspaper more money on a more regular #

basis than it has now, and it will also eliminate ©
the difficulties of the $3.75 subscription drive
-in the fall. We have proposed ina referendum
to be submitted to the students next week that
_ Undergrad subsidize the NEWS to the extent

| of raising the Undergrad dues from $11 to $14.



Then everyone will receive a copy of the NEWS
automatically every week,

Our expenses are rising (it costs about $30
a page to publish 1300 copies), but for the first
time we have. a competent photographic staff
and we think there is a chance of publishing
a really good paper.

But we need your help.
NEWS referendum.

Vote YES on the

State Dept. Aids
Committee's Plans
For Viet Children

The Committee of Responsibil-
ity was given a promise of aid
by the State Department ata meet-
ing in Washington last Thursday,
reported Drewdie Gilpin, head of
Alliance and member of the na-
tional committee,

In an interview with William
Bundy, Under Secretary of State
for Asian Affairs, Dr, Herbert
Needleman, the Committee’s na-
tional chairman, was granted State

' Department assistance in the Com-
* mittee’s effort to bring war-burned
and injured children to the US
for medical treatment. The Com-
mittee plans to send a mission of
doctors to Viétnam to choose the
children to be brought to this

country.

and othsrs)

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Lecture Board

"This year we -have-an-absence. of candidates-for
Interfaith and a dearth for Alliance. Perhaps the
reason for this lack of enthusiasm in the elections
is not so much campus apathy as the nature of the
two organizations involved,

It is unfair to call Alliance and Interfaith ‘‘nothing’’
organizations. But it is true that they are largely
meant to be alliances of smaller interest groups,
without any definite character or affiliation of their
own,

- But these smaller groups seem a lot more willing
and better able to carry on religious and political
action on campus than the general organizations
which loosely tie them together. There was a series
of complaints at the beginning of this year about
the lack of Jewish-oriented activities in Interfaith,
Finally a few students jumped up and starteda Jewish
discussion. group which now meets regularly... When
Alliance tried last semester to take a poll of stu-

‘dent opinion on the war in Vietnam, it met with

accusations that the distributed questionnaire

was biased and not representative of conservative
roves Most of the political action on campus is
sponsored by groups like the Social Action Com-
mittee, the International * Relations Club, and the
new Committee of Responsibility. They can
act without worrying about reconciling all shades
of opinion at Bryn Mawr.

One valuable function Alliance and Interfaith do
perform consists in providing lectures. However,
many of them are poorly ‘attended. Some of the
Alliance lectures this fall were given to an audience
of two or three, Smaller groups may have
~ wanted to invite speakers in whom they knew their
members were interested. However, the budget of
branch groups under Alliance and Interfaith is gen-
erally limited. The Social Action Committee’s, for
instance, is only $100 a semester, hardly enough to
set up any program of outside speakers.

' We feel that Alliance and Interfaith should be
replaced by a non-partisan board designated to
coordinate lectures, The board would consider re-
quests for speakers from various groups and
individuals, It would delegate funds on the basis
of available money, how many people were interested,
and how many other requests had been made, It
would also fix dates for lectures to keep any one
week from becoming overloaded,

. In this way the Social: Action Committee could
ask for money to hold a teach-in on the CIA, while
the Young Americans for Freedom could discuss the

read of communism in Latin America. Eachcampus
group would have equal claims on the lecture board,
| If more people were curious about Zen Buddhism

_. than about early Quakerism, the lectures would

a ‘reflect this tendency.

Alliance and Interfaith can’t manufacture enthusiasm.
on campus, Furthermore both organizations are
forced to constantly worry about taking a partisan
stand on issues, and even about choosing issues,

_ Students can’t expect Alliance and Interfaith to guess.
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Letters to the Editor



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Interfaith Is Dead

To the Editor:

No one has accepted the nom-
ination for the presidency of In-
terfaith, Approximately ten stu--

4-dents' were nominated and de-

clined, not because they are not
interested, but because they are
involved in other activities, For
this reason, the Interfaith Board
decided last week that an Inter-
faith committee under the auspices
of- Undergrad should be tried at
least for a year, The issue will
be brought up-and settled at-the
March 6th meeting of Undergrad,

This year Interfaith has concen- .

trated mainly on the lecture ser-
ies and has tried to present topics
of universal interest, Interfaith
has not, however, started any dis-
cussions of an ecumenical nature,
either on campus or with other
schools, A committee could be
set up so that the work in both
these areas would be divided, For
example, there might be two people
to set up and carry out the lecture
series, two to maintain contacts
with the local churches and co-
ordinate denominational groups on
campus, two to establish contacts
with other schools, and two to
handle publicity, A chairmanwould
be responsible for coordinating the
committee, calling meetings, go-
ing to Undergrad meetings, etc.;
she would be elected by the com-
mittee, For such a committee to
be effective, its members must be
committed and willing to think of
new ideas and carry them out,
Hopefully a committee such as
this will give Interfaith enough
flexibility so that it can re-evalu-
ate its whole structure and, there-
by, better serve students’ inter-

ests,
Madeleine Sloane ’68





News Crisis

To the Editor:

In connection with this week’s
editorial I would like to submit that
I find it intensely humiliating to
have to concede that a news or-
gan attached to a school such as
Bryn Mawr should have to strug-
gle to maintain its very existence,
Whether the funds for the sup-
port of the College News should
be extracted from Undergrad or
from the administration itself is
of little relevance in the long run.

What is infinitely more significant

is the fact that the responsibility
for the financial difficulties of the
NEWS rests with the students them-
selves, with those very individuals
who are most intimately benefited
by its presence,

The obvious lack of active par-
ticipation in the construct of the
college paper can perhaps be’for-
given but not the lack of aware-
ness which manifests itself among
the student body by a shockingly
low number of student subscrip-
tions to the NEWS, If the COL-
LEGE NEWS should disappear from
the campus, its loss would signal
an eloquent reproach to all those
who chose to overlook its value
in a moment of crisis.

Marina Wallach, ’70

Key Fears

To the Editor:

In last week’s COLLEGE NEWS
Debbie Jackson voiced concern
over the attitude behind the present

- demands for increased freedom.



Judy Chapman recognized the need

tor thought and discussion before



equated the Self of Self-Govern-
ment with the individual, This
equation is wrong. Self-Govern-
ment. is the manner in which

“this college community has chosen

to deal with the human problems
which inevitably arise where
people are in contact and possibly
conflict with each other. The Self
of Self-Government refers to
the student body as a whole, a
unit, not to any individual self.
But this does not mean that the
individual self has no place within
our system of government. It means

‘that neither the individual nor the .

.system can operate without mutual
consideration.

Suppose Self-Government is
interpreted as meaning that the
government of each individual
is to ‘be left entirely to that in-
dividual. What will the con-
sequences be? What changes
will occur in the communal aspects
of life here? What will Executive

Board’s job.be? Executive Board. .
will formulate policy in individual |Bella Lisook -

cases. On what grounds? According
to what guidelines? How will Ex-
ecutive Board ever be able
to take any action other than re-
minding an offender of her
responsibilities? Admonitions
alone are impotent--barely heard
and soon forgotten. Will we open
ourselves. to internal conflict due
to the relativity of honor? What
will the Hall President’s job be?
Will. she be unnecessary because
we shall have achieved a utopia
in which there are no rules to
break? Will she assume the re-
sponsibility of holding frequent
meetings at which the spirit of
the system will be made clear?
Would any one come to these
meetings? If you think many people
would be willing to devote them-
selves to the self-examination
necessary to make. this idea work,
please remember the shortness
of memory and lack of response
evident in the mén-in-the-rooms
question.

The government of every indi-
vidual by herself alone tends,
then, to encourage anarchy, Ulti-
mate authority would not rest
with the Executive Board (a lenient
body, always willing to consider
individual circumstances), not with
the Hall President, but with the
individual. The philosophy behind
the suggestions of the Con-
stitutional Revision Committee
is a philosophy of isolationism.
It makes a girl responsible to
herself for her actions and to
herself alone. Responsibility to
others is not thought to be im-
plicit in self-responsibility.

If indeed the student body is
calling for isolationism it should
attack the definition of Bryn Mawr

as a residential college, and stop

merely pretending to support a
system which holds respect. for
the community and responsibility
to that community in high regard,
The plea is--don’t confuse the
issues. Perhaps we would like.to
suggest that the Board of Trustees
reconsider the definition of Bryn
Mawr College. If so, our sug-
gestion--can be made and con-
sidered. But for the present
and the immediate future we dolive
here as a community. And as a
community we cannot afford
to submerge ourselves in the chaos
of freedom from law.

