College news, November 19, 1965

“The College





Vol. LI, —_:

BRYN MAWR, PA.

November 19, 1965

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. 1965

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NDEA ‘Awards 4 Fellowships
To Bryn Mawr Grad School

The President’s Office has an-
nounced the awarding of four
National Defense Education Act
fellowships to the Bryn Mawr
Graduate School, The grants will
become effective in the academic
year 1966-1967.

According to President Mc-
Bride, the government chose four
fields in which to award the fel-
lowships from a list of possibili-
ties suggested _by Bryn Mawr.
These fields are German, Spanish,
mathematics, and philosophy.

In the event that the field selec-
ted cannot be assigned, the Dean
of the Graduate School can re-
assign the fellowship to another
field,

The fellowships are awarded for
the first year of graduate school
and can be renewed for two more
years, subject to a review of the
student’s work. If the student
wishes to continue her studies be-
yond the three years covered by
the program, she must look else-
where for support.

In addition to covering com-
pletely the student’s tuition, the
fellowships contribute $2000 a year
towards living expenses during the
first year, $2200 the second year,
and $2400 the third year.

In the past, the Bryn Mawr
Graduate School has hada National
Defense Education Act Fellow in
only one field, Russian. Luba Hal-
lat held this fellowship for three
years, during which time she also
gave an undergraduate course. She
is now in her fourth year and will
come up for consideration for
a Ph.D, at the conclusion of this
year,

The number of fellowships was
severely limited under the terms
of the original Act of 1958, be-
cause aid was restricted to only
new or greatly expanded fields.
Only Russian qualified under these
terms. :

The act, however, has been
amended so that the fields inwhich
fellowships can be awarded are in
no way limited. Thus Bryn Mawr
was able to apply for and receive

the new fellowships.

The NDEA fellowships are very
similar to the NSF fellowships of
which there are currently three in
the Bryn Mawr Graduate School,
one in geology and two in chemis-
try.

There has been great contro-
versy in the past over the NDEA
because the student is required to
take a loyalty oath before receiv-
ing assistance. At present this oath
is only a positive oath of allegiance
to the United States government,
There is no clause disclaiming
affiliation with any organization
advocating the overthrow of the
United States government,

Johns and McDowell Investigate
Possible Constitutional Revisions

Undergrad President Popie
Johns and Self Gov President Al-
lie McDowell replied to sugges-
tions made by. Haverford’s stu-
dent council president about re-
forms in Bryn Mawr’s student
government, The response took
place at Monday night’s Undergrad
meeting.

The first suggestion called fora
union of Undergrad. and Self Gov.
Popie explained that the Bryn Mawr
student government is more in-
clusive than the Haverford system.
Self Gov deals with student con-
duct, and Undergrad handles ex-
tra-curricular activities. Popie
pointed out that these are both

SNCC To Aid Natchez .
With “Meal for a Meal’

585 Bryn Mawrters will give
up dinner on Tuesday night, No-
vember 23, so that the money or-
dinarily spent by the Ad-
ministration for the meal can be
used to buy food for forcibly un-

employed Negroes in Natchez,
Mississippi.
SNCC has_ organized. this

Thanksgiving Fast, in which the
Graduate Center at Bryn Mawr will
also participate. The fast will
also be observed at Haverford,
where an estimated 360, or 75%
of the student body, have =_—
to take part.

Natchez, a city of 23,706. --
12,300 Negro and 11,400 white
-- has frequently been a scene of
racial violence, especially in the
last two years; it is the home of
E.L. McDaniel, Grand Dragon of
the United Klans of America for
Mississippi. During the first week
in October over 400 were arrest-
ed protesting an injunction against
demonstrations of any kind, and
many were taken to Parchman
State Penitentiary, about 200 miles
away. A number of these and others
who participated in later dem-
onstrations attending the filing of
a school desegregation suit for

Bennett’s Richard Is Praised;
Set, Lights, Music Also Good

by Joan L. Klein
Lecturer in English

It is not often that one can praise
without qualification the perfor-
mance of so difficult a role as
Richard II. Stephen Bennett became
Richard II, that intelligent, but
painfully self-indulgent and self-
lacerating king. Those great
scenes where Richard most ex-
ploits. his weaknesses to become
the prisoner of his own visions
were those most sensitively played
by Mr. Bennett. For instance, -in
the scene at Flint Castle, where
Richard forces into reality his own
morbid visions of deposition
‘and eventual death, Mr. Bennett
was able to suggest all the
complexities of the descent as act

and symbol, psychological process
and poetic evocation. Indeed, it
was due in large measure to Mr.
Bennett’ that the play was trans-

~ formed from diterature to drama, .

Second only to Mr. »Bennett’s ..
performance was Mr. Hicks’ fine
performance of Henry Boling-

‘broke. Mr. Hicks projected onto

the stage the controlled force that
Shakespeare must have intended to
contrast sharply with the un-
controlled weaknesses of Richard.
Mr. Hicks was admirably reticent
and free from posturing in his con-
ception of his role during the
greater part of the play. Only dur-
ing the last third was there less
clearly evident on the stage in the
person of Bolingbroke the con-
tained and ruthless energy neces-
Sary not only to pull down but
also to murder a king.

Many of the supporting roles
were well done. Mr. Sinclair, as
Bagot, gracefully provided the
notes of decadent luxury which
imperiled Richard’s rule.
Gartner was,a more convincing
and honest gardener than he was a
bishop, but it is difficult at any
time to sustain the weight of the
latter office. Mr, Hillman was a
very able Northumberland, though

perhaps: his. attempt to. reproduce.
“a north-country ‘accent < blurred

the intelligibility of some of his
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Mr..

Adams county have already been
fired from domestic, department-
store and other jobs, People whose
children were in these demonstra-
tions or who signed desegrega-
tionist petitions were also subject
to this kind of retaliation.

‘Most recently a boycott was
called early in November against
the entire Natchez downtown area.
Businessmen threatened to fire
all Negroes involved in such a
boycott, and many have been fired
already: they will be receiving
the aid from SNCC,

The exact amount of money going

to Natchez from Bryn Mawr will "

not be known until the menu for
Tuesday is planned, Meanwhile or-
ganizers of the fast stress that the
Inn will remain open, and also that
Popeye’s Pizza wagon will. be at
Pembroke Arch from _ six p.m.
Only dorm meals will be affected.

4. BMC Students

Injured Saturday

In Auto Accident

Four Bryn Mawr students were
involved in an automobile accident
last Saturday evening. They were
on route to a mixer being held
that night at Lincoln University.

The four girls were .Josetta
Williams, fifth year student, Erd-
man; Jessica Harris, Pem West;
’68; Jackie Williams, Erdman, ’68
(no relation to Josetta), and Eu-
dora Kombo, Denbigh, ’66.

The girls described the acci-
dent as follows: Around 8 p.m.,
before the dance, they were pro-
geeding along Lancaster Pike at
about thrity-five miles per hour
when their car was struck on the
left side by another car which
drove out of an intersection lo-
cated a block or two from the Vik-
ing Inn, Their car was spun around
and hit frontally by a third car.

A Lincoln student was driving
the car with the Bryn Mawr stu-
dents. He suffered internal in-
juries.

All were hospitalized overnight,
examined and treated for shock,
cuts and bruises. The girls were
then tranfered to the informary,
except for Eudora, who is still in

Pa)

Bryn.Mawr Hospital.
Jessica was released from the

fhfirmary, and Jackie and Josetta
will be out ‘in a few days.’’

large areas and can be more ef-
ficiently managed by separate ad-
ministrations.

She referred to the impressive
list of changes in recent months:
dress rule, driving rule, smoking
in rooms, the bus between Bryn
Mawr and Haverford, and meal
exchanges for weekdays and week-
ends. The present system is ob-
viously capable of answering stu-
dent needs.

Students are also asked to par-
ticipate in many administrative
matters, including Erdman dec-
oration and design and the academ-
ic calendar, Popie noted that the
Board of Trustees has never vetoed:
a request made by Undergrad,

Undergrad and Self Gov -are
responsible for the students in
many respects beyond the reach
of the. Haverford structure. Both
organizations are respected by the
administration andthe faculty, said
Popie.

A second reform supported by
Haverford is the integration of stu-
dent and faculty power structures.
Popie prefers the present arrange-
ment, since students are asserting
their freedom through an indepen-
dent student government,

Social Chairman
Ruth Levy Drops
Undergrad Duties

Ruth «Levy, ’67, announced her
resignation as campus social
chairman at the Monday night un -
dergrad meeting, She explained
that the duties of the office have
become too demanding and too
varied, and she strongly recom-
mended a. reorganization and
strengthening of the Social Com-
mittee,

Ruth emphasized her belief that
students are interested in attend-
“ing social activities, both those on
campus and those arranged with
other colleges, as she elaborated
upon the planning that these func-
tions entail.

For all-campus parties and mix-
ers, there are arrangements for
lighting, a band, microphones and
refreshments, as well the decorat-
ing and clean-up. Off-campus mix-
ers require coordination with the
other college on setting the date,
arranging transportation, and
sometimes packing meals.

