College news, November 3, 1967

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COLLEGE NEWS



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BRYN MAWR, PA.

- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1967

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967

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Festival of The Black Arts
Needs Financial Support

A festival of the black arts at
Bryn Mawr and Haverford is being
planned by Lois Portnoy and Jackie
Williams for the first weekend in
January, just before the réading
period, However, expected funds
from the political science depart-
ment to finance the weekend have

- recently fallen through.

-The purpose of the weekend,
according to Jackie Williams, is
to create a total involvement among



photo by Marian Scheuer...

Jackie Williams has done most

of the planning for the Black -

Arts Festival next January.
Bryn Mawr and Haverford students
in the contribution of black poets,
musicians, artists dancers, and
photographers, and in the black
movement for economic cultural,
social, and political equality,

In order to pay the costs of

the festival, which will amount to
about $2500, its planners consid-
ered charging admission, How-
ever, Bryn Mawr has a policy of
charging only for college functions,
such as class shows, Miss McBride
informed them, It wouldhave been
possible to hold the festival at
Haverford, but they would still have
-to-ask-an-admission-price, -

It was finally decided to try and
raise the money be setting up a pa-
tron system, whereby individuals
would give $10 or ‘more toward
the weekend, sending checks care
of the COLLEGE NEWS,

., The idea of afestival of the black
arts sprang from the political
science comp conference this year,
which is centered around the con-
cept of black power as a revolu-
tion,
two months of discussion ‘‘onwhat
black power means and on our in-
volvement in it,” Jackie said,

The black arts are related to the
black power struggle in being very
angry arts, she explained. The
black artists consider themselves
as spokesmen for something; their
work communicates their commit-
ment to the black man,

Artists such as Leroi Jones, the

drama group from Howard Univer- ~

sity, Julian Bond, and Sun Ra (an
avant-garde jazz band) have been
invited to Bryn Mawr for the fes-
_tival,

If students can be more than
spectators to the black movement,
if they can open their minds toa
new kind of music or poetry or
way of thinking or person, the
weekend will be a success, said
Jackie, :

Barbara Elk to Chair
°67 Bryn Mawr SAC.

The Bryn Mawr Social Action
Committee elected Barbara Elk
chairman, Monday night, Oct. 30.
She will succeed Kathy Murphey.
Jean Canaday, Karen Detamore,
Sally Dimschultz and Barbara Sin-
del were appointed secretaries of
the organization.

Plans »were discussed for a
possible merger with the Haver-
ford Social Action Committee. It
was finally decided that the two
organizations will have a joint
meeting once a month, The first
of these will be held Wednesday,
Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Sharp-
less at Haverford. Business which
arises between meetings will be
done through committees and the

individual organizations,

Several projects were discussed

-including a day of national resis-

tance to the draft on December
4. Glen Nixon, Haverford SAC
chairman, plans to mobilize Bryn
Mawr and Haverford students to
close down the Philadelphia in-
duction center. This will be the
main topic of discussion at the
joint meeting Nov. 29.

Other projects mentioned were
continyation of the anti-draft leaf-
letting in the area; collecting sig-
natures for the Bryn Mawr Draft
Resistance Statement now posted
on dorm bulletin boards, area
draft counseling; and the Newark
Community School.



The weekend will culminate ,



Bell maids, maids and porters are an often-

‘ignored part of the Bryn Mawr community. Yet

as students, we live in the same buildings with
most of them and see them more often than some
of our professors and certainly more often than
most of the administrators.

But how much do we know about them? Not

much. Perhaps the first factafreshmanrealizes .

is that they are all black. The contrast is
striking: a lily-white faculty, secretarial and ad-
ministrative. staff and then an all-black staff of
maids and porters. It promotes a ‘‘plantation”’
atmosphere which is patronizing, stifling and
uncomfortable.

Beginning from two admittedly superficial ob-
servations -- the fact that they are not unionized
and that some seem to depend heavily on student
cast-off clothing for their dependents -- the
NEWS did some investigating into the living
conditions of the college’s 100 maids and porters.

We went to see Mr. Paul Klug, comptroller
and business manager of the college, about
wages and pay scales of the employees. He was
dumbfounded that students were interested. The
mainstream of his comments dealt with ‘I wear
a certain hat and you wear a certain hat,” the
assumption being that we all have roles to
play, and worrying about the employees’ con-
ditions is not the proper role of the students. He
stated that he would be jeopardizing a confiden-
tial trust to give us any information at all. He
refused to give us an average salary, aminimum
salary (beyond assuring us that they all made at
least’ the minimum wage set by the federal

|... government), the highest salary or the number of
‘salary levels. He also refused. to verify any

figures we brought him from the employees
themselves.

Next, we went to Miss Sarah Wright, director
of halls. She flatly stated that it was college
policy not to give out any figures at all. We had
thought that some figures ought to be public in-
formation, such as a starting salary that would
be mentioned in a want-ad, for instance. This
secrecy is interesting when compared to the
relative openness of faculty salaries. The Ameri-
can Association of University Professors has a
ranking of faculty salaries at colleges and uni-
versities throughout the country, and average
salaries are published in the ‘‘AAUP Bulletin.’’