What is true of the student com-
munity is true of the individual;
if she is to preserve an integrity
a wholeness, in her life she cannot
submerge herself in the freedom
from law which is chaos. We
subject our academic work to a
rule of carefulness, thorough-
and thoughtfulness, that
‘freedom WITHIN law. If
ire whole people, the same —

s and principles must be





do not reveal any awareness of the
FACT that, as of now, we do not
live our lives in isolationfrom one
another, nor do they reflect any

thoughtful consideration of the im- ~

plications of living an in-
dividual WHOLE life.

As Hall Presidents we have had
practical experience with the per-
sonal problems ‘engendered - by
our system of Self-Government.
The doubts we express, the ob-
servations we make,
directly from that experience and
are offered to you as their result.
We hope you will remember that
we. condemn. the proposals less
than the spirit which permeates
them. Unfortunately, experience
tell us the proposals seek license--
not principle, but license.
We call on you to consider the
ramifications of the choice pre-
sented for your vote--and
to choose with care, :
Sandy Gilluly - Batten House
Peggy Heston - Pembroke East
Pembroke West
Paishy Meigs -. Wyndham

Ann Platt - Rockefeller
Unwarranted Fears
To the Editor; |

Recent letters and editorials in
the NEWS about the proposed con-
stitutional -revision, both those
which support the changes and
those which express reservations,
all make the unwarranted assump-
tion that the revisions will bring
about fundamental changes in the
attitudes and behavior of students.
I doubt that they will.

Most of the controversy has been
about the elimination of the cur-
few and the initiation of a ‘‘key
system’’, The hall presidents who
wrote the above letter represent
the concern that without a curfew
people will tend to spend more
time out of the dorm and destroy
what sense of community that there
is there. I think that is highly
unlikely,
under the present system gives
a girl*the option of being out of
the dorm all the time if she wants
to be, and yet overnights aren’t
used extensively during the week.

By eliminating the 2:00 curfew
the proposed rule change elimi-
nates an arbitrary limit, I can-
not imagine that-suddenly large
numbers of people will want to
come in between 2:00 and 8:00. It
is very possible that having no cur-
few will make it easier for a girl
to come in earlier than 2:00, since
that will no longer be a limit
to be pushed toward. :

The hall presidents who wrote
the above letter state that they
are concerned not so much with
specific rules changes, but with
the spirit of ‘isolationism’? of
the individual in which they were
made. [ think they are wrong
in assuming that in giving the in-
dividual the freedom to make
choices, such as when to come in
at night or what to wear on a giv-
en occasion, we are fostering
anarchy. They object to the fact
that under the revised constitution
‘cultimate authority will rest not
with executive board ( a lenient
body always willing to consider
individual circumstances), not with
the hall president, but with the in-
dividual.” | firmly believe that
that is exactly where it should
rest, The role of executive board
should not be to stand over us
all and be ‘lenient’, but rather
to administer a system which pro-
vides a framework in. which its
members can make responsible
decisions,

We agree that we all should
participate more in our self-go-

participation is fostered if the in-

‘dividual must make decisions as .
_ to what her responsibilities toher~_

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Friday, March 3, 1967

THE COLLEGE



Alumnae Council meetings this week culmi-
nated with a party at the University Museum in
Philadelphia celebrating Miss McBride's twenty
five years as President of the College. About
600 people attended. The poem was written
especially for the occasion by Marianne Moore,
09. Alan Pyfer, acting head of the Carnegie
Corporation was the featured speaker.

_. Dear Katharine McBride

words have no way

of conveying to you what achievement should say, : Zé
since we have not replicas of your insight enriching our school---
of your kindled vision discerning individual promise.

What is a college?
a Place where freedom is rooted in vitality,
where faith is the substance of things hoped for,
where things seen were not made with hands---
where. the school’s initiator being dead, yet speaketh,
where virtue trod a rough and thorny path,
finding itself and losing itself--- :
the student her own taskmaster.
tenacious of one hour’s meaning sought
that could not be found elsewhere.

Students --foster-plants of scholarship---
at the beginning of the year,
bewildered by anxiety and opportunity
in the vibrant dried-leaf-tinctured autumn air,
pause and: capitulate, compelled to.ponder
intimations of divinity --~-

recurrent words of an unaccompanied hymn:

Ancient of Days, who sittest throned in glory.
O fosterer of promise, aware that danger is always imminent---
The free believe in Destiny, not Fate.
. O fortunate Bryn Mawr with her creatively unarrogant President
unique in her exceptional unpresidential constant:

a liking for people as they are,
MARIANNE MOORE, ’09

Inconsiderable as derived from its sources, the foregoing lines attempt
to thank Miss McBride for an article in the Christian Science
Monitor, naming a number of constants which make for continuity;
“Mr. John W. Gardner for concepts set forth in his monographs,
EXCELLENCE and SELF -RENEWAL (Harper Colophon Books); and
Cornelia Meigs, ’07 for WHAT MAKES A COLLEGE? (Macmillan),





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NEWS

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Photo by Nanette Holben



Self-Gov candidates fold programs.





BASKETBALL!!

Haverford Flips Out
With
Bryn Mawr
Benefit for
Serendipity Day Camp
50¢
Haverford Field House

Saturday, March 4
3:30

Referees:
Mr. Lane, Dean Lyons















wotthehell, wotthehell, as my dear
fellow-animal archy useter say
«+.» Sickness encroaches like
roaches nothing _ personal,
archy-friend ... remove letters,
it?s arch-fiend ... heh heh ...
ignore me, ignore me... it’s just
that everything seems to be piling
up, you understand, i seem to have
been born behind in my work,
what is there to console me...
and yet, all this pretension at
preparation, this electioneering,
unattended -mock-ritual for the
coming of spring, i know wisely it

__Awill never come, locked down deep

in fragrant roots spring sings to
herself and refuses to come out
»»- why- should she, we’ve little
enough to offer her, damp trees
‘and a few gray clouds in a gray
sky, not much freedom to speak
of, everyone scurrying to burrows
when class is done, fraternizing
gone with the wind ... what i need
is a hat by lily dacte out of papier
mache on a Silver hotray .., no
i?m not fooling, heard it from a

reliable source today,. spring’s ©

never coming ... that damned
groundhog gave me indigestion any-
way \“ i’m sorry i ever partici-
pated in his silly tradition, see
where it gets you ... parents’ day

will come and go, may day and.

yea, verily, graduation, and the
eclairs will be frosty with snow,
popsicles for garden party plucked
from the laden trees, hoops all
in a skid on merion green ice...
you. know it, you know it, i’m
pulling your wing, winter comes
but once a year, so isn’t this
just the time to fan our feeble

fires?
joshingly & sloshingly,
slap-happlebee



Peace Corps Volunteers
aRPIE ber | To Visit, Discuss Jobs —

Former Peace Corps Volunteers
will visit Bryn Mawr, Monday,
March 6, and will speak to in-
terested students in the Common
Room at 4 about their service
experiences,

The Peace Corps, initiated by
President Kennedy, has been in
existence seven years, With the
addition of eight new countries in
1966 there are now 12,000 Vol-
unteers serving in fifty-two na-
tions and territories,

There is an increasing need
for liberal arts graduates, but
there is also a need for more
people with specialized _ skills,
such as math, science, and
agriculture,

In repeated discussions held with
Volunteers, .most were safisfied
with their Peace Corps experience
(over 90%) and almost all said they
would volunteer again. Lack of
support from host country offi-
cials was rated among the great-
est problems, and was highest in
Asia. Another big problem

State Dept...

(Continued from page 1)

Expressing deep concern over
civilian casualties, Bundy stated
that the State Department would
introduce the Committee’s doc-
tors to officials in Vietnam, ex-
pedite visas permitting the chil-
dren to enter the US, provide
air transportation for the Com-
mittee’s representatives during
their stay in Vietnam, and nego-
tiate further about the possibility
for government transportation of
children. to the US, Dr, Needle-
man stated that he was pleased

with the result of the interview and

set April 10 as a target date for
the departure of the mission of
doctors to Vietnam to choose the
first group of children,



was apathy among.the host country
nationals in the desire to help
themselves, Disinterest in the
Peace Corps and unfriendliness

was ranked highest in the Near
East and in South Asia, Accord-

ing to the report, however, ‘‘The
most striking feature of the re-
sponses was the tendency: of the
Volunteers not to consider most
of the problems as serious,”’

Sports and recreational activi-
ties play a large role in most
nations, They are effective means
of improving health, personal
character, and international un-
derstanding, They help to develop
national pride and friendliness
among groups within a nation,
These activities also’ serve as an
‘tin?? for Volunteers to gain the
support and trust of the young
people in the countries, and help
to break down barriers between
them,

The twelve-week training pe-
riod for the Peace Corps is rig-
orous, It is based on practice
rather than books, and Volunteers
are trained mainly by ‘‘veterans’’
with first-hand experience, Al-
though physical conditioning does
not play as important a role as
it once did (before, Volunteers
were left alone in jungles with
compasses and maps and told to
find their way back to camp), Vol-
unteers are trained to live in
rugged conditions, such as. Asian
villages, Nepali houses, etc, -
They eat native foods, use na-
tive utensils, and follow local tra-
ditions, Trainees are taught the
language, politics, history, and
culture of their assigned nations,
as wellas farming techniques, first
aid, teaching skills, and the skills
of construction work,

Problems of personal adjust-
ment, once thought to be the major

‘problem in overseas service, are

no longer considered serious by
Volunteers, and many felt that
the experience had brought great

. emotional development,

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—



by Margaret Levi '68

The author asked that this
article be printed as a follow-
up of her ‘‘Open End’’ contri-
bution last week--Ed. note.

