Eyer resident Shocks Campus by Quitting Council;

Eyer Shocks Campus by Quitting Council;
President Borton To Leave in Two Years
Borton Will Study Japan
by Don Dodson
President Hugh Borton will vacate his office to take a terminal
sabbatical in 1967-1 968. He plans
to engage in "two or three more
years of productive work" in the
field of Japane se histor y, his area
of specialization.
Dr. Borton' s decision was confirmed by the Board of Managers
at its meeting on March 19 , and
was announced to the faculty on
March 22.
The announcement has forced
a change in the Board's plans to
hire a provost , who will be the
second ranking member of the administration and chief consultant
to the president. Jonathon Rhoads ,
chairman of the Board , announced
to the faculty on Mar ch. 25 that
a faculty member will be chosen
to fill the new pos ition on a two
year basis.
Meanwhile , a committee has been
set up to select a new president.
The comm ittee will consist of
Board member s and two faculty
representatives, to be chosen at
the April faculty meeting.
President Borton does not feel
the announcement of his decision
will give him "lame duck" status ,
s ince it has been widely known
tbat he will reach the retirement
age of 65 in three years anyway.
He has not ''decided where and
how" to return to the field of J apanese studies. He said there are
several subjects which interest
him. ''I don't know which one I'll
settle on," he added.
Dr. Borton is one of the country's foremost experts on Japanese
affairs. Recently he was named
by Secretar y of State Dean Rusk to
the National Review Board for the
Center for Cultural and Technical
Interchange between East and West.
Dr. Borton received his B.S.
at Haverford in 1926 and his M,A,
at Columbia in 1932. He attended
the Imperial University in Tokyo ,
193 1-1 937, and was awarded a
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Eyer Resigns in Council Collection
by Alan Raphael
Joe Eyer resigned the presi- jobs he had to do.
dency of the Students' Council
Eyer deplored the apathy of
in a speech to the s tudent body in the student body and its apparent
Collection Tuesday.
unwillingness to seriously conThe students appeared surpris- sider proposals for change. Mter
ed and bewildered by his sudden speaking about several of what
announcement. Mter about a half . he considered to be the major
minute of shocked silence, the problems facing Haverford, he
students gave Eyf'r a standing said:
"Yet the experience of the last
ovation.
months has begun to convince me
that you , and others around us,
The text of Joe Eyer's
may very well be satisfied with
these evils of the old system ;
speech appears on pages
in fact , some see these evils as
3-4.
necessities.''
Eyer attacked the administraCouncil Secretary Peter Bartions
of Haverford and Bryn Mawr
nett is serving as president pro
tempore. He announced that nom- Colleges as bureaucracies which
inations for a new president will have the wrong ideals and are not
be open until Sunday night and that really conce rned with the needs
an election will be held next week. of the students. He claimed that
Eyer's speech indicated what Bryn Mawr has opposed such prothe Council had been able to do, posals as a joint bus s ervice and
what it had been prevented from meal exchanges because of "an
doing , and the sense of frustration ideal of a gir l' s school , which
he felt because of all the petty prohibits any extended and intensive contact with males."
Eyer asserted the colleges make
rules abo ut the wrong things: "It
is to be noted that colleges do not
make rules about money-grubbing
attitudes, or about a devil-takethe-hindmost psychology of cornpetition.
They do not make rules
$4.00 PER YEAR to encourage
treating others with
concern and humanity. Evidently,
their
idea ls
are somewhat
limited."
Eyer described the resistance
the introductory course. He will to three of the Council's major
also be a Philips Visitor. Harvey aims:
Winston, assistant professor of
"The suggestion to eliminate
psychology at the University of grading has raised up a storm of
Pennsylvania, was appointed part- righteous protestation and defense
time visiting assistant professor of things as they are, from the
of psychology for the fall semester faculty and from numbers of the
next year. He will teach the course students.
in Theories of Personality, in the
"The combination of departabsence of Douglas Heath. The
ments between Haverford and Bryn
Board also appointed Fred WightMawr has been put off until the
man, a psychology major in the
indefinite future.
pr~sent senior class, as an as"The suggestion of removing
sistant in the department on a
the sexual intercourse interpre(Continued on page 5)
HAVERFORD NEWS
VOLUME 55 - NUMBER 34
APRIL 9, 1965
Board Makes Faculty Appointments
The Board of Managers announced several key faculty
changes at its last meeting on
March 19. The changes are listed
below by department.
ENGLISH
Professor Ralph Sa r g e n t will
take a leave second semester next
year to study and write on Shakespeare. All other members of the
English department will be at the
College next year. The Board confirmed Edgar Rose, associate professor of English, as department
chairman for two more years.
FRENCH
Deborah R. Lippman, a graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania,
the Sorbonne and the Institut
Phonetlque in Paris, was named
part-time assistant professor of
French for one year. She will
replace Mme. Oge, who has been
a full-time visiting assistant professor this year. Miss Lippman is
a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she
has taught for 12 years and been
in charge of the advanced French
section of the General Honors
Program for the past three years.
GERMAN
Charlotte Anderson was appointed assistant professor of German for one year, since the heavy
enrollment in elementary and
intermediate German requires the
continuation of a fourth person in
'the department. Dr. Anderson received her Ph.D. in German literature from Yale in 195 5. She taught
at Connecticut College and Yale
before coming to Haverford in
1962. The Board also appointed
John Cary, associate professor of
German, as chairman of the department for three years.
