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Mobilization Coverage-- Pages 4-5
THE COLLEGE NEWS
“Vol. Lill, No.6 BRYN MAWR, PA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1967 © Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967 25 Cents
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Construction of the new library will begin this spring, as soon as the Deanery
has been torn down completely. Approval was given by the Board of Directors at
their meeting October 19. Mr. Chu, of the architectural firm of O'Connor and
Kilham, has designed the library addition after consultation with the administra-
Student Group Opens
Door to Music-Making
A new musical organization --
student - initiated, student --
directed, and student-sponsored--
has appeared on the Bryn Mawr
and Haverford campuses, Accord-
ing to Stanley Walens, who insti-
gated the project and is now
business director, its purpose is
to foster musical interests of all
kinds among students not working
through the schools’ music depart-
ments.
The organization was conceived
as a kind of potpourri ofgndividuals
and groups with vari musical
talents and tastes, At present its
only activity is a ch~.uoer
orchestra with about 26 members,
The
Richard Serota, a student at
Haverford, In the future, Stanley
said, they hope to expand the
organization to include woodwind
groups, a jazz ensemble, and a
barbershop quartet. He also
emphasized the fact that any
student groups from Haverford or
Bryn Mawr needing assistance
and/or funds are encouraged to
' apply. Money is being supplied to
the organization by the Haverford
Students’ Council, (Bryn Mawr is
not presently providing funds for
the project.)
The chamber orchestra is
making plans for a concert some-
time soon. They are encountering
problems in locating a concert
hall, however, because Roberts is
GOOD LUCK
~. COLLEGE BOWL.
orchestra’s conductor is
oe
booked for every week through
next February, The group is also
thinking of staging’a musical next _
semester but would not divulge any ©
information about the nature of the
production,
The orchestra holds weekly re-
hearsal sessions on Thursday
nights in the Haverford Common
Room, Students and faculty inter-
ested in joining the orchestra or
listening to rehearsals are
welcome to attend these meetings
and are urged to call Stanley at
MI9-2614 for further information,
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photo courtesy Public Information
tion, faculty and students. The college has already raised two million dollars
towards the building and has two million more to go. The new library should be
completed by the fall of 1969.
New Experimental School Founded,
Bryn Mawrters May Participate
A new program for students in-
terested in working in an urban
education situation in Philadelphia
is being developed by the Friends
Council on Education. Bryn Mawr
students, along with Haverford and
Swarthmore, have been asked to
participate in this project, the ‘‘In-
dependent Urban Education Pro-
gram.”?
The situation is this: Philadel-
phia, like other large American
cities, has a public school system
which cannot meet the needs of
every community. Philadelphia’s
Marriott, Slater Disagree
The controversy over the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford meal exchange
appears to be gaining momentum.
Greg Wilcox and Liz Bennett have
been working on the problem, and
have contacted the business offices
of both colleges apd the food ser-
vices, Marriott and Slater.
Wilcox plans to involve both ad-
ministrations in the near future.
Wilcox thinks that an unlimited
exchange system will eventually
have to be accepted, but for the im-.
mediate future a more limited sys-
tem could perhaps be initiated.
Wilcox is confident that the ex-
change which has been bogged down
for two years will be expanded
very soon. He plans to present
a reasonable proposal within the
next few days, which will pla-
cate both food services.
The major problems as they now
o the-fact that boys -
eat more than girls. Marriott’s
proposal is that someone pay them
$,25 for each boy who exchanges
with a girl. This implies an
equal number of Haverford stu-
rate. ae
On Meal Exchange Issues
girls. Marriott asks $1.00 for
every boy who comes but does
not exchange with a girl. Slater
Food Service has been unwilling
to accept this proposal. Wilcox
is investigating these prices to
determine whether they are rea-
sonable. If they are, he says
someone will have to pay, whether
it be Slater, Haverford College
or the students themselves.
The present situation is very
limited. The academic exchange
is written into both food service
contracts. It. fails, however, to
include extra-curricular activities
such as drama club, WHRC, the
Social Action Committee, etc. Nor
does it provide for library study
or lab periods. Special permis-
sion’ must be obtained through the
dean’s office before meal tickets
are granted for these purposes. -
The social exchange ‘situation _
has worsened; last year over 80
tickets were given out at each
school per weekend. This year
15 tickets are granted per: night
cn Wednesday, Saturday and Sun-
day.
school system has. many typical
problems; teacher shortage, large
classes, outdated curricula, short-
age of funds, inadequate vocational
programs, and lack of community
support. Philadelphia could benefit
through an urban-suburban com-
bination of resource utilization.
The School Board of Philadelphia
has agreed to accept an experi-
mental program as a challenge for
the public school system. Thispro-
posal calls for community involve-
ment in decision-making, and cur-
riculum exploration with the aid of
independent schools. The proposal
is for an experiment in decentral-
ized school administration with the
direct involvement of the school
community. Kearney elementary
school, located at 6th St. and Fair-
mount Ave. in the low-income fifth
district of NE Philadelphia has been
approved by the Board of Education
as the initial focal point because of
its central location withina cluster
of five elementary schools, its fu-
ture housing programs, and its
strong start in community re-
lations.
Another. facet of the proposal
calls for the participation of inde-
pendent schools in public education.
It provides for the partial staffing
of Kearney with iherende school
teachers, hoping that this mixture
will be rewarding and beneficial.
The third aspect of the proposal,
and the most relevant for us, calls
for a pilot project to tap the po-
tential resources of able college
undergraduates, providing an
opportunity -for them to serve as
community interns in Kearney-as-
sisting classroom teachers or
utilizing special talents in neigh-
borhood elementary schools, andin
furthering school-community co-
nogeeiens
am
The response of students to tu-
torial programs demonstrates an
interest in problem-solving. But
this program is for the well-mo-
tivated, able student who is not
planning on a teaching career di-
rectly in Philadelphia’s public
school system. Tutoring is impor-
tant, but essentially. remedial. The
question is: Can college students
be utilized in the elementary class-
room in ways that reduce the need
for later remedial work?
The Friends Council on Educa-
tion has acquired two houses in the
area, which are being rehabilitated
as accommodations for 24 students
who will live for one year or for
a semester-plus-summer basis as
residents of the community and
classroom assistants in neighbor-
hood elementary schools,
Arrangements are being made on
an individual basis for credit to-
ward an academic degree at Bryn
Mawr. This might include semi-
nars, course work, or honors work.
The question of teacher certifica-
tion experience is also being
studied. This would be a modest-
ly paid job, at about $50 per week,
Bryn Mawr is working with the
program as it develops, through
the coordination of ean Marshall
with the assistance of Alliance,
League and Curriculum Commit-
tee. Arrangements for pre-job ex-
perience, as in _ recreational
leadership, child psychology, and
the values of less-developed areas,
are being discussed. For more in-
formation, contact Dean Marshall
or ask the heads of these campus
organizations.. Or write to Mr.
John Buckey, Director, Indepen-
dent Urban Education Program,
921 N, 6th St., Phila., Pa. 19123,
or call WA 2=1223,
Doris Dewton
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SE eS
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Christopher Bakke '68
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Marian Schever '70
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It Was Forgery
To the Editor:
A few weeks ago a letter from
an American prisoner in a Jap-~
anese prison appeared in the
“COLLEGE. NEWS, Having sent the
clipping to my friend in the
«Japanese ministry, David Noboru
(Haverford, ’67), I received the
following reply:
*‘] read: the article you sent me
from the COLLEGE NEWS with
great interest, First of all, I took
it.to the North American Section
(of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
which is responsible for the Jap-
anese-United States relationship,
and talked the matter over with
the chief there. He knew about that
person, James Cebula, who was
arrested recently for forging
dollar bills and spreading them all
over Japan, As far as the people
in that Section know, the American
Taxi Trouble
A weekend away from school can provide a
refreshing change, and local cab companies are
sometimes a little too eager to take advantage
of that fact.
A case in point; two girls ordefed a cab last
Friday from Bryn Mawr Taxi, The driver picked
up a girl from. another dorm, also going to the
airport, and announced that each girl was to pay
$5.50. When the more experienced traveller pro-
tested _. vigorously, _.he ._ changed his mind
: and suddenly lowered the fare to $9.50 for three,
' He called the main office, and finally charged
‘the first two girls $6.50 altogether and the third
girl $5.50 alone, If you call Bryn Mawr Taxi,
-they will tell you that the rates are $5.50
_ for one girl, $7.50 for two, and $8.50 for three.
Further ‘investigation elicited that taxi
rates from here to the airport vary widely, Often-
used Bennett Taxi charges $5.50 for one or two
girls, $7.50 for three and $9.50 for four, Ardmore
Cab Company, Yellow. Cab, and Suburban Cab
in Ardmore all go by the meter (between
it, and Cebula must have written
that kind of letter by himself to a
whole: bunch of-- colleges. in the
United States, The triak has not
been held yet; therefore it seems
to me that he is asking for the
money for bail, Who is willing to
send money for an abominable
criminal who committed a shame-
ful crime in a foreign country? I
cannot understand why such:a dis-
tinguished paper as the Bryn Mawr
COLLEGE NEWS prints that kind of
article without examining _ the
validity of the letter, The North
American Section (of the Japanese
\Ministry of Foreign Affairs) is
olng to bring the matter over to
Embassy has nothing to do with ~
$5 and $6) and allow girls to divide ‘the fares as
= many ways as there are people!
