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“THE = COLLEGE NEWS:





‘Ghee ngs a ee Other Things

pean teenyboppers, scholars, hippies and
Future Mothers of America, Welcome to Bryn
Mawr, sometinics described.as an oasis of learn-
ing in a vast cultural and intellectual wasteland,

In the welcoming speeches you have already heard

and will yet hear you have undoubtedly been
called the best class ever to come here, Every!
class hears this. Every year, Bryn Mawr,
recruits better and better students, on the theory’
that this makes Bryn Mawr a better and better
school, This is for you to judge, |

’ ‘Bright as you are, Bryn Mawr’s extracurricu-|
lar arrangements might seem a bit confusing
at first, There are a great many organizations.

Some of these are described in articles through-
out this issue, The Alliance for Political Affairs,
League, Athletic Association, Arts Council and
Curriculum Committee are called the Big Five
and make up a matrix under the Undergraduate
Association, called Undergrad, Interfaith used to
be a part of this group, but it has reverted to
its former status as a simple committee under
Undergrad, The Social Committee is another
important Undergrad committee. Undergrad
manages the overall budget and serves as a
central communications center for these or-
ganizations and committees,

Completely separate and concerned with more
fundamental matters is Self-Government. Self-
Gov has control over the social and academic
honor systems,

It is important to canon’ that these two
_ bodies, Undergrad and Self-Gov are separate,
This system is often compared with Haver-
ford’s, usually by Haverfordians emphasizing
Bryn Mawr’s clumsiness, Haverford has all
their activities, plus their honor system handled

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© missible in the town of Bryn Mawr
# were lifted to allow students to
# wear shorts or long pants. The at-
# tempt to eliminate the rule barring
# liquor on the campus, however,
= was defeated. Although 58% of the
-# students supported the attempt, it

* of the potential elimination feared
= the effect that liquor, might: have
# on the atmosphere of a small col-
# lege community, where the in-
® dividual cannot hope to leave the
= community unaffected by all of her
# private actions,

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Self-Gov Statement
% The following is the statement
by Self-Gov’s Executive Board.on
% the Committee of the Board of
: Director’s approval of the 8 a,m,
: sign-out. The Director’s statement
: is in the box to the left. See also
; the editorial on the trial period.

: The Committee of the Board of
: Directors has decided to recom-
: mend to the Board as a whole,
: that the 8 a.m. sign-out be ac-
: cepted. for sophomores, juniors,
.22 and seniors with the understand-
: ing that the increased social flex-
: ibility which it provides is not to
: be equated with increased sexual-
: ity.
: Haverford, and because of their
liberal hours for women in the
‘dorms, the belief has led to the
: Committee’s statement that the 8
Ea a.mf. sign-out is not to be used
*: for the purpose of sleeping over-
: night with boys in Haverford Col-
: lege dorms. When the Board re-
: vises the 8 a.m. permission four

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“New Sign-Outs .

student body voted for last spring.

We recognize, -however, that the

Committee of the Board, believed
that it could not in conscience ac-

cept, at this point, an unre--
stricted 8 a.m, sign-out. Because

of the provisionality of the hours
at: Haverford, and because of wide
differences ‘of opinion on the Bryn
Mawr campus and within the Self-
Gov, Board.about the advisability
of completely unrestricted sleep-
ing at Haverford, the Board has
decided to maintain the status quo
whereby: it is unacceptable for a
Bryn Mawr student to spend the
night in a Haverford College dorm-.

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itory. Board of Directors,

riage there were sev-

eral legitimate reasons for stay-
ing on the Haverford campus after
2am. The system whereby a

student returning after 2 a.m. is,

admitted to her hall remains tobe

worked out. Miss McBride is try- ?
ing to figure out a system which .

is not excessively expensive, but
which. must. provide maximum’
safety for girls returning between
2 and 8 a.m. The success of the
system which evolves depends en-
tirely upon the cooperation of Bryn
Mawr students, as does the future
of this new privilege. -



Because of the proximity of

Committee of the Board Of Directors’ Statement

Upon consideration of the students’ votes on new rules, and after
consultations with the officers of Student Government, the Com-~-
mittee will recommend to the Directors that the directors approve
a rule that would permit sophomores, juniors and seniors to sign
out until 8 a.m. The sign-out would be with the student’s hall
president, who would record the student’s name, her destination,
whom she would be with, how she could be reached, and when she
expected to return, Upon return, the student would be admitted
to her hall. The precise procedures. of admission remain to be
worked out, for possible procedures will differ as to efficiency
‘and expense.