HISTORY
A 26-year-old Radcliffe graduate was appointed assistant professor of history for three years.
Mrs. Linda Gerstein is now completing her thesis at Harvard on
Nikolai Strakov, a nineteenth century conservative theorist. Her
husband is a biophysicist at the
University of Pennsylvania.
MATHEMATICS
A gifted young instructor at
M.I. T. was appointed assistant profess or of mathematics for three
years. John A. Thorpe, a 29-yearold graduate of M. I. T. , wrote his
doctoral thesis at Columbia on
global differential geometry. He
is presently a Moore Instructor
in Mathematics, one of the special
instructorships reserved for the
most promising younger members
of the M.I. T. faculty. The minutes
of the Board meeting state that "he
should be an exceptionally good
teacher."
PHILOSOPHY
Josiah Thompson was named assistant professor of philosophy for
three years to replace Professor
Desjardins, who will be on leave
next year. Dr. Thompson graduated
from Yale in 1957, studied a year
each at Oxford and the University
of Copenhagen, and received his
Ph.D. at Yale last year. His disseration, "A Study of the Pseudonymous Works of Soren Kierkegaard, 1843-46," will be published by the Southern University
Illinois Press. He has been an
instructor at Yale for the past year.
One of his prqfessors there noted
that "he has just those qualities
for which one seeks in a teacher
of philosophy."
PHYSICS
Douglas Miller was appointed
associate professor of physics for
five years. According to the minutes of the Board meeting.• "Fortunately, we are able to reach the
quality_of man we want at the time
when promotion to tenure positions
at the Associate Professor level
first arises for him • • • This
situation applies to Douglas Miller,
35 years old, Yale, A.B. and University of Rochester Ph.D. in
1957." Dr. Miller has taught at
Harvard for the past eight years
and done research in the field of
pion scattering. According to the
Board, "He has shown a real interest in developing experimental
work in the introductory and other
physics courses."
PSYCHOLOGY
The Board made three appointments in psychology. Henry Gleitman, chairman of the psychology
department at the University of
Permsylvania, will be a visiting
professor of psychology on a parttime basis first semester to teach
Bell to Jilt Haverford
For Rockefeller Post
Dr. Philip Bell has resigned as
professor of economics as of June
30, 1965. He will become deputy
director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Equal Opportunities Program.
Professor Bell will reside in
Haverford and teach at the College "on a part-time basis as the
need arises and as he has time
to do so," according to President
Borton. He will teach a full-year
course next year.
The Board of Managers has
made two new appointments in the
economics department. George 1.
Treyz will be an assistant professor on joint appointment with
Bryn Mawr. Mr. Treyz majored
in psychology at Princeton. He
expects to receive his Ph.D. from
Cornell this year. He is writing
his thesis on the effects of alternative tax policies on the national economy. Mr. Treyz will
teach Introduction to Economics,
Statis-tical Methods in Economics,
and Introduction to Econometrics.
A graduate of Taiwan Univer..:
sity is the second new appointment to the economics department. Yan Chiou-Shuang will be a
part-time assistant professor for
two years. Since 1962 Mrs. Yan
has been studying at Purdue University. She will teach ccurses
in Macroeconomic Analysis and
Microeconomic Analysis.
Dr. Bell has not taught at Haverford for the past two years. Since
1963 he has participated in the
Rockefeller Foundation's university development program in
Africa. He has carried a full
teaching load at Makerere University College in Kampala, Uganda.
Philip Bell
Before coming to Haverford in
1952, Professor Bell was at the
Institute for Advanced Studies in
Princeton.
tation, and substitution of a positive , humanistic interpretation,
has marshalled all of the anonymous power s in opposition to any
change in the status quo."
Joe Eyer
Eyer told of the effects of the
office on his life :
"I found myself lost in a morass
of
accommodation, strategies,
precise estimates , etc ••. I took
out all of the stresses and strains
th at resulted on my friends, the
people who had been closest
(Continued on page 5)
Faculty Supports
Student Freedom
The Haverford faculty has issued
a statement opposing the scholarship aid policy of the Philadelphia Board of Education. The statement charges the Board with imposing a "vague and sweeping
authority to control the entire
life and conduct of its scholarship holr:!ers."
The statement was adopted by
the Haverford College chapter of
the
American Association of
University Professors on March
9, and subsequently by the whole
faculty in a meeting March 18.
It renews the Haverford protest against the Board's actions
concerning Russell Stetler. The
subject of controversy because
of his political activities, Stetler
retained a $400 scholarship grant
from the Board following several
tumultuous hearings a year a:go,
The faculty is concerned with
the change in policy instituted
last July, adding to the requirements for scholarship aid the
Board's approval of students' offcampus activites. UntillastJuly,
the
conditions said that a
recipient's conduct should
be
satisfactory to the College he
attended.
The faculty asserted that "under
no conditions should students be
deprived of their rights as citizens and be subject to political
and moral controls under the guise
of scholarship conditions. Scholarships should be awarded and renewed on the basis of financial
and/or
academic and
need
scholarly criteria; to impose other
conditions amounts to interference
with the student's freedom to
learn."
Copies of the statement have
been sent to the Board of Education
and broad support is being sought
from other institutions in the
Middle Atlantic states to r efuse
s cholar ship aid unde r the new
conditions set by the Board of
Education.