= Hence, when dealing with taxis, buyer beware.
* When you order a cab, check the rates and do not
= let yourself be taken in by taxi drivers, Going
. to Bryn Mawr should not entail that one pay more
_than..the stated..price. We should not have to
: bargain for taxi fares,
'—~- Even in college, we must prepare to meet the
- pressures of the real world,
The Other Side of Hope
C.P.
- Reprinted from the Editorial column of the
_ Amherst Student’? October 19,1967:
= Jt would be hard, now, to march with any
_ new hope, or to believe that mameening. new is
. just beginning.
- Two years ago, students fasted in vnidaa: and
_ the gesture, the purity of a moral statement,
_ seemed sufficient. Last April, in New “York,
- people said a new movement was born; that it |
- would be more than mere protest, that the force
' of a’ new coherence would be persuasive.
. Today, nobody talks of a movement whose very :
beliefs will end the war. There are no illusions |
that moral acts will be persuasive. Today, people :
_march to confront the war-makers, not to rally |
_ and speak to one another before the United Nations, :
. This march is not a march of hope. Itisa
‘march of anger and frustration, It comes at
the end of a_ week of resistance: draft
_ cards have been burned or mailed back to local |
_ boards; marchers have blocked induction centers,
- and have been dispersed with gas and nightsticks
- Now people are marching on the other side of hope.
_ The failure of past marches is a measure of :
{the importance of the war. The nature of this :
_. = march is a realization of that importance. SNCC |
' went south in 1964 talking love and fighting south- |
ern ‘*segregation”; they came back hating
. “racist America,’’
- The answers to the war are no simpler than
‘the problems of the ghetto. Last spring people ©
= marched in hope--and now they are coming back,
= They are coming back to frustration, to the things ©
SSS SSS
_that do not change. The. principles on which the |
war is i 9 are an ragt ag eke of pooshen =
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AKOUE
Orders are now being |
taken for the 1968 yearbook.
Only. $6.50 if ordered
now, $7 in the spring.
Pay by cash, check: or
pay day. !
Deadline: Nov. 10.
See WENDY FEIN in
Radnor, Room 25.
Walens Demands
Cacophony at ‘67.
Pumpkin Caroling
The Third Annual: Evening of
Pumpkin Caroling and Other Jol-
lities will be held on Hallowe’en
this year, the NEWS learned this
week in a_ telephone _inter-
view with Stanley Walens.
Walens, an articulate and often
amusing Haverford student, has
been pumpkin caroling for two
years. In that time, he has noticed
with dismay that many students
have actually learned the words and
tunes to the pumpkin carols and
often the group finds itself singing
not only the same song, but in the
same key.
To stop this rigidity and lack of
spontaneity, Walens and Dave
Barry, another humorous Haver-
ford student, have started a puri-
fying movement. They intend to
throw out the orderly and organized
pumpkin carolers, and thus return
the evening to its original ingenu-
ousness. ‘‘Cacophony will reign
supreme,’’? Walens squeaked.
There is no doubt that the Great
Pumpkin will arise from a sacred
pumpkin patch in this area this
year. Barry has staked his headon
this.
Partly
because of Walens’
* naturally curly hair, the expected
crowd turning out for pumpkin
= caroling has been estimated at
5,000. Barry, however, has natur-
- ally straight hair.
ee
night at 1:30 by Pem Arch, At
the
Letters to the Editor
the Ministry of Justice andinquire
into it in detail,,.I might write a
letter: to the NEWS later (if you
don’t), but I am much too dis-
appointed by the staff of the NEWS
for printing that article, I thought’
they were more discrete,”’
Caroline Burlingham '66
Empty Praise
To the Editor:
It is unfortunate that when a
number of people put a great
deal of effort into a production,
the review which they anxiously
await shows so little effort.
Mr. Leach’s
Junior Show is not a review but.
a report, a slightly modified cast
list with a number of dull and
‘unconvincing adjectives tossed in.
It is neither interesting reading
nor a good criticism of the show.
gy
Having accepted a responsibil-
ity of this kind demands
a small amount of effort. Was it
asking too much to expect an
honest and well thought-out ap-
praisal oof the production?
Mr. Leach’s apparent lack
of exertion is disappointing to
many people to whom the review
meant so much. -
As well as a tone of boredom
and a lack of energy shown by
equal comments and opinions (or
lack of) on each act and character,
the review contains anerror which
makes one wonder whether or not
Mr. Leach actually went to see
Junior Show. Although the song
‘Romeo Rock’? appeared on the
program it was not performed.
Any attentive reviewer would not
have commented on or compli-
mented a _ non-existent part
of the show.
A cast enjoys hearing praise,
but it values a good review more
than a praising review that cays.
nothing at all. — :
Nancy Miller
Still a Disaster
To the Editor:
Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock
as the day began I went down-.
stairs to find that the kitchen had
just run out of orange juice.
I cannot find the slightest rea-
son or smallest circumstance with
which to excuse Marriott for this
common error. In Merion, there
are always about the same number
of girls who eat breakfast. Orange
juice is known to be. one of our
favorites, not to say a necessity.
We told them this six weeks ago.
For some reason, Marriott has
decided not to give us orange juice
every morning; as. Saga did. Why
they felt inclined to change a suc-
cessful policy, I don’t know --per-
haps their dieticians have secret
information about the dangers of
prolonged orange juice con-
sumption.
On the other hand, when they DO
decide to give us orange juice, lam
at a loss to know why they cannot
have enough for every girl. There
is something faintly disgusting
about tomato juice for breakfast.
Even more so when itis obvious that
the only reason itis being offeredis
because the orange juice ran out.
Tomato was just what was around in
the kitchen. Undoubtedly left over
from Sunday dinner.
The Marriott food service has
been giving the impression to the
college officials that it is improving
after its disastrous beginning this
fall, Many other students and my-
self mo bt Oot tat this is (rue. 23
ie still a disaster.
~~~ A’ signed copy of ‘this has been™
sent to the Marriott-Hot Shoppes
head office in Washington.
More Than -
‘treview” of
‘Patdoy, cise. 1967
good fall my friends!
i love gold, gold in a minute,
gold in an hour, gold in a lovely
day, last week i woke up to golden
light filtering through a chink in
the library tower and immediately
i flew off to see ‘‘reflections in
a golden eye,’’ afterwards i saw
reflections of goldall over campus:
gold in a pane of glass and then .
a golden spot on the floor next to
my chair
gold in the leaves in a leaf chain
(very easy to make; pierce one
stem and pull another through)
gold in the sincerity of the
marchers in washington
gold in a pumpkin face ina
window
gold in the harpsichord at junior
show
gold in the warmth of the art
in erdman
and more than just gold, there
is blue, on a clear day you cansee
forever and i see bryn mawr
winning a fifth consecutive week on
college bowl and golden nineties on
all mid-terms and thanksgiving in
a minute and christmas in two and’
the great pumpkin on halloween,
HALLOWEEN?. hallo ween? hal
loween? hallow een? (immediate
jump to tune of ‘‘the lusty month
of may’’)
it?s here, it’s here
that golden time of year
that marvelous month when
pumpkins come up
and owls stand on their ears
~ it?s here, it’s here
the best time of the year
that magical month when
witches appear
gold comes clear
friends in the leaf pile near are
dear
the lusty month of OCTOBER
blissfully yours,
applebee
H’ford Friends
Initiate Meeting
Of Youth Group
_In conjunction with the Haver-
ford Meeting of the Society of
Friends, a Young Friends Group
will be initiated 7:30 Sunday night
October 29, in the meetinghouse
adjacent to the Haverford Col-
lege campus.
The first session has been set
for a discussion of pacifism, but
the meeting will also include or-
ganizational plans, schedules and —
tentative programming. -
Designed to meet the needs of
college-age students, this group
will attempt to stretch into any
areas of discussion or service
that the members decide upon.
The activities of the Young Friends
Group will be student4initiated and .
student-run.
All interested persons are urged
to come.
NOTE to parents who have
subscribed to the NEWS late
and want to receive back
issues:
The mailing service can-
not now distinguish between
addresses it received last
week and ones it received
the week before. Therefore
the NEWS cannot selectively
send out back issues. The
Editor has a few of Num-
bers 2, 3, 4 and 5 left, how-
ever, and would be glad to
give them to students who
could ee mail them to
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page Three
Friday, crcber 27, 1967
preys by Steve Faust
Wolfgang Stechow, Flexner lecturer, is enjoying talking to Bryn
Mawr students during his six-week stay.
Show in Erdman.
‘He praised the Art
Arts Festival Exhibits
BMC-Haverford Talent
Louis Kahn really knew: what
he, was doing when he left be-
hind all those beautiful, blank walls
in Erdman,
They provided a perfect setting
for the three-day art exhibit held
this week in the dormitory.
Under the guidance of three
Bryn Mawr and Haverford stu-
dents -- Marian Scheuer, Dor-
othy Hudig and Dave Marshall --
the exhibit reached a fitting cli-
max Wednesday night in a per-
forming arts spectacle - held in
the Erdman showcase, Students
presented for two and a half hours
dramatic readings, films, songs
and poetry (and refreshments).
