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College news, October 10, 1962
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 49, No. 03
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol49-no3
“Page Two a
‘THE COLLEGE NEWS.
a
Wednesday, October 10, 1962
- Injustice in the Language Orals:
“\be faced.
How,many,.Seniors this. year will be deprived of their
diplomas by the language orals? . The annual ‘phenomenon
of otherwfse“superior students failing to graduate because
they could not master ‘the -intricacies of German word order
or French itregular verbs, is so common as to be almost un-
interesting. It is, however, of considerable’ interest and no
slight degree of concern to an exceptionally large number
_of Seniors this fall. —— anaes
~ How did this happen? Bryn Mawr is almost unique ‘in
requiring two languages; but it is surely, not impossible for
even the least linguistically inclinedvto pass two orals in
four years. Each individual is of course responsible for not
thinking ahead, for not remembering Freshman year that
three years is not eternity, and that someday the oral must
‘It is, however, exactly because most Freshmen cannot
think in these terms-that the office of Dean exists. Why was
the class of ’63 allowed to get into these straits? _How could
so many people have let things slide for so.long? Poor advice
is clearly as much at fault as poor judgment. pomie
_.. The Seniors are the victims also of one of the least de-
fensible of Bryn Mawr’s rules. One may take one’s Science
requirement Senior year. One may take Philosophy 101 Sen-
‘jor year. One may take any other requirement except Fresh-
man Comp. One may not, however, take a course to fulfill the}:
language requirement. The logic in this escapes us.
It is undeniable, moreover, that one can learn more of:a
language by taking. a course all year than by frantically
A”
cramming for an
less. We cannot urge the faculty too strongly to reconsider it.
New NEWS Members -
- There is less room in the editorial column this week be-
cause there are more names on our*masthead. We welcome
to the staff of The College News five new reporters, all mem-
bers of the Class of ’66: Nancy Geist, Vicky Grafstrom,
Lynne Lackenbach, Edna Perkins, and Liesa Stamm. Con-
gratulations are offered to these five along with best wishes
for a successful journalistic career with the News.
If there are any girls who were planning to try-out and
who, for some reason or. another, did not get their try-outs
in on time, they may still see Ginny Copen, Rhoads North
about working for the News. —
Written Outside At 3 A.M. |
Ina recent effort to boost midnight morale, the News
sponsored a.contest asking undergraduates to complete the
statement: “I like fire drills because .. .”’-in 100-words_or
less. Prizes were. to range from a lifetime membership in
The Amalgamated Arsonists of America (for first place) to
a year’s supply of ashes (consolation prize). . However, the
uniform excellence of the entries was such that the News
has been unable to, reach a decision as to-which was best:
Instead of awarding a prize, therefore,-we are hoping to have
each entrant appointed Fire Captain for the Day in her hall
with the power of scheduling as many drills as time—and
her contemporaries’ forbearance—will permit.
Here are sOme entries that .we consider particularly
worthy of attention: —. ee fan
I like fire drills because:
I like sleeping to musie.
_I hate mankind.
\ hate my next-door neighbor.
‘I like showing off my towels.
My flashlight has a pink bulb.
My alarm clock is broken.
Maybe some day it’ll be a-real one. °
Once upon a ‘midnight dreary, as.I pondered weak and weary
. Over many a fat and spurious volume that I should have
read before, Ze gg ee a et
Just as I was near to dreaming, suddenly I heard a screaming
Asa enna came Tull-steaming, steaming at my. bedroom
‘. foie
Quoth the rufner: “Off this floor!” ‘
Staggering, in great confusion, fearing flames (though all
illusion),
I wrens coat and shoes and jewels that to save I would
adore. ©
But I saw the time was fleeting, and as I began retreating,
Came the runner fiercely beating, beating all too late to score.
Quoth the runner: “We'are no more.”
THE COLLEGE NEWS
: FOUNDED IN 1914 ;
Published’ weekly during the College Year (except durirg
< Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examina-
- fion weeks) in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the Ardmore
Printing Company, Ardmore, Pa., and Bryn.Mawr College.
“The College News is fully protected by ‘copyright. Nothing that appears in
it may be reprinted whglly or in part without” permission of the> Editor-in-Chief.
