College news, September 23, 1966

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Vol. Lil, 2

BRYN MAWR, PA.

September 23, 1966

C Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966

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Junior Show F inally Under Way
With Science Fiction to the Core

After its tremendously success-
ful Freshman Show, ‘‘Rotten To
The Core,’’ the Class of 1968 has
been patiently awaiting its junior
year so it could produce an equally
marvelous Junior Show.

In May, Janet Kole, Wendy Fein
and Marcia Ringel began writing
the script, Lynne Meadow was
chosen director,

All was well, even ahead of
schedule, until it was discovered
that neither Wendy nor Lynne would
be at Bryn Mawr this year. The
Junior Class split into two camps,
one in favor of asking to do a
Senior Show instead, and other
thinking that a bad show would
be better than no show at all, Now,
after a week of frantic discussions,
the word is that Junior Show is
about to become a reality,

A general meeting, prior to the
casting and tryouts, took place
Wednesday night, Marcia and Janet
explained the plot roughly so that
those trying out on Thursday would
have an idea of the parts they

New Grad Dean
Elizabeth Foster
Assumes Position

Elizabeth Read Foster, new Dean
of the Graduate School, startedher
education across Morris Avenue at
the Baldwin School and now returns
to Bryn Mawr to assume her posi-
tion at the college.

A Vassar graduate, Mrs. Foster
worked as assistant to the Dean of
Residence Halls at Barnard Col-
lege before taking her master’s
degree in social science at Col-
umbia.

The award of a Vassar Fellow-
ship. took Mrs. Foster to Yale
for her doctorate in English his-
tory, awarded in 1938. She started
her teaching career at Ursinus
College as aninstructor in history.

Pausing to raise four sons, Mrs.
Foster returned to Ursinus when
her youngest son was seven. ‘‘I
had just nine hours a week to
sell,’?? she reports, and Ursinus
directed her hours to the fresh-
man survey course in history.

As a faculty member, Mrs.
Foster became an_ associate
professor, taking two leaves to
concentrate on the research for her
book. Published in June, 1966, the
work is the two-volume ‘‘Pro-
ceedings in Parliament 1610.’ It
is on display in a library show-
case.

From June 1965 to June 1966
Mrs. Foster served as Acting
Director of the Yale Parlia-
mentary Diaries Project, editing
early seventeenth-century Parlia-
mentary diaries,

Although she is a Professor
of History at the Bryn Mawr Gradu-
ate School, Mrs. Foster will not
teach any courses this year. She
will continue her own research
and perhaps teach in the future.

In her new post, the dean is
seeing all new graduate students
and hopes to meet the older gradu-
ate students in January.

She describes her position as a
mixture of administration and
counseling, The Graduate Center
and the Department of Social Work
fall under her jurisdiction, as do
all graduate students, but Mrs.
Foster emphasizes the primary
role of the departments in guiding
their students. She maintains that
hers is a supervisory position,
overlooking all aspects of the
graduate school.

would like to play. Co-directors
Jackie Siegel and Priscilla Robbins
pointed out that there would be
a number of props and scenery to
be made, There will not be any
large mob scenes or chorus num-
bers in the regular sense of the
words, Rather, there are numerous
small character parts with justa
few lines,

Basically, the play is to be a
science fiction musical, a unique
event in dramatic history, accord-
ing to its writers, It has about five
working titles at the moment, how-
ever ‘‘Up in the Air’’ or ‘*Down to
Earth’? seem to be the most
popular, ‘‘It is not necessarily
going to be like a lead balloon...
It could be a very nice balloon,’’
said Marcia, in a _ burst of
enthusiasm,

Much of the action will take
place in a scientific lab, There
will be, along with various earth-
lings, beings from two _ other
planets, The writers admit that the
plot gets slightly confusing, so they
plan on having an insert in the
program explaining it to the
audience, as well as some kind of
introduction to the action,

Romantic interest will be pro-
vided by a triangle and medical
interest by a magnificent sneeze,
There will also be many surprises
but they will be kept secret to
conform with tradition,

Tradition is being broken,
though, with respect to the timing
of the show. It has always been
put on the weekend after Lantern
Night, but this year it is the week-
end before, October 7 and 8, The
first night will be called a Dress
Rehearsal and the tickets will be
cheaper than for Saturday night,

Any junior who would like to help
type and staple the final script
in invited to call Beth Chadwick
in Pem East, The typing will be
done Sunday night, Beth is business

manager for the show and has
several administrative jobs for
which she needs volunteers, Also,
anyone who has any ideas for what
could happen after the show (mixer,
cast-party, dance) should contact
her,

Judy Masur is in charge of
posters and is asking for people
to help design and make them,
The make-up and costumes, which
are going to be out of this world,
are being handled by Debby Jones,
Pat Monnington, Ann Gero and Dana
Rosen will be collecting the props.
Stage managers are Lessie Klein
and Cathy Sims,

Bonnie Cunningham is taking
care of the programs and Sue
Nosco, the tickets,

Priscilla Robbins, Marcia Ringel, Jackie Siegel, and Janet Kole
writers and directors of the forthcoming Junior Show, put their
best feet forward.



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‘Saga’ Caterers Serve Bryn Mawr,
Schedule Steak Every Saturday

Saga, the new food service on
the Bryn Mawr campus, has al-
ready had standing ovations in
four of the dorms’ dining rooms,

Bill Martin, Jim Parker, John
Vandervatt, Jim Kennedy and Dor-
is Winther are Saga’s agents on
campus, Mrs. Winther having been
the college dietician, They are
doing all they can to put Saga’s
philosophy of ‘‘giving the kids what
they like and not what grown-ups
think they should like’’ into prac-
tice,

This involves, first of all, a
choice for meals with fish and
pork, Martin said that it may not
always be put out on the table,
but if it is asked for, a sub-
stitute (usually roast beef) will
be brought out,

Secondly, there will be char-

Campus Leaders Leave;
Elections Now Required

Four holders of campus-wide
office have not returned to college
this fall, The vacant posts will be
filled by general college elections
and by appointment,

Joan Cavallaro, head of Cur-
riculum Committee; Andrea Marks,
Undergrad Secretary; Lynne
Meadow, Arts Council President;
and Carol Eddy, head of the Under-
grad Library Committee, are no

Lattimore to Open
Lecture Program
For Penn Series

Professor of Greek Richmond
Lattimore will open the new sea-
son of the University of Pennsyl-
vania’s Leon lecture _ series
October 5 with a talk entitled
‘*Translating from the Odyssey.”

His lecture will take place at
8:15 p.m, at the Universary Mu-
seum Auditorium, 33rd andSpruce
St. in Philadelphia.

The lecture series, sponsored
by the College of Arts and Sciences,
is in its sixth season, and is re-
sponsible for both lectures by dis-=
tinguished people in the humani-
ties and poetry readings.

Mr. Lattimore recently com-
pleted a new translation of the
Odyssey to be published within
the year,

longer Bryn Mawr students,

The Library Committee post is
appointed by Undergrad, but the
other three offices must be sub-
mitted to campus election,

A provision of the Undergrad
constitution prohibits organization
vice presidents from assuming the
presidency automatically in such
cases,

Since this is a constitutional
revision year, Undergrad president
Margaret Edwards reports that this
measure may be presented for
change,

At the first Undergrad meeting
of the year, scheduled for Thurs-
day at 5, plans for the new elections
were discussed,

Margaret suggested that inplace
of the dinner system, the candi-
dates might have their photographs
and platforms printed in the
COLLEGE NEWS,

Nominations will be made in the
dorms, under the supervision of
the Undergrad representatives,
Campus elections will follow,

Margaret emphasized the time
lost in putting organization pro-
grams into effect. ‘*Office is not
just a few months,’’ she com-
mented, but a continuity that must
be maintained,

*‘Programs should now go into
effect,’’ she added, Instead, plans
for the semester must now wait
until the new leaders assume their
offices,

coal-broiled steaks every Satur-
day night and also all the ham-
burgers will be charcoal-broiled.
Thirdly, a policy of unlimited
seconds on everything except steak
is in effect, Fourthly, if a student
doesn’t like the dessert, ice cream
will always be available,

Saga handles all the buying, pre-
paration and serving of the food
in about 230 colleges and uni-
versities in the country, It began
in 1948 when the cafeteria at Ho-
bart College in Geneva, New York
closed because the students took
their business into town, complain-
ing that the food was terrible,
Three enterprising students de-
cided to take over the cafeteria
and concentrate on serving food that
the students would want to eat,
They were a fantastic success and
soon other colleges hired them,

When they decided to in-
corporate, New York business laws
required that they have a name
entirely original, After trying
names centered around ‘‘Geneva’’
and failing to fine one original,
they fell back on the Indian name
for the town, ‘‘Kanadesaga,’’ This
too had been used, but then they
cut out all but the last four letters,
and came up with ‘‘Saga,’’

Their main offices have recently
moved from Geneva to Palo Alto,
California, The three founders, now
in their forties, are stillin charge,

Bryn Mawr provided some extra

difficulties because of its de-
centralized food service, At
Swarthmore, for example, Saga

serves more people but needs only
two managers, while Bryn Mawr
has four, Saga came on campus
in late August for the first time,
so they are still ironing out the
bugs, and Martin said that the
food will be steadily improving.
There are plans for special events
as they have at other schools, such
as ‘‘Italian nights’? and outside
picnics, Another possibility is a
take-out pizza service from the Inn,

It is also possible for campus



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organizations to order food through
Saga for their teas, This is to be
done through Miss Josephine Mc-
Cusker, the purchasing agent whose
office is in Rock basement, For the
more formal teas, a one week
notice is needed and for simple
arrangements, three days,

Saga buys some of its food on:
a national basis, The canned goods
and coffee (Maxwell House) are
bought through national contracts,
However, this is not possible with
the perishable goods, and they are
bought locally.

