College news, February 17, 1967

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Vol Lil, No. 137

BRYN MAWR, PA.

FEBRUARY 17, 1967

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College Theatre Chooses
Brecht’s “Chalk Circle’’

by Marina Wallach

With thé™arrival of. the Spring
Term at Bryn Mawr, the College
Theatre, and Haverford’s Drama
Club, is facing an exciting but
trying new production period.
Along with the customary prob-
lems of finance and time embroil-
ments, the College Theatre has

this year, for the first time, em-_

barked upon an ambitious plan
of drama exchange with Swarth-
more College, which hopefully will
add no new technical dilemmas.

The Theatre itself, which the
normal: student sees ‘only as an
immensely . efficient operating
company on production night is
actually a twin enterprise. Offi-
cers of the College Theatre are
~ @lected by both Bryn Mawr and
Haverford, (the present heads are
respectively, Nimet Habachy and
Judy Chapman, and Alan Brown
and Richard Gartner), yet, differ-
ences in college policy make the
Bryn Mawr dramatic group a fi-
nancially independent one, while
Haverford has placed the economic
resources of its theatre at the
disposal of the Students’ Council.
Productions themselves, (usually
three a year), alternate in col-
lege locations, and financing de-
pends as well on the college which
will harbor the specific offaging.
Membership to the College Thea-
tre is open, but the offices of the
club are proffered chiefly on the

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basis of seniority and ability. Fac-
ulty Advisor, R, Buttman, is a
permanent part of the College

Theatre and whereas the plays to

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be performed are chosen by gen-
eral consensus, the directing por-
tion of the work falls largely into

° his domain.

This March, the College Thea-
tre has chosen to present the
CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE by
twentieth century German play-
wright Bertholt Brecht. The play,
which will open on March 10,:at
Gé@odhart, is typical of Brecht’s
c@@ception of tlie drama as an ex-

‘pa@Pience in which the audience

sheuld feel - distinctly as an
audience, in order to assimilate
the moralistic lesson the theatre
is designed to impart. Based on
an ancient fable, the work will
render the . individual spectator
acutely aware of his position as a
non-active member, but an active
assimilator of the ideas which
are exposed on the stage. The
chief members of the cast include
Stephen Bennett, Faith Greenfield,
James Emmons, Chris Kopff, Judy
Masur, Nimet Habachy, and Rich-
ard Gartner with at least twenty-
five other actors and actresses.
The CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
will be enacted one week later at
Swarthmore College’s Pierson
Hall in what is to make an historic
first exchange in college drama
between the institutions involved.

Swarthmore College has agreed
to the interchange, bringing on

April 21, Osborne’s PLAYS FROM
ENGLAND to Haverford’s Roberts
Hall. Of special interest to the
theatre-goer is the fact that the
Osborne works will be enjoying
their American premiere at this
heralded oecasion. Tickets for the
event cam be purchased ahead of
production time by phone, (MI
2-7644).

Auction To Feature Such Rarities
As Pecan Pie, Colossal Pine Cone

Today, Friday, at 1:30 in the
Tapestry Room at Erdman, Mre.
Marshall and Miss MacPherson
will auction offa number ofarticles
donated by professors for the oc-
casion. This is all part of
League’s annual fund drive, and
the profits from the auction will
be combined with the money
pledged by students to the eleven
charities which were selected in
last week’s balloting.

Those who purchase items at
the auction may either allet
the money to specific charities
or permit League to divide the
donation equally.

Among the items to be auction-
ed are Such priceless gems
as a pecan pie and recipe
donated by Mrs. Berry and a
colossal pine cone from Louisiana,

“a gift of Mr. Alexander of the

Anthropology Department.



COMMITTEE
OF
RESPONSIBILITY

presents

Dr. Herbert Needleman,
National Chairman of the
Committee
and
David McLanahan,
photographer of the -

- *Ramparts”’ article
GOODHART
7:30
MONDAY, FEB. 20









@ud@ents will be able to bid
for a @pst efition of one of Pro-
fessor Ferrater-Mora’s books
an@ a piceic for six in Songwood

Gagi@ens eemtributed by Miss Bar-
nett *. the Biology Department.

Feb. 25 is the last day of
League’s fund drive and Feb. #4
corridof solicitors will remind
each person that pledge sheets
are due. To the charities select-

ed by hall vote, League has
added the new Committee of Re-

sponsibility, as a special service
to Alliance. .

The goal set for this year’s
fund drive is based on a donation
of approximately $3 from each
person, and according to Billie
Stultz, the head of the fund drive,
this is a reasonable amount, since
with only 500 students, Haverford

raises about$2,o0o0annuaaly.

Campus Elections Begin

For Self-Gov, Undergrad

Self-Gov, Undergrad, Big Six,
class, and hall presidents will all
be elected between March 5 and
March 23, announced Sarah Matt-
hews at Undergrad Monday.

Also being elected will be the
vice-presidents and secretaries of
Self-Gov and Undergrad and the
first sophomore to Self-Gov,

All nominations for Self-Gov,
Undergrad and Big Six offices be-
gan yesterday, February 16, All
nominations close this Monday,
February 20 at 7 p.m. Nomina-
tions are made in boxes provided
in each hall,

Presidential primaries open
Wednesday, February 22 at 6 p.m.
and close Thursday at 7 p.m, In
the Self-Gov. and Undergrad elec-
tions, everyone is required to
vote, although abstentions and

» write-ins are allowed, A list will

be up in each dorm for each stu-
dent to check off her name as
she votes,

Presidential elections open Sun-
day, March 5. During the pre-
vious week, the dinner system

will have been in operation, This
schedule, as well as the plat-
forms of the candidates will be
printed in the NEWS in coming
weeks,

Primaries for the rest of the
campus-wide offices will open af-
ter the presidents have been
elected, Tuesday, March 6, and
will close the following day, A
tea will be held for students to
meet these candidates, since they
do not participate in the dinner
system, These elections will be-
gin Sunday, March 12 and end
Monday.

