College news, March 8, 1968

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© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967

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Vol. Lill, No. 16

Newly-elected presidents giggle in anticipation of coming year.



photo by Mary Yee



Chronic Financial Trouble College Theatre
Forces Inn Shut-Down

After many troubles, the snack
bar in the College Inn has been
closed in the evenings but will
probably reopen after spring vaca-
tion.

Marriott has found that the Inn
has not been a successful financial
investment and a low volume of

Public Affairs Grants

Available To Juniors
For Honors Work

Juniors who are anticipating
honors work next year in any area
related to public affairs are eli-
gible to apply for a summer re-
search grant of $600 to help them

_ get started on their projects.

Established in 1960 to encour-
age greater interest and compe-
tence in public affairs; the Bryn
Mawr Program of Summer Grants
for Research in Public Affairs
enables slected juniors to carry
on an intensive research program
in the summer under faculty sup-
ervision.

The program permits honor stu-

dents to extend both the scope

and depth of their projects well
beyond what can be done in an
academic year and provides for
considerable consultation with the
faculty.

Terms of the awards are lib-
erally defined to include any prob-
lem related to ‘ ‘public affairs, gov-
ernmental and political processes
and public policies.’? Prospective
honors candidates in all depart-
ments are therefore invited tp con-
sider the possible eligibility of
their projects.

Expected tohave had some train-
ing in the social sciences, each
applicant first plans her project
with her adviser, and thea submits
a prospectus of the project with
her application to the faculty com-
mittee.

Applications should be submitted
in early April but will be accepted
-through April 24, Interested jun-
iors should contact their depart-
ment chairmen and M, T. Kennedy,
chairman of the faculty committee,
regarding application details.

Present holders of Public Af-"

“fairs grants are Judy Baer, Carole
: ono _Drewdie. Gilpin, Susan
~Margaret - Levi, Lois -

t Patines and Liz Schneider,

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business, copied with losses from
break-ins, has led to this closing.
This year the Inn has been

plagued by a series of incidents,

‘beginning with a $50 robbery in the
fall, Since then there have been
two other raids -- in the most
recent $10 was lost. In addition,
there has been a number of break-
ins in which food was stolen.

The service has been hampered
by short supplies and troubles with
help. The professional daytime
workers have not been reliable
about showing up on weekends.
Through lack of training, the pre-
paration of food in the evening
by student waitresses was not al-
ways up to standard.

Faith Greenfield, head of the
Inn committee and in charge of
student help, believes that there
are means for improvement. Mar-
riot is open for suggestions and
would like to work out a campus-
approved menu, Faith thinks that
students would welcome a greater
variety of sandwiches and foods
from the grill, and perhaps dif-
ferent kinds of coffee,

BMC Elections
To Continue

Campus-wide elections for five
Self-Gov and Undergrad posts are
slated for Sunday through Monday,
March 10-11.

“Hopefuls for Self-Gov vice-
president are Eve Roberts, Stephi
Skiff; Margie Mezritz, Marian
Schultz and Martha Taft.

Running unopposed are Cap
Cease for vice-president of Un-
dergrad and Leslie Hain for Un-
dergrad secretary.

Aspiring sophomores for the
position of Self-Gov Secretary are
Maryo Gard, Ellen Lansky, Susan
Watters and Suki Zumiki.

A primary vote was required
this week to limit the number of

candidates for First Sophomore
to Self-Gov. Winners of the ini-

tial balloting were Sue d’Arezzo,
Laura Hershey, Cathy Hoskins,
Lee McGeorge and Lucia Nixon,

Elections for class representa-
tives to Self Gov, class officers,
and hall presidents and vice-pres-
{dents Will take place between now —
and spring Vacation.

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To Present ‘Medea’
Weekend of Mar. 15

The spring production of the
Bryn Mawr - Haverford College
Theatre has already aroused in-
terest in the world outside the two
campuses. Wednesday night a
photographer from the Philadel-
phia ‘‘Inquirer” came to the Bryn

-Mawr campus to take a picture of

the cast for use in the city news-
paper.

Slated for Mar. 15-16 in Good-
hart Hall, the Bryn Mawr - Hay-
erford production of Euripides’
‘‘The Medea” will stress the play’s
modern applicability.

Under the direction of Robert
Butman, Jessica Harris will por-
tray Medea as a rebel in a society
which has violated its own moral
code. The Black Power over-
tones created by this interpre-
tation will be underplayed by the

use of early twentieth-century, |

rather than modern, costumes and
setting. The time around 1900
was a period when racial prob-
lems were not unknown, but one
in which women were still sub-
servient members of society.
Other lead roles will be played
by Richard Olver, Faith Green-
field and Christian Kopf?. .



Campus Election Winners
Dream of Future Conquests

Bryn Mawr has chosen its
leaders.

In a time dubbed by some tobea
‘‘crisis’’ for Bryn Mawr, the ques-
tion was put to the campus, votes
were cast and eight girls won the
challenge and _ responsibility. of
leadership.

Kathy Murphey, newly elected
Self-Gov president, expressed her
ideas for the campus:

‘eTo seek out and stimulate stu-
dent ideas about the issues Self
Gov faces now--drugs, overnights,
sign-outs -- so that it can firmly
represent what students think and
how they relate to their common
problems is the direction Self Gov
must follow if it is to develop into
real student government.

**T think Self Gov must alsocon-
sider its relation to other parts of
the Bryn Mawr community and ofa
student’s life at Bryn Mawr --to
the Board of Trustees, the cur-
riculum and the employees, for
example.”®

New Undergrad president, Doris
Dewton, sees communication as
one -of the basic problems, ‘‘How
about getting some real communi-
cation going on campus for a
strange and interesting idea?

*¢?qd also like to straighten out
one of the ‘problems of the year’
by making some definite progress
in the meal exchange situation.
Undergrad will also be consid-
ering any possible problems the
new library may arouse and try
to prevent them before they occur.
Coordination of the Big Six is, of
course, the principal function of
Undergrad, and some positive ac-
tion is needed to get proper pub-

‘licity for those organizations.”’

The Warren Commission ap-
pears to be the big spring project
for Alliance, under Barbara Elk’s
leadership. ‘Working with La-
salle and other area colleges,
Bryn Mawr is going to petition the
federal government to make public
the reports and evidence of the
Kennedy assassination that were
never presented to the American
people. We also want to work to
get the Time-Life Corporation to
release the orginal and undisclosed
films in its possession. We will
not be taking sides in the con-

_troversy, but just trying to make

certain that the truth comes out.

‘¢Alliance will also work close-
ly with the other political groups
on campus such as the McCarthy
supporters and S.D.S. The S.A,C,
teach-in scheduled for the end of
April may possibly include Stokely
Carmichael as key speaker.”’

‘‘On Wednesday, March 20, Al-
liance is sponsoring Gov, Sha-
fer’s visit to Bryn Mawr to talk
about higher education in Penn-
sylvania, and Alliance will also
provide BMC students with straw
ballots on April 24 to express
their preferences for presidential
candidates.”?

