College news, February 18, 1966

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PA. eat 18, 1966

Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1966 25 Cents



Undergr cial Starts
Big Sir Elections,

Asks Nominations

At the Undergrad meeting Mon-
day night Undergrad Vice Presi-
dent Cabbs Denton explained this
year’s election calendar to the
hall representatives. All major
campus offices for the coming
year will be filled during the
period of nominations, primaries,
the dinner system and voting which
will extend from February 20
through March 24,

Full participation by the students
was stressed as central in im-
portance, especially in the critical
stage of nominations. The nomin-
ations will be made for all offices
on February 20 and 21, and Cabbs
emphasized that every nomination
and every succeeding vote must
have the name and thé office writ-

ten on the ballot.
The first series of elections

will be the primaries, the dinner
System and the voting for the
presidents of Undergrad and Self-
Gov and the Big Six. The dinner
system will operate from Monday,
February 28, through Thursday,
the 3lst, in every dorm at 7 and
10, and “Cabbs_ said that it is
essential that students attend these
discussions, both to see and hear
the candidates, and to express
their views on how the organiza-
tions can or should function under

the new leadership.
In the second series of elec-

tions the campus will vote for the
Vice. Presidents and Secretaries
of Self-Gov and Undergrad, and
‘for the First Sophomore to Self-
Gov. Teas will be given on March
10 and 11 for the purpose of meet-
ing and hearing the candidatgs.

Class elections will be held on
March 16, 17, and 18, followed by
hall elections from March 20
through the 24th.

Other business cleared at the
Undergrad meeting included the
election of Babs Keith, Pembroke
East, to take charge of the Lost
and Found. Popie Johns announced
that Janet Kole and Wendy Fein
are the new editors of the Fresh-
man Handbook, and the Freshman
Week chairmen will be elected by
Undergrad in the near future.



Bryn Mawr, F&M
Prepare Concert

The Bryn Mawr Chorus and the
Franklin and Marshall Glee Club
will present a concert at Bryn
Mawr, Saturday, February 19, at
8:30 p.m. On Sunday, Bryn Mawr
will travel to Lancaster and give

_the same concert there.

The following Sunday, February
27, both choruses will go.to St.
Thomas’s Church in New York
City. The 4 p.m. service will
include everything on the previous
programs except CARMINA BUR-
ANA,

The combined choruses will sing
two motets by Esquivel and CAR-
MINA BURANA by Carl Orff with
an orchestra, The Bryn Mawr
Chorus will sing LITANIES A LA
VIERGE NOIRE by Francis Pou-
lenc, Franklin and Marshall will
sing QUATRE PETITES PRIERES
DE SAINT FRANCOIS D’ASSISE

_ also by Poulenc.

The next scheduled concert for

__Bryn Mawr will be the spring

concert with Haverford, April 23.
The combined choruses will sing
Mass in C Major by Beethoven.



Peter Viereck, George Kline and Popie Johns discuss Russian
poetry afterdinnerin Erdman.

Undergrad’s Eminent Speaker

Compares U.S. , Russian Youth

‘It is now very difficult to
convince young people’’ complain-
ed a prominent Russian newspaper,
and according to Peter Viereck,
Undergrad Eminent Speaker, this
complaint is typical of the ‘*apathy
and skepticism’’ of Soviet youth
today. The Pulitzer Prize winning
poet and professor of: European
and Russian history at Mount
Holyoke spoke Wednesday night in
Goodhart.

The most sophisticat young
people, he continued nave ote
an anti-ideological ideology based
on the writings of Kafka,;Pasternak
and the early **humanist’’ Marx.
“The day of the ideological
struggle is over,’’ Mr. Viereck
declared, and a ‘‘conspiracy of
feeling’? is growing. Soviet
students do not wish to change
the existing order but rather to
establish a new spirit within its
framework, ‘“‘reinterpretinhg’’
Lenin’s doctrine of rural electri-
fication as the spontaneous sym-
pathy between hearts and claiming
the right to enjoy the love and
loneliness of private life. This is
not a political movement but rather
‘fa revolt of the heart against
technology.’’

Viereck asserted that a move-
ment against ‘‘self-righteous civic
righteousness,’’ against
lifelessness’’ is common to youth
in both the United States and Rus-
siae While the political situation
in the two countries is quite dif-
ferent, the poet felt that aes-
thetically and psychologically-con-
ditions are the same--in the East
people are coerced by the state,
in the West they are seduced by
the entertainment ingeniously de-
vised by the ‘‘manipulators’’ of
Madison Avenue and other private
interests. ‘‘The battle line is drawn
between creativity and mechaniza-
tion.’’

