College news, February 2, 1968

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BRYN MAWR, PA.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1968

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967

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Freshman Show Weaves

Tale of Viking Grandeur

It isn’t every Freshman Show
that . interweaves a Wagnerian
opera star, a stuffy pompous king
and an elfin Druid with a cockney
accent to produce a fabricated
fable of Viking lore. But ‘‘Who
Put the Vie in Viking,’ Class
of °71, does just that and more.

Directed by Molly Sloca, ‘‘Vie,”’
slated for Feb. 9 and Feb. 10,
recreates with historical authen-
ticity the tale of the land of Hal-
vallah and the famous race of kings.

In this country out of the eso-
teric depths of Norse legend lives
a race of gallant warriors who
each enter into the rank of king
after completing a great and dar-
ing. quest. The two-act-play fo-
cuses on the trials and tribulations
of three eta hi Erics
4, 5 and 11.

Trouble begins for ‘the trio of

_ hearty warriors when they defy the

king’s orders and refuse either to
marry one of the monarch’s four
daughters or to set out on the Quest
for the Holy Quail. This not only
incurs the king’s wrath, but also
causes difficulties when the three
young men become entangled in
a seemingly hopeless: love quad-
rangle, further complicated by the
magical mishcief of a cockney
Druid.

With | only one week until cur-
tain tine, Director Sloca is con-
fident that the ‘‘tremendous en-
thusiasm and wealth of talent’’
of her fellow classmates will give
the audience a‘‘really good show.”’

‘*T have been impressed by
everyone’s enthusiastic interest
in everything from the starring
roles to costuming to lighting to
errand girl,’? said Molly. ‘“‘If

. this enthusiasm continues, we can’t

miss.”’

The cast of principal characters
includes King Frothmuch, Chris
Spear; Sigmund, Helen Kass; Mair-
faiden, Ann Marie Thro; Dame-
fairsel, Lee McGeorge; Brunhilda,
Luicia Nixon; Edna, Leigh Elhers;
Hairic the Red, Donna Vogel; Hel-
dric the Heady, Jill Kaplan; Cedric
the Seedy, Ashley Doherty; and

ie.

Arnuf C. Heathdane, Peggy Mc-
Carthy.

The Erics of the race of kings
include: -Diane Donalson, Patsy
Smith, Debby Seltzer, Martha Hill,
Carolyn Kraus, Nan Schwartz,
Carol Johnson, Cris Meerdink,
Fio Lance, Ellen Dolnansky,
Maggie Brown, and Ellen Thomp-
son.

Cast as court servants are Julie
Yarborough, Bonnie Holcomb, Jane
Harrold, Sue Wong, Bea Jones
and Margaret Watkins. Mary Sch-
ropback, Terry Kardos, Lynne
Piersol, Elizabeth Chesney, Sally
Boyd and Pam Anderson will be
the. Ladies Chorus.

Other Halvallian Warriors and
dignitaries include Joyce Wilder,
Margaret Meriwether, Gilda Teix-
ido, Sally Harrison, Patty Ratner,
Sue Auerbach and Nancy Halli.

The Trolls will be Carol Adams,
Porter Ridley, Jackie Decter,
Debby Swirsky, Edie Stevenson,
Rebecca Berman, DebbyC ole, Ruth
Arnold and Sandy Dormont.

Working behind the scenes, com-
mittee chairmen include pro-
duction, Kim Hanson and Vivien
Schmidt; publicity, Sue Auerbach;
business, Sue D’Arezzo; chore-
ography, Madeleine Denko; music,
Sandy Dollar; costumes, Judy Hoos
and Judy Wenner; programs, Bea
Jones; set design, Mimi Evans;

(Continued on page 6)

H‘ford Bus to Run
Weekday Mornings

A new bus is now running every
weekday morning between Bryn
Mawr and Haverford.

The seven-seater Chevrolet
sports van was bought by Haver-
ford to alleviate overcrowding in
the Bryn Mawr bus. Bryn Mawr
and Haverford are sharing main-
tenance costs.

Driven by Eugene , Pantalone,
the new Chevyarrives ateach stop
five to ten minutes later than the
Bryn Mavr bus.

~~ Plans for the new language house were Sstiaead at a tea
yesterday in the Common Room. Students were given

the op-

portunity to both learn about the bellding and discuss plans for

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The trolls offer handouts to Freshman Show Director Molly Sloca.

photo by Mary Yee

Self Gov. Attempts Undergrad Rises to Meet
Challenge of Voter Apathy

To Decrease Theft
From-BMC Library

Self Gov President Drewdie
Gilpin has announced sterner sanc-
tions for Library rule violators.
Authorized by the constitution to
take measures against any actions
contrary to the spirit of the rules,
the Executive Board will use hu-
miliation as well as fines to stop
illegal use of the Library.

Violaters under the currentrule
simply pay a fine; many students
deliberately hold books illegally,
preferring to pay than be without
the books. Under the new rule,
offenders will also have to appear
before the Executive Board to
explain their behavior.

The Board does not plan to
search out all violaters, but will
deal with any cases brought to
its attention. The new policy
is not meant to swamp the board
with work but rather to act as
a deterrent to potential Library
offenders.



Currently under fire is
Bryn Mawr’s system of campus-
wide elections, held every spring
in an atmosphere of voter apathy.
Undergrad President Lola Atwood,
particularly concerned by this lack
of interest has called for
an open meeting in the College
Inn on Monday, February 5 at
" o'clock to discuss alternative
systems.

‘The system as it now
exists--where candidates face stu-
dents in a round of discussions
heid after dinner and at ten-o’clock
in each dorm--is designed
in theory to allow the elec-
torate to meet their candidates
thereby having a _ real choice,
In practice, however, the candi-
dates meet with a _ handful
of interested students and a great
many impolite ones who not
only ignore the visitors but do so
noisily in adjoining smokers. Since
ballots are manadatory for Self-
Gov, Undergrad, and Big Six elec-

Aon sete courtesy Public Relations

its insauttien ot use. The new language house, scheduled
to open in September 1969, is undergoing a change in plans in
order to comply with the Lower Merion Township fire regulations.

tions, the widespread ignorance
of platforms and their advocates
is distressing. Abstentions win
a great many elections.

Suggestions for modification
of the system have been few.
It has been proposed that the
candidates speak just once ineven-
ing gatherings in the Common
Room; or that if the after dinner
scheme is retained, dorms could
be grouped together so_ that
there would be fewer meetings.
There has been some movement to
scrap the entire system by those
who feel that nothing can be done
to change student attitude,
which is the root of the problem.
If this view prevails, a system
of internal elections would be sub-
stituted within campus. or-
ganizations.

Thrift Shop Idea
Tops Undergrad’s
Opening ‘68 Agenda

A proposal to establish a stu-
dent thrift shop in the Inn and
suggestions for improving the Lib-
rary record collection were dis-
cussed Monday at the first Un-
dergrad meeting of the new sem-
ester.

Freshman Laura Hershey has
proposed a thrift shop to which
students can bring any articles
they wish to sell, including cloth-
ing, records, used textbooks, and
furniture. They would set their
own price for their merchandise
and that price, plusa small com-
mission for the shop’s business
expenses, will be paid by the per-
son who purchases the merchan-
dise,

Such a shop, which would be set
up in the basement of the College
Inn, was thought to be a practical

way for students to dispose of un-
wanted possessions with a mini-

~mum of difficulty, since it would

obviate the need for the student
to search for her own buyer. It
would be non-profit and entirely
student-run.

