by Petition Signed Over

BMC Colloquium Has Two Goals:
Communication, Specific Proposals
Petition at Haverford
Signed by Over -300
Raps 'Rebellion' Bil ls
"Over 300 Haverford students have signed
our petition opposing the so-called ' student
rebellion' bills in the State Assembly,''
annOWlced Tom Gowen, president of the
Haverford chapter of College Young Democrats. "We intend to send these petitions to Herbert Fineman, the Democratic
speaker of the House, who we know opposes all these bills, " Gowen said.
Petition Circulated
Gowen and Jon Delano, CYD vice-president, have been circulating their petition
among all Haverford s tudents and faculty
members.
The petition calls for the
defeat of Senate Bill #227, House Bill
#135 because ''these bills, ostensibly aimed
at student rebellion, violate the constitutional rights of citizens in our colleges
and universities."
In giving active support to the position
of the state executive committee of CYD's,
Gowen stated his belief that only through
a concerned effort on the part of Pennsylvania college students and faculty could
these bills be defeated. "Unfortunately,
until now the legislators have received
large volumes of mail from only those
residents favoring the passage of these
bills. We must begin now to flood the
offices of state representatives with letters and petitions opposing passage,'' Gowen
said,
In another petition drive, Frank O'Hara
'72 have been --circulating petitions in opposition to the antiballistic missile project. "So far , we've only got 175 signatures," O'Hara stated, "but that's only
(Continu ed on pag e 4)
H'ford Music Starts
Two New Seminars;
Hires No New Profs
"A major flaw in the music course
offerings (at Haverford) as they stand at
present is their ·failure to encompa ss instruction in actual music-making, in
the sense of performance." This criticism
made last November by a committee of
students and faculty members in the Haverford
music
department
has been
answered by a pair of new mus ic courses
approved at the February faculty meeting.
Music 21, 22, Seminar in Analysis and
Performance Practice, will supplement
perfo~ mance in
a musical group with
seminars analyzing the pieces being perfor med in terms
of s tructure and
history. Music 25, 26 will offer credit
for instrumental or vocal instruction taken
with off campus teachers.
. The two courses represent a new broadenIng of the idea of creditable activity
Since they give credit to courses which
While not entirely intellectual in thru;t
themselves, are' necessary for the in:enectual development of students s tudyIng music. Steve Ei sdorfer, a s tudent
member of the educational policy com mittee, which considered at length
the lmp
· 11cahons
- .
of approving these
courses, said, ''This step is really only
Possible because we sat down and tried
to _define what we meant by 'creditable
activity,' In the pas t the criteria had been
(Continu ed on page 4) ,
Bryn Mawr students today are participating in the first Bryn Mawr Colloquium.
Judi Hurwitz, an organizer of the Colloquium, described the goals of the day as
''both achieving a sense of communication
and for mulating specific recommendations
t o pr esent to the administration.'' To
accomplish this, 22 discussion groups are
meeting at each of four different times
today: 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., and
4
The Hasty Pudding Theatrical Club of
Harvard will present "Bottoms Up," its
annual production, Monday, March 31 at
8:30 p.m. in Roberts. Tickets are $3.50 for
students, $4.50 and $5.50 for others and
may be purchased at the Haverford Business
Office.
p~m.
600 Sign Up
Last week about 600 people signed up for
discussion groups. Miss Hurwitz predicted
that in addition to these there would be
observers from Haverford, Swarthmore,
Penn.
Also,
she said, many
and
graduate students who did not sign up
will attend.
''Many graduate students
didn't sign up because they weren't sufficiently informed. I think there will be
a good turnout of grad students.''
Schedules for today's meetings have
been posted in all the dorms , in Taylor
and Dalton, in the Grad Center and the
School of Social Work.
Tentative Schedule Announced
For 3-Day Haverford Colloquia
Haverford College will participate in
three days of colloquia with the intention of making members of the College
community to see the College afresh,
according to John Ottenberg, chairman of
the Colloquia committee.
The goal of the project, Ottenberg said,
is to "demonstrate that we can combine
the pursuit of e xcellence with joy.'' He
said the three days, Thursday, Friday, and
saturday, April 3-5, will be devoted to
" recre ating the freshman e xperience,
getting people to see Haverford in new and
different ways.''
Cooperation Furthered
the length and, consequently, the depth of
the event. "We think we can go very much
farther in making people see Haverford
differently in three days than we did last
year in one. This year we will be able to
collate the results of the first day's discuss ions and use that information during the
next two days." Ottenberg said the additiona! length is the only part of the undertaking he expects to have any trouble
getting people to agree to. " The faculty
is very jealous of its class time, we have
tried to schedule it so that no class misses
more than one meeting.''
The committee planning the Colloquia
includes David Cross, Hadley Reynolds,
The Colloquia will also try to further bi- Marc Schneider, Stan Murphy, Steve Kaufcollege cooperation by devoting a full day,- man, Larry Phillips, Prof. James Ransom
Saturday, to matters of interestto people on and freshman advisor Greg Kanner stein, ot~
both campuses. "Of course we would like tenberg outlined the tentative schedule they
to have girl s from Bryn Mawr attend all the have come up with:
activities," Ottenberg said, "but we esAfternoon Picnic
pecially want to involve them in Saturday's
Classes would end 12:30 p.m. Thursday.
events.'"
