H}ord Puerto Rican Students Call for New English Teacher

H}ord Puerto Rican Students
Call for New English Teacher
ng for the cr~ation of a new position in the Haverford faculty,
instructor of English as a second language, the Puerto Rican
Students at Haverford (PRSH) refer fo the "commitment to diversity" made by the College in 1972 after a boycott of student activities by the Black Students League and the PRSH. The above
photo- which later came to represent the boycott - Charlie Plummer, Sam Foley, and Ted Evans demonstrate on Founders steps
with over 100 other students.
By DAVID WESSEL
Citing an elem ent of Haverford ~s 1972 "commitment to diversity," the Puerto Rican Students
at Haverford (PRSH) are asking
the College to hire an instructor of
English as a second language who
would also serve as an advisor to
fore ign students.
The request was made in a letter t.o President John Coleman,
dated Feb. 19 but delivered las t
Friday, signed by Rick DeJesus
for the PRSH am! e ndorsed by
John Diggs and John Huang on
beh alf of t h e Black Students
League and As ia n American
Students at Haverford.
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Vol. 7, No. 20
Grad Students Ask Voice
In New Grading Policies
By KIM MASTERS
Students in Bryn Mawr's
Graduate School of . Arts and
Sciences have discovered t hat a
change in grading policy is under
consideration - and th ey want a
voice in the decision-making
process.
According to graduate student
Candy Sicoli, who was nominate d
as liaison to the facultv on this
issue, the graduate students ar~
out of touch with dec is ion-making
processes in the school, and were
taken unawares by the proposed
change in the system.
"It started out as a rumor a
couple of weeks ago." she said.
" We wanted to trace it down, so
Theoni Trangas (presid~nt of t he
Graduate Students Council) went
to speak to the Graduate School
Dean (Phyllis Bober, dean of t he
Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences), and found out that they
had actually formed a committee."
The committee , consisting cif
Noel Farley, Joseph Kramer, a nd
Arthur Dudden, h as not met to
date. Bober h as agreed to notify
Sicoli before a meeting takes
(Continued on page 6)
Tim Connolly, Students Co~ncil
Treasurer. Pi1oto by Andrew Boroweoc
Cooperation Stops at Majoring
and with cross-majorin g the
College wouldn't feel th at it knows
t h ose studen ts. The College
wouldn 't feel it was doing its job."
Limited Cross-Majors
As it stands, a stude nt at either
college may major at t h e other if it
is in some discipline . that is not
available at his/h er h om e campus.
such as Itali an at Bryn M awr or
Astronomy at H averford. A few
departments at H averford, notably
chemistry, h ave a policy to allow a
student to major at Bryn Mawr if
he desires. Beyond t his, crossmajoring, if
no t
active ly
discouraged, has not been encour aged by e it her college.
Out of the Haverford class of
'75. three students have availed
th emselves of this opportunity, all
t hree m ajoring in Archeology at
Bryn Mawr, while t here are no
se nior Bryn Mawr women
majoring at H averford.
A recent cooperation poll taken
among hi-College ju niors and
seniors reports 50 Bryn Mawr
students in favor of allowing
students in their department to
cross major, and 42 against, out of
a total of 103 answering the
evidence to answer the qucsuon
rais eci by Coleman.
DeJesus said the letter could
have. but did not. describe the
situation of Puerto Rican students
who came to Haverford. but left
before graduation. "We're trying to
present as positive an attitude as
possible toward t he College,"
DeJesus exp lained. "Many people
thin k 111 inority students on cam pus
simp ly have a negative view of
things here. especia ll y since the
boycott."
Both Coleman and D'Andrea
sa id th ere is no chance the position
would be created and ti lled for next
(Continued on page 6)
Thursday, March 6, 1975
Okay Bi-College Budget
A Second Look
By VICKI WEBER
Cooperation. termed "bene "advantageous," " necessary," and even imperative"
by members. of t he hi-College community, is showing its limits , and
these limits appear to fall short of
unrestricted cross-majoring betwee.n Bryn Mawr and Haverfor d.
A major concern cited by both
Dean Potter and Dean McPherson
is possible competition between
orne departments , which Potter
feels would be " unhealt hy" and
McPherson believes could .lead to
"more duplication of courses
rather than augmentation ."
"Haverford wants increased and
strengthened coope";·ation with
Bryn Mawr," Potter stated, " but if
a result of cross-majoring was ill
feelings and friction between t h e
faculty, that gain (student ch oice)
wouldn't· be worth it. "
Bryn M awr's duty to its
students is also an important con sideration, according 'to McPherson. "It's hard to r ealize the
tremendous support the College
gives its students a nd alumnae,
but it does. Such support is h ard
to provide if you don't know th em.
Coleman told The NEWS this
week he thinh the proposal is
"time ly" and "an approach I'm
immediate ly sympathetic to." He
a dded that he would li ke addit ional data on wh at has happened to the Puerto Ric an
students who have come to the
College.
P r ovost Thomas D'Andrea
termed the PRSH suggestion
"ve r y interesti n g and constructive,'' but said, "What I fail
to find in their letter is any convin cing case for t he need for s uch
a person." With a number of other
members of the administration,
the pr.ovost is currently gathering
questionnaire.
As a whole, juniors were more
in favor of th e proposition , with 36
votes in the affirm ative, than
seniors, with 14. Juniors also
reporte d seeing fewer drawbacks
in cooperation as a whole than did
seniors. Whether this difference is
due to senior loyalty. greater
familiarity wit h t he department,
or a real difference between the
classes is unknown. A follow-up
poll of next year's senior class h as
been proposed to try and det ermine t h e reason for t hese differences.
Unfortunately, all the H averfo r d responses wer e lost before
any compilation was done, so that
s ide of t h e coin remains a mystery.
Coopera tion Gains
Gains in cooperation in t h e past
year have take n both specific and
somewhat inta ngible forms . According to Colin M acKay, Haverford c hemistry · professor and
member of th e Joint Cooperation
Committee, one very ' important
gain h as been "th e evolution of an
atmospher e in which more people
can see some adva ntage In
(Continued on page 11)
By TOM LENT
that H averford organi zati on s
A new hi-College budget has
would be sufficiently fundeci.
finally been ·set for t h e semester.
President Wendy Brachman inThe .$34,559.35 budget was apdie a ted that SGA is considering a
proved in special session Thurscomplete overhaul of budgeting
dav by Students Council and by
policies in the future . "With the
SGA . at their regular Sunday
present system," stated Brach meeting.
man, "everyone gets hurt. " As
For t h e first time , the hi-College
Brachman sees it, a number of
budget will not be financed comalternatives are open. "SGA could
pletely with matching funds from
raise dues enough to cover all
Mth colleges . Council is s upplying
budget requests. Alternatively, it
$1,709 more than SGA for the
could not raise dues. and either
Social Committee t his semester.
p art ia ll y
subs idi ze
a ll
" W e felt this was justified,'' exorganizations, or fund certain key
plained Council Treasurer Tim
organizations completely, while
Connolly, "since SGA could only
su bsidizin g others." Dorm
afford to budget $1,050, we agreed
meetings ar e being held to discuss
that th e Committee needed more
these laternatives.
money and SGA funds dorm parPriority Ratings
t ies ~nd dances that Haverford
Co-treasurer Meg Stolee stated
students attend."
th at a number of other changes
In a controversial move. t he
are a lso proposed before next
New Gulph Day Care Center was
semester's budgeting. Stolee innot included in hi-College funding
te nds to put SGA policy in
this ·semester. Individually. SGA
wr1tmg: "Items such as pubcontributed $100 and Council
licity. refreshments and 'misdecided against any contribution
cellaneous','' Stolee indicated.
to t h e Center . Connolly explained
"are always cut. If organizations
that "in a tight year for h i-College
understand what they can't expect
budgeting, we could only justify
to receive funding for, they can
g1vmg
st ud ent
money
to
budget more r ealistically and cuts
organizations in which students
won't look so drastic. " Also, all
directly partic ipate ."
funded organizations will be exMagazine Cut Down
peeted to t urn over any profits to
In another major ch ange, the
SGA.
News Magazine was cut from
The largest cuts in SGA's
t hree issues to one. "We agreed,' '
budget were made in the r equests
stated Connolly, "that The NEWS
from the Athletic Association
is the top priority in this area anci
(AA ) and th e Woman's Alliance.
we needed funds to spread to
Stolee expla ined that much of the
s ma ller organizations. We didn't
AA's request was for wages , an exwant to make many of the cuts
pense for which SGA cioes not fee l
that we fo und necessary, but we
it should be responsible. Much of
h ad to set priorities to maintain
the Alliance request was for
important organizations such as
speaker fees. and expense that will
T he NEWS, Social Committee and
be covered by the hi -College
Arts Council. "
speakers fund this semester.
Speaking on the Haverford
In addit ion to organizations.
budget, Connolly indicated that he
SGA funds dorms , splitting $2.500
was much more satisfied. "All ke~·
among them this year. Each dorm
programs were left intact. Only
will receive $200 plus a percentage
items sueh as office equipment
oft he remaining $700 determined
and food, that were not necessary by dorm population.
for the important activities. were
Including a total surplus of
cut." Connolly also emph asized
$ 1.5G, SGA's total act ivities
that Council had cut heavily into
budget for the semester totals
its own operating budget to assure
$(),0 / 1.1{ I.