A Correction
good those at the top s upposedly exist;
2) the denia l to thos e at the bottom qf any way to voice
their desires and
ne eds,
i.e., the denial of free
expression.
To the Editor:
The Br yn Mawr e conomics department and the Have rford e conomics departm ent ar e feder ating, as r eported
in the Mar ch 19 Haverford NEWS, bnt e ::J r. h de par tm ent
r et ains its c hairm an, its own majo r Jn·og-ra nL ,,nd it s
institutional autonomy. We have not me rged. I a m not
''the " chairm an of "the" departrn t-> nt. I r 0g r et ve r y
much th at th e details of the arr ange ment were mi s inte rpr eted,
The pr ecedent that we hope will appeal to l>ot ll
colleges lies in our making joint use of facult y stre ngths
on each side while preser ving the fl exibility :•nrl inde pende nce that we all value . I should be so rry indeP<i ,r
other departments were deterred from moving in this
direction by an unwarranted infer e nce th at thei r fr et->dom and independe nce mi g·ht be curtail ed, The oul y
sad inferen ce to be drawn is th at a story som etimes
changes as it moves from origin to final printed version.
Holland Hunter
These two proble ms exist for students on non-libera l
campuses, a nd the y e xis t for the poor, the unemployed ,
the disenfra nchised (and otherwis e ill treated) Negroes ,
and for all others whos e pos itions a re economica lly
unviable . Simplified: those who don't ha ve money don't
have powe r. Nothing is going to stop the incre a se of this
alienation, but a r a the r radica l cha nge in the me thod of
money and powe r dis tribution in the s ociet y. I agree,
the Appa lae hia a nd P overty bills don't cha nge a nything. The fund s a r e filte red down throu gh a lready
succes sful organizations who for the main pa rt have no
spokesman from the people they a re try ing to help, but
will de cide fr 0m their desks what s hould be done and
order somebody to do it. Youths a re be ing trained for
jobs that will not exis t ver y soon.
Retort to Bott
(Reply to Robert Bott's "Answer to the Left "in NEWS
of March 19, 1965)
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It goes a gainst my highly intellectual and time-oriented
grain to have to spend precious minutes a nswering Mr.
Robert Bott's reply to my lPtter. In this letter he does
exactly the same things I previously complained about,
and I begin to despair of ever gently showing him the
(twi) light of decent journalism. However I feel compelled
to defend myself, be ing a competitive female, and a Bryn
Mawrter to boot.
When one makes a statement that someone has writte n
s omething "nebulous and ne gative," it is to be expected
that, unles s said one is known as an expert on the subject
in question, that said one will show why the piece is
"nebulous and ne gative,'' I showed why Mr. Batt's was,
in fa irly exhaustive detail. He however does not point out
one part of my criticism to uphold his statement.
Again, I i'ind "Romantic Left" un<iPfined. I am t:oreed
to conclude from Mr. Bott' s opposition of the Eomanti<:
Left to the '' Constructive Left," that he mea ns a ll leftis ts who do not offe r a definite vision of a good s oc iety,
"are Romantic."
As s uming this Is what he means , I read his knowled geable dis crediting of the student Left , his e quall y knowledgeable approval of the Ad Hoc Committee on the T r iple
Re vo lution, a nd his .final absolutely omnisc ie nt blueprint
for the illl proved societ y. Afterwards , I wa ver between
hyster ica l laughter a nd disgus t at his middle-class , childis h _jud gP me nts of this ve r,, importa nt and complex movement in our soc:iety.
Mr. Bott, to begin with, is unfor tunate ly mis take n when
hP (indi rec tl y) as::;umes that the Constructive Left has a
defin ite vis ion of a goorl sor:iety. I advise him to t:1lk to
anyone on a pr ngra m imple mented b y the R. L_ (peo!Jle ou
the PTP . .1\ !'SC. Wadp Jlou.se Project, etc). He will not
fi nd OIW wit.! I hi s s imp] is tie bluPpri nt.
Those gruups he cast.<; aside as childis h <lo in fact have
defini te plans of action, if not a bluepr int. The Stud ents
for a Democ r at i<'- Soc ie ty (included in the " Tinws" :llticle
Mr. Bolt ca lled a miserable fa ilu re) ha ve been doing n•seardi into eur re nt problems, a nd publis hing this informati on. They have community organizati on projects in
eleven cities (or towns ). It was the SDS who orga nized
the pickets of the Chase Manhattan Bank (" Wall St reet
would make mo re sense to picket tha n the White !-louse,"
to quote Mr. Bott) March 19th.
The Northe rn Stude nt Move me nt, headed by Willia m
Strickland, is the Northe rn counte rpart to SNCC. Wh ::~ t
is wrong withtllem·_• You ln<"!ud'• lll< ' l ll Ill \ Oll l' "<l i--, .~ · ,J i.~ ­
JH-·d Jnid <!J r·- d :Js;-; " ' 'i l<ln • JJ tnn w to lind :1 non- ••XJ'-- I<· nt
n .>\o ]lltillll.' '
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Friday, April 9, 1965
THE HAVERFORD NEWS
Page Two
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Bolt. s;t\ in
OJlP S('Jif P il C: I'
' ' The t:yc1e u!