There are also, Ruth continued
the constant letters to be written
and answered, and phone calls that
must be received, She said that
one person cannot handle work of
this scope, and pointed toa limita-
tion of the duties.of campus social
chairman, with delegation of some
of these to a larger and more re-
sponsible Social Committee.

At a meeting on Tuesday, the
Social Committee, at present com-
prised of the hall social chair-
men, began tocarry out Ruth’s sug-
gestions. It invited the membership
of everyone interested in working
with it, and set a meeting for
Thursday night to elect a new
campus social chairman,

The duties of the campus chair-
man have been reduced, Until the
functions of the Social Comittee

--members have been clearly de-

fined, and other officer's have been
elected, ‘Barbara Mann and Mary
Little are handling correspondence
and telephone calls.

Haverford has missed the’point
of the Bryn Mawr system, said
Popie, since we already have a
true student government.

Self Gov President Allie Mc-
Dowell added that government im-

plies a certain amount of sta-
bility. Many factors must be main-
tained in operation. A government
does not need to be in constant
turmoil to be active, Stability,

~ Allie emphasized, is just as im-

portant as change.

Popie and Allie discussed pos-
sible methods of instituting a cam-
pus-wide re-evaluation of student
government, especially since this
is a year of constitutional revision.

Antioch Exchange
Not Taking Place

The exchange committee has
started .an information campaign
concerning the schools with whom
we are’ planning exchanges. The
exchange with Antioch won’t be
taking place this Thanksgiving va-
cation as planned, because nobody
was_able to go. This was partly
due to the fact that arrangements
were made too late and people had
already made other plans. Also it’s
midsemester time and work is
piling up. But the main reason is
that people just don’t know enough
about Antioch to know if they would
be interested in going or not,

Hopefully in the future we can
make plans further in advance, The
problem of too much work is per-
haps not as big a problem as
people think. Students who partici-
pate in exchanges ought to be able
to find time to study, since the
host students will certainly have
studying to do too, , _

The exchange committee has de-
cided to do something about find-
ing out more about the schools we
will exchange with, and publiciz-
ing it. There.are catalogues of the
colleges with whom we are plan-
ning exchanges this year on the
reserve shelf to the right of the
reserve room door. We will also
try to get the exchanging schools to
send us further. information on
student organization and the like to
put on reserve too, and on an
exchange bulletin board (location
to be announced!) We’d like to
set up a news article exchange
both before the student exchange,
to interest students in participat-
ing and to give them an idea of
what to look for, and afterwards,
to publicise what the participating
students learned from _ the
exchange. At any rate the exchange
committee will write for the NEWS
a series of articles on the schools
we have planned exchanges with,
and write a short article on Bryn
Mawr to be sent to our exchanging
schools if they are interested. (At
present we are planning exchanges
with Antioch, St. Johns, Howard
University, Radcliffe, The-Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, and possibly
Swarthmore.

We hope the exchange with Anti-
och will still come off, as w@ll as
the others we’ve planned. Watch
the bulletin board in Taylor, and
the NEWS, and take a look at the
information on reserve in the li-
information on reserve in the
library.








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Rebuttal

Undergrad President Popie Johns clarified several important points
about the Bryn Mawr student government system at last Monday night’s
meeting, where she replied to the Haverford criticism published in last
week’s COLLEGE NEWS,

In reply to Haverford’s suggestion that Self-Gov and Undergrad
combine, Popie pointed out that the two organizations cover such dif-
ferent fields that separation is necessary, We may add, too, that
while the Haverford Student Council handles honor system issues as
well as campus organizations and activities, our honor system is not
“quite the same sort of structure. The honor system here permeates
our daily lives, covering countless matters of dress and behaviour
with which Haverford need not concern itself, Also, while Haverford
may consider these ‘petty’? matters, they constitute as a whole a
major part of a women’s college. :ollege.

Popie further noted that many successful changes in these rules have
been made in relatively brief period of time, a fact which we feel points
to the efficiency of the present system. In addition, she noted that the
Board of Trustees has never vetoed a Self-Gov decision, indicating the
respect we have won from the administration.

Popie also assailed Haverford’s suggestion that we ‘‘integrate
student and faculty power structures,’’ pointing out that we are asserting
our own freedom in having an independent government. Perhaps it is
here that the basic divergence of Bryn Mawr and Haverford’s aims
emerges, with the emphasis at Bryn Mawr decidedly stronger on free-
dom than on power, For, while Haverford may point to the student-
opposed calendar as a result of the lack of integration of faculty-
student power structures, we can point to the fact, that owing to averse
student reaction at Bryn Mawr, the calendar, with the help of a re-
vamped curriculum committee, is being changed, and the student
government retains its independence.

Finally, our system, however complex it may appear ‘and thus
contrary to the rule of simplicity-equals-efficiency, IS proving itself
efficient in serving our needs, Of course, there is room for improve-
ment, as. there isin any system of government, and perhaps some of
that improvement may come out of a consideration of Haverford
suggestions; the time for change, however, does not appear to be now.

Decision

Ruth Levy’s resignation as college social chairman is an admirable
display of responsibility, Faced with-a job she could not adequately
perform, Ruth gave primary consideration to the function served by
her office for the needs of the college.

In her letter Ruth describes the demands of a position that obviously
exceeds the energies of one person, A social chairman is forced to
rely on the good nature and cooperation of others, If assistance fails
to materialize, she alone remains to handle the major arrangements
and minor details.

If Ruth had chosen to keep her job out of obligation to those who
elected her, a triple injustice would have resulted. The social program
of the college of necessity would have suffered some neglect. Ruth
herself would have been burdened with a frustratingly unaccomplish-
able task. An inefficient and ineffective system would have been
perpetuated.

By openly announcing her predicament, Ruth has cleared the way
for revision of a situation which would have otherwise remained un-
noticed, Discretion is here indeed the better part of valor - when such
a step is taken after weeks of effort it can only be the result of serious
consideration.

We thank Ruth for her interest in the social activities of the campus,
for her noble attempt, and for her final decision to remedy an over-
looked ill.

Misgiving

While most of the country is giving thanks this time of year, most
Bryn Mawrters we know are giving out with exhaustion, giving in to
academic rigors, and giving up the ghost. Around here ‘the season’s
known as Thanks-misgiving.

Post-midsemester relief is eclipsed, unfortunately, by the rising sun
of term papers. Host poc ergo hopter proc, and all those other Greek
platitudes.

In the spirit of good will which ought to be shrouding the holiday,
the COLLEGE NEWS would like to be the first to start the official
countdown -- only 29 more days ’til Christmas vacation, That much
more time to procrastinate! .

_ But back to the more immediate Thanksgiving. Says the Bryn Mawr
_, Satalog .of cher students: ‘As ‘she continues. through the four under-_

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To the Editor:

On Monday night at thé Under-
grad meeting, I resigned as social
chairman of the college. I have
recommended that the social com-
mittee be reorganized and that
this new committee be structured
as are all other organizations on
campus -- with a president (or
chairman), vice president, secre-
tary, treasurer, and as many other

girls-as-are interested in being on ~

the committee -- and that the
members of this organization
divide up the jobs which are now
all performed by the social chair-
man,

The chairman schedules all
dorm and campus-wide social
events; speaks with every boy who
calls the college asking about so-
cial functions; answers all mail
from boys requesting information
about mixers and other parties;
handles all other mail from bands,
booking agencies, and _ boys’
schools; arranges for transpor-
tation for Bryn Mawr girls going
to mixers at other schools; keeps
all the financial records of. the
social committee; and sends no-
tices to the dorms announcing
every social activity on campus
and off campus to which Bryn
Mawr girls are invited, The so-
cial chairman also runs every all-
campus party, This involves or-
dering food, arranging to have a
porter serve, arranging for the
maintenance men to prepare the
floor of a room if the party in-
volves dancing and to clean the

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floor following the dance, meet-
ing with the electrician to dis-
cuss lighting and microphone
facilities if there is to be a band,
hiring the band, inviting bovs’
schools to come, supervising the
decorating of a room and the ree
moval of decorations after the
event,

The present social committee
is comprised of the chairman and
the social chairmen from. the
dorms, The dorm chairmen have
all done good jobs running their
dorm mixers, some have willing-
ly helped with the campus events,
but many are uncooperative in
assisting with the campus-wide
activities; the gym was decorated
twice this year and neither time
were all the social chairmen on
hand to help nor did the ones
who were .not there send sub-
stitutes to take their places; last
spring three social chairmen (of
the 17) showed up to decorate the
field house at Haverford for the
Fats Domino dance.

