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BRYN. MAWR, PA.

. FEBRUARY. 10,1967

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Constitutional Revisions
Allow Greater Freedom

The Constitutional Revision
Committee, an independent group
formed every ten years to review
the constitution of Self-Govern-
ment, has_ recently finished
its draft of suggested changes. in
the constitution.

The purpose of the Committee,
which consists of representatives
from all the dorms and language
houses, is to keep the Constitu-
tion up to date with changing stu-
dent needs and opinions.

Headed by Terry Newirth, the
Committee has worked this fall
to make the Self-Gov rules more
flexible and thus to place more
responsibility on the individual
student to uphold the —_ spirit
of the honor system in her own
way.

One of the major changes in
the Constitution involves sign-
outs. Following the example
of Goucher, Radcliffe, Mt. Holy-
oke, Bennington, Muhlenburg
and N.Y.U., the Committee has
proposed a key system. Under
this system, every girl who passes
her self-gov exam is issued a
key, which she must not lend.
If she loses it, she must report
herself to her hall president, who
will decide if a new lock
is necessary. Keys are collected
before the major vacations.

The alternatives open to the
key-holder are as follows. She
does not sign out until 12:30.
At that time, she may make a
regular sign out until 2, a long
sign out--which involves return-
ing to. the dorm at some
time between 2 and when the doors
are unlocked in the morning, or
an overnight. —

Because the privilege of being
able to enter the dorm at any
time involves more responsibility
than students possess under the
present system, freshmen would
not be given their Self-Gov exams
until the beginning of second sem-
ester. Only after’ having spent
a semester at Bryn Mawr, and
having passed the exam would
they receive keys. Until that time,
any upperclassman who had
passed her exam could act as a
permission giver.

Alliance to Help
Injured Children
From S. Vietnam

Alliance is creating interest all
over campus with its drive to
collect money for napalm and war
wounded Vietnamese children. It
has devoted its bulletin board
in Taylor to pictures of these
children, and has stuffed hall mail-
boxes with descriptions of the
children and its drive.

The Committee of Responsibility
with which Alliance is working, has
gotten the aid of the U. S. Govern-
ment in bringing as many of the
children to the U, S, for care as
possible. They have promises
of \help from doctors around the
country. Now all they need is
money for transportation, food,
hospital and operating costs.

Drewdie Gilpin, president of
Alliance, reports that for every
military casualty in Vietnam there
are five children injured. When a
U. S, soldier receives napalm
purns, he is rushed. to.a military
hospital in Texas; the burned child
is usually ignored. If the child
does get to a local hospital, the
treatment is only preliminary. The
Committee for Responsibility

(Continued on page 3)

Another change involves giving

dorms. the: option of allowing

men in the public rooms until
12:30 on week nights and until
2 on weekends. The actual. fixing
of time limits would be left to
each dorm, as it is now.

(Continued on page 12)

Alumna Gives.
Large Donation

To New Library

A gift of $200,000 to complete
the building fund for the alumnae
house and so to open the way for
the new library has justbeen made
by Mary Hale Chase, alumnae
director, the President’s office
revealed recently.

Mrs. Chase’s gift for the first
time sets a schedule for the build-
ing of the alumnae house and the
library.

The addition of a south wing to
Wyndham is expected by the archi-

’ tect, Erling Pedersen, to be begun

in March of 1967. According to
the President’s Office, the plans
for the wing should assure the
beauty of Wyndham as well as pro-
vide the necessary meeting rooms
and bedrooms. In the new wing
the architect has added very pleas-
ant dining rooms, convenient kitch-
ens, and on the second floor offices
‘with expanded space for the Alum-
nae Association.

The new library will require,
according to the architect Mr.
Philip M. Chu. of O’Conner and
Kilham, a construction period of
a year and a half. The President’s
Office claims it is for the first
time possible to set an aim for
use of the new library in the fall
of 1969, :

An appeal for a building permit |
for the library has been refused .
once, as is apparently customary
for such appeals in the residential .

community of which the college is |

a part. However, a hearing will
take place in late February at
which the permit should be en-
dorsed, according to Miss Mc--
Bride.

The new schedule for the library
will require unusual efforts’ in

Bryn Mawr Freshman Show:
Where Drippies Meet Hippies

Prudy Crowther and Carolyn
Monka will star in TOO FAR TO
THINK, to be presented by the
Freshmen at 7:30 tonight and 8:30
tomorrow night in Goodhart. Tick-

‘ets are on sale for $1.50.
Authors of the play are Sue Wat-
‘ters and Faith Greenfield, aided
by the: music writers Dardis Mc-
Namee and Joan Briccetti, and by
Chris Woll, choreographer. The
production staff is headed by Faith
Greenfield, director; Ellen Lansky,

production manager; and Pat Ros-

enfield, production secretary.
‘TOO FAR TO THINK is a chron-
icle of the eternal struggle between

the in-group and the outsider.
Leonard, the outsider (Prudy
Crowther), has somehow gotten

involved with a bunch of super-
cool hippies (Kay Seygal, Sharon
Zimmer, Marg Ross, Sue Lautin,
Sue Kidder, Julia Kagan, Debbie
Dickstein, and Sharon Werner).
When he objects to the group’s
Philosophy that life is nothing,

Leonard is challenged to write a
poem in favor of life. He promises
_to return at the end of the day



with his masterpiece.

At the Silver Meteor for break-
fast, Leonard is oppressed by
everyone around him (Bev Davis,
Liz Pettengil, Joan Pickard, An-
drea Heaps, Goodwin Schaeffer, and
Dallas Atkins). Later, on the sub-
way platform, Leonard is again
poked fun at by some strange
characters (Joan Briccetti, Jackie
Gilberg, Leslie Armsby, Caroline
Tropp, Cynthia Shelmerdine; Ma-
rie-Henriette Carre, Leslie
Comassar, and Minna Le Vin).

Deciding that noise is conducive
to poetry writing, Leonard goes to
a football game. Surrounded by
fans (Renee Bowser, Susan Lecko-
witz, Ruth Lowenthal, Susan Weil,
and Clarissa Rowe) Leonard
misses the biggest play of the sea-
son, while the hippies sit in front
of their television and mock him,

Finally Leonard goes to an art
gallery, hoping for inspirationfrom
other great creators. While three
bustling ladies (Jerry Bond, Elea-
nor .Gibson, and Andrea Porth)
explicate the works of art, a group
of Girl Scouts (Jan Oppenheim,

photo by Sue Nosco

Prudy Crowther is the lead in ‘Too Far To Think.’”

Bakke Elected NEWS -Editor;
Paper Has Financial Troubles

order to raise by special gifts
the $2,500,000 necessary to com-

‘plete the building fund, states the
_President’s Office.

é The present
éstimate of the cost is $4,000,000.

‘“’ Of this amount $1,500,000 was

raised in the course of matching
the Ford grant.

League’s Campus Drive
Picks Its Beneficiaries

In a campus-wide referendum
ending on February 3, students’
chose the following eleven organ-
izations for the annual Campus
Fund Drive: American’ Cancer
Society, Crisis Fund for Viet-
namese Children, CARE, Mental
Health, Planned Parenthood, N.A.
A.C.P., Legal Defense and Educa-
tion Fund, World University Serv-
ice, American Friends Service
Committee, Project HOPE, Phila-
delphia Asgociation for Retarded
Children, @d the National Schol-.
arship Service and Fund for Negro
Students.

Dorm captains are part of the
newly-instituted system for fund
drive. Marny Goldberg, Denbigh;
Nancy Miller, Merion; Liz Duke,
Pem. East; Cap Sease, Pem. West;
Betsy Karess, Rock; Barbara
Petty, Rhoads; Jackie Gilberg,
Erdman; Ilene Segan, College Inn;
Alma Lee, Batten; Barbara
Archer, Wyndham; Liz Freedman,
Spanish House; and Sally Dim-
schultz, Graduate Center, are
captains. Their first important

task was to choose corrider so-
licitors, who, in turn, distributed
ballots to each girl inher corridor
individually. Corridor solicitors
thereby attempted to inform all
about the coming of the drive.

Another featured addition tofund
drive is an-auction in Erdman’s
living room on Friday, February
17 at 1:30. Miss MacPherson and
Mrs. Marshall at that time will

‘auction off items procured from

various professors.

Solicitors plan to distribute
pledge sheets and _ personally
collect them during the week of
February 20-25. Students may

designate specific amounts to any —

organization on the list and write-
ins will be accepted. They may
pay by cash, check, or on payday.

Approximately $3 from’ each
person will enable fund drive to
reach its $2400 goal, Stated Billie
Stultz, chairman of the project:
‘We think this is a reasonable
figure. Perhaps next year we
can aim for more.’’



The College’ News now has
a new Editorial Board, Asaresult _
of the elections held towards the
end of the first semester, the
composition of the new Editorial
Board is as follows: Managing
Editor is Kathy Murphey, Layout
Editor is Nancy Miller, Copy Ed-
itor is Cookie Poplin, and
Member-at-Large is Janet Oppen-
heim,

Kit Bakke is now the few
Editor-in-Chief, She is succeeding
Nanette Holben, One of Kit?s first
duties was to appoint the Business
Manager, Ellen Saftlas, and the
Advertising Manager, Valerie
Hawkins, Mary Ann Spriegel will
continue as Subscription Manager,

Kit was also the Managing Ed-
itor of the Old Board, Elections
for New Board Members are held






i by Sue Nésco
Director .;Faith Greenfield
watches the action.

Ilene Segan, Jean Wilcox, and Lou
Kotler) argue about their cookie
sales, Then Annie, the girl-scout-
leader heroine (Carolyn Monka) ~
competently begins to solve all.
of Leonard’s problems.





In the park, two New York teeny-
boppers (Mona Dick and Nancy
Van Broekhaven) watch Leonard
answer a cop’s pressing question
(asked by Patty Shuler),

Convinced that he is right, Leon-
ard takes Annie to his group’s
favorite discotheque, supplied with
their favorite barmaid (Jane Fa-
jans), for the showdown, In the
middle of the usual discotheque
mob, Leonard presents his epic of
life,

In addition to those already men-
tioned, the. dancers are Jean Van
Beveren, Patche Poindexter,

| Sherry Burkley, Edie Stern, Bar-

bara Archer, Lucy Mulligan, Deb-

| bie Clark, Andi Heaps, Nancy Maut-

ner, and Sue Watters’.

Heads of the committees doing
back-stage and preparatory work
are Amy Boss, costumes; Toby
Horn, publicity; Amy Sheldon,
lights; and Michelle Langer, sets.

either towards the end of the first
semester or just at the beginning
of the second semester, This
means that every Editorial Board
serves for the second semester
of one year and the first semester
of the following year,

In this way, a continuity is
maintained and there is a chance
for the New Board to get advice
from the Old Board, :

One of the biggest problems
that the NEWS has faced this
year is lack of funds, Unlike most
school papers, it receives
no money from the college and so
has to rely entirely on subscrip-
tions and ad..revenues, The
staff, which does not like being
unable to publish when it wants,
is considering various remedies to
this situation,



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Friday, February 10, 1967



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The Constitution

The Constitutional Revision ‘committee has
readied its first draft of the-new Self-Government
constitution. ‘Soon it will be presented in all the
dorms and further suggestions will be considered
and adopted.

Board of Trustees, who will either approve it
or veto it.

