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Friday, October 21, 1966





Calendar Challenge

When the NEWS heard about yesterday’s Alliance’board meeting,
we ran over to Denbigh and kissed Drewdie Gilpin on both cheeks.

It seems that Alliance had learned that this year’s calendar had
been voted by the faculty to be put into effect next year as well. The
vote took place at the September 28 faculty”meeting with the request
of Haverford that the decision be made quickly in order that the
athletic schedule could be formulated, Mrs. Marshall, head of Bryn
Mawr’s calendar committee, had such short notice of the urgency of
the vote that it was most expedient to propose this year’s temporary
calendar for a second time around.

Although students were in on the preparation of this present calendar
last year, there were no undergraduates on hand this year to con-
tribute their opinions to the decision-making for 1967-68. No student
organization, such as Curriculum Committee or Undergrad, was even
aware that the process was going on,

At its board meeting yesterday, Alliance decided to take upon itself
the responsibility for interjecting some student consideration into the
academic calendar. Realizing that the basic framework of the calendar
(i.e. coordination with Haverford and Penn) must remain the same, the
group would still like to determine if there can be any changes made to
improve certain undesirable aspects of it.

That the calendar was passed so early this year for next year is
regrettable, since we haven’t even been able to see it in effect yet.
We have yet to live through the reading session and the very unfor-
tunate lame duck session after Christmas. Whatever student group
ends up looking into the matter--whether it be Alliance itself or
whether the project is passed on to Curriculum Committee when
Alliance presents its argument at Undergrad next Monday--it is
hoped that modifications will be proposed, within the preordained
framework, according to problems which present themselves this year.

Despite the lack of time involved, we are extremely disappointed
that student opinion was not solicited prior to the faculty vote. Mrs.
Marshall said she did plan to ask Curriculum Committee to form a
calendar sub-committee to work on the calendar following the two-year
period of .the present one, and it should be an important item of con-
cern for this undergraduate group. When various calendar proposals
are formed, this sub-committee might well take a vote in the student
body to indicate its opinion. to the faculty members before their final
vote, what with our educational development in the best possible pat-
tern being an important consideration.

But we still haven’t explained why we presented Drewdie with the
only token of affection we can afford, That Alliance, a student group
actually unrelated to such a problem as the calendar, should volunteer
its protest, as it will in Monday’s Undergrad meeting, is a step

toward an Educational Goal that Bryn Mawr seems to need. Spon- .

taneous dialogue concerning the college community is finally taking
place on the campus, And it’s not controversy for the sake of con-
troversy, but a much-needed questioning of the quality of the stu-

dent’s academic environment. .

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Arts Forum

Among the facilities Bryn Mawr students have always found. lack-
ing on campus is the proper space and equipment needed to fulfill
their artistic inclinations and talents. A possible solution is the
eventual building of the Haverford Arts Center, for which student
money is now being collected -- notably at an art exhibition and sale
November 12. But a much closer-at-hand solution hds been discovered.

The Arts Forum, a Main Line group centered in a building near
the Haverford Hotel, and not directly connected with the college, has
offered its full facilities to the Bryn Mawr student body. The Forum
building (right on Harry’s bus route -- arrangements could surely
be made for him to make stops there) is equipped with all sorts of
music and dance practice rooms and painting rooms. It has a little
theatre which Arts Council president Ronnie Scharfman said is
available for groups when Skinner is in use. Especially exciting is
the camera and equipment Miss Ann Kish, head of the Forum, is
making available to the Bryn Mawr-Haverford film-making group.