It. is my: suggestion :that the
social committee be revamped to
include the officers mentioned, the
dorm chairmen who would be held
responsible ONLY for dorm ac-
tivities, and a’separate group of
girls who would work in con-
junction with the charman in run-
ning all-campus events,

This would allow for a much
greater division of the labor; and
the chairman would be able to
spend her time coordinating all the
activities rather than having to
fulfill all the responsibilities her-
self,

Ruth Levy, ’67

Friends of SNCC

To the Editor:

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford
Friends of SNCC has been reju-
venated, Friends of SNCC is now
a very going concern, with its
base in Erdman Hall, Meetings
are held every Thursday at 5:30
p.m, in the Erdman Rec Room, and
are open to all, That is, anybody
can come, So do, We have about
seven things going on now, which
we propose to expound (!!) in the
following paragraphs,

NOVEMBER IS SNCC MONTH!
November is SNCC month and
one of the first things we are
concretely doing is havinga MEAL
FOR A MEAL on Monday Nov.
22 dinner. Due to their boycott
of business in the town of Nat-
chez, Miss., many Negroes lost
their jobs and will not have a
Thanksgiving dinner this year (or
any food, for that matter), unless

we help. This we are doing by

skipping Tuesday’s dinner and
sending the money we get from the
meal to the people down there,
through SNCC,

We have a radio program called
‘It?s What’s Happenin’ Baby,’’ on
WHRC, Some time between the
hours of 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
on Tuesdays a voice will break
in on the solemn rock ’n roll

_. Music with “It’s what’s happenin’,
baby!” and. give a short (6-min.,) «

report of SNCC news. So while
you play your postprandial bridge
(poker, skee ball, old maid) game,

“SNCC,..

tune in to WHRC, 640 on your

‘radio dial and lend us an ear or

two. (See if you can guess who
is doing the talking.)
Posted in all the dorms should

“be a Philly SNCC newsletter, with

local SNCC info, and also various
people should receive these by
mail, Soon subscriptions to the
**Voice,’? SNCC’s newsletter from
Atlanta, will be available on cam-
pus. A new newspaper “The
Southern Courier,’? written by
Harvard and Yale students taking
a. year. off, will also soon appear
--it gives unbiased news reports
of happenings in the Civil Rights
Movement which aren’t reported
in the current news media. Books
and articles will be on the SAC
shelf in the Reserve Room, first
shelf to your right as you go in.

Beautiful suede leather hats,
bags and coin pouches will soon

be sold by SNCC oncampus, These:

we get from a women’s sewing
co-op in the South, an example
of businesses set up by the newly

- formed Poor People’s Corporation,

The Corporation (annual dues, 25¢)
gets money’ from donors to help
people who have lost their jobs
through working in the movement,
to start their own businesses,
SNCC people on campus will be
around to dorms to take orders
for these suede articles, which
come in many colors, such as
brown, black, loden, purple, gold,
and white, and are cheaper than
ever you would find in a store.
We hope to have orders back in
time for Christmas gift-giving. So

“keep a look out for more on this.

Our BIG project for the future
is a recreational center in Ard-

more for the children who would
otherwise be fooling around on the
streets, Some of our members
worked this summer at a day
camp in Ardmore and say there is
a great need to continue the work
which ended when the summer
ended. They know people in the
area, parents and their kids, and
say this project could really be
good if we work and give the time
to it, There seems to be a lot
of interest in this so if you are
interested please come to meet-
ings and tell us so, We want you,
baby.

Now last but not exactly least,
we are having Cleve Sellers here
to speak on SNCC, its origins,
aims, philosophy, etc, etc. He
comes on December 2, the first
Thursday in December, so keep
that date open, Notices and info
will be posted soon... you will all
want to come, we are fairly sure.
...Sellers, 20 years old, is the
program secretary for the South.
He quit Howard *U. to join SNCC,
He says of the movement, in an
article which appeared in EBONY
magazine,

“ ¢*What we are trying to do is
make people important and neces-
sary again. We’re trying to get
people to see that when you talk
about civil rights you have to go
deeper than hamburgers, deeper
maybe than even the vote. You
have to go really deep into the
whole theory about relationships.
That’s what makes SNCC unique...”’

So save Thursday, December

2nd. Come hear Cleve Sellers on

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November 19, 1965

COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Meacham, AFSC Sec’y, Pranksters Enter McGill Conference Held
Relates Three Dilemmas

Alliance’s lecture this weekwas
a sneak preview of a conference it
is planning to sponsor next year on
the TRIPLE REVOLUTION, This
paper, put out in March, 1964 was
sent to President Johnson, and
received a substantial amount of
publicity at that time. Now, ac-
cording to Stewart Meacham, the
Peace Secretary of the American
Friends Service Committee, we
are in a war situation and interest
in more long term problems has
died down,

Mr. Meacham’s lecture for
Alliance was primarily devoted to
simply describing the content of
the original paper. Basically, it

asserts that there are three mutu- -

ally reinforcing revolutions taking
place in the world today, which are
particularly evident here. . Most
“space was devoted to the problem
of the cybernetics revolution. This
problem is caused by the increas-
ing use of the computer (a broad
term that refers to a high speed
calculating .machine.and decision.
. maker) linked with the automated
self-regulating industrial ma-
chine, This combination vastly in-
creases our productive power,
while decreasing the need for
human labor, This_ situation,
Meacham took pains to explain,
essentially destroys the ‘‘scarcity
principle.’’ That is, there is no
longer a strong connection between
work and income; it is no longer
necessary for a man to produce
something for the economy to be
able to afford to feed him,

Thus, in order to handle our
increased productivity, we have
to greatly expand our definition
of ‘free goods,’? which now in-
clude things like primary educa-

tion and park facilities, to a basic
guaranteed income for everyone.

It was pointed out that this situ-
ation is merely developing--it does
not yet actually exist, because the
world hasn’t even been able to
work out a plan to keep everyone
fed, let alone provided with an
income. :

The other two problems which
are probably of more interest to
the AFSC were not discussed so
fully inthe TRIPLE REVOLUTION,
These are the revolutions in arm-
aments and human rights, It is
well known that we are now pro-
ducing weapons for which the
present power struggle has no use.
They are totally ‘‘obsolete as far
as being related to a rational
purpose is concerned,’’ said Mr.
Meacham. He went on to say that
his solution would be an increased
use of non-violent social power.
He was asked, ‘‘What is the power
of non-violence but the threat of
violence?’ He had to agree to
this, saying that it would be a long
time before effective non-violence
would not have a threat of violence
behind it.

He glossed over the human rights
revolution, saying that itwas based
on the *‘desire of everyone to feel
valued’’. and that it was believed
that a stable government is im-
possible unless everyone has a
meaningful voice in its organiza-
tion. He admitted however that he
was not sure whether sucha stable
government could actually exist
or not.

For further information on the
dilemme. these revolutions pose,

and on next year’s conference,
contact Margaret Levi in Erdman.

Bryn Mawr Stands in Minority

‘¢Student Responsibility in the
Expression of Freedom’’ was the
topic of discussion at an inter-
collegiate conference Sunday
afternoon at Rosemont College.
Bryn Mawr’s_ representatives,
Popie Johns, Miss Pat McPher-
son, and Miss Margaret Healy,
had their opinions reinforced as
to both the rarity and the merit
of an active student government.

The conference began with a
panel discussion under the chair-
manship of Martin Sullivan, Na-
tional President of the National
Federation of Catholic College Stu-
dents. Other members of the panel
were Rev, John A, Driscoll, Vice-
President of Academic Affairs,
Villanova University, David Mar-
shall, professor of philosophy at St.
Joseph’s and Rosemont, Joseph
Eyer, student leader, Haverford
College, and Gerald Powers, stu-
dent leader at Siena College, Lou-
donville, N.Y.

Joe Eyer and Rev. Driscoll
spoke extensively on social re-
sponsibility in the community, It
boiled down to a question of con-
science and consciousness. If
someone feels something he does
is right, he must realize and ac-
cept the fesponsibility for his
actions, Mr. Eyer related the col-
lege community to the rest of the
world. He stated that freedom
and responsibility must begin on
the campus and then spread out,
The student must first live in
accordance with the most petty
dorm rules before going on to
involvements in a larger sphere.

Mr. Marshall brought in the
European system of self govern-
ment which is quite different from
our own. Much of the difference
is due to the fact that there is
no catnpus in European univer-

"sities, Nor ts ‘there much coun=»»
~ “selling. The student is left for the ~

most part to his own devices with
no restrictions, no responsibili-
ties. This often results in a stu-

_ With Active StudentGovernment

dent’s feeling lost at first.

Small discussion groups fol-
lowed the more general panel de-
bate. The most startling realiza-
tion that resulted from these was
that most schools don’t have an
actual student government, run
entirely by and for the students.
Most have councils chaired by
the administration. Therefore any
issues are presented TO the faculty
BY the faculty. This effectively
curtails student expression. There
is no contact between students and
faculty. In many cases the stu-
dents do not even know just ‘*who’?
the administration is,

Learning about situations in
other schools enforces upon us
the great freedoms and respon-
sibilities which we have at Bryn
Mawr and which we ‘cannot be
allowed to take for granted. A
real and active student government
is a vital part of colleBe life and
a rare privilege which Bryn Mawr-
ters enjoy. S.R.

wt RP Sealing



Yes, it’s the Bryn Mawr-Haverford bus! Of course, it’s not really ours, but this has been bor-

Mrs. Livingston's
Pem East Office

Sometime last weekend prank-
sters broke into the Pembroke
East basement office of Mrs, Ra-
mona Livingston, Instructor in
English,

Nothing was taken-- no records
were rummaged through or dis-
turbed -- but a note was left on
Mrs. Livingston’s desk and sev-
eral student papers on a table
outside had also been mutilated.