‘This rule is not to be interpreted to include action that will j

reflect adversely upon the student or the college. For example,
the “rule would not saction a student signing out until 8 a.m, so
that she might spend the night in a Haverford dormitory. How-
ever the- Committee recognizes that there may be many approp-
riate social occasions, at Haverford or elsewhere, which a stu-
dent could more readily attend under the new rule.

The Committee will also recommend to the Directors that the
new rule be temporary only, and that after it has been in effect
for four months, it be reviewed sothat the Committee may inform
the Directors regarding the extend and nature of the use of the
rule, and the-incidental expense, with a recommendation regarding

_ whether the -rule should be continued, modified or eliminated.



be spirit, class togetherness or community spirit? Does the faculty see






by one group, the Students’ Council, At first,
this may seem to me a much easier and less
complex way of doing things. The NEWS it-
self has thought so. But it should be re-
membered that Haverford is a smaller school ]
than Bryn Mawr, and that boys don’t seem to #
be as addicted to forming committees as girls
are,

So greetings again. Please keep in mind
that when the Freshman Week Committee and
the deans tell you to ask questions of anyone
about anything, they mean it, Ask upperclass-
men, ask Connie in the bookstore, ask teachers,
ask Miss McBride, ask the NEWS, you could =
even ask the squirrels, They’ve been around =
longer than some of the rest of us.

Working the Trial Period

The NEWS is pleasantly surprised at the Committee of the Board ot &
Directors approval of the 8.a.m. sign-out. We are not so sure about #:
the procedures of the four month trial period. We understand that: stu- e
dents intending to use the 8 a.m. sign-out may have to ask permission : a
of the hall president. We also understand that the hall president will be :
keeping track of the number and length of stays at Haverford and : ES
elsewhere of each girl. If they are signing out and staying out too long =
and too often, the hall president may assume that the student is not # a
typing papers or attending parties, and ask that the girl ‘‘cut down’? 3:
(as one member of Self-Gov put it yesterday). Ba

These records of the hall presidents will be transmitted to Self- = =
Gov’s Executive Board. They will then be compiled and presented to & e
the Board of Directors at the end of four months, and will be used =
to determine if the new system is working. The NEWS is worried :
about what ‘‘working’? means. Does ‘‘working’? mean ‘not used’’? =
Or not used very much, or only a little, or what? :

We think ‘‘working’”? has nothing to do with the number of girls who # .
utilize the new sign-out, but rather has to do with the well-being of Ea
the college. The Board should pragmatically set out to see if the “3
dent body has been harmed by the four months trial period, Ha .
there been fantastic drops in academic efforts? Have there been =
increases in psychiatric problems? Do students notice a loss of EDs

any difference in their students?

By gathering such impressions and opinions, we believe the Board =
will have a much better idea of how the new system affects Bryn Mawr
than by keeping statistics and making records,

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Entered as second class matter at the Bryn Mawr, Pa. Post
Office, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Application for re-entry.
at the Bryn Mawr, Pa. Post Office filed October ist, 1963.

Second Class Postage paid at Bryn Mawr, Pa.
FOUNDED IN 1914

The College News is ful otected’ by copyright. Nothing
thet appears in it may be reprinted who See a wettest

permission of the Edit
EDITED BY
ee. : Christopher Bakke

Kathy Murphey

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: months after it goes into effect
: they will decide whether or not to

ontinue it according to how itis
eing used in-relation to their

= # stipulations. Self-Gov: will report:

= to the Board in detail, the number

= and purposes of girls using the new

ign-out. We realize that this
system is not entirely what the



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you’re here, you’re here, a fresh

batch, and i hardly know whattodo .