Page 2
Thursday, March
The Bryn Mawr- Haverford College News
'
ounding .out The
Rebate
The Haverford Students
Council rebate to Haverford
students has been reduced to
$4, after a billing mistake
turned up, showing an outstanding debt of $900. The
rebate will be debited to
students' accounts.
Tenure
Haverford's
Academic
Counc il and President John
Coleman will recommend to
t he Board of Managers that
French Prof. Patrick McCarthy be granted tenure and
promoted
to
assoc iate
professor.
The Academic Council has
also recommended that Profs.
Josiah Thompson, philosophy
and Joseph Russo, classics, be
promoted to full professors .
The NEWS has learned that
Coleman, in a move that has
provoked a great deal of
·discuss ion among members of
the fa c ulty, vetoed both
recommendations. Formally,
the final decis ion still rests
with the board.
Coleman refused to discuss
the issue stating, " I don't
think I'll comment on
negative promotion cases ."
He did say that the additional
salary costs of promoting a
professor are not a .factor in
making s uch decisions.
Gilliatt
Penelope Gilliatt, Englishborn film critic for the New
Yorker, has been chosen a
Bryn Mawr · Lucy Donnelly
Fellow for 1975-76.
As well as studying at
Queens Co llege, London,
Gilliatt attended Bennington
College, in Vermont . Since
1950, she has contr ibuted to
s uch journals as Neu•
Statesman, The Spectator,
and t he Observer, for which
she alternately served as film
and theater critic. Gilliatt has
been a film critic for t he New
Yorker six mont hs of the year
s ince 1967.
In addition to her drama
c ritique s,
Gilliatt
h as
produced two novels, a collection of short stories, and
several lengthy pieces of nonfiction, including New Yorker
profiles on Jea n R e noir ,
Woody Allen, Jacques Tati,
and Henri Langlois.
Perhaps best known fo r the
screenplay of Sunday B loody
Sundav, Gilliatt received the
original screenplay award for
this work from the Writers'
Gu i ld of America, t h e
Writers' Guild of England,
and the National Society of
Film Critics.
Although Gilliatt will not
officially begin at Bryn Mawr
until next semester, she is
scheduled to be on campus
April 5. She will be participating in a symposium on
the " Image of Woman" , where
she will speak on women in
literature .
Collection
Harvard Deal} of Students
Archie Epps will speak at
Collection March 18 on
" Nineteenth
Century
Separatist," about the African
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dean Epps left h is small
Southern town of Lake
Charle s, La . (wher e hi s
forebears moved from Epps,
La., after the Civil War·) to attend Talladega College in
Alabama, and afterwards to
study at Harvard Divinity
School. After graduating from
Harvard in 1961, Epps became
a research associate at Harvard 's' Center for Middle
Eastern Studies where he purs ued the soc iology of religion.
His interest in Islam led to a
book entitled "The Speeches
of Malcom X at Harvard,"
whic h was published in 1967.
Epps became the first Black
administrator at Harvard in
1963 and in 1971 became t he
only Black full dean at Harvard.
Religion Series
In response to the Antire ligious attitude which t he
Bryn
M a wr -Haverfor d
Christian F e llows hip says
prevails in the hi-College community, the Fe llowship is
sponsoring a series of six
fa culty lectures which it
hopes. will portray the compatibility of religious faith
and intellectual integrity.
Entitled "Talks on Religion
to Its Cultured Despisers:
Religio us Faith a nd In tellectual Integrity," t he lectures will begin on the Thursday foll owing vacation (March
20), at 8:30 p.m. in Founders
3. The talks will continue into
the spring, mostly on Thursday nights . Haverford religion
department
Cha irman
Richard Luman will present
the first lecture.
The participating profs will
try to communicate the role of
faith in God within the context of the ir personal lives and
academic careers .
Potter ·
Haverford Dean David Potter was named to the board of
directors of the American
Co nfer e n ce of Academi c
Deans for the three-year term
at its annual meeting last
month in Washington , D.C.
The co nfe r e n ce JS a n
organization of several hundred deans responsible for
lib eral arts c urricu l a at
co lleges and unive r s ities
throughout the nation. As a
member of the board, Potter
will help formulate policy and
plan meetings of the gr oup.
s, 1975
New:..--~
Curriculum
Tuesday March 4, t he
Student-Faculty Curriculum
Committee passed a proposal
affecting Committee procedure:
1) A student's c ase will be
acted upon within one mont h
of college session.
2 ) A student after cons ultation with her dean may,
if she wishes, present her own
special case and may be
present for a discussion of
that c ase.
According
to
Ginna
Beharry, Student Curric ulum
C h a irman, the Committee
c h ose S u e H e rman as
spokesman to The NEWS. Sue
Herman , however, decline d to
comment
Fe bru ary 18, Stude n t
Curric ulum Comm i tte~ and
Execut ive Council presented a
proposal to the StudentFaculty C u rr ic ul um Committee . The proposal stated
that 1) a stu dent would be
able to present her own case
before the Special Cases Committee 2) the case must be
decided with in a month of its
presentatio n and 3) the
stude nt may be present for all
the de liberations of he r case.
There was no quorum at
this Committee meeting. The
proposal was discussed. The
February 21 issue of The
NEWS s tated t h at the
proposa l had passed, due to
information communicated bv
Sue Herman who was present·
fo r all the proceedings.
Counselling
T he Bryn Mawr Student
Commi ttee
on
Pre.
professional Counselling is
wr it in g a umque in.
for mat ional booklet for the
Bry n Mawr pre-medical
student . It will contain sec.
tions on fi nancial aid, foreign
medical schools, problems
confr onting t he foreign
student, state r~sidency, the
science versus non-science
major , women in medical
schools , obtaining a medi.
cally-related summer job,
pert inent . refe rence books
a l li e d field s , the post:
baccalaureate program at
Bryn Mawr and personal in.
terview e xpe; iences
seniors.
T here will also be a descrip.
tion of the unique problems
facing the Bryn ·Mawr pre.
veterinary student. Also in.
eluded will be abbreviated
list of many required stan.
dardized tests (MCAT, GRE,
VAT, SCAT, SAT and MMP!)
a nd where ' to obtain in.
for mat ion on these exams.
General questions about the
operat ion or future plans
the Pre-pr ofessional
selling Committee should
directed to chairwoman
Curfman, 70 Penn East.
PEASANT GA RB
GuideFor ThePerplexed
Mnndav~
Mar. 17
-1::!0 ti.m. T he Po litica l Scien ce dept.
prese nts Rober t Dahl of Yale ll.
~pea kin~
on
'I!-> There A
Democrat ic ~olut ion For the C'o n .
flil't
Hl!twep n
I ~rae li s
&.
Palestinians?" Tea at 4:00. Stokes.
r):OO p.tn. Hru ce Frie r. Asst. Prof of
Classics. t T. of MarYland. lectur e~
on '' Law & Scx· ir-t.\· of Imperial
Rome." Vernon Roc;m_
K: Ui p.m. F lec k Lec ture No. I. h v the
Revere nd C hri s toph er Francis
E,·ans. P rof. of Ne,~,.· T estanwnt
~tudies. Ki n g's Collef!c. London.
T lw title of his led ure ts "The
Trarlit ion of th r- Passion." RMC
C'cHnmcm Room .
Tuesdav. Mar. 18
4: :l0
Prof. .Jack Dunitz of the
S\~,.· iss
Fe d e r a l I nst itut e of
Tec hnology in Zu ri c h lel't ures on
"'From \rts ta l S tru ctu r es to
\hem ica l H~ad ion Paths." Stokes .
4 ::l0 p.m. Prof. S tewart S ut he rland. nf
the l T. of Stirlin J!. Scot lan d. ~ JH.•aks
on ·' Philosophical Reflections on
the Hoad to Damasc us ." Ges t \01 .
7: IC, & Y::lll p.m. RMC f' il m Serit's
Spec ial. RMC &. H'ford Depts. of
Fn•nch spon so r Francois T r u ffaut 's
Jules ('{ flim. Ad mission SOc .
Pln ·sin: Lec ture Room .
Wednc~dav. Mar. 19
-1 ::10 p. tn: .Jurg-t>n H abermas. of the
p.m.
Arts Head
Nominations are open for
chairman of Arts Council; the
deadline is Monday, Mar. 17.
Contact Corey Levens through
campus mail.
Max P la nck Institute in VVt:·st Ge r ·
mmw led ures on "A Proposal for
t hf! · Recon:-;t rud ion of H i!-'tori ea I
Material ism." Stoke!-'.
4: :10 p.m. Prof. of Chemistr,· .Jack
Dunit z delivers h is seeon rl lecture.
Stokes 104.
4::10 . 6:00 p.m. RMC Anth ro Majors
Tea. For more in fo call Debbie
Tooker. 642-:\:\H4 . RMC Common
Room.
