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College news, November 4, 1966
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1966-11-04
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Weekly
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 53, No. 08
College news (Bryn Mawr College : 1914)--
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Subscription $3.75 — Mailing price $5.00 — Subscriptions may begin at any time
Entered as second class matter at the Br yn Mawr, Pa,
the Act of March 3, 1879, Application for re-entry at the Bryn Mawr, Pa,
Office filed October Ist, 1963.
Second Class Postage paid at Bryn Mawr, Pa.
‘ FOUNDED® IN 1914
f . ; Published weekly during the College Year except during Thanks~
J giving, Christmas and Easter holidays, and during examination
‘ace weeks in the interest of Bryn Mawr College at the R.K. Printing
Company, Inc., Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Bryn Mawr College.
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,
EDITORIAL BOARD
Post Office, under
Post
Editorein-Chief. Coo ecece ere enceree eee e seve seses eNanette Holben '68
Monaging Editor... cc ciccccncccwceeseccececc.cee oKit Bakke '68
Copy Editor. C04 6b 04 8 00 8 6 888 808 be 8 6 O84 8 84 6 6 ae Johnson 68
Membereat-Large eevee eeeeee eee eeeee seers ee eeee «Kathy Murphey 69
Make-up Editor. eeeeeeeee «eee 6 seCookie Poplin 69
Contributing Editors eeoeceeceeveese ee scram Barald °67, Emily McDermott ’68
Business Manager........ ¢ eee ee Fern Hunt '69
Subscription Manager ....+i0- + Mary Ann Spfeigel ’68
af Advertising Manager ecoececeer ee es oer rece soe vesee os Diane Ostheim 69
Photographer. ....escceees « » ¢ « «Marian Scheuer '70
EDITORIAL STAFF
Dora Chizea '69, Judy Masur ’68, Nancy Miller ’69, Marcia Ringel: ’68, Lois
Portnoy '68, Jane Dahigren ’70, Karen Detamore '70, Janet Oppenheim ’70,
Barbara Archer ’70, Edie Stern ’70, Mary Kennedy ’70, Laura Star ’70, Eleanor
Anderson ’70, Sue Lautin ’70, Christine Santasieia 70, Michele Langer ’70,
Christine VandePol ’70.
Storming the Towers
A month ago we wouldn’t have hesitated to predict that the Educational
Goals enthusiasm would last for one brief shining moment -- that all
the gripes and proposals would disappear harmoniously into the over-
whelming Bryn Mawr status quo, But observe this week’s front page
story, and rejoice that the Educational Goals Committee isn’t about
to lose the name of action, ¥
.Granted some of the proposals sound beyond the realm of possibility,
both in respect to finances and the present power structures, A new
student union, abolition of Undergrad, mandatory monthly collection,
student labor unions ,.,. these suggestions aren’t in the category of a
student calendar committee, But the Goals Committee is perfectly
aware of its idealistic tendencies; the purpose of the proposals, in
fact, was to make suggestions REGARDLESS of their current practicality,
And since the Educational Goals atmosphere is calling for more flexi-
bility, it is safe enough to suppose that these proposals, derived from
what the seminar audiences seemed to want, may soon be the serious
objectives of working committees,
We have heard the complaint that the Educational Goals Committee
is getting out of hand, is assuming more power than a subcommittee
of one of the Big Six organizations warrants, But we feel that this
imaginative committee should be allowed as muchfree rein as possible,
influential gadfly that it is, To curtail the activities of the committee --
which now consist mainly of offering evaluations and proposals. to fhe
campus -- night be to stifle one of few springs of community creativity
at Bryn Mawr,
We look forward to the Educational GoalsCommittee reports as a
source of genuine movement on this campus,
The Wages of Saga...
Saga’s attempt to use as many student waitresses as possible
without jeopardizing the jobs of the maids is a worthwhile one, but
to do so,- the food service will have to realize that the combination
of time. and wages involved are not especially appealing to the job-
seekers on campus, A Saga official notes that about 40% of the girls
in Erdman waitress, but in the older dorms, where the figures are
hardly that high, there is also a lesser degree of efficiency in the
kitchens, so,that the job is painfully more time-consuming, For ex-
ample, the waitress in Rhoads waits for her own dishes to go through
the washer and then resets the tables at her station, while the Erdman
waitress dumps her dirty dishes in the kitchen and resets her table
immediately with a second set of dishes, Both are paid $1.50 per meal.
