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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

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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.

Sharpless, Haverford
Voyage of the Phoenix’’ .
+A hour fong color
film about a voyage

to North Vietnam









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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