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but greek~and-middle ages mixed
exam. If the purpose of the requirement.
is to insure knowledge of languages, then this rule is:sense-|_
[to build roads all day by 5:30. To
follow this schedule was very like-
‘| freedoms ‘ of speech and press
|there is no
Jin Yugoslavia. Taking these ex-
A pplebee
i must admit that i have qualms
as lantern night: approaches
will wake me in the sheltered tower
before my: private witching hour.
i’ve suffered this ordeal for years
recoiling fast in. violence
but when the greek hymns, hit my
ears
by Mary Hutton Warfield
American females, rejoice!
At last we have been definitively,
relatively, specifically, particularly,
categorically and conclusively un-
derstood. ,
At least a certain group at Har-
i sit in groggy silence,
one here might say—back to the
womb | ©
f old civilization. naigig
of old: civilisation this hitherto traditionally impos-
would make areal sensation. sible task. In their supplement, The
so hidden in the cloister walls
we all regress in time
a polyglot of culture—yes
but none the less sublime.
athena reigns, the castle frames
and in a moment more a
cles to. apply to the suppressed.
truth in every one of us. We need
only to pick our artigle from the
assortment of ready-made female
stereotypes and behold—iwe are as
the deafening roar of six jet planes| well.understood as if we had been
provides the true encore.
without benefit of no-doze, .
applebee
punched and processed by an IBM
machine.
From the astute evaluation in the
lead article, “Growing Up Female,”
we learn that all our problems conie
from being prepared as the in-
tellectual equals. of men, and then,
upon marriage, finding that the
‘only use for a “Summa” diploma is
to scour dishpans. Consequently,
our society “celebrates the values
|of an antiquated form of marriage
inherited from a time when wives
were prepared for little else.
time moping about this state of
affairs? Mr. Bettelheim, the psy-
choanalyst: author, exhausts every
BMC Sophomore —
Visited Satellites,
~ Worked In Camp
“Want to see the world? Join
the Army!” Well, Kathy Boudin,
’65, did not go quite that far, but
she did get to see a part of the
world that most Americans don’t
visit. |
Beginning by visiting a friend
who had been at Bryn Mawr three
years ago, Kathy went to Yugo-
slavia. And there jher life was a
bit like “The Army” for the three
weeks she worked in a youth camp
sponsored, by the Yugoslav gov-
ernment. . .
She was up at 3:30 AM and off
tual —.now housewife drudge — to
indulge in self-pity and feelings of
self-waste. His , constructive ideas
for the. successful fulfilment of
the intellectual woman, caught in
the Sargasso Sea of wifehood ‘and
Japanese Student
Requests Pen-pals
. This isa very brief conden-
sation of a very beautiful hand-
written letter. Anyone who
wishes .to. correspond with Mr.
Koga is -welcome to. read. the
the complete letter. :
; Tbe Editor
Mme. Katharine E. McBride
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, Penn., USA
Madame,
I-am a research student. of geog-
raphy. My ambition is to be a geog:
rapher. It has long been my desire
to correspond with some college stu-
dents in the United States. .
It is my strong conviction that the
only sure road to peace lies in .un-
derstanding the ideals and. ideolo.
gies, the hopes and dreams, the cus-
toms and culture of-the peoples of
other-lands, -I- further believe that
there is no better way to arrive at
this goal than by correspondence be-
tween the youths of different na-
tions.. ‘
I should be very happy if I could
have some friends in the Bryn Mawr
College, which is one: of the best
colleges in the United States.
“. ‘Very truly. yours, .
Mr. Isao Koga
216 Shiragane-machi
Japan
ly an honor, since Kathy was the
only American ‘to be in such a
camp. She. learned everything
about the Yugoslav’s life from..his
love of folk music and cowboy
songs to his government’s endea-
vors to develop more democratic
methods. »
Such work ‘camps as Kathy was
in are. madé“up of yolvnteers~ be-
betweén_16-20-yearsold; There are
1200 youths divided into 12 camps
altogether,.and Kathy compared
their method of organization tg
that of NSA’s — except for the
government sponsorship. The
camps help to build roads, parks,
and sometimes. houses. Essentially
they’ govern themselves, Kathy
said, having meetings to discuss
the problems and decisions which
come up in daily life
Such efforts by the Yugoslavs to
relax the rigid totalitarianism of
the Marxist line (which Kathy
interpreted as an advanced form
of Communism) are criticized by
the other satellite nations. = __
Kathy found a vast’ difference
‘in Whe Commish” oF “Czéthosio-
vakia. The lives of the Czechs are
much more firmly controlled. ‘The
countries were most:worried about
US foreign policy. Confident about
internal policy, they «believe that
eventually the US will betome a
socialist. country like themselves.
