College news, October 7, 1966

THE COLLEGE NEWS



LII, No. 4

Vol.

BRYN MAWR, PA.

October 7, 1966

C Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966

25 Cents



Dorm Vice Presidents Compose Infractions of Driving Rule Cause

Committee on Housing Matters

A new committee, designed to
handle matters of student hous-
ing, will come into being this
week, Dorm vice presidents will
form the membership of the com-
mittee,

The ‘group will be a’part of the
Undergrad Association, This week
the secretary of Undergrad will
contact the committee members
to arrange apreliminary meeting
with Undergrad head Margaret Ed-
wards. A meeting with Mrs. Mar-
‘shall will follow.

-Designed to deal with problems~

of housing in the halls, the vice
presidential panel will serve a
“mediating function, It will sup-
ply a means of communication
between the dormitories and the
administration.

As an offshoot from the com-
mittee, another group may be
formed to deal directly with the
Saga food service. By this means,
students could help to regulate
the amount of money spent onextra
food items -and keep costs within
the college budget,

The housing board provides an



Bet Cheduiick,

right, and
Margie Westerman research
cure for common cold in Jun-
ior Show.

Juniors Rehearse

Planetary Musical
For Friday Debut

Junior Show, bearing the double
title of ‘‘Up in the Air or Down to
Earth,” will open a two-night stand
in Goodhart Hall Friday, October
7, and Saturday, October 8.

Described as a science fiction
comedy, the play features an inter-
planetary cast of characters and
an age-old feud, The authors are

Wendy Fein, Janet Kole, and Mar- |

cia Ringel.

Hints from rehearsal refer to a
musical with special sound ef-
fects that are ‘‘cataclysmic.’? The
music is electronic, and the cos-
tumes are “gorgeous.’’ ‘The plot
line includes ‘‘lots of love action?’
of an interplanetary nature,

The characters: of the play are
inhabitants of the feuding planets
of Gedolya and Marmelini, Scien-
tific research, in quest of a cure
for the common cold, and the as-
sistance of some ad men contribute
to the eventual reconciliation.

Co-directors Priscilla Robbins
and Jackie Siegel have experienced
one rehearsal snag, when the foot-
lights blew aad left the stage in
darkness, The €quipment has been
repaired for the Thursday night
dress rehearsal

', premiere performance, —

“Tickets are now on sale for the
Saturday night performance at a
cost of $1.25. On Friday night,
tickets, priced at $.75, will be
sold at the door. Sue Nosco
is in charge of ticket sales.

and. Frida y's -

expansion of the present respon-
sibilities of the hall vice presi-
dent, Through the new body, vice
presidents will have an effective
voice in policy matters for the
entire campus,

While still in its planning
stages, the committee is ex-
pected to expand in importance.
It may eventually consider such
issues as the fifth-year off-cam-
pus housing regulation.

The structure of the committee
remains undecided. Members
themselves will determine whether
to establish a general panel or to
select a chairman.

Calling of Emergency Legislature

The Self-Gov driving rule, put
into effect only last year, is pres-
ently so out of hand that an emer-
gency meeting of Legislature is
being called to attend to the situa-
tion prior to constitutional revi-
sion, according to Self-Gov pres-
ident Jane Janover.

The problem, says Jane, is one
of administration, As the rule
stands now there is no effective
way for Self-Gov either to grant
permission or to insure that the
rule is obeyed.

As of now, for example; ‘there
is exactly one student on the whole

New Officers Take Over

Two important campus ‘soft ffices
were, finally filled for this. year
when votes were tallied Wednes-
day for Secretary of Undergrad
and Chairman of Curriculum Com-
mittee,

Sarah Matthews was in charge
of conducting the election, with
the help of hall Undergrad reps,
as voting went on all day Tuesday.

Freshmen Receive
Official Welcoming
At Lantern Night

Lantern Night, perhaps the most
memorable welcome the fresh-
man class receives at Bryn Mawr,
will take place Friday, October 14,
(or Saturday, Oct. 15, in case of
rain) at 7:30 p.m. in the library
cloisters.

This year nearly 218 sopho-
mores will present dark blue lan-
terns to 222 freshmen, Both
classes are presently practicing
the traditional Greek songs that
have been sung for over 60 years.
There is only one deviation from
last year’s procedure under con-
sideration: some people have ob-

* jected to the sophomores running

into a corner to sing ‘‘Pallas
Athena” quickly after the proces-

sion,’

Tickets will be evasleble to the
general public for $.75 and to stu-
dents and children under 12 for
$.40.

Myra Skluth sings of the glories of her broth in “‘Up In The Air Or

Vacated Campus Posts

About 80% of all possible ballots
came in.

_ Elected. as Secretary of Under-
grad was ‘Mary Ann Beverly, who
ran against Barbara Oppenheim
and Jean Wilson for the office,
The new Curriculum Committee
chairman is Andrea Lurie, whode-
feated Kathy Coleman, Balkie Col-
lins, and Dona Heller.

As the newly elected chairman
of one of the Big Six organizations,
Andrea is aware that the Com-
mittee’s work this year is ‘‘auto-
matically behind by starting so
late.?’ However, she intends to
meet immediately with—hall—and
class reps and with the admini-
stration to start planning for the
year, ‘‘Curriculum Committee
came into its own last year,’? she
says; ‘‘we hope that students will
continue their interest and will
come to us with ideas -- lots
of ideas.’?

Andrea has some projects al-
ready planned, She.wants, for ex-
ampie, to publish reading lists
for students who want to know
during the summer what their
next year’s reading will be. She
also wants to encourage ‘‘co-
ordination among students with dif-
ferent majors’? -- coordinating
activities: of academic clubs, for
instance. As a long-term goal
she wants to see more co-
operation -- especially in ‘‘extra-
curricular academic activities"’
such as the academic clubs --~
with Haverford, Penn, andSwarth-
more,



Down To Earth;’’ the Class of 1968’s Junior Show. The play will
be shown Friday -and Saturday nights in Goodhart at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets are still on sale at $1.25 for Saturday and 75¢ for Friday.

O

ns As

campus wno has her car here in
complete accordance with the rule
as it stands. Further, on succes-
Sive days, 35, 45, and 28 cars
have ybeen counted on the Erdman
parking lot that do not have stick-
ers and are therefore illegally
parked, Without a police force,
it appears ‘impossible to trace
the owners of the cars or to have
the cars removed from campus,

Jane’s most significant point,
however, was that there is a wide-
spread feeling that the driving
rule.does not properly come un-
der the heading of an honor sys-
tem rule. By allowing such dis-
regard and disrespect for the
existing rule to continue, the ef-
fect of the honor system as a
whole is undermined,

Monday night Executive. Board
will meet to draw up its exact
proposal for change, and express
its reasons for whatever altera-
tions suggested. Thereafter, the
matter passes from _ Self-Gov’s
hands into Legislature’s jurisdic-
tion (see page four),

As the rule stands now, the
procedure for keeping cars on
campus or within a three-mile

limit of the campus is as fol-
lows:

Students submit written re-
quests“fo Executive Board mem-
ber Martha Taft, If these are
passed by Executive Board, they
are sent to the President’s of-
fice, with whose consent the per-
mission is given,

The student fills outforms deal-
ing with insurance and parental
permission, is issued a sticker
by the President’s office, and only
then is allowed to bring her car
to cafnpus, or within the three-
mile limit,

However, people are bringing
their cars to campus before hav-
ing received permission, or are
bringing them without even seek-
ing permission. Many. who may
keep cars within the three-mile
limit in places like gas stations
or private garages are leaving
them on campus instead, °