H:OO p.m. H a rold .Jant z. Visitin~ Prof.
of German fr .. m .Joh ns H opki ns
speak!-' on '' Im ag-es of America in
Ger man R e n a i ~sa nc e Ar t &
Literature .'' Ve rnon Room.
H:OO p.m. Historv of Art De pt. films
pre!-'e nterl b~· P rof. Ferr a te r · Mora.
The \Vorld o{ Andraxl. Shin o{lhe
Rarth. Fraf!11U!nl~ o{ a Tral'eloJ.!.
& The Sui/ o{ Nif!hl. 127 Thomas.
~: W p.m. Meetmg w1th !Je an Prue t t.&.
se nior class membe r s for st ude nt s
con~iderin g ca reers in me di ci ne &
the Rllied hea lth profess ions. Erdman.
M::JO p. m . Ar t Co nservator .Jos e pf
Amarot il'o of the Pa. Aea rlenw of
Fine Art s. speaks on "The At:t of
Ht>sl oration ." S tokes.
M::Hl p.m. Ps~Tholog-ist Stuart Va lins.
of SUNY a t Ston v Hrook. talh o n
"Resident in! G nn~ p S ize . Socia l In·
tera<'t ion & C rowdinp:. " Sharpless
Auditorium.
10: 1:) p.m. H'ford F i lm Series. Nlj(hl o{
the /.icin!! IJectCI. an und e r grou nd
fil m of the '60's. S t okes .
Thursdav, Mar. 20
p.fn. Chem Prof. .J a(: k Olm it z gives
his third lect u re. Stokes.
7:1:) &. ~::10 p.m. BMC Film Series
prese nts Dark Pm;saj!e. with Ra<"all
& Ro~art . Ph~·!-'ie:-; Lecture Hoom .
H:OO p.m. Art Histor'' Gradu ate Lect ure bv D on a ld White. U n iw rsitv of
Penns~lva n i a Muse u m. on .:Ex.
eavat i;ms a t C:vr e ne." 127 T homas.
H::m p.m . Yale l i.t Prof. .Joseph Ga ll
talks on "Chro mo~ome Struct ure- at
the M olentl a r Level." St o kes.
H::m p.m . .Joh n von Sickle. ~uest for
C'lassic.·s. will lectu re. •G es t .
:\ : {r,
Fridav. Mar. 21
·l ::~o· p.m . C onversacion con ,Josi'•
Donoso. Spanis h novt>l ist. Gest 101.
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Thursday, March 6, 1975
Page 3
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
. Two H'ford Seniors Publish in Scientific Journals
Revised -Rootn Draw
.Favors H'ford Seniors
By ERIC HARRI SON
will have lived at Bryn M awr for a
A revised lottery system for the
year, it will make no differen ce in
hi-College dorm exchange and
the actual lotte ry.
plans for partial minimum density
The commi ttee report sets
at Haverford Park Apartments
Drinker aside as a freshman
(HPA) were Haverford Rooming
r es id ence, housing 16 fr eshmen
Committee proposals passed by
and t~o res ident customsmen .
Students Council at t heir meeting
Yarnall will also house some
on Sunday.
fr eshmen , but no fr es hmen will be
The new lottery virtually . ass igne d to Lloyd next' year .
assures next year's Haverford
Council also approved pla ns to
seniors a room at Bryn Mawr if
eliminate the Comfort vis iting
they want one, [lccording to
scholar suite , and to make four
Rooming Committee Chairman
Gummere 3-man suites in to fourHoward Grossman. The system
ro an s uites without living rooms ,
provides that after the dr aw has
which would go to upperclassm en,
been completed, any one on the
and thus provide seven minimum
waiting list (those over t h e 50-man
density apartments at HPA . Nine
limit ) who has not previously lived
apart m e nt s will r e mam at
at Bryn Mav>'r will be m oved up ,
maximum density.
replac in g on the li st senior s who
There is also t h e possibility th at
have alr eady lived at B ryn Mawr
a ll or a lmost all of t he apartme nts
for a year or more; these seniors
wi ll be con so lid ate d in two
will then be placed at t h e · end of
buildings, accord ing to Counc il
th e waiting list for t heir class.
Pres id ent R usty King. "Nothin g is
This system replaces t he one
final on it yet," he emphasized.
used last yeai', in which all HaverRuss ian House will remain at
fo rd upper cl.assmen app lyi n g to
Bryn
Mawr next year, the Counc il
live at Bryn Mawr wh o had not
recommended . The question of
previo usly lived there for a year or
whet h er to make the Haffner
more were ente red twice in th e exlanguage halls coed is stil l u p to
chan ge lottery.
In a modificat ion of the original - the individual departments in volved, accor ding to Lucy Hunt,
plan which calle d for the total
head of the Bryn Mawr Residence
elimin ation of the system , the
Committee
.
double entr y method will continue
Grossman objects to a coed
fo r juni or s. It wi ll not be in effect
Haffner on the principle that any
for sophomores, however> on the
men living in Haffner will be counnels that since no sophomores
ted as part of the 150 who participate in the dorm exchange.
"A ll those people will be out of the
draw but in the exchange,;• he
DiscouNT RECORDS
complained. "That is not quite
TAPES
fair."
S ign-up for Haverford students
Largest Selection of Folk
wishing to li_ve at Bryn Mawr conMusic, Pop, Classical
tinues through Wednesda~· March
and Jazz
19 in the Dean of Stuclent Affairs
9 W. Lancaster Ave.
office; registrat ion for suite
Ardmore
groups at Haverford is due by
April 10. The Haverford draw and
the Bryn Mawr in-dorm draw are
set for
I 16.
By BOB BARNETT
Pulsating stars and motion in
fluid s may seem like esoteric subjects to most college students, but
these are t h e topics of two art ides
by Haverford seniors, recently
published in professional scien t i fie journals.
)lick Feigelson , after a s ummer's work at Harvard on the
newly discovered pulsing neutron
star Hercules X--1, had an article
on his research published in the
prestigious English journal
Nature.
Mike Freilich did seven months'
research at Hf!verford on a
specif ic
app li cation
of
hydrodynamic theory: the instabilities of rotating fluids at the
critical point. It was published in
the journal Physics Review Lette rs.
Tesled Theory
Freilich worked w1th phys1cs
Prof. Jerry Gollub, in testing the
th eory of two Russian physicists,
Landau and Lipschutz, on the
Taylor instability.
Imagine two cylinders, one inside the oth er, with wate r in the
space between. When t h e small er
of t h e concentric cylinders is
rotated, the water naturall y t urn s
ar ound . But at a cr it ical speed, t h e
water not only goes around, but
starts going up and down , too.
Th at is the T aylor instability, for
which t h e Russian physicists
provided a mathematical explanation.
Freilich and Jerry Gollub used
va riou s
so phi sticated
experimenta l tech niques, including
la sor beams, and essentia ll y
verifi ed th e th eory. "It's a hot
item" said Gollub . "Mike is still
working on it, and I've devoted a
lar ger p art of my research t ime to
it, and we hope it will eventually
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shed some light on some oth er
aspects of hydrodynamics, particularly phase transitions."
·Phase transitions arc changes of
physical state, suc h as wat er to
ice. There is evidence to believe
that phase transitions and
hydrodynamic instabilities, two
very different phenomena, have
somethin g in common in their
critical points. A crit ic al point is
the point, in velocity or hear or
some other factor , where act ions
change dramatically.
The experiment should coinc ide
with l<,reilich's intended field of
study, oceanograJ-lhy.
Pioneer Aslronomer
Feigelson 's article originated
with summer work under Ricardo
Giaconi, an astronomer who was a
pioneer in X-ray sate llite
astronomy in ' the early 60's.
"It was really a privilege to
work with him. I wou ld be sitting
in his office and he would be talking on the phone to NASA officials and Nobel prize winners,"
Feigelson commented. The
pulsing neutron star Hercules X1, a star that has collapsed to
about ten miles in diameter, sends
out X-ray pulse in 1.24 second intervals. It is about 18,000 light
years away.
Hercules X-1 was discovered in
Social Action Caucus
Warns HPA Tenants
By GREG MOSER
The Socia l Action Caucus
(SAC) , has sent a letter to the nonstudent tenants of the Haverford
Park Apartments (HPA). in order
to "in sure that tenants can have
their problems and views heard by
th e administration" according to
Walter Michels Dies at 68
Walter Michels, noted
physicist and chairman of the
Bryn Mawr physics department from 1936 until his
retirement in 1972, died last
Thursday, in his home in
Wayne. He was 68 years old.
Michels came to Bryn Mawr
in 1932 , and became the
Marion Reilly professor of
physics in 1948. While at Bryn
Mawr , Michels wa~-; editor of
the American Jou rna 1 of
Physics
(19 5 9-66).
and
presid e nt of the Ame rican
Association
of
Physics
Teachers (1956-5 7) . From 1960fi6, Michels served on the Commission on College Physics, acting as chairman of t he group
from 1960-64.
Michels' writings include
Foundations of Physics (1968)
and Electric Measurements and
th eir Applications (1957). He
also ed ited a number of books,
including the
1961 International Dictionary of
Physics and Electronics.