: with myself ... first i’1! say who 1
: am, i’m a campusbound tradition
: that brings you song every week
from the friendly pages of your
friendly neighborhood paper, shiv-
ering when it’s cold but warm in
the knowledge that there is so

= much of you out there to love...

: and 1 will bring you snowdrops
once they’ve put up snow fences,

s and the first orange leaf, and

* when it is spring again as it.al-
ways must be i may leave on
= your sill the hint of a blossom-
laden summer ... i soar with the
= seasons and hum to taylor chimes
and watch you as you pursue your
= sweet human business ...my-home
is on the pregnant library (who
will give birth after two years’
gestation), in and around its tur-
rets, but i make visits to the in-

# firmary for the incommunicado, at
a Pagel concep nace tgs

a grey-brown blur whizzing past
a sickroom window ... in general
= 1 try to be a benevolent and harm-
: less type oftradition ...toominis-

= actually quite venerable, humor
: me ... O i have great wishes for

you, i have waited for you all
this long summer long, you will
fulfil my expectations in your very

. Patagonian gid

© fiction, and that's what itis from
__ here on in, baby

_all my love,

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Alliance To

Activate,*

Awaken Political World

The Alliance for Political Af-
fairs is not really an alliance. An
alliance is a difficult proposition,
one that looks promising on paper,
but when finally it exists, it canbe
either dynamic or static.

An alliance is supposed to con-
sist of groups with differing basic
interests and goals, yet all are
directed to one basic purpose -- in
this) case, a more complete
knowledge of political affairs.

During the time of the last
Presidential election, Alliance was
a functioning group, with several
active clubs under. its umbrella,
Slowly the umbrella wears out,
leaks develop, and everything
washes away into a current. One
drop of water is just like the next.

This seems to have happened to

Bryn Mawr’s Alliance.
Specifically, in these years, we
had political clubs, as the Young

Democrats, the Young Republicans

and the Young Conservatives. We
had general interest groups, such
as the International RelationsClub.
This past year, we had a Social
Action Committee (see page 4) and
a group of 200 students working
with the Committee of Responsi-
bility "for War-Burned and War-
Injured Vietnamese Children, a
private medical aid project.

Alliance needs interested peo-
ple -- people who want to feel
informed, who think about the
world, who try to solve impossible
problems. Every drop. of water is
distinct, both drawn and repelled
by its neighbors. So are students,
drawn by common interests into
communication, ‘‘repelled’”’ by
conflicting information, but finally
joining in shared. knowledge. So a
drop becomes part of a river, @
flow of information.

(Continued on page 4)

Akoue Breaks Class Bar
Asks Non-Seniors To Help

You. may have heard that Bryn
Mawr is tradition personified. But
during the past few years, AKOUE
(the Bryn Mawr yearbook), which
means Listen}: in Greek, has
broken through the crusty de-
posits of former decades to be-
comé a less stilted, more alive
work of art.

By this we mean that the year-
book has changed from an unin-
spired aggregation of photographs
to a unified collage of ideas. [t
was only two years ago that can-
dids replaced formal senior poses,
reflecting the acknowledgement by
AKOUE that students are in-
dividuals, not just members of a
department, as they used to be
listed in AKOUE, —

It. has been traditional in the

past for the AKOUE staff to be
comprised of only seniors, This
year, however, we.plan to widen
our ranks to include underclass-.
men as well, particularly in the
fields of art work, advertising,

and, especially, photography.
Lack of communication between
outgoing and incoming officers has
always been an unfortunate ‘‘tradi=
tion”? at Bryn Mawr; working with

- the present editors will help elim=

inate the confusion and inexper+
ience of future editors. Further=
more, there is only limited out=
lets on this campus for them who
is interested in writing.

Please call or otherwise con
tact one of us -- via campus mail
or in person--by Sunday, Sep=
tember 24, and let us know who
you are and what you would like

to do. (For those interested in -

photography, we would be hap-
pier if you had a camera, but

even if you don’t, call anyway.) —

Janet lives in Denbigh 58, LA 5-

Merion 22, LA 5-2225. There is
a free phone for local calls in
every hall,

inet Kole
4 Marcia Ringel

500, and you'll find Marcia in”

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