Dorm elections are scheduled
to be completed by March 17, and
class elections by March 23, Jun-
iors must elect a president, and
a first senior to Self-Gov; sopho-
mores, a president, Common
Treasurer of Undergrad, and first
and sgeond juniors to Undergrad;
and freshmen, a president, sec-
ond sophomore to Self-Gov, tradi-
tions chairman and publicity chair-
man to Undergrad,

‘*Chalk Circle’? Cast.

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photo by Susan'Nosco





Students Consider Calendar,

Want Self-Scheduled Exams

by Sue Lautin

The ideal academic calendar
would have papers due before
Christmas, exams before Christ-
mas (only i accompanied by a
reading period), and self-sched-
uled exams, aeeording to a poll
taken in Merion Hall this week.
This poll is part of a campus-
wide project being undertaken by
Curriculum Committee on behalf
of the Faculty Calendar Commit-
tee. .
‘¢The important thing, I believe,
is to have all papers due before
Christmas, because it is papers
that ruin a vacation,’’ was a re-
current comment. Offered seven
types of calendars, the students
were heavily in favor of the pres-
ent Bryn Mawr calendar, but with-
out the lame-duck session, andin-
cluding two reading periods.

‘It is particularly important
that, should there be a reading
period, it be kept free of additional
assignments and papers» due,’
cemmented one girl, reflecting a
major objection to last semester’s
work-laden reading period.

The Harvard calendar was sec-
ond. It has reading periods with-
out the lame-duck session, twelve-
week semesters, and a very late
start and end. Third was the Bryn
Mawr calendar identical to the
first, with the exception that this
one has the lame-duck session,

Several were interested in the
Colgate 4-1-4 calendar, which
came in fourth, Its distinguish-
ing characteristic is that January
is used solely for individual pro-
jects. First-semester exams are
before Christmas. The possibility
of the projects elicited this com-
ment: ‘‘The Colgate plan could be
an extremely valuable system, if
planned properly. This time could
give Bryn Mawr the opportunity
to exhibit the creativity which we

«80 often complain that we lack,

without sacrificing our academic

principles,’’

The Penn-~ year, with exams be-
fore Christmas and no reading
periods, and two tri-mester plans
were very unpopular, since they
would put too much pressure on
the students.

The three-term year, as it is
used at Dartmouth, Wellesley, and
Penn State, horrified most of those
who-voted.-One-explained, ‘‘Ten
weeks without a vacation is two
weeks too many. I know students
at Penn State feel an extraordinary
amount of pressure at the end of
a term. Here it would probably
be even worse,’’

A few were concerned with the
elimination of the lame-duck ses-
sion and continuation of the read-
ing period, while others prefer the
lame-duck. session followed by. a
combined reading period and self-
scheduled exam period.

Changes in Rules
Affect Drinking, .
Dress, Overnights

After months of contemplating
major changes in the Constitution
of Self-Government, the Constitu-
tional Revision Committee has
channelled its ideas into specific
clauses. Thursday evening mimeo-
graphed copies of the proposed
new rules were passed out in all
the dorms and the Committee dis-
cussed them with the campus at
large.

Aside from their basic switch
to the key system, the Committee
has revised the overnight rule,
They have cut out the stipulation
that permission from Executive
Board must be obtained in order
for a student to spend the night
in public accommodations in Phila-
delphia and the vicinity.

The new rule would read, ‘‘With
the understanding that the reputa-
tion of the College is maintained,
a student may sign out for the
night at any time in care of: her
family, a private home in care of
an appropriate person able to as-=
sume responsibility for her, or
respectable public accommoda-
tions.” -

Another change involves the
dress rule. While reserving the

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Do What You Want To Do
Go Where You're Going To

We are grateful that Constitutional Revision Com-
mittee has proposed cutting the red tape surrounding
permission to spend the night in public accomoda-
tions in Philadelphia and the vicinity. It is one more
step in the direction of realizing the ideal self govern-
ment of our student body, as set forth in Self-Gov’s
charter.

There is still a problem, though, with the proposed
rule on overnights. The new rule states: ‘‘With
the understanding that the reputation of the College
is maintained, a student may sign out for the night
at any tinfe in care of;—-her family, a private home
in care of an appropriate person able to assume
responsibility for her, or respectable public accom-
odations.’? We anticipate difficulties with the word
‘*public.”’ Does this exclude dormatories? To
carry it to extremes, what about hospitals? —Ob-
viously; a hospital cannot be an illegal overnight

Sign-out. Yet, since it isn’t family, a private
home or public accommodations, where does it fit
in?




entioning dorms, we were not necessarily
referring to Haverford, or even any men’s dorms,
der this rule (or under the present rule
t matter) do girls who stay weekends in
dorms jat Penn or Swarthmore sign out? Dorms

surely can’t be considered PUBLIC accomodations, ..

With’ spring coming, .we wonder about another



kind of accomodation, What about girls who go
camping, and the most accurate sign-out they could
make would be the car in which they are travelling?

But can a car really be considered a public accom-

This) problem could be solved and the whole rule
simplified if it were revised to read; ‘‘With the
ttanding that the reputation of the College is
lined, a student may sign out for the night
at any| time to any respectable accomodation,”’ The
art of this rule should be strong enough for
both students and the community to realize that Bryn
‘Mawr girls have freedom but not license to do what
they want to do and go where they’re going to,

It's Not Apathy

—- " convinced that-if the average Bryn Mawrter
were asked to express her opinions and general atti-
tude towards the Valley Forge Veteran’s Project,
she would probably be forced to admit that she knew
little if anything about it.’? So begana letter to the
last week. The letter went on to explain
exactly what the project consisted of and then asked
that more Bryn Mawr girls become involved in it,
because it was ‘‘rapidly dying.”’

