College news, October 18, 1968

THE COLLEGE NEWS



Vol. LIV, No. 5

BRYN MAWR, PA.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1968

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967

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Improved Quality Foreseen

The desire ofboth the COLLEGE

_ NEWS and the Haverford News to

produce a larger and better news-

. Paper each-week has led to an
- experimental merger of the two
- papers.

“I think that we havé much to
offer each other, and that by work-
ing -together we can publish a
better issue every time,’’ com-

~ Mented COLLEGE NEWS editor

Nancy Miller. ‘‘The nierger should
stimulate interest in the papers

. and generate greater enthusiasm,”’

The first edition of the new paper
will appear on Oct. 25. The trial
period will continue until the end
of the semester.

By combining the two staffs it
is hoped that production can be-
come more efficient and that the
quality of the papers can be im-.
proved. “I foresee our new co-
educational staff improving upon
the productive and imaginative
capacities of either the Haverford
News or the COLLEGE NEWS’’,
said Haverford’s editor-in-chief
Fran Conroy.

Since the papers are delivered

Senator Clark Stresses :

to both campuses ahd «nany of the
events covered by them. involve

both Bryn Mawr and Haverford, °

the editors see’ the publication of
a joint newspaper asa practical
move.

Both Nancy and Fran see the
merger as a result of the growing
cooperation. between the two. col-
leges.

Although the staffs will be com-
bined, there will be paralle# editor-
ial boards in order to:;maintain an
equal power structure. Nancy
Miller and Fran Conroy will con-

‘tinue as” co-editors-in-chief and

Robin Brantley and Bob Ihrie will
work together as managing editors,
Assistant managing editors will be
Maggie Crosby, Cathy Hoskins,
Roger: Director and Steve Eis-
dorfer.

The editors expect some initial
difficulties in publication, but they
hope that _ the excitement. of the
merger will enable the staff to get
through the adjustment period.
After these initial problems have
been worked out, the editors hope
to publish semi-weekly.

t

Need for Positive Action

The need for action--decisive,
consistent, and immediate--is the
central theme of Senator Joseph

_Clark’s campaign for reelection

from Pennsylvania, Speaking last
Mond2y to a large group of Bryn
Mawr students and faculty mem-
‘bers in Erdman, Clark stressed
his personal commitment to active
participation and his party’s
record of creative legislation.
Clark aimed much of his cam-
‘paign speech at his opponent, Re- ~
publican candidate Robert Schwei-
ker. He pointed out Schweiker’s

photo courtesy Haverford News
Senator Clark

lack. of consistency and decisive-
ness on issues of major concern.
Schweiker, he says, voted for
gun control--as well as against it;
for increased federal aid to the
states--and against it; for the
poverty program--and against it.
His opponent, says Clark, ‘thas
his head in the sand.’’ He is dedi-
cated to little more than ‘vague
generalities” and his actions show

‘a middle of the fdad position in—
place of a definite commitment. .

Clark.--stressed the fact that
Schweiker’s interest is confined
to the middle class alone, and that
he, Clark, represents the interests
of the poor, as well -as those of the
middle class.

In closing, he admitted that his
aim “like that of all politicians,
is to be loved by every one,’? but
he added, ‘‘it is difficult to be. loved
by everyone if you tell it like itis,
I have often been called a snob and
have been accused of being arro-
gant,’’ he said, ‘but my aim is to
tell it like it is.’?

Following his speech there was

a brief question and answer period ©

during which the Senator attempted
to outline the basic issues of his
campaign in greater detail. Asked
about his views on the nuclear test
ban treaty, his answer was simply
“IT support it 100per cent.’’ He was
also. asked why he chose to speak
on college campuses rather than
the towns and cities. of western
Pennsylvania. He replied that he
is directing his campaign to young
people because he feels they are
most vitally concerned with the
present issues facing the country.
He said he needs young volunteers,
people who are aware and willing
to become involved,

He appealed to. the students on
the basis of his “liberal’’
approach. The great dissatisfac-

tion of youth with American poli-

tics is valid and legitimate, he
said, and he intends to offer a
constructive alternative to coun-
teract this dissatisfaction and
frustration, though he never really
explained just what he meant by
‘‘constructive alternatives.’’ He
did ‘say, though, that we must
‘‘get at the causes of the dis-
content”? through a reorientation
of.concern and resources. Before
we can remedy the many existing
injustices we must be willing to
look at the problem from all

(Continued on page 3)

; Joint. Paper. Links Campuses; -M iss: McBride's Speech . Marks oe : ae

Anniversary of Education Group

President Katharine E. McBride

presented remarks on the 50-year

history of the American Council
on Education at that association’s
annual meeting Oct. 9-11 in Den-
ver, Colo,

Chairman of the ACE, an or-
ganization of colleges, universities

__ and educational associations, from

1955-56, Miss McBride spoke to
the group of about 1500 educators
at a dinner meeting marking the
first half-century of ACE work.

