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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Vol. LHI, No. 9

BRYN MAWR, PA,

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1967

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967

25 Cents



Black Arts Leaders Invited,
Extensive Funds Needed

Funds
Festival are still urgently needed
even though some contributions

have ve oar trickling in, ‘
mensions -of--the-week-
end events. will’ demand a

considerable sum of money, and
students and faculty are urged
by the co-ordinating committee
to contribute to this progressive
cultural undertaking. Money
sources to date include donated
faculty honoraria and student pay
checks, in addition to $10 patrons
contributions,

The Festival which wili
cost at least $3,300, will draw
leaders in the field of contempor-
ary black arts,

Emphasizing the importance
of art in the current black revolu-
‘tion in America, the Festival
will feature playwright Le Roi
Jones and his Harlem drama group,

Participating poets will include
Larry Neal, writer for the
‘Liberator Magazine,’’ who has
. recently filmed a movie of the

ghettos using black producers,
_ ‘black directors, black actors and

black funds,
Gaston Neal, a black militant

poet from Washington, D, C.,
will also present some _ of
his poems. Neal works. with

the New School of Afro-American
Thought in the nation’s capital
which instructs ghetto children in
Negro history and basic ed-
ucation courses, In conjunction
with Howard University, the
New School provides seminars and
classes for college-age students,

Two additional poets will
soon be chosen from the Phila-
delphia area to participate
in the weekend,

In the field of music,
the Festival will offer two jazz
groups, The Kuntu Jazz Quintet
from Philadelphia will provide ac-

companiment for the poetry
readings, :

The Sun Ra Arkestra, an
avantgarde group, will feature

‘*Astro-Infinity Music,’’ Extreme-
ly interested in creating pro-
found audience involvement, this
group includes 15 musicians who
each play ‘‘angry black music’?

Electric Flag Flies;
Unable To Perform
At S’more Weekend

Expectations of a ‘‘big name’’
group for Swarthmore weekend
were shattered this week when it
was revealed that the ‘Electric
Flag’? was busted in Boston last
weekend.

Glenn Smoak is in charge of
‘finding a replacement for the group
which was to play in Founders
Saturday evening, after the 17:30
showing of ‘‘Cat Ballou.’’

‘Paris Rive Gauche”? will appear
tonight at 8:30 p.m., followed by an
open party in the basement of South
Dorm.

Brunch will be served from 10
~@m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and in
_ the ‘afternoon there will be soccer
- *and football games ‘with pinch
_more.”



The NEWS will next appear
- December |
HAPPY VACATION



for the Black Arts”

on at least three instruments.
A photography exhibit will
highlight the. artistic endeavors

. of black photographers from New

York and Philadelphia,

Also slated for the weekend,
is a movie “Cool World,’ Al-
though the film is nota
black production, it concerns the
youth of the ghettos,

Designed. to acquaint the
public with the power.and diversity
of black literature, a book exhibit
will sell a wide range of mag-
azines and volumes,

Still on the drawing board
is a possible symposium with stu-
dents from Howard University,
Lincoln University and Bryn Mawr
College and the visiting artists,
The session will be based on
polemic questions, and the
audience will be urged to raise
controversial issues, .

Poet Larry Neal was par-
ticularly impressed by © this
enormous undertaking -when he
spoke to Bryn Mawr senior: Jackie
Williams, chief co-ordinator of the
program,

Neal indicated that when
he was a student at Lincoln Uni-
versity there was no Negro
interest in their cultural heritage,

Trying to locate accommo-
dations for the guest artists,

‘the committee working on the

Festival hopes that the participants
will stay at Bryn Mawr all week-
end and. give the _ students
a chance to meet them personally,

The idea for the Festival
came out of the political science

‘comp conference, and the under-

taking now lies largely in
the hands of Bryn Mawr students,
Jackie Williams, Wonza William-
son, Lois Portnoy, Liz Sch-
neider and Margaret Levi,

At least one of the scheduled
events will be presented on the
Haverford campus, and both stu-
dent bodies are urged to
become involved in the Festival.

“Right now we are trying
very hard to gettheliterary groups
on both campuses interested inthe
project,’”? Jackie revealed, ‘‘We
also need any artists or poster-

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demic world should protest against this ‘

Photo by Marian Scheuer
Mr. Schneider of the sociology department thinks that the aca-

‘wretched’® war.