Educated at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and the
Ca lifornia
ln st itut e
of
Technology, Michels served as
a physicist in the Bureau of Ordinanc e of the US Navy dur ing
the Second World War.
Noted for his contributions
in the fields of psychophysics
and so lid state physics.
Mic-hels rec eived a number of
1972, and is particularly interesting because it is also part of
a binary system (two stars that
revolve around each other), and
exhibits a curious :J5-day cycle.
Since its discovery, !"orne forty art ir les have appeared about it - an
unusual display of interest 111
scientific circles.
Explained J>uJse
Feigelson's paper set forth a
new model for explaining the Xray pulse from the star. The
previous model had assumed that
th_e star sent out a continuou,; Xray, which only reached the earth
when the beam swung around, like
a search light; thus the pulse.
But Feigelson developed a new
model in which the star itself
pulses, and sends no continuous
beam. " At first I thought it was
ridiculous, but Giaconi was im pressed with it, so I developed it."
Scientific reaction has been
generally favorable.
"Any professor would be happy
to publish an article like this"
said astronomy Prof. Louis Green,
"Rick showed his draft to
P1:ofessor Partridge and me, and
all we did was to help him clarify
the wording a bit. I can't remember when a student here ever got
anything published while he was
-an undergraduate ."
Walter Michels
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awards and citations while at
Bryn Mawr. These include the
Pennsylvania State Department · of Public Instruct ion
for
"outstandc it at ion
ing services to education
in th e Commonwealth" and the
Lindbac k Foundation award for
Distinguished Teaching.
Michels is survived by his
wife, Agnes Lake Michels, who
is the Andrew W. Mellon Prof.
of the Humanities at Bryn
Mawr and a former chairm an
of th e Lati n Department.
Memorial services will be
held at 4 p.m. on Mar. 31 111
Goodhart.
Doug Holtzman, Caucus member.
The Caucus decided to send the
letter because "the purchase of
the apartments puts Haverford
into the Ardmore community as a
landlord ," Marc Killinger, co author of the letter , said at Sun_!]ay's Caucus meeting.
The group wishes to play an
overseeing role presenting the
views or complaints of th e tenants
directly to the administration,
rather than through the managing
firm , Lewis Starkman Associates.
The firm has also managed mixed
student. non-student properties
for the University of Pennsvlvania.
· SAC consulted Stephen Cary.
Haverford's vice president for
F in ance and Development, about
the first draft of the letter.
Though 'he had not seen the letter
in its final form, Cary indicated
that h e felt the letter premature.
that the College should be given a
change to demonstrate its sen sitivity to the tenants' wishes.
"There are alread:v false rumors
that everyone will be summaril:v
evicte d . Tenants are unaware that
the needs of the college are
modest and can be handled with
normal turnover," Cary said.
The official Students Council
posit ion is to consolidate student
housing at Haverford Park, which
has been thought of as an extension of campus dormitory
space . Consolidation of scattered
student-units may require tenant
relocation within the complex.
SAC notes that tenants who will
be directly affected have not been
consulted on the issue.
Socialist Women
\-Vom en and R et'o!ution is
presenting a forum "From
Feminism to Marxism ."
tonight at 7:30 at the
Women's Center in College
Inn.
Page 4
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Thursday, March 6, 197S
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Chris Fumbles, J~ck Rambles
By MATTHEW MIRAP AUL
His guitar may not have been in
tune, but the evening certainly
was for those who heard Chris
Smither at the Main Point
Thursday, Feb. 13.
Smither, who spent a large portion of his two-and-one-half hour
set fumbling with his tuning pegs,
is a Boston-based "folkie" whose
pleasant, unassuming personality
.conceals the power of his songwriting talents. His songs are a
blend of blues rhythms, Randy
Newman-ish satire, and a sensitivit y for both the English
language and human feelings . The
result is wry humor, wistful
resignation to the pains of love,
and well-wrought images in his
lyrics, backed by precise, yet not
sterile, melodies.
Smither's smooth, almost
monotonous voice was only
unleashed for his hollow renditions
of standards l ike
"Statesboro Blues" (white
Nor therners cannot play "da
blooz"), but his interpretations of
Newman's "Old Kentucky Home,"
Richie Furay's "Kind Woman,"
and especially Neil Young's "I Am
a Child" were eloquent.
\
Smither Sings
Ramblin' Jack Elliot sandwiched a brief set between the
halves of Smither's performance .
Elliot's style evokes memories of
Woody Guthrie as he stands,
somewhat
anachronistically,
strumming his guitar, reaffirming
the value of the traditional
American folksong .
It's easy to hear his influence on
Dylan's early vocals, and thus, it
is rather ironic that Elliot has two
Dylan songs in his repertoire. But
what Ramblin' Jack does best is
just that - ramble. His betweennumber stories were enchanting,
and the lengthy traveling tale he
closed with, after the incredibly
poignant " South Coast," sounded
like Kerouac's On The Road set to
music .
Both Smither and Elliot performed the Grateful Dead's
"Friend of the Devil." While
Elliot sung it more conventionally,
for the song's road-weariness conforms to his image, Smither transformed it into a song of despair .
Both versions, and both artists'
acts, were equally good (except for
Smither's lapses into the blues
idiom) because of their honesty
and complete lack of pretense .
Now if only Smither would learn
how to tune his guitar.
A ctors Foil Wilde Plot
presumptuousness that supplied
By .JANE WIDERMAN
comic cou nterpoint and juxThe Importance of Being Earnest,
The Walnut St. Theatre, through taposition to the serious Worthing. Kerr and Valentine mainMar. 16
I proved myself a "confi rmed tained a perfect foil relationship
and secret Bunburyist" on Feb. 26 throughout the performance and
when I donned the reviewer's robe staged Wilde's one -liner comedy
and attempted to write an un- like a well-oiled vaudeville act.
Patricia Falkenhain as Lady
biased critique of The Importance
of Being Earnest, which I had seen Bracknell, Gwendolin Fairfax's
on the stage once before with an (Louise Troy's) mother and MonEnglish company and on the crieff's Aunt Augusta, rivaled
screen three times, with the Edith Evans in her interpretation
superlative cast of Michael of the bombastic Lady Bracknell,
Redgrave, Edith Evans, Margaret an acute judge of character, with
Rutherford and Joan G reenwood . the last word on London society's
Oscar Wilde's incredible "Bun- foibles. Falkenhain's presence
bury," a fictitous character who seemed to fill the theatre, and as
gets sick at the drop of a hat, Moncrieff said of her, "Only
a llows
the male ch aracters to credito rs or relatives ring in that
cavort in one locale while main- Wagnerian manner." Falkenhain's
taining an upstanding reputation entire performance m l,!.y be
in another. There is only one characterized as Wagnerian, as
hitch: the Bunbury method she bellowed her lines like a
Brunhilde. What was especially
inevitably backfires. '
fortuitous was the coincidental
I was particularly fortunate in
resemblance between Falkenhain
seeing James Valentine, whom I
and Troy as Bracknell's daughter .
had reviewed in Charley's Aunt
Troy appeared almost a carbon
(he played Jack Chesney), in the
copy of her "mother," because she
role of John Ernest Worthing, as I
played her ~art with the same subhad the opportunity to watc h the
tle blend of hauteur and candor.
transformation from t he fresh- As Moncrieff notices, "All women
faced Oxonian in Charley's Aunt become like their mothers . That is
to the 35-year-old Worthing in their tragedy. No man does. That's
Earnest. Valentine's performance his."
was thoroughly delightful and
It is unfortunate that these topbeautifully geared toward comic notchers were burdened by the
understatement. He succeeded in mediocre acting of Myra Carter as
portraying Worthing as something Miss Prism, the governess who
of a bumbler and a stuffed shirt. placed her three-volume novel in a
Valentine enhanced his role with a bassinette ("The good ended hap deadpan expression that seemed pily, and the bad unhappily . That
to react to situations just a few is what Fiction means") and left
seconds too late, and then only the baby Worthing in the train
with a look of dumb-foundedness. station. Carter did not play
Valentine was supported by a Prism's dotty romanticism to the
flashy Philip Kerr as Algernon fullest, and Lu Ann Post's porMon crieff, the origina l Bun- trayal of Cecily Cardew seemed
buryist, who connives his way to empty and listless. John Braden as
the cou ntry to meet Worth ing's Canon Chasuble came across more
18-year-old ward, the flower-like as a thug than a man of the cloth .
Cecily Cardew (Lu Ann Post). William Preston as t he butler
Kerr, who dressed and acted like a Merriman did a distinguished job
da ndy, based his portrayal of Mon- of effecting a sort of hencr ie f£ upon an agility. and pee ked~ess.
;
;
l.
Wilde 's perfect play of puns was
complemented by a supremely artistic integration of cbstumes
(Jane Greenwood), stage. sets
(David Ballou), and music
(Chopin, arranged by William
Smith of the Philadelphia Orchestra). Every iota of genteel
Victorianism was reproduced with
remarkable precision.
Incoherent 'Ph ysician'
By DAVID POLLACK
AND
WHITNEY QUESENBE R Y
The Physician In Spite of Himself,
He dgerow Playhouse, through
Mar. 15.
