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Vol Lill, No. 15






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DONT FORGET TO VOTE
THE COLLEGE NEWS



_ 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-

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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,