College news, March 1, 1968

Vol Lill, No. 15






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_ BRYN MAWR, PA.

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1968

© Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, 1967

25 Cents .



_ senting the

_Seven Sisters,

some . pass-fail courses

Statement

Establishes

Dual $.D.S. Chapter

' The statement of principles of
the Haverford-Bryn Mawr chapter
of Students for a Democratic So-
ciety was presented ata meeting
last Monday night by a committee
appointed to write it, along with a
more active statement about S,D,s,
given by Neal Buckley; a full time
organizer’ in Pennsylvania, An-—
other’ meeting will be held next
Monday night at 10:00 p.m, in Shar-
pless 120 at Haverford,

The purpose of the meeting was
to officially instate the S,D,S,
chapter here by approving the
statement and sending it into the
national office, and to create a

- more concrete picture of S,D.S. by
. talking with Buckley, who will bein:

the Philadelphia area for awhile,
“The statement as approved
reads; ‘‘The members of the Hav-
erford-Bryn Mawr chapter Stu-
dents for a Democratic Society,

- seek to create a community of ed-
- cational and political concern, We

share a visfon of a democratic so-
ciety where the people determine
the quality and direction of their
lives, where the human potential
for freedom, in reason, and love
can be fulfilled,

- constitution

We see a contradiction between
the rhetoric of corporate liberal-
ism and the reality of poverty, rac-
ism, and imperialism in an unfree
society, And as students, we must
confront an educational system
which cannot offer a critical anal-
ysis of this reality,

We are not alone in our demands
for fundamental changes. We
recognize our solidarity with opp-
ressed peopte, We seek to buildan
organization on campus which will
provide a radical perspective anda

base for relevant social action.’’ .

After approval of the statement,
volunteers to write a constitution
for the chapter were asked for, The
will designate the

structure of the chapter, so that
after it is accepted at next weeks
meeting, elections can be held,

Buckley ran down a brief his-
tory of S,D.S, The organization
originated from student concern
about civil rights in the early 60’s,
Many members went to work in the
South, The movement shifted to
concern with the oppressive-ce

(Continued on page 9)

Four Sisters Join Ivy League

To Compare Educational Philosophy

Last weekend students repre-

Ivy League and
_ Seven Sister colleges met in con-
ference at the University of

Pennsylvania,
, Representing Bryn Mawr were

- Lola Atwood, Bonnie Cunningham,

and Barbara Oppenheim,

The purpose of the con-
ference was to establish friend-
ships among the schools, to
discuss common problems and to
compare the educational systems
of the colleges,

The Ivy League _ colleges
have met before in such con-
ferences, but this is the first
time that the Seven Sisters were
included, Of the eight Ivy League
colleges only one, Cornell, was
not represented, Only four of the
however, sent
delegates: Barnard, Bryn Mawr,

Mount Holyoke and Wellesley.

Friday evening included a cock-
tail party and discussion groups,.
so that students could have an op-
portunity to get acquainted,

There were two discussion
groups on Saturday morning, Bon-
nie attended the meeting on
theory of education, Most of the
discussion in this group centered
around educational reform and
philosophies of education, The stu-
dents tried to see how cur-
ricula tied in with philosophies
of education, and attempted to draw
comparisons between the various
colleges represented,

To Bonnie, this seemed impos-
sible, since many of _ the
schools? educational aims were
so different, All the schools had
ex-

Bryn. Mawr, “They were

Tecostnc Wes “peectbilities ‘of

oem n seas 0, system -

to more liberal systems without
any grading at all,
Students also discussed ideas

such as individualized majors (a -

field in which a student is inter-
ested and can find a professor
to work with him), and many types
of independent study. There

was also some discussion about |

establishing free universities (no
tuition, no grades) on the uni-
versity campuses,

Bonnie felt that most of
the discussion did not apply to
Bryn Mawr, especially talks about
abolishing rigid requirements
(which do not exist at Bryn Mawr),
As _a whole, she thought that the
academic systems of most of the
Ivy League colleges made

Bryn Mawr look very much -

behind them, It seemed to her
that the academic philosophies are
so different (Bryn Mawr’s being
more traditional) that the reforms
discussed were not comparable.

Most of Saturday afternoon’s
meeting was spent on discussing
the war in Vietnam, the draft and
draft resistance, A statement pre-
pared by several of _ the
delegates was read and dis-
cussed so that those attending
the conference could sign it,

Many of the delegates left
this meeting because’ they
felt that since the purpose of the
conference was to compare
academic and social life at the col-
leges and to discuss problems,
they would rather continue dis-
cussion along those lines,

They discussed the problems of
administration-student relation-
ships. At the University . of
Pennsylvania, students sit. on
almost all committees, includ-

_ (Continued on page 3) -



ee:

Patten Accepts
The National Endowment for
the Humanities has awarded a
fellowship for _ younger faculty
members -in the humanities to

Robert L, Patten of the Bryn Mawr
English Department.

The purpose of the En-
dowment is to encourage good
scholarship which can stimulate
and reinforce good teaching. The
younger scholar fellowship pro-
gram provides time for reci-

































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Research Grant

blest from. many different
universities to pursue research
in all fields of the humanities,

The 184 grants awarded to
younger faculty will support in-
dependent work of two to
eight months duration.

Davis, also of the
English Depart-

Gwenn
Bryn | Mawr
ment,
stipend from the Endowment,

has received a summer.



Standing Ovation Follows
McCarthy’s Philly Speec

Senator Eugefie McCarthy looks
exhausted, and his fingers trem-
ble s ntly as he speaks.
In order bring the immorality
of the Vietnam War to the at-
tention of the American people,
“some of us may have to risk
our political careers,’ he said,
in an address given in Philadelphia
Tuesday night,

‘He compared the possible
destiny of men who take the risk
to that which often befalls the
first bearers of bad news.

McCarthy spoke to an over-
flow crowd of 1700 at a dinner
sponsored by Business Executives
for Vietnam Peace (BEM) at the
Bellevue-Stratford. ~ Thir-
teen ._members of Bryn Mawr’s
Social Action Committee served
as hostesses for the dinner.

McCarthy opened his address
by commenting on the introduction
given him by Mr. Charles Simp-
son, General Manager of Phila-
delphia Gas Works. The in-
troduction, he felt, had been
overdone. ‘‘But I am delighted to
encounter someéone--after my
usual - scopifead i -by the press-



; thiat I am alive!” .

McCarthy said has been
accused of saat no personal
charisma. ‘‘However, when I con-
sider my opponents, to say
nothing. of incumbents. ...’’
Laughter cut him off; McCarthy
is not concerned about his lack
of charisma.

His entire speech reflected
his belief that the bare facts
of the War and of the Administra-
tion’s domestic programs are
sufficiently dramatic to carry his
message and to convince Amer-
icans. ‘“I have always been
afraid of arousing apocalyptic
feeling,’? McCarthy stated, ‘‘but
the time has come when all
of us must ask ourselves how we
will answer when our sons ask
‘What did you do in 1968?’

‘*‘The President has cut a
total of 790 million dollars from
the 1968 budgets of the De-
partments of HEW, Labor, Trans-
portation, Housing and Urpan
Development, and OEO, These five
important agencies spent only 4.95
billion dollars this fiscal year,

about enough to finance the Viet- ;

nam War for month months,’
~Beeaing directly of the
“eeetemied on page 11)



MSA Reps Receive
Curriculum Reports

Dean Marshall and members of
the Curriculum Committee madea
comprehensive report on the cur-
riculum and curriculum revision to
the Middle States Association dur-
ing its recent visit to the Bryn
Mawr campus,

The report, which was made on
Tuesday, Feb, 27,-included. a re-
view of the new and old curricula
as they are presented in the cata-
logue. Since the present senior
class is the last which will grad-
uate under the old plan, a study
will be made after the gradua-
tion of the-Class of 1969, This
class would be the first to have
studied under the new. plan for
four years,

The remainder of- the reportwas
concerned with the mechanisms of
the Curriculum Committee for
continuing change, In the opinion of
the Committee, which is compos-
ed of five members of the faculty
and ex officio College officers,
*‘Between full scale revisions, the
constant requests which it ap-
proves, denies, or initiates, reflect
new patterns in teaching and learn-
ing and indicate new directions
which the curriculum as a whole
may be likely to take,’?



For campaign platforms
see page 4,

BMC Plays Congo
In Model U.N.

Headed by Dianne Portelance,
an eight-member delegation from
Bryn Mawr represented the Congo
at Brazzaville from February 14-
18 at the 1968 Model United Na-
tions Conference,

Held annually at New York’s
Statler Hilton Hotel, the Confer-
‘ence attracts students from 140
schools throughout the country.
A group from Harvard, functioning
as the Secretariat, assigns coun-
tries to each of the member col-
leges. The selection this year was
made on the basis of student United
Nation groups and debating so-
cieties on campus; Bryn Mawr,
with none, was awarded the Congo
at Brazzaville, an insignifigant
country, Because of its size,
the delegation had representation
only in the General Assembly.

The delegation was briefed upon
its arrival in New York by mem-
bers of the Congo’s embassy, After
the briefing, the delegates attended
special’ committee meetings and
later voted on bills brought before
the model general assembly, In
addition, there were political
games for selected groups of coun-
tries; these nations simulated
crises and resolved action upon
them,

The Bryn Mawr delegation was
dissatisfied with this year’s con-
ference, because of the insignif-
igance of its country and the gen-
eral disorganization oof the
sessions. However, Bryn Mawr
did Have one. bright. moment’
at the end of the confer-
ence: Dianne was awarded
“special recognition for having one
of the top ten highest scores outof
five hundred. students who took~a
competency test at the outset of the
conference,














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Self Gov Has the F acts |

Three drug cases involving five Bryn Mawr students

have been tried by Self Gov within the past two weeks.
Directly-or indirectly, the entire student body is af-
fected by these cases brought before Self Gov and by
the additional instances of use or possession of drugs
on campus which have not been detected. Some sort of
clarification of Self Gov’s position and actions is ab-
solutely necessary at this point, Rumors are spread-
ing across campus, and the absence of any official
word from Self Gov on the situation has generated a
feeling of secrecy, Students are becoming suspicious
of Self Gov, the very organization designed to represent
them, | :
_- Prior to this time, Self Gov has not had adequate
information to present an evaluation of the problem;
but after three long and carefully considered cases,
particular information must-be available. Perhaps
a petition to Self Gov asking for an explanation pre-
sented in a campus-wide meeting would prove effec-
tive. But still the question remains, why doesn’t Self
Gov take the initiative? The students want a clarifica-
tion, and Self Gov has the facts,

The whole situation is obviously extremely difficult
to handle, and the process of judging peers within the
context of an honor system is a delicate and complex
procedure. But some rationale for current actions and
some indication of how the honor system is working in
the recent cases should be offered, An important point
which has been subjected to numerous rumors is the
possibility of a federal raid on campus, Certainly the
chance of suchan enormous threat to Bryn Mawr should
be examined and presented to the students,

Under an honor system there shouldbe no need for
a statement of absolute punishments for specifically
delineated offenses, Each case is tried individually in
the most liberal context possible. In fact, the idea of
a student deciding her actions on the basis of how
much the punishment will inconvenience her, rather
than on. What effect her actions will have on other.
people, is completely alien to the actualization of
self government. But the drug cases do offer Self
Gov opportunities to demonstrate concretely ways
in which the adverse actions of individuals damage
the community as a whole,

The drug statement called drug abuse ‘physically
and psychologically’? dangerous, and certainly the
cases at Bryn Mawr have caused problems, both in
direct violations of the honor system and in creating
a communications ‘between Self Gov and the stu-
dent body. Definite information ina situation such as
this is necessary to




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Friday, March 1, 1968



Self Gov on Brugs

Self Gov, Statement on Drugs, adopted by Legislature on Oct, 24, 1967:
Because drugs are illegal and potentially dangerous physically and psychologically,
Self Gov will deal with every case of drug use by Bryn Mawr students which comes
to its attention, on the basis that illegal actions within a community pose a threat
to the continued existence of the community and that actions potentially dangerous to
individuals. are potentially dangerous to the community in which the individuals live,

‘Serving as a vehicle of campus communication, the COLLEGE NEWS is pre-
senting the following clarification, written and adopted this week by Self Gov, of
the above. drug statement. In response to queries concerning the position and
action of Self Gov in drug cases, the clarification is an attempt to evaluate the

criteria of the drug policy.