Miss McBride, who has served
on the Council’s commission on
relations to the federal govern-
ment, called the American Council
on Education ‘‘a better representa-
tive of all of higher education than
any other single group.’’

The convention, which brought
together at least half of the college
and university presidents in the
country, directed itself this year
to reic.-yt topics of the univer-

sity’s relation to the urban crisis,
to. student uprisings and to aca-
demic youth and social rebellion.

Two of the four major speeches
which, according to Miss McBride,
would most interest the student
bodies of the represented insti-
tutions were given by James Far-
mer, former director of the Con-
gress. of Racial Equality,.and by
John Gardner, chairman ofthe Ur-
ban Coalition,

‘‘James Farmer took a new and,.
as I see it, very constructive posi-
tion from the one I had heard him
espouse a few years ago.’’ Miss
McBride commented. ‘He spoke
‘of the importance of the black
community as a community of its
own. In other words, he has stop-
ped talking about integration.

‘‘John Gardner heads a coali-
tion of 36 major cities-which is ac-
tive in planning inner-city prob-



Bryn Mawr held at'thé College.

since 1942.



An announcement was made yesterday by Miss Katharine E.
McBride that she will retire as President of Bryn Mawr Coliege in
the summer of 1970. Her retirement comes at the end of her
twenty-eighth year as president.

Miss McBride announced her decision tate yesterday
afternoon at the first fall meeting of the trustees and directors of

Miss McBride, who came to Bryn Mawr after being Dean of

- Radcliffe College, is the College’s fourth president. Bryn Mawr’s
first president was’Dr. James E. Rhoads, one of the Quaker
founders of the College. He was suéceeded in 1893 by Dean M.
Carey Thomas. When Miss Thomas retired in 1922, Dr. Marion
Edwards Park became president. Miss McBride has been president





Course Registration Count
Shows Crowded Classes

For freshmen who came to Bryn

_Mawr expecting low student-to-

teacher ratios and for upperclass-

men who looked forward to small,.

intimate advanced courses, the
first few weeks of classes have
in many cases been a shocking
experience.

Official course’ enrollments
show well over a dozen classes
with- 30 or more students and
six courses with more than 50.
Many of these large classes are
at intermediate or advanced levels

and are in subjects requiring dis-

cussion rather than straight lec-
turing. For example, the Shakes-
peare course (English 304) has 33
students; Europe 1848-1958 (his-
tory 226) has 31; Urban Politics
(political science 218a) has 30;
and Race Relations (sociology
207a) has an enrollment of 47,

Among the introductory sci-
ence courses, of which every-
one must take one, the enroll-
ments are as follows: biology,
35; chemistry, 51; geology, 55;
physics, 28; and psychology, 69.
In these courses most classes
are taught as lectures, but crowd-
ing becomes apparent in lab sec-
tions.

Problems with laboratory space
were most obvious this year in
psychology 101. According to Rich-
ard Gonzalez, associate profes-
sor of psychology, facilities lim-
ited course enrollment to an ab-
solute maximum of 170 students.
People who were not admitted to
the course last year were given
preference in signing up this
year. The result was that al-
most no freshmen were per-

mitted to take it. Two to three
times as many students tried to
enroll in psych 101 as could be
accommodated.

Gonzalez said that those who
were turned away this year will
be given first choice next year.
This backlog will continue until
more laboratory space becomes
available (i.e. until the offices
presently in Dalton are moved
into the new library).

Limited enrollment has proved
the only answer in cases of cer-
,tain popular discussion classes,
such as Urban Politics and Race
Relations. In the latter Mrs. Ju-
dith Porter, assistant professor
of sociology, was forced to ex-
clude anyone who had not pre-
registered (last spring) as well
as all listeners and auditors.

Another solution often applied
to large courses (particularly at
the 101 level) is the creation of
sections. Introductory courses in
calculus, economics, French and
philosophy have traditionally had
several sections. This, ofcourse,
involves more class hours and
usually requires more professors
to teach them.