There are two major changes, both of which
the NEWS has. been advocating for some time.
The first is an abolition of -the dress rule for
the ville. The second, a bit more radical but
not entirely without precedent, is the institution

of a key system with no set curfew (see ‘‘Letters

to the Editor’’), The freedoms which students
-would gain from these changes would certainly
not be more than they can handle. In fact, the
conduct of most Bryn Mawr students indicates
that they deserve such freedoms,

We would, however, like to question the role
of the Trustees in the constitutional revision
process. The second sentence of the forward to
the ‘constitution reads: ‘‘The charter of: the
Association (Self-Gov ), granted in 1892 by the
Trustees of the College, places responsibility
for the conduct of the students entirely in their
own hands.’? We think that this means that the
conduct of the students is to be determined solely

Then~a final vote will be taken .
among the students, and finally, it will go to the

Self-Gov ’s_ constitution. They are, after all, .
related to the college in a business-like fashion,
and their names and positions will be affected
by the honor of the college evén after we have
all graduated. We are merely transients... ‘But

“on the other hand, it is our lives that the rules,

whatever they are, will affect. So it seems
reasonable that Trustees should have a hand
in the formation of the new constitution, but not
that they should be able to make the final de-
cision.

The Convocation

Mrs. Marshall ‘opened the new semester by
bringing up several issues of interest and sig-
nificance to students in her Convocation speech,
She discussed first the changing role of student
youth in America, as exemplified in TIME maga-
zine’s choice for ‘‘Man of the Year.’? The new
impact of the student on society has led to ques-
tions over how far his right to express his own
opinions in his own way extends,

Mrs. Marshall also mentioned the Saaninn
relation of the university to the church and to the
state. She described the increasing independence
of Catholic education from the church. She then
proceeded to consider the problem of the control
and financing of the state university, as revealed
recently in the dismissal of Kerr from Berkeley.
Mrs. Marshall ended her remarks with the sugges-

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by the students themselves.

have a veto power?

a power.
Trustees having a voice

This is reinforced
by_our_ social and academic honor. systems, :
So the question arises, why do the Trustees
We don’t know, and we are
not sure it makes sense that they do have such
Surely there is nothing wrong with the
in the formation of

We fed that,

in society,
development.

tion that these issues be discussed at Bryn Mawr
under the leadership of qualified speakers.

as the changing status of the

student and the university will affect our direction
it is important to be aware of its

We note with approval Alliance’s
plans to hold a conference on education soon.







Letters to the Editor







Curfews and Keys

The. following is a. letter
received from a Bryn Mawr stu-
dent’s parent last December in
response to the NEWS’ edi-
torial favoring the institution
of a key system at Bryn Mawr

similar to Radcliffe’s or Mt.
Holyoke’s. Further comments
are invited, either by parents,
‘ students or administration. --
Ed. note.

To the Editor:
A constant and close reader of

the COLLEGE NEWS, I often find .

myself reacting strongly but si-
lently to the happenings at Bryn
Mawr. I am delighted therefore,
at your editorial invitation tocom-
ment upon the proposed rule change
with respect to sign-outs and keys.
I hasten herewith to accept your
invitation.

I strongly oppose any liberali-
zation of existing curfew regula-
tions, In fact, I think regulations
‘should be made more restrictive,
I would like to see a week-
night curfew of midnight, no
‘secret sign-outs’, and no
over-night leaves without parental
knowledge and approval,

Some of the premises upon which
the above conclusions are based
are the following. First, big enough
is not synonymous with old enough.
Adolescence is a stage of physical
and psychological growth occupy-
ing a span of approximately ten
years from age 11 or 12 to age
21° or 22. It cannot be hastened
or telescoped without some sac-
rifice in quality of the end prod-
uct, some degree of dwarfing or
blunting or distortion. The more
complex and freer the society, the
more highly educated and evolved
the individual must become if he
is ‘to fit himself into it. One can
grow’ old without growing up un-
less one takes care to include all
of the growing-up steps and mea-
sures.’

A second premise is_ that
stretching and strenuous exercise
of the intellect is one means, and
for complete human fulfillment an
essential means, of growing up.
Hence, the residential college
where one can be a full-time stu-

~ commuting, of the mundane world,
and of earning a living. To dilute
the intensity of being a full-time
student by being half-time occu- ~
games isa dis-

fun and
the

if



. ; Seeeoes the rates drop, Sr

is being expended. College, like
life, does not guarantee happiness.
Happiness is achieved not by pur-
suit, but comes as a by-product
of more strenuous and demanding
pursuits.

A third premise is that parents
have an obligation to guide their
young into fruitful adulthood. I
do not abdicate my responsibility
when my daughter goes off’ to
college and I expect the college,
in my physical absence, to stand
in loco parentis. I do not delegate
my authority to my daughter or to
her peers. I know I shall be
called upon, and I hope to be; if
and when there is any threat to
her health of welfare, and I wish
to have something to say about
prevention. ‘

A fourth premise is that’ the
college is a private educational
facility which makes its. special
privileges and immunities avail-
able to those who wish to make
use of them. The iation be-
tween college and student is vol-
untary on both sides, with re-
sponsibilities and obligations, as
well as privileges, a part of the
contract. If the responsibilities
and obligations are found to be
onerous or incompatible with one’s
personal convictions, one can with-
draw from the association.

A fifth premise is that girls,
albeit sublimely wonderful are dif-
ferent from boys. Their sexual
aims and needs are less physical,
more emotional, and slower to
evolve. At the same time their
vulnerability is immeasurably
greater. ‘Pills’? are not without
hazard (malaise, weight gain, im-
pairment of liver function). Abor-
tion is risky, difficult to come by
and carries~a potential for life-
long physical and emotional scars.

My final premise is that the
college’s greatest obligation is to
its youngest, weakest, and most
vulnerable members. The impul-
sive, the unknowing, and the un-
tried suffer most from the heady
freedom of the Self-Government
loose regulations. The college isa
community and not a collection of
private individuals. When one per-
son is sacrificed to the new per-
missiveness, all are diminished.

You may disagree with my
premises and conclusions. Per-
haps you are right and Iam wrong.
Let us apply some objective mea-
surements. In the two decades
during which students have been
demanding and receiving progres-
sively greater amounts of personal

suicide, accidental injury, unin-
tended pregnancy, premature mar-
riage, and mental illness, have
risen sharply. My personal ex-
perience in teaching medical stu-
dents (the elite, finished product
of the colleges) reveals a degree
of dependency, bewilderment, and
impreciseness that impedes effec-
tive teaching and learning. More-
over, the dropout rate in American
medical schools has risen steadily
over the past 20 years from 4.5%
to a current 15%.

Those of you whom I know per-
sonally I love and admire, my
daughter above .all. Every day I
learn from you, from your tri-
umphs, your satisfactions, your
failures. What I learn inspires me
not to abdicate in your favor but
to make my contribution to your
growing up years more meaningful
and relevant and useful.

Name Witheld on Request

Children and War

To the Editor:

One of the more convenient as-,
pects of modern warfare is that
it can be waged by a people un-
aware of what it is doing. It is
indeed amazing, as Mr. Dudden
pointed out to his History 303
class last week, that we can sit
in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, go-
ing to school, blessed with the
necessities and even the luxur-
ies of life while 11,000 miles away
our taxes, $100 a year from each
of us as an American citizen, go
to wage a war in which an entire
civilian popufation finds itself in-
extricably involved. I thought I had
become nearly used to this idea,
however, and that the general in-
difference of the American people
to the Vietnamese war could no
longer shock me. But once again
it has,

When I posted in Taylor Hall

last week pictures of injured Viet-
namese children for whom there is
inadequate medical care, I exper-
ienced a response from some stu-
dents which I could neither believe
nor understand. These pictures of
burned children offend us, they
complained. Take them down. They
are in bad taste, and we cannot
sleep at night after looking at them,
they said, Today I found the pic-
_tures of children on the Alliance
bulletin board covered with slips
of white paper. Give us facts and
figures, they said, but do not con-
descend to appeal to our emo-
tions.

It makes no difference to me
in| en to this question what

suppose, to realize the suffering
of the Vietnamese and still argue
that it is necessary. I do not be-
lieve, however, that anyone can
develop a valid opinion about this
war without realizing to some ex-
tent the significance of the means
being used to win it. War is not in
good taste. The thousands of Viet-
namese children with eyelids
burned away by napalm cannot
sleep easily either. Somehow facts
and figures of millions wounded or
thousands dead do not meannearly
as much as the picture of a single
Vietnamese child with the skin
peeling off his back from a war
burn.

Suffering is not measured in
millions or thousands but in many
individual cases. It is only when we
see the meaning of an individual’s
suffering that we can begin to mul-
tiply itinto statistics. Each wound-
ed child does not understand or
even know how many children are
wounded, He understands the war
in Vietnam in terms of his own
suffering. It certainly cannot hurt
us to be exposed to his point of
view on the war.

My purpose in posting those
pictures, however, was not topro-
voke thought but to inspire ac-
tion to remedy in some way what
has been done to these children.
One cannot begin truly to solve a
problem until one has. admitted

-that it exists. Covering the pic-.,

tures will not heal the children’s
wounds, If you are outraged by
those pictures, you should be
equally outraged by the existence
of the untreated wounds, and will-
ing to help us raise money for the
Committee of Responsibility.

I think of what Albert Camus
wrote in THE PLAGUE, ‘‘For the
plague-stricken, their peace of
mind is more important than a
human life ... I have realized
that we all have plague, and I
have lost my peace. And today I
am still trying to find it; still
trying to understand all those
others and not be the mortal ene-
my of anyone. I only know that
one must do what: one can to
cease being plague-stricken.’’ The
war in Vietnam is at least partly
our war; the wounded are at least
partly our responsibility.

Drewdie Gilpin, ’68

Saga Complaint

To the.E ditor:

In all the flurry over the new
food system, one thing has been
overlooked: the waitresses.

Student waitresses are working




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sure to get the food on the tables

faster, fulfill individual requests,
and to serve ice cream at two
meals a day. When social security
and income tax are taken out of
the checks, the waitresses net
less for their increased efforts.

The BASE pay for waitressing
makes it the equivalent of slave
labor. Waitresses in the real world
take an order and serve the food;
their efficiency is rewarded by
tipping. Waitresses at Bryn Mawr
serve as busboys and floor sweep-
ers; an occasional thank-you is
tossed_to the more pleasant ones.
College students are in the un-
fortunate position of having a nar-
row range of jobs from which to
choose; if the pay is too low and
the work unsatisfactory, students
have virtually no alternatives. Both

‘Saga and the college have capital-

ized on this situation.

Saga representatives have stated
that waitress pay is fixed under
contract between Saga and. the
college. Who represented the wait-
resses? They insist that a pay
raise is out of the question be-
cause of budget demands. We are
told that milk in cartons has saved
Saga as much as $350 a week. This
money should be used for a raise
instead of for more parsley,
candles and cute napkins.