The early afternoon would be devoted to a
The events of the three days are tenpicnic and an assembly. ("The purpose of
tatively planned to include a wide variety
these if to shake everyone out of their
of experiences: all-College assemblies,
daily routine.") The early evening will
small group discussions, lectures, films,
be devoted to directed discussions ("We
concerts , -perhaps work projects , and cerwant them directed toward specific topics so
tainly a "bachanalian revel," ottenberg inthey won't just drift like some of last
dicated. "We want to do a lot of things year's.'') Later there may be a variety
which usually aren't don~ much here, and
of simultaneous
events -- films, lecwe want them to be as participational as
tures, concerts, etc. The day's activities
possible."
might conclude with everyone sleeping in
The committee chairman cited some at the field house.
differences between this year' s event and
Friday morning will begin with a comthat of last year. The primary difference, munal work project. Ottenberg said he
he said, would be one of spirit. ''What we hadn't worked this out in detail but saw
did l ast year was good, but it was limited. no immediate obstacles to arranging somewe want to start where it left off and go thing worthwhile. The remainder of the
much farther.'' The spirit this year would day would be devoted to a variety of small
be one of involving the whole man rather than group discussions and problem-orientated
just his intellectual components, Ottenberg workshops. The evening will be devoted to
said. One way of doing this , he s uggested,
an assembly which would conclude the formight be to have everyone participate in a mal Haverford-oriented part of the c ollowork project. ''Maybe the best thing we quia. (" It will be participational, not a forcould do to foster a sense of community mal summing-up.'') The day would end
would be to get two or three hundred with what he called ''a collective drunk"
s hovels and have everyone dig a hole which social committee chairman Bob Linn
together."
is arranging.
Another difference, he noted, would be
(Continued on page 4)
Miss Hurwitz said that Bryn Mawr
students who had not been assigned to
groups already were welcome to attend
any group they wished. Haverford students
are welcome as observers. A schedule
has been posted in the Haverford Student
Union. Refreshments will be served in the
gym at 11 a.m. and 3:30p.m.
Particular Focus
Each group will focus on a particular
question on life at Bryn Mawr: Should
there be seminar courses as well as purely
lecture courses? Should Bryn Mawr have
a student union? Should dining facilities
be centralized? Should there be more
extensive use of pass-fail grading? Should
there be more formal and informal contact
between graduate and undergraduate students? Should Bryn Mawr go coed alone
with Haverford, with another school, or not
at all? Should students be able to institute
their own courses? Should student government be made more effective or be
abolished? Should Bryn Mawr become more
involved in community activities, both on
the Main Line and in Philadelphia? Should
Bryn Mawr more closely associate itself
with Swarthmore and/ or the University of
Pennsylvania?
Core groups have been working on these
questions since Wednesday. Miss Hurwitz
described their activities as "formulating
(Continued on page 4)
H'ford Student Prepares
Booklet Describing Scope
Of Flexibility Possibilities
H_a verford student Doug Johnson is preparing a booklet describing the possibilities of academic flexibility at Haverford.
The problem, Johnson said, is making
students aware' of "the scope of flexibility possibilities.''
He said his goal
will be to "show students what has been done
in the past, what can be done in the future
and the procedures that have to be followed:
If students know what the possibilities
are and the procedures for taking advantage of them, they have no excuses for their
own inaction."
Foreign Studies
Johnson said his booklet will also provide information about foreign studies programs, and about taking courses atSwarthmore, Bryn Mawr, or Penn. Other alternatives which also do not require ac-flex
approval but will be covered are: the possibilities of taking courses at other colleges and the availability of special programs such as project courses and double
credit.
The booklet may be printed, he said,
but if this takes too long it will be m imeographed instead. "We had planned to have
it done earlier but Dean (David) Potter's.
secretary, who was supposed to prepare us
a list of things people did under academic
flexibility this year from the committee's
minutes, has been very busy so we won't
actually have the information until sometime this week.'' Johnson promised however, that the information gathering would
be completed before spring vacation and
the booklet in student hands before the
registration period.
In the meantime, he is planning to send
sophomores a mimeographed sheet this
week concerning possible variations on the
standard major.
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Viewpoint:
To draw any parallel between the lot of
today's s tudents in American universities
and those of the victims of Auschwitz and
slavery is a ghastly insult to the memory_
H'ford Has Los t Uniqueness;
Lacks Nature, Shared Values
By Jay Barrett
President John coleman is looking for a
statement of what makes Haverford distincitive and excellent. I am completing
four years here, and have become rather
cynical about our distinctiveness and our
excellence, It is rather obvious to me
that Haverford is becoming an integral
and undifferentiated part of the United
St ates.