‘First of all, we’re going to put
up the swings!’’ emphasized A.A,
president Meredith Roberts. She
also suggested other ideas for the .
spring season, ‘Friday afternoon
volleyball games will continue with
the volleyball classes as challeng-
ers, aid plans are being formulated
for a second trip to the zoo with
Haverford, a bike ride and picnic
at Rhoads Farm, camping out and
a faculty-student volleyball
game,’’

Arts Council president, Faith
Greenfield, summarized her
spring plans for that organization.
‘¢My first job is a traditional one.
I am working now on the annual
Arts Night, which is slated for
sometime after spring vacation.
Then I’d like to start investigating
locations and facilities that could
be used to establish a permanent
campus art center. One of my
most important responsibilities is
to find what human resources we
have here and at Haverford,’’

As in the past, senior question- .
naires and the compilation of the
course evalution booklet will be
handled by the Curriculum Com-
mittee during the spring. The
Committee’s new president, Pat
Rosenfield, also outlined other
areas in which her group will be
concentrating. ‘We want to work
on the possibility of individual
projects which are geared to the
students’ specific interests and
academic skills but are not on the
honors paper level.-Study is con-
tinuing on the possibility of a pass/
fail system at Bryn Mawr, and
there will .be efforts made to ex-
pand the present faculty adviser

set-up.
(Continued on page 8)






photo by Mary Yee

The cast for THE MEDEA, currently . in rehearsal for its March 15 = 16 production, is searching
for dramatic techniques fo convey ‘the play’ s themes of alienation and betrayal in a civilized

‘society.


Friday, March 8, 1968











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We'll See Some Changes

We. are witnessing a changing of the guard, The
presidents of Self Gov. Undergrad and the Big Six
have been chosen, and they are already planning
programs for the coming year,

o

In their campaign speeches the candidates prom-

ised a great deal, The changes which they have

suggested are very exciting. Whether or not they
can be accomplished in one year remains to be seén,

The past year has indeed seen many changes. We
-have moved on to. self-scheduled exams, 8 a.m,
signouts, a revised Self-Gov constitution and many
other changes in the structure of our campus or- ;
ganizations, We realize, however, that these changes
had their roots in the dreams and work of students _
in previous years, It takes time to effect change. ©

The NEWS would like to congratulate the winners :

of the election, and wish them the best of luck in **

their efforts to continue changing and improving

Boxee



THE COLLEGE NEWS

Viewpoint



The foreword to the Self-Government Consti-
tution says that Self-Goverriment’s charter
‘‘places responsibility for the conduct of the
students entirely in their own hands .,. The
rules themselves are made by the whole
Association and suggestions for changes are al-
ways welcomed and carefully considered, for it
is important that the rules should express, as
far as possible, the will of the Association, and
it is as such that each student is expected to
give them her full support,’’

Bryn Mawr students clearly do not give the
rules their full support. In a bewildering way,
the system seems to have lost even the interest
of the girls who supposedly mould it to express
the principles in their own lives, This is very
disturbing--it implies that Bryn,Mawr students
have stopped thinking about what they value and
trying to organize these things into a life that
makes sense to them, A more likely possibility,
however, is that the mechanism of Self Gov
has failed somewhere,

The system suffers now, not because students
feel that they have outgrown morality, not even
because they are completely confused, but be-
cause they have found the system opposed
to what they have constructed for themselves,

The great emphasis on personal responsibility,
so noticeable in our generation, brings with it a
greater emphasis on the rights of the individual,
For someone who has painfully evaluated
and integrated all the factors in her own life,
no other system is morally binding, She may be
found guilty under a government of rules,
but she cannot be guilty under a ‘‘pure’’ honor
system that has no _ rules, Bryn Mawr’s
self government is neither of these, A government
based entirely on rules and set penalties becomes
a game of calculated risks; its elected officers
are forced to stop being themselves in their
official capacities and play the roles of policeman
and judge, No one wants to take on a job like
that, It may be a good way to maintain order,
but it is impractical in a college of 750 and, worse,
it obviates the need for creative thinking about
government and the great need for interest in
each student as a special person.

An honor system is much more appealing, It
seems to speak directly to our desire to make
up our own minds about how to act and what to
believe, Unfortunately, many people are
overzealous in their search for autonomy, By a
process of sloppy (or superrational) thinking, they
begin to: sound like solipsists and call for the
admission: that rules are really meaningless, But
anarchy is an unnatural state of affairs--
people learn about themselves through knowing
other people, not in total isolation; the more
difficult social relations become, the less self-
awareness people will have, A member of a com-
munity must have some _ idea of what the
others consider acceptable_ vior, whether these

Eas

Honour Bound

norms are written down or are simply common
knowledge. If: they were not written down, in a
community whose population changes every four
years, elected officials (or self-appointed spokes-
men) would be reduced to constant exhortation
to make students ‘aware of the ideas that would
be common knowledge in a traditional society.
They would need some method of indirect legis-
lation, such as ‘‘statements’’ or ‘‘philosophies’’
based on campus-wide polls, to avoid being accused
of preaching.

As the constitution indicates, Self Gov is a
mechanism which facilitates the exchange of ideas
and articulatés the agreements which are. reached,
Everyone’s obligation to think for herself does
not mystically devolve upon the hall president
and the executive board at election time. Self
government is theoretically such a fundamental
and natural part of college life that one should
hardly ever even hear the words tetanus
“respect,” ‘
The traditional formulation of Self Gov is very
philosophical; it is not the sort of thing that
becomes outdated, Students in recent years have
not had enough confidence in their convictions
or in the workability of an honor system which |

can be infinitely’ revised in its particulars, so

long as people are honest about what they think,
The restricted overnight signout is a very big
challenge to the philosophy of self-government
because, according to surveys and general evidence,
it is not ‘‘the will of the. Association,’’ although
it has never been given any other justification.
Girls who are elected to the Self Gov boards are
caught between their notions of what real self
government should be and the tremendous pressure
exerted by centuries of traditional morality.
They quickly discover that many of the people in

‘the administration and on the Board of Directors

do not tolerate any discussion of a sex life for
college women,

The prohibition on overnight signouts to Haver-
ford is a small restriction, but it represents
a large lack of understanding, of faith, of simple
communication, It is generally feared that the
continued existence of Self Gov is contingent
upon its at least verbal acceptance of this narrow
traditional. morality, and at the same time that
with such a. condition imposed it is not
self government at all. Self Gov is removed
from the students’ hands, .and its claim to their

support is shaky, If the decision about Haverford ,

overnights, with all the principles involved in ‘i.
were freely left to the students, it would be an
expression of confidence in Bryn Mawr students
and in self government that could make Self Gov
mean something, Girls could feel that their ideas
were invested in the system, and on that basis
they would be expected to give the rules their

full
— Livéh Ahwesh



Letters to the Editor

A Matter of Significance to vy many delegations who sim-

? ply did not represent the point of

Marijuana 1S legal

Bryn Mawr.



N.M.

, The COLLEGE NEWS desperately
needs staff writers and production
assistants.

Due to the mental and physical
anguish suffered as a result of lack of
assistance, the editorial board cannot
continue to function without a staff.

If the situation does not improve, the
COLLEGE NEWS will be forced to dis- _

appear from the newsstands.




