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What's This SELF Government?

‘*As many of you already know, Haverford’s Board
of Managers recently approved the Students’ Council
proposals concerning the -elimination of hours for.
women in the Haverford dorms,’’

_ So began the policy non-statement signed by Jane
Janover, out-going Self-Gov president, and distributed
on the Bryn Mawr campus Monday. It is a policy
non-statement, because it explicitly calls itself a
“request ... instead ... of a policy statement,” and
was characterized by a member of Executive Board
as being simply a ‘‘stop-gap measure’? until the new
board takes over. However, we see it as very clearly
a@ policy statement. It seems quite evident by the
wording that any girl who signs out overnight to
Haverford will be tried for violating the Honor Sys-
tem, exactly as it was before the Haverford changes
-- and this seems very much like a policy to us.

This Self-Gov statement affirming the past in spite
of present changes is justified by members of Exec
Board in two ways. One, because they didn’t want to
force an already formulated policy onto the new Board
as a fait accompli; and two, because they see things
at Haverford as being so chaotic and uncertain with
respect to the interpretations of thé changes that
they don’t want to interject anything which might
‘wreck it for them,’? In other words, they acted as
they did out of consideration for the new Board and
for Haverford College.

We would like to put in a few words for the group
apparently ignored (which is also the group most af-
fected by the statement): Bryn Mawr students. We
find neither of the two justifications in the above
/paragraph strong enough to rationalize the creation
of the statement without the student body’s knowledge
or help, It seems that it was done in a manner just
about as far from the idea of self-government as it
is possible to get.

We are not here suggesting what Bryn Mawr’s
reply to the Haverford changes should be. We are
merely suggesting that although Haverford Students’
,, Council should certainly be told of Self-Gov activities
(Council President Gene Ludwig has even proposed
that a member of Haverford Council sit in on Self-
Gov meetings and vice versa to improve communica-
_ tions) ‘there was no need to tell them prior to telling
. Bryn Mawr students (also according to Ludwig, the
_ Situation over there is not so confused as Self-Gov
- seems to think). And even more importantly, the
- whole idea of Bryn Mawr students simply being
- TOLD something by Self-Gov is contrary to its pur-
- 908es as an organization. _ :

There doesn’t seem to be any reason why a sys-
em similar to the Haverford Plenary Sessions could
10t be set up here, Hopefully, this is what will be
_Jone by the new Board when it is ready to make its

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_ Letters to the Editor

were flagrantly defying the govern-
ment; rather they were making
‘personal decisions about the kind
of people they ‘wanted to be and
the amount of protection they felt
they wanted from the government.

We felt a government imposing
more rules would be defeating its
own purpose. Therefore, while
trying to keep the constitution
simple, we attempted to give the
individual more personal respon-
sibility to make her own decisions,
yet retain a respect for the mem-
bers of the college and commun-
ity. The system does ask for trust
in our fellow students, but that is
asked in any working honor sys-
tem, and certainly in any work-
ing community. /

The Constitutional Revision
Committee has already served one
of its purposes. Our “‘apathetic’’
campus is awakening and speaking
out. It was forced to reevaluate
the principles and philosophy of

Faculty Support

To the Editor:
The Bryn Mawr Chapter of the
Association of American Univer-
sity Professors wishes to express
its support for student activities,
such as those undertaken by the
-Educational Goals Committee last
fall. Although there is a difference
of opinion among chapter members
about the individual proposals made
at that time, we endorse the stu-
dents’. concern with matters of cur-
riculum and other educational
goals. We feel that such openly ex-
pressed concern reflects a sense
of responsibility among the stu-
dents, and affords an example of
democratic procedure in education.
The Executive Committee

J. Anderson

F. Cunningham

J. Kronick

E. Schneider

G. Zybon

Responsibility — Ta orth tata ns com
To the Editor: munity within that system. If we

have made some error in our
judgment of student readiness
for changes, I still do not think
we should be condemned for pro-
posing -them. Only in consider-
ing change do some realize the
validity of the status quo, and
only in considering change do we
give that change the possibility of
becoming the new status quo.

- As chairman of the Constitu-
tional Revision Committee, I feel
compelled to answer some of the
letters in the NEWS and some
comments heard around campus
to the effect that the work of our
committee was irresponsible and
not representative of the student
body. The committee was elected
this fall by the dormitories, which

should and did lead to a diverse ‘ere towne ot
group. We have been meeting for 8
a few hours on a weekly basis for Dinner system

a semester, during which time our
constitution has been dissected
and. put back together.