1--'o ve rty is be ing broken by pre- s chool programs. The
PTP is )lelping the victim s of slum sehools and indus trial stratifica tion .• . " indicating approva l, anrl turn
around to say " A few bills have eve n pa s s ed Congress
-- Appalachia , P ove rty, Civil Rights, Peace Corps -but these are more legislative fa ce-s aving tha n cons tructive approac hes?"
obviously- indicating dis approva l? The Appalachia bill and all the 'War' on
Pove rt y leg-is la tion, are doing- jus t those things that PTP ,
etc ., does - - <~ du cation and tra ining- for vi<:t!ms of
poor s chools a nd indu s trial stratificati on. For the sake
of ever lov in' blue- eyed cons is tency and non nebulous ness, please choose one viewpoint and stick to it. I
would s ug-g€st that Mr. Bott s top reading s o much
evalua tion of what is happening to cha nge soc iety a nd do
some evalu ation of his own. He is ge tting confu sed.
• .• Hav ing torn up the pure _jouna listic s t yle (or lack
of s tyle) of Mr. Bot t' s letter, I will point out a blurr ed
s pot in his reasoning. The F r ee Speech Movem e nt at
Berkeley is much mor e important than Mr. Bott thinks,
I fear. It brings up s everal problem s ba sic to the ills
of Ame rican s oc iety:
1) The alienation of those at the top of any bureaucratic structur e from those at the bottom, for whose
There fore , the Berke ley affa ir is a go0d thing, because
it shows that students are not going to a ccept this unjust
and undemocra tic trampling on their ri ghts as citizens
of a free s ociety, any more tlla n the poor, the unemploye d,
and the intimidated and/or terrorized Negro is going to
in the long run. It would be more comforting to be able'
to write off the FSM as a flash in the pa n, but thos e who
are in a position to know more about the cha nges now
being made (such as Dr. Smelser) would s peak differe ntly,
I think .
I hope that in the future Mr. Bott will curb his omniscie nce, support his s tateme nts with fa cts, a nd stop
drawing non sequitur conclusions. The Haverford NEWS
is a good e nou gh paper, relatively s pe aking, to dema nd
i:iome sembla nce of decent and honest journalism from
one of its as sociate editors .
Marion Scoon
Bryn Mawr Coli ege
loaded Dice
To the Editor:
With the aim of inc reasing my knowledge of the VietNam s ituation, and thus be ing in a bette r pos ition from
which to evaluate the position of our g-ove rnm e nt, I
atte nded the pane l di sc us sion on Vietn a m a r r anged by
the Social Action Committe and he ld Ma r ch 18 in
Robe rt s . It had been adve rtised as a balanced presentation of th e oppo sing points of view by " ex pe rts' ' fr om
both s ides.
It was a ve ry fru s tr ating expe ri ence. The r eason is
th at although th e vi ew aga ins t our present policy was
presented by two knowledgea ble and highly a rti culate
indi vidu als , Dan La rkin a nd Dr. Stanley Millit, th e view
s upporting our pr ese nt policy in Vie tn a m was prese nted
by a quite unknowledgeable and es pec ially inart ic ul at e
individual. Thus , ins tead of th e see mi ng two- to-one ratio
agains t our g·over nme nt•s poli cy, it was act ua lly two to
much less th an one . (It 's like hav ing two Kii patricks
argu ing the case for segregati on again st a hig h school
civil ri ghts enthus iast. T hat wouldn' t prove a nything
e ither.)
In additio n, I thin k the dice were loaded by th e very
sit uati on of having a former junior military offi ce r
de bating against two intell ectu als in the Haverfo r d
co mm unity. Thi s is because an el'fe<:tive mili tar y man
must be IPss sens itive in areas where most of us ar e
highl y sens itive (e .g. , possibil ities of accide ntal ly killing
innoc<c' nt c ivili ans). T hu s , hi s "in sensitivity" over the
sehoolhous<> des tru ction i s " unde r s tandable" but it was
an incredibly stupid thi ng to exp r ess before a Haverfo r d
audience,
In shor t , although s ubstantial modifi cat ion of our
pre sent policy (e.g., developm ent of the Me kong basin)
in Vietn am may lw necessar y, the discuss ion on Thursday was so one-sided, des pite puiJ!icit y to th e contr ar y , that an honest individual cann ot dr aw any definite
conclu sions from it.
Eugene Sarver
More on Vietnam
To the Editor :
Reee ntly I was in vited to the home of a fri e nd whe re
a man , a n Am<>r ican just r e turned from Vietna m was
~ pp aking; to a s ma ll gr oup. Off a nd on he had li ved 'there
ior yea r s a nd was able to s peak and unde r s tand most of
the di a lec ts of the country as no military ma n, diploma t
or newspaper reporter has beeen able to do.
. •. What a un ique eount ry it is !" A multinationa 1 s ta te "
it has been called. No cent ra l gove rnm e nt has ever fou ~d
a way to communicate with a ll its pe ople, nor has any
governme nt been able to achieve ha rmony be twee n the urba n areas and the village s . "The laws of the E mpe r or
yield to the customs of the villages ," is a n o ld proverb,
a nd the loyalty of the people on the la nd is to the ir own
villages a nd not to Saigon. I wis hed I had had more background study before I had thi s opportunity to a sk questions.
Since the n I've bee n reading both "The Two v•__.. dms"
by Berna rd B. Fall and the new book, "Village in Vietnam" by Gera ld Cannon Hic ke y, both of which I recom.
me nd mos t hea rtily. In Hickey's book you learn to know
a nd understand the people, a nd after all, how can you help
people if you ha ve no idea what they a re like ?