* To the Editor:

Those of us who participated
in the Model U.N. appreciate your
recognition of our effort, but there
are some points in last week’s
article that need clarification. Pri-
marily, I must object to the sev-
eral references to the Congo
(Brazzaville) as ‘insignificant.’
Granted, it is not an important
power, but it seems somewhat
presumptuous to call a nation ‘‘in-
significant’ just because it does
not happen to play a great part
in our little lives. We were rather
startled to receive it as our as-
.Signment, but we realized that
schools which participated in re-
gional assemblies were given pref-
erence, and we went to work with
what we had, The idea of the
Model U.N, is to learn how the

U.N. works by operating asa dele-
gation interacting with other dele-
‘gations in committee, bloc and
General Assembly sessions, not
_by striving to be a ‘‘big wheel’
for its own sake, Our purpose
is education, not glory-seeking.
We could not afford to sit around

: “This year’s meeting was a poor
one because of lack of prepara-

~- come.” pecnras a ew ono

view oftheir countries and were not
even very enthusiastic. It was-
disheartening at times (as when

the U.S, and U.S.S.R. or Arabs
and Israelis got together for no
particular reason other than per-
sonal friendship), and I would like
to thank the members of our group

-- Carol Curtis, Martha Gell-
man, Patty Gerstenblith, Diane
Jordan, Joyce Rheimherr, Betsy
Rudd and Suki Zimicki -- for their
fine participation in spite of it
all.

Rather than continue this dis-
cussion here, may I suggest that
those of you who wish to discuss
this or help plan for next year
call me in Rhoads. We may sound
a bit pessimistic at times, bu

this is the first year that
conference has been disappoin
ing for us. Actually, there was
extensive seminar/lecture -
gram that was an added attrac-
tion. Perhaps we might try some

regional assemblies next year
also. Your. ideas will be wel-

maa Portelance ’ 69

To the Editor:

Kit Bakke’s assertion that Self
Gov has’ been forced by the Ad-
ministration to issue its interpre-
tation of last fall’s drug statement
is unjustified. The essential fact
to Self Gov in the marijuana ques-
tion is not whether or not mari-
juana is immoral. We believe,
as we have stated upon.numerous
occasions since last March, that
morality is a matter for individ-
ual choice. Our concern, the con-
cern of government, must be the
welfare of the community:

As a government, our first con-
sideration in regard to marijuana
is that it is illegal, Bryn Mawr
is not autonomous, and, therefore,
Self Gov connot exist independent
of society as a.whole. In the

onths since the issuance of our

Statement last fall, the impossi-

bility of completely shielding Bryn
Mawr from the laws of the state:
of Pennsylvania and of the United
States has been forcefully brought
home to us. We know of an effort
by the police to hire a student as.
an informer; members of the stu-

_. dent community have stated that ae
they became cognizant of drug use —

(Continued on page 4)
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Friday, March 8, 1968

; Page Three



Harvard Plans”
Meet on China

The Council on International Re-
lations and United Nations Affairs
will hold its Fifth Annual China
Conference Mar. 15-17 at Har-
vard University.

Open to all students and profes-

sors, the China Conference pro-'

vides an opportunity to explore
with experts political, economic
and social aspects of Chinese life.

The Conference will - deal with
such topics as ‘‘The Cultural Rev-

olution,”? ‘‘The Role of China in
International Power Politics’? and

‘United States-China Relations,’?.

Among the Conference speak-
ers and panelists will be such
noted authorities as Edwin O, Reis-
chauer, former U.S, Ambassador
to Japan; James C, Thomson, for-
mer Special Assistant on National
Security Affairs to McGeorge Bun-
dy; John C, Pelzel, Director -of the
Harvard-Yenching Institute; and
Colonel Angus Frazer, of the In-
stitute for Defense Analysis;

The speeches and panel dis-
-cussions. have been-structured to
interest both students and pro-
fessors. It should be stimulating
to those who are very knowledge-
able about China as well as to
those who are less familiar with
the topic,

Registration forms are posted
on |the Alliance bulletin board in
Taylor. Reservations at reduced
rates may be made at the Hotel
Continental in Cambridge.

A.A. Events

While :the more indolent mem-
bers of the Bryn Mawr campus
have retreated to their rooms for
the winter months, a few stu-
dents have been participating in
sports activities to keep their
spirits up during the bleak sea-
son.

Four varsity and junior var-.

sity sports teams have been hold-
ing weekly and _ semi-weekly
matches both here and away with
other college teams.

The fencing team has won two
recent meets. On Feb. 17 Bryn
Mawr hosted a three-college meet
with Goucher and Jersey State.
Bryn Mawr beat Goucher 6-3 and
Jersey State 5-4. Goucher beat
Jersey State 5-4..In a Feb. 24
meet, Bryn Mawr won over Bar-

nard 11-5. Rayette Nee is captain

and Sue Zakaluk is manager of
this year’s fencing team.

The badminton team’s season
was made this year when they beat
Swarthmore in February for the
first ;jtime in six years. Led by
Captain Anita Gretz and Manager
Stephi Skiff, the team has also
won matches against Rosemont,
Chestnut Hill, Swarthmore and
Penn. They have lost matches
to Ursinus and West Chester.

Although the basketball team
has lost six of its eight games

(Continued on page 7)



Jose Luis Sampedro, completing his first three

THE COLLEGE NEWS





photo by Mary Yee
weeks as Anna

Shaw Lecturer, has met with an enthusiastic reception from the
campus. In addition to his regularly scheduled talks, Dr. Sam-
pedro has held informal discussions with students on varied

topics.







Pottery classes are be-
ing reorganized. Any in-
terested beginners must
attend a meeting at 7:30
p-m., Monday, Mar. 11 at the
Haverford Arts Center,
Leeds. Openings are lim-
ited but previous students
‘may continue lessons, if
interested. If. you cannot
come to the meeting or have
any questions, call - David

Delthony, MI 2-3802.







But the present generation,
wearied by its chimerical efforts,
relapses into\complete indolence.
Its condition is that of a man who
has only fallen asleep towards
morning: first of all come great



excuse for remaining in bed.
S. Kierkegaard

and finally a witty or clever

Young Republicans Open
Activities With Speaker

To start the 1968 activities of the
new Bryn Mawr Young Republicans
Club, Thatcher Longstreth, presi-
dent of the Philadelphia Chamber
of Commerce, will speak Monday,
Mar. 11, at 9 :00 p.m. in the
Common Room.

Longstreth, who is also a Re-
publican city councilman-at-large
and a former candidate for mayor,
has a wide reputation as a good
speaker and will talk on the po-
verty program and its effects in
Philadelphia. A question period
will follow the talk,

+ The program is being sponsored
German Writer by the Bryn Mawr Young Repu-

Plans Reading

The German novelist Hans Erich
Nossack will give a reading from
his works at 8 p.m., Thurs., Mar.
14, in the Common Room in Good-
hart,

Nossack, though a German, has
his best mentor in Paris: Jean
Paul Sartre, The reason for this
lies perhaps, in the difficulty the
German critics have in different-
iating between fundamental nihil-
ism and the nimbus from which
the modern professional nihilists

photo courtesy Hans Banzinger
are profiting. In France, there is
more enlightened thinking and, ob-
viously, more understanding of
Nossack’s style, One of his novels
will be adapted as a French film
in the near future,

This novel, ‘‘Spatestens in No-

“-vember,’? is the story of a poet

who cannot accept the modern Ger-
man establishment; he finds, for
example, no value in literary
awards (although Nossack himself

_ has won many important awards,

such as the highly recognized
Buchner Preis),

Nossack’s world, like that of
Barlach and Hans H, Jahnn, is
the terrifying world of the North
-- not that of lovely comprom-
ises, 4

The author, who was born in
Hamburg and who lived there when
the city was shelled and de-
stroyed, expresses his grief for
those he saw die in World War

Ml, Even so, the trace of hope»

‘found in his works is more sin—

cere than the edifying thoughts of

most humanistic construction,





blicans Club, which was set up
as a group and chartered under the
national organization last fall.

