College news, November 12, 1965

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Vol. LI, No¥6)

BRYN MAWR, PA.

November 12, 1965

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1965

25 Cents



Exchange Program Committee College Guarantees Ass’t. Profs
Meets to Study Questionnaires —

The Exchange Committee held
its first meeting Thursday, Nov, 4,
to discuss the results of the ques-
tionnaire concerning exchanges
which was distributed throughout
the campus,

Approximately 250 students re-
turned the questionnaire, and all
of them agreed that the Exchange
Program was worthwhile.

The Exchange Program, in ex-
istence for the past three years,
allows Bryn Mawr students to
attend classes at. another college
for about a week. Students. from
this college then make a return
visit to the Bryn Mawr campus.

In the past, exchanges have been
made mainly with small Negro
schools in the South. This one-
sidedness was heavily criticized
on campus last year. Before mak-
ing any decisions about the program
this year, the Exchange Committee
decided to sound out student de-
sires through its questionnaire.

Students were asked whether
they would rather participate in
an exchange with a predominately
Negro school or with a school
academically comparable to Bryn
Mawr. The results showed that
interest in exchanging with aca-
demically comparable schools was
far stronger than interest in ex-
changing with Negro schools, Nine-
ty girls selected the former, and
50 girls opted for the latter,

Asked whether they would rather
leave Bryn Mawr during spring
vacation or during the first few
weeks of the second semester, a
slight majority of “students in-
dicated a preference for the latter.

When students were queried
about the schools they would choose
for an exchange, the overwhelming
first choice for most was Rad-
cliffe. Smith, Sarah Lawrence, and

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Undergrad Planning Exchanges
With Penn, St.

College exchanges were the main
item of discussion at the Under-
graduate Association meeting held
Monday night. Colleges suggested
for this year include Antioch, Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, St. John’s,
Radcliffe,and Howard University.

These colleges are now being
contacted. In addition to these
student exchanges for — short
periods of time, other kinds of
suggested exchanges might be a
Seven Sisters directory, and pos-
sible future exchanges for a whole
semester,

James Reston, Associate Editor
of the New York Times, has been
invited to be the Undergrad Emi-
nent Speaker for this year, Un-
dergrad President Popie Johns
said that his reply is expected soon.

Voting held this week in the halls
revealed that a majority of stu-
dents want the cultural and bi-
college calendars compiled and
distributed by Haverford, but they
are not needed in a one student-
one calendar ratio.

The Inn Committee reminded
students that there is a well-
equipped. kitchen on the. second

“floor of the “Inn- which -students.-

may use by signing up for it
on the door.
At a separate Undergrad-Ad-

Bennington also ranked high among

girls’ schools. Interest was also
expressed in exchanging with such
schools as Antioch, St,John’s, and
the University of Pennsylvania,
Among Negro colleges, Miles,
Tougaloo, Tuskegee, and Howard
were frequently mentioned,

With these facts in mind, the
committee decided to write im-
mediately to four schools to in-
vestigate the
exchange. The four chosen are

_ Howard University, St. John’s Col-

lege, Radcliffe, and the University
of Pennsylvania. An exchange with
Antioch College has already been
arranged for Thanksgiving Vaca-
tion,

possibility of .

- VYear’s Leave In Second Term

Bryn Mawr today announced its
own solution to the academic con-
trovery concerning division of pro-
fessors’ time between teaching
and research, In a statement re-
leased today, President McBride
reported the Board of Directors’
new program for assistant pro-
fessors on the faculty to allow
for more time for writing and
research,

The plan, voted by the Board
at its fall meeting, will extend
the. appointment to the assistant
professorship from two years to
a three-year term. Following re-
appointment to the second term,
the faculty member will be granted

Faculty Averages 20.5
In “Family Circle” Poll

Last week the COLLEGE NEWS
discovered that the average Bryn
Mawrter has read 13 of the 55
books, any 20 of which ‘Family
Circle’? says are necessary for
college preparation.

The NEWS polled the faculty
this week, and some 40 responses
showed an average of 20-1/2 books.
Inconclusive as the poll and the
number of responses were, the
compilers of the statistics (who
were as frustratedsas the poll
was frustrating, as one math
professor was quick to’ note) feel
safe in assuming that the faculty,
if not the student body, is pre-
pared for college!