BMC Will Not Join H’ford

In Purchase

Haverford College is going tobuy
a new bus.

The bus, which is being bought
for. social-and athletic events, will
also run between Haverford and
Bryn Mawr to supplement runs of
the old bus at hours when the bus
is overcrowded.

An article in last week’s Haver-
ford News said that Haverford’s
comptroller, Mr. Smith, hoped that
Bryn Mawr would be willing to
share the cost of the new bus, but
that the bus would be purchased by
Haverford in any case.

Mrs. Whelihan, Assistant to the
President, had neither read the
article in the newspaper nor knew
anything about any negotiations for
the purchase of a new bus.

Nor was Bryn Mawr’s comp-
troller, Mr, Klug, aware that any
negotiations were going on when he
was interviewed. He stated that he
was ‘‘really surprised’’ to read
such statements in the Haverford
‘‘News,’”? because although he
speaks with Mr. Smith quite often,



of New Bus

and the subject of the bus has.come
up several times, he does not con-
sider these talks negotiations.

Mr. Klug feels that if Mr. Smith
wants to-supplement the bus with a
vehicle which Haverford plans to
buy anyway, this is fine. He added
that Bryn Mawr, however, should
not be expected to share the costs
of running the new bus, just as
Haverford is not expected to share
the cost of the Bryn Mawr station
wagon just because it is occasion-
ally used for transportation be-
tween the two schools. Mr. Klug
said in reference to his and Mr.
Smith’s interests, ‘‘I stick to my
business and he sticks to his busi-
ness.’? He stated, ‘‘I don’t think
Bryn Mawr has been less than co-
operative with Haverford: up to
this point.’’

Mr. Klug concluded that it is
apparent from the article in the
Haverford ‘‘News” that there is a
great deal of misunderstanding be-
tween the two schools.

Nancy Miller

photo by Mary Yee

Hoverford’s new bus will be used to prevent crowded situations like these from continuing during
peak academic hours between the two schools.

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Eugene Schneider

Signs Open Letter
To U.S. President

Thirteen hundred Fellows and
Active Members of the American
Sociological Association, in-
cluding Eugene Schneider, Pro-
fessor of Sociology at Bryn
Mawr, signed and published an
open letter to President Johnson,
protesting against the war in Viet-
nam,

The - letter, also sent to
members of Congress, condemned
“the conduct of the Vietnam war
and its effects on our own society,”?

The statement points out
that the war is destroying the so-
ciety which it purports’ to
aid, killing civilians, and ruining
crops and entire communities, The
signers feel that the problems of
Vietnam are social and political
in character and cannot be settled
by use of military force,

The petition protests ‘‘the
continued bombing of North Viet-
nam and the killing of in-
nocent---civilians in the face
of evidence and testimony from
many knowledgeable. individuals
including our own Secretary of
Defense that such bombing cannot
succeed in forcing peace ne-
gotiations.’”’

The letter concludes’ with
an appeal to stop the bombing of
North Vietnam, to attempt
to negotiate for peace with all
parties concerned, and _ to
withdraw American forces from
Vietnam in an orderly and phased
manner, ‘

Approximately thirty per cent
of the Association signed this let-
ter, It seems that the letter
was sent only to senior members
of the Association, This would
perhaps explain the small per-
centage of participation and the
lack of certain names among the

signers,
The NEWS. contacted Mrs,
Porter, lecturer in sociology

at Bryn Mawr, who, since she
is a graduate student member,
did not receive the letter, Be-
cause most of the members
of the sociology departments of
Bryn Mawr and Haverford are
also student members, she as-
sumed that the absence of
their names was a_ result
of their standing in the Associa-
tion, She felt that this had
perhaps been done in order to
include only those who are actual-
ly registered as college pro-
fessors, thereby increasing the
effectiveness of the petition,

The creation of the letter
originated at a conference of the
American Sociology Association
in San Francisco early in
the fall, A suggestion was made for
a formal statement by the Asso-
ciation but was ruled’ out
by the chair, This was followed by
a motion for an informal expres-
sion of opinion which was
passed, Because of this, the let-
ter stresses that it comes
from INDIVIDUAL members of
the Association,

When asked about the role
of the intellectual and the uni-
versity in protest against the
war, Mr, Schneider, stated:

~““*It is" incumbent'’on the -aca-
demic. world to raise itséli-
up on its hind legs against this
wretched adventure of ours,.”’

Nancy Miller