College news, May 1, 1967

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LEGE NEWS



Vol. Lil, No. 20

_BRYN MAWR, PA.

MONDAY, MAY 1, 1967 _

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966

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May Queen
on May Day morning. ;

Gall Committee Offers

Some Uplifting Proposals

The following is May Queen
Bev Lange’s May Day speech
-- another tradition of the day.

The 1966-67 academic Year at
Bryn Mawr College has been a
year of explosive and spontaneous
apathy. For this remarkable up-
heaval of established institutions,
we must look to the now-defunct
Educational Gall Committee, a
non-profit, non-sectarian, non-
C.1A,-subsidized student organ.
The Gall Committee, constantly
aware of the classical principle

No Commencement
Speaker for 1967
Is Possibility

At a Board of Trustees meet-
ing last Tuesday, it was discussed
what had already been rumored
for several weeks: that there would
be no Commencement speaker at
the 1967 Bryn Mawr Commence-
ment,

Several reasons have been of-
fered for this situation, First of
all, no one who was asked accepted,
Secondly, there are a large num-
ber of graduate degrees to give
this spring, and the ceremony is
getting to .be of unmanageable
length, Thirdly, the general senti-
ment among the seniors is that they
do not really mind not hearing a
Commencement speech, The Board
was apparently divided on the issue,

Markus Barth, father of Ruth
Barth ’67, will speak at Bacca-
laureate, Barth, son of the famous
theologian Karl Barth, is a pro-
fessor at Pittsburgh Theological
Seminary where he teaches the New
Testament, Hewas born in Switzer-
land and later studied in Germany
until Hitler came to power, when
he was forced to flee to Switzer-
land, He came to the United States
in 1953, Barth taught at the Uni-
versity of Chicago Divinity School,
and has written several books,
Last year -he was invited to teach

_ at an East‘German university, and.
. Spent several months there teach-.

ing the New Testament, The title
of Barth’s speech has not yet been
released but he will be speaking
on some aspect of Marxism, ©

photo by Susan Nosco

Bev Lange describes proposals of Gall Committee —

of ‘‘all gall is divided into three
parts,’’? suggested a tedious list
of three proposals to revolutionize
academic life and to nurture mor-
ality on the Bryn Mawr campus,

The first proposal was that we
merge with a neighboring school
for bores, I mean boys. In light
of the present rapport between
the two schools, the unanimous
choice of the Gall Committee was
Vanillanova. The Committee, with
characteristic hubris, has pointed
out several of the advantages to be
gained from such a union: 1) we
would acquire a chapel and most
likely a president for Interfaith;
2) we would not have to build a
new library; we could simply take
over their old one, and they would
gain a Deanery, what more could
they want?;-~and 3) it is rumored
that Vanillanova, not to be out-
done by Havefraud, is abolishing
all parietal hours, and thus, we
would be able to solve our over-
crowding problems.

The second uplifting proposal
to come out of the Gall Commit-
tee was that there be some cor-
relation between classes and the
lives of the students in the real
world. Specificallf, the following
expansive courses were recom-
mended: Ancient and Mediaeval
Jacobean Stretch; History and
Philosophy of Existential Sunbath-
ing; Interdepartmental; Unlimited
Hours and Other Key Concepts;
and, a Home Economics Course
taught by a friendly Saga Man--
that we might carry away with us
some of the inspired PIECES DE
RESISTANCES that have con-
fronted us this year. Especially
noteworthy are Fritos, served
either as main course or leafy
green vegetable -- with pretzel
garnish upon request; lettuce leaf,
banana wedge, or stewed prudes;
and Frank Raphael Irving’s ethnic
meat-load, F-4611-B. .

Finally the Gall Committee
urged that there be greater em-
phasis placed on that thing to
which a girl looks forward from

“earliest adolescence, that thing

which She. knows will most fulfill

her natural role as a woman, that

thing which will best satisfy her
creative - drives
school.



graduate

Brooke Hall, Hinchman Go to Monard

In Morning Assembly for May Day ‘67

The Katherine Fullerton Ger-
ould Memorial Prize has been
won by Margaret Edwards, ’67,
for the third year in a row. This
prize is given to a student who
shows evidence of creative abil-

At this morining’s May Day as-
sembly Miss McBride announced
the winners of Bryn Mawr’s top
awards for academic excellence
and achievement for 1967,

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photo by Kit Bakke
Joyce Monard

Joyce Monard has won both the
Maria L, Eastman Brooke Hall
Memorial Scholarship and the
Charles S§, Hinchman Memorial

Photo by Robin Johnson

Margie Westerman

Scholarship. These scholarships
are both held during the senior
year.

The Brooke Hall award is given





each year to the member of the
junior class with the highest gen-
eral average, and the Hinchman
is given to a junior for work of
special excellence in her major
subject, Joyce is majoring in
physics, and is teaching a com-
puter course,

Majorie Westerman, also a jun-
ior, is the recipient of the Sheelah
Kilroy Memorial Scholarship, This
is given annually to a student for
excellence of work in second-year
or advanced courses in English,
She is double majoring in philoso-
phy and English. Majorie was one
of the stars of Robin Johnson’s
‘(Das Nibelungenleid.’?

The Kilroy prize to the best
Freshman comp went to Marie-
Henriette Carre for her comp
entitled ‘‘The English Cupid,??

Doletha Marian Evans, ’68, won
the Elizabeth S, Shippen Scholar-
ship for excellence in’ science,
Marian is double majoring in
chemistry and physics. She also
works closely with College Thea-
tre on its stage and lights crew.

A second ‘Elizabeth S, Shippen
award went to Matilda Tomaryn
for distinction of work in French.
Tilda is spending her junior year
abroad in Paris with L’ Academie.

Harria Weinberg won the Eliz-
abeth Duana Gilespie Prize for
excellence in American History.
The fund for this scholarship was
begun by a gift from the National
Society of Colonial Dames of
America in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.

Bella Lisook, ’67, and Kathryn
Grossman, ’67, each won the Hes-
ter Ann Corner Prize for dis-
tinction in literature. Bella is
majoring in English and Philoso-
phy and Kathy in French. Kathy
also is a Woodrow Wilson hon-
orable mention for 1967,

Ann Stehney, ’67, has received
the Anna Pell Wheeler Prize in
mathematics. Ann _ accelerated
from the Class of 1968,

The final three prizes are given
to students for excellence increa-
tive writing, both prose and poe-
trys

Petition Urges Detachment
From Warfare Contracts

A petition concerning Bryn
Mawr’s' involvement with the
chemical and biological. warfare
contracts, and signed by 260 stu-
dents was presented to Miss Mc-
Bride recently.