Many thanks to “*Family Cir-
cle’? for the bit of fun the NEWS
had with the magazine’s perspica-
cious book list. To wind up, as
it began, on a note ‘of humor, the

John’s, Others

ministration meeting this week,
the final system for the weekend
meal exchange with Haverford was
arranged. The simplified plan will
be an even division of couples
between Haverford and Bryn Mawr,
with no effort to compensate for
weekday lunch discrepanciese The
new exchange will definitely begin
the weekend of November 19.

NEWS thought Mawrters might be
interested in some of the com-
ments of their professors:

From a biology department
member who. read 10: ‘*Ho-Ho,’’
and from a geology professor with
22: **Umph!”’

A Latin professor, undoubtedly
a gentleman as well as a scholar,
read 17, but honestly admitted he
had seen three of the books in the

movies. The NEWS gave him a
20, :

‘¢¢Family- Circle’ is nuts!?’ came
from a member of the economics
department with 21,

**] flunk,’? admitted a member
of the chemistry. department with
five, the lowest number recorded
among the faculty. Highest was
a history professor with 47 and
a Spanish professor with 44,

Another history professor with
17 added a touch of sarcasm:
**The defects of a classical edu-
cation become apparent.”’

The mathematics professor who
found the poll frustrating took
*‘Monday evening time . sadly
needed for Tues, morning lecture’”’
to write the NEWS a pageful of
suggestions on polling. ‘I still
have to get my dinner ...”’

A philosophy professor: ‘*I hope
this is not a hidden commercial.,’’

A Greek professor: ‘Thirty
titles had not yet appeared when
I went to college.”’

Good Grief, Charlie Brown!

a year’s leave of absence, gen-
erally in the fourth or fifth year,
the choice being up to the assis-
tant professor.

To students, the essential valw
of the plan is that a young pro-
fessor will be guaranteed an op-
portunity to advance his own re-
search, greatly enhancing the ad-
vantages of accepting a position
at Bryn Mawr. This in turn should
help to maintain the quality of
new faculty members,

When the assistant professor
receives the appointment for a
second term, Miss McBride ex-
plained, his teaching will be. going
well, but it is also expected that
the year’s leave of absence to
concentrate on research will be
a further stimulus to his teach-
ing, for progress in research and

progress in teaching are likely to
contribute one to the other.

is expected that an assistant
fessor will make.every effort
v apply for fellowships-or grants
from outside sources for support
during his absence, just as has
always been true in the past, Since
such fellowships or grants are
increasingly difficult to obtain,
except in the natural and physical _
sciences, the new plan provides
for a research fellowship from
the college in cases where no out-
side fellowship is-either feasible
or appropriate.

Funds have been set aside by
the college to meet the needs of
the extra year. At the present
time, Bryn Mawr has 29 assis-
tant “professors on the faculty.

Hectic Rehearsal for ‘Richard’
Moves Toward Final Harmony

Anyone not deeply involved in
the grueling work of preparing
the Bryn Mawr -Haverford pro-
duction of RICHARD II (sched-
uled for Friday and Saturday,
November 12 and 13 at 8 p.m.
in Roberts Hall, Haverford) who
might have ventured into Roberts
any night this week, could only
have found himself an alien --
on the edge of a strange, irresist-
ibly exciting world whose motive
principles were hidden, whose en-
chantment seemed to build a wall
around itself.

He must have sensed it to be a
world demanding at once a far
more absorbed egoism and a far
more selfless devotion to one all-
consuming purpose than were re-
quired in his accustomed world ---
and one allowing both a greater
attention to an individual and a
more brutal unconcern for his
human susceptibilities. He must
have felt the heightened tension
and sharpened intensity of this

world striving to achieve the _

deeper feeling and fuller con-
sciousness of another.

This past Tuesday this reporter
did in fact go to a rehearsal of
**Richard’’ -- as an observer who
rendered her sole service to the
production when asked by one of
those working on the set if she

would be willing to dispose of an

.. king.

armload of accumulated trash,

The initial impression was one
of a vast chaos, Arriving cast
members gazed at the stagewhere
a modern set, allowing for the
action’s taking place on various
levels, was nearing completion:
‘*Ilook at the pretty trees ...
Are those trees?’”’ ‘‘Well, they’re
pratty columns anyway.’’ Com-
ple\ng a brief exhortation to the
cast\ Mr. Butman looked abstract-
edly around: ‘*‘I don’t know why
there isn’t any music tonight;
there was supposed to be music
tonight.’’ A f@w moments later
the music arrived: ‘‘So you had
Renaissance Choir tonight?”

