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College news, April 24, 1964
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1964-04-24
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 50, No. 20
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BMC-News-vol50-no20
G ~ oR.
YOL. XLIX - No. 20.
_BRYN MAWR, Sena
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1964
Ty s sry ‘r College, 1964
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 20 Cents
Vietnam activities.
_ Joe Eyes, Paul “Mattick, and Roger Eaton rest for a moment from_
Protest Of Foreign Aid Policy
Made By Five Haverfordians
Claiming that the United States
is’ waging a repressive. war in
South Viet Nam, five Haverford
students have formed a cammittee
to send medical aid to the Front
of National Liberation, generally
known agsthe Viet Cong. :
The. five, Russ Stetler, Paul
Mattick, Joe Eyer, Roger Eaton,
and. Jim’ Garahan, believe that the
majority of South Vietnamese, in-
cluding political and, religious
leaders, students, and. peasants,
have suffered from the various
military dictatorships which the
United States has supported there,
An insurrection was in progress
\ before Communists joined it. Also,
Stetler says, ther@ts ‘little‘or-no .
evidence that the guerillas are
‘Supplied by North Viet Nam. or
Communist China,
The Haverford students’ hope
that their medical aid plan. will
be a dramatic protest .against
United States policy in Viet Nam.
They will also take part in a
demonstration in New York on
May. 2. Russ Stetler is one of the
co-chairmen of the national May
2 Committee, and he. é¢xpects.a
few thousand students and others
to participate-in the demonstra-
tion, Such“ protests, they-feel,
may change American public op-
inion. enough to -allow or even
' force the United: States to end
all military aid to the South Viet
Nam government. Such a move
would open the way to self-de-
‘Conference Topic:
Women in Russia
Bryn-Mawr-College- will be hum-
ming with activity during the’ next
two days as the--Mary Windsor
__Symposium-_on-—_‘*The Role—and
‘Status of Women inSoviet Russia”
ues with morning and after-~~
noon panel discussions and
speeches,
The opening address was given
Thursday evening at Goodhart by“
., Henry L. Roberts, Professor of
History at Columbia University.
Mr. ‘Roberts .spoke on ‘‘The His-
torical Background’’ of the topic. ©
Four panel discussions are to
be given at. 10:30 a.m, and-'
pm. Friday and Saturday, April
24 and 25, The subjects of the
discussions are ‘'The Place of
women in Current Soviet Society,”’
“Changing Image of Women in
Soviet Literature,’’ ‘Marriage
and«the Family,’’ and ‘‘The Wo-
man Student in Russia and
America,’’ :
termination.
Strong criticism has come from
some groups, such as the Phila-
delphia Veterans of Foreign Wars
who called the students. ‘thalf-
baked adolescents’’ and said they
should be ‘tsilenced,’? The vet-
erans-have also begun action to
try to deprive Stetler «of his
Philadelphia’ Board of Education
scholarship.
Postal officials have opened mail
sent. and received by Stetler con-
cerning the activities of his com-
mittee. It is also rumored that
the F.B.], is investigating the com-
mittee. When asked about this
Stetler said, ‘‘Ask them. 1 wouldn’t
be surprised.”’
On-Monday evening, April 27,
Stetler will show a Liberation
‘Front propaganda film in the Bryn
Mawr Common Room. The film was
made in a ‘*jungle studio’? and
shows actual combat and the fight-
ing conditions. It was intended
mainly as a morale booster for
Vietnamese audiences already
commited to support of the Lib-
eration Front.
§ Sophomore
Weekend Nearly Here!
Boatride, Sports, Dance Planned -
Sophomore Week-end, which has
_ taken the place of Tri-College
Week-end as THE spring event,
is planned for May 1 and 2. It is
a joint Haverford-Bryn Mawr ef-
fort -whose principal organizers
are sophomores Sam Hopkins,
Caroline . Willis, and Dabney
Harfst. It will coincide with tradi-
tional May Day celebrations and
Haverford Alumni Day. Among the
events planned are a boatride Fri-
' day night, spectator sports Satur-
day afternoon, followed by a dance.
“A boat: complete with rock and
roll -band- and ‘liquid refreshment
will cruise up and down the Dela-
ware River on Friday night for
those who enjoy a change of scene
while dancing. There will be free
bus. rides to., the boat leaving
Bryn Mawr about eight o’clock
for all who- are without cars.
Students able to drive. however,
are strongly encouraged to do so.
There will be. a number of
sports events onSaturday, although
no carnival as formerly planned.
Haverford alumni and the college
team will play a cricket match
(with tea served.at the half). Track
and tennis with Swarthmore will
also be going on at Haverford,
as well as Sailing and baseball
at Swarthmore.
‘Saturday night there will -be
a. ‘formal preferred’?’ dance at
Haverford (in other ‘words: if, you
have it, wear it) The six-piece
Clyde Emerson band will play
in Founders until’2 a.m. How-
ever, students who discover that
the strenuous week-end has given
them gnawing hunger pains may
find sustenance at a midnightfeast
served in the Haverford common
room,
~ And what is the cost for all
this unusual and exciting enter-
tainment? A mere three dollars
per couple for the entire week-
and information will be similarly’
ubiquitous .*Out-of-town dates may
be boarded at Haverford,
end, or two dollars for either
the boatride or the dance. Tickets
will be on salealmost everywhere,
May Day Comes to BMC ~
ms Little of Everything
May: Day looms bright on the
Bryn Mawr horizon, with promises
of pageantry and singing, Haverford
pranks, and strawberries for
breakfast. Sophomores will start
the May Ist festivities by awaken-
ing the Seniors at 5:15 a.m. for
coffée-and doughnuts and May Day
baskets. ;
The Seniors take it from there,
meeting at Miss _McBride’s. and
then gathering at Rock Tower at
7 asm. for the official beginning of
May Day. Class president Judy
Zinsser will lead the Seniors down-
stairs singing ‘‘The Hunt Is Up’’:
and will then be crowned May Day
Queen by Sophomore class presi-
dent Dabney Harfst.