Junior Jane Shaw asked the Un-
dergrad representatives for sug-
gestions to maintain the college’s
expanding record collection. Cur-

rently kept in the west wing of

the Library, the collection includes
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Community Reaction

Much was said last semester. about the lack of
community at Bryn Mawr. There were those who
lamented the disappearance of the existing com-
munity, those who questioned the existence
of a Bryn Mawr community,}and those who denied
the need for or importance’ of such a community.

_It seems an important part of college, however,
to learn from experiences outside as well as inside
the classroom, This exchange of ideas is perhaps the
most important: part of the learning experience,
and the purpose of attending a residential college
seems to be to faciliate this exchange by living
in a community,

A new semester is.a time to begin again, so-
cially as well as academicaily, It is a chance
to examine the values of a community like Bryn
Mawr and to work for its improvement, The COLLEGE
NEWS hopes to aid in this attempt to improve
(Create?) the Bryn Mawr community by being a
center of communication between its members, N.M.

Decrease in Pressure

Those responsible for the drafting and execution
of the self-scheduled exams are to be commended for.
their efficiency in handling the system during its
first trial period. The smoothness with which the
distribution of exams and details of organization were
carried out is proof that the system can. work.

The opportunity to determine one’s’ own exam
scheduje, and the knowledge that. the responsibility
‘of planning a schedule rested on the individual

student relieved many of the past pressures of.

exam period,

If, as was the case this year, in addition to the
‘practical successes, the academic honor system can
be upheld without violation under the new system,
self-scheduled exams will be a success, N.M.



it’s beginning time again. i’ve always felt my year began more perly
at the start of a semester rather than january 1. as a matter’ i
have three beginnings each year (so much nicer to have three chances
instead of one to reshape your whole existence). i start over again every
summer, every.september and every end of january.(my academic time
orientation comes froma long life ina library tower. if you heard taylor
bell knolling the beginning of each academic session for, oh, say about a’
trillion years, wouldn't you be a bit confused as to why people make


































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Friday, February 2, 1968

On Abolishing Sign- Outs

Most students reacted to the ZIGZAG articley

headed ‘Bryn Mawr Students Ignore Honor System’”’
by agreeing that it was a true allegation. True or
not, the article was not terribly useful because
it simply outlined the negative factors of the
situation and suggested no real solution.

The only hint of a solution presented could be
summarized in two words--‘‘end hypocrisy.’ It
was only a hint, and not a very helpful one at that.
However, one concrete possibility was mentioned
which deserves being further explored.

The sign-out system for wamen college students
is an anachronism from the days when women
were protected, pampered and constantly shaded
from the harsh realities of life. Women did not
drive, and they certainly couldn’t vote. They were
treated like sweet but inept children, or better
yet, charmingly mindless toys.

Bryn Mawr girls sign out when they leave the
dorm: they write down where they are going, who
they are going with, how they are going, and
when they will be back. Graduate students don’t
sign out, men have certainly never been subjected

_ to such a process, and a growing number of women.
students at other institutions are no longer re-
quired to document their .comings and going,
(e.g. Radcliffe).

There seem to be two justifications for a
sign-out system. One, a girl’s whereabouts should
be known at-all times in case she should have to
be reached in an emergency. This does not make
much sense though, because it is applied dis-
criminately only to undergraduates, and then only
after 12:30. Don’t boys ever have emergencies?
Don’t grad students? Do emergencies happen only

, after 12:30? Hardly.

The second justification is that. girls are more
likely to be mugged, raped and murdered after
12:30 than before, and that these things are more
likely to happen to girl undergraduates than to

- tion.

anyone else. Having the girl sign out will enable the
, college to have a place to start looking’ if she
* doesn’t return.

This second reason makes sense in theory.

Unfortunately, practice is not so perfect. Last -

semester, a girl called in to sign out overnight to
a, friend’s house. The girl taking the sign-out
mistakenly made it for a 2 a.m. return. When
the girl did not return at 2 nothing was done.
No emergency measures were taken, no polite
were notified, nobody was looking in ditches for
the remains. The sign-out system was no protec-
Besides, the last attack on a female
member of the Bryn Mawr community happened
right on campus, before 12:30, and it wasn’t even
a student.

The justifications for the sign-out system seem,
then, a trifle thin. The case against the stystem

-can be made even stronger on a Constitutional

level. The recent civil rights legislation and the
latest interpretations of the 14th Amendment to

' the Constitution forbid discrimination on the basis -

of race, creed, color or SEX. Rules which apply
sto women and not to men could easily be con-
strued as contrary to such legislation and
therefore unconstifutional.

It is possible to recognize that having someone
else know where you are is both handy and prudent,
without making mandatory a specific sign-out
process. Although it might be more consistent to
advocate complete abolishment of the system,
it is probably more practical to suggest that
the Self-Gov constitution be amended to require
only a phone number (so the student can be reached
in the emergency and to give the police a place
to start looking). and expected time of return.

This way, the sign-out system could be eased
out gradually, exactly as the stereotype of the
woman-as — -child is being eased out.

Kit Bakke



Letters to

A Note of Ghanks.

To the Editor:

I wish to thank Miss McBride,
the students, the professors, the
Alumni, the Deanery, the Manager
of Halls, the Assistant Manager
of Halls, the employees, the Hot

_ Shoppes on campus, the grounds-

men, and friends, for their dona-
tions to help combat the fire sit-
uation. I really feel that the entire
campus bent over backwards to

a Anna Kearney

Rhoads Hall
Fine Situation

To the Editor:

A short time ago I wrote seeking
help to enable me to return to
the United States. However, as
you may have read in the Nov.,
7 newspaper, I was sentenced to.
two years in prison instead of the
heavy fines which I was told to
expect.

In answer to my request for help
I received a brief note with cash
enclosed but with no name or re-
turn address. Since I received
no fines the cash was not needed.
Therefore , could you provide me
with the name of the kind person
who sent it?

I would like to add that I am
appealing the sentence in hopes of
getting it reduced, or at least to
receive full credit for the time I
have spent in prison so far.

At my trial on Nov. 7, the
Judge only gave me creditfor ‘being
held 60 days when in fact I was
arrested and imprisoned on June
30. With the appeal I hope to
get credit for the entire 4
1/2 months before the trial. _

Thank you for your interest in
my situation.

~ James Cebula









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Consul’s Defense

To the Editor:

A-letter from a Mr. James A.
Cebula which appeared in the Col-
lege News on October 6, 1967,

contains several gross errors in

its representation and interpreta-
tion of relevant provisions of the
Japanese penal code.

We regret not having written
sooner, but Mr. Cebula’s letter
only recently came to the atten-
tion of our office.

First, the statement that ‘‘in
Japan, if you do not have the
necessary funds you must stay
in prison and work the fine off
at the rate of 200 yen per day,’’
is incorrect.

In Japan, the code provides that
persons who are unable to pay
their fines in full shall be de-
tained in a workhouse for not
less than one day nor more than
two years (three years in cases
where two or more fines have
been imposed jointly).

However, the rate at which the
amount of the fine assessed is
converted to the period of deten-
tion at the workhouse is not legally
fixed but is determined at the dis-
cretion of the judge, who takes into
consideration the circumstances
under which the crime was com-
mitted.

Therefore, there is no ground
for the 200 yen per day Mr. Ce-
bula quoted. The rate is higher
in most cases these days.

Secondly, as for the statement

that ‘‘a thousand dollar fine would -

be 360,000 yen, or in terms of
time, five years,’’ the limita-
tions mentioned above would pre-
clude such a term from being
imposed.

Thirdly, regarding the point that
**my fines will be far greater than
that,’ the crimes which Mr. Ce-
bula is alleged to have committed
are the uttering of foreign counter-
feit currency and the violation of

_who commits such crimes is usu-
ally punished with penal servitude.
- sGUniier ‘the code, the. penalty for a

the Editor

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appreciated if you would take .p-
propriate measures to correct ‘he
erroneous impressions which the
College News and other schools
and newspapers may have received
from Mr. Cebula.