It is most obvious in physical appearance. Haverford is becoming buildingcentered and car-centered, Our wide variety of trees and the nature walk through
our woods used to be a separate part
of the Haverford e xperience. There is
a tranquility in woods and an opportunity
to think on a walk that has not yet been
matched in anything man-made. But Haverford has chopped up the nature walk
with roads and obliterated it with buildings. The trees have been pushed to
the corners of the campus by buildings,
which replace their variety with metallic
h allways and standardized evergreen
shrubs. Parking lots, for one or 500
cars, have become pervasive over the
campus.
To say we had to surrender to the
American culture in these things i~ to miss
the point entirely, for distinctiveness does
not lie in surrender but rather in the creation of new and varied forms in contrast
to those of the culture. If we were truly
distinctive, our distinctiveness would have
manifested itself in our campus. It has
not; in fact our former distinctiveness
is disappearing.
Academic Disciplines
The same tends to be true of the academic disciplines. Haverford, like other
schools, has generally relied on the book,
the lecture, thepaper, andtheexam. These
are essentially rote methods of learning.
One learns, but the effort is boring, Haverford has decided that perhaps there is
more than one way to convey a f act, a
theory, or a way of thinking to an individual, and has begun to change. The danger
is that many departments, particularly in
the sciences, will resist out of a fear
that graduate schools would lose faith in
them. I would suggest that graduate
schools should desire individuals who can
think creatively. Hard courses and much
work can substitute for creativity, bu~
really they are only second best. I
think most Haverford departments stress
hard work because they do not know how
to get their students to think.
These are areas that have not been
stressed. Haverford seems content to have
more faculty, fewer car s , more trees, and
more varied academic programs than
other schools. We are quantitatively but
not qualitatively distinctive. However, we
feel that in our Honor Code and our' 'sense
of community," we are different. I think
we are wrong,
First, the physical surroundings are
important, If s tudents can escape thei r
fellows by leaving the campus in cars or
by playing records loudly, the "sense of
community" is bound to be less.
second, there are no shared values and
no common experiences for the students
and faculty, Once, students and faculty all
came from similar environments with
similar values. At Haverford, they were
forced together in classes, Meeting, c ollection, and dorms . People had to live
with each other and they learned to.
community resulted, Today we do not
share a common background or common
values,
we are not forced together;
nothing common is required of us. We
are isolated individuals. Instead of a community expression of purpose and concern, the Honor Code has become a
system, a set of rules that causes less
trouble for everyone involved than more
formal codes.
Expansion Destroys
Third, the residual community feeling
has been destroyed by expansion. There
are more freshmen and sophomores than
juniors and seniors, Too large a section
of the community is learning what it means,
rather than being experienced in living it.
There is no way to teach them, short of
coercion, and no one wants to do this.
Therefore, community is dying at Haverford.
Whose fault is it? The decisions that
created nearly all of these condi't ions and
tendencies were made by the faculty and
the administration. student representatives have generally had a much better
conception of Haverford and community·
than have the faculty or the administration. But long-range planning and immediate regulations are and can be created only by the faculty and administration. Students can usually only veto bad
plans. we are dependent on those who
are here for more than four years for
creativity and wisdom in creating the
conditions in which our education can be
pursued. I have argued that this creativity has been lacking,
ThE: statement of what makes Haverford distinctive does not exist because it
cannot be written.
Choral Concert
The 42-voice Helsinki University
Chorus will present a concert next
Thursday, March 13, at 8 p.m. in Roberts. The concert is part of the annual Internat:jnal University Choral
Festival sponsored by the Lincoln Cent er for the Performing Arts.
Ensti Pohjola will conduct the chorus
in works by Hindemith, Sibelius and
others. Tickets, $1 will be available
at the door. Student admission will
be free.
of those who suffered and died in s lavery
and in concentration camps. It is appalling that the staff of such a wonderful
college paper as yours does not recognize
this.
The next thing I would like to tell you
is to stop prostituting Bryn Mawr College. It is obvious from the way you
handle BMC news, especially the news
about our faculty and administration, that
you think that you can sell your perverted
dislike for authority by using BMC. The
irony is that the NEWS has set its~lf
up as an authority over the commuruty
instead Df as an agent of communication.
I am particularly displeased with your
Feb. 25 front page: "MeetingAboutBMC '
Role in UCSC Demonstrations Exclude
Miss McBride.'' You know what the frue
story was. Miss McBride neither called
nor cancelled the meeting herseif.She was
asked (not r equested) by one of our overblown-ego students to call the meeting.
And fifteen minutes before the meeting this
same ' 'r esponsible" s tudent called off the
meeting (for reasons best known to herself)
and left the campus with the enormous
impression that Miss McBride had done
this.
And, to add insult to injury, your paper ·
had the impudence to come out with a front
page news story which arrogantly used
words and phrases like' ·e xcludes," "confronting
BMC
President Katharine
McBride," "Miss McBride, originally invited to attend the meeting, had since
been asked not to come," and " it was
proposed that s he be re-invited,'' and I
would add may be asked not to attend
again !
you might like to know that some of
us do not appreciate your using our
P resident as a waitress--and even BMC
waitresses do not take s uch nonsense.
The NEWS has indulged in pointing out
BMC shortcomings and very few of Haverford's.