And this is to take place, they say,
labor-management disputes; - 3)
Increase of nationalization;
exist, but they are limited; child-
ren cannot buy comic. books; and
brutality shown on
‘can be little difference. between
state capitalism and socialism—
they say).. ha md
TV. ; De eit
There is less of the feeling of
experimentation which.is evident
study organic chemistry or some-
amples, Kathy pointed out the
both good and bad results of total-
itarianism in Czechoslovakia, —
“As for their attitudes ‘toward
world this summer—in the form
of two Russian satellites—seems
{the US; Kathy ‘said > that: both
enough to last in a pinch for
another summer..." Jews
“
‘
aoe roe ROE ee z a) is en
per’s seems to have accomplished
American Female, there are arti-|.
But why should we spend our.
possibility for the former intellec-|
‘iW’ thine Steps! 1) “Loss “of” Latin|
American markets; 2) Increase of |’
A rand that we can’ hate
Geuditds be ehetidlin woes thevel ns.” .
Next summer, Kathy says she’ll
probably have to stay home and||
thing. But what. she saw of. the.
motherhood, call for a reform in
the whole social system.
“A rational and psychologically
balanced view would appreciate and
enjoy the ways that women are
truly different from men, and _ it
would recognize that in most re-'~
spects, they have far more in com-
mon with men than our society is
willing to. grant.” :
This view may be snatched up
by the present-day suffragettes,
but when it comes to the elemental
female; the “having more’in com-
mon with men” is a terrible idea—
at least as far as the concept of
equality goes. How horrible to be
equal with men! How much more
rewarding is the. position of a fe-
male who ‘relies on a man osten-
causes him to do her bidding. As
an equal, a female could not do —
this. But “an infinitely powerful, -
seemingly inferior female could. -
And does!
The rest of the supplement deals
with specific types of females and
the problems and: rewards consis-
tent with these types.
“Speaking for the Working
Class Wife” is an-excellent view
of a strong individual who has. not
wasted time in reflection onthe .
impossibility of improving her
state. The fresh, clean -attitude of
the article is heartening in con-
trast to the’ degenerate, too-deeply
inspected female of the lead article.
The next article, “The Decline
and. Fall--of -Fashion,” takes the
‘evolution of the typical ready-
made, fashion-plate woman from
the old-time elegante, and reveals
‘the hi-jinks of merchandising that’
make her what she is: able to
wear purple house-boots with com-
plete assurance, —
The supplement rolls along with
a desk-banging “Tale of Women,
Politics and the New Frontier,’
which defies analysis. _
Other noteworthy articles: “Sec-
ond Chance—New Education for
Women” may be good to file when
some of us, regretting housewifery
and refusing to:be caged by it, try
to get back into our old alma ma-
ter. According to Mrs. Raushen-
bush of Sarah Lawrence’s ‘new
“salvage operation,”- the Center
for Continuing Education, the pos-
sibilities for middle-aged study are
becoming more and more a reality.
An EDW Act (Emancipation from
Dishwater) is probably «being
lobbied for in Congress now.
Poems, a short story break, and
then we are .back at the basic
problems once again. - =
“How to.Make Friends with
Woman”. must be read for” self-
defense if nothing else. ‘And how
rapidly this: leads to “The Young
Divoreee,” which is better off not.
read. .A\ subheading in this article,
“New Principles to Keep her
Warm,” will send you whipping on
to the, last article, where you will
learn. that “‘The Swedes do it
Better.” Soa
Are we, the American Females,
going to. allow ourselves to be
described by a succession of symp-
toms and’ criticisms only, to be
classed. as incurable? Or are we
| going to vindicaté ourselves—and
take. our, stand,..We know. that, W0...con-s~——
can be intelligent as well as intel-
jectual, that we can charm and de-
light: men, and not be their slaves,
children than any .-Swede!
And it is not just our intuition
that tells us this! .
THE.MODERN. DANCE. CLUB
invites you- to inspect..some
ROYAL DOULTON. CHINA.
Monday, October 15
10:00-4:30, in the Roost.
proceeds wil help bring films }
and. guest teachers to the campus.
“— ,
_ oe
|What are Little Girls Made of?
mnie mae vit win oes Harpers Magazine Reveals All
‘sibly, but who lovingly and subtly .,
better, ©
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