In at lease one case, however,
a professor has taken the initia-
tive in creating and teaching ad-
ditional classes. Thomas Jack-
son, associate professor-elect of
English, faced with 52 students
in his Twentieth Century English
and American literature course,
divided the class into two sec-,
tions and now teaches five classes
of English 207 per week instead
ofthree,.

lems. He sees that the coalition
will provide more rapid action on
those problems and is especially
concerned with. meshing all sec-
tions of the city, including the uni-
versity,’’ Miss McBride continued.
«The interest shown at the con-
ference concerning. the recent in-
crease and intensification of stu-
dent rebellions on campus showed
that most people agree many in-
stitutions have not kept their lines
of communication open and have
not brought enough of the faculty
or student body into the ‘decision
making,’ _, . :

In addition to the primary ad-
dresses, the convention also fea-
tured a number oof panel dis-
cussions considering problems af-
fecting education in the United
States. These included concerns
with financing of higher educa-_
tion, with the relevance of dem-
ocracy to the changing internal

' structures of education and with

case studies of student-university
relations.

In addition to the three-day ACE
conference, Miss McBride’s ab-
sence from the campus last week
also included a two-day stop in
Chicago to address the first in
a series of Bryn Mawr Alumnae
Regional meetings. This new sys-
tem which features a number of
more local conferences rather than
a single national meeting each
year, will also include gatherings
in Seattle, New York and Califor-
nia in 1968-69,

In Chicago, Miss McBride pre-
sented the first in the 1968-69
Chicago Alumnae Lecture Series:
“The Disadvantages of Educa-

tion.” She also spoke at an all-

conference d r meeting and at

a regional co ttee meeting.
Cathy Hoskins |

Plans Announced
For 1969 Akoue

In discussing her plans for
Akoue 1969 editor Jane Wilson
indicated she hopes the current
yearbook will be considered a
momento of life at Bryn Mawr
rather than a photographic tri-
bute to the senior class.

In an attempt to. increase under-
class interest in Akoue, eachdorm
will be able to purchase full or
half pages in the yearbook to be
used for candid shots or candid
quotes.

Hopefully candids will replace
many of the postcard views of
Bryn Mawr in its pre-construction
days that underwhelmed many of
our yearbooks in the past. Because
of the exorbitant expense involved,

_ there will be no color photography.

Instead Jane and her staff hope to
get more interesting black and
white shots and are relying heavily
on contributions from numerous
campus photographers,

There is no ‘‘theme”’ for this
year’s Akoue, although the general
contrast between old and new on
campus (lawn and dirt) is a recur-
rent subject.

Other members of the yearbook
staff are: Sally Pace, assistant
editor; Nancy Wachtell and Sherry
Ritter, directors. of photography;
Madeline Maxwell, business mana-
ger; and Melanie Sherry, editor of
the senior class section.


Friday, October 18, 1968





Page Two : el : ; x THE COLLEGE NEWS

THE COLLEGE NEWS ‘Agi Jambor Returns to Hungary
porsdan ni To Research Gypsy Folk Music
— gnc he haniereh for a comparative

Maggie Crosby ’70, Cathy Hoskins ‘71

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Joyce Reimherr ‘71, Mary Schopbach ‘71
Stephanie Tramdack '72, Susan Walker ‘70

Subscription Manager
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Business Manager
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Advertising Manager
Adrienne Rossner ‘69

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Marriage of True Minds

The COLLEGE NEWS has often considered merging
with the Haverford News. This year we are going to
take action on this proposal in expectation of produc-
ing one larger and better paper each week,

It is hoped that interest aroused by this experiment
will lead to greater enthusiasm towards the production
of the paper and an increase in the size of the staff,

We feel that the two newspapers will be able to
make significant contributions to one another, enabling
us to publish one strong p#per for both colleges.

A problem which we hope to solve by uniting with
the Haverford News is that of duplication. Since
classes are combined and many events, educational,
social and political, are joint affairs, both papers
have found themselves publishing articles almost
identical to one another,

There are many precedents for this joint effort.
Many of the organizations on campus have already
combined with their Haverford counterparts. Dance
Club, for example, is a joint group and the drama
clubs always work together to present co-educational
productions, Those which have not united attempt to
plan programs which complement Haverford arrange-
ments, Most groups make an effort at least to avoid
conflict or duplication in their planning,

The merger can be considered another step in the
attempt to improve relations.between Bryn Mawr and
Haverford, The COLLEGE NEWS hopes that the de-
cision to unite the two publications will help the
colleges to work together in the future and expand
the efforts toward bi-college cooperation. NM.

