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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Vol. Lill, No. 14
BRYN MAWR, PA.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1968
© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967
25 Cents
McBride Denies
War Research
At University Science Center
In an article in the Daily Penn-
sylvanian, Jean Paul Mather, exe-
.cutive vice president of the Uni-
versity City Science Center, was
quoted as having said, ‘‘We’ll ac-
cept any scientific research as
long as we can get competent
people to work on it,”’
The statement was made in ref-
erence to criticism based on sus-
picion aroused about the kind of
research being done at the Cen-
ter, Reports had been circulated
that ‘the projects being carried
out at the Center involved the
promotion of war materials,
Mather, in response to student
protest to some of the research
being carried out, stated that,
‘We have no relationship to the
campus ... We have no obliga-
tion to the student body.’’
When Miss McBride was asked
whether or not she thought these
suspicions were true, she said,
**T don’t think the Science Center
would take on any work with which
their member institutions would
not be satisfied,’’ She stated that
the largest project on which the
Center is now working is in con-
nection with the National Institute
of Health,
Having recently attended a meet-
ing of the members of the Center,
Miss McBride commented, ‘‘I think
it’s, doing a good job, and I don’t
think it has any a ti with
(Continued on page
BMC Campus to Elect
Organizational Presidents
Campus-wide presidential elec-
tions are slated for Sunday through
Monday, Mar, 3-4 .
Nominees for Self Gov presi-
dent include: Dora Chizea, Jill
Hobey, Claudia Lazzaro, Kathy
Murphey and Stephanie Skiff.
Doris Dewton will run for Un-
dergrad head against an unde-
, Cided opponent. Alliance hopefuls
a4
“VS sae
7 Pe ; S igs
‘ include: Barbara Elk, Kathy Hart-
ford, Lou Kotler, Barbara Rosen-
berg and Sue Watters.
Athletic Association presiden-
tial nominees are Anne Alden,
Wendy Berol, Meredith Roberts
and Jean Wilcox,
Faith Greenfield isthe only Arts
Council nominee at present. ..
_...A primary.vote was required this
“week to
dates ‘omthe: Curriculum Commit-_
it the number of candi-
tee ballot. Initial nominees include:
Robin Baskind, Bess Keller, Mi-
chele Langer, Pat O’Connell, Eve
Roberts and Pat Rosenfield.
Interfaith nominees are Jerry
Bond, Margaret Byerly, Betsy
Marsh, Peggy McGarry, and Mary
Schrom. Astrid Lipp is running
for president of League.
Additional nominees for these
offices may announce their candi-
dacy in the very near future,
All candidates for campus pres-
idencies or chairmanships will
present statements of their plat-
forms in next week’s COLLEGE
NEWS.
The presidential elections will
follow two dessert hours next week
at. pe the candidates will ‘speak
“(Continued on page 8).
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photo by Naney Milter
Woodrow: Wilson Fellowship designates wait to hear about financial assistance from graduate
schools. From left to right: Suzqnna Gaertner, Ethel Pierce, Beth Chadwick and Matilda Tomaryn.
Not shown are Ruth Gais, Maggie George, Margaret Levi, Nina Parris and Roberta Smith.
Board To Review
Campus 8 a.m.’s
Self Gov. has not been sitting
idly by while campus-wide discus-
sion over the 8 a.m. signouts con-
tinues in smokers, dining rooms
and showcases.
The four-month trial period for
the new signouts expires on Mar.
20 when Self Gov must confront
the Board of Directors with re-
ports and recommendations about
the 8 a.m.’s. Together they will
review the whole honor system on
which the 8 a.m. signouts are
based.
Actively working behind the
scenes, Self Gov executives are
evaluating the student reaction
which is coming to the surface
in the small dorm discussion
groups.
Strain on the honor system it-
self is evidenced by many inci-
dents which have forced the off-
icers to meet several times a day
during the past week to cope with
cases,
Drewdie Gilpin, Self-Gov presi-
dent, recently expressed reserva-
tions specifically toward the val-
idity of the 8 a.m. system saying,
‘¢Bryn Mawr has to learn toaccept
the 8 am.’s as outlined or dban-
don them.’’
For discussion of the over-
night signovt and the honor
system see pages 4 and 5.
Our apologies to the Negro
Discussion Group for using
their name in last week’s ar-
ticle on the petition in support
of H, Rap Brown. The petition
was circulated by three in-
dividual members of the group
but.:was. not yee tah the
om
Nine Bryn Mawr Students
Nine. Bryn Mawr students are
among the 1,124 college seniors
from 309 colleges and universi-
ties in the United States and Can-
ada to be designated for awards
by the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation.
Designates and their fields in-
elude: BethChadwick, English and/
or German literature; Susanna
Gaertner, comparative literature;
Ruth Gais, ciassics and/or arch-
aeology; Maggie George, classical
archaeology; Margaret Levi, polit-—
ical science (city planning); Mrs.
Nina Parris, history of art; Ethel
Pierce, English literature; Rob-
erta Smith, history of art; and
Matilda Tomaryn, French,
In addition to the designates,
Bryn Mawr also claimed seven of
the 908 honorable mentions
awarded; Nanette Holben, religion;
Lauren Levy, archaeology; Bar-
bara Mann, sociology; Darlene
Preissler, Russian studies; Liz
Schneider, American” studies;
Laura Steinberg, philosophy; Mar-
gie Westerman, English.
Selected for their qualifications
as the best potential college teach-
ers on the continent, the Fellows
will be recommended to the deans
of graduate schools as ‘“worthy of
financial support in graduate
school.”
The method of recommending the
students rather than supplying
them directly with funds consti-
tutes a change in the national pro-
gram. In the last 10 years the
Woodrow Wilson Foundation has
been able to make individual grants
amounting to $52 million with funds
from the Ford Foundation.
Among Wilson Designates
‘*Now our major role is toiden-
tify for graduate departments those
students who in our view have the
best potential for college teach-
ing,’’ said Sir Hugh Taylor, pres-
ident of the Foundation.
The Ford Foundation is contin-
uing. its support of the recruit-
ment and selection procedures of
the Woodrow Wilson Fellowships
through an annual grant:of $1.2
million which also provides for 50
first-year fellowships for Cana-
dians and 200 Woodrow Wilson
dissertation fellowships annually.
With funds from. other sources,
the Foundation also expects to
support 100 American students
with direct grants.
The 1,124 designates were chos-
2
en, from 11,682 nominees, The se- .
lection process encompasses an .,,
initial nomination bya faculty
member; a submission of creden-
tials, recommendations and a
statement of intellectual inter-
ests; a committee reading of the
dossiers; interviews with the top
candidates; and final selection by
quota based on the proportion of
liberal arts degrees awarded by
the colleges in each region.
Included in Region IV, the states
of New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
Bryn Mawr’s nine designates and
seven honorable — mentions rate
with the following statistics: Hav-
erford, three designates and six
honorable mentions; Princeton, 32
designates and four honorable
mentions; University of Pennsyl-
vania, seven designates and eight
honorable mentions; and Swarth-
more, eight designates and 10 hon-
orable mentions.
SNCC Representative Calls For
Student Move To Change Society
When four Negro students in Or-
angeburg, S. C., have been killed by
National Guardsmen, it may seem
futile to the concerned white stu-
dent to sit at school.and challenge
the merits of academia.
But that’s what Ivanhoe Donald-
son of SNCC and the Institute for
Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.,
recommended to Bryn Mawr and
Haverford students Wednesday
night as a constructive way ofpar-
ticipating in the Black Revolution in
$.D.S. To Grow
At BMC -H ‘ford
A joint chapter of Students for
a Democratic Society will be in-
troduced officially at Bryn Mawr
and Haverford next week, it was
decided at an organizational meet-
ing of 26 students at Haverford
Monday night, ie
David Millstone opened the dis-
cussion by reading parts of the
S.D.S, Constitution and by saying
a few things about S,D.S, He ex-
plained that it is a national stu-
dent organization which believes
in a kind of democracy where
peeple: make the decisions which
affect their own lives, It en-
the United States.
Donaldson spoke to a crowd
overflowing Stokes Hall at a rally
commemorating the death of Mal-
colm’ X and other Negroes who
have given their lives to help put
the black man on equal footing with
the white,
But the Black Revolution now
involves more than the mere in-
tegration of a restaurant, said
Donaldson. It means the complete
reconstruction of the American
society. And that is where the con-
cerned white student comes in.
By questioning the institutions
of his school, whether the institu-
tion be the social honor system or
*the current food service, the stu-
dent can begin to learn just what
kind of society people can live in
without oppression. And _ these
ideas the students can carry
with him beyond the ivy walls to
help construct a new American
society.
That American society needs
changing is obvious to Donaldson,
who gave many examples of the op-
pressive conditions under which
Negroes in the United States con-
tinue to live. The Orangeburg inci-
dent, which gave special impetus
to Wednesday’s rally, is only one
instance of many cases involving
not only police brutality but also
compasses many different politi- = Beivsc injustice,
cal views and deals with man
issues, from. therdrett, to.Somen's
(Continued on page 3)
Zh
rding to.the Feb, 19 issue
(Continued. Qu. page LT oe
of. “Newsweek,’’ after es 4
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Friday, February 23, 1968
Managing Editor
Robin Brantley '69
Advertising Manager
Adrienne Rossner '69
March 3, 1879.
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Cc pean ibe? tap
Photographic Editor
Associate Editors
Maggie Crosby '70, Cathy Hoskins 71
Kathy Murphey °69
COLLEGE NEWS is entered as.second class matter
at the Wayne, Penna. Post Office under the act of
Founded in 1914
Published weekly during the college year except during
vacations and exam. periods.
The College News is fully protected by copyright.
Nothing that appears in it may be reprinted wholly: or in
part without permission of the Editor-in-Chief.