All halls are now being changed
to a student waitress system.
There have been voices of protest,
and rightly so. Is ‘‘gracious liv-
ing’’ having your plate snatched
from you in that momentary pause
between bites? Is ‘‘ gracious liv-
ing’’ having five fiercely frocked
waitresses glaring down upon you
and your guest who are trying to
enjoy a leisurely. meal--strongly
hinting that IT’S TIME TO GO?
But one can hardly blame the wait-
resses. They are students (have
work to do and classes to attend)
before they are waitresses. They
are not paid enough to make it

‘worth their while to work an extra

15 minutes; their time is valuable
too.
This Saga is sad but true; it’s

later than you think.
Dorothy Dow, ’67
Claudia Mangum, ’67
Debby Jackson, im
Cile Yow, °67 cn
Robin Radison, ’67
Kitty Taylor, ’67

Rented Pictures
To the Student Body:
The Undergrad Association has

been loaned a large collection of
mounted - color reproductions,

= (Continued on page 4)
Friday, February 10, 1967

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



‘Free University of Philadelphia Father William Dubay Presents.
Announces Spring Registration

The Coordinating Committee
of the Free University in Phila-
delphia has begun the spring
term, thus beginning its second
year of operation, For both reg-
istration and information, call
Steven Kuromiya® at KI 5-3035
or BA 2-8969,

The Free University was
established.last year by the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania chapter
of Students for a. Democratic So-
clety as an attempt to remedy
the problem of the modern uni-
versity’s inability to create
a dialogue between teacher and
student, It began as a means of
facilitating the exchange of ideas
among students, professors, and
other members of the community,
This exchange took place in an
atmosphere free from the restrict-
ions of the familiar classroom or

lecture hall,

The Free University, now
independent of S.D,S,, is admin-
istered - by 64 Coordinating _
Committee which serves only to-
disseminate information and
schedule meeting places. The

Committee has no control over
the course topics, the structure
of, or the method of conducting
classes, All. course topics are
chosen by the instructors them-
‘selves, and no topics are
solicited by the Free University
except when’ specifically request-
ed by students, The course
content is as broad or as nar-
row as_ the instructor and his

class desire, so that each‘class
is free to pursue the goals of
its own choosing, ;
Courses. are open to all
interested persons, aiid are free,
The faculty is drawn from local
‘universities and from the com-
munity at large, and is un-

“ salaried,

Both seminars and_ individual
lectures on topics of current in-
terest will be offered - this
year, One course will consist of
a series of discussions on contem-
porary issues, bringing together
two persons of differing views to
examine-issues-such as Vietnam,
LSD, germ warfare and classified
research,

Alliance Requests
Aid for Children

(Continued from page 1)
thinks that full recovery is not
possible in Vietnam, but only in
the-hospitals of the-U.-S,

Alliance is collecting money
among the residents of the Main
Line. It is considering an arts
festival or poetry reading in the
spring, and action with ‘the busi-
nessman’s guild in the ville. They
are asking students for money
(checks can be made out to the
Magolage: Huns os gly and
for help. -up sheets are on
the Alliance bulletin board in
Taylor now. Drewdie can be con-
tacted in Denbigh for more infor-
mation.

New Program of Church Reform

by Cookie Poplin

Father William DuBay, Inter-
faith speaker last Wednesday night,
had been suspended three times for
preaching integration by Los An-
geles Cardinal Mcintyre. Three
years ago he wrote to the Pope
asking to: have the cardinal re-
moved for his failure to give
leadership in the racial crisis,
He; read the letter to a press
conference alone when colleagues
who had earlier agreed to support
him backed down, He has since
worked a great deal with the re-
habilitation program at Synanon
House, a halfway house for drug
addicts, and is presently travel-
ling through the country, re-
cfuiting priests for his newly
founded priests’ union, part of
his program for a new church or-
ganization, °

/To the astonishment of at least
one listener, Father DuBay who

has done all this looks like aslim, -
moe student of about 26 who
i

ight be a pleasant companion at
a mixer, He spoke slowly and with
a certain hesitation, describing
first his experiences over the five
years since he was ordained, and
then the theories he has developed,
When he was ordained in 1960,
he said he believed in the concept

of priesthood as it is generally

taught in Catholic seminaries, and
was unaware of the problems
priests must face in their pries



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Sophomore Weekend Gala Aftair,
Features Gregory, Go-Go Girls

This weekend is Sophomore
Weekend at Haverford, and the
entertainment ranges from co-
median Dick Gregory and folk-
singer Josh white, Jr. Friday
night, to a dinner-dance featuring
go-go girls on Saturday night.

Gregory, who has taken part
in many civil rights activities is
a popular comedian who has per-
formed both in the United States
and abroad. Josh White, Jr., a
well-known folksinger has also held
dramatic roles on Broadway and
on television.

The athletic events of the week-
end include swimming vs. Johns
Hopkins and wrestling vs. PMC
on Saturday afternoon, and basket-
ball vs. PMC Saturday night.

A candlelight dinner will begin
at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, then at
8:30 on the Bryn Mawr campus the
freshmen will present their annual
show.

The dance at Haverford begins
at 10:00 and the music will be sup-
plied by a New YorkCity rock-and-
roll group, the ‘‘Agents of Happi-
ness,” accompanied by several
pouncy go-go girls. Three movies
will be shown simultaneously on
different walls ae the room will

be lit by colored bulbs. By doing
this, the sophomores hope to pro-
duce a ‘‘psychedelic effect.’’
Judging from the constant an-
nouncements in Bryn Mawr’s dining
halls this week, the go-go girls
seem to be the main feature of the

weekend. The reception of these
pleas for volunteers seems to show
a lack of enthusiasm here for jerk-
ing madly on a platform under
spotlights. Perhaps the boys should
try advertising at Harcum for these
exotic dancers.

Jewish Discussion Group

Considers Concept of God

The first meeting of the Jew-
ish Discussion Group was held on
Thursday, February 2nd at 9:00
in the Undergrad Room at the Col-
lege Inn. Despite Freshman Show
rehearsals, the Supremes, and
miserable weather, twenty people
from Bryn Mawr, Haverford and
Villanova came todiscuss the Jew-
ish conception of God. Rabbi
Samuel H. Berkowitz, coordinator
of the Hillels in the Philadelphia
area, led the discussion. In order
to equalize. the knowledge of the
participants, Rabbi Berkowitz had
suggested reading the chapter on
God. in BASIC JUDAISM by Milton
Steinberg. However, the discus-
sion, which continued until 10;30,
did not remain with the material
covered by the reading, but con-

cerned itself chiefly with the ques-
tion of whether God exists ‘or is

“merely a creation of man to satis-

fy his psychological needs.

The next meeting is planned for
February 23rd at the same time
and place. Rabbi Berkowitz will
bring a tape of a speech delivered
at Penn earlier this year by Mor-
decai Kaplan, leader of the recon-
structionist movement, explaining
his views on salvation. There is
no suggested background reading
for this meeting.

The group has also planned
meetings for March 16, April 6,
and April 27, and hopes to par-
ticipate in some of the Friday
evening activities of the Hillel
at Penn.

functions,

His first parish was-anew-com-=-
munity, predominantly white and
growing rapidly,’ He joined a fair
housing committee which had

emerged to try to integrate the

area before housing patterns had
become too rigid, One Sunday he

preached a sermon eae
ments by Pope Pius XII and Vvar-

ious bishops that Catholics should
get to know Negroes, allow them
into Catholic neighborhoods, and
make friends with them, The car-
dinal’s reaction was prompt and

angry--Father DuBay was shifted -

to another parish where six months
later the same sequence of events
repeated itself, This time the young
priest was shifted to Compton, a
typical Negro ghetto parish where,
as he said, he saw the problem
from the Negroes’ point of view.
The longer ie was there, he said,
the more he resented the cardinal’s
policy of silencing Catholics onthe
racial question, particularly in
regard to Proposition 14 (the pro-
posal passed by the California
voters which outlawed all fair
housing legislation,) Father DuBay
with a group of others picketed
Cardinal McIntyre’s office, de-
manding such things as anti-dis-
crimination clauses in church con-
tracts, and when the prelate
refused to budge, claiming that
‘there is no Negro problem in
4968 Angeles,’’ Father DuBay wrote
to the Pope, For this he was sent
to another district where his chief
functions were counting collection
money and teaching altar boys; he
was not even allowed to talk to
people after Mass on Sunday,

‘‘A changing situation demands
prophetic voices and prophetic in-
stitutions to help people adjust to
changes, to help them refashion
their lives ina more humane way,””
Father -DuBay feels the Church
must respond in this capacity to
the challenge of the modern world,

Thus Father DuBay attacked all _
the materialism of the Roman:
Church. He charged that men in
the hierarchy are becoming so in-
volved with property and ad-
ministration that they lose sight
of, and indeed impede, the funda-
nfental purpose of religion--to
educate people as-‘‘mature, think-
ing, . critical, self-determining
adults.’’ One doesn’t need the
machinery of the hierarchy to
teach people to live the way Jesus
taught; he himself largely ignored
the whole establishment of his time
to teach all the people he could
reach to ‘love thy neighbors.’ ‘‘The
essence of the religious ex-
perience, of the human experience,
is to relate to other people’s needs
and to meet them. This ishow men
will be saved at the Last Judg-
ment: ‘Inasmuch as ye have done
it unto me of the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it |
unto me.’”? The Church now. works _
in the opposite direction, en-
couraging people: not to relate,
to close themselves off from one
another,

Father DuBay added thatChurch
policy was based on the notion
formulated in antiquity, that men
could not change. People faced
with evidence of a conversion
resent it terribly. We know today,
however, that people can change--
the rehabilitation of people at
Synanon alone offers striking proof
of this. The Church must take
effective instruments of personal
change before attempting social
change. Its whole thrust should
be towards education, towards de-
veloping in people a firm commit-
ment to human values in life.

Finally, he claimed that the
Church should be a public in-
stitution, not the private property
of the bishops, and that priests
should be regarded as the pro-
fessionals who serve it much as
teachers serve in schools.

Class Night Returns in Style
Seniors Contemplate Victory

An age old tradition at Haver-
ford is the springtime productions
of class plays in a closely se-
quenced period of time known fa-
miliarly as Class Night. As the
productions are organized -on a
competitive basis, the actual con-
tent of each work is a well-guarded
secret, at least until presentation
and judgment.

This year’s Senior play at Hav-
erford, the COLLEGE NEWS was
informed, is to enjoy the imagina-
tive direction of Bob Sinclair, a
veteran of last year’s award win-
ning triumph. There will be a
cast of scores, precision timed
dancers, magnificent vocalists, and
experienced thespians. all combin-
ing to form the theatrical event of
the 1966-1967 season. The original
score for the offering was written
by the trophy-winning, Broadway-
contracted, Dick McConaghy.

The audience will be exposed to
an entirely new concept of musical
composition, a play at the forefront
of the modern wave of trend-setting
drama and theatrical experience.
The widely recognized combination
of the 1965-1966 Junior Class di-
rectors and actors has approached
the present enterprise as a totally
new. and altogether revolutionary
image of the theatre. Their per-
spective, indeed, can be said to
rival and surpass the neo-leftist
interpretations of the Peter Weiss
company’s production of ‘‘Marat/
Sade’? and the work of ‘the World
Shakespeare Company. Naturally
this comparison is weak in that the
Haverford men are avowed profes-
sionals and do not lower them-
selves to histrionics onan amateur
scale. Although last year, Barbara
Streisand’s niece of Liberian na-

tionality was obtained for anacting

part, it is doubtful that she will
renew her concession. Neverthe-
less, an exciting and thoroughly
novel theatrical revelation is at
hand for drama-lovers every-
where.

Archaeologist,
BMC Grad, Dies

A former Bryn Mawr professor
emeritus of classical archaeology,
Dr. Mary Swindler died January 16,

Miss Swindler received her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees
at Indiana University, before com-
ing to Bryn Mawr for her Ph. D,
She became a member of the fac-
ulty in 1912, and retired‘in 1949,

In 1951 she received the achieve-
ment award of the American Asso-
ciation of University Women, In
1959 she was named a Distin-
guished Daughter of Pennsylvania,
and was one of three scholars in
the US to be awarded $10,000
each by the American Council
of Learned Societies for Outstand-
ing Achievement. She was also
a vice president of the Archae-
ological Institute of America,

President McBride reports that
Miss Swindler asked that there be
no memorial service for her here,
although many of her former stu-
dents expressed a wish todo some-
thing. Miss Mellink suggested that
a tea be held in the Deanery at
which four of her students who
have since gone on in archaeology
themselves give talks on what
they have been doing in the field,
The tea will be held Saturday,
February 25 at 3 p. m. Archae-

ology students are especially in-
vited, although anyone interested
will be welcome,
“ Page Four

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, February 10, 1967



BMC Calendar Issue Reopened
‘As Student Opinion Is Polled

Hall meetings will be called
next week to discuss. possible
changes in the academic calendar.

Mrs... Marshall, Mr. Berliner,

‘and Mr, Dudden, the faculty cal-
endar committee, presented a
series of sample calendars to a
faculty meeting November 8, Now
student opinion is being sought, The
calendars will be presented by
members of the student curriculum
committee, who have been briefed
by Mrs. Marshall ‘and Nicky Har-
denbergh of that committee,

According to Mrs. Marshall,
there is a possibility that the
ealendar-can be changed for next
year, contrary to earlier reports,
However, only internal changes
could be arranged, not the open-
ing or closing dates of classes,
and only then if there were strong
support among the students and
faculty, for one particular cal-
endar.