Receiving the impression that the college was
not interested in having employees’ salaries a
topic of community discussion, we turned to the
employees themselves. Our figures are difficult
to interpret, and we invite the college to inter-

| pret them for us. We do not have enough know-

ledge or information at this time to juggle with
witholding tax, social security, amounts deducted
for board and room and pensions. Therefore, we
can just print raw figures. One bell maid in one
of the larger dorms has worked for the college
since 1938. She works seven days a week, six
and a half hours a day. She gets a pay check of
$156.70 each month. She has to take part-time
jobs to support her sick husband at home.
A bell maid in one of the smaller dorms said

Attention Must Be Paid



that she makes $85.31 every two weeks for 70
hours of work. She reports that she was promised
a $10 a month raise last spring, butthat she has
never gotten it. A regular maid ina smaller dorm
said that she makes $82’ every two weeks.

Seventy-five per cent of the employees live on
campus, according to Miss Wright. We are not
sure if ‘this is the number who actually live on
campus, or the number who are charged for a
room and meals on campus. Several of the em-
ployees have said that they have homes and
families off-campus and- would like-to bring—a
sandwich from home or go home to eat and who
have no need for a room, but the college insists
on feeding them and then charging them for it.

Miss Wright described the living situation of
the employees as ‘‘fine living.’’ We agree thatit
is not as bad as living inaHarlem tenement, but
we doubt the validity of ‘‘fine living.’’ For one
thing, the rooms need more light, especially in
the older dorms. The walls of some need
painting. The plumbing is old. Some'live on the

top floors, and being as oldas many of them are,
they would never make it out of the dorm safely

in a fire. Others live in the basement, where it
is either freezing cold or boiling hot. In Erdman,
there is a mens’ wing and a womens’ wing and a
married couple do not even share a room.

We would like to open a dialogue within the
college community about the adequacy, let alone
the ‘fineness’? of the kind of living that can be
enjoyed on $156.70 a month. Bryn Mawr College
employees are part of the 30 million invisible
American poor. This is not a pleasant situation.
What can be done about it?

“The college should be a major innovating force
in the fight to improve the lives of black Ameri-
cans who have been ignored for so long. One
program was put into practice last spring which
is a step in the right direction. The college insti-
tuted a promotion-from-within policy, giving
some. employees added responsibility and bene-
fits. This is an improvement, butitisa long way
from a final solution, One possibility is taking
the initiative in training people for jobs oncam-
pus. Ford and other corporations have vigorous
in-training programs for employees who would
not otherwise be qualified for the jobs available.
Why couldn’t the college do this? Interest in this
kind of program has been expressed by the Rev-
erend Leon Sullivan in Philadelphia,We have been
told that he offered to help the college arrange
such a training program last year. Next week, the
NEWS hopes to have further information on sucha
program.

We recognize that this is a sensitive area -- the
college is under financial pressure as it is, and
we do not want to see anyone fired. At present
though, it is evident that the college is not taking
many positive steps to provide a decent, digni-
fied human life for its maids and porters. The
promotions-from-within program is a step, but
it is a small one. An imaginative discussion
followed by vigorous action should now be con-
ducted by those people who are capable of
changing this disturbing situation.

‘Bryn Mawr Bowls Over U of C °'



A Symposium on Schoolteaching --

“bringing to interested undergraduates a picture of
teacher-training possibilities through a
sampling of alumnae experience’’

Saturday, November 4th, in Goodhart

10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Demonstration by Sara Park
Scattergood °36 of a unit she has
developed to help weak readers.

_ Also 6 other alumn
Followed by concurrent discussion groups in the
Common and Music Rooms, lead by Mrs. Marshall
ae and Shipley’s headmistress, Isota Epes.
Everyone invited to come to all or part.

Speakers. .









On Nationwide TV Quiz Show

Bryn Mawr won on Col-
lege Bow! last weekend by
a score of 230-70. This
week they meet the Univer-
sity of Notre Dame (showing

’ time in Philadelphia, 1:30

Sunday). The following ac-
count was written by a NEWS
staff member who is also
one of two alternates to the
team. ci

There is great subtlety in the

: transportation arrangements made

by General Electric for College
Bowl contestants, The corporation

‘supposes, quite rightly, that the

team in the blush of bon voyages

mx

and of its own untried self-con-

fidence will want to ride with the
select few, in aparlor car, Coming
back, though, G.E, sends them with
the masses, knowing that either

they will be so heady with vic--

tory that they won’t know or care
how they ride, or so submerged
in depression that they will want
to be faceless members of a crowd,

The Bryn Mawr parlor car last
week was decidely singular. Dur-
ing the trek to the end of the
tracks in the Philadelphia station