Mrs. Livingston discovered what
had happened when she returned to
her office about 7:30 Sunday night,
and found the door unlocked. In-
side she found the window open and
a chair pulled up to it. A note was
written: on the memo pad on her
desk, which she is certain is not
in the handwriting of anyone in
her classes,

Mrs, Livingston also feels
that the note could not have been
directed against her personally:
it addressed her as ‘‘Buddy,’’ and
said: ‘fas a member of your class
I feel that your lectures lack
originality and feeling’? -- Mrs,
'Livingston’s Freshman Com-

position is -not-a-lecture course.

Mrs, Eleanor Leach, who came
down to her office next door early
on Saturday, discovered that sim-
ilar remarks had been scribbled
‘on some of the papers left outside
the office.

Locks will be. put. on the lower
part of the high office windows
which allowed the pranksters to
get in.

Alliance Sponsors

Whitney M. Young

Whitney M, Young, Jr., execu-
tive director of the National Urban
League, will speak under the aus-
pices of Alliance Monday Novem-
ber 29, in the Common Room, on
“Problems of Minority Groups
in Urban Areas.’?

In WHO SPEAKS FOR THE
NEGRO, Robert Penn Warren has
characterized Mr. Young as an
‘angry young man.’? Author of
TO BE EQUAL, whichwas review -
ed in the COLLEGE NEWS last
year, Mr. Young received his M.A,
in Social Work from the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, He has also
studied engineering at MIT and
received a Rockefeller Foundation
grant to attend Harvard for a year.

For seven years Mr. Young
served as dean of the School of
Social Work in Atlanta, Georgia.
He then worked with the League
in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Oma-
ha, Nebraska, While working with

the League he has also: served

on. several presidential commis-
sions including a recent one with
Miss McBride,

The National Urban League is
working in the center of present
problems of the socio-economic
sphere. There are 72 local leagues
throughout the nation supported
by local community chest funds

‘ and private contributions,




rowed to serve until our own bus arrives over Christmas (?)

On Afro-Asian Situation

by Lois Magnusson

Over one hundred students from
American and Canadian universi-
ties assembled in Montreal last
week for the ninth McGill Con-
ference on World Affairs. The
subject of this year’s conference
was The New Dimensions of War,
and Peace: Experiences in the
Afro-Asian Theatre.

Participating students and pro-
fessors were divided into groups of
twelve, with each person present-
ing’a paper on a specified tcpic
as a basis of discussion, Topics
included roots’ of instability and
political violence in the developing
nations; Western, Soviet, and
Chinese objectives and strategies
in the Third World; and possibili-
ties of U.N, peacekeeping action,

Lecturers included Americans
Lucian Pye, Samuel Huntington,
William Griffith, John Kautsky,
Rupert Emerson, Charles Mar-
shall, and Lincoln Bloomfield and

Contest of Poetry
Sets Committee's
50th Anniversary

The Literary Arts Committee
of the Philadelphia Art Alliance is
sponsoring a poetry contest tocom-
memorate the Art Alliance’s fifth
anniversary.

Three equal prizes of $100 will
be awarded for the best work sub-
mitted by poets under 25 years
of age who have not published a
book of verse.

Entrants may submit up to ten
pages of their work. Entries must
be typewritten and double-spaced.
They will be returned only if ac-
companied by a self-addressed,
stamped envelope. Entries should
be addressed to Poetry Contest,
The Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251
S. 18th St., Philadelphia, P, 19103
and mailed before February l,
1966.

The contest will be judged by
poets Daniel Hoffman, professor
of English Literature at Swarth-
more College; Richmond Latti-
more, Paul Shorey Professor of
Greek at Bryn Mawr College, and
Robert Wallace, of the Western
Reserve University faculty. Mr.
Wallace formerly taught at Bryn
Mawr College.

Mr, Hoffman is the author of*
*“*The City of Satisfactions,’’ and
two other books of poems, and of
several critical studies, among
them **American Poetry and Poet-
ics,”

Mr. Wallace’s second book of
verse, ‘‘Views from a Ferris
Wheel,’”’ has just been published.
He recently won a poetry contest
sponsored by Approach Magazine
and is editor of ‘Poems on Poet-
ry: The Muse’s Garland,”

Contest winners will be announc-
ed in April and will be invited to
read their work in a program at
the Philadelphia Art Alliance Audi-
torium April 28, 1966.

ek

ae

Canadians James Minifie and John
Wendell Holmes.

There was considerable criti-
cism of the choice of speakers,
perhaps the harshest public com-
ment being that of the editor of
the McGILL DAILY: ‘‘It is dis- .
appofnting...to note the long list
of cold war warriors invited .to
this massive, one-sided State De-
partment teach-in,’’ Obviously the
conference was limited not only
by a desire to invite well-known
speakers but also by the availa-
bility of articulate authorities in
the field,

_ Rather than criticize the con-—
ference for inviting only persons
with State Department affiliations,
perhaps it would be more in order
to congratulate State for having
tapped the resources of the aca-
demic community,

There was a certain unfortunate
lack of controversy during the of-
ficial sessions of the conference,
Perhaps it was the formulation of
topics which led to the inevitable
meaningless generalities. and
sweeping statements so often heard
in lectures or discussion groups.
There was, nevertheless, consid-
erable argument outside the con-
ference rdom--most often, of
course, on the role of the U.S,
in Vietnam,

The Royal Embassy Hotel, a
luxury establishment just two
blocks from the McGill Univer-
sity Center, served as head-
quarters for the conference par-
ticipants, and various hotel rooms
were the scene of discussion of
political and non-political ques-
tions into the wee hours, A wine
and cheese party and two banquets ~
also provided a more informal ©
atmosphere in which violent politi-
cal disagreement was often for-
gotten,

The Conference on World Affairs
is conducted by the Students’
Society of McGill and subsidized
by the University, the Quebec gov-
ernment and business community,
Partial transportation costs of the
participants was paid by the con-
ference, and most universities paid
full expenses for their representa-
tives -- either through the Political
Science Department or their stu-
dent organization. Many schools
sent as many as four representa-
tives and a professor-advisor,

The McGill Conference provided
an extraordinary opportunity to
meet with students from many dif-
ferent universities, including mili-
tary academies, and to exchange
ideas officially and unofficially
about the Third World and in-
numerable other topics. Holding
the conference in Canada allowed
for a certain perspective on Ameri-
ca and its foreign’policy. Montreal
itself offered the charm of French
Canada and the diversions of a
large modern city,

Speaking as Bryn Mawr’s only
and. semi-self-subsidized repre-
sentative to the McGill Conference,
I should like to make the follow-
ing comments and suggestions:
Personally I fell in love with
Montreal, I was very favorably im-
pressed with McGill University,
with the organization of the con-
ference, and with the quality of
the students and professors who
participated,

I would urge increased participa-
tion in inter-university con-
ferences of this sort. There is
much to be gained by exposure to
the Outside World! I would also
urge more generous financial as-
sistance from our Departments and
student organizations to encourage
more Bryn Mawr students to leave
our Ivory Tower from time to
time.

» -. 1 was. surprised and. somewhat.
- frightened‘by the impression made

by the Bryn Mawr label, and I
hope that I lived up to and fur-
thered our reputation.


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November 19, 1965

COLLEGE NEWS

Page Five



Clerical Scepticism in Fiction Size of Bryn Mawr, Haverford
- Topic of Fifth Flexner Lecture

Frank Kermode’s fifth Flexner
lecture, ‘Literary Fiction and
Reality,’’ consideréd clerical
scepticism as a factor in the
changing character of literary
fictions. -

Mr. Kermode called the novel
the central form of literary art
today because, according to
Ortega, it lends. itself to coping
with present reality, In writing
novels extremists revolt against
conventions, thereby creating new
laws that in turn must be broken.

These new forms always possess
some congruence with some
paradigm, The history of the novel
is the history of forms rejected
or modified, because the novel
is conscious of the dissidence
of inherited forms and our sense
of reality.

Iris Murdoch was offered by
Mr, Kermode as an example of
a novelist-theorist whose works
do not ‘fulfill her own doctrine.
In her search for the proper
novel form, Miss Murdoch has
rejected the ‘crystalline’: form
because it does not allow free
characters andthe *‘documentary”
form because it lacks any suit-
able framework,

As a novelist, she finds it diffi-
cult to resist what she terms
the consolations of form. These
consolations are dangerous be-
cause they are damaging to
her characters, The ideal
~character for Miss Murdoch is
both free and ‘‘opaque,’’ exercis-
ing the freedom granted by the
author.

