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COLLEGE NEWS



Vol. LI, 22

BRYN MAWR, PA.

May 6, 1966

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VOLUME 56 NUMBER 32

Friday, May 6, 1966

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Self Gov Surveys Arrests End Escapades

Men-Rooms Rule

by Carol Cain
Members of the Self-Govern-
ment Association’s Executive
Board conducted campus-wide
student discussions at Bryn Mawr
this week concerning the social and
academic honor system. The Board

“members visited each dorm on

a dinner-system schedule and dis-
tributed questionnaires about self-
government to be completed by the
students.

According to. Jane Janover,
President of Self-Gov, the
immediate purpose for the discus-
sions and questionnaires is to de-
termine majority opinion of BMC
students concerning the present
interpretations placed on Self-Gov
social regul S, specifically the
provisional men-in-rooms rule
and the unchaperoned overnight
sign-out privilege. Jane empha-
sized that. the poll would serve,

not as an index for student opinion .

on individual moral behavior, but
as an indication of how students
feel about the BMC social
standards written in the Self-Gov
constitution as regards the respon-
sibility of each member of that
community to adhere to those stan-

” dards.

Jane indicated that the impetus
for the campus survey came from
problems arising when students
expressed dissatisfaction with so-

cial behavior in the dormitories
as well as uses being made of
overnight signouts. Interpreta-
tions of the men-in-the-rooms and
overnight signout privileges, she
added, have changed since original
student legislation and approval
by the Board of Trustees.

Self-Gov will announce the re-
sults of the student discussions and
questionnaires, but no immediate
action to change the existing
constitution is anticipated, said
Jane.

The questionnaire distributed to
students by the Executive .Board
consists of four sections, headed
Community, Off-campus, and the
Role of Self-Gov, with questions
about the nature of BMC as a so-
cial and academic complex, as well
as the problems implied by aresi-
dential student community. Stu-
dents were asked to state their
attitudes toward community stan-
dards of behavior, whether or not
they believed in privatism or stu-
dent obligation to respect’ ‘such
standards.

The section on off-campus
actions questioned the girls’ atti-
tudes toward her responsibili-
ties to Bryn Mawr’s reputation
in the outside world, as well as the
College’s responsibility for the in-
dividual student while she is away
from the campus,

Dennis Stern Chosen

“Freshman of Y ear’’

Dennis Stern has been named in extracurricular activities, with
Freshman of the Year by the juniors needing a somewhat better
record to be picked, .

Founders Club, an organization
which honors students for extra-
curricular activities and academic
achievement, At the same time,
nine juniors and seniors were made
members of the club,

Stern, a native of Whitefish Bay,
Wisconsin, tentatively plans to
major in psychology. His primary
activities this year have been his
show. on WHRC and his active
participation on the NEWS, of which
he is currently serving as an as
sociate editor,

The Freshman of the Year award
is given annually to an outstanding
freshman who combines extra-
curricular and academic ex-
cellence, Last year the award was
given to Chris Kopff.

Founders Club itself is a purely

honorary organization, which
meets once or twice a year and

does very little actively. Already:

members of the club, chosen as
juniors last year, are Joe Eyer,
Alan Raphael, and Hunt Rawlings,
who was also named the under-
graduate secretary.

The newly-admitted seniors are
Peter Barnett, Andy Balber, Dennis
Carson, Kent Campbell, Clark
deSchweinitz, Don Dodson, Ed Haz-

- gard, and Mike Punzak. Mike Brat-_
. man was. the only junior selected,

Juniors and seniors are chosen
for membership solely on two
factors -- their academic record
and the extent of their participation



Of H’ford May Day Raid

by Terry Jones
In the wee hours of last Friday
morning, five Haverford students
participating in the annual attempt
to confiscate Bryn Mawr maypoles
were arrested, taken to the Merion
police station, and fined a total of
$306,. The arrests came in two
separate installments,
Installment |
‘We were setting off fire-
crackers at Bryn Mawr,’’ said Ed
Sleeper, one of the students ar-
rested, ‘‘Cherry bombs.’’
‘*There was nothing terribly ex-
citing going on,’’ he continued,

‘*so we started back about 11:45,
On the way back we were picked
up by Rakove, and we went back
to Bryn Mawr. We wandered around
and watched for a while,’’

Sleeper then explained. that he
and Tom Forehand again started
back toward Haverford, They were
joined by four other students and
soon afterward by Spence Hipp.