_c77 far from, the steps, so that
you appreciate the upholstery ---

commuters tried valiantly to make
us turn back. ‘Only parlor cars
up there, girls, Coaches at the



ence, Ultimately we loaded car
743 with our eight selves, atten-
dant baggage, and Robin Johnson’s
complete traveling sound stage,
and, to the mild dismay of the
other passengers, launced into one
of Coach Patten’s grueling scrim-
mages, this one intra-mural, We
reached Newark during a listing of
the Central American capitals,
After a lengthy wait for a cab
in the shadow of the new Madison
Square Garden, we went to the
Warwick Hotel,...This establish-
ment can boast among its clientele
the Beatles, a staggering number of
scholastic dilletantes, and myriad -
conventioneers, ‘ :
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Black Arts

Student involvement in the black arts
and the black movement is the purpose
of the black arts festival planned for
January, However, if the festival is to
happen, people will have to become in-
volved right now. It will cost about
$2500 to bring the artists to Bryn Mawr
and. Haverford,

THE COLLEGE NEWS



‘Friday, November 3, 1967. 4



Editor-in-Chief
Christopher Bakke '68
e Managing Editor Photographic Editor
= Nancy Miller '69 Marian Scheuer 70
e Subscriptions $3.00 -- Mailing price $5.00 -- Sub- # ~
% scriptions may begin at any time.
& COLLEGE NEWS is entered as second class matter
get the Wayne, Penna. Post Office under the act of
e March 3, 1879.
Fe Founded in 1914

the weekend to occur as scheduled. The

festival will be an exciting opportunity,



to meet some individuals, including
students from other campuses, who are
intensely aware of some of the changes
our society undergoing, and who are
actually working for change. It might be
a kind of learning experience which is
hard to discover within the bounds of
a college course lecture or reading list.

Therefore we ask and urge students,
faculty, alumnae, and parents to contri-
bute what they can, and send donations
to any senior member of the political
science department or the College NEWS,

Dead Duck

Susan Nosco and the Curriculum Com-
mittee are to be commended for their
efforts and success in formulating a new
calendar for next year.

The new calendar has eliminated the
Lame Duck period, the week of classes
which comes between Christmas and ex-
ams. Under the new system all classes
will end before Christmas vacation and
students will return to a revinw artes

The Curriculum- Committee’s calendar ,

has successfully solved these problems
without extending the school year, It
has successfully answered most people’s
gripes without extending the school year.
It has created a plan which is acceptable
to both the faculty and the student body.



applebee.

this new spacing brings me trouble. i’m used to narrow
confines like the library tower, so if i run out of wing
power before i finish, will you please forgive? on second
deliberation, i think the wide spaces mould nicely to my
mind this week. they make mefeellike this. has your
mind ever been so blown by time that little pieces of it
seem scattered in multiple places? when you wake up and
you don’t know where you are, much less what day it is?
so you lie in bed, and you try to fit pieces of the wall to-
gether until they form a connecting room around you. or

‘you read the newspaper, and no horror hits when you see

‘+107vietcongdieattackingcampsandfivechildrenkilledin-—
homefire;; because your thoughts run together just like
that and you can’t believe it’s real because what’s real
besides’the walk (or air space) between taylor and the
library?

that’s when you start hanging out your window so you
can see the fog come creeping in over the'trees (and
make itself comfortable in time for halloween) and you
go to bed at ten thirty. sleep well. your mind will come
back together sooner than you think.




We feel that it is very important for

and exams,



Li

Letters to the Editor

Pressing Issue

To the Editor:

I would appreciate it very. much if you
could publish the following notice. I
consider it quite important and quite
urgent.

To the students and faculty who were
in Washington Oct. 21:

If any of you were on or around the
Pentagon Mall, and witnessed any bru-
tality by MP’s , soldiers, or Federal
Marshals, and are willing to document
such, I would appreciate your sending
a full account to me. I will collect
these accounts and forward them to the
American Civil Liberties Union, and the
major national newspapers and news mag-
azines, in the hope that something may
be done to correct the bad impression
the American people have of the march;

‘and that something can be done to pre-

vent this violence in the future, Thank
you for your cooperation.

Norman G. Kalina
17 College Street
Brockport, New York 14420

‘

More or Less. Trust

To the Editor:

Last week K, D, Pulcipher, public re-
lations man at the Bryn Mawr Trust
Co., offered to explain the Trust’s mo-
tives in denying an account to Mainline
Vietnam Summer, I accepted his invita-
tion to lunch and looked forward to ob-
taining a coherent, concrete statement of
the bank’s general policy, as well as its
position on this particular issue,

His explanation was somewhat vague.

As self-protection, he said, the bank

must demand adequate proof that an in-
dividual is authorized to deposit and
withdraw funds for a given organization,

Mr, Pulcipher’s generalization was fine
as far as it went, buthe was unable and/or
unwilling to discuss the issue in more
specific terms, He had been vacationing
when the incident occurred, He wasn’t
aware of the discussion between the bank
treasurer, Mr, Paul, and Susan Greanoff
in reference to Vietnam Summer’s unusual
pattern of organization, He didn’t know
that Chuck Bresler had supplied Mr, Paul
with any sort of literature concerning the
nature of_the group, In short, Mr, Pul-
cipher pad little or no idea of what was

going on;

One statement, put forth as proof of the
apolitical basis of the bank’s actions, was
indicative of the ‘“‘depth’’ of our discus-
sion: ‘‘I don’t even know if the group
(Vietnam Summer) is North Vietnamese
or South Vietnamese, And I don’t care,”

attempt to win me over (and at the same
‘time to renew advertising contracts with

the eo enn
as possible, —

sion that Bryn Mawr Trust Co, is not
only taking the whole thing rather lightly,
but also. asSuming a great deal of insin-
cerity on the part of the NEWS and the
student body.