The following extracts from a
letter to Margaret Levi from Rev-
erend James Robinson, Director
of Crossroads Africa, serve, I
think, to show the kind of harm the
CIA has done to organizations and
foundations which were implicated,
but innocent of CIA involvement,

**‘We have never at any time or
in any way been an agency or an
affiliate of the Central Intelligence
Agency, They have never even
approached, much less worked
through or with, any member of
our executive staff. The funds
which we received fromthe
Foundation for Youth and Student
Affairs, which was listed along
with a number of other worthy
organizations with a reputation for
integrity and doing good work with-
out any connection, direct or in-
direct, with the CIA, They, like
us, suffer by association,

‘*Further, at this point we donot

know whether the funds which came

to us through the Foundation for
Youth and Student Affairs were CIA
money or not, They do have other
funds from.legitimate sources and
they do make legitimate eontri-
butions, It is too bad that they
allowed themselves to be used, as
a number of other front founda-
tions have been used, in this way,
Furthermore, it would be illogical
for anyone to assume that for a
measly $3000 and $1000, out of a
budget of $500,000 a year -- two
thirds of which I have to raise
each year by blood, sweat and
tears on an average of four to five
hours’ sleep a night -- that CIA
could have, any influence on the
policy, objectives and direction of
Crossroads Africa,

*¢..e like a great many other

worthy organizations which have-

worked and continue to work in
integrity and honesty, we had no
idea that CIA was using certair
youth and student organizations
and funneling money through foun-
dations ... No one is more upset
about this than I myself, the mem-~
bers of our Board of Directors
and our staff, because we know how
this is going to hurt not only in
Asia and Latin America, but es-
pecially how it is going to hurt us
in Africa, because it is going to
raise a good many suspicions which
had died down, There were sus-
picions in the beginning on thepart
of African governments, with re-
gard to voluntary private organiz-
ations, because they are so far
outside the scope of anything of
this nature which is done in under-
developed countries, in terms of
voluntary support which is not

‘Innocent Receipt of CIA Funds
Cited as Harmful and Upsetting

under government control, Youare
correct ... when you say that the
greatest strength of Crossroads is
its private, voluntary nature of
organization, operation and sup-
port,

“I am sorry for the uncomfortable
position in which you have been
put; for that was done by anagency
of the United States government
and by a number of students and
young people who were willing to
lend themselves in this way, as
well as some foundations who have
destroyed, or at least seriously
damaged, the good name of the
thousands of foundations which have
not allowed themselves to be used
this way and which were never
approached by the CIA,

‘*Of one thing you can be absolutely
sure: Operation Crossroads Africa
is absolutely clear, I stake my
reputation, my life and my future
on this ...”’

Foundation Offers
Money to Essays |
By Anglophiles

The president of the Edward
L, Bernays Foundation has notified
President McBride of an award of
five thousand dollars now being
offered by the organization, The
contest seeks the submission of
ideas which will contribute to a
comprehensive program directed
at furthering understanding be-
tween the people of the United
Kingdom and of the United States.

Judges for this competition will
be drawn, six in number, and in
equal proportion, from the two
countries involved. The British
contingent is represented by Sir
Denis Brogan of Cambridge Uni-
versity, Sir Ifor Evans of the
University College of London, and
Mr. Donald Tyerman, a director
of the ECONOMIST, Judges from
America include the journalist Jo-
seph Harsch, Professor Seymour
Lipset of Harvard University, and
Dean Gerhart Wiebe of Boston Uni-
versity. Submission of manu-
scripts, which should not exceed
five thousand words, must be made
no later than midnight, June 30,
and addressed to the Foundation,
7 Lowell Street, Cambridge, Mass.,
02138. U.S.A. Entries, which are
not limited to any categories of
authorship, will be acknowledged

_by. mail, and the winning work will

be published in .a-pamphlet to be
distributed widely to group lead-
ers and national figures ‘in both
the United Kingdom and the United
States. 5
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_ Friday, March 3 1967

THE COLLEGE NEWS



—§ iF. GOV,

_ haps one person to whom problems could

-be brought. In addition I propose to
have the Big Six submit tentative cal-
endars of speakers and events in the late

. Spring to avoid conflicts and to space

activities more evenly throughout the year,
I hope to.have minutes of the Executive
Board mimeographed and posted in the
halls. ‘

None of these promosals can be ef-
fectively carried out without two import-
ant elements which have been lacking in
the past--delegation and follow-through.
More people must be invited and encour-
aged to study problems and solutions,
Participation beyond the hall reps and Big
Six presidents should be enlisted. Fin-
ally, when solutions are-found, when pro-
posals such as the bus and meal exchange
do pass, we must continually be alert
to new problems that arise, and seek
answers. Many good ideas die because
they are not carried to completion.

Rather than abolish Undergrad, let us
utilize its unique structure to tap and
implement student ideas.

A.A.

Donna Cross

- Bryn Mawrters rarely argue violently
about the Athletic Association. This makes
it hard to find out whether softball or
croquet will be more popular. The hard
core of Sunday-afternoon volleyball play-
ers know that they like to play
volleyball. What about everybody else?
Everyone needs to relax sometime and
somehow. It is A.A.’s job to know how to
give people the chance.





we can dust off one of the old trophies
and bring it out on Awards Night. We
can plan to play softball with the faculty
children. The ynicest thing about A.A.’s
activities is that they are-all for fun.
A.A. is a success if people enjoy its
activities.

Madeleine Ewing

The role of the Athletic Association
in the College life is a potentially great
one. A_ student does not spend all her
time eating, sleeping, or studying. Re-
creational activities are an important
part of her life. Many students feel the
need of strenuous physical excercise to
help them relieve the tensions of stu-

_dying. _Others-prefer- to-spend their lei-

sure time in organized activity. The de-
mand for some sort of activities’ pro-
gram is sizeable; the opportunity for the
Athletic Association to serve the stu-
dents is conséquently great.

I w like to see A.A. take an even
more role in College life than
it has retofore. Its week-end acti-

vities should continue in accordance
with the interests of the community. In-
creased communication and coordination

with Haverford is a must. As a matter
of fact, increased communication with
B.M.C. itself is essential. Since the
Athletic Association is not a group of
entertainers who keep students occupied
but is an organizational body represen-
tative of ALL B.M.C, students, imple-
menting student-motivated activities, it
must have contact with the students them-
selves in order to know what they want
to do. I would like to improve contact
through dorm representatives and through



A.A.: Donna Cross and Madeleine ving

This year A.A. has-tried to plan an
activity a week. The faculty-student and
Bryn Mawr-Haverford events have been

, especially successful. Boys are fun any-

way, and some people have been
surprised to find that the professors
are, too. Meeting professors three times
a week in classes makes you forget that
they exist in any other context. On the

tennis court, however, you may discover |

that they are people, too.

A.A, has continued to sponsor some
*tregulars’’; badminton and volleyball on
Sunday, recreational swimming during the
week. A.A. tries to encourage people to
do what they want to do. This year, it
has been reasonably successful in guess-
ing what activities to plan. It is
important for the dorm reps. to feel
responsible for taking an informal poll
of what people on campus are interested
in doing.

A.A, should also serve as a source of
suggestions. Many people do not know,
for example that Applebee Barn (the
building above the tennis courts) can be
used for parties. A.A. is in charge of
giving the initial permission. There is
a@ good deal of red tape involved, but
it is worth the effort. Applebee has a
huge fireplace, and the college will even
lay the fire. The Athletic Association
should make a point of letting people know
how to use Applebee.

Many people have asked about possible
picnic areas within walking or bicycling
distance. Valley Forge is fun if youhavea
car. If you do not, it is a long walk
from the train station. Even. if A.A.

- does not plan picnics for the entire student:
Be es eres oe + iehat moore

about where to go. *
AA, aah, Dee ie Sa" irection.

more extensive publicity.

I would like to see A.A, fulfill its
role next year. I would like to see
more inter-dorm competitions, more fa-
culty-student activities, better publicity
for A. A. ’s own and for other events
in the area, increased cooperation with
Haverford, and efficient supervision of
regular Sunday afternoon activities in the
gym. The opportunities for service are
great; the challenge to A.A, is greater.
If elected,.I will do my best to help
A.A. meet that challenge.



