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College news, September 13, 1968
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1968-09-13
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 55, No. 01
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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BMC-News-vol55-no1
at the Wayne, Penna. Post Office under ‘the act ‘of
March 3, 1879.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS -
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Fridty, Soliheuihes 13, 1968
Page Two
- THE COLLEGE NEWS os
Editor-in-Chief
_Nancy Miller '69
Managing Editor
Robin Brantley ’69
Be Associate Editors
Maggie Crosby '70, Cathy Hoskins '71 -
Staff
Jane Harrold, Brenda Kline
Martha Pennington &
Founded in 1914
Published weekly during the college year except during
vacations and exam. periods.
The College News is fully protected by copyright.
Nothing that: appears in it may be* reprinted wholly or in
part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief,
COLLEGE NEWS is enteted as second class matter
~All Possible Worlds
"Welcome to Bryn Mawr, the best and the worst
of all possible worlds, The dean who registers you
welcomes you. So do the one hundred members of
‘your philosophy class. Applebee and Lantern Night
welcome you, So do the hygiene lectures, And most
- importantly a rare experience welcomes you, But so
~J
TERS Raat A cle en aes eee
OM SETS Ae Sane ae REE eRe oe
does a bad case of lethargy.
Bryn Mawr is a world of extremes, There’s no
middle ground here, It’s great or it’s awful, And
it?s all up to you. That’s what they mean when they
say. in the catalog that the Bryn Mawr girl should
exercise an independent spirit. More than likely,
you’ll switch from loving to hating to loving Bryn
Mawr as frequently as the..seasons change,
Individual attention abounds, The deans console
as well as advise, But mass education has invaded
Bryn Mawr, Some of your classes might as well
be at Berkeley or Michigan or Ohio.
Traditions also abound, Some, likeLantern Night,
are lovely. But others, like the hygiene lectures,
are antiquated, . They’re still around because, well,
you know, ‘‘it?s just always been done that way’’,
But large classes and hygiene lectures are just
so many trifles, They can be coped with, The real
hurdle is lethargy.
black death, ‘‘But nothing ever happens here’’ gets
muttered as often as Taylor bell rings.
And of course. it’s not true, Things do happen,
but how and why and when they happen depends on
what you want. There is very little you can’t do
here, from working on an individual research pro-
ject to dating every night, if you want to do it badly
enough,
Don’t lie on the showcase sofa for four years,
It?s not just a question of canvassing the Main
Line neighborhood for a peace platform candidate
or joining the French club or going to at least
one mixer in a month or writing articles for the
NEWS, although any of those activities are fine in
themselves, :
It?s a question of utilizing the opportunity to do
or be anything you like (of course if you want to lie
onthe showcase sofa, that’s a different matter),
Bryn Mawr girls rarely ask questions and that’s
both a fault and a virtue. When it comes to letting
each person find his own way, it’s a virtue,
We hope Bryn Mawr is your peat world at least
half of the time, RB
Committee Chairmen
Welcome Freshmen
- the textbooks = sai
It plagues the campus like the
Dear Freshmet.
With loud hosannas we greet
thee +«- Welcome to BMC! We
hope that you’re healthy, rested,
and ready for your frenetic round
of activities.
Please, do go everywhere and do
everything that is planned for you.
Some meetings have been planned
for learning; others have been
planned strictly for funsies --
but all has been planned for you,
and cannot work without you.
The upperclassmen-in-your hall
have. competed . fiercely for the
privilege of being here to meet
you. So do not be fearful of ask-
ing any advice. (Sophomores, in
particular, are fonts of wisdom.)
And if our pronouncements seem _
to rival those of the Delphic oracle
in obscurity, hesitate not to ask
for clarification. ee
In short, don’t hold back --'do
everything, go everywhere, ask
anything! This is your week, and the
school welcomes you! ;
Ashley and Judy
for the Freshman Week -
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* aes * wok Pes seins sega
Student eimai Idealistic —
Despite Chicago Tear Gas
Like thousands of other young
Americans, I went to Chicago
during the Democratic convention
to .work for ,Senator McCarthy
hoping, I suppose, for a miracle’
hoping that /democracy was like
it was and
that the people really did control
the politics of the country.
What I saw and experienced
in Chicago has made me feel that |
perhaps those who say that the
political system is too corrupt
to work within, that we are only®
deluding ourselves and seeking
an escape in McCarthy are right.
But maybe there, is hope too as:
long ds there are people liké-the_
ones I met in Chicago, willing
to work and even-to suffer to
try to change things.
Exciting People
I was in Chicago for two weeks,
most of which time I spent working
for McCarthy. I certainly did not
come to make trouble and I
wasn’t: even planning on demon-
strating. It seemed that most of
the kids I met who were there
for the purpose of working for
McCarthy were especially careful
not to become too involved in
demonstrations (at least until
Humphrey was nominated) for fear
it would turn opinion against the
Senator. If they should be arrested,
their purpose for coming. to
Chicago to work for McCarthy
would be defeated. . So I spent
most of my time greeting dele-
gates, writing invitations, sorting
mail, passing out literature, stuf-
fing press kits and doing other
similar: tasks. The work wasn’t
exciting but the people I metwere.
It is hard to believe that sixteen
or eighteen year old kids worked
on the national staff, were leaders
“in. state campaigns and spent eight
months of their lives doing almost
nothing but working for MeCarthy.