Keiichi Tachibana
Deputy Consul General
Consulate General of Japan

Citrus Cult

Confidential to O.J. °70:

I was overwhelmed at your kind
Christmas gift of four orange juice
glasses and the orange pitcher.
I would like to convey my grat-
itude to you personally some day.
I am still eagerly waiting for you
to unveil your identity.. I remain
yours truly,

Faintly Disgusted °68

Poetry Contest
Deadline Set

An April 8 deadline has been
set by the Department of English
for the annual May Day poetry con-
tests.

The two prizes awarded are the
Academy of Poets Prize of $100
for the best group of poems and
the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize of
$50 for the best single selection.
The judges for both competitions.
will be Richmond Lattimore, Mrs.
Isabel MacCaffrey and Mrs. Katrin
Norton.

Due in the President’s Office ~
by 4 p.m., April 8, all manu-
scripts should be typed and un-
signed, with the author’s name
given on.a separate piece of paper.





4. es “aterested™ in to
writing for the COLLEGE
NEWS second semester
should contact Nancy Miller

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Photo by Drewdie Gilpin

‘When the Deanery closes March 21, this swing will go to the breezeway between the two sec-
tions of Wyndham.



Sounds of Silence Give
Timbre of College to ’71

This article was found in the Editor’s box with the attached
note: ‘‘Camus and Sartre were getting to me at 4 this a.m. So |
wrote down some reactions. Maybe you can use it.”

So this is it,

Bryn Mawr College after one
semester, A very sound exper-
ience,

I have spent four months writing
freshman comps, reading Plato,
--Mmixing, fire drilling, working for
the NEWS, going to class, not
going to class, looking for a Greek
god and learning to listen.

Listening at Bryn Mawr means
many things. It means reading
books, taking notes and talking to
professors; but there is more than
written words and spoken sylla-
bles.

..e 4 cough, the creak of achair
and the rip of paper in the Li-
brary.

.+. the vibrations of real music
behind the Doors.

-.- the pounding of four pairs
of feet stampeding down the hall
to the screams of four sets of
vocal chords, ‘ me.’? ‘

--. the dramatic declaration,
‘‘Old hall announcers never die,
they just become bulletin boards.”’

«+. the plop of teabag no. 1,-
987,362 onto the saucer.

«.. the shattering shriek of an
alarm clock.

-.. the rattle of a bad grade and
the shout of a good one.

ee. the pulsing of the heart,
the panting of the lungs and the
malicious comment, ‘‘Now, gym
class, don’t we feel wonderful.”



ALL WEEKEND

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At Bryn Mawr listening does
not necessarily mean silence. Ar-
ticulation abounds too. Girls of
differing persuasions talk, and
there is fact and opinion and sup-
port and resistance. The major-
ity of the sounds are liberal, but
if I listen carefully, I can hear
the conservative’s yes and no.

I listen to my fellow Mawr-
ters, but I listen to the boys
too.

‘*A Bryn Mawr girl? Gosh, I’d
better swallow a thesaurus.”

‘‘Wheaton girls are Vogue-ish,
McCall-ish, Glamour-ish, Bryn
Mawr girls are ...’’ I watch
his eyes survey my army shirt
and holey tennis shoes.

“Bryn Mawr scares me.”?

**] think this could be the start
of something big.’’

*T love all of them!?’

There are other sounds. Long
distance phone calls from home,
laughter, tears, jangling beads,
barefeetandboots, Beethoven and
Baez and a Duck that sings.

Sounds are~inside other people
too. Quiet sounds, violent sounds.
Sounds you can always listen to,
but rarely hear and seldom un-
derstand. There are the sounds
of actions speaking louder than
words,

I am a four-month-old Bryn
Mavr girl, and I’m réalizing that
it takes listening to learn; it takes
learning to listen.

Bryn Mawr College. A very
sound experience,

**Gone With The Wind’?

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Bryn Mawr Joins
Sarah Lawrence
Exchange Program

Curriculum review is the topic
for this year’s exchange week pro-
gram at Sarah Lawrence. Since
primary focus will be on the issue
of coeducation, schools chosen for
the annual conference all have
unique co-ordinate educational ex-
periences. Bryn Mawr has been
included, among other reasons,
because of its relationship with
Haverford.

Two delegates from Bryn Mawr
will visit Sarah Lawrence from
Feb. 25 to Mar. 1, while two stu-
dents from their campus spend the
week here. The Bryn Mawr dele-
gates will attend a formally struc-
tured conference, with meetings
designed to acquaint the students
with the campus and to discuss the
selected topic.

The Sarah Lawrence visitors to
our campus will have a much less
rigid schedule. They will sleep
in the rooms vacated by the Bryn
Mawr delegates, and attend any
classes which interest them. The
exchange committee, headed by
Michelle Langor, will attempt to
show them Bryn Mawr’s extra-
curricular: and social life as well.

Lists for students who would
like to attend the Sarah Lawrence
conference have been posted in
Taylor. The committee is uncer-
tain of its criteria for selecting
delegates, but will tend to favor
upperclassmen who have had aca-
demic experience at Haverford.

Guide To The Perplexed

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

8:00 p.m. ‘‘The Knack’’ in Roberts fol-
7:30 p.m. Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov, Con-

SAC Seeks to Overcome yf

Concern over the nature
of past activities was the main
topic dealt with at this semester’s
first meeting of the Bryn Mawr-
Haverford Social Action -Com-
mittee, Many SAC members
have found demonstrations to be
‘‘futile’’ and
major goals for this semester are
to find concrete ways of dealing
with these frustrations through

meaningful action and to encourage
oS

Grant Brings
Writers to BMC

The Lucy Martin Donnelly Fel-
lowship, established in the me-
mory of a former chairman of
the English Department, will en-
able a renowned woman writer to
come to Bryn Mawr and confer
with students next year.

--The- fellowship, held previously
by seven women, was established
to provide a year of free time
for the encouragement of a writ-
er. There is no stipulation that
she must teach at the College,
but in the past, recipients have
visited the campus for confer-
ences,

The grant is not necessarily
given in the field of English,
Chairmen of the departments of
English, Philosophy, History, His-
tory of Art, Greek and Latin are
sitting on the committee to make
next year’s selection.

Previous recipients were poets,
novelists and short-story writ-
ers Elizabeth Bishop, May Sar-
ton, Elizabeth Bowen, Eudora Wel-
ty and Elizabeth Spencer, and
scholars in classics and philoso-
phy respectively, Louise Holland
and Marjory Greene.

‘tirrelevant,’’ The -



Free pottery demonstrations
and instruction sessions for
beginners will begin Wednesday
Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m. in the Ha-
verford Art Center, basement
of Leeds Hall.

Any interested student or fac-
ulty member of Haverford or
Bryn Mawr Colleges is asked
to attend the initial meeting for
registration and instruction.

If attendance at the first ses-
sion is impossible or if there
are any questions, contact David
Delthony, MI 2-3802, by Tues-
day, Feb, 6,









Obstacle of ‘Futile’ Action

greater involvement within the
Bryn Mawr-Haverford community
in all areas of scial. action,

Several suggestions were made
for expanding on last semester’s
activities, which had _ centered
largely on the war in Vietnam,
One of the most popular ideas
involved some type of work among
high school students in the area:
organizing them not only around
large social issues, such as the
war or the draft, but around the
immediate problems within their
schools as well.