To promote intelligent discus-
-sion.on__the._calendar... issue_the
NEWS is printing summaries of
several of the sample calendars.

The Penn calendar is one which
many students favor. Any change
made to this arrangement could
not be made for next year, It
would be advantageous for the
graduate school, since many grad
students take classes at Penn, The
characteristics of thiscalendar are
a very early beginning (September
7, registration; classes September
9); all classes and exams over
before Christmas vacation, which
starts December 22; shorter exam
periods, and no reading period;
early. commencement (May 22);
and 14 weeks of class a semester,

Another possibility that has
aroused interest is a 3-3-3 Dart-
mouth-type calendar. Here, stu-
dents take three courses for each
of the three terms, This would
require curriculum changes which
the administration does not favor,
at least until they have a chance to
assegs the effects of the changes
made two years ago,

The characteristics of a 3-3-3
calendar entail three short exam
periods and three registration
periods, There would be no Jame
duck session after Christmas, a
two-and-a-half week Christmas
vacation and a Spring vacation of
about the same length, At Dart-
mouth each term is ten weeks long,

so even without a reading and re-
view period the year Sa Age
from the middle of September’

the middle of June. It should be
kept in mind that this-is exactly
what a large portion of the faculty
seems to want to avoid.

A third possibility is the Wel-
lesley calendar. This has three
terms of unequal lengths and would
also involve curriculum changes,
At Wellesley, the first term is
12 weeks; the.second, 12 weeks;
and the third, 6 weeks. The overall
year is again somewhat longer
than Bryn Mawz’s year. There are
no reading or review periods, and
no lame duck session,

The traditional Bryn Mawr cal-
endar is typified as having a fairly
short year with late opening, no
reading or review period, a lame
duck session and a minimum in-
tersession, Two possible revisions
the faculty committee suggested



S.A.C. Telegram
Campaign
to extend the
a EUS
continues till

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are the following:
eS '
Sept. 25-Dec, 20 14 Weeks of class
Jan, 4-Jan, 12

Jan,13-Jan. 16"
Jan, 17-Jan, 27
Jan. 28-Jan. 31
Feb. 1-May 15

4 days review ~
Exams :
Intersession

14 weeks of class
plus one week va-

cation
May 16-May 30 Exams
June 3 Commencement
II,

Sept. 14-Dec.20 14 weeks of class

Jan. 3-Jan, 7 5 days review

Jan, 8-Jan,-18 Exams

Jan. 19-Jan.23 Intersession

Jan. 24-May7 14 weeks of class
plus one week of
vacation

May 8-Mayl2 5 days review

May 18-May23 Exams

May 27 Commencement

There are many variations toall

- of these systems. No matter which

one, if any,.ischosen, there are
several points of contention with
which the students and faculty must
deal.

First of all, ‘if a late start is
favored, a lame duck session is
difficult to avoid if the semester
is to be kept at 14 weeks, Then,
secondly, if an end of classes be-
fore Christmas is what everybody
wants, it becomes necessary to
have school start around the middle
of September. Thirdly, to have
classes AND exams over by
Christmas, school must start
sometime in the beginning of Sep-
tember,

. Students Report

Reading Period
Very Successtul

The overall consensus as to
the value of the new reading period
this year seems to be that it was
a worthwhile addition to the cal-
endar,

Most students really did use
the extra time to study and many
found it a good time to both review
redding and to catch up on reading
which was not completed by the
end of classes.

Students found that the reading
period was a good break between
the tenseness %f the last week
of classes and final examinations,
One student said that ‘‘without
reading period, exams would have
been unbearable.’? Some girls
took their take-home or Haver-
ford exams during this time,

It was generally felt that the
reading period relaxed _ the
pressure created by the rush of
the post-Christmas week of
classes and the.papers due during
that week, One. girl commented:
‘It gave me a chance to assimi-
late a et
during the semester and to think
about what I had read,’?

Other students felt that the read-
ing period was_ helpful but
that the week of classes after
_vacation was too tense, They sug-
gested having all papers due
before Christmas and having
Christmas vacation immediately
followed by reading period and
examinations, Some even express-

ed a desire for a calendar
change whi¢h would include final
exams b e Christmas vacation,

One student said she would like
a shorter reading period, She felt
that the long reading period
stretched the duration of exam-
inations to three weeks and
found that the time dragged and

_Was very taxing,

For most students the reading
period was a welcome addition
to the college calendar and this
reporter finds a general feeling
that this policy should be adopted
permanently by the administration
and faculty,

had done

‘Birds’ Documents Role of Death
In New Guinea Tribal Customs

by Marcia Ringel

‘*Dead Birds,’’ a documentary
film shown here Monday by the
Anthropology Club, explores a
single facet of the lives of natives
in the Baliem Valley in the cen-
tral mountains of West New Gui-
nea: their ritualistic preoccupation
with death, around which nearly
all their daily concerns revolve.

It is not entirely the fear of
death that obsesses them, how-
ever. A strong retributive tra-
dition--necessitates -the revenge
of each death by means of mur-
dering someone in a rival tribe
in spear-throwing army combat.
“Restoring the balance’’ is all-
important, since ‘‘unavenged
ghosts bring sickness ... and pos-
sibly disaster. It is for this rea-
son that they go to war -- also,
because they like to.’’ In fact,
‘“‘ghosts. more than anything else
rule the lives of these people.’’

The title of the film is de-
rived from a local folk tale re-
lated by the narrator in the first
moments of the film. Man at the
beginning of time could have been
either like the bird, who must die
when struck, or like the snake,
who sheds his skin and persists
in living. Imprisoned for life in
his skin, man must die; thus, he
resembles the bird.

Many shots of birds are shown
in the film, which was beauti-
fully photographed in color, edited,
and written in 1962 by Robert
Gardner for the Film Study Cen-
ter of Harvard’s Peabody Mu-
seum. It is a virtue of the film
that it discusses few aspects of
New Guinea culture that do not
directly pertain to one theme,
the tribal concern for avenged
death. One man, his wife, and a
young boy, on whom the story is



applebee



this winter has been too mild,
i suspect it of sedition ... how
can april be the cruellest month
when the dead land hasn’t quite
been buried, where are the snows
of the pacific northwest, &c ...
without its fat accustomed down
quilt hard earth bristles and
crackles, feeling unloved like a
little child who hasn’t been tucked
in for the night ... and yet the
air is cold enough to merit steam
baths in the sauna reading room
-.. there’s a lot of february left
though so let’s let the sky decide
its own maneuvers ... you should
have seen me on groundhog day,
that was a morning to be re-
membered ... long watchful nights
had shown me where my prey lay
hiding, a fat adolescent ground-

hog with the luscious juice seem- .

ing to ooze from the very pores
of his succulent little body ...
little did he know that i, orni-
thology’s answer to ‘the collec-
tor,’? had his tender corpus de-
liciously in mind ... awaiting my
chance i sneaked up on his hog-
hole as dawn broke ... he pres-
ently emerged (how i desired him)
squinting at a calendar and rubbing
the sleep from his tiny eyes ...
then he walked towards the sun
while looking over his left shoulder
for signs of a shadow ... i was
thus able to approach him directly,

undetected ... our t@te-d-t&te was

terrifi¢/... he afterwards retired’

to my stomach where he was di-
gested nicely... ilove groundhog

day
ai happy hell week,
applebee

focussed, all reveal typical as-
pects of New Guinea tribal life in
their reactions to the death af a
young child of their tribe. The
folk tale that opens the movie
serves as a thread of reference
throughout the film, thus justi-
fying frequent shots of birds and
providing subtle thematic touch-
es, such as a boy’s examining what
appears to be a dead bird (there
is no narration at this point) while
his friend’s elaborate funeral is
being held nearby, and the boy’s
private celebration of the revenge
of that friend’s death, in the cook-

ing and eating of a little bird he .

has found dead.

No delicacy has interfered to
avoid showing the New Guinea
tribespeople at their ritualistic
pigslaughtering for feast and fun-
eral, nor to shield from the
camera bloody wounds incurred
in battle. The seriousness and
ealm with which the natives treat
all such occurrences somewhat
counter the distaste ‘‘civilized’?
viewers may feel at the exces-
sive gore, although certain red
scenes were too long for this
queasy spectator.

The joy obscured by these peo-

ple’s mourning bursts forth in-

stantly at the meeting of re-"

venge: ‘‘The ones that TAKE the
life laugh and sing all day.” Yet
since their delight is centered on
the revenged ghost of a fellow
tribesman rather than on the mur-
der of a particular enemy, itlacks
bitterness. ‘‘Causing the death of
an enemy is a tonic to the soul,”
but only because everyone lives
‘‘in a state of spiritual decline’?
until revenge has been obtained
to mollify the ghost of the de-
ceased. (There is no threat of
war on celebration days, ‘‘it being
part of war that each party cele-
brates in peace,”)

With an open mind and a well-
directed camera, Robert Gard-
ner has created a film of. much
beauty and current significance;
his narrative is always clear,
never destructive, and frequently
poetic. One wonders only-why his
subjects permitted themselves to
be photographed so intimately.
Perhaps’ Mr. Gardner’s manner
is as gentle in person as it is on
film. A single disquieting thought:
in West New Guinea there is a
religious justification for war;
what is ours?





which are available to students for
renting, at $1.50 a semester.
Unfortunately many of the pic-
tures have been lost, or they have
been borrowed without notifying the
Art Library Chairman, Perhaps
these borrowers were unaware of
the proper procedure for renting.
I would greatly appreciate the
return or information concerning
the whereabouts of any pictures
which may be missing from the
Art Library. Some pictures have
been missing for at least a year,
so present users may be unaware
of their source. If you think that a
picture you have seen may be from
this collection, please notify me, or

return it to the Art Library, in

the Undergrad Room of the Inn.
Titles and artists of the works
are noted on the back.

I hope everyone will cooperate
so that we may continue this
service. For further information,
or for a rental appointment, please
contact me in Rockefeller Hall.

Barbara Rosenberg
Chairman, Art Library

League iced

To the iain

I am convinced that if the aver-
age Bryn Mawrter were asked to
express her opinions and general
attitude towards the Valley Forge
Veteran’s Hospital Project, she
would probably be forced to admit
that she knew little if anything about
it. This appears to be the resultof
inadequate publicity rather than to
a general apathy on the part of
Bryn Mawr students. Campus sup-
port for this project has been
shamefully weak, with a maximum
attendance of four girls from Bryn
Mawr as opposed to the usual ten
to twelve from Harcum and Rose-
mont,

In -an. attempt to correct the
natural but in this case funda-
mentally untrue conclusion that
Bryn Mavr girls are book-worms
who don’t have the time or the
interest to participate in social
service projects, I would like to
briefly explain the details of the
project, the purpose which it
serves, and the reasons which, in

Letters

(Continued from page 2)



Mawr girls are provided with
transportation to the Valley Forge
Veteran’s Hospital to serve as
junior hostesses for evening rec-
reational activities. These activi-
ties usually take the form of a
mixer in which girls from the
surrounding colleges and patients,
who are physically able,° partici-
pate. The patients are predomi-
nantly young men. in their early
twenties who have been discharged
from some branch of the service
because of physical injuries or
mental disturbances. In spite of
the. fact that they receive the
skilled and conscientious care of
Red Cross workers and hospital
attendants, they have the additional
need for contact with the external
world, particularly for social con-
tact with members of the opposite

“SCX.

The role of the junior hostess
is simply to be sociable: to talk,
dance, and be generally charming.
Her mere presence is enough to
enhance the enjoyment of every
patient there.

In common with every other
social service project, the benefit
is mutually shared. A girl leaves
the hospital after an evening of
this sort feeling generally at peace
with herself, deriving satisfaction
from the knowledge that she has
contributed, in her own individual
way, to making the evening relax-
ing and enjoyable for everyone.