The NEWS has said a few
uncomfortable
things
about President Coleman of Haverford, but these
were never quite comparable to the unnecessary and endless s tream of ins ults
heaped on Miss McBride in the last few
months. It is time the NEWS took a little
more intensive internal search inside
Haverford. Meanwhile, stop prostituting
Bryn Mawr College !
Dora Chizea '69
Ed. Note:
Miss Chizea is edi tor o f the Voice of
the Bryn Mawr Community, a bi-monthl y
newspaper.
Roots
To the Editor:
We commend Dean Lyons on his enthu siasm for handling the marijuana problem
at the grass-roots level.
Bonnie Holcomb '71
Jane Friedman '7 1
Haverford?
To the Editor:
I can certainly sympathize with Den.
nis Stern' s views on Haverford's idenrt
as put forth in the Jan. 31 Obsorv1 y
-- er
column.
I have been in the Marine Corps sin
my graduation from Haverford in 196~e
and Haverford's identity has presented
a continual problem for me. When I
was s tationed on the east coast, the
problem was not so great. My Ha·1er.
ford classmate and fellow Marine Jeff
Gamble, who was stati.oned at the 1Mar' ine Corps Base, Quantico, Va. with me
could always come !:> my nscue. Be~
tween the two of us we could usually
convince people that Haverford existed.
But since being- transferred to Fort
Sill, Okla. in May, and Viet Nam in
August, the problem has ber;oma almost
insurmountable. No one has ever heard
of Haverford or '~ ven believes that such
a school exists.
Examining the r ecord book of a new
man in my unit several weeks ago I
found he was a Villanova dropout, 'At
las t, someone who knows about Haverford! .The ens uing conve r sati'on produced
only this comment, "You mean you was
one of the m peaceniks, Sir ?''
What now?? Yes, Private, there really
is a Haverford.
It's alive and well
back on Philadelphia' s Main Line.
1/Lt. Joseph Reinhardt '67
T. Btry., 2nd Btn., 11th Marines
VietNam
Grape
M~eting
Miss Antonia Saludado, a farmworker
from Delano, California will speakaboot
the status of the Philadelphia boycott
tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. in Erdman. She
will tell what specifically can be done
to aid the farm workers in this most
critical period of their four-year strike.
Come compassionately for cookies
and discover how a minimum of concern
from your corner could cause a confrontation.
For further information, see Gwen
Field or steve Kaufman.
Comic Revue
The Bryn Mawr - Haverford Coiiege
Theatre will present a comic revue:
Shaw ' s " P assion, Poison and Petrifaction, " Bridie's "The Ear of Vincent
Van Gogh", Coward's " Fumed Qak",
Housman's '1 Fragment Of A Creek
Tragedy" plus other fribbles of genius,
and F r iday, March 14, Saturday, March
15 at 8:30 p. m. in Goodhart Hail.
Tickets ar e $1.50 (Students · $1.00).
Call Molly Sloca, LA 5-8500.
The
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Tuesday, March 11, 1969
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Page 3
Golding Wins Pair
Ross'- Takes Second At MASCAC In Season 's Highlight
By Dave Sloane
Haverford's wrestling tea-m capped an idyllic season last weekend with a fine showing af the
MASCA C competition at Muhlen berg.
In the team standings, the Fords'
shorthanded seven - man contingent
placed twelfth in the 24 school
field, which included seve ral
Northern Divis ion powers and
Temple.
Co-captain Doug Ross
fini s hed his college career in brilliant fashion, advancing all the way
to the finals a nd placing second
in the 130 pound cla ss.
Ross was seeded firs t in deference to his undefeated season' s
record, which meant that he was
forced to wrestle three time s on
Friday.
He shut out s. Evans
of Elizabethtown, 6-0. His next
opponent was Scott Va s ko whom
he pinned for the second time
this year. He completed the grind
by whipping Hofstra's B. Baker,
7-0.
On Saturday, Ross advanced to
the semifinals against G. Ruth
The Ford senior
of Moravian.
was put on his back in the first
period, but he recovered and amassed an incredible 17 points in the
match to win a 17-7decision. This
set up the final encounter between Ross and Marfia of Wilkes.
This year Bryn Mawr has put
together the best basketball team
in recent years. Their March 5
90-58 victory over swarthmore
was the fifth win in seven games
and one which set a school
high-game scoring record.
swarthmore was never in
Marfia Leads
the game after the score was tied
19-19 at the end of the fir s t
Neither wrestler was able to
quarter. All four Bryn Mawr forgain a point in the first period,
wards shot in double figures.
but Marfia took a 3 ·0 lead in the
Freshman Debbie Grady led the
second period. Marfia administeam with 28 points. Penny Sholars
tered severe punishment during
dominated the offensive backboard
this period, and Ross had to bridge
and contributed 25 points. Team
for two minutes to avoid being
captain Anne Alden added anpinned. "Anyone else would have
other 25 points while manager
been pinned," said Haverford
Linda Evers had 10.
coach Fritz Hartmann. At t he end,
Bryn Mawr's defense was
Ross was the aggressor, desper
not as sharp as it h as been in
ately trying for a pin, but he was
previous games, but guards Mary
unable to stave off a 10 -2 loss.