To his description of this world-
wide revolt, the speaker added
two brief but highly significant
qualifications. First, it is not an
anti-intellectual movement relying
solely on ‘instinct and the id.’
Rather, it is based on compassion
and is ‘filtered through ethical
feeling.’? Secondly, although this

movement of youth is notideologi- .

cal, nevertheless it lacks a. vo-

. cabulary of its own and must

therefore rely (in the U.S.) on
the. outdated vocabulary of the
leftist movements of the thirties.
Viereck speculated that perhaps
‘abstraction into words falsifies

«public.

ideas, that language betrays man.
Perhaps with this revolt we are
moving away from verbal formula-
tion and systematization and to-
wards more direct expression

through art, music, andthe theater,

The conspiracy of feelings may
fail as its exponents have failed--
Dr. Zhivago together with author
Pasternak, Nevertheless, ‘‘there
is nothing more honorable than
the conscience-kindling failure of
the human spirit against over-
whelming material odds. The
nerve to fail,’ Viereck em-
phasized, ‘‘is necessary to pre-
serve the living core of creativity
in man. ‘Minute your gesture, but
it must be made.’ ”’

Freshman Show Elates

Bickering German Trio

by Hugo Schmidt

Chairman, German Dept.

In the beginning, it seemed to
be a simple predicament: Yes, I
would gladly review the Freshman
Show, but I had two house guests
to cope with--old friends from the
old country, Interesting people, in

“their way, but different and unpre-

dictable. And they didn’t get along
with each other, Actually,they had
come here on a pilgrimage of

B sorts--to see faculty show. Well,

why not? People flock to Oberam-
mergau, once every 10 years, to
see the Passion Plays, so why
shouldn’t one go: to Bryn Mawr,
once every four years, to see the
faculty show? And then it was can-
celled. After they arrived, three
weeks or so early. They were
annoyed and made a nuisance of
themselves from morning till
night, blaming me for the wasted

_ trip whenever they were not in

each~other’s hair. One of them,
Bert, runs a little theater in East
Berlin and has a strong interest
in politics--he had quite a time

getting a visa, I understand. The

other one, Renny, goes more for
poetry, can’t hold on to any job,
is always broke, and moves in with
anyone foolish enough to invite him,

When they heard that there was
going to be a show put on by stu-
dents and that I was suppose to
review it, they jumped with ex-
citement. ‘*Couldn’t we come
along? Perhaps we can help you
write the review, or write it for
you,--well??? To make it short:
Someone on the tickets committee
seemed to have a soft spot and,
instead of one, I found three white
envelopes with complimentary
tickets in my mailbox, one for me,
one for Mr. Brecht, and one for
Mr. Rilke. They were elated, and
off we were on our way to the
Freshman Show.

Studying the playbill through his
steel-rimmed glasses, Bert re-
marked: ‘*The title is good. I
wonder what sort of play it is go-
ing to be. Let’s hope it. will have
a meaty message.’’

Eudora Welty To Visit
As Writer-In-Residence

Eudora Welty will visit Bry«
Mawr as awriter-in-residence for
a week this spring, under the
auspices of the English Départ-
ment.

During her stay, Miss Welty
will join the writing class to par-
ticipate in discussions. She will
also be available to read and crit-
icize student manuscripts.

Over spring vacation, Miss

Welty will attend a symposium on
writing at the Shipley School. She
will live at the Deanery during
her Bryn Mawr visit.
* Born in Jackson, Mississippi,
Miss Welty attended Mississippi
State College and holds a B.A.
from the University of Wisconsin.
From 1930 to 1931 she studied
at the Columbia University School
of Advertising.

Her works include: A CURTAIN
OF GREEN, THE ROBBER BRIDE-
GROOM, THE WIDE NET, DELTA
WEDDING, THE GOLDEN AP-
PLES, THE PONDER HEART, and
THE BRIDE OF THE INNISFALL-
EN.

Miss Welty is also acontributor
to the SOUTHERN REVIEW, AT-
LANTIC MONTHLY, HARPER’S
BAZAAR, and THE NEW YORKER,

Miss Welty received an award
from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters in 1944. She was
elected to the National Institute
of Arts and Letters in 1952. Three

‘years later she was awarded the

William Dean Howells Medal of
the Academy-.of Arts and Letters
for THE PONDER. HEART.

A Donnelley Fellow at Bryn



udora Welty |

Mawr from 1958 to 1959, Miss
Welty was also an honorary con-
sultant in American letters of the
Library of Congress from 1958 to
1961.

Most of Miss Welty’s books are
set in her native Mississippi. She
says, “It seems plain that the art
that speaks most clearly, explicit-
ly, directly, and passi -telyfrom
its place of origin .il remain
the longest understood, It is
through place that we put out roots,
wherever birth, chance, fate, or
our traveling selves set us down;
but where those roots reach to-
ward -- whether in America, Eng-
land, or Timbuktu -- is the deep
and running vein, eterma) and con-
sistent and everywhere purely it-
self -- that feeds and is fed by
the human understanding.’’

Renny leaned forward, his tired
eyes half closed (I sat between
him and Bert, to keep them separ-
ated): ‘How can you expect
a message where pure form
reigns?’’ And, elucidating this, he
added: ‘‘Girls--like gardens in
April, Gentle budding, yet nowhere
a goal,’? After a while he closed
his eyes altogether and mused:
‘*T am confident that it will not
be painful. Maybe it will be about
angels.’?