A student food committee, con-
sisting of reps from each of the
dorms and classes is being form-
ed, It will act as liaison between
the students and the Saga officials,

Faculty Members
Return to BMC
From Sabbaticals

Ten professors who were absent
during all or part of the last
academic year have returned from
abroad,

Mr, Christoph Schweitzer,
chairman of the Department of
German, spent last year on sab-
batical in Berlin, Germany. Mr,
Eugene Schneider of the Sociology
Department returned from a year
spent on leave in the Netherlands,

Mr, Frederick Cunningham, as-
sociate professor of mathematics
remained in Paris for the duration
of his leave, Another professor
who spent the latter part of the
year in France was philosophy pro-
fessor Mr, Hugues LeBlanc, who
remained in residence at Bryn
Mawr for the initial months of
his sabbatical,

Mr, Charles Mitchell, chair-
man of the History of Art De-
partment, returned from Italy via
London, and the Chemistry De-
partment’s Mr, George L, Zim-
merman returned from England
via Korea,

Others returning from leave
abroad include Miss Caroline Rob-
bins, chairman of the department
of History, Mr, M,E, Bitterman of
Psychology Department, Mrs,
Laurer who is head of the Depart-
ment of Social Work and Miss
Potter, associate professor of
philosophy,








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Communications

Miss McBride’s convocation speech Monday pointed up the necessity
for interdepartmental communication, such that students would get to
know faculty members other than those in their major field alone,
An outstanding example of an attempt in this direction is the new course
entitled, ‘‘The Symbolist Movement in European Literature,’’ a study of
English, French, German, Spanish and Russian poets, The faculty
members involved are giving of their own time on a volunteer basis,

With the growing number of double majors at Bryn Mawr, as well
as the increase in students taking five courses in order to supplement
their liberal arts education, as well as the more and more common
practice of submitting a single term paper for two related courses,
an expansion of interdepartmental offerings seems imperative if not
inevitable, The Bryn Mawr curriculum has been and still is in a state
of flux, and it is in this transition stage that the foundations for a more
fulfilling education are to be laid, A course such as the five-department
literature study above, provided that the response is adequate, could even
expand itself gradually into an entire major department in comparative
literature,

Other interdepartmental courses, as simple combinations of in-
dividual department offerings, could easily have more immediate ad-
vantages for Bryn Mawr students, who perhaps tend to segregate them-
selves in certain fields once the distributional requirements are out of
the way. Again, an important aspect of combination courses is their
use of professors from different departments, Within the science
departments, the modern language departments, the classics depart-
ments, the art and archaeology, even music departments, seem to be
numerous possibilities for joint endeavors, Hopefully Curriculum Com-
mittee has picked up the cue for a study of the feasibility of a greater
interdepartmental program,

Absentee Ballot

The returning classes have some especially noticeable gaps, Girls
elected last spring to positions of campus responsibility have defaulted,
transferring to other schools and leaving their posts empty.

Spring elections are designed to meet a double purpose, They
relieve weary incumbents, particularly seniors, and allow their re-
placements to learn the details of the job with an experienced supervisor,
When the fall term begins, these student executives should be ready
to launch a semester of plans,

When students accept candidacy for these offices, they may forget
in the midst of election fever that the victor also inherits some
strings, A last-minute change in plans leaves an organization un-
organized, and prime action is lost to new elections,

We do notclaim that a student should sacrifice all other considerations
to her extracurricular ties, but neither should the reverse hold
true, A position sought in the spring implies autumn responsibilities,
and anyone entertaining doubts about her tenure has cause to doubt
her eligibility,

The vacant posts will be filled by students with the virtue of Bryn
Mawr enrollment, but the stimulation of election season and its
resulting platforms are lost for the year, When nominations are
next in order, we hope that all those accepting will first consider
the burdens of office,

Tragicomety

Besides the usual first-week-of-school conversations about new
classes, new teachers, and new friends, the dorms have been full of
talk and rumors about the Comet’s new hours, Girls who have talked
with Paul about it have come away with contradictory impressions:
either the new owner Mr. Tony Diakopos has taken a firm stand with
the new schedule and will never change, or else that he is amenable
to a return to the old hours,

‘tNever’? is too absolute to be true and the NEWS suggests that
students give it the old college try. The Comet in the early morning
is almost as traditional as Lantern Night and Greek hymns. Its
location between the Bryn Mawr and Haverford campuses acts as a
social link between the two schools. Granted that Saga is great, but
sometimes the desire for a milkshake and a hamburger steak at
midnight is overwhelming,

One of the counter-men told some Bryn Mawr girls who were buying
an avacado in an all-night supermarket that the broken windows Mr,
Diakopos has spoken of were caused by Villanova students. The
argument goes that if Villanova boys did the damages, why should
Bryn Mawr and Haverford be penalized? But it doesn’t seem feasible
that someone stand outside and ask for matriculation cards to make
sure no Villanova students get in.

Rather we suggest that a tri-college committee of Bryn Mawr,
Haverford, and Villanova students be formed to present the case to
Mr. Diakopos. The possibility of being open at least until 2:30 or 3:00
could be mentioned. Whatever happens, we should try to convince him
that there are more ‘‘very nice’? students than ‘‘very, very bad’’ ones,



Letters to the Editor

Resignation

To the Editor:

I am writing this letter to the
student body both as an apology
and as an explanation for the pres-
ent vacancy in the office of Under-
grad Secretary to which I was
elected last semester, A special
campus-wide election will now have
to be held to elect anew Secretary,
and in this regard I want to say
that it was NOT without compunc-
tions that I decided to attend the
University of Michigan for my own
sort of ‘‘Junior-year Abroad’”’ pro-
gram,

My decision to attend the U, of
M, was not at all an easy one, and
as some of my friends in Erdman
know, it was made after a good deal
of ‘‘talk’? and soul-searching, A
contributing factor to my indecision
was my office as Secretary which
I both enjoyed and felt an obligation
to perform, However, the opportun-
ity of spending a year at the Uni-
versity of Michigan and having a

Blu Comet Closes
At Midnight Hour
To BMC Dismay

The Blu Comet, not-so-fashion-
able watering place of Bryn Mawr,
Haverford and Villanova students,
as well as truck drivers passing
through, changed hands this sum-
mer and has instituted new hours.
It will be open from 6 a.m, till
12 midnight every day. Formerly,
it was open 24 hours a day, but
closed on Mondays,

Mr. Tony Diakopos, the new
owner who also works there until
6 p.m, or so, explained that the
time change was prompted by a
‘lot of trouble with students at
late hours.’’ He cited broken win-
dows and a court case arising
out of problems last year. He told
this reporter that although there
were some ‘‘very nice students’?
there were also some ‘‘very, very
bad’? ones,

Reactions on the Bryn Mawr
campus have been almost unani-
mously those of dismay, Walking
in to the Comet (or Vomit as it
is sometimes called) around 12:30
has become a strong habit for
many Mawrters, Stopping there
on the way back from Haverford at
1:30 is also somewhat of a tradi-
tion, Then the Haverfordians often
go in on their way back from
Bryn Mawr after 2a,m, There have
been rumblings of petitions and
protests at the curtailing of these
pleasures,

Diakopos is not absolutely im-
movable with respect to the new
hours. He knows he will be losing
business as well as friends, Also
to be taken into consideration is a
15¢ hamburger Hot Shoppe opening
across the street, However, he
seems to be sure that he wants to
keep the new hours for some time
yet, if not permanently,

One other change has been noted
at the Comet, The behind-the-
counter team of Paul and Charlie
has been broken, Charlie has left
and is reputedly working some-
where else down the Main Line,

totally new college experience, I
must admit, won out in the end,

I have not lightly dismissed the
inconvenience which I have caused
as a result of the new election
which will have to be held, and I
want to apologize for this, I am
certain that a very qualified suc-
cessor will be elected, and to
whomever she may be, the best of
luck,

I have been at Michigan since
August 24, and a ‘‘new college
experience’ I AM by all means
having. To even begin to describe
here the differences between
B,M,C, and the U, of M., and my
impressions of the relative merits
of both schools, would take pages,
but I do hope to try my hand at
it sometime soon,

Andrea Marks, ’68



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everyone deserves a fresh start
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Thank-you

To the Editor:

Bryn Mawr’s new catering serv-
ice, Saga, is such a vast improve-
ment over last year’s food that
Merion Hall feels that a thanks is
due, Along with all the other well-
noted and well-needed improve-
ments in Bryn Mawr over the
summer, the change in the cater-
ing service is greatly appreciated,
The food is not only of better
quality, but also more attractive
and more abundant, Steak every
Saturday night was almost more
than we could believe, but now we
hear that in addition it will be
charcoal-broiled outside’ the
dorms,

Last year we all discussed the
College Inn and what we coulddo to
make it presentable, but now Saga
has performed a miracle there too,
That means that we will not be
reluctant to take our parents and
our dates there, so the Inn should
prosper and get even better!

Merion Hall would like to feel
that we are speaking for the whole
campus when we offer our hearty
thanks for this great new catering

service,
MERION HALL

College Witnesses
Three Retirements

Three members of the Bryn
Mawr faculty and staff have re-
tired over the summer, Former
Dean of the Graduate School and
professor of biology Eleanor Bliss
has been replaced by Mrs. Eliza-
beth Read Foster, who will also
teach history.

Miss Dorothy Wyckoff, longtime
member of the Geology Depart-
ment, has also retired, She is
planning to remain in the Bryn
Mawr area and has moved into an
apartment on Montgomery Avenue,

Miss Charlotte Howe has been
with Bryn Mawr since 1930, When
she tendered her resignation she
was Director of Halls and Head
Warden, Miss Sara Wright, who
has been connected with the Frank-
lin Institute, has been selected as
her successor, Miss Howe has
bought a house in Villanova,

HUAC Demands Papers
From Haverford, Stetler

At the beginning of August, the
House Unamerican Activities
Committee subpoenaed = certain
written documents from Haverford
College, The documents contained
information reputedly linking the
college and students to two rebel
supportive organizations in South
Viet Nam, the U.S.A, May Second
Movement and the National
Liberation Front,

The subpoena, addressed to
President Hugh Borton, was re-
ceived in his absence by Provost
Louis Green, chairman of the As-
tronomy Department at Haverford,
In effect, the subpoena called for
the college to deliver to the com-
mittee two basic kinds of infor-

mation,

The first kind of document re-
quired by the committee was any
correspondence between the col-
lege as an official institution and
the May Second Movement Com-
mittee, or any such corres-
pondence initiated or received by
the college from the National Lib-
eration Front group, The College,
in its reply to the committee,
stated that no such information
had passed between the college
or either of these organizations,

The second kind of document
demanded by the subpoena was a
copy of any correspondence be-
tween the college and Russell Stet-

(Continued on page 6)



Fonaght.







No 2:00 signouds Again.




The Comet closes at /2,
you Knew.








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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



President Lists ‘Winter Jobs’ Urban Affairs Series to Begin;
At Opening Assembly Monday

Miss McBride opened Bryn
Mawr’s”) eighty-second academic
year Monday morning with a con-
vocation speech citing the college
community’s ‘‘big jobs for the win-
ter,’’

Teaching and research are first
on the list, while ‘‘a continuing
study of the undergraduate cur-
riculum’’ is to be a second im-
portant concern, A
changes have been made recently
in regard to work outside the
major field of study; Miss Mc-
Bride is calling now for a review
of the sequences of work within
the major field,

The President went on to sug-

series of

Senior Appointed
To Warden Post
At Spanish Hall

Dabney Harfst, a member of the
senior class, is serving as warden
of the Spanish House this year.

