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Vol. Lil, No. 16

BRYN MAWR, PA..

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967 © Trustees of Beya Mawr College, 1966

5 Cents



“Caucasian Circle” Ready Students Elect Gilpin, Atwood, Nosco,
For Weekend Showings Masur and Cross as Campus Leaders

The Bryn Mawr College Thea-
tre and the Haverford College
Drama Club will present. Bertolt

Brecht’s THE C AUCASIANCHALK ,

CIRCLE March 10 and 11 inGood-
hart Hall. Faith Greenfield, Chris
Kopff and James Emmons have
leading roles.

Brecht wrote the 48-character
play in 1944. ‘‘It’s a quite extra-
ordinary accomplishment —by
Brecht in making statements about
sentimental love which usually
come out Lux Liquid,’? summar-
ized Director Robert Butman. The
play itself takes place ‘‘in olden
times, in a bloody time” in a
Caucasian city. Brecht opposes

‘justice and goodness -- as exem-

plified by two of the principal
characters in the play, Grusha and
Simon -- to the evil and injustice
in the world. Brecht professed
communism, but the themes in
CHALK CIRCLE are meaningful
to all men. The title comes from
the story in ‘‘Solomon’’ of the two
mothers pleading for one baby.
Justice prevails when the real
mother reveals herself by refus-
ing to allow the King to cut the



baby in half. In Brecht’s play
the Judge draws a chalk circle
and tells the two women each
to take an end of the child and

_ pull.

Butman explained the philoso-
phy behind the set for the play.
One of the biggest problems in
producing a play at Bryn Mawr,

“he said, is fighting the nionstros- «

ity of Goodhart Hall. No set can
be monolithic enough to live up to
the Hall itself ‘‘unless they’re
crucifying Joan of Arc in the mid-
dle of the arch.’”’ Therefore, the
production staff is combining lights
with the set to help alleviate the
distance between the play and the
audience. The set includes six
platforms and a 10-foot tower
at one edge of the stage on which
the Narrator will sit.

Music will also be used to
bring all the elements of the play
together at“the last moment. John
Davison, of the Haverford College
Music Department, wrote music
for a previous production of
CHALK CIRCLE in Roberts Hall.
He will play piano and drums.

photo by Grethe Holby

cergunt Edwards, David Whiting and Chris Kopff in “*Chalk

Circle,*’

No Undergrad Speaker This Year,
Exec Board Buys Mimeo Instead

There will be no Undergrad
speaker this year, that organiza-
tion announced after its Monday
night meeting.

Margaret Edwards, dieieiien

President of Undergrad, gave as
reasons the following: (1) they
were unable, to get any of the
people suggested by the Commit-
tee for ‘the Undergrad Speaker
(2) members were generally un-
enthusiastic about other sugges-
tions made. She said that with
the money usually alloted for the
speaker Undergrad will purchase
a new mimeograph machine, and
whatever is left will go into the
kitty for next year’s speaker.

Questioned about the opinion of
some students that the Undergrad
speaker ought to be done away with
entirely, Margaret said that noth-
ing about it had been discussed at
all in Undergrad meetings.

Incoming “President Lola At-

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for the Undergrad speaker, for
these reasons: I think there are
three kinds of speakers -- those
who’ll come for $25, those who
come for $200, and the ones who
cost about $1000. We can usually
only have thé last kind for occa-
sions like Baccalaureate and grad-
uation, and organizations such as
Alliance and Interfaith provide a
lot of speakers who come for from
$25 to $100. But the Undergrad
‘speaker? is about the only chance
the college has to hear a $200
speaker, and I think it needs the
chance. Now in years like this
when we can’t find a speaker for
$200 of the caliber we want, then
I think we should not have one --
‘which is what was done this time.
But in the past we have had speak-
ers such as Peter Verrick --.and
he was really good -- and I think
to do away with them would be
absurd.’’ Lola said she would like
to discuss this in future Under-
grad meetings. :

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The. first round of campus
elections is over and seven new
presidents are preparing to take
over their offices after spring
vacation. They are:

Drewdie Gilpin for Self-Gov
Lola Atwood for Undergrad
Donna Cross for A,A,°

Judy Masur for Arts Council
Doris Dewton for Alliance
Sue Nosco for Curriculum
Committee

Cheri Morin for League

In.view of the pressing issue
of constitutional revision, Drew-
die’s attitude towards __ the
role of Self-Gov will be
very significant.
that ‘*the Self-Government system
cannot and should not act as mother
to the student body’’ indicated
a basic approval of the reforms
advocated by the Constitutional
Revision Committee. Drewdie now
has the opportunity to make Self-
Gov ‘‘provide catalysts for
the creative use of freedom by
individuals in their growth.”’