Mary Yee '70
Cis iowka Manager
Ellen Softlas 0
See Since
Critic Critique
To the Editor:
This will be brief; I’m not
sure I should have to remind a
newspaper of the following:
In writing theatrical reviews, it
is customary for the Critic to in- -
clude credits for the writer (es-
pecially of original scripts), dir-
ector, leading actors, leading pro-
duction managers and designers.
If the critic has no comment
to make on any one of the above,
he usually supplements his. review
_with a roster.
Faith Greenfield '70
Graduate Deferments
To the Editor:
Last Monday, I was talking to
four members of a large univer-
sity’s physics department in
connection with a political science
paper.
We talked a while about how |
deferments for graduate school
have been eliminated, and they
brought up an idea which I think
should be considered for the men
graduate students here. They said
that maybe they could save their
first-year students by having them
take three units of research right
away, thereby giving them second
year status, while not having act-
ually spent two years (chronologic -
ally) in graduate school.
I don’t know if this idea could
be adapted to Bryn Mawr’s credit
system, or if it is possible in areas
other than the natural sciences,
but I think it is worth looking
into.
‘I think this is a good idea. Bryn
Mavr College has no obligation to
feed the American war machine
(which is apparently badly in need
of help). Rather it has a def-
inite duty to continue functioning
as an institution of American higher
. education. The two are incom-
*” patible. We must choose.
Kit Bakke ’68
Honor Hassles
To the Editor:
Having been here only five
months, I don’t know whether
these hassles go on all the time,
' but they certainly seem to be a
permanent phenomenon. The has-
gles about the honor system, that
is; their perpetuity must imply
something about their effect-
iveness.
“We welcome you to Bryn
Mawr,’’ say the Ubiquitous They,
and don’t reach for the sticks and
stones: this is not an “‘apathy’’
‘letter, nor is it an ‘“‘ingrate’’
letter. I rejoice in being trusted
Letters. to the Editor
to pursue my own inclinations.
This letter merely explores the
reasons for these endless
discourses on the honor system
(whose self-contradictory title is
itself a springboard for debate).
The question of the honor sys-
tem is a fine election issue. It
is also a real fun topic that you
can kill time with and think you’re
doing something useful. It’s easy
to get opinionated on, it’s intricate
enough to hold attention. The sys-
tem has that nice balance: ben-
eficial enough to praise in contrast
with other schools; hypocritical
enough to malign in contrast with
whatever it is we want from this
school.
The honor system is plainly an
ideal debate topic. i
Donna Vogel '71
Affect or Reflect?
To the Editor:
Since I do not know Kathryn
Seygal, my response to her let-
ter is not against her personal-
ly, but against the prevalent at-
titude she expresses.
First, it is necessary to dis-
entangle gripes against Self Gov.
and gripes against the administra-
tion--too often everything we’re
discontented about gets pushed into
one category and cursed as a
whole. We can control the matters
of Self. Gov; the living conditions
are up to the administration. Just
because we as students aren’t all-
powerful, let’s not sneer at what
influence we do have. We can’t
personally repair the plumbing
of the showers in Pem East, but we
can sign out. and act as ladies--
so let’s do that.
One of the differences between
my point of view and the one ex-
pressed in last week’s letter is
basic. Do the rules of Self Gov
affect or merely reflect the situ-
ation? Unless:we are perfectly:
Satisfied with things the way they
are (which obviously no one is)
then we want to affect it. But
anything positive be accomplish-
ed by those who become nauseat-
ed at the thought of discussing
‘‘morality, community and hon-
or’’?
Being a member of the Bryn
Mawr community is ear ane
by preserice here; the ‘living,
breathing” - part, is up to the in-
dividual. Those who are’ cleaning
out their closets when import-
ant decisions are being made are
dead weight when the ‘‘organism”’
moves in a direction they didn’t
help determine.
Many students besides myself
hold opinions that differ from
Kathryn Seygal’s as I have dis-
covered in talking to various stu-
dents around campus. Many may
respond to her letter. Many may
not. If not, I know in this case,
that silence does not mean con-
ae Bonnie Holcomb ‘71
Letters and articles ‘sub-
matin to | the NEWS should
Editorials
\ Short Signout
Sigma have always been considered
a safety measure at Bryn Mawr. The
information supplied is to be used to
locate the student in case of an emer-
gency. Accepting this premise, the cur-
rent signout system should be changed
to include only the information essential
to its function.
The present system and the fact that
many students are unwilling’ to follow it
are evidence of its failure. Many students
dislike the publicity resulting from others
reading their signouts, and do not wel-
come moral judgments on their behavior
from hall presidents. Preferring not to
write a detailed description of where they
are going and with whom, they are tempted,
and often forced, to use false signouts.
Two dangerous situations are the results:
1) the value of the signout as a means
of locating someone is negated, and 2)
students are violating their own honor
by disregarding the honor system.
“Since reaching the student is the primary
‘purpose of the signout, it seems that only
two facts are necessary: the expected ~
‘time of return, and a telephone number
where the student can be reached. N.M
Revision
Last spring when we began to discuss
the revision of the Self Gov constitution,
it was suggested that many of the rules
be removed from the body of the con-
stitution and placed in the freshman hand-
ALL WEEKEND
Forrest Theatre
‘‘You Know I Can’t Hear You When
the Water’s Running’’
Locust Theatre
“Carry Me _ Back to Morningside
Heights’’
Trauma
The Union Gap (‘‘Woman, Woman’’) and
the Mandrake Memorial
Main Point
John Hammond
Arcadia
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’
Bala
' Closely Watched Trains”’
Bryn Mawr
‘Elvira —
Eric
“The Graduate’?
Fox
*¢The Billion Dollar Brain’’
Midtown
‘Bonnie and Clyde’’
Randolph
‘Gone With the Wind’’
Regency
‘Wait Until Dark’
Stanley
“Camelot”?
Stanton
‘Valley of the Dolls’’
Theatre 1812
‘‘Becket’’
World
«Elvira Madigan’’
Yorktown -
Guide To The Perplexed
‘‘La Guerre Est Finie’’
163rd Annual Exhibition of Academy of
Fine Arts; ‘‘American Art Today,’
continuing until March 3 (Tues.-Sat.
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 - 5 p.m.;
closed Mondays -- admission free)
FRIDAY, REBRUARY 23
4:00 P.M. ‘‘Classical Dances of India,”
lecture and performance, Paley Lec-
Hall, Temple University
8:00 P.M. ‘The Shop on Main Street.’
Beury Hall, Temple University (also —
at 9 p.m.)
‘Dr, Faustus”’ (Burton-Taylor), Irvine
Auditorium, University 6f Pennsylvania
SATURDAY;-FEBRUARY 24 ~~
book as suggestions.
These rules included such regulations
as riding bicycles after dark only if
equipped with lights and riding on the
P & W Railroad only in groups of three
or more,
When these items came to a vote, it
was decided to retain em in the body
of the constitution.
The Self Gov Charter states that ‘‘the
regulation of the conduct of the students
in their College life has been entrusted
in general to the students themselves.”’
Since Self Gov is a body formed for this
purpose and for the purpose of: main-
taining and preserving an honor system,
its constitution is an embodiment of the
honor system. All rules in the con-
stitution therefore, belong to the honor
system.
This means that riding a bicycle after
dark without lights constitutes a violation
of the honor system and is an immoral
act,
It seems rather harsh, and also rather
ludicrous that such actions be considered
dishonorable. When violations like these
are as much a violation otk one’s honor
as rules affecting hours, drinking and
absences from. the college (which cer- .
tainly have a far greater importance to
the college community), there is something
wrong with the system. It would be
more appropriate. were such items merely
suggested behavior, and not the basis of
judgment on a student’s morality.
I suggest that. students re-read their
‘Self Gov constitutions and consider the
possibility of removing these items from
it and) putting them into the handbooks
as aatety suggestions for entering fresh-
men. N. M.
sent Vaughn Williams’s ‘‘Mass in G
Minor,’’ Goodhart, followed by the Elec-
tric Eclectic performing in the Music
Room
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25
3:00 P.M. Antonio, featured in ‘Ballet
de Madrid,’’ Philadelphia Academy of
Music (tickets $3-6)
’
7:00 P.M. ‘The Pink Panther,’ Irvine
Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania
8:00 P.M. Nicholas Harsanyi and the Phil-
adelphia Chamber Orchestra (Vivaldi,
Shostakovich, Fine, Mozart). Academy
of Music. (Student prices $1.00-3.50)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26
7:30 P.M. “Theatre of the Living Arts
presents; Elizabeth (Philadelphia rock
group) also at 9:30
8:30 P.M. Dr. Jose Luis Sampedro, speak-
ing on ‘‘Technologists and Society,’’
Common Room, Goodhart
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
4:15 P.M. Heiko A, Obleman, speaking
on ‘‘The Frontier Between Middle Ages
and Reformation: Bridge or Barrier? *
Sharpless, Haverford
7:15 P.M. Arts Council Movie: “Mr.
Arkadin,” Biology Lecture Room,
(again at 9:15)
Heiko A, Obleman (see 4:15), Stokes,
Haverford :
8:30 P.M. Antonio -in Ballet de Madrid
(see 3 p.m. Sunday)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
7:30 P.M. Mr. Bachrach and Mr.Baratz
speaking on ‘‘The Politics of Poverty,”’
Common Room, Goodhart
) Scottish and Folk Dancing, Bryn Mawr
Gymnasium
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29
——
7:30 P.M. Professor Harold Guetzkow,
—_
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Friday, Febrvary 23, 1968
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Page Three
Committee Evaluates
Courses, Pass-Fail
Curriculum Committee has dis-
tributed forms to students for eva-
luation of their courses. These
evaluations will be compiled, and
the new course evaluation booklet
should be available before courses
for next year must be selected.
‘«Many people saw thefirst book-
lets as they passed around and
consulted them before selecting
courses,’’ said Sue Nosco, former
chairman of the project.