Student waitresses received $1.50 per meal last year, too, but in
its efforts to please, Saga has created more work for the same wages,
Waitresses must make extra trips to the kitchen for ice cream, or put
out placemats, and such details, trivial though they sound, add many
extra minutes to the task,
Waitressing a meal should take no longer than an hour and a quar-
ter, says Saga. In Erdman, perhaps so, But elsewhere the job stretches
well beyond this limit, even up to two hours, depending on how long one
has to wait in line for the dishwasher or how many times one has to
make an ice cream run, The girl involved rdly walk out when
her hour and a quarter is up, because the kitchen systems in many
cases are chaotic enough, All they need is a student waitress strike,
We suggest. that Saga completely review its wage scale, Since some
older dorms, which had student waitresses in past years, have lost
many regulars to Erdman, it might be wise to increase the wages else-
where so that the pay matches the effort demanded, Or perhaps the
student should be paid overtime if she works over the hour anda
“quarter,
A primary reason for wanting more student waitresses is that the
regular help is accustomed to a certain pattern of waitressing that
they are not likely to change, It would be much faster, for example,
if waitresses in the older dorms coulddeposit their dishes to be washed
‘and leave, then have the waitresses for the next meal set up the tables,
" But no, it is tradition or something that everyone wait in line to use
the dishwasher,
. If there were all stude oes the system would be easier
to change, and the wages’ would be proportionate to the time, But if
the wages are not hiked in the meantime--until enough students are
attracted to the job--the plans for an all-student waitressing system
are hopeless,
Friday, November 4, 1966
applebee
« and the leaves go ... comings
and goings of homecomings...
thanksgivings and goings home
(turkeytide) ... lookings forward
to cookings ... where do the leaves
go when they go? their color is
splashed onto a thousand places
and kept by snow ... now is the
limbo time, i like it ... more
squirrels than hondas these days,
and that’s saying something ,..
they putt at about the same rate,
too ... maybe all those leaves
keep the squirrels busy, they read
the leaves’ veins predicting a long
siege anda cold hard winter (makes
*em feel better about having stored
all those hazelnuts) ,,, have done
private research and _ found
‘tacorn’? to be derived from corn
+ alpha privative, meaning ‘‘not
at all corn, it tastes perfectly
horrible’? ... whoso would eat an
acorn must be a nonconformist,
i think abraham lincoln said that
e+» i received my draft notice, it
says ‘‘your home will soon be
sub-zero, the winds are import-
ing themselves, you’d better
move” ,.. maybe one of those
lovely turrets on the library roof,
they’ve always appealed to me, a
living room in neo-gothic ... last
year i took up residence in a
tree near the infirmary but they
heard me sneeze, captured me,
and pinioned me to a bed for
six months ... even put my beak
in a cast ... this year i’m no-
body’s fool, i’ll go to m. carey
thomas where the action is, indeed
i’ll watch the leaves pass withfly-
ing colors.
ruddily,
applebee
Letters to the Editor
Button, Button
To the Editor:
There seems to be a massive
amount of confusion on campus in
regards ta a mimeographed sheet
selling buttons by an organization
called the Subterranean Organi-
zation of Buttons. based in Haver-
ford’s Barclay Hall.
I suppose I could be considered
a kind of business partner in the
organization, and for that reason
my name is on the sheet. Through
rather indirect means, Mrs. Mar-
shall, Dean of the College, acquired
a copy and found the list ‘‘obscene’?
and ‘‘pornographic.’’ She called me
into her office Tuesday morning.
Her first reaction was that my
name had been put on the sheet
unbeknownst to me by some
malicious Haverford boy. When it
became obvious that I was involved
of my own free will, the word
‘discredit’? began to hang heavy
in the air. I should be more care-
ful about what I allowed my name
to get mixed up in. And since
some copies had gotten off cam-
pus, there was the question of the
honor of not only myself, but of
the entire college.
I have two points to make clear.