In addition to a number of
ideas about issues such as draft
resistance and political work in
the coming elections, suggestions

were made about projects
within the college community it-
self, that is, organization

around issues which would involve
Students more directly and thus
prompt participation among a
wider range of people,
As the meeting Wednesday
“Was largely speculative, a second
one has been scheduled for next
Wednesday at 10 p,m, in Erdman,
SAC hopes to arrive ata
number of concrete projects, Any-
one -who- has ideas about
any form of social action is strong-
ly encouraged to bring them
to this meeting,

Concert Initiates
H ford Weekend

This year’s Sophomore Weekend
at Haverford will get off to a mus-
ical start with tonight’s folk-blues
concert by John Hammond and his
Blues Band at 8:3° in Roberts.

Immediately following Ham-
mond’s performance, the New
Electric Eclectic will provide the
music for a dance in Founders.

Saturday’s program of events in-
cludes the showing of ‘‘ The Knack’?
at 8 in Roberts. After the movie a
second dance will feature the Mon-
key Men, considered to be one-of
the best bands in Philadelphia by
Chris Dunn, sophomore class
president. Scheduled for Founders,

‘the dance will lead into a mid-

night dinner in the dining hall.

Tickets for the individual events
are available in advance and at
the door for Bryn Mavr students.

WANTED: Money to pur
chase a harpsichord.

Plans progress towards
the acquisition of a harpsi-
chord for Bryn Mawr and
students. Addi-

Haverford
tional money is needed to
supplement the present $100

fund. Interested persons
should contact Mrs. Pell.



, Theatre 1812 lowed by dance in Founders
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Shubert Theatre Ardmore SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 pao gat en ae »
‘‘Here’s Where I Belong’’ *‘Cool Hand Luke’’ 11:00 a.m. Jewish Discussion Group Menting 06. disease’ polis
The 2nd Fret Suburban Sylvia Rothchild will speak: pcre elie wi st
‘‘Woody’s Truck Stop” ‘¢The Sand Pebbles”’ ‘«The Insecurity of Freedom’’ H’ford. Art Center a
Society Hill Playhouse King of Prussia Common Room pony ,
Sartre’s “The Flies’? (Wed.-Sat. until “‘Ulysses’”’ 8:00 p.m. Friends of Music present: The cas ck. ee ee ee
March 23 - $2.50 - 4,00) 163rd Annual Exhibition of Academy of de Pasquale Quartet chamber 730 p.m. omy of Music ($3-8.60)
Bryn Mawr Fine Arts: ‘‘American Art Today’’ works by Schubert, Webern, y [ .
“Elvira Madigan’? continuing until March 3 (Tues.-Sat. Smetana, Roberts, ‘H’ford THURSDAY, F EBRUARY 8
Bala 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sun. 1 - 5 p.m; ($2.50) . 4:30 p.m. Dr. Koshland lectures: ‘‘Con-
“La Guerre Est Finie”’ .,..¢losed Mondays -- admission free) 8:30 p.m. Marcel Marceau at the Aca- formational Effects in En-
, “Arcadia ste FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2 sor RL — _..demy of Magia ($3,00-6.00) ites? zyme Action, ie Stokes, ~Hford
‘‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?" Sophomore Weekend at Haverford 8:30 pem. Robert Scranton, Art Dept.
Eric 8:30 p.m. John Hammond followed by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 of University of Chicago will
«The Graduate’’ dance in Founders 7:30 p.m. ‘*The Phoenix,’”’ a film about lecture: ‘‘Glass Mosaic Pan-
Trans-Lux the medical ship of the Amer- els om Corinthian Ken-
‘How I Won The War’ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 ican Friends Service Commit- .. chreai,"*—- Physics Lecture
Randolph ) Sophomore Weekend at Haverford tee, Common Room Room






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“e = For

Re

! - by Jackie Williams

The American Negro throughout his «
recent and past history has been manip-
ulated and fragmented by leaders who +e
were duped by many of the ideals ex-
pressed in the: prevailing forms of com-
munication: newspapers, magazines, leaf-
lets, etc. These were the-ideas and goals
of a corrupted American Ideal which
began during the American Revolution
but was only applicable to the ‘‘Negroes
and their corresponding problem’’ prior
to the Civil War. The fragmentation be-
gan with the Abolitionists and continues

today. The Abolitionist movement began
& a dialectic among Negro leaders beginning
me) : with Frederick Douglas and Martin R,
Delany down to Marcus Garvey and Book-
er T,; Washington and up to Roy Wilkins
and Stokely Carmichael, And it is this
very dialectic which has fostered the
split in the political, economic, and cul- $ ° gs
tural goals of the American Blacks. This
dialectic is the integrationist-separatist
ideal,

There have been protests in the past,
There have been mass movements, such:
as the Garvey Back-to-Africa movement ?
of the thirties, but there has never been
a situation so potentially explosive that
lacked a valid motivational ideal, save
hatred, to sustain it as is the present
one. Never before have there been so
many Blacks openly appealing for an

, outlet for their frustrations. Never be-
fore have there been so many youths of
college and high school:age so actively
and militantly vocal, An example of this
is the huge Black Power demonstration
staged in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia
School Board by high school students who
demanded in violent protest redress for
their grievances, Other examples of grow-
ing Black awareness is the political soph-
istication shown in the mayoralty elections ©
of Gary and Cleveland. There are many
others, They all reflect one fact, and that
is that Black America is undergoing a
violent Renaissance of political and cul-
tural awareness that was stymied thefirst
time by Reconstruction. The cultural
front is undergoing a period of intense
Black awareness, A new school of Black
literature has developed. in the past three
years whose chief driving force is Black-
ness and whose chief exponent is LeRoi
Jones. 2

What was put forth during the weekend of
the Festival of the Black Arts was a
new school of Black Culture. The poets
Larry Neal and Gaston Heal contrasted ..
markedly with the three Philadelphia poets
who were somewhat stymied in their ef-
fectiveness by their use of the old poeti-
cal forms. The new forms of expression
used by Larry and Gaston are more vocal .
than cerebral (in other words the emo-
tional impact is paramount to the intellec-
tual one), Just as the plays by Ben Cald-
well and LeRoi Jones, which were shown
Sunday night, spoke the language of the
Black man, so did they express the tem-
per of the times. The important fact
here being that the direction of the mes-
sage involved in the poetical and drama-
tical expressions of this new school was
aimed at the Black audience, not the
white,

Although many were frightened by the
hatred and violence of the Black poetry,

. drama, and music, the fact remains that

both the hatred and the violence are

legitimate outgrowths of hundreds of years .

under a brutal and oppressive system.

Many fail to acknowledge the fact that

the American Black culture is indigenous s
and unique to this country. Many fail
also to acknowledge the fact that the new

direction of the Black Arts is perhaps

the most. vital and important intellectual

stimulus to appear in America in decades,

as was shown by the participants of the
- festival,



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THE COLLEGE NEWS



There used to be an Eastman
Kodak commercial in which afam-
ily had a picnic while a girl in
the background sang folk songs.
‘Elvira Madigan,’’ currently at
the Bryn Mawr Theater, is pretty

~ much the same thing, except that

the ad is for Scandinavian cine-

matography and the music is a °

Mozart concerto,

This is not an unpleasant way
to listen to Mozart, as ‘the film
is visually pleasing --- dappled
landscape, misty background, sun-
light in fair hair --- and un-
obtrusive, Its basic question is:
can a Swedish cavalry officer with
a wife and two children find happi-
ness with the beautiful tightrope

Council Sponsors
Faculty Art Show

Arts Council is.-sponsoring a .

joint Bryn Mawr-Haverford faculty
art show in order to increase in-
terest in the arts and to pro-
mote faculty-student rapport.