Some professors and members
of the administration complained
*of slanders in the first compila-
tion. “Several people were,
unhappy,’’ admitted Sue, and she
added that the comments were not
always as objective as the com-
mittee would have liked them to
have been.
The form of the questionnaire
has been changed somewhat, and
the compilers will try to insure
that each course is criticized con-
structively. ‘Tf we don’t have
an adequate number of returnes
for evaluation of a course, we won’t
evaluate it,’? .said Sue. ‘If’ we.
can’t do enough courses properly,
we won’t publish a book.,’?
Present plans are for a joint
publication with Haverford. How-
ever, these plans are indefinite,
since Haverford may decide not
to publish.
Any students who can help with
the complilation should call
Maureen Lamont, the new
chairman, in “Erdman; ‘many
workers are needed. Suggestions
or ‘‘evaluations of the evaluation’’
should also be made to Maureen.
At this time of year whenevery-
one has just received first sem-
ester reports, it may sound like
League Begins
Annual Drive
The League Campus Fund Drive
will begin on Friday, Mar, 1.
Hall captains have asked one
person on each corridor to distri-
bute pledge sheets and remind the
other students of the deadline for
returning the sheets,
The organizations appearing on
the pledge sheet reflect the diver-
sity of interest on campus, The
list ranges from CARE, Ameri-
can Cancer Society and Project
HOPE to Haverford-sponsored Se-
rendipity Day Camp and Harcum-
suggested Daeyun Children’s Home
in Korea. New on the list this
year are the National Foundation
for Neuromuscular Disease, which
sponsors Genetic Alert; the Sex
Information and Education Council
of the U.S,; and the Thomas A,
Dooley Foundation, which is init-
iating a Project Showboat to bring
medical aid and advice to the
Mekong River. ' Also on the list
are Women’s Strike for Peace,
the Philadelphia Anti-Draft Union,
the Central Committee for Con-
scientious Objectors, the. NAACP
Legal Defense and Education Fund
and the Migrant Workers’ Fund,
With 50% participation and an
average donation of $5.10, Bryn
_ Mawr raised $2009.64 last year,
For the first time, the Graduate
Center also participated in the fund
drive. If everyone gave $3,50,
the Fund Drive would be able to
reach the.campus goal of $2,800
this. year,
There will be no preliminary
voting for organizations’ the
‘campus should support, Instead,
all . groups’ which have been
suggested will appear on the final
pledge sheet. Write-ins will be
accepted,
The League bulletin board in
Taylor is covered with pamphlets,
pictures and letters explaining the
work of organizations that need
financial support, © Posters in the
~halis -and ~booklets on -the--table-—
in Taylor give additional infor-
wishful: thinking to talk about do-
ing away with grades. Yet the
Curriculum Committee is con-
sidering the possibility that Bryn
Mawr may someday offer courses
on a pass-fail basis. Professors
would submit written evaluations
instead of numerical grades.
A committee has been formed
under the leadership of Pat Ros-
enfield to study other colleges
with pass-fail systems and to col-
lect the suggestions and com-
ments of students. Pat is also
looking for interested girls. who
would like ‘to work on the com-
mittee. (They do not have to be
members of the Curriculum Com-
mittee.)
In the last few years, many col-
leges and universities across the
country have begun to offer un-
graded courses in a limited way.
In: general, an undergraduate, in
good standing is allowed to take
one course per semester ona pass-
fail basis. Often,--the course .can-
not be in the student’s major field
or be used to fulfilla requirement.
The details vary from school to:
school.
Other colleges, such as Sarah
Lawrence and Yale, apply the pass-
fail idea to all courses. Among
eastern colleges Wesleyan, Har-
vard, Dartmouth, City’ College of
New York, Columbia, and Hav-
erford have adopted more lim-
ited systems,
Much discussion _ still lies
ahead about the advantages and
disadvantages of adopting the pass-
fail idea at Bryn Mawr. Not only
would it relieve the students of
some of the petty pressures
of numerical grading, but con-
tact between professors and stu-
dents could be strengthened and
perhaps class participation stim-
ulated. On the other hand, under
a limited pass-fail system, stu-
dents might tend to let ungraded
courses slide. These are only
a few of the ideas to be consid-
ered.
S.D.S.
(Continued from page 1)
liberation, The only national pol-
icies are those voted on by chap-
ter delegates at national conven-
‘tions, which are held four times
a year, Chapters develop their
own actions and structure accord-
ing to the needs of their marapers
and local issues,
Reasons for forming a more
politically oriented and unified
group than the Social Action Com-
mittee, which has been a rather
loose alliance of socially con-
cerned students, were brought out
briefly, ©
Ideas about the kinds of pro-
grams S,D,S, might take on were
considered by the group,
For the next meeting, whichwill
take place Monday at 10:00 p.m.
in 120 Sharpless Hall, peoplewere
appointed to write a constitution,
and the group was urged to think
about concrete programs for the
Bryn Mawr - Haverford chapter,
A Philadelphia regional S,D,S,,
to which other campus chapters
belong, such as Penn, Temple,
and Swarthmore, and which Bryn
Mawr and Haverford will be a
part of, has been meeting once
_ every two weeks since the begin-
ning of this semester. There will
be a regional meeting tonight, at
8:00 p.m. in Houston Hall on the
Penn campus,
For more’ information about
-SDS5 “call David-
MI 9-3802 or Kathy Murphey in _
Merion,
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Civil Rights Rally.
(Continued from page 1)
fell tothe ground with a head wound,
National Guardsmen and __ State
Troopers opened fire on Negro col=
lege students trying to integrate a
bowling alley Feb. 9 The
article continues to say that the
policeman was probably hit with
a block of wood and that the stu-
dents hdd no guns, (At the rally
Donaldson said the students stole
some ROTC guns and ammunition
after the shooting had begun.) The
result of the students’ integra-
tion attempt was the immediate
death of two 18-year-olds and one
17-year-old. Another student is
reported to have died in jail from
wounds suffered during the shoot-
ing. Donaldson said that two of
the students were shot multiple
times and that one of those same
BMC Escapes
Severe Effects
Of New Draft
The recent changes in the poli-
cies regarding draft deferments
for graduate students will have less
effect on the Bryn Mawr Grad-
uate School than on most, accord-
ing to Elizabeth R. Foster, dean
of the graduate school.
Only one-third of the 460 Stu-
dents,are men, and not all of them
are likely to be affected by the
new policies.
The Graduate School encourag-
es part-time students; many of
the students are local teachers.
Unlike many institutions, the Bryn
Mawr Graduate School does not
have an age cut-off in admissions.
Therefore, the Graduate School
has an older population than many
other schools. Only one-seventh of
the male students are subject to
call-up. This number is approxi-
mate because all students did not
give information about their draft
status at enrollment.
At the present time, there have
been no changes made in the ad-
missions and scholarship poli-
cies; the Graduate School does
not plan to overadmit. The Grad-
uate Committee will be discussing
the problem in the future.
‘It?s. very curious to be given
National Defense Fellowships by
the government and then be told
that the Fellows who are men are
not going to be here,’’ said Dean
Foster. ‘‘There is no meshing of
the National Security Council with
the Office of Education.
“There’s no intensive overall
plan, and we’re all screaming.”
Regarding the plan of giving
second-year status to all grad-
uate students, the Dean said, ‘‘I
don’t think that the students would
welcome such a technique. Aside
from my own feelings, I wouldn’t
-Milistone~ at -be-so-disrespectful to the students.
and the integrity of the Graduate
‘school.’”?
photo by Mary Yee
The Black Revolution involves more than integration of restau-
rants. It means a complete reconstruction of American society,
says Donaldson.
students was also beaten by a
policeman after he fell to the
ground.
The governor of South Carolina,
Robert E, McNair, has since clos-
ed South Carolina State College,
the Negro school from which most
of the demonstrators came. A
member of SNCC, 23-year-old
Cleveland Sellers, was put in jail
pending a $20,000 bond (recently
changed from $50,000) with charg-
es of inciting to riot and assault
with intent to kill.
Besides the Orangeburg inci-
dent, Donaldson cited the arrests
of Negro Black Power leaders
(such as Rap Brown and LeRoi
Jones) and the growing armory of
police weapons (such as machine
guns, chemicals and tanks) as
‘examples of growing oppression
and conservatism in the United
States,
Donaldson described the year
1967 asthe year of international-
ization for the Black Revolution.
‘The Negroes who are struggling
for a new society in America are
also struggling for a new society
for oppressed people everywhere,
he said. ‘*‘We want SNCC to be an
organization for people throughout
the world.”
Nevertheless, the prime focus
of the struggle must necessarily
remain for. the time being in the
United States. ‘‘I can’t deal with
personalized racism,” said Don-
aldson, ‘‘but I can try to deal
with institutionalized racism. We
hope to make this country a pro-
revolutionary country again. The
Negru cannot exist in the capital-
istic American society.”
Donaldson finished his speech ~
amidst the cheers and clapping
of the predominately white audi-
ence,
Earlier Wednesday, Bryn Mawr
and Haverford students, perhaps
not content only with questioning
academia, raised $700 for the
Cleve Sellers Defense Fund. About
30 Bryn Mawr students also boy-
cotted their classes Wednesday and
formed a picket line in front of
Taylor at various times during the
day. One student explained that
the purpose of the boycott was to
confront other people with an ex-
pression of their concern over
the position of the Negro in the
United States. Robin Brantley
The Bryn Mawr Chorus
and
The Franklin and Marshall
Glee Club
under the @irection of
Hugh Gault. and
Robert L. Goodale.
will give a concert featurihg
/ Mass in G Minor
by Vaughn Williams
Soturloy, February 24 —
et 8:30. p-m.. or . 5 ee 5
~ Goodhart Hall
aims
Race Feelings
In “Medea”
Black Power overtones will
characterize the Bryn Mawr-
Haverford production of ‘The
Medea,” slated for Mar, 14 and
15. Under the.direction of Robert
Butman, the production will stress
the play’s modern applicability,
with Medea portrayed as a rebel
in a society which has violated its
own code of morality.