One, I don’t consider my honor
tarnished in the slightest. Just
because my name is on the sheet
does NOT imply that I agree with,
sanction, or even understand the
Slogans on the buttons. To say
that it does imply that is the same
as saying that just because Mer-
ion Hall subscribes to ‘‘ Playboy’?
it means that all 60 girls believe
in Hefner’s philosophy of life.
Secondly, if there is any ques-
tion at all of discredit, I don’t
think it is the administration’s pre-
rogative to bring it up. Bryn Mawr
is run with an Honor System, in-
cluding a Discredit Clause, which
is supposed to be governed by the
Food Service Hopes to
All-Student Waitressing System
., Saga wants kids on its. side,
Not only do the Saga men want to
serve what girls.want to eat, but
they are eager to get as many
Student waitressing, according
Bill Martin, head of the food ser
ice, has always been favored
by the college; understandably
enough, the administration would
like to provide jobs and financial
aid for as many girls as possible,
In general, Saga also prefers
student waitresses: the food serv-
people as possible into the 77
ice managers would like to
know the girls better, from a
professional point of view-.-
to serve them better--and also as
friends, Possibly prompted by the
results of the survey last week,
Mr, Martin added only half
facetiously that ‘‘if the kids are
involved and they know we’re
trying, they’re less likely to com-
Plain,*?
In addition, he felt that girls
who might be shy with a maid
about taking advantage of Saga’s
ae shal
Led
But —
Com Hu 5 iudent seeiiemenns master Har lnadck
ob rar Cowm-second- Acsseat- subsniuken 7
Te proof will Clovieusly) be im Hu lecerram.-.
student’s.Self-Gov organization. If
some member of the college com-
munity thinks I have brought dis-
credit upon us all, she should tell
Self-Gov. It is not the administra-
tion’s business at all, but or
a student matter.
I could invent a button of my own;
“DOWN WITH IN LOCO PAREN-”
TIS!??
Kit Bakke, ’68
More NEWS
To the Editor:
One item of cooperation between
Haverford and BMC is the system Ps
which now exists providing for
the distribution of each college’s
newspapers to the other campus,
Unfortunately (some would say),
the ‘‘balance of papers’’ is some-
what unbalanced -- the Haver-
ford News provides 600 copies
per issue to BMC, where BMC
reciprocates with only 100, Ex-
planations concerning the gener-
osity of the Haverford News,
the reading ability of Haverford
students, or the quality of one
newspaper vs, the other are in-
teresting but peripheral to my
point here,
What I am proposing, then, is
that THE COLLEGE NEWS begin
to distribute a more equitable
number of papers at Haverford,
For one reason or another, there
seems to be enough of a demand
-at Haverford to justify this in-
crease,
Chris Jackson
Haverford, ’68
The COLLEGE NEWS
will withhold signatures to
letters, but only if the editor
knows the petusidid of the
writer.
Institute
specials, like ice cream as an
alternative or additional dessert,
would have less compunction about
asking another student, He noted
that he buys twice as much ice
cream for student-waitressed
Erdman than he does _ for
Pembroke, which is the same size
with mixed waitresses,
Saga is now actively trying to
enlist student waitresses all over
campus, Some dorms, like Erd¢
man, now have exclusively
student waitresses (40% of the
Erdman girls waitress), while
others, like Pembroke, are moving
in the direction, As yét there has
been little change in Rhoads, Mr,
Martin emphasized that a switch
to students would in no way en-
danger the positions of the maids,
On the lighter side, he declared
that student waitressing should be
fun, ‘‘There should be smiling in
the kitchen,” Mr. Martin said
beatifically. The waitresses’
table might have a little better
food, maybe something special that
the other tables don’t get, also the
privilege of having if they wanted
some of the leftovers from the
previous meal (chicken, dessert,
etc,),
Perhaps even more important,
Mr, Martin felt that waitressing
could and should be arranged so
as to take a maximum of an
hour and’a quarter, which is what
it takes now in Erdman, Thus
the wage, $1.50 a meal, which
Mr, Martin freely admitted was
too low for two hours of hard
work, would become quite reason-
able, The food service does
not plan to raise the rate but
if with ‘student waitresses a meal
takes longer than the specified
hour and a quarter, the students
have every right to complain and
Mr, Martin pledges to remedy
the situation,
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