The petition urged that Bryn
Mawr withdraw. ‘from. the Uni-
versity City Science Center,
of which it is now a member,
if Projects Spice Rack and Sum-
mit are transferred from
Penn to the Center. It was given
to. Miss McBride as an indication
of student opinion on Bryn Maye’
position if*the transferral Ss

- through.

The petition was drawn up
after an open campus meeting
Thursday, April. 20 on the
germ warfare research projects.
Proféssor Edward Herman, from
Penn spoke against too much uni-
versity commitment to govern-
ment service projects. He
especially warned against defense

contracts, which are secret. A
member of the Bryn Mawr
faculty agreed that any contract
which would not allow her to talk
openly with her colleagues or

graduate students should be
avoided. 2
Haverford has also. started

circulating a similar petition.

At Penn, also a member
of the Science Center, about 70
students staged a sit-in and sleep-
in outside President Harnwell’s
office. They would like Penn to
turn its back on the two projects
completely. Mrs. Alice Emerson,
dean of women, and formerly a
political science professor at

~ Bryn Mawr, gave permission for

the girls involved to ‘‘sign out”
to the. building overnight.

A response to the activity
of Bryn Mawr, the ‘‘Daily Penn-
sylvanian’’ claimed, ‘‘Forget
about Projects Spice Rack and
Summit--transfer Bryn Mawr to
Penn!’’





photo by Susan Nosco
Kathy Grossman

ity-in- the fields of informal essay,
short story, long narrative or
verse, by a special committee of
alumnae and faculty.

Marcia Ringel, co-editor of next
year’s yearbook has won the Acad-

- Se. tohesii’
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photo by Susan Nosco
Marcia Ringel

emy of American Poets Prize.
This is given for the best group
of poems submitted. Lyle York,
767, Margaret Edwards, and Lil-
lian Gottsegen,. a graduate stu-
dent, received honorable mention.

The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
went this year to Day Thomson,
°69, for her poem entitled ‘‘Holi-
day Casualty.’? Linda Keisten
Howe, ’67, and Lyle York. re-
ceived honorable mention,

The committee of awards this
year has praised the poems of
these winners for ‘‘the unstrained
use of difficult forms in support
of wit and imagination.’



DON’T FORGET
TO VOTE
ON
SELF-GOV’S
CONSTITUTIONAL
REVISION.

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Dealings in Blood

We have always favored discussion and argument on the subject
of Vietnam. It is a serious issue, involving many economic and
human resources of Americans and Asians. Any damping of de-
bate or stoppage of information we deplore, both as Americans
and as journalists.

Senator McGovern’s (South Dakota, Dem.) speech of April 25
received a great deal of publicity in the TIMES, and for good
reason. It was a well-structured attack of the US policy in Vietnam;
it provoked the TIMES todoalongarticle on the increasing amount
of Senate Democratic dissent to Johnson’s policies. The party,
as well as the Senate, is now openly and deeply split on our stra-
tegies and our aims in Vietnam.

“It is a strange piece of logic, indeed, which holds we must
compound the error to salvage the original mistake.’’ McGovern
attacks not only the bombing of both North and South Vietnam, and
our support of the Ky government, which he calls ‘a dictatorial
group,’”’? but he also attacks General Westmoreland’s statements

*that’ American dissent is comming. Vietnamese to continue the

war. Rather, McGovern said, ‘‘... the Administration is only con-
fessing the weakness of its own case by trying to silence its critics
and confuse the American people. Itis not the impact of the dissent
on Hanoi that worries the Administration; it is the fact that the
dissenters have exposed the contradictions, the falsehoods, and
the resulting credibility gap which surrounds Administration
policy.’’

The NEWS is aware that its agreement or disagreement with
American foreign policy is probably not of much interest to many
of its readers. We have heard much criticism of the amount of
space we have given to Vietnam. In this, our last campus issue of
the“ year, we would like to answer our critics with a double
challenge.

First, we challenge our readers to inform themselves on the
issues in Vietnam as fully as possible. One critic said that she
read enough about Vietnam in the TIMES, why did she have to find
it in the COLLEGE NEWS as well? But then it turned out that she
did not even know what the National Liberation Front was. So al-
though the NEWS coverage and comments on events in Vietnam has
been less than the TIMES, we may hope that it might reach some
people who do not learn about Vietnam through r channels.

Secondly, we challenge our readers to point to one/campus issue
which is more important than what is going on in Vietnam. Certainly

Bryn Mawr is as crucial as our actions in Vietnam. We would all
be extremely short-sighted and narrow-minded to think
such a thing. ao

The American war in Vietnam is not an isolated event. It is
symptomatic of a disease in our society. As each of us is a membe
of that society, we ask that, duringthe summer, we try to discove
the causes of that disease and then maybe the cure. We wish luck
to us all.

Something Is Stirring

Something is stirring, The ground quakes shyly at the touch of

‘a footstep ... leaves unfold to the wind and light... and sing to

the night ... daffodils lift star-haloed faces to be kissed by the
rain ,., trees blossom in blushes like rls in new dresses,
There is a kind of yeast in the air that leavens in the bubble-joy
of living things struggling to grow, toforce'a hew dimension in the
barren world winter left,



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Monday, May 1, 1967





Letter FromSVietnam

To the Editor:

I recently received a letter and
copies of the enclosed petitions
from a friend of mine who graduat-
ed from Bryn Mavr last year, Mako
Yamanouchi. She is now working in
camps for refugees in South Viet-
nam. She is very worried about mail
censorship, but she knew someone
going directly to Hong Kong who
could mail this letter, and she took
the opportunity to send copies to the
U.S. She says that the mood of the
people in the universities is be-
coming more urgent and desperate
all the,time; many people involved
in peace activities are being arrest-
ed and more are under sur-
veillance. The increasing strength
of the movement is reflected in
the stronger tone of the second
(dated March) proclamation--
quoted only in part here. She says
she could not enclose signatures
because that is too dangerous, and
she didn’t want to be responsible
for an arrest.

Mako hoped that these letters
could be publicized as widely as
possible, particularly around Bryn
Mawr and Haverford. (I have sent
copies also to CNVA in Philadel-
phia and to WRL in New York.)
She also strongly recommends that
everyone read a book by Thich Nhat
Hanh (who may be in this country
soon and would be an excellent
guest speaker), VIETNAM: LOTUS
IN A SEA OF FIRE, Also, Prof.
George McT. Kahin’s book, THE
UNITED STATES IN VIETNAM, is
excellent, she says.