In view of the drug cases which have come to its attention in the course of this year,
Self Gov makes the following clarifications of the drug statement approved by Legis-

lature last fall:

1. It is evident that it is impossible to possess or use drugs on the Bryn Mawr
campus and at the same time not pose the following threats enumerated in

that statement:

a. Potential physical and psychological danger to the individual.

b. Threat to the community
* 1. Threat of legal enforcement

2. Possible offense to other members of the community —s__—
THEREFORE, there should be no possession or use of drugs on this campus.
2. Self Gov reiterates that. when off-campus use of drugs poses the above
threats to the Bryn Mawr community, it will act in those cases as well,

Viewpoint





The Marijuana Morass

The officers of Self-Gov would have us believe

that the new drug statement contains nothing not-

implied in the old drug statement, The new
statement is merely a clarification of the old,

I disagree--the new statement is an edict; the
old statement was an attempt to deal in a human
way with a human situation. According to Self-
Gov, the old statement _has failed to ‘‘control’’
the drug ‘‘problem.’”’ Hence the necessity for a
clear ruling: no drugs on campus,

My complaint is that the students on Self-Gov
have not perceived the necessity for this clear
ruling by themselves, They have been forced

-4into their present stand by the college adminis-
tration, Be

Miss McBride made it quite obvious in her now-
notorious August drug letter that Bryn Mawr
students do not take drugs (the letter specifically
mentions LSD ‘and marijuana), Girls who take
drugs are, ex cathedra, not Bryn Mawr students,

Sheer Co-optation

The point is not so much that this is not true,
but that it is the administration, and not the maj-
ority of the students who believes this, and who
is opposed to students taking drugs. It is sheer
co-optation for some students, in the ferm or the
Self-Gov Exécutive Board, to punish other\students

for an activity which a majority of stud them-
selves do not morally disapprove,
The administration is USING Self-Gov.. It is

pretending that the students have the right to
govern themselves, while making it very clear that
self governing is a privilege which will be man-
ipulated when necessary to obtain compliance,
to administration stand, in this case to'Miss Mc-
Bride’s belief that taking drugs and being a Bryn
Mawr student are incompatible, ,

Rather than acquiesce to this masquerade of
self government, students as a whole (each of us,
remember, is a member of Self-Gov) should vote:
Do we or do we not want to make any or all forms
of taking drugs on or off campus an offense pun-
ishable by Self-Gov? If the majority votes ‘‘yes’’
then the new Self-Gov statement is on its way to
being legitimatized, and Self-Gov has a role in
punishing student drug users,

If the majority votes ‘‘no’’, then Self-Gov ob-
viously has no right to be adjudicating drug use,
Miss MeBride’s letter sets to precedent for drug





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administration: if they

by class? by major?), But let’s not have it happen
under the guise of student government, ’
Self Gov’s Quandary

This points out Self-Gov’s quandary. They seem
to think that by keeping jurisdiction over drug
use (by issuing the new statement) that they can
prevent the administration and possibly the Fed-
eral authorities from moving in on the students
full-force, This is not very realistic. Eventually
when the administration discovers that Self-Gov’s
statements and its light punishments for convicted
violators (campusing for a month or so) are not
cutting down student ‘drug use, it will step in any-
way. If the administration is really serious about
having no Bryn Mawr students taking drugs, it will
not be patient with Self-Gov’s performance for very
long. This new statement will fall into the void
that most of the other rules on campus are in,
and it will only convince the administration that
student self government is a farce, and that they
ought to step in, the sooner the better,

In Case of Expulsions

If the administration begins dealing directly with
drug users, Bryn Mawr students must band to-
gether to protect themselves, Any student who is
‘tasked to leave’’ or outright expelled for a drug
reason should immediately _ make hér. situation
public. Leaving quietly will just make the next
expulsion that much easier, Other students must
publically state that they have behaved similarly
to the expelled student, If they are expelled as
well, the publicity will be ten times worse than.
it was over the Air Force Academy’s academic
cheating scandal; Hundreds of Bryn Mawr stu-
dents expelled would literally cripple the school,
I doubt very much if the administration would allow
it to happen,

On the other hand, if only a selected few were

“expelled, EVEN THOUGH hundreds of others ad-

mitted to doing the same thing, the administration
would be in an untenable position, In some parts _
of the country, students are suing their schools
for similar selective expulsions,

The hypocrisy of Bryn Mawr’s handling of the
fact of student drug use is stifling. Self-Gov is
losing whatever autonomy it may once have had,
The administration’s Victorian attitude coupled
with its eye on Public Relations, is contemptible,
Gouldn’t-we, for once, define the situation as it

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* Coarse Evaluations?

To the Editor:
According to an article in

last week’s NEWS, some members -

of the faculty and administration
complained of ‘‘slanders’’ in last
semester’s course evaluation,
The course evaluation committee,
too, apparently wished that the

comments had been more
“objective” -- whatever - that
means,

I wrote three of the evaluations
in the booklet, and read the entire
booklet with care, I did not find
anything that could remotely be
described as slanderous, or even
cruel, There were many adverse
criticisms of professors, and not
all of these comments were tact-
ful, However, there is a con-
siderable difference between

- bluntness and slander,

The purpose of the course
evaluation is to guide students
in selecting their courses, The
students are the only people who

regularly < the professors teach;

therefore;they are the ones best>-

equipped to judge the professors’
competence as teachers, at least
in the short run, In these .cir-
‘cumstanees, honesty is far more
important than tact or objectivity.

Let me take an_ illustra-
tion from my own experience,
In the questionnaires for one of
the cqurses I evaluated--one I
had.-not taken--nearly all the stu-

dents _ reported that the in-
structor was incompetent, I
reported this opinion in the

evaluation in terms as blunt as
those used by the respondents, In
honesty and fairness to my fellow
students, I could not have done
otherwise,

If a teacher is incompetent,
the students who may consider tak-
ing his courses in the future
have the right to be so informed,
so that they will not waste their
time, And they should be so in-
formed in clear and explicit terms,
without having to interpret nice--
‘Nellie evasions in which ‘‘incom-
petent’’ becomes _indistinguish-
able from ‘could be improved,’’
Tact is great when you’re tell-

_ Letters to the Editor

ing your roommate that her
new hairdo is unbecoming.
But when you’re trying to help your
fellow students make the best pos-
sible use of their four years
in college, tact and objectivity
just aren’t of the essence,

Even an_ incompetent -in-
structor should not be subjected
to vicious personal attacks, No
human being should, But does
describing someonw as a poor
teacher constitute a vicious per-
sonal attack, or a _ slander?
Are all of us here, students, fac-
ulty, and administration, such
babies that we cannot take crit-
icism except in a sugar-
coated pill?

For $1850, we are entitled
to teachers who have a firm com-
mand of their subject, and

“who are capable of communicat-

ing their knowledge and of
stimulating and challenging the
students’ minds, Anything less is
inexcusable, If the faculty fails
to provide such teaching, and the
administration fails to hire such
teachers, they are cheating us,

In four years here, I have.
had enough incompetent, dull, un-~

inspired, and apathetic teachers
to know that, in many cases, we

" are being cheated, (I have alsohad

several excellent teachers; and,
indeed, the booklet indicates that
students recognize superior teach-
ing and do _ not hesitate to
praise it highly.) A faculty and an

administration which fail to carry _

out their obligations to - their
Students have no_ right to
complain about the tone of the
criticism they get,

Judy Baer °68

Corrective Measures

To the Editor:

I would like to correct two in-
accuracies that appeared in the
NEWS last week, First, I never
said, as is stated on page one,
‘‘Bryn Mawr has to learn to ac-
cept the 8ams as outlined or aban-
don them.” I think that there are
numerous possibilities for chang-
ing the ‘‘Rock basement system”
by which girls return to the halls





end of february blues
when the sun shines gray on the horizon
(and the leaves look badgered and dead)
when the grades you get are surprisin’
(and the dean says off with your head)

when your boyfriend says he don’t love you

(and the grass in the cloisters won’t smoke)
when even bob dylan won’t save you

(and you’re broke, god knows, you’re broke)

when the aiarm clock goes off in the morning
(and you ain’t got nowhere to go)

when your draft status goes up without warning
(and then you’ve got somewhere to go)

when summer’s a memory of childhood

(and flowers are only a dream)

when hope’s what you once understood

(and your life is out on a beam) ‘

then

it’s time for march!



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and for discussing with the Board
of Directors change in the re-
striction with which the 8ams were
granted, I do not think, however,

that this discussion can be sep- |

arated from the large issue of the
overnight signout, especially the
question of the signout to Haver-
ford. As many of you realize
from the discussion held in the
halls two weeks ago, Self-Gov
is working on a statement about
the overnight signout which it plans
to discuss with the Board at the
meeting in March, Within the next
week or so, the Self-Gov Boards
will have a proposed statement
to submit to the students for dis-
cussion,

Secondly I would like to correct
Dora Chizea on her information
about the boy spending the night
in a dormitory as a result of his
drugged stupor. According to
Dora, the Hall President said
nothing about this incident, A boy
did spend the night in a dormi-
tory, He had not beenusing drugs,
but was drunk, The Hall Presi-
dent dealt with the girl involved in
the incident, and Executive Board
came to the hall in-which this had
occurred to insist to the dormi-
tory as whole that greater re-
sponsibility be taken by each per-
son for the maintenance of the
Men in the Rooms rules,

Drewdie Gilpin

Few Whites

To the Editor;

For those students who know
little of last Wednesday’s vigiland
rally beyond what appeared in the
COLLEGE NEWS, we suggest that
they read the HAVERFORD NEWS
account of those activities, and we
also offer the following com-
mentary.

Not only were the vigil and boy-
cott initiated by the Bryn Mawr-
Haverford Negro Discussion
Group, but participation in these
was almost exclusively on the part
of black students. Ofa total of thir-
ty students who were disturbed
enough about the Orangeburg mur-
ders to give up precious classroom
time and stand outdoors in sub-free~
zing weather, at least 15 were black
students attending Bryn Mawr
(where the toal black enroliment
‘is 24); and additional half dozen
were black Haverford students
who, having led a vigilon their own
campus, came over to support the
protest here; of over 1,000 white
Bryn Mawr undergraduate and
graduate students, we counted less |

than a dozen active protestors,
While it is true that the audience
at the rally was ‘‘predominantly
white’ we think it significant
(and sad) that so many white
students saw fit NOT to come,
Again, there was almost complete
attendance by black Bryn Mawrters
and Haverfordians --not to mention
the support of black students*from
Princeton, Temple and Franklin
and Marshall. :
Those who consider the gunning
down of black students a ‘‘black
problem’’ with which whites need
not be concerned are ignoring a
number of important facts: white
men did the shooting; white offic-
fals condoned the shooting; white
America not only created but also
daily sustains a social system
which breeds hostility, contempt
and hatred. Those who turn their
backs © are

offenders.
To those whocontributed neither

bodily nor monetarily to Wednes-
day’s protest, to those who don’t
care how many black people are
gunned down, we have nothing to
say. ~ But we do want to set the
record straight. The number of
black students on the Bryn Mawr

' campus may be small, but we’re

together, we’re sincere and we
ARE acting on the situation, When
the white students at Bryn Mawr

the black students (and we look
forward to the day), WHEN you
can report ‘predominantly white’
participation in our rallies without
further qualification and we won’t
say a thing--we’ll be too shocked to

. notice!

Patricia Burks ‘71
Valerie Hawkins '69

Out of Concern

To the Editor;

I agree with Patricia Burks and
Valerie Hawkins that I probably
made a journalistic error in not
emphasing the part played by the
Negro students in organizing and
participating in the activities pro-
testing the Orangeburg ‘‘mass-
acre.” Inmy enthusiasm over Don-
aldson’s speech Inot only neglected
to give credit to those, who made
the rally possible but also reported
the speech itself perhaps too sub-
jectively. What I. reported that
Donaldson said is accurate
(compare the Haverford News Ac-
count), But my interest in what
I could do as a ‘‘concerned ‘white

student”? unfortunately superceded:

my intentions to present in “an
accurate journalistic fashion the
‘twho, what, when, why and how’?
in the beginning paragraphs of the
article.

I do resent, however, the impli-
cation in the above letter that my
failure to emphasize the role of

..the- Negro. students in Wednesday’s

events stems from any other reason
than my journalistic error. I had
no intention of slanting the art-
icle out of prejudice to make it
seem as if the white students
were the main innovators and/or
participants in the protests.

Robin Brantley

Response?

To the Editor:

Perhaps I should be writing this
letter to myself, because it is a
sort of expiation of my sins, but
because I think these ’’sins’’ are
rather widespread, I have
addressed it to the OTHER stu-
dents at Bryn Mawr as well, and
hope for some response, ‘‘Re-
sponse’”’ -- that’s the word which
stands for the most important part
of the ‘‘meaningful dialogue’’ bet-
ween students and faculty, between
faculty and administration, between
students and administration, and
above all, AMONG STUDENTS,
which we hear about so often and

Conference...
(Continued from page 1)

ing those which select. the
deans. Harvard. students have
a policy committee which seems
to have more say and respon-
sibility in college policy than
the other schools. They are
often permitted to investigate de-
partments, in order to de-
termine weaknesses in _ the
faculty, curricula, and teaching
methods,

Wellesley has no self-govern-
ment system, but instead has
a committee which consists
of three members of the adminis-
tration, five members of the
faculty and eight students, The

among the worst {committee holds open meetings

every week, and the stystem seems
to work very well,

Barnard students have very
little voice in college policy or
discussion of problems, and as a
whole they seem very inactive,
The students have very little con-
tact with their administration
and do not seem anxious to
establish any, .

Mount Holyoke students want





tration and to sit on college ©

very rarely think about,

Response was the very element
lacking at the Tuesday meeting of
the student body (or should I say
a VERY small limb of the student
body) with the candidates for off-
ices, ‘Unfortunately, the speeches
were simply too long, and the peo-
ple left at the questioning period
too few to allow for a true inter-
change of ideas, Perhaps Monday’s
session was very different, but the
same problems were certainly pre-
sent,

The first of these problems was
duplifation, The areas covered
by the various councils SHOULD
be well known by the students who
participate in meetings of the type
held Monday and Tuesday nights,
What needs to be discussed is not
a set of general problems, but
the NEW ideas which each specific
candidate has to present, What
is needed is ENTHUSIASM of the
type shown by Faith Greenfield,
and true INTEREST as shown by
all the candidates involved in the
Curriculum Committee,

The second problem was time,
which is not only ‘‘of the essence,”
but part of the very essence -of
Bryn Mawr. ‘‘Ivory Tower’ or
not, there is simply never enough
time in the class hour, in the week,
or in the semester to do all that
needs to be done or even all that
we, as a community or as individ-
uals, desire to do for Bryn Mawr
or for ourselves, Even though
elections come ‘‘but once a year,’’
the mechanics of meeting the can-
didates should be shortened and
made more personal in order to
draw a larger number of students,
Popularization? Yes -- certainly,
but greater involvement of Bryn
Mawr students in curricular and
co-curricular concerns should be
the MOST popular movement on
the campus,

Because ’ of these problems
connected with Tuesday’s meeting
I was one of those who left at
8:30, The duplication annoyed me
and the time was running short,
All of us had reading to do and
papers to write, I made the wrong
choice, How about some RE-
SPONSE from those who DID stay
to talk to the candidates either
night, and from the candidates
themselves? Let’s try to start
a real dialogue!