Corrections

It has been brought to the at-
tention of the COLLEGE NEWS
that there were several ommis-
sions in last week’s article on
Junior Show.

Questionnaire Delves
Into BMC Conflicts

The Ad Hoc Committee on Stu-
dent Affairs will be distributing a
questionnaire to all Bryn Mawr
students this week.

Margery Davies, who is organ-
izing the project with Mindy
Thompson and Vivien Schmidt, ex-

Pat Rosenfield is assistant di-
rector of the show, which will be
performed this weekend. Connie
Warren is costume head and her
committee includes Chris Nichols,

Judy Yestrumskas and Susan zi- Plained, “This is to try to find
micki. out how people think here, what’s
bugging them, and what can_ be

done about it.’’

The survey originated in Hav-
erford’s Sociology of Conflict
course, but has attracted the in-
terest of other students, who will
be collecting the questionnaires
in each dorm.

Anyone interested.in collating
the results, or in diseussing any
aspect ‘either of the survey or
Bryn Mawr life in general, should
contact Vivien Schmidt in Pem-
broke or Margery Davies and
Mindy Thompson in Rhoads.

_



Legislature has been changed
to Monday, Oct. 21. The.
meeting will take place at 8:00 |
p.m. in the. Physics Lecture
Room.







Buildings in Disneyland are five-
eighths normal size.

ad

study of gypsies led Bryn Mawr
Music Professor Agi Jambor back
to her native Hungary last summer
from July 4 to Aug. 12. °
After her first visit to Hungary
in 22 years, Mme Jambor re-
ports that the Hungarians have

‘tq fantastic resilience and love
"of Tife; ;

they don’t complain.”
Living conditions, she says, have
improved under the present
regime. She cites the dis-

‘appearance of the mud huts that

housed many people under feuda-
lism, fascism and nazism, and
their replacements by. modern
apartments, -
No Beggars

“J also did not encounter any
beggars, whereas before children
were begging.’’ Mme Jambor
remarked that many people own
small cars and have household
help several times.a week.

Retirement is universal at
age 55. The Hungarian system of
socialized medicine has greatly
improved medical. care in-remote
districts; as Mme Jambor found
when-a jump from a train near the
Czech border~-resulted in torn li-
gaments for the professor.

Noting that ‘‘the generation gap
does not exist in Hungary,’’ she
discussed the Hungarians’ em-

- phasis on ‘‘the art of friendship
~ and family

life. Children are
raised to think what effect their
actions have on other people.”
The family of her nephew, a lead-
ing chemist and professor at Buda-
pest’s Academy of Sciences, ser-
ved as a basis for these obser-
vations.

In speaking of her research,
Mme Jambor, praised her collea-
gues at the Academy of Sciences
and the University of Budapest,
They taught and advised her and
helped her to gather gypsy folk
tales and songs. rtok’s suc-
cessor told her that’ her studies
would ordinarily have taken a
year’s time.

Missing Link

She spoke of gypsies with the
delight and admiration of a dis-
coverer. ‘‘There is a missing link
in anthropology and in ethnomusic-
ology, an entity whichis spread all
over the world, retaining its
characteristics, its language,
its way of life, its songs.’? Much
of hér work involved making re-
cordings of gypsy music and study-
ing their language, which she says
is ‘*30 percent Sanskrit.’’

The two tribes on whom she
concentrated her work were the
Lovary, who are horsetraders, and
the Kalderish, who are copper-

Smiths. The gypsies left India one

thousand years ago and spread all
over the world. Surprisingly, they
have retained the same traditions.
Only gypsies who have been er-
culturated into the modern-day
Hungarian economy look down
on the customs of their forefathers.

Most gypsies are afraid of city
people, so only after getting them
drunk could Mme Jambor tape their
songs and-legends. When they lost
their inhibitions, the gypsies
were terrifically intense in their
music-making. Facial expres-
sions were significant, and cer-
tain songs could not be sung un-
less accompanied by adance. Mme
Jambor has brought back 72 folk
tales, including the legend of the
creation of the violin and num-
erous wedding and funeral ser-
vices on tape.

Once Mme Jambor was accepted
by the gypsies (a considerable
accomplishment: she spent one
taping session sitting in cow dung
with. the -head of a pig named Julia
in her lap) she gained many in-
sights into their life. Af‘the first
camp she visited, she became the
godmother of a gypsy baby, one of
her most cherished memories.
During this experience she ob-



photo courtesy Mme Jambor

“The Hungarians have a fantastic resilience and love of life’ says Mme .