Before the speakers’ presenta-
tion on Monday, the YR group
will be meeting at 8:30 p.m. to
inform interested students about
the details of a mock Republican
Convention to be held at Prince-
ton on April 6. Princeton’s active
YR group has asked most of the
Ivy League and Seven Sister col-
leges and other east coast schools
to participate. Depending on the
size of its delegation, each school
will represent a large or a small
state at the convention.

Anyone who is interested at
Bryn Mawr may attend the plan-
ning meeting because membership
of the BMC Young Republicans is
still open.

The Bryn Mawr YRClubplans to
take an active part in the upcoming
1968 elections. Instead of taking
a partisan stand, the group will
provide a forum for presenting
the different aspects of the Re-
publican view, and will act as a
Ifnk between interested students

‘and local groups campaigning for
candidates on the local, state and
national levels. _

_ The new club’s president, Thea
Modugna, is now attempting to
coordinate activities with other
Main Line colleges -- Penn, Vil-
lanova and Rosemont -- through
cooperative lectures and a tea
in late April.

Working ‘closely with the Main
Line Young Republicans, composed

of local -itizens between the ages

of 2] 35, Thea plans to make
avail such jobs as polling,
camy ng and registering.



Prudy Crowther and Miss
McPherson will be the
auctioneers at. the League
sponsored Faculty Auction
on Friday, Mar. 15th.

Each faculty member is
being asked to contribute
something indicative of his
or her personality or spe-
cialty. These articles need
not be valuable or useful.

_. The auction will be held
in Erdman from 1:30 p.m. to
| 2:00 p.m. Proceeds will go |
to the Campus Fund Drive.







Campus Interest Leads

To Revolution Teach-In

This is the third of a series

“of articles submitted to the

NEWS by members of the Social
Action Committee about the
teach-in which will take place
after spring vacation. -- Ed.

On April 3 to April 7, the Social
Action Committee and the Negro
Discussion Group will sponsor a
Teach-In entitled ‘‘Revolution?’
The Teach-In is the resultof cam-
pus-wide curiosity about things
like the urban crisis, the internal
effects of the Vietnam war, the
applicability of violence for re-
dress of grievances and Dr, King’s
March on Washington as an alter-
native ‘to violence.

The crisis of American citiesis
here and nowy and we want to bring
home to as many students as pos-
‘sible the realities of this crisis.
The Teach is meant to present
facts and_-open discussion about
the meaning of the Vietnam War
at. home, about whether Black.
Power can be a force for positive
ends, what kind of future lies
ahead for the United States,

There are three basic ques-

tions for which we hope to try to

present some answers; One, what
is the situation in the cities? Two,
what is being done in the cities
now? Three, what part can stu-
dents play? For instance, do whites
still have a place in the ghetto?
If not, what CAN they do?:

To talk about these questions,
leaders in politics and human
rights are being invited to come
speak from their experiences.
People such as Ivanhoe Donaldson

Bryn Mawr Hosts
Governor Shafer

The student Alliance for Poli-
tical Affairs is sponsoring a speech
by Pennsylvania Governor Ray-
mond P. Shafer. The speech will
be held on Wednesday, March 20,
at 4 p.m. in the Common Room
in Goodhart,

The title of the Governor’s ad-
dress will be ‘‘Higher Education
in Pennsylvania.’”? Because of the
recent march on the state capitol
at Harrisburg by state teachers
demanding . increased salaries,
Doris Dewton, head of Alliance,
said that Governor Shafer might
make a policy statement regarding
his own campaign promises to
the teachers,

Peter Henig”
SpeakstoSDS

On Cuba Trip

Peter Henig, a member of Stu-
dents for a Democratic Society
will speak to the members of
the new Bryn Mawr Haverford
S.D.S, and other interested stu-
dents about his experiences on a
recent visit to Cuba.

The lecture will take place in
Sharpless Hall, Haverford, on
Thursday March 14 at 7 p.m.
It is jointly sponsored by Haver-
ford Social Action Committee and
the new chapter of S.D,S,

Henig, in his mid-twenties, be-
gan as a staff member of the
Radical Education Project in Ann
Arbor, Michigan,

From. April to December of
last year he was a staff mem-
ber of the North American Con-
gress on Latin America, a New Left
militant organization. In Decem-
ber he was sent as part of the
D,D.S, delegation to the Inter-
national Cultural Conference in
Havana. He remained in Havana
for a month and traveled exten-



Sively throughout Cuba,

_ Henig is currently associated
with ‘‘The Rat,” a new under-
ground newspaper put out by S,D,S,
in New York,

and Cleveland Sellers of SNCC will
probably be on campus all five
days, and Stokely Carmichael may
pay avisit. **

Kenneth Clark is being invited
to speak on the internal effects
of the war and Gaston Neal to
talk on what’s wrong with the pov-
erty program. Mort Stavis, well-
known civil rights lawyer, and
members of JOIN, a white organ-
izing group in Chicago can talk
about the role of the whites.

Professors are also involved.
Bachrach is helping to organize
a professors’ panel to. debate with
the SNCC people. Meanwhile stu-
dents, black and white, are being
invited from as near as Swarth-
more and as far as Princeton.

The Teach-In is going to be
a loosely structured thing, There
will:be formal talks in the evening
and informal discussions at morn-
ing coffee hours with specific
topics. But-afternoons will be

¢

kept_open-and-_free wheeling,with——

films and small seminars, a lot
of different kinds of people getting
together with a lot of different
kinds of ideas,

Bryn Mawr is supposed to be
an educational experience, and
there “re many complaints that
it is irrelevant. There is also
a lot of talk about ‘community,’
but a community is meaningless
without a point of reference. We
hope that the Teach-In will be all
these things -- educational: and
relevant. We think it can be.

Mindy Thompson
Jackie Williams

Erica Hahn



march is an unfavorite time of
year of mine. it can never quite
seem to make up its mind whe-
ther it’s interested in being cold
or warm. and it generally winds up
just sort of blahing around without
ever really doing anything.

one year in a moment of weak-
ness i gave my heart up to march
simply because it wasn’tfebruary.
i went outside and danced at 12:01
a.m. to welcome that stupic month
with proper respect because it has
sense enough not to be the month
which comes before it.

in return for my libations march
presented me with nothing but wind
and rain and a few feeble attempts
at sunshine. we haven’t gotten
along since.

i happen to know that march is
charlie brown’s favorite month,
this has been a sore point between
us for some time on account of

_my previously discussed dislike
of that time of year. c.b. insists
that march, despite its general
wishy-washiness, is excellent kite
flying weather. ;

(but f am rather of the opinion.
that he likes march because of
its affinity with his character.)