Valerie Hawkins '69

Advertising Manager
COLLEGE NEWS

Money Matters

To the Editor:

Undergrad is faced this year with a
possible financial crisis, With the pres-
ent dues of $14 - $11 as an activities
fee and $3 for the NEWS - it is literally
unable to pay for some of the activities
which fall under its jurisdiction,

As an organization which affects the
life of every undergraduate, it is impera-

‘tive that Undergrad have sufficient funds

to provide the students with more than
the minimum in social activities, speak-
ers, conferences and entertainment, At the
moment, it is handicapped in every one of
these fields, At the next Undergrad meet-
ing, Monday November 6th, a hike in dues
will be discussed and voted on, The pro-
posed activities fee for next year, per stu-
dent, is $25, Anyone who has suggestions
for alternative ways to increase our budget
is URGED to come to the meeting Monday,
7 p.m, in the Undergrad room of the Inn,

Lola Atwood °68

Barbara Oppenhein '68

Mary Berg °69
Jill Hobey '69

‘Student Directory

To the Editor:

The Finding List has Sh been re-
duced to 10 mimeographed sheets! That
booklet will soon be out, and will list
home addresses, faculty, administration,
the graduate school, and other informa-
tion,

The mimeographed directory, which
was intended for Haverford 1n exchange
for theirs, seemed like a good idea for
our campus, too, (after all, it’s free!)
but was in no way meant to replace the
Finding List,

Lola Atwood
President, Undergrad

| Majoring at Haveeior





‘I hope for Mr. Pulcipher’s sake that

_, his apparent ignorance was merely an

aaeeromman ius

Confidential to.0.J. ’70

‘More than faintly disgusted ’68’’ was
overjoyed to find your kind present of
two cans of orange juice in her box,
although she reports. that the canned

-kind isnot much:better than Marriott's ..

Kool-Aid, Knowledge of the existence of
a kindred soul on campus is indeed
heartening for her, Perhaps you two could

Editor in Chief
_ COLLEGE NEWS





peg

The lack of communication on cam-
pus is a topic of frequent debate at Bryn
Mawr. ‘The extent to which it exists
became apparent to me last week in an
interview with Miss McBride.

The subject of our discussion was the
problem of Bryn Mawr girls taking majors
at Haverford; specifically, I was interested
in 1) those departments for which majors
are given at Haverford but not at BMC
(religion, engineering and astronomy), and
2) those in which the approaches taken by

the two shcools are so different that a

student might consider one significantly
more desirable than the other in rela-
tion to her own interests (notably phil-
osophy, biology and physics). The im-
pression which I had received from other
students and from at least one professor
(and which I know has been conveyed to
many others) was that the college had
a strict policy; no Bryn Mawr student
may take her major at another school.

The essence of what Miss McBride told
me was that the college in fact had no
policy, since the matter never came up.
She said that no one had ever asked to
major in religion, engineering, or astron-
omy. If someone were to do so, she
would probably be advised to speak to the
Curriculum Committee, as well as to a
related department at BMC (e.g., the phy-
sics department in the case of astronomy).
As for those areas in which vast differ-
ences exist between Haverford and Bryn
Mawr, Miss McBride could cite only one
example of a girl who had asked to major
at Haverford. In this case it was the
joint decision of the administration and

the department (everyone, as she said,

but the girl) that it should not be allowed.
Apparently, then, this one instance has
been the basis for all policy on this
matter.

A number’ of questions came to iy
mind following the interview. First ofall,
is it really possible that no one has ever
seriously considered majoring at Haver-
ford where her interests would warrant
such a consideration? In light of the in-
creasing trends toward cooperation in
recent years, this seems unlikely. My
own acquaintances over the last year deny
such a claim. Many people have thought
about it, but they always reach the same
conclusion: ‘‘I can’t do it. They won’t
let me.”

It is obvious that the college-is doing
nothing to acquaint students with the possi-
bilities of majoring elsewhere. The cat-
logue speaks of cooperation with Haver-

_ ford, yet no mention is made of the

astronomy department or the engineering
courses. In the Haverford catalogue, on
the other hand, students are referred
specifically to Bryn Mawr for those sub-
—_ not offered at their school.