Opening night; we gaze diligently at the closed curtain and what
we can see of the set. The designer
has painted the floor in black-andwhite checkerboard, and put up a
false proscenium to cover the
early-American one (a feature of
Hedgerow's former life as a grist
mill).
The house-lights fade away and
two men in imitation-17thcentury - French . - "mechanical"
costumes stumble onto stage .
They fumble, open the curtain and
clap their hands. The stage lights
don't come on. They clap a few
more times, and they get light.
The program lists Bill Loomis and
Eric Tull as "stagehands," but
their clowning is some of the best
acting in the show.
1-7th Century Farce
Back to the 17th-century farce
style, we thought, as the clowns
positioned
two
slapsticks
prominently on stage. But the next
person on the scene, a woodcutter's wife, hadn't quite subdued
her "realistic" acting training, or
had never learned to act at all. She
and her· husband, Sganarelle,
proceeded to have a Punch ·and
Judy-style argument punctuated
by thrashings and a nosy neighbor
(Bill Loomis again).
The timing of the first act was
disc~ncerting ly bad, as was the
complete lack of interaction : the
people didn't mesh, the acting
styles didn't blend, and the translation managed to render 17th co.n-
tury French into a hodge-podge of
Shakespearean, Edwardian, and
Modern English.
We might put down the first act
to opening-night jitters (in a rep
company!?), but although the
second and third acts picked up
speed, t hey still had no in.
teraction . T he set, however, was
simple, geometr ic, and versatile
the costumes bright and subu;
farc ical, and the blocking superb.
In conception, the play was a
twentieth century take-off of a
seventeenth century farce; pity
the acting made it farc ical in the
twentieth century sense . Each ac.
tor seemed to have his own in.
terpretation; no one had brought
them in line wit h any kind of
coherent style:
Discordant Styles
There were bright spots: B o~
Timmons as Geronte and Joe
Goldberg as Sganarelle worked
well together, alt hough everyone
else on stage seemed to be
ignoring them. Mar ilyn Cooper,
playing Geronte's dumbness.
feigning daughter (Sganarelle, a
woodcutter, is force d to pretend to
be a docto r and is brought to
Geronte's -house to "cure" her),
used her face expressively, essen.
tial in Hedgerow's small space.
Each
characte rization
separately, was worthwhile, but
the styles, again, detracted from
each other. The company, usually
capable enough, was ill-served by
the translation they chose and bv
a seeming lack of tough directing
by Delores Turner. And what of
the people who built that lovely
set and sewed the costumes? They
weren't even listed on t h~
program.
Man-Hater Proposes
AMAZON ODYSSEY
by Ti.Grace Atkinson
'Linhs Publishers, $4. 95.
By LINDA SIMPSON
Amazon Odyssey is not about a
river trip in Brazil. It. is a collection of Ti-Grace Atkinson's
writings advocating the theories of
super feminism, as opposed to the
beliefs of everything from the
Catholic -Church to NOW . It is
als'o a "must read" for anyone interested in the future of the
Women's Movement.
Atkinson, the founder of
"radical feminism ," has been
criticized as a man-hater out for
personal revenge, but what Atkinson really hates is oppression.
Man, as a class, symbolizes oppression for Atkinson. According
to her social theory, women were
the first oppressed class in history
and men were and' st ill are the oppressors . She believes that the oppressed must treat their oppressors as enem ies if they are
ever to escape. Thus, until social
justice triumphs and the power of
oppression is overcome, Atkinson
admits to hating Men.
She insists that only immediate,
radical action by women will overcome social injustices such as
marriage and the family . The best.
qualified leaders of the revolution
are older women and housewives
because "it's only when you're all·
the way in the shit that the
shoveling is worth it.."
As a feminist organization, The
National Organization of Women
(NOW) rates very low in Atkinson's opinion. She accuses NOW
leaders of running a hierarchical
structure based on oppression.
Along with her resignation from
NOW , sh.e inrlndes an exp!::o.nation
of the structureless group which ·
she helped found, the Feminists.
Although I agree that NOW is
often too conservative in its
movements, I support its
organization. If NOW ran on the
same free form as the Feminists ,
its effectiveness would grind
to a halt altogether . At any
rate, Atkinson forced me to think
and react to h er op11110ns. ·
Throughout her book, Atkinson
leaves no room for neutrality.
Basically, she is an idealist who
maintains that soc iety can be
changed . Her strategy is to ·
awaken women and unit e them as
an active force against the oppression of men. She continuously
warns women not to defeat themselves by dividing over issues like
lesbianism and abortion.
One chapter of Atkinson's book
presents tactical charts as visual
clarifications of the strategy
necessary to defeat oppression.
The charts illustrate her theory
that once the neutral and antirebellion people join forces with
the rebels (feminists) the power of
Woman attacks Ti-Grace Atkin·
so n for stating that the Virgin
Mary was " knocked up . . ·
w i!hout a clue."
the npp ressor can be
Whether or not you agree with
Atkinson, she is a qualified
authority on t he Wo men's
Movement. T he ar t ic les in
Amazon Odyssey refl ect. eight
years of her wor k fo r the
Movement.. Her obse rvat ions
deserve contemplation.
The book does not end on a
clear ly optimistic or pessimistic
note. She feels that. women are not
moving forward enough, but, in
fact, may be slipping backwards.
Her hopes are not high, yet
neither is she totally discouraged:
"We are the problem, and we have
been left. with ourselves as the
solution."
Thursday, March 6, 1975
Page 5
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Play Special!!
'Egg' Explores Dynamics of Despair
By RICHARD DOUGLAS
Because of this early edition,
'- The NEWS is able to print th is
review of last night 's production ol
"A Day in the Death of Joe Egg."
The play repeats in Roberts ton ight
at 8:30.
"Isn't that the whole fa llacy of
t h e sick joke? It kills the pain but
leaves t he s ituation just as it
was," says Bri (Lou Dennig ).
Peter Nichols' script uses humor
as an acute weapon, but t he bitter
laugh te r reli e ves for only a
moment, le aving life itself as the
De nnig por trays a sch ool
teacher stuck in a rut, Pages the
wom an he married (because she
liked a nd could stand h im). I
found Dennig excellent in his in terpretation, his deadening job
showin g th rough when he shifts
fr om bitter jokester -to egoistic,
scheming attention-grabber .
Pages subtly lets her prem arriage days help and wreck her
re lationsh ip wit h Dennig. The pair
are best in their r ecapit ulation of
Joe's history, with exact and
natural de liver y of a well-reh earsed marriage game /emo t ion-ju ggli ng, Pages assum es
command while Dennig gr abs
Dennig and Pages having a tete a tete.
----=music
only solution.
This difficult dramatic idea is
well -acted by t he entire c a~t, led
by Dennig and Catherine Pages as
She il a. Married, neit her young nor
old, t hey live wit h a menagerie of
fi shes, cai;s , budgies (parakeets :
Brit ish , you know), and their
vegetable-ch il d "Joe (Linda
Weiner ).
dance ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; dram a ....._..
for attention . She bas hope ,
emotional warmth and humanity ;
he reaches out for her, competi ng
with Weiner and the menagerie.
T heir friends, F reddie (Damon
Brandt) and Pam (Diana Yannopoulos) have come to grips with
their " not r ich, just comfortable"
e xiste nce. Brandt does a good job
as the gentlemanly drawing-room
socia list. Yannopoulos, his "Grace
Ke lly" wife, nicely underplays
h er heavy hold on him , which we
fi nd has been reinforced by his upbringing.
M arie Barnhurst. as Dennig's
mother Grace, gives just the
background needed for insight into
De nni g's c h aracte r , as s he
despairs over herself and the
results of her life and hopes.
T he focal point of the play,
Weiner, did a great job as t he
s pastic vegetable. The humanists
Freddie and Sheila -fight for her ,
seeing a flame of life in her. The
others grabbing for attention just
can't accept t he possibility t hat
Joe leads an act ual human
Pxistence.
The set is excellent; the details
are there, from t he staircase
making the right sound to the atmosphere of the room, a room of
no memories of t he past and no
hopes for the fut ure. T he scenery
r ef1ects the moods of the charac te rs, and helps t he actors sustain
t h e ir
perfor mances
by
establishing for them a proper
place and constraint.
T he atmosphere is enhanced by
the CQstumes. which, especially
for Pam and Grace, were good and
just r ight. The lighti ng was
s mooth and effic ient without bein~
noticed . The great job done by ,Jim
F arrington. Dave Manterer and
Dave Pollack (Stage and Set),
Alan Trumpler (Set Design), and
Vicki Cline (Lighting) deserve s
mentioning.
A big hand is in order for Bob
Butman, who directs his cast excellently, getting maximum performances out of everyone to
ac hieve this very fine play.
Arts
Artists Juggle Full House
By DIANE MICHELFELDER
What with nice weather a nd all,
supposedly t he good t hings about
March don't come unt il the end of
the month. This t radit ion was
pleasantly broken Saturday night
with the production of Unic01icert
in Founders Great H all .