Hartmann said that the tourna Lynn Aimone and Diane Donment was a "great thrill for Doug.''
aldson and rovers Miss Grady
"It was an inspirational performand Miss Evers might attribute
ance.''
swarthmore's 58 points to the
Tim Golding (177), too, was faced
fact that the home team gained
with the unhappy prospect of wrestpossession of the ball after each
ling three matches within.24 hours.
of Bryn Mawr's 39 baskets. DeHe defeated Hofstra's Is eke handfensively Bryn Mawr guards
ily, 12-5, and then fought what
blocked several shots while Miss
Hartmann called "one of his best
Grady and Miss Donaldson dommatche s" against Kidhart ofPMC.
inated the defensive backboard.
In
the
quarterfinals, Golding
Bryn Mawr opened the season
started quickly, but exhaustion took
with a 37-25 loss to Penn, but
its toll, and Sprecher of Lafayette
came back to defeat Rosemont
defeated the Red Wave's star and
55-46, PCB 62-46 and Chestnut
co -captain, 6-2 . "He ordinarily
Hill 37-25, Bryn Mawr lost to a
would have take n him, " said Hartvery tall Dre xel team 63-55, but
mann.
then rebounded to defeat cabrini
Other Victory
easily 57-36 before meeting
Swarthmore. The team also
Freshman Phil Taylor supplied
owns two victories in practice
Have rford' s other victory when
games - over Westtown School
he pinned fir s t seeded Grasso
by 44-30, and over Beaver. Scrim(145) of Muhlenberg. Taylor was
maging Beaver the varsity took
trailing 8-1 when he pinn ed his
a 20-4 first quarter le ad
man in the third period. Desand the JV took over to win 32pite the fact that he lost by a
28.
14-1 count in the next round,
Bryn Mawr's JV has not perTaylor's upset was one of the
formed quite as successfully
real highlights in the tourney.
in official competition as the varThough
freshman
Marcus
sity, winning only over PCB and _Shneide r was defeated 11-2 by
Swarthmore.
Robbins of Moravian, he received
Bryn Mawr has one more game,
praise f or his effort from coach
Tuesday at Gwynedd Mercy. Next
Hartmann .
''Schneider carried
year coach Mary O'Toole can look
the battle,'' said the coach. "He's
forward to another fine season
going to be very good for us .. ,
as the starting six will lose only
John Barbis was beaten for the
Anne Alden.second time this yea r by Rathmell of Delaware. The Ford 137
pounder was beaten by a 9- 3 mar-
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It's Illegal.
Fair housing is a fact. If you live under
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--Photo by Roy Goodman
A standout performer all season, Tim Golding, shown here in a previous duel meet, reached the
quarterfinal s in the MASCAC at Muhlenberg.
gin.
Bill Donner (152) dropped an
11-0 de cision to strosser, the
first seed fro m Temple. Golding said that Donner wrestled a
"gutsy" match, and Hartmann remarked that the Ford freshman
"never quit" against the man who
eventually won the championship in
that weight class.
Chris Colvin was faced with an
Spring Teams
Prepare Now;
Hood Doubtful
The weekend tournaments in
wrestling, fencing, and swimming
concluded_ a reasonably s uccessful
winter sports season at Have rford.
The Red Wave captured third
place and a playoff berth in basketball, and compiled a 10 -2 record in wrestling, including victorie s over Drexel and SWarthmore. The swimming team contributed several outstanding individual performances, especially by
Mike Briselli, Bob Bilane, and
Geoff Wilson, who toppled several
school marks.
Meanwhile, the baseball, tennis,
track, a nd cricket teams have already begun workouts in the field
hou se in preparation for April
openers.
The spring sports season is slated to begin on April 2, with home
events in golf, tennis, and baseball. The track team sw ings into
action on April 9,
In the competition for the Hood
Trophy, Haverford leads SWarthmore 3 1/ 2-2 1/2, as a result
of the split in basketball.
The Fords are perennial fav orites in golf, but are underdogs
in track and tennis. Barring an
upset in these sports, this year's
Hood Trophy winner may well be
decided on the baseball diamond.
awesome task indeed, when his
opponent, Gardner, turned out to
be a 260 pound mammoth from
West Chester State College. Physically overmatched, Colvin lost,
14-0.
Hartmann called the tournament
the "highlight of the year." "We
scored four times as many points
a s last year, due mainly to team
spirit. The tournamen t was rewarding because we wrestled as
..
a team."
The team title was won by Wilkes, · with the favorite Temple finishing second. Haverford finished ahead of every team they had
played during the regular season
except Delaware. It is pos sible
that the Fords could have finished even higher 1f Bill Yates
had been able to make the trip.
Bilane, Wilson
Smash Records;
Swimmers Tenth
Sabremen Star
In MASCAC;
Haverford Filth
Haverford managed a respectable
showing
at Saturday's
MAC fencing championships despite a powerful performance
by the Temple team. Temple
captured the team awards as well
as the individual foil and sabre
awards.
In spite of the overwhelming
victory by Temple, Haverford's
sabre team was the greatest
surprise of the tournament. Haverford's senior sabremen, Mike
Pryor and Steve Cropper, took
third place among the sabre teams.