- The question. then becomes, is the
pow Mawr system really flexible? Or
ie ee one ae ae
to be at first: that ‘Bryn Mawr

CANNOT major anywhere but at
gE ng Mochacr

‘action is. Ginecnraget, with the

confusedly,
9 applebee

Bureaucratic Maze Traps Students

result that no one even attempts it. The
procedure of petitioning CurriculumCom-
mittee and visiting any and all related
departments seems to be largely sub-
terfuge: a bureaucratic maze guaranteed
to trap students at some point and force
them into situations less compatible with
their interests. _

As for the question of variations within
a single field, it is diffcult to determine
who is responsible for the attitudes pre-
sently taken -- the administration or the
individual department. Certainly itis
true that cooperation with Haverford is
encouraged in many academic areas. How-
ever, it is precisély those subjects where
the two schools are different that no
credit is given for courses taken at
Haverford (or that such credit is ex-
tremely difficult to get). What, then,
is a student to do if she is genuinely
interested in an approach other than the
one offered here? Subjugate her inter-

ests throughout her undergraduate years -

for the sake of ‘doing it our way’’? Use
all her electives to take the courses
she wants at Haverford while fulfilling
her own major? Find a less strenuous
(and less appealing) major so that she
may take those courses?

I do not consider any of these to be
desirable alternatives, and I doubt thatany
faculty member would either. When I
posed this question to Miss McBride, she
reluctantly admitted that perhaps a stu-

dent in this situation should consider,

transferring to a school with a depart-
ment more to her liking. This strikes
me as the least desirable, least construc-
tive solution of all. .Most people do not
choose a college solely on the basis
of a specific department; many have no
idea of what they will major in when they
arrive. Yet the choice of a suitable
major is of primary concern to every-
one. For some, transferring may be
the only answer. But such a drastic
step hardly seems necessary when ‘a
department more to her liking’? is right
next door.

All in all, the attitude which I per-
ceive as being transmitted by the college
is one of defensiveness of the Bryn
Mawr Way. It is indeed unfortunate that
such a narrow view should be taken in
a school which supposedly offers a lib- .
eral education.

should not be made to feel like heretics —
for expressing a preference for Haver-
ford’s approach to a subject. Neither
should they be regarded as ridiculous if
they wish to study something not offered

here -- but easily accessible -- whil q
favoring other aspects of the college

Above all, the administration. should real-
ize that. agirl will notautomatically ce:
to be a Bryn Mawr student if she

-eides to major elsewhere. Such a

ization is essential if cooperation
a ee ee
re eae



Bryn Mawr pretends :
to thrive on individualism, yet I see oe
regard for individual interests here. Girls _,











ay, November 3, 1967



Pe aattr. Past: Mtr hes ee ee

"THE COLLEGE NEWS _

Page Three





On Saturday morning we left the
Warwick, situated nicely togiveus
a view of the pickets in front of
A.B.C,, and walked to N,B,C. We
were taken up in a gigantic ele-
vator and stashed in a sligtitly
.. smaller. dressing room, _ It be-

- came noticeable at this point that
being on College Bow] is like being
the little man who does not read
the INQUIRER: you are perfectly
certain of your own distinctive-
ness, but somehow can’t quite
convince anyone on the show that
you are any different from the hun-
dred of college students who have
passed through their portals. We
spent a lot of time (stading around)
or (wandering) aimlessly in hall-
ways, while the stir of show busi-
ness went on around us.

Once out of the dressing room,
‘we were led by someone to a con-
ference room, Along the route
we picked up the Riverside team,
Never formally introduced, we
stated our names in the corri-
dor outside the conference room
and, when the room turned out to
be locked, stated our names again,
A poligeman finally. came to un-
‘ lock the door, or we might be
saying those names still, As we
were going in, a man in a grey
suit came up the hall, He was
' Robert Earle (never anything but
“Mr, Earle’? to us; hearing him
called ‘‘Bob’? was quite eerie),
and he is a peculiar, stagey color
in person,

We had an hour’s lunch looking
out on the ice ring, and were
careful to keep our conversation
general and free of all facts,
lest we reveal something to River-
side, They seemed perfectly calm
and friendly, but we saw each one
as an information spy.

After lunch there was make-
up from a TONIGHT SHOW drop-
out, as many of the technicians
seemed to be. He was a man
who could scrutinize two square
inches of skin without seeing the
person ft belonged to, Skins ready
for living color, we were shown
into a studio decorated with all
the restraint of Disneyland, Sal-
mon, turquoise, and mustard were
the dominant tones, One by one
an accumulation of crew arrived
to fill this studio, Even the
cameramen wore suits, and all

‘ollege Bowl .



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were incredibly ‘T,V,-looking’’,
This is one degree more breezy
than ‘theatrical-looking’’, Some

of ‘these people must surely have
been extraneous, but all managed
to bustle around intently. The
screens began to light on the pro-
fusion of monitors, and men began
putting on headphones, Mr, Earle

‘photo by Robin Johnson
Ruth Gais being made up. for
her College Bow! debut.
put on dark glasses against the
overhead spots, and, not to be
out-done in professionalism, Ruth
Gais and Diane Ostheim whipped
out their dark glasses,

‘ ‘There were two sample games,
the scores of which no one can
agree on now, The teams sat
patiently for endless lighting and
color checks, Mr, Earle denied

our audibility frequently, Finally,

the teams were released to go and
stew in their dressing rooms for
half an hour, in order to be
thoroughly nervous for the show,

As the audience began arriving,
the bustling men began saying
direly, ‘‘We’ll never make it,
Never.”?’ The spectators were
seated by neophyte ushers who had
clearly never done a television
show before, but had taken ex-
tensive training as subway con-
ductors, They did, however, make
it by five-thirty, After the pro-
gram, they served in a Berlin
Wall guard-function, placing them-
selves bodily between the victor-
ious team ‘and its well-wishers,
but allowing them to touch hands
briefly, While viewers heard
praise for an electric toothbrush,
the teams filed cooly to their desks,
Mr, Earle strode to his podium,

- A man with an oleagenous voice

began talking about a ‘‘Battle of
brains”? and a ‘feminine four-
some’’, The rest, as they say,
is history.