.. . Most of us s eem to ha ve forgotten that this present
ins urrection wa s set off b y the ma ssac re of the headmen
ot ma ny of the village s by the Viet- Cong. I've read that
P resident Kenned y e s timated in 1960 that 4,000 of the
v illage offic ia ls had been murdered. How could this have
ha ppened ? Be r na rd Fall a r gues that the French were not
defea ted by the gu e rillas but by the "cla ndestine network
of the Viet- Cong that a nnuled the recognized authorities"
and the "undergr ound network of communication."
The governme nt c ould not reach out as the c0mmunists
did a nd s till do. The y had no way to speak to the people.
This condition has worsened r a ther than bettered these
last few ye a rs a nd de moc r a cy has discovered no way to
fi ght c ommunis m. As I understand it, this is the situation:
At the time of the division of the country s ome 900,000
people sought refu ge from communism by coming down to
South Vietna m from the North, a nd were given lands and
were well treated b y Diem in his e a rly years. A far
smaller number, e stima ted from 40,000 to 100,000 went
from the South to the North. They a lso were given land,
and in addition they were given special training in communist doctrines and actions . When they were well indoctrinated, they were infiltra ted back to their old villages
in the South to spy, report, organize and kill, uniting with
the sma ll "ha rd core" of communists who had been left
there. The religions of the villagers prevent them from
becoming communists, but what can they do? Tragically
the murders continue, and today it's a brave man indeed
who is willing to ta ke office in a v1llage as he knows that
if he doesn't take orders from the Viet-Cong his life expecta ncy is short.
... It ma y be that Preside nt Johnson has some grounds
for hope that lf the entrance of arms and men to South
Vietnam is blocked, the fighting will cease. Perhaps it
would, but not the conflict, for the Viet-Cong is now too
widely entre nched in most of the village s. They have not
converte d the villagers to communism, as they area very
relig-ious people, although of many different sects and
c ults.
The Buddhists are doubtless the largest minority, yet
they may not be a ma jority of the whole people. The Monta g na rds ha ve a different relig ion. The Roman Catholics
a re only about one-tenth of the population. Many are animists. The Buddhists a r e not unite d, a lthough Buddhism
is a part of the ne w cults such a s the powerful Cao Dai
who have eight different sects a mong themselves. Buddha, Lao T :,o; u, Moses , Christ, Moha mmed and Confucius
ar e among their s a ints. lt has been said that in Vietnam
religion is an omniprese nt thing. We ca n be of little help
to the m unless we understand each other in religious
te rm s .
Has n't the tim e co me for the world to try a new way of
- li ving toge the r'? In a le tte r ac c ompanying thepresentation
of Gilbe rt White ' s Lower Me kong River proposalto Pres·
ide nt Johnson, the Ame r ican Frie nds Service Committee
made the following petitions:
"1) to consider urgently how it may win international
s upport for cons t r uctive wo rk a long the lines alreadyexplor e d a nd r eported in the e nc losed a rticle ·
" 2;- to ta ke a strong American initiative f~r a cessation
of m ilitary operations so that rehabilita tion and development can he underta ke n r ealis tically;
" 3) to e ncourage appropr ia te inte rna tional and non·
gover nmenta l agenc ies to make the ir r e sources available
for these pu r poses ."
For Ame rica to call the na ti ons together with such a
progr a m would be ve r y different fro m power-seekL'lgne·
g·otia tions. It would be turning to a new page in inter·
na tiona l re la tio ns .
We s ha ll not be able to save our na tion unless we first
save othe r s . How to im ple me nt the Lower Mekong proposal is the challenge for Ame rica today . Haverford's
form e r President has thrown light on the path.
EIoi se Davison
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Art Wood Moves Up;
.l\n Open Letter
Library Gets Curator
Art Wood was named assistant
director of admissions by the Board
of Managers at its March meeting.
He succeeds William Ambler, who
will become director of admissions
upon the retirement of Vice-President Archibald Macintosh at the
end of this year.
In other administrative appointments, the Board named Charles
N. Walsh, ' 51, as curator of Haverfordiana. Mr. Walsh has been a
volunteer worker in the library
for many years and is a member
of the Library Associates Council.
He will work without pay.
Mr. Wood will continue the same
type of work he has done since
graduating from Haverford last
June. As an admissions assistant
he has conducted interviews and
traveled to high schools throughout
the country to acquaint students
with Haverford.
Mr. Wood was a history major
and is considering doing graduate
work in history. He plans a career
in college adm issions work.
As a Haverford student, Mr.
Wood was Council treasurer , twice
a member ofthe Customs Committee and chairman of the Arts
Series Committee.
Managers Accept
Caselli Departure
Art Wood
The Board of Managers accepted
the resignation of Aldo Caselli,
business manager and comptroller,
at its meeting on March 19.
In its formal statement the Board
said:
"In accepting this resignation,
the Board recognized the new situation created by the administrative
reorganization which is planned
for the new academic year.
"The Board a ls:.> was deeply
appreciative of the twenty-two
years of devoted and unselfish
service Ald:> Caselli had rendered
the Colleg·e and wished to thank
him on their own and the College's
behalf for all he has done for it."