A lovely looking choir group
arranged themselves in front of the
curtain, ‘*You see!’ Renny’s eyes
were almost all the way open. ‘‘I
told you! Ihr Maedchen seid wie
die Gaerten...’’

‘‘Fiddlefaddle,’’ Bert cut in.
‘¢This is going to be a Lehrstueck,
a true didactic play, and they are
going to tell us what it is all
about.’’

The curtain opened on the first
scene. Bert liked the set, and so
did Renny. *‘I was right!’? Bert ex-
claimed ina whisper. ‘‘It’s a play
about social problems, The figures
on stage are The People, rendered
immobile by convention,”

‘‘No, no,’’ Renny moaned, *‘ They
are angels, too otherworldly to
move.”’

We agreed that the Harlequin
was tops, and her song, **See How
My Sculpture Stands.’’? And her
dance. Bert could hardly conte in
himself, ‘*Wow!’ he breathed
heavily in German. Rennv’s
watery eyes bulged, too.

“Go easy now, fellows,’’ I
admonished them. ‘‘Perhaps Pll
take you along to my baby-German
class on Monday and...”

Bert was enthusiastic about the
janitors, ‘*The genuine artistic
urge among the suppressed class-
es,” he nodded,

“True folk art, direct and mov-
ing,’’ explained Renny.

The appearance of Fantod
brought on the -next major out-
burst of disagreement. ‘‘Ah, here
is the creator, detached from real-
ity, the embodiment of the spirit-
ualized form,...”’

‘Heh, heh,’’ Bert interrupted,
‘¢your embodiment is finding its
place in society, at last. He is
going to be a politician, he will
organize a janitors’ union, demand
higher wages ...’’

At this point, the Dea Sex
Machina was wheeled on stage.
For a moment my companions were
overcome with silence. Then Bert
dug his elbow into my side: ‘*Where
did you say you want to take us
Monday?”’

**] wish you would keep quiet
for.a minute. What is that review
going to look like? I’m trying to
follow the story line, and you sare
have your mind on nothing but . .

Renny brightened up when the
square dance set in. Bert tapped
both feet in time of the music.
‘¢Man, that combo is groovy,’’ he
whispered, his eyes aglow. ‘‘And
it?s so human! And :ouching! They

' want to have one last little bit

of fun before they face their polit-
ical responsibility. Do you think I
could persuade that comboto come
to East Berlin with me? And that
tune! Yes, this is the kind of music
we need for our didactic plays.
Next time I visit. youll bring
along Weill, and Dessau, and Eis-
ler,--they could learn a thing or
two here...’”

“Just let me know when this is
going to be and I'll have a few
nice rooms reserved for you at
the Treadway Inn.,”’

“l’m confused,’’ Renny ventured
forth, his face contorted, ‘*What
does it all mean?’’

*tHal What does it all mean!’’
Bert slapped his thigh in malicious
delight. ‘*You! Of all people! You
write poems that not even you
can understand, And now you want
to know what this means!’ ~

‘What is the relationship
between the title and the play?”
Renny insisted.

(Continued on page 4)

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Social Action

Next Monday, Undergrad will make its final decision on the makeup
of the Social Committee for next year. Several ideas will be suggested
by Popie Johns, Undergrad president, and Rayetta Nee has already
commented on the situation in last week’s NEWS. Rayetta’s proposal
with Popie’s modifications seem to offer the best solution to the con-
tinuing problem of organizing social events on campus. The problem
consists of two. parts; a balance must be struck between them. First,
the committee must be small enough so that lines of responsibility
are clear and people won’t be left saying, ‘‘Well, I thought you were going
to do that.’’ Second, the committee must be large enough so that the brunt
of the job doesn’t fall on a very few people.

Rayetta’s letter advocates ten small committees to take care of such
details as food, decorations and finance. This proposal seems to be
somewhat fragmented. Several of these can be merged, with the final
number somewhere between three and eight. These small committees
would compose the central committee: large enough to accomplish
its duties and small enough to work effectively. Beyond this, each dorm
would have its own separate committee to handle individual dorm events.

The Social Chairman herself would be head of the Central Committee,
and her basic job would be one of coordination. She would still be
elected by the Junior Class. The individual dorm committees would °
continue to be elected by each dorm. There are two ways the Central
Committee could be chosen: 1) by Undergrad from a pool of volunteers
(as the Freshman Week Committee is selected), or 2) by each class
having a specific quota to fill. We favor the first method, to insure
that the members would be interested and willing to do the job, And
not only does Undergrad have representatives from each class to vote,
but also it has a more objective understanding of the needs of the
campus.

A hierarchic committee with the chairman on top, a small workable
committee under her, and the dorm committees essentially separate
(except for helping on big dances) ought to provide the best arrangement.
This way each girl would know exactly what she has to do and would be
best qualified to do it.