Mary Laura Gibbs



Council Hallowe’en Party
‘Spooks’ Well for Itself

, The Arts Council Hallowe’en
Haunting was a happening -- as it
happens.

Wild costumes began the festi-
vities on the porch of the College
Inn. The Hallowe’en regulars --
witches, Frankenstein and ghosts
-- were supplemented by the Great
Pumpkin, Uncle Sam, a walking
Confederate flag, Roman soldiers
and a grizzly bear in a shaggy
fur jacket with long feminine-type
hair combed over its face for a
mask, rs

Second in a ghostly trio of events
was Faith Greenfield’s Horror
House in the basement of the Inn. A
shriveled little witch at the door
cackled (what else?), ‘‘All right,
dearie,’? and herded unfortunates
into the corridors of terror.

The spook house displayed a
masterful balance of psychedelic
lights, subterranean darkness,

.~Guide To The Perplexed~~

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church
‘¢Cry the Beloved Country’’
8:00 p.m.

Merion Mixer
8:30 p.m. Gym

French Club Movie
‘‘Last Year at Marienbad’’

Biology Lecture Room 7:30 p.m, 75¢ donation
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4. ~

Alumnae Program

‘¢A Symposium of Schoolteaching Today”

Goodhart 10:00 a.m,

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Haverford Film

‘The Bicycle Thief?’ Vittorio de Sica (1949)

Roberts 8:00 p.m.
Denbigh Coffee Hour

3:00 p.m, to 5:00 p.m,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Sixth Mary Flexner Lecture

Wolfgang Stechow: ‘‘Transformation

Literature”
Goodhart 8:

Arts Council Film Series

:30
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7

“Bringing Up Baby’? with Cary Grant and Kathryn Hepburn

Bio Lecture Room 7:15 and 9:15

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Lecture, Department of Italian

Rocco Montano, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University
of Maryland; ‘‘Humanism from Dante to Petrarch

Common Room 8:30
Haverford Film Series

‘¢Ninotchka’’

Stokes 8:30 p.m.

Bryn Mawr College Theatre and Haverford College Drama Club
‘Taming of the Shrew’’ by,Shakespeare |

~~ “Roberts-Hall 8:30 pam, seen
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 *

Mary Eagan Stokes Lecture

Alfred Simon, drama critic for ESPRIT and member of 1967 faculty at
Institut d’Etudes Francaises @avignon: ‘‘Ou va le theatre en France”

Common Room_ 8:30 p.m.



and Variation in Music and

fluorescent paint, -hellish groans,

cheesecloth cobwebs and unearthly
forms,

Halfway along the treacherous
path, a threesome of timid, well
mannered Haverford monsters
roamed behind a cage-like struc-
ture, ready to leap at unsuspect-
ing victims who let out sincerely
terrified screams and then sheep-
ishly grin, ‘‘I scare easily.’

Obviously unaccustomed to the
idiosyncrasies of Bryn Mawr-Hav-
erford life (as is about four-thirds
of the American population), one
strangely Ivy-League-type visitor
commented on the party. Gazing
at the laughing painted faces and
Viking helmets and burning
crosses and pulsating shadows
around him, this lost soul breathed,

*So this is Bryn Mawr. Man,
I’m getting out of here.’’

Cathy Hoskins

Undergrad Releases
New Exchange Plan

Slater and Marriott Food Serv-
ices have agreed to expand, the
Social Meal Exchange System, Un-
dergrad announced this week.

Now four meals will be cov-
ered: Wednesday, Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday dinners. Tickets
for both Haverford and Bryn Mawr
meals are now available free in
52 Lloyd from Greg Wilcox. A
ticket is good for one meal. A total
of eighty free tickets are avail-
able for meals at each school,
20 for each school for each of the
four meals covered. A maximum
of 160 exchanges are thus possi-
ble in contrast to 90 up to now.

The continued expansion of the
program depends on the coopera-
tion of the students who partici-
pate. It is especially important
that BMC tickets be given to the
waitresses since, if the tickets
are not collected, the food serv-
ices cannot see that an equal ex-
change has occurred -- which is
essential for the present sys-
tem.

The results of the Social Life
questionnaire for the most pre-
ferred men’s college are, respec-
tively, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
and Columbia. A formal dance was
the most favored means of social
activity. Undergrad has tentatively
scheduled one for April 6. A folk
concert was the second place
choice.