A dinner and reception in Erd-
man on Thursday, Feb. 15, will
open. the show. A movie by Jose
Ferrater Mora will then be pre-
miered,

Mrs. Dorothy Marshall will auc-
tion baked arts, such as cakes and
cookies created by = faculty
members and wives, in Erdman
on Friday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m.

A faculty music program will
be held in Erdman on Sunday,
Feb. 18. Faculty members who
will perform include Frederick
Cunningham, George Zimmerman,
Duncan Keppie and Russell Scott.

Students who are interested in
helping with the program in any
way should contact Judy Masur,
Judy Frisch, or Dorothy Hudig.

Freshman Show . .

(Continued from page 1)
lighting, Lois Burleigh; make-up,

_ Myra Marx; tickets, Nan Schwartz.

The traditional auction of ar-
tistic publicity posters will follow
the performance, and the annual
freshman-sophomore battle of wits
and cunning will center around the
hidden Class of ’71 animal.

Tickets will be sold in Taylor
Hall only, Feb. 5-8, between
classes and during the lunch hour.
Monday, freshmen can purchase
tickets; Tuesday, freshmen and
juniors; Wednesday, freshmen,
juniors and seniors; Thursday, the
sale is open to anyone.

Friday night, Feb. 9, is the dress
rehearsal, and this performance is
free of charge. Admission for
Saturday night is $1.50 for each
reserved seat.

Thrift Shop .

(Continued from page 1)

some three hundred-odd record al-
bums, largely classical, whichare
borrowed by the students. How-
ever, the librarians charge that
approximately ninety records last
year were either damaged when
returned, or not returned at all.
“This, plus the fact that the col-
lection is expanding beyond the
time available for'the librarians

to catalogue the records, prompted.

the request that Undergrad con-
sider proposals to use students
to take care of the collection, It
was algo suggested that a place
might be found in the Library it-
self where the records could be

pe pga anspegerrs
_ them to be taken front the build- _

ing.

Also discussed was the possible
value of haying personal photo-
‘graphs on college identification

‘Elvira Madigan’ Peddles
Swedish Cinematography

walker for whom he fleserts his
other responsibilities? Since this
is a Scandinavian film, one sus-
pects that the answer will be ‘‘no’’,
and it is,

This movie is the very simple
chronicle of the romantic idyll of
the couple, It is innocent of any
other plot, and it is hard to say
why, in its single-mindedness, it
remains one of the most im-
personal love stories ever, One
never feels the slightest identi-
fication with these lovers, either
in their ecstasy or their tragedy,
The actors hardly seem to beper-
forming at all, but rather to be
gazing at one another endlessly,
They are often seen in a sort of
newsreel technique, with their dia-
logue dubbed over film of them-
selves,. The best performances
are those of a bespectacled little
girl and a huge Danish cook at
an inn,

The. couple are given to vague
poetics, Examples: ‘Isn’t that
what love is? To want to borrow .
one another’s eyes?’’ or ‘‘That’s
what war is .,. not parades, but
the smeli of burning flesh,’’ There
are discordant notes in the movie’s
development as well, The couple
manage to keep their clothes clean
and starched, Elvira sews on her
first button early in the movie,
and later whips up a formal gown
out of curtains, As they starve,
the Lieutenant asks with grand
offense, ‘‘Do you want me to go
out and get work?’’ to which the
obvious answer, a _ resounding
‘tyes’’, remains inexplicably un-
spoken, A scene of Elvira selling
for two crowns a sketch of her-
self done in a Paris cafe by alittle
cripple with initials ‘‘T,L,’’ is an
unbearable contrivance,

There are 4 couple of mildly
moving scenes in this movie, The
photography throughout is unques-
tionably magnificent, although oc-
casionally it falls prey to its high-
er self, as whéna heavily symbolic
bottle of wine spills onto a white
cloth and one knows that the honey-
moon is over, Pia Dergenmark
as Elvira is very lovely, Thommy
Bergger as her lieutenant shaves
off first part of his beard, then
the rest, and then his moustache
in an attempt to disguise him-
self, When he has no more to
Shave and they have no more
to eat, the end comes, No one
cares very much,

Ideally, one should leave ‘‘El-
vira Madigan’ wanting food as
desperately as one wanted a bath
after ‘‘The African Queen’’ or
a glass of water after ‘‘Lawrence
of Arabia.’’ It does not come off,
The movie generates a temperate
climate of naive romance, but
it is awkward to hold hands while
stifling a yawn,

Mary Laura Gibbs

Campus Religion
To Be Studied

Trends in religious attitudes
and behavior at Bryn Mawr will
be surveyed by a Harvard man
late in February,

Dean R,. Hoge, doctoral candi-
date at Harvard, is carrying
out a series of religious trend
studies in various eastern
colleges. He is repeating surveys
made previously in order to
measure trends over several
decades.

Psychologist James H, Leuba,
a former professor at Bryn Mawr
and a pioneer in quantitative
Studies of religious attitudes, con-
ducted two famous studies here

in 1914 and 1933, Hoge’s: work.
is based on his results,

will be working with Hoge under
the supervision of Mrs. Judith
' Porter of the Bryn Mawr Soci-
send os wanna



photo by Mary Yee

Second semester ‘begins and all ie talk about crowded classes
“obviously made an impression.



8

Senate Committee Keeps
Illegally Seized Documents

Three federal judges have ruled
that a U.S, Senate subcommittee,
the- -McClellan -Committee, may
see and use documents seizedfrom
three civil rights and poverty
workers charged with sedition in
Pike County ,in Appalachia last
August.

Attorneys for the Southern Con-
ference Educational Fund (SCEF),
which owns part of the confis-
cated material, and employs the
workers, are asking the U.S, Sup-
reme Court to overturn the ruling.

They claim that the documents
were seized under a law which
was later declared unconsti-
tutional. They say it is illegal
to turn the documents now over
to the Senate instead of returning
them to the owners.

The seizure was made during
raids on the homes of Alan and
Margaret McSurely, field organ-
izers for SCEF, and Joseph Mulloy,
once a field worker for the Appal-
achian Volunteers, but now, with
his wife Karen, an organizer for
SCEF and the Louisville Peace
Council,

The McSurleys and Mulloy were
charged with sedition by Thomas
Ratliff, prosecuting attorney in
Pike County. They were indicted,
along with Carl and Anne Braden,
executive directors of SCEF, by
the grand jury of that County.

On Sept. 14, a three-judge fed-
eral court killed the state sedi-
tion law. U.S, Circuit Judge Bert
Combs, who presided, said: ‘fIt
is difficult to believe that capable
lawyers could seriously contend
that this statute is constitutional.’’

However, the McClellan Com-
mittee which is also, questionning
the National Conference on New
Politics, the Mississippi Free-
dom Democratic Party, the W. E,
DuBois Club, and last summer*s
ghetto riots issued summons to
Ratliff and the McSurelys to bring
the seized material to a hearing
in Washington,

It was brought out at a hearing
on Dec. 5° that Ratliff had given
copies to.a committee investigator.
while the case before the Circuit
Court was pending.



The Festival of the Black
Arts still needs contribu-
tions. Send donations to
Margaret Levi in Erdman or
to the COLLEGE NEWS.
Checks should be made pay-
able to Bryn Mawr College.





Mass for Peace
7:15 P.M.

Main Chapel, Villanova
followed by
Father Philip Berrigan |
talk at 8:00 P.M.
Field House
Thursday, February 8





This is your life line. If you’re not doing something with your life, it doesn't matter how long it is.







Haverford “junior Bert Kritzer







Friday, February 2, 1968



Local Church

Offers Movies

Of Top Quality

Movie series are usually
‘a gamble, If the offerings are new,
there is the chance of their not
being worth seeing; if old, there
is the chance of their being things

, you do not want to see again.