Monday night, paintings, mo-
biles, photographs, wax figtres,
pottery and jewelry were up for
display on the first floor of Erd-
man. The walls were covered at
every conceivable level with paint-
ings and photographs, On the wall
to the right of the main entrance
was a large painting by Dave
Marshall of a bluish-man-shaped
figure on a grey background. Im-
mediately across from the paint-
ing was a color photograph by
Marian Scheuer of' the forearm,
breast and thigh of a nude woman.
Both the photograph and the paint-
ing started the viewer on a tour
of generally high-caliber orig-
inality and talent.
Perhaps the most important as-
pect of the art objects displayed
was the generation of a warmth
and ingenuity which made the whole
exhibit fun to look at -- not at all
tiresome or embarrassing.
The smaller drawings and paint-
ings were displayed on white card-
board boxes piled on top of each
other. The main difficulty with
this type of arrangement is that
the pictures were so close to-
gether it was hard to enjoy each
one separately. The variety here
presented was tremendous, rang-
ing from a color snapshot of a
girl with a hoola hoop to a paint-
ing of the Virgin Mary and Jo-
seph going into Egypt.
#y,, In the center floor were free-
standing collages. One by Mana
Sarabhai was made of a wire
sort of fence sticking out of sev-
eral cinder blocks. An orange
dress, two brown gloves and metal
’ jewelry hung on the wire.
The larger paintings were ex-
hibited on the walls in Erdman’s
maze of corridors between the
dining room and the large show-
case. Paintings I remember es-
pecially were a black and white
silhouette by Lucille Mulligan, a
painting of two dancers by Char-
lotte Porter, a predominantly or-
ange painting by Priscilla Rob-
bins of two lovers (1 think --. the
different colors meshed to show
two figures), and a delicate Jap-
anese painting by Jo Chan Aizawa.
-- One of the side smokers fea-
tured a psychedelic room with
purple light.
Bales of hay and pumpkins dec-
orated the middle of the main
showcase. Paintings were dis-
played on the backs of chairs and
on the walls.
About 200 people showed up for
Wednesday night’s festival. Sandy
Dollar began the program, singing
several folk songs which she had
written and accompanying herself
on the guitar. She was. followed
by the Renaissance Choir.
There were two very good dra-
Stechow Interprets Relationships
Professor Wolfgang Stechow, the
1967 Mary Flexner lecturer, has
chosen for his topic ‘‘The Creative
Copy’. This reflects his con-
cern both with the relationship be-
tween different art forms and with
the debt of the individual artist
to tradition.
Such a debt, which is as help-
ful as inescapable, is most easily
realized in the variant which has
the closest connection with the
past, the copy. Mr. Stechow dis-
tinguishes the poor and adequate
copies from the creative copies,
i.e. such works which follow the
original carefully but deviate
somewhat due to creative changes
which creep in. Thus, Professor
Stechow is defining the creative
and reproductive impulses of the
copyist.
Although Mr. Stechow shows the
inter-relationship of the arts by
emphasizing the similarities be-
tween, the creative copy in the
visual arts, the transcription in
music, and the translation in lit-
erature, he has warned his
audience that these techniques are
not completely equivalent. A
translator, for example, justusesa
a different medium for his ‘‘copy’”’
-- a different language -- as op-
posed. to the painter who copies
an earlier painting. Or the pur-
poses of the copies may be dif-
ferent: the translation may be
designed for teaching purposes, the
copies of paintings for a small
group of patrons.
Mr. Stechow further stressed
the necessity of approaching the
inter-relationships of the arts by
moving from the inside out, of
working with a _ sensitivity’ that
comes from living with the arts
rather than through a purely theo-
retical or philosophical approach.
Although Mr. Stechow’s approach
to the visual arts is academic his
interest in music is more person-
ally stimulated. His knowledge
of music comes from direct par-
ticipation as well as scholarly
study: he not only plays the viola
and piano but: also has been the
conductor of a student orchestra.
Part of his interest in the inter-
relationship of the arts stems from
the realization that music and
the rhythm and sound of poetry
are closely related. In-November
he will be in Baltimore with the
Poetry Trio from Oberlin Col-
lege. This group will be read-
ing modern poetry-primarily in
French, German, and English -
on paintings.
Mr. Stechow is very interested
in student’s efforts to correlate
the arts. Also, he further illus-
trated the contemporary technique
of relating several art forms, while
visiting the art show in Erdman.
When asked what such works as
Barbara Mann’s Janschka-in-
spired sculptural collage would
testify for our period, Mr,
Stechow suggested that it would
show that we are capable of sev-
eral simultaneous actions such
photo rian Scheuer
Louis Kahn’s blank cement walls are perfect for an art show.
matic readings. Faith Greenfield
and James Emmons read a fan-
tasy by Oscar Wilde about anight-
ingale which diesinorder tocreate .
a perfect red rose for..a love-
lorn. student, only to have the stu-
dent throw awdy the rose for
more pragmatic \concerns., And
Vivian Price read with Mitchell
Wangh a dialogue she had writ-
ten: about a girl who has hitched
a ride with a truck driver and
their inability to communicate on
any level.
Poetry readings and three short
films followed.
The success of the exhibit and
the festival seems to lie not so
much in the intrinsic worth of
the art presented (although much
of the exhibit and the festival
was very good), but rather in the
opportunity provided for Bryn
Mawr and Haverford students to
see what other students are cre-
ating. Art generates excitement
and there was excitement innearly
all the faces in Erdman Wednes--
day night. If an art festival can
move 200 students to excited par-
ticipation -- active or passive --
then surely it is an unqualified
apres. Robin Brantley
LVM MM
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Charlotte Porter and Carol Gartner arranged the wax figures from
the Art 101 labs.
Among Contemporary Art Forms
as working and perceiving. We
are also able to combine these
and reproduce them in an involved
pattern of inter-relationships.
Barbara’s work which has adver-
tising, literature, drawings, and
abstract patterns in a sculptural
form is part of the McLuhan age.
While viewing our versions of
contemporary art, Mr. Stechow’
pondered the role of the ‘‘mon-
umental canvasses that are grab-
bed up by the cocktail set in New
York’’. He asks what are the
sociological implications of this
art? We endeavor to understand
the canvasses by saying that they
are representative of our time but
are they? ‘Isn’t this anart which is
decided by a small coterie of
buyers in New York, or some other
art capitol which also dominates
the country such as Paris repre-
sents France? These canvasses
are not democratic for they are
purchased almost unseen. and un-
criticized and are not. intended
to reach large groups although
they presume to represent these
groups.
Viewing John Meier’s photo-
graphs, Mr. Stechow said that he
used to think that photographs
did not belong in an, art
exhibition but that now he *be-
lieves that in many ways this art
is more in contact with life out-
side the cocktail set, with visual
impressions and with care for man.
Even when photography is satir-
ical, weird or violent it is often
closer to man than the monumental
canvas. When looking at the mar-
velous photograph of the dog swim-
ming through the water, he com-
mented that if that were a large
painting it would be called sen-
timental or cute. He questioned the
justification of this sharp division
between painting and photography.
He feels very strongly that there
is a dead end and that far stronger
artistic impulses are found in, for
example, movies.
Mr. Stechow said that this is the
age when “isms become wasms
very fast’’. Continuing around the
show, he pointed out the great
variety of styles -- varying from
the very new (such as Barbara’s)
to Suzanne Goldblatt’s more tra-
ditional painting toa painting which
he called a surprising revival of
‘‘Art Nouveau’’, and perhaps ‘‘a
little pretty.”” Mr. Stechow said
that such a variety ofstyles, which
exist simultaneously, makes the
art historian humble. Although the
art historian would like to con-
sider past periods as evidenced
by only one style, they are forced to
find a unity of. style only be re-
garding the most advanced and im-
portant style of the period.
Mr. Stechow will be on campus
for two more weeks and will com-
plete his lectures by discussing
transformation and variation in the
visual arts, in music and in lit-
erature. ~Raulee Marcus
Frank Wilkinson
Coming To Speak
Against HUAC
Mr, Frank Wilkinson, executive
director of the National Commit-
tee to abolish the House on Un-
American Activities Committee
will speak at Bryn Mawr Novem-
ber 1, at 4 p.m, in the Common
Room,
Mr, Wilkinson will be speaking
on recent activities of HUAC, fu-
ture plans for HUAC, and action
possible for college students to
aid in abolishing HUAC, Future
planned investigations included ac-
tivities of -Vietnam groups,
specifically /the W,E,B, Dubois
Clubs and S-:D;S, ‘3%
Mr, Wilkinson was one of the
last two people in the United States
imprisoned for contempt of Con-
gress, He refused to answer
questions before HUAC,
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Page Four
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Friday, October 27, 1967
Violence,
~ Rally,.March Uninspiring;
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All-Night Vigil a Success
Five es. left a little behind sched-
ule from Roberts Hall at Haverford last
Saturday morning, headed for’ the October
21 Mobilization to confront the war-
makers in Washington, D,C.