__A final Undergrad annouiice-

ment is that the Lehigh Mixer ~
was a failure since many of the
freshmen who signed up did not

Nosco Unscrambles
Academic Calendar

Because of the confusion and
misinformation regarding the aca-
demic calendars for this and the
following year, we have investi-
gated the issue and feel certain
that our results would interest
students,

In the first place, the approval
of this year’s calendar in Septem-
ber by the Haverford and Bryn
Mawr faculties was more or less a
formality. The student calendar
committees of both colleges were,
or ‘should have been, aware that
there Zould be only minor changes
-- e.g. the accomodation of Bryn
Mawr’s new self-scheduled exam
program -- inthis year’s calendar,
already approved last year.

Secondly, contrary to the infor-
mation published in the September
29 issue of the ‘‘HAVERFORD
NEWS,” the calendar for the aca-
demic year 1968-69 will not be
identical to this year’s, A major
calendar reform hasbeen approved
by both faculties which corresponds
to the model calendar most favored
‘by Bryn Mawr students and faculty
in last Spring’s calendar -polls.

Specifically, the approved 1968"
1969 academic calendar provides
for a first semester of approxi-
mately 14 weeks, beginning Sep-
tember 16, with classes ending
before Christmas. Thanksgiving
and Christmas vacations will be the
usual length with students returning
January 6 for a three-day review
period. The exam period will be
eight days in length, enabling the
student to self-schedule her exams
so as to allow a day between each.
Intersessions will extend from
Saturday untif the following Sunday,
a period of eight days. Second se-

Keys, 8 a.m.’s
Go In Nov. 13

The trial 8 a.m, signout sys-
tem will go into effect on a modi-
fied basis on Monday, November
13, according to Miss McBride,

Until the new keys for each
dorm are ready, Miss McBride
explained, lantern men will ac-
company each girl to her dorm
and unlock the door for her with,
his key,

The three extra lantern men
included in the Self-Gov proposal
have been hired by the College.

The lantern men will be sta-
tioned in Rockefeller or Merion
basement whichever the adminis-
tration decides is the most suitable
facility, Both are centally located
and are accessible by car.

The way the system is set up
enough keys will be available for
girls in each dorm wishing to use
the 8 a.m, signout, No one will be
able to keep a key after letting
herself into the dorm.

After a four-month trial period
the executive board af Self-Gov,
the hall presidents, will review
the system and report to the Board
of Directors.

The system was chosen as the
safest and most convenient proce-
dure for an 8 a.m. signout.

If it turns out not to be im-
portant to many girls the expense
might not be justified, On the other
hand, if it is used too much and a
larger staff is needed adding to
the cost, then changes will be
made,

Miss McBride said granted that
students want this opportunity, the
plan is a good one,



November 9
10 p.m.

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mester will begin January 27; it
will contain fourteen weeks af
classes, Spring Vacation of usual
length, a three-day review period,
and a nine-day exam weéek*Com-

mencement will take place May 26. )
The 1968-69 calendar as pro- |

posed includes each of the items
for which students indicated a dis-
tinct preference: first semester
classes before Christmas, review
periods in both semesters, a sub-
stantial break between semesters,
and provision for self-scheduled
exams, In addition, the starting and
ending dates and the semester
length meet faculty approval.

Finally, the 4-1-4 calendar,
favored if not by Haverford stu-
dents, at least by the Haverford
Student Calendar Committee, has
aroused little enthusiasm on the
Bryn Mawr campus, among either
students or faculty. In addition,
Mrs. Marshall has stated that the
implementation of the 4-1-4 calen-
dar would require some form of
curriculum adjustment. Since the
college is presently experimenting
with its curriculum, the school
would prefer not to make additional
curriculum adjustments, Mrs.
Marshall pointed out that the 4-1-4
program has been tried and aban-
doned on many campuses.

We hope’ that we may have clari-
fied the calendar controversy
somewhat with this information. We
feel that next year’s calendar will
be a marked improvement over the
calendars of the two previous years.
and is in accordance with the pre-
ferences of both faculty and stu-
dents at Bryn Mawr.

Susan Nosco
Chairman,
Curriculum Committe

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THE COLLEGE NEWS »

Friday, November 3, 1967





photo by Kit Bakke

President Coleman of Haverford spoke in the field House at his

iqangoration last Saturday.

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‘BMC Officials Attend

Seven Sisters Confab

An annual conference for
presidents, deans, and faculty from
the Seven Sisters Colleges was
held in Boston last weekend to
discuss several topics. Miss Mc-
Bride, Mrs. Marshall, and
Mrs. King attended from Bryn
Mawr.

The purpose of the
ference, according to Miss
McBride, was to enable com-
munication between the seven
women’s colleges so that they
can learn from each other.

Curriculum was. discussed
by the representatives. Well-
esley and Mt. Holyoke are
trying new curricula and Bryn
Mawr is reviewing its two year
old one. In general, the institu-
tions liked the change - from
five to four required courses.