Judi Hurwitz '71



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mitted to the NEWS should
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committees, but are largely pre-
vented by the ‘iron rule’
of the administration,

Although the problems of the
Ivy League and the Seven Sisters
did not seem comparable, those
who attended the conference felt
that the discussions were very in-
teresting, and the exchanges
very valuable,



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Sullivan operetta in the
spring. Anyone interested in
directing, acting, choreog-
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any other area should send
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THE COLLEGE NEWS

Friday, March 1, 1968 }
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Self Gov, Big Six Candidates

Self Gov

Dora Chizea

A few days ago somebody met me in
Denbigh Hall and siad to me, ‘‘Hi, you
are Dora Chizea,” ‘‘Yes,’’ I said, ‘You
are running for Self Gov, What are you?
A Liberal, Moderate or Conservative?’
“si I said, “T never thought about
Self Gov in such absolute terms, Well,
I am a Liberal, but with reasoning,”
Sure I am a Liberal or at least, would
like to be a Liberal. I do, however,
advocate careful examination and eval-
uation of actions, policies and reactions
before they are taken or made,

Before I say what new ideas I have,
I know you expect me to give an op-
inion about important campus issues like
signouts and drugs. However, I wish to
remind you that if you disagree with my
views it does not necessarily follow that I
will not be a responsible President, or
that my view will be THE accepted view,
After all, this is a democratic campus
and the majority opinion should rule,
Briefly, therefore, I will say that I bel-
ieve in our signout system, I will not



encourage drug abuse on campus, but
I would lift ALL restrictions on overnights,

I would like to point out that I am
NOT a reformist, Changes. should be
allowed to come and go according to maj-
ority opinion, after satisfactory consid-
erations, But changes should notbe FOR-
CED just for the sake of changes, I am,
however, interested in introducing new di-
mensions into life on campus. I do not know
if it is wholly under Self Gov or if Self
Gov and some other organizations will
work together, However, we have got
to expand our social environment here on
campus, We should invite one school
after another every two Sundays or so for
Sunday afternoon informal get-togethers |
over coffee, tea, punch and what-have-you
in the Common Room or somewhere else.
This will provide a basis for inter coll-
egiate exchange of opinions and provide
a meeting place for Bryn Mawr girls from
different dorms, who are not away
for the week-end, We should also have
two week-ends a year, one each sem-
ester, when we would make ‘‘a lot of
things happen’’ and end it up with a big
dance which people should look forward
to. This kind-of contact will help ex-
pand our area of choice of friends bey-
ond those we bump into at mixers and
in the trains, Fof lack of space, Iam
unable to detail these suggestions, but I
will be glad to answer questions inperson
or on the phone,

I would like to state in concluding that
I believe in order, not chaos, in life not
transformation, Rules should be obeyed
for order, but the rules must be accept-
able. Unacceptable rules should be fought
constitutionally and diplomatically, But
after all is said and done the major-
ity opinion must dominate and every-
one in a democratic community in ex-
pected to abide by this majority opinion,

I believe in action, not empty words,
I am a candidate for students who believe
in words supported by actions, This
is integrity, That’s all. The choice is
yours! 4

Claudia Lazzaro

Whether or not we choose to call our-
selves a community at Bryn Mawr is
irrelevant at this point, We have an

honor system ve wee meee it ® =.

to help them,

We do have to be realistic and accept
certain limitations of Self Gov, Though
we don’t have to unflinchingly adopt the
proposals of the Board, the administration
and even the government, now, we dohave
to recognize their existence and we will
have to compromise, Other restrictions

emerge from within the system, from the

fact that we must live with other people,
We have given a structure to our living
together so that one girl’s values and



sensibilities can not violate another’s.

One way to respect other people’s con-
victions is by keeping private that which
is private, Otherwise it is public know-
ledge and subject to public opinion and
judgment, The other aspect of that
ubiquitous word, ‘‘discretion,’’ is think-
ing about’ what you are doing BEFORE
you do it and deciding if you are stepping
on anyone’s values, For instance, in
spending the night at Haverford, consider
the girl who somehow knows and is.then
in: the position of deciding whether she
must report you or not, For those in
dorms with a three-minute fire life, real-
ize that smoking in your room could very
decisively affect everyone else around
you,

Realizing this responsiblity to the other
people under ‘the honor system is vital.
The same responsibility on the level of
Self Gov is translated into enforcement,
which isthe only way that it canbe an
effective and respected system of govern-
ment, Still, the emphasis is on the indi-
vidual and the unique circumstances of
her case, This flexibility should develop
into ‘‘creative punishments,” through
more discussion within advisory board,
rather than into a pre-determined set of
punishments for specific violations,
Greater consistency from hall to hall in
dealing with the more common minor
violations is needed, but the emphasis
Should continue to be on the individual’s
needs rather than on consistency within
the system,

The final move in confronting the ‘‘Self
Gov crisis’ is change within the system,

so that it may accommodate as many:

different values as possible, This means
that the biggest problem to face the next
administration will undoubtedly be the con-
frontation with the Board of Directors over
the Haverford overnights, This must be
presented as an hypocrisy in the Self
Gov system, since it is the only rule
which has not come in some way from the
students, It is instead arbitrarily im-
posed on them, and because of this in-
sgrioissaeticd f is not respected by the student
body.

There are other specific issues in this
year’s election which are important but
not ‘crucial. Signouts can be modified,
but if the basic premise of protection is
adhered to, they must be kept in some
form. Sign-outs, 8 a.m’s and drugs
should be dealt with according to the
guide-lines of discretion, enforcement,
compromise and change,

Kathy Murphey

The ideal of self government by the

students of Bryn Mawr is a pretty excit-_,

ing one, To me this ideal means that
at Bryn Mawr, students have the power
to create a community which is defined
by rules and policies -- by a govern-
ment -- which fulfills their needs and
expresses their values, In this community,
students can act, relate to each other,
and grow in the fullest and most reward-



government is that ALL the students have
a part in forming the rules which struc-
ture their lives at Bryn Mawr, I think

‘ it can be easy for Self Gov which is ’

represented by the Executive and Advisory
Boards, to become isolated from most
of the students, There must be a system
through which all students can deal with

the constant changes in the college com- -

munity arising in the four years between
the periodic campus wide overhaul and
vote on the Self Gov constitution.

It seems to me that halls could be
meaningful political units for students to
consider new problems, such as. sign-
outs, overnights to Haverford, or increase
in drug use, and help make policy about
them,

An example of Self Gov’s isolation is
last year’s Executive Board ruling about
overnights to Haverford. The ruling was
brought to the halls, not for evaluation
or a vote, but only as a way of explain-
ing the new policy to them. This year’s
hall discussions on what Seif Gov. should
do about drugs on campus and overnights
to Haverford I think have been good in
involving many students in the process
of deciding rules which will affect them.
- The rules must derive from student val-
ues, and thoughts about consequences, not
Self Goy’s fear of the trustees or an
isolated decision about what’s best for
the campus, or they will be ignored
without thought, and without any sense
of dishonor, [If certain existing rules
are faltering because students feel they
are unnecessarily limited, it isn’t enough
to enforce them without discussion, Then
the breakdown is mended only on the
surface,

But no rules, whether meaningful or
articificial in relation to student actions
and beliefs, whether enforced or unenforc-
ed, can alone work out the individual and

‘social problems which develop when stu-

dents live together. Rules only structure,
they can’t sustain a community of respect
for student needs and values,

The second implication, then, about
student self, government, is that students
not only participate in making policy,
they share in facing and understanding the
problems that exist among students within
or outside of the rules. This is our
responsibility to each other, expecially
to the so-called weaker members of the
community and the freshmen,

Again, I think halls can act more as
communities within a community for stu-
dents to bring out questions or offended
feelings, Public notices about the general
nature of Self Gov trials might also in-
crease student awareness of problems,

As things are now, students who dis-
agree with the rules are urged to be
discreet about their ideas and actions.
No one learns from a student’s experience
or thoughts, And she doesn’t learn respect
for others.whom she may be hurting, or
become more self-aware about her own
situation by listening to others, Even
if the rules are loosened to allow greater
individual freedom, students may, in a
more open, but still isolated, uncommun-
icating way, Bs their r thing” without a



second thought,

When students are together in their
handling of situations, as well as their
rules, then Self Gov will really express
our voice, Last spring, after the campus
wide meeting of the 8 o’clocks, the Ex-
ecutive Board entered into a dialogue
with the Board of Trustees with the stu-
dents behind them and with worked-out
ideas, As between students, I think this
dialogue could be more public.

But Self Gov remains isolated from the

. Bryn Mawr,
“for a more realistic approach to Self

: meaning in her education, she will prob-

ably find the social honor system mean-
ingless, Students aren’t completely in-
dependent of other groups in the college
community, such as the administration,
the faculty, or the employees, but, are
affected by: and have thoughts about them.

I think Self Gov should work closely
with Curriculum Committee and other
campus groups in order to be a mean-
ingful organ of student expression,

Stephie Skiff

_How feasible is the honor system under
the present seeming emphasis on the indi-
vidual? Since the summer of freshman year
we’ve been bombarded with vague theories
of innate responsibility to others and
idealistic discussions of individual versus
community, none of which seem to have
achieved any concrete effects in changing
the apathy and general lack of concern for
others that has become characteristic of
Perhaps the time has come

Gov. Bryn Mawr students ‘have been com-
plaining about an ivory tower existence
for years; how in all good conscience can
Self Gov persist in attacking concrete
pragmatic situations with ivory tower
platitudes? :

‘The question has been raised ‘‘Is there
a community at Bryn Mawr?’ It would
be far more fruitful to ask ‘‘What is the
nature of the Bryn Mawr community?’
for its existence cannot be denied -- we
live, eat, work, sleep in close quarters
and can’t help but influence each other by
our thoughts and actions. In coming to
Bryn Mawr we accept a responsibility
towards others in the community at least
to the extent outlined by the rules approved
by the majority with the aim of main-
taining viable conditions. But this sense
of responsiblity falters early in the Bryn

Mawrter’s college career -- by the endof_

freshman year she has already seen too
many instances of infractions go unchecked
for the ‘‘preservation of the system’’ to
have much personal relevance, Each
hall president (and as a member of Ad-
visory Board this yedr, how well ac-
quainted I am with this!) has been saddled
with the unenviable task of manufacturing
penalties for infractions in her form,
The result of the inconsistency in the ex-



tent and nature of such enforcement is an
unmistakable feeling on the part of the
offender that the hall president is taking
sanctions as an individual rather than as
an agent of the community, Even more
glaring is the dearth of punishments
appropriate to each infraction: that good
old standby, the ‘‘Late Minute Penalty,”
for the girl who escorts a man out of her
room at 11 p.m. is more likely to alien-
ate’ her from the ‘‘senseless system’?
than to make her think of the discomfit
she might cause neighbors by repeating
her action, If we are to keep individuals
on this campus aware of the community
we must make the will of the community
felt! Granted, Bryn Mawr is a dorm-
oriented community, but Self Gov applies
(or, at least, should apply) to all dorms
equally, The hall presidents desperately
need a common meaningful yardstick for
enforcement in order to set the all-cam-
pus tone, STARTING IN THE DORMS,
of responsibility and thoughtful action
which is necessary for the continued ex-
istence of any viable community, If
Self Gov wishes to perpetuate the honor
system, if we are to expect our peers
to report themsleves, to confront of-
fenders and, most importantly, to re-

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Undergrad
Doris Dewton

The Undergraduate Association is faced
with many problems, but few people are
willing to try to solve them. Thus, there is
one lonely soul who has offered to try and
make Undergrad what it should be -- the
coordinating organization for all kinds of
extra-curricular as well as academic ac-
tivities at Bryn Mawr. To have only one



candidate-places that individual in a diffi-
cult position, ‘having no constrictive op-
position and no pressing need to éxert
herself to invent clever new ideas. So,
instead, one can offer to listen to every-
one else’s suggestions, and. try to im-
plement them if they are practical. Is
there something really wrong with the
job, that no one wants to run for it, or
is there a need for Undergrad at all?

There is a definite need, for Under-
grad on this campus. We have many
projects we would like to see accom-
plished, and they all require organiza-
tion. Many people have been screaming
*‘¢community”? and ‘‘communication’’ all
year, and since I have been one of thege
people, and no one opposes me, then I
assume that silence indicates consent,
if indeed more than apathy. So, I will
work for both,. but total participation is
necessary.

A short poem is a good indication of
what may be the general tone on cam-
pus:

‘¢A dead tradition! Hollow shell!
Outworn, outmoded -- time it fell.
Let’s make it new. Rebel! Rebel!’
Said cancer-cell to cancer-cell.

J. F. Nims
True, there are many glaring inconsis-
tencies in life at Bryn Mawr. But sim-
ply discarding the whole system will ac-
complish nothing. Perhaps it is time to
revise things but we need new healthy
cells, not malignant ones.

One could make the usual platform
promises, but why bother? You should
know them all by now, for they are long-
term goals. A student union or common
room _is‘still a question, as is the pres-
ent speaker system. Do you want speak-
ers, or would you prefer some other
form of exchange of ideas? We do have
an increased budget for the coming year,
but it is still small, and effective use
must be made of it. As always, we want
more effective inter-college participa-
tion, with Haverford and the other Seven

Sisters, particularly. A bi-college coun-

cil is in the planning stages.

Bryn Mawr needs to passfrom its pres-
ent stage of introspection, into a stage of
healthy interaction both within its walls
(with both faculty and administration, as
well as with all the students) and without.
If some of us feel that-our values are all
right, and the Mainline values are all
wrong, why don’t we go out and enlighten
these sheltered people? Or, if we agree
with them, why don’t we go out and en-
courage them?

There are many other topics which
should be of interest to you all, but
there will be time, and many issues of
the NEWS, in which to continue. Among
them are the questions of more non-
credit courses, the implications of the
construction of the new library, faculty-
student relations. There is also, in my
opinion, need for a much closer tie be-
tween Undergrad and Self Gov. If Self
Gov suggests the values we should try
to encourage, and Undergrad plans the
activities we participate in, then there
should be a philosophy of purpose which
, links them together. The college calen-



ized, so as to reflect the interests of the
most people, catering to the masses, as
self government attempts to do,

The goal of Undergrad should be this:
to-try to get as many individuals as possi-
ble actively and creatively participating
in something at Bryn Mawr, something
which will make it more complete as a
community, and that will make the col-
lege incorporate some of your personal
values into its total framework.