The buses arrived in Washington at
about 11:30.in front of the Lincoln Me-
morial, dropping off 200 Bryn Mawr,
Haverford, and Villanova students who
were planning on protesting the war in
Vietnam at a rally, a march,and possibly
by picketing the Pentagon or engaging
in civil disobedience.
The rally and the march Saturday were
held under a sunny October sky. The
participants were mainly interested in
meeting old friends and enjoying the day.
’ J] didn’t meet or see anyone who was in-
terested in listening to the speeches.
This is understandable since the speeches
have said the same things at every rally
and ‘march,
Peter, Paul, and Mary, Barbara Dane,
and Phil Ochs sang some songs which
came over the sound systems very poor-
ly. An announcement was made that a fence
had been put up at the Pentagon that was
not supposed to be there according to the
terms of the permit, and so would we all
be patient while some last minute ne-
gotiations were made, and. then the march
could start.
At this point some students we were
talking to left, being very depressed about
the whole scene. It became obvious that
the rally should not have been held be-
fore the march,
Finally about three hours behind
schedule, we started walking out of the
Reflection Pool area and across the bridge
to the Virginia side of the river. There
were between 80,000 and. 100,000 people
marching.
Arriving at a Pentagon parking lot a
little after 5:00, everything was a mill-
ing. aimless crowd, presided over by an
hysterical person on the microphone.
His major concern was to get everyone
on their respective buses and safely
home. My major concern was to get to
the steps of the Pentagon and begin what
was the announced purpose of the whole
day -- confronting the warmakers.
Eventually I found a small. group of
Haverford and Villanova students who
were going over the hill that separated
the Pentagon from the parking lot, There
was one other Bryn Mawr girl, Nancy
Westneat, and we were very glad to see
each other, I gave my camera to friends
who were leaving, along with two rolls
of exposed film, which I did not. want
to have ruined if there. was trouble.
Climbing the hill, we found Kathy Mur-
phey and some more Haverford and Villa-'
nova students. There was another reunion
and we all looked over the hill and saw
a crowd of thousands in front of what
looked like a main entrance to the Pen- .
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tagon. Lined up in front of it were Na-
tional Guardsmen wearing gas masks.
It was difficult for my mind to cope
with the sight of the gas masks, and per-
‘haps that was one reason why I had no
hesitation about going down closer =- I
could not believe that they would: ac-
tually use gas on us,
It is still unclear what that line of
Guardsmen was doing, because we had no
problem walking around them and climb-
ing up some steps to the Pentagon behind
them. Hundreds of demonstrators had al-
ready done so, and were clogging the
steps to an upper parking lot (where we
eventually spent the night) and scaling a
wall via ropes to the same lot. It was
only later that we learned that half a
dozen protesters had stormed the doors
of the building and had been repulsed
with gas and guns after they had entered
the foyer. (The, hysterical man back at
the far parking lot garbled a report of
this incident,and people there were told
that 200. demonstrators made it into the
Pentagon, through clouds of tear gas,
and were locked inside.) Three of us
were separated from the main Bryn Mawr-
Haverford- Villanova contingent. We
climbed the stairs, pushing past mobs of
people, and arrived at the top of the
steps to be faced with a four-deep line
of Military Police, interspersed with
plainclothes U.S, Marshals. The Marshals
had night sticks and the M,P,’s had guns
and gas masks at their waists. All were
wearing hard hats and aggressive faces.
Crack 82nd Airborne
The M,P,’s were replaced later in the
evening by the crack 82nd Airborne flown
up from Fort Bragg. They were similar
to the M.P,’s except they had blue braid
around their shoulders, rifles, and more
medals, Many of them also had Vietnam
combat duty behind them.
On the buses’ coming down, we had been
handed a sheet of information containing
such hints as ‘‘Don’t run at or away from
the police’? and ‘‘Any sudden motions like
running also worry and panic the police’’
and ‘‘This is a peaceful demonstration’’
and ‘Watch out for falling paratroopers.”
Remembering these, I sat down quietly
about six inches from an M,P.,’s boots
and huddled in as nonviolent a position as
possible, I figured, reasonably, that if
they wanted me to leave they would
ask before they started clubbing.
Unfortunately, this was not an accurate
analysis of the situation, Although I never
saw any violence myself, much went on,
Said Jim Wright, °68 of Haverford, ‘‘it
was like I had never seen an elephant be-
fore and all of a sudden there were 900
coming at me.’? There were calls for
medics and blankets throughout the eve-
ning. The Marshals were reported to be
the most violent. The job of U.S, Marshal
pays 40¢ an hour and is: volunteer ‘‘moon-
Man
students. ‘
lighting’? work for most of them.
The permit for the picketing at the Pen-
tagon stipulated its end by 7 p.m, Seven
came and went and no one asked us to
leave and we gave no sign of leaving of our
own accord, Civil disobedience on a mass
scale had really begun. So we. stayed,
sang songs, built fires with police barri-
cades and leafiets;and shared food that we
had brought and that had been bought for
us in town, As it got colder, the demon-
strators who were most interested in
heckling the soldiers left, They were a
minority and apparently uninterested in
enduring any discomfort themselves. The
evening wore on and the Marshals and
the military grew less tense. We shared
cigarettes and some conversation.
Newspapers telling of the sit-in at the
Pentagon were obtained and the fallacious
accounts of demonstrators using tear gas
were read to the soldiers, enable them to
realize, maybe for the first time, that
the press is not always right and that
the ‘*peacenik crowd’? is often misrep-
résented in the press,
The Pentagon estimates that 35,000 per-
sons demonstrated on their front lawn
Saturday afternoon. About 500 were there
for the night. Most of those left at 6
a.m., after a meeting deciding that our
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others attended the rally besides white middle-class alienated college
point had been made. The fact that it was
freezing cold and we were tired also had
sdimething to do with..our decision to
leave. Some, however, did not leave and
as day broke, they were reinforced with
people who had left during the night but
who came back,
Exactly what ‘was the point’that we had
made? There seem to be three different
meanings that can be drawn from the
experience, First, there is the personal
meaning, a feeling of having learned some-
thing about the depth of one’s own com-
mitment, and about the actions which the
government is prepared to take against
us. Second, there is the meaning to the
movement, which is mainly the learning
that more people are willing to commit
civil disobedience than the National Mo-
bilization Committee had counted on, and
the need for more coherence and discip-
_ line in such protests. Third, there is the
most serious question of what the weekend
actions did to help end the war.
More Militant Action
Some demonstrators are very pessimis-
tic about the action’s effectiveness in the
third sense. Everyone seems to recognize
‘that this is a turning point in the move-
ment, away from peaceful mass rallies
and marches, and toward more local and
more militantaction. We have been march-
ing for over two years now and it does
not seem to have done much good. Most
people Gnvolved have expressed a desire
for more concrete action, such as draft
» resistance and civil disobedience in the
form of burning draft cards, sabotaging
local draft board activities, and perhaps
more disruption at the Pentagon,
It was clear throughout the whole eve-
ning that although we were never officially
asked to leave the Pentagon, if they had
wanted us out, they could have. arrested
us. all, In a sense, then, it was a game
we were playing, pretending that we were
holding a piece of land when actually we
were there only at the grace of the au-
thorities, On the other hand, arresting over
500 people for sitting peaceably on pub-
lic property is not a good government
move, The. publicity, especially from the
foreign press, would not be favorable to
the government, and that is not an insig-
nificant matter, Conservative backlash,
of course, becomes more serious and
“militant in response to protesters’ in-
creasing militancy. This does” not mean
that such people are more in favor of
the war than they were before, It means
that they are finally beginning tc realize
; serious anti-war mover \entis,
Kit Bakke —
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THE COLLEGE NEWS |
‘Friday, October 27, 1967
B Arrests Mark Mobilization :
But Over 700 Arrests Made
‘ L arrived atthe Pentagon after the M,P.’s
-had closed off the stairway and road en-
trances to the upper parking lot. The only
means of entering the parking lot in front
of the Pentagon were ropes cut from the
police barricades and slung over acement
wall twenty feet above ground.
I climbed up the wall with agroupfrom
‘Villanova, to see the state ofaffairs there.
There were between a thousand and twelve
hundred demonstrators in the lot. On one
side demonstrators were still trying to
break through police lines, and weretwice
thwarted by gas fumes. In the center of the
parking lot there was a large group of
demonstrators giving vocal support to boys
burning their draft cards. The U.S, Mar-
shals formed a rough circle around the
demonstrators standing in a double line.
Although the parking lot itself was
blocked off by police lines, the ropes over
the wall were left alone, and already sup-
- porters on the lower level were sending up
food, water, cigarettes and candy to those
on the upper level. Soon it became evident
that the marchers were involved in some
sort of strategic game with the Marshals,
Whenever a space opened in front of the
police line, the M,P.’s moved forward to
take up the open space. The demonstra-
tors formed lines also, seated in front of
the M.P,’s to hold the lines steady.
For the next five hours the demonstra-
tors and Marshals remained relatively
stationary, The mood within the police
lines and in some instances including the
police, was dynamic and intellectual. There
was a warmth and unity among the mar-
chers, a willingness to share and talk,
perhaps caused by the feeling of being of
one mind and one plight. At any rate, it
seemed that there was more than enough
food, cigarettes and water, and this for
more than a thousand people besieged. All
the supplies had to come from the forces
below on..the Pentagon grounds and lower
parking lots and had to be passed over the
wall by way of the ropes.