She recently returned from a
two-year absence from Bryn
Mawr, during which time she spent
her junior year abroad in Madrid,
and then took another year of in-
dependent study in Spain.

Among the independent courses
she pursued were the history of
Spanish music and _ Hispanic-
American literature. She also at-
tended a ceramics school in
Madrid.

Carmen Robledo, the former
warden of Spanish House, is now a
warden in Rhoads Hall.



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gest a review of matters of im-
portance for the graduate school,
with an eye toward an increase in
size, with the faculty growing pro-
portionately,

Further, with an increase in
numbers of the student body on the
undergraduate level should come
an improvement in communica-
tions, Miss McBride offered two
examples of possibilities for bet-
ter campus communications:
among students among halls, and
among students and faculty out-
side the major department.

A third sector of work which
Miss McBride discussed was com-
munity relations--for example, the
students’ tutorial projects and the
faculty’s governmental commit-
ments,

Said Miss McBride, the present
day does not allow for ivory towers,
especially in education,

Earlier in her speech, the Presi-
dent made mention of changes and
appointments in the faculty and
staff. The new Dean of the Gradu-
ate School, Mrs. Elizabeth Read
Foster, has been in her office a
month, having replaced Dean Elea-
nor Bliss, while Miss Charlotte
Howe, Bryn Mawr’s former ‘‘ex-
pert in crime,’’ has retired as
Director of Halls, Mr. Paul Klug
will serve as business manager
of the college as well as comptrol-
ler,

Miss Susan Maxfield has been
appointed associate professor of
Education and Child Development

and director of the Phoebe Anna
Thorne school,

The college will host a second
intern in academic administration
this year: Jacqueline Sterner of
the University of Arkansas,

Miss McBride also noted that
Goodhart now possesses a greatly
improved music library, and that
the new library will definitely take
over the Deanery site. Since the
final specifications for the library
are incomplete, and since more
than half the money for the build-
ing is yet to be raised, there areno
dates at this time for the beginning
of construction,

Alliance Plans Spring Conference

Alliance,
Drewdie Gilpin, has two big pro-
jects under way. The first is for
the fall weeks between October 11
and November 21, The second is a
two-or three-day conference
scheduled now for the weekend of
March 4,

Starting October 11 will be a
series of lectures and discussions
on urban affairs and problems.
Mr, Eugene Schneider of the Bryn
Mawr Sociology Department will
give the first lecture that evening,
which will serve as an introduction
to the whole series,

headed this year by

The next week, Mrs, Harriet
Reynolds, Assistant Director of
Education for the Urban League,
will speak, One of the other
speakers will be Mrs, Ersa Poston,
who is head of New York City’s
Office of Economic Opportunity,

The problems of the city to be
discussed will go beyond the facts
and figures of unemployment and
housing difficulties, Drewdie wants
to include some of the emerging
philosophy of urban life, the mount-
ing transportation problems, the
question of alienation in large

Discussion Series Views

Goals, Problems of BMC

The Educational Goals Commit-
tee, a subsidiary of Curriculum
Committee, is organizing an in-
tensive series of discussions on
the purpose and practice of a Bryn
Mawr education,

Five sessions within an eight-
day period beginning October 3
will investigate the life of the
college community, with special
emphasis on problems and com-
plaints,

The plan for the series originated
with its three chairmen, Dorothy
Dow, Nancy Gellman and Margaret
Levi. They hope to stimulate
thoughtful discussion about Bryn
Mawr and to air the general gripes
about the college.

Each session will open with short
talks of about 10 minutes by twoor
three speakers from the student,
facuLty, and administrative
branches of the school, Following
the speeches, workshops with dis-
cussion leaders will develop the
themes introduced,

The first session, scheduled for
October 3 in the Common Room,
features Mrs, Marshall and a
B,M.C, graduate speaking about the
purpose of a Bryn Mawr education,

The succeeding sessions will be
held after dinner in the dorms. At
the second meeting, October 4,
Miss McBride and Mr, Bachrach
will speak, Their topic is ‘‘How

Bryn Mawr Plans to Achieve its
Purposes; What is its Concept
of the College as a Community?’’

Plans for the October 6 session
are still indefinite, but the subject
will be connected with the Self-
Gov association,

At the fourth meeting, Margaret
Levi and a faculty member will
consider the effect of Bryn Mawr
on its community members,

Mrs, Pruett and a faculty member
will join the final session, They
will present a_ psychological
approach to the normal changes
that occur during the student’s age
period, considering as well how the
college should handle these in-
evitable problems,

A completed schedule will be
circulated to all students by early
next week, and a bookshelf in the
Reserve Room will be devoted to
works on higher education.

All sessions will be taped, At
the conclusion of the series, there
will be a general meeting to decide
on future steps, which might in-
clude additional sessions on other
issues raised by the discussions,

Co-chairman Margaret Leviem-
phasizes the experimental nature
of the project. She hopes to bring
to light common complaints and
perhaps arouse a sense of com-
munity responsibility,

Four Fifth-Year Students on C



Po 2

by Robin Johnson

Studying at Bryn Mawr this year
will be four ‘‘special’’ or ‘‘fifth-
year’? students, all of whom have
received the B.A. degree at other
colleges, but will be taking under-
graduate courses at Bryn Mawr
to supplement their education be-
fore going on to graduate schools,

Bryn Mawr has taken fifth-year
students before, but this year all
four are sponsored by a new
financial aid program known as the
Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship
Program,

Co-ordinator of this program is
William Edward Cadbury, Jr., Dean
of Haverford College. Following
the announcement last January ofa
grant from the Rockefeller Founda-
tion to finance a fifth year for 30
Post-Baccalaureate Fellows, Dean
Cadbury has been a principal fund-

Rosemary Maddox and



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Gloria Webb.

raiser for the program and also
has made trips to various colleges
and universities, setting up inter-
views with qualified students,

During this opening year of the
program, 32 Fellows are studying
at five of the several small liberal-
arts colleges participating in the
program: Bryn Mawr, Haverford,
Swarthmore, Oberlin, and Knox,
All these colleges are ideal for
the program since they are (with
the exception of Bryn Mawr) nearly
exclusively undergraduate col-
leges, and hence more suitable
for Fellows seeking to supplement
previous study, but not to go right
ahead to graduate work.

The four Post-Baccalaureate
Fellows at Bryn Mawr this year
all seriously do intend to work to-
ward higher degrees in their
various fields, Rosemary Maddox,
who comes from a very small town

in Georgia called Attapulgus, grad-
uated last year from Delaware
State College in Dover, Delaware.
Her major there was English, and
Rosemary wants to do her graduate
work in English -- perhaps at
Bryn Mawr, perhaps at Penn,

She says that she decided to take
a fifth year here to ‘‘strengthen’’
both areas of greatest interest to
her: contemporary English
literature and Shakespeare, This
year she may also try to make up
her mind as to which of these
areas she will want to concen-
trate on for the Ph,D, However,
Rosemary is listening to a French
course here as well as taking the
appropriate English courses,

Gloria Webb, of Mobile, Ala-
bama, is studying biology here;
she graduated as a biology major
from Dillard University in New
Orleans, She spent her junior year
at Wellesley, and ‘‘liked the en-
vironment’? of this kind of liberal-
arts college so much that she chose
Bryn Mawr when she decided to take
a fifth year, She wants to go on to
graduate school in biology, later
to go into research or teaching,
but she describes her stay at Bryn
Mawr as a ‘profitable year off.’’
She was uncertain in her senior
year as to whether and where she
wanted to do graduate work, and
so waited past application dead-
lines; she had really planned to
take a year off until the fellow-
ship opportunity appeared,

Phyllis Sloss, another English
major, also described her year
at Bryn Mawr as ‘‘a chance to
study: an opportunity with no
strings attached,’’ Free from the

pressures of degree requirements,
Phyllis wants to use the year as
a chance not only to ‘‘probe deeper
into my subject matter’? -- but
also to ‘‘explore other areas --
not just English,’’

Phyllis graduated from Fisk Uni-
versity and lives in Nashville,
Tennessee, She says she is im-
pressed by the Bryn Mawr at-

mosphere, which she says
encourages students to be
‘enthusiastic about learning,’’

‘«Education,’? she feels, ‘‘is a way
of thinking’’ involving ‘‘not
quantity, but quality.’’ She thinks
that she has found a way this year
to pursue academic subjects freely,
for their own sake, before attack-
ing the requirements for a higher
degree, She especially wants to be
able to write, She has written much
poetry recently and wants to start
work on a novel

cities, de facto segregation and
crime in the city,

One of the solutions to the big
city’s problems now being tried is
that of massive federal aid. The
pros and cons of this will be dis-
cussed, By means of speakers
with opposing points of view it will
try to be discovered whether this
amounts to just pouring in a lot
of money that never reaches where
it is most needed, or whether it
is actually achieving its goals,

In the spring, there is a con-
ference planned on governmental
secrecy, This topic won by al-
most 2 to 1 in the Alliance poll
last spring, It is still in the tent-
ative stages, with the funds prob-
lem holding back the recruitment
of speakers, A discussion of FBI
and CIA procedures will probably
be included, Basically, it will at-
tempt to discover whether or not
governmental secrecy is com-
patible (and if so, to what extent)
with the kind of participatory demo-
cracy that is thought to exist inthe
U.S,

September 26 there will be an
Alliance Dessert at 7:00p.m., inthe
Common Room, to introduce in-
terested freshmen to the Alliance
officers, and to Alliance activities
this fall, Besides the urban affairs
series, there will be SAC elections;
a possible formation of a Bryn
Mawr Young Republicans group
as well as a branch of the Young
Americans for Freedom; and or-
ganization of all those students
who want to work for Milton Shapp,
Democratic candidate for governor
of Pennsylvania,

Practice Schedule
Of Music Group

Chamber music groups, under
the direction of Mme, Agi Jambor,
will have regular practice ses-
sions Wednesdays from 10 a.m, to
noon and Thursdays from 10:30
a.m, to noon,

Students interested in joining
the groups should report to Mme,
Jambor’s office in Goodhart Hall

Before going on to a Ph.D, in
sociology, Laura Kay took ad-
vantage of the Fellowship program
because she wants simply to get
more of a ‘‘firm footing’? in her
field, She lives in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, and majored in sociology
at Virginia State College in Peters-
burg. She wants to teach sociology
in college when she eventually
follows up this year with work for
her Ph.D., for which she is con-
sidering enrolling at the University
of Michigan,

She took the opportunity to come
to Bryn Mawr specifically because
her brother-in-law studied here
last year in the School of Social
Work, and recommended it to her,
Along with the other fifth-year
students Laura has high hopes for
her year here which could combine
the freedom of a ‘‘year off’? with
solid preparation,

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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Friday, September 23, 1966







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The bride is seated under a canopy of muslin held by her sisters
and is reading the Koran. The woman on the right is passing a
needle with seven loose threads repeatedly through the cloth to
bring good luck to the marriage.