Then they fought their way to fourth
and fifth place respectively in
individual standings.
In the preliminaries Pryor
(2-3) and Cropper (3-2) had
crushed opponents from Lafayette,
Drew, and Muhlenberg. In the
finals, Pryor took fourth place
by defeating his teammate Cropper
who was awarded fifth place • .
Temple's Bill Glassgold won
the individual title in sabre .
Haverford's
epeeist,
Mack
Lindsey also reached the finals
where he captured sixth place in
the individual standings. Haverford's sophomore foilsman, Steve
Barton narrowly missed the final
round.
Overall, the Haverford team
finished fifth in a field of six
teams. Even this though is · an
improvement over a frustrating
season. Pryor, Cropper, and Lindsey were named to the allconference second team.
Five members of the Haverford College swimming team
traveled to Baltimore, Md., to
'compete in the MAC tournament
held there over the past weekend.
The five were co-captains Dave
Rothstein and Mike Briselli, junior
Geoff Wilson, sophomore TomKovaric and freshm an Bob Bilane.
This quintet h ad hopes of
bettering their ninth-place finish
of the year before. They faile~,
however, finishing tenth of eleven.
The MACs usuall y see a good
many record performances, and
Haverford had two. Geoff Wilson
broke his own college record in
the two hundred yard butterfly
event with a time of 2:24.5 , and
Bob Bilane cut eleven seconds off
the college five hundred free
record with a 5:39.0 performance.
These two events were the highlights of an otherwise dis appointing team performance which
saw the Fords garner only four
points.
Near Successes
There were a few nearsuccesses. The freestyle relay
team of Rothstein, Wilson, Bilane
and Briselli placed seventh, failing in their attempt to break
the college record in that event,
set only one week ago against
Swarthmore. Rothstein and Briselli just missed gaining a few
more points for Haverford as they
finished seventh and eighth, respectively, in the two hundred
free. Beyond these few events,
however, the Fords were unimpressive.
The tournament was won by
host school Johns Hopkins, which
finished well ahead of defending
champion and second-place finisher
Elizabethtown
College.
Dickinson College was third.
--Photo by Bi ll lh rie
--Photo by Bill lhri e
This tournament ends what had
Co-captain Dave Rothstein was one of five Haverford swimmers to already become a long season
Geoff Wilson broke his own
compete in the MAC's at Baltimore. Rothstein was seventh in the 200 for the swimmers, The team had a
record at Baltimore in the
freestyle.
3-7 log overall.
butterfly,
Page 4
T he Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
News Correspondent Sa vi II e Davis
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Speaks at BMC About Cold War
By Kathi Atkinson
Saville R. Davis, White House corres pondent and chief of the Washington bureau
of the Christian Science Monitor, speaking
to the Bryn Mawr Undergrad Association
last Thursday about the world political
situation " Beyond the Cold War,' ' said that
the future will s ee less emphasis on military
power in politics . Davis is a Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of Williams, and a graduate
of the Harvard Business School. He came
to Bryn Mawr from Paris, having traveled
with P r esident Nixon on his European tour.
In a discussion before the lecture, Davis
com mented that, in the s tr uggle between
c ommunist China and the USSR, nationalist problems are over r iding the idealis tic
goals of each nation. Thes e problems a re
not being helped by America at all, Davis
said, "A lot of Americans think it' s perfectly marvelous to have two communists
fighting each other." The situation is especially hard for Americans to appraise
s ince no American reporters are allowed
into communist China.
College Education
Davis was interested to hear what Bryn
Mawr students had to say about college
education.
He said that it is hard to
get adults s tirred up, so things go uncorrected. A great chapter in history was
written when young people went to Mississ ippi two s um mer s ago (his own children
went) challenging local s heriffs and raising
issues so that the federal government
went in, he said. He cons ider s this kind
of action in order to bring about needed
changes ''a very tangible accomplishment."
With television and other communication
s ystems today, college students are in a
position to effectively r aise national issues.
During a discussion of the recent demon strations ragarding the UCSC, Davis indicated that he was favor ably i mpr essed by an
account of students' actions at the Penn
de monstrations which seemed to have
opened up lines of communication as well
as make specific gains.
In talking of goals of college students, especially campaigns against poverty and poor
education, Davis said that some reappraisal
is needed in many poverty programs. An
all-out social approach must also be
balanced by adminis trative and practical
dir ection. He favored s uch programs and
all organized effor ts by young people to make
s ocial and political changes by working
through the system. While it may be more
dra matic and popular among young people
to "bang on tre door from the outs ide ' '
effective change is needed, and can best'be
done by working through the pr esent system,
he said. Davis said he disapproved of
"violence as violence, but protest as protest is a good thing."
Uncertain Scene
Davis' lecture, entitled "Beyond the Cold
War,'' spoke of the uncertain social and
political scene of the near futur e. His
observation is that " neither Washington
nor Moscow has any tangible idea of what
BMC Colloquium
(Continu ed from page 1)
guidelines , getting information fr om Dean
(Dorothy) Marshall and Miss (Elizabeth)
Vermey, planning discussion topics, and
assigning discussion leaders ." In order·
to reduce the academic atmosphere most
discussion leaders will be students and all
of the discussions will be held in s uch
places as smokers, living rooms, the Com mon Room inste ad of classrooms.