The writer politely stated that it was probably
inadequate information, rather than apathy that kept
A week has gone by
now, and no one has offered to help.

A little less politely, we would like to say that it



seems to be neither lack of information, nor apathy,
but something very akin to selfishness that is affect-
ing this project. -We point it out only because when

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Re

__ selfishness is labeled,.sometimes it disappears.





Open End: |

. "Time of. the Locust”





This is the first of a series of
essays to appear in the column
‘Open End.’’ The column is
designed: to let members of the
college community speak out
on any subject they wish. Per-
sons interested in contributing
should contact any member of
the Editorial ~-Soard--Ed. note.-

by Marian Brown '67

‘¢Time of the Locust,’’ a twenty
minute film shown in the Common
Room on Thursday, February 9,-is
a protest against the war in Viet-
nam which is being circulated by
the American Friends Service
Committee.

It consists of war scenes with
excerpts of taped speeches made
by President Johnson used
ironically as commentary. Planes
flying in formation unload scores
of bombs..on.the land. below. Wo-

men clutch babies. Facés weep,

agonizedly, angrily. Two Vietcong
are tortured by being ducked in a
river, then hauled out by the hair
and alternately kicked and beat-
en by two South Vietnamese
soldiers. Other soldiers stand
around chatting, making jokes. Fin-
ally, the South Vietnamese shoot
the limp but still living bodies at
their feet methodiccally dead. With
each shot, the Vietcong twitches
wherever the bullet hits. Johnson’s
voice, meanwhile, drones on, re-
assuring us of the nobility of our
cause, of our undying dedication
to the pursuit of peace and free-
dom and brotherhood,

The questions which the film
raised, however, were concerned
less with the issue of the war it-
self than with the problem of
propaganda in general. The dis-
cussion which followed its pre-
sentation, led by Mr. Frederic
Cunningham of ‘the Math Depart-
ment, took up the matter of the

possibility of influencing opinion

in matters of world significance
through an appeal to the emotional
or subrational portion of the human
psychological constitution. The re-
actions of the audience expressed
doubt as to the effectiveness of this
kind-of appeal.

Of the forty or so who saw the
film, all but two felt that the United
States should end the bombing of
North Vietnam. There was general
agreement, however, that the film
failed to offer successful per-
suasion towards this position. One
person brought up the fact that the
kind of violence it shows is so
similar’ to what television offers
as daily entertainment that we are
likely to look upon it only as more
of the same.

World War II, it was suggested,
involved equally unspeakable brut-
ality, yet was fought on justifiable
grounds. In the light of this, the
manner in which the film is pre-
sented does not create a real case
for the termination of this‘war.
Mr. Cunningham felt that Johnson
could see the film and still con-
struct a tenable position upon which
to base his current policy. IF.
Stone’s acclaim of it as ‘‘a poem
of anguish’? was countered by the
criticism that it is ‘not im-
aginatively or brilliantly enough





Letters to
Death Notice

To the Editor:

I was shocked by the way in
which the death of Professor
Emeritus Mary Hamilton Swindler
was announced in THE COLLEGE
NEWS, February 10, 1967.

She was a _ scholar. of dis-
tinction who brought honor to
Bryn Mawr College, a beloved
teacher who enriched: the lives
of all whom she taught, the friend
of many in the College and among
the Alumnae for many years. One
does notexpect that present Under-
graduates who have _ never
known her should write a long
or eulogistic obituary, but one
does expect that her death should
be recorded in good taste and
with respect. A black border and
a dignified headline on the front
page are due the memory of any
member of the College commun-
ity who has died, and are
the more fitting for someone like
Dr. Swindler who embodied those
ideals of scholarship and devoted
service to Bryn Mawr College
that are honored by Faculty and
Alumnae. ‘‘Archaeologist, BMC,
Grad, Dies’? belittles these values
and the worth of the individual.

Frederica de Laguna
Class of 1927
Professor of Anthropology

Mystic Drug

This letter was originally ad-

dressed to Robin Brantley, the
author of the article--Ed. note

To the Editor:

Your article, ‘‘LSD and the Re-
ligious Life: Can There Be A
Connection?” in the NEWS of Feb-
ruary 10 was of considerable in-
terest‘ to me. I commend your
caution in endorsing the use of
LSD, but I suspect that there are
aspects of the issue which might
lead you to qualify even further
your generally affirmative, an-

_Swer to your own question.

' Of course, it is very bad prac-



the Editor

tice to comment critically on a
review of a book or article one
hasn’t read oneself: one can’t be
sure whether one is addressing
oneself to the original author or
to the reviewer. But since you
didn’t tell us how to locate Mr.
Smith’s article, I shall have to
pose my questions to you on the
basis of your account. In any
event, only one query is concerned
with the experiment itself; the
other comments deal with im-
plications which you or Mr. Smith
or both have drawn.

The first question, a double-
barreled one, is for information.
Why should HOUSEWIVES be se-
lected to judge the ‘‘religious in-
tensity’? of the reports of the
theological students who under-
went the Good Friday experiment?
This seems curious scientific pro-
cedure. And of greater interest to
me, how on earth did anyone es-
tablish a criterion of ‘‘religious
intensity’? without begging the
question which so many .of us:
philosophers and theologians find
desperately difficult, an under-
standing of what religion and re-
ligious experience are?

That question leads into two gen-
eral issues which I_ would like to
raise. The first is about the ob-
ject or content of such exper-
iences. You (or Mr. Smith) talk
of ‘experiencing a oneness of the
universe,’’ of a man finding “‘har-
mony with his world,’’ of coming
‘closer to God.’? Leaving aside
the important question , whether
“ synonyms, I should like to ask
how one can possibly know such

- experiences to be genuine (your

term). ‘A few martinis can also
bring on an interesting glow and
feeling of ‘‘oneness’’ with the en-
vironment. How do I distinguish
an LSD trip from that experience?