The NEWS suggests that the very least we could do to express
our appreciation to Miss Kish is for each student who uses the Forum.
facilities regularly to join it, at the membership fee of $3.00 per year,
evén though the Forum offered to make itself available free of charge.
We don’t think the opportunities involved with the Forum can be em-
phasized too much, and we hope that all those students who have com-
plained that Mr. Janschka’s studio, doesn’t fulfill their specific needs

- will take advantage of all the Forum offers.

| Letters to the Editor

Readmissions

To’the Editor:

*‘Public discourse’? was Pro-
fessor Bachrach’s. theme in his
discussion with Miss McBride,
and I-congratulate THE COLLEGE
NEWS for beginning to act as a
forum for such discourse by print-
ing a statement by Mrs. Marshall
and Miss Vermey on the Bryn
Mawr readmissions policy,

The statement on readmissions
was very clear; there is no‘ ‘leave
of absence.’’ Students who take a
year off for emotional reasons can
return only with the approval of a
psychiatrist while those who leave
‘to study somewhere else (apart
from junior year abroad) can only
return if they have kept up an A/B
average, I can understand the need
for medical advice when a student
has left because of mental dis-
turbance, but why can’t a student

“who PLANS to study or work
elsewhere for a year be assured .

that she can return?
The arguments against ‘‘leave

of absence,’’ as I understand them -

from the statement, are: .a) the
necessity of keeping up ahigh level
of academic work if the, year is
spent in study; and b) the problem
of space at the college. (In con-

» nection with this, Miss Vermey is

cited to have said, ‘‘We can’t be
as flexible as a big university.’’)

If a student wants to receive
credit for her year of study, then
the college has every right to set
some criteria. However, many stu-
dents may wish to attend another
university just for the experience,
and there is no reason why their
grades should be taken into con-
sideration when they wish to re-
turn,

The problem of space could
be alleviated rather than made
more complex by the institution of
‘leave of absence,’’ for it would
enable the administration to know
how. many people to expect back.
Furthermore, the implication of
our present policy is that entering
freshmen come first, before those
students who ‘‘deserted’’ Bryn
Mawr by taking a year away. The
loyalties of the college should be
the other way around, and every
effort should be make to re-wel-
come past students back into the
college community.

Moreover, some people need a
year away from the life and pres-
sures of Bryn Mawr in order to
‘think, to try out ideas, to mature.
A year off can be an invaluable
education, for it gives the student
some experience outside the class-
room or in another kind of class-
room and it gives her some per-
spective on herself and on the
particular academic world of Bryn
Mawr. Therefore, it would seem
to me that a year off should be

‘made to fit into the collegeframe- .

work, and this could be done by
setting up a procedure by which
a student can apply for a ‘‘leave
of absence.’’

Margaret Levi, ‘68

Curriculum

To the Editor:

Three cheers for the COLLEGE
NEWS ‘‘Meaning of an Education
at BMC”? supplement of Oct. 14!
The special interviews were above
and beyond the call of reportorial
or editorial duty and helped add
to the excitement of the Educa-
tional Goals Committee series,

The editorial concerning the

Curriculum Committee shows the
need for more discussion of just
what the scope and purposes of
the organization are, As stated
in the Freshman Handbooks, the
committee’s ‘‘beat’? includes all
areas of academic life not in-
cluded in the academic honor sy-
stem, Curriculum Committee, if
successful, is at once a liaison
with the Faculty Curriculum Com-
mittee; a receptacle for student
views (be they gripes or sugges-
tions); an orginator of suggestions;
and a source .of information for
students, ;

The Curriculum Committee has
at this point one active subdivision,
Educational Goals Committee, We
hope to add a student vocational
subcommittee, which would work
with the Bureau of Recommenda-
tions in keeping students informed
of job possibilities. Another pos-
sible addition is a calendar com-
mittee to work with the faculty
groups, v

I have been asked about my
‘conception of Curriculum Com-
mittee’? -- I feel, however, that
the time for conceptions is past,
and that this is a year for action.
The Educational Goals Committee
series made it clear that the stu-
dents are tired of mumbling com-
plaints and, having presented con-
crete problems and concrete sug-
gestions, they expect to see some-
thing done, especially about the
large classes, :

Our immediate goal is to cor-
relate the material gathered in the
recent discussions and propose
some solutions for the problems,
which will be presented in the
report which Nancy Gellman men-
tioned in her NEWS article last
issue, Alsothe Faculty Curriculum
Committee is tackling the large
classes problem, and we intend
to work with them as much as
possible so that a solution satis-
factory to administration, students
and budget may be reached,