The technical aspects ofthe pro-
duction will not contradict this
interpretation, but they will be
underplayed so as not to make the
theme glaringly obvious. The
costumes, for example, will not be
from the classical Greek period,
but neither will they be 1968 mini-
skirts. Rather, they will come
from the early twentieth century
period, a time when the racial
problem was not unknown, but one
in which women -were still sub-
servient members of society.
The play was cast last week,
and rehearsals are already under-
way. Starring in the title role
is Jessica Harris, whose Medea
stresses.a violence pardonable be-
cause of the widespread corrup-
tion of her time. Featured also
in the production are Richard Olver
as Jason, Faith Greenfield as the
Nurse and Christian Kopff as the
Tutor. In supporting roles are
Craig Owens, Richard Miller and
Joe Dickinson. The chorus, com-
prised of Deborah Dickstein, Kath-
erine Hopkins, Ellen Lansky, Molly
Sloca and Donna Vogel, is delib-
erately sm4IT to emphasize the
individual character of the‘
speakers.
Platt to Speak
To Class of 68
Joseph B, Platt, president of
Harvey Mudd College in Clare-
mont, California, has been chos-
en to speak at Commencement on
May 27. He is the father of Ann
Platt, a biology major and presi- |
dent of the senior class.
Platt graduated from the Uni-
versity of Rochester and receiv-
ed a PhD in experimental phys-
photo courtesy Harvey Mudd College
ics from Cornell. In 1943, after
teaching at Cornell and Roches-
ter, he joined the, Radiation Lab-
oratory at M.I.T, He was chief of
physics research for Atomic En-:
ergy Commission from 1949 to
1951. In 1960 and 1962 he went with_—
the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO
conference in Paris.
Presently he serves on the Com-
mittee for International Science
of the President’s Science Ad-
visory Committee and on the Ad-
visory Committee for Science Ed-
ucation of. the National Science
Foundation. He also acts as Sci- ©
ence Advisor to the Republic of
China and is chairman of the
board of Analytical Services, Inc.
”
cf Harvey Mudd, one of the Clare-
mont Colleges, i$ a small co-edu-
cational school of sciences and
engineering. Platt has been pres-
ident since the college was found-
‘ed in 195€, He also finds time to
teach ‘a: ‘sophomore physics class. —
The topic of his speech at Bryn
Mawr has wand yet been decided.
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Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS.
Friday, February 23, 1968
2
All Honor
In recent weeks, there has been much
discussion of the social honor system at
Bryn Mawr. The current College Calen-
dar states that Bryn Mawr ‘‘believes in
the rights of the individual and infreedom
to think and act as intelligent and respon-
sible members of a democratic society.”’
* This somewhat visionary half-truth ap-
plies only when the students do not fully
exercise ‘‘the rights of the individual’’
and only when they act according to the
Board of Director’s definition of ‘re-
sponsible members of a democratic so-
ciety.’’ A case in point is the question of
overnight signouts to Haverford. As I
understand it, Self Gov, after extensive
debate, removed all restrictions on over-
night signouts only to have this vetoed by
the Board.
The Board members have imposed their
own rules of conduct on students much
like the high school stud who gets as much
as he can from his date until she says
‘*NO.” Although the time to say ‘‘NO”’
has ‘long passed, students remain silent —
as the Board continues to manipulate
them through ‘Self Gov’’ (which should
be more accurately called ‘‘The Self-
Enforcement of Imposed Rules Asso-
ciation’), The assertion that Bryn Mawr
students ‘govern’? themselves is as mis-
leading as when Franco points to student
riots as an example of freedom of expres-
sion in Spain,
The Self-Gov constitution is an incred-
ible document, If I may quote: ‘“The Exe-
cutive Board reserves the right to act at
any time it feels that a student’s con-
duct is contrary to the spirit of the rules
or brings discredit to the College, even
though such conduct may not be spec-
ifically dealt with by the following rules.
Any action which brings unfavorable no-
tice to a student and thus lowers the
prestige of the College, which damages
its reputation in the public eye, or which
is detrimental to the Self Gov system is
considered as discreditable to the Col-
lege.’’ There is simply no excuse for any
college existing in a society as imperfect
as our own to adopt the standards of that
society and to conform to its worse ten-
ets. If a college such as Bryn Mawr in-
sists on regulating the students’ personal
life, protecting its ‘‘prestige’’ and ‘‘repu-
tation”? against non-conformist and often
avant-garde thought, and in general, adopt-
ing those very societal values which most
cry for reform, if the phenomenon of con-
formity continues at such colleges, then
there is little hope for any improvement
in a world greatly in need of it.
Section VI,,Article 1 of the Constitu-
tion states that ‘each’ member of the
(Self-Gov) Association is expected to be
familiar with the rules of the Associa-
tion and IS ON HER HONOR TO CARRY
THEM OUT AT ALL TIMES’* (my empha-
sis). Thus, you violate your ‘honor’ if,
after dark, you ride a bicycle not equipped
with lights and tail reflector, or return to
college in a taxi alone from a place other
than the Bryn Mawr Station without notify-
ing the Warden. You also-violate your
‘th. .or”? if you wear an athletic costume
in the Ville, and so forth. One of the
most degrading rules in the Constity-
tion concerns student signouts which must
include her ‘destination in as much-de-
tail as possible, means of return,” and
the ‘name of ‘her escort.’’ If, indeed,
signouts are intended only to permit stu-
dents to-be reached in case of emergency,
~then time of departure and return, and
a telephone number where she may be
reached should be suffidient. As they
stand, signout rules are a clear viola-
tion of the privacy and integrity entitled
to students as human beings. |
Since many : students find these rules
personally repugnant and insulting, they
often do not obey them. Clearly, these
rules have no more to do with “honor”
than does running a red light at 4:00
a.m. One’s honor is a personal and in-
dividual matter, and it cannot be legis-
lated. I do not accept the argument that
students who do not like the rules . at
Bryn. Mawr should go elsewhere anymore
“notion that —
Negroes who are denied their civil™
a
an so
Honor System
rights should go north. Often, the solu-
tion is ‘to change the rules, but in this.
case, the entire ‘“Self-Enforcement” sys~-
tem must be replaced by a genuine demo-
cratic Self-Government System. As
‘‘members of a democratic § society,’’
students. as a group should determine
where rules of personal conduct are re-
quired and what these rules should be.
’ If you break a rule of social conduct,
you have not violated your honor, but
have chosen to accept responsibility for
your actions in much the same way that
you are prepared to accept a traffic
ticket for running a red ligtit: very stu-
dent should be guaranteed the rights to
question her accuser, to call witnesses, to
judicial appeal of any verdict, and soforth.
Several liberal arts colleges have excel-
lent student government systems and I
suggest that interested Bryn( Mawr stu-
dents study them.
Bryn Mawr students should refuse to be
treated as transitory four year phantoms
who have high college board scores and
admirable scholastic records, and who:
‘parents pay for-a while a small part
the overhead costs. It is time to stand up
for your rights as individuals, to say
‘‘NO”* to the system as it now stands, and
to take the initiative in developing a sys-
tem in which your dignity, privacy and
integrity are protected.
Chuck Bresler
ere Crisis? |
The second semester is here again,
and it is that time of year for noise
making and disruptive ideas from ‘Bryn
Mawr Girls, Leaders of Thought.’
I am in no mood for these kind of
ideas and I ‘do not think many of us
are prepared for these endless and fruit-
less reforms. I do’ not care, and I
do not think anybody else cares, about
how many girls are interested in
‘scamping’? at Haverford. If an eternal
overnight in Haverford is all that Bryn
Mawr girls need to attain the ‘ultimate
happiness’”’ and ‘‘perfect social life,”
let them have it. After all what is the
noise about?
I do, however, object to a handful of
people ‘‘using’’ and ‘‘maneuvering’’ the
campus for their own personal reasons and
advantages,
Self Gov tells us rather ambiguously
that “many girls ‘‘hypocritically’? spend
the night at Haverford, but does not give
us the statistics. Exactly how many
girls are involved, and what does Self
Gov intend to do about ‘‘it?’? I mean
about the fact that the HONOR SYSTEM
is at stake. I could not wink my eye once
whether or not a girl sleeps over at
Haverford, but I do blink (and convulsively
too) when the Honor System is being
trampled on before Self Gov and it pre-
tends it does not see the real issue
involved,
The problem we should be solving now,
is how to save the Bryn Mawr Community
from collapsing. We don’t seem to be
interested in what is happening to the
College. We want to do anything--every-
thing but be directly related to the Col-
lege Community. It seems as if we are
only interested in grabbing what we can
from the College without considering what
--if anything--we are leaving behind. I
am tired of Self Gov and the others who
are always saying, ‘‘We don’t want this.
. We don’t want that! We don’t want re-
strictions on overnights to Haverford.
We do not want sign outs at all, etc.
etc.” I am asking; almost demanding
these people to say ‘“‘WHAT WE WANT”
and how do we go aboutit. _
, The idea that one girl could tell an- -
other girl (caught breaking a rule) to re-
port herself to the hall president is now
history. Instead, we find it easier to:
cluster in little rooms and smokers to
gossip about who did what where
and how. I do not agree with the no-
tion that ‘*you should not pass moral
_ judgment.” | think it is only a pefson
_ Who does not “trust”? or who does not < * =
“know her own moral values who is afraid
to _issue such a ae. We are
facing a personal and ultimate social
crisis amounting to disintegration right
on this campus, but instead of recog-
nizing the fact .we go to the U.S, Con-
stitution to invoke a civil right for wo-
men not to sign out! How ridiculous
can we get? The argument we have
around today is that it is hypocritical to
have a rule prohibiting overnights at Ha-
verford because many girls ignore the
rule. And the’ conclusion is, ‘‘femove
the rule.”? This is obviously an unsound
argument. I'll give you an analogy right
now and I am sure you can find many
more: U.S. - Government law. prohibits
murder. ‘‘Many’’ people commit murder
in spite of the law, therefore, the law
should be repealed,
Another suggestion on campus is to
abolish the sign-out system altogether.
