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Friday, September 16, 1966

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Typical Year for Self-Gov Involves
Legislation onMen, Smoking, Autos

Bryn Mawr’s Self-Government
Association has executive, judi-
cial, and legislative powers with
regards to each student’s life, It
can even go as far as to recom-
mend a student’s expulsion from
the college, However in the last
few years, its main activities have
involved increasing the freedoms
a Bryn Mawrter enjoys,

Two years ago, an amendment.

was passed allowing girls to keep
cars while at school. Before, the
privilege was granted mainly to
campus organizations, Now any-
one may have one, provided it is
registered with Self-Gov’s Execu-
tive Board, and provided the stu-
dent has found a permanent off-
campus parking place for it. Cars
may be kept on campus overnight
but only if they are removed by
8:30 the next morning,

More recently, Self-Gov passed

a._bill stating that girls maysmoke .

in their rooms in Rhoads and
Erdman, These two dorms are
relatively fire proof, and by a
vote of their residents and of

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the entire campus, this amend-
ment was passed last year,

The subject of men in the rooms
has always been a controversial
one, Two years ago, the Trustees
of the College put into effect a
two-year trial period of allow-
ing each dorm. to make its own
hours within the period of 9 a,m
and 10 p.m, every day, *

This is not to be confused with
the rule letting men into the down-
stairs public rooms until 10:30
on week nights and- 12:30 a.m,
on weekends,

Last spring the ruling came °

up for a final vote and the stu-
dents were polled on their reac-
tions to the system, Some stu-
dents opposed having men in the
upstairs rooms because they felt
they were less free to run around
in the halls in their bathrobes, and
also because they did not like
the idea of ‘‘what might. be going
on in the next room,’? Others

argued that it was unreasonable

to be upset by one’s own im-
agination and besides ‘‘what can

"WAR

VIETNAM



Cannon balls .or oranges?



Vietnam Protest Fast Illustrates
Political Involvement of Campus

Politics on the Bryn Mawr cam-
pus are often limited to college
issues--who should be elected
social chairman, until what hour
should boys be allowed in the
dorms, or what Self-Gov’s posi-
tion on automobiles should be,
However, once in a while, stu-
dents find the politics of the world
outside taking on an overpower-
ing importance,

Such was the case last February
when about 140 Haverford and
Bryn Mawr students and faculty
members started an eight-day or-
ange-juice-only fast to protest the
United States growing involvement
in Vietnam, In conjunction with
the fasting was a series of speak-
ers, films and discussions cen-
tered around U,S, Vietnam policy
and ranging to U,S,-Latin Ameri-
can affairs andthe racial problems
in South Africa,

{ The technique of fasting is a
‘dramatic one, and it spread to
other colleges: University of Penn-
sylvania, Swarthmore, Rosemont,
Cornell and the University of Wis-
consin, to name a few. The NEW

YORK TIMES carried several ar-°

ticles on it, and a TIMES report-
er, visiting one of the discussions
late in the eight-day period, ex-
pressed surprise that so many
students were still on the fast.

Of the local papers, the MAIN
LINE CHRONICLE was as dis-
paraging as it usually is on any-
thing in which Haverford is in-
volved. Bernard Kramer, editor
and publisher of the Chronicle,
said on the subject of higher edu-
cation: ‘‘In.my opinion, these hun-
gerniks and Vietniks are mostly
oddballs ... But with an initial
exposure to higher education, they
believe themselves wise enough to
come up with the answers to all

ocial and political problems.’’

In the experience of those in-
volved, the fast was not meant to

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provide any answers, nor did it. It
was a demonstration of suspicion
of President Johnson’s then highly
publicized ‘‘peace offensive’? and
of doubt of the validity of the U.S,
position in general, and finally
of a desire to focus attention
on an issue that was unorganized
and disjointed in many student
and faculty member minds,

happen between 6 p,m, (the old
curfew) and 10 p.m, can happen
just as easily before 6 p.m,’’ Fin-
ally it came down to a discussion
of the problems implicit in any
residential student community, -
where a group of people are liv-
ing together,

The Trustees passed the 10 p.m
limit in their final vote, Self-
Gov’s basic position was to re-
mind students that although there
are no explicit rulings on what
one may or may notdo behind a
closed door, it is important to
remember that this is a com-
munity and that the. feelings of
one’s dorm mates are to be taken
into consideration, A movement
to make the social aspects of the
Discredit Clause more specific
was unsuccessful, :





A scene from the Class of '68’s Freshman Show.