Alliance
Doris Dewton

The Alliance for Political Affairs is
an umbrella organization covering all the
aspects of a student’s political interests.
Most of the people now familiar with Al-
liance. know it as a cause-fighting or-
ganization; yet this function is only 4 part
of Alliance’s greater role. In addition
to serving with political interest groups,
Alliance also serves the more general
politically related interests of students.
Speakers present lectures .on topics of
current interest, chosen for their impor-
tance in the national or international struc-
ture. For example, the present empha-
sis is on Latin America, a new sphere of
influence of American government. There
are other more personal programs, such
as the recent presentation of the newCom-
mittee of Responsibility, which proposes .
to take war-burned and injured children
out of Vietnam for extensive medical
treatment in the United States.

Since political affairs can be inter-

preted to include any affairs involving a\
group of people in a social organization, —
reypan fo eon anit ot
tems.are within the on Se

DERGRAD, BIG FIVE

From a purely political view, national
political affairs have already focused on
the 1968 elections. Now is the time to
form clubs advocating certain candidates
or issues, and to bring new ideas into

the existing organizations.

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On the international level, there are
many areas worthy of speakers or panel
discussions. Our neighbors in Latin
America are suddenly very close and
important, and much of our foreign po-
licy is hemispheric. . The issues on the
international scale are innumerable: the
United Nations, NATO, Vietnam, the Red
split, problems of development in Asia,

Africa and the East, and the role of the |

United States on these issues.

A random sampling from any newspaper
illustrates the scope of affairs that Al-
liance could handle. Questions include:
The Congress-as an effective organ for
representative government; the role ofthe
CIA in control of what is American;
the question of Vietnam; power changes
in Africa and Asia; legislation of social
and religious values; and many others of
equal importance.

Students and student affairs are an
integral part of Alliance, and I would
appreciate any suggestions on topics or
speakers of general interest on campus.
For an organization such as Alliance to
function in its capacity as a coordinating
body, more sub-groups, be they inter-
est- groups or political organizations, are
needed to bring new spirit into Alliance.

One question facing Alliance is whether
to organize its programs around one basic
theme, and explore it in detail, or whether
to gather a little information about a
variety of topics. In any case, I would like
to see more coordination between related
groups on campus, such as League and
Alliance. The suggestion has also been
made that Alliance set up another con-
ference similar to that held in 1964 on
the Second American Revolution , a study
of the psychology and socialogy of pre-
judice and segregation.



Arts Council
Linda Anderson

It would seem that the greatest weakness
of Arts Council as it now stands is the fact
that it is not truly fulfilling the function of
a council. This function is, I believe, to
serve as a kind of governing or controlling
board over the activities of a large group
of people, specifically those activities con-
cerned with various aspects of the arts on
Bryn Mawr’s campus. However, themem-
bers who now comprise this council are
far too busy to govern, control, or co-or-
dinate, for the simple reason that these few







people, once a project is formed, are foreed
to carry it out themselves, if it is ever to
be carried out at all. The inevitable con-
clusion: lack of campus support.

I do not feel that this problem necessar-
ily results from the now-proverbial apathy
of the‘ student body, but, rather more from
a general lack of awareness of the oppor-
tunities available to us. These opportun-
ities would seem to fall into two categories:
those existing on campus, and those that
are available beyond the limits of Bryn
Mawr.

To begin with those aspects most directly

~ iivelying-our own campus, might we not

begin to tap our own professors on the
subject of some of their academic inter-
ests which are not necessarily connected
with the courses they. teach us? The bene-
fit of such a plan, perhaps based on such
an informal system as a simple coffee
hour with students and one or two faculty
members at a time, would -be twofold;
first, it would expose the student to a new
realm ofknowledge concerning a particular
topic (as, for instance, the subject of a
book or dissertation on which the professor
is currently working), and, secondly, fac-
ulty-student relations, too often inadequate
at this college, would surely be more satis-
factory.

A second area of improvement might be
centered around the College Inn. Plans
were formulated earlier this year to turn
the Inn into a kind.of coffee house on Fri-
day evenings, with the purpose of allowing
students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford
the chance to read their own poetry, or per-
haps to perform on a musical instrument,
either individually or in groups. Again,
there was no one prepared to organize this
set-up, but this lack might well be remedied
by this spring if enough interest were
shown.

But, surely the events planned under the
auspices of Arts Council should not be lim-
ited to our own campus. Further co-oper-
ation with Haverford would be beneficia
both institutions, as would more-extens.. .
contact with such near-by colleges
Swarthmore and Princeton. A mostexcit-
ing project would be to set aside a week-
end: during which student-written plays
could be put on by Bryn Mawr students, in
conjunction with students from one or more
additional schools. A second plan along this
line could be modeled on one found at
Princeton, known as ‘‘Response Week-
end.’’ This program entails the importation
of eight or* ten speakers who lecture on a
number of varied fields, including art,
poetry, and television and film-making.
Again, two or three days could be set
aside, involving the most welcome sup-
port from other near-by student bodies.

In short, then, I feel that the role of
Arts Council is an important one, one

which could become yet more important
and exciting by means of innovations such
as the ones above,

Betsy Kreeger

The purpose of Arts Council at Bryn
Mawr is to provide non-academic, artis-
tic entertainment on campus, and to pro-
vide the opportunities for creative work
on the part of the students in the college
community. There must be no limit
to the requests made of Arts Council,
And Arts Council, in turn, must have the
ingenuity to fulfill these requests as com-
pletely as possible,. although working a-
round a limited budget,

The suggestions must originate from the

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Friday, March 3, 1967



' selves,

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ELECTION STATEMENTS FOR

Self-Gov

Beth Chadwick
What with the proposed Constitutional
Revision and the liberalization of Haver-
ford’s ‘*women in the rooms’ “policy,
the tone this year at Bryn Mawr is
one of change, It is a time for question-
ing, time to take another look at
the rules we have set up to govern our-
But as we reconsider, it

is important that. we look beyond the vary-
ing length of hemlines to an appraisal

of the whole nature of what we are trying :

to do, It is not so much a question of
keys or extended hours as of the implica-
of these proposals; their ef-
fectiveness would depend not only
upon student responsibility but upon the
degree of respect and trust which stu-
dents -would: ‘be willing. to accord
each other. Thus the issue this year is
really nothing new; it has to do with
the nature of the Bryn Mawr community.
Taking each other into consideration, how
do we create a possible working. re-
lationship? What sort of a place do
we want Bryn Mawr (may I -see- some
identification oh yes you’re a_ student
at Bryn Mawr) to be?



In terms of the community it seems to
me that responsibility exists both among
students and between the elected officials
of Self-Gov and the students. As far as
the casual student is concerned, self
government may appear a net-work of
rules, some of which restrict her, Yet
those same rules, provided of course that
they reflect the attitudes of the student
body as a whole, can represent a way
of surviving February together. The stu-
dent who is unused to freedom
accepts a little more, while the student
who is unused to restriction accepts some
of that, too; both realize that the rules
exist not as a personal convenience but
as a practical necessity. —

What then have the elected officials to
do? For one g, they should assume the
responsibility of keeping in touch with the
campus about Self-Gov. Asfreshmen most
of us experience only the Self-Gov exam;
certainly the emphasis should be on learn-
ing more than the rules. Perhaps
open discussions or mass meetings are
the answer, yet I think we all will admit
that during exam ~-week attendance at
mass meetings would be likely to flag.
At this point, as the elected representa-
tives of Self-Gov keep functioning, it
is important that the campus still be in
touch with them; Self-Gov should
not operate in a vacuum. When power
is vested in elected representatives, cer-
tain rules such as _ those so-called
‘undesirable’ statements regarding re-
spectable accommodations or. drugs
act strongly in the interest of the student,
Interpretations of this kind, coming from
and endorsed by the students, insure that
there will be no arbitrary action on the
part’ of a few. It seems far better to
have a general statement, of any sort,
than arbitrary gestures on the part of
_ those in office. -

‘Are students apathetic because they -

feel Self-Gov and any demands it may
make are so unreasonable that they cannot
‘identify’ with them--or is it because stu-
dents at Bryn Mawr are by nature
completely and irredeemably apathetic?
No- candidate could run on the second
alternative, yet need one automatically

~yassume. the. first?. Let.there be change, _
but in terms of the community; let there

be responsibility, but in a sense beyond
the personal. Sages ganar cali
try.

Drewdie Gilpin

, The role of Self-Gov,’ by which I mean
not just the Board, but all of us as mem-
bers of it, should be to encourage a
development of each individual in the
realization ef her own system of values.
In the wake of the activity of the Con-
stitutional Revision Committee, the chief
discussion on campus is centered on the
rules of the Self-Government Association.
What is the function of a rule? A rule.
defines a framework within which an
individual is free to act as she chooses,
hopefully establishing by her action a
fuller realization of what she is.