A.A.
Anne Alden

A. friend once remarked to me _ that
she had been asked by an elderly alum-
na, ‘sAre you a greenie? I was a green-
ie.”? After a pause the second Bryn
Mawrter said to the first Bryn Mawrter,
‘J beg your pardon?’’ A brief conversa-
tion revealed that the lady was referring
to the different colors of the class tunics,
It seems that once there was competition
in various sports between the classes.
(The wooden plaques in the gym indicate
that class basketball competition was last
held in 1920.) As AA President I would
attempt to revive such competition. For
those who regard the gym requirement
as odious at best, I would make a plea to
the gym department to have inter-class
competitions count toward the sports re-
quirement.

Judging by the success of last year’s

‘Bryn Mawr-Haverford basketball game

and this year’s touch football games,

. competition need not be restricted: to

members of the same sex. Any rivalry
in sports between the two schools would

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certainly prove interesting.

In addition to encouraging inter-class
games and events with Haverford; the AA
could investigate the possibility of spon-
soring trips to see the United States
women’s hockey and lacrosse teams play
teams from other countries. Games played
at the Merion Cricket Club on Montgom-
ery Avenue often involve the best hockey
players in the United States.

As AA President I would recognize
that sports are not a major campus
concern, but that for anyone looking for
some form of afternoon excitement there
should be an open gym, or a mixed bad-
minton match or a trip to Merion Cricket
Club,

Meredith Roberts

In the AA meetings this year, we
have been talking about AA’s place in
the Bryn Mawr community, a popular
topic among all organizations. AA was
organized to provide a ‘‘physical rest?’



from studying for all students, But the
question keeps coming up: Who should
AA concentrate on - the people already
on varsity teams or those who aren’t?
This year, we have mostly tried to or-
ganize activities for those not on var-
sity teams, |

games, I know they were a .succéss for

Since A MEMALY nae

' gar’ should be more ‘ettectively organ~ ~. going: to the Friday. afternoon. volleyball.

those who came, The typical answer
given by ‘a student asked to join us was,
“Pm not good enough.” This is just
the kind of thing we are trying to get
away from. We weren’t playing out of
an intense desire to win, but rather
just to have a good time. This is part
of what AA should do - provide acti-
vities (even swings and the use of Apple-
bee Barn) for those who want to have
fun,

The varsity teams need our help, too
especially along the lines of publicity
and support, . Nobody knows when the
meets, games and matches are held or
whether or not we won, Last week,
the basketball and badminton teams
won their game and match; and the fenc-
ing team came out tops in a triangular
meet, AA provides the refreshments,
and I think we should provide enthusiasm
and spectators, too,

What all this means is that I think
AA can branch out an serve a dual
purpose; providing activities and support-
ing varsity sports, To do this, there
has to be some reorganization of the
AA board, At the last meeting, it was
suggested that one member from each
varsity team be added to the board,
Thesé~ girls could be in charge of the
publicity, sending schedules to the fresh-
men dorm representatives, That would
leave the regular dorm reps free to plan
activities such as a student-faculty tennis
match or volleyball game, a trip to the
zoo, a picnic at Valley Forge and the

. regular Friday afternoon volleyball games

with the grad students and Haverford,
The sophomore class reps, traditionally
the publicity chairmen, could work with
the freshmen reps, too, and have ‘more
time to make better use of the AA bul-
letin board,

I would like to be AA president, be-
cause I enjoy AA and would like to
‘help others, who are willing, enjoy it, too.

Jean Wilcox

If I am elected president of the Bryn
Mawr College Athletic Association, Ihave
two major objectives which I plan to
aim for,

The first of these objectives concerns

a small group of people who might °

be called, in a mild sense of the word,
the Bryn Mawr ‘‘Athletes,’? How many
people are aware that there is an entity
known as a fencing team at Bryn Mawr?
Or a badminton, hockey, lacrosse, tennis,
basketball or swimming team? All of
these teams do exist at Bryn Mawr - BUT,
as it stands now, they exist chiefly for
the team members; most of the rest
of the students know nothing about them,
My point is this: the only way people
find out anything about the teams is by
asking someone they see in a gold tunic
rather than a class tunic, ‘‘What’s
going on???’ .

This situation should be remedied,
The teams, no matter how good or how
bad, deserve recognition for their time
and effort given for ‘‘the glory of Bryn
Mawr.’’ Other people on campus should be
aware of the dates and times of athletic
events, This could be achieved by an
article in THE COLLEGE NEWS stating
the days and times of forthcoming athletic
events and the outcome of previously
played games, The hall Athletic Associa-
tion representatives should also play
an active part in informing the people in
their respective dorms about the teams,

My - second objective concerns all
the students, The Athletic Association
shouldn’t exist solely for the teams, but
should play an active part on campus
for everyone, Haven’t you ever felt like
doing something different on a Friday
or weekend afternoon? This is where 'I
feel that A, A, should take the lead. It
should sponsor activities that everyone
can participate in - Frisbee, volleyball
on Merion Green, softball. How about
a tennis tournament in the spring or
fall? If you don’t want. to do anything
that vigorous, maybe a scavenger hunt,
or a bridge tournament or a picnic could
be planned, All these activities should be
open to faculty and graduate students as
well as undergraduates, Haverford and
other schools can be invited to participate,

I feel. that tho bell Sepconsateliveg.are-



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students to see what A.A, can plan with
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cordingly and have events that are
actively supported by a large number
of students, Again THE COLLEGE NEWS
can be instrumental in letting people
know when things are happening.

What I’d like most to see as president
,of the Athletic Association, would be
“the Athletic Association functioning as
an effective organization - recognizing the
intercollegiate teams and planning
_ enough varied activities so that everyone
“could find something to interest her;,
through such means I believe the A, A,
could become an integral part of campus
life,

Alliance
Barbara Elk

The Alliance for Political Affairs, as
you know, is responsible for the co-
ordination of all political activity
on campus, The academic year 1968-
69 will be a busy one in that respect --
encompassing the crises of the urban
ghettos, the war in Vietnam and the
U.S, presidential elections, in particular,

Believing that political action should
originate on a local level, I would like
to see Bryn Mawr students raised from
their apathy, or rather, from their pre-
occupation with academic trivia and
weekend enjoyment, Obviously, I do not
deny the importance of the roles played
by the academic and social life here,
but I do think that political awareness,
and in many cases, its concomitant mauieons
is just as necessary,

Specifically, as president of Alliance, I
would encolirage some real debate on cur-
rent issues. Student-faculty panels and
seminars on the quality and relevance of
Bryn Mawr’ . educational and social phi-

A



losophies would be an excellent point
of departure (1) because their topical
nature would involve the entire campus,
‘and (2) because of the possibility of achiev-
ing some _ significant results (e.g.
the elimination of the barriers involved
in using Haverford courses to fulfill both
distribution and major requirements here;
or perhaps the implementation of a ‘‘pass-
fail?’ grading system in_ elective
courses, at least). Any discussion of the
social honor system here at Bryn Mawr
would also have a similar relevance
to events outside the ‘‘ivory tower.’
Does the college administration, for in-
stance, have the right to impose
its own morality on us any more than
‘does the United States on the people of
Vietnam? Perhaps such parallels are
slightly exaggerated, but to pretend
that our individual problems here
are not in some ways similar to those
of national and international magnitude
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Platforms

such as the educational myopia here,
the draft, the war and the ghetto problem
on our daily lives can we expect any
response from the usually ‘‘apathetic”
sectors (witness the sudden antagonism
to the draft on the part of graduate stu-
dents now’ that their deferments
are to cease).

Once students have found tangible
objects which they deem in need of re-
form,, their. discontent can be turned
from the path of frustration and cynicism
to that of. constructive social action. In
this respect, Alliance should serve asa
‘‘clearing-house’’ through which con-
cerned students could become acquainted
with the appropriate channels for their
energies. At the moment, this campus
has three politically oriented organ-
izations; the Social Action Committee,
the Negro Discussion Group and a
chapter of the Students for a Democratic
Society which is now in its incipient

- stage. As president of Alliance, I would
* call an. open meeting early in the fall
semester at which a representative of
each group could speak to the student
body at large, informing it of the pur-
poses and activities of her respective
organization. Similarly, any sentiment not
already echoed in one of the establish-
ed..groups here could be heard with
the additional possibility of forming
a new group if student support were
forthcoming.

Finally, I would continue Alliance’s
past efforts to obtain controversial and
relevant speakers and to keep the campus
informed of inter-college political con-
ferences. Hopefully, open Alliance
meetings. could. be. held bi-monthly .at
which dorm representatives and other
interested people could plan. the
seminars and debates previously men-
tioned and .hear progress reports
as well on the activities. of those groups
under Alliance’s aegis.

Thus, my platform is two-faceted,
involving both the means of stimulating
political awareness on campus and also
the mechanism through which such aware-
ness can be transformed into the re-
quisite action,

Kathi Hartford

Bryn Mawr College .is_ not an
ivory tower, Yet a large proportion of
truly concerned § students have dif-
ficulty finding: those who share
their interests and who could work to-
gether on problems outside this com-
munity, Alliance is the organ which
can provide all students with a forum
for their views and with an opportunity
to meet and organize with those of similar
interests, :

I propose to stress the function for
which Alliance was formed: as an um-
brella organization for all political
interests on campus, This function can
continue and be extended to two veins
simultaneously, First of all, I consider it
of vital importance that Alliance itself
stress the importance of what is going
on in the world outside the college campus.
Secondly, Alliance can play a dynamic
role in bringing specific political interests
on campus together in groups that can
work effectively for their own ends,

In the first vein, I propose to have
Alliance provide an informative function

THE COLLEGE NEWS 3

groups are interested in presenting, The
April teach-in on the problems of. the
ghetto, planned by SAC and the Negro
Discussion Group, is one such program
which can provide a jumping-off point for
future programs, We need films on all
topics of political interest, and I would

. enthusiastically support presentation of

purchased documentary films and would
assist students who want to film. their
own documentaries on whatever topics
they find inviting,

There is also a huge need for pre-
senting speakers of national importance,
Since our funds on campus are limited,
I propose to work towards setting up a
joint fund among local colleges to pool
our funds and make available to the
largest possible number of students an
opportunity to hear speakers.in prominent
positions,

As a second point of approach to Al-
liance’s role, I propose to aid any
group of students in. setting up their
own political organizations, Presently,
Young Democrats and Young Republicans
groups are forming again, For any other
groups, Alliance can and should provide
the information, the campus and outside

contacts, and the organizational as-
Sistance for formation of viable
political -organizations. We need to

maintain constant exchange of political
information and viewpoints, We need dis-
cussion groups where interested stu-
dents can meet with their fellows
and with professors for an airing of
facts: and opinions, We need a political
concern which will carry into the life-of
every student so inclined,

All of these things Alliance can provide,
I want to see every student on this campus
haye an opportunity to follow her political
persuasions and work, effectively with
those of the same inclinations, We are,
some argue, a social community; we
are definitely, by one definition or an-
other, an academic community. We
can also use the brains and abilities on
this campus\ for the formation of an
active political-community, involved with
the world into which we will all eventually
move,

Lou Kotler

I favor, first of all, a change in the
membership structure of Alliance. Cur-
rently, the entire school belongs to the
organization, with one or two members
from each dorm making up an elected



board. In theory, these few board mem-
bers are supposed to act as representa-
tives of the entire memberhip, I think
that this system fails for two reasons:
first, many potentially active people are
never encouraged sufficiently and their
opinions are never heard because they
are not board members. Secondly, Al-
liance has too many responsibilities and
varied interests to be managed by such a
small board.

I propose to change Alliance from a

representative body to one made up of all
interested people who are willing to put
effort into the organization. These are
the girls who should form the nucleus
of the group. This will insure both the
participation of the politically-inclined
members of the community and also
provide Alliance with the diversity it needs

to encourage different types of political

activity. i

This brings us to the function of Al-
home Aimer gin gmat
lead the Papp et activity on campus.

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low through more on its projects. _In
fact, I would rather see fewer speakers
come to the campus but who meet with
groups of students more than is cur-
rently the custom.

liance, then,
the chance to participate in any phase
of politics which she finds interesting.

There are a few other points I would
like to make. I think that by.checking
with Penn, Temple and Princeton, we
could find out what speakers will be in
-the area ard invite them to Bryn Mawr.
This will perhaps give us some new
ideas, in addition to better speakers.
On the subject of Young Republican, Young
Democrats and Young Conservatives, I
think that it has become rather clear
that Bryn Mawr needs help in getting its
groups revitalized. I would suggest ei-
ther working with Penn-or Haverford, or
using the upcoming election as a definite
rallying point.

Alliance took a survey several weeks
ago to determine where campus political
Ynterest lies. 1 think that the results
should be followed up’ immediately,
with the spring and summer still remaining
to plan- for next. year--especially
in regard to the November elections. Ob-
viously, there are people at Bryn Mawr
for whom politics. is, at most a peri-
pheral interest. But, there are other girls,
whose potential activity Alliance can st-
imulate and benefit from. Iwould like
to make certain that Alliance provides
the leadership needed to realize the pol-
itical potential of the campus.

Barbara Rosenberg .

Participation and significance will be
the key elements in the 1968-1969 Al-

liance activities. Participation applies on .
both a campus and a societal level, to

each individual student and to the cam-
pus as a whole. Significance refers to the
type of participation developed and to the
quality of activities provided.

On the campus level, I would like to

encourage all students to take part in |

Alliance planning and programming, by
means of a committee system. This struc-
ture would enable interested individuals
to voice opinions concerning allocation of
our joint resources -- time, money and
energy -- as well as to communicate with
and. meet speakers and political figures
with whom we will work. Such personal
‘contact would provide deeper insight into
salient issues.