The novel as a literary struc-
ture has a_ basic _ conflict,
said Mr, Kermode, Although it
is delighted with its own
characters, it must still respect
their freedom, At the same time,
the novel cannot afford to lose
the formal characteristics by
which we recognize it as a novel,

The patterns employed cannot
be too neat, There must be dis-
sidences, since reality itself is
incomplete. Mr. Kermode termed
this problem the dilemma of fic-
tion and reality.

As a-contrast to Iris Murdoch’s
theory, Mr. Kermode described
Muriel Spark’s view of reality
in novels, Her reality is not a
chaos but an ordered reality that
novels must consider,

Mr, Kermode summarized the
difference between the two authors
as Miss Spark’s belief that the
world is a divine, supreme, and
true fiction, Under the pressure
of the imagination, the con-
tingencies will resolve themselves
into arbitrary patterns, When man
finds a pattern, he has a right to
be consoled by it, because that
pattern is authentic.

A novelist without such a
‘universal plot’? must arrange
concord between his fictions and
reality, said Mr. Kermode. He
discussed this question as it is
illustrated by Sartre’s novel, LA
NAUSEE,

This novel displays a crisis
in the relation of fiction to reality.
Sartre’s mood is sometimes
appropriate’ to the modern de-
mythological apocalypse: there is
a crisis, but the world has no
beginning or end,

In his autobiography, Sartre
describes the falsities imposed
on him by the fictive power of
words. A character he once
attempted to portray unsympathe-
tically suddenly emerged as
a hero. Such gaps will open, said
Mr. Kermode, in the most closely
knit patterns of words.

We use fictions both in our own
existential crises and in books,
Mr. Kermode said, Novels are not
life, but they are similar to it,
In life, ways may be barred, but
we must act, To help ourselves
we pretend that we can act, re-
lying on a magical determinism.
The: function. of man’s inescap-
able freedom is expressed by his
ability to see things as they are

not. Only by fictions can he see
himself as free,

Sartre judged Camus’ L’ET-
RANGER by its. transfigura-
tion of the contingent, but he
himself @hose a plot requiring the
represeation of uch con-
tingency. LA NAUSEE presents
contingency as nauseous, unformed
matter, while Roquentin has the
male, form-giving role. He must
experience contigency without
human fictions to assist him,

Resisting the aim of the book,
the novel form imposes itself on
the material and joins in what
Sartre calls the “‘bad faith’’ of
the concord - producing author,
This conflict results from Sartre’s
attempt to include chaotic con-
tingency in a form that is itself
a destroyer of contingency.

Sartre’s doctrine must be
falsified when. it appears in a
novel, A man may have no relevant
past and live in a world of chaos
in which he is only potential, Every
novel, however, must be a
completed act. It carries with it
the potency of a humanly imagined
creation, It has a beginning and
end, but the world does not.

Sartre defines the future as a
fluid medium in which he tries
to -actualize ‘his potential, The

(Continued on page 8)

Most Impresses Frank Kermode

What appears to strike Frank
Kermode most about Bryn Mawr

and Haverford is their large size,

Mr, Kermode made this rather
startling observation last Tuesday
in a COLLEGE NEWS interview in
the Deanery.

Clarifying his point, Mr. Ker-
mode explained that the size of
the two campuses, particularly
large in proportion to the number
of students, surprised him, He
added speculatively, by way of il-
lustration, that all the colleges of
Cambridge could be placed on Hav-
erford’s campus. with room to
spare,

Asked to compare Bryn Mawr
students academically with British
university girls, he said he thought
they were ‘tabout the same -- all
bright.’’

He was flatteringly reticent when
pressed for an opinion of Bryn
Mawr’s academic quality, saying,
**Well, everyone knows you’re good
-- shall I just reiterate?’’

Mr. Kermode then’ briefly
discussed the position of women in
the British university system. As
an examiner at Cambridge, Mr.
Kermode has observed that girls
taking ‘‘firsts’’ are generally su-
perior to their male counterparts.

He pointed out that competition

SCM’s Campus Leader

Arrives and Organizes

For the first time in several
years the Student Christian Move-
ment here has a permanent lead-

. er, Michael Porteus, an Episcopal

minister from England, is filling
the post on the Bryn Mawr, Hav-
erford, andSwarthmore campuses,

Before coming to the Main Line,
Mr. Porteus was secretary of SCM
at Oxford University, which he also
attended, and asssociate Episcopal
Chaplain at the University of Chi-
cago for three years,

English himself and married to
a German, Mr. Porteus is dis-
tinctly qualified to discuss the in-
ternational aspects of SCM, The
organization began as a general
movement for young people, in con-
junction with the YMCA. Gradually,
the two organizations went their
separate ways. SCM filled the gap
left by the YMCA onthe campus,
especially in America.

Abroad it is more of a na-
tional federation, whereas here the
organization is local, determined
by the college. In the United States
SCM works in cooperation with
local churches, This is not the
case in many African and Asian
countries, where it is frequently
the only representative of the
church on campus.

Temple Professor
To Lecture Here
On Zen Buddhism

Speaking on Zen Buddhism will
be Bernard L, Phillips, profes-
sor of religion and-chairman
of the department at Temple Uni-
versity, on Wednesday, December
1, at 7:30 in the Common Room,
Mr. Phillips has been invited by
the Interfaith Association.

Mr. Phillips has specialized in
oriental religion and philosophy
and has studied in both India
and Japan, He has recently brought
out a book presenting views and
essays of Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki,
the well known interpreter of Zen
Buddhism for the West, with whom
he has worked and studied.

Mr. Phillips received his Ph.D,
in Philosophy from Yale Univer-

sity and has also served as chair=: -

man of the department of re-
ligion at the University of Dela-
ware,

SCM promotes discussion, de-
bate, and action. It often spon-
sors conferences and lectures ona
wide range of topics, This local
chapter has sponsored two lec-
tures this. year: Professor Ken
nedy on ‘*Moral Issues in U.S,
China Policy’? and Mr. Goss-Mayr
on *fThe Revolutionary Force of
the Gospel’? and ‘‘Latin America
at: the Crossroads,”’

There are tentative plans for a
group visit to East Harlem parish
to observe and work with the prob-
lems there. SCM is not at all

restricted in its functions, It can-

do anything and everything which
might be relevant and ig which
students show an interest.

Mr. Porteus finds working with
students stimulating. There are
always new issues at hand, He
enjoys his present post in par-
ticular, because he finds the at-
mosphere at Bryn Mawr and. Hav-
erford closer to Oxford and Cam-
bridge than that at the University
of Chicago. He feels the freedom
and responsibility at Bryn Mawr
and Haverford are an important
part of university life and a step
toward maturity.

Mr. Porteus’
attempt to collect the Christian
community which already exists
on the campus and then to help
its members to see themselves as
the Church. He believes it is time
**to stop seeing the Church as an
organization, but to see it as a peo-
ple.”? It is not just a building but
should be an active body, serving
the needs of the community.

, In the academic world, as inany
other community, Mr. Porteus
points to the necessity for people
to reflect on what they are doing.
Perhaps one of the best ways to
stimulate._ such reflection is
through informal meetings and dis-
cussions, This.could provide a
stepping stone in the difficult task
which each individual faces, finding
his role in society.

“SMC does not want to be a rigid
organization but rather an integral
part of campus life, catering to the
students, For this reason, Mr,
Porteus prefers a loose schedule
in which issues are met as they
arise. He welcomes the ideas and
interests “of any ‘Student and is

anxious to. know. ~ the... stu-
dents’ needs, so that he may serve
them, S.R.

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Flexner Lecturer Frank Kermode relaxes with his wife, right,

and twins, center, after they dined with Rhoads Hall residents.

among girls is tougher from the
beginning, “since relatively “few
places are available to them. For
those who do win places, he added,
vast scholarship aid from the state
is readily obtained,

Asked if he is a frequent visitor
to the United States, Mr. Kermode
recalled that he had spent 1943
in Seattle, and that from 1963 to
1964, he was a fellow at the Center
for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Con-
necticut. While at Wesleyan, he
delivered the Vanderbilt Lecture
at Smith College.

During his stay at Bryn Mawr,
Mr. Kermode has paid visits to
other areas and institutions, He
was one of thee speakers at a
recent conference on ‘The Future
of Humanities’? at a centennial
in Lexington, Ky. He also spoke
at Rutgers.

Before leaving for England, Mr.
Kermonde and his family will Spend
Thanksgiving holidays at Smith

Bachrach Discusses Protests

College and then visit Seattle to
look up old acquaintances,

Asked if he would consider a
long-term position in the U.S,, Mr.
Kermode replied that he and his
wife had decided that for the sake.
of the children they would settle
permanently in England. The Ker-
mode youngsters, nine-year-old
twins Mark and Deborah, are on
their third visit to the U.S, They
are presently enrolled at the Hav-
erford Friends School, and ac-
cording to their father, are by
now completely at home in Ameri-
can schools.