- Perhaps what is.most exciting and won-
derful about this part of the demonstration
was the amount of communication between
the soldiers and the marchers. Although the
communication was seldom verbal, there
were tangible evidences of it. Most strik-
ing perhaps is the soldier who turned his
helmet over to one demonstrator seated
before him, toprotecthim. ThisI saw, but I
also heard reports of soldiers’ conversa-
tions with demonstrators and instances
where a soldier gave his cigarettes to the
demonstrators. One thing was obvious, that
feelings of hostility, which might have been
very strong, were actually ata minimum.
Demonstrators would speak to the soldiers,
recognizing that the soldiers were unable
to respond yet still explain their political
and moral position, or merely talk about
themselves, the march or anything, De-
monstrators took the attitude that the war
they oppose is not the fault of the military
police, and that their action was aimed at
the policy makers and not the M,P,’s. In-
flammatory actions and. comments were
kept at a minimum, and instances of vio-
lence and police brutality were few and far
- between. ao.
At about one a.m., the Marshals began
making arrests to diminish the numbers
of demonstrators on the parking lot. They
arrested probably about one hundred
people, and then slowed ‘the arrest to one
every five mifilites or so.
Marshals Close In
At this time the line of Marshals was
slowly pushing the demonstrators forward
by inching the line closer and closer to
the demonstrators. The demonstrators
were seated in lines three rows deep with
the front row seated with their backs -to
the soldiers feet. While the soldiers moved
forward, the demonstrators stayed still and
eventually the lines were in direct contact.
When this occurred a Marshal walked be-
hind the’soldier’s line and arrested every
-¢ifth to tefth person, I was arrested at
about three o’clock Sunday morning -in
this manner. :
It seems that the government’s major
aim in arresting people was to reduce the
number. on the parking lot area and at the
same time to keep the number of people
actually arrested small, At the center
where the police processed the arrested
people, we were offered the option to take
a bus to the train station and leave Wash-
ington.
In the first place, this option had not
been offered to all the people arrested
(from 5:00 on) and we were all charged
with the same offense, whether a basis
for arrest had ever been established at
all, or not. Secondly, the people picked up
bodily and put in paddy wagons had been
treated as if under arrest. They had to
have committed an act worthy of arrest,
otherwise, they should have been allowed
to. remain in the parking mall until the
permit expired. This offer of a free bus
ride to the train station was a trick to cut
- down the number of people arrested. And
it did succeed, to a large extent. I chose
to go to jail as part of my protést. I had,
as indeed had most of the people who re-
mained on the parking lot, committed my-
self to civil disobedience, and I felt that
even if only a few people were arrested,
I would not give up Without fulfilling my
commitment.
The 336th
I was the 336th person arrested at 3
a.m. By noon Sunday a total of 700 people
had been arrested. We were shepherded
through a well thought-out legal process
very efficiently and quickly, and in such a
way that the individual case was given no
consideration. While the government did
not have a strong legal base with which to
charge us, we had no means of fighting a
case against them. We were all charged
with a general offense of misdemeanors.
The sentence we faced did not depend on
the severity of our offense, rather it de-
pended on how we pleaded in the trial. If
one pleaded ‘not guilty,’? he faced (with-
out doubt) 30 days in jail and 50 dollars
fine, whereas, if one pleaded ‘guilty’? or
‘nolo contendere,” one faced only 25,dol-
Protest is carried into the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the
Washington Monument.
How the Press Saw It...
From a Demonstrator’s View
The communication through the press of
what happened last weekend in Washington
sometimes conflicts with and sometimes
represents the accounts communicated by
people who participated in ,the Mobiliza-
tion. : ;
An area of difference between the two
groups lies in how various incidents were
reported. One of the aspects of the march
most emphasized by the press concerns
the outbreak of violence at the Pentagon,
‘how widespread it was, and howit started.
According to James Reston in the‘‘New
York Times,’’ Monday, October 23, ‘‘The
majority of the demonstrators who march-
ed peaceably and solemnly to the
banks of the Potomac were unhappy
because the event. was taken over by
the militant minority.’’ These ‘‘pugnacious
young activists’? dominated and led the
crowd in initiating violence, not only by
charging through troop lines in the at-
tempt to enter the Pentagon, and
the upper parking lot, but by harassment
of the troops. Reston claims, ‘‘It is
difficult to report publicly the ugly and
vulgar provocation .
of many. of the
photo by Kit Bakke
Conversation with old friends was the main order of business at the rally before
the march.
lars fine and five days suspended sentence.
The five days sentence were suspended
only if you signed a statement saying that
you would not return to Washington D,C, or
vicinity and demonstrate for six months,
Most of the people I met in jail who had
been arrested felt that we were rendered
somewhat impotent by the mechanical con-
trol the government had maintained on the
situation, as if we were only playing some
sort of game with a power much bigger
than ourselves. This feeling of partial de-
feat was overpowered by the sense that we
still had the power of our convictions and
still had ourselves as material for further
campaigns and efforts. Accordingly, the
talk amongst the women I was in jail with
was concentrated mainly on what the next
step should be. Many decided to plead ‘‘not
guilty” just to remain in jail, clog the
bureaucratic systems and further protest
against the war and aginst the new law
against picketing on Capitol grounds.
Like the better part of the people
arrested, I considered my commitments
here as a college student first and pleaded
“so that I could leave the jail as soon as
possible. My case was tried by a Vir-
ginia state commissioner (court trial
waived), and I borrowed money from the
Nati Mobilization Fund to pay my $25
fine. I left the jail late Sunday afternoon.
Nancy Westneat
militants. They spat on some of the
soldiers in the front line at the Pentagon
and goaded them with the most vicious
personal slander.”
Good Will with Troops
In the section where I was sitting, al-
though a few belligerent individuals
yelled at the line of troops, an attitude
of good will and communication with
the troops predominated. I had con-
versations with several of the Marshals
about their jobs, about Vietnam, and about
why I felt concerned enough to sit in
front of the Pentagon. According to people
I talked with who were in“other areas,
the cry, ‘‘Join us!’’ was the most militant
flung by the majority of demonstrators to
the troops.
The ‘‘Washington Sunday Star’’ of Octo-
ber 22 also traces violence to the
demonstrators. An article on the sit-in
states that on Saturday night ‘‘at 10:30
p.m. after things had been relatively quiet
since the major assault was repulsed,
a second brief melee broke out. The
200-300 demonstrators remaining at the
east side of the Mall entrance began lean-
ing against the troops, sitting on
their feet and trying to make them give
ground.’’
This record of aggression on the part
of all 200-300 demonstrators against the
troops jars with another account given
ee
by Ben, A, Franklin in the Monday October
23 edition of the ‘‘New York Times,”’
which I think most people present at the
Pentagon would agree with, Franklin ex-
plains, ‘‘The perimeter of demonstrators
was steadily reduced today by military .
policemen who inched forward in a slow
motion struggle. As the advancing line
of troops came in contact with the dem-
onstrators, U, S. Marshals arrested
the youths--apparently on the technical
charge of having crossed official lines--
and hauled them away, limp, to waiting
vans,”’
What the ‘‘New York Times’’ does
not include 4s a description of the violence
of the M.P.’s as they moved in closer,
kicking and clubbing. At one point, about
3 a.m., they charged into the line of
demonstrators on the Pentagon steps,
splitting the group in half, tearing people
away and arresting them. I could see
this charge from where I was sitting.
The Monday, October 23 edition of the
‘‘Philadelphia Inquirer’”’ did give quotes
‘from Dr. Benjamin Spock and Professor
Thompson Bradley from Swarthmore con-
demning the violence they saw on the
part of the troops.
Psychedelic Fashion Show
Another difference between the press
and many demonstrators’ accounts of the
Mobilization lies in what kinds of things
each group chose to discuss. In an article
in the ‘“New York Times,’’ Sunday, Octo-
ber 22 the appearance of the demon-
strators is dealt with. ‘‘The scene
around the reflecting pool was a
psychedelic fashion show,’’ the article
reads. The beads, flowers, fringed
capes, sandals, and Army jackets that
were present are delineated in the article,
which even mentions that ‘‘a girl had
pasted as ‘STP’ label on her cape.’,
Stuart H, Loory, in an analysis of
the march in ‘‘The Philadelphia Inquirer”
of Monday, October 23, emphasizes the
‘shambles’? and the ‘‘squalor’? left behind .
after the sit-in. He writes, ‘‘These demon-
strators have succeeded in _ less
than 24 hours, in turning the serene,
neatly landscaped mall and the ramp
leading up the massive building into as
slum-like a Calcutta street scene as you
could imagine.’? He _ then lists the
‘crumbly debris of left-over food...
wine stain on the stone’ walls ... shoeless
hippies sleeping on blankets. laid out on
the concrete graffiti scrawled on
the walls.’?
Detailed descriptions like these seem
to me irrelevant to the major issues .
the march raised about the war and how
to end it.
Reston describes two kinds of
demonstrators in his ‘‘New York Times”?
article of October 23. He mentions the
idealists, who just want to end the war,
and those who “get support from a lot
of decent people, including idealistic
youngster s.”’