._ One series which avoids
both pitfalls, is held at the Bryn
Mawr Presbyterian Church, and
admission to it is free. The series
is part of a movement started
two years ago within the church
to reassert its connection with
the fine arts. The Fine Arts
Committee, headed by Mrs.
John M. Moon, has been re-
sponsible for two art shows
stressing local talent and a dance
recital last fall. They also select
the movies, and it is discrimina-
tion of choice that accounts
for the high calibre of the series.

Films are not chosen for
their pedantic value or theologic
overtones. They are films that
have been seen by members of
the committee and adjudged to
have some relevant message. Both
domestic and foreign films are
shown, the only common denomin-
ator being limited television
distribution and a certain pro-
fundity. The last_ selection in
the series was Elia Kazan’s
‘cOn the Waterfront,’ one of the
most aesthetically sound movies
of the last few years, The next
movie scheduled is ‘‘A Raisin
in the Sun,’’ a splendid choice
and, though already seen by many
people, eminently re-viewable.
The movie for March is “The
Prisoner,’’ a vintage Alec Guin-
ess piece, for April ‘Edge
of the City’? with Sidney Poitier,
and for May ‘Billy Liar,?? with
Tom: Courtenay and a neophyte
Julie Christie.

Movies are shown the first
Friday of _each month, at 8
p.m., in the Church Rooms. The
Rev. David Crossley, assistant
minister of the church, who ad-
vises the committee, says

that with the offering collected at

each showing about half of the
cost of movies and screening is
met. This varies, as the size of
audiences varies--from 25 for a

‘Danish film last year to 250 for

last year’s ‘*Sundays and Cybele’’
and this year’s ‘‘Gospel Accord-
ing to St. Matthew.”’

The Peace Corps.













































‘Friday, February ; » a 1968

THE COLLEGE NEWS



‘Pueblo Brings To Light Conflict In Korea;

Escalation of U.S. Troops Follows Capture

Much of the excitement aroused by the
recent Pueblo incident has focused on
the © question of whether the U.S,
ship strayed into the territorial waters of
North Korea. Ambassador Goldberg’s
speech to the U.N, consisted of detailed
radio readings (accompanied by, maps)
proving that the Pueblo was sailing in in-

ternational waters when it was caught and ~

pulled off. The North Koreans say just as
firmly that the ship intruded into their
waters with hostile purposes. It may be
years before we know which side is right

— about whose side the Pueblo was on.
It is more important to look at the
nature of this new ‘‘crisis” in American
policy than the exact geographical setting.
The incident was not an isolated blunder
or miscalculation about one ship. Itsprang

to world attention from a certain histor-,

ical background and it is causing big





A Finger in Every Sticky Pie

L,A. Times

changes. What does the Pueblo show about
relations between the United States,
Korea, and Asia (including Vietnam) in
general, and what are the long term re-
sults of its capture? These are the ques-
tions we should be concerned with.

The U.S. in Korea

Since the Panmunjom ceasefire, ending
the Korean war, the U.S, has maintained
troops in South Korea, fortifying the 38th
parallel and keeping order. According to
the Philadelphia Inquirer of last Monday,
Jan. 29, ‘Until last week, the Air Force
had 450 officers, 3500 men, and no air-
planes assigned to Korea.’? The Pueblo
was part of the U.S, Navy assigned to
patrol Korean waters.

The duties of these stationed mép have
taken in more than just ‘‘peace-keeping.”
There has been continuous fighting be-
tween the U.S, - R.O.K, (South Korean)
forces and the North Korean army, pre-
ceding the Pueblo conflict. In his speech
to tle U.N. about the Pueblo, U.S, Am-
bassador Goldberg said, ‘‘This event
marks the climax of a campaign by the
North Korean authorities over the past 18
months of steadily growing infiltration,
sabotage, and terrorism in flagrant vio-
lation of the Korean Armistice Agree-
ment.”? (N.Y. Times, Saturday, Jan. 27.)

According to North Korea

The North Koreans tell a different
story. Last summer, Premier Kim Il
Sung of North Korea told news corres-
pondent Wilfred Burchett, in an inter-
view which was written up in the Na-
tional Guardian July 22, 1967, ‘Johnson
seems to have given some special in-
structions, because the Americans have
_ recently stepped up their provocations in
and around the demilitarized zone ...
They have ambushed and killed our troops
there ... U.S,+Japanese naval units have
carried out maneuvers along our eastern

52: opiate. According .to Burchett, ‘He’ ac-
“ cuses the U.S,-R.O.K, forces of having:

transformed the southern part of the”
demilitarized zone intg a forward mili-
tary base and of having introduced heavy
weapons, inatading tanks and artillery,



into the area, in which only civilian po- .

lice with side arms are permitted under
the cease-fire agreements.’’ ®

The North Koreans have for some time
been aware of U.S, launched spying boats,
also. A N.Y, Times editorial quotes a
January 11 North Korean communique
protesting the U.S, dispatching ‘shune-
dreds of fishing boats and spy: boats into
the coastal waters of our. side off the
Eastern Coast” (Saturday, Jan. 27). The
same editorial quotes General Pak Chung,
North Korea’s delegate at Panmunjom,
who formally registered a protest on Jan,
21 (three days before the Pueblo was
taken in) against the U.S, ‘‘having infil-
trated into our coastal waters a number
of armed spy boats, espionage bandits,
together with a group of South Korean
fishing boats” (Saturday, Jan. 27).

The Pueblo was only part of this ser-
ies of well-known spying missions. The
North Korean statement of Jan. 27 on
the capture of the boat says that the
‘Pueblo “‘was spying *in many. places on
a series of military and state secrets
such as various military installations,
thé deployment of armed forces and in-
dustrial facilities at different ports and
along the coast of the Democratic Peo-
ples Republic of Korea (N.Y, . Times,
Sunday, Jan. 28). Furthermore, the North
Koreans knew about the Pueblo in par-
ticular long before Jan. 24th when it was
taken. The N.Y, Times quotes a Japa-
nese newspaper: ‘‘Sankei Shimoun re-
ported today that North Korea had warned
it might take action against the Pueblo
two weeks before the vessel was seized
... if the Pueblo continues. its intelli-
gence activities (Saturday, Jan. $7."
The North Koreans demanded that the
Pueblo be removed, with no response,
two weeks before they did it themselves.”’

Future Plans

The Pueblo incident may possibly be
part of a larger background of United
States relations to Asia, as well as to
North Korea. Wilfred Burchett, in Chap-
ter 1 of his book AGAIN KOREA de-
scribes the existence of two plans drawn
up by Japanese and American officials,
aimed at joint U.S.-Japanese military
operations against North Korea, and sub-
sequently China. Details of these plans,
the ‘‘Three Arrows” and ‘‘Flying Dra-
gon” operations, came out in a debate
in the Japanese diet in October of 1965.
The ‘‘Three Arrows” plan was said by
Japanese Lieutenant-General Yoshio Tan-
ake during a diet hearing to be ‘‘not a
study theme for a staff college discus-
sion, it is based on actual defense plans.’’
This plan, the first one, was supervised
when it was prepared in June, 1963, by
the then United States Under-Secretary
for Defense, Roswell Gilpatric. Bothplans,
Burchett writes, of course, ‘‘must be
preceded by provocations of such a na-
ture that North Korea will be forced to
take counter-measures sufficient to be
branded ‘aggressor’.”” And the U.S.
would turn to the U.N, to support its
action, of which neither North Korea
or China are members.