The largest core group is the one dealing
with curriculum, Miss Hurwitz said. The
smalles t is the one dealing with plant
development.
She pointed out that the
group dealing with community may be of
s pecial inter est to BMC students s ince it
will als o deal with the role of black s tudents
at Bryn Mawr.
Following toda y's discussions the core
groups will meet to collate their data and
wrmulate recommendations to be pre sented to the adminis tration. Mis s Hurwitz
indicated that there are two possible ways
in which this might be done. The r ecommendations as worded by the cor e groups
may be pr esented to the s tanding com mittees under whose jurisdiction the y fall
or alternatively the recommendations might
be s ubmitted to a College-wide r eferendum
and then s ubmitted to the adminis tration.
" What we will do with the recommendations
remains an open question.'' s he said.
comes after the cold war.''
Nevertheless Davis ventur ed some predictions of what will come. The coming
political trends will have to be a cceptable
to the growing left, and will consequently
place less emphasis on military power.
This change will come naturally to the
left, but appears to be a very dubious
plan to most conservatives, he said.
The major indication of a big change
to come in political developments is the
recent revolution in the nature of power,
including civil, political, and military
power, as well as a more s ubtle moral
component, according to Davis. This change
in conceptions of power means th~t the U.S.
will have to support, in its dealings with
?ther countr ies, popular governments, that
1s , those with political r ather than military
power. This dependence on political forces
abroad will require the U.S. to take risks
over things which only a military power
could guarantee.
Davis s aid that the U.S. must consider
the points he had made in their planning
oi the future, or, blundering along, we'll
be swept back into another cold war. ''
H'ford Colloquia
(Co ntinued from page 1)
Saturday's events would be directed toward bi - College problems and would include
a variety of discussion s and wor kshops.
Ottenberg said, " We want to use our
facilities in as many and differ ent ways as
possible to show people metaphorically that
they can use thei r potential in different
ways."
The Colloquia committee chairman emphasized that these pl ans were entirely
tentative and for the most part not
yet worked out in detail. He said that any
and all comments and help would be welcome.
He declined, however, to equate the
Haverford and Bryn Mawr colloquia.
"We're trying to do different things."
Dreyer, lester Films
Offered This Week
By St an Walens and Victoria Yablonsky
" Ordet," Roberts, 8 p.m., ton ight.
In 50 years as a director , Kar l Dreye r
made only s ix film s, but ever y one of the m
is such a masterpiece that he has the un challenged reputation of a film artis t 's
artist.
Like Bergman, Dreyer centers his films
around the ideas of religion and faith. The
s tory takes place on a farm in mode rn
Denmark, and centers around a conflict of
faiths between two fa milies. The acting is
astonishingly beautiful. The pace is ex tremely slow, but well fitted to the tenor
of the other aspects the film . With con s ummate artistry, Dreyer unites all the
elements of the film into a coher ent fas cinating, and unforgettable whole.
'
"Petulia," bio lecture room, 7:30 p.m. and
9:30p.m., Wednesday, March 12.
Julie Chris tie and George c . Scott cos tar in the s tory of a doctor and his affair with an unconventional woman. Dir ector Richard Lester explores the nature of emotion by pr esenting a s e r ies of
seemingly disconnected and frozen s cenes
which seem to have no emotional balance
but do, ultimatel y, form a pattern which
is meaningful, although it is not experienced, as such.
Petition
(Con t inue d from page 1)
one night's try. "
O'Hara plans to send
a copy of the anti-ABM petition which
claim s that the ABM is c'danger~us, es~al ator_Y of the arms r ace, use less, and
evourmg of enormous public funds at
the expense of unmet civilian needs ' '
to Senators Hu~h Scott and Richard schwetker of Pennsylvania and to the Council
for a Sane Nuclear Policy, original orgnizers of the petition drive,
The Br yn Mawr and Haverford chapters
of CYD's will meet tomorrow in Chase
4 at 7:30 p.m., to coordinate their efforts
in these a r eas, a s well as to e lect officer s .
--Ph oto by T. Robbie Anderso
In an effort to red uce the rate of theft, the powers that be have placed' a guest book n
the entrance of t he Magi ll Library. No one wou ld steal a guest book.
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NEWS Feature:
Philadelphia Weekend Work Camps
Seek To Create Ties With Poor
By Eric Sterling
" No man can save himself or his country
or his people unless he c onscious ly identifies himself with, and deliberately
works for , the whole of mankind."
The preceding, by U Thant, is the cr edo
of the Philadelphia Weekend Work Camps
s ponsored by the Friends Social Or der
Committee. The work ca mp atte mpt s to
create that ess ential identification, in this
case with the residents of Mantua, a s lum
north of the University of Pennsyl vania
campus ,
On the weekend of J a n. 24-26, I went
to one of these work camps for art s and
services credit. We stayed in the basement
of John Wesley Methodis t Church on Par rish
Street.