As Ron Je nkin s to l d t h e
audience, Un.iconcert started out
as a dance workshop. Organized by
the students in Performing Arts
101, it grew to include other mem bers of the hi -College community.
Uniconcert emerged as a m ult idimens ion al ,
mult i-emotion a l
montage of mus ic, dram a, dance,
and mime.
Jenkins and Cynt hia Gr und
star ted off the evening wit h a
clown pantomime. In an exercise
in meaning and refer ence, Jenkins
put objects, such as a bee, into
Grund's piano, and off her hands
would fly, uncontrollably, in. t his
case into "The Flight of t he Bum ble Bee." Let's hope th ey perform
this in front of a larger audience,
$0 more people can see t he t rick
turn against Jenkins (as clown
tr icks generally do ), so th at he enticingly takes off his s uspe nder s to
the music of
(you guessed it!)
the Noxema commercia l.
Grund's keyboard work was fast
and delightful, as it was in t he
next piece , " Th e N igh tmare
Song," from Gil bert and Sullivan 's
Iolanth e . A charming ditty about
the terrors of sleep, it was sung
equally as charmingly by M ar shall
Williams.
Following t his was the firs t
serious number of Uniconcerl , a
scene from Rom eo and J uliet , performed by Betsy Flood as Juliet
and Debbie Berns tein as the
nurse. Along with this was a
simultaneous dance interpretation
by Rut h Kanost a nd Mary
Duquette. This act as a whole was
perhaps the low point of the
evening. J uliet's res ponse, when
learning of the "death " of Romeo,
lacked the passion that such stunning news would evoke. T he dan cing was equally as unins pired. It
was diffic ult to focus upon that
and listen at the s ame tirrie. The
com bination of the t wo seem ed a
bit awkward, sort of like Busby
Berkeley
c horeographing M idCowbo .
c Barry M . W ahl 1975
At about this time it became
evident th at if you were sitting
anywhere but in the first two rows,
it was often h ar d to pay attention
to anything but t he person's back
in front of you, s ince the performances were on t he sam e leve l
as the audience, and floorwork
was impossib le to see. Hopefully,
th e next time something li ke this
is done in Founders, a platform
will be set up, because the
a udience her e kept popping up like
Kewpie dolls to see what was happening.
John Schre ibe r r estored humor
to Un iconcert with his pres·e ntation of "The Tre as ur er's
Report," a Robert Benchley
monologue. Schreiber , in a three piece s uit a nd a voice that r eeked
of innocence, de livered s uch lines
as "most of our boys are between
the age of fo urteen." H is variety of
facial expressions would h ave inspired donations anywhere as he
pleade d to " help make t his the
best year the Arme nians ever
had."
A ser ies of d ance i mprovisations followed, directed by
M a r y Duque t te . T h e wo r d
"th erefore," suggested by a mem ber of th e audience, energized a
series of improvs, each dancer
taking a differ ent letter . Phyllis
Bernard was excellent as "E-for
Eel," as she s linked her way
across th e floor. But Kanost was
the best as she blitzed around in a
fin al " E-fo r entropy."
Un iconce rt co nt inu ed with
"Continuum ," as Sue Wohl and
Craig Br ashear r epeated t heir
duet of t h e fall dance concer t.
Choreographed by Paula Mason,
Brashear and Wohl's dancing was
light and sustained, although it appeared more r us hed t h an in
previous perform ances .
T he most convincing serious
piece came next, with Williams,
Art Smith , and Martha Bozman
doin g parts from Aeschylu s'
Oreslia . Smith was for cefu l and
compelling in his role as Orestes ,
as was Bozman in her charac terization of the self-de luding
Clytemnestra. Jenkins, wh o di rec te d the piece, also int erpreted
Orestes' part in a dance. Frant ic
with vengeance, swingi ng t he robe
with whic h he has murdered
Clytemnestra ar ound his head,
Jenkins showed that he can handle
tragedy as well as comedy.
After
the
intermi ssio n.
Williams returned to recite Lewis
Carroli's "The Pig Tail.'' The per formance was amazingly clever,
and a lthough he said "Smile , I say,
not smir kle; Mouth a semicirc le," mo s t everyo n e was
laughing at Williams' int onation
of the story of the frog who could
not "jump," as he properly popped
his p's. His facial expressions
reminded one viewer of a young
Gene Wilder.
Claudia Isaac t hen performed a
work-in-progress e ntitled " Mac chu Pichu ." Isaac worked out the
Subordinate impersonators Judi Stern, Ruth Kanost, Arthur Smith,
Sue Goldberg, Phyllis Bernard, and Janet Finkelstein. "I dance
c Barrv M . w ahl 1975
'therefore' I am."
dance wit h her usual strength and
a juggling act of invisible balls ,
sharp, accented m ovements. The
which Jenkins first performed in
set, of hanging strips of Cloth , was
Class Night. Next was a fairy tale
designed by h aac and integrated
whic h Jenkins narrated while
into the dance, as fi rst she
juggling about blue and red round
touched. th en bounced off them,
dragons, a number which be once
finishing by grasping several in
called "choreograph:v for t hree
spheres. " The last was a fasther hand a nd reaching upwards .
A sce ne fro m Pride a n d
moving "Surprise Pac kage,'' in
Prejudice followed, read by Ber which Wohl, playing a mechanical
nard a nd Kanost . K anost's
ba lle rin a . bre aks clown after
haught:v attitude contrasted well
J enkins winds her up too tight. H e
h ands her his big, red cardboard
wit h Bernard's combination of
modesty and flirtation . This was
heart. and she comes back to life,
also interpreted in a dance, in
but the dance soon ends as
which Sue Goldberg, taking u p
Jenkins, now sans coeur, is unable
Bernard's part, moved demure ly,
to move himself.
while .Kanost stalked. All in all ,
Togehter, J enkins and Wohl's
this number showed imagination
performance was a lot of fun , and
but could have used a bit more
their s urprises were t otal surprises. Watching ,Jenkins perform
preparation .
is like watching the unexpected,
Another work-in-progr ess was
going down t he Schuylkill Experformed by Smith with his
pressway and havi ng it change
dance called "The Snake's Part. "
suddenly.
into, say, the Champs Al t ernat ive ly
teasing
and
Elysees. It's t hat enjoyable. as was
h arassing a crepe paper snake.
Uniconcerf on the whole. It would
Smith's control and agility were
be nice to have more opportunities
muc)1 better here than in any of
like this to t<ee im provs. workt< -inhis previous performances .
progress. as wel1 as complet ed
Topping off Uniconc('rf were two
works , from a var iet y of different
clown pa nt omimes and o ne
media.
juggling ac t by Jenkins, wit h Wohl
What we really need is more
also performing in whitetace anci
da ncing in the st reets .
Grund at t he piano. T he first was
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Page 6
Thursday, March 6, 1975
Wolf Joins New Business Office
By FRANK BALLANTINE
The new fac e you may see
arou nd eamp us in the coming
weeks is not a fellow student, just
returned from a semester a way,
but more likely Have rfo rd's new
Business Administrator, Stephen
Wol[
The post of busines s administr ator is a position newly
create d in the wake of the fir ing of
form r Business Manager Steven
Theophilos. Wolf s d ut ies will be
somew hat differ ent fro m those of
Theophilos. T he whole Business
Office has been res tructured,
placing more responsibility in the
Vice President's office.
Wolf, fo rme rly ass istant directo r of t he Student Accounting Office at Tem ple University, will
supervise four major areas of
College bus i ness: personnel;
auxiliary services, which includes
s ummer confer ence program, the
bookstore, centr al services, central rece iving, and the audio visual
department ; p urchasing ; and
miscellaneous business services,
including supervision of faculty
Seek New Instructor-(Cont,inued f rom page I )
year unless outside fund ing is
fou nd . DeJesus said the PRSH is
seeking such o utside support, but
"'future College budgets must begin
to inco rpo rate this position permanen tly as a n integra l part o f the
facu lt ."
In a document released Feb. 25 ,
1972 in respo nse to the concerns of
the BSL and · PR SH, Coleman said ,
"The Co llege agrees that special attentio n must be paid to the proble)ll
of so m e Spanish-speaking students
in ma king e ffective use o f the
English language . . . We hope to
develo p specific plans in this matter
with th e help o f Puerto Rica ns and
others who a re interested in extra
attentio n to these ski lls
English Failure
The PRSH letter quoted this
passage and noted th at the College
has m ade pr ogr ess " in realizin g its
· promise," particularly in the admissio ns offic e and the Spanish
department. But the letter a dded,
"We are great ly dismayed by the
fa ilur e ofthe College to truly come
to grip s wit h t h e difficulties which
confro nt the st udents w hose
native tongu is not English .
Effo rts to deal wit h the problem
through the s ummer program are
noted in the letter, but the PRSH
said , " It is obvio us that our efforts
are not adequ ate."
The proposed new staffer would
work with all students for whom
Englis h is a second language
du r in g the s ix -we e k summer
program , would develop a course
fo r such students which would
replace Freshman Seminar and
Writing Sem in ar, and would
become advisor for all foreign (including Puerto Rican) students .