Student at Moscow U.
Finds “Magic,” Contrast

by Helen Feldman, '68

As an American student studying
in the Soviet Union this summer,
I shivered as I viewed Lenin in
his mausoleum, wandered among
glittering onion-domed churches,
many of them converted into
factories, some preserved as
monuments to the past, a few left
open to accommodate the old
‘‘babushkas’’ who still cling to
their religion, Red Square seemed
a magic place, where St. Basils
looms like a fairy tale castle
in striking contrasts to the drabbly
socialized store fronts and end-
less sidewalk kiosks, I groaned
appropriately at the nightmarish
Stalinist bric-a-brac on Moscow
State University, where I lived,
and I was properly impressed by
the Russians’ heroic ability to
consume vast amounts of straight
vodka,

But as I was obliged to speak

Only a few vignettes which may
provide some insight into the
making of the modern German
mind:

*” * *

The attitude of the Berliner
toward the Americans in a
political sense is, in many cases,
ambivalent. On the one hand, the
Americans are lauded for their
tactics of the airlift during the
Berlin blockade; on the other hand,
they are condemned for their
naivete in international maneuver-
ings. For example, had the
Americans occupied the part of
Germany which they actually over-
ran, instead of adhering
idealistically to a preordaining
treaty concerning Germany’s di-
vision, East Germany might
be half its size today,

Possessing this attitude, a Ger-
man student pointed out to
me a newspaper item about a
Bavarian’s being severely injured
when an American bashed him with
a beer’ stein in Munich’s
Hofbrauhaus. It was perhaps
provincialism that caused this stu-
dent to remark that Bavarians
are noted for rowdiness and bad
taste anyway. But I was mildly
surprised when he added, ‘‘We
have a favorite saying in Ber-
lin, ‘There are people, and then
there are Bavarians and Ameri—
cans,???

* * *

Then again, it is undoubtedly

only Russian, I was able to form
many mixed impressions from my
revealing friendships with Soviet
young people. Some young Soviets
respond enthusiastically to the call
of what they consider a dynamic
new society, while others seethe
with discontent under what they feel
is stifling totalitariansim.

On Gorky Street, just beyond
Mayakovsky Square, young people
line up nightly outside the Cafe
Molodyoshd, a jazz ‘‘nightclub,”?
It was here that I spent my eve-
nings with Igor and Andrei, poorly
paid musicians by profession, and
Irina, a music teacher. Jazz has
not yet been fully accepted as
legitimate music by the Authori-
ties, and consequently, these
musicians sit nightly listening to
the Voice of America, transcribing
American jazz note by note from
the radio. For them, promises of

(Continued on page 8)

by Nanette Holben

the American troops that are West
Berlin’s solution to survival. To
wit--

One night I had arranged to
meet a friend under the clock at
the S-Bahn station in the center
of Berlin. As I stood there
waiting, a group of German boys
passed by, and began to insist that
I join them ‘‘for a cup of coffee.??

I refused their invitation as
persistently as they kept offering
it. As yet they had no idea I was
American, for I had been answer-
ing in German,

Finally I had had enough, so
I calmly threatened in slow, de-
liberate English: “If you guys
don’t scram [ll tell my father the
general to take his troops out of
Berlin.”?

Never have I told such an effec-
tive lie. Their mouths opened
in mild shock, and they mumbled
embarrassed apologies as they
hurriedly disappeared down the
street,

* * *

The tomb of Napoleon in Paris
is impressively huge and effec-
tively awe-inspiring. I happened
to have visited this particular
shrine with my Experiment in In-
ternational Living group leader
from Berlin.

‘‘Interesting,’? he said, ‘‘that
Napoleon was thrown out of France
by his own people, who eventually
realized how great France had been
under his rule, dug up his re-

Tradition Restricts Female Status
Observes B.M.C. Junior in Iran

As I sat dabbling my toes in the
bath-warm water of the Caspian
Sea about three weeks ago, I was
really perplexed as to how to
describe Iran adequately when J
returned home, For one often
describes an ‘‘underdeveloped’’
country like Iran, which has a
religion, culture, and history quite
different from one’s own, too
superficially or externally, It
is rather easy to describe the
strange but musical language of
Farsi, the proliferation of purely
decorative art (a result of the
Islamic ban on human represen-
tation within the mosques, once
the centers of most artistic en-
deavor, as a form of image wor-
ship), the pervasive color of brown
in a country 90% desert and moun-
tain (even to the mud-brick houses
that eventually crumble into dust),
and the eerie splendor of Perse-
polis in the early dawa, These
are all things one can see or
hear, but to capture their more
elusive aspects -- their cultural
and historic significance -- is
much more difficult,

One of the reasons this is so,
is that almost every traveler is a
chauvanist at heart, I was amazed
at how often I tended to judge
Iran by Western standards, In
fact some of the things I would
like to discuss are those as-
pects of the culture that, in liv-
ing with a family, were most diffi-
cult to adapt to,

One fascinating aspect of Iran
is the restricted status of women,
This is partly the result if Is-
lamic teaching, and women ingen-
eral are considered as of little
account, to be neither seen nor
heard, Their morality is much
stricter than ours, and in general
(except for the upper classes)
there is no dating, and parties
are either all-girl or all-boy,
Most women still wear the cha-
door (a head-to-foot veil to be
worn outside the home, and some-
times inside, in the presence of
men or strangers) on the street,
and it is a part of the marriage
ceremony in traditional families

Sojourn in West Berlin Provides

Vignettes of Life in Divided City

mains, and built this monument.’’

A moment later he added, “I
bet within 50 years Germany will
have a similar shrine to Hitler,
because we Germans too will re-
member only the glory. It always
happens that history tends to for-
get itself.’?

* * *

This same group leader was
attending the Free University in
Berlin in the early days of the
wall. Many of his classmates
had been trapped in the eastern
zone, and he became involved in
plans to aid their escape.

Concealing several passports
designating citizenship in the West,
he drove across the border and
met three friends there whom the
passports had been chosen to fit.
There was one small problem: the
passports were for three men, and
the friends happened to be two
boys and a girl. The success of
the escape depended entirely on
her disguising herself,

And so they prepared to go
west. At the border, one East
German guard studied the pass-
ports. All went well, until some
unforeseen slip revealed the
female refugee’s identity as a
girl.

The guard hesitated momen-
tarily, as if in indecision.
Then he leaned over to my West
Berlin friend and whispered, ‘‘Get
over the border quick, before
someone else finds you out.,,”?

by Balkie Collins, '68

to invest the bride with one as
a symbol of her increased respon-
sibilities and duties in marriage,
Women are still somewhat re-
stricted in their civil rights and
are not encouraged to develop their
intellectual capacities to any de-
gree, Most are encouraged to stay
at home (men often do all the family
shopping) and mind the house, I
could never go out alone outside
the home the entire summer,

Related to this is the preva-
lence of paternal authority within
the family, The father is never
questioned, nor is his right of
authority to dictate, This is true
in general throughout the society,
and people in uniforms get the
most deferential treatment within
a group, as they wear the trappings
of authority, Yet Iranians are
no more law-abiding than the rest

of us, They never question the

right or morality of a law to
exist, but they will blithely ig-
nore it if they can or want to,
I have seen people repeatedly
drive through red lights on a
crowded intersection with police-
men looking on,

I could go on forever, but will
conclude with remarking that they
are the most hospitable people I
have ever met, They are very
warm and affectionate and would
do anything to make a guest of
theirs’ happy. But beware of
casually admiring anything in a
store window when one’s Iranian
host is near, for if he overhears
you, you may soon be the proud
possessor of an immense collec-
tion of articles one has no idea
what to do with,

Anthropology Student Describes
“Cowboys and Indians’ Summer

by Nancy Owens, '67

For nine weeks this summer,
I lived with another girl from
Seattle, who graduated in anthro-
pology last spring from Claren-
don College. Our home was alittle
mud-log house without water or
electricity, situated on top of a
small hill -in the rolling green
prairies of midwestern North
Dakota. Our neighbors, the closest
of which lived over a mile from
us or anyone else, were Indians
of the Independence community
on the Fort Berthold Indian res-
ervation,

To enable us to spend the sum-
mer in this community, I had
combined some Ford Foundation
funds for summer research with
American Friends Service Com-
mittee funds and additional money
raised by the Independence com-
munity church and the local Amer-
ican Legion. To help alleviate
the problems of the isolation of the
community and of its variousfam-
ilies one from another, we had
a little Dodge passenger bus for
transportation,

The first week or so was spent
meeting the community and dis-
cussing with the various families
what they would most like to have
us do. As a result of these dis-
cussions we started a day camp
program for the children and teen-
agers, and once a week we helped
transport the mothers to a cen-
tral meeting place to enable them
to hold their Homemakers meet-
ings (mothers? auxiliary of 4-H),

In addition we helped several
community projects come about,
mostly by spreading the work and
transporting people who other-
wise had no way to get there. Two
of these projects were evening
baseball games and the building
of a safe, sandy beach on nearby
Lake Garrison, which is a huge
reservoir created by the damming
of the Missouri River (and which
flooded out the former river-bot-
tom homelands of these Indians
in 1952),

I have entitled this article
‘‘Cowboys and Indians’? because
today’s Ft. Berthold Indians are
themselves now both at once. For
example, in order to indoctrinate
us into community life, the boys
felt it necessary to teach us to
ride horses, while the girls and
women taught us to Indian dance
and to do Indian beadwork,

Last year (1965) only four af
the 11 families I knew then were
raising cattle. This year $2500
loans available from the Farm
House Administration enabled
every family in the community
to stick their finger into the cow-
boy pie. By modern standards,
they will probably never make an
economic ‘‘go’”? of ranching on

such a small scale, but it has been
important to the men especially
to have this potentially gainful
occupation where formerly they
had none. Ranching has proved
a compatible way of life for the
Indians in adjusting from old In-
dian life, primarily because of
the important role of horses and
because of the thrill and excite-
ment of rodeos, Present-day In-
dians gain fame no longer from
warfare, but rather from local
and national rodeo competition.

Yet these Indian cowboys are
also very conscious of their ‘‘In-
dianness.’? The older ones con-
sciously seek to preserve their
identities as Indians, and the
younger ones enjoy participating
in the activities which promote
it. During the summer there are
Indian celebrations (also called
pow wows) nearly every weekend
at one reservation or another in
Montana and the Dakotas, Every
Indian who can will leave his work
to go ‘‘camping’? at the nearby
celebrations for their two to
three day duration.