Thank you very much for any-
thing you cando in publicizing these
letters.

Marsha Wagner

January, 1967
Dear Fellow Friends:

We are professors and students
of all the universities in Vietnam--
the Universities of Saigon, Dalat,
Hue, Can Tho, and Van Hanh Uni-
versity--writing to thank you for
trying by your efforts to stop
the terrible war in our country.
Here in our country we cannot act
publicly as you did in your country
because all the universities are
controlled by the government. We
have signed declarations and ap-
peals but we cannot make them pub-
lic because we will be arrested
immediately. That is the kind of
society we live in. Nevertheless,
we arise to thank you for your
actions and hope you will continue
in your endeavors.

Making full use of this oppor-
tunity, we ask you to pay attention
especially to the following factors:

1. In the cities of South Vietnam,
United States power used in sup-
porting the Ky Government is so
great that nobody can talk about
peace without risking their lives,
or imprisonment.

2. If this were not so, millions
of Vietnamese would have shouted,
and would be shouting, ‘‘We want
peace!’’ They have been waiting for
peace, but they: have also been
losing all hope. They are notCom-
munist, but if the war is not
stopped soon, it is certain that
“they “will find no alternative but'to

. the National Liberation Front.

3. We see that the United States
government uses the pretext of
protecting South Vietnam from
Communist aggression in order to
control our nation.

4. The present government in
South Vietnam is not of the people.

It was created by the United States

government, and is controlled by
military men who, before 1954,

peace with the National Liberation
Front, and to ask the United States
troops and its allies to withdraw.

5. We believe with certainty that
our people can form an independent
government to decide the future
of our country.

In closing, we send you our best
wishes, and the best wishes of the
Vietnamese People.

PROCLAMATION
of the
STUDENTS, PUPILS and
PROFESSORS
of SOUTH VIETNAM
Be aware that:
WE, All of the students, pupils,
and professors in South Vietnam: --
solemnly ask the Government of
the United States to:
1. Stop bombing South and North
Vietnam immediately.
2. Withdraw troops 4n an agreed
period of time.
3. Find any way to come to the
conference table with North Viet-
nam, the National Liberation
- Front, and the non-Communist
nationalist force which protests
the United States government
policy in South Vietnam.
--we respectfully call all the
nations in the world to help us
achieve PEACE, ;
Written in Saigon,
March 14, 1967

Reductio Ad
Absurdum

To the Editor:

I am getting increasingly sicker
and sicker with the disease called
*“‘Haverford.’’? There seem. to be
more and more people on the Bryn
Mawr College campus, who think
that Bryn Mawr College is. in-
capable of existing without Haver-
ford.

Working with men or boys (as
the case may be) is supposed to be
healthy, but when pushed as far as
some Bryn Mavr girls are doing
it becomes a symptom ofa sickness
rather than a healthy relationship.

I think a number of horrifying
ideas have been coming from the
students, but the worst is the
Questionnaire on Overnight Sign-
outs to Haverford. The idea, to me,
is ridiculous! I do not think the
issue should be discussed at all.
If Haverford College has not de-
cided that women could stay over-
night in their dormitories, I am
sure Bryn Mavr girls would not
have thought about it.

Many Bryn Mawr girls like to
think that they are radicals. I
think that*that is beautiful but I
wish to add we are not radical
enough. We should move a little
faster (than even Haverford boys)
and initiate issues. I am suggest-
ing that it is not enough to wish to
stay overnight at Haverford--we
should also ask that Haverford
boys stay overnight with US, in
our dormitories! After all, it is
even more convenient, especially
during the winter. Men are stronger
(at least physically) and can endure
the snow and winds better than
girls.

The letter of Miss Marian
Scheuer ’70 calling for the merging
of the COLLEGE NEWS and the
HAVERFORD NEWS because ‘‘it
will be more fun and stimu-
lating ...’’ is another upsetting
idea. I do not think that we MUST
have ‘‘fun’’ in everything we do. I
think there are words like
‘‘seriousness’’ and .‘‘direct re-
sponsibility’? in the dictionary. As
for: ‘‘stimulating,’? I do not know
about that, but I know one thing.

-I know that the object of having a

separate newspaper, is totrainour
girls to be able to manage a news-
paper on their own. It seems ironi-

Letters to the Editor

cal that with the same breath we
call for freedom and responsibility
we ask to hide under the cloak of
Haverford. The argument ‘that if
Mawrters must prove that they are
as good as men, they have to be in
the same organization with them’’
I think, is funny. We do not prove
equality by merging but by pro-
ducing equivalent papers inde-
pendently.

Anybody who has been reading
the COLLEGE NEWS consistently
in. the past year and a half will
find that the quality of the
COLLEGE NEWS is getting better
and better. I do not think that at
a period the COLLEGE NEWS staff
is making an effort to improve the
paper further, should be a period
for somebody to ask that the
COLLEGE NEWS stop existing as
an independent newspaper. May I
ask what the last campus voting
for the COLLEGE NEWS was in-
tended to do?

As far as I am concerned, the
“marriage” of the REVIEW to
Haverford this year has resulted

in a worse REVIEW. Five minutes

glance at the NEW REVIEW and the
last year’s REVIEWS, will show
that the quality has gone down.
This year’s Winter REVIEW looks
more like the product of a good
High School rather than the product
of two proud colleges like Haver-
ford and Bryn Mawr!

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I hope we have not run out of *™

ideas, My last suggestion is that
we should open Bryn Mawr dor-
mitories forall men(Penn, Swarth-
more, Villanova, etc., etc.) tospend
their nights with us. Oh, don’t
talk about privacy--after all, we
are liberals!