Jambor.

served the curious contrasts fixed
within gypsy culture. The child
was baptized in a Catholic church
in a communist state, and yet
its parents held to many of the
ancient super stitutions.

‘Girls are usually married by
age 12. Since the gypsies ori-
ginally had no musical in-
struments, today accompaniments
to the ancient songs are some-
times played on rock ’n roll gui-
tars.

The incident in which Mme Jam-
bor jumped from a train occurred
in the course of her research. A
gypsy whom she met on the train
told her of a gypsy camp which was
just across the Czech border. Mme
Jambor didnot have the credentials
needed to enter Czechoslovakia le-
gally, so she had to jump when
the train slowed down on the Hun-
garian side, within sight of the
border guards, and continue across
on foot. From this adventure, she
obtained the best collection of
tapes of her entire trip.

Mme’ Jambor gave her tapes to
the Bartok archives, to be used by
a. Hungarian folk music research
group. She has continued her stud-
ies in the U.S,, making use of
‘texcellent contacts” among gyp-
sies in.the Philadelphia and New
York areas.

Mme Jambor is one of the very
few ethnomusicologists in the
world today. A new discipline,
ethnomusicology is the compara-
tive study of music and its usage
in different. societies. Disgust with
the commercial emphasis in
American music led her into this
field. .

In discussing her fascination
with music, Mme Jambor cites a
theory that man communicated
through music before language and
that through music man is actually
regressing to the animal state.
‘‘Music begins where words end,”’
she says, and it is this ‘infinite
vocabulary’’ that she tries to re-

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late to her students.

She also works in the Univer-
sity Museum at Penn, where she
is an honorary curator of musical .
instruments. Starting in Novem-
ber, she will have office hours
there on Saturdays for all those
interested in seeing various non-
Western instruments.

‘*My assistant and I will gladly
explain the relation between the ~
instrument and the culture which
made it.’? Eager to share the
museum’s musical treasures, she
said, ‘‘A museum of musical in-
struments is dead if the musical
instruments are silent.’’

Mme Jambor is now giving con-
certs in conjunction with the
American Friends’ Service Com-
mittee to help Vietnamese
children, The first concert of the
series, held in Bethlehem, Pa.,
for plastic
surgery for the burned children
of Vietnam. She is also working
with Dora Chizea on monthly Bia-
fran programs,

Coming from a family of
teachers, Mme Jambor is a firm

believer in the importance of
teaching through setting an
example.

‘‘Teaching is primarily an ex-
perimental art, based, first of all,
on love toward our fellow man,
then on a terrific wish to share and
on avery great knowledge of psy-
chology. I always try to have the
courage to give my own thoughts
first, before those of the text-
book.

“Every sO many years I study
something , partly to understand
the situation of students.’’ Right
now she is studying anthropology
101 with Miss Frederick de La-
guna. She described the course
as a ‘growing experience.’’
‘*Contact with students,’’
Jambor explained, ‘‘keeps
young in my thoughts.’’

Stephanie Tramdack
Lisa Lyons

Mme
me


it Friday, October 18, 1968

__THE-COLLEGE NEWS: _

Poi Thess





~ Junior Year Abroad Provides Fresh Outlook

Paris Year Gives Student Insight into University Problems.

New Political Awareness

A year away from Bryn Mawr
is a good thing. Period, I spent
last year in Paris, studying at
L’Academie, a rather incredible
program whose snobbism is more
~--than-offset-by the most’ stimulating”
courses I have ever~-taken, But
Paris was far more for me than
taking a course from Jean-Louis
Ferrier or Roland Barthes,:and



photo by Phoebe Mix
Margery Davies
what more it was is the following:
First off, I got myself politi-
-cized, I read ‘*Le Monde”’ a lot,
‘ and the day-in day-out reporting of
the way in which the United States
flings her power around has filled
me with a deep repugnance that
I’m not likely to lose for a long
time, The ‘‘New York Times’?
looks pretty parochial compared to
‘‘Le Monde,’’ which does a good
job of showing that the U,S, is
not the only important country in
the world and that it’s not only
quite possible but alsotrue that the
U.S, is losing the Vietnam war.
.But.. my. politicization does not
come just from reading French
papers, It also comes from meet-
ing and talking with Vietnamese,
from seeing a few too many films
on the . Vietnam war which are:
banned in the U.S, And it comes
from seeing the way in which
aspects of American culture are
seeping into Europe: I remember
particularly an ad in the metro
which has three French versions
of Marlboro men modeling suits
and looking sadly ridiculous,
Secondly, Paris was a year of
living more or less on my own,
Although I lived in the apartment of
a widow who had to rent out rooms
in order to live in the manner in

.which she was accustomed, there.

were no sign-out books, and no
parents worrying if I wasn’t back
by a certain hour. Anybody who
has lived in an apartment for any
length of time knows what Pm



talking about.