At laSt came the call, ‘Lights!
Voices!** -- and a great answer-
ing roar. The run-through be-
gan. Actors moved onto the boards;
retreated to the wings, and swept
on again -- to a roll of drums,
Richard groped uncertainly toward
the light, seeking to gather a
nimbus. about his crown. Enraged
hands, unbethinking, tore offend-
ing costume from discomfitted
The flow of impassioned
poetry was broken by the hoarse
whisper, ‘‘Line!’’

Gradually, however, the clash
of technicalities gave way, and
from the manifold, concerted ef-
fort-emerged a ‘‘deep harmony.”’

(Continued on page 4)



College Theatre reheaiies RICHARD i" for production this weekend. At left, Margaret Edwards, "67, is made up for her role as the

' Duchess of Gloucester. At right, the principals in a scene from the play.



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On Change

In addition to discussing Haverford’s student government problems,
Bok Read and his friends outlined Bryn Mawr’s problems as well--
basically that we are entirely bound up in petty matters. They listed
four changes involving attitudes and procedures that they would consider
beneficial.. We admire their spirit. and thank them for their interest.
These are their suggestions:

1, Combine Undergrad and Self-Gov.

2. Have all the.various reps choose reps themselves so that
the actual working governmental body consists of no more
than ten members.

3. Take more of a stand on administrative issues,

4. Integrate student and faculty power structures.

Obviously they want for us the same things they want for themselves.
And they are very critical of us for not concentrating all our energies
in getting these things; more critical it seems, than they are of them-
selves. Perhaps they are justified in this, After all, we are definitely
farther from the realization of these changes than they are. Our dual
system of government often seems unnecessarily cumbersome. It is
true that a large number of Undergrad members contribute many words
and little action. It is also true that as students, we are not as involved
in administrative policy decisions as are students at Haverford; and
finally, yes, there is much to be desired in the coordination of our stu-
dents and faculty.

But Haverford must realize that as awomen’s college, we are working
under a greater handicap than they are. There are a multitude of rules
and procedures for us to follow, then consider, question, and possibly
revoke. Somehow, it has been ordained that these rules and procedures
don’t need to be applied to men. Therefore, Haverford hasn’t had to
contend with them. It has taken time and effort to change the rules so
that we could smoke in our rooms, wear levis to dinner, have men in
our rooms, and have cars on campus. This generation of Haverford
students, on the other hand, were giventhese and comparable privileges
on a Silver platter.

Furthermore, we must note that our goals are not necessarily the
same as Haverford’s, nor need they be. We continue to work, in our own
quiet way, for the things we consider important. Some issues, apparently
very important to Haverford students, are essentially ignored here
because they simply do not seem vital to our interests. The Haverford
innovators would do well to keep our differences of interests and con-

cerns in mind. ‘

We have, it is true, made many changes.of our own, Still we should
no more than pause briefly to congratulate oursélves. Haverford is
quite right in reminding us that many things yet remain to be done.
Perhaps we could learn from Haverford’s experiences inthese matters.
Their advice is more valuable than their criticism. Their positive
comments are based on much sounder reasoning thanare their negative
ones. We must learn to separate such constructive advice from their
general downgrading of our..student government and consider: it ob-
jectively and seriously. For it deserves nothing less.

A Fair Exchange

The Exchange reagan 8 campus poll has breathed new life into a
. dying issue, Lack of~enthusiasm for the exchange program in past
years was an indication that it did not answer student needs, By
turning to the source of the trouble, the committee has taken a vi-
tal and corrective step.

An exchange system should supply curious students with an op-
portunity to witness life on another campus.—If. curiousity at Bryn
Mawr focuses on the academic aspect of college, the exchange pro-
gram should respond with a suitable slate ,0f choices. The result
of the poll shows that student interest favors an arrangement with
a school academically comparable to Bryn Mawr over the previous
exchanges with Southern Negro colleges, The diagnosis for the ailing
system is as obvious as the remedy. When student preferences are
heeded, student support will return,

Observing first-hand the attitudes, approaches, and practices of
another .college is a fascinating exercise for anyone anxious to eva-
luate her own college experience, The unanimous verdict of the
poll that exchanges are worthwhile demonstrates unsuspected support
waiting to be unearthed,

The program is an irreplaceable method of comparing Bryn Mawr
with similar institutioas, encouraging. students.to retura from such

. visits with constructive reports and suggestions, If the committee

offers* the “people what they want, it will at the same time enable
the people to improve what they have. We can’t ask for a fairer
exchange.