The future of the private in-
Stitution was also’ treated,
Miss McBride . believes that
public and private institu-
tions _ should . work together.
For this reason, she has served
on the Pennsylvania State Board
of Education for the last four
years, Community colleges, public
and private schools, religious and
non-affiliated colleges all find a
job in education, she said.

At the final set of meetings
the presidents, deans, and
faculty members talked in separate
groups. The presidents voted on
a new field secretary, who repre-
sents the seven colleges, traveling
through fourteen of the most dis-
tant states. A Radcliffe graduate

con-



November 9
8 p.m.
Folk Dancing
Bryn Mawr Gym
Scottish Dancing







Little Theatre
To Begin Work
For Winter Play

Little Theatre will hold an im-
portant organizational meeting
Thursday, November 9 at 7:17
p.m., in the College Inn T,V.

; room. Anyone interested in di-
recting and anyone who wants to
suggest a play to be performed
should send all pertinent infor-
mation to Lessie Klein or Cathy
Sims in the College Inn.

Tryouts. will be held the week
before Thanksgiving and rehear-
sals will begin immediately af-
ter the vacation. The produc-
tions will be December 8 and 9.

A completely student-run group,
College Theatre is in its third

Bipot aap to give peo-
- ple besides those in College Thea-.
tre a chance to get involved in
some kind of production, Even the
heads of committees will not have
done the same jobs before. Also,
freshmen will be eligible to act.



was elected this year.

The chairman and location of
next year’s conference as also
decided. Miss McBride is the new
chairman, and the seven sisters
will come to Bryn Mawr
next October. :

John Coleman was officially wel-
comed into the Haverford Col-
lege community as its ninth pres-
ident last Saturday.

The inauguration included a day
of activities, from Coleman’s ac-
ceptance speech in the Field House,
to a luncheon, a symposium, and
a reception in Founders.

The speech, given to hundreds
of dignitaries and friends of Hav-
erford, dealt with a college’s in-
volvement in. the problems of so-
ciety. Coleman’s past work with
the Ford Foundation has led him
to believe that university talent
is often wasted or ignored outside
the campus grounds. ‘‘There may
have been a time when it was safe
to harbor the dream of a college
as a-place of withdrawal, and to
think of college years as a time
simply to develop oneself to the
fullest, intellectually, morally, and
physically, in isolation from the
pressures of the day. I find much
of that dream irrelevant of our
mission. Too much is happening

Two Lively Mawrters Chosen
For Coast -to-Coast TV Series

WANTED: Girls with lively per-
sonalities, affinities toward ani-
mals and the courage to tell
television emcee Cleveland Amory
that his tie is ugly.

Bryn Mawr has two girls who fit
the bill.

Prudy Crowther’’70 and Joyce
Reimherr.’71 have been selected to
appear as regulars on the daily
Cleveland Amory show.

Aired from 8:30 until 9:30 week-
day mornings, the nationwide inter-
view program, ‘‘an hour of sur-
prises ... humor ... interesting
characters ... comment... audi-
ence and viewer participation,’’
will feature daily Amory, his ani-

mal friends, special guests and one’

of five girls from the Philadelphia
area, chosen to add extra punch to
the show.

Prudy will appear on a live show
each Thursday, and Joyce tapesher
weekly program on Thursday
nights. The girls report to the
WFIL—TV studios for the filmings.

Working on a regular basis,
Prudy and Joyce were selected for
the show from among 60 candidates
interviewed by Amory’s staff.

Amory, a coluninist and critic
for TV Guide, McCall’s, Town &

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who can bring gifts of insight,
balance and independence to the
issues.”’

The theme of university involve-
ment with the community was con-
tinued in the symposium. Mr. Hol-
land Hunter, Haverford economics
professor, Mr. Morris Keeton,
academic vice president at
Antioch, Mr. Thomas Kessinger,
Haverford ’65, now at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and Mr. John Mon-
ro, director of freshman studies
at Miles College and former dean
of Harvard, discussed the relative
merits of detachment and involve-
ment of the college in society.

Cooperation with Bryn Mawr



Italian Speaker

The Italian department
presents Professor Rocco
Montano, winner of the Fon-
dazione Besso Prize for the
best book on Dante written
in 1965, speaking on ‘‘Hu-
manism from Dante to Pe-
trarch,’’ Wednesday, Nov. 8,
8:30 in the Common Room.
Dr. Montano is professor of
Comparative Literature at
the University of Maryland
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was also discussed during the day.
Coleman stated that he ‘would
go as far along the road ‘to mu-
tually, beneficial cooperation as
any of those colleges wishes to
go.”? By ‘‘those colleges’? he said
he meant ‘‘Swarthmore, Lincoln,
and above, all, Bryn Mawr.??

Money, Food Stolen
From College Inn

The College Inn was broken into
and robbed on Thursday afternoon,
October 26. The robbery, which is
believed to have taken place about
five o’clock p.m., was discovered
at 7:30 that evening by Faith Green-
field and Anne Allen,

The students immediately tried
to contact Mr. Daily, head of the
College Inn, to report the theft.
Unable to reach him, they notified
Dean Marshall, who called the

police.

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taken by the intruder, as well as

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