I--feel that Educational Goals
series also pointed out the need
for a concise statement of just
what is. meant by a liberal arts

education at Bryn Mawr, as
opposed. to one at any other
school -- something that could

be put in the catalog so that

students know more of what to

expect when .they join the col-
lege community,

Andrea Lurie ’68

Chairman,

Curriculum Committee

Indignation

To the Editor:

We can only express _in-
dignation and annoyance about
last week’s letter to this column
concerning the so-called un-
successful mixer, The writer of
that letter did a great deal of
harm to all concerned, as well
as revealed her own sense of

pseudo-contrition at the end. We

should like to make four points
concerning that mixer:

1) No one should have to pay
for negating a sign-up to a dance,
Dances are not our religion,

2) The loss of $200 just could
not simply have .been caused by
13 people, Even if 13 more people
went, 19 boys still had been date-
less, We are not responsible
for making all 50°boys happy, but
just those for whom there are
girls. Un-even matches occur all
the time for social events,

3) Perhaps some girls did not
realize it was Hillel’s mixer, If









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not, then they should not be forced
to attend, since they had thought
it ‘was with Princeton, simply.

4) Overdramatization of the
‘irreparable harm’’ to Prince-
ton-Bryn Mawr relations is
ridiculous and unnecessary, The
facts are these:

a) It was Princeton’s Hillel
group, not Princeton, and, pre-
sumably, suitable girls from
Bryn Mawr,

b) These things happen all the
time. The author of that letter is
just revealing her tender spot for
a flop she failed to foresee, Once
again, the 13 aré not responsible
for the happiness of those 50 boys,
nor the loss of $200, *

Two Interested Spectators

‘Pathetic Ritual’

To the Editor: j
‘‘Lantern Night’? is a patheti
ritual. -- .with our.appeals. to. the
‘‘dread goddess of Wisdom”? echo-
ing around the cloisters unheard
and unanswered. Athena does
not exist -- and we leave as we
came -- as fooiish as ever.
Bevinda Noronha, ’70

Being Bryn Mawr

To the Editor:.

I would like to thank Mr,
Bresler for his contribution to
the NEWS, His statement ‘‘‘Being
Bryn Mawr’ is being intellectual,
aloof, narrow, cold and selfish,
and, in the final analysis, DULL,”
hurt, but it hurt because the
jab hit a truly diseased and sore
area, I look forward to his second
article,

Dorothy Hudig, ’68

Calendar

To the Editor:
Through a somewhat circuitous
jeans of communication, we

‘learned yesterday that the faculty

has ruled that this year’s tenta-
tive calendar be repeated next
year, It’s probably a nice calen-
dar -- we haven’t really tried it
yet -- but after all the student

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applebee

it’s hard to say which pleases
me more, halloween or lantern
night ... they are equally spooky
as far as i’m concerned ... eyes
of familiars and unfamiliars glow
behind the dark awaiting the magic
hour so that the festivities may
begin ... intense colors burn
through the night, disturbed only
at the flicker of a wick or a long
black robe ruffled by the wind...
harmonies and cacaphonies break
my cloister from both sides as
the gremlins in my well fight for
a space to clamber out from ...
grown folk lean upon my balus-
trades, i felt my empire whimper
and weaken (but this old monolith
library will put up a long battle
before crumbling, she knows she’s
as obsolescent as the beginning of
autumn) ... greek pours from the
crannies, lantern swingers’ biceps
roll and thicken, long hair ripples
-.e~ the moon laughs to herself
and the sky wonders whether to
rain or not, then decides against
it ... and so the chanting flows,
until time sends a warning call
and each freshman has her invi-
tation to tea, soon food and wel-
comings when warnings of
spring come i will be waiting
breathlessly on taylor tower for
the may day step Sing, i like
hearing happy songs in a season-
ably happy time ... but now how
delicious to sing lyric songs in
the black october wind, it» does
my fiendish little heart good ....
we have sung the college to sleep ~
for a couple of months minus
tradition ... sleep well, little
gremlins

wistfully,
applebee