Going to school in a big city
certainly has its advantages, For
one, when you come out of class
you’re immediately engulfed in the
world ‘of taxi-drivers, crowds in
the “métro and people stopping
for a drink in a cafe before sup-
per -- you don't come out of class

.to be engulfed in a world of girls

worrying about mid-terms, lack of
a date for Saturday . night, etc,

Thoughts about being a foreigner:
at first I felt very out of it, new
and naive in a country where
everyone but me knew what was
going on. But gradually, as I

' Came to speak French better and

came to feel more and more at

~ home in particular places (suchas

the cafe I often went to. where I
drank sweet rosé, ate camembert
sandwiches and got my ego bol-
stered by the garcon who invar-
jably flirted with me), I came to
relish being an outsider, For
I was quite aware of my differences
as an American and, far from

wishing thatI were French, enjoyed’

tromping around in the midst of
all the chic Francaises,
Events of May
And then there was the revolu-
tion, or the Events of May, as the
uprising of last spring is now
called, It is hard t’o déseribe
the feeling of exhilaration tinged
with fear that I got from watching
a country really give itself a
good shake, Read journals if you
want a political analysis of. the
Situation; the revolution was the
feeling of running down the Boule-
vard St, Germain with a crowd

Of club-waving CRS on my heels,

feeling slightly indignant that those
red-faced bullies were making me
run, but running hard all the same.
The revolution was wandering down
deserted avenues on the Right
Bank in mid-day, the streets
emptied by the taxi strike and the
absence of gasoline, The revolu-
tion was hearing real fear in the
voice of a professor who lived
in the heart of the riots and, for
all the political liberal that he
was, was plain scared,

ry year away from Bryn Mawr
is a good thing. Gives you pers-
pective on this whole work-hard-
and-train-y ou rself-for-academia
thing. Gives you aschance to be
on your own, And if you can
spend one of your four years
at Bryn Mawr in Paris, or Stras-
bourg, or Berlin, or London --
what reason do you have not to?

Margery Davies



Senator Clark

(Continued from page 1)

angles, he said.

Clark supports the Democratic
national ticket. He believes Hum-
phrey and Muskie are the most
qualified candidates of the three
available choices. And he urged,
above all, that those disillusioned
with the present situation should
not waste their votes by voting
for one that has no chance at all,
or by not voting at all.

When asked what will happen to
the Democratic party if Nixon wins,
his answer was somewhat vague.
‘It will survive, and it will be
modernized hopefully.’”? He then
began to generalize about the
Democratic party in much broader

_ terms. He spoke of the Democratic
, party, in contrast to the Republican

Party, as a party of ‘‘passion and ~

cooperation, and never a party of
division,’?

Clark also expressed the opinion
that ‘‘the convention system”’ of
nominating a presidentis definitely
outmoded and is bound to be re-

-_

placed. ~The most workable
alternative, he Proposed, would be
a ‘‘presidential preferential pri-
mary.’

Clark concluded with the remin-
der that politics demands, above
all, creative minds. ‘In the last
analysis,’’ he said, ‘‘society is run
by a minority, but there are. two
kinds of minority rule.’? He went
on to explain that one kind is simply
a dominant power preservation of
the status quo. The second kind of
minority, however, seeks to
challenge the status quo and per-

petuate the forward movement of '

society through a creative and
dynamic approach to politics. He
concluded that the Democratic

‘party not only possesses a long

tradition of such creativity, but as
of now it offers the most creative
minds in American politics, the
minds best suited to lead this
country.

Mary Schopbach

Comes with Year at Strasbourg

Last year I studied independently
at the University of Strasbourg in
France, I’d like to talk as gently

as I can about what I learned that
__year and why. it was werthwhile for.

me to have left Bryn Mawr for a
year.