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The NEWS will accept let-
ters received on or before
the Tuesday of the week of
publication, typed and
double-spaced. :



conceived to make aGOOD poem,”?
and, in the final analysis, ‘‘old
hat.??

The implications of this dis-
cussion are strangely disturbing.
It seems to represent in
microcosm the peculiar character
of human psychology which makes
war a possibility which can be
assimilated by the imagination and
made into an actuality, instead of
being rejected at once as incon-
sistent with human values. This is
the ability of the mind to make a
separation between reason and
emotion by which one can be favor-
ed_to the complete..exclusion of the
other. If nearly forty people
strongly opposed to the war in
Vietnam can watch a film which
includes the murder of two men,
and then spend forty minutes analy-
sing the reasons this failed tocon-
vince them that the war is un-
justified, what possibility is there
of its influencing anyone who favors
government._policyin_ the first.
place?

That the discussion of a political
issue should have entangled itself
with the concerns of artistic
criticism is significant in respect
to this problem, Why must thefilm
be a work of. art by aesthetic
standards before we are willing

‘to take seriously its political
position?

A political victory embodies a
kind of artistry comparable to that
involved in the creation of a work
of art. Moreover, each is subject
to a comparable sort of criticism
by means of which relative values
within each may be ascertained.

But the way in which critics of

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applebee



the story of robinson in the park,
with orchestral accompaniment
(fanfare of trumpets)

once upon a time, long long ago,
there lived on the outskirts \y
town a bear with fuzzy whiskers
and no head (oboe glissando)

he frequently ran around with signs
praising love, beer, amoral be-
havior, and the intake of 7734
calories per day (tuba obbligato)

soon he was surrounded by asmall
group of dissenters whosé signs
dittoed his, they laughed and talked
raucously (extended flute solo in
embroidered baroque; fine)

what they didn’t know was that
robinson was writing a six-week
paper on ‘‘multipfe suburban in-
trusion into urban affairs: its con-
sequences and retrospect’? (lionel
trilling on the autoharp)

what robinson didn’t know was .
that the dissenters were being
employed by the urban league to
keep his intellectual interests from
becoming pragmatically inclined
(round of triangles)

his professor adored the paper
and told him to use it as an in-
troduction for a twelve-week ditty
entitled ‘‘dickens’ multiple intru-
sions into urban affairs’ (brisk
martial cornets)

and so they all conspire against ©
us to make of our lives one long

_“_r@search paper, when do we see

through life to living? ans: when
we look unpenetratingly (da capo
al fine) EN

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Friday, February 17, 1967

by Charles Dempsey,
History of Art Department



eG

The last line ‘in my program of this yedr’s Freshman
show, TOO FAR TO THINK, gives special thanks to,
among others, Bert Kritzer, who saved the. evening
a yby apparently finding the house lights some 20 minutes
® — after the scheduled curtain time. The intervening time
was eéntertainingly filled by some masterful scamper-
ing by Clarissa Rowe, whose expressions of pain and
frustration would have exhausted the repertory of a
Barrymore. Miss Rowe later contributed .a cameo
characterization of a football fan which was one of
the minor delights of the show, surpassed only by the
Bagel Man and Bar Manager performances of Joan
Briccetti.





photo by Susan Nosco

by Marcia Ringel

Freshman Show Saturday night was blessed with some
very good lines, lovely voices, effective on-the-spot
scene characterizations, and a highly appreciative
audience, What it lacked in continuity can be attributed
to the intentional aimlessness of the plot; what it lacked
in pace can be attributed to the brief two weeks in which
the whole package had to be bound together,

Leonard (Prudy Crowther) is an ‘‘out’? in the ‘‘in’’
crowd of “hippies,’? who effectively revealed their dis-
dain for Leonard throughout the show from the outpost
of a proscenium corner, Hippy #5’s haughtily intellec-
tual lines were the best, and Julia Kagan served them
well, Sharon Werner, as the one hippy who continually
defended Leonard, performed her duet with Hippy #6
(Deborah Dickstein), ‘‘Is the Present So Evanescent?,”’

I was caused some apprehension by the’ sonorous

rendition of the overture, which to an-untrained ear ,

gave the impression of containing not more than three
notes which managed to soar above middle C, And I
would be less than candid not to admit to a few moments
of apprehension as well during afew of the slow moments
in the first act. The sag of which this act was never
quite. able to rid itself was relieved with enough high
‘moments to keep it from becoming a mortal problem,

however - the best being a fine duet by Deborah Dick-—

stein and Sharon Werner as Hippies nos. 6 & 7.

The second act was much better paced, andcompletely
enjoyable from start to finish, It was gotten off to a fine
start by the Art Museum number, which was highlighted
by the singing of the three patronesses, Jerry Bond,
Eleanor Gibson, and Andrea Porth. The acting of these
girls was of a standard equal to their excellent singing.
The three statues were splendid to look at, and per-
formed a fine dance number. ~ =

The Freshmen seem to be~-blessed with a good
selection of singing voices, and nearly all the duets
and solos were well performed. Sharon Werner and
our three patronesses of the arts did yeoman service,
and Carolyn Monka as Annie turned in an affecting
duet with Prudy Crowther’s rather too low-pitched
Leonard, Whichever dancer it was who portrayed the
statue with the thumb in its mouth was especially good