Pn\o.;ldPnt
Hu ~h
Borton, ,,vho
Page Five
THE HAVERFORD NEWS
Friday, April 9, 1965
An Open Letter to the Board of Managers of Haverford College:
Dear Sirs,
As you are no doubt aware, the basement of the New Dormitory
at Haverford College is without any form of recreational or lounge
facilities at the present time. In view of the fact that a certain fund
exists with which to purchase equipment to rectify this situation,
we are requesting that this money be used for this purpose at the
earliest possible opp'Jrtuntty.
The need for such facilities is particularly critical at the moment
because their absea::e has resulted in a noticable decline in the quality
of the social life here at the College. This, of course, adversely
affects the at mosp;1ere of the institution in many ways.
The creation of a lounge in the basement of the New Dormitory
with a televisi.on an::l a pool table would satisfy a number of the immediate needs to be dealt with more effectively with the planned
co.1struction of a new student union. An area is needed in which to
hold small dances and other social events after movies and concerts.
At this time, such an area does not exist. Also necessary, is a place
in which orgaai zational parties by the various camp•J s organizations
may take place.
We would very much appreciate your giving this letter your consideration. The need for these facilities is great and if funds available for the purpose of . dealing with this situation could be utilized,
a definite improvement in the social life of the College would be a
rapid and success:'ul result.
Respectfully Yours ,
John Blair
John Milliken
Bill McNeil
Peter Barnett
Kent Campbell
Dave Fraser
Oppenheimer Fights for 'Candy'
by Bob Bott
Sociology professor Martin Oppenheimer went to court for
"Candy" Wednesday, March 31.
Dr •. Oppenheimer testified before a Philadelphia court that
Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's satire on pornography was
not a "threat to the moral wellbeing of the society."
On the previous Friday, March
26, the head of Notre Dame' s
sociology department, Dr. John
J. Kane, had told the court that
the book was " filthy •.. obscene
• • • with no literary merit at a ll."
Reports of Dr. Kane's "sociologi-
cal judgments" prompted Dr. Op- ment, Columbia University; and
penheimer's offer to testify in be- Lyle Stuart, "Candy's'' publisher.
half of the book's distributor, the
It appears at present that the
United News Company.
lower court will rule against the
The Commonwealth of Penn- book, but the case can be appealed
sylvania claims that it can censor to the more lib era 1 appellate
the "morally damaging'' book courst.
under its legitimate exercise of
The original impetus for the
police power. United News and the s uit seems to have come from a
four other national distributors say group known as "COP" (Citizens
that the book is harmless, both Opposed to Pornography)which has
morally and artistically.
a lso sponsored exhibitions and
Also testifying for the distribu- bonfires of allegedly pornographic
tors we re: Dr. Morse Peckham, literature, such as "Playboy" in
professor of English literature, Philadelphia.
(Conti11ued from page 1)
part-time basis next year.
SOCIOLOGY
Paul Hare was reappointed associate professor of sociology for
five years. This year Dr. Hare
has been on leave to teach sociology at the University of Ibadan
in Nigeria on a grant from the
Ford Foundation. He received his
B.A. at Swarthmore and his Ph.D.
at the University of Chicago. Before coming to Haverford in 1960
he did research work and taught a
year each at Wellesley and
Harvard. His last leave from Haverford was in 1961, when he served
as deputy director of the Peace
Corps in the Philippines.
March Protests
Vietnam Policy
Student for a Democratic Society (SDS) is s pons oring a March
on Washington to protest United
States intervention in the war in
Vietnam, to be held April 17.
In declaring the March, SDS
asserted that: "The current war in
Vietnam is being waged in behalf
of a succession of unpopular South
Vietnamese dictator s hips, not in
behalf of freedom."
The march will include a picketing of the White House, a march
down the Mall to the Capitol Building to pres ent a statement to Congress, and a meeting with both
student and adult speakers. Senator
Ernest Gr uening of Alaska and
journalist I. F. Stone have already agreed to address the body.
SDS urges the participation of
all student s who agree that the
war in Vietnam injures both Vietnamese and Arpericans, and should
be stopped.
The Social Action Committee
will provide trans portation for the
Haverford students who wish to
participate in the march.
Univers ity of Pennsylvania : Dr •
Albert Goldman, Englis h depart-
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iollowing statement to the NE WS:
Hln the nearly eight years I
have worked with him I have had
more of an opportunity than a nyone to know how conscientiously
and hard he has worked for the
good of the College and how he
has always been watchful tha t no
unnecessary expenditures were
made.
''I certainlyw is h him well for the
future."
He's aspecial kind ofspy...
he doesn't know enough
to come in from
the cold!
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Eyer...
(C:ou t iuu ed fr o m /){If!,<' 1)
lo me •. . The inexorable drive
of litis process had made me at
times - - is it not tr ue ? - - i mperious . conte mptuous . ir rational.
It has made m e cynical. stolen
away what idea ls I had."
In an open meetin g of t he Com mittee of 36 Tue sday night, Bar nett read a state me nt made by
Eyer :
"When people come up to me
and say: 'Joe , pleas e do not r e sign, we want you as pre s ident,
etc. - - What are they saying?'
They thin k that some how my
leading, my occupying that offi ce,
will make a tre me ndo us diffe r ence.
They look at the pos s ibility of
my resumin g the presidency, w ith
an anticipation of r e lief."
The statement continue d to say
that the lack of a Counc il pres i dent will for ce the students to
think about themselves and co mmit
themselves to action.