The people tease each other
about their irresponsibility intak-
ing off this way, but they will tell
you that it is at these Indian
celebrations and dances that ‘our
people are the happiest,’ and it
would be un-Indian not to want
to go. Some go to dance, Many
others go just to watch. The
teenagers come to meet the op-
posite sex. (Almost no one in this
age-group Indian-dances, at least
not in public. Often there will
be a separate ‘‘white dance”? -.
rock and roll dances are called
‘‘white dances’? -- for the teen-
agers.)

Very good Indian dancers and
the drummers who also do the
singing sometimes spend the whole
summer making the circuit of
these celebrations, Men’s danc-
ing is the fancy dancing, and is
quite different from the simpler
women’s steps, Women’s rightists
here at Bryn Mawr will appre-
ciate the fact that girls are never-
theless allowed to dress and dance
as the men if they so choose, In
fact, the U.S, national champion
Indian dancer is a girl, She is
Joyce Crow Flies High, and is
from the Ft. Berthold Reserva-
tion, which meant that we saw
some very fine dancing this sum-
mer,

It was a wonderful experience
to live in a community as tightly
knit as Independence is, to cross
the threshold from being strang-
ers to becoming neighbors, and
finally to begin to see what it
means to be a ‘person’? jin
American Indian society,






Friday, September 23, 1966

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Operation Crossroads Africa
Recruits Mawrter to Uganda

by Margaret Levi, ’68

Kisabagwa, Uganda is a village
in the African sense, i.e. an area
given a name but without a real
center, located in the bush of the
Bunyoro district about 30 miles
from the Congo border. Land is
acquired by cultivating it, and
every African owns his ‘‘shamba’??
(farm) of anywhere’ from 100
square yards to prosperous
spreads of 150 acres, Bunyoro is
paradise -- the weather is beauti-
ful (no heat wave in Uganda this
summer!), and all one’ has to
do is throw a few seeds on the
ground, do about two hours of
work, and almost anything will
grow.

The people of Kisabagwa andthe
neighboring ‘‘villages’’ have al-
ready constructed a new primary
school and begun work on achurch,
but last year they decided that they
also needed a medical aid post to
service the 3000 people of the
area. (It doesn’t look like 100
people could be living nearby,
for the homes are well in the bush
and off the road. Then comes
market day ...!) The nearest hos-
pital is 11 miles away in Hoima,
the two-street town which is the
capital of the district, but the
roads are red dirt and trans-
portation is difficult, so they
formed a building committee, ap-
proached the community develop-
ment office, and, to their surprise,
were given not only the materials
but 30 workers as well,

I was one of the 11 Americans
in the group, for we were taking
part in Operation Crossroads
Africa, a private organization
whose purpose is topromote Afro-
American-Canadian understanding
through summer work projects.
The other workers were members
of the National Uganda Youth Or-
ganization (N.U.Y.O.) which is
dedicated to developing unity,
building the country, and foster-
ing leadership -- it is somewhat
comparable to our Job Corps.
None of these 17 young men had
completed high school -- some
had left, some had not passed the
exam to qualify for the small num-
ber of available places, and some
could not afford to continue, Pub-
lic education in Uganda entails
a fee, which would seem minimal
to us but is prohibitive to an
African parent, particularly onthe
high school level. However, the
university is free -- if one gets
that far.

The N,U.Y.O,’s and the villag-
ers were fascinated by the sight
of young university students --
some of them GIRLS! -- and their
professor-leader participating in
hard, manual labor, (The biceps
I have developed from helping to
dig a 25-foot deep latrine are
hard to believe, but one of the
Africans reassured me as I wor-
ried about my un-feminine mus-
cles, for he told me what a good
wife I would make, how I would
save my husband money by digging
the john myself!) One of the
major problems in Uganda is
young people like our counter-
parts, who have had enough ed-

Outing Club Picnic
At Valley Forge
Set for Saturday

Erica Hahn has announced that
the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Outing
Club will sponsor apicnic at Valley
Forge all day Saturday, September
24, It is primarily for freshmen,
put upperclassmen are also invited,

A charge of $1.00 will probably
be levied to pay for the food which
hopefully will be provided by Saga,
Rides will leave from Pem Arch
at 10:00 a.m, Saturday.

Erica and Susan Rotroff, the
Bryn Mawr Outing Club of~
ficers, are also making plans
for a weekend of sailing with
Princeton, possibly October 7.

ucation to feel that a return to
the farm or physical work is be-
neath their dignity but do not
have the training to be qualified
for anything else. We kept hear-
ing over and over -- from the
missionary who had organized a
successful resettlement scheme,
from the Minister of Economic
Planning -- that the most impor-
tant thing that Uganda could do
now is to diversify its agricul-
ture, and its young people are
needed to help.

The summer did entail a great
deal of frustration: the leadership
of our project was poor and our
construction experts unqualified,
there were some resentments be-
tween the African and American
workers due to cultural differ-
ences and ways of approaching
problems, and, of course, the Afri-
can pace of life is more casual
and unscheduled than the Ameri-
can is used to. But these prob-
lems were minor in contrast to
the fantastic experience of living
with, working with, and getting
to know the people of another
culture. The Africans began to
include us in their close-knit sys-
tem of inter-personal relation-
ships, welcomed us to _ their

churches, schools and homes, and
made us part of their families,

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Margaret Levi teaches songs during Operation Crossroads

this summer.

At the end of my junior year
in Rome, I walked into the of-
fice of the Festival ‘‘dei due Mon-
di” (or of ‘‘the two worlds,’’ the
United States and Italy) and volun-
teered to work in ANY capacity.

The Festival, going into its
tenth anniversary next year, is
organized with much sweat, blood
and headaches, by Gian Carlo
Menotti (‘*The Consul,’? ‘‘Amahl
and the Night Visitors,’’ etc.).
It is held every summer in Spo-
leto, a wonderfully intricate
medieval town which literally
bakes under a hot Tuscan sun,
The Festival has hosted Jerome
Robbins, Fonteyn and Nureyev,
Yevteshenko, Thomas Schippers,
Leontyne Price, Ezra Pound, Saul
Bellow and countless others,

I worked as an assistant set
designer and interpreter. When
I arrived at the beginning of June,
Spoleto was bustling with people
desperately preparing Debussy’s
‘¢Pelleas et Melisande.’? I soon
discovered that I was to put ina
ten-hour day, painting, cutting,
measuring, working mostly on my
knees,

I first met Menotti, dressed in
my paint-splattered work fatigues,
at a rehearsal. He was eager to
know how my work was progress-
ing and delighted that I spoke to

Nigerian Camp Counselor Survives

‘Twenty-Nine-Year-Long Summer

by Dora Chizea, '69
Say, the summer was long and
good. So good it almost put me
29 years behind. I managed to
survive it. I hope you can survive
the report.

As a matter of fact, all I want
to do now is wreck your nerves.
Yes! And if you are not prepared
to be wrecked, just forget this
article and do something else.

There is not much ‘‘fun’” in
telling you I had ‘‘French Fries
and Turkey’? during the summer.
You already know that. What you
don’t know however, is that I
lived with ‘‘lions’? this summer.
That’s the news: ‘‘lions!?? But
I know you have it wrong because
you are thinking of real ‘‘lions’’
while I am talking about ‘‘human
lions.’’? To bring it nearer home
to make my point, the lions were
* are. I mean there I was, actually
you did not go with me so you
could not have been ‘‘there.’?

When I first arrived in this half-
cleared piece of land in the middle
of nowhere I cried for help. ‘‘Help
for I am in a jungle!?? The answer
was ‘‘Shut up you are not in
Africa.??’ The answer was right
but it was also right: I was in
a jungle -- an American jungle!



Africa

by Ryna Appleton '68

him in Italian; he immediately
invited me to lunch at his villa
with several other apprentices.

The uniqueness of the Festi-
val as conceived by the ‘‘Maes-
tro”? (as Menotti is known to all)
and that which keeps it from be-
ing just another one of the many
European summer festivals, is
the opportunity and encourage-
ment given to students both to
work in the professional theater
and to produce their own plays,

Spoleto blossomed with cafes,
discoteyues and boutiques which
opened with the premier of ‘‘Pel-
leas.?? Opening night itself was
as exciting as the opening of the
Met in New York must have been.
The piazza in front of the thea-
ter was packed with Italy’s chic
jet-set, the diplomatic corps,
painters and Spoletini (the towns-
people).

I had the fantastic luck to work
with Valentini and Petrassi, Italy’s
top set designers, or perhaps I
should say set producers. In
contrast to this country, where
sets are turned out by large com-
panies and lots of machinery,
EVERYTHING in Italy is done by
hand, I will never forget the sight
of Petrassi hand-painting the 16
set changes for ‘‘Pelleas.’?

It was a madhouse at times,

I became confused.

How could that be? There was
a small path that led from the
main street into the camp. Yes
‘‘camp??--that was where I worked.
Were you trying to guess at what
I was saying? Well, wait a minute.
You will soon be told.

As I was saying, all I saw
was ugly overgrown grasses, tall
trees and a sad sky above, Of
course there were some hopeless
wooden houses called cabins. That
was the way I saw it. It had
no scientific attraction. And what
I am is a scientist. You might have
to wake Shakespeare from his
grave or get Anne Platt from
Rockefeller Hall to tell you the
beauty in the language of Nature
Lovers.

As for me, I had my fair share
of mosquito and bug bites to totally
refuse to admire Nature. My little
kids, classified as ‘‘under-
privileged,’? also had their share
of lice and bed bugs to agree with
my poor impression of Nature.

If the counselors were anything
they were irresponsible. The gen-
eral rule was to sleep all day

and play and drink all night.

Really friend, I do not know
if I should go into that now be-
cause it would mean writing till
the newspaper was filled. Let’s
have a deal, and only what I
write now and next time I will
plug in a few more points.

There was the day the counsel-
ors got so ridiculously crazy. I
promoted them from campers in
mentality to waste-products-of-
civilization, You know why? Well,
it was a Thursday, the camp was
going to have what you call a
Turn-Over-Day--(except that both
the camp and the brains turned over
that day). It was a day the coun-
selors washed plates and cleaned
the dining hall in place of the
Junior Counselors. The Junior
Counselors were to act as Coun-
selors.