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H’ford Student Council Leaders
Explain New Structural Changes

by Kit Bakke

Last year, Joe Eyer- resigned
from the Haverford Student Coun-
cil presidency when he found out
**that things don’t happen, es-
pecially at Haverford.’’? He had
run on issues, the first candidate
to do so in many years, but after
he was elected, his attempts at
action were blocked. After his
resignation, Bok Read took his
place.

Read, along with Dennis Car-
son and Alan Rafael, discussed
the present Student Council situa-
tion at great length Tuesday night
for the NEWS. This year’s em-
phasis is on structural changes,
which, they pointed out, are a
little difficult to get excited about.
The students aren’t as involved
in their government now as they





last monday morn amongst the
autumnal litter of discarded leaves
south south-east of taylor your
poet came upon a large fuzzy
pink slipper nestled close to earth
..- it sat there oblivious to the
academic hustle and bustle all
around ... complacent in the rain
..- at first i thought it sad to be
a fluffy slipper alone“in the rain
--. but it didn’t seem to mind...
it sat there‘like some anachronis-
tic synthetic cherry blossom which
had had the audacity to fall out
of a maple in november ...

i wonder if it got there by it-
self ... it seemed headed for dalton
-.- perhaps its gotten there by
now ... but i think it much more
likely it was left there by some
freshman .cinderella racing the
magical hour of nine ...

mi

Film, Play, Dance
To Be Sponsored
By French Club

The French Club is delving into
many aspects of French culture
with a diversified program of
events, :

**Le Rouge et Le Noir,’’ a movie
based onStendhal’s classic novel of
the same title, will be sponsored
by the French Club November 19
at 8:00 in Goodhart Hall. The movie
is in color and has English sub-
titles, It stars Gerard Philipe and
Daniele Darieux and was direct-
ed by Autan La-Ra,

soggily,
applebee

An open house with the French

professors will follow the movie,
and a donation of $.60 is request-
ed,

Many of the club’s activities
are. coordinated with Princeton’s
French Club. One such event will
be a party-dance the afternoon
of Sunday, December 12, at Prince-
ton,

Work on a French play with
Princeton will begin second
semester, The play has not yet
been selected.

Other plans for the year include
a number of guest speakers, dis-
cussions and poSsibly an evening of
slides of France,

Club members stress that all
Bryn Mawrters interested in
French culture are invited to meet-
ings. Knowledge of French will be
necessary for some lectures, but

this will be announced in advance, _

If interested in other programs,
contact Caroline Foster’ in
Wyndham,

were last year at the time of the
resignation, and the government's
leaders don’t really expect any-
thing different.

These structural changes, how-
ever, are laying a groundwork for
future substantive changes. A big
problem. now at Haverford is that
good ideas are being pigeon-holed
because there is no procedure for
their discussion andimplementa-
tion. They want to develop a means
of channeling both these ideas and
the enthusiasm they could generate
if they were properly handled.

The mostimportant item seemed
to be that of improving student-
faculty relationships, The students
would like to be able to communi-
cate with the faculty and not be
constantly reminded that they are
just-students. They would eventual~
ly like a student-faculty govern-
inent with power -- and they are

’ looking at Yale, Antioca, and Reed

as examples.

Along the same lines, all three
felt absolutely that the students
should at least be consulted on
every decision the school makes,
After all, they said, students have
unique insights with regard to
school matters, At present, the
mechanics simply do not exist for
this kind of exchange. Action such
as this ‘will become more im-
portant in the futurg, Haverford is
expanding, and the whole éharac-
ter of the institution is going to
change. In coming years, it willno
longer be a ‘*small upper-middle
class Quaker college down the road

without a Ford grant,’’ Read’s ad-
ministration is. attempting to
anticipate some of these changes.