The project has an-inherent ad-
vantage over most other service
projects: it does not require regu-
lar participation. There is nocom-
plete and inflexible commitment

involved. Usually a group from.

Bryn Mawr goes on the second
and fourth Thursday ofeach month,
from 7:00 - 10:00 in the evening.
However, participation .once a
month is perfectly adequate.

February 23rd is the next visit
scheduled. Dates for the remainder
of the academic year will be posted
on the League bulletin board in
Taylor, along with a sign-up sheet.
Please give your support to this
project which is rapidly dying;
otherwise, it will have to be aban-
doned. A project as worthwhile as

my opinion, make it so_personally—the Valley Forge Project does not

worthwhile.

For several years now League,
in cooperation with the local branch
of the Red Cross, has sponsored a
bi-weekly program in which. Bryn

deserve such a fate.
_ Nancy Whittaker
Committee head of the
Valley Forge Veteran’s
- Hospital project.

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Editor Signs Petition to Johnson
Questioning U.S. Motives in War

Nanette Holben, former editor
of the NEWS, signed a letter to
President Johnson questioning the
conduct and aims of the US in
Vietnam. The letter was signed
by over 100 newspaper editors
and student body presidents.
‘‘Time’’ styled the letter ‘‘an im-
pressive testament...polite in tone,
but perturbed--and perturbing--in
content.’? The following are ex-
‘@erpts:

“The truces (over Christmas
vacation) have highlighted a grow-
ing conviction on American cam-
puses that if our objective in
the fighting in Vietnam is a nego-
tiated. settlement rather than a
military ‘victory,’ continued esca-
lation cannot be justified by the
failure of the other side to nego-
tiate.

‘*If, on the other hand, our ob-
jective is no longer a negotiated
settlement, the nature and attain-
ability of our objectives in Viet-
nam -raise’ serious~-new~ doubts.
There is thus increasing confu-
sion about both our basic purpose
and our tactics, and there is in-
creasing fear that the course now
being pursued may lead usirrevo-
cably into a major land war in
Asia--a war which many feel would
not be won without recourse tonu-
clear weapons, if then.

Israel Mar

‘‘There is doubt that America’s
vital interests are sufficiently
threatened in Vietnam to necessi-
tate the growing commitment
there.

“There is doubt that such vital
interests as may be threatened
are best protected by this grow-
commitment.

‘There is doubt that a war
which may devastate much of the
countryside can lead to the stable
and prosperous Vietnam we once
hoped our presence would help
create,

“Similarly, Administration
spokesmen reiterate our commit-

ment to self-determination for

..South Vietnam, but we remain

unclear about our willingness to
accept a coalition (or pro-Com-
munist). government should the
people of South Vietnam eventually
choose such a government under
adequate international super-
vision,

‘Finally , Mr. President, we

‘ must report a growing sense--re-

inforced by Mr. Harrison Salis-
bury’s recent reports from Hanoi
--that too often there is a wide
disparity between American state-
ments about Vietnam and Amer-
ican actions there.‘



d by National

The road to Mt. Zion.



Pride,

Striking Contrasts and Tension

by Mary Kennedy

It?s wonderful to spend six
months in the ‘‘occupied city of
Jerusalem in the so-called state
of Israel,’”? said Martha Gellman,
a. Poli-Sci major in her junior
year, who just got back from a
semester there.

Of course, she didn’t spend all
her time in Jerusalem. The se-
mester abroad, which was spon-

‘gored by Brandeis University, in-

cluded classes at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, and the
students took frequent field trips
across the country to visit the

‘people and places they were study-

ing.

Martha was enchanted with the
country. She recalls swimming in
the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus

. walked on the water and distribu-

ted his loaves and fishes; crossing
‘the Negev Desert where they stop-
ped to talk with a group of Bedouin
nomads--who protect themselves
from the fierce heat by digging a
hole, covering it with a camel
skin, and crawling in, At one point
she visited Eingeddi, where there
is an almost miraculous hidden
waterfall in the middle of the
desert; and once she had a run-in
-with a ‘‘giant herd of wild camels’?
while walking alone.

The greatest place, ofcourse, is
Jerusalem, which Martha says is
built (by law) solely of stone mined
at Jerusalem. There, one can see
the ancient conflict of old andnew,
Arab tribesmen with swords at
their belts and Bedouin girls with
golden earrings mingled withauto-
mobiles and tall buildings. Indeed,
she says, these contradictory
sights may be found all over Israel,
and the conflict has created some
enmity between the old and young
Israelis.

Martha recalls as her ‘‘greatest ”

adventure’? the morning that she
and four of her friends sneaked
away from their camp across the
desert where Moses’ tribes walked
for forty years and climbed the
biggest mountain on the other side.
They reached the top just in time
to see the sun rise, and Martha
will never forget the sight of Is-
rael’s ‘‘rigid, tortured-looking
mountains’? with the new sun upon
them. Of course, when they got
back to camp their leader was
furious with them, because ven-
turing out on the desert is very
hazardous in Israel, without guns.
One never knows whether there
might be marauding Arabs out,
and many times people have walk-
ed into the desert and never been
seen again.

tense while Martha was there.
There was a constant threat of
war, and wherever the students
went they felt ‘‘surrounded by
barbed-wire.’’? Borders are never
clearly defined--the Gaza Strip is
marked by a ditch--and when the
students were in Jerusalem they
actually had to carry a map
around with them until they learn-
ed where the borders were. Martha
said that often back roads are
mined, and that most new houses
being built had bomb shelters be-
ing built with them.

Questioned as to whether the
new generation of Israelis had
not to an extent lost the fire of
the preceding one--which gained
the freedom of the nation (May
15, 1948)--Martha\indicated that
one cannot generalize this ques-
tion. It depends in part, she said,
upon which political party the child
grew up in. Most Israelis ‘‘live
their party,’? and young men and
women can generally be counted
upon to follow the party line,
whatever it is. Some of the older
settlers, she said, have adopted
the attitude that by building the
kibbutzim (a kibbutz is a kind of
ranch or farm with which the new
Israelis have been reclaiming the
wasted land) and fighting the war
they have done their share, and

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The Arab situation was very

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The Academy of American Poets Prize —

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$50 for the best single poem

ENTRIES SHOULD BE IN THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
BY 4 P.M., APRIL 6.

MANUSCRIPTS SHOULD BE TYPED AND ioe
UNSIGNED







BMC Contributes ‘$1300,
Florence Still Needs Hel

by Mary Kennedy

Bryn Mawr’s contributions to the
Salvation of Florence fund now
total about $1300, Mrs. Hanson of
the History of Art department
said Monday. In addition to that,
she said, over $1000 has been
given by alumni and friends of
the college directly toC RIA (Com-
mittee to Rescue Italian Art), One
notable contribution’ was a $50
gift from an alumna in honor of
Georgiana Goddard King, found-
er of the Bryn Mawr Art Depart-
ment and one of the three famous
Bryn Mawrters buried in the Clois-
ters.

This money, which was donated
through the Art Department, came
from students, faculty, alumni, and
the library staff, Mrs. Hanson
said. She also mentioned the
Christmas cards sold for the fund
by students and said that money
is ‘still coming in from them.

But, Mrs. Hanson said, the need
is still there, and salvage work-
ers in Italy are just now begin-
ning to realize -how~ very much
they actually need.

One problem is, she said, that
many of the damaged books ac-
tually have to be kept wet until a
way is found to dry them and
preserve them at the same time.
Also, many of the sculptures are
so soaked with oil and water that
even after they have been clean-
ed several times oil keeps ris-
ing to the surface. Some of the
most heart-breaking damage oc-
curred in the national library of
Italy, in Florence where in some
rooms water caused books to swell
and actually burst their bookcases,

Both elderly Florentines and
students have been working fur-
iously to rescue manuscripts and
other works of art from the flooded
rooms, spreading them out to dry
anywhere they could find a clear
space. At first they actually had
to refise salvage supplies, be-
cause there was no place to put
anything except what was most
desperately needed. But now they
want several. kinds of blotting
paper, microfilm, and particu-
larly humidifiers to keep the
books damp. until they can be
saved. Presently, Mrs. Hanson

said, salvage workers IP.
ting it together with rubber bands,’’
but as they become more organ-
ized they will desperately need
a steady flow of money for the
years it will take to diminish the
damage.

The Art Department is still
eager for contributions, which
may be made through Mrs. Han-
son, Mr. Toscani, or the repre-
sentative in each dorm. Money
may also be given either to CRIA
or to the America-Italy Society
(which is tax-deductible). CRIA
is directly concerned with pre-
serving the art works (including
paintings,’ sculptures, manu-
scripts, etc.), while checks made
out to the America-Italy Society
may be specified as contributions
to (1). salvage of art works (2)
aid for the ‘‘artigiani,” or crafts-
men of Italy, who saw the floods
sweep away their delicate per-
sonal leather work or other hand-
craft along with the tools. for

» making it (3) ‘‘stricken families

made homeless and utterly des-
titute.”” Mrs. Hanson remarked
that one benefit of the salvage
work is that it is creating jobs
for many of these craftsmen and

families, most of whom are proud ©

Florentines who will not accept
help in the form of charity.

Contributions to the America-
Italy Society may also be sent
to Mr. John Price, secretary of
the Philadelphia chapter and area
chairman for CRIA, whose ad-
dress is 1420 Chestnut Street
in Philadelphia.

Mrs. Hanson also mentioned that
there may be a possibility that
students from here can go to
Italy to help with the salvage
work.. This is being considered
by Professor Fred Hartt of the
University of Pennsylvania, who
pointed out that hotels in Flor-
ence have’ lost business as a re-
sult of the flood, and that there is
no reason for people to stay out
of Florence.

As far as contributions. have
gone, Mrs. Hanson says that Bryn
Mawr has been really good, and
that this is mainly due to the
students who have been gathering
and giving contributions so read-
ily. ‘‘That’s what has added it
up so,’ she said.





WEDNESDAY, FEB, 15
8 P.M::

Fellowship House. Negro His-
tory Through Music. Pearl Wil-
liams-Jones, concert-artist, will
present spirituals, gospel songs,
and freedom songs. Donation $1.00.
1521 W. Girard Avenue, Phila-
delphia.

SATURDAY, FEB, 18,
10:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.:

Student Workshop on the Draft
at. George School, Pa. Register
10 a.m. at Walton Center. Lunch

Undergrad Lists
Meetings, Topics

The schedule for Undergrad
meetings in. February and March
has been announced, along with a
list of general topics for Execu-

~tive-Council’s agenda.

The number of meetings has
been cut down to about once every
other week.

In the three meetings that are
planned between now and the end
of March, Margaret Edwards plans
to discuss the college calendar,
the general budget for next year
and a possible raise in fees, Al-
liance’s plans to aid the Vietna-
mese children, a means of fi-
nancing the College news, and
Parents Day plans.

These three sessions are sched-
uled for: February 13, March 6
and March ‘20. It should be noted
that the February meeting is a
week earlier than was originally
announced,

Peace Potpourri

served. Sponsor: Friends Peace

Committee, contact~Bob Eaton,
LO 4-6063,

SUNDAY, FEB, 19,

2 P.M.:

Fourth in a series of discus-
sions on Gandhi’s SARVODAYA,
Topics will include ‘Racial
Equality,’’ ‘‘Class Inequality,’ and
‘*True and False Religious Toler-
ance.’’ At the Non-Violent Ac-
tion Center,
Philadelphia. Sponsored by the
Gandhian workers for Nonviolence.
Public invited.

TUESDAY, FEB, 21,
8 P.M.:

Mid-City branch of the Wom-
en’s International League for
Peace and Freedom. ‘‘Why War???