A Liberal government assumes a con-
stant debate within and among individuals
about personal values, for it is from this
debate that responsible and considered use
of individual freedom arises, The role
of the group is to offer different and
even conflicting ideas out of which an
individual can synthesize her own system
of values. By accepting the ideas put
forth by the group.as worthy of consider-
ation, the individual ends her alienation
from the group and, injecting her own
ideas, becomes an important contributor
to it. An individual cannot consider her
personal freedom as her private property,
for Liberal government, as government
of a group by itself, requires responsi-
bility of individuals to each other and to
the group. Only if we recognize this
responsibility to each other can we just-
ify not making rules for the weakest
member of the group. Only by accept-
ing a responsibility to work for the crea-
tive rather than destructive use of their
freedom can we make valid our estab-
lishment of rules permitting a greater
degree of freedom then that to which
some girls are accustomed.

Liberal government assumes, there-
fore, the recognition by its members that
the welfare of the group, in addition to
the personal development of the indiv-

ual is the goal of the:state. Liberal

eedom does not mean complete absence
” of law, but the discovery of one’s own
law, in accordance with one’s own welfare
and the welfare of the group. Rules or
laws can provide a framework in which
self-realization may take place, but they
cannot guarantee that-questioning and dis-
covery will take place. While our present
sign-out system allows us to be out until
2 AM, it does not legislate that we
involve ourselves in active pursuit of self-
knowlege in accordance with our best int-
erests until that hour.



The role which Self-Gov needs to play
at Bryn Mawr now is to go beyond its
preoccupation with the framework of rules,
Rules, based on a consensus about what
is the optimum level of freedom for the
group, arise from a tremendously import-
ant debate which should go on-constantly
within and among individuals. The diff-
iculty which Self-Gov now faces, with its

.dilemmas about overnight signouts, the
implications of the key system, and so
on, is that the constant debate and the
feeling of responsibility of individuals to-
ward @ach other has broken down, Self-
Gov. needs to provide catalysts for the
creative use of freedom by individuals
in their growth, Encouragement of in-
creased interaction among people, suchas
morning coffee hours and class lunches,
is certainly important, The presentation
to the student body as a whole of the
dilemmas of Self-Gov., perhaps through
a weekly column in the NEWS by. the
Self-Gov.. president is another possibil-
ity. For example, I believe that it is
important for. every student. to realize,
as I did not until last week, that there
have been an inordinate number of aca-
demic honor violations this year. The
more students are aware of-problems of



Self-Gov. and of the theorizing in which
the Board involves itself, the more the
students will feel a responsibility to the
Self-Government'system. Self-Gov. néeds
to provide increased opportunities for the
student to give to it. As a catalyst to
the debate on personal problems, a de-
bate necessary to the functioning of Lib-
eral government, I have long believed, as
Judy Chapman suggested in the NEWS
last week, that Self-Gov should spon-

sor discussion groups in the halls in con-

junction with the hygiene lectures. for
the freshmen, In these discussions, fresh-
men could sound out their opinions about
sex, drugs, the meaning of emotional
involvement, and other similar problems.

The Self-Government system cannot and
should not act as mother to the student
body. The system is one in which students
must move together toward a realization
of their own individual values. The role
of Self-Gov. is’ to encourage the most
creative use of the freedom which we
have, :



Undergrad
Lola Atwood

The Undergrad President has three
roles; to run these meetings, to cope
with trivia and to represent the college,
Her spirit and energy to encourage an
active Undergrad, and her organization
and competence to keep things running
smoothly are the qualifications which
really count.

; Something should be done about Under-
grad meetings! There is no reason why
they should be hateful. If all the trivia
and operational details were left to com-
mittees and to the president then meetings
could cope with bigger problems. (There
are plenty of interesting, important prob-
lems to discuss in that hour.) The
board should be well informed as to what
is going on, what complaints have been
made to a new Complaint Department
and what problems the Big 6 are having.
(for example, lack ofattendance and funds)
Hopefully extras will come to VERYopen
meetings to voice opinions. Undergrad
isn’t just a sorter of trivia and a switch-
board of communications -- that’s the
president’s job. The Association itself
is an initiating body and should act as
such. Year before last the H’ford-BMC
bus, the meal exchange, and telephones
in the rooms went through via Undergrad.
Measures like these have to be followed
up and new ones encouraged.

Given energy, problems, and a degree
of power the meetings should have good
attendence. The presence of the NEWS
representative is vital but everyone is
important. After all, the-communications
system of Undergrad relies on the dorm
reps who have the most opportunity and
responsibility to contact their constitu-
ency. These reps should be given more
responsibility (and work) as. well as en-
couragement to come to meetings. If
all else fails to pull out a crowd, the
food of lunch or dinner meetings can
work miracles!

The president herself is responsible for
Smooth operation and communication with-
in the Association, as well as for the
spirit of its meetings. Therefore she must
be well informed. Since she should be
able to answer the enquiries of fellow
students as well as outsiders she needs
an updated calendar and a list of every-
one who is in charge of anything. (With



"plement them.

The main hindrance to past
cooperation has been inadequate organi-
zation and- communication. This is the
president’s job.
As for specific issues: Tam

AGAINST an enlarged May Day

FOR a required NEWS subscription but_

AGAINST a general raise in Undergrad
fees

FOR the new Social Committee

FOR an Undergrad Speaker every year
we can find one

FOR a new mimeograph machine

(AGAINST abolishing Undergrad!)

Patty Monnington

Several months ago this paper raised
the question of the abolition of Undergrad.
Since then-I-have tried to.determine if. .
there is indeed a need for this organiza-
tion at Bryn Mawr.

Undergrad is unique in itsmembership,
for it is composed of representatives af
all facets of undergraduate life, On its
Executive Board sit class presidents,
dorm representatives, Presidents of the
big Six, the Editor of the NEWS, and”
President of College Theatre. The fun-
ction of this group is to coordinate the
activities of the various bodies and to
provide a forum for all phases of stu-
dent opinion.

Yet, there is, in addition, a wider
role to be played. Students frequently
complain that Bryn Mawr is not an ex-
citing place to live. This is a challenge
Undergrad must meet, because it is the
students who are ‘the creative heart of
Bryn Mawr . Three areas in which we

may concentrate our efforts to achieve
a more lively and enjoyable community
are social, academic and cultural;



In the social realm we can engender
more excitement by sponsoring more div-
ersified activities such as:

1. Coed trips to the zoo or the rr
Institute

2. Bridge tournaments

3. Coordinated. activities such as bird-
watching trips and frisbee matches joint-
ly sponsored by the social committee
and AA

Problems in the academic realm could be
solved by:

1, A committee to arrange reserve read-
ing shelves at M, Carey Thomas Library
for Haverford courses taken by Bryn
Mawr students

2. Alleviating problems of buying books
for Haverford courses at the Haverford
book store

3. A free meal exchange which would
allow all students to eat at either of the
two schools at any time upon present-
ation of matriculation card

4, Improving bus service-- running more
frequently during exams, on week-ends,
etc,

5. Enlisting faculty support of student pro-
grams

A more exciting. cultural life needs only
the utilization of existing resources, for
example:

1, Extending the efforts of Freshman Week
by sponsoring small groups to the Phil-
adelphia art museums, lectures, etc,

2. Investigating the possibility of a float-
ing Art Series between Bryn Mawr and
Haverford, and providing a more div-
ersified program, with some events at
Roberts and others at Goodhart.

There are many areas open for im-
provement. The major task is to tap
the wealth of student ideas and to im- .
Undergrad has excellent ~
conditions for communications, To pro-
vide an additional channel I would like
to establish a complaint department, per-






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. (Continued from page 5)
student body, To initiate thinking in this
area, I propose the following:

I, Immediate organization by Arts Coun-
cil of a skeleton calendar of events
for the coming year, Included in such a
schedule might be lectures, theatrical pro-
ductions, student . , programs and art ex-
hibits, student ing programs, con-
certs, and the film series, Subsequent-
ly, this calendar must be submitted si-

~“multanéously to a coordinating committee

for the activities of the Big Six organi-
zations at Bryn Mawr, and to the ap-
propriate organization at Haverford, to
avoid such jam-ups as the recent Fresh-
man-Sophomore Weekend all rolled into
one,

Il, Publication: of a weekly Cultural
Broadsides calendar, including movies
in and around Philadelphia, concerts in
Philadelphia and at all the colleges and
universities in the area, lectures in the
vicinity, theatre productions, and museum
exhibitions,

Il, Establishment of a committee to
act as clearing house both for inform-
ation and tickets concerning theatre, op-
era, concerts, and off-Broadway prod-

uctions in New York City, including the ©

rapidly-changing scene of events in Green-
wich Village, This might be done in
cooperation with Haverford, so as to
introduce the possibility of automobile
transportation, instead of the more ex-
pensive hiring of buses,

IV. Organization of theatre training
groups on campus, offering instruction
in lighting, set-designing, set-building,’
make-up, costuming, and perhaps dir-
ecting, These workshops would be stu-
dent-run, although the possibility of out-
side intructors should not be ignored,
if finances permit,

V, Establishment of art workshops
covering various creative realms: paint-
ing and sculpting, as Arnecliffe and the
Art Studio at Haverford already provide,
machine shop work, and handcrafts, This
is another area in which coordination
with Haverford would be advantageous
financially, as well as for provision of
workshop locations, In these workshops,
there is again the possibility of invit-
ing guest lecturers,

VI. Establishment of a system of
committees within Arts Council, to pro-
vide a concrete structure within which
the organization as_a whole can operate,
To achieve efficiency, there must be a
specific committee, with a chairman, to

. which a student with a specific idea can
go.