Upcoming H all Plays Anticipate

Freshman Show Next Semester

In about one week the Class of

* 1970 will present its first drama-

tic productions as a class in the

- Freshman hall plays, But perhaps

the biggest project they will ever
work on as a class will be the pro-
duction staged just twoweeks after
the beginning of the second semes-
ter; Freshman Show,,

Freshman Shows remain among
the most important identifying
characteristics of a class of Bryn
Mawr--at least until Junior Show,
when everyone who was not there
for Freshman Show gets a first
idea of the class’s talents and of
what its members think is funny,
Freshman Shows, however, are as
a rule better than Junior Shows.
This is because everyone works on
Freshman Show, The show is (and
is intended to be an. opportunity
for freshmen who can write, di-
rect, act, dance, sing, design sets
and posters, invent props out of
cardboard, pull curtains, sell
tickets, or handle animals (see
below), to work together (that they
get to know each other goes with-
out saying) on something that is
fun and slightly ridiculous,

For sheer entertainment value
the shows can be as good as any-
thing produced on campus all year,
The Class of 1970 is fortunate
(or unfortunate) in having three
other classes on campus who pro-
duced ‘‘better-than-average”’
Freshman Shows, going back to

Administration Reveals

Plans tor New Library

Plans for a $4,000,000 ‘‘modern
library’’ are currently under de-
velopment to supplement the now
overcrowded M, Carey Thomas
Library, the College announced
last spring.

Members of the freshman class
can expect to witness the growth
of these plans until construction
begins, as soon as the necessary
funds are raised, As of lastspring,
there was already $1,500,000 set
aside for the library from funds
raised during the three years of

the matching grant from the Ford.

Foundation,
Miss McBride described the
prospective five-floor library both

and have a considerably enlarged
space for art and archaeology.

The plan is being designed by
O’Connor and Kilham of New. York
City, who are responsible for the
Firestone Library at Princeton
and the Robert FrosteLipetty at
Amherst,

The concept of a ‘‘modern li-
brary’’ is that it brings books and
readers together ‘instead of hav-
ing books one place and readers
another, Thus the new library
will facilitate 699 readers in study
space close to books and journals
-- that is, directly in the stacks.
This library will also contain typ-
ing and smoking rooms,









the Class of ’67’s study of auto-
mation called ‘‘Whirr-Pfoing!’’
The Class of ’68, now nervously
trying to top all Junior Show rec-
ords, produced a genuine hit,
**Rotten to the Core--Another
Prometheus Bond Thriller’? came
months before all the James Bond
parodies of 1965, It featured the
great Prometheus Bond--‘*48
Pounds of Solid Hero’’ in short
pants and long socks, possessed
of a thorough awareness of his
own greatness, but also of apurity
of character (onstage, anyway) that
would put Batman to shame--who
almost succeeds in stamping out
‘tavery last little smidgen of evil’’
in the world until (to his own
relief) he is thwarted by a lot
of applesauce from the Garden of
Eden, Probably any member ofthe
class can sing on request the
show’s rousing hit songs ‘*Think

Evil’? and ‘‘I’ll-Come Out All
Right,”?
The Class of ’69’s ‘show,

‘¢«Persecute Us Tomorrow--We’re
Busy,’? was much more seriously
surrealistic, It was a fablewritten
around a theme of Color--about
a rather unusual janitor called
Fantod who, according to a com-
puter (which comes complete with
a Dea ex Machina emerging at crit-
ical points) is more suited to be
a politician. The Dea provideshim
with constituents (some black a.d
white pop-art statues in a museum)
and a campaign platform (providing
them with the benefits of Color
by making some Red, some Green).
The Greens, of course, find it im-

possible to live with Reds, and

Fantod must arrive at a multi-

colored peaceful solution,

About halfway through all these
shows, however, the ingenuity of
the writers must pause and let
Tradition take over, All Fresh-
man Shows MUST HAVE some-
where worked into -their plots
(1) an-animal: any animal as long
as it can be concealed on campus

’ for a day before the. production

and can be brought out on stage
during the show’s intermission
when the Sophomores call for it,
(If anyone wants to know, ’68’s

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anim31 was a goat which was hard-
er to return than to keep on
campus, and ’69’s was a friendly
protozoan projected on a screen
onstage.); (2) some mention of this
animal in the show (‘You old
goat!?’? says character A to charac-
ter B, and so on)--this mention
really ought to be cleverly con-
tained in (3) the Animal Dance,
a required production number
somehow. or another involving ani-
mals and generally coming right
before intermission,

All these conditions are set ‘to
satisfy the Sophomores, who have
all during the last few days of
rehearsal not exactly been mak-
ing things easy for the hard-work-
ing freshmen. Freshman Show is
therefore always dedicated to the
sympathetic Juniors,

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