I think this is certainly an irrespon-
sible suggestion. If a girl honestly
does not want to sign out, not even
with the secret sign-out system, she can -
tell her hall president that she wishes
‘to be excluded from signouts ~and that,
I’m sure, would be-understood. But to.
suggest that the whole sign-out system be
abolished, is, to say the least ‘‘uninspir-
ing’’ if not outright irresponsible. :
Last semester there were a few cases
of men sleeping overnight in: our dor-
mitories, There was one particular case
in which the girl involved was bold enough
to tell other girls: ‘‘Well, he was too
drugged to go back and so, I let him —
sleep over.?? How many transgressions
can be listed in this one sentence?
1. The boy was in the room after
10:00 p.m.
2. The boy slept overnight in a girl’s
dormitory.
3. There were drugs on campus.
4, Then there was the outright con-
tempt of the Self Gov. Honor System.
And what did the hall president say
about it? Obviously nothing. She was
afraid to pass a moral judgment!
I think the time has come for Bryn
Mawr to take a good look at itself.
And Self. Gov.. being the greatest ‘‘Re-
former” will do well to start the game.
More important than “sleeping or lying
awake in Haverford” is the issue raised
by Dean. Marshall on the first day
of the semester; ‘What is an academic
community? ”’ Hopefully ‘‘Bryn’ Mawr
Girls, Leaders of Thought’? will start
a fruitful dialogue and stop taking all of
» us on their ‘Intellectual Ride of Folly.”
Dora Chizea
Worth Striving For
The intact of the social honor system
and the set of rules which it now embrac-
es has once again become a major issue
at Bryn Mawr. Several weeks ago Kit
Bakke wrote an article calling for the
abandonment of the present sign-out sys-.
tem. Soon after, dorm councils were in-
stigated to channel student opinion on the
matter of signouts into the machinery of .
Self Gov. In last week’s NEWS, Kathryn |
Seygal wrote a letter lamenting the re-
hashingof these issues and urging reform
in more concrete areas. At the risk of
adding many words and few ideas to the
debate, I would like to examine the goals
of the social honor system as a whole and
their relation to the specific rules now
in effect.
In defense of my subject, I would first
like to answer Miss Seygal’s admonition.
that we forget about ‘the honor system
and work instead for two clean sheets on
every bed. I concur with many of the
points she made in her letter. Specific-
ally, I agree that good food and pleas-
ant living conditions are reasonable re-
quests and that they should be actively -
pursued. I also agree with her state-
ment about the present honor system:
that it is begrudged, circumvented or
blatantly violated by large numbers of
students. However, I do not find the
latter situation particularily ° desirable,
nor do I feel. that reform in. that area
precludes action for change in 0 others. bP ESOS Sane eg sep
tem is in large measure a farce, Wheth-
er or not such opinions filter back to Self
4
Friday, February 23, 1968
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Pa
Sane
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‘
On Trial
Gov, through the dorm councils, dissen-
tion concerning the rules and desire to
liberalize or eliminate them certainly
exist on a large scale. Everyone knows
that there are girls who do not sign out,
that girls are sleeping at Haverford, that
‘tthe reputation of the College’”’ is nota
major factor in determining most peo-
ple’s actions.
._ Some are truly ‘bothered by such oc-
curences. What disturbs me is not the
fact of it, but the idea that all this should
have to be done illegally. Yet, the situ-
ation might be tolerable if it were uni-
versally recognized that the rules were
unenforced, While it is true that most
- people get away with violations, there
are still girls who are caught, turned in
and punished for their actions. This fact
demands attention. We must decide wheth-
er we want to take them seriously. If -
our choice is the latter (and in a com-
munity of mature individuals it certain-
ly should be), then it is imperative that
we arrive at a system which will elicit
the —" of the aan ae of
students.-
{ am siceniy scanned that the pres-
ent honor system does not command this
respect because its goals are misdirect-
ed. Given that the system is not as liber-
al as the students would like it, I can
see three possible reasons for having it
this way: 1) to “‘protect’”’ the students;
2) to mollify parents, alumnae and the
surrounding community; and 3) to give
the College control over the morals of
its students.
The. first reason--protection--in-
cludes arguments which have been used
to justify many aspects of the system.
First, there is the role of the signout
in rescuing the student from danger. This
point was éffectively dealt with in Miss
Bakke’s article. I can see no reason why
a voluntary sign-out system would not
work ‘as weli in this area. Most Bryn
Mawr-girls are intelligent enough to know
when they might be in danger while out of
the dorm. If uncertain about their safety,
they could leave appropriate information
on the sign-out box. Second, there is the
argument that certain rules (particularly
concerning overnights) are needed to
‘protect the weaker members of the
community.”? I heard those exact words
used at last spring’s meeting on over-
nights to Haverford. Ever since, I have
been wondering who these weaker mem-~-
bers are, what they are doing here and
how the rules could possibly aid them. I
do not deny that many girls come to
Bryn Mawr with uncertain views on such
things as premarital sex and the use of:
drugs. There is nothing “reprehensible
‘about that. However, I fail to see howa
2 a.m. curfew or a restriction on over-
nights can possibly guide anyone to-
ward the formulation of mature moral
convictions or how the elimination of
these rules would necessarily lead to
the moral decadence or nervous break-
down of the Bryn Mawr student body. By
allowing girls to stay overnight at Hav-
erford, the College is neither condoning
nor encouragtiig sexual intercourse. And
1 seriously doubt that the elimination of
the 2 a.m. curfew would lead girls to stay
out late every night. Most of us have too
much work for that. _
The second possible reason for the
present honor system is that it is need
ed to appease persons outside the Col-
lege itself (i.e., parents, alumnae and
neighbors), In examining this motive,
two questions come to mind; for whom
are the rules madé, and how will they af-
fect Bryn Mawr College as a whole?
‘The answer to the first question is
simple; the rules are designed for us,
the resident students of the college.
They are not designed for our parents,
who give up their right to govern our
comings and goings when they send us
away to school (and who probably realize
that we are old enough to look after our-
selves). Neither are they intended for
the--Bryn. Me »alumnae, who cannot
have — more than’ a. .sentimental interest
they -do not live under = -—
_» the rules; they ‘should not interfere with
them. Finally, our honor system has
oy
“—~%
nothing whatever to do with residents of
neighboring communities, Uncle Ben’s vi-
triolic column notwithstahding. If people
on the Main Line choose to regard Bryn
Mawr College as some kind of brothel
just because it had abandoned Signouts,
it is a reflection of their own stupidity
and not in the least of the college’s sta-
tus. es
The only significant consideration in
this regard might be the College’s stand-
ing in the academic world, I cannot be-
lieve that it would be affected by a lib-
eralization of the rules. To put up a
front of ‘“‘honor’? so that alumnae will
give us money and newspapers won’t
write nasty things about us is sheer
hypocrisy. To base the honor system on
the morals of outsiders is unfair and
doomed to. failure. Neither motive is
sufficient justification for the rules we
now have.
The last possible reason for having a
system which restricts overnights and
.sets a curfew is that the administration
or Board is in fact trying to determine
the moral-standards of the students, While
the administration has repeatedly denied
that it is ‘‘legislating morality,’’ I tend
to doubt their protestations. Why else
would the Board include in its acceptance
of the 8 a.m.’s the statement that girls
are not to sleep at Haverford? Why else
would there be an unwritten agreement
that overnights are not to be taken, to
Haverford dorms?
If this attempt at enforced morality is
really extant, then something should be
done about it FAST. The College has no
right to tell us how to live our lives, And,
in fact, it cannot achieve that kind of reg-
ulation, because any girl with strong
moral convictions (in whatever direction)
will act on the basis of her own consci-
ence, regardless of the rules, Her ac-
tions are part of her private life--un-
related to the college community, the
alumnae association or the girl in the
next room. Furthermore, there is, in my
mind, little chance that the College will
be torn asunder by a change in the rules,
All that will happen is that Bryn Mawr.
students will finally have an honor sys-
tem which recognizes and accepts our
individual. differences and which all of us
can respect. I think it is a goal worth
Striving for. Sally Dimschultz
Which Way BMC?
Where is the Bryn Mawr community?
This is the question everyone seems to
be. concerned with, Not should Bryn
Mawr BE a community--we cannot escape
the fact that it is--but which way are
we, as a college, drifting? -- yes, drift-
ing--that is the best word, The latest
outburst of the ‘‘liberals’? who want to
abolish the sign out system gives ample
proof of this, Apathy is the prevalent
sentiment here, In general, comments
run like this: ‘‘I don’t particularly care
one way or another, It will only legalize
what already exists,’’ This is notliberal-
ism, It is outright conformity, Non-
involvement is rampant. We all too often
refuse to take the responsiblity of using
our own judgment, After all, we say,
it is none of MY business, It may not
be our business or MY business if a few
people decide not to sign out, but be-
cause a few decide to disobey a rule,
should this rule be abolished merely
for the sake of preventing hypocrisy
Why should we make it a SCHOOL POL-
ICY, thus directly AND indirectly affect-
ing every member of the Bryn Mawr
‘community?
Is hypocrisy the real key to the issue?
Then I suggest that we re-examine our
‘noble’? motives, Bryn Mawr girls are
searching for ‘“‘happiness” and “the ideal
way of life.’”’ I am constantly hearing
cries. of, ‘‘We need freedo experi-
ment and find the best way for ouf'selyes.”’