Dora Chizea, °69







decisions, decisions, time for a
hundred visions and revisions ...
time for the buds to burst from
their incisions ... time for the
girls to drool their new delusions
-.. time for a hundred maypole
dance intrusions

incessant, incessant, days for a
night that might be incandescent
.-. time for a rhyme whose groove
might prove pubescent ... eye in
the sky a wink, a chink, acrescent

researching, researching, words
with the other birds absurdly
perching ... thoughts of a country
rich enough for searching ...
reasons the turning seasons find
me lurching

selection, selection, choosing the
losing ploys in every section ...
filling a willing heart with imper-
fection ... fighting the bite of
scholarly rejection °

&

intensive, intensive, songs fora

million throngs will be expensive

... plays for the summer days are

inoffensive ... capping the pap is
duly comprehensive

summarily,

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Monday, May 1, 1967

by Drewdie Gilpin
Self-Gov President

In the past few weeks, I have been asked by students,
by parents, by faculty members, by. deans, and by
members of the Board of Directors whatI think the result
of the Sélf-Gov constitutional revision voting will be, I
say I do not know, but then I begin to speculate and I
worry, I am concerned not so much with what system
passes, but with the manner in which we as Bryn Mawr
students and as a Self-Gov Board will have to construct

- a workable system of honor out of the specific rules

chosen,

The first thing which concerns me is the disintegration
that has accompaniéd the peculiar ‘‘lame-duck’’ situation
of the constitution this year, Many students have developed
an attitude which might be called less than respectful
toward the Self-Gov constitution as it now stands, be-
cause it has been entirely under question with the dis-
cussion of reform, Next fall we should have a definite
system, revised in accordance with students’ wishes,
I hope that the attitude which has been exhibited so widely
this year, and which I attribute to the state of change
the system has been in since September, will not carry
over once a new system has been firmly established,
If Self-Gov is to have any purpose at all, it is necessary
that we respect and abide whatever system we effect,

In my consideration of what might come out of the

voting, the thought has come to me that perhaps we will
not have a definite system by next fall, that perhaps no
signoul, system will pass by a clear-cut majority.
In order to effect any change in the Self-Gov con-
stitution it is necessary to win the approval of two-
thirds of the student body, I can think of nothing worse
than failure to pass a change because it has support
of only 51-65% of the campus, How would we be able to
run a government with a majority of the college wanting
it to be different? Should such a situation arise, I think

we would have to try to find acompromise solution which
those who voted’ for and those who voted against the
original proposal could support, Because there is so
little time left in this academic year, we would have to
work on this next fall, This introduces the problem of
a whole new element in the constituency, over two
hundred freshmen, What will we tell them about Self-Gov?
What set of rules will we teach them for their Self-Gov
exams? Should they, immediately upon their arrival at
Bryn Mawr, be given the right of reforming a system
with which they are not at all familiar?

Even if this situation does not arise, our job next
fall will be tremendous, One thing that concerns me
greatly is the negative character of so much of our
Self-Gov system, In many cases, it is no more than a
series of ‘Thou shalt nots,” Miss Constantinople of the
Psychology Department remarked in a discussion with
part of the Self-Gov Board last week that the ‘‘Bryn
Mawr Community’? seems to be invoked only to prevent
an action, What are the positive aspects of community?
What should be Self-Gov’s relation to these? Increasingly,
it seems, the: Self-Gov system relies on the discredit
clause of its constitution, Could we not perhaps do
better by talking about and attempting to define respect
for the College rather than concerning ourselves only
with students who prove themselves a ‘‘discredit?’’

In large part, my. ‘thoughts on this subject have been

‘ influenced by the effort of the Haverford Students’ Council

to extend the honor. system to every part of each
individual’s life, demanding that even his personal
relationships be conducted in accordance with personal
honor and respect, for which he is accountable to the
Council, As a result, the Haverford Students’ Council
has requested that any Bryn Mawr student who feels she
has been disrespectfully treated by a Haverford boy
report this to the Haverford Council, There are many
good and bad aspects of this system which I think need
to be discussed in relationship to our own government,

Gilpin on the Questions of Honor

The focus of our attention has been on the elimination
of parietal hours rather than on the unusual conception
Haverford has of government, In the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, there developed in the West a
movement for government of laws to replace government
of men, Clearly defined in scope, the law was intended
to leave free from: interference certain areas of man’s
life, The Haverford rule changes have rejected this
conception for an experiment with a government of men
in an effort to create an atmosphere of honor in all
phases of college life, In many ways, this effort could,
I think, be dangerous, The Haverford Students’ Council
must create a law for each individual difficulty it faces,
and could become extremely subjective, even arbitrary,
in its effort to enforce concepts of ‘‘respect’’ and ‘‘honor’’
which are only partially defined, Yet, Haverford is trying
something which I believe we should at least think about
at Bryn Mawr. Should an honor system consist only of
negative limits for freedom? What is its responsibility
to work for constructive and honorable use of the freedom
within the limits it establishes? Certainly honor consists
in more than wearing a skirt to class and to the Ville
and in coming in by 2 a.m,

Increasingly, I have come to realize that the effective-
ness of Self-Gov depends on how well people get along
on a personal level, From respect between and among
individuals comes cohesion and a tone of respect within
a group. Perhaps, then, we need to consider what the
relationship of the Self-Gov system to the private life
should be and to evaluate the Haverford idea of the
omnipresent honor system,

My concern is centered, therefore, much moreon HOW
we are going to make an honor system work than on the
specific rules which will result from constitutional re-
vision, I have discussed just a few of the things I have
been thinking about, and I would be more than happy
to hear reactions to them, I see next fall as a real test
period for Self-Gov, whatever the specifics which come
out of next week’s voting.



Curriculum Poll Results
Endorse Self-scheduling

Social Life Meeting Yields Ideas

The results of the calendar
poll show. that the majority of
those who responded favor self-
scheduled exams, first-semester
classes ending by December 22,
and papers due both before and
after Christmas.

376 students would like to see
self-scheduled exams, as’ opposed
to only 21 who prefer the status
quo. On the paper question, 227
voted to have papers due before
and after Christmas, and 167
wanted all of them to be due be-
fore Christmas.

Concerning the lame duck
week, the poll revealed general
disapproval: 241 wanted to have it
removed by ending classes by
December 22, while 153 expressed
preference for the present
calendar.

These results were presented
at the joint meeting of the faculty
and student curriculum com-
mittees last Thursday evening.

Mrs. Marshall, responding
for the faculty, said that she will
be meeting today with Mr. Spiel-
man of Haverford to discuss
the possibility of changing the

Employee's Concert
To Offer Program
Of Varied Interest

The annual Spring Concert of the
Employees Committee will be held
Thursday, May 4th at 8:30 in
Goodhart.

__The Employees’ Chorus will be
led by Mr. Walter Anderson of
Philadelphia, Mr. Anderson, a
graduate of the music school of
Temple University is a well-known
choir director and minister of
music at the Zion Baptist Church.

The Chorus, composed of cam-

pus maids and porters and their

friends, will present a varied pro- ~

gram including choral works by
Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, as well
as show tunes, and spirituals.