(although, in an added paren-
thetical thought, i must admit that
if character affinity with a month
is a good enough criterion for
liking it, march and i would have
been soul mates long before now.)

i suppose it’s possible that i
might like march again sometime,
i fluctuate worse than a crazy
march afternoon and by april i
may just be hanging on for the.

sole. purpose of seeing march.

again.

flumsily yours
applebee

See.
Bo

‘shaken,

Page Four

‘THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, March 8, 1968



Hilda Smith's Self-Gov System
Creates National Impact ih ‘20's

Self Gov may be going through
a period of doubt and disillusion-
ment at the moment, but there is

one Bryn Mawrter whose faith in

self government will never be
She is Hilda W, Smith,
and it was through her work that
Bryn Mawr’s_ self-government
system had a national impact.
Miss Smith created and super-
vised a summer school program
in 1921 for factory workers, run
on the ideal of self government;
it became the pattern for similar
schools and programs throughout
the country.

M, Carey Thomas became in-
terested in the possibility of such
an experiment after a tour of
English universities, all of which
had worker schools, As a fem-
inist, she hoped that women fac-
tory workers could be a great
force in the labor movement, given
some education, The National .
Women’s Trade Union League had
called on universities for a train-
ing program for factory workers
in 1916, but nothing was done
until Miss Smith instituted the
Bryn Mawr program in 1921.

The idea of the program was
extremely radical. Contrary. to
today’s expectations, the trustees
-_were its greatest supporters, The
faculty was divided on the issue,

and the students were extremely |

antagonistic. They were so out-
raged at the idea of ‘‘dirty fac-
tory workers’’ living in their

‘rooms, in fact, that they stripped

them, One day Miss Smith met
one of the factory girls in the
Ville buying material, When asked
what it was for, the girl gi
“Oh, my poor winter girl doesn’
have any curtains, so ’m making
her some,”



Culinary Quip

This week’s hunt for. goodies
led to Miss Turnbull, of the Span-
ish department, who offered a
recipe for a Spanish vegetable
pudding. It calls for;

1 package frozen peas

package frozen carrots
packages frozen spinach

can diced beets

T cfacker crumbs soaked in
milk

1 onion

olive oil

1/2 small can of tomato paste
2 eggs

1
2
1
3

1 = egg yolk
3/4 cup olive oil
i T lemon juice
1/2 t salt

Cook the frozen vegetables,
drain them and add drained beets
and the cracker crumbs, Chop
the onion and fry it in olive oil,
add the tomato paste and sautee
this mixture, then mix it with
the vegetables, Separate the two
eggs and add the yolks to the
vegetable mixture, Beat the whites
until they form stiff peaks (punto
de nieve) and fold them in, Put the
whole thing into a casserole and

bake in a slow oven (300°). until:

a sewing needle inserted in the
middle comes out clean, While
the pudding cools, make mayon-
naise from the egg yolk, olive oil,
lemon juice and salt, beaten until
thick,

When the pudding is cool enough
not to melt the mayonnaise, spread
the mayonnaise on top,



COHABIT questionnaires

_ must be submitted by this
Tuesday, Mar. 12. They will
be processed the following
weekend and returned before









~ labor issu

The program attracted an extra-
ordinarily dedicated group of girls;
all had sacrificed their jobs (with
no assurance of a new job at the.
summer’s end) and their summer
wages to come to the school,
There were 100 girls, all be-
tween the ages of 25 and 30; a
younger group had proved too im-
mature for the program, They had
great language problems, since
many wére of foreign parentage,
and they were generally in poor
health, undernourished and over-
worked. .
- Rough Beginnings

From its beginning, the pro-
gram was beset with problems.
A Conference of Labor Leaders
told the girls not to trust the
college, that it was a capitalistic
plot. And the fact that the girls
first walked through ROCKE-
FELLER Arch did little to insure
their confidence, Furthermore,
reporters swarmed about the

‘school publishing sob stories. An-

tagonistic newspapers (primarily
from the Hearst Press) came out
with banner headlines proclaim-
ing ‘‘Federal Funds Support Red
School,’’? with Miss Smith’s pic-
ture underneath, ‘There was fur-
thermore a conflict among the
girls themselves, as same were
unionized and others not.

The school was more concerned
with how to teach the girls than
with the problem of a_ hostile
community, For the latter prob-
lem, Bryn Mawr simply hired a
new publicity director, Carey Col-
lins, who proved so efficient that
she was retained through the win-
ter sessions as well, For the
former problem, the school set
up a curriculum of economic and

a elementary science
(with which the girls had had no
contact) and a great deal of Eng-
lish,

Academically, the school was a
huge success, The administration
was swamped with applications
from faculty members who were
eager to have untouched and eager
students, And the girls WERE
eager, They were unenthusiastic
about the planned recreation ac-
tivities; they did not wish to have
time taken from their studies,
One day, when a professor failed
to show up for a class, the stu-
dents mobbed Miss Smith’s of-
fice, extremely upset, and de-
manded an explanation.

A complication developed when
the unionized students discovered
that the maids and porters were
working longer than eight hours a
day, They demanded that eight
hours be the limit, but the hall
workers did not want to cut down
their :working day, The school
thereupon set the eight-hour lim-
it, but instituted classes for the
maids and porters after their work,
So another push was given to work-
ers’ education,

Program’s Challenge.

One of the great challenges of
the program was the institution
of self government among girls

who had lived by regimentation

throughout their lives, Miss Smith
explained to the students the basic

principles of a self-government.

system -- she had been president
of Self Gov while at Bryn Mawr --
and the students elected an eight-
member executive board,

The board rose to its first
challenge maSterfully, The girls
were being treated rudely by men

‘along the Pike, The Self Gov board

asked for a representative body
of eight from the local men’s or-

ganizations to meet with them,

The Self Government board then
told the men sharply that they
_were at Bryn Mawr to study and

peg oy sheepishly from this

civil behavior *
from the local residents, The male _

reprimand and conveyed the mes-
sage to the residents, There was
no further trouble,

The girls from the summer:

session, going back to their homes
all over the country, talked glow-
ingly of the program and of its
ideals of education with self gov-
ernment, Other schools throughout

the nation started similar pro-

grams on the Bryn Mawr pattern.
Miss Smith helped organize these,

and in many cases faculty mem-.

bers from the Bryn Mawr ses-
sion taught in the new schools,

All of the summer programs did
well until the Depression, when
they ran out of funds, Miss Smith
went to Washington to ask for
government help for the struggling
schools, But instead of getting aid,
Miss Smith was asked to help the
government with the 80,000 teach-
ers -- among them a Minnesota
man named Hubert Humphrey
-- who had been thrown out of
work by the Depression. Miss

Smith agreed to help and left the

summer school program,
She-She-She
Miss Smith ran a-training camp
under Henry Hopkins for 2,000

‘unemployed teachers, patterned

on the Bryn Mawr program, It
was so successful that Miss Smith
was given a position under Mrs,
Roosevelt, organizing camps and
schools for unemployed women,
Many of these women were picked
up off the roads; they were sus-

Picious of Miss Smith’s camps

(dubbed the ‘‘She-She-She’’ by the
press), thinking they were places
of government detention,