Outlets for individual interests can be
stimulated through Alliance support of
issue-oriented organizations, such as ad
hoc committees concerning specific events
or situations. Partisan, or problem-based
groups, such as Young Democrats or SDS,
might also provide outlets for incipient
interests,

The ingredient of significance enters in,

our choice of speakers. If possible, I would
like to invite important political figures,
if necessary reducing the total number
during the year in favor of well-known
men and women who will be of general
interest to the campus community. The
problem of funds might even be alleviated
by promising a large audience and de-
livering it by extensive community pub-
licity.

Our most obvious potential source of.



exciting political activity is the approach-
ing national elections. Nominees of every
outlook and degree of prominence will wel-
come our aid in campaigning. We can
exploit this opportunity for practical ex-
perience by contacting interesting or con-
-troversial figures and offering our’ aid.

Finally, Alliance-will continue to pro-






The function of Al-
is to offer: each student



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cinating. Through a program such as this,
we can learn about it and influence its
functioning. I hope that you will give me
the opportunity to help you find signifi-
cant forms of participation.

Arts Council
Faith Greenfield

In 500 words or less, Arts Council
has only one function: to bring art to
the campus and spread it around. That
means we could run a Film Series and
send busses to the Barnes Foundation.
That way everyone would know where to
get their art,.and we could all. go home
and get some work done. It’s a shame
art is not more like that; maybe the board
could get away with it. But you couldn’t
get used to no Student Art shows, Faculty
Art shows, Little Theatre, trips tomovies
in Phila., Symphony Orchestra tickets,
Arts Night, the use of the Arts Forum
(it?s an old stone mansion between here
and Haverford with vast practice rooms

and dance studios, a theatre, a movie-—

making club, a printing press. You're

welcome to the facilities if you. ask.)

There’s also the Grad Center gym, which
you don’t know about yet: it has extra
rooms and we have some extra money
donated for some sort of student center,
and we thought of supplying craft rooms
with equipment (sewing, etc.) but it’s

still being planned, so submit your ideas.- .

Which brings me to another point. I’m
sorry I said ‘‘Submit your ideas’’; it’s
an unfortunate phrase, I’m fully aware
that I’m going to have to go and get
your ideas. Art and entertainment, ex-
cept for the people immediately involved,
has to be persuasive. This is one system

that won’t accuse you of apathy, because_

if Arts Council lets you get to that point,
you need a new system, After I’ve told you
our resources, I need to find out yours,

I’ve got a few new strategies; More
student art and entertainment appending
other activities (an art show for every
College Theatre production, a music en-
semble for every Dance Concert inter-
mission). More outside entertainment
coming in when students can’t do the
work but ‘need the diversion (during
exams, at the beginning of semesters).
Collaboration with H’ford Art Series for
one or two famous and expensive at-
tractions. More frequent board meet-
ings to maintain yearly projects (thea-
tre-workshop, speakers).

You'll hear more as the ideas. jell.
I’m grateful to Judy Masur for supply-
ing momentum; I can think of many dir-
ections for it. I’d like to persuade you
to see how impoftant it is.

Curriculum
Robin Baskin

More than self-scheduled exams, more
than a variety in divisional requirements,
even more than classes at Haverford ...
What is a liberal arts education? It is
more than promises of ‘personality
growth”? or of. ‘breadth and depth’’ in
education (see Bryn Mawr College Calen-
dar 1967-68). It is even more than prom-
ises of ‘‘opportunity for the students to
participate actively in their own educa-
tion.’? A liberal arts education is an unde-
lineated dream of what can be. With that
dream comes the nagging realization
that SOMETHING in a Bryn Mawr educa-
tion is lacking. ya

We need not pin down and thoroughly
‘define the term ‘‘liberal arts education’’
| we are heading in the
lf-scheduled exams is

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THE COLLEGE NEWS

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Platforms .

system as well as a plan for instituting
various kinds of opportunities for indepen-
dent study, both already in the planning,
suggest the way to fulfill some of the gen-
erously abstract promises” printed an-
nually in the college calendar.



Then too, we face.a specific unfulfilled
promise. I refer to the mythological three-
college participation designed-to augment
the resources of Bryn Mawr, Haverford
and Swarthmore while preserving the
autonomy of each college. Why not make
three-college participation an academic
reality? Swarthmore course lists should be
made available and transportation to
Swarthmore should-be provided if enroll-
‘ment warranted it. Meanwhile, we continue
to seek a satisfactory solution to the ques-
tions of a religion major, more depart-

mental and inter-departmental coopera-
tion -- the list is endless.

These suggestions seem to me to be
feasible steps to be taken in the near
future toward more depth and breadth
in ‘our ‘‘liberal arts’’ education. Mean-
while, I nourish in my secret heart a

dream of no grades, small lectures and

seminars, independent study -- Join me --
SCHEME, DREAM ...

Pf

* Bess Keller

On short notice I was asked to write
my ‘‘platform,’’ and I was put in much
the same situation as the Curriculum
Committee has and will find itself. On
the one hand, I felt rather prepared to
hold forth on Bryn Mawr academia, hav-
ing been (I hope) ‘an interested and
thoughtful observer for a while now. And,
of course, some “problem areas’’ (e.g.
_classes) are inescapable or, if they are
not, they are made so by endless and
often aimless discussion concerning them.

&



But, on the other hand, the old Bryn
Mawr bugaboo-- that one doesn’t yet
know enough to take a stand-- plagued
me. So in. regard to Curriculum Com-
mittee, I would like to assert that not
only are many of Bryn Mawr’s academic
problems, failings and strengths known
to the administration, faculty and students,
put also that the student Curriculum
Committee and the student body it re-
presents need ‘not be put off by the very
informal system ‘of communications
between the three groups mentioned ab-
ove, although it has been in the past
a wonderful obscuring mechanism. Indeed,
Curriculum Committee will have failed
next year in fulfilling a large part of
its potential, if it does not begin to make
clear how academic decisions are reached
at Bryn Mawr and where the impetus
for academic change arises. Therefore,
some representative of Curriculum
Committee must sit in on the entirely
separate (and powerful) faculty Curricu-
lum Committee and, of course, keep in
close contact with the administration.
Furthermore, Curriculum Committee
should take this validly-obtained in-
formation to the student body through a re-
gular feature in the NEWS (which this year
has published thought-provoking articles
of: the type that would have been more
‘effective backed by an informed Cur-

‘riculum Committee). Finally, aware that —
at Bryn Mawr the most effective dis-



content is often demonstrated by the*
individual student attempting to get her
own education worked out (witness maj-
oring at Haverford), the Committee must
know about and direct its efforts toward
smoothing the way for reasonable creat-
ive requests.

Yet Curriculum Committee’s task will
be far from completion even though the
Committee itself may be informed and
informing. After’ one knows, one must
have the insight and the courage to act.
Acting is particularly important at Bryn
Mawr where the faculty many times gives
the impression that their business is
KNOWLEDGE, the students’ business ed-
ucation. For example three years ago
the -faculty Curriculum Committee turned
down a student request for self-scheduled
exams because ‘‘the students’ reasons
seemed not very compelling and their plan
lacking in detail’’(from a report issued
January, this year by the Committee).
Only when the STUDENTS presented a ‘‘fa-
irly detailed document describing the pro-
cedure and spelling out the responsibil-
ities which students would assume’’ was
the plan accepted. Apparently, whether
we know it or not, we are expected to

present the ideas which will improve and .

transform our education... Accepting this
lesson, I would want Curriculum Com-
mittee to continue next year to examine
and advocate that others examine: apass-
fail system, project courses, ways to make
the course evaluation booklet more help-
ful to professors, faculty advisors
(whatever happened. to that 15-1 ratio?),
a sensible policy toward Haverford cour-
ses and an investigation--more system-
atic than has ever been tried before--of
the educational beliefs of the members of
the Bryn Mawr faculty. Finally, the
idea of a comprehensive report on both
the academic and social aspects of the
College’s life written by educators brought
in from outside--along the lines of Sw-
arthmore’s--definitely bears looking into.

The freedom and potential that Curricu-
lum Committee has shown this year should

-be broadened next, regardless of the tang-

les in Taylor Hall and the difficulties
of getting some Mawrter out of her dank

cell--our education is worth it, don’t

you think?

Eve Roberts.

*"A foremost aspect of the Curriculum
Committee at this time is that it
is uniquely equipped to play a meaning-
ful and vital role in clarifying and imp-
iementing our concerns over the character
of. the ‘‘college community” at Bryn Mawr.

In reviewing current discussions of Bryn
Mawr’s general condition, we find matters
of academics--size of classes, the nature
of the student-teacher relationship,
freedom in construction of courses and
majors -- mentioned more and more
frequently. I feel that on these questions
we can take definite steps for improve-
ment. In the first place there is no
contesting that these problems lie within
the domain of the College’s responsibility
and also that they affect all the students.
to some appreciable degree. Already
delineated, they are somewhat easier to
handle: if possible solutions are not
specifically indicated, at least the general
region of where to find them is. I believe
that if we can make gains in. dealing
with and -solving these problems in re-
gard to academic life, the whole com-

. plexion of the ‘college community’’ will

be improved: we will be in a better
situation to see and articulate what sort
of community we want Bryn Mawr to be--
in all aspects, social and intellectual,
as well as academic.

The. prevailing tenor of most Curricu-
lum Committee projects is to put each

‘Bryn Mawr student in more immediate

control of her academic life: aside from
self-scheduled exams, we find this tone
in Curriculum Committee’s present con-
siderations of pass/fail grading and for

’ more opportunities to do independent study

units. This aim is one I whole-heartedly
endorse. However, the Committee has

been less active in cultivating a comple-

mentary e ent of this outlook: to
help stude to be effective in their in-
dependence. This problem is difficult

to speak of directly, but it involves the
quality of the relationship of the faculty
to the students and the extent of student
participation in molding the trends of the
College. Here the Curriculum Committee

has several prerogatives and responsibil-
ities. It must promote discussion of these
matters but also supply concrete oppor-
tunities for progress -- interest courses

and egies for those who want enrich- i



ment and diversification, arrangements
for those who wish or need it to learn
study skills such as typing and notehand,
more frequent gatherings of students and
professors together for talk and acquaint-
ance, And of course the Committee must
continue to be--but again, more effect-
ively-- a channel for communicating stu-
dent thoughts on academic matters to the
faculty and administration,

The College welcomes each student as
an independent scholar and seeks to show
each’ one the: challenge and pleasure of
this endeavor. I see the role of Curric-
ulum Committee, and the particular con-
cern of its chairman, to try to keep these
two factors in productive balance -- so
that the challenge does not loom large
and unmanageable and that the pleasure
is genuine and exhilarating.

Pat Rosenfield

An educational experience must pre-
pare one for the needs of the future, A
flexible curriculum, open to innovation,
is a most reasonable means of achieving
this preparation, The administration, fac-
ulty, and students at Bryn Mawr have
demonstrated their inclination to change
academically by revising the curriculum,
by successfully experimenting with self-
scheduled exams and by profiting from
student course evaluations, These im-
provements are valid and should be used
as the basis for further enhancing our
educational experience here,

Three major dfeas should be, I think,
the concern of Curriculum Committee for
next year: re-vitalizing the curriculum;
attempting a new type of learning exper-
fence, i.e, project courses; and, employ-
ing a new system of evaluating the stu-
dents’ work, Allied with these areas is the
necessity for increased coordination
among the faculties of the different de-
partments, increased communication both
between faculty and students and between
students in various campus organizations,
and increased cooperation with near-
by colleges and universities, es

Bryn Mawr should expand the curricu-
lum to include courses that are directed
toward a changing world. Fields such as
architecture, ecology (both animal and
human), urban sociology, non-Western
cultures and languages and actually any
course in which merely a few students ex-
press an interest should be available,

Complementing increased course
choices is a new method of learning:
learning by doing. Bryn Mawr should of-
fer project courses, However, these

courses should be structured so as to ob-
tain maximum participation of and benefit
for the student.

an es ~ a

I feel that the more



attention paid to the organization of the
project, the more the student will learn
through individual and original thought and
research,

The third area of concentration aims at
the need for a change of





at aes
BB eat bata serio ain pa Mawr

but still students measure the results ofa
course by the amount of the mark re-
ceived rather than the amount learned,
Some competition is healthy, but the pres-
sure for grades detracts from the purpose
of education, Thus, either a series of
written comments or'a system of pass-
fail, or some combination is worth trying,
to-make learning, not the grade, the essen-
tial element in a course,

To re-enforce these areas, we should
extend the above mentioned attempts at
coordination and communication, More
interdepartmental courses and majors,
connecting activities concerned with ed-
ucation in the broadest sense both extra-
curricular and curricular, a system of
personal faculty advisors so that the stu-
dent realizes that some member of the
faculty recognizes her as an individual,
and increased utilization of different
courses and styles of teaching at, for
example, Haverford and Penn, all
help provide for the desired academic
expansion at Bryn Mawr,

In effect, our academic ..community
should supply traditionally taught and
classically oriented subjects for. those
students thus trained, but Bryn Mawr
‘should also encourage additional chances
and changes for the students who prefer
the future.

Interfaith
Jerri Bond

The main purpose of Interfaith, as I
see it, is to plan lectures, to be given
twice a month, about trends and ideas
in religion and philosophy of religion and to
acquaint’ students with the viewpoints on
these issues of as many leading minis-
ters and religious thinkers as possible.

Here are some timely ideas for lec-
ture subjects, some new to Interfaith,
that I would like to propose;

1, Eastern’ religions, “As an in-
troduction, a speaker could show
in what ways eastern religion and
philosophy differ from those of
the west; and
the specifics of Tawism,
and Zen Buddhism
taken up, What about

in subsequent -talks,
Hinduism
could be

the topic



‘¢Mysticism and Drugs?’

2. The attitudes of various churches
to pacifism and war resistance.

3. A minister speaking in favor of
Black Power - really exciting!

4, The renovations going on within
the Catholic Church and particularly,
having a nun talk about the re-evaluation
of vows and habits and the greater degree
of freedom she now has.

5. Religious and theological education.
I would like to see Nathan Pusey, pre-
sident of Harvard, and William Sloane
Coffin, head of Yale Theological Seminary,
speak on this subject. .