There were
17 of us
plus two excellent leaders, Eleanor McCoy and Jon Shafer.
We arrived with sleeping bags, work
clothes, curiosity and varying degrees of
ignorance about Philadelphia poor people.
After cooking dinner and washing up, a
r esource speaker, Dr. George Rogers
initiated discus sion of marijuana and as~
sociated drugs. Both the doctor and
many camper s we re frightfully ignorant
about drugs and their use.
Pot Acceptable
Three girls fro m Hackettstown, N.J. reported
that
while it was s ocially
acceptable to s moke " pot," nobody but
the "hoods" and troublemaker s smoked
"marijuana." The girl s had s moked
neither. The doctor s tated he had once
s moked a " joint" which had no effect
on him, and he relied strictly on clinical
reports for his infor mation. F ortunately,
the college students present were able to
clarify the is sue and offer first hand
information in som e cases
Despite all of this, th~ campers wer e
able to establis h individual identities and
develop a sense of being part of a group
during the discussion.
. .T?e . leaders maintained this feeling- bv
m1hatmg " games,'' s imilar to those used
as sensitivity training techniques, to develop trust in the group,
After breakfast the next day, our day' s
work was outlined. Some campers took
paint, brus hes, plaster and ladders with
them to help r estore part of a home in
the community. Two s tudents joined a
community-run
vermin
exter mination
team. Others went to the offices of the
Young Gr eat Society to work. Three or
four other pr ojects were als o assigned
and I was sent in a gr oup of s ix to th~
Mantua Mini- School.
Tremendous Job
Our goal was to work with the people
and talk with the m. Although for many
camper s this objective was ver y successfully
met,
I found this more
difficult in the Mini School. Many of the
key JJt::l's um.d wer e out ano..l ther e was
obviously a tremendous job to do.
We built walls. We ham mer ed 2' x 4'
boards into 8' x 8' frames which were
to be er ected and cover ed with gyps um
s heet r ock. We had to haul lumber haul
s heet rock, haul nails . It was great' hard
work. My blis ters ar e now beginning to
come off.
In the middle of the day I was sent
to buy another 25 'pounds of nails and
later seven mor e ha mmer s wer e purchased,
A lot_ more work is s till needed to put
up shU mor e walls and finally to finish
them and paint them. The Mini School
is a former warehouse, It has been used
as a school since September, and they
are now putting up the walls,
Those of us at the Mini School were
unabl e to e stablish the kind of dialogu
we wished. Yet I got a sense of the in:
cr edible dedication or intensity, per.
haps fr enzy, that drove the persons
connected with the school. They did not
stop work for more than a moment.
In the evening, instead of trying to
assimilate s ome of the day' s impressions
the entire· camp and some members of th~
community went back to the school to
work. We halted for dinner and again went
back 'to work. At 9 p.m. we ceased and
settled down to ser ious · discussion We
finally got to sleep at 1 a.m.
·
Ear ly Sunday morning, 6: 30 a.m., we got
up
and ate br eakfast. We went to
Magistrate' s Court in Philadelphia towatch
"jus tice" at work on the previous night's
victims.
Alcohol Problem
Many of the people were arrested for
s ome connection with alcohol--usually
Schmidt's beer. No one was brought up
for any activity connected with drugs while
we were there.
At this court, in which there is no
~u ry· and the defendant has no lawyer, there
1s only an assis tant D,A. to serve an
ambiguous legal role : a confusing synthesis
of P erry Mason and Hamilton Berger. The
magistrate can sentence You for up to
two years imprisonment. No witnesses are
called. Two persons testify- -the arresting
officer and you-- the " suspect" criminal.
If it' s not s trictly constitutional at least
it is quick,
'
At 11 a.m. we split up and visited the
var ious local churches.
We returned to the workcamp and had
our final dinner. In the subsequent dis·
cus s ion, we tr ied to relate the weekend
experiences in our lives . This was not
designed
to encourage students to
come into the ghetto to stare or give
"Christma s basket type" charity, but to
r ealize that the student is a nigger too.
The s tudent could see what black people
ar e doing to fight "niggerism" and return
to h::.s school and community somewhat
enlightened. Students inter ested should see
Er ic Ster ling, MI 9-2759, or Laura Hershey,
Pem West.
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Music
(Continued fr om page 1)
'Have we done something like this be·
fore?' Now the possibility for .innovation
exists , The a pproval of these two courses,
I think, demonstrates this ' '
The most urgent r ecommendation of the
musi c r eport, the hiring of more faculty
members, could not be fulfilled this year
because of the general shortage of funds
the college is facing, For the same reason
the department will not be able to pay the
fees of outside lessons, though this is an
eventual goal. students will have to pay
for their own lessons, but the department
has a s mall s cholars hip fund for special
cases. The instructor must be approved
by the department, and the course wlll
be graded on a pass- fail basis.
P lans for next year call for Music 21,
22 to be available only for members of
the glee club. In the future it maY be
extended to include chamber groups and
orchestral groups.
The department also plans to tncrease
cooperation with Bryn Mawr as a way of
over coming its insufficient budget,