Tickets are $1.00 and can be
obtained from Miss Pearl Edmunds
in Denbigh, members of the Chorus,
and League hall representatives.



calendar for first *semester
of next year to. have all
classes end before Christmas. Ap-
parently, the faculty is as
split as the students are on this
question. The same is true of
Haverford. Since some professors
may have already made com-
mitments to be elsewhere
during the week before Christmas,
it may be impossible to change the
calendar for next year. It seemed
quite conceivable, though, that such

a change could be instituted for

the year after.

The student committee pre-
sented a_ five page draft
resolution for self-scheduled ex-
ams at Bryn Mawr.
presentation included a practical
scheme. for implementing it
as well as the philosophy behind
such a system. Appended to it was
a statement from Self-Gov Presi-
dent Drewdie Gilpin on the
ability of the academic honor
system to cope with self-schedul-
ed . exams.

In discussing the practical
scheme it was pointed out that
although there are more students
at Bryn Mawr than at Haverford,
there are probably more exam
envelopes to be sorted and al-
phabetized at Haverford, be-
cause they have no_ senior
quiz system and because their
freshmen and sophomores all take
five courses.

The response to the pre-
sentation was generally favor-
able. The next step. will

be for the faculty committee to
meet by themselves, and then for
them to present it to a facuity
meeting. The next such meeting
is set for May 5, although there
is some doubt that it could be
brought up at that meeting, be-
cause the agenda is already
fairly full, and also because the
faculty ‘committee may not have
time ‘to meet before then. ‘
Finally, the joint committee
discussed a chronic problem of
spring: cutting classes. According
to some faculty members, cutting
has gotten out.of hand, and makes
teaching somewhat discouraging.

The

Of Inn, Bike Trips And Mixers

by Mary Lowe Kennedy

Monday night 17 socially-
conscious young men and women
met at the Undergrad meeting to
discuss the problems of social life
at Bryn Mawr. Steve Faust, chair-
man of Haverford’s Social
Committee, and his brother Jim
comprised the male contingent.

The student bodies of both
colleges had been invited, which
led Undergrad President Lola At-
wood to open. the’ meeting
with the remark, ‘‘I hope the re-
sponse to this meeting is
not indicative of feeling (toward
social life) on campus.’”’ (After
which the elder Faust remarked,
‘“‘Before we start, I have here
a list of guys who don’t have
dates ...’”) After some discussion
about the social possibilities of
Haverford’s May Weekend and last
Sunday’s successful zoo trip,
the conversation centered upon
the problems of Bryn Mawr’s
social life, or lack of it.

Anne Todd, chairman of
Bryn Mawr’s Social Committee,
listed several problems the com-
mittee has had lining up
promising events for the college.
As far as mixers with other
schools besides Haverford, she
said, the problem is not money
‘but the arrangements themselves.
Most of. the schools Bryn
Mawr would want to mix with
are too far away for a bus to visit
them and return the same
night, and it’s hard persuading
the administration to- condone
spending the night there. Also,
girls have a tendency to sign
up and not show up. As
far as inviting men’s schools here,
this is difficult because there
is nothing for them to do here
and no place to put them --and
anyway, Anne pointed out, boys

who volunteer to come to.mixers~

like that are apt to be ‘‘unvaried.’’
She mentioned the possibilities
of more mixers with Swarthmore,
and also with Penn (which is re-
portedly a bit | offended at
Bryn Mawr because it is never

invited to mixers).

Another problem is the budget.
Bryn Mawr’s social committee
gets $800 a year, as opposed to
Haverford’s $2200. But the main
problem is really a kind of gen-
eral apathy on the Bryn
Mawr campus. No one really wants
to go out of her way to show a
visiting boy a really good time.
As Anne remarked, the social com-
mittee has ‘no carrot to
hold before them.’?

From this gloom came several
ideas. Some very feasible ones
were: .
--college-sponsored theatre trips
to New York or Philadelphia, where
one might ‘‘find somebody that
you can sit next to on the -bus.”’
--mixers after these events, where
people interested in the same
things could meet.

--free entertainment on weekends,
like Saturday’s games at Haver-
ford.

--joint Haverford-BMC weekends,
for which the pooled resources
could procure really good enter-
tainment--and to which both
schools could ask dates from other
schools.

Then there was what might
be called the gamesy approach,
led off by Steve Faust’s remark
that he had been checking out
‘‘swimming hours at Batten
house.” There was a universal
aversion to mixers in general,
but affairs like the trip to the
zoo and the dorm coffee hours
were seen as encouraging. Other
suggestions were bicycle trips, a
card-dance, a carnival on Merion
Green, a campus Operation Match.
One girl got carried away: ‘‘I
see things happening on the hockey
field, at night, in the evening ...’’
That changed the subject. Any-
way, as Steve remarked, for
affairs like those one must ‘‘carry
’em. there and turn ’em loose
when you get there,’’? as. well
as ‘‘club them over the head”
with advertising.

Aside from this violence,
there was general agreement that
thee campus needed some place
for students just to go, like: a

Student Union with ping-pong and
pool tables; and it was hinted
that the College Inn might be
considered for such a place.
It was also noted that the Inn
is the one place on campus open
(for television) until 2 a.m. Part
of the proposed Self-Gov ballot is

to open Goodhart and the
dorms until this hour.
In conclusion, Lola _ stated

that ‘‘There is then a social life;
something needs to be. done about
it; and we can start by doing
pe Reo 3 about the College Inn.’’

Two Student Plays
To Be Produced
By Little Theatre

Little Theatre has chosen two
student plays to be premiered
Friday night, May 12th, at Skin-
ner. Both, oddly enough, are by
Haverford boys, Paul Breslin and
John Stewart. Little Theatre is
now in the process of making up
cast lists.

Both plays are short. Paul Bres-
lin is directing his own, which is
a one-act religious drama in
poetry. It involves about fifteen
people. John Stewart’s is a one-
scene ‘Waiting for Godot-type
play’’ involving three people.

_ Seven plays were originally sub-
mitted and Little Theatre had
wanted to do four. Not enough
people, however, were available to
act.



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Photo by Marian Scheuer

Spring comes and, classes and meetings are held outside. Here a SAC seminar discusses with Mr.
Schneider and-Mr. DuBoff the responsibilities of the intellectual to seek truth in exclusion of all
else. It was the final scheduled event of Vietnam Week, April 8-15.