Reston concludes that of the two
groups of demonstrators, one element
was “natively American, the other alien.”’
Perhaps the group seeking“an overall
change in the nature of America feels
alienated from the arena of voting booths
and merely intellectual. and removed,
if-legal, protest. But last. weekend at.
the Pentagon seemed to prove that a
growing part of American society: is
seeking new and more direct, even civilly |
disobedient channels to express its in-
terests and hopes. Kathy Murphey |
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Friday, October 27, 1967.
ALL WEEKEND
Shubert Theatre -
‘tHow. Now Dow Jones”’ i
Walnut Theatre
“The Homecoming”’’
Society Hill Playhouse
' “Marat/Sade”’
Hedgerow Theatre
The Balcony’’ by Jean Genet
Abbey Stage Door | es
*¢The Odd Couple’?
‘Main Point
Oscar Brand, showtunes to bawdy
ballads
Gilded Cage
Esther Halpern
Showboat
Gabor Szabo
, Stan Getz (after Monday)
. Philadelphia Civic Center
“Festival of Denmark’’
Newman Galleries
‘‘Aage Rudolph Thyesen’?
Main Line Center for the Arts
‘Mary Reilly, oils and water colors
Bryn Mawr
‘‘The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians”’
Midtown
‘“‘Far From the Maddening Crowd’?
Randolph
“¢«Gone with the Wind’?
Goldman
‘*Bonnie and Clide’’
Midtown
‘*Jack of Diamonds’’
- Stanley
-*¢Throughly Modern Millie’’
Palace
‘tHouse of Dolls”
Regency “
‘*Reflections in a Golden Eye’’
Arcadia
*To Sir With Love’’
Ls RI., OCT. 27
Philadelphia Orchestra
Annie Fischer, Piano
Academy of Music, 2 p.m,
Philadelphia Grand Opera
“La Travidta’? starring Gabriella
Tucci, Danielle Barioni and Giulio Fi-
Guide To The Perplexed.
“Dr, Strangelove” - 8 p.m, - Beury
Hall 160
Villanova University
‘‘Up with People Show’’
‘talented young voices from all over
America sing Folk Tunes which give
people a purpose and inspire them to
live the way they are meant to live’?
Haverford Film Series
“The Virgin Spring Bergman (1959)
Stokes, 1:30 and 9:30
Denbigh Mixer - 8:30 p,m.
SAT., OCT. 28
Philadelphia Orchestra
featuring Annie Rischer, piano
Academy of Music - 8:30 p.m,
Haverford Film Series
‘‘Big Deal on Madonna Street’’ (1960)
SUN., OCT. 29
Pembroke Coffee Hour - 3 p.m,
Bryn Mawr College Chorus and Haverford
Glee Club
Memorial Concert of Works of Zoltan
Philadelphia All-Star Forum
Ravi Shankar, Indian Sitarist
Academy of Music, 8:30 p.m,
MON., OCT. 30
Flexner Lecture
“Transformation and Variation in the
.Visual Arts’? Wolfgang Stechow
Philadelphia Orchestra
featuring Annie Fischer, piano
Academy of Music, 8:30 p,m,
TUES., OCT. 31
Arts Council .Movie
‘‘Vampyr’’ Carl Dreyer (1930-31)
Pumpkin Sale 2-4 o’clock, Pembroke
Hallowe’en party, 10 p.m., College Inn
WED., NOV. 1
Haverford Film Series
‘‘My Darling Clementine?’ (1946)
Stokes 8:00 p.m,
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Solists: Agi Jambor, pianist, Marcel
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Goodhart - 8:30 p,m,
LIN, RHOADS, IN WRITING
BY MONDAY OF THE WEEK BE-
FORE THE EVENT.
Baratz Explains
BMC’s Action
In OEO Study
Under a grant from the Office of
Economic Opportunity, a group of
students and faculty members from
Bryn Mawr and the University of
Pennsylvania are evaluating:
Baltimore’s anti - poverty
programs, according to Morton S,
Baratz of the Bryn Mawr
economics department,
Baratz, who is collaborating in
the direction of the study group with
William Grigsby of Penn’s Institute
for Environmental Studies, ex-
plained that the evaluation, known
on campus..as the Baltimore
Project or the’ Baltimore Study,
started in January of 1966 and is
now nearing its midpoint,
The programs under study area
package financed by the OEO called
Community Action Programs
(CAP), Baltimore is one of six
cities and two rural areas being
considered,
Baratz explained that the local
group has formulated a study
design and is now entering the re-
“search phase of the project.
**Not much work of this kindhas
been done before,’’ Baratz said,
**so it was necessary to establish
a methodology outlined in the study
design, of what we’ll do and how
we'll do it,’’
It is also the first time Congress
has voted money to evaluate a
program in this way, Baratz added,
The study is concentrating on
housing and employment in Balti-
more’s hard-core poverty
districts and will consider their
relationship to other aspects of
the community like education,
health, family life, recreation, fire
and police protection and income
maintenance.
The study’s purpose is not to
predict how well given programs
will work in Baltimore, Rather
workers are trying to set measure-
Undergraduates are cor-
dially invited to the program
sponsored by the Bryn Mawr
Club of Philadelphia on Fri-
day evening, November 3,
| fedturing informal talks by
Mr. Gonzalez on Bryn Mawr's
Department of Psychology
and its research on the evo-
lution of intelligence and
- | Mr. Alexander's presenta-
_.} tion with Beth Chadwick and
-}-Lerry- Taylor, of Haverford,
arche-
of last summer's
Morton Bérats
able. goals. For example, to set as
a standard that dwellings reach the
minimum requirements set by the
city’s building codes, Then, using
sample surveys and interviews,
workers hope to find out how many
dwellings do and don’t meet these
standards, and then determine how
much money it would take to
improve these buildings,
. Seeing how much money is
available, workers can set up
priorities of what programs would
be implemented first, housing, ed-
ucation, health or whatever,
‘Our job,’? Baratz said,’ is to
hand these options over to the
planners and policy makers (city
council, mayor and local pol-
iticians) who will make the final
decisions, and who will also be
able to finish the study where we
leave off,”?
One problem the group has had
to overcome is the lack of available
data, Many of the youth em-
ployment programs, Baratz said,
don’t keep follow - up records on
the youngsters, Also, gathering
data is a problem in itself, The
group has decided to start with
mature Negro women as inter-
viewers,
Another problem is the city’s
mobile population,
‘‘We can screen people in Nov-
ember or December and by mid-
March some seven to ten percent
have moved to other places in the
city which makes survey—taking
difficult,’’ Baratz said,
The OEO grant issued for 18
months will most likely be ex-
tended another 18 months, At
the end of the three year study,
in the fall of 1969, a final report
will be, submitted, Quarterly re-
ports and survey results have
already been submitted to the OEO,
Baratz hopes the study will
_ “generate a flow of materials on |
| the subject after the project is
- finished,”
| program is.
ological dig in Alaska. The -
scheduled
‘Social Life Questionnaires
Not “Overly Conclusive”
The Social Committee has tabu-
lated the results of the question-
naires, The answers are not overly
- conclusive, but they do give us
information with which to plan the
activities for the rest of the year,
These figures will be left up to
the students to interpret, First of
all it must be taken into considera-
tion that only 39% of the campus
completed and turned their re-
sponses in to their social
chairmen, Erdman had the lowest
percentage of participation (26%)
while Pembroke East ~had the
~ highest (74%), ‘The number’ of
people in each class whocompleted
it were;
Seniors - 52
Juniors - 60
Sophomores - 103
Freshmen - 85
The rest of the answers were as
follows: .
1. I have found my social life at
Bryn Mawr? unsatisfactory-95
satisfactory - 101
ok - 98
2. On a purely social level whatdo
you think of BMC’s connection with
Haverford? unsatisfactory - 131
satisfactory - 112.
3. Do you mind being considered
Haverford’s ‘‘sister’’ college?
yes - 76
no - 216
4, Do you think that our connection
with Haverford discourages boys
from other colleges from coming
to Bryn Mawr? yes 136
no 150
If so, do you mind? yes 127
no 62
‘5. Would you like to see more
activities with colleges other than
Haverford? yes - 261
no - 29
6. Would you like to have more
big weekends at BMC that would
include more than -just a dance on
one night? yes - 217
no - 83
7. Would you be willing to pay for
tickets to such a weekend?
yes - 206
no - 77
8. Do you think that the Social
Committee’s budget should cover
such an event? yes 193
no 100
Come to HELEN'S
~ for atte" sid juewaiey- aia
Earrings, earrings and earrings, $1.00 up!
the see shop with a bi ig heart and small prices
(Perhaps this indicates that these
193 would go along with. a raise in
9, For future years, are you in-
terested and willing to pay for a
name band for a dance or concert
on campus? yes - 231
no - 59
10, Would you like a (good) Haver-
ford computer date: yes-153
no - 130
It seemed overwhelmingly that
everyone who was willing to pay
for this was willing to contribute
$.50° 1
11, Do. you think that a complete
meal exchange with Haverford
would improve the relations of the
two schools?
yes - 249
no - 46
12, Would you like a bus running
on Saturday and Sunday nights?
yes - 244
no - 24
13, Would you be willing to pay
a small fee for such a bus?
yes - 204
no - 72
14, Would you be interested in a
father’s weekend in the Spring?
yes - 166
no - 104
The results of the preferential
poll on mixers and other activities
will be published in the NEWS next
issue, Think about these answers
and if you have further suggestions
or questions PLEASE COME TO
THE OPEN CAMPUS’ WIDE
UNDERGRAD MEETING TO DIS-
CUSS THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE
‘ON MONDAY !