6. More about church involvement
in social aétion.

7. The beliefs of the esoteric sects,
Interfaith could sponsor Mormon, Seventh
Day Adventist and Unitarian speakers,
(What about a speech by a Fundamenta-
list?)

8. The position the Christian and Je-
wish churches take vis a vis the New
Morality.

The possibilities for lecture subjects
are endless!

In addition to the lecture program,
Interfaith must encourage the formation
and activity of denominational groups,
which now represent only the Jewish,
Christian Scientists and Episcopa-
lian faiths. As president this year of
one of these groups, I know how worth-

while and how much fun it is to meet
with fellow students of my religious per-
suasions Interfaith should urge girls of
CONE: “denominations to ‘Set up their own
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Platforms

groups. And wouldn’t it be a good idea
” to have interchanges and panel discussions
among the groups, exchanges which could
be open to the whole college? One sub-
ject for such a conference might be: the
Significance of religion to a church-
affiliated college student,

Interfaith should continue to bring the
interested student in touch with her own
church, A coffee with local rabbis and
ministers, for the special benefit of in-
. ~@oming freshmen but open to all, would
be a nice idea,

Finally, Interfaith should tuse new spi-
rit into its avowed goal of establishing
a worship service or several types of
services which would be significant to
and in harmony with the gamut.of re-
tae views at Bryn Mawr - admittedly,

a very difficult task. One service could
be designed for Jewish thought, another
for Christian and still another for Eas-
tern. There is the possibility of having
an hour of chamber music and meditation
every Sunday afternoon. Monthly concerts
sung in the Library Reading Room at
Sunday noon could be reinstituted,

Interfaith can do and contribute so much,
and it should!

Margaret Byerly

Over the past few years, I have be-
come interested in the relation between
religion and the problems of life. Do
we practice what is preached? Churches
take collection every week. Some build
extensions on their present buildings;
some send missionaries out to convert
others, But how much does the church
do in its own neighborhood about the
racial situation, for instance, or poverty?
How many people think about their react-
ions to their church service longer than
througti Sunday dinner? How many go
to church because it’s the thing. to do?
Are Christians being distracted from the
main goals of Christianity through the




rivalry various sects? In England,

the huge cathedrals all over the country
hold services for a mere handful of
people, and even in mostly-Catholic Italy,
attendance is poor. Doesn’t bad atten-
.dance reflect on the influence and worth
of religion?

I am not saying that we could solve
all these problems in Interfaith, but I
do feel that it would be beneficial and
interesting to try to find the cause of
religious apathy and to define the place
of religion in society ahd its responsi-
bility to help to improve some of the pro-
blems of society today. I speak not
only of Christian and American churches,
but of religions all over the world.

I also feel, myself, a lack of knowledge
about some American religious sects,

‘Mormons or Mennonites, for instance.
I have met people who did not know that
Mormons are Christians or what Quakers
are. I think that as well as being
conversant with foreign religions,
we should learn about the various groups
in our own country. How do they differ?
Why were they formed? Perhaps an-
swers to questions like these will help
in a search for the answer to the bigger
problem of the worth of religion in gen-
eral, I would like to hear some atheists
tell what caused them to reject their
faith. How did their churches fail to
reach them?

The theory that God is dead has been

_ argued both ways, but the fact that the

rumor arose in the first place indicates
religion somewhere. Why do



in
not

to bring speakers to the campus and arouse
student interest in religion. Because of

the diversity and general interest of the |





speakers and programs, such as the
2) EY we sigs ’

film, ‘‘The Phoenix,’? Interfaith carries
out the aims of the Committee on Reli-
gious Life in a way that is relevant
to the college community.

Interfaith’s most active role on cam-
pus has been the sponsoring of q lecture
series. Many of the speakers in the past
have talked about subjects of general
interest to students rather than on speci-
fically theological subjects. Most of the

Jecturesare—of--interest to more than

a single denominational group. I would
like to continue this program of spea-
kers, with topics that would be interest-
ing to more than a minority of stu-
dents,

Interfaith itself is non-denominational;
it represents the religions of all stu-
dents on campus, Several denominational
discussion groups have been organized
on campus, and more would be welcome,
I would like to encourage communication
among the groups. This year I have
worked with Interfaith as a dorm re-
presentative,

Peggy McGarry

The fact that there are five candidates ..

running for the presidency of Interfaith
this year, ii comparison to the situation
of last year in which no one was willing
to run for the office, can be taken hope-
fully as a sign of a renewed interest
in Interfaith on campus. This interest
should be pursued and’ encouraged, I
think, through the organization’s main
activity, its lecture series. Through the
use of a campus - wide questionnaire,
much like the one the Social Committee
distributed at the beginning of this year,
the suggestions for topics and speakers of
interest to many students might. be uti-
lized to make the series an important
and constantly relevant part of the general
‘campus life. As one of the Big Six
organizations with dorm representation,
in light of the funds available for this
series, and surely by virtue of its na-
ture, Interfaith owes to the campus apro-
gram of wide appeal.

If this kind of lecture series and accom-
panying interest could be realized, I
think arrangements should be made where-
by students wishing to do so could come
together at some time after the lecture
for discussion. In relation to this a
speaker should be urged to come pre-
pared to provide those interested with
a bibliography on his topic.

In connection with such a drive toward
a wider appeal in its, lectures and a

reater impact on the life of the college,
Int th must expand its efforts to in-
crease the cooperation between itself and
the other organizations on campus,
particularly Alliance and League. With

the emphasis today in religious circles,
especially those in which younger people
are involved, being put increasingly on
the ‘‘witness’’ aspect of faith, the col-





































‘ house,
- taining her non-sectarian policy, has a

of these might be increased and: new
programs initiated. Forums and panel
discussions combining the political,
social, and religious moral aspects of
topics like the above, abortion, the use
of violence in social change, the impli-
cations of imperialism on another culture,

~-etc., would make use of the resources

of many groups, have a broader appeal
and further integrate life outside the col-
lege with that within it.

This cooperation between campus
groups might also help in renewing the
much-discussed ‘Bryn Mawr com-
munity.”? In addition, I would like to see
this policy extended within Interfaith
itself; to see the various religious dis-
cussion groups, some of which are now
quite strong, participate. in this effort.
An endeavor to enter into dialogue with
one another in the coming year would be
both beneficial to them and their mem-
bers, and would aid in increasing the all-
over impact of Interfaith on the campus.

Finally , I think Interfaith must act,
as it has not in the past, as a vehicle
for communication between interested stu-
dents and groups on campus and the va-
rious--national- student’ religious groups
and movements.

Mary Schrom

I believe we are in the’ midst of a
religious revival. Let me hasten to ex-
plain myself. I certainly do not mean
religious in its institutional sense nor
revival with all its Billy Graham connot-
ations, The phenomenon is indeed limited,
But I do méan that in the past year, along
with increasihg. threats ofa’ still darker future, I have
seen many evidences of an increased in-'
terest in and respect for what we call ‘‘re-
ligion.”’ This interest and respect
comes from many quarters. Primarily,
I think, it can be seen in two areas:
in social action, where the basis for par-
ticipation has become something more
than a vague humanitarianism or the is-
olated struggle of a itn he

Me : ;
of society, and in the field of rational

thought. The legacy of the eighteenth
and nineteenth century Rationalists is be-
ing diminished by persons who insist
that wholly rational systems do not pro-
vide all the answers -and that psychic
reality forms a large part of each in-
dividual’s world, Hence we have Dr. Viktor
Frankl and his school of logotherapy
(will-to-meaning) and the Committee of
Ministers and Laymen who oppose the war;
we have Professor Raskin speaking at
Haverford on ‘‘Religion as the Basis for
Social Action’’ and persons studying for
joint degrees in psychiatry and religion,
This year has seen consistently higher
attendance at Interfaith lectures; the de-
mand of students to major in religion
at Haverford or to improve the depart-
ment at. Bryn Mawr, — Religion in Cu-
lture at Haverford has to turn away st-
udents. The Jewish and Episcopal dis-
cussion groups meet regularly and en-
thusiastically,

It seems to me that this situation, ho-
wever limited it is, is where the Bryn
Mawr Interfaith organization should find
its reason for existence. Its traditional
role of providing a lecture series and
sponsoring discussion groups needs to be
implemented by some sort of guiding pu-
rpose in order for Interfaith to be a
viable part of campus life, something
more than an organizational clearing-
Bryn Mawr College, in main-

tendency to bend over backwards too far
-and sts any part that religion might

"Play, in a student's life beyond its role —
- “as an academic
es ae ns certainly no need for In-

c discipline, On the other
—_ ee



religion, No one wants to force any-
thing on anyone, But Interfaith should
provide abundant opportunity for all st-
udents who are interested to learn and
grow and worship and become involved
in matters concerning religion, Inter-
faith should strive for optimum comm-
unication among. .students, faculty,
neighboring churches and institutions and
outside religious organizations, Above
all, Interfaith--through its members and
contacts and activities--should provide
resources for all students, regardless
of her creed or non-creed--from the
freshman who wants to know how to
get to the Baptist church, to the Jewish
girl interested in the current theology of
her faith, to the. total non-believer who
needs information on the Roman Church
for a sociology paper.

League
Astrid Lipp

Through tutoring and working on the
Campus Fund Drive I have come to

understand League’s. role at Bryn Mawr.
Lea; is a noncredit insight into the



lives and thoughts of people many of us
have not encountered before, By tutoring
a center-city junior high schooler you see
a world very different from the Bryn

Mawr campus, In tutoring and talking
to youngsters you are, of course, doing
something no one else has bothered to
do. Yet you cannot expect to work
miracles with weekly visits, It is hard
to measure what you accomplish, but you
do know that you have learned some-
thing.

League organizes those activities in..
which students want to engage. This

‘year’s list of activities includes the Phila-

delphia Tutorial Project; work camps in
Philadelphia; visiting a delinquent girls’
home, an orphanage and Haverford Men-
tal Hospital; and smaller projects, Lea-
gue even has a small allotmentfor a spea-
ker,

Only a quarter of Bryn Mawr’s stu-
dents participate” in League activities.
Probably more publicity and more teas
would nof change this figure. Not every-
one has the time or ese desire to parti-
cipate.

Nevertheless, League must keep
the campus. informed of its activities
and be eager to initiate new programs
that are suggested,

Every year League must re-evaluate
whether its activities are worthwhile.
All reactions and suggestions are
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Page Nine |



~ Campus Best-Dressed-

_ Identical twins who dress iden-
tically will be judged as one entry,’’
read the handbook, But not even the
question of fraternal twins came up
as Social Chairman Clarissa Rowe
tried to awake student interest in
‘*Glamour’s’’ Ten Best Dressed
College Girls Contest, (‘‘This is
NOT a joke,’? she announced at
dinner,) .

The ‘qualities to keep in mind,
the handbook explained, were:

1, clear understanding of fash-
iontypé :

2. workable wardrobe plan
3, suitable campus look (she’s in
line with local customs) __.
4, appropriate -- not rah-rah--
look for off-campus occasions,
5, individuality in use of.colors
and accessories,
6. imagination in managing a
clothes budget
7, good grooming--not justneat,
but impeccable,
8, clean, shining, well-kept hair
9, deft use of makeup
10, good figure and beautiful pos-
ture,
Of the sixteen girls who were
named as the fashion conscious,
well groomed members of the col-
lege community, the judging com-
mittee selected semi-finalists on
the basis of these ten criteria,
The judges, led by Clarissa, also
included Amy Bell, Bonnie Cun-
ningham, Carol McGill, .and Bar-
bie Oppenheim,
Day Thompson, Kathy Pitcoff,

~“‘Janine Harris, and Lynn Mead-—

ow--the four semi-finalists--then
had their posture, hair, and ward-
robe subjected to further scrutiny.
This included a round of picture
taking with David Whiting, Haver-
ford photographer, with the girls
modeling the outfits they consid-
ered appropriate for certain occa-
sions--party, campus, and daytime
off campus (Haverford?)

When a finalist from Bryn Mawr
is chosen she will have, a 1,000
word assignment; ‘‘describe the
evolution of your fashion taste and
then tell us what you think it will'
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IF she is selected as one of
the Ten Best Dressed, she will
appear in the August college is-
sue of ‘‘Glamour’’ and will have
a two week trip to New York in
June, all expenses paid, Her chief
award will be national recognition
for herself and her college,

may seem a big ‘‘if,’’ but
Bryn Mawr girls should not be en-
tirely hopeless about having their
unique fashion sense nationally
acknowledged, As recently as 1965
Katherine Ellis was chosen one
of The Ten. Katherine Ford re-
ceived~ an honorable mention in
1966 and Suzanne Klempay in 1963.

aD Ea en

(Continued from page |)

in- the northern cities,
where the Economic Research and
Action Projects (ERAP) were set
up, and with the lack of freedom
of students themselves in their
universities,

/Today, S.D,S, has begun to re-
alize that it is not possible tocre-
ate a free university in an unfree
society, and is attempting to make
students and other groups in this
society aware of the whole system
they must change in order to instill
freedom in this country, to
see their struggle as part of!
a larger one. ;

Buckley described the localized,
at times anarchy bent structure
of S.D.S. where chapters develop
their own actions in dealing with
their particular constituencies,
National policy if made by the
chapters at the National Councils
held four times a year,

Next week programs will be.
proposed and priorities set, The
University City Science Center, the
draft, possible study _ groups, '
research into the nature of Bryn
Mawr-and Haverford as colleges
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Do you have a sweater or skirt
you never wore this winter? Books
you will never open again? Are
you trying to sell hand-decorated
stationery? Seniors, do you wonder
WHAT you’re going to do with all
those odds and ends?

; wer

Bring everything to the basement
of the College Inn this Saturday.
This is the last day things’ will
be collected before the new second-
hand shop opens, sometime next
week.

The shop is run by Laura Her-
shey and sponsored by Undergrad.
The main business will be in sec-
onhand clothes, books, records,
furniture, and jewelry. Items
Should be clean and in good con-
dition and labeled with your name

and price when brought to the
Inn. If you are unsure about pric-
ing, Laura can make suggestions.