. in ‘a troupe of generally -graceful-dancers,

Not Even Remotely

I had not realized how difficult it is for girls to
look and act’ even remotely like men, the one excep-
tion to this rule being Kay Seygal who appeared as
the -(effeminate to be sure) poet Will. Leonard, as
played by Prudy Crowther, came across as a bit
too consistently imbecilic to make one confident that
his rejection by the Hippies was not entirely justified.
Miss Crowther’s basic shuffle, and her two basic
expressions of Leonard’s shyness, VIZ, eyes rolled
left, and eyes rolled right, needed a bit more varia-
tion to carry her through the length of the show. The
Hippies on the other hand, however understandable
their feelings about Leonard, came across as a group
as being pretty whiny and, having lost their cool at
the opening curtain, spent the rest’of their time doing
swinging things like watching football games on tele-

with appropriate trepidation and a most pleasant soprano
voice,

The songs in general were well constructed and clev-
erly worded, Certainly they were free of the cliches
that can easily slip into varsity shows, Singers were
supported admirably by a five-piece orchestra, which
included masculine aid on bass and drums, this last
fast becoming as much a Bryn Mawr tradition as it
used to be anti-tradition, The harmony in two duets
(‘Is the Present So Evanescent?,’? ‘‘What Love Is’)
and a three-part madrigal (‘‘The Show More Fair’’)
was notable -- in the trio even more so due to the
excellent voices of Jerry Bond, Eleanor Gibson, and
Andrea Porth, Joan Bricetti and Dardis McNamee are
to be commended for music and lyrics,

Leonard seemed the only miscast character among
a huge cast of bit parts well suited to the actresses
who played them, Prudy Crowther assigned to Leonard
all the askew ties and pigeon toes one might wish



photo by Susan Nosco



“The Seat of Cathexis Is the Solar Plexis”



photo by Susan Nosco
vision and (it would seem) sitting around smoking
cigarettes while they ate their’ peanut butter sand-
wiches in Mom’s living room on Saturday afternoons,
No doubt the point is that the folk-ways of the swinger
demand an awful conformity of their own, but I’m not
sure that this quite makes THAT point, whatever point
Hersey may have been groping after. As a veteran
viewer of Freshman shows down through the ages, I
recommend to these Hipsters the immortal lines I
once heard in a corresponding gala over at Swarth-
more -- “THE SEAT OF CATHEXIS IS THE SOLAR
PLEXUS,”’ The author of those lines subsequently
grew up to be a sociologist, and named his first son
(by a Vassar girl, and no kidding about this) Nonesuch
- Nonesuch Nelson, But that was in another place, and
besides, the wench is dead.

Show Compact, Enjoyable, Comic, Too Short

for someone who is ‘‘out of it,” but lacked the inner
dynamism of a young idealist out to ‘“unlace the frilly
corset of the American dream’’ and in fact seemed
unaware of the presence on the stage of any other
character, even Annie, the Girl Scout leader with whom
Leonard supposedly falls in love,

Carolyn Monka as Annie remained aptly solicitous
of Leonard’s self-confidence throughout her brief role
in the last two scenes of the play, It was strangely re-
freshing that the hero found happiness not with some
girl next door, available since the first act, but instead
with a new acquaintance; that’s the way things do really
seem to happen, Annie’s tender ‘‘Here, have a cookie’’
(flavor: avocado newton) served as a very funny black-
out line,

The sets by Luciel Mulligan were highly service-
able, if dark, using stage depth to good advantage;
notably, scenes in the Silver Meteor (distinguishable
from its prototype only by its cleanliness) and. the
park,

The integration of action and sets, to be credited to
director Faith Greenfield and/or script writers Susan
Watters and Faith Greenfield, provided fine familiar
touches: saving a stool with a napkin at the Meteor,
exiting through the Meteor’s cramped vestibule, and
crashing through a subway stile with a helpful lady
shopper (played humorously by Jackie Gilberg),

As a little boy persecuted by a nasty subway gang,
Leslie Armsby crossed her arms and pouted with
conviction, Also worthy of note were Joan Bricetti,
who doubled as bagel man and bar manager, and Pat
Shuler, as a polieeman in an exceptionally policeman-
like uniform,

The Egg Will Hatch

—

Dances, choreographed by Chris Woll, were gen-
erally serene and in leotards, Three statues’ dignified
minuet with the three art patronesses provided a comic
moment, The discotheque finale might have been more
elaborate, but shortage of time must always be respected,

‘“‘Too Far to Think,’’ while remaining in the realm
of student production (‘‘I never get upset, Leonard; I
get depressed’’) , never got too cute, never cloyed or
preached, Intermission was achieved gracefully, by
calling half-time at a football game, Even Leonard’s
moment of glory, in which he recites the poem in
praise of Life for which his encounters in the play
have served as research, is delightfully terse: ‘‘We’l]
conquer the world, every nook and cranny,./Me-and
Annie,’”?

The basic fault of Freshman Show was simply that
there should have been more of it -- more music,
more production numbers, more coherence of plot,
What there was, was compact and enjoyable, It looks
promising that ’70’s. Class Animal, an egg, will hatch
into an even more enjoyable Junior Show in 1968,

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Some Parking Problems Continue
Administration Enforces Rulings;

The driving situation has defi-
nitely improved since the Ad-
ministration took over the problem
from Self-Gov last month, accord-
ing to Mrs. Whelihan, Assistant
to the President, She emphasized
that the students ought to be com-
mended for their co-operation.

Parking remains, however, the
‘greatest headache of the Admin-
istration. Since the transfer of
authority, fifty-five stickers have
been given out: twenty blue stick-
ers (non-res students), twenty-four
reds (people with off-campus park-
ing places), and eleven yellows
(people allowed to park on cam-
pus). Mrs. Whelihan noted that in
giving out these stickers the Ad-
ministration is following the sug-
gestions of Self-Gov; no one who
has applied for a red or blue
sticker has been turned down, and
only perhaps half a dozen requests
for yellow stickers have been de-

» nied. One of the major obstacles in
granting permission to keep a car
is insufficient insurance. ‘‘In gen-
eral, however, people are very

understanding,’”’? says Mrs. Whel-
ihan.