I was very hungry that afternoon,
believe it. I had hurried into the
dining hall for food at the first
stroke of the bell. I had forgotten
it was a Turn-Over-Day. When I
got into the dining hall, I dis-

(Continued on page 8)

Senior Works in Mississippi
With Civil Rights Organization

by Alice Leib, '67
For ten weeks this summer I
worked in the Jackson, Mississip-
pi office of the Lawyers Consti-
tutional Defense Committee, an
affiliate of the American Civil
Liberties Union, which provides
legal representation for the civil
rights movement and the Negro

community in the deep South,
LCDC represents the Missis-
sippi Freedom Democratic Pary
in ‘‘Connor V, Johnson,’’ a case
which is a potential key to the
redistribution of political power
in Mississippi. The suit contends
that the congressional reappor-
tionment plan adopted in April,
1966, by the Mississippi legisla-

‘ture was deliberately designed

to dilute Negro voting strength
by so constructing district boun-
daries to prevent the formation
of an effective Negro voting ma-
jority,

In the adopted plan each of the

Ballet Dancer Demands Scotch
At Spoleto’s Festival in Italy

with people screaming in var-
ious languages, declarations of
impossibility, photographers clut-
tering the stage and Menotti
superbly serene in the eye of
the storm. But it was this crea-
tive confusion, this mixture of
all nationalities that made the
Festival so exciting.

A long-to-be remembered in-
cident occurred at a student-
given cocktail party for Fonteyn
and Nureyev. The dancer, aloof
and haughty in a corner, was
asked by a student if he cared
for some beer. The reply was
a frozen ‘‘No!?? followed by a
demand for scotch, When Nureyev
learned that there was no liquor
at the party, he stalked out of the
room leaving a trail of broken
cocktail glasses behind him.
Everyone felt rather awkward
until Menotti laughed and dashed
his glass to the floor, soon to be
followed by all of us, leaving
about 300 shattered cocktail
glasses to be swept up, The eve-
ning ended happily and Nureyev
soon came back clutching a bot-
tle of scotch.

Anyone interested in Spoleto
should watch the Bell Telephone
Hour’s program on the Festival
this Sunday night, September 25th.

five districts is approximately
equal in population and appears
as integrated as possible, A racial
breakdown of the figures for each
district reveals that in each in-
stance Negroes constitute an inef-
fectual minority, What the Legi-
slature has done is to split the
most populous Negro region, the
Delta--historically, geographical-
ly and culturally a single unit-
four ways. In no district is there
sufficient ‘‘black power’? either
to elect Negro congressman or to
swing an election of a moderate
candidate who promised to be res-
ponsive to Negro interests in ex-
change for Negro votes,

In other words, the new appor-
tionment scheme denies to the
Negro citizen a base of power,
one which would enable him to
negotiate from a_ position of
strength rather than weakness,
The situation is analogous to that
in which multimember districts
are established which have the net
effect of rendering a minority
group that would otherwise be a
majority inasmaller single-mem-
ber district, a minority in the
larger multimember district,

The Legislature was well aware
that the 1965 Voting Rights Act
and the SNCC registration drives
had created enough pockets to
Negro voting strength to threaten
previously all-white strong-holds
in state and national politics,

In addition to demonstrating the
intent of the Legislature to dis-
criminate, the suit offers two al-
ternative reapportionment plans
which leave the Delta region in-
tact, thereby creating one district
in which Negroes have a realis-
tic chance of electing a candidate,
The value of alternative proposals
is to show that a more equitable
manner of districting is possi*le
and to provide a standard bywu.ch
actual relief granted can be
measured,

CONNOR V, JOHNSON exempli-
lies how law and legal organiza-
tion can effectively serve the
movement, Law alone will not bring
change; legal decisions must be
enforced, and as_ the still-
segregated Southern schools indi-
cate, Supreme Court decisions are
often ignored,

I came away from the South
convinced that the solutions to the
southern dilemma are political,
If the reapportionment suit is suc-
cessful and the MFDP can elect
a representative responsible to
the black community, the first
dimension of participatory dem-
ocracy will have been achieved in
Mississippi,




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Page Six

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Friday, September 23, 1966



Curriculum Changes Feature
Interdepartmental Lit Course

A new interdepartmental course
is drawing together professors
from five departments to teach
‘The Symbolist Movement in Euro-
pean Literature,’’

The course, Indepartmental
310a, will study the works of Eng-
lish, French, German, Russian,
and Spanish poets of the late nine-
teenth century on a comparative
basis,

Mr, Berthoff, Miss De Graaff,
Mr. Gonzalez-Muela, Miss Jones,
and Mr, Vordtriede are the par-
ticipating professors, Mr, Schweit-
zer will serve as co-ordinator,

The format of the course con-
tains lectures and oral reports,
Admission to the class requires
a good command of two modern
European languages, completion of

Chorus Announces

Concert Schedule

For Coming Year

The Bryn Mawr College Chorus
had its first rehearsal Tuesday
evening, attended by all persons
interested in participating. Di-
rector Robert L, Goodale will
conduct auditions in about two
weeks,

President of the group, which
rehearses each Tuesday and
Thursday from 7:10 - 8:30 p.m.
in the music room of Goodhart,
is Helen Stewart.

The Chorus schedules six con-
cert dates for the 1966-67
academic year: November 12 with
Columbia University at Bryn
Mawr; December 11, a Christmas
service at Bryn Mawr; December
12, a Christmas service at Haver-
ford; February 25 with Williams
College at Bryn Mawr; March 19
with Columbia again at St. Thomas
Church in New York City; and April
22 with Haverford at Bryn Mawr.

Among the major works to be
performed are Comes’ ‘‘Beatus
Vir”; Britten’s ‘‘Ceremony of
Carols;?? Bach’s ‘‘Cantata No. 4??
(Christ lag in Todesbanden’),
and a major work by Stravinsky. .

All students are invited to
attend the next few preliminary
rehearsals,

advanced literature courses in a
modern language department, and
permission of the co-ordinator,

Scheduled for Thursdays from
4 to 6 p.m., the class met for the
first time September 22 in the Ely
Room,

Topics included in the curri-
culum include German philosophi-
cal idealism, Romanticism and
Novalis -- their significance for
the symbolist movement; Baudel-
aire and Mallarmé; Edgar Allen
Poe; Verlaine and Rimbaud; Eng-
lish-American parallels; Rubén
Dario and other Latin American
and Spanish authors; Symbolism
in Russian poetry; Stefan George
and Hofmannsthal,

Other college departments an-
nounce changes in their courses,
English 309a, medieval narrative,
Beowulf to Malory, will be taught
by Mr, Burlin,

The French Department will
supplement its ‘‘genre’’ courses
at the 300 level with one course
each year in a more specialized
field, This year, French 305 will
cover Realism and Naturalism of
the Nineteenth Century.

The half-year Homer course of
the Greek Department is expand-
ed to a full year, Extra work at
the 102 level is available for stu-
dents from other majors who wish
to gain a proficiency in Greek,

The Modern Near East course
of the History Department will be
given only second semester, The
one term course on Victorian Eng-
land will become a full year course
on Victorian and Edwardian Eng-
land,

Courses on the 300 level in the
History of Art Department will
deal with specialized areas,

Latin 101 is splitting into two
courses: Latin 101, similar to the
present advanced section of Latin
101 (for which, formerly, four
years of high school Latin were
required), and Latin 102, in which
more time will be devoted totrain-
ing in fundamentals (especially de-
signed for students with varying
Latin backgrounds),

The alternating Latin American
Politics and Latin American
Politics and Economics courses

(Continued on page 8)

Moscow Group to Open

Haverford Art Series

Haverford’s Art Series for the
first semester has been announced
by Bill McNeil, ’?68. There are to
be four concerts: two in October,
one in November, and one in De-
cember. The Art Series com-
mittee is enthusiastic, even
though some members think the
fall schedule is somewhat
crowded.

October 14 the Moscow Chamber
Orchestra will perform. This or-
chestra was founded in 1955
and taken over by the Ministry of
Culture in 1957, It is now headed
by Rudolf Barshoi, a _ noted
violinist. The entire orchestra will
be around Haverford and Bryn
Mawr for a couple of days, during
which time it will conduct Master
Classes. This will allow music
students to talk to and learn from
the orchestra members at close
range. While in this country, the
Moscow group will play 14 con-
certs, all of them in big cities
and big schools except for the
one at Haverford,

Erick Hawkins’ dance group
will return to Roberts Hall Octo-
ber 28, where it performed
several years ago, The group,
which will also conduct Master
Classes, brings with it its own
percussion orchestra, which will
Play for dances ranging from
classical to modern. Hawkins
trained under George Balanchine.

Junior Weekend and Swarth-
more Weekend are combined
this year during the November

18th weekend. Stan Getz and his
group will be performing that night,
In the past, Getz has played his
tenor saxaphone with the bands of
Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dorsey, and
Benny Goodman. More recently
he is identified with Brazillian
music, Charlie Byrd and his high
rating in the Playboy Magazine
All-Star Poll.

December 10, the great Indian
musician Ali Akbar Kahn will be
Playing. Other than Ravi Shanker,
Kahn is practically the only con-
tact Americans have with
Indian music. He is now teaching
at Berkeley. He’plays the sarode,
a 25-string guitar with no frets.
According to McNeil, it has 15
resonating strings that are not
plucked, four melody strings, five
for basic cords, and one rhythm
string. There are also drums,
and his wife plays the tamboura,
a long-necked lute.

Second semester is _ still
tentative. There are plans to get
some kind of comedy revue for late
February. The most ambitious
project is a Folk Festival for
May Weekend. McNeil is working
on this affair with George
Stavis,’67. They are now thinking
in terms of a very ethnic blues
and country and western music,
instead of the more well-known,
big-name groups. Whether or not
this is a success seems, at this
point, to be a matter of getting
the needed financial backing,

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and Andrea Post enact part of the Rhoads

Hall ‘‘Happening’’ planned for Freshman Hall Plays.

Frosh Prepare Dramas

For Coming

Freshman Hall Plays will be
presented on two nights, Friday,
September 30, and Saturday, Octo-
ber 1, in Skinner Workshop, The
evening performances are free to
all interested persons,

A faculty committee will ob-
serve the plays and the best per-
formance is recognized by award-
ing a bouquet to the winning dorm.

Among the offerings this year
are Merion’s ‘‘Snow White and
The Seven Mawters,’? a spoof on
the fairy tale, The plot has been
slightly modified in that Snow White
falls asleep as a result of the in-
fluence of Princeton Percy’s Bot-
tle; the Prince, Haverford Harry
fails to wake her with the kiss
because of his frightening appear-
ance; and as usual the Mawrter
comes to the rescue by reviving
her with a cup of tea, Sue Lawton
is the author of the fantasy, Carolyn

Papers to Offer
News Workshop
With Journalist

The Haverford News and the
COLLEGE NEWS together will
sponsor a journalism workshop
Saturday, October 1, for members
of the two newspaper staffs as
well as interested outsiders,

Mr. Charles Preston, amember
of the York, Pennsylvania Gazette
and Daily staff where Haverford
editor David Millstone worked this
summer, will conduct the session,

Preston, who has had experience
as awire editor, reporter, anddesk
man, also worked on the Indianapo-
lis Times and was public relations
director for Camp Breckenridge,
a Job Corps training camp in
Kentucky,

The workshops, which will take
place sometime in the afternoon
on the Haverford campus, will
concern good newspaper writing
(the basics of leads, checking of
sources, etc.) and the function of
the college newspaper as avehicle
for student expression. Plans for
Haverford-Bryn Mawr joint issues
will also be discussed.