In addition to the driving rule,
Self-Gov is still setting up the
machinery for constitutional
change set for this semester, and
planning. discussions of last
spring’s men-in-rooms question=
naires,

Education Goals Session Airs
Lack of Participation Problems

Dean Marshall opened the first
session of the Educational Goals
Seminars .by speaking of .innova-
tions in the ‘‘college trade,’’ The
meeting took place in the Common
Room Monday ‘hight and was at-
tended by about 50 people, witha
large representation from. the
faculty and administration,

Speaking besides Mrs, Marshall
were Drewdie Gilpin, ’68, and Bella
Lisook, °67, Dr. L, Joe Berry
moderated, The three talks were
short and covered the new cur-
riculum; the apparent place of a
student’s academic studies in her
life as a whole; and the difficulty,
but the distinct possibility, of
spending time in the arts or of
pursuing area studies while getting
an A,B, ‘at Bryn Mawr,

Mrs, Marshall reviewed the re-
vised curriculum, which has now
been in effect for a year, She said
its purpose was to allow for the
growing variation in the incoming
freshmen’s backgrounds, Its suc-
cess can be somewhat measured
by the trend toward smaller 100
level courses and larger 200 level
courses, and by the number of
freshmen in 300 language courses,
This diversity, of high school prep-
aration requires a greater amount
of personal counseling, which Mrs,
Marshall said worked ‘‘pretty
well’’ last year,

The Curriculum Committee, in
making its changes, reaffirmed
sofhe of the main principles of a
Bryn Mawr education: 1) that intro-
ductory courses are better when
they actually teach a subject than
when they, merely describe it; 2)
that inter-departmental courses
should occur late in a student’s
undergraduate studies; 3) thatarea
specialization (Russian literature,
history, politics and language for
example) should not be encouraged
until the graduate leyel; and 4)
that an A,B, in a discipline should

&

~involve a great deal of in-depth

studies,
Bella and Drewdie both talked

about the co-ordination of a girl’s

four academic cgurses and the rest

of her life, Bella’s point was that
there were incredible opportuni-
ties for learning here, but that
the student really had to take the
initiative herself and ask when she
did not know something. She dis-
missed as. ridiculous the idea that
a girl’s life began when she put
away her books,

Drewdie said that at Bryn Mawr,
we can do as much as we want, but
sometimes it takes real effort,
Specifically, she mentioned the dif-
ficulty in spending time inthe arts,
and in trying to specialize in an

(Continued on page 6)

Alliance Program
On American City
Set for Tuesday

Eugene Schneider, of the Bryn
Mawr Sociology Department, will
give the kick-off lecture in a
series sponsored by Alliance on
“The ° American: City,’?*~ He will
speak in the Common Room at
8:30 Tuesday, October 11.

This introductory talk will be
a brief sketch of the growth of
the American city, The history
of urbanization in other countries
may also be considered, Some of
the tensions underlying urban de-
velopment and their relation
to problems in the city today
will be discussed, If there is
time, Mr, Schneider will mention
possible future trends for the
city,

After this short synopsis of
urban development, Mr. Schneider
will open a discussion,

Mr, Schneider hopes to establish
a general context for future lec-
tures, which. will deal with
specific ...problems. ..individually..
One. speaker scheduled for later
in the year is Mrs, Harriet
Reynolds, Assistant «Director of
Education for the National Urban
League, who will speak on ‘*Ed-
ucation in the Ghetto,’’

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Drive My Car

Self-Gov is being taken for aride, and the calling of the emergency
Legislature may represent its decision to get out and walk.

When the driving rule was passed last year, it was meant to. be a
convenience ‘for: members’ of the student body other than leaders of
organizations, Under the present. system, students may’ keep cars
within a three-mile radius of the campus, providing they comply with
Self-Gov and the President’s office. But despite the number of students’
cars which are apparently in use, there is only one person who has
registered her car according to the rules,

What is so disturbing about the whole problem is that Self-Gov is
not faced with infractions due to the unclearness of the driving rule,
but rather with outright violations of a rule perfectly simple in its
stipulations, i.e. see Martha Taft and fill out the appropriate forms,
However, give ’em three miles, and they’ll take an inch, or, to be
more specific, a space in Erdman parking lot.

The implications of the situation involve a disregard and disrespect
for Self-Gov rules, says the organization’s president. And this can
mean loss of prestige for Self-Gov. It is significant that last year,
when ‘the marijuana problem came up, Self-Gov delivered a state-
ment clarifying its stand, rather than have the administration do so,
in ordar that Self-Gov maintain its prestige as the guardian of the
honor system.

But we find it difficult to consider the driving rule comparable to
other matters that fall under Self-Gov’s jurisdiction. The rule is a
special privilege, not a standard for living in the college community.
And Self-Gov is no police force, but the present driving rule set-up
makes demands on Self-Gov that are not inherent in its nature. It
would therefore be no particular slash at Self-Gov’s prestige if the
driving rule were removed from its jurisdiction and given over, say,
to the administration, which might better control violations by having
wardens confront offenders in their dorms, where names of car-owners
are no .special secrets, Where a ticketing system seems to have
failed, wardens might succeed by warning offenders of their obliga-
tions, In effect, wardens would be acting in the same administrative
capacity as when they forbid girls to go barefoot in the dining hall or
keep animals in the dorms.

Whatever the solution, let us hope that the violators of the driving
rule have not caused.a dilemna leading to its abolition.



Arbitrary Intrusion

The scheduling of the SAC discussion group for this Sunday afternoon
in the Merion showcase. brought up some entirely unplanned-for prob-
lems with the administration. Briefly, this is what happened. SAC
decided to hold its first discussion on a Sunday afternoon because it
thought that would be when a lot of people would ‘have some free time
to sit and talk for a few hours. [It also decided to have it in the
Merion showcase because it would be a iot less formal, and therefore
more conducive to discussion, than the Common Room, and also because
its chairman happens to live in Merion and had asked the dorm if
they would mind (they wouldn’t),

The complications began when the chairman was calledin by a member
of the administration and told 1) present college policy frowns on
meetings scheduled for Sundays; and 2) present college policy frowns
on the use of dorm showcases for meetings and discussion groups
sponsored by campus-wide organizations. Of course, the first things
one thinks of are the many exceptions to either or both of these

policies;.coffee hours, music concerts, Sunday volleyball games, and

the Educational Goals meeting held last. night, to name a few.

Clarification and some of the reasoning behind these policies appear
to be thus; The Sunday ruling was an arbitrary choice of one day in
the week in which meetings would not be scheduled,. apparently because
the administration felt that there should be one day in the week in
which meetings should not be scheduled. A student’s life is so crowded
anyway, there should be atime in which.she does not feel pressed
to attend anything. The fact that coffee hours are held on Sundays
because that was the day most of the students wanted to attend them
is seemingly ignored.

The use of dorm showcases has not been encouraged because it is
felt that the dorms are ‘‘homes” and should not become public meeting
houses. This was especially clear last year with Erdman, when Clubs
were denied the privilege of holding various functions there. This was
done by the administration without contacting the hall president or
finding out if a majority of the girls did indeed object to holding such
meetings in some of the showcases. This again appears to be an
arbitrary infringment:on the rights of the hall residents to democrat-_
ically decide some of the uses of their dorm,

Our main point is that, assuming the consent of a majority of the
' dorm (with periodical votes on the subject), there should be no reason
“why ~ the administration need ~ be involved -at all in-scheduling small’
discussions like the SAC discussion. The reason this should be limited
to s.nall informal meetings is to avoid the necessity of the staff

: being asked io do aiy overtime work, if it happens to be a Sunday,

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Perhaps the only thing that would be needed is a small student com-
mittee designed to make sure that every dorm that wants one has a
chance to host this kind of discussion.