Freedom? License is a better word,
. But this distinction has not been made,
~ Some ‘are quick” to point out that feedom: sa
and responsibility are inseparably linked,
Therefore if given the ‘‘freedom’’ they.
desire, Bryn Mawr girls would automat-
ically assume all the responsibility which
should accompany this freedom. How
blind can we be? Until we are willing”
to demonstrate more responsibility with
the freedom we ALREADY HAVE, we have
no business demanding more, We already
have an unlimited amount of overnights
and recently the 8 o'clock sign out has
been put into operation, And how, may
"I ask, has this been used? Implicit in
the agreement wds the understanding that
the 8 o’clock sign out was NOT to be
used as an excuse to spend the night at
Haverford, The assumption was that a
girl might legitimately be out after 2.a,m.
yet want to return before 8 a.m, But
how is the 8 o’clock :signout: used or
abused? I don’t “now, but I have serious
doubts in my own mind and I think this
is a question we must all ask ourselves,
It is true that itis impossible to legislate
morality, and it is also true that it would
be a great convenience not to have to sign
out if one wished to type one’s boy friend’s
paper and had no desire to trudge wearily
_back to Bryn Mawr at 5 or 6.or even 7or .
8 o’clock, all for the sake of a stupid
rule and the preservation of ‘‘honor.’’
If sign outs are for our own benefit,
the argument goes, why can’t those who
wish to use it do so--and those who don’t
be exempt? After all, every Bryn Mawr
girl should have the courage of her own
convictions. But this is not the point,
The sign out system IS an inconvenience
and it IS inconvenient more often than it
is helpful, but this issue goés beyond our
own personal desires, The world is full
of inconveniences and the sooner we
realize this the better.
YOU can act responsibly in a. given
situation, you are assuming that this is true
of everybody, But let’s be realistic,
Sure some people will do as they wish
regardless of rules, and some people will
never be affected if the rules are re-
moved, But if we are honest we must
admit that there are people--many people
conceivably--who if placed in the kind of
situation which would result from abolish-
ing the signouts, might out of confusion
and insecurity find themselves acting in
a way in which they really do not want to
act, We are subjecting everyone to sense-
less pressures, The pressure is not
obvious, yet it is even more brutal be-
cause of its subtle and indirect nature,
As for the suggestion that only upper-
classmen should be allowed to use this
privilege--what could be more hypo-
critical?
these Mature and Responsible upper-
classmen set--what kind of tone and at-
mosphere will this create? This perhaps
is the least obvious of the repercussions
--yet for this very reason it is of, the
utmost importance, Most of us at Bryn
Mawr realize that each of us has a-re-
sponsibility to herself, and that each must
decide for herself the direction her life
will take, yet few people seem to realize
that we DO have a responsibility to the
college community at large. Not only
our repytation but the whole morale of the
“school is at stake, ,
Some have expressed serious doubts as
to whether there is, in fact, a morale
among the students here, The morale
is here, Who --who has ever lived through
Hell Week and Freshman Show and can
deny its existence? But our morale must
be deeper than outward enthusiasm alone,
We. must be willing to sustain morale and
to do so we must fight apathy within
ourselves, Alliance is seeking re-
juvenation, The “Review” is dying through
lack of interest,. Aren’t these organs vital
to our community? Our own involvement
is required, Is it asking too much to
use our own judgment? If we are really
‘‘mature’”? we will be willing to put up
with some inconvenience, if not for the
sake of our reputation, then certainly to
cultivate the kind of atmosphere and set
the tone which we want to uphold as a
community. Is not THIS the essence of
Self-Gov? --Responsibility--not only to
ourselves, but | to everyone with whom we
come. in contact, Whether we like it or
_ shot we DO influence each other,“ Tt:iso
up to us to make this influence positive,
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Friday, February 23, 1968.4
stetrereoay
There is a play recently arri-
ved on B ay called ‘‘The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.’’ It’s
not a very good play, but it does
‘ do one wonderful thing. It gives
the overwhelming talents of Zoe
Caldwell a marvelous chance to
be seen and heard. Wise press
agents have ‘taken to describing the
evening’s offering as ‘‘The Prime
of Miss Zoe Caldwell.’’
There is a movie now playing
to full houses all over the country
which might be sub-titled in si-
milar manner. The movie is‘‘ The
Graduate” and it is ‘‘The Prime of
Mr. Mike Nichols.’’
The script follows the original
story line of Charles Webb’s novel
of the same name very closely.
Benjamin Braddock has just
graduated with honors from an
Eastern college, and we first meet
him on the plane that is taking him
home to Los Angeles,
He spends the summer at the
upper-middle class home of his
parents. He drifts in the family
pool by day, and at night he
carries on an affair with the wife
~of his father’s law partner. The
affair with Mrs. Robinson ends
when Benjamin meets and falls in
love with her daughter, Elaine.
But Elaine finds out about the
affair and returns to Berkeley
and her studies. Benjamin follows
her~ there and soon they are re-
united, hesitantly talking of marr-
iage until her enraged father arri-
ves to separate them once more.
She is rushed into marriage with
some teutonically blond medical
student. Benjamin frantically
tracks her down, arriving at the
church just as the ceremony ends.
There a small riot, and Ben-
jamin makes off with another man’s
willing bride. Together, they hop
on the nearest bus. The movie
‘ ends with them sitting in the back
seat, winded but composed, occa- .
sionally smiling involuntarily at
themselves and at each other.
One thing that the book makes
clear is that its Benjamin is not
,a@ virgin. It is useless to specu-
type of frustrated sex.
late on whether or not the movie
hero was a virgin up until the
time of his affair with Mrs. Ro-
binson. If he was, the film is
still not concerned with his not
having slept with anyone before
but rather with his not having
slept with anyone like Mrs. Ro-
binson before. He certainly has
never been seduced by and
attracted to a woman twice his age,
nor has he ever had an affair with
a married woman whose husband
he knows. He most certainly has
never met anyone secretly in a
hotel before this. It is the qua-
lity of the affair rather than the
fact of the affair itself which is
integral to the movie and to Ben’s
story. Mrs. Robinson’s Benjamin
is a young man in limbo. The Ben-
jamin of his parents and of col-
lege is dead, Elaine’s Benjamin
has not yet come into being.
Here, as always, the hero of
the film is a-three-dimensional
character rather..than..a sketch.
The lady who shares ‘his tem-
porarily suspended state is also a
recognizable reality. The book’s
"lovers are not. In the book, the
affair is officially begun like this:
*‘He let her unbuckle his belt and
push his pants down around ‘his
legs, then climbed on top.of her
and started the affair.’’ This
sentence follows a passage in which
she first accuses him of being
inadequate and then pleads with him
to take his clothes off.
The film’s Mrs. Robinson is
hardly such a wishy-washy stereo-
This is
Mrs, Robinson having an affair,
not just anyone, and she controls
the situation at all times. Ben,
on the other hand, is not the cool
“stud of the book. As Dustin Hoff-
man plays him he squeaks he’s
so nervous, but he’s man enough
to want to prove right then and there
that he’s hardly “‘inadequate.*? And
as the camera passes briefly. over
Mrs, Robinson’s face as the scene
ends, we see an expression that is
amused and skeptical but friendly -
as well. It does not entirely
Sidney Poitier Debuts
Successfully
The most satisfying aspect of
Saint Subber’s production of the
play ‘‘Carry Me Back to Morn-
ingside Heights,’’ is the fact that
it marks Sidney Poitier’s very
successful debut as a director.
The comedy by Robert Alan Aur-
thur, now playing at the New Loc-
ust Theatre, is in itself disappoint-
ing. It’s biggest mistake is the
prolongation of brilliant one-act*
material into a full three acts.
The plotis concerned witha Jew-
ish civil rights activist who knocks
on the door of a Negro law stu-:
dent one night to offer himself
as a slave, to ‘‘pay back for four
hundred years of injustice.’’ The
idea' is great, but it is developed
into what basically remains a one-
joke play. Once the basic situa-
tion has been established, noth-
ing else ever really happens.
.In a short first scene in act
one, activist Seymour Levin ap-
pears and states his case, fol-
lowing which the absurdities of
his suggestion are examined for
the duration of act. In the
second act, we that the orig-
inally sceptical Negro student,
Willy, has accepted Seymour’s
proffered services whole -hearted-
ly. In act three, Willy’s fiance has
also finally approved of white slav-
ery and is in fact beginning to
groom Seymour’s white girl friend
for similar status.
‘The plotdoesn’tdevelop smooth-.
~ ly, progressing rather in seyeral
small spurts. The spaces in-be-
tween are generously littered with
ae very good ethnic jokes of varying
~
as Director.
relevance to re story. While he
of the humor is excellent, some
of it is borrowed finery: “Well,
I am a Jew, but I’m not what
you’d call Jew-ISH,’’ (courtesy
‘‘Beyond the Fringe’’); and, in
response to a personal invitation
to become someone’s partner at
an orgy. taking place in the apart-
ment below, ‘‘I’ll be down soon.
Meanwhile, why don’t you go on
down and get started without me,”’’
(courtesy Tallulah Bankhead and
*‘Casiho Royale’).
Some of the scenes are very
funny indeed, but they hardly add:
up to the making of a good play.
Louis Gossett is superb as Willy
and Cicely Tyson has fine mo-.
ments as his social-worker fi-
ance. Also in the competent cast
are David Steinberg as Seymour
the Jew, Diane Ladd as his south-
ern but liberated girl friend and
Johnny Brown as a Negro neigh-
bor who, jealous of Willy’s good
fortune, attends hootenannies and
rallies in future search of another
guilt-ridden white soul.
The direction is excellent. The
action is well-choreographed and
the pacing is nearly perfect. Poi-
tier has deftly taken advantage of
every opportunity for fun which
the play offers him. To do it
justice, it offers him many such
opportunities. But the. play un-
fortunately has been milked_dry
long before. the evening is over.
~The only thing keeping it-on its -}- -...
feet until the end is the skilled |
liveliness of the actors and the
strectee. Marianne Lust
belong to the cooly voluptuous
bitch we’ve met so far.