The key to a lively, constructive year
sponsored by Arts Council lies necessar-
ily in the students at Bryn Mawr. It
is they who must suggest; and it is the
student resources which a highly organ-

, ized and tightly-run Arts Council must
tap for a creative season on campus,

Judy Masur

There is a certain kind of Mawrter
for whom: scholarship is only half enough,
-who feels the need to climb out of her
book now and then and create with her
hands, with her voice, with her body --
to break from academia and paint a
flower or sing an aria or tickle the
ivories or proclaim Ionesco or pound a

nail or run or jump or stand on her head

in the middle of Merion Green and whistle
DIXIE just long enough -- but at least
long enough -- to be able to return to
Spinoza refreshed. She is found all
_. over the campus, and she takes two forms;

. first, the girl who comes naturally to
express herself through the arts and who

will ‘‘find a way or make one”’ to do so, ~

second, the girl who hesitates to get
involved in theatre or putter. around in
watercolors because she feels she is not
“talented’’? enough.

Can Arts council become such an or-
ganization, anticipating, working with, and
stimulating activity in the arts? I think
it can’t afford not to.

There is a tremendous amount of un-
confessed talent on campus itching (whe-
ther it knows it or not) to manifest itself,
to exhibit its wares. The problem is, it

has no place in which to do this. There ~

is no reason why anyone who wants to
produce a play (which, for one reason
or another, may got be either College
Thestro’s or Liltie Theatre’s cup 0’ tay)
_ ghouldn’t be able to produce and ‘direct



be a certain kind of organiz-

of ‘Mawrter (both of her) :

same time encourages these urges; one

which assures all those who would doubt -

their own ‘‘ability’’ or ‘‘talent’’ that the

value of the arts lies not in the “per- |

fection’’ of a finished product, but in the
creation of that product -- in the doine,'

not the thing done.
Two years ago College Theatre or-

ganized Sunday morning play-readings in
the Common Room; perhaps this instit-
ution could be revived? Why couldn’t
there be a. one-act (original or pre-fab)
play competition, announced in September
with the winning productions to be chosen
sometime in the spring?

And the: program in the graphic arts
should be expanded as well. Granted,
Mr. Janschka’s art lab is open to anyone
who feels the Inclination on Thursdays
and Fridays from 2-6 in the afternoon,
but how: many people actually know about
it (since only one small announcement is
made at the beginning of the year), or
about what facilities are and aren’t avail-
able there? (For instance, what’s Haver-
ford got that we haven’t got? In its new
Arts Center, I mean.) What about open-
ing the lab on Friday or Saturday night
under student supervision and with the
stipulation that absolutely all messes,
artistic or otherwise, Be cleaned up by
their creators before said creators leave
the premises?

I think there should be a permanent
(albeit rotating) student art exhibi-
tion -- why not’ in the Inn, whose
‘walls are now noticibly devoid of aes-
thetically satisfying material (yes, I know
there are prints there). This exhibition
should be made open to the ‘‘beyond- the
towers’’ public, as well as to the stu-
dent body, as a place to browse and per-
haps to buy.

Whatever happened to the Friday-night-
at-the-Inn-hootenanny-C offee-House pro-
posal which was discussed and roundly
approved of at the beginning of this year?
If enough Bryn Mawr-Haverford partici-
pants are willing (nay, eager!) to or-
ganize and perform a program of folk
(or why not also rock?) music free for
nothing, there should be a place where
they can do it.

But perhaps you are saying: what about
the conscientious OBSERVER? Is there
no support in sight for her? Ye of little
faith! of course there is. For instance,
it is altogether possible that the present
movie series could be doubled in scope
and yet not in price. If Haverford can
offer more than forty movies for $10
how is it that we can offer only ten movies
for $4? Moreover, if we expanded our
series to a twice-weekly basis, more.
people might be willing to subscribe,
and increased subscription would naturally
result in more and/or better movies, and ,
so on.

And why not Happenings a la Thomas

- P, (NYC ex-Parks Commissioner) Hoving?

And why not a Fingerpainting Festival?
And why not a knock-down-drag~’em-out
Charadescapade?

Why not? ;

How about it?

Bring on those urges.

Curriculum
Carole Collins

The Curriculum Committee was formed
to act as a liaison between the administra-
tion, the faculty and students; to serve as
an ‘information center’ for incoming stu-
dents; and to formulate proposals which
represent the views of the student body
concerning changes within the academic
system, which can then be presented to
the faculty for. joint consideration and/or
action,

In order to act as liaison, the Commit-
tee must establish adequate channels of
communication between the faculty and
students so that each’ becomes aware of
the goals and problems connected with
their respective functions in the academic
community,

The Curriculum Committee must fulfill
its potential as an ‘information center’
much more actively than it has in the past,
One possible solution is the establishment
of a central file containing the evaluations
by departmental majors of their respective
departments and courses, which would
supplement the official descriptions of
courses in the College Catalogue, This
could serve to inform the incoming stu-
dent more thoroughly of the demands a
course will make on her abilities and time






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Friday, March 3, 1967 :

Coctleuluies Carole Collins, Susan Nosco, Nicky Hardenbergh, Maigeeet

Levi.
source of firsthand information about

courses and ‘departments,
The Committee must be able to formu-

late and present to the faculty and the.

administration concrete, workable bre
posals which are a synthesis of stude
complaints, desires and needs, Moré.must
be done to adequately ascertain student
opinion on academic matters, either
through increased dorm. activity or
campus-wide discussions and debats, In
formulating and adapting a specific pro-
posal, faculty and students should be con-
tinually consulted throughout the entire
process as to attitudes towards proposed
modifications and/or revisions in thepro-
posal and the present policy at that time,

As to specific proposals I may have,
I would suggest the institution of self-
scheduled exams (with necessary modi-
fications for ‘slide identification’ courses)
as a necessary, practical and beneficial
expansion of -the Honor System; more
exchange of courses, if possible to arrange,
between the University of Pennsylvania
and BMC; some system of credit instituted
for those in music or other arts who must
expend much of their time in extra-cur-
ricular training necessary for continued
work in their respective fields after gradu-
ation; and the institution of an optional
‘pass-fail? system for fifth courses, on a
trial basis, which would hopefully en-
courage students to take courses outside
their general areas of studies or require-
ments without jeopardizing academic av-
erages,

Nicky Hardenbergh

There seems to be a distinct lack of
communication on this campus between
the administration and the students (and
among the students themselves) about
the rationale behind academic decisions
and policies, and particularly about the
flexibility of these policies. The Curricu-
lum Committee should try to impress
upon the students its function as a channel
through which their ideas, recom-
mendations and criticisms on academic
matters can be transmitted to the ad-.
ministration and faculty.

Many ideas for academic improvement
are entirely feasible, and students should
realize that the place to present these
ideas is in the Curriculum Committee,
which can then determine: the practical
considerations of how the proposal could
be implemented; the existence of student
support for the proposal; the objections,
if any, the faculty and administration may
have; ways to overcome the objections;
or conversely, reasons why they cannot be
overcome.

The dorm representatives would be
responsible for communicating all this
information back to the campus.. The
Curriculum Committee Can be effective
in exposing and eliminating much of the
discontent on campus, and can be ex-
tremely dynamic, if the student body
is willing to both initiate and support
proposals, and if the committee can co-
ordinate and present these proposals well.

The following are some proposals I
‘would like to present. One important
problem is that of giving the entering

freshmen relevant information about the .

various courses and major fields. I think
ee eee ener sneaks seestves
‘ ‘ odie aaiee at K eaanes

men available to discuss courses with
frehsmen, and to make freshmen aware
of this.

Work has already been started on having
seminars for freshmen, taught by graduate
students. These seminars Would be inter-
departmental, would fully familiarize stu-
dents with the different disciplines,
so that they could make a more active
choice of major, instead of majoring by
default, as can happen.