There are nevertheless still
many cars illegally parked on cam-
_ pus, and many have been given
~ first warnings (no fines), An added
difficulty is presented by cars
with out of state licensespthe own-
ership of these cars cannot be
traced as easily, and it is mostly
these cars which have received
second tickets ($10 fine), No one has

U.S. Intervention
In Santo Domingo

To Be Discussed |

- “United States Intervention’ in
the Dominican Republic: causes
and consequences”’ is the subject
of an Alliance lecture to be given
Wednesday, February 22,

The speaker is Henry Wells,
an assistant professor of polit-
ical science at the University of
Pennsylvania, He has spoken and
written extensively on. US-Dom-.
inican relations,

It is to begin at 8:30 in the
Common Room, ,



All students interested
in laying a
Transatlantic Rope
Contact
David Millstone
or Rob Stavis







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been towed away-so far.

The Administration has hired a
guard named Mr. Fritz to enforce
the new driving regulations. His
job is rendered more difficult,
especially in the road in front of
Rhoads, by the problem of wait-
ing cars; it is difficult to tell how
long a car has been parked and

Liason Between

veople who promise to stay only
a few minutes sometimes stay
much longer. He has tried to be as
fair as possible under such cir-
cumstances,

Finally, Mrs. Whelihan explained
that motorcycles were banned from
the campus because they were felt
to be particularly dangerous.

Students, CIA

Exposed by Ramparts, NY Times

Ian Fleming would have chortled
with glee. Only instead of Fort
Knox, the powers that be have
selected international student con-
ferences and exchanges as a suit-
able background for espionage, and
Pussy Galore and her exotic co-
horts have been replaced by the
more subtle but equally subver-
sive American student. The organ-
ization whose leaders were de-
nounced by the magazine ‘‘Ram-
parts’’ in a full page ad in Tues-
day’s ‘‘New York Times’’ is in-
deed none other than that nice
group which is such a help in
arranging low cost student trans-
portation abroad and which sends
Bryn Mawr and 299 other member
colleges periodic bulletins about
academic freedom and the draft--
the National Student Association.

The ‘‘New York Times’? obli-
gingly also printed a front page
article explaining the rather cur-
ious facts behind ‘‘Ramparts’ ”’
editorial explosion. Eugene
Groves, 1965 Rhodes scholar and
the current president of NSA has
conceded that from the early fifties
until last year, the oldest and lar-
gest student organization in the
country had been receiving finan-
cial aid from--of all people--
the CIA (which refused comment
on the matter). From $200,000
a year a few years ago the annual
amount has gradually decreased
to $50,000, and according to‘‘Ram-
parts,’’? not Mr. Groves--was de-
livered through the unlikely agen-
cies of the Sidney and Esther Rabb
Charitable Foundation of Boston
and the Independence Foundation
of Boston--no worse than a Swiss
bank, if you think about it.

The American government first
began to ‘‘infiltrate and subvert the
world of American student lead-
ers’’ (to quote ‘‘Ramparts’’) about
fifteen years°ago, when (to quote

Mr. Groves) ‘‘it was impossible to’

obtain funds from private groups’?
to support the organization’s activ -
ities abroad--which consisted of
such clearly suspicious programs
as sponsoring representatives to
international student conferences,

financing student exchanges, and
providing technical help in-sem-
inars abroad on higher education
and student leadership. Almost
all of these activities, according
to Mr. Groves, took place in ‘‘de-
veloping countries’’ particularly
those in Africa, At that time,
he continued, ‘‘the organization
felt the existence of heavily fi-
nanced, totally controlled Soviet
front organizations in the interna-
tional student field made it im -
perative that democratic and pro-
gressive organizations maintain a
pretence abroad which would offer
an alternative.’’

Nevertheless, last year we came
in from the cold: our leaders
realized that the relationship was
‘inconsistent with the democratic,
open nature of NSA”? and that ‘‘an
obligation of trust to the students
of the nation and to our own per-
sonal principles demanded that

such a relationship be terminated .

and that all sources of funding be
open.’’ Napoleon and Ilya, you’re
on your own.



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Wanted: short stories
poetry
essays
plays
artwork
cartoons
photography

No deadline has been an-

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Four Professors Receive Aid -

To Continue Research Studies

by Jan Oppenheim

Bryn Mawr professors will be
spanning the globe soon, from the
Mediterranean to the South Pacific.
With. grants. from “the National
Science Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Humanities,
Miss Goodale of the Anthropology
Department, Mr. Phillips of Arch-

. aeology, and Mr. Dempsey and

Mrs. Hanson of Art History will be
pursuing special projects that will
take them from Tuscany to New
Britian.

With her grant from the Na-
tional Science Foundation, Miss
Goodale will spend eleven months
living with: and studying the
Kaulong, a tribe of southwest New
Britain, an island near New Guinea.
In 1963-64, she began her studies
of these people, concentrating onan
inland village which had no contact
with Western civilization in the
form of the Australian government.

She was accompanied on this ex- |

pedition by Ann Chowning, a Bryn
Mawr alumna and former hall
warden.

This time, Miss Goodale plans
to fill in the gaps left in her past
studies and to proceed further,
contrasting inland, or basic, cul-
ture with that of coastal villages
in contact with the influences of
Western culture. In June, she will
leave for Canberra, Australia,
where she will work for two months
with Miss Chowning, now a Senior
Fellow at the Australian National
University. They will go over,
organize and analyze the. material
from their last trip. In September,
Miss Goodale will leave alone for
New Britain. There, she will select
a suitable coastal village, build a
house and settle until August 1968.
This time, Miss Goodale will be
working- totally alone. _‘‘It_is,”’
she says, ‘‘an expedition of me,
myself and I.’?

Both Mrs. Hanson and Mr. Demp-
sey will use their grants from the
National Endowment for _ the
Humanities to advance further in
work which grew out of doctoral
dissertations. Mrs. Hanson’s eight
months’ grant will allow her to
travel to Italy toexamine the works
of Jacopo della Quercia, a fifteenth
century Sienese artist. She wrote
her doctoral dissertation, later
published by the Clarendon Press,
on the artist’s first really large
monument about which anything is
known - his fountain inSiena.