Not all the energy, however, is
aimed at procedural changes, Sev-
eral substantive issues, some of
which were initiated last year, have

. been effected. Haverford juniors

and seniors now take four courses
instead ‘of five; except for first
semester freshmen, the car rules
are not dependent on academic
performaneée; the social honor sys-
tem is in ene cess of being
changed, Concerning latter,
there will be a Plenary Séssion
November 30 to legally change the ~
wording of a few clauses to match
them with the prevailing attitudes
on campus. :

All three pointed to Vietnam as
one reason’ for a lack of interest
in reform. The issue of Vietnam
has polarized the entire cam-
pus, and students who are against
US policy there do not want to
co-operate with students who are
in favor of it, and vice’ versa, In
fact, there seems to be a general
problem of personalities and
images standing in the way of co-

_ operation and substantive reform,

both among students and between
the students and the administra-
tion, :

But what’s the main reason for
the lack of involvment? What really
happened to the issues andreforms

‘that revolved around Joe Eyer’s
resignation? Concluded Read,
‘¢Summer came and everybody for-
got,’’



LETTERS TO
Poster

To the Editor:

I lent a poster of mine, the same
one as appeared on the front of the
New York Times Magazine on No-
vember 7, to Rhoads Hall for their
coffee hour last Sunday. It was in-
tended ‘by the girl who asked to
borrow it to be a conversational

-{tem, and apparently it was, I did

not put it up myself, as propa-
ganda, etc.

After the mixer, it was still in-
tact; An hour later, however, it
was gone, leaving neither hide nor
hair of itself behind. A strange
disappearance, and nobody seems
to know where it went.

Now I believe that is a very
impressive poster, for all it is
repulsive to many, I like it and
shall be upset if I don’t get it
back. I may be forced to suspect
sabotage of my poster -- oh das-
tardly deed,

It will be doubly upsetting to
think that a sane and conservative
Rhoads coffee hour can’t exhibit a
controversial poster without its
being taken advantage of, if that
indeed happened. I don’t like the
idea of the draft but I don’t dese-
crate ‘‘Join the Army’’ posters,

Please, whoever or whatever
spirited my poster away, please

return it, Do it incognito if you”

want, but do it. I weep for my lost

poster,
Marion Scoon, ’68

Thievery

To the Editor:

It could be argued that wardens
are slow to react, since they write
to the problem posed by the Oc-
tober 22nd editorial, ‘‘A Race of
Thieves,’’ in the November 12
issue of the COLLEGE NEWS, but
we do not think that we can be
accused of not taking thievery
seriously or of being ‘‘reluctant
to make an issue of it.’’

We would like to point out for
the information of the editors that
the doughnut thievery last spring
in Pembroke was in no way ignored.

to apologize to the hall manager,
Miss Ferguson, for the inconven-
ience caused the kitchen, and to

The students involved were asked

THE EDITOR|

pay the full cost of the breakfast
doughnuts,

However, that’s simply for the
record, More important is the
whole problem of “raising the
issue of thievery’ or, for that
matter, any other ‘‘issue’’ con-
cerned with a student in her rela-
tion to other students in the hall.
We are troubled at times, as we
know many students ‘are, by the
attitude of indifference that sur-
rounds the perennial problems in-
volved in hall life. With some
students, if an ‘‘issue’’ is not
affecting them personally, it is
most difficult to arouse their ac-
tive concern or even interest.

Is it not necessary for each
hall to review periodically the
basic attitudes underlying success-
ful communal living and the re-
sponsibilities that are an integral
part of it? It would then be possible
to consider ‘‘issues,’’ when they
arise, against a common social
framework, thought through and
agreed upon by the membersof the
hall, :

Margaret Healy
Mary P. McPherson
Wardens of Pembroke

Conference

To the Editor:

When we attack U.S, policy in
‘Vietnam are we nolinessence pro-
testing against the absence of mor-
ality in international affairs? Are
we not bemoaning the fact that
anarchy alone reigns in the world
arena?

World law would inject both mor-
ality and order into international
activity. By outlawing war it would
save millions of lives, and billions

of dollars.
Opponents of world law claim

that world federalism threatens
individuality and that Americans
would be cutting their own throats
if they ever relinquished national
authority.