I arrived at sae ote at the end
of. September, 1967, The excite-
ment of living in France, meeting
French students, going out to bis-
tros and French_ restaurants

(Alsace is famous white wine coun- .

try) filled’ the first few weeks
before the university began at the
end.of October.
L’Ennui

When the year did begin, how-
ever, a quiet, deadly hush settled
over my friends and the students
at the university. It was not long
before I realized the reasons for

“this hush, the ‘ennui.’’ I was be-

coming bored myself attending day
after day of classes in which the
professor stood and unreeled his
lectures, most of them dry and
uninteresting, while the students
sat and wrote, never saying a
word, never questioning or learn-
ing.
Siadn’t I had enough of this at
Bryn Mawr, enough of pedagogic
lecture courses and silent, bored
students? This was France, this
was my year abroad. Wasn’t it
going to be exciting and different?
If anything, from the point of
view of academic work,'I would
probably have gotten more enjoy-
ment out of classes at Bryn Mawr.

But I began to learn what my
real benefits were at the start of
the May Revolution in France. The
first day of the revolution I crossed
a student picket line at the univer-
sity to go to my classes. It was a
mistake. I saw myprofessor highly
pleased at the turn of events which
enabled him to complete his work
on two. books without having the
bother of classes for which he
never prepared, which he disliked
teaching, and in which he bored

about 20 students for two hours a

week. It was soon obvious to me
that most of the professors did
not care about the students they
taught and had accepted the dulling
restriction of the university

* system.

Interested Professor

However, I remember one pro-
fessor who was not only abrilliant
scholar but a man known to have
concern for students and inter-
esting courses. He had fought the
system. continuously but not openly.
When he was required to teach a
course in regional art in Alsace
(which is very limited) all his stu-
dents knew it would become a
course in gothic art and architec-
ture, of which he was a master.
During the revolution he stayed
night and day in the institute with a
bottle of cognac, talking to stu-
dents, continually frustrated by
their lack of vision.

To me also, although I could not
put it in words, that was the great-
est frustration of the revolution --
to see the students unable to over-
‘come the years of deadening
restriction by the educational sys-
tem at the university and else-
where, They were unable to take
unified positive action on changing
the university and tobreak through
the quiet,
their lives.

So often ideas and plans degen-
erated” into petty arguments and
petty issues. A vote taken to eli-
minate exams was defeated. Too
many students were afraid to step
out of the protective system, even
though. they should have known
eliminating exams was only ne

ture.
But there were moments whan I

felt something was happening, a
feeling was being created that - ould

perhaps in the end, though not
quickly nor in any structural way,
destroy the outmoded. university
system. These were moments dur-
ing -the occupation of -the buildings -
-- students together talking ex-
citedly, the bustle in the communi-
cations rooms, the liveliness in

every face, a bandplayibg inter.

rupted by staccato reports from
Paris and the common feeling of

horror during the Gaullist demon-_

stration as we watched older, ‘‘re-
spectable’’ citizens hurling rocks
through the windows of the univer=
sity as the CRS stood and enjoyed
themselves.

I often wonder what it would be
like to go back now that the stu-
dents are taking examinations and
the year is about to begiggag ain.
Will any of the ideas, the unifying
excitement of last spring be left?
I think so,-The hush, the boredom,
the not-learning: this traditional
atmosphere of the university has
been cracked by last spring’s

“events. The ideas of an autonomous

















photo by Phoebe Mix
Jennifer Booth

university, of student participation
in the structure of the university,

and more ideally but most
important of all, the creation of
an environment which encourages
people’s original desire to learn,
rather than, stifles it are too vital
for them to give up.

Of course the students could not
hope to accomplish too much at one
time. There were so many concrete
changes in the structure of the uni-
versity needed, which were bound
to mask the more important aims

behind the revolution. Strasbourg,
of all the other universities, had the
strongest concrete platform for
change in the university system.

“They were first to declare the uni- ~~

versity autonomous of the Ministry
of Education, and they initiated
plans for a congress of all the
universities composed of students,
faculty and administration, to pro-
pose plans for change.

Yet Strasbourg also had a back-
ground of ideas for more intan-
gible, profound changes in the
university and in society as a
whole, This was the International
Situationist movement founded
there two years earlier, whch
wished to perceive all situations
as arenas for creation and learn-
ing.

