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College news, April 29, 1966
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1966-04-29
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 52, No. 21
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BMC-News-vol52-no21
April 29,1966
COLLEGE NEWS
Page 5
Vietnam Commitment Justified,
Says Former HUAC Worker
by Cookie Poplin -
‘‘Our commitment here (in Viet-
nam) is legal and justified.’’ In
this statement Fulton Lewis II,
former research director for the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities, summarized his posi-
tion in regard to the controversial
issue April 18 at a lecture,spon-
sored by the Conservative Club
and Alliance.
Mr. Lewis considers himself a
‘*libertarian’’ rather than a ‘‘con-
servative’’ and based his subse-
quent argument on the thesis that
‘tthe rights of the individual are
supreme and cannot be subjected
to the dictates of the collective
will of society.’’
He began by trying to explain
the considerations behind the pres-
ent U.S, policy in Vietnam. ‘‘We
have respect for the sovereignty
of independent nations and inde-
pendent people,’’ he said; we have
no desire to expand. We are'merely
saying ‘‘no’’ to an aggressive dic-
tatorship. Mr. Lewis then con-
sidered the objections to govern-
ment position. He refuted those
who advocate isolationism or
‘¢status-quoism;’’ Vietnam is very
close to us, and ‘‘we are involved
in the world whether we want to be
or not,’’? He called the assertion
that the war in Vietnam is a civil
war ‘‘a fallacious interpretation,’’
and reminded the audience that
other aggressors, such as Hitler
in the Sudetenland, have used this
tactic to disguise aggression. One
should ask not where the members
of the NLF were born, but where
their allegiance lies, Since they are
loyal to the communist government
of North Vietnam, and, if the NLF
were set up in power, South Viet-
nam would not be independent of’
the North, Mr. Lewis concluded
that the war in Vietnam is not a
civil war.
He is not against negotiations;
the question, he insists, is when,
how, and with whom. He warned
the audience against what he con-
sidered Chgmberlain’s mistakes
at Munich; negotiating from a posi-.
tion of weakness, and appeasement.
There has as yet been noassurance,
the speaker continued, that nego-
tiations will end communist ag-
gression in southeast Asia, and he
pointed to the unrest in that area
over the extent of our commitment.
‘¢‘Where do we stop? If we sur-
render South Vietnam, will we
come to the defense of Thailand?
eee This is a showdown theater
that we are involved in ... The
‘price tag is the destiny of the en-
tire area.’?’ We must demonstrate
through strength that we will not
tolerate aggression.
Mr. Lewis considered — it
*tidiotic’’ to negotiate with the Viet
Cong; we must negotiate with the
real aggressors.
He went on to the problem ofthe
government in Vietnam, The height
of war, he said, is not the time
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.of Schopenhauer,
to have elections or self-deter-
mination; our first task should be
to bring peace to Vietnam. ‘‘We
are not just talking about elec-
tions,’’? he declared, ‘‘We are talk-
ing about FREE elections.’? He
admitted that the government in
South Vietnam has been far from
ideal, but he felt that as we joined
with Stalin to fight Hitler, here
too we should accept the lesser”
evil in order to overcome the
greater. We must seek, above all,
stability in the present govern-
ment.
Where do we go from here? Mr.
Lewis protested against a policy
according to which troops weré
ordered to do enough to die but not
enough to win. He noted that we
could put Haiphong, Hanoi, the Ho
Chi Minh Trail out of commission
from the air; he claimed further
that Red China has too much to
lose to enter the war,
The government and the country
must support their fighting men,
and in particular we should ensure
that dissident elements here do not
give support to. the enemy, as he
said Ronald Ramsey in Los Angeles
and the ‘*‘May Second Movement?’
have been doing. a
Mr. Lewis concluded emphati-
cally, ‘‘We should alter our at-
titudes as a nation and do what is
necessary in Vietnam.’’
Current May Day Rites Revealed
As Abridged Version of Original
by Mary Berg, °69
Today’s May Day festivities will
be Bryn Mawr’s 66th celebration
of this ancient holiday. In a 191;
May Day speech, President M.
Carey Thomas traced May Day
back to the grotto of the nymph
Egeria,
This tradition of revelry and
games evolved into the traditional
English May Day, from which the
Bryn Mawr § festivities
adopted.