Upon returning home, Mr. Ker-
mode will occupy the Winterstoke
Chair at the University of Bristol,
where he will head the English
department,

Since no sabbatical leave sys-
tem exists in British universities,
this may be Mr. Kermode’s last
visit to the United States for
a long time to come,

K.D., LK.

In Democracy’s Framework

Peter Bachrach, chairman
of the political science depart-
ment, presented his views on pro-
test within the democratic frame-
work at atalk Thursday, Nov, 12,
for the Alliance for Political Af-
fairs. one

Mr. Bachrach feels strongly that
the liberal and anti-war emphasis
of today should be placed on a
radical domestic program such as
the War on Poverty. Americans,
especially students, should face
up to what Democracy means and
live by it.

Mr. Bachrach’s explanation for
his position rests on a fear that
hysteria and adverse reaction to
anti-war protestations will leave
the President no other recourse
in the Viet. Nam War, as the
United States gradually gains a
stronger position, except more
military reaction and perhaps
bombing with atomic weapons,

Aside from using a few vague
terms used such as freedom (what
freedoms?),Mr. Bachrach clearly
expressed his concern for the
obedience to law. He also managed
at times to touch on the interest-
ing point, too often forgotten, that
pro-war and anti-war factions have
the same legal courses to action.

Recurring throughout the even-
ing came the question of where
to draw the line in demonstrations,
in civil disobedience andin de-
liberate breaking of the law. Mr.
Bachrach offered suggestions ac-

for ding to Supreme Court
decisions, but he had to make
allowance for the person who is
‘morally repulsed by some law or

_ policy and feels compelled to break’

the law of the will of the majority.

The problem arises of at

|

whether someone is acting be-
cause he is morally repulsed or
because it is an expedient poli-
tical tactic. Mr. Bachrach was
emphatic in his opinion that stu-
dents today were breaking too
many laws (and here again a cer-
tain vagueness crept in) just for
political reasons.

Mr. Bachrach’s whole position
was one of liberalism and anti-
war policy based on a firm con-
viction that changes in un-
welcome policies can be made
within the law and through the
democratic process. He offered
a challenge to find new, imagin-
ative ways to accomplish this,
because as one student pointed
out, most students cannot vote.
He refrained from offereing an-
swers to his challenge, however.

Most of the suggestions put forth
seemed to be based on an ideal
situation, in which the opposition
keeps firmly within the law. This
is not always the case, as harass-
ed civil rights workers have dis-
covered. Thus Mr. Bachrach did
not /deal with the question of
whether one has the right to go
outside the law if the opposition
does.

Unfortunately, the questions at
the end were generally poor and
on occasion lengthy monologues.
Some were definitely discussion
questions designed for a small
group. As the audience shifted and
squirmed on the crowded floor
of the Common Room, one waited
for some brilliant opposition on
either the right or left, but no
logical, clearcut ideas ever

‘emerged

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My Cultural Heritage



COLLEGE NEWS

mee ene one er ae

November 19, 1965



Nigerian Hospitality Is Generous

"(This is one of a series
of-articles by Dora Chizea, |
"69 on her native country of
Nigeria. -- eds)

Friends, may I confess that
this is a hard nut to crack, I
hardly know what customs and
traditions to talk about. I have
no idea of the limits of diversity
but believe it, there are many,
More than the languages! Anyway,
you expected that; as each lin-
guistic group has a whole chain
of ‘‘what our fathers used to do.”

But again, there are a few which

are common to all and these are.

really the basic ones. (So I think,
at least.),

One thing you must do as a
Nigerian is to respect the elders.
Greeting is something you cannot
be excused for not doing. The
younger person always greets
first. In some areas, you will
curtsy or kneel down if you are a
girl, and prostrate if you are a
boy. Then the elderly person
returns your greetings with a nod
of his. head or an outstretched
arm of blessing or will say some
kind things to you,

Occasionally, we.» have some
youngsters who feel they cannot
take the trouble. I once had cause
to witness a boy, who did not want
to dirty his trousers, barely bow
his head in greeting an elder, Can
you guess what happened? Well,
the old -gentleman, thus dis-
regarded, cried out, ‘*Go call
your mother-you out-cast, Tell her
to tell you. when the elders were

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cleaned off the face’of the earth.
Bring me better words,son, for
respect begets respect. Shame on
youl’? Well, don’t ask me what
followed,

If two people are going to a

place, usually the younger person.

helps to carry what the elder
person is carrying if it is not too
heavy. I’m afraid you don’t like
this because it looks like the
younger ones have the worst of
everything. It is not exactly that
terrible. Don’t forget, however,
that everyone is getting older.
(Women I know are not inclined to-
wards swallowing this bitter pill of
truth, But what else can be done‘ 2)

Also. it is our tradition to have:

what you can call multi-families,
Somewhere in the past we have a
common father, The children grow
up and marry. The men are in the

same place (not necessarily the

same house, but could be) with
their fathers. Suppose ___—i the
‘common’ father had three sons,
then from them will come three
or more wives and children, These
second sets of children grow up
and marry and remain in their
‘father’s section,’ while the
women float away! This goes on
and on, It means that it is easy
to find a family with three to
four hundred people. I may discuss
this later but, meanwhile, I just
want to tell you that every member
of this family has a responsibility
towards the other members,
If you are successful, you are
expected to use your wealth to
help others in this family, You
«have as much obligation to send
any member ofthis family to school
as you have to send your own
direct children, The point is *‘they
are OUR children, -not MY
children,” There are some people,
however, who depart from this way
of doing things and usually they
are termed stingy and not liked,
If a child misbehaves not
only a member of his family, but
any other older person in his
community can rebuke him. (I
know you will not give anything



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2. Decide how long you want to stay, then use the book-
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in Youth Hostels—under $1. You can get a good lunch. in
a pub, or dinner in a restaurant; for around $1.

3. Add costs for getting about. The booklets report on
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to have half a dozen people repri-
mand you for the same offence. But
I can assure you, you will feel
much better, and you will take
your time before acting the next
time.) The business of bringing
up a child is everybody’s respon-
sibility, not just Mr. and Mrs,
X for their children al
Another thing all the traditions
have in common is receiving
strangers, Strangers. and travel-
ers, if they knock at any door
in_ ‘good faith’ will receive all
the hospitality the humble home can
provide, Water to drink, food to eat,
clothes to put on, and floor to
sleep on if there are no beds!
A stranger can stay in any home
indefinitely as long as the family
has things to offer. It is regarded
as a bad omen to send strangers
away unless their behavior is un-
acceptable for the safety of the
host family. We do this because
we say ‘Who knows where my child
will wander. into??? Children. play
around and walk long distances
having fun, When they feel hungry
they go into any house and if the
family is having its food they
join the chorus. Cities are not like
this, Everybody takes care of his
own personal belongings and
property inthe cities. Howbeit, city
life is not my cultural heritage.
Far be it - Amen!-(I’m not sure
if you will like this either, but
I feel it’s good for you and me, We
can go wandering through the
villages and hope to have a nice
lunch without any pennfes on
us!) i
Our greatest traditions and
customs are found inour festivals,
It is impossible for me to go
into this now but be sure they are
great occasions, We dance and
eat like we want to die. One thing
you cannot miss observing is little
children with shiny heads - they
have scraped their hair and even
oiled them to make them shine -
and their protuding stomachs
from over-eating! I have a pic-
ture of myself in ‘‘that dignified
state,”” I don’t mind showing you;
but if you laugh at my shiny head,
I will show you no more pictures,
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To the Editor:

The college-age students ofthe
United States have been badly crit-
icized in recent months for their
attitude toward the Viet Nam is-
sue, This criticism has resulted
from the unfortunate wide-spread
publicity given to the small, noisy
minority of students who have been
opposing the American Getense of
Viet Nam,

Consequently, Young Repub-
licans, Young Democrats, and In-
dependents have come together to
form. the new bi-partisan National
Student Committee for the Defense
of Viet Nam. This new student
committee has no association with
any extra-party political organiza-
tion of either the right or the left,
Our sole purpose is to mobilize
college students in a concerted
program of responsible action in
support of American resistance to

Chamber Music
Concert Planned
For This Sunday

The annual Bryn Mawr-Haver-
ford Orchestra concert will be
given at 8:30 p.m. in Roberts
Hall, Haverford, on Friday, De-
cember 3rd, Mr. Reese will con-
duct the combined orchestras in
a varied program, The works-tobe
played include Haydn’s ‘*Concerto
for Cello and Orchestra,’’ and the
Overture to ‘‘Iphigenia in Aulis,”
by C, W. von Gluck,

' Three works of J. S. Bach will
be presented: the ‘Sinfonia from
Cantata no, 42,’ the “Sinfonia
from Cantata no, 18,” and the
Ricercar for six voices from the
the ‘*Musical Offering,’”? The pro-
gram will conclude with a Shakes-
peare suite, ‘‘Richard III,’’ by
Sir William Walton, and ‘*Toc-
cata,’’ by G, Frescobaldi. _

Miss Elsa Higler, violoncellist
with the Philadelphia Orchestra,
will be the featured soloist.