Most of us do not know enough
about world federalism to act for
or against it. I propose, there-
fore, that we at Bryn Mawr. in-
vestigate the concept of world law
at our next political conference,

Hilary Hosmer, ’67

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COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three







Fourth Kermode Lecture Cites “My Cultural Heritage”
Paganism Practiced in Nigeria

Modernism and Myth of Crisis

Frank Kermode distinguished
between two brands of modernism
and discussed their repercussions
outside the literary world in the
fourth Flexner lecture Novem-
ber 8.

Opening the talk, Mr. Kermode
restated his thesis that there must
be a link between the forms of lit-
erature and the ways in which we
try to give meaning to our lives.

The_myth of crisis is one such
device common to our age. Al-
though we find our crisis more in-
teresting than any in the past, our
Situation is not unique,

It is not in our relation to the
future and past that we should seek
our difference from past eras,

_ which also had their myths of cri-
‘Sis, said Mr. Kermode, The dif-
ferencé™lies in the imagery that
has emerged frem our apocalypse.

Modernism is an expression of
man’s anxiety. Our generation has

the sense of living in a, transi-™~

tional period before an end, To
illustrate the effect of this myth
‘of “crisis OM modern literature,

Mr. Kermode _ chose _ several
authors,

mode, was an apocalyptic poet who
did not take his own apocalyptic
predictions literally. This attitude
is part of ‘‘clerkly scepticism,’’
a modern view.

In war Yeats saw a means of re-
newal. He displayed all the
elements of the paradigm of
apocalypse: terror, clerkly scep-
ticism, conviction of decadence,
and assurance of renovation.

We too assume a degree of con-
formity of this paradigm and a
modern view of reality, but we rec-
ognize a more rapid rate of change
than Yeats considered. This. age
has moved from a technological
basis of change to a myth of
transition, Therefore, summariz-
ed Mr. Kermode, we can speak of
an age of transition that is endless.

An age of transition involves of
necessity a break with the past.
Mr. Kermode referred to Harold

‘ Rosenberg’s theory that we can no
longer judge anything on the basis
of criteria from the past. The
only criterion of meaning for us
must be novelty.

Opposing this theory, Mr. Ker-
mode explained that forms and
language of art are extensions of
codes accepted by the creator and
the reader or observer of a work
of. art.

If novelty produces only noise,
it is worthless. Ifit produces com-
munication, it must be related to
something previous in order to
convey this meaning, A modernism
cannot be schismatic. unless it is
willing to sacrifice transition, be-
cause transition implies a past.

There are dangers inherent in a
theory of transition, and Mr. Ker-
mode defined the ideological as-
pect of transition as fascism,
particularly Nazism.

In the first phase of modernism,
which ‘rose in the 1920’s, serious
implications of ideology resulted,
Citing such authors as Pound,
Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, Eliot, and
Joyce, Mr. Kermode attributed to
all of them a scepticism; neverthe-
less, with one exception, they were
guilty of lapses to mythological
thinking.

Yeats recognized that his fic-
tions were consciously false, but
it was a system that enabled him
*¢to hold together in a single thought
reality and justice,’’ Mr. Kermode
defined Yeats’ justice as an arbi-
trary order imposed on the world,

For the poet, his work must be
fitted into the social order, There
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artifice of eternity and the dying
generation; Yeats believed that it
is. the. poet’s task to put it there.

In short, concluded Mr,
Kermode, Yeats tried to talk in
terms of modern reality without
Sacrificing the paradigm of the
past. ae

Entering the world outside
poetry, however, Yeats’ views as-
sume-a new aspect, He was a sup-
porter of Trish and Italian fasc‘sm.
His apocalyptic thought convinced
him that there must be universal
bloodshed.

Ezra Pound believed that he lived
in a period of crisis; he feltaneed
to break the bonds connecting
poetry to the past.

Translated to _ politics, this
theory is disastrous, Fictions of
this kind make people attempt to
alter the world in accordance with
their dreams, The result can be
such a step as the mass murders

‘of the Jews.

In opposition to these authors,
Mr. Kermode presented Joyceasa
realist. While studying the tension
of paradigm and reality, Joyce pre-
served human independence. He
was not attracted by the intellec-
tual opportunities . or formal
elegance of fascism.

Mr. Kermode offered Beckett as
a bridge between the two modern-
isms. In his works, Beckett
presents time as dn - endless
transition from one misery to
another. The world is crying out
for an apocalypse, but there is
none. Although signs of order and
form are presented, they are can-

_celled,not to be believed.