The program will probably in-
clude an informal address by
Preston, and this year’s issues of
the Haverford News and _ the
COLLEGE NEWS will be used as
sources of criticism at the work-
shops,

If this year’s program is suc-
cessful, a similar program next
year will be planned with work-
shops in the morning and an ex-
panded program of speakers in
the afternoon.



Cource Conde

Course cards will be
due at the Recorder's Of-
fice by 5:00 P.M. on
October 5,







Hall Plays

Monka will direct, and Toby Horn
is stage manager,

Pat Rosenfield has been chosen
director in Pem West, and with
Constancia Warren as stage mana-
ger, will produce an original
adaptation of three ‘‘love comics,’’

In Pem East a modern melo-
drama with musical accompani-
ment is offered, with Suki Zimiki
directing and Clarissa Rowe stage-
managing, In Radnor, Karen Deta-
more and Charlene Sturgess,
director and stage manager will
present an adaptation of ALICE
IN WONDERLAND,

A Happening will occur
spontaneously and is ‘‘bound to
the unforgettable’’ according to
Rhoads director Marcia Bieder-
man and stage manager Andrea
Heaps,

Denbigh’s 18 freshmen will ap-
pear in parody on Midsummer-
night’s Dream entitled ‘*A Mid-
semester’s Nightmare,’’ Sara
Chilton will direct, and Carla Sam-
ples is stage manager,

Rock’s Barbara Knight and
Leslie Comassar will direct an
original tragedy entitled at present
‘“‘Who Gives a Hoot??? Barbara
Cohen is stage manager,

Haverford Seeks
Legal Precedent
In HUAC Case

(Continued from page 2)
ler, ’66, a student active in the
May Second Movement,

The college has on file two
pieces of information in this cate-
gory. The firstwas a memorandum
sent by the college to Stetler
asking him to stop using his Hav-
erford address as an official ad-
dress for the May Second Move-
ment, The college at no time re-
stricted Stetler’s activities with
the movement in accordance with
an academic policy of Haverford
College, This policy allows stu-
dents to participate in any type
of political activity, provided the
student does so as an individual
and does not involve the college
officially.

The second document in this
category was a personal letter,
written by Russell Stetler to an
academic officer of the college,
concerning his (Stetler’s) parti-
cipation in the May Second Move-
ment, Because this documentwas a
personal letter, the college sought
legal council,

As a result of the legal council,
the college agreed to send to the
committee the first of these docu-
ments, since it was a public mem-
orandum. They refused, however,
to send the second personal letter,
Although the decision. to act in
this manner was without pre-
cedent, the college felt a letter
of the nature of Stetler’s could claim
a certain academic immunity,
somewhat akin to the records of
psychiatrists, which fall under the
Classification of privileged com-
munications,

There has been, in the past, no
precedent for refusing to submit
material requested by a subpoena,
Wishing to remain within the
law, a faculty committee of Haver-
ford College is, according to Stu-
dent Council president Mike Brat-
man, presently at work attempt-
ing to formulate a policy which
will allow students to resist any
attempt of such organizations as
HUAC to ‘‘chill the academic free-
dom of it students,’’

Local Merchants Mourn
Inelegant Mawrter Attire

The Philadelphia Inquirer
registered an amusing dig at Bryn
Mawr and Haverford in one recent
issue, with happy observations
along this line:

‘In the Bryn Mawr shopping
area, on Lancaster Ave,, local
merchants aren’t turning cart-
wheels over the arrival of the
1,000 undergraduate and graduate
women at Bryn Mawr College,’’

The scintillating article con-
cerned the reactions of Main Line
businessmen to the nature of col-
lege trade, and its writer used
some magnificant logic to build
up to a quote from one pro-
prietor:

‘‘There must be a correlation
between brains and attire .,, May-
be the beats, who have plenty of
brains, feel they’ll lose their free
thinking or individuality by
dressing up,’’

An alliterate haberdasher in
Haverford made the comment:
‘‘Haverford College .., that’s the
sartorial slum of the Main Line,’?

The vice president of a specialty
sportswear shop had this to say:
‘The emphasis there (Haverford)
is on looking as terrible as pos-
sible ... Bryn Mawr included, but
there are notorious exceptions,’?
(This guy subscribes to GLA-
MOUR,)

From a women’s clothing store
came some wishful thinking: ‘¢If
they dressed like Vassar!’

And a hair stylist lamented:
‘Fifteen years ago we had to
hire extra girls to take care of
the college trade. Now all we get
are some teased styles from Har-
cum .., but that’s just for parties,”

It is said that members of the
Haverford drama club were once
unable to place advertisements in
the windows of local stores unless
they promised to shave their
beards, Perhaps the key to com-
patibility is totease their whiskers,

Dance Club Plans
Open Workshops
And Joint Concert

Programs for this year’s Dance
Club are tentative, but the club’s
chairman, Jackie Siegel, wants to
put less emphasis in the year’s
work on preparation for the spring
concert, and more on experiment-
ing with various forms of dance,
The club hopes to schedule several
workshops in dance during the year,
open to the student body,

Another project under con-
sideration is a concert of music
and dance to be presented just
before Christmas vacation with the
Renaissance Choir,
cipation of Haverford dancers will
be continued this year from the
start,

Jackie hopes to change the
regular Monday night meeting of
Dance Club to Tuesday night, Mon-
day night could perhaps be used as
rehearsal time for workshop
preparation groups,

The club will announce an open
meeting early in the semester to
meet new members, Jackie en-
courages anyone interested in
working on publicity for the group
to contact her,

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Seven



“Winter’sTale” First Production One of Life’s Important Lessons

As College Theatre Organizes

On November 4 and 5 Bryn
Mawr’s official theatre season will
open with the presentation of
William Shakespeare’s THE WIN-
TER’S TALE by the combined
Drama Clubs of BMC and Haver-
ford. Robert Butman, professor of
English and drama. at both colleges,
will direct the play on the NEW
Goodhart stage,

At the College Theatre tea, held
for old and new members Tuesday,
September 20, College Theatre
president Nimet Habachy stressed
the need for production crews in-
terested in all phases of theater-
craft. Working in these areas will
allow freshmen to become in-
volved in official productions, al-
though college rules do not allow
them to act until the second
semester.

Before the work begins on THE
TALE however, freshmen will pre-
sent hall plays in Skinner Septem-
ber 30 and October 1. The juniors
will stage their Junior Show Octo-
ber 7 and 8 in Goodhart.

In addition to these opportunities
for student theatre activity, Bryn
Mawr’s Little Theatre will begin
its second season December 9 in
Skinner Workshop. Little Theatre
was organized last spring as a
part of College Theatre. Its pri-
mary purpose is to offer com-
pletely student directed and stu-
dent produced plays, with a mini-
mum rehearsal time, and low bud-
get.

The choice of plays is left to
interested students and any sug-
gestions for such dramas may be
sent to Lessie Klein or Cathy
Sims in Pembroke West or Pam
Barald in Rock. Final decision

Alliance Sponsors
Foreign Service
Discussion, Film

Alliance ig sponsoring a tea in
the Common Room at 4:00 p.m.,
October 12 for Mr. Donald R,
Woodward, a Foreign Service Of-
ficer from the Department of State,
He will be discussing the work of
the U.S, Foreign Service and in-
forming interested students on how
to apply for Foreign Service jobs,

A film, ‘‘In Search of Peace’?
will be shown, It ‘‘depicts the prob-
lems of bringing about a just peace
throughout the world,’’

The next written examination for
the Foreign Service will take place
December 3, and applications for
the exam must be filed before
October 22, The same exam is
offered candidates for both the
Foreign Service and the U,S.1A,
Students successful on the written
exam will be invited to take an
oral examination before a panel
of senior officers during the spring,

The duties of Foreign Service
officers are mainly related to
political and economic reporting
and analysis, consular affairs, ad-
ministration and commerical work,
All candidates should be well-
grounded in economics, U,S, and
world history, political science
and government, In addition, many
officers are needed who have
specialized qualifications in ad-
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on the play will be made in con-
junction with Haverford at a meet-
ing to be held sometime in the next
two weeks,

Little Theatre’s initial pro-
duction, given last May, was Kauf-
mann and Hart?’s THE MAN WHO
CAME TO DINNER. One Bryn Mawr
English professor was heard to
remark that ‘‘it was one of the
finest examples of polished co-
operation and excellent comic tim-
ing’? he’d ever seen, ‘‘and all in-
how many -- only 11 days???

Praise for the three major pro-
ductions given last season was even
greater than in past years, accord-
ing to Director Butman, especially
among the faculty of both Bryn
Mawr and Haverford. The emphasis
this year will be on the kind of
artistic innovations which char-
acterized last years production
RICHARD II, (exploding arches --
sumptuous costuming), UNDER
MILKWOOD (a multi-level set with
swaying ships’ masts emerging
from a fog), and O’Niell’s
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO
NIGHT (when actors worked
through long hours of extra re-
hearsal, and stage crew built a
two-storied set to present ‘‘atruly
professional kind of drama’’),

Another aspect of theatre to be
emphasized this year is co-
operation between the twocolleges’
drama groups. In an election held
on Monday Sept. 19 at Haverford,
Al Brown ’67, Richard Gartner
767, and David Lowry ’67 were
elected president, vice president,
and publicity chairmen of the
Haverford drama group. They, with
Bert Kritzer, production manager,
and Harvev Rohrbach, treasurer,
comprise the officials of Haver-
ford’s group.

Their Bryn Mawr counterparts
are Nimet Habachy, president, Judy
Chapman, vice president, Janet
Ohle, production manager, Ann
Stehney, treasurer, and Betsey
Kreeger, publicity chairman.

Among the topics discussed by
these officers, with the old and
new members at the teaheld Tues-
day, were the new additions to
Goodhart stage which include a
new floor, new black velvet cur-
tains and further electrical work
done on the new lights board in-
stalled last year,

In addition to performances at
Bryn Mawr and Haverford, the
theatre groups will take pro-
ductions to the University of Penn-
sylvania in the fall and to Wash-
ington in the winter (January 6).
There the Bryn Mawr alumnae
of Washington will host the group’s
performances, the proceeds from
which go into the scholarship fund.

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Illustrated by Morgan’s Gorilla

by Emily McDermott

You see (I was saying to this
freshman) there’s this one movie
theater in the Ville, it thinks it’s
artsy-craftsy (catering to Main
Line society, you know), like it
specializes in black-and-white
films, HIGH prices and l-o-n-g
engagements. So l-o-n-g that when
I came back to school and saw
that they were playing a movie
I had already seen there three
times I gave up hope for first
semester. But then I thought So
what’s wrong with four times,
and I went.