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Letters to the Editor

Freudian Slip-Up

To the Editor;

Concerning Calamity Jane --
Emily McDermott’s article in the
last issue of the NEWS mentioned
‘outdated psychological theories”
as the topic of Dr. Temeles’ hy-
giene lecture, The lecture was a
straight-forward if not very com-
prehensive presentation of Freud’s
theory of personality structure and
development. In that psychoanaly-
tic theory, strictly speaking,
hasn’t progressed much beyond
Freud, and in that this theory
still exerts a profound influence,
it could hardly be called ‘‘out-
dated.”? On the other hand, there
certainly are a number of more
modern theories which could
equally well have been discussed
in a lecture on a topic so broad
as ‘‘Personality.’’? It was unfor-
tunate (and perhaps negligent) that
Dr. Temeles didn’t at least mén-
tion the existence of alternate

“theories” of personality, choosing

instead to present Freud’s theory
not as theory but as fact.

This kind of omission, however,
is bound to come up in a lecture
series which purports to cover
the topics of mental health, sex,
and pressing health problems in
all of five lectures. And we all
know that increasing the num-
ber of hygiene lectures would be
unbearaole as well as unreason-
able,

It was my impression that the
audience reaction was based more
on lack of comprehension than on
‘¢condescension.” Either way, if
the quality of the information im-
parted in the hygiene program
cannot be improved, the usefulness
and assumed value of the whole
requirement is thrown into ser-
ious doubt,

Susan deninaber: 767

Apology

To the Editor:
I would like to correct a
blunder I made in my review of

_ the - hygiene lecture.in the COL-

LEGE NEWS ldst-week, I apolo-
gize for changing Miss C,

Men From B.A.G.E.,L. Barter
Wares at Campus Bookshops

The Men From B,A,G.E.,L,:
arrived in the Merion showcase at
10:25 Monday night, carrying a
plastic freezer bag of 21 onion,
plain, sesame, and poppy bagels,
Four-and-a-half minutes later
there were all gone, According to
Bill McNeil, the mastermind be-
hind the new door-to-door con-
cession on the Bryn Mawr and
Haverford campuses, that was an
all-time selling speed record,

‘‘Bagels are an historic. food,
really,”? McNeil said solemnly,
The history of McNeil’s _ bagel
business .seems to have begun
last spring when granite -like
bagels were served at Haverford.
He kind of liked them though, be-
cause he said he didn’t know any
better, After being told that they
were really. no good unless they
were hot and fresh, and upon dis-
covering that hot and fresh bagels
were sold at the New York Bagel

Pres. of Self-Gov

Explains Revision
Of Constitution

by Jane Janover,
Self-Gov President

Last week’s NEWS article on
Constitutional Revision discussed
changes in the existing Constitu-
tion and the mechanics. of estab-
lishing a Constitutionak Revision
Committee, In order to clarify
that article I will try to further
explain both types of revision,

Changes in the wording of the
present Constitution will be posted
in the halls this week, These are
not changes in meaning, They are
only changes of expression, clari-
fication procedure, and the re-
ordering of provisions, They have
been done in order to facilitate
the actual revision of meaning
and amendment of the Constitu-
tion,

This revision and amendment
will be carried out in the follow-
ing manner, First, each hall will
elect two representatives from
sophomore, junior, or senior
classes, These representatives
constitute the Revision Committee.
This committee is completely
autonomous, electing its own
president, vice president, and sec-
retary, and establishing its own
rules of procedure, Its members
are to go through the Constitution
and propose changes at thelr own
discretion,

--they have porated all -

their ‘proposals they request that

Legislature be called by Self-
Gov. At Legislature’s meeting the
Revision Committee presents its
recommendations and _ receives
(Continued on page 4)

Stee

“has —

‘Bakery on Haverford and City
Line Avenues, he felt as if he
had heard a call, ‘It is my wish,’’
he said generously, ‘‘to provide
bagels everywhere they are
desired,’’

With the help of Mitch Freed-
man, who secured the purchasing
contract with the bakery (using
a heavy Yiddish accent on the
phone to get them for considerably
less than wholesale); Vonnie Beng-
lian, publicity; and Pete Batzell,
finances, McNeil has begun what
he calls a grass roots business,
Their philosophy is that bagels
actually belong in the grass roots
because they have a history long-
er than any college food service
in existence,

Plans for ‘the future are mag-
nificent, The five-year plan looks
to nationwide service by 1970.
In the near future, they expect
to add garlic bagels to their in-

ventory, They .hope to sell them .
at both the Haverford and Bryn ”*

Mawr movie showings, and
possibly at Junior Show, They
would like to see a Bagel and
Lox Hour on Sunday mornings,
perhaps from 11 a.m, to noon,
They are also considering ex-
panding to pjalys, hole-less, un-
boiled bagels.

The bagels are being sold for
a dime in the dorm bookshops
as well as through door-to-door
service in the evenings, At Hav-
erford they will not besold in-
dividually but rather at the COOP
by the dozen or half-dozen,

When asked why bagels were
selling better at Bryn Mawr than
at Haverford, Benglian com-
mented, ‘‘Well, I guess it gives
them (Bryn Mawr girls) something
to identify with,’’ They also con-
sented to reveal the secret sig-

nificance of the initials B,A,G.E.,L,

They stand for the phrase, ‘‘Bagels
Are Good Eating, Lover.”

is that my

V. Wedgewood into a man (and
apparently crediting Mr, Berth-
off with MY efror), I did
not intend to impugn Cecily .
Veronica’s womanhood, I mere-
ly misheard Mr, Berthoff
when he told the story of Miss
Wedgewood’s uncle _ Josiah’s
unique theory of education,

Emily McDermott, ’68

(Continued on page 3)



applebee



my wings. ache from clapping
at skinner but after a week to
soak them in apricot juice they
will heal %.. i’ll be ready to flap
and clap (cotton to the roar) for
jubilant juniors who will inevitably —
come out all right ... don’t misin-
terpret that hoot you’ll hear from
the balcony, it’s me shouting bravo |
for junior show (hoots are more
versatile than is generally be-
lieved) ... the reason you can’t
buy a balcony ticket for any price
wing-spread enjoys
spreading and as a living tradi-
tion I’ve shamelessly reserved
the entire balcony for myself.
(maybe some. day you’ll be a liv-
ing tradition too) ... besides, the
rafters are great to swing from;
try it when you have a eee due
some time,

stetelontaaiion
applebee

Educational Goals

Seminars Listed
For Next Week

The last two seminars on ‘‘The
Meaning of Education at Bryn
Mawr,?’ sponsored by the Edu-
cational Goals Committee, will
take place next week,

Mrs. Agnes Michels, Profes-
sor of Latin, and Margaret Levi,
one of the series’ coordinators,
will discuss. ‘‘Student Myths, At-
titudes, and Gripes: The At-
mosphere at Bryn Mawr’? Monday
at 8 p.m. in Rockefeller.

Their topic will include indivi-
duality as a creative element in
college life, and attitudes toward
non-academic activities on and off
campus,

‘¢Problems of the College Years;
The Responsibility of the College
in Responding to them; the Role
of the Dearis and Counseling’? will
be the subject Wednesday at8p.m.
in Erdman Hall, with speakers
Mr. Philip Lichtenberg, Associate
Professor of Social Research;
Mrs. Patricia Pruett, Assistant
Dean of the College; and Mrs.-
Alice Emerson, currently Dean of
Women .at Penn and formerly of
the Bryn Mawr Political Science
Department.