Lola, who understandably enough

bs opposed "tothe *abélition

of Undergrad, promises to keep
future Undergrad meetings from

being ‘“‘hateful.?? She plans
to stress, ‘‘interesting, im-
portant problems,’”? with an

emphasis on the crucial role of
the dorm reps as communications
links, She trusts that with an
updated calendar and ‘‘a list of
everyone who is in charge of any-
thing” she will be a mine
of exact and necessary information

Her statement:



o by Kit Bakke



New leaders are (left to right) Susan Nosco (Curriculum), Donna
Cross (A.A.), Lola Atwood (Undergrad), Cheri Morin (League),
Judy Masur (Arts Council), Doris Dewton (Alliance) and Drewdie

Gilpin (Self-Gov),

about campus activities, both at
Bryn Mawr and neighboring
‘schools.

From Donna Cross, we can
look for enthusiastic sponsoring
of a variety of new ‘‘fun’’ activi-
ties--maybe even softball with the
faculty children, or discovering an
esteemed professor more fre-

quently onthe other side
of a volleyball net.
Bryn Mawr may. be getting

its own Thomas Hoving with Judy
Masur running events at Arts
Council. ‘‘Why not Happenings,?’’

‘Faculty Show’ Is Coming!
Proceeds To Help Library

The fireworks of faculty show
will be set off Thursday, March 16,
at 8:30 in Goodhart, as the fa-
culty celebrate their talents with
singing, dancing, talking, andplain
old joie de vivre,

This year’s show, according to
Miss Mabel Lang, consists of a
variety of skits tied together very
*‘loosely’’, Since there is no one
theme, to label this original con-
stellation of faculty stars, it was
decided to assign the non-commital
title of ‘‘Faculty Show”’ to the pro-
duction, Although Miss Lang feels
the show is too amorphous for di-
recting, she is doing her best to
hold it together and call rehear-
sals every now and then,

About half of the faculty, their
wives, and any other non-student
they could persuade to be dragged
in are involved in the show, Stu-
dents have been allowed to help
with the technical aspects, how-
ever, And Miss McBride will be
there in spirit.

A “terrifically hot combo’ of
Bryn Mawr and Haverford faculty,
a porter, and ‘‘God knows what
else’ will keep the beat going
through the evening,

- “Sinceit is hard enough to
band the faculty together for one
_rehearsal, there will be only one
performance, says Miss Lang.

The money the show raises will

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go towards the new library.

Tickets for students may be
purchased from Betsy Gemmill
in Taylor on Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday at 10 and 11 a.m.
They are $1,50, and can be charged
to Payday. Faculty must see
Miss Biba,

Police Apprehend
Villanova Boys

Last Saturday night three Villa-
nova freshmen were caught out-
side Rhoads by the Lower Merion
Township police, after having
broken into several campus
buildings.

It began in Pembroke, when the
lantern man was letting in some
girls just after 12:30, The three
boys, drunk, ran out of the build-
ing. The lantern man called the
police.

Later, a watchman saw them
passing things out of one of the
science building windows. Then a
faculty wife saw them lurking
around the Low Buildings, and
someone else reports seeing them
on the Merion fire-escape.

The police apprehended them
outside, Rhoads,

Mrs. Whelihan commented that

the campus should know that this
sort of thing does happen, and
that door-watchers should be alert.

she asks. ‘*Why not a Finger-

painting Festival?’? Judy pleads __

for the Outward manifestation of all
innér artistic urges.

Both Doris Déwton and“ Cheri
Morin would like to see increased
cooperation between their organi-'
zations. As Cheri said, ‘In
this day when economic, political,
and social welfare concerns
are intricately bound together, I
think that there are many
areas of mutual interest to which
League and Alliance could direct
their combined resources.”’

Sue Nosco, who hopes to
see a major expansion of Cur-
riculum Committee activities
under her presidency, made an
apt statement which might apply
to all the winners. ‘‘I guess since
I have been elected I’ll have to
figure out how to do all the —
I said I’d do.’?



Legislature

Legislature will meet
Tuesday, March 14 at 7:30
P.M. in the Common Room.
It will deal with revisions |
of the Constitution of the |
Undergraduate Association.

Discussion will center
around the two major
changes, Article IV, Section
Vi, the Social Committee
and Section Il F of the By
Laws, the Required Vote;
but the Constitution as a
whole will be submitted to '
the Legislature for a vote.

Legislature will meet after
Spring Vacation to discuss
the revisions of the Self
Gov. Constitution..

Any girl who wishes to
attend as a visitor should
contact Beverly Lange in
Denbigh.





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