Clarissa Rowe
Soc ial Chairman
‘Where the Action is’’
HER CLOTHES TREE
Bryn Mawr Mall i
(Next to Station)
a
LA 5-2393
William” Crawford,
Bryn Mawr Geologist
Gives Sigma Xi Talk
William Crawford of the Bryn
Mawr geology department will pre-
sent ‘‘Iceland; A Portion of the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge,’’ the first in
a series of Sigma Xi lectures, next
Thursday night, Nov, 2, at 8,
Scheduled for the physics lecture
room in ‘the Physical Science
Building, the lecture will be spon-
sored by the local Sigma Xi,
national science honorary, and will
be open to all interested persons,
Two other talks in this series
have been slated, one at BMC and
another «at Haverford, .and a
possible fourth may attract one of
the Sigma Xi national lecturers,
Jay M, Anderson of Bryn Mawr’s
chemistry department and sec-
retary-treasurer of the Bryn Mawr .
Chapter of Sigma Xi is coordinating
the program,
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Page Seven
Buckley Hits Point, Amon
TIM BUCKLEY, you say? You
want me to interview TIM BUCK-
LEY? All right, but not alone. It
turns out that Mr. Fields from
Elektra Records had called to ask
if someone from the COLLEGE,
NEWS would like to talk to Buck-
ley when he was at the Main Point
Oct. 19-22. Sure, Kit said -- in the
evening after one of the shows?
. Well, said Elektra, he gets kind
of depressed in the evening, maybe
you’d better do it in the after-
noon. Mr. Fields promised to ar-
range it, and call us on Friday
afternoon to tell us whén we could
come.
Friday afternoon came and Mr.
Fields didn’t. So I called the Point,
and found out that Mr. Fields
hadn’t been there, but that he
had led Mrs. Campbell (manager
. of the Point) to believe that we
would be coming in on Thurs-
day night. Well, he’s a busy man,
and maybe he forgot about Tim’s
evening depression and our ar-
rangement. Could we come.inSun-.
day night? Mrs. Campbell -has-
tened to point out that everyone
else who had been expected on
Thursday (Mr. Fields had ap-
parently made several phone calls)
had come, but that she guessed that
Sunday, between the first and sec-
ond shows,. would be all right.
One Mobilization Later
So two days and one mobiliza-
tion latér, Judy Meyer and I ar-
rive at the Main Point, trembling
inwardly and half expecting to be
put down by Buckley. (What can
we say to him? He looks so deep.
Among other things.)
Our first indication of some-
thing strange was that immed-
iately after the first show, a great
crowd of girls, and a few hardy
boys, arose as one and swarmed
down the stairs after Tim and his
twoeman group of electric lead
guitars and conga drums. Can
they all want his autograph? Well,
he’s pretty popular. Among other
things.
Maybe they’ll split in a few
minutes. So we followed the throng
down the stairs and found our-
selves in the bare basement of
‘the Point, wondering, what next,
I think I’ve been here before.
Buckley? Sure I'll take you
there. One of his followers -- a
Bryn Mavr girl, I recognized her
-- confidently led the way. She
must have been here before too.
We heard a lot of voices, mostly
female, coming. from the little
cubicle that serves as the dress-
ing room for performers at the
Main Point, Philadelphia’s Largest
Folk Club. Are they all inter-
viewing him, we wondered aloud?
No, our guide informed us, they
hang out here. Are you inter-
viewers? Yeah, from the COL-
LEGE NEWS, preparing to show
our Press Cards if questioned.
Oh, she said, well Haverford
interviewed him last night. That
was a blow. How could they do
that to us? It might look sort of
Photo by Mary Yee
Nothing has yet been done to solve the problem of the overcrowded bus. An administration spokes-
man stated that they were in the process of investigating the possibility of installing straps for
those who must stand. Neither Bryn Mawr nor Haverford appears to have the funds to invest in
a new bus.
Junior Discovers Education Pays
With $150 Win in State Lottery
Would you believe? Winners
of the New York State Lottery are
for real, Junior Nancy Miller
should know,
Last Monday Nancy picked up
the phone in Merion Hall and heard
her mother laugh hysterically,
‘¢your name’s in the New York
Post. You may have won
$100,000!”’
For four days Nancy floated
around campus in a world of dol-
lar signs and portraits of Calvin
‘Coolidge, waiting to hear how much
she had netted in the New York
State Lottery for Education,
On ° Friday, Nancy’s bubble
burst and she learned that she
had won a ‘‘disappointing’’ $150,
the minimum award, | In a ra-
tional tone she commented, ‘‘It
really isn’t that bad because the
money’s taxable and I’d only have
gotten $50,000,’”
Nancy’s adventure into the land
of maybe-wealth began with a $1.00
lottery ticket purchased in her
name by her mother. e
The problem now is a mother-
_ daughter debate on who gets the
money, which is being held in
trust until Nancy’s twenty-first
birthday in June,
‘*I_ am. presently demanding at
least 50% for the copyright on my _
name, and my mother is demand-
ing a ‘substantial share’ for the
dollar she paid, Unfortunately,
I’m afraid that my case won’t hold
since she gave me the name,’
b
‘ Nancy revealed,
_Uncertain what she will do with
the $150 if she gets it, Nancy
received a rather practical sug-
gestion from Haverford friends;
a case of Johnny Walker, steaks
and a roomful of potato chips,
While she was waiting for the
results, Nancy theorized on the
use she would make of the
$100,000,. ‘*I decided that I’d take
the money and decentralize Central
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We get by with a little help
from our friends.
funny for both papers to come
out with a Buckley interview on
the same day. In fact it’s im-
possible.
Groovy
Well we thought a while and
decided that as long as we were
there, we might as well talk to
him. He looks groovy. Among
other things. So we started to
walk in. and it suddenly became
clear to our not-too-clear minds
that the little room was packed
with more-or-less fawning girls.
And those few hardy boys. And
Tim Buckley and his two-man
group. Could we fit, mentally or
physically? Right. So-we wan-
dered out, wondering what was
happening, and sat on a couple
of piano stools that we found in
the basement, still thinking that
maybe they’d split in a minute.
We should have known better. Well
anyway, it sure is a groove, spin-
ning around on those piano stools
and watching people wander
around. Mrs. Campbell walks by,
obviously wandering. Mr. Camp-
bell walks by, and we smile fetch-
ingly -toshow. that. we’re sitting
there on purpose and know what’s
happening.
But what IS happening? We ask
each other that, periodically. And
never really find out. The elec-
tric lead guitar player meanders
by and casually spills coffee on
‘his feet. Ooops, we say cleverly.
Chuckle, he chuckles cleverly. The
conga drum player, C.C. some-
body, walks by, wondering about
me spinning around on my piano
stool. Hi, I say. You'll get dizzy,
he says. Chuckle, I chuckle. This
is getting monotonous.
Tim's Good Friend
Some boy comes over and asks
for a cigarette. Are you one of
the entourage, I ask. What, he
asks. Who ARE you, we say. Oh,
I’m - Tim’s good friend from
Swarthmore, he informs us. Just
then Buckley shuffles past his
good friend and looks the other
way. If he doesn’t even speak to
his friend, maybe it’s a good
thing we didn’t get to talk to him.
It’s enough of a drag as it is.
By now the crowd has moved
out to the big basement room, and
is sitting around a big table.-In
silence. Comradely, no doubt. Tim
looks more tired than anything
else. The girls stare at him a lot.
A little girl, maybe seventeen
years old, talks to us for a while.
She’s from Rosemont, and seems
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She also seems really anxious
for us to talk to him -- maybe
she’s planning on coming along
-- and suggests that we could,
ask him what ‘he did as a child.
Right, we say dispiritedly. Dic
you ever talk to him? No, she
admits. But I hang around here.
And I stare at him a lot.
Carol Miller, the first act oi
the show, is wailing to a close
upstairs. And there are stirrings
of departure in the basement, Ap-
plause, somewhat weak, upstairs.
Carol Miller. appears.downstairs:
Tim and his group are gathering
up their instruments and the rest
of the crowd is still there.
Finally the time comes for
Buckley’s second show; he shuf-
fles toward the stairs and his
followers surge after him. Ap-
plause upstairs, and downstairs,
we’re still spinning on our pianc
stools and asking each other what’s
going on. So we stay for the sec-
ond show,~ which is really good,
and at least. we’re getting it free.
The last thing we see as .we
walk out after the show is_ the
horde sweeping familiarly down
the stairs. And we’re still ask-
ing each other what’s happening.
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THE COLLEGE NEWS
Junior Show ‘Attempts Too Much’
Midway through Junior Show a character appears
who is both the nonexistent Third Murderer in Macbeth
and the nonexistent son in ‘‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” He is carrying a huge tuba; he tampers with
* it for a while; he does not play it; he walks out. The
connection between the two characters combined in
him is never explored and his part is never developed.