Whether the “Three Arrows”’ and“ F'ly-
ing Dragon’? ever become more than
paper arrows and a paper dragon, it isa
fact that recent U.S,-Japanese military
agreements have expanded Japan’s armed
forces in ‘‘universal national mobiliza-
tion” and laws on ‘‘conscription and
requisition” calling for mass drafting of
Japanese men have been drafted. Japan
is the United States’ partner in securing
westernized control of Asia. According to
an article in the N.Y. Times, the possibil-
ity of a Korean war, along with the Viet-
nam war, was discussed in the U.S, as
long ago as last spring. The article reads,
“«General C, Wheeler, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified to Con-
gress last Mar. 6 that with two such wars
going on at the same time, ‘I would think
we would have to call up our Reserves’.”’
(Sunday, Jan, 28)

No Questioning, Escalation |

Thus the Pueblo incident is backed up

~ ‘py a history of hostilities and hostile in=

tentions between the U.S, andNorth Korea,
and China, and even foreshadowed by North
Korean protests about the ship in particu-
lar. Thy North Koreans claim their ac-

tions. are justified; as they say in their
Jan. 27 communique, ‘‘To safeguard the
security and sovereignty of its father-
land against enemy. infringement is an
inviolable right of every independent
state’’ (N.Y, Times, Sunday, Jan. 28). The
United States claims it is j ied by
denouncing North Korean teryforism and
border provocation. But I wonder what
our reaction to such claims be if
the spy ships of,. for example, North
Vietnam, were buzzing around our shores.
The Pueblo incident has not opened ques-
tioning on why the United States has spy
ships and men in Korea in the first
place.

Rather, with the confrontation between
the U.S, Pueblo and North Korean ships,
in no matter whose waters, in the dis-
turbed waters of an already militarily
dangerous situation, United States ac-
tions have made the situation more mili-
tary and more dangerous,

New Strength in Korea

At present, planes, ships and men are
flooding Korea, and secret as wellas pub-
lic plans are unfolding, White House of-
ficials have explained that Johnson’s
speech to the nation referred to ‘‘the call-
up of Air Reservists and some unan-
nounced as well as announced movements
of warships and other forces in the Kor-
ean area’’ (N.Y, Times, Saturday, Jan.
27). The 30 units of the Air Force Re-
serve, the Air National Guard, and the
Navy Air Reserve, totalling 14,787 men,
could remain activated for two years,
The N.Y. Times reports that the U,S,
air strength has already ‘‘continudd to
pour into the Korean area” (Sunday, Jan,
28), including some from Japan -- ‘‘36
jet fighters from Okinawa’’ (Sunday, Jan,
26). There has also been ‘‘a major United
States naval movement into Korean
waters,’”’ including a ‘‘flotilla consist-
ing of an aircraft carrier escorted by
destroyers and six submarine chasers’?
(N.Y, Times, Sunday, Jan, 28),

In Johnson’s television statement, he
claimed that though, as always, the U.S,
would ‘‘continue to use every means
available to find a prompt and peaceful
solution,’”? yet ‘‘we have taken and are
taking certain precautionary measures to
make sure that our military forces are
prepared for any contingency that might
arise in this area’ (N.Y, Times, Satur-
day, Jan, 27). No matter how many peace-
ful offensives are directed by Johnson

toward the North Koreans, they are sur-
rounded with heavy weapons of war, which ©
speak more powerfully than words, And
whether or not a ‘‘contingency”’ does arise,
the Pueblo incident has given or flung
Johnson a reason to increase military
strength in that area, to observe and
regulate North Korea’s actions, to tighten
U.S, control over another Asian nation,

Vietnam?

The Korean crisis may affect United
States relations to Vietnam also, John-
son’s digging into the reserves reveals
our large scale involvement in Vietnam,
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, ‘‘Their
call-up will enable the U,S, to add 372
fighter and transport planes and attack
bombers to an air strength severely
strained by demands of the Vietnam war’”’
(Friday, Jan. 26), We are losing battle
after battle in Vietnam; we need more
men as well as planes, desperately, To
ask for the Reserves specifically for Viet-
nam might cause a lot more people tofeel
that the war is more than mildly unpopu-
lar, but personally threatening, The
Pueblo incident, small as it may. Seem,
is a more palatable justification for draft-
ing more Americans to Asia, In an inter-
view, White House Press Secretary George
Christian ‘declined to say the reservists
would not go to Vietnam.’’ Even if they
are not sent directly to fight in Vietnam,
stationing them in South Korea might re-
lease more men to enlarge the 40,000
South Korean troops in Vietnam now,

But the waves stirred up by the Pueblo
may reach the situation inside the United
States, The scare generated by the inci-
dent may cause more Americans to ac-
cept the actions of the U,S, government
in Asia, and act as a damper on dis-
sent,

It is,clear that the U.S military scene
and involvement in Asia has been greatly
escalated in. reaction to the capture of
one ship,

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- Friday, February



Kramer's. ‘Guess Who's Coming to Dinner’
Shows Director’s Inherent Faith in Love

Stanley Kramer loves people and
he. believes in love. The first
' point is obvious in his choice and
handling of the subject matter of
his films; the latter is a statement
made by him at a press conference
whieh he held for the benefit of
local students on Jan. 11 in Phila-
delphia.. For a film maker to say
“T believe in love’? as a statement
of his basic artistic philosophy is
not perhaps as naive or as mean-
ingless as it may sound. Kramer
means that he believes in and sees
love as an active force in every-
one’s existence. His movies often
primarily examine some aspect of
this force.

Antonioni whom Mr. Kramer ad-
mires along with William ‘Wyler,
Fred Zinneman (whodirected ‘‘The
Men”’ for him), Fellini, Kurosawa
and, occasionally, Truffaut does
not, as he himself has stated,
believe in love. At any rate, he
does not believe in it in the sense
that he himself cannot, or does
not artistically want to, grasp it.
He is a master, however, as ‘‘Blow-
Up”? proved, at describing love’s
absence.

Film-making is still limited to
expressing itself through people -
from Fellini who concerns himself
with landscape very slightly, if at
all, to Bo Widerberg (‘Elvira
Madigan’’), who makes landscapes
look as if one of the French Impres-
sionists had escaped to Sweden but
still can and really must only use
his landscapes and still-lifes as a
reflection of the world in the lover’s
eyes, or as a symbol of their fate
(the blood-colored wine which
spills ominously over the white
cloth on which they are enjoying
a feast of cheese and fruit). Thus
the director, if he hasn’t always
been fascinated with people, must
soon learn to acquaint himself
with them, for they remain ulti-
mately the material over which he
and his tools must pass. Love of
course is in no way necessary to
this process of creation.

Demand for Love

Stanley Kramer’s processes,
however, seem to demand it. He
loves people; his creative instincts
lead him to an intense fascination
with them which leads to a desire
to. put them on film. His love
for the characters appears to be
necessary to any desire to film
them. This love is in no way
based on a moral statement of
the character’s worth but is re-
vealed in a compassion for them,
whether they be Captain Queeg
of ‘‘The Caine Mutiny’’, or Frankie
of “A Member of the Wedding’’
(films which he produced); the
escaped convicts of ‘‘The Defiant

** the doomed members of
the world of ‘‘On the Beach,”’ the
cynical reporter and the self-
righteous Matthew Harrison Brady
in ‘Inherit the Wind,’’ or the
various doomed ‘‘fools’’ in the
otherwise mediocre ‘‘Ship of
Fools’’ (films which he directed),

Hf it is true that, to play any
part at all successfully, it is
mecessary to like the character
one is playing - no matter how
evil, dull or stupid he may be-
Stanley Kramer posesses the soul
of an actor, Certainly it must
be a pleasure for an actor to work
with him, for he (the actor) is
almost always given a character
which may be fully developed.
Character development is never
achieved or even abetted by purely
cinematic effects. Thus while the
special possibilities of film are
neither experimented with nor
taken particular advantage of, the
“IMving actor is allowed and en-

“~“eouraged to humanly create.



exemplified by Fellini, who hands
his ‘‘actors’” scenes to be
memorized immediately before
filming them, never telling the
performers so much as the overall
point or theme of the film. Except
for those few for whom he may
have created specific parts or
entire movies, (both ‘‘La Strada’’
and ‘Juliet of: the Spirits,”’ as
well as ‘‘Ni of Cabiria’’ were
written with) his wife, Giulietta
Masina in ), it must be rather
difficult for the professional actors
in his t to sublimate their own
creative drives to the unique but
confusing assignment of contribut-
ing an essential part to a develop-
ing work of art of which one has
no precise knowledge.
Concise Plots

The films directed and/or pro-
duced by Stanley Kramer have all
hada concise story line: a begin-
ning and a conclusion, establishing:
a situation in which the actor may
create freely within those boundar-
ies. Occasionally, perhaps, this
may work to the detriment of the
film as a whole.