Between them, Mike Nichols and
Anne Bancroft (as Mrs. Robinson)
have created a finely and deeply
etched characterization. Most of
Mrs. Robinson is simply attrac-
tive, luke-warm, svelte, destruct-:
ive and destroyed. Any vaguely
competent actress could, with a
becoming dash of hysteria,
successfully portray such a per-
son. Susan Hayward has played
her in one form or another a
dozen times. But in the face ofthe
camera that records every grace-
less exaggeration as well as every
subtle quiver, Anne Bancroft has
been brought to show us the pathe-
tic desolation of Mrs. Robinson’s
existence.
way, and with luck, she might have
turned out differently.
Perhaps the finest scene in the
movie is the one in which Ben-
jamin one night insists that they
talk to each other for once be-
fore leaping into bed. When he
suggests art as a possible topic
.of conversation,. Mrs. Robinson -.
listlessly states that she knows
nothing about it and doesn’t want
to learn. Later, however, he dis-
covers that she majored in art at
college. Benjamin, all kindness,
as he reflectively pats her rear,
says, ‘‘Gee, I guess you just kinda
lost interest in it over the years.’’
And she becomes momentarily
soft-voiced and wistful as she
says to herself, ‘‘Kind of.’’ No
more is said. Benjaminsoon turns »
to another topic; but in one short
minute, the whole picture of two
human lives has passed before
our eyes. We know that Benjamin
vaguely feels for Mrs. Robinson
but that he can’t understand her.
And we know before it comes,
that her hardness will soon re-
turn, because for her it is too
late. All that is left for her
is sensuously and uncaringly to
unsnap her garters, peel off her
stockings and get into bed.
In this scene the two points of
view which usually co-exist in the
movie come together. In general,
the camera sees things as Ben sees
them, looming up before him, while
it shows us the people objectively.
Thus we understand Mrs. Robinson
better than Ben does,
Benjamin’s eventual rejection
and, in a sense, destruction of Mrs.
Robinson represents his, rejection
of society, the society that will
be offended when he marries the
daughter of a woman he has slept
with. He is not an intentional
revolutionary. He does not want
to hurt Mrs} Robinson, but he will
because that is her way and the
way of the world.
song of his revolt, ‘Here’s to
you, Mrs. Robinson,’’ is softly
whistled in his ear before he
even has any intentions of cons-
cious revolt.
Benjamin’s parents and their
eternal barbecue rites are cari-
catured in Ben’s eyes and ours.
Mrs. Robinson is real to him;
they are not. She lives like they
do in the same kind of cold, taste-
ful, black and white house \where
only the artificially bright green
of the plants creates color. She
lives in the same steely-cold at-
mosphere, where the California
sunshine looks as if it had been
filtered through some shiny-clear
miracle plastic which let in
brightness but not warmth. But
when Elaine comes along, she
is the closest thing to living he
can get hold of.
make love well, and thus her body
has not yet assumed the metallic
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dresses she wears so elegantly.
All the world is black and white
until Benjamin gets to the sandy,
gold-lit atmosphere of Berkeley
and Elaine. The:only color in his
Los Angeles life is his bright red
Alpha Romeo and the deeper red
of the rug in the bar of the Taft
hotel where his affair with Mrs.
Robinson begins. The church from
which he rescues Elaine is stark-
white modern, but. the bus onto
which they jump is old and yellow
with beautiful blue seats.
There are two magnificient shots
of Mrs. Robinson that take ad-
vantage of black and white designs.
In the first, she is seen reclining
on a chaise in the black and white
sun-porch with a black and brown
tiger-skin throw over her knees.
On her lap a fashion magazine lies
open to two pages of black and white
line drawings that flow into the
stripes of the throw. As she
reproaches the traitorous Ben with
dead and agonized eyes, she looks
like a three-dimensional photo-
but uncomfortably ‘real Vogue
model.
The second shot shows her
crouched in utter defeat against a
corner where two stark white walls
meet. She is dressed in sleezy
black, and as the camera zooms
away, the asylum-like walls seem
to rise endlessly above her.
The scenes of Benjamin’s life
before Elaine flow smoothly into
each other, due to Nichols’ tech-
nique of introducing the first
sounds of the scene to come over
the picture of the previous scene.
In one beautiful sequence scenes of
Benjamin in the pool and the hotel
bedroom merge endlessly until, at
last, even Mrs. Robinson and his
air mattress become one and the
same thing. Only when Elaine has
arrived do the scenes begin to
follow each other in decorously .
defined successions.
Some people have been moved
to observe that the end of the mo-
vie bears an uncomfortably close
resemblance to a scene near the
end of ‘‘Morgan,’’ in which the
hero, dressed in a gorialla suit,
raised havoc at his former wife’s
wedding party. The two scenes
in question are both concerned with
someone’s unhappy, agonized reac-
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- similarities end,
In *‘Morgan,’’ the tragi-comic
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scene shows us thé acts of a mis-
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being. What we are watching,
from Benjamin’s first anguished
scream to the closing shot of the
receding yellow bus, is the
attempted beginning of a new
life for him and Elaine.
This is not to say that the
movie has a happy ending, It
doesn’t. Benjamin has_ solved
none of his problems. For all
we know, this may be the last
as well as. the first decisive act
of his life. What Benjamin finally
does have is someone to help him
confront his problem. But Elaine
is still Mrs. Robinson’s dau-
ghter, perhaps she is even Mrs.
Robinson before her corruption.
It is up to Ben to see that Elaine
will not be like her mother —
years from now,
The fim ends as it begins-to
the sounds of Simon and Garfun-
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are given no happy ending, no sad
ending, no answer-just a beauti-
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Friday, February 23, 1968
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Seven
Say No Tolls
FP Do we need a 50-cent bridge
toll? -- NO!’ began the leaflet
‘announcing a demonstration spon-
‘sored by Philadelphia Students for
a Democratic Society and the Con-
sumers Education and Protective
Association (C.E.P,A.) at the Del-
aware River Port Authority Build-
ing in Camden Wednesday
afternoon.
‘The demonstration was directed
at the doubling of tolls from 25
cents to 50 cents on two major
bridges across the Delaware --
the Walt Whitman and the Ben
‘Franklin -- by the Port Authority.
This 100 percent increase in tolls
may cost many families whd
commute from New Jersey to
Camden $100 a year or more.
‘According to research done by
some S,.D.S. members, the money
raised by the Port Authority from
the increase will be used to build
new piers and warehouses for
various companies, and to pay high
interest rates to the banks to which
the Port Authority is in debt from
previous expansion. Bridge work-
ers are receiving no raise in wages
corresponding to the toll hike.
During the morning and afternoon
rush hours of the week prior to
the demonstration, S.D.S, and
C.E.P.A. leafletted cars going over
and coming off the Ben Franklin
Bridge. Response to the leaflet
and to the idea of a demonstra-
‘tion was good. Cries of ‘‘Good
Luck!’’ and ‘I’m on your side!’’
were often repeated. A police-
man directing traffic remarked,
“TI guess they got away with it,
didn’t they??? One driver said
quietly, ‘‘Sormhebody ought to put
some pressure on them, cause it’s
sure hurting me.’’
S.D.S. is planning to continue
its study of and campaign against
the toll raise on the bridges and
to extend it to the public trans-
portation system in Philadelphia
and to thé tax structure of the city,
which seem tobe manipulated to the
detriment of the public.
Science Center. . .
(Continued from page 1) _
the kind of research implied in
the article,’’
She added that she did not think
that a change in the nature of
the researchydone at the Cen-
ter would occur without the ap-
proval of its members,
Asked to comment on Mather’s
statement that ‘‘We should make
strictly scientific judgements,..
+ Moral considerations should not
pe taken up,’’ Miss McBride stated
she did not agree with this point
of view.
Most of the schools in south-
east Pennsylvania are members of
the University City Science Center,
and monthly meetings are held at
which administrators from all
schools are present,
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ia week Erica Hahn sub-
mitted an article to the NEWS
~ about SAC's “new community
project. This is another article
about the project. -- Ed.
Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Vil-
lanova Colleges this semester are
reaching out into the community in
which we live. Not the community
of the fine Main Line mansions,
rich grandparents and the Main
Line Chronicle with which we are
all too familiar, but the less krrown,
mainly plack, working class, just-
above-the-poverty-line communi-
ty on the other side of Lancaster
Pike.
Under the auspices of the Social
Action Committee, Kathi Hartford,
Mindy Thompson and Erica Hahn
are initiating an experimental
project of three workshops for
children: of the area and advice:
for high school students.on_pre-
paring for college board examina-
tions and college applications.
The workshops, set to begin at
the end of February, will be one.
each in drama andartfor 10-year-
olds and one in modern dance for
15-year-olds. Instead of tutorial
programs which are limited in
scope, the students will be work-
ing with groups of 15 to 25 chil-
dren in their own territory in
subjects in which they would be
interested.
College students, who are not
necessarily interested in the poli-
tics of race relations, but who do
have skill and background in spe-
cial fields of art, are going to be
running the workshops, in groups of
three and four, for two hour peri-
ods on Saturdays for 10 weeks.
The groups will meet in either
Sts. Memorial Baptist Church, a
church with an all-Negro congre-
gation in Bryn Mawr, or at the
Masonic Hall, which is locally
operated in. Haverford. The art
class will also run excursions
in the spring to parks and muse-
ums and other places of interest.
The project for high schoolers
is more loosely structured. Basic-
ally it will involve giving high
schoolers a chance to talk to col-
lege students about how to goabout
getting admitted and what hap-
pens afterwards. The Chaplain’s
Office of Villanova has also of-
“fered funds to help students pay
for Boards and application fees.
The reasons for these work-
shops are two. Firstly we want to
help the children, of course, to of-
fer them, albeit humbly, a chance
to learn from our own knowledge,
a chance to expand in communica-
tion arts and breadth of horizons.
More important, though, is what
we can learn from them. These
are people who are living in a way
very different from our own, but
“*-who are going to influence our
country in the coming years, and
they are people worth knowing to
give us a perspective on our own
lives.