Regarding the calendar and exams, I
would like to have a definite reading
period for both semesters, and some
form of self-scheduled exams which would
be agreeable to faculty and students and
which would allow for a longer inter-

cession.
These ideas, of course, are only a

part of what the Curriculum Committee
could hope to accomplish with the active
support of the campus.

Margaret Levi

Although the ratio between students and
professors has not risen significantly at
Bryn Mawr during the last few years,
the number of students in actual, non-
statistical classes certainly has. This
problem is due in part to the fluctuating
popularity of some departments, in part
to the growth of the graduate school
and the increased demand on the prof-.
essors’ time which that incurs. TheCur-
riculum Committee, as the liason between
students, faculty and administration, could
play a significant role in finding out
just what is the cause of the dispro-
portionate. class size and in coming -up
with practicable alternatives and possible
solutions to the problem.

In order for the Curriculum Committee
to do this kind of thing, however, it must
first develop a clearer idea of its own
role. As it stands now, it is seldom
an adequate conductor of student opinion
or an adequate presenter of student-form-
ulated policy, although it has been and
could be. If the students wish to see
those measures passed which they feel
are important, it is necessary for the
undergraduates themselves to be educated
about what they want and to be able to
voice and defend their desires in an or-
ganized and articulate fashion.

The Committee can begin this process
by getting opinions on what to do from
the students themselves through discus-
sions in the-dorms, suggestions by their
representatives, and articles in the
NEWS, Following this would be a review
of the implications and problems inherent
to each possible line of action. Then a plat-
form would be drawn up and presented
to the students for comment; if need be,
a college-wide meeting of students, fac-

.ulty, president, and dean could be called

so that there would be a complete air-
ing of objections, additions, and questions,
The final step would be the presentation
of the program to the appropriate fac-
ulty committee followed by a renewed,

. JOINT process of discussion and adjust-

ment to faculty and graduate school de-
sires and needs. This way the under-
graduate would still have a say in the
outcome. There are many problems
which could be examined and perhaps
resolved by this method: for example,
the present counseling services and al-

-ternatives, self-scheduled exams, poss-

ible calendars, additional courses, How-
ever, there are some problem areas which

_ (Continued on following page)

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Friday, March 3, 1967

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Seven



(Continued from preceding page)

might be better handled in another
way. For instance, the majors and
faculty of a department would work
together without this campus-wide
System to decide what kinds of
courses were needed in that de-
partment and in what fields new
professors should be hired, —
The Curriculum Committee has
fantastic potential for enabling the
. Students not only to actively ex-
press their concerns but also to
actively participate in alleviating
the problems they see. Hopefully,
some of these suggestions will
lead in that direction.

Susan Nosco

The purpose of Curriculum Com-
mittee is. two-fold: to serve’ as

the spokesman for student opinion,-

acting as a liaison between facul-
ty and students, to provide the
faculty with the campus consensus

on academic programsand policies .

under faculty consideration; to
serve as an initiator, as a source
of proposals, and as a channel
through which matters .of aca-
demic concern within the under-
graduate community may be com-
municated to the Faculty Curricu-
lum Committee. In performing its
functions, the Student Curriculum
Committee must be constantly re-
evaluating the academic situation
within the college in relation to
the changing néeds and interests
of the college community, always
seeking ways in which to adjust
the institution, ways to meet most
satisfactorily the demands of
change.

The Student Curriculum Com-
mittee could and SHOULD be one of
the most active bodies’ on cam«
pus. There is no lack of dis-
satisfaction on campus with -the
academic situation asitnowexists.
Nor is there any lack of programs
to. bring about constructive, val-
uable change. Pass-fail courses,

non-major fields, as fifth
courses; project courses, per-
mitting study in depth in areas of
interest; an arts and services pro-
gram, along the lines of the Hav-
erford program; extra-curricular
instruction in art and music, or-
iented toward appreciation and/or
application; a set procedure for
instituting new courses; interde-
partmental seminars at all levels;
these are only a few of the pro-
grams which may be explored.
Programs directed at calendar
change, at self-scheduled exams,
and description and evaluation of
various courses and course areas
to aid the-student in choosing both
courses and a major should con-
tinue to be explored.

To aid in communication, both ~

within the Bryn Mawr College com-
munity and without, various liai-
sons might be established. Stu-
dents might be non-yoting mem-
bers of both the faculty calendar
and curriculum committees, to act
as spokesmen for the student
committee’s policy, supplying in-

being discussed within the stu-
dent committee for the faculty in

instances where joint méetings be-

tween the faculty and student com-
mittees are either impossible or
unnecessary.

In addition, representatives
should be in communication with
the comparable student commit-
tees, at Haverford College, and at
other colleges and universities,
exchanging problems and solu-



Correction

_The grants of money for
summer studies in the field
of public affairs are avail-
able to students in any
relevant major, and not just
Political Science, as may
have been interpreted from
. tov week's NEWS. The
mo ‘the
College as a "skate and not
specifically the Political |

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tions, new programs or just new
ideas, ~

To act as the spokesman of stu-

dent opinion, as the initiator and
the channel of initiation for ideas
and for concrete proposals con-
cerning students’ academic needs
and interests, as an active parti-
cipant representing the student
community in academic policy-
making by faculty and administra-
tion, the Student Curriculum Com-
mittee must be ‘strengthened and
expanded, increasing its commun-
ication and its influence in the
student community. By becoming
awere of campus opinions and in-
terests, by formulating programs
to meet student needs, and by gain-
ing student support, the committee
will be in a position to act as an
informed, _ influential,
spokesman for students on aca-
demic issues, .

The committee is characterized
by organizational fuzziness, oper-
ating without a constitution, with-
out a widely-known, widely-under-
stood, carefully articulated pur-
pose, and without an adequate con-
ception, either within the commit-
tee or within the student com-
munity, of the.area or extent of
Curriculum Committee jurisdic-
tion. The representative system
has been either inadequate in num-
bers or inactive in representation
(perhaps it has been both), the re-
sult being that the programs of the
committee have been insufficiently
communicated to the student body.
The consequence has_ been that
feedback from. students to com-
mittee has been minimal,

Within the committee, there is

officially no second in command,
no vice-chairman, the entire bur-
den of the committee being borne
_by the chairman, thereby not only
limiting the scope of committee
activities, but also forcing at best
temporary--curtailment of commit-
tee activities, should the chair-
man suddenly be unable to con-
tinue her role,

Given the organizational dif-
ficulties,; it is’ no wonder that
Curriculum Committee has been
unable to undertake a more exten-
sive program. Organization, clar-
ification, and expansion of the com-
mittee’s operations are impera-
tive if Curriculum Committee is
to assume any degree of respon-
sibility or to attempt any kind of
positive action aimed at an ex-
pression of student attitudes to-
ward academic issues.

The representative
should be expanded, the number of
reps from each hall being increased
and allotted according to dorm
populations, Not only will expan-
sion increase the number of peo-
ple to act as communications net-
works between the dorms and the
committee, but increased num-
‘bers will provide increased work-
ing power within the committee,
the ‘‘manpower”’ necessary in or-
der to undertake a more extensive
program,

Organization can provide a flex-

formation “and clarifying issues !>!¢ framework structured to meet

the demands of the committee pro-
gram, requiring various subcom-
mittees to deal with specific prob-
lems. . Clarification of the purpose
and areas of committee concern
will aid the definition of types of
programs which Curriculum Com-
mittee may undertake, aiding both
students and faculty, as well as
the committee, in determining on
what matters and in what areas
the committee may be expected,
and in fact, demanded, to act.



effective.



e

League
Cheri Morin

League exists for the purpose of
making the student aware of social
problems; of educating her to take
an active interest in the community;
of providing opportunities for per-
sonal service; and of contributing
in some concrete, effective way to
the community,

It is a social service organization
which promotes cooperation and
mutual understanding and provides
support and direction for student
action in response to the needs of
the community,

I am_running for League Presi-
dent because I would like to take
part in implementing these goals,

My experience in League has
been. chiefly in the area of the
Tutorial Project--a fact which
makes it difficult to gain an over-
all perspective on League’s pro-
grams, But these are the areas
in which I would like to make
changes or improvements,

First, I would like to see greater

co-operation with Alliance, In
this day when economic, political,
and social welfare concerns are
intricately bound together I think

system~ that there are many areas of mu-

tual interest to which League and
Alliance could direct their com-
bined resources--in ways such as
obtaining good speakers and spon-
soring seminars and other infor-
mational projects of high quality,

Second, I would like to see a

* closer connection with the School

of Social Work, One of the objec-
tives of League is to inform stu-
dents about careers in the field
of social welfare. I think it
would be effective to inform stu-
dents of lectures and seminars of
special interest in the School of



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uate students toparticipate in some
of our projects, in addition to our
work in connection with the Bureau
of Recommendations,

Third, the quality of the Speakers
Program _ should be improved,
Speakers who will address thestu-
dents on timely subjects of interest

to them are an important factor in
our program to awaken the stu-
dents’ interest in social problems,

Fourth, one of the mostpressing
problems of League is of a mechan-
ical nature, It is that of transpor-
tation, This perennial problem has
had annoying and discouraging ef-
fects on many of the projects oper-
ating within League,

- The success of League projects
is a function of the. individual’s
interest, Therefore, we must be
attuned to the voices of the students,
all of them members of League, and
develop or discard projects in
accordance with their interests,

It is not the spirit of League to
center on the ‘‘glow’’ that comes
from ‘‘doing good,” Rather,
through an adequate and integrated
program of information and pur-
poseful activity League can height-
en the student’s awareness of the
world of people around her andcan
help her to makeher contribution to
this community,



Letters

(Continued from page 2)

a fallacy to assume, as the signers
of the above letter do, that indi-
vidual freedom destroys a sense of
community. On the contrary, it”
enhances. community responsibil-
ity.