The Student-Faculty Chamber
Music Group of Haverford College
will give a concert this Sunday
evening, November 21. Robert
Goss, baritone, and the Haverford
College Brass Ensemble will be
featured in a program including
selections from Bach, Coperario,
Schubert, Poulenc, and Davison,
Mr. William Reese will conduct.
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[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR|

Communist aggression in South-
east Asia,

We areurging college campuses,
especially during the period from
November 22 to December 10, to
engage in a series of rallies sup-
porting American policy in Viet
Nam. If you feel that it is possible
for your university to hold such a
rally during this period, please
let us know the date for the rally
and any information you might have
as to its nature.

Secondly, we plan to distribute
educational materials to college
campuses explaining this country’s
position in Viet Nam. Please let
us know if-we can be of assistance
to you in this area,

Finally, we urge students on your
campuses to send Christmas cards
to our soldiers in Viet Nam. You
can address these cards jn care
of the World Affairs Forum, Brig-
ham Young University, Provo,
Utah. The cards must reach Brig-
ham Young by December 1, if our
soldiers are to receive them on
Christmas Day.

We welcome. your cooperation
and assistance in this bi-partisan,
national program to show the
American people that the new stu-
dent radicals do not speak for our
generation in their irresponsible
opposition to our country’s policy
in Vietnam,

The National Student Committee
for the Defense of Viet Nam

(For names and addresses of
students in charge of this com-
mittee and a copy of the peti-
tion they wish to circulate, con-
tact Lynne. Lackenbach i in

Rhoads -- ed.)
Reasonable

To the Editor:

This college is following an ir-
rational and outrageously ridicu-
lous policy towards overnight
guests in the halls, There was a
girl in Merion this past weekend
who had flown in from Chicago
to look at Bryn Mawr, among other
colleges. I found an empty room
for her. She had asleeping bag. The
college is charging her $1.50 a
night.

Miss Howe’s office told me that
“this is just the way things work,”’
that *‘the fee USED to be $2 per
per night,’? and that ‘‘the charge
has nothing to do with the sheets
-- its for the use of the room.’
These are the kind of irrelevant
arguments that are all too often
used around here to explain the
customs of Bryn Mawr. I suggest
that we students stop accepting
such senseless reasoning from
our administration.

Annoyed

GRADUATE STUDIES
THE UNIVERSITY OF Chicago
Graduate Library School will of-
fer a number of scholarships and
fellowships for graduate study dur-
ing 1966-67 leading to the M.A. or
Ph.D.; degree in Library Science.
Application deadline is February
1, 1966. Awards will be announced
April: 1, 1966, :

Half time research assistantships
will also be offered for faculty sup-
ervised work in the following areas:

Theories of indexing, classifi-

cation, information retrieval.

Design studies of future library

catalogs.

Computer applications to index-

ing and cataloging.

Automatic — translation

guages.

Indexing and dissemination of

biomedical literature.

Sociological studies of reading.

Operational analysis of librar-

ies.

The program of 1% years leading to
the M.A, degree is somewhat longer
and more demanding than in most
schools of librarianship. Emphasis
within the curriculum is placed on
the planning of future libraries and
information systems.
College. graduates,
subject specialty, who have good
academic records and a serious ine
terest in librarianship or informa-
tion science are encouraged to ap-
ply. Entrance exominations are re-
quired. — *e =e
Write to: Office of the Dean

Graduate Library School

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November 19, 1965

ae

COLLEGE NEWS

Page Seven



C ollege Theatre’s ‘Performances

Lay Basis for Future Successes

(Continued from page 1)

speeches, Mr, Strang, as Aumerle,
became a proper courtier, and
he sustained his role easily until
it forced him to regress into
the part of an erring son,

Other supporting roles
were perhaps more uneven in
quality either because few stu-
dents have time to perfect even
minor roles or because some

roles, in student productions, are

uncongenial by their very nature.
(I should say-here that I attended
Friday’s performance, and thus
what roughnesses appeared then
may have been smoothed away by
Saturday’s performance.) Mr.
Bush, Miss Edwards, and Miss
Meadow were probably as capable
in their roles of York, Duchess
of Gloucester ,and Duchess of York
as young people can be. But itis
very difficult, Ithink, for obviously
young actors to portray either the
debility or the dignity demanded by

the great age and the great posi-
tion of these characters. Thus
Gaunt’s tremendous speech, in
which, dying, he lays open before
Richard the enormity of his trans-
gressions against England, became
shrill and so relatively uneffective.
Even York and his duchess, whose
characters were better sustained
throughout, did not fully embody
the terrible conflicts between law
and human love,. between duty to
office and duty to family, that
Shakespeare’s lines suggest. On
the other hand, Miss Currie, though
graceful, could not have made
of her role as queen more than
the rather pale andformal charac-
ter Shakespeare created.

The staging was certainly most
effective. The props were kept to
a minimum, which allowed the ac-
tors necessary freedom of move-
ment, The lighting was very skill-
fully ‘and unobtrusively modulated
in order best to focus onthe action
itself, (But. surely somewhere in
the reaches of Bryn Mawr and Hav-



[In And Around Philadelphia

MUSIC



The Philadelphia Orchestra will present Mozart’s Overture to ‘*Don
Giovanni’? and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, Friday, November 19 at 2
p.m. and Saturday, November 20 at 8:30 p.m., Leopold Stokowski con-
ducting. Jeanne-Marie Darre will be featured at the piano for a concert

including Debussy’s
8:30, November 27,

‘‘Nuages’’ and ‘Fetes’ at 2p.m., November 26 and

Mantovani and His Orchestra will appear at Villanova University,
Saturday, November 20 at 8:45 and in the Philadelphia: Forum Series at
the Academy of Music on Wednesday, November 24 at 8:30.

Pianist Rosalyn Tureck will give a concert Friday, November 19 at
8:30 in the Roberts Hall Auditorium. She is the third attraction of the

Haverford College Art Series. ,

Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington’s orchestra head ajazz concert at
the Academy of Music Sunday, November 21.

The Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company will present the Donizetti
opera, ‘*Lucia di Lammermoor,’’? Tuesday, November 23, at 8:15 with

Anna Moffo in the leading'role.

Tchaikovsky’s **The Sleeping Beauty’? will be danced for the first
time in its full length hy the Pennsylvania Ballet Company Friday,
November 26 at §:30 and Saturday, November 27 at 2:30. Melissa Hay-
den will be prima ballerina, with Robert Rodham and Alexei Yudenich
alternating the roles of the Prince and Blue Bird.

THEATER

Chekhov’s ‘¢Uncle Vanya’’ runs through December 19 at the Theatre

of the Living Arts.

The National Shakespeare Company will present ‘‘Macbeth’’ November
19 and ‘‘As You Like It’? November 20 in the Symposium on the Living
Art of the University of Pennsylvania.

Goldsmith’s ‘‘She Stoops to Conquer’’ will be performed at Chelten-
ham Playhouse November 27, 28, December 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, and 18

at 8:40,

Ionesco’s ‘*The Lesson’’ and Beckett’s “Act Without Words” continue
at the Hedgerow Theatre through December 4,

Lauren Bacall opens in a comedy, ‘‘Cactus Flower,’ for a two week
run beginning November 22 at the Forrest.

Durward Kirby stars in ‘*Thee and Me,’’ acomedy opening November
15 for a two week stand at the Locust.



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erford an iron could have been
found to press out the wrinkles
from the costumes.) The musicians
provided the best possible back-
ground for the action, thoroughly
in keeping with the action and

themes of the play, and the drum-. -

mer was flawless, I thought that
the entire production was an en-
joyable ._ success, and, further-
more, that it established the basis
for even more successful future’
productions,

Varsity Basketball, Swimming
Underway Following Tryouts

Basketball

Energetically practicing shoot-
ing and working up endurance are
the 28 members of the Varsity Bas-
ketball Squad. They are M, Dau-
benspeck, D. Hamilton, P. Johns,
H, Stilwell and V, Winston (captain)
of the class of ’66; K. Flack,
B, Gemmill, A, Southern, K, Tay-
lor, and C, Yow all of ’67; and L,
Atwood, S, Boy, D, Brown, Beth
Chadwick (manager), J, Farney,
L. Thacher, and P. Winter from
the class of ’68,

Freshmen team members, in-

Possibility of Federal Money
To Aid SDS Newark Project

Bryn Mawr members of Students
for Democratic Society, or SDS,
have realized the need for aid to
a project originally set up under
the auspices of SDS, The students
have planned to raise monthly
pledges to support a staff member
who would visit the college to keep
SDS members informed of the ac-
tivities at the Newark Community
Union Project, or NCUP. Funds
are needed to help NCUP to sup-
port the families of full-time staff
and to convince the federal Office
of Economic Opportunity of the
program’s viability. The OEO has
shown some interest in giving
NCUP a direct subsidy, but is
dubious about the effectiveness of
community organization,

The program was begun in spring
of 1964, when a handful of stu-
dents rented an apartment in the
Clinton Hill neighborhood of
Newark, Their purpose was totalk
with as many people as they could

reach, in order to work on the >

issues which caused the residents
most concern, as well as to make
the residents feel that such dis-
cussion and such groups were
worthwhile.