You see, the movie that’s there
now is MORGAN! It’s one of those
movies that stir. up violent
reactions in some people--they
appropriate the whole movie for
their own, they figure they under-
stand it better than anybody else
(they IDENTIFY, as it were) but
at the same time they tend to lose
respect, or at least friendliness,
for anybody who, say, preferred
THE KNACK (you can tell when
the change takes place, they either
can think of nothing to do but utter
a scornful ‘‘FAUGH!”? or else
they give you a pitying look and
walk away trying to look arch).
But the point is this, no matter
how obnoxious these people can
get they’re pretty much justified
in their reaction because, you see,
MORGAN! is one of the best movies
that?s come out in past years, It’s
well acted by David Warner, Robert
Stephens and Vanessa Redgrave

(who won some sort of award for
her part as Morgan’s wife), it’s
funny--like when Morgan confronts
his wife’s loverin an art gallery
with an arsenal of weapons from
brass knuckles to switchblade and
winds up throttling him--but it’s
not JUST funny (that’s one of the
stickiest points in discussing the
movie with afervid Morganophile--
never say simply ‘‘it’s funny’’),
It’s an unpretentious tragi-
comedy--it provokes all sorts of
sociological psychological aesthe-
tic discussion--Morgan himself,
the lovable psychotic, invites
comparisoas with Don Quixote and
Elwood P. Dowd (his gorillas rank
with windmills and six-foot-two-
inch rabbits--they certainly lend
themselves well to movie direc-

The eternal triangle is of course
an element: Leonie, tiring of the
insecurity she married Morgan in
order to achieve, has fallen in love
with Morgan’s art dealer, Charles
Napier (Robert Stephens), and is
preparing to marry him. Her di-
lemma in having to choose between
Morgan and Napier is not as ime
mediately sympathtic as Morgan’s
situation but is nonetheless justas
real, Because she does love Mor-
gan still. As she says, ‘‘I’ll never
have you back, but I’m glad I had
you.”’

It?s generally a movie for just
about anyone: butcher, baker and
all that. And it teaches one of
life?’s most important lessons:
gorillas may be BIG, but they’re
good.

Rhoads Mixer

Rhoads Hall will play host to the
first of the year’s hall Mixers,
Saturday, September 24, at 8 p.m,
Music will be provided by an as
yet unannounced band, All Bryn
Mawr students are invited to the
mixer--with only the obvious dif-
ficulties of space at Rhoads (where
mixers usually have been the most
crowded) limiting the possible
guest list,

tion: the cuts from Morgan in
gorilla costume to scenes from
KING KONG are particularly ef-
fective.

When Morgan says to Leonie
(Vanessa Redgrave) ‘‘Nothing in
this world lives up to my best
fantasies,’? he endears himself
to the latently schizoid, when he
adds, ‘‘except you’? he wins over
the romantic in the audience. And
an important point is, MORGAN!
is not just a tragi-comedy, it’s
a love story. The action of the
movie starts when Leonie is di-
vorcing Morgan and continues with @
his efforts to win her back (he
tries everything from bombs to
gorilla love calls to kidnaping).



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Page Eight



Hockey captain Amy Dickinson practices scare tactics.

Price Cuts and Longer Hours
Mark ‘Saga’ Inn Improvements

Not only has Saga taken over all
the food service in the dorms, but
it has also revamped the College
Inn, The physical layout has been
changed to make the kitchen more
efficient and the service faster,
the prices have been lowered, the
hours have been made more con-
venient, and the atmosphere has
been made much more attractive,

The kitchen is somewhat re-
modeled so that the cooks do not
have to take as many steps from
the cooking area to the serving
area. The counter has been re-
arranged, and there are more self-
service items to speed up service,

Mr, Jim Kennedy, the Saga man
attached to the Inn, illustrated the
new efficiency by saying that there
were 11 Inn employees last year,
and now it is cut to 7, but they are
giving improved service,

The prices have been adjusted to
what Saga thought would be fair to
the students. Cheeseburgers are a
dime cheaper at 45¢, Hot dogs are
15¢ cheaper, and milkshakes are
down a nickel, Two eggs, toast and
coffee is down from 70¢ to 50¢,

The Inn is now open from 8 a.m,
to 5 p.m, and from 8 p,m, to mid-

Departments Make
Course Revisions,
Offer New Work

(Continued from page 6)

of the Political Science Depart-
ment are changing to a new set
of alternating classes, One will
be an_ introduction to Latin
American politics, with no back-
ground necessary, and the other
will be a more advanced course
assuming some preparation, This
background might include at least
listening to the introductory section
and a reading knowledge of Spanish,

Psychology 101 is dividing into
10la, general experimental psy-
chology, and 101b, comparative
psychology, and 102b, social psy-
chology,

The Anthropology Department is
offering Ethnomusicology, taught
by Mme, Jambor,



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October

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All games are at 4 p.m, on
Tuesday afternoons,

night weekdays, and from 8 to §
Saturday and 8 to midnight Sun-
days,

Besides the service improve-
ments, Saga has attempted to
change the atmosphere of the Inn,
In the evening hours, the tables
are decked out in red and white
checked tablecloths with flicker-
ing red candles, During the first
part of the week free pizza was
available,

Mr, Kennedy is around the Inn
most of the day, He is mostwilling
to talk to any students about further
changes they might suggest,

Friday, September 23, 1966



Hockey Team ‘kuns Around Gym
98 Times W ith Coach Plowman

Miss Sharon Plowman, the new
hockey coach, believes in taming
and energy, She used tc, work in
Mlinois curing empb:ysema and
heart troubles in elderly pegple by
making them run,

When the hockey enthusiasts
came back for Hockey Camp they
found themselves running 98 times
around the gym, interspersed with
a few walks, According to the
team, the most distressing thing
about it was that Miss Plowmaya
ran with them without appearing

Campus Events

September 24
The Bryn Mawr and Haverford
Outing Clubs are Sponsoring apic-
nic in Valley Forge, Rides leave
Rock Arch at 10:00 a.m,

*x* * *

September 26
The Arts Council is holding a
tea for all interested students in
the Common Room at 4:30,
Alliance is holding an open coffee
meeting in the Common Room at
7:00,

* * *

September 28
The first hygiene lecture will
be given in the Biology Lecture
Room at 7:30,
The first marriage lecture will
be given in the Common Room at
7330,

* * *

September 30 - October 1
Freshman Hall Plays will be
presented in two sessions at Skin-
ner Workshop,

the slightest bit winded,

The first game is October 4,
All games are at 4 p,m, Tuesdays.
Any students who are interested in
watching the games and would like
to help score or keep time should
contact either Captain Amy Dickin-
sion or Manager Sue Nosco,

Any freshman or upperclassman
who missed Hockey Camp, but
would still like to turn out for the
team, is welcome to come to the
practices, They are Monday, Tues-
day and Thursday at 4, The running

has become ‘‘voluntary’’; that is,
the team members do it on their
own time and check off their names
on a list, They run and walk
around Merion Green 11 times five
days a week,

One of the team, Lola Atwood,
thinks that Bryn Mawr may have a
‘*pretty good team and maybe even
a winning season,’’ Freshmen are
also reminded that hockey players
are exempt from gym Classes for
the fall quarter,

Camp’s Turn-Over-Day Means
Soapsuds Battle by Counselors

(Continued from page 5)

covered that. That meant I would
have to serve all the others be-
fore eating. It was bad. I guess
you know what I am talking about.
You have felt hungry. Haven’t you?
And have you had to look at food
while others consumed the blessed
thing? Well the way you felt was
the way I felt. Annoyed!

While I was washing the plates,
an intoxicated counselor ran into
the kitchen, took some soap foams
and poured them on another coun-
selor who was eating. Every fool-
ish person around laughed. Then
more foam, more soap and more
water went into action.

They called it ‘‘fun?? but it
was not ‘‘fun?? to me. Remember
I was hungry. Besides, I could
see the poor campers making fruit-
less efforts to save their plates
of food from the counselors?
foam,

How to Live in Relative Comfort

Or, How About a Water Buffalo?

The following is submitted by the
editors in the hope that freshmen
who are having difficulty decorat-
ing their rooms may benefit from
the experience of the upperclass-
men whose Maison-Jardin ideas
are contained within.

The basic Bryn Mawr room, as
you have no doubt discovered, is
a bare, usually rectangular cubi-
cle with sometimes a window and
sometimes not. The standard
equipment consists of a bed (oc-
casionally a floor), a desk ( with
drawers or with interesting holes),
a chair, a desk lamp, a bureau,
and, upon reaching the senior year,
a three-year accumulation of tea
caddies, rhodedendrom bulbs, and
assorted mobiles, some of them
made from aesthetically pleasing
fixtures such as moose heads and
poison ivy.

There are of course some
purists. One sophomore in Merion
has reputedly covered her walls,
floors, and ceiling with 43-1/2
square yards of graph paper with
the ‘‘witch of Agnesi’’ stenciled
all over it in orange chalk.

There is also a senior in Rock
who has spent the last three years
contemplating a lone fern (named
Alexander) in preparation for
comps,

There is a double in Pembroke
which is graced by a sofa made
of three cracker barrels laced
together with fish twine,

Roommates in Merion made a
hanging curtain of tea-bag-tags
which is still intact and is to be
donated to the Bryn Mawr room
of the library in memory of the
days when Bryn Mawr owls graced
tea-bag-tags, and Saga wasa Norse
myth instead of a Viking in every
kitchen,

Ingenious wall decorations cover
cracks, scotch tape marks, and
ubiquitous paint colors (such as
prune juice beige), A junior in



Merion owns a four-foot square
ink-blot she calls Nureyev, which
is located two doors awayfrom the
largest dirt and snail collection
in the Wissahickon Schist,

Two seniors in Denbigh own
a unique chart. On it are listed all
the dry cereals know to man, Their
ambition is to sample every one
of these, preferably before June
15, 1978, on which day the grains

Russian Studies

(Continued from page 4)

the ultimate fulfillment of Com-
munism are empty lies as long
as they must pursue their art
outside of the bounds of the
establishment.

a gifted engineer, who is con-
structing a new city, Magadon, in
the
Siberia, While not Party members,

they are members of the Com- a

somol, and are contributing to the
great push toward the technical
and idealogical realization of Com-
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people, they live in comfort by
serving the government, and re-
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A forest fire would not go as
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not take any time to cover the
dining hall with soap, water, cat-
sup, mustard, and what have you.
To call it a ‘*mess’? is being
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This time, I spdke: ‘*What do
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