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“The College





Vol. LI, —_:

BRYN MAWR, PA.

November 19, 1965

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College. 1965

25 Cents



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

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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.