Before we even considered
changes, we examined the role of
Self-Gov as our governing body,
and the kind of constitution it should
have. to make it most efficient and .
powerful. Looking at the constitu-
tion, we discovered that most of
its rules required acts of common
sense, not honor, nor responsibil-
ity, (e.g. the after dark rules), As
we. consider our community to be
under a social honor system, we
felt the basis of it must lie in
personal responsibility of the in-
dividual to the community.

It is essential to the success
of any government that the rules
express the will of its members.
Looking at our student body we
could only see a trend of apathy
towards the government and an
unopposed disregard for many of
its rules. However the students
did not feel particularly that they

To the Editor:

With several commendable ex-
ceptions, attendance at the Dinner
System meetings during the recent
elections was uncomfortably. low.
This system which puts the can-

touch. with each other and the is-
sues at hand is one of the pri-
vileges of a small college com-
munity. It should be recognized
as such - and furthermore, treated
as such, Or, at the very least,
it deserves a careful evaluation
before it is modified or abolished.

There has been no formal pro-
posal concerning the Dinner Sys-
tem, no inquiry into its usefulness
nor. suggestion that it should be
changed. But a time for such
questioning is definitely at hand.

As one who is about to leave
the office of President of Under-
grad, I would like to subniit an
idea to be considered by the new
‘tregime”. I think one of those

Film Group Begins Casting
For Black and White Short

The Bryn Mawr. film group
is now in the process of choosing
a cast for a fifteen minute black
and white film to be shown hope-
fully in early May.

Steve Magers, a junior at
Haverford, has contributed orig-
inal screenplay--that is a“shot
by shot analysis of the movie,
since while’ there will be sound,
music and even perhaps words,
there will be no dialogue as such.
The plot revolves around the
emotional crisis of a college girl.

This will be a 16 mm movie--.
half-way between 8 mm home
movies, and 35 mm commercial
films, The camera belongs to Miss
Ann Kish, director of the Arts
Forum, who is acting as advisor.
for the group. The movie will be
financed by Arts Council and should
cost about $200 to produce,

an almost full length movie (an
hour and a quarter) and a big

The film group is eager for ad-
ditional converts: anyone who
wishes to participate should get
in touch with Dana Rosen in Erd-
man.

‘Review’ Chooses
R. Gais as Editor

Contributions to the spring issue
of THE REVIEW are due by March
20 to Ruth Gais, the literary ma-
gazine’s new editor, in Pembroke
Hall, :

Members of the literary board
are Lois Portnoy and Ethel Pierce,
and Ruth is looking for three or
four more. Marty McIimoyl is
bins is in charge of art and is
also in need of assistants, _





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odious questionnaires is in order-
or an extremely efficient and de-

tailed job of opinion gathering in
all of the dorms. Questions such
as the following should be asked ©

each student:

1) Did you attend the Dinner
System meetings?

2) How many and which ones?

3) Why and why not?

4) Would an all campus forum
or panel discussion involving all
the: candidates be more effective?

5) Did you read the election
issue of the COLLEGE NEWS?

I hope that this suggestion will
be handled by the next Undergrad
Executive Council, It will be

especially relevant to the tone ‘of

the campus elections if the ruling
to abolish the required vote passes
in Legislature. Then the Dinner
System - or whatever other sys-
_ tem - will be even more.respon-
sible for arousing student interest
in campus issues and the candi-
dates:”"’* “ Seem ;

Margaret Edwards ’67



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suggested paper topics have
you seen your mother, baby, stand-
ing on a tadpole? a sweetroll?:
a peephole? will next year’s candi-
dates fulfil tomorrow’s promises?
can the college ‘news last the
year without resorting to dirty
-pictures and obscene feature ar
ticles? what does playboy have
that we don’t have? what does
esquire want that playboy hasn’t
got? will the haverford news stand
the test of time and become the
only. persistently self-congratu-
latory newspaper on the east
coast? may the newly endowed
art center prove the unwitting’
workshop of a modern-day
frankenstein, as yet unreavealed?.
will interfaith splinter? or will
in fact the jewish discussion group
‘develop into a major campus
power, recruiting weary catholics,
spent protestants, exhausted
quakers? has god a future? when
will the college inn blossom into
the cabaret that at heart it truly
is and that inspired the musicial
of the same name? will barbara
garson grace the cover of next
week’s ‘‘time,’? or will her hy-
pothesis be proved instead
by ‘framparts’” and ~ thence
lose the public’s interest? is it
-true that woodrow wilsons are
supported by the communist party?
by the cia? by upi? by grove
press? did herbert hoover really
teach economics at Yale? will
sophomores be permitted to wear
gym suits to gym in the near
future? is tennis obsolescent as.
an indoor sport? when will the sun
truly explode? if so, why
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Friday, March 10, 1967

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