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