Now Mrs. \Hanson plans to look

at della Quercia’s works in Lucca.
Little is know about his life there
and much research needs to be
done. A major work, the Trenta
Altarpiece in the church of San.
Frediano, is the most controversial
of all pieces attributed to the
artist. Mrs. Hanson sees in it the
work of two additional artists, one
of whom: she must still find aname
for. There is little available docu-
mentation since much of it was
destroyed in a civil uprising of the
fifteenth century.

Mrs. Hanson will not spend all
of the eight months in Italy. Some
time will be spent at Yale whose
library affords excellent material.
She had planned to supplement her
studies from the little library in
Lucca with major researches in
Florence. After the flood, however,
Mrs. Hanson cannot be sure what
will be available to her.

Mr. Dempsey’s book on-Nicolas-
Poussin, the seventeenth century
French painter, has been in pro-
gress for some time. The’ basic
material formed part of his Ph.D.
dissertation. His summer grant
will allow him to prepare the work
for final publication.

Mr. Phillips’ grant from the .
National Endowment for the
Humanities may profoundly affect
American archeological students.
This grant of up to-$10,000 to Bryn
Mawr will finance a project to
train American students of
archaeologyas well as further re-
search. Mr. Phillips, at the fno-
ment a member of the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton,
will direct diggings on the site
of a sixth century B.C. Etruscan
town. While participating, students
from various American institutions
will receive first-hand training...



BRYN MAWR EMPLOYEES

Invite

Interested Students
To Sing With Them
At Their
Annual Spring Concert
Thurs., May 4

Rehearsals Are Every
2nd and 4th
Monday
In Taylor Basement







Movies Begin Tuesday
With “Maltese Falcon’”’

This semester Arts Council is
again sponsoring a series of ten
films which will be shown every
Tuesday evening,

The first film of the series,
to be presented February 21 is
‘‘The Maltese Falcon?’ starring
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor,
Peter Lorre, and Sidney Green-
street, This deceptive story will

_ be followed the next week by Jean

Renoir’s ‘*Picnic on the Grass,’’

Films in March will include
‘‘Requiem for a Heavyweight?’
which is the story of the decline
of an ex-champion Prizefighter,
Ingmar Bergman’s ‘‘The Seventh
Seal’, a religious drama set in
the Middle Ages, and another
‘“‘Chaplin Night,’’

April 4 ‘‘The Blue Angel’? will
be shown, the film which estab-
lished the careers of director
Josef von Sternberg and actress
Marlene Dietrich, ‘‘Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof’? (based on the play by

Sera

Tennessee Williams) _ starring
Paul Newman and Elizabeth Tay-
lor will be featured the follow-
ing week, and April 18 Peter

. Sellers will be seen playing three

roles in ‘‘The Mouse that Roared,’’

This semester’s film series will
also feature a Russian film di-
rected by Mikheul Kalatozov, ‘‘The
Cranes are Flying.’? This story
of two young lovers caught in the
events of World War II is con-
sidered one of the best modern
Russian films,

The film series will end May
2 with Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘‘A Wo-
man is a Woman,’’ starring Jean-
Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina,

The films will be shown in
the Biology Lecture Hall at 7and |
9:30 each week, The $4,00 dona-: -»
tion for the series will help sup- ©
port Arts Council, The donation
may be charged to. payday and
students should see their Arts
Council Hall Representatives for
subscriptions,
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Friday, February 17, 1967





‘Intensity’? will hardly do. In one
sense the drunk’s experience of
writhing snakes on the floor or
pink mice scrabbling up the walls
is ‘genuine’ -- he. certainly
THINKS they're real -- but we
would hardly accept his testimony.

You will notice that I’m not
saying that there’s a logical con-
nection between taking drugs or
alcohol (or. suffering an oxygen
deficiency) and NON-genuine éx-
periences. MAYBE God: (or the
universe) reveals himself (itself)
only or especially at such times.
But, if so, it is a curious God or
world indeed, and one which fails
to gage my interest. My or-
dinary struggles to understand my
world, its problems, and myself
have nothing to do with it.

Yoti can guess the drift of my
second observation: it~seems to
me that the issues of one’s qui
ordinary life demand every st
of one’s native intelligence, sel F
discipline, and acquired knowl,
edge. As*a free agent, I c
choose to enlist these assets an
act like a human being. Or -- an
here I point to your quotation fro
Camus -- I can choose to be ‘‘a
cat among animals’’ and presum:
ably feel myself one with th
world, Like Camus, I should choos
to try for integrity as a perso;
rather than to surrender my will
and critical intelligence.

After that burst of rhetoric,
I still have a few pedantic foot-
notes. (1) Mr. Smith’s historical
references -to the production of
altered states of consciousness
through drugs or mortification of
the flesh are, I think, correct and
undeniable (though one might cavil
at imputing this intention to the
earliest (Christian?) monks; THEY
don’t say this), but why omit the
voice of the central (Jewish and
Christian) tradition of the West?
It has pretty consistently deplored

the comparable pre-LSD pract-

tices, has soft-pedalled the im-
portance of ‘‘visions,’’ and has
even been suspicious of peculiarly
‘“‘private experiences.’’ Perhs



they were wrong in down-playing ~

/

the religious importance of s
experiences, but shouldn’t one) in-

own odd feelings? (Extensive
liography available on request.)
(2) I admit to a definite quefasi-
ness when you speak of ‘‘r it-
alization’’ of religious life thr
LSD by ‘experiencing a oneness
with thé universe ... rather than
having this oneness related to
them.’? Perhaps I misinterpret.
Are you saying that through LSD
a man can take the initiative?
Now, most of the attempts to dis-
tinguish religion from magic with
which I am familiar do so on just
this ground: in magic you compel
the ‘‘divine’’ to accede to your re-
quests by certain physical acts;
in later, more sophisticated stages
of religion, the concept of con-
trolling supernatural forces is
labelled blasphemous, for the Deity
is not subject to MY whims and
importunings.