Erdman Plans Festivities

For Birthday With Kahn

Plans for aé gala birthday
celebration are being prepared
to commemorate Erdman’s first
year in action,

The idea of the birthday party
originated with Miss McBride, who
wanted architect’ Louis Kahn to
see “his reation in use, Mr, Kahn

and Erdman’s social chairmen,
“Ginny Gerhart and Dana Rosen,
are arranging appropriate ways
-of marking the event,

After dinner, coffee will be

8

Accepted an invitation for —
dinner on Tuesday, October 11,

served in the main living room
with a four- tiered cake, whose
light blue icing matches the room’s
decor.

Anyone interested in architec-.
ture, or just , in Erdman
itself, is welcome to the coffee
hour, Mr, Kahn. is not expected
to deliver a formal speech, “

Dana described the event more
as an ‘informal confrontation
between the architect and inhabi-
tants.’? She only hopes that
no one will bother Mr, Kahn with
complaints about the plumbing.
Friday, October 7, 1966

THE COLLEGE NEWS

Page Three



Alaskan Anthropological Finds
«Give Clues to Eskimo Culture

by Kit Bakke

Anthropology teacher Herbert
Alexander, his wife, and a 1966
graduate’ of Bryn Mawr Vicki
Graftstrom spent three weeks this
summer in the northern Brooks,
Range in the Arctic areas of
Alaska, From Mr, Alexander’s
descriptions, it sounds as if they
were racing around digging up arti-
facts, throwing them in sacks,
moving up river, stopping and dig-
ging some more, then taking time
out to shoot caribou and catch
trout before moving on again.

This July was the third time
Mr. Alexander has been to Alaska,
and he is already looking forward
to going back next summer. The
possibilities for anthropological
research there seem to be un-
limited. He wants to take about
six students with him. next time.
They don’t have to be anthropology
majors, he said; rather it is im-
“portant that theybe able to ‘‘put
up with the peculiar conditions of
the Arctic.’? These conditions
amount to millions of mosquitoes,
the midnight sun, and cold mist
and rain every morning, as well
as the usual conditions that go
with camping out for a summer,

The digging that went on this
summer was amazingly fruitful.
They found over 40 sites in the
three weeks; as opposed to only
15 during the whole summer of
1962. Mr. Alexander said that some
nights they would set up camp, get
the fire going and then discover
that they were sitting on top of
another site.

The artifacts they found were
around 5000 years old, They are
very tiny and distinctive: one-inch
arrows, beautifully made; engrav=-
ing tools . called burins; and
various kinds of microblades. It
is difficult to tell if these are
from a culture related to the
present day Eskimo, partly be-
cause of the age of the artifacts,
and partly because of the lack of
a good definition of ‘‘Eskimo.”’

He does think that they belong
to the Denbigh Flint Culture, rem-
mants of which have been found
around the Seward Penninsula in
western Alaska, and in western
Canada. These discoveries in the
Brooks Range, ‘then, provide a tie-
in between these earlier sites.

The origin of these people is not
clearly known. But because of some
very similar. Arrowheads and
burins Mr. Alexander has found in
Texas; which are dated at 10,000
years, he thinks that it is possible
that the Denbigh people followed
the game up north as the ice from
the last Ice Age receded.

There were also some more
recent objects uncovered: heated
metal tools, pieces of snowshoes
and part of an old guitar: This
is significant because this area
around Galbraith Lake and the
Atigun River had always been con-
sidered completely unoccupied and
has never been fully explored. In
fact, Mr. Alexander’s team didn’t
see one other person the whole
time they were there.

The ‘morning fog and rain pre-
cluded much work before 10 or 11
a.m, When they did get going though,
they didn’t stop for lunch until
evening, and then worked until two
the next morning. This was per-
fectly feasible, because the sun

Akoué °67 Plans
For May Arrival

The 1967 Yearbook will come
off the presses in May, but now,
is the chance to purchase Akoué
at the bargain price of $6.50. (In
May the price will be $7.50.)

Akoud will include pictures of -

all the college activities, all the
seniors, and, of course, the facul-
ty. Akoue’may be charged to either
first or second payday or pay cash
_ to Betsy Gemmill, Rhoads North.

was up practically all the time.

They lived off dried foods that
they brought in’ by plane, one cari-
bou and one sheép they shot, and
many large lake trout. The small-
est of these trout was two feet
long; and once they cast 20 times
and caught fish on all but one cast.
The largest was 33 inches, They
also saw grizzly bears, moose and
wolves. These were all relatively
tame because they had never seen
people before and didn’t know
enough to be scared,

Last summer’s expedition was
financed by the University Museum
of the University of Pennsylvania
and the Society of Sigma Xi. Mr.
Alexander is now working on a
grant application for money for next
summer, .





‘Anthropologists survey barren Arctic Alaskan topography.
~*

Mr. Alesantder and his wife ,Annie finish another meal in Alaska’s
Brooks Range.

Theatre Announces Cast;

Nightly Rehearsals Begin

College Theatre’s fall produc-
tion of Shakespeare’s ‘‘Winter’s
Tale”? will be given on the new
Bryn Mawr stage in Goodhart on
the fourth and fifth of November.

The Theatre tries to do one
Shakespeare every year. It was
thinking of doing a Ben Jonson
masque because of its combination
of music, dancing and acting, but
ran into financial and other pro-
blems. Director Bob Butman is
still hoping to do one in the spring.

‘‘Winter’s Tale’? itself has two
dances and four songs in the sec-

eOond half, The cast has been given

permission to use -Christopher
Frye’s music from John Gielgud’s
English production of the play,
directed by Peter Brook,

This play was written inShakes-
_ peare’s later years, and, according



Letters to the Editor -

(Continued from page 2)

Education
To the Editor: :

Monday night’s meeting of the
Educational Goals Committee
raised a major question: Why is
Bryn Mawr ‘College so dull? In
trying to pinpoint the cause it
became clear that both the aca-
demic and non-academic sides
of Bryn Mawr life were character-
ized by a lack of spontaneity
and involvement,

Suggestions for curriculum re-
forms, while valuable in them -
selves, served only to remedy
specific gripes, leaving the basic
problems unsolved, We believe
that a Bryn Mawr education in-
volves an integration of academic
and extracurricular experience,
and is stifled by the all too frequent
compartmentalization of work and
play.

We live in a community of un-
exploited potential, Too often
the exercise of freedom isolates
us and defeats the goal of the
individual existing and participat-
ing in the community. Unin-
spired classes, a perfunctory
approach to daily tasks, a feeling
of campus oppression which com-
pels us to seek’ our intellectual
stimulation outside college are all
symptomatic of an attitude which
fails to grasp the essence of Bryn
Mawr,

With its faculty, administra-
tion, and student body, Bryn
Mawr offers all the natural re-
sources for a dynamic aca-
demic and personal experience,
But they become valuable only
when used to advantage by students
who are willing to commit them-

. selves. to. a. total experience, |

Freshman Show draws ‘upon the
writing, composing, directing, and
performing talents of an entire
class, bringing freshmen to-
gether in a_ single’ pursuit
that is remembered as a high

point in their Bryn Mawr years,
A college career involves more

* than 15 1/2 courses, It brings

together individuals of different
talents, interests, and ambitions,
ideally uniting them into a com-
munity of reciprocal develop-
ment, Education begins, not
ends, with reading books, The
classroom need not be the ex-
clusive organ of __ intellectual
activity. The student whois willing
to bring the range of her experience
to bear upon her personal studies,
her classroom participation, and
her relations with others will
arouse a spirited response, And
so while stimulating others, she
expands and enriches herself.