Here also, one of Miss Smith’s
greatest challenges and triumphs
was the institution of a self-gov-
ernment system, Many of the camp
directors were extremely skepti-
cal of the idea, and ruled over
their charges as dictators, In
one mining camp, the girls rioted,
The situation was desperate, with
girls physically beating each other,
by the time Miss Smith arrived,
She found the director locked in

her cabin, After much persuasion, ~

the director came out and the two
went together to the riot scene,
It took two-and-a-half hours to
quiet the group, after which Miss
Smith stood up and explained to
them the principles of self gov-
ernment, The group then pro-

ceeded to elect a governing com-

mittee, enact rules and go quietly
to classes,

Anti-Discipline

Today Miss Smith works with the
Office of Economic Opportunity
(OEO) Job Corps, At 80, she is
still extremely active in govern-
ment, and her primary interest
is still in the ideal of self gov-
ernment, which she is tryinZ to
initiate in the local programs, Her
heart sinks when she walks into
an office with a sign proclaiming
‘‘Discipline” as its motto, She
“feels that self government has a
‘|= in the Job Corps, as it had
a place in the Bryn Mawr summer
sessions some fifty years ago,

Miss Smith is certain that Self
Gov has a place in today’s Bryn
Mawr community also, As a mem-
ber of the College’s Board of Di-
rectors for five years, she always
wanted to tell students the impor-
tance of their self-government
system, She is sorry that more

- students do not know the national

impact it had on collegiate and
government programs, She rea-
lizes the. p ems Self Gov faces
today, but points out that it has
faced graver ones in the past
and feels that it will have other
serious challenges in the future,
And she believes that it will pull
through, From a woman who has
dedicated her life to the realiza-

ns _-Magaie Crosby

Lette
(Continued from page 2)
they would call the police immed-
iately.

Self Gov sees a tremendous
danger, because of the nature of
the Bryn Mawr community, that the
police will be apprised of drug
use here, choose to raid the Col-
lege and affect through arrests
a great number of students, both
those apprehended and their ac-

o¢ ¢

quaintances confronted with the~

horror of these indictments.

Differerices. of opinion which may
exist between Self, Gov and the
Administration about the morality
or wisdom of drug use are un-
important in face of the real legal
danger which we see. We feel
‘that our sympathy with our gen-
eration’s understanding of and
widespread acquaintance with drug
use obliges us as. a government
to act on the behalf of students
threatened by drug laws which
many of us believe unduly harsh
and unjustified. Our statment of
last week was a warning to stu-
dents that it is not safe to use
drugs on this campus, and that
when a girl chooses-to ignore
these dangers, she poses a threat
to the whole community, and is,
therefore, subject to action by the
government entrusted with pro-
tecting the welfare of the com-
munity.

It is possible to say, 1 sup-
pose, that Self Gov has been co-
opted by the U.S. government,
that the Self Gov Board is acting
to support laws which many of its
members. believe to be unjust and
immoral. Perhaps the most honest

. position for Self Gov to take would

be to decide whether or. not it
agrees with the law, then, if4t
decides it does not, work to legal-
ize marijuana. But I ask: Is
it worth it? Are there not more
important endeavors for a citizen
of the nation destroying Vietnam
and oppressing th@Negro, for a
student of a College filled with
dissatisfaction and unhappiness,
than trying definitively to estab-
lish whether or not smoking mari-
juana is a valid way in which to
amuse oneself?

This is the choice. We may
try to live with the law and let
it do as little harm as possible,
or we may try to change it. To
start a battle such as Kit suggests
against the Administration would
be irrelevant, for they too exist
within the context of American
society and law. I am tired of
what Kit calls ‘‘the marijuana
morass,’’ of the endless discussion
of drugs. As a community we
have far more important things
to do than to divert our energies
into a question so peripheral to
the essential problem we face--
finding a significance for our ex-
istence as the Bryn Mawr com-
munity and as a generation dis-
satisfied with a very sick world.

Drewdie Gilpin
Spirit of '76

Dear Viewpoint:

After several years of hopeful
readings of the NEWS, we are
enormously pleased by ‘‘Morass’’
(see COLLEGE NEWS, Mar. 1,
1968). Your call for complete par-
ticipatory democracy suggests how
to deal in a human way with ALL
the human problems on campus.
With this bold concept of self-
leadership it would be possible
to rid ourselves of archaic execu-
tive structure at every level. Self-
leadership is so simple, We would
no longer need to bother ourselves
with the difficult task of searching
out and electing those whose ex-
perience, strong character and
sound judgment enable us to entrust
to them the onerous problems of
government. We would no longer
need to be concerned either as the
elected or the electorate with the
a of saan the delicate _

sep

“Here are few of the simpt-



fications that could be readily ef-
fected in our lives. No more elec-
tions of people, just votes on is-
sues. Whatever the majority de-

cide on a single issue could deter-

mine the behavior of the entire
community until such time as any
‘member of that community wishes
to bring the same issue to a new
vote. For example, let us take the
very mode of appointing tellers to
tabulate ballots. Dealing humanly

with humans, we think it in line .

to propose for the decision of the
majority that the job of teller be
filled by any human who isa mem-
ber of the community. Hence the
job . can rotate alphabetically

‘through the following: administra-

tion, alumnae, faculty, food serv-
ice, staff, students and trustees.
(Note: the above list is in alpha-
betical order, not in order of im-
portance). Perhaps it would be
only fair to consider a further
breakdown within each ofthe above
categories according toclass, ma-
jor and hall where appropriate, and
where not, according to geograph-
ical location by campus, state and
country.

One of the splendid features of
your theory of government is that
it contains the FINAL SOLUTION
to the age-old problem of the
position of minorities. The time
and effort which in the past went
into determining and protecting
the rights of minority opinions
may now be spent on the more
constructive business of the im-
mediate implementation of the de-
sires of the simple majority.

We thank you on behalf of the
entire community for, at the very
least, propelling us to a re-exam-
ination of our concept of govern-
ment,

Georgia Washington
Thomasina Jefferson

Patricia Henry

In Defense of Profs

To the Editor:

I am unable to agree entirely
with Judy Baer’s assertion that
‘for $1850, we are entitled to
teachers who havea firm command
of their subject, and who are cap-
able of communicating their know-
ledge and stimulating and
challenging the students’ minds,
Anything less is inexcusable,” I
would not contradict the first part
of the statement, that our teachers
should have a firm command of
their subject--they should indeed,
and I have yet to come into con-
tact with an instructor at Bryn
Mawr of whom I felt this could
not honestly be said, This is
not to say that I have never been
discouraged by dullness and lack
of inspiration on the part of some
of the teachers here, I think how-
ever that we often fail to appre-
ciate the rareness of the qualities
which create the surpassingly ex-
cellent teacher, A fulltime re-
search team would be required to
track down enough men and women
to fill the faculty with only those
possessing _ this genius for
communication and_ inspiration,
Even admitting the feasibility
and desirability of such a scheme,
one would not then be able to
enjoy one’s education here for a
mere $1850 a year, Whether we
as students like the idea or not,
the sole purpose of a professor
is not merely to teach us, and if
the balance of a professor’s ex-
cellence does not lie in his class-
room presentation, if is unfor-
tunate for us, but that does not
necessarily make him a liability
to the College, Furthermore,
though no one would deny that
the kind of academic utopia in which
we were offered only the greatest
of teachers would be a delightful
and valuable intellectual. ex-

perience, one must recognize that

the challenge to exploration and
discovery must finally reside wi-
thin oursleves, If it-is not here,
no instructor can create it for
“us; Af it is ‘here, no amount. Of

Frances Thomas '69

oe! |







Friday, March 8, 1968

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Sarah Lawrence: Visit Shows

Parallel College 'Hang- ups’

‘«Excuse me, can you tell me er
the dining hall is?”