Some things are priced high but -

the owners are open to bargainé
ing. \

When an article is sold, the owner
will be paid in cash within a few
days. .There will be a 10% com-
mission to cover the costs of runn-
ing the store. Customers may
charge things to payday.

There will also be a corner for
handmade arts and crafts --
jewelry, stationery, pottery, paint-
ings and drawing, posters, and
artificial flowers. A bulletin board
will be available for adver-
tisements for services or for more
expensive items for sale.

Pop Sculptors

Mark Oxman, Haverford artist-
in-residence, will give a talk en-
titled ‘‘Three Contemporary Art- A
ists; on Thursday Mar. 7 at 8:30
p.m. in Room 8 of: Chase Hall
at Haverford.

He will show slides and discuss
the works of Frank Gallo, Michael

‘Williams, and Tony Greenwood.

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sculpture which is figurative, often
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THE enn NEWS

Friday, March 1, 1968



Page Ten : Ou cas

‘Masako Yamanouchi is a
Japanese girl who graduated
from Bryn Mawr in 1966. She
has spent the past year in

Vietnam working with Volun-

tary International Service |

Assignments, a Friends pro-

gram. oo Ed.

P;O, Box 863
Saigon, South Vietnam
', November 12, 1967

Dear friends,

The past year which I have spent
as a volunteer in Vietnam has been
one of great contrast to the four
years before that were spent at
Bryn Mawr College. Life here
is so different from the peaceful
and beautiful life on the Bryn Mawr
campus where ideas unfolded and
took shape in the very air of the
crisp autumn; the sharp winter;
and the warm lazy spring when
one could least afford to be lazy!

After a year here I have adapted
quite well to the customs of Viet- :
nam, and my language has advanced
to the stage where people in motor
repair shops (the old French Moby-
lette I use often breaks down) think
I am an overseas Vietnamese.
Once a woman I was talking to
asked me after five minutes
whether I was from Hue, the an-
cient capitol city of central
Vietnam. I asked her why she
thought so,and she, a Southerner,
replied that the Hue dialect is very
hard to understand. This anecdote
amuses my Hue friends no end

But a more sobering experience
is when I am walking with Carl
and Mark, two of the other vol-
unteers in our small group (Vol-
untary International ‘Service As-
signments of the American Friends
Service Committee) and people cast
hateful glances while small child-
ren throw stones. They invariably
throw the stones at me, the ‘Viet-
namese” girl for forgetting my
national pride in following the
‘trich’’ American. .

This illustrates best the situation

' and atmosphere here in Vietnam.
The presence in Vietnam of
the United States government and
military today is very extensive
and serious and the Vietnamese
are fighting back in every way
imaginable to throw off this yoke.

The stone throwing incident is just

one expression out of hundreds

of real feeling towards the U.S,

that exists in the Saigon govern-
ment controlled areas.
“*Quakers!”’

I live closely with the Vietnamese
people; have travelled much and
find that the Vietnamese are a
peace loving people. One of the
best illustrations I can think of
is when I explain that the pro-
gram I belong to is one of many
organized by the Quakers. ‘‘Quak-
ers!”? a face suddenly lights up.|
‘“‘They are the six who came and
demonstrated for PEACE last
year,” (referring to the group
led by A.J. Muste) ‘‘and aren’t
they the people who sailed on the
Phoenix to take medical aid
supplies to the North Vietnamese?’
And after that Iam accepted whole-
heartedly by individuals and fam-
ilies, This has happened. over
and over again even in the remotest
country-side.

The main desire of the Viet-
namese is PEACE, and they wish
to be left alone to live their own
lives and to decide their own fate.
But we live in» a world where
force and violence seems to be
the only common denominator, and
that is why the National Liberation
Front (NFL, Viet Cong, or VC)
is gaining in power and member-
ship. It’is impossible for young
Vietnamese men to carry out their
non-violent _ convictions because
they are sooner or later subject
_ to the Saigon regimes drastic
measures to draft every able-

bodied man into the ARVN

‘command. _ This being the case,

many young people judge it better
to channel the use of violence to
the side with the ‘‘Just cause,”’
the NLF. For the NLF is the
strongest organized force engaged
in meeting violence with violence
to rid the country of ‘foreign
domination’;
Communism Preferable

The South and Central Viet-
namese feel that ‘‘communism”’
is an alien ideology, and would
prefer not to live -under a
communist regime, but as the war
continues and it becomes increas-
ingly difficult to take a neutral
stand, most Vietnamese (with
exception of the 1954 Catholic ref-
ugees from the North) feel that
even communism as practiced by
the North which has stayed as
independent as possible’is pre-
ferable to the humiliating and ex-
asperating situation existent in the
South in their relationship with the
U.S, and its Allied Forces.

The main question then is this;
where do those who cannot condone
violence; who believe that non-
violence is also a viable force,
stand in the present situation?
I was disturbed to learn that Viet-
namese° peoplé who want to help

‘their own suffering people are

severely handicapped in their
efforts. Individuals and organ-
izations are too poor to do relief,

.~ work, and even those who have the

money. find that they cannot buy
the necessary materials on the open
market. Many find that they must
go to USAID for material aid even,
though they are loathe to ask for
aid from the people who share a
large part of the responsibility
for having created the suffering.

In the midst of this deplorable
situation I was fortunate tg come
in touch with a group of young
Vietnamese _ Buddhist students.
engaged in voluntary service to help
a School_to train young people for
community development work.

Based on the Buddhist spirit of

love and compassion, the School
of Youth for Social Service was
founded in order to carry out the
teaching of non-violence in an act-
ive and constructive way. The more
I got to know them, the more my
desire deepened to work under their
guidance for the reconstruction
of Vietnamese society.
Without U.S. Aid

The School’s ‘two year curric-
ulum stresses four main areas of
study - education, health and san-
itation, agriculture and animal hus-
bandry, and community™- co-
operation. The School has been
aware from the beginning that they
must learn to do their work with-
out depending on U.S. government
materials. They feel that the Viet-
namese must learn to do without
many things, or to create their!
own substitutes in order to be
really independent. Only by main«|
taining this independence and auto-,
nomy can they be true to their,
philosophy of self-help. In accor-|

dance with this philosophy, the:

School started a fund-raising:
program all over South Vietnam’
for their work, and over the two:
years has_ succeeded in getting.
pledges of monthly support from
over 1500 families (predominantly
though not entirely Buddhist) rang-
ing from the very poor who sell
in the market place to the rich.

Private foreign individuals and .

organizations abroad also give
support to this unique Vietnamese
initiative and effort.

The Schog?’can not pay good sal-
aries to aftract qualified teachers,
but almost from the beginning some
of the best professors and lecturers
from Saigon University and other
schools have come out to the School
to lecture with no pay. The School
is situated five kilometers outside
of Saigon city, yet these pledges

by the gad ‘have been kept-

Though based on the Buddhist
spirit and teaching the School is

.cal motives.

~ the people.”

An Open Letter

not evangelical and stresses acom-
bination of social and ~spirit-
ual action. The door is open to
all who volunteer to sacrifice their
lives to the cause of improving
the Vietnamese society and
furthering human understanding.
This is the first school of its
kind not only in the Buddhist com-
munity but in the whole of Vietnam.
The students come from every-
where. The School provides modest
rooming facilities ‘in a simple
cement building which is being ex-
panded room by room as the budget
allows. The building is still in-
complete after two years, although
there are enough rooms for the
number of students.
Terrorist Attacks

However, from the very
be ing the uniqueness of this

ool has caused many difficul-
ties, Starting with the work train-
ing camp of spring 1966, the School
has been under repeated terrorist
attacks. It is hard to understand
why people would want to destroy
the ‘School when its efforts are
humanitarian and it has no politi-
The problem is that
in Vietnam every action has a
political effect, and there is a con-
test between the fighting powers
to ‘‘win the hearts and minds of
The peasants are
constantly under pressure of. the
Saigon regime, the American mil-
itary, and the NLF, and are weary
of them all. They long for peace
and a chance to improve their war-
torn lives. When the students of
the School go out to work with
no motives other than a simple
desire to help sooth and encourage
their fellow countrymen to help
themselves, they are accepted
warmly by the people. This alarms
all the fighting parties whofeel that
they are losing political leverage.

They realize that the violent means

they ‘use are effective only for

‘immediate results but can never

capture the spirit of the people
as love and _ constructive non-
violence can. But those versed
in violence know only violent means
to answer the ‘threat’? that they
think the School poses.

In May. 1966, a_ grenade
was tossed into afarm house where
several of the students were stay-
ing, and critically injured one of
the boys’ head. Today his left
limbs are paralyzed and there is
the possibility that he will become
epileptic sometime in the future.
I did not start working at the School

until early this year, 1967, so did

not, know the details of the first

grenade incident, but have shared _

intimately in the subsequent trag-
edies,
Thirteen Grenades
On the evening of April 24th,

after supper at the School I left.
for Saigon with a friend at about
7:30, An hour later, thirteen
grenades were tossed into the girls
dormitory and open study hall kill-
ing two girls and wounding ten,
others. Later that night when
I learned of the attack and rushed
to the hospital, the emergency ward
was crowded with the girls I had
been talking and laughing with only
a few hours before, their faces
ashen and the tattered sheet-band-
‘ages covering their bodies soaked
in blood. The understaffed hospital
seemed incredibly slow and we
spent a sleepless night waiting out-
side the operating rooms praying
that no more would die. Everyone
survived and has since recovered,

‘but one of the girls had to have

her lower leg amputated, Another
girl was in mental shock for along
time afterwards.

- The days following were busy
with funeral arrangements and
visitations to the hospital to care
for the wounded. Since the govern-
ment police refused to investigate
the matter or to come and protect
the School against further attacks,
the boys began taking turns at
night doing guard duty. Of course
they have no desire for weapons
and feel that if there is any threat
of repeated violence, they can call
to the neighbouring farmers
for help. More and more evidence
came to light that this was not
‘Viet Cong terrorism,’’ as the
government was wont to spread.
Sometimes I would stay up with
the others to do guard duty, and
looking out into the night would
feel terribly sad that there should
be so much impersonal violence

in ‘this society. Surely those men

who tossed the grenades would not
have done so if they had known
these innocent and lovely girls;
if they came face to face with the
suffering parents; if they knew
the tenseness and yet thecalmness
of spirit amoung them all in the
face of danger; and above all
their forgiving spirit.

Rapport with Peasants

The curriculum of the School
was delayed but resumed when all
of the students felt that more than
ever they could not let their spirit
or work be defeated, and that they
wanted to show whoever wished
‘them ill that their sorrow would:
not turn to bitterness and hatred.

was conan to an end and the School
was planning its final work training
camp before graduating the first
class. When the training camps
began in June, however, almost
immediately eight boys were kid-
napped from the village ancestral
pagoda where they were staying.
Alarmed, the School was helpless
to do anything because once again
the government made little gesture

to investigate the matter. To this ©

day we do not know where those
eight students are, and whether
they are living or dead.

The kidnapping was meant to

“intimidate the School, but the Stu-

dents asked to stay on in their
villages and continued to work
shoulder to shoulder with the peas-
ants, gaining’ wonderful rapport
with them. They learned much
from the villagers and in turn
provided first-aid services, taught
the children, built sanitary lat-
rines, and experimented. with new

vegetable plafits with the peasants.-

The best indication of their success
was that within three weeks the
farmers had opened up their homes

so that the students could eat and

sleep with the farmers’ families
entirely free of charge.

Seemingly because of their
success, tragedy struck again. In
the early hours of the morning
on July 5th, armed strangers came
around to the villages where the
students were scattered and de-
manded of the farmers that they
open their ‘doors to let the stu-
dents out. The farmers refused to
comply, saying through the door
that any business they had could
be done when: daylight came. It
so happened that five boys were not
staying with farmers but were
sleeping in the village dispensary
which served as one of the teams’
meeting place. When the armed
men came to them they forced
the boys to open up with threats
to burn or grenade the building.
The boys were then tied up and led
to the Saigon River, where, an
hour later, they were shotto death.
When the boys were discovered
at dawn, one of them, a young
monk was found to be miraculously
alive, rushed to the hospital, and
has since then recovered to tell
the nightmare happenings of that
night.

A Grateful Father

The graves of the two girls were
not yet green, but once again we
were cast into preparations for the
funeral, and the rains poured down
to grieve for them all. It'was

painful to meet the families of the:

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much family resemblance, and I
understood where each of them had
received their beautiful simplicity
and quiet strength. The father
of one of the dead boys, who used
to sing and charm us all with
his warm smile. and cheerful
personality, came to me after the
funeral and expressed his deepest
gratitude to me for helping the
School and for having been his
son’s good friend. When I pro-
tested that there was very little

@

“I could do to help he said, ‘It

is your loving spirit that is im-
portant. In this war-torn country,
the School is doing important work,
and it succeeds because the work
is done with love. You are help-
ing by giving that spirit and en-
couraging the students. Much of
the actual work cannot be done by
you. They are Vietnamese prob-
lems and must be worked out by
the Vietnamese. Buthumanunder-
standing and love is without national
boundaries, and you serve us with
your presence,”’

I learned later that this parent
had told the School that he had
three more boys at home, and if
any one of them expressed adesire
to come to the School to serve
the people as his eldest son had
done, then he would gladly. send
them. Such is the atmosphere
I work in, where people give their
all for their country and their
fellow men.

War Victims
In early October the students
graduated and departed with
wonderful spirit to various regions
‘of South. Vietnam to start their
‘work. I hope to visit them in

a few months to share in their
work and to understand better the
problems of Vietnam. One of the
teams went to Quang Tri to sur-
vey the refugee camps there and
sent a bleak letter reporting the
miserable--conditions of the place.
One of the refugee camps has
12,000 people, little water, very
little food (things promised them
by the government get waylaid),
no education, and very poor health
and sanitary conditions. They have
heard unofficially that at least a
hundred’ children die each month
from malnutrition and disease, and
yet more keep pouring in because
of the destruction of their villages.

Until recently, the School.