Seder in Common Room Campus Events

Begins New Tradition

Last Tuesday night a new tradi-
tion was established: some fifty
Jewish students from Haverford
and Bryn Mawr joined together
to participate in one of the cen-
tral observances of the Passover
holiday -- the Seder,

The. Seder is a traditional feast
which celebrates the liberation of
the Jews from Egypt and empha-
sizes the importance of freedom
from oppression everywhere, The
Bryn Mawr-Haverford Seder, or-

. ganized by members of the Jewish
Discussion Group and others, was
held in the Haverford Common
Room and lacked none of the tra-
ditional features -- there were
hard-boiled eggs and matzoh,
bowls of charoseth (a mixture

Two BMC Students
To Study at Avignon

This summer Cynthia Walk ’67
and Josefina B,. Gomez ’68 will
join students from many colleges
and universities in the United States
and Europe to study with Bryn
Mawr’s program in Avignon.

The Institut d’Etudes Francaises
d’Avignon, a2 summer program for
undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents was initiated six years ago.
Mr. Guggenheim is director of the
1967 program.

The faculty includes French pro-
fessors from both the United States
and Europe. Courses are offered
in practical French and French
literature, history, art, sociology,
and philosophy. The curriculum and
faculty vary from year to year. The
courses are accredited and each
student must enroll in two. There
are also visiting lecturers who
speak on various aspects of French
culture and contemporary France.

Students live with French fami-
‘lies. in Avignon while they are at
the Institut. This helps them to
develop fluency in French and to
gain a knowledge of French life
and customs.

Included in the program are
several bus trips in Provence.
Students have an opportunity to
attend plays and concerts and to
meet French students in planned
activities.

At the end of the session there
is a period of free travel, followed
by a ten-day Stay in Paris, during
which there are guided tours and
excursions to Touraine and the
suburbs of Paris.

Mr. Guggenheim, and Mr. Maurin
of the French Department and Mr.
Silvera of the History Department
will be teaching at the Institut
this summer.

of apples, wine and nuts sym-
bolizing, among other things, the
mortar of the bricks the Hebrews
were forced to make in Egypt)
and, of course, six gallons of
wine, Slater obligingly provided
gefilte fish and chicken soup with
knadels in addition to the more
conventional dinner offering,

A large number of people took
active part in the service which
preceded the meal,and afterwards
the tables were pushed aside for
an hour.of dancing and singing,

It was felt that the enthusiastic
response of students. to the Seder
demonstrated the existence of an
important need on campus, The
Jewish Discussion Group will meet
next Thursday, May 4 at 9 p.m,
in the Undergrad Room of the
College Inn to discuss plans for
next year, Anyone who is inter-
ested is welcome,

Haverfroddy

“‘Haverfroddy”’ is traditionally
printed in the May Day issue of
the NEWS.

’Twas Brynig, and the frisby girls
Did gyre and grimble in the May:
All climsy were the boropoles,
And the tome wraths outbray.

“Beware the Haverfrod, my
maids!’? ,

The minds that plot, the hands
that catch!

Beware the grubgrub boys and
shun

The stewmious Maypolesnatch!??

They took their vestal swords
in hand;

Long time the pranksome foe they
sought

So rested they with their Old Dog
Tray

And stood a while in thought.

And, as in hopeful thought the;

stood,

The Haverfrod, bereft with shame,

Came sniffling through the
neighborhood

And burpling as it came!

Three, four! Three, four! fine
sophomore

The vestal blades went to the aid
They left it hide, and with their

pride

The stopped a panty raid.

‘And hast thou throd the
Haverfrod?

Come to the pole, my squeemish
Maids!

O Cassius Clay! Ako-oo-ue!’?
They dancied in their joy.

"Twas ‘Brynig, and the frisby girls
Did gyre and grimble in the May:
All climsy were the boropoles,
And the tome wraths outbray.

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Monday, May 1

8:30 p.m. - Kurt Bittel will give
the fifth Mary Flexner Lecture on
Hattusha: The Capital of the Hittites
on ‘‘The Hittite Empire and Egypt
in the light of the excavations
and archives of Bogazkoy.’’

&

Wednesday, May 3

7:30 p.m. - Interfaith series.
S.D. Goitein, Professor of Arabic
at Penn, will speak on ‘‘Islam--
Past and Present.’? Common Room.

8:00 Peter Gay, Professor of
History, Columbia, will speak on
‘¢The Enlightenment: Myth or Real-
ity,’? Department of History. Ely
Room, Wyndham.

Thursday, May 4
- 8:30 p.m. - Spring Concert by
the Bryn Mawr College Employees.
Tickets ($1.00) may be obtained
at the Box Office on the evening
of the performance. Goodhart Hall.
Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6.
8:30 p.m. - ‘*The Haunted
House,’?’ a Roman Comedy by
Plautus, will be presented by the
Bryn Mawr College Theatre and the
Haverford College Drama Club,
under the direction of Robert But-
man. Tickets ($1.50) for both per-
formances may be obtained from
Haverford College (MI 2-7644),
Roberts Hall.

Monday, May 8

8:30 p.m. - Kurt Bittel will give
the last Mary Flexner Lecture on
*‘Hattusha-Bogazkoy in Phrygian
and Persian times.’’ Goodhart.
Thursday, April 11

Athletic Association Awards
Night.

Political Science Buffs
Spend Summer in D.C.

Bryn Mawr will be repre-
sented by a _ large contingent
of summer interns and research
assistants in Washington D.C,
this summer.

Most of the students are po-
litical science- majors; some
of them will be doing re-
search on their Honors papers
at the same time.

Marcia Young will be work-
ing in Robert Kennedy’s of-
fice. As an_ intern, she could
be doing receptionist work,
answering constituents’ letters and
possible legislative research.
Kennedy probably has the largest
staff of interns of all the Senators
because he. pays for most
of them out of his own pocket.
The Government pays. for one or

two, according to recent leg-
islation, but Kennedy has at
least 18.

Margaret Levi will be doing
research work for Senator Tydings’
office on urban affairs. She
says this will be extremely rel-
evant to her Honors paper
which is on Federal involvement
in public school systems.

Jackie Williams is on a
program connected with Howard
University. She will be an intern
with the State Department, in AID,
the Agency for International De-
velopment. She will also be
taking some courses at Howard
preparing for the Foreign Serv-

MENT,

ice Exam and the Grad Records.

Andra Oakes has a _ job
with the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, under Senator William
Fullbright. She is not exactly sure
what she will be doing; her
acceptance letter said she has
a position ‘tin some capacity.’’