And so, you see, I am reluc-
tant to opt out by reverting either
to an animal level, unable to make
distinctions, or to a primitive



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Letters

(Continued from page 2)



human level, presumably com-
pelling the lords of the universe
to do my bidding. These consid-
erations -- plus the dubious phys-
iological effects to which you and
the NEWS editorialistic point --
are quite enough to make my
estimate of the contribution of
LSD -to the religious life very
different- indeed from yours. If
that’s religion, I want no part of
it.

Thanks again for an interest-
ing article and for hearing me
out.

Very sincerely yours,
Jean A, Potter
Department of Philosophy

Constitution

(Continued from page 1)

right of Executive Board ‘‘to act
in all cases where’the dress of
students might cause unfavorable
criticisrn ofthe College,’’ the
Committee has limited the restric-
tion on slacks and shorts toclass-
es. The clause stating that pants
may not be worn ‘‘On main roads,

-in the Ville, or on public trans-

portation’? has been eliminated.

The Committee has also modi-
fied the drinking rule. The pro-
posed rule states only that ‘*No
intoxicating beverages are allowed
on campus.’? The Committee has
dropped the explanatory phrase
that ‘‘The Association does not
condone any conduct which indi-
cates that a student has been
drinking.’’

The Committee welcomes any
opinions or suggestions for im-
provement which were not brought
up at the hall meetings. Students
should see their dorm represen-
tatives to the Committee, or its
chairman, Ferry Newirth.

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(Continued from page 2)
political action and critics of art
apply themselves to their re-
spective fields is different. The
social critic judges the actions of
the politician largely in terms of
the means used by the latter to
achieve his ends.,,The art critic’s
final judgement of a work of art,
on. the other hand, is made in-
dependent of the process which
led to its manufacture, That: is,
social criticism involves ethical
considerations, while artistic crit-
icism tends to transcend them in
the interests of larger aesthetic
issues. In terms of immediacy,
politics has more to do withevery-
day human concerns than art. Yet
art is considered a humanism and
politics -is classified -among.-the
sciences.

Does this point to a confusion
in our minds as to what sort of
criticism may be properly applied





to a particular area of human con-
cern? That is, is it not erroneous
to attempt to apply to pobhitical
situations which are fundamentally
human and thereby ethical inchar-
acter, the kind of abstract: intel-
lectual criticism which must‘ be
used to deal with aesthetic matters?

It is this tendency to overin-
tellectualize which was evident in
the: discussion of ‘Time of the
Locust.’? While perfectly~valid in
the context «of an- academic
situation where an aesthetic judge-
ment was demanded, the continua-
tion of the Vietnam*war is a clear
indication of the consequences con-
tingent upon ‘the extension of this

tendency. fo
This statement is not at all
meant to reflect on those in-

dividuals who took part in the dis-
cussion, Its author took part in
them and experienced similar re-
actions. It is offered rather as a




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Student Discovers Friends of Music ;

Visits Mandel’s Afternoon Workshop

by Robin Brantley

Yesterday, while I was leisurely
searching the floor for the lost
winding stem of my watch, the
editor of the COLLEGE NEWS
walked into my room and asked,
‘“‘How would you like to do an
article on the Friends of Music of
Bryn Mawr College?’ ‘‘Great,’’
I said, ‘‘but on the WHAT?”’ Later,
appalled by my ignorance, I took
an informal poll in the dorm, only
to discover my reaction was
typical. Seven girls had heard of
the Friends.

Was this ignorance a part of
general student apathy? Or were
the Friends hiding their music in
some obscure corner, peocenes |

of Music--books, record players,
practice pianos. Members include
people as diverse as Eugene Or-
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held in Goodhart Tuesday night,
although scattered around the cam-
pus was the usual number of bright-
colored posters announcing the
event. Alan Mandel, pianist, was
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My editor had told me attend-
ance at previous concerts had not
been good, Although free tickets are

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(For those of you who may be as
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available through Arts Council, few
students use them. A fewconcerts,
such as the New York Pro Musica
in 1964-1965, have attracted large
gatherings, but.on most occasions
Goodhart looks amazingly empty.
Of course Goodhart looks amazing-
ly empty for events other than the
concerts. But beyond student
apathy; do the concerts hold appeal
for the average music lover as
well as the highly knowledgeable
music student?

Being myself onlya music lover,
I decided to analyze the situation
from my point of view, since most
of the girls oncampus are probably
not highly ‘knowledgeable music
students. In the first place, I
wanted to know exactly what Alan
Mandel was playing Tuesday night.
The program, rather than the artist
(unless he is unusually well known),
attracts me to a concert. The
poster offered me no help. But I
did learn that Mandel was holding
a-—workshop.. Tuesday. afternoon
(most of the concert artists who

come to Bryn Mawr hold work- -

shops), so I decided then would be
a. good time for me to find out
what the Friends had to offer.

I found the workshop in the
Music Room in Goodhart. There
were probably fifty other people
there--students, teachers, and
members of the Friends. Alan
Mandel is a slight, dark-haired

man, who’ teaches at American Un-
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from the Concord Sonata ofCharles
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to understand, but I relaxed when
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thorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau.
Each essay describes an author,
but Mandel explained that the es-
says are not so much interpreta-
tions of the writers as they are
interpretations of the sonata. The
essays are revelations of Ives
himselt,- = ™

Mandel read the Emerson essay
and followed each with the ap-
propriate movement of the sonata.
The combination of writing and
music fascinated me, and I particu-
larly loved the Hawthorne move-
ment, which exploited. the dark,
wild side of the author’s nature.

. I left the workshop ‘excited that
I had found a part of Bryn Mawr I
never knew existed. And if Mandel
is typical of the other concert
artists brought to the College, then
long may the Friends be friends
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