‘Sure. It’s that building over inlee
that looks like a citadel. Storm it.”

Visiting, another college for a week
means meeting a-lot of people in chance
encounters. The girls at Sarah Lawrence
were inevitably friendly and polite to the
exchange students who were at their college
last week.

Sally Boy, Liz Thacher and I were
_ representing Bryn Mawr. There were
also two girls from Earlham, a boy and
a girl each from Beloit, and St. Johns,
two boys from Princeton and one girl
from Radcliffe.

Sarah Lawrence is in Bronxville,
approximately a half-hour drive from
New York City. It was founded in 1928
and is housed on a large .estate once
owned by a wealthy couple named Law-
rence.
Student-oriented School

One of our first impressions was that
Sarah Lawrence girls seem to have all
the activities and benefits that most Bryn
Mawr students think would make Bryn
Mawr a perfect school, Sarah Lawrence
is a very student-oriented college. It
is run.on the theory that education con-
sists of each student discovering and
exercising. her own particular talents and
preferences. At Sarah Lawrence there
are no reguired courses, no distribution
requirements, no departments or majors,
no exams and no grades in the traditional
sense,

Under the Sarah Lawrence plan ofeduca- .

tion, a girl takes three courses a semester,
and it is up to her to coordinate what
she is learning into a meaningful whole,
The college is very interested in the

student as a whole person, and there.

is no feeling that a girl is there to grow
primarily academically or intellectually.
Sarah Lawrence theoretically graduates
girls who have discovered who they are

as people and how they can fit into an
environment which they have examined
in more than just an intellectual sense.
Educational Philosophy

Educational Philosophy

One of the most interesting parts of
the exchange was hearing the arguments
between the St. Johns’ students and the
president of Sarah Lawrence, Esther Rau-
shenbush. St. Johns is a school of about
300 in Annapolis which subscribes to a
theory of education which is the exact
opposite of Sarah Lawrence’s.

At St. Johns all the courses are re-
quired. Any transfer must enter as a
freshman. St. Johns’ students begin learn-
_ing western culture from its very beginn-
“ings, and in the four years eventually
work themselves up to the present. They
read Euclid in the original for Freshman
math, They are juniors before they oy
to Locke and Hobbes.

St. Johns believes that the true liberal
arts college means requiring students to
learn something about almost everything.
Sarah Lawrence believes that true liberal
arts education means allowing the student
to discover with the aid of her don (faculty
adviser); what.she wants to-know, and then

each it-to her, regardless of-any ~ teacher.“ This conference is arranged”

orectatetved: ‘notions ~about what ‘‘all
intelligeht people ought to know.”’

The other schools represented, including
Bryn Mawr, all have educational philoso-
phies ranging between those ofSarah Law-
rence and St. Johns. |

Initially, Sarah Lawrence, because ofits
obvious orientation to the needs of each
individual student, looked very inviting to
us. After staying there for a week and
attending many classes, we began to see
some of the flaws of the system.

Performing Arts

The classes most fun to observe were
the ones in the performing arts. Sarah
Lawrence has an excellent range ofacting,
dancing and music classes. These were
well attended, and seemed to provide a
needed and appreciated part of a student’s
education. Bill Forman, the Haverford
astromomy major who is at Sarah
Lawrence for a semester, is there pre-
cisely because of the opportunities it offers
in the performing and visual arts.

I went to a couple of social science
classes, One, called ‘‘Social Basis for

Political and Social Liberties” was taught —

by an expatriate from Yale, who is very
much involved in New Haven politics. His
hair is long and his tone is militant.
For part of the class he gave a good

' radical analysis of the social and political

situation in this country. Since it took
only 15 minutes, it was a little super-
ficial, but it is an approach much needed
at Bryn Mawr and one that I have never
heard in a classroom here.

There is a wide variety of courses
in each discipline, but each course is
expected to provide its own background.
Few if any courses demand prerequisites.
Within the broad field of literature the
offerings ranged from a general topic
such as ‘‘European and American Lit-
erature:
specific topics such as ‘Sources for the
Modern Hero,’’ ‘‘Religious Themes in

Literature,”’: ‘‘The Comic Spirit,’’ and
‘‘Modern Drama from Henrik Ibsen to



* photo by Kit Bakke

Harold Pinter.’? Sarah Lawrence offers
sixteen full-year history courses, slightly
more than the Bryn Mawr History Depart-
ment offers.

Whereas Bryn Mawr students may take
courses at Penn., Haverford, and Swarth-
more, Sarah Lawrence girls are given
similar opportunities at Columbia, Wesle-
yan, Manhattanville, and Yale. Despite
this wealth of courses, however, Sarah
Lawrence girls are only permitted to take
twelve courses during their four years
of, college; consequently, they can only
take, at the most, three es in one
field during their undergradua' :.
a frustrating limitation considering the
available opportunities.

The superficial quality of the so-called
academic courses at Sarah Lawrence was
one of the conclusions agreed upon by
all the exchange students. Since there
are no requirements or prerequisites,
it is difficult to keep all the courses
from becoming 101 survey~courses. The
college offsets this by having con-
ferences and papers ch they call con-
tracts. Besides the actual class meeting,
each course entails an individual con-
« ference. once a week or so with the

around the writing of the contract on
something touched upon in the course.

~



Past and Present,” to more —

Princeton Scornful

The Princeton students were most
scornful of the academic side of Sarah
Lawrence, They called it ‘corny educa-
tion’: and said that most boys would never
go there because it would be impossible
to get into graduate school. It is true
that Sarah Lawrence girls are not-par-
ticuarly oriented toward graduate school
(no one really knew how many actually
did go to grad school--they guessed it
was around 30-40% of the senior class;
Bryn Mawr is 60-65% usually),

Besides the conferences Sarah Lawrence
has a don system. Each student has
a faculty adviser, to whom she is assigned
her freshman year, but she is free to
change whenever she wants. Some have
the same don for four years, others change
as their interests change. They admit

’ it does not work perfectly, but generally

it encourages student-faculty relations
and seems to make the school more of
a: community.

The community feeling among the stu-
dents, however, seems to be (if this is
possible) even less than at Bryn Mawr.
With no men’s school nearby, most stu-
dents desert the campus on weekends,
which tend to include Fridays and Mon-
days. Although they have a central dining
hall, they live in 16 different buildings.
We were amazed to see how many stu-
dents did not know each other, even though
there are only. 560 undergraduates.