The night Vice President Hum-
phrey was nominated, the night
when so many kids got their heads
smashed with billy clubs in the
middle of Michigan Avenue, I had
a perfect view of the spectacle -
from a hotel room overlooking
Grant Park. I remember watching
five cops beat someone while
Mayor Daley was angrily denying
on television that the cops used
excessive violence, Watching doz-
ens of police charge into a crowd
of demonstrators, I felt horribly
guilty that I wasn’t down ‘there
but I honestly was too scared to
move, I’m sure some of the
demonstrators were provoking the
police, but I didn’t see it, neither
from the window .or, the next
night, from the middle of the
clashes,
Bayonets and Clubs
The next day I went to Grant
Park late in the afternoon. The
Wisconsin delegation had just been
stopped from marching to the
Ampitheater. The demonstrators
then attempted the same march.
We were met by troops with bay-
onets and police with clubs so
we peaceably returned to the park.
At this _point Dick Gregory
Welcome °72
The editorial page is an open
forum for letters, viewpoints or
rok other contributions
(poetry ?). Work submitted |
should be typed on a 35-space
Peseta nes
addressed the crowd explaining
that we would probably be stopped
at a certain street where he would
then try to negotiate with the
National=Guard so we could pro-
ceed further.
He warned us very emphatically
against provoking the police. He
explained that although this’ might
be an individual act, the reper-
cussions would not be. directed
against individuals, The march
then, proceeded slowly until we
reached 18th Street where we were
stopped and told that anyone who
attempted to go further would be
arrested. Gregory then walked
down the row of demonstiators
‘and. advised anyone who was not
willing to get arrested to leave.
The police let 50 people cross the
street and then arrested them.
Among those arrested were
Gregory and, supposedly, 15 dele-
gates. Those of us who stayed
expected to get arrested and I
wondered several times during the
evening if that wouldn’t have beén
more pleasant than what followed,
I guess the police thought it would
be -too much trouble to arrest
2,000 people so they tear gassed
us instead, Everyone turned.and,
in an attempt to escape, ran down.
an alley where we were
again greeted by police. At this
point a large group of us tried
to go back towards the Ampi-.
_ theatér but we were again stopped
by tear gas. I’m not quite sure
what happened thén because all I
was aware of was not being able
to .see and being overcome by this
horrible burning pain from my
stomach to my throat and being
able to do nothing about it.
_ Facing, the Gas
It was really impressive how
all those people were willing to
‘keep going back and face the gas
and not be turned around. The
leaders of the march finally
decided to head back toGrant Park ©
and the relative safety of the
Hilton Hotel which was the con-
vention headquarters. As we
neared the park we were tear-
gassed again. It seems strange
but I think I was more frightened
watching from a hotel window
the night before than when I was
in the center of the demonstrations.
The fear seemed to be replaced
by a strong conviction in what
we were there for.
Finally the démonstration lead-
ers got everyone to sit in the park
(surrounded by. troops) and Peter
and Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary.
led everyone in singing.
It is impossible to describe how
it felt to be there with all these
people who had been through such
an awful night but didn’t run and
stood .up for what they believed.
Somehow, at. least at-that,smoment,
I really almost believed that ‘‘we
shall overcome’’ and ‘we shall
all be free’? and the times are
‘‘a=changin,’ ?? Somehow it didn’t
really seem corny. that the guy
with the microphone had said -
“these people are your brothers
and sisters’’ because they really
were,
Democratic Dream
-That was the important
thing about the whole two weeks
(for me, anyway)---the people.
I’ll never forget the 18-year-old
girl I was with who had been
gassed, beaten and maced but as
we were at the edge of the park,
pointed to the people who -were
facing the national guard and said
‘we should go back. We helong
there.’’ And [I?ll never forget
all of the other people who in spite
of everything still took time to
think of others.
There was the lawyer who stayed
up all night because he ‘couldn’t
sleep until he knew that all the
25 kids who had been sleeping on ©
‘the floor in his hotel suite were
safe; there was the person who
got up and covered-me in the middle
of the night because it was cold;
and there was the guy who re-—
turned to McCarthy headquarters
at’ 5:30 a.m. to see if a girl
he had never mét was. Safe.
There were also the kids who |
didn’t sleep for days because there
was so much to be done, and
there were the thousands of dedi-
cated people who came to Chicago
and who worked and are working
‘all over the country to try to
make that dream of democracy
come true. . :
Polly Nichol ‘71
Were you in Chicago? Then tell
‘us what happened. Don’t let Mayor
Daley have the final word. Submit
typed articles (35-space line) to
Nancy Miller in Pem East..
SELF-GOV STATEMENT
ON DRUGS
SELF:-GOVERNMENT’S Statement on Drugs,
adopted by Legislature on Oct. 24; 1967:
Because drugs are illegal and potentially dan-
gerous physically and psychologically, Self Gov
will deal with every case of drug use by Bryn
Mawr students which comes to its attention, on
the basis that illegal agtions within a community
pose a threat to the continued existence of the
community and that actions potentially dangerous
to individuals are potentially dangerous to the
community in which the individuals live,
*
In view of the drug: cases which have come to
its attention in the course of this year, SELF-
GOVERNMENT makes the following clarifications
of the drug statement approved by Legislature last
fall:
1. It is evident that itis impossible to possess or
use drugs on the Bryn Mawr campus and at the
same _ time not
pose the following threats
enumerated in that statement:
A, Potential physical and Psychological danger
to the individual
b. Threat to the Sensis
1. Threat of legal enforcement . oe
: 2. Possible offense to other members. of e
< the community, THEREFORE, there should be no =
. Possession or use of drugs on this campus. =
# _2, SELF-GOVERNMENT reiterates, that when |
off-campus use of drugs poses the above threats
rears wy
to the Bryn Mawr community, it will act in those
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