Timely Praise

The increasingly close and vital reciprocal relationship between the
campus and the larger world was dramatized in the past week not by
the fast alone and not only by student activities, In an article on the
growing role of American college anduniversity presidentsin important
social movements (e.g. civil rights), in developments of an international
magnitude, and in the formulation and implementation of national policy,
TIME magazine noted President McBride as one of an “inner group’’ of
leading administrators who exert considerable influence for the public
good beyond their own campuses. The article stated that the principal
means by which the presidents effect their ends is membership on
‘¢powerful advisory groups’’ and indicated that Miss McBride “‘probably
belongs. to more key groups than any single male president’’ -- she
was the only woman administrator among the 14 chosen for recognition.

We feel that it is an essential part of the modern educator’s responsi-
bility to make the voice of the academic community heard and heeded
at the council tables of the world. We feel that today’s world must be
made to take into account the views of educators, And we believe that
education itself cannot be carried forward by isolated units with limited
material and _ intellectual
restrictive local and traditional eccentricities. We heartily approve the
development of a mutually significant and stimulating interchange be-
tween the campus and the surrounding community (and today’s campus
is *‘surrounded’’. by the entire were and among contributors to con-
temporary education,

It is thus with much ‘gratefulnéss and pleasure that we see Bryn
Mawr’s president honored as a leading contributor to just such an
interchange.

Lights Out

If it’s good enough for the White House, it’s good enough for Bryn
Mawr! Last week at Undergrad, Miss McBride said that the college’s
electric bill had risen from $14,000 in 1958 to $44,000 in 1965, and she
suggested that students make an effort to turn off unnecessary lights
for the sake of economy. Further, Miss McBride encouraged a system
of sign-up lists for girls leaving the campus on weekends to avoid food

wastage; and Undergrad intends. to follow-up this plan...
To take a moment to flick off a switch or to jot down a signature would

be small but meaningful and painless gestures in the face of Bryn
Mawr'’s budget deficit. After all, lights out in an empty room aten’t a

bad exchange for lights on in a full mind.



resources and under the domination of ,

The Fast

To the Editor:

There is one problem which the
fast suggested to me which has
not, I think, been clearly articu-
lated, and yet is possibly the most

fundamental question of all. Touse ©

a rather high-sounding term for

lack of another as concise, I shall

callit the Mi¢rocosm-Macrocodsm
Dilemma.

Three important. and all too
familiar ramifications of this
dichotomy were brought out by
the criticism which was leveled
at the fast. First, we represented

.the student against the adult. In

this capacity, we were charged with
flaunting experience and wisdom
with youth and ignorance. Second,
we acted as individuals, apparently
against society. We took a moral
stand baséd on personal conviction
and acted upon it. The choice of

fasting as a means of expressing

protest was criticized variously
as impractical, unworthy of.our
intellectual status as students of
Bryn Mawr and Haverford, both
among the ‘‘most_ selective’’
colleges in the country, negative,
uncreative, and,
yond the limits of rational, effec-
tive action for which the structure
of society allows. Finally, we pro-
tested as citizens against the policy
of our government, the constitution
of which describes a democracy
intended to function through the
participation of all its members.
For voicing our disapproval we
were accused of lackof patriotism,
failure to trust in the wisdom of
our leaders, and communist lean-
ings.

What made it possible to form a
group of more than 130 students,
surely too many all to be burning
radicals, willing to fast, and at

_ least ten professors who either

fasted or openly supported the fast,
while, at the same time Bernard
Kramer of the MAIN LINE CHRON-
ICLE could react so intently with
cries of ‘‘hungerniks,’’ ‘‘Viet-
niks,’’ ‘‘mostly oddballs’’ and
“these screwballs?”” While I am
quick to grant to everyone his own
opinion, there appears to me to be
a more basic issue.

The kind of criticism which the
fast received indicates a confusion
over the relationship between the
microcosm and the macrocosm
in its various manifestations as
described above. There is a ten-
dency to set up student, individual,
and citizen against adult, society,
and government as polarities, when
in reality, there is a direct, causal,
necessary, and inescapable con-
nection between the various pairs.
It seem significant to me, in view
of the fact that such confusion ex-
ists in regard to this relationship
between individual and group, pri-
vate and public, that our protest
should have taken the form of
fasting.

We had objectives in both areas.
We wished to make our protest
known publicly, Fasting was anex-
treme and admittedly sensational
method of attracting attention to
our convictions. But fasting in-
volves a sacrifice on the. part of
each individual who does it. It is
Significant that so .many people
should have decided to make an
individual physical commitment to
a moral and intellectual position.
Why, when an intensive program
of lectures, discussions and movies
had been scheduled and literature
on Vietnam and related subjects
provided, of which everyone,
whether they fasted or not, could
take advantage, did 130 people
still choose to fast?