We would like to propose several
suggestions designed to remedy
both the symptoms and their cause,
Their success will depend not
only upon the Big Six, but alsoupon
student initiative outside the
framework of campus organiza-
tions,

1, Clear distinctions between
seminar and lecture courses in
catalogue descriptions; ¢

2. Expansion of seminar system
for qualified upperclassmen;

3, Small tutorial sections of
introductory courses, led by
graduate students, to ‘supply
practice in discussion techniques;

4. More student initiative in
integrating informal and class-
room contact, for instance a
campus-wide Friday afternoon
coffee hour for students and
faculty;

5. Restoration of the upperclass
adviser program for entering
freshmen;

6. Supplementing warden system
with corridor assistants;

7, More frequent informal pro-
grams, using . student . talent
and interests;

8. Informal lunchtime invita-
tions to faculty.

Liz Bennett ’68
Leslie Spain ’67
Laura Krugman ’67

Pi cketing

To the Editor;

The publicity for the current
NAACP pickets in Ardmore pro-
testing discrimination in the Lower
Merion school district has left a
lot unsaid. Students have been ask-
ing what the demonstrations are
all about. After talking with Frank-
lin Kalman, a member of the Main
Line Branch of the NAACP, I
thought I could pass on some more
infofmation about the background
of the pickets and about the issues
involved. :

According to the figures of the.

Lower Merion School Board, there
are 512 white teachers and one
negro, 48 white clerks and no
negro, 15 white principals and no
negro, and 18 bus drivers and
one negro, in the school district.
After some research, the NAACP
found 40 cases of negro teache
ers over the past few years who
had applied for jobs in Lower
Merion. They were rejected by
the School Board, Later they were
accepted in other suburban areas
of Philadelphia, and in the city
itself. Many of these applicants

were Main Line negroes with ad- |

vanced degrees,

With these facts in mind, the
NAACP asked for a meeting with
the School Board to discuss the
situation. They were turned
down. Then at an opening meet-
ing of the Board on September
19, NAACP appeared ahd made
several demands, They asked for
an end to discriminatory hiring
practices on the part of the School
Board. They demanded a better
counselling program, since negro
parents have complained that their
children. are being. discouraged
from going to college. They re-
quested that a qualified negro be
appointed to fill the next vacant
seat on the School Board.

to Butman, is ‘‘suffused with the
brilliance of his mind.’’ He con-
siders it a good play for Haver-
ford and Bryn Mawr to put on,
because it is a Shakespeare that
is,not usually seen on the pro-
fessional stage,

The 30 cast members will be in

rehearsal every night for the next

four weeks, Butman and Nimet
Habachy, College Theatre presi-
dent, both agree that it will bea
joy to work on the new Goodhart
stage; they describe it as ‘‘beauti-
ful, lovely.”’

From past experience, Butman
is confident that this production
will be done well. From 12 years
of working with the Haverford
Drama: Club and Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Theatre, Butman: feels that
he has compiled an astonishing
statement of the excellent abilities
of amateur actors,

The cast consists of Steve Ben-
net, Leontes; Joe Dickinson, Poli-
xenes; Alex Swan, Camillo; Bob
Sinclair, Antigonus; Bob Chand-
ler, Cleomenes; Steve Philips,
Dion; Richard Olver, Florizel;
Barry Chamberlain, Archidemus;
Richard Gartner, Old Shepherd,
Chris Kopf, Clown; Peter Gar-
retson, Autolycus; Barbara Grant,

(Continued on page 7)





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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, October 7, 1966



Critical Belligerency, ConflictUrged Convening of Legislature
For Potential Writers by New Prof An Intricate Procedure

by Janet Oppenheim

‘¢Every session is a happening.
People have a chance to explore
their own ideas and you can never
be sure what conflicts will develop
from the discussion,”’ a

Mr. Jerre Mengione describes

_English 209 in these terms, adding
with conviction that conflict is very
good for a writer and that he hopes
his Bryn Mawr _ students won’t
siirink from the healthy critical
belligerency natural to men,

For the past five years, Mr.
Mangione has beeu teaching writ-
ing courses at the University of
Pennsylvania. This year, for the
first time,’ he is coming to Bryn
Mawr once a week to teach Ex-
perimental Writing. Such acourse,
with each student writing and criti-
cizing, is the only type of class Mr.
Mangione would care to teach, He
can’t envision himself handing
down ‘‘nuggets of wisdom?’ from a
lectern,

Mr’. Mangione describes himself
as a ‘**maverick in the teaching
world,’? He became a member of
the U. of Penn faculty with cre-
dentials as a writer, rather than
a scholar, Those credentials now
include two novels, twonon-fiction
works and a collection of short
fables, LIFE. SENTENCES FOR
EVERYBODY, which grew out of
writing exercises duving work on
his latest novel, NIGHT SEARCH.

His first book, MOUNT
ALLEGRO, was the subject of some
literary controversy. BasedonM«¢.
Mangione’s experiences as the son
of Sicilian immigrants in Ro-
chester, N.Y,, the book explores
the problems of growing up in
two distinct cultures, Although the
author insisted that MOUNT AL-
LEGRO was not fictional, it was
published under the guise of a
novel and appeared on best seller
lists under both the fiction and
non-fiction categories.

Sicily—continues.to_provide—in-
spiration for Mr. Mangione’s work,
His experiences there on a Guggen-
heim fellowship after the war, pro-
vided the material for his third
book, also non-fiction, REUNION
IN SICILY. At the moment, he is
working on a ‘‘personal. documen-
tary,’?’ which he hopes to finish
in a year, based on his oDserva-
tions during six mouths of work
with Danilo Dotci, the ‘*Gandhi
of Sicily,’’ a writer d non-
violent social reformer. On this
last trip to Sicily, Mr. Mangione
held a Fulbright Research fellow-
ship.

Despite the apparently autobi-
ographical nature of these works,
Mr..Mangione ma:ntains that his
most revealing, most truly auto-
biographical books are his novels,
especially his first, THE SHIP
IN THE FLAME, This novel deals
with the frustrations, disappoint-
ments and ultimate triumph of a
group of refugees on a ship bound
secretly for a Nazi camp in North





Coffee Hours |

Last spring’s morning coffee
hours were so successful that
this year they will again provide
an opportunity for students to get
better acquainted with girls from
other halls, and to meet with pro-
fessors on a casual basis,

The schedule has been arranged
so, that each hall will have a
specific day, once every twoweeks,

Monday, Oct. 10 Denbigh
Tuesday, Oct, 11 Merion
Wednesday, Oct, 12 Radnor
Thursday, Oct. 13 Rhoads & |

Batten at Rhoads

Monday, Oct. 17 Pembroke West
Tuesday, Oct, 18 Rockefeller,
Wyndham (separately)

---Wednesday, Oct, 19 Pembroke East
Thursday, Oct, 20 Erdman, Perry,
& Tybach at Erdman

»The coffee hours will run from
10:30 to 11:30, Coffee, tea, and
mixed doughnuts will be served,

ean

Africa at the beginning of the war.
His second novel, NIGHT SEARCH,
published last year, grew from
personal experiences with a fam-
ous labor leader of the 1930°8,

Even with a demanding teaching
schedule, Mr. Mangione manages
to ‘work on his present under-
taking every day. He feels that
such constant effort is absolutely
necessary to maintain the mood
of his book.

Once his work. has been com-

pleted and published, however, he.

never re-reads it. He doesn’t tor-
ture himself with what he might
have done, but reserves his critical
energy for his work at hand. He
couldn’t even bring himself to read
the Italian edition of MOUNT AL-
LEGRO.