Rockefeller Tower was planned
so that Bryn Mawr students might
Sing to the sun oh the first of
May, as the custom at Magdalen
College, Oxford. At seven o’clock
Friday morning, the seniors will
sing the **Magdalen Hymn.’’
The. first May Day. celebration
at Bryn Mawr was held in 1900
to raise money for a ‘students’
building.’’ Since then May Day
has been celebrated annually. In
1920, the scope of activities was
increased tremendously, by pro-
ducing an authentic Elizabethan
May Day.
The 1920 COLLEGE NEWS gave
the following account:
‘¢A merry pageant of four cen--
turies ago passed through Pem-
broke Arch last Friday at 2;30,
when the flare of the herald’s
trumpets announced the approach
College Curriculum Adds
Variety of New Courses
Several new courses have been
added to next year’s curriculum,
and structural changes in some
of this year’s courses have been
made as well.
The Biology Department will be
offering a course in Advanced Gen-
etics and Evolution andthe Philos-
ophy Department will offer a 300
level course entitled Philosophies
Marx, and
Nietzsche, The Greek Department
will be offering a full unit of
Homer next year.
Many new courses have been
added by the History of Art De-
partment for next year, all at the
advanced level. Two semester
courses will concern Gothic Paint-
ing and Jan van Eyck, A third
course will concern the iconog-
raphy and style of Poussin and the
impact of his painting on the de-
velopment of Baroque:art. This
course requires a reading knowl-
edge of French. In addition the
department is offering a course on
Modern Architecture. This will in-
clude a brief survey of nineteenth
century developments and a study
of several twentieth century archi-
tects.
A course in Apocrypha and
Pseudepigrapha will be an addi-
tion to the department of History
highly acceptable.
of Religion. The Mathematics De-
partment has added several new
courses, including one on Number
Theory.
The Latin Department will have
two types of 100 level courses
in 1966-67. In addition to the
present 101 there will be a 103
for students whose preparation is
not as extensive.
The Psychology Department has
also made a change in its cur-
Yriculum. After the first semes-
ter of Introductory Psychology,
students will be able to choose
one or two courses at the same
level to complete their first year
of study. The second semester
choices are Comparative Psychol-
ogy and Social Psychology.
A new course entitled Medieval
Narrative: From Beowulf to Malo-
ry will be offered by the English
Department next year, This
course is open to juniors and
seniors only.
The French Department is of-
fering a new advanced course en-
titled Realism and Naturalism,
while the. Political Science De-
partment has made quite a few
changes and added several
courses, including The Soviet
Union and Eastern European Gov-
ernments, and India: Culture an
Politics. ’
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of Queen Bess and her Courts.
Stalwart beefeaters held back the
rabble and made way for the richly
caparisoned horses of Robin Hood
and his band. Following the ox-
drawn cart which carried the gar-
landed May-pole came the joyous
peasantry. Morris men, shepherds,
milkmaids, and tumblers danced
and frolicked to the jingling tunes
played by the bands. F lower-trim-
med floats bearing the gorgeously
costumed casts of the plays won
loud applause from the ‘spec-
tators,’’
An Elizabethan village was
created infront of Denbigh, com-
plete with thatched. cottages where
refreshments were sold. After
Robin Hood crowned Maid Marian
May Queen there were masques
in the Cloisters, a chimney sweep
play, a Robin Hood play, often a
Mummers play,
Such full-scale celebrations
were staged every four yearsfrom
1920 on. Admission was charged,
and it was a large public attrac-
tion. These Big May Days re-
quired an entire semester of prep-
aration, involving the whole cam-
pus,
_By 1940 students were too con-
cerned with World War II and
other events to devote adequate
attention to.the scheduled Big May
Day, and celebrated a Little May
Day instead. Big May Day has
not been observed since then.
1966 Fund Drive
Now Under Way
This year League’s Campus
Fund Drive began April 28. Sally
Ewer has stated that all pledges
to go on Pay Day must be in by
May 2, but that cash can come in
for a few days after that.
The goal this year is 100% par-
ticipation. League is putting a
thermometer on the Bulletin Board
in Taylor to record the donations.
The organization has decided not
to include the family of Mr. Moses,
the Haverford alumnus murdered
in Chicago on their list of
receivers. However, anyone who
would like to donate money can do
so through Haverford, as itis con-
ducting a fund drive for the family.
HE: | called home last night.
SHE: Yeah?
HE: My father says he misses me—can you believe it?
SHE: No.
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We believe it—parents are funny that way. Phone
home often.
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