Dr. Otto Nathan (a close observ-:

er’s analysis based on a cor-

_Tespondence between Dr. Sigmund

Freud and Dr. Albert Einstein).
At the Ethical Society, 1906 S,
Rittenhouse Square. |

TUESDAY, FEB, 28,

8 P.M.:

Arlo Tatum -- Benefit Con-
cert for the Committee for Non-
violent Action. Arlo Tatum, who
sings with the Savoy Opera, will
present operatic solos, songs from
Broadway musicals, and anti-war
songs. He is also executive ‘sec-
retary of CCCO, At Friends Se-
lect Auditorium, 17th and Park-
way, Philadelphia. °
EVERY TUESDAY,

11. to 12 NOON: :

Silent vigil to protest the war
in Vietnam, and express sym-
pathy with the Vietnamese in front

of the Bryn . Mawr post: office. .

1526 Race Street,*

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Is the Grass Really G

Effects of Drugs on the Mind:
The Current Medical Viewpoint

by Nancy Miller

William Osler, a well-known
physician once said, ‘‘The desire

to take medicine is perhaps thd

greatest feature which distin-
guishes man from animals,’’ This,
desire of man to remedy both his
physical and mental ills has been
going on as-long as history. As
well as medically supported drugs
there are many drugs that have
been used for centuries whose
benefits are not necessarily thera-
peutic, According to Marston
Bates ‘‘the variety of materials
eaten, drunk, smoked, chewed,
rubbed on the skin, or otherwise
used for non-nutritional purposes
by different peoples is extraordi-
nary.’’

The unfavorable connotation of

a trug is established by the social
usto f a people, and those
ae coe classed as harmful by

most people are those which are
socially unacceptable, While mari-
juana is frowned upon by society,
cigarette smoking is condoned, al-
though medical evidence has proved
that tobacco smoking is the more
habit forming and unhealthy of the
two.

The important question when dis-
cussing drugs is their use: whether
they are taken for cure or for
kicks. Drugs which are used as a
¢¢shortcut to happiness’’ or which
‘‘qull the hard edges of reality’?
are those which are most promi-
nent in the consideration of non-
curing drugs. Louis Lewin, the
founder of -psychopharmacology
classified the pleasure-giving
drugs into five categories; 1) Eu-
phoria - those which are sedatives
of mental and physical comfort
such as opium, morphine, cocaine,
and codeine; 2) Phantastica, or
hallucinating, such as hashish,

marijuana, (and recently LSD); 3)
Inebriantia, those which produce
kenness, such as alcohol and
er; 4) Hypnotica or sleep-pro-
ducing drugs; and 5) Excitantia,
mental stimulants such as caffeine
and nicotine. A sixth category has
recently been added. These are
the tranquilizers, the newest ‘‘hap-
piness’’ drugs. Most of these drugs
have been used for valid medical
purposes, but many of them have
suffered from unauthorized use
which classifies them as detri-
mental.

Since LSD and some of the other
hallucinogens have recently be-
come an important issue, the rest
of this article will attempt to give
some of the views expressed by
physicians and psychiatrists as to
its use.

There has been a change in the
pattern of drug usage -in the past
decade. Previously, generally one
drug was employed (usually heroin)
put today, addicts are multiple
drug users, Addicts are no longer
a homogeneous group but have
varied personality traits.

The. importance of these drugs
is their capacity to mimic mental
illness (they are often referred
to aspsychotomimetics), They pro-
duce changes in thought, percep-
tion, mood, etc., and for this reason
they are considered by some valu-
able in psy.chotherapy and experi-
mentation. They also create for
the psychiatrist the possibility of
exploring the normal mind.

Most psychiatrists and physic-
ians, however, have taken a firm
stand against the use of these
drugs outside the profession, and
some are unsure of their benefits
in clinical use. According to Ger-
ald L, Klerman, M,.D., LSD and
other hallucinatory drugs have not
yet demonstrated a lasting value






Illegal Possession of Drugs
Problem on Many Campuses

Students are becoming more and
more deeply involved in the illegal
use of drugs on more and more
campuses around the country.
There have been arrests at Prince-
ton, suspensions at the University
of Maryland and disciplinary ac-
tions at numerous other insti-
tutions.

The administrations of such col-
leges find themselves in the bind of
wanting to uphold the law and yet
at the same time of understanding
some of the motives of their stu-
dents in taking the drugs. Dean
James Lyons of Haverford stated
in the winter issue of the ‘‘Haver-
ford Horizons’’ that his college
was attempting to seek ‘‘an ap-
propriate balance between helping
the individual student, preventing
further use, and protecting the Col-
lege from serious adversity.’’

Haverford’s President Hugh
Borton, in the first Collection of
second semester, warned the stu-
dents that they had no immunity
from state or federal officials
wishing to make arrests for drug
violations. Some students at both
Havéftord and Bryn Mawr had ap-
parently felt that no raids or ar-
rests would be made on the campus
because of anarrangement similar
to the one in effect with respect to
drinking by minors on campus.
Sevéral Haverford students indica-
ted*to the NEWS that seVeral ar-
rests have already been made, and
they talk of lists of suspects in the
hands of various authorities.

Princeton University was raided
last January 5; five undergradu-
ates and two other youths were

arrested on charges of sale and
possession of drugs, possibly in-

r cluding LSD. Faced with this in-
formation, one Haverfordian stated

that it was the fact that they were
distributing the stuffthat they were
arrested, not the fact that they were
using it themselves. He felt that
Haverford was not in the position
of being a distributor, and so not
as likely to be subject to raids and
arrests.

A student at the University of
Maryland was suspended by the
university for illegal possession
of marijuana and barbituates, This
was done without a hearing on the
basis. of a school regulation which
prohibits activities outside ‘‘ac-
cepted standards of conduct.’’ No
outside court was involved.

The problems are not all con-
fined to the east coast.. The Uni-
versity of Colorado has had four
of its students arrested in connec-
tion with the use of marijuana by
the Boulder police.

The January 26 issue of the
‘«Seattle Post-Intelligencer’’ car-
ried the front page headline seen
in the picture above. The article
indicated that the use of ‘‘psyche-
delic drugs, andamphetamines and
marijuana’’ has spread out from
the district surrounding the Uni-
versity of Washington to high
schools all over the city. It re-
ports the rate Be. use ‘‘in-
creasing surprisingly / among
girls.’’

At Bryn Mawr, Self-Gov issued
a statementlast year reminding the

students that the use and possess-.

ion of marijuana is illegal.

" current investigations.

in the treatment of mental illness.
In his article in the winter* issue
of ‘‘Haverford Horizons’ he -dis-
cusses the effects of dosages of
LSD, The effects of a single dose
last from approximately twelve-to
twenty-four hours and during this
period there are changes in per-
ception, motor coordination, in-
tellectual functioning, and there are
various hallucination and self-pro-
jections, all of which he considers
potentially dangerous.

In most cases these effects dis-
appear, but in a very small per-
centage these effects continue and
panic and depersonalization are
added to them. He suggests that
frequent use may lead to chronic
intoxication states, withdrawals,
loss of vitality and judgment, and
decrease of productivity. Klerman
feels that there is great potential
for research with these drugs but
that there must be proper safe-
guards and supervisionat all times.

Medical findings are that side
effects and complications are not
infrequent, as many users claim.
Many people who have gone on a
‘trip’? have not ‘‘come down’, and
the lasting effects were hallucina-
tion, anxiety, and depression. One
user commented; ‘‘It was like this
before on LSD but I got over it -
I can’t now - this is a freak trip.”
Some of these side effects have
caused successful suicides, seri-
ous suicide attempts, prolonged
psychoses, and even homicide. Ac-
cording to Hoch: ‘‘LSDand mesca-
line disorganize the psychic in-
tegration of the individual.’ Roy
R. Grinker, Jr., M.D, states that
all ill-use of a potentially valu-
able drug and the lack of proper
professional controls have caused
the disintegration of latent psy-
chotics and have created patho-
logical cases.

It seems fair to conclude that
although the use of hallucinogens
in medical and psychiatric re-
search has opened new possibilities
in the exploration of the humar
mind and the treatment of the
mentally ill, non-professional use
of these drugs is dangerous, The
ill-effects and ‘dangers of these
drugs outweigh their religious or
‘¢mind-manifesting’” possibilties.
Dr. Jonathan O, Cole and Martin
M. Katz state: ‘‘Since there have
been a number of reports of sui-
cide attempts or prolonged psy-
chotic reactions requiring psy-
chiatric hospitalization in persons
obtaining these drugs outside of
approved medical channels, their
indiscriminate unsupervised use
is clearly dangerous ... there is

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State, Federal Authorities

reener



photo by Kit Bakke

LSD and the Religious Life:
Can There Be A Connection?

by Robin Brantley

The ingestion of psilocybin dur-
ing a Good Friday service provided
ten theological students and pro-
fessors with ‘‘what they generally
reported to be the deepest religious
experience of their lives.’”? So
writes Huston Smith in his article

‘Do Drugs Have Religious Im-

port??? in LSD: THE CONSCIOUS—
NESS-EXPANDING DRUG,

These ten people later wrote re-
ports about their sensations during
the service. Housewives, asked
to read their reports and to rate
their religious intensity as com-
pared to the intensity in atypology
on the characteristics of natural
religious experiences, found the
two types of events nearly identi-
cal.

Mr. Smith clearly believes that
drugs (in his article, more specif-
ically, LSD) can induce genuine
religious experiences, He ques-
tions how man can use these ex-
periences to clarify the nature of
the religious life. Iapproached Mr.

Investigate Drug Scene

On, both the state and local levels,
governmental agencies are inter-
ested in the use of drugs by in-
creasing numbers of students on
campuses.

The Federal Food and Drug Ad-
ministration sent letters toadmin-
istrators of colleges and universi-
ties last April. In part, the letter
said, ‘* ...(we) wish to alertall
educational administrators to the
gravity of the situation and to en-
list their assistance in combatting
an insidious and i dangerous activ-
ity. ”?

Within the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, there are three con-
The first

is by the Attorney General’s Of-
fice. This is aimed specifically
at colleges and universities. Ac-

cording to the Pennsylvania Asso-
ciation of Colleges and Universi-
ties, this study has received ‘‘ex-
cellent cooperation’’ from various
schools, and complete secrecy has
been promised. However, last May
some of the report was leaked to
the ‘‘Bulletin’ in some way, and
seven Philadelphia area schools,
including Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford were implicated.

A second investigation is being
conducted by the. Pennsylvania
Legislature. The joint Senate
and House committee was appoint-
ed in the 1965 session to study
the use of marijuana by college
students.

The third study is under the
auspices of the Division of Be-
havioral Problems and Drug Con-
trol of the Department of Health.

Smith’s article with some trepida-
tion, knowing little about LSD and
even less about its religious im-
port. However, asIread, I became
curiously fascinated with the im-
plications of LSD in a new, dy-
namic religious structure. The
clergy now relates Christ’s mys-
tical experiences to the masses
every Sunday. How much, asks
Mr. Smith, would religious life be
revitalized by the participants ex-
periencing a oneness with the uni-
verse through LSD rather than hav-
ing this oneness. related to them?

Mr. Smith looks at the effect of
drugs on the history, phenomenol-
ogy, philosophy, and practice of
religion in four sections of his
article. Historically, he suggests
there has always been some con- |
nection between. food or drugs--
such as the peyote of the Native
American (Indian) Church or the
marijuana of the Zoroastrians or
the Dionysius of the Greeks--and
altered states of consciousness in
various religions. LSD is thus
the modern counterpart in a long
tradition of vegetables (eaten or
brewed) used to intensify religious
awareness. Even the monks in
the early stages of monasticism
used to mortify their fleshin order
to attain a state of inner readiness
to’ contemplate their maker. To-
day, can LSD be used in place of
bodily mortification to enable man
to come closer to God, tofindhar-
mony with the universe? It is an
interesting question and one which
I think, cannot be lightly thrown
aside in the fear of anything labeled
‘‘drug.’? LSD is, of course, too
new not to be handled with caution;
yet to deny it an existence would
perhaps deny revitilization to lag-
ging religious enthusiam.