“Ship of Fdols” is a case in
point - a loosely-knit and - not
very good book turned into a not
very good movie even more loosely
knit. The virtuoso performances
which he asked of and got from
several of the more sympathetic
fools played by. Oskar Werner,
Simone Signoret, and Vivien Leigh
weakened the movie as a whole.
What we were presented with was
brilliant portrayals of three-
dimensional human beings of very
individual character, not the unify-
ing, seemingly distant symbols ofa
human race sailing to its doom
shown us by the book.





Stanley Kramer has made var-
ious films which have committed
him to certain absolute points of
view on a number of matters. He
Stated at the press conference that
he believes in the necessity of com-
mitment and of the need to actively
express those commitments in
one’s life and work. Observing
that many people are unwilling to
commit themselves at any time,
he said he felt that many of to-
day’s films are ‘‘cop-outs’’ be-
cause of their refusal to provide
a solution. ;

Yet his own films are as much
passive studies of today’s society
as are Antonioni’s solutionless
films. Kramer’s work is ‘‘passive’’
in the sense that it is never pro-
pagandistic, for itposesses neither
the idealistic naivete so often found
in propagandistic art, nor the two-
dimensional characterizations
which seem always to be a part
of it. His films are never fighting
for a ‘‘cause.’’ They are merely
concerned with specific people
rather than the everyman who has
become so much a part of today’s
theater and cinema and which has
always been the staple of propagan-
distic art. The individuals which
have interested him are those who
are still offering conclusions,

Everymen

The photographer in ‘“‘Blow-Up”’
is an everyman. The other people
in the film are anyone though they
might, who knows, be someone
~that is their agony. Sidney Poitier,
in Kramer’s latest film, ‘‘Guess
Who’s Coming to Dinner,” is not
everyman. . He plays a brilliant
Negro lawyer who, at 37, has
already amassed an incredible list
of achievements and is now. on
his way to Africa where he plans

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medical school. Spencer Tracy
plays a white San Franciscan



Kramer directs stars in opening ‘‘Dinner’’ scene.

tricky photography would hardly be
appropriate to the subject matter
or setting.

ed and built to its current res-
pectable proportions.He is married
to Katherine Hepburn, a charming
lady of very determined character
who runs an art gallery and has
concocted the brilliant idea of plac-
ing good contemporary works of

art in hotel rooms so that every- .

one and anyone may enjoy good
art while prospective buyers’ can
get to know what will hopefully
be their next acquisition. Their
daughter,
Houghton, is a recent college
graduate, pretty and lively, and
she has just met and fallen in
love with Sidney Poitier during
a Hawaiian vacation.

San Francisco

The film begins with their arrival
together in San Francisco. He is
to come to dinner and meet her
parents who are to be told of
their very imminent marriage. Her
parents, she insistently tells him,
are not at all going be be affected
by the fact that he is a Negro.
He, on the other hand, is not so
sure; nor is he anxious to inform
his own parents that the girl he
is about to marry is white. The
girl’s mother, after the brief initial
surprise and doubts have worn off,
is won over by the happiness of
her daughter who, as her future
husband says, not only doesn’t mind
the “difference” between them but
‘doesn’t think there is any dif-
ference.’’ The girl’s father, how-
ever, is not as easily convinced
and cannot reconcile the young
people’s present happiness with
the bitter hatred he feels sure
they are to be the objects of once
they marry. #

The Negro parents also arrive
for dinner, and once again, it is
the mother who approves and the
father who disapproves - the voices
of sentiment and ‘‘reason’’ res-
pectively. They are marvelously
played by Beah Richards and Roy
E. Glenn, Jr,

Spencer Tracy is eventually won
over to the idea of the marriage’
by Beah Richards, who reminds
him of the passion and need two
people can feel for each other
and for which she accuses him,
like her husband, of having for-
gotten. Not forgotten, as he later
points out, but just not thought of.

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tically imaginative film; but then,

Study in Ludicrous
These characters are all very
real. They are accessible as’
people.The situation is imminently

‘possible and true. Stanley Kramer

himself has said that the film is

actually a study in the ludicrous,

for there is absolutely nothing but
the difference in color separating
these two people: the prospective
groom must be almost absurdly
acceptable to the white parents
whose accomplishments they know
of and whose open honesty and
maturity is revealed to them during .
the course of the evening; the
objection of neither father is based
on prejudice but on what he feels
is the unreasonableness of such a

union in the still-bigoyjted societies |

of the present; while the rejection
and disapproval the young couple
is’sure to suffer to some degree
for probably the rest of their
lives is minimized by the fact that
a good deal of their time will be
spent in various remote parts of
Africa.

There are numerous marvelous
character moments in the movie-
too numerous to even list. ButI
must mention the Uncle Tom maid
(isabel Sanford) who mutters dis-
gustedly that ‘‘Civil rights is one

Katharine Houghton, surrounded
by a cast of brilliant performers,
is terribly disappointing, though
she improves somewhat towards
the end. Hers is a very fragile
role and I think it would be dif-
ficult for the most accomplished
actress to carry it off, for the part
becomes so easily,silly.

I never before attended a movie
which generated such strong and
continuous audience reaction, in
response both to the characters
and the situations. It is hardly
a great film, but it’s avery wonder-
ful film.

Stanley Kramer has been accused
of sentamentality, an observation
which he hardly regards as a
criticism. He is sentimental, but
his sentiment has nothing to do
with a lack of realism or under-
Standing. It is. a sentimentality
of creating empathetic participa-

‘tion in a film situation and exis-
tence, and it is this quality which

is the most successful’ and most”

important feature of
Coming to Dinner.’’

Marianne Lust

**Guess Who’s



thing, but this here’s another,’’
and who confronts Sidney Poitier
with the observation that she won’t
stand for any of these ‘‘smart-
assed niggers’? who try to get
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to be able to tell when he’s blush- |

ing, which ‘‘could be a problem’’;
the taxi driver who looks in dismay
and disgust at the mixed couple
kissing in his back seat; the Irish |

priest, a close friend of the non- |

Catholic white family who, astound-
ed at Spencer Tracy’s objections,
taunts. him with ‘I think you'd :
better invite me to dinner tonight,
otherwise the whites won’t out-
number the blacks,” and, doing a
little jig, cheerfully quotes the :
Beatles, ‘‘We can work it out,
yeah’’; and finally, Spencer Tracy,
after his talk with the Negro
mother, standing in the shadows
on the terrace like some full-size
figure from Mt. Rushmore, only
to suddenly exclaim quietly, ‘“Well
I’ll be a son of a bitch,’*

_. Reservations
With the film as a whole I had

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