Peter Gay, Author
Of Award Book
To Lecture Here

Historian Peter Gay will speak
on the Enlightenment, Wednesday
at 8 p.m. in the Ely Room. He
was originally scheduled to speak
in March but could not because
that week he received the National
Book Award for THE ENLIGHTEN-
published in 1966. The
award commended him for ‘‘a
brilliant new synthesis of our in-
tellectual heritage from the eigh-
teenth century ... (he) has suc-
cessfully defended that heritage
from the Malice of the Right and
the naivete of the Left.’?

Mr. Gay received the Frederic
Melcher Book Award for the same
book, styled ‘‘the greatest con-
tribution (in 1966) to religious
liberalism,.’’ A professor of his-
tory at Columbia since 1947, he
has published many other books,
including an edition of Voltaire’s
dictionary, THE PARTY OF HU-
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Smash Comedy “Haunted House”
To Be Presented This Weekend

Famed Roman playwright Plautus,
and his 2271 year old smash comedy
work, the ‘‘Haunted House’ will be
honored by the combined theatrical
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No doubt, one of the prime claims
to local academic interest

this play holds, is the fact that
the present version of the script
represents the translating talents
of three Haverfordians, All of the
latter, Chris Kopff, Geoff Kahat,
and Tim Gantz are Classics majors
who have done their work on Plau-
tus since Spring Vacation, Mr,
Kopff, however, is not only con-
cerned with the technical aspect
of the farce’s production, but has
assumed a lead role in it as well,

The entire approach of.the dra-
matic company to the stage per-
formanc® of, the ‘‘Haunted House”’
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aware of the audience as a par-
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the audience be made to feel re-
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the end results.

Plautus is particularly well
adapted to the development of this
idea on a realistic levelas Roman
Theatre, with its galleries of stock
characters, was actively supported
by the faithful drama-goer, Re-
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the use of a great deal of near
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already noted Chris Kopff, with
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will manage costuming, The feature
offering will be preceded by the

photo by Marian Scheuer

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one act opener of James Birdie,
the ‘‘Ear of Vincent Van Gogh.?’
This short drama is performed in
French, but is clearly understand-
able, even to the uninitiated, The
compound presentation will offic-
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The plot, that of the extravagance
of a light-headed son during his
parents’ journey abroad, and the
latter’s ‘reactions to the household
state of affairs on his return, lends
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She called it her “‘burning”’
poem. And it was. It helped
ignite a flame of opposition to

child labor throughout America.:

‘My quatrain was literally
true,’ Sarah N. Cleghorn said.
‘The mill I wrote about actually

' stood in the midst of a golf

course.”
Today the American people
owe a debt to people like Sarah

N. Cleghorn and Lewis Hine, the
photographer. Without her, one

The golf links lie so near the mill
That nearly every day

The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.

writer said, ‘‘the history of the
United States would have beena
different thing.”’ Hine’s
photography, showing children
working when they should have
been in school, ‘‘was more
responsible,” the National Child
Labor Committee said, ‘‘than all
other efforts in bringing the need
to public attention.”

SARAH N

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Musty Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association Quarterlies
Yield Amusing Picture of College in Early Years

One of the rare. treasures
of this year’s Alumnae Book Sale
was a set of Bryn Mawr Alumnae
Quarterlies ranging from 1908 to
1918, These journals have pro-
vided many hours: of fun and
laughter (probably not\their origi-
nal purpose), Articles on such
things as Self-Gov, plays, atheletic
events, May Day and of course
Haverford evoke an itfage of what
Bryn Mawr was like fifty ‘years
ago. Surprisingly enough, many
of the traditions which we have
today are almost the same as they
were then, including May Day.
May Day festivities, however,
seemed to be brighter and more
interesting then, than they are
now. It was what you might call
an Elizabethan festival, and the
maypole dancing (which is virtually
all that remains today), was only

the foot aftd great May-pole in
the center, graciously preside over
the revels; and the motley crowd,
from Cupid and his boys to the
Morris dancers and the Dragon,
dance singly, in pairs and
in groups, meanwhile singing the
May-pole song. It is undoubtedly
the best effect of the day; the
special vision, many-colored,
spontaneous and full of wild de-
light, that every member of
the audience carries home.’’
Another description of May
Day events seems more familiar:
‘¢The May Day celebrations open-
ed at 6:45 on Wednesday



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morning with the Seniors, in cap

‘and gown, singing at the Deanery

the Old English song, ‘The
Hunt is up’... From the Deanery
the Seniors. marched to Rocke-
feller towers where they greeted
the sun with the Latin hymn
which is sung on Magdalene Tower,
Oxford, on May Day morning ...
The poles had streamers of white,
mixed with streamers of green,
light blue, red, dark blue, ac-
cording to the class, and the
dancers were dressed in white,
with sashes of their class color.
The band played ‘To the Maypole
let us on’ and the poles Were
wound, unwound, and wound again.
At a given signal all ran to the

“Senior pole, where each class

formed a circle and all danced
around, circling about President
Thomas’ and the violet crowned

Mawr students to be wary of these
young men just a few miles away.
The warning shows just how much
cooperation there was between
Bryn Mawr and Haverford in 1911.

‘t ... she urges the students
to beware of Haverford youths,
and not. to skate on their pond.
This last, she said, was men-
tioned only ‘as an _ ounce of

prevention,’ lest we bring about
‘complications like those at some .
of the other colleges. This is,
indeed, taking time by _ the
forelock, for Haverford seems so
remote from Bryn Mawr that most
of the~students scarcely realize
there is a college for men within
miles,’’



Haverford may mock Bryn Mawr’s May Day, but they too
show a desire for a rite of spring. The following is a
memorandum found on the Bryn Mawr campus --. Ed. Note.

Se aoe

from: Assistant Librarian

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to: Student assistants
date: April 19, 1967

1. With the arrival of warm weather and the temptation to dis-

part of an all-day pageant. which 8:30 P.M. er eee card excess clothing, I must ask you to remember when. you are
included a country fair. : May 5, 6 Among these treasures was working at either the Reserve or Circulation Desk you are repre-

“It has been said by a Rob ‘Hy i found an interesting allusion to centing the College so PLEASE keep your shoes on and your feet
good many outsiders that the great- =—r ve Haverford College. It comes in off the desk, and present a respectable image of the Haverford
est charm of the May Day Haverford the form of a warning issued by = Cojjege student to our borrowers.

at Bryn Mawr has lain for them
not in any of the plays, or even
in the Pageant, but in the con-
fused shifting impression that
they have received of a holiday
crowd, curiously arrayed, sporting
in another time and another and
lovlier world.’?