In addition to his writing and
teaching, Mr. Mangione has been
National Coordinating Editor of
the Federal Writers’ Projects,
Special Assistant to the U.S, Com-
mission for Immigration and
Naturalization, and a book review-
er for the NEW YORK HERALD
TRIBUNE and THE NEW RE-
PUBLIC.

The first job that he held after
college was in the business and
finance department of TIME maga-
zine. The prevalent theory of the
editorial board at the time was that
the less on knew about a subject,
the mere interestingly, originally
one could write about it. Mr.
Mangione asserts proudly that he
disproved this theory in record
time!

Joint Social Action Committees

Hold Seminar on Negro Revolt

The first seminar in a series
sponsored by the Bryn Mawr and
Haverford Social Action Commit-
tees will take place Sunday, Octo-
ber 9, at 3:00 in the Merion show-
case. The subject of discussion will
be ‘‘New Directions in the Negro
Revolt.?’

The program of this Sunday’s
seminar will be informal, A tape
of a speech by ‘Louis Lomax on
‘¢The Negro Revolt Revisited’? will
by played. Jackie Williams, head
of the Bryn Mawr Friends of
SNCC, and Mrs, Judith .Porter,
who teaches a course in Race Re~
lations in the Bryn Mawr Sociology
Department, will act as discussion
leaders,

If students would like to read
more about current trends in the
civil rights movement before Sun-
day, there isafolder oncivil rights
on the SAC reserve shelf right out-
side the reserve room, Along with
other pertinent literature in the

‘ folder. is an issue of the New York

Review of Books, containing an
article by Stokley Carmichael,
head of SNCC, explaining his posi-
tion on black power,

SAC hopes, in establishing a
seminar program, to oven an.op-
portunity for small groups of Bryn
Mawr and Haverford students to
discuss interesting issues inanin-
formal atmosphere. SAC wants to
draw largely on resources avail-
able at Bryn Mawr and Haverford,
neighboring schools, and in the
surrounding area. The seminars
should offer a chance for contact
and communication between facul-

Anthropology Class
To Dig for Mill
At Rhoads Farm

The American Anthropology
class is planning to do some dig-
ging on the Rhoads Farm lands
before construction gets under way
for the Blue Route.

Rhoads Farm was given to the
college by Charles Rhoads, a for-
mer Director of the Board of
Trustees, Now a highway is going
through part of it, including a
mill pond on which the Anthropology
Department suspects a colonial mill
may be located,

The students will dig in the mill
pond itself’ for the structure. It
is fairly deeply buried under three
or four feet of topsoil. This will

give the students some good ex- .

perience in digging and give them

a feeling for some of the problems

inherent in excavating,
Last year the class dug in a

plowed field southwest of Vailey

Forge, but were unsuccessful in
finding any undisturbed deposits,
Assuming it doesn’t rain every
Wednesday afternoon, this year’s
class may have better luck,

ty, students, and members of the
outside community,

Seminars will be held alternately
at Bryn Mawr and Haverford on a
regular basis. SAC hopes students
and faculty will feel free to drop
in and exchange their opinions over
coffee,

The success of the program de-
pends on student interest in ex-
pressing and forming opinions,
and listening to others, If anyone
would like to lead a discussion,
or suggest a speaker or topic,
she should let SAC know. Or if
someone knows of a good film
or article that could be usedas the
basis for a discussion, all sugges-
tions are welcome,

Film Enthusiasts
Plan to Produce

Movie on Campus

On Wednesday, October 5, the
first meeting of a group of Haver-
ford and Bryn Mawr students in-
terested in making a film took
place,

After impressing upon each
other the need.to keep up the in-
terest in this project, in order to
fulfill the tremendous gap of crea-
tivity on the campuses, they began
to discuss the problems involved
in making a film.

The biggest problem discussed
by the 30 who attended seemed
to be the problem of financial sup-
port. It was decided that film-
making was very expensive in-
deed, and that support from an
outside source would be neces-
sary. It was finally decided that
while the project is still in its
preliminary stages, the first
movie could be made using an
8 mm home movie camera,

The next problem discussed was
procedure. Where does one start
when planning a film? Should it be
a free film, or should there be a
script? Should the first film be
a silent one?

The group hopes to produce three
or four films this year, all of
which they admit will probably
be on a non-professional basis -
‘After all, we’re not D, W, Grif-
fiths,”’



Donald Woodward
Foreign Service Officer
of the
Department of State
Will Be in the
_-,, Common Room
-4P.M., October 12.
to Discuss Foreign Service
Careers

tS







It is no secret that one of the
most misused and poorly-under-
stood of all Self-Gov rules
is the driving rule. Due to a
particularly widespread abuse of
the rule this year, the Executive
Board has asked for a Legisla-
ture to be called to consider
a proposed change in the rule,
The exact formulation of this pro-
posal will be posted in the
halls October 11, However, be-
fore the problem can be discussed
it is vital that everyone be aware

of what Legislature is, how it is
‘

Revision Process
Clarified in Detail
By Self-Gov Head

(Continued from page 2)

further suggestions from the floor,
Following this, there will be hall
meetings at which the joint recom-
mendations of Legislature and the
Revision Committee will be pre-
sented and further suggestions will
be proposed by individual students,
Any such recommendation which is
supported by ten or more students
at the hall meeting shall be con-
sidered acceptable, Finally all of
these proposals will be given to
the Executive Board, which is
responsible for formulating them
into a ballot, This ballot will be
written in such a way that a vote
of yes or no is possible on all
issues, A two-thirds majority of
the student body is necessary to
ratify any proposed change,

As complex as this procedure
appears, it is clear that the re-
sponsibility for effective revision
is the individual student’s, Without
your direct participation no re-
vision is possible; and revision is
extremely necessary. The Consti-
tution as it now stands contains
many provisions that are archaic,
unclear, and simply non-func-
tional, It also contains rules which
have been subject to much contro-
versy, such as the Dress Rule,
the sign-out procedure, the proce-
dure for the nomination and
election of officers, andthe calling
of a Legislature, .This is your
opportunity to discuss these rules
and to suggest responsible
changes,

It is also an opportunity to dis-
cuss things such as the Dinner
System, the function of the Con-
stitutional Revision Committee,
the procedure for calling special
elections, and the liaison between
Self-Gov and the Undergraduate
Association, All of these issues
are now decided according to tradi-
tion and thus often the cause of
confusion and_ dissatisfaction,
These are only a few suggestions
of issues which might profitably
be considered, I think above all
that we must concentrate on
developing revisions which will
insure us of an understandable,
functional, and complete Consti-
tution,

Sophs Considering
Jr. Year Abroad

Asked to Meeting

Sophomores who are consider-
ing applying for Junior Year
Abroad programs are invited to
a meeting with Mrs. Pruett Mon-
day, October 17, at 4:30 p.m. in
the Common Room,

Seniors who have participated
in.Junior Year Abroad programs
will be present.