The fact that there is more than
one consciousness and that LSD
can explore and open up these —
other areas of consciousness can
perhaps lead to a new harmony be-
tween man and the universe. Mr.
Smith uses a quote from Albert
Camus to _expiain his point. ‘‘If

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On the Other Side...?

Psychedelics. May Have Value

In Learning, Creating, Becoming

by Kathy Murphey

Psychedelic drugs have become
more and more widespread both as
an issue to discuss and asy an
experience. As a current interest
of students in particular, it isper-
haps valuable to consider why
psychedelics like LSD and mari-
juana seem to be so significant at
this time and in this society. What
exactly does the individual gain
from using them, and do they have
a role in the society in which he
lives? :

Some consider LSD and mari-
juana as tools for freeing their
users from restrictive and fixed
ways of living. They feel that the
accepted patterns of thought and
action society imposes onits mem-
bers prevent them from develop-
ing fully and from interacting with
each other in a meaningful way.

Dr. Richard Alpert, who has
worked with Dr. Timothy Leary in
psychedelic research has said, ‘‘It
‘is too true that people who have
‘made it? in our society, who are
successful, have money and power,
aren’t satisfied. They say, ‘I did
it all; I climbed every ladder that
was put in front of me;- and it
doesn’t feel good’.’’ He feels that
‘¢The implications about our se-

ciety are that it does not provide

a sufficiently supportive setting.

for its members ‘to grow naturally
in a conscious and spiritual sense.
The social institutions have be-
come too.calcified, the static com-
ponent has overwhelmed the fluid.”

RSer than questioning the uni-
form standards of social accepta-
bility, then, people shut off their
minds to other possibilities. Ac-
cording to Leary, we live in a
society ‘‘which strives to deaden
the senses, an alcoholic culture.’
With alcohol, with tranquilizers,
people try to dull the dissatis-
faction they sense in living a life
not of their own choosing.

The use of psychedelics, some
believe, is one way the individual
can become conscious of new as-
pects of the world around him and

of his own mind. According to

Alpert, he can ‘‘free himself from
the molasses-like sleepwalking
state for which the culture has
trained him. Perhaps he can then
find a ‘‘meaning and dignity to
life’? which corresponds to the
awareness he has uncovered in
himself. To use Leary’s metaphor,
‘¢LSD is a microscope, an instru-
ment for opening up = con-
sciousness.”

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ing to Dr. Sidney Cohen, head of
the Psychosomatic Serviceina Los
Angeles hospital, LSD lessens the
discriminating capacity of the brain
and breaks down the barriers be-
tween the sensory pathways. Under
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ent associations. There is no longer
any one stereotype or word which
describes an object, The relation-
ship between words and things and
thoughts is loosened, and one image
becomes as good as another. For
example, a chair, to which we us-
ually attribute four legs and the
function of sitting down, and not
much more, could be seen as a
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be part of a whole pattern of lines
and curves in a room. The com-
partments. of a person’s sensitivity
seem to merge, and the way he
receives perceptions in his mind
changes. Perhaps this way is, as

Cohen gputs it, ‘‘another facet of
illusion just as our sober state is,’?

Some believe that psychedelics,
though marijuana to a lesser ex-
tent than LSD, can help an indi-

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Editorial: The Acid Test

a

The following does not repre-
sent a unanimous position of
the Editorial Board. We are
divided on this issue as we
suspect the student body is.
We invite comment and dissent
for ‘publication in the ‘‘Let-
ters’’ column, and due to the
nature of the subject, unsigned
letters will be accepted - Ed.
note.

We have been asked how we can possi- .
ly write a fair editorial about something
hich we ourselves have not tried. We
ind this somewhat specious partly be-
ause marijuana and LSD provide such a
ersonal subjective experience that even
eople who have tried it cannot legitimately
alk about it in terms of other people. The
se of psychedelic drugs cannot be gener-
lized to such an extent that one person can
ruthfully say, ‘I’ve tried it, It wasgreat

(or horrible) for me and it-will be great
(or horrible) for you.”’

Thus we are not going to attempt.to an-
swer the question ‘Should I try it?’? Rich-
ard Alpert, in his Collection speech at
Haverford last semester, said that if
someone asks him ‘‘Should I?? in con-
nection with LSD, he will say, no be-
cause if the person is still asking, he
isn’t ready. The same holds with mari-
juana: the decision must be made by each
person individually, after all the ques-






















swered, A person should know as
much as he can about three things before
he makes a decision on taking either drug:
) about the actual drug itself; 2) about
other peoples’ experiences with it and,
ust as important, about the other people
themselves; and 3) about oneself, These
two pages have been designed to only
partly answer these questions,

LSD, we think, presents a much easier
decision to make regarding its use than
does marijuana. Very simply, LSDis dan-
gerous. A very small dose, as little as
100 micrograms, produces chemical ef-
ects on brain cells lasting either tempo-
rarily (hours or days) or permanently and
there is no foolproof method of telling
which, These_effects result in what are
called Pm in other words, the
inability to relate to the outside world and
to see the outside world as it was seen
before taking it, and as other people who
haven’t taken itare still seeing it. In brief,
it induces a psychotic state. Alpert talks
of losing your body, and whata frightening

experience this is to people who don’t know
what is happening.

Alpert says LSD is basically an educa-
tional tool, not to be taken either as a med-
icine or just for kicks, As such, it re-
quires the attention and supervision of
someone who knows what’s going on; NOT
JUST SOMEONE WHO’SDONEIT BEFORE,

This person is called a guide and his job
is to understand the LSD experience in
terms of helping other people through it.
This, we think, in an important point, The
guide, just like the successful teacher of
academic education has to understand his
subject in amore complete way then comes
of just learning about it himself. So a
guide has to be more thana friend who took
his first trip last weekend, and a teacher
has to be more than a student who took the
course last semester.

We, however, don’t agree with Alpert
that LSD is basically an educational tool.
At least not the way he describes it. We
would rather see it confined to medicine
(until we know much more about it) where
it has shown some evidences of helping
people already psychotic to become less
so.

Eastern Mysticism

Alpert seems to see LSD as a means
for Westerners to experience Eastern
mysticism, and to get away from what he
has described as fourth-hand religion.
Besides the fact that the latter point is
a little out of place when made in a
Quaker community, we don’t exactly see
how mysticism can be truly related to
life when achieved via a drug or any
other kind of shortcut, Read SIDDHARTHA
by Herman Hesse,

Western culture, says Alpert, hasn’t
‘¢made it?? in human terms. Eastern cul-
ture, apparently has. Recognizing the pit-
falls of his overgeneralizations, we think
that the exact opposite is more the case.
To us, the individual uniqueness and won-
derfulness of each human being is the most
important factor in the world, and the value
of the individual seems to be exactly what
the Eastern religions and cultures deny.
Rather they subsume the individual to the
universe. Alpert himself said that with
LSD, ‘You, as an individual, are nolonger
there.’? Perhaps inthe West, individuality

‘is misinterpreted and the underlying one-

ness and brotherhood of all peoples is for-
gotten, But it can’t be said that the East,
with its caste system, sees all men as
brothers either.

4

beneficial, in some cases extremely harm-
ful, and in some cases there is no change.
It is panacea neither for individual prob-
lems nor for societal and cultural prob-
lems.

The degree to which LSD and marijuana
are different OF similar is difficult topin
down. For one thing, are they different in
quality or merely in quantity? We know
they both are called hallucinogens and are
considered psychedelic and conscious-ex-
panding. And further, we know both are
illegal.

Western tradition tells us that just be-
cause a law exists does not mean it is the
best or only law. Thefefore while we must
realize that the use and possession of
these drugs are illegal and realize also
what effect might result from com-
mitting an illegal act, we cannot simply
say, ‘‘It is illegal. Therefore, {tis-bad,’’

Perhaps the biggest difference students
see between LSD and marijuana is that
marijuana is nowhere near as dangerous or
potent as LSD, It doesn’t induce asfright-
ening hallucinations as does LSD, the trips
@on’t last as long, and the withdrawal from
the world isn’t as complete. Because of
this, some consider it ‘‘play.”” Taking
marijuana is playing with oneself and the
world, and as such , it doesn’t have to be
justified, because play justifies itself.
Marijuana then, is not to be taken for reli-
gious or medical reasons, but simply for
a riew experience which can be taken or
left. It may be neither good nor bad, or
perhaps both, but it is absolutely new and
completely different.

What Is Reality?

The person considering marijuana then,

is stuck with deciding which ‘‘reality’’ is

° better--the one with or without the stuff.

(This is not the place to consider which

reality is really real.) We think this must

be a personal decision, as we stated in the
beginning.

Conscious-expansion, or increased per-
sonal awareness can be the result of sever-
al things in addition todrugs. For instance,
four years at college, extensive reading,
and serious thinking all can change values
and multiply ideas in a similar manner.
Similar, but not identical.

» The difference is that without drugs,
the person is still able to function as a
‘normal human being. That is, he is ra-
‘tionally capable of deciding whether he
is hungry or not, and then being able to
get into a car and drive to the grocery

An LSD trip changes the way things look.
This in turn, sometimes changes the per-
son’s ideas. and values after the trip is
over. In some cases the change may be
store and choose what he wants, pay for
it, drive home, cook it and eat it. This
is a simple process, one that millions of
people do all the time, yet under drugs, they
probably wouldn’t be capable of doing this.

What we are saying is that our unique-
ness as humans lies in our ability totrans-
late the thoughts in our mind into actionin
the world. We can say anddowhat we mean
to say anddo, Onatrip, the connection be-
tween thought and action is broken,
















Alcohol vs. Marijuana

One may argue that the same is true or
alcohol, and besides, alcohol seems to be
more addicting than marijuana, The argu-
ment society offers here is that while not
addicting, marijuana leans to heroin, which
definitely is addicting and much more dam-
aging to both the person and'society than =
alcohol. At the risk of souding elitist, we ®:
don’t think that the student consumers of *
marijuana are as likely to go on to heroin ©.
as are their counterparts in the slums, In »
the slums, marijuana is used to escape ®:
from something, to get permanently away. |:
On the campus, it is used to get somewhere ®
for a while (play), or to help with personal ®
problems that prevent effective action =
within the non-drug world. Whether or =:
not marijuana actually fulfills these expec-
tations of the student is something which we :*
don’t feel can be properly dictated by the *:
Federal Drug Administration. s

We are students, This means much more ©:
than attending classes, This means we are :.’
trying to find out how things are, how they ©
got to be that way, and what they might be-
come, We are also trying to find out what =
things ought to be, and what we personally ©
can do to get them that way. All of this ©
entails knowing what we ourselvesare and
what we ourselves are capable of doing. *
Do marijuana and LSD help us to find out ©
any of these things? Some saynoand some =
say yes. Some say no, butit’snice anyway. =
Some can’t say either way , because after
having tried it, they arenolonger students =
and no longer care about finding out such ©
things. Drugs change you jnto a different
person, and put you into a diferent world.
It’s only reasonable that youdiscover what ©
kind of person you are now and what kind ©
of world it is now, and then decide what
changes are needed...and only then decide
how to make those changes,








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Friday, February 10, 1967



Psychedelic...

(Continued from page 7

vidual reach a new consciousness
of himself as well as of the objects
he notices. Alpert has said, ‘‘I
think I use psychedelics because
I am on what I consider a spiritual
journey.’’? Perhaps with the aid of
drugs a man can transcend a
society which restricts his growth
and limits hisaction unnecessarily.
He candiscover more about himself
and his own values by considering
various possibilities, -

. Others believe that marijuana
and LSD not only expand percep-
tion and increase psychological and
spiritual consciousness; they can
open up an individual’s interaction
with other people. They breakdown
his inhibitions and frustrations and
make it easier for him to communi-
cate freely and sincerely. He be-
gins to see people, as objects, not
in stereotypes--that is in terms of
their outward. appearance of their
external environment. He’ begins
to see them as human beings with
universal qualities to which he can
respond.