"Thus, dur ing t heir first year at
Haverford, these st udents will be
able to sur m ount all major difficulties of reading and writing in
Englis h at t h e level required by
t he College ," t he PRSH wrote.
Qualifications fox the proposed
.staffer , according to the letter,
would be. a M aster 's, or equivale nt
certific ation , as an " instructor of
Englis h as a sec ond la nguage ." Individua ls with tr aining or experience in co unseling would be
given prefe ren ce .
The PR SH noted that the
elimination of the pos ition filled
by counselo r J ames Deibelbis,
who s peaks ' both Spanish and
English , creates a "great urgency"
for an "offi cia l foreign student advisor."
PROF. MIK STOUSLAND
AFTER CLASS
secretaries and the changeover of
the infirmary to a dispensary.
Among h is more important
duties is the College food contract,
which according to Vice President
Sam G ubins costs over $500,000
annually.
Wolf's job at Haverfor d will be
more specialized than the one he
had at Temple , where his department's main object ive was to "service the student in all financial
record keeping. "
Wolf graduated from Temple in
January, 1971, with a background
in business and education. He had
thoughts of becoming a teacher
but a look at the job market
c hanged his mind. "When I
graduated from school there ...
were n 't any te a c hing jobs
available," he said, so he became
an educational administrator. He
enjoys this type of job and no
longer thinks of teaching as a
career.
While he enjoye d his experiences among Temple's 33,000
students, he is glad to be at Haverfo rd. "I spent time in a larger institution getting the macroscopic
view, and now I want t o see things
on a microscopic level," he said.
" I want to be in a situation where
I can know people on a first name
Haverford's new Business Administrator Stephen Wolf who arrived
On CampUS thiS week.
.
Photo by Andy LaqUi!r
basis. At Temple I'm not s ure
many people even know I l eft."
In a NEWS article last week,
Wolf also finds the physical
(p. 3 ) Erdman heating com.
e nvironment here much different
mittee member Marcy Rueff
than what he had gotten use d t o at
was quoted as saying, "The ad.
Temple. "Compare getting off the
ministration's the problem,"
subway at Broad and Columbia
commenting on the dorm's
wit h walking on the campus here .
heating inadequacies . Rueff ac.
I was here last Saturday and took
tually said that " It is the ad.
a walk around, and I love it," he
ministration's problem:"
said. "It sets your day off on a
good note. "
Correction
·oue Date
Grad Grades
(Continued from page I)
place.
Although the reasons for a new
system are as yet unclear to the
s t udents, some stuqents fee l that
the Buckley Amendment, which
a llows stu·dents to see their
records, has influenced professors
to want to discard the old pass-fail
grades, which · inv o lv ed supp le mentary confidential comments from professors kept on file
in the dean's office.
In the past, Bober had re commended that the forms be made
available to students . The decision
was left up to the individual
de partments, and many of them
did open their files . Under the
Buckley Amendment, all departme nts would be compe lled to
m ake the forms available. A n um ber of t he students feel th a t certain professors are reluctan t.. to
share their comments with them.
Another possible reason for the
change, Sicoli feels, is a general
t rend in colleges toward stiffe r
gr ading syste ms , and this trend
may be influencing Bryn Mawr
professors.
Rowen Visits---- - (Continued from page 16)
Col!lbined with the commitment
of the Post to uncovering the
truth, which led to the resignation
of forme r President Nixon .
Rowen and his wife, Ali ce, were
hosted by the Woodro w Wilson
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Thursday, March ,6, 1975
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Page 7
;Women Politicians Attack Discrimination
Bryn Mawr's 'Wom en, Powe r
and Politics' Conference was a
lime to examine th e new political
consciousness of wom en . Friday
euening featured Martha Griffiths,
Representative fi·om Michigan's
17/h district, and leader m the
struggle for passage of the Equal
Rights Amendment; and Karen
Burnstein, BMC alumna, and New
York Stale Senator. Saturday
morning Goodhart held a lively
crowd for MQry Anne Krupsah,
firs/ woman Lieutenant Governor.
Morning
and
afternoon
seminars were th en held to discuss
mrious topics related to lVom.en,
Power and Politics. Ethel Allen,
City
of
Councilwoman,
Philadelphia , and Barbara
Milwlski, Councilwoman, City of
Baltimore, talked about th e future
in politics.
Alumnae arrived from a ll over
th e country, and man y le d
se minars. This was one of th e fe w
tim es th at m any of th ese politica l
leade rs h ad ever come togt ther to
talk about wom en and politics.
Above: Karen Berstein, BMC '64,
now N.Y. State Senator, applauds Martha Griffiths, U.S.
Representative from Michigan.
Right: Senior Priscilla Ryan,
Coordinator of WP&P Program,
introduces the next speaker.
Below: Students look on as the
Conference closes with "Which
Way Now for Women in
Politics?" Left: Mary Ann Krupsak, Lt. Governor of New York,
addresses the Conference.
Ph otos by Linda Wharton
cessibility to interest groups.. She
disavowed total power and the
kind of dealings she termed " boys
will be boys" politics.
For example, she spoke of her
own campaign and her opponent in
the primary. Her rival's TV cam,
paign .s he <:'barged, evaded the real
issues and "cur·Piecl· favor with
those who want to be tough , saying
and other minority groups are ., 'that woman , when she was in t he
placed primarily in the criminal legislature , did not vote for the
death ' penalty.'
This adcourts , women are delegated to
vertisement, she added, was ac family courts.
companie d by sensational shots of
Krupsak spoke mos t conth e shooting of a policem an, and
vin cingly when she talke d about
was m eant t o port ray h er as a
her own confrontation with power,
weak fem ale .
about the time s h e h erse lf felt
Kru psa k 's s tr e n gt h as a
powerles s, a nd how sh e had gained
politic ian and r eform er has been
confide nce m h e r self in h er
attribute d to m any thin gs. More
pos ition as lieutenant governor.
and more women have been run Record of Service
ning for offi ces in this year which
Krups ak prepared h e rself for
Bella Abzug has deem ed the "year
high office through h er fou rtee n
of t h e woman. " M a ny, like Krup yea r s in th e e xec u t ive a nd
s ak, ar e t ir ed of earning less t h an
legis lative branches of New York
th e ir male counterparts in t he
state government, including two
st at e c ivil ser vic e and ar e runnin g
t erms in the Assembly, previous to
for office to · ch ange some of t he
her e lecti on to the State Sen ate in
polic ies.
1972.
" I don 't r egard my office as
H er pos ition as advisor to the
property," she said . "If you play
chairm an of the Assembly was
th at gam e of politics you 'll n ever
s ati s fy ing, but she did not see a
take the r isk to m ake ch anges ."
breakth rou gh in p oli c ies unless
Krupsak sees key places t o
she herself gain ed more power
pressure th e direct ion of power
over th e de cis ions b eing m ade, sh e
and decis ion-making by ch an ging
expla ined .
p ar ty platforms. H er advice t o
" I evolved as a human b ein g
futur e campaigne r s is , " M ake the
b ee a use in 1967, as I grew in m y
issues, and influence the platres pons ibilities, I le arned t hat n o
forms of the p arty."
m atter how good my r esear ch was,
She str essed th at t her e was a
or h ow car e ful my conclus ions ," it
great need for sharp examinat ion
was not the same as being t he one
of th e struct ure of the stat e, as
to make the decisions . "I wanted
we ll as the dis criminatory prac to run ."
tices in all branches of the governm e nt.
" Part of growing up in a man 's
" We dec ide on our own destiny.
world was that I s aw myself as an
assistant. I had been programmed We kn ow th at th er e is no su ch
as a little girl. But I h ad t h e desire thin g as 'wom en's work' or 'men 's
work,'
s he con clude d. " In
for public service," sh e declared.
ris kin g, th at 's the only way we
Krups ak sees the strength of ac hieve. I will continue to speak
the government in its. potenti al ac- out."
Krupsak Confronts Power
By MARGARET CARY
Mary Anne 'Kr upsak, the first
woman elected Lieutenant Governor of New York State, hit hard at
the issues affecting women and
power in her Saturday morning
talk in Goodhart. Krupsak, secure
in her position as lieutenant
governor, spoke from h er ex periences with power , without the
occasional uncertainty of those
who seek it.
"Power," she suggeste d, " must
be dis per se d ;
powe r
is
everywhere." Women are often excluded from all branches of the
government , most noti ceably in
the judiciary, she s aid , and sh e
cited the disability act and abor tion as the two issues most
seriously affected by this exclusion.
The disability act disqualifi ed
pregnant women from r eceiving
government benefits for illnesses
incurre(l off the job. Many courts ,
Krupsak said, still uphold this
statute .
A Compromising Catholic
Krupsak is a Roman Catholic ,
and as Newsweek has pointed out,
hosts a healthy right -to -life
movement in her senate district.
But her position is one of com promise and she said last April ,
"You cannot inflict your own
position on others in a plurali stic
society."
"If there we're women on these
courts things would change ,"
Krupsak emphasized. Wome n
must be free of the discriminatory
practices in th is branch of govern ment, she said. Just as His panic
Plenary Views Future
By TERRY GALLAER
nat urally concern wome n, sh e
The future of women in polit ics
s aid , it is untim ely for women to
was th e fo c us of discussion at t he
polarize over t h e issue of Gay
c o n c luding plenary of the
rights in an e lection year.