Those interested in attending

the meeting should sign the list

in the Dean’s office,

Bryn Mawr has Junior Year
Abroad programs in Germany,

retary

called, and what it does,

Legislature is the legislative
body of the Associated Students,
It may be called at any time by
the President of Self-Gov, and/or
the President of Undergrad, or by
a majority vote of their respec-
tive Boards, In addition, if
10% of the student body petitions
for a Legislature, it may also be
called,

The Legislature is made up

of representatives of the four »

classes in each hall, Halls of 30
or less get two representatives
from the hall, Rhoads and Erdman
are allowed two representatives
from each class, Also present are
a Non-Resident Representative,
the College-elected officers of the
Big Six organizations, the Hall
Presidents, and the Class Presi-
dents, The president of the
senior class presides and the Sec-
of the senior class
acts as the secretary, of the meet-
ing but has_ no- vote, The
proceedings at Legislature are
conducted according to Robert’s
Rules of Order and all repre-
sentatives are expected to be
acquainted with these before the
meeting convenes,

The proposal before the Legis-
lature is posted in the dorms
one week before Legislature
meets, It is then the responsi-
bility of the hall reps’ to
meet with their classes. within
the hall and to discuss this issue,
General hall meetings are also
recommended, However, accord-
ing to the existing Constitution
these representatives are not
bound to vote at Legislature
according to the opinions of their
constituents, Students may attend
the meetings of Legislature only
after requesting permission of the
presiding officer and even then
only elected members may vote,

At the meeting of the Legisla-
ture, the proposal is pre-
sented by the person who
called Legislature, After full dis-
cussion of the issue, a vote is
taken, A two-thirds majority of
the members ‘is necessary to
approve any change,

Obviously, in order for Leg-
islature to operate intelligently,
it is essential that this process
be clear to everyone, If there are
any questions ‘please ask hall
presidents or any of the members
of the Executive Board,

N.Y. Art Museum
Offers Mawrters
Special Privileges

The Museum of Modern Art in
New York announces its fall en-
rollment of the Student Group
Membership Plan available to all
students and faculty in colleges
outside the New York metropolitan
area. The plan provides full
museum membership privileges at
$12.50 per year instead of the
regular $18 non-resident fee.

The reduced rate goes into effect
when 20 or more students or in-
structors enroll from each institu-
tion. Fall enrollment is open until
October 15. Bryn Mawr people
interested in joining the museum
under this plan should contact
Mrs. Carol W. Carpenter, cura-
tor of slides and photographs, art
and archaeology.

Members’ under the _ student
group membership plan receive
four free museum publication's an-
nually, plus a 50 percent dis-
count on a selected list of museum
publications and reproductions.

They also receive a monthly
calendar of events, an unlimited

admission. pass-to the’ museum

and its permanent collections,
special exhibitions, daily film pro-
grams with advance tickets on re-
quest, library, print and pho-

France, Italy, Spain, and Swit- ° tography study centers, and art

zerland,

lending service.

.


Friday, October 7, 1966 THE COLLEGE NEWS

P*
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Rhoads’ “‘Happening’’

all Plays

Merion and Tybach’s. ‘‘Snow White and the Seven Mawrters, or 99
and 44/100% Pure "’

Erdman’s ‘‘This Is the End’’

Denbigh’s freshmen won the
1966 hall play competition.
Their entry, ‘‘Mid-Semester’s
Nightmare’ was directed by
Sara Chilton and was a parody
on Shakespeare’s: ‘‘Mid-Summer
Night’s Dream.’’ Rockefeller
was the runner-up with ‘‘The
Saga of a Fowl Tale, or Dirty
Work in the Kitchen.’’ The
plays were presented in Skin-
ner Workshop last Friday and
Saturday nights. They were
judged by Miss Lang, Dr. Wat-
son, Nimet Habachy and Al

Brown.

Photos by Marian Schever :
Denbigh’s ‘‘Mid-Semester’s Nightmare’


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by Cookie Poplin

Bryn Mawr has always’ been
proud of the breadth. as well as
the depth of its education and ap-
parently interprets this concept
not only in intellectual but also
in geographic terms. Perhaps
our first development as a
genuinely international school was
the exeavation made by the Archae-
ology Department in Anatolia; this
year Mr. Bitterman and Mr, Gon-
zales of the Psychology Depart-
ment are taking Bryn Mawr into
Mexico, They are in the process
of setting up a lab in Campeche,
a fishing village on the Yucatan
peninsula, specifically for the pur-
pose of studying octopi,

As Mr. ‘Bitterman explained,
‘‘We study animals. If we cannot
keep them in the lab, then we must

BMC Sdacainn Meeting Observes.

Largeness and Dullness

(Continued from page 1)

All this presupposes smaller
classes, This seemed to be the

area such as Latin American cul- ~gingle most important fact .in a

ture and affairs, There was hope
though, because she said students
may have more power than they
sometimes think they have with
respect to changing school policies,

After these talks, the group broke
up into four discussion sections,
These were lively and went on for
an hour or &so beyond the three
speeches, The discussion seemed
to center onthe dullness of classes,
the reasons for it, and possible
solutions, This was especially in-
teresting because it provided a
means whereby students and faculty
and administration could express
themselves on this everpresent
problem on an informe] basis,

In fact, that was one of the sug-
cested solutions: more informality
in classes, This involyes taking
academics out of the classroom,
Cocktail parties in the faculty
homes were brought up as ameans
that has already been tried with
apparent success, More partici-
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to speak out, The point was made
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go to them,’’ and apparently
Campeche is One of the few places
in the world where octopi are
in abundant supply and are
caught commercially. Why octo-
pi? Psychologists study the
evolution of intelligence in animals
of different complexity and accord-
ing to Dr.,Bitterman the octopus
represents a peculiar transition--
it has many of the physical
properties of a mammal (a com-
paritively complex animal) while
it is controlled by a simple brain.
Thus in certain respects it is an
ideal test case.

Mr. Bitterman has been work-
ing with these animals for several
years now in Naples, Italy, where
unknown to most tourists the supply
of octopi is also quite plenti-
ful. Conditions deteriorated, how-
ever, and the psychologists could
not work all year round, so last
spring. Mr. Gonzalez and Mr.
Bitterman went off in search of a
new hunting ground. The lab sita-
tion and facilities at Campeche
were made available by the Mexi-

“can-government through the offices

of a friendly biologist at the Uni-
versity of Mexico, Mr. Bitterman
noted that the Mexicans welcome
‘‘research relations’’ with theU.S.

The Bryn Mawr psychologist
plans to spend some time over the
Christmas holiday getting the lab
into operating condition and then
will go to work there during his
leave second semester. There is
no talk of possible termination
dates for the Mexican research--
it will go on indefinitely and the

pralbences expect to be joined by
other psychologists, chiefly from
Britain, if things work out as
planned,

The lab is now equipped to deal
with three’ octopi at once, al-
though Mr, Bitterman pointed out
that there are usually 40 animals
on hand in the lab at any given
time. This is enough to strike
terror into the heart of anyone
who read 20 THOUSAND LEAGUES
UNDER THE’ SEA,_ but the
psychologist was quick to point
out that his octopi have little
in common with Jules Verne’s
mammoth man-eating monsters
except that they all have tentacles;
at their largest, the experimental
subjects weigh about two pounds
and have a tentacle spread of about
two and a half feet. Even more
surprising to the layman, these
octopi are easily tamed, come
to the front of the tank when the
experimenter enters the room and
eat out of his hand. If they are
placed in a tank with only one
small opening, they will spend
most._of the day.>in-—front—of—it
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going on in the outside world,
Dr. Bitterman grew almost af-
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test subjects, ‘‘I’ve worked with
lots of strange animals, and I’ve
always grown to like them.”

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Page Seven



66. Bryn Mawr Graduate Joins
College’s Admissions Ottice S tatt

Upperclassmen may have noticed a familiar
face among the Admissions Office personnel in
Taylor--she’s Myra Mayman, a ’66 graduate of
Bryn Mawr, currently working as Assistant to the
Director of Admissions..

Myra was a German major, who won the Hester
Ann Corner Prize for Distinction in Literature
last year. She spent her junior year abroad at
the university in Freiburg.