“At 7:15, hungry, white-clad and
(hopefully) awake Bryn Mawrters
will gather in the halls to fortify
themselves for the day ahead with
such delicacies as strawberries
and cream. After breakfast, every-
one will line up at Pem Arch,
and skipping Seniors will lead the
way to Merion Green and the five
maypoles. The Firemen’s Band —
and various young men from neigh-—
boring schools—will-—add~ tof the
festivities, The dancers will then
leave their May baskets under the
poles.
After the maypole ii ies
May Day Queen and Miss McBride
will make their traditional tongue-
in-cheek speeches. Everyone will
then move to the library steps
for the Pembroke East pageant and
recorder-playing.
At 8:45, everyone. will meet in
Goodhart where Seniors enter
“A thletic Presentations for 1963-1 964
‘High-lighted by Speaker and Dinner
The Athletic Association’s.
awards for the 1963-64 season
were given April 15 at a dinner
in Radnor Hall. The dinner was
in honor of Miss Ethel Grant,
retiring member of the Bryn Mawr
Physical Education Department.
Also highlighting Awards Night
was the appearance of a guest
‘speaker.. Miss Nancy Sawin,. re- .
tired president of-the International
Federation of Women’s Hockey
Associations and presentely Head- ~
mistress of Sanford Preparatory,
told about her experiences as a
participant in international hockey
competition.
The awards were then made as
%
follows; “
Class Hockey Cup---1964, Betty
Ames.
Class Badmiton Cup---Class of
67. °
All-Around Athletic Cup---
Betty Ames.
Swimming Cup---Ellie Beidler, °
- and Cynthia Walk. :
J.V. Swimming Cup---Sue Ellen
Terrill.
Diving Cup---Margery Aronson.
Badminton Cup--Carolyn Peck..
Tennis Cup---Betty Ames for
63 season.
Archery Cup- --not awarded.
A blazer,
wt oho ornate
acini scape a ts ep
mm, = ae
the highest award -
cate nt eel ew anal ne man ern. Somme
Says ronhual Grant in Awards Night skit,- **But I don’t ré-
member where I was last Thursday’’!
Athletic * Association has’ to give,
was presented to Penny Schwind.
Also, eligible for the. award but
refusing it were Betty.-Ames and
A.A.’s. president Anne Godfrey.
Pins for earning over 4000 points
ra
Serer
- ee ig eae Pia aren oe area »
wer given to:
Betty Ames, Ellie Beidler, Paula
Pace, and Anne Godfrey.
For earning over 2500 points,
_ pins were presented to Libby Red-
(Continued on page 4).
* Sunday night,
BE aeditn neem seme ,
Leena =e “ mi
; PERE Sig pad nab a
gare ;
Skipping with their hoops andsing-
ing ‘To --the- Maypole.’? More
singing will be followed by the an-
nouncement of awards andscholar-
ships. The last of -the morning
activities will take place at 9:30,
.when all Seniors engage in a hoop
rolling race down Senior Row. The
winner will receive the reassuring
title of ‘first one married after
graduation.”’ .
May Day activities will resume
in the afternoon with Morris Danc- |,
ing at 1:30, madrigal singing, and
the May Day Play at 5:30. The
day will end officially with an all-
school step sing on Taylor steps.
at 7:30. :
Undergrad. Meets,
Discusses, Decides,
And Then Adjourns
Monday night Undergrai dis-
cussed changes to _bé@ made in the
1964-65 Freshman Handbook. The
handbook will be entirely re-
written next year so as to be more *
Anformative, .yet retain its.casug] __
tone. ft,
The board’ suggested miscella-
neous helpful hints ‘which should
be included for the benefit of the
fréshmen, such as; price range for
restaurants in the Ville; bus ser-
vice to Philadelphia (it only costs
25¢); dorm pay=phones; places to
put-up weekend dates (wishful
thinking); the shortest route to
the airport; the necessity for be-
ing .covered by family personal
property insurance, etc, Further
suggestions are’ welcome, ;
The editors-of-the-Handbook are
Ann’ Lovgren and Pilar Richardson,
An Exchange Committee was
elected to select students for ex-
change and to organize an exchange
program with other colleges. The
committee of fiye was voted on
from a list -of volunteers. The
members are Eileen Ferrin,
Marion Friedman, Ginnie Kerr,
Dana. Purvis and Mary Thom,
Members of this* committee will
“also be eligible to participate’ on
exchanges. All exchanges must be
approved by the Undergrad Board,
. It was decided that the Haver-
ford Fife-and-Drum Corps would
play for Parade Night next year
and possibly for May Day. next
year.- The Fireman’s Band costs
-$85 per performance,
_Aprinted Calender of Events,
similar to the one compiled by
“Haverford’s Student “Councff will ~~
be put out by Bryn Mawr to im-
prove ‘school communications.
Organization Heads should submit
a list of events each week to
Ann Godfrey in Rock by 9;00
Due to the fact that 90 girls
signed up to go the Yale Mixer,
but only 52 showed, a deficit was
incurred in chartering the busses,
It was decided that those girls
who did not let Caroline Willis,
Social . Chairman, know _ they
“—-werén’t going or find a substitute -
‘ would have to pay the $5 anyway.
Undergrad would then pay the re-
— $88 debt.
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