Without intending to be pom
_I would like to quote from KierRe
gaard who has some unusually rel-
evant ideas on the subject in dis-
cussing ‘‘truth’’ in anit the
‘individual’? and the ‘crowd.’
(From THAT INDIVIDUAL; TWO
NOTES CONCERNING MY WORK

; ~

in general, be- —

[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR|

AS AN AUTHOR (1859) published °
in EXISTENTIALISTS FROM DOS-
TEOVSKY TO SARTRE, ed. W.
Kaufmann, World Pub. Co., N.Y.)
‘*¢The communicator of the truth
can only be a single individual, And

_again the communication of it can

only be addressed to the individual;
for the truth consists precisely
in that conception of life which is
experienced by the individual.”’
(97) :

“The crowd is untruth” (94)
because it negates the individual.
Tlhe embodiment of such untruth
is to be found in the daily press
which “‘with its anonymity makes
the situation madder still with the
help of the public, this abstraction
which claims to be the judge in
matters of ‘truth’.’’ (96)

**‘The crowd, in fact, is com-
posed of individuals; it must there-
fore be inevery man’s power to be-
come what he is, an individual.’’
(98)

The fast, I think, recognized the
nature of this relationship between
the individual and the crowd and
sought to reestablish the .connec-
tion. Though it would have affected
the crowd if it could have, it was
organized by individuals ‘‘not with
the intent of educating the crowd
as such but rather with the hope
that one or another individual might
return from this assemblage and

(Continued on page 4)



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here and there rise misty plumes
waving, wafting clumps of steam
potholes huffing puffing dot the
campus here andeverywhere there
they sit as if forgot huffing puffing,
never off no one wonders, no one
cares whence these clouds or what
they mean whether some misty
land below or boiling Seas about
to blow perhaps some force ves-
uvian or land where monsters are
‘moving in where giffin dance and
geryon romps-a demonic land in
ternal. infernal? believe my friend
or not but stop the next time you
pass near and bending to the grate

you'll hear: “hissssssssssssss’’

subterraneanly,
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Pass 3H Pass 4D
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Opening Lead: Ace of Clubs

The pre-empt is one of the most
misjudged bids in the Goren sys-
tem. The classic pre-empt, made
when the bidder holds seven or
more cards in a suit, one outside
trick (an ace or a void), and less
than ten points, can be a useful
defensive bid, particularly when
the opposition is vulnerable. It is
under no circumstances an offen-
sive bid, and must be used with
care at any time.

Last week I noted that an ill+
advised pre-empt did no harm in
the end, but in today’s hand the
opposite is true. West’s illegal
opening pre-empt effectively
maneuvered his side out of a suc-

cessful game contract, at the same”

time permitting the opposition to
bid and make game in diamonds,

West had no business making a
pre-emptive bid with a hand of
this strength. It proved disastrous
because East could not respond,
although his seven points. would
have prompted a response had West
made a simple opening bid of one
club. After the pre-empt, however,
North-South had little’ difficulty
finding a game in diamonds.

(South’s bid of four diamonds in- -

stead of three hearts was neces-
Sary to indicate more than a min-
imum responding point count.)

On the play of the hand, an
opening lead of the ace of spades,

followed by the seven,-will set the:

five diamond _ contract, because
East is bound to return a heart
for the ruff The natural lead,
however, is the club ace, and the
better lead can only be seen by
playing double-dummy. With‘the

a -

club lead, South cantrumpthe trick
in his hand, pull trump, and drop
a losing spade on the king of clubs.
He must lose two spades, but he
does make his contract.

On a re-play of the hand, the
pre-empt error was avoided, but
a bidding problem arose in an un-
li kely place. The bidding developed
as follows:

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
LC Dbl. 1 2D
3..C 3 D

East, with the weakest hand of all,
now had a problem. Theoretically,
he should probably pass, but in that
case North-South would most likely
reach game in diamonds and he
saw little chance of setting such a
contract. On the other hand, he
did have legal support in clubs
and a singleton diamond. The en-
thusiastic bidding indicated some-
one could be shaving points to bid,
and his partner might well have a

fairly strong hand. A bid of four

clubs would place more of an
option with his partner.

East elected to bid, and as it
turned out, he did the right thing.
South bid four diamonds, West
went to five clubs, and North was
forced to double, counting at least
two tricks in his hand and ex-
pecting a diamond trick from his
partner North’s opening lead ofthe

.heart king allowed West to take

11__sitricks, clubs

doubled.

making five

Had East passed on -the four:

level, South would have ended up
playing five diamonds as he did
above and scoring a game in the
process.

-- Bridget.

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February 18, 1966

COLLEGE NEWS

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THE SINNERS: Joanna Lewis, Lynn Scholz, Mary Thom, Mary

Daubenspeck and Lynne Moody.



C olleges Plan Programs

On Problems

Bryn. Mawr students have re-
ceived invitations to two con-
ferences on problems of contem-
porary society. The schools host-
ing these conferences are the Uni-
versity.of NorthCarolina at Chapel
Hill and Connecticut College.

The Carolina program §an-
nounces as its topic ‘‘Man, Mind,
and Myth; The Conditioned
Society.’? The program, scheduled
for April:17 to April 21, will in-
clude anintercollegiate seminar on
the material presented by guest
speakers,

Students accepted for the small
seminar group will have an op-
portunity to meet the speakers
personally and discuss with them
their ideas in informal sessions.