My experience as a student and
‘as a hall president has given me
reason to believe that we can cope
with the freedom that the revised
constitution will give us. Thelack
of evidence to the contrary is
striking. The ‘‘men inthe rooms’”’
rule which was, I think, a more
radical. change than..any that is.
being proposed now, has been used
well, with very little abuse.

Any revisions made in the con-
stitution this year will very likely
be provisional for the first year.
During that time if problems re-
sult, they may be dealt with as
they arise, If necessary the re-
visions may be amended or re-
pealed. But they should not be
voted down now on the basi§ of
unsubstantiated and. unwarranted
fears,

Kitty Taylor ’67



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THE COLLEGE NEWS ~ Friday, March 3, 1967

Out and "Plays It” at the Point;

Page Eight

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_ AS Marcia Ringel and I sat in
. the audience at the Main Point
Saturday, February 25, the full
significance of what we were plan-
ning struck us. We. stared at the
gaunt young singer with cheek-
bones so high they almost hit his
eyebrows and cheeks so coolly
hollow they looked like shadows,
Not to mention his great shaggy
hair.

‘*How. can we--do-it???-we mut-
tered feverishly. ‘‘Do we dare?”
But we had little -choice--the
Editor of the NEWS was counting
on.us, and besides we’d bragged

to so many of our friends already '

that we couldn’t back down now.
So when the 10:00 show ended,
we knew it was about to happen
*-our interview with Eric Ander-
sen was imminent.

Nervously we crept downstairs,
where entertainers at the Point
spend their intermissions. ‘The
place was empty. As we stood
there almost in relief, we heard
voices from a small room toward
the back and realized that that was
where we should be. Fearing that
he might be resting or naked, we
stood uncertainly in the middle of
the floor, whimpering ‘‘Hello’’
and wishing that we were some-
where else, Gathering her last
flakes of courage, Marcia called
tremulously, ‘‘Mr. Andersen?’
(calling ‘‘Eric”? seemed too inti-
mate and shouting ‘‘Eric Ander-
sen”? was OUT of the question.)
He heard us, told us to come in,
and-we knew that escape was no
longer possible,

When I first found out that
Marcia and I were todo this inter-
view, the questions I planned on
asking were (1) Did you get my
letter? and (2) Who is this Debby
Green who played the guitar on
your second album? After that,
I just hoped we would be able to
think of enough questions to fill
the time,

Finding questions turned out
to be hardly the problem, The
difficulty was finding enough time
to get in all we had to ask and all
he had to say. Anyone who has
heard his records and then saw
the show this weekend would un-
derstand why the topic that dom-
inated the interview was thefolk-
rock trend; in music and more
particularly in Eric Andersen.
We were especially interested in
the statement he made during the
show to introduce one of his newer
songs, more rock than folk; ‘I
know what you’re thinking,’’ he
said, ‘‘he’s sold out, he’s gone
over!”? So we.asked him why
he said it--did he feel guilty?
Had people been accusing him of
defecting? The truth is that he
doesn’t feel guilty-at all, although
he knows there are staunch tra-
ditionalists who will refuse tolis-
ten to anything but pure folk (and
these days they’ll have a hard time
finding that) and this makes him

Andersen that it did give a deeper,
richer sound and was, on many
songs, more expressive. People
seem to want a balance.of oldand
new, but he said that it’s hard to
decide what songs to do when
you’re limited to about six ineach
set. We asked how he felt when
he had finished a show--tired,
glad it was over...? He said
that normally he wants to keep
playing because he just “gets

. into the groove of a show’? when

he has to quit,

The discussion of folk-rock led
to the album he cut this summer
and which Vanguard is just re-
leasing, called ‘**Bout Changes

‘and Things, Take II.”* This record

was made for release in Britain,
and is composed of the same songs
found on his second American
album, ‘** ? Bout Changes and
Things.” He seemed a little
worried about the reaction of the
public to this record, fearing that
his fans would feel cheated or
misled. The main difference be-
tween the two albums is that
‘Take II’? is the folk-rock new
band version of the previous al-
bum and was not originally de-
signed for sale in America,

He does, however, have a fourth
and brand new album coming out
Can Alley.” This’ wi
last Vanguard record after which
he will switch to a new label--
perhaps Columbia or R.C,A, Vic-
tor, although he has not yet per-
manently decided.

When questioned about his con-
cert program, Eric told us that
he hopes to extend it soon, and









adelphia, ~When I saw him at the
Point inOctober, it was announced
that he would be doing a concert
at Philadelphia’s Town Hall in
December. But December came
and the concert didn’t. I asked
him why and he said, .‘‘I knew I
wouldn’t be able to fill the hall,??
His theory is, if you’re going to
do a big concert, do-it, if you.
can’t, don’t try. Not only is it
depressing to the performer him-
self to play to a half-filled house,
but you’re also, he feels, cheating
the contractor and wasting the
time and efforts of the promoter,
(And it’s not too good for his own
reputation, either.) ‘‘Besides,’®
he said, ‘‘I hate Town Hall. It’s
a graveyard.” He said that if he
does do a concert in Philadelphia,

‘he’d rather do it at the Academy

of Music than at Town Hall, It’s
more alive.

We asked Mr. Andersen if he
had ever had any formal guitar
lessons, ‘‘No,’’ -he said, ‘‘I
taught myself when I was about
13.7 He used as models old
45’s -- calypso, Elvis Presley.
In fact, one of the songs on his
second album, ‘‘That’s Alright Ma-
ma’? was an old Elvis song. He
seldom uses songs written by
other people -- on this second
album there are two which he
learned from someone else, on
his first album, ‘‘Today is the
Highway’’, he has adapted.a song

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majesty and glory of his presence.

from another arrangement -- and
doesn’t write songs specifically
for other singers, although Judy
Collins has recorded his ‘‘ Thirsty
Boots’ and, he informed us, Peter
Paul, and Mary are planning to
use another of his on an album
soon.

Our moment ofglory wasdraw- -

ing to a close as we heard the
first part of the show (Robby

Robinson) ending above us. Em-
barrassed, but determined not to
let the chance go by, I handed
him the record jacket from
* ‘Bout Changes and Things?’
which I had been clutching on my
knees under a Mozart record I
was taking to a friend, mumbled,

“I hate to be a teeny-bopper,
but could you, I mean would
you....? and gave him my pen,
‘The real reason is out,’? he
said, ‘‘Autographs, ha! Little
did I. know the trué reason.”
But he must havelikedsigning it,
because he then took my friend’s
Mozart record and signed ‘‘Mo-
zart’’ and, after some thought,
added, ‘‘Alias Eric (Flash) An-
dersen,’?' when I suggested
‘*Wolfgang’’, he laughed, added a

Sings of Frustration, Violets, and That's Alright —

“Ww, handed back the records,

and the interview was over.
Stumbling upstairs, blinded by
the radiance of the miracle
(‘we DID it’?) we ran into our
photographer who had justarrived
and, since Eric was right behind
us, she asked him if he would
mind if she took a few pictures.
He didn’t, and so she did -- with
him sitting between Marcia and
me with his. very arms around
our very shoulders, and Marcia’s

very glasses on his very face

for a few minutes -- while our
very dates coldly stalked out the
door and sulked in the car.

It was really ending at last.
The best part was that he proved
to be engaging off stage as on--
he’s not protesting. His only
*protest song’’, “16-year
Grudge’’, he laughingly introduc-
ed as ‘fa song of teenage frus-
tration and deep social signif-
icance.”? One of his best-known
songs, ‘‘Violets of Dawn’’, with
its poetic beauty is far more his
style. He makes contact with
people; no matter. what the style
he gets through to them. And
his striking good looks are even
more so in person (my contact
lenses melted). Just before we
left, ‘‘Hey,’’ he said, ‘“Younever
asked me the major influences on
my life!” Realizing our unfor-
givable error, we hastened toask.
‘¢Pat Boone,’’ he replied. {





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