Myra’s duties include not only interviewing
prospective freshmen, but also handling applica-
tions from foreign students and serving as a link
between the administration and alumnae.

She also travels around the country in order
to ‘‘advertise Bryn Mawr--not to recruit... I
don’t think it?s worthy of Bryn Mawr to go re-
cruiting.’’

Myra just returned from Chitenis, and is al-
ready talking about a trip to Washington, D,C.,
October 22 for a conference on scholarships for
Negro students,

Apparently perfectly at home in her job, Myra
described a few interviews to illustrate her tech-
nique. For example, she often asks an applicant
what she would change about her high school if
she could. *‘One girl thought her English teacher
was lacking in her background in a certain period
of history, and another thought lunch periods
were too short.’ —

After she had interviewed another girl, Myra
sent her out with a campus guide, who later
reported that the applicant revealed she had
chosen: Bryn Mawr because she had Seen so
many well-dressed Mawrters infashion magazines.
The Admissions Office, needless to say, was
mildly amused.

Along the foreign student line, Myra para-
phrased the letter of one applicant whom she
discouraged while the discouraging was good;
‘IT am an 18-1/2 -year-old Chinese male, and
I’m interested in studying chemical engineer-
ing. Pleise send an application form.”



Myra Mayman

When Myra travels on her “public relations’?
tours, ‘‘I?m honest--I tell people they can be
miserably unhappy at Bryn Mawr, depending on
their own individual efforts, ‘You’re on your own,’
as Miss McBride told us at our freshman tea.??

As for admissions policy itself, Myra is par-
ticularly impressed with Bryn Mawr’s, At some
schools, she said, applications are run through
an IBM machine and channeled out into a waste
basket if a college board score is below 590.
But at Bryn Mawr, Myra looks for those ‘‘who
aren’t normal plodders, but who have some in-
terest and imagination,

*sSo not only are you treated as an indivi-
dual at Bryn Mawr--you’re treated as an indi-
vidual before you get here,”?



H’ford Will Host

Bus Schedule

College Theatre

(Continued from page 3)
Hermione; Nimet Habachy, Paul-

Orchestra Group
For Arts Series

The fifth season of the Haver-
ford Arts Series will open with a
performance of the Moscow Cham-
ber Orchestra Friday, October 14
at 8:30 p.m.

This orchestra was founded in
1955 as a private group, organized
to play works rarely heard inreg-
ular concert series. It proved to
be so much of a success that it
was incorporated into the Soviet
Ministry of Culture in 1957,

Noted violinist Rudolf Barshai
has headed the orchestra since its
beginning. Other noted musicians
who have appeared with the or-
chestra are David and _ Igor
Oistrakh, Emil Gilels
Sviatoslav Richter.

The orchestra is formed en-

tirely of soloists, and the repertory
‘includes works that give each
member a chance to Play solo
parts. i

Tickets for this performance,
as well as the three others
scheduled for this fall and winter
are three dollars apiece.

and.

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. The rest of the parts have not
yet been assigned, but all of the
following people will have parts
in the play: Raymond Howard, Andy
Yen, Mike Moore, Jeff Gamble,
Bill Slocum, Bill Miles, Hilary
Hosmer, Holly Maddux, Marianne
Lust, Robin Brantley, Alice Lieb,
and Andra Oakes.

Serendipity Day Camp Reveals
Winter PlansforLocal Children

At Haverford this year Bob Gor-
chov, with help from Alice Leib
and ‘Liz Freedman among others,
is trying to make. the facilities
of Haverford more available to
children from the nearby Ardmore
area,

Encouraged by the overwhelm-
ing success of the Serendipity
Day Camp set up at the college
during the last three summers,
the three students are planning
an hour-a-week dance class for
Ardmore girls ages 11 to 13,
an arts and crafts class for boys
and girls, and a Saturday morn-
ing basketball program for boys
ages 11 to 14, These’. sessions
would be purely voluntary for all
concerned; one of the major prob-
lems .in selecting activities was
finding those which could gener-
ate and maintain sufficient inter-
est for the children to come back
week after week, For this reason
the idea of a chorus or a drama
group was eliminated, although
Bob pointed out that any sugges-
tions or volunteers would be more
than. weleome; The program is
designed to supplement. the work
of the Haverford tutorial project
in Ardmore although it operates
independently,

The children are mostly within
walking distance, and news of the
project must be spread primarily
by word of mouth and posters in
churches, Nevertheless atthe first
basketball practice last Saturday
between 30 and 40 boys turned
up.

Preliminary plans for a pro-
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years ago during the spring at

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students who had begun some in-
formal work of théir.own, The
faculty committee, according to
Steve Gold, was ashamed of the
fact that all summer long the
empty land and fields of Haver-
ford were tightly guarded while
the local children had no place to
play. From the other end, two
boys had begun to go out into
the field in the spring with a vol-
leyball, and to their surprise and
delight, boys turned out ‘‘in
droves,’’

The result of the combined ef-
forts of students and faculty was
the Serendipity Day Camp, which
has now operated for three sum-
mers and ¢s expanding faster than
its originators dreamed possible,
The first year they had no money
and 90 children during July and
August; the second year they
raised $10,000 and enrolled 110
children in each of their three
three-week sessions, Last sum-
mer the organizers of the camp

obtained a $31,000 grant from the :

Office for Economic Opportunities,
Community Action Programs, and
were able to hire professional
teachers of music, science, re-
medial reading and art, thus shift-
ing the emphasis of the camp
from sports to educational and
creative activities, A recordnum-
ber of 360 children and 15 junior
counselors were involved, and the
camp is being offered as a model
for the efforts of other commun-
ities,

From another point of view, the
damage to the Haverford campus
from the Ardmore side has de-
creased substantially in the last
three years,

It was the tremendous interest
and enthusiasm shown by the boys
and girls, however, that brought
about this winter program anditis
to be hoped that the eagerness on
both sides will bring about con-
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Co-Education Hits

Mawrters’ Courts
As Rackets Clash-

A.A, is sponsoring a mixed
doubles round-robin tennis tourn-
ament with Haverford, to take place
Sunday afternoon, October 9, on
BMC courts from 2 to 5.

According to the chairman, many
Haverfordians have already signed
up. Bryn Mawr’s sign-up sheet
is posted on the: A,A, board’ in
Taylor. Participants who have a
partner in mind should sign his
name beside theirs, Otherwise, the
chairman will assign partners,

Rackets and balls will not be
provided, There will be a ‘‘prize’?
for the winning couple, and re-
freshments for all,

Picketan g
Cc)
(Continued. from page 3)

The School Board listened to the
proposals, but would not discuss
them, John Hippel, chairman of
the Board, refused to meet or
cooperate with the NAACP. He
would not accept Reverend Had-
ley Williams, a member of the
Main Line Human Relations Coun-
cil, as a mediator for a joint
meeting.

After a meeting on Monday, Sep-
tember 26, the NAACP decided to
picket. They planned to avoid the
Lower Merion schools, since some
parents were afraid of danger to
their children. They directed the
demonstration toward the Lower
Merion Administration Building in
Ardimora. The picket now set up
in front of the building is sym-
bolic. There are 15 participants,
each one representing a Lower
Merion school.

The pickets started Friday, Sep-
tember 30, and they are continuing
every day this week, They take
place in the morning from 9:15 -
9:45. If anyone is #tterested in
joining the NAACP in awakening
the Main Line to the existence of
discrimination .and. the arbitrary
use of ‘*white power,’” Mrs, Clara
Hazzard, Ml 2-6387, is picket cap-
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