Speakers at the Symposium in-
clude theologian Dean Alan Rich-
ardson, novelist Nelson Alop cn.
Congressman Morris K. Udall,
journalist Tom Wolfe. The appli-
cation deadline is March 20.

Recruiting Reps
To Visit Campus

Representatives of a number of
prominent organizations and busi-
ness firms will be recruiting jun-
iors, seniors and graduate students
at Bryn Mawr next week, Those
wishing to make appointments are
requested to sign up at the Bureau
of Recommendations in Taylor
basement.

Mr. Marshall, representing the
Harvard Business School, will be
at. Bryn Mawr Tuesday February
22 to talk to those interested in
becoming readers for the Written
Analysis of Cases course. Students
of any major are eligible. Further
information is available at the
Bureau of Recommendations,

Wednesday February 23 Captain
Hendry of the WAC’s will speak
to those seniors or grad students
interested in becoming commis-
sioned officers as well as to juniors
interested in the summer prelim-
inary training.

Physicists and mathematicians
from juniors up are eligible for
permanent or summer positions
with the Bell Telephone Labora-
tories in New Jersey. Miss Wood
will visit the college Thursday
February 24 to talk to prospective
applicants, Juniors must have the
endorsement of their department
before signing for an appointment.

Finally, the Placenient Test for
the Peace Corps will be given at
the college on Saturday February
26 in Room C of Taylor Hall,
beginning at 9 o’clock. Juniors
interested in the summer prelim-.

_ inary training program shouldtake -
this test as well as students in- ©

terested in going overseas next
year. The Peace Corps has sent a
new booklet which will be found on
the table in the Bureau reading
room.

of Society

The Connecticut’ conference,
“Can Imagination Survive in an
Over-Mechanized Society?’’, will
be held February 26 and 27, In-
cluded in the program are lec-
tures, seminars, and a_ student
panel,

Guests for the Connecticut pro-
gram are scientist Henry Mar-
genau of Yale, psychologist B,F.
Skinner of Harvard, and sociolo-
gist Arthur J. Vidich of the New
School for Social Research.

Students who wish further in-
formation and application forms
for the conferences should speak
to Popie Johns. ,

‘Sinners’ To Storm Connecticut

With BMC’S ‘Collegiate Sound’

When Bryn Mawrters saw the
February 14 NEW YORK TIMES
article on the Seven Sisters’ new-
est product -- all-girl rock and
roll bands -- many of them prob-
ably learned for the first time
that a sensational rock and ‘roll
group actually exists within their
very midst, about to climb to
stardom with an appearance at the
**Collegiate Sound’? music festival
in Hartford, Connecticut’s Bush-
nell Memorial Auditorium March
12.

This group is the Sinners, who
came into existence three years
ago when Mary Daubenspeck and
Mary Thom, then freshmen, be-
gan playing the guitar and singing
in an echoing Rhoads stairwell,
and were eventually joined by Lynn
Scholz and Joanna Lewis, ’66,
and Claudia Mangum, ’67, from
Denbigh, and Lynne Moody, ’67,
from Merion,

All they needed, of course, was
an agent -- who suddenly appeared
in the person of Dyke Spear, a
Hartford attorney who also owns
an agency called Collegiate Sound
Productions.
heard of the group, and he asked
them, as one of the ‘‘top college
singing groups in the East,’’ to
do a 12-minute segment in the
March 12 concert, and perhaps
another the next day, in return
for traveling expenses, The group
signed: his contract and, since only
two of them could play guitar or
drums, they took Haverford’s
famed Monks as their instrumental

Educated Woman to be Topic
Of Alumnae Council Conference

The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Asso-
ciation is planning to hold its 1966
Alumnae Council March 10-12 in
Washington, D.C, The three-day
meeting will call alumnae together
from all over the country for a
program ranging from committee
reports to panel discussions to
dinners.

The meeting begins Thursday af-
ternoon with a program for the
District Councillors, Club Presi-
dents, Information and Scholarship
Chairmen to meet Miss Elizabeth
Vermey, the new Director of Ad-
missions. The Council then

Glamour Contest
Judging Monday

On Monday, February 21, at a
tea held in the Common Room,.a
group of judges consisting of Mrs.
Whelihan, two members of the
faculty, two editors of the
COLLEGE NEWS, and Kitty Ellis,
one of last year’s Ten Best-
Dressed College girls inAmerica,
will select from several nominees

one girl to represent Bryn Mawr '

in the same contest of GLAMOUR
magazine in which Kitty was a
finalist.

The Bryn Mawrter chosen as
‘‘Best Dressed’’ on campus, most

nearly fulfilling the criteria set |

by GLAMOUR, will then be eligible
to ‘compete in the semi-finals and
hopefully, finals. In addition to
appearing in the College Issue of
GLAMOUR, finalists receive from
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Committee reports, comes a ses-
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talks by Miss Gwen Aaron, Pres-
ident of the Graduate Club, Miss
Elizabeth R. Foster, Dean-elect
of the Graduate School, and Miss
Hannah W.H. Woods, Representing
the Class of 1961, who will give
the customary ‘five year out’’
speech discussing the class now
just five years from Bryn Mawr.