Their student activities suffer from
severe apathy. Nobody votes, nobody
volunteers, nobody works. The editor-
in-chief and the. managing editor of the
college paper are paid a nominal sum
each semester, This does not seem very
different from student activities at most
schools, which leads us to see that a
loosening of the curriculum, greater
communication with the faculty and less
pressure for grades does not necessarily
make a community or a utopian school,
Economic Problems

Sarah Lawrence is now in the depths
of economic dispair. ‘Every student was
very much aware of it, even to the ex-
tent of quoting to us their per capita
endowment, which is painfully low.
According to the students, their admin-
istrators have been primarily interested
in good teaching, new courses and good
faculty members, rather than in raising
money. They have not been keen to go
around to cocktail parties to present a
good image of the college and to solicit
money for Sarah Lawrence. Their
scholarship fund is extremely low. Only
about 12% of the, students receive financial
aid from the school, the cost is high,

is rising next year, to almost $4000.
ir faculty salaries are generally high
too. Because of the conferences and
the don system, Sarah Lawrence faculty

— a great deal of work to do.

~~ None of the other schools at the ex-
change, including Sarah Lawrence, had
‘a Their social rules

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all originated with the’administration, and
it was the administration who eventually
dealt with punishments. This made us
feel very proud, and we described in
glowing terms the merits of Bryn Mawr’s
and Haverford’s social honor systems
(on the mention of Haverford, the editor
of the Sarah Lawrence newspaper said
‘‘Haverford--isn’t that the school with no
rules?’’).

After a while though, we realized that
having a social honor system didn’t make
much difference in the actual behavior
of the students. Each of the other schools
had varying degrees of legislated freedom,
but actual freedom was great and about
the same as here, Few violations of
the rules were blatant, so most were
unpunished.

Most of the schools had some sort of
student judicial organization that usually
was allowed by the administration to have
the last word on punishments.

New President |

The one student council meeting
I attended was taken up with discussing
qualities they would like to see in their
new president. Mrs. Raushenbush is
retiring soon and the students were in-
vited to submit preferences to the selection
committee. .

One of the big issues on campus last
week was student participation on faculty
and administrative committees. Oddly
enough for such a student-oriented school,
no students have been on such committees.
But apparently it is being given a trial
run this semester.

Sarah Lawrence, like Bryn Mawr, is
in the process of building a new library.
They have about half the money already
and expect a government loan of about
a third more. This new building will
be like the other buildings on campus
in that {t will have several: functions.
It will include a biology lab and small
arts rooms as well as the library.

Their bookstore is very small, about
half the size of Bryn Mawr’s, Its space
is mostly occupied by fiction and art
supplies.

The bookstore, as well as the new lib-
rary building seem -.to symbolize what
Sarah Lawrence is. It is not a primarily
academic institution. Unlike Bryn Mawr,
it sees non-academic, non-schorarly sub-
jects as ligitimate areas of concentration
in higher liberal arts -education.. The
Sarah Lawrence studens are very much
aware of this. They had deliberately
chosen the school for its non-academic
atmosphere. Those who didn’t like it
presumably have transferred out. We
found however, that those who remained
were still a little defensive about it.’
They sometimes tended to over-justify
themselves and their school.

Sarah Lawrence’s hang-ups may: be

‘different from Bryn Mawr’s, but they are

oublesome.
Kit Bakke

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Friday, March 8, 1968



Students Take Dance to. Yalies

Last week’s trip to Yale
enabled Bryn Mawr and: Haver-
ford- dance students to see
some of the differences in the
choreography. and technique of
other college-age groups, ac-
cording to’ Carolyn Monka,
Dance Club secretary.

“Our club is an isolated
one,’’ she continued, ‘‘Seeing other
dancers- was so rewarding that
we hope to establish some more
exchange projects, especially with
nearby schools,”’

The: Bryn Mawr-Haverford
Dance Club participated with clubs
from Pembroke, Vassar, Smith
and Connecticut College for

Women at a festival held at Yale
Wednesday, Feb, 28, in an effort

‘to create an interest in dance

at the university, .

The Club presented four
pieces, including one choreograph-
ed by Paula Mason, Bryn
Mawr’s dance instructor, with
music written by her husband,
Lucas Mason, Alsopresented were

a dance with flute accompaniment z

choreographed by Liz Schnei-
der, a dance to silence chor-
eographed by Carolyn and a
dance to a poem by Fran LaBarre.

Carolyn noted. that other
groups used both rock and elec-
tronic music as well as

psychedelic effects to increase
the se of their dances,

A reception was held for
the visiting groups Wednesday
afternoon and a party. was. held
after the dance performances
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A.A. Events...

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played this season, the girls were
happy about their recent victory
over Swarthmore. They also beat
Pennsylvania College of the Bible.
They have lost games to Penn,
Chestnut Hill, Rosemont, Gwynedd
Mercy, Drexel and Cabrini. Jean
Farney and Annell Kocher are
captain and manager of the team,
respectively.

The highlight’ of the swimming
team’s season came this winter

when Leigh Ehlers broke the all-

time Bryn Mawr record for swim-
ming two laps of the college pool

freestyle. Leigh’s time was 24,8 .

seconds compared to the previous

time record of 25 seconds. a

Saturday the team will partici-
pate in the-Inter-Collegiate Wo-
men’s Swim Meet at Abbington
High School. So far this season
the team has lost all its meets,
They have swum against West
Chester, Ursinus, Chestnut Hill,
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There is an artistic barrier
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junior and senior classes at Hav~-.

“ erford'that is so significant “as

to be almost palpable. This bar-
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The freshmen this year were so
conventional that almostevery line
was preditable. They may not have
known it, but these freshmen were
getting the same humor out of the
same jokes as generations of
freshmen before them. Their plot,
script by Mitch Stephens and Dean
Alter, concerned (vaguely) Presi-
dent Coleman’s impending assas-
sination by someone in the food
service. The best scene was
‘¢Professor Tinkertoy’? taking
preventive measures by plotting
possible bullet trajectories and
calculating on the President’s head
with a compass and protractor.
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credible string of magazine puns.
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of mad scientists who plan to take

ver the kingdom of Vulgaria with
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staging were unexpectedly good,
and the sophomores had the good
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derstand at best, and the sopho-
more ones, oftenextremely clever,
were sung with laudable clarity
by Jim Emmons and Alexis Swan
as the scientists. Swanalso main-
tained a tolerable German accent,
and was given the Best Actor
award. The sophomore plot grew
weak, but was summed up ina bal-
let sequence, choreographed by
Chris Colvin, with excellent music
by Steve Zukin. The play was
directed by Bruce Lincoln. The
junior play from this class should
be something to look forward to.
Two more years of ‘‘What’s life?”’
‘A magazine,” is not something
to look forward to, however.

The junior play, this year’s
‘winner, was by far the best-con-
ceived. It dealt with a revolt
by inmates of a mental hospital,
and scenes showing first how the
patients looked to the world and
then how they looked to themselves
were remarkably effective and
touching. The staging, partic-
ularly the use of colored slides
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Magers, and the stolid black-and-
white citizens were a nice stagey
contrast to the gaudy bandits. Here
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Tim Welles was exceptional. Chris
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and the local citizens were well-

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because, for all its theatricality,
it was never very interesting.
This could have something to do
with the fact that it was written

‘by five people and directed by
If is noteworthy though-

that this play can be criticised on
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the more frenetic freshman or
sophomore plays cannot,

A word should be-said about the
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