For example, in art this meant
the end of the artist-audience rela-
tionship, of static plays produced
on stages, of paintings hanging on
museum walls, Of the irrelevance
of art to most people. Art, creation’
and learning should involve all
people, all situations. This wish
I think was in the wings behind the
unrest and dissatisfaction at the
universities in France, and at
universities in general,

Bryn Mawr Parallel

This wish also motivated the
recent meeting on apathy at Bryn
Mawr, for the Situationist ideal
is_the very antithesis of apathy
and boredom,

I learned a great dealfrom think-
ing about the May Revolution, from
seeing people try to change an
obviously rotted structure, I began
to understand better the reasons
for my dissatisfaction with Bryn
Mawr, and I- began to see how I
could use this discontent positively
to start changes within the struc-
ture of the university and my life
within it,

I am learning to keep in mind
what the furthest limits of change

’ in the university and education can

be --- an increase in the ability

“of each person to perceive every

Situation and every moment asone
for joyful creation and learning
‘«Solidarité avec la Lutte des Etu-
diants Francais!’ .

Jennifer Booth



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Page Four THe COLLEGE NEWS Friday, October 18, 1968



Prof. Kline Honored ~~ Guide To The Perplexed

For Vienna Address | raiay, octoser ie

3:00 p.m. Rockefeller Coffee Hour

ere be é
Bryn Mawr Professor of Philo- order, So again, Stalinism can- re oe sere 9%, the ea 5:30 p.m. Interfaith Sample Service:
sophy George Kline received an not be effectively repudiated- by haeraal: Gosdhart ($.75) Mormonism. French Dining
ovation at the close of his paper this humanistic side of Marx. 8:30 p.m. ‘The Cansent ¥5 rue aii Room, Erdman
to the International Philosophy, | The third and most fundamen- ‘ ae te Whedon Gb: the Living 8:00 p.m, ‘The Rat’’ (see above)
“Congress at Vienna in August. tal aspect of humanism is con- Arts

Kline posed the question, ‘‘Was cerned with principles in a pres- MONDAY, OCTOBER 21:

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Marx an Ethical Humanist?’ — ent-oriented way. Even in his 9:00 p.m. yp on eet a 8:00 p.m. Legislature, Physics Lecture
Marxist humanism is a major present imperfect state the indi- ipactihare vas} Room.
vidual has an intrinsic worth and ¢ é TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

therefore certain inviolable rights. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 7:15 p.m. ‘Winter Light,”” BMC movies

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doctrine which would explicitly dent,” Junior Show, Goodhart (also 9:30 p.m.)

reject the practicies of the earlier ($1 00) % 7:30 p.m, Faculty-Student Curriculum

Stalinists and: of present neo- ~ Committee meeting in. the

Stalinism. Yet Marx does not : Common Room, Goodhart.

accept this ethical humanism; he . eletisicaiotee Peers or ‘NEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23

in fact scorns it aS a bourgeois 10:30. a.m. Jewish Discussion Group. «4:00 p.m. Gov. Endicot: Peabody in the

concept. This week’s topics are ‘‘Ju- Common Room, Goodhart

ee Mipsis daism in America: Past,

his lapel, He énded with an ex- : dea —— erford Duplicate Bridge Club,
: : oo, 1:30 p.m. Scientologists in the French Founders West Dining Room

temporaneous statement stressing Dining Room, Erdman (Free)

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trend of thought behind the cur-
rent liberalization movement in
Czechoslovakia. While disagree-
ing with his Czech colleagues that
Marx was a humanist in any ef-
fective sense--that is, that his
writings explicitly reject totali-
tarianism -- Kline expressed his
full sympathy with the Czechoslo-
vakian cause and with the sufter-
ings of its people,

Kline termed his Soviet adver-
sary ‘‘an old style Communistide-
ologue” whose thesis was that So-
viet Marxism is the only true hu-
manism; this assertion was some-
what weakened by the presence of
Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia.

Choosing to ignore his oppon-
ent’s paper as beneath criticism,
Kline presented his own theory of
the three aspects of humanism. He
concluded that two of these maybe
found in Marx’s writings, but that
effective resistance to Stalinism
lies in the third.

The first aspect of humanism
is man-centeredness in the sense
of secularism. Marx indeed dis-
plays this worldliness, but so do
most other philosophers and pol-
iticians. Hitler, for example,
qualifies for a humanist in this
respect.

Secondly, humanism is con-
cerned with ideals in a future-
oriented way. Humanists feel that
man jis imperfect now, but that he
will someday achieve a higher
order of individual and social ex-
istence. This doctrine is cer-
tainly central to Marx’s philo-
sophy, but because of its future
orientation, it does not preclude
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