Whatever the effects of
psychedelics on a particular indi-
vidual, users agree that they are

“an experience. On a trip, you be-
come freed from the familiar
tracks of thought about things, about
yourself, about other people, and
can simply experience them. Space
is. no longer bound in straight lines,
but moves in strange ways, music
flows through you as if you were an
instrument, people come together
like the many colored pieces of a
kaleidoscope.

How valid is the experience
gained--on different levels--from
psychedelics? Some wonder if a
‘trip’? has any relation to life
at home or if it is just an adven-
ture to be enjoyed in itself, as
‘«play.’? Many feel that the reality
an individual brings back from his
trip is not so much what he sees,
--his color slides--but a new at-
titude. He returns with an openess
of mind, and an eagerness, instead
of a resistance, to experience and
to look at the world in different
ways.

Drugs apparently don’t induce
this new awareness automatically.
The fact that every individual re-
acts to psychedelics differently
perhaps shows that each inter-
prets a trip in terms of his own
imagination and values. Some gain
and some lose by their experience
with drugs; thé drug itself does
not produce instant identity.

Neither are drugs the only way of
achieving an attitude of awareness
towards life. Alpert states that,
‘«Many frequent uses of LSD have
already turned their attention to
other means of expanding their
awareness.” And Leary writes,
‘¢]?ve asked young people who are
turned on, to cool it for awhile
and teach the older people what
they’ve learned from psychedelic
experience. See if you can change
them, turn them on, open their

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senses -..-Do it with music, with
flowers, with your natural grace
and the harmony of your own be-
ing.’?

Whether increased conscious-
ness is triggered by chemical or
nonchemical means, drugs cannot
give that consciousness expression
in the life of an individual. The
psychedelic experience becomes
significant in terms of what the
individual does with it, In relating
his new attitude to the worldaround
him, there is a possibility that he
may change some of society’s at-
titudes. Leary urges people, after
they ‘‘turn on,’? to make their
lives ‘tune in’ with their
psychedelic vision, and to. ‘‘drop
out?’ of the meaningless structures
of society. The last two acts are
performed without drugs.

The goal of all psychedelic ex-
perience, as Alpert sees it, ‘‘is
to be fully- conscious or-aware-at
every moment despite your setting
and without external aids.’’ The
end of the psychedelic trip is to
initiate and maintain a ‘‘spiritual
journey’? in society. and indepen-
dently of drugs.

If our society were different,
perhaps drugs would not be neces-
sary at all. But as Dr. Cohen
admits, ‘‘We have much to learn
about training our children’s per-
ception and emotions. The rela-
tive overemphasis we place on
material ‘hardware,’ social status,
and the intellectualized approach to
life produces an unhealthy imbal-
lance. To see and hear completely,
to feel at one with oneself and
others--these attributes can be
acquired early’ in life. Then the
psychedelics would hardly be
necessary. When LSD is taken,
does it provide an opportunity to
correct some of these defects? It

is possible. The drug alone is not
enough.”” -

Psychedelics in themselves are
nothing. What we need is people who
can ‘*turn on’? by themselves. What
we need isa ‘‘turned on’’ society.

It is ture that many seem totake
psychedelics for more superficial
motives than that of consciousness
expansion. Some may seek a trip
as an escape rather than as an
experience which will make their
life more meaningful. Alpert asks,
‘¢Does the gentleman who is tense
and goes ona short trip... to get
away from it all understand the
issues? To me, it seems as though
he is using a powerful psychedelic
just as he might a few belts of
booze.’? ;

Others may be looking only fora
thrill. Cohen claims that some seek
in psychedelics a ‘‘mindless sen-
sory wingding from which the oc-
casional _casualty._who fails the
‘acid test’? is spun off.’’ For these

people there is ‘‘No becoming, just

being’? in their experience. He

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in Latin America,’?

Hamilton is one of the original
founders of the Christian Demo-
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The lecture, sponsored by Al-
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in the Common Room,

asks, ‘‘Where do they go from
here? “NOWHERE,” They do not
grow in any way from their trip.

However, despite the misuse and
the dangers of psychedelics, they
are a fact in. society, and they,
as Alpert states, deserve a.‘‘FAIR
hearing instead of a FEAR hear-
ing.’? Perhaps if the values and
the dangers of LSD and marijuana
are discussed openly, people will
not take them for the wrong rea-
sons, or be led by curiosity to
try them without proper guide-
lines. Perhaps at the same time the
attitude of an awareness of all
facets of life to which many claim
psychedelics contribute can
spread. —

At any rate, it seems to some
to be the sign of a fearful and
sick society that it closes its
mind to the word ‘‘Drug’’ and re-
sists new ways of experiencing
and_thinking about —life,.Perhaps
psychedelics are a passing fad.
Perhaps they are harmful. But per-
haps they can open up a new
realm of discovery which we, in
our present state, can’t under-
stand. As Leary uses the image
of a microscope to describe
psychedelics, Alpert asks us to
recall the theologians saying to
Galileo, ‘‘We will not look through
your telescope because we already
know how the universe is ordered.
Aristotle, Scripture, and Tradition
have pointed the way for
centuries.’’ If the analogy is valid,
we may be denying our own prog-
ress in denying the significance of
the psychedelic experience simply
because it doesn’t fit in with tra-
dition. The Dark Ages solved the
conflict between the old and the
new by burning Galileo. Perhaps
we should consider the question
in a more enlightened way.

“Mademoiselle”
Selects Members

Of College Board

‘Mademoiselle’ magazine has
chosen its College Board for this
year. Bryn Mawr will be repre-
sented by Polly Phinney ’68 and
Linda Keister ’67.

Board members are selected on
the basis of entries they submit,
showing their ability in one of the
aspects of the publication of the
magazine. The College Board
helps ‘*Mademoiselle’’ keep up
with campus trends and gives the
girls a chance to gain experience
in magazine publishing.

Each girl remains on the Col-
lege Board until she graduates.
This experience andthe work she
contributes can be valuable to her
in finding an interesting. job after
graduation.

Students selected for the College
Board are eligible to compete for
«¢*Mademoiselle’s’? twenty grand
prizes. These twenty Boardmem-
bers are selected to become Guest
Editors. The Guest Editors spend
the month of June in New York as
salaried employees of ‘*‘Mademoi-
selle.”?. They help write, illustrate
and edit ‘‘Mademoiselle’s’’ August
college issue, and share offices
with the regular editors.

In addition to this they are ‘‘Mad-_
emoiselle’s’? guests at parties
and screenings, interview well-
known personalities, and represent
the magazine on visits to publish-
ing houses, stores and advertising
agencies. The Guest Editors are
photographed for the college issue

‘and receive special consideration

for future staff positions with
‘¢Mademoiselle.’?

Friends of Music

To Present Pianist

The Friends of Music of Bryn
Mawr College will present a con-
cert by pianist Alan Mandel on
Tuesday, February 14. Mandel is
the musician-in-residence at Penn
State,

The program will include Char-
les E, Ives’ First Sonata and Bee-
thoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata.

The concert will take place in
Goodhart at 8:30 p.m. and Mandel
will give a workshop at 4:10 p.m.
on Tuesday; in the music room
of Goodhart. ;

Mandel studied piano under Ro-
sina Lhevinne and Leonard Shure,
and composition under Werner
Henze. He gave his first concert
at the age of thirteen, in Town
Hall, New York. He has since
then played in major cities in
Europe. 3,

The Friends’ of Music is a
local organization, existing pri-
marily for the enrichment of the
music program of the College.
The Friends of Music hope that
attendance at these free concerts
will increase.’



In and Around Philadelphia

‘Feb. 17 Haverford: Bryn Mawr-Haver-

oriented toward popular music,

ford Orcherstra with guest solo-
ists, including harpsichordists
Agi Jambor and Temple Painter
and flutist Victor Ludewig, pre-
sent the second of five
programs featuring music from
the Baroque Age. Program con-
tent includes Bach’s concertos
for two harpsichords inC major
and in C minor, the sixth Bran-
denburg Concerto, and Concerto
for flute, violin, and harpsichord
in A minor. Call MI 2-7644.
8:30 p.m. Roberts Hall.

Feb, 17-18 Swarthmore: Second Annual

Swarthmore Rock and Roll Fes-
tival, ‘‘to further some more
intellectual aspects of Rock and
Roll music, while giving groups
that are less well known a chance

to be ‘heard in the Phila: area.’’

On Friday, the “Jefferson Air-
plane’? (from San Francisco)
on Saturday, the ‘‘Sidetrack’’ (‘‘an
up and coming group from Mon-
___treal’’) In_the afternoon, movies



lecture / workshop / seminars in
the fields of Rock history, the
musicology of Rock, mixed media
entertainment, etc. There should
also be several dances.

Phila, Theatre

Shubert: Sherry (a musical) Feb. 8 -
Mar, 4., 250 S, Broad St, call PE 5-
4768,

Walnut: Generation (starring Don Porter)
‘Feb, 6 - 20, 9th and Walnut St, Call
WA 3-1515,

Theatre of the Living Arts, Lorenzo
(by Jack Richardson, ‘‘Drama jux-
taposing the military and the theatrical
in a Renaissance setting, by the author
of ‘The Prodigal,’”) Feb, 7 - Mar 18,
334 South St, Call WA 2-6010

Society. Hill Playhouse;, Stephen. D, (Taken

--from.Jdames Joyce’s: *‘Portraitof the
Artist as a Young Man’’ and ‘‘Stephen
Hero,’”? The words are Joyce’s’’) -
507 S 8th St, WA 3-0210. Special stu-
dent rates, :

Society Hill West: The Knack © by Ann

Jellicoe is still playing, This is its
last weekend, A British Comedy which
just finished a long off-Broadway run.
22nd and Walnut St, WA 3-0210, Special
student rates,

The Movies

Boyd Theatre: Dr, Zhivago (last weekend)
19th and Chestnut, LO 4-3751. 8 p.m.
Sat, Sun Mat, ;

Lane Theatre: A Funny Thing Happened on
the way to the Forum (with Zero Mostel
and Phil Silvers), N, Broad and 67th
Ave, LI 9-3888, 8 p.m,

Cheltenham: The Sand Pebbles, (‘‘Adrama
of the riverways of China in the post
First World War period, based on the
prize winning novel by the late Richard
McKenna’’), Cheltenham and Ogontz
Aves, WA 7-0680, WA 17-2333, 8 p.m,

_Translux; Funeral in Berlin (Michael
- Caine), ~Chestnut and 15th Sts, LO -3-
3086, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40, 9:50

Midtown: Alfie, (Michael Caine), Chestnut
at Broad, LO 7-500.

Randolph: Grand Prix., Chestnut and 12th,
WA 2-0870,

Bryn Mawr: Georgy Girl, 824 Lancaster
Ave, LA 5-2662, 7:30, 9:30 s

At the Academy
Feb, 12 Arturo Menedetti Michelangeli,

Pianist in a rare concert appear-
ance, 3 p.m, $6, $5, $4, $3,
The Chamber Symphony of Phila,
Jakov Zak, Pianist, Russian Pro-
gram: Tschaikowsky, Suite No,
4, (Mozartiana), Prokoviev, Sin-
fonietta Op, 5/48. Concerto
(To be announced), 8 p,m, Tickets
$1.50 - $5.

Feb, 10-11 Philadelphia Orchestra, Eu-

gene Ormandy conducting with
ISAAC STERN, VIOLINIST, Gen-

zart, Concerto No, 4for Violin and
Orchestra, Barber, Symphony No,
1, Lalo, ‘“‘Symphanie Espagnole’’

“for Violin and Orchestra, ~~
_ Feb.” 14 Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company

Madame Butterfly (Puccini),
Montserrat Caballe, Bernable
Marti, Call PE 5-7572, Special
_student rates,