The seven were proceeding down
Lancaster Pike when a police car
stopped them about a block before
they had reached the Blu Comet,
The policeman emerged from the
car and said that he wanted to talk

SCLC Leader Speaking
At BMC Baccalaureate

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., will deliver the sermon
at this year’s Baccalaureate Serv-
ice, which will be held at 6:15
p.m., Sunday, May 29, Miss Mc-
Bride’s office has announced that
Dr. King, who has recently been
touring Alabama preliminary to
the primary elections there, will
definitely come to Bryn Mawr
unless unforeseen. circumstances
at the last minute prevent his so
doing.

Dr. King, head of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
and Nobel Peace Prize winner,
was invited to Bryn Mawr gradua-
tion activities two years ago. Po-
litical events in Washington in
May of 1964 made it impossible
for him to come. .

The invocation at the Bacca-
laureate Service will be delivered

by Henry J. Cadbury, Chairman of
the Board of Directors of Bryn
Mawr. A Psalm will be read by
Cantor Frank B, Ruben, Execu-
tive Director, .Central States Re-
gion, Zionist Organization of
America, father of Marjorie
Ruben, °66, this to be followed by
Dr. King’s sermon and a benedic-
tion said by the Right Rev,
Beverley D. Tucker, retired
Bishop of Ohio and grandfather
of Tollie Drane, ’66.

Also scheduled for the 29th is
Garden Party, which will take the
form of a tea given on Wyndham
Green, 3-5:00 p.m.

The Baccalaureate Service will
be followed, on Memorial Day,
Monday, May 30, by the actual
Commencement ceremony on
Wyndham Green, at which Presi-
dent Robert Goheen of Princeton,
father of Trudie Goheen, 266,
will deliver the Commencement
address,

Seats for approximately 1100
people will face Erdman. The front
of the seating arrangement will
duplicate that of Goodhart Audi-
torium, but seats will extend back
past the College Inn and over onto
Wyndham lawn, The orchestra will

be gathered on the College
Inn porch,
This year is -.Chemistry

Professor Joseph Varimby’s first
as Faculty Chairman of Com-
mencement, Miss Mary Gardiner
of the Biology Department retired
last year after serving in the post
for many years.

President of the Senior Class
Caroline Willis has yet to finish
choosing the 46 marshals and
ushers who will take part in the
procession at Commencement, As
yet, only the Diploma Marshals,
traditionally the heads of Under-
grad and Self-Gov, have been de-
finitely named, These are
Margaret Edwards and Jane Jan-
over.

to them, At this point, Sleeper
quickly, clandestinely, discarded
the three firecrackers in his pos-
session,

‘“‘The cop asked if we had any
firecrackers,’’ said Hipp, At this
point, the officer searched Sleeper
and found none, When he searched
Hipp, however, he discovered eigh-
teen firecrackers,

‘*While he was talking,’’ Hipp
continued, ‘‘another police car
pulled up, The driver got out, The
first policeman called the station,
Meanwhile, the other was just look-
ing around on the ground, He found



Council Statement

The Haverford College Stu-
dents’ Council questions the
wisdom of the Bryn Mawr Col-
lege Administration’s use of
Lower Merion Township police
to patrol the Bryn Mawr campus
during last weekend’s festivi-
ties. If Bryn Mawr College is
so intent on keeping Haverford
students off their campus at
this traditional time that it is
willing to subject Haverford
students to the arbitrary con-
trol of the township police, this
should be made clear to the
Haverford student body. If, how-
ever, their intent is not to
destroy what has become a tra-
ditional part of the May Day
celebration, we suggest that any
guards Bryn Mawr College feels
are necessary should be pri-
vately-hired ones. These would
be able to prevent Haverford
students from actions Bryn
Mawr considers undesirable,
without subjecting students to
arrests and heavy fines. We
strongly urge the administra-
tions of Bryn Mawr and Haver-
ford, if they are interested in
not subjecting students to the
local police force, to jointly
finance such a procedure.







three firecrackers and asked whose
they were, Ed admitted that they
belonged to him.’’

According to Sleeper, the police-
man next asked them where they
had been, They said they were
coming from Bryn Mawr,

Sleeper here interjected that it
was stupid of them to have ad-
mitted that, and more stupid still
for him to have confessed that the
firecrackers were his. Since Hipp
had already been caught, he said,
it would have been simple to say
that the three discarded fire-
crackers were his,

“‘The cop told the other five
to go to the Comet and then back
to campus,’’ said Hipp.

The policeman ushered Sleeper

(Continued on ‘page 16)





The Bryn Mawr COLLEGE NEWS and the HAVERFORD NEWS
| staffs have collaborated on this special issue for the purpose of}
‘Levaluating bi-college coordination as well as to facilitate com-
plete May Day coverage. The symposium found on the inside
pages is the gesture of the two newspapers to the atmosphere
of joint endeavors which characterize Haverford and Bryn Mawr.





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