During the luncheon, Popie
Johns, President of the Under-
graduate Association, will address
the alumnae. Then a discussion of
the ‘‘State of the Union’’ wil] fol-
low with reports from the District
Councillors.

On Saturday morning will be a
panel discussion on ‘*Who’s Afraid
of the Educated Woman?’’ when
four eminent Washington alumnae
and three of the nation’s distin-
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appropriately Sinners.

The annual ‘Collegiate Sound’’
concert itself has been widely
praised by critics and has at-
tracted stan ding-room-only
crowds: of 3400. Also appearing
with the Monks and Sinners will
be the Yale Wiffenpoofs, Vassar
G-Stringers, Cornell Sherwoods,
Wesleyan Grand Old 26-String
Band, Mount Holyoke V-8’s, Wil-
liams Ephlats, Amherst Zumbyes,
Trinity Pipes, and Wheaton Wheat-
ones, presenting music ranging
from ivy-covered college songs to
jazz and folk arrangements. Ap-
parently, however, the Monks and
Sinners are the only genuine rock
and roll group which will appear.

The group of five (Lynn Scholz
will not appear with them) has
therefore been practicing its melo-
dious ‘‘ooos’’ and *‘doo-run-days’’
for the performance. It will sing
two,-songs by Mary Daubenspeck:
‘fTown Girl,’’ a sardonic examin-
ation of young love, sort of, and
(as the composer describes it) a
*‘cliché-filled, Dlaintive’’ ballad
‘tharking back to the ’50’s’’ called
**You Mean Nothing to Me.” To-
gether with the Monks they. will
choose four other songs; Mr. Spear
will choose three altogether for the
concert,

“It started off as a lot of laughs,
but now it’s getting serious,’’ said
Mary Daubenspeck. ‘‘But we’re
going to put Bryn Mawr on the
map, rock-and-rollwise.’’

Clever Lines Pepper ‘Plans’:
‘Tense? Lonely? Masticate!!’

By Ann Lovgren

and Carol Cain, °66

BUT-)M 27 YEARS-OLD-AND
NOT MARRIED! She’s also -an
advertising exec, obviously a Seven
Sisters grad (men just don’t want
to marry intelligent women), and
the heroine of Bryn Mawr alum
Gwen Davis’ new comedy ‘‘The
Best Laid Plans,’’

The play opens with our heroine
Alicia Hopper (Marian Hailey) sob-
bing out her tale of cosmic woe
to her Park Avenue Shrink, Dr.
Ralph Brodie (Kenneth Mars), But
her gloom is not? so abject as it
appears, for she is actually pump-
ing the good doctor for the low-
down on another of his patients,
the young, handsome (unmarried!)
playwright Jason Beckman (Ed-
ward Woodward).

Jason, it seems, is looking for
a_new heroine, more interestingly
depraved than the last, to make
his newest Freudian drama a
sexcess (sic).
per.

_ A basically good girl (natch),
she discovers that he needs a
young lady addicted to dope, po-
tentially suicidal and otherwise
‘juicily sordid. Happy to oblige,
she arranges for him to rescue
her from self destruction (coin-



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what-all named Poppy, whom Jason
handcuffs to the bannister to keep
things tidy in case she waxes

~ manic-depressive ,

Enter Momma Hopper, (Polly
Rowles) properly horrified at both
the man’s pajamas she finds in

- the boudoir andthe handcuffs (‘I’ve

heard he was a bit Heathcliffy,
dear, but this is ridiculous.’’)
Both the leads, Marian Hailey
and Edward Woodward, give a
consistently good, professional,
performance. Miss Hailey, though
far less experienced than Wood-
wird (of ‘High Spirits’ fame),
handles the most difficult role in
the. play with confidence, com-
petence and versatility, But
Momma (Polly Rowles) steals the
show. Her portrayal of a Park
Avenue matron (‘‘God knows, a
woman my age couldn’t have a
daughter that old!’’) is charming,
The play is a rollicking delight
and is near and dear to those of
us who are feeling the pangs of
spinsterhood. Gwen Davis’ sense
of humor struck home with us,
and the rest of the audience seem-
ed to concur. We wish her as good
batting average on Broadway!

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COLLEGE NEWS

(_-_ February 18, 1966



- Brecht, Rilke and Mr. Schmidt Colleges Versus the Main Line
Enjoy Freshman Show Efforts Topic of Baltzell Talk to SCM

(continued from page 1)

‘*You shouldn’t ask that ques-
tion!’ snapped Bert. ‘*You wrote
a poem called ‘God in the Middle
Ages,’ and it’s about a brokendown
clock in a church tower ... But
wait,--what is that about colors?
Look, they are changing into green

_-ye-+++-and red,--oh, oh.,..-.””
Bert curled up in his chair and~

looked pathetic. ‘‘What does it all
mean?”’?’ he inquired miserably.