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er to work on solving particular
problems. Some were blocks con-
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borhood playground, some were
concerned with pressuring a land-
lord into fixing his houses, in
accordance with the housing code.

Occasionally the groups met to-
gether to share problems andideas,
eventually joining to form NCUP,
The staff grew to about thirty
‘full-time members, half from the
community itself. In August NCUP
was host to a national conference
of people from all of the other
ERAP projects. More recently,
NCUP has been involved in the
Newark War on Poverty, in an
attempt for greater involvément
with the community itself, NCUP
was also elected a member of the
local board of the War on Pov-
erty. They are also forming a
third party, the United Freedom
Party, which is planning to run
candidates in spring elections,

clude A, Alden, M, Byerley, D.
Dewton, M, Ewing, A, Kocher,
J. McKee, P, Sholars, E, Stefan-
ski, M, Taft, P. Taylor, and J,
Thomas,

Tryouts were held on Wed-
nesdays, November, 3 and 10, At
present the team is subdivided into
three small teams -- yellow,
orange and blue which compete
among themselves for practice,
Practice games with Shipley and
Baldwin will be scheduled before
Christmas,

When the season starts in Jan-
uary, the basketball squad will
face Swarthmore, Rosemont, Bea-
ver, Drexel, University of Penn-
sylvania and Gwynedd Mercy. Miss
Gail Strathdee, coach, is quite op-
timistic about this season.

Swimming

Tryouts for the Varsity Swim
Team were held Wednesdav. No-
vember 10, in the gym. The team
captain is Candy Vultaggio and
acting manager is Lessie Klein,
The 26 girls working out this
quarter include the following
freshmen; B, Baird, M. Berg, B
Biena, K, Blatchford, L, Curtz,

“S. Edmondson, T, Frost, F, La-

Barre, A, McChristian;J, Omenn,
H. Prinz, R, Rawson, M, Roberts,
S. Sonnberger.

Upperclass team members are
G. Clark, D. Cross, B, Folda, P.
MacVeagh, A, McDowell, S, Nosco,
S, Orbeton, D, Seavey, P. Thomas,
and W, Wallace.

Swim coach, Miss Janet Yeager
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Man Sees Himself Free

Through Literary Fiction 44 Theatre of the Livi

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past has no relevance to anything,
This, Mr. Kermode insisted, is
not novel time. A denial of causal
relations of times makes form im-
possible, and the _ resulting
work could not be anovel, Readers

‘would attempt to supply the con-

nections the writer had sup-
pressed, In this instance, the
novel falsifies the philosophy.

As A well-planned novel, LA
NAUSEE has its share of
contrivances. A novel must tell
lies, and Sartre is always aware
of the variance with reality.

To Sartre, man is always free,
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
The French Club will present
a movie of Stendhal’s LE ROUGE
ET LE NOIR at 8:00 p.m. in
Goodhart, ($.60 donation). Follow-
ing the movie there will be Open
House in Wyndham,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Frank Kermode will give the
sixth and concluding lecture in
the Mary Flexner series on
“Forms in Time and Forms in
Space” at 8:30 p.m. in Goodhart,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24-
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Thanksgiving Holiday.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Alliance will sponsor Whitney
Young, Executive Director of the
‘National Urban League, speaking
on minority problems inurbaniza-
tion at 7:30 p.m. ‘in Goodhart.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1
An Interfaith Series lecture will
be given by Bernard Phillips, Pro-
fessor of Religion at Temple Uni-
versity, on ‘*Zen Buddhism’ at
7:15 p.m. in the Common Room of
Goodhart, :
Nicholas Rescher, Professor of
Philosophy at the University of
Pittsburgh, will give a Class of
1902 Lecture on ‘*The Impact of
Arabic Philosophy on the West?’
at 8:30 p.m. in the Physics Lec-
ture Room of the science center,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
Under the direction of Wil-
liam H. Reese with’ Elsa Hilger,
soloist, the Bryn Mawr-Haver-
ford Orchestra will give a concert
including Haydn’s Concerto for
Cello and Orchestra in Roberts
Hall. at Haverford at 8:30 p.m.

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determines the next decision - a
progression in Sartre’s bad faith,

Created forms console, and we
collaborate with them as we do
with language, Reading or writing
a novel is an acceptance of them,
Mr. Kermode defined the task of
a novelas overcoming contingency,

Sartre believes that the final
aim of art is the reclamation: of
vhe. world by presenting it as it
is but also as. if it had its source
in human freedom,

The representation of: con-
tingency, explained Mr. Kermode,

produces horror at what must.

be humanized, The form of the
novel assuages this horror.

Sartre’s book, then, is not itself
formless, although its hero is
surrounded by formlessness, Con-
tingency must be present to be
related to the human-task of im-
aginative self-realization. In LA
NAUSEE the transfiguration must
be performed by a fiction that
is not fraudulent-in this case the
song **Some of These Days,”’

A novel without organized dura-
tion- would be so random
that we could not communicate
with it, LA NAUSKE recognizes
the conflict of contingency. and
human duration, It discovers a
new concord of the human mind
and things as they are.

This treatment of fiction as
simultaneously destructive and in-
dispensable is characteristic
of modern fiction, It produces
continual research into form,
which is the permanent feature
of the genre of the novel.

Mr, Kermode ended his lecture
with a discussion of the pressures
that require the revision of the
novel, These pressures areacom-
bination of human _ anguish
and the writer’s ‘*bad faith’’
stemming from a cowardly but
necessary adherence to par-
adigms, As a result of this
research, fictions are used to
explore fiction.

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November 19, 1965

Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” Opens

by Marcia Ringel.

The Theatre of the Living Arts,
Philadelphia, opened its second
season last night with an outstand-
ing production of Anton Chekhov’s
*‘Uncle Vanya’’ in a new transla-
tion by Alex Szogyi.

As director and artistic direc-
tor, Andre Gregory has super-
vised a consistently attractive
enterprise which is professionally
executed in every respect. ‘‘The
elements so mixed’’ meet the chal-
lenges of Chekhov’s complex
drama, thus creating admirable
theater.

Neil Peter Jampolis’’ handsome
interiors of a Russian country

‘home of half a century ago utilize

the theater’s broad, uncurtained,
open-thrust stage to fine advan-
tage. The balance of great wooden
furnishings and a far panel of
painted trees suggests the basic
motif of the play, the continual
unnecessary destruction of the
forest--that is, of one’s self-
discipline and of the order of
one’s life.

Having retired from teaching,
Profassor Serebryakov is aging
ungracefully with his young second
wife at his country estate. Sonya,
his daughter by a first marriage,
and (her uncle) Vanya, his first
wife’s brother, had maintained the
estate for ten years, sending the
professor all profits to further
his work without interruption. Now
suddenly at leisure, the family and
friends have time to recognize old
tensions within themselves and
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Primarily, then, ‘*Uncle Vanya’’
is a character play. One of the
most impressive qualities about
the production is the singularity
of each performance, due un-
doubtedly both to the extensive
experience of the actors and the
excellence of their direction. Be-
cause Chekhov’s characters are so
fully human, so individually flawed,
nuances of gesture and of facial
and vocal expression assume para-
mount importance.

As Yelena, the professor’s
twenty-seven-year-old wife, Lois
Smith gives aperformance of more
depth than her Andromache in last
season’s ‘‘Tiger at the Gates.’’
Jerome Dempsey as pock-marked
‘‘Waffles,’’ a poor landlord, firmly
remains weak, never forsaking his
character. Sylvia Gassell as the
mother of the professor’s first
wife and Miriam Phillips as

Marina, an old nurse, are suitably .

indignant at the changes wrought
upon the family by the professor’s
arrival.

However, it is David Hurst as
Vanya, Ron Leibman as Astrov, a
neighboring doctor, and Flora El-
kins as Sonya, painfully in love
with the doctor, who present the

ng Arts

finest performances of the pro-
duction. Although the play is long--
three hours, here--these three
performances kept it from flag-
ging; in fact, the final scene is
perhaps the most moving of all.
Mr. Hurst is. particularly in-
triguing as a displaced intellectual
who says he. feels ‘‘power over
the elements somehow’’ when he
walks through a forest he has
planted himself,

**Uncle Vanya’? will run through
December 19. After that date the
Southwark Company, which iswhat
this repertory group calls itself,
will continue its international pro-
gram with Anouilh, Strindberg,
Saul Bellow, and, next, Sheridan’s
‘The Critic.’”’ If last night was
any indication of the company’s
ability, this theater season should
be a triumphant one for the Theatre
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