His appearance simply slows down the pace of the
play and leaves the audience unamused. Unfortunately,
this confusion and lack of depth characterize Junior
Show.
Shakespeare to Bob Dylan
Basically,” what~is~“ wrong with ‘‘Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Were Sweethearts--A Modern Psycho-
drama of Hocumsexuality” is that it attempts
too much, The objects of satire range from Shakespeare
to Bob Dylan and from sex to Peter Pan. ‘To accommodate
so many diverse elements, authors Marianne Lust
and Marsha Feinland have jettisoned continuous plot, sub-
stituting the more _ flexible
device. This weakens the show, and makes it seem
less a play than a revue. The major scenes have no
relevance to each other; they are fitted together by
this covering story: Once every hundred years a play-
wright is allowed to choose his. favorite character,
who then gets a new life. This year it is Shakespeare’s
turn, and. he chooses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Now Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have been turned into
/
females by the vengeful Nemesis, who never really”
liked the anti-feminist Bard. The two ex-scholars
are determined to make a quick fortune by revising
Shakespeare’s greatest hits to suit the 1967 taste--
Ye.; by injecting a little drugs and sex. They decide
to rework ‘‘Hamlet,’’? ‘‘Macbeth’? and ‘*Romeo and
Juliet?’ and their efforts make up the bulk of Junior
Show.
Elaborate Verbal Devices
The individual scenes do not have much more internal
unity than the play as a whole; they are held together
by elaborate verbal devices. For example: Macbeth
is interpreted as the Modern Impotent American Male,
browbeaten by his Domineering Wife. The first of these
Modern Impotent American Males was George Wash-
ington, father of his country but of nobody else.
However, the modern George and Martha are not the
Washingtons but Edward Albee’s couple from ‘‘Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’? So the scene becomes
**Macbeth’’ as Albee might have written it, or ‘‘Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’’ as Shakespeare might have
written it, take your choice, The trouble is that the
authors should have made this choice before and never
did, so the end product is an indiscriminate mixture
of jokes on the original play and satire on modern
society. And in the final analysis, neither gets the
attention it needs. Too much irrelevant material is
included simply to get a laugh. Even the title has
nothing really to do with the show (which is probably
just as well, considering what it is). The scenes be-
come lumbered with extra material and become
vehicles for mixed humor.
Some of this mixed humor is very good. There
is freshness, not in the risque jokes, which are gen-
erally uninspired though not unexpected, but in quick
tossed-off . jaugh lines, so essential to a revue, Par-
ticularly effective are the sight gags, such as
the crocodile from ‘Peter Pan’ (who swallowed an
alarm clock, you remember) walking across stage
with the cover of TIME across his chest, or ‘‘Macbeth’s”
prologue-interlude .
With Diverse Satires, Lack of Depth.
three witches coming out with ‘‘Lonely Tarts Club
Band” written across their cauldron. Neither joke has
much to do with its scene, but if it is funny, itis
included.
Dancing Superfluous
Technically, the show is very good. The lighting is
smooth throughout. The makeup, though somewhat dis-
tracting on the Lost Boys, shows originality:
Sally Pace’s costumes are wonderfully creative, varied
and aesthetically pleasing. Her sets are unobtrusive
and manageable.
Choreography has almost-no place in the production;
what little dancing there was seemed superfluous. How-
ever, Judy Frisch’s psychedelic minuet performed
to harpsichord and mechanical music (not played simul-
taneously) shows grace and a sense of geometric
balance. The music, by Annell Kocher, is erratic. The
overture gives promise of a lovely score which somehow
never appears. Some of the numbers--‘Lonely | Tarts
Club Band?’ and ‘‘Ophelia’s Lament”? in particular--are
simply non-songs. The former can best be described
as a chant and +he latter is distinctly a whine. A
really clever non-song is ‘Solid Flesh Blues’? de-
livered -in--real Dylan snarl by Marsha Feinland.
The best. of the numbers is ‘I Bite My Thumb at You,
Sir ,”? which expresses the Montague-Capulet dispute with
wit and tune and whichis well sung by Robin Brantley
and Nancy Miller.
Pinky stamen and Claire Neely, as Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern respectively, were adequate singers,
better actresses, and very funny pantomimists, Kim
Blatchford, when she was not out-heroding Herod, was
an amusing Nemesis. Good in smaller roles were J, F.
Shaw, Meredith Roberts, and Ronnie Goldberg. The rest
of the parts are rigid stereotypes, which doom
the actresses to becoming increasingly less funny
the longer they stay on stage.
Everybody gathers together at the end of the show
to sing ‘‘Shakespeare is My Darling,’’ a suitably foot-
tapping closing number. It bears no relevance to what
Friday, October 27, 1967
photo by Marian Scheuer
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Claire Neely and
Pinky Stamen) ponder the difficulties of the ir
resurrection.
has “gorie before, however, and so makes a rather
weak conclusion. The play does not end; it stops. And
during the song, one cannot help thinking, looking at
the. collection of singing talent, dancing aptitude, acting
ability,- good lights, clever sets and creative costumes:
now all they need is a play. Maggie a by
ALUMNAE SCHOOL TEACHING SYMPOSIUM
Don't forget to get your luncheon reservations
to Sue Nosco by October 3] if you plan to
attend the Symposium on Saturday, November 4
Class of 69 Presents Amusing Show;
Questions What to Do With Shakespeare
The class of 1969 Junior Show was an amusing script
well performed, The question of the evening was what to
do with Shakespeare, study him or. make a fast buck with
him. An easily corrupted female scholar called Nemesis
personified the former, and a re-incarnated but sex-
changed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern the latter alter-
native. In re-producing the. Bard, they present
‘‘Hamlet’’ as Peter Pan lost. in ‘‘Marat/Sade,’’ ‘‘Mac-
beth”? as a combination of the George Washington
legend and ‘‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” and ‘‘Rom-
eo and Juliet’? superimposed on ‘‘Peyton Place.’’
AS a pedagogue the one I liked best was Hamlet as
Peter. Pan. Some of my mythy colleagues might check
that out.
Entertaining Book
Authors Marianne Lust and Marsha Feinland
put together a thoroughly entertaining book. Director
Jane Wilson had the traffic patterns well mapped and
her cast generally at the right energy level and pace.
The music of Annell Kocher was appropriate, interest-
pretentious, well-rehearsed class show.
ing, and ingeniously orchestrated for harpsichord,
guitar, flute, bongo drums, and piano. The costumes
and. sets designed by Sally Pace, Val Hawkins, and
Sue Zakaluk were colorful, surprisingly finished, and
‘especially effective in the arrangement of levels in the
Hamlet-Sade scene, and the A VISA garden set
for Romeo--Piazza Peytona.
Cast List
Title characters Pinky Stamen and ® “Claire Neely
established good rapport with the audience in their
- song and darice interludes before the curtain, and
with them Kim Blatchford kept up a consistent and-
energetic characterization as Nemesis. Marsha Fein-
land scored well again in her song ‘Solid Flesh
Blues” as Hamlet, the Original Lost Boy.
J. F, Shaw as George and Meredith Roberts as Martha
Macbeth did some _ rather nice comic acting in
their parody of an Albee ante and post bedroom scene.
Witches Judy Liskin, Mary-Clare Fedarko, and Robin :
Brantley got off several good shafts in their Lonely
Tarts Club Band number. Miss Brantley distinguished
herself again, this time with Nancy Miller, in the
opening number of Romeo, ‘‘I Bite My Thumb at You,
Sir.’?
Mary Berg was a good Elvis-Presleyesque
Romeo in her song Romeo Rock, and in her scenes
with Juliet and her mother. Ronnie Goldberg was hilar-
ious as a _ Brooklynese Juliet. Judy Frisch got
some of the best laughs of the show in her lines asa
very ethnic Juliet?’s Nurse. Miss Frisch also did the
choreography, including the excellent interrupted minuet
for the Capulets’ ball. scene, written by Fern Hunt.
Thea Modugno played a traditionally distracted
Ophelia, and Nancy Miller, Judy Liskin, and Mary-
Clare Fedarko were funny as the lost boys. Tina
Levine was a droll and regal Claudius, and Miss
Brantley a convincingly haughty Gertrude. Madeline
Maxwell showed good timing and address in all of
her parts, as an alligator in a sandwich board, asa
murderer, and as Lord Montague. Cathy Pottow Hop-
kins was an urbane Lady Montague, and Tina
Levine reappeared as Lord Capulet with Judy Liskin
as Lady Capulet in a love tetrahedron. Jennie Langdon,
played an amusingly determined Friar, marrying an
extremely reluctant Romeo.
The dancers were Judy Frisch, J, F, Shaw,
Judy Cohn, Pearl Duncan, Marsha Feinland, and Mary-
Clare Fedarko, Musicians in addition to composer
Kocher were Fern Hunt, Joan Briccetti, Carol Berman.
Susan Zakaluk was the Production Manager, Trudy
_ Koser the stage:manager, and Adrienne Rossner the
_promptress, <
The authors, managers, ‘and many of the performers
in “‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’ displayed a
good deai of theatrical savvy. It was a clever, ‘a-t
Peter Lancht
Assistant Professor of English
College news, October 27, 1967
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