Renny smiled. ‘*‘Actual mean-
ing on the level on an external
reality is a category foreign tothe
medium of art,’’ he said smugly.

‘But what about all my didactic
plays?’’ Bert demanded,

‘Enjoy the beauty of it?’ Renny
sounded encouraging, ‘*That circus
party! And the song about ‘You
are my Complementary Color’

He

“True, and the -dances were
something, too.’’ Bert seemed re-
signed, But then he flared up: ** And
yet, what are they dancing for? A
dance must have its place within
the larger context of our struggle
against bourgeois complacency

” y

**Look, goldfish!’’
claimed.
“No,
parasitic creature, and it’s prob-
ably supposed to symbolize
bourgeois ... But look, they are
showing it ona movie screen! Well,
this is true epic theater, after all.
And now someone is delivering a
lecture between scenes, with
charts and all, What a tremendous
device for Verfremdung! I think
P’ll also take along the director
of this show, and the lovely girl
in rags, who had to sell her work
of art during the intermission to
feed her starving children, andthe

two politicians, and .

**You keep talking so you can
miss all the lines that don’t suit
you!’ Renny was quite angry. ‘‘Did
you hear what they just said about
Fantod? ‘You puf the artist back
into the work!’ It’s aplay about art.
Fantod is the artist, a truly Pro-
methean figure. Like the swan in
my poem, he has reached the

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‘tHe is an artist!’’, suateienii
Renny, his voice choked with tears,

**He is a washed-up politician!”’
Bert was without mercy.

‘*and an artist,’? Renny added
gently. ‘‘After his unhappy venture
into the world of reality, he is
back in his studio, What a pure
cyclic structure this play has!’

**Yes, the play is good,’’ Bert
said pontifically, ‘‘because it
makes you think about the parts
that you did not understand.,’’

‘*Come to think of it,’? Renny
wondered, ‘‘if the students can put
on such a good play, what would
be the justification of a faculty
show?=-Excuse me, would you let
me get past? I want to go out and
pick a few roses’. for the
director...’

‘*Well, let’s all go,’’ Bert sug-
gested. **The play is over and I
feel like having a cigar. What do
you say, Renny, aren’t we lucky
that we don’t have to write that
review?”?

E. Digby Baltzell, Professor of
Sociology at the University of
Pennsylvania, began a series of
discussions on the relationship
of the Main Line to Bryn Mawr
and Haverford Colleges Sunday,
February 13.

In. his leeture entitled- ‘Can
Any Good Come out of Narberth,
or How to Stop Worrying and Love

The Main Line,’’ Mr, Baltzell man-
aged to touch briefly on numerous
aspects of sociology and modern
problems.

He characterized the Main Line
as a withdrawal from the urban
community, not a total community.
He-went-on to say that the people
feel guilty about their community
and are confused about the college

The Fast and the Individual

(Continued from page 2)

become a_ single’ individual.’’
(Kierk. 95) It provided for. the
necessity that individuals must
function as individuals before they
function in a crowd, But, beyond
this, it allowed individuals to be-
come a part of a larger body of
all the fasters together. In this
sense, it represented the institu-
tionalization of protest on a very
small scale,

It appears, however, that the
conditions necessary to encourage
individual commitment must be
artificially constructed along ex-
treme lines. At the same time,
without individual action, the

chances of our arriving at any sort
of Kierkegaardian ‘‘truth’’ are de-
In spite of this,

pressingly small.

I feel encouraged rather than dis-
couraged by the fast. First, it
clarified the problem, and this, in
a sense, makes .it easier to deal
with. Second, as it actually worked
out, it seemed to prove that, by
cutting through the anonymity
created by. mass: media and the
overgrown proportions of all of
modern life, the individual can be
reached.

I have little confidence in the
effectiveness of the newspaper art-
icles on the fast, and there were
certainly a lot of them.. I do,
however, have a firm faith in what
the individuals—-who+-fasted—and
strengthened their convictions in
the course of the eight days can do
in the future in the contacts with
other individuals.

-- Marian Brown, ’67

generation.

A basic cause for this reaction
is that the parent generation was
brought up in a pre-war, depres-
sion era, whereas the college gen-
eration is in a post-war, atomic
bomb age.

All in all, Mr. Baltzell said
little directly about the Main Line, -
assuming that his audience of 16,
including students and a reporter
from the MAIN LINE TIMES, knew
all about it. During the discussion
period, it was pointed out that
his assumption was not necessarily
true. But the lack of specific
references to the Main Line did
not bother the listeners since he
managed to touch upon the subjects
of love, family, and community
familiar to everyone.

The major fault in the lecture
was the total disorganization of
the talk. What he really managed
to do was to fling out ideas and
concepts that should be extensively
examined. And fortunately, this
is exactly what the Student Chris-
tian Movement of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford plan to do, Sara Winter
called a meeting Thursday for
further discussion in the College
Inn. More background books are
available in the library for the
future discussions.



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