If the workshops this semes- -
ter prove successful, the hope is
to expand them next year, with
the experience, knowledge of prob-
lems and community contacts gain-
ed through this beginning, and also
the beginning of intercollegiate co-
operation made this year.
In the process of setting up this
workshop and talking to members|
of the community in the churches, |
especially Sts. Memorial and the
Bethel A.M.E, Church, we are
learning about what we might do
together with the community. If a
well constructed,
project is prepared for next year,
Federal funds can be got. Isn’t this
worth a try? Erica Hahn
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Hey you! When:was the last time
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. of Perfume Sales?
-, You're not going to believe this,
but. it’s on the level: the public.
relations department of the Milton
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West 58th Street, New York 19,
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a crusade to inform college news-
papers of the dramatic ‘‘proven
parallel’? between changing sex
attitudes and the $440 million-
dollar a year perfume industry
in the Unitéd States,
In other words, the NEWS is
going to offer some ‘‘thought-
provoking facts’? on the ‘‘rela-
tionship) of scent and sexual
mores,’’
The philosophical treatise is
entitled: PERFUME AND THE SEX
REVOLUTION, (With Supple-
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Boom in Men’s Fragrance Pro-
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‘*Mr, Alvin Wetzel, who is vice-
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contends that there is a direct
relationship between ... the pop-
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of sexual freedom ... and the
decline of Puritanism, (In the
United States?)
‘,,. Naturally, during times
when the Puritanical doctrine con-
demns pleasures of the flesh, per-
fume is regarded as a sinful sen-
suous indulgence,
“Only now, after centuries of
subjection to this Puritanical code,
is society throwing off the shackles
of hyprocricy, rebelling against
outmoded sexual mores, and re-
discovering the erotic delights of
fragrance,
‘‘For to the true sybarite, the
application of fragrance is pure,
hedonistic ecstacy (SIC) ... the
bliss of bathing in perfumed water,
smoothing on silken lotions, spray-
ing on mists of cool cologne, and
fluffing on clouds of fragrant pow-
der,
‘‘And the way that perfume
affects men can never be over-
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estimated, During one historical
period its fascination was con-
sidered so dangerous as a means
of seducing men into matrimony,
that it was banned by law,’’
In discussing the scent scene,
Wetzel reveals that he has
developed his own descriptive
terms for fragrances, Like, ‘‘bar-
ber-shop-like, ping-pong-ball-
like, shoe-repair-shop-like, hot-
water-bottle-like, snuffed-candle-
like ... even to such specifics
as differentiating between the
odors of wet and dry tealeaves,,.’’
That’s Bryn Mawr’s hang-up.
There aren’t enough of us wanting
to smell like ping pong balls or
breadcrusts for our Haverford
friends.)
The press release then moves on
to the intellectual challenge of
‘(fragrance for Men,’’
‘¢...today' no man would be
caught dead without his perfumed
after-shave, and his matching deo-
drant and cologne,’’ (Note: Rel-
atively few would be caught alive
in that state‘either,)
And in a dramatic testimony for
the importance of material wealth,
the treatise continues; ‘‘,,..per-
fume has (SIC) always been the
privilege of the rich and the nobel.
The Romans waged wars in order
to bring home perfume, ..Napol-
eon used 54 bottles of cologne a
month ... Nexo, had perfumés
showered from the ceiling of his
dining saloon, ..,-Cardinal Riche-
lieu used perfumed bellows in his
apartments ... and in Louis XV
(SIC) day, etiquette prescribed the
use of a different perfume each day,
‘*So it is only natural that as
man elevates his own position, un-
til it resembles that of ancient
aristocrats, so he affords him-
self the opportunity to enjoy the
privileges of the high-born,’”’
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Faculty’s Art Talent
Equals Erdman’s Setting
Erdman is an exceptionally fine
place to have an art show, For
the second time this year, this
time by canvassing.faculty instead
of students, Dorothy Hudig and her
crew from Arts Council have found
worthy exhibits to fill it, A row
of low. tables through the foyer is
a striking setting for pottery, scul-
pture and other small plastic
pieces, Photography and graphics
are displayed on the walls and on
chains of boxes painted and sus-
pended from the ceiling.
The works are equal tothe back-.
ground, As might be expected,
Fritz Janschka is a chief contri-
butor. His pieces include large
collages, a small, whimsical wood
hanging and a wry painting of
lantern night, which contains a
couple of self-portraits. Mrs.
William Davidon is represented by
several sketches and drawings and
a small sculpture showing an in-
genous breech birth of Athena.
Isabel Stearns has_ contribu-
ted some metal constructions and
some impressive pieces of cut
marble, 2
Dr. Sampedro An
The photography is first-rate,
It’ ranges, from Joe Berry’s work,
which verges on the abstract, to
Herbert Alexander’s portraits of
Eskimos, surely some of the most
photogenic people in the world,
‘ Frederika deLaguna has on display
several beautifully-composed
landscapes,
Not to be missed, and noted
gratefully, on the small map of
the show hung at the entrance
are two small side rooms which
contain, among other pieces, the
glazed pottery of Mrs, Kit-Yin
Snyder, Peter Bachrach’s pro-
vocative wooden cross and two
hangings of colored rice paper
by Mrs, John Cary, There is
also a display of book jackets
designed by Mrs, Arthur Dudden,
This exhibit is small, but many
of the pieces are of very high
quality. Almost all are labeled
with the artist’s name; in a few
instances a description of medium
would be welcome as well, This
show will run until Mar. 1 andmay
clear the way for a larger exhibit
in the future,
Mary Laura Gibbs
alyzes
Decade of Development
Chairman of the Economics Fac-
ulty at the University of Madrid,
Jose Luis Sampedro delivered the
first of his series of 1968 Shaw
Lectures Tuesday night.
He began by re-naming his lec-
ture on ‘*The Development Dec-
ade,’’ ‘*The Case of the ,Jnterna-
tional Expert.’’ Lack of agree-
ment and understanding among in-
ternational economic experts, he
said, contributes to the ‘‘not only
sad and unjust, but urgent and
pressing question of economic de-
velopment of backward countries.”
Since the beginning of the Decade
of Development, the gap between
rich and poor nations has been
widening. ‘‘Perhaps for better,
perhaps for worse,’’ he said,
‘«modern technology has given us
mass media which provides a way
of displaying the benefits of ad-
vanced nations to those who have
nothing. The hungry two-thirds
know that the other one-third are-
n’t hungry.”
In the face of this explosive
situation the ‘‘international ex-
pert” concerns himself only with
specialized sub-sectors of soci-
ety, ignoring the mass ofnon-eco-
nomic factors, ‘‘The problem can
never be understood,’’ Sampedro
held, ‘‘if you take only subsectors
of society. You have to take the
global situation.’’ For example,
**‘Economic decisions are prob-
lems of political power. It is in-
sufficient to make the assumption
~that political power is neutral or
inspired by the same principles
and goals that inspire advanced
countries.”?
“Noisy communications’? fur-
ther contribute to the ‘‘case of
the international expert.” Econo-
mists do not even agree upon the
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is important up to the point of
solving the problem. Development
is not just economic. growth. It
is growth plus change. He who is
eager to accept growth isn’t so
eager to accept change.’’ Sam-
pedro feels that an awareness of
the problems posed by cybernet-
ics would improve understanding
among ‘‘international experts’’ of
the problems of development.
In his remaining three lectures,
Sampedro will discuss ‘‘Technolo-
gists and Society,’’ ‘‘Economic
Planning in Spain’ and ‘‘Causal
Factors in Economic Develop-
ment.’?? “] shall try to say what
development is not,’? he said, ‘‘It
is not just another stage in a con-
tinuous process of growth. It is a
disquieting, disrupting phase.’’
Sampedro has participated in
economic missions in Spain,
Western Europe, the Mediterran-
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High School Students Join
To Shake Up
A conference for Philadelphia
high school. students concerned
about changing the conditions in
their schools) sponsored by Stu-
dents for a Democratic Society and
a group of high. school students
called Students Concernedwas held
last Saturday in the Germantown
Community Presbyterian Church,
Lower Merion and Haverford High
Schools were represented among
100 students present.
The purpose of the conference
was to create a city-wide organi-
zation of interested students which
would strengthen and inspire work
in each high school on some of the
problems the schools are invested
with,
Four speakers opened the con-
ference, The Rev. David Gracie
spoke of how students are ‘‘chan-
neled’? (quoting General Hershey)
into the draft. Mr, Snyder talked
about how students are forced into
a kind of institutional racism in
their schools. Chuck Greenberg,
a teacher in an experimental school
in Philadelphia, gave his obser-
vations about how kids are stuck
in curriculums which are unin-
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_ Thompson Bradley, a professor
at Swarthmore, urged an alter-
native to these observations as he
talked about what it means to or-
ganize, He emphasized the import-
ance of working with issues which
affect many students, so as to
create a feeling of solidarity which
will form a basis for communi-
cating ideas and taking further
actions,
_ After the speakers, students ga-
thered in four differentworkshops,
They covered discipline in the
schools, racism, curriculum, cen-
sorship and the war, the draft and
the student. Students emerged
from the workshops with concrete
proposals to start a high school
underground paper, and perhaps
a-free high school with courses
in the war or negro history, A
program to talk about the meaning
of the black students’ school boy-
cott -on the anniversary of Mal-
colm X’s death in the schools on
that day was voted on, And a per-
manent organization of Philadel-
phia high school students. was es-
tablished,
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and answer questions. Monday
night the meeting is scheduled for
the Music Room of Goodhart and
for the Common Room on Wednes:
day. Sessions will begin at 7and be
over in time for later events
scheduled for Goodhart on those
evenings. .
The actual voting will take place
in the halls and will be required
and preferential.
After the results of the presi-
dential elections are announced,
a later election will be held for
the vice-presidents and secre-
taries of campus organizations
and for the first sophomore rep-
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