The use of these forms, even
though rejected, preserves Bec-
kett’s intelligibility and prevents
him from being a _ schismatic
author.

William Burroughs, in contrast,
desires to produce the language of

(Continued on page 4)



(This is the second in

a series of articles by
Dora Chizea, ‘69, on her
home country, Nigeria -- ed.)

When you do not understand
something and you don’t find a way
of understanding the thing, you
either pretend the thing does not
exist or. you try to destroy the
thing. I am almost sure you will
do one of. these. What do you
think? If you do agree, then you
will understand why African
(Nigerian) religion is not given
much attention,

You. may feel anxious to hear
my case, I am not too anxious to
state it, but to make -you-.com-
fortable, I will go fast. Our in-
digenous religion is Paganism. Ah
ha, I know you have an idea! I
don’t know what your idea is, but
I will tell you that Paganism is NOT
lack of religion, but the presence
of religion which does not go by
the ideas of any great philosopher.
That Paganism is not founded on
the teachings of any great philo-
sopher does not disqualify it from
being a religion,

You may not believe it but Pa-
ganism~is.one. of the greatest re-
ligions we have-in the worldtoday!

We believe in of@-God but we
have different pictures of this one

God according to what we aré”

doing. Each linguistic group ‘has
several names for this one God. To
the Ibos, when He is called *‘Chiuk-
wu,” it is meant to mean ‘*The
One, The Biggest of all the gods.”’
And when He is called ‘*Chineke,”’
it is meant to be **The One the
Creator.” Similarly, Yoruba’s
**Oluwa’’ stands for ‘*The One
Who is Our Master,’’ and when it
is ‘*Olodumare’’ it is ‘*The Mighty
One Full of Mercies.”’

When cne does something wrong,
he sees God as the ‘Just One.,’’
When he is happy, he sees God as
“‘Giver of all good things,’’ and

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when he is sad, he sees God as
**Consoler of the Afflicted,”’
Besides this Mighty One, we
believe in several other gods. We
say that these smaller gods were
created by the big God but, un-
like men, they do not die. They

are more powerful. To us, man is
too small to. talk to God, the

**Mighty One.’? The other gods
were created sOwe can use them as
mediators between man and. God,

We say that every person has a
special god for himself alone!
(Now friends, no jokes. You prob-
ably think you are reading a fairy
tale, but you are not. This is a
serious religion and I hope you see
it as that, Shall we continue?Fine!)

If you think it so absurd that
every one should have his own
special god then you don’t ac-
cept the Christian guardiap
angels! Lucky and_ successful
people have good, special gods;
the unfortunate and unsuccessful
people have either negligent special
gods or uncooperative ones,

We make what English peakere
call ‘‘idols,’? but these are the
images of our gods, They may be
made of wood or stone. We say
the gods are IN the images or
idols. When we worship our idols
or images, we are not worship-
ping the wood or stone, but the
gods_that dwell in them. .

The spirits of the ancestors are
also worshipped. We worship the
good ones to give peace and hap-
piness and the wicked ones to ap-
pease them and prevent them from
doing us mischief, ™

We never worship the ‘*Mighty
One’’ directly. Why, we are too
small -- too, too small! It is the
duty of our -ancestors and our
special gods to go to the ‘*Mighty
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believe depends on how our gods
present their cases, For our gods
to present their cases nicely, we
must thank them for what they have
done in the past and request them
‘‘never to get tired,”’

No matter how peculiar this ap-
proach will be to, you, if you
reflect a while on the Christian
concept of angels (our special
gods) and saints (our good an-
cestors) and bad angels or devils
(our wicked ancestors and bad
gods) and holy pictures (our ima-
ges), then you will feel more at
ease. with Paganism, Do you feel
better now? Shall we continue?

I say that the object of life is
to feed, be happy, grow, and die,
Any religion, therefore, which aids
any of these objects is a worth-
while religion. When we worship
the gods, we kill chickens or
goats and put the blood on the
images. After cooking the food, we
let the gods eat first; then we
eat, dance, and feel happy. Thus
is our worshipping; we are ful-
filling the objects of life. We
believe that you see, know, and
do the things the gods allow you.
To the Pagans, space exploration
is a magnificent acheivement but
not a shock. We say, the gods
want us to know about the space
and that is why they give us the
knowledge for exploration.