. has ‘been unable to-give any relief

to the war victims (especially the
war wounded). This was because
they had their hands _ full
in community development train-
ing which is a long range con-
structive plan, and they could not
cope with the vast physical destruc-
tion of the war. They had neither
the personnel, the funds, or the
medical know-how to be able to
do anything meaningful in the'war
relief field. However, as the
terrible knowledge of the physical
suffering. everywhere weighed
heavily on each person at
the School, they had béen pondering
hard how to overcome their in-
adequacies of personnel, funds and
know-how.
Dedicated Vietnamese

Now they have opened a branch
to help the war casualties. Their
approach is thus. One of the pro-
blems of the war has been the num-
ber of wounded people who do not
reach the) hospitals and_ die

unnecessarily from lack of treat-

ment. For example, many doctors
from abroad have come to survey
the casualty cases and remark that
there are few napalm burn cases
‘in the hospitals, and those few are
being adequately treated. The truth
is that there are hundreds of people

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deaths because there is no way for
them toreacha hospital. Similarly,

peoplé
suffer unnecessary amputations
just because their condition’ is so
bad when they finally reach medical
care. The School has decided to
work in an intermediary capacity
by moving right after battles
take place or villages are bombed
to give first aid and then trans-
port the victims to the nearest
hospital or medical center avail-
Starting at this point they
hope to be able to work out trans-
portation for the serious cases to

be sent into the big city hispitals. -

Also, eventually they hope to get

nfedical teams (consisting of doc-
tors and nurses) which can move
in quickly to the destroyed areas
to give more than first aid treat-

‘ment from the very beginning.

I cannot tell you how fortunate
I am to work with these dedicated

“young Vietnamese at the School of

Youth for Social Service. I began
the letter by saying that it is so
different here from the peaceful
atmosphere of Bryn Mawr College;
But in reality this School is an
oasis of peace and beauty where
one can come and be revived in
spirit, be comforted and refreshed
for active service.
the spirit of peace and love which
each person has and cannot be
marred by the constant roar of
the military planes and helicopters
overhead, or the violent attacks
to destroy the School. During this
season and the coming year I wish
to share with you this precious
spirit and hope you too will write
to share with me your thoughts
and activities.
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War, McCarthy called for im-
mediate negotiations for peace.
‘‘We have refused to negotiate from
a position of weakness; we
have refused to negotiate from
strength ... When will we be in
a position to negotiate?’

Although he seated himself
when he finished his remarks,
McCarthy was brought to his feet
four times by a standing ovation
and cries of ‘‘Bravo!’? ‘‘Bravo!”’

Mr. Blair Clark, McCarthy’s
national compaign manager, spoke
to a smaller gathering after the
‘dinner, He reported that ‘‘This
‘campaign has had unusual diffi-
culty. raising funds. We have
to raise 50,000 dollars in the
next five days for the New Hamp-
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added that he was extremely my-
stified by press reports that
““¢The money is rolling in.’’’
‘It isn’t,’’? he said, ‘and we need
all the help we can get.’’

McCarthy, too, spoke briefly. .
Looking down at his hands
and-then- up at the crowd, he
smiled. ‘‘I just want to tell you
that what Blair says is true. We
need help.’’ :

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Cook ae Moore Frolic

While ‘‘Beyond the Fringe” was
in New York, a delighted public
whiled away the hours speculating
on where its four talented progeni-
tors, a history teacher, a doctor,
a pianist, and an actor, would go
from there. The history teacher,
Alan Bennett, has gone contented-

ly back to teaching: history. ‘Dr.
Jonathan Miller has begun reading
his own publicity, and is involved
in regenerating British theatrics,
Pianist Dudley Moore and actor
Peter Cook are not the least bit
interested in Bfitish theatrics.
They are busy amusing them-
selves and, presumably, making
a mint at it, when what they. do
happens to amuse the public as
well. They froliced with Peter
Sellers in ‘After the Fox,’’ ap-
pear frequently on British T.V.,
and are currently to be seen at
the Bryn Mawr Theater in their
cinematic brainchild ‘‘Bedazzl-
ed.”

In ‘Bedazzled,’ a hamburger .

cook at Wimpy’s, Stanley Moon,
sells his soul to the Devil, cryp-
tically named George Spiggott, in
return to seven wishes. His ob-
jective is to make it with a wait-
ress, Margaret Spencer, whom he
adores. The script is based on,
along with Goethe, a story by
Cook and Moore, written for the
screen by Cook, given background
music by Moore, and starring Cook
and Moore. One suspects that they
must also be responsible for the
film’s publicity folder, which sug-
gests inviting local religious lead-
ers to a special screening of the
_movie to stress ‘modern conse-
quences of selling one’s soul to
the Devil.’’ .
After its plot is pinned down,

Culinary Quip

in -view of the mouth-
watering discussions of home-
cooked food that are heard in
many smokers, Sue Lautin
suagested that students might
be interested in trying pro-
fessors’ recipes. Would you



like this continued? - Ed. .

There’s one point on which the
whole student body agrees - Hot
Shoppes food is bad for the figure,
the morale and the health, Mrs.
Joan Stevens of the French De-
partment has offered one solution
to this problem: it’s called su-
premes de volaille with cherries,

A supreme is half a boned,

skinned chicken breast. Any good

butcher can prepare these, Have

him fix six supremes, and then

get hold of:

6 T butter

1 small chopped onion

1/2 cup chicken broth

2 t meat glaze (not necessary)

-1 cup port (should be good enough
to drink plain)

1 can pitted black cherries

2 t cornstarch

Preheat oven to 350 degrees,

In a heavy skillet, melt the
butter and brown lightly the six
supremes, As they brown, re-
move them and place them in a
single layer in a casserole, Cook
_ the onion in the butter until it
turns clear, Add broth, meat
glaze (if you have it), and port
to the onion and butter, and bring
it all to a simmer.

Drain the cherries, saving the
juice, and mix the cornstarch well
with a few tablespoons of the juice,
Add this to broth,
simmer, stirring constantly until
it turns clear and thickens (the

juice from the chicken will thin.

it out), Add cherries, simmer
for a minute more and then pour
the whole thing over the supremes,
Cover the casserole and cook for
wenty minutes,

a: § anyone has a recipe she would
like to share, or would like
know how to make a certain di
contact Sue Lantin in resend ores

onions, etc, and .

this. movie’s similarities to
‘¢Faust’”’ end abruptly, ‘‘Bedazzl-

ed” is filled with a. great deal of

enormously. silly humor’, acerbic .

satire, and general nonsense. Be-

- cause Cook and Moore imbue the

movie with the same irresponsible
comic sense that must have pos-
sessed them to write it, it suc-
ceeds almostly completely.
Cook’s Devil is a streamlined,

mod villain, who is as attractive

as sin, He approaches Moon
(Moore) as he is trying to hang
himself, holding a limp rope in
one hand and a manual on knot-
tying, open to ‘*Nooses,’? in the
other. After breezily overcom-
ing Moon’s reservations, he leads
him to the Inferno, a discotheque
and Spiggott’s headquarters, and
contracts for the soul. Among the
staff of the Inferno are delicious
personifications of the Seven Dead-
ly Sins. One of these, Lust, is
played by Raquel Welch, a living
symbol to publicity men the world
over, Her talent is apparent the
minute she comes onto the screen,
or at least nothing that is not then
apparent ever transpires. In ary
case, she is on-screen in all less
than 15 minutes. Miss Welch’s
gigantic billing’ in this movie is
rivaled only by - Vanessa Red-
grave’s in ‘*Blow-up.”’

The object of Moon’s affec-
tions is played with great appeal
by Eleanor Bron. She used to be
the little girl who shared Sofia
Loren’s peregrinations in ‘‘Two
Women,.”? She has grown. She,
Cook, and Moore all figure in the
realizations of Moon’s wishes. As
these progress, one sees more and
more that this movie is a caval-
cade of parodies of recent British
movies. Moore .becomes a pop

‘singer in a segment in which Cook.

sings the title song, ahd looks
hysterically like the hero of ‘‘Priv-
ilege.’”? Cook as an Oxford Don,

and his wife, Miss Bron, entertain |

an undergraduate Moore on an af-
ternoon’s idyll with powerful over-
tones of ‘‘Accident.’’ The morgue
in which Miss Bron fends off an
amorous police inspector might

“be a ‘*Loved One” reject. Inci-

dentally, the theory that this en-
tire movie is a parody of Richard
Burton’s ‘‘Dr. Faustus’’ is false;
in fact, the opposite may be closer
to the truth,

However, this is not only a pa-
rade of parodies; it has real orig-
inality as well. The best of the
vignettes has Cook and Moore as
nuns of an order called Leaping
Bodelians, whose lore is soexten-
sive and so uproarious as to defy
comparison or description. Be-
tween wishes, Cook and Moore
chat and become friends, and Cook
gives a captivating account of his
life and times as Lucifer, before
and since the fall. They also have
a whale of a time contriving the
sort of mischief that makes up
Cook’s day.

This kind of zaniness is dan-

gerous, and occasionally Cook and ~

Moore allow themselves too much
of it, Even with the polishing of
Stanley Donen’s subtle direction,
some of ‘*Bedazzled’’ reveals it-
self as plain bad taste. God’s
omnipresence is fair game for
quips, but it is too much when
Cook is nervous about changing his
trousers. It is reasonably funny

“when Moore is caught wishing to be

a ‘*fly on the wall,’’ but the ensu-
ing ‘‘Loved One’’ sequence be-
comes a tasteless parody on a
tasteless model. It is enchanting
that the Almighty should be a res-
onant voice echoing in a giant, airy
greenhouse, but too much that
Cook should grudgingly eat dirt
for him. Spots like these are hope-
fully not signs that the humor that
allows them is passing its prime
and getting overripe. Thorns and
all, this is such a delightful rose,

isn, ‘would be sad to think of it as —

the last. Mary Laura Gibbs

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ALL WEEKEND

Forrest Theatre
**You- Know I -Can’t Hear You When the
Water’s Running’’

Theatre of the Living Arts

“The Importance of Being Earnest”’ |

Locust Theatre.
“Carry Me _ Back to Morningside
Heights’’

Society Hill Playhouse
*«The Flies’?

2nd Fret
Dave Von Ronk, singing blues, folk,
and. Bertolt Brecht

Main-Point —
Good and Plenty Rock Band

The Trauma
Michael Bloomfield and The Electric
Flag (‘‘The Trip’? theme) and the Man-
drake Memorial

- Arcadia

‘‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’’
Bala

‘‘Closely Watched Trains’’
Boyd

**‘Doctor Doolittle’
Bryn Mawr

‘‘Elvira Madigan’’
Cinema I

‘Closely Watched Trains’
Cinema 19

**In Cold Blood’?
Eric

‘ Fox

‘¢Berserk!’’
Lane

“Dr. Faustus’’
Midtown

‘Bonnie and Clyde’’

’ Randolph

**Gohe With the Wind’’
Regency

‘“‘Sol Madrid”’
Stanley

‘*Camelot”’
Stanton

‘*Valley of the Dolls’’
Suburban

‘¢President’s Analyst’’

Trans Lux

‘‘The Stranger” ~
Theatre 1812
‘China is Near’’
World
‘Elvira Madigan”
Yorktown
*‘Closely Watched Trains’’
163rd Annual Exhibition of Academy of
Fine Arts:
‘‘American Art Today,” continuing until

March 3 (Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m;

Sunday 1-5 p.m.; closed Mondays --
admission free) —

- FRIDAY, MARCH 1 ;

8:00 p.m. ‘‘The Hill,” Beury Hall, Tem-
ple University (also at 9 p.m.)
“An Evening of Traditional Amer-
ican Music’. Thomas _ Hall, Temple -
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Peter Cook keeps an eye on Dudley Moore as he arrives at a convent as the result of one of his
wishes in his-:contract with Lucifer,

~~-~Guide To The Perplexed——~

8:15 p.m. Debussy Commemorative C on-
cert, Charles Engel and Company,
Clothier ‘Hall, Swarthmore College

‘Albert Herring’’ by Benjamin Brit-
ten, Mitten Hall, Temple University

8:30 p.m. Philadelphia—premieres of
Michel de Ghelderode’s ‘‘Escuriel’’
and Harold Pinter’s ‘‘The Lover,”
Annenberg School Auditorium, Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania (tickets: $1,
students; $2, general)

Phil Ochs and the Jim Kweskin Jug
Band, the Academy of Music (tickets:
$2.50 - 4,50)

SATURDAY, MARCH 2

6:30 p.m. Basketball, Haverford vs,
Swarthmore, Haverford Gymnasium

8:15 p.m. ‘*Albert Herring’’ by Benjamin
Britten, Mitten Hall, Temple Uni-
versity :

8:30 p.m. Norman Mailer, speaking at
YM-YWHA, Philadelphia
‘*Escuriel’’? and ‘‘The Lover’’ (see
Friday)

SUNDAY, MARCH 3

11:00 a.m. Jewish Discussion Group, dis-
cussing the works of Buber, oe
others

3:00 p.m. Japanese Songs and Dances,
cosponsored by the Japanese Society
and the Philadelphia Civic Center,
at the Center (admission free)
“Escuriel” and ‘‘The Lover’’ (see
Friday)

3:30 p.m. Batten House tea

8:15 p.m. Michael Raloff, editor and poet,

speaking on the poetry of Nelly
Sachs, Stokes, Haverford

TUESDAY, MARCH 5

10:40 a.m. American Arts Trio will givea
concert of Chamber Music, Roberts
Hall, Haverford

7:15 p.m. Arts Council Film: ‘Ashes
and Diamonds’’ (1958), Biology Lec-
ture Room (again at 9 p.m.)

8:30 p.m. Dr, Luis Sampedro, speaking
on ‘*Economic Planning in Spain,’’
Common Room, Goodhart

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6
7:30 p.m. Scottish and Folk Dancing,
BMC Gym

THURSDAY, MARCH 7 |
8:00 p.m. “Three Men On a Horse”
produeed by Temple University
Theatre. Randell Theatre, Temple
~ _Univer'sity (admission $2. 00)
8:30 ne Samuel R. Leon, Professor’ of
glish at Hunter College, lecturing



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