He then indicated that he will
continue to contr ibute hi s energy
" if the r e is idealis m and committment. " Without s uch committ ment Eyer said" You can expect me
to be a s tudent , to have s in cerity and fr iends hip, and to t ry to
do what is r ight in anothe r way.
Mor e than that you cannot r ea s onably as k."
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a ssure privacy for those p assengers who wish to work or r ead.
Astrovision is provided in both first class and Royal Coachman.
Page
Friday, April 9, 1965
THE HAVERFORD NEWS
~ix
Borton ...
(Continued from page 1)
Ph.D. by Leyden University in
Hollanrl ,., ~ 0 ?.7.
!le was named Haverford
vo!lege president in 1957, he had
served on the faculty at Columbia
for 20 years. He was a full professor of Japanese and the director
of the East Asian Ins titute at
Columbia, 1950-1957.
President Borton has served in
various positions with the State
Department , such as chief of the
Division of Northeastern Asian
Affairs and s pecial assistant in
the office of the director of Far
Eastern Affairs, 1942-1948.
He was chairman of the u. s.
delegation to and co-chairman of
the U. S.-Japan Educational and
Cultural Conference in Japan in
Hugh Borton
Eyer Denies Validity
Clarence Pickett Dies
Of Newsweek Article Of Heart Attack at 80
by Terry Jones
NEWSWEEK
misrepresented
Joe Eyer's views in a recent
article on campus leadership, according to the former Council
president.
The following paragraph appeared as part of an article titled
"Campus '65" in the March 22
issue of NEWSWEEK:
" ••• Haverford recently elected
Joe Eyer, who he lped organize a
group to send medical supplies to
the Vie t Cong, as its student body
president. His program is t ypical.
'We're somewhat antiquated here,'
he says, 'because we s till have a
marking system. We're going to·
get rid of that. We're going to
have closer student-faculty relationships, with more original
work (by students). We're going
to change the social rules. We're
going to involve the students more
in the control of the college. The
administration and faculty have
botched up. They either don't care
or have a parental attitude.'"
The curt statement, he told Dean
Lyons, was the result of a twohour discussionwithaNEWSWEEK
r epresentative, he ld in his room.
Eyer said that they discussed
not only Haverford and its policies,
as the quotation implies, but the political scene in general and ''rad-
Mass Meeting Considers
Grading Reform Plans
The Students' Council proposal
for the elimination of grades was
presented to the Committee of 36
at a meeting in Roberts Hall Tuesday evening.
President pro tempore Pete
Barnett, after explaining Council' s
conception of the real purpose of
grades, outlined the following aspects of the proposal:
1. A pass-fail grade on the course,
on the transcript.
2. A self-evaluation written by the
student himself.
3. An evaluation by the professor
and comments on student's selfevaluation. In large courses,
most of the emphasis can be put
on the self-evaluation to save
the
professor unnecessary
labor.
4. Straight point grades on exams
in science and mathematics, indicating where more work ought
to be done, but not comparing on
a curve.
5. Individual office conferences at
the eonvenience of the professor.
6. Pass-fail only on exams, along
with extensive comments.
7. Students required to be prepared every day for class participation.
Anticipating the objections that
would be raised regarding evaluation by graduate schools, Barnett
pointed out that ranking American
intitutions are " gettingalongwithout grades and putting students into
graduate schools without difficulty," that graduate schools today
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European institutions have long
survived without grades as we know
them and seem to produce competent graduates.
Moreover, Barnett said, the
elimination of grades will compel
graduate schools to look more
closely at evaluations from Haverford. This will be beneficial to our
graduates in the long run, since we
are now at a disadvantage to
mediocre
institutions,
whose
straight-A graduates stand better
in graduate school admissions than
Haverford students with SO's,
according to Barnett.
Bill Beardsley then presented
the Council's proposal for the
adoption of a 55-44 course system
with changes in the limited elective
requirement. The new system
would permit the more concentrated study required in advanced
courses, and would lighten the
teaching load of professors.
Reduction of the limited elective
requirement would lower the number of uninterested students in introductory courses and thus make
"interest more an incentive for
good performance than the gr ade
has been."
Barnett emphasized that these
were not the only issues under consideration. Council intends to pursue the policies which Joe Eyer set
forth. His is an "exciting, new progr a m," said Barnett, "one that
should benefit the entire College
community."
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Dean Lyons s uggested that he
write a letter of explanation to be
published in HORIZONS, and Eyer
agreed that it might prove worthwhile. He has already written a
letter of retraction to NEWSWEEK.
In addition, the following s tatement was included in a letter from
the new Students' Council to the
Board of Managers: "In particular we would like to call attention
to the quotation of the P r esident of
the student body, contained in the
' Campus 65' articl e of the recent
NEWSWEEK magazine. The quotation was take n out of conte xt, and
was also doctored. Similar distortion of student views will probably
occur in the future, and the only
solution Council sees to this problem is better, more friendly communic ation with the Board and the
Administration.''
Dr. Clarence Evan Pickett, executive secretary of the American
Friends Service Committee for 22
years, died of a heart attack March
18 in Boise, Idaho. He was 80
years old, a nd a resident of Haverford.