Besides the special gods and
ancestors, we have general gods.
These general gods are not us-
ually worshipped privately..Towns,
families and tribal groups choose
days at random for worshipping
these general gods, Thus, the far-
mers will worship the god of rain
before they start planting. Fish-
‘ermen will worship the god of

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Nigeria Calls Paganism
Single, Greatest Religion

(Continued from page 3)
the waters, the farmers and their
families the god of the land.

Paganism is not preached on
house tops nor broadcast on the
wireless, Perhaps if we started
preaching it, people” would rea-
lize it is a great doctrine. Preach-
ing it, however, would defeat its

Anthro Students
Study Stone Age,
See Tools Made

As the scent of bourbon wafted
across the room a girl giggled.
**Tt?s not really allowed on cam-
pus,” someone said, ‘‘Oh, it’s
all right,’’ said another, Was this
an orgy, a Haverford date, or a
party? No, it was the Anthropo-
logy 101 class.

Mr, Alexander was using the
bottle of whisky for purely edu-

. eational purposes, He was ‘fash-

ioning a weapon from it, a spear
point,

In this modern age of metal and
mass manufacture, the art of mak-
ing stone tools has nearly vanished
except in a few remote places.
Mr, Alexander, however, posesses
a knowledge of the art.

. As the class gathered around the
plastic sheet on which were spread
‘stones, hammers, and a deer’s
antler, he demonstrated some of
the more advanced techniques of
tool making by knocking a blade
off a core, of obsidian,

Some.of the flakes were good
enough to be used as arrow heads,
Mr. Alexander shaped them with a
nail, though technically a rodent’s
tooth should have been used, Au-
thenticity did not quite extend to
capturing a squirrel and obtain-

ing the tooth, Other modern equip-
ment was used, but in the course
of the demonstration the stones
seemed more reliable.

A few students were brave
enough to try their hand, One
eager girl managed to knock off a
blade, but this was more by luck
than skill, Others were more or
less successful depending upon how
afraid they were of mashing their
fingers, ;

The class gained the distinct
impression that making stone tools
required more skill and know-
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your creator the best way you
feel and see Him, in the light
you want. There is, therefore,
no set law, like the. **Ten Com-
mandments,’’ There is no ‘‘you
must worship every Friday. or
pray with your face to the East.”

Your conscience tells you what
to do and if you want peace with

-—-your conscienée and happiness in-

your life, then you will make sure
you do not annoy the gods.

Paganism is the single religion
that allows the greatest freedom
with the responsibilities that go
with freedom or the obvious con-
sequences of misusing freedom,
I have yet to see another religion
whose principles surpass those of
Paganism.

There is nothing in Paganism
like ‘‘Love your neighbors,’’
Neither is there anything like ‘*Kill
strangers,.’’ There is justnolawto
obey or violate. Your judge, law,
and guide is your own conscience.
What form of religious evolution
are you expecting again?

I may add without fear of con-
tradiction that Paganism is the
greatest, single, satisfying re-
ligion of all, I say that with my
mouth opened from ear to ear and
my eyes as wide open as day.

The smokers are open, Remem-
ber!

“Richard II”

(Continued from page 1)

As a director still determined,
suddenly patient, bent over the
dying John of Gaunt, and as they
two worked for a unity of sense
and sound in Gaunt’s speech, the
Singleness of all the various striv-
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at their end the satisfying whole-
ness of an artistic production of
which these College Theatre people
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Kermode’s Talk Weighs
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(Continued from page 3)

the ending world and .of self-
abolition. He arranges his prose
random order to produce
an accident of spontaneity. Mr.
Kermode objected to this tech-
nique, insisting that there must
be some relation to previous
language and structural patterns
since to be apocalyptic presup-
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modernisms,

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_ the other nihilistic and schismatic.

One is good for art, the other is
founded on a mistaken idea of the
way in which the arts survive, Both
have painful transitions, but one
calls for true continuity while the
other demands total abolition,

The apocalypse is a part of the

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tality. It meets the set of our fears,
and it is anessentialfeature of art.
If the past is forgotten, it will sink
to myth,

Fictions are not human sur-
render. They justify the ideas of
order in terms of what survives,
while they exist in a world different
from that from which they came,
supported only be a. biological
continuity of nature.

This tension we feel between
reality and paradigm, ended Mr.
Kermode, demands a necessary
order and a necessary scepticism.
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