Of all May Day events, however,
the may-pole dancing was con-

id d th WY :
nga the il sales bia : BI RTH DAYS William Michael Butler
students and visitors. ‘The rustic .< S HOWE RS
dancers at each corner of the %Z Int ti |
ground cluster about the four “ " Sar iis

smaller poles, and begin their
rhythmic weaving of the ribbons;
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Page Eight

/ THE COLLEGE NEWS

Monday, May 1, 1967



Marxist Speaks of Useless Social Sciences,
Bachrach, Bernstein, Waldman Fight Back

by Kathy Murphey

James O’Conner, a Marxist and
professor of Marxism at San Jose
College, spent the afternoon and
evening at Bryn Mawr Monday, Ap-
ril 24 speaking to an overflow
crowd in the Common Room. He
was invited by Alliance and the
Haverford Social ActionC ommittee
to represent a Marxist position
on this campus.

O’Conner criticized the social
sciences and then tried to re-
construct them in Marxist terms.
His presentation turned into a dia-
logue, first with a faculty panel
consisting of Richard Bernstein,
Philosophy Department, Peter
Bachrach, Political Science, and
Sidney Waldman, Political Science,
and later with his audience.

O’Conner began his visit by
examining the aims, methods, and
attitudes of social scientists today.
He claimed that social science
is now the business of the: ruling
or. propertied classes.

ing practical ways to preserve the
capitalist system. It aims at re-
sponsibility--at reconciling con-

flicting interests within, society

rather than removing extremes.

However, economists and soci-
ologists don’t really participate in
a science of the ultimate causes of
social problems. They hold no
broad theory ofhuman values which
might challenge the foundations of
capital and private property. They
may be clever at solving small



Stalin’s Daughter —

And BMC Alumna
To Work Together

“It has been disclosed this week
that Bryn Mawr Russian majors
are following in illustrious foot-
steps. Mrs. Priscilla Johnson Mac
Millan, who will be translating into
English the autobiography of
Stalin’s daughter, was the first
Russian major to graduate from
Bryn Mawr.

Mrs. Mac Millan, who received
her M.A. at Harvard’s Russian
Research Center, was recommend-
ed to Mrs. Svetlana Alliluyeva’s
publishers by George Kennan, for-
mer U.S, Ambassador to the Soviet
Union. Mrs. MacMillan combines
both scholarly and journalistic in-
terests. In 1956, while on a visit

Social-:
theory is of value only in unearth- ~

technical problems, such as howto
move a certain percentage of neg-
roes into the middle class. But
they are ignorant of why they get
results. They are a bit like a doctor
who ‘tries to patch up his patient

without tracing and eliminating the

reason for the disease.

This concern with the effective
running of the present economic and
social system rather than with
basic values is reflected in the
method of social scientists, O’C on-
ner noted. According to Socrates
and Satre, he claimed, a method
is a way of looking at the world.
Marx explained the world in terms
of labor, capital, and production.
He selected facts from history to
support his theory on the basis of
these criteria.

‘‘Bourgeois social scientists,’’
O’Conner stated, collect whatever
facts are available and hope
theories will sprout from them.
They don’t consider that particular
conditions may change. Conclusions
drawn from. isolated facts will not
necessarily hold over time or apply
to other situations. What social
science needs is a method for de-
ciding which facts are significant
and. for explaining, historically,

why changes occur,

Finally, O’Conner criticized the
attitude of social scientists. Their
type .of science is not social enough,
he thought., Unlike good Marxists,
they do not account for the human
agent in society. They have nocon-
ception of the way people move
history. Furthermore, he felt that
social scientists are not self-
aware. They can’t see themselve
as part of a group and they hav
no concerned attitude towards other
people. They are too intent on
proving their own points.

O’Conner’s expose of the social
sciences was questioned and count-
ered by a critics panel of social
scientists. The dialogue began with
Mr. Bachrach’s question on what
constitutes the ruling class, if it
exists. He asked what standards
determine membership; for ex-
ample how big a corporation must
be to qualify.

He also wondered about the re-
lationship between the ruling class
and_ political power.. There are
perhaps, he said, many classes
wielding power in a democracy.
Civil rights legislation can be re-
garded as indicative of the politi-
cal power of negroes, who in

general don’t own much property.
The question seems, he thought,
to be how far this power cuts
into economic privilege,

Mr, Waldman struck at the roots
of O’Conner’s arguments about
social science. He pled a case for
practical social scientists who
study conditions men can control
rather than ultimate causes. Using
O’Conner’s parallel, he defended
the doctor who tries to cure his
patient without knowing exactly
what is going on, if he can get
results. Mr. Waldman also sup-
ported the idea of refusing to
select data on the basis of pre-
determined values. He compared
social research to a game. The
scientist investigates and keeps
his eyes open to see what happens.

Mr. Bernstein was dissatisfied
with the whole drift of the dis-
cussion. He described Marxism
as a science which is empirically
true or false. Dealing with ulti-
mate causes and human values
alone is too sentimental. Abstract
emotional terms such as “privi-
leges’’ and ‘‘benefit’’ turn Marxist
theory into a faith, obligating the
individual to accept its funda-
mentals.

At this point, the meeting broke
up for dinner. O’Conner relaxed
over dinner in Erdman. He dis-
cussed the hippieS of California
in their own language, andreferred .
to his classes at San Jose as a
kind of hippie group. He was.eager
to learn about sound-and-light
shows, drug use, and student in-
terests here. At one point he asked,
‘“What’s. the purpose of Bryn
Mawr??? ae

That evening O’Conner, schedul-
ed to speak on ‘‘The Relevance of
Marxism Today,’’ staged his own
revolution. After lecturing for
roughly five minutes, he stopped.
Chairs were swept into a circle.
Questions began to dart out from
all corners of the room. The
billed speech by a Marxist became
a Marxist dialogue. It was a bit
hesitant at times, however for,
as they admitted, parts of the
audience had a scant background
in Marxism. O’Conner talked about
his personal reasons for becoming
a Marxist. After giving up the idea
of being a poet, he became in-
volved in Cuba. Impressed with
the difference between what he
saw there and what U.S. news-
papers reported,-he adopted Marx-
ism.

Asked about his feelings toward

the new left--and Students for a a

Democratic Society in particular--
O’Conner replied that they had no
reference point for their action.

‘He also thought that they were not

objective and scientific enough.



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to the Soviet Union, she wrote for~?

the ‘Reporter’? and other maga-
zines.

The two ladies met secretly in
Geneva in early April to discuss
the project before a translator
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They seemed to like each other
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