As executive secretary of the
American Friends Service Committee from 1929-1950, Dr. Pickett dealt with poverty among North
Carolina millworkers during the
depression, aided Spanish Civil
War refugees, helped Nazi-persecuted Jews, got food and medicine
to the world's poor during World
War II, helped set up a program
for conscientious objectors, and
inaugurated a race relations program.
In 1947, the American Friends
Service Committee and the British
Friends Service Council were corecipients of the Nob e 1 Peace
Prize.
A dedicated public servant, Dr.
News
Graduate Fellowships
F our seniors have been awarded
fellowships by the College to assist them in continuing their s tu dies i n this country or aborad
afte r graduation in June.
Recipients of the Clementine
Cope Fellowships are: David F raser, a biology ma jo r; Robe r t Berson, history; and E. Chr istian
Filstrup, a political science m ajar who will s tudy religion in
gr aduate school.
Norman Flinker, a n Engli s h major, has r eceived the Augustus
Tabe r Murray Hesearch Scholars hip.
Oppenheimer Moderates
Sociology professor Martin Oppenhe imer will chair a discussion
of "The Sociologis t Activist in the
Civil Rights Move ment" at the
35th annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Soc.iety, this Sunday at the Hotel Commodore in
New York City.
Development Dinner
The Development Office honored
some two hundred persons, most of
whom are descendents of families
which have made bequests and gifts
in trust to Have r fo rd, at a dinne r
in Founde rs Hall on April 2.
T he dinne r marks the start of a
long-range program for inc.reasing beq uests and trusts to the Col lege as part of an overall de velopment plan.
Grant to Selove
Professor Fay Selove, one of
the nation's leading women physicists, has been awarded a fellowship from the Hohn Simon Guggenheim Memori al Foundation.
The grant will pe rmit Dr. Selove
to work at the 88 inch cyclotron
at the University of California's
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
in Berkeley during a seven month
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Pickett was a lso a consultant to
many government agencies. At his
death, he was on the National Advisory Council for the Peace Corps,
and was a director of the U, s.
Committee for Refugees. Since
1958, Dr. Pickett had been chairman of the Philadelphia Police
Advisory Board, the first civilian
review board in the country.
In 1913, Dr. Pickett graduated
from Hartford Theological Semtn.
ary. He studied at Harvard Divinity
School, 1922-1924.
He then became professor of
Biblical literature at Earlham College. Dr. Pickett remained there
until 1929, when he was named
executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee,
Retiring as executive secretary
in 1950, Dr. Pickett continued to
be active as secretary emeritus.
He was also co-chairman of the
Committee for a Sane Nuclear
Policy (SANE).
Brief
period this year. She will s tudy
nuclear spe ctroscopic para metPrs
and do inte rpre tive work in
theories of nuclear s tucture.
Steere at Collection
Douglas V. Steere, Profes sor
Emeritus of Philosophy, will be
the Collection speaker April 13.
His topic is "An Observer's Evaluation of Vatican Council II."
Dr. Steer e , presently chairman
of the F riends World Committee ,
represented the Society ofF riends
as an official observer at the Council.
Sonata Recital
A sonata r ecital, featuring the
works of Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, and Vivaldi, will be given
April 11 at 8:00 p.m. in the Common Room.
Violinist Umberto Gabbi and pia nist Silvia Glickman will prese nt
the program , which will be open to
the public without charge.
Mr. Gabbi was form erly with I
Musici, a well-know Italian chamhe r mu s ic g roup.
Mrs . Glic kman, wife of a Haverford political scie nce profess or,
has performed on tours in three
contine nts . A former soloist with
the Alard Q uartet, she has performed frequently in solo and
c.hambe r music concerts in the
Philadelphia and New York areas.
Bryn Mawr Parking
Bryn Mawr has announced changes in its parking regulations.
Students from Haverford may park
in the Erdman-College Inn a nd
Scie nc.e Center areas, but not in
the parking spaces on the main
campus , except after 5:00 p.m . on
weekdays , a nd any time on weekends .
ed in the e venings during the week
in order to be tter serve the student
body . T he change is being made
on a t r ial basis, in order to find
out how the Coop' s fi nancial position wi ll be affef' tN l. TheCoopwill
now be open at. till' followin.g limrs:
MONDAY-F HID/\ Y: ~l: OO ;1.111 . 2:00 p.lll ,
SATURDAY: 9:00a.m. -1 2:00noon
Customs Appointments
Counc il has appointed the Customs Committee for next year,
Co-chairmen are Clark de Schweinitz a nd Alan Raphael. Other
juniors on the committee are Dod
Cr a ne , Kent Campbell, Munson
Hicks , George MacPherson, and
Dave Parker.
Sophomore members are Eli
Brettler, Barry Cham berlain,Doug
Meiklejohn, Rick Richards, Dave
Stephenson, Howie Stine, and
Charles Wolfinger.
Freshmen chosen are Tom Currie, Carl Grunfeld, Terry Jones,
Dennis Lans on, Terry Little, Dave
Mills tone , Mike Moore, Larry
Root, Tim Sieber, Scott Weiss,
and Jim Wright.
French Play
A professional cast of fourteen
will present, in French, the play
"The Tidings Brought to Mary"
in Roberts Hall Wednesday, April
21 at 8:00 p.rn.
Le Treteau de Paris will present Paul Claudel's " L'Annonce
Fait a Marie," a miracle plaY
with a l1ledie val Christian back·
ground.
Stude nts can obtain tickets at
a di scount in Dean Lyons' office,
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