"Women , Power and Politics Con Alumna Lynn Scheffey, '51, Coference," Saturday afternoon.
Commissioner of the PhUadelphia
Three speakers, addressi~ an · Cem!1lissio" . on th~ Status.; of
alidiEmce of about 225 in Erdman·
Women ,.
m o derated
·the
living room , emphasized the need
dis c ussion. H e r opening talk
for unity and affirmative action
stressed " inclusion: a process of
among women.
getting togeth er," which she sees
" I'm here to as k you to commit
as the most immedi at e need of the
yourself to ch anging the world,"
women's movement on t he inch a rg e d Ba r b a r a Mikul s ki ,
ternational, as well as the local
Baltimore Councilwoman and US
level.
sen atorial candid ate in 1974.
Scheffey cited th e collective
"W e'r e aski ng not for slices of the
pressure which insur ed th at t her e
pie or crumbs from th e t able but
we r e mor e th an a fe w token
for a whole new baker y."
women on th e US delegation to t he
Mi kulski warned t h at wom en
r ecent Buch arest populati on conmust not re lax their efforts in
fer ence . By contrast, t here was litlight of r ecent polit ical gains,
tle lobbying before t he selection of
cit ing a stat istic: at the present
delegates to th e Rome Food Con r ate of increase it will be 435 years
fer ence, and conseque ntly only
be for e the House of R epr esent wo of th e 40 US delegates were
tatives is 50 per cent wome n. She
wom en.
als o cautioned th at women m ust
T he e nthus iastically-app lauding
be prepared fo r a backl ash if the
audience included about :35 MawrEqual Rights Am endment passes .
ter s . Wofford, one of about 10 me n
If the Amendme nt was to pass
at th e ple nary, noted that recent
tomorrow, she said, t her e would
Br yn M awr alum nae wer e also
be a well-organi zed and well present . Direct soliciting drew
fi nanced m ovem ent fo r r epeal.
some of the non-student audience
Mikulski concluded wit h a plea
to t he conference; local radio,
for a Sisterh ood focusing on issues
T.V., newspaper and word -ofwhich cut across class li nes .
m outh advert ising info rmed t he
" Whether you ar e a mother with a
r est .
Ph .D. or a m oth er on Welfar e, you
The message of t h e plenar y :
need daycar e," she note d. Ot her
"Let 's get together and act !" was
" human r ights" issues cited wer e
clear. But at t he end of t he
socia l security, healt h car e, and
ple nary, sophomor e Pari Sabety
edu cation.
dec la red : "Wh at l can't u n Eth el Alle n, Philadelp hia Counder sta nd is why there ar e so few
c il woma n, m ember of several
Bryn Mawr students here. We ar e
President ial Advisor y Councils,
t h e hard core," she said , " it's up
and candidate for the R epublican
t o us."
n o min a ti o n
for
ma yo r
of
In an informal NEWS inter view
Phila delphia, echoed Mi kuls ki's
in Erdman dining hall fo llowing
plea fo r a coalit ion wit hin t he
th e conference, about 20 students
wom en 's m ovem ent . Allen me nwer e asked if they had attended
tioned t he need for wom en to be
the plenary and if not, wh~· . Equal
polit ically pragm ati c, as r egards
numers replied "I had too much
the issue of Gay r ights for examwork" and "I was n't really 111 p le . Alt h ou gh Civil libert ies
terest.ed."
t.•
Thursday, March 6, 1975
The Bryn Mawr- Have rford College News
Page 8
T HE NEWS
A Second Look
It's now been a year since The NEWS printed its
cooperation compendium, examining the extent of hiCollege cooperation from the academic standpoint,
department by department. We're going to do the same
thing again this year, checking up on .t he changes an d
developments that have occurred.
Cooperation is a serious business, and it takes effort. It is not something that we can m erely wish for
and then expect to appear. Professors and depart m ent
chairmen must work act ively towar ds establish ing
close ties with t heir counter part on the other campus.
Where cooperation h as not developed extensively, we
m ust ask why. The colleges must determine once and
for all what level of cooperation is best, and how we
can move to attain th at level.
There is no room for excuses . A " different approach" taken by two departments sharing the same
field does not mean that the teaching staffs of those
departme nts should not communicate with each other .
Personality conflicts should not be allowed to stand in
t he way of cooper ation . The faculties of both colleges
must learn t o listen to and deal with each other on
their own , not acting only after repeated complaints or
press ures from adminis trations.
We can see no good reason why t he Bryn Mawr
fac ulty and adminis tr ation continues to refuse its
students t he right to major at the college of their
choice, in t he department of th eir choice . Fears of
losing majors to a Haverford department are , in most
instances, groundless . Those few departments which
would lose m any m ajor s, without gaining Haverford
replacements, s hould re-examine their curriculum and
teachin g approach .
Th e s uccess of cooperation will make or break the
effectiveness of th e hi-College community. If both
Haverfor d an d Bryn M awr ar e to survive as distinctive
instit utio ns, cooper ation must work, and work well.
Th at's wh at t he NEWS' " second look" series on
cooperation wants to find out: how well has it been
working? Is it living up to ever yone's expectations? If
not, why not? What are t he outer -most limitations on
academic cooperation? Where do we go from here?
To lhe Editors:
Margie Starrels, m her article
"Sisterhood Plans a Guide for
Blac k Pr e -Fros h, " mi s quoted
what I said entirely. In our brief
convers ation, I noted to her that
"a group or students from the
Sisterhood are working on an Ad missions booklet for Blac ks, in the
line of what Swarthmore, Radcliffe and most other colleges have
already done, to give prospective
Black freshmen information about
THE OPEN FORUM: Letters to the Editors
Don 't Push Your Ideals
To lhe Editors:
Eve ry week as I a m re ading The
NEWS I am confr onte d with an attitude th at correlates quiet, nonverbal, non " active " people in th is
comm unity wit h apathy, nonin volve ment, and as bein g "c a ught
up in the ir own academic wor Id s".
I meet this att it ude in all fa cets of
my life in this community. It
seems to come down to"apathy"
vs. "activism" in many people's
eyes . I be lieve that seeing the in divid uals of this community in
this ste reoty ped manner is wrong.
The idea that quiet people
should change the ir bas ic natures,
or change the way they like to be,
angers me. There is no excuse for
the guilt th at " involve d people"
atte mpt to instill within us , and
the s uperior remons trances we are
forever faced with. St atem ents
such as "I respec t yo ur logical
opmwn , but yo u r mi s place d
prioriti es r eveal only too we ll t ha t
you have much more to learn"
and "When was t he last time you
bothered to attend a Bryn M ~wr
SI?orts event?" demonstr ate that
t hese individuals cannot see pas t
t he ir own value syste m enough to
recognize th at other people may
have diffe rent, even radically diffe rent, val ue systems . They see m
to think that if I do not agree with
them th at it is not because I have
come to a con scious dec is ion to
disagree but because I do not c are
or because I have " much more to
THE BRYN MAWR-HAVERFORD COLLEGE NEWS
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Marcus Levitt
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H averford
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~he NEWS IS a week ly 171_ewspaper for ~tudents . employees . and fri ends of Bryn M awr and
t~verford Colleges . An of ft ce IS loc at ed m the basement of fi rst entry Leeds Haverford and an
~ t ee on the second floor of College Inn at Bryn Maw r: offi ce hours are fr~m 6:30 to, 1l pm
uesdays at Bryn M awr and W edn esdays at Haver ford
· ·
Unlike Mostpeople?
To the Editors:
A bygone H averford era is
distinguis hed fr om ours by our
dying ethical sensitivity. We fur t h e r distingui s h o ur se lves by
holdin g on to a Qua ke r honor code
a lt h ough we do not live like ·
Quaker s, or serious ly car e to. Like
mostpeople , we gr ant r espect, con cer n , a nd commit m e nt s par ingly ,
whil e we ove rfl o w ·with indiffe r e nce . Our ple na ries ar e s ardonic displays of nonrespect and
nonconcern as we talk at , la ugh at,
and t hrow pieces of paper at m ost people . In t h e din ing cente r , the
The Nauga 's Saga
To lhe Edilo rs:
The nauga is being s hot into extinction .
A peaceful and once a thriving
species, the nauga is being hunte d
out of existence in th is count r y.
The widespread use by farm er s of
Sisterhood Misquoted
tllack students /student life at
Bryn Mawr." I also stated t hat
"c ompared to other Seven Sisters
colleges, Bryn M awr has been
defic ient as far as distr ibuting this
sort of booklet." After t h at, I to ld
Margie that I had nothing further
to include " because the booklet is
just in an in itial stage of production ."
I DID NOT SAY, as you
misquoted me as saying, "th at
learn ". I rese nt t he idea t~t any
Let's stop looking at abstran
ideals and start looking at in.
one system of valu es, no matte r
dividu als. I believe that an in.
how re presente d by the majori ty,
dividual's inner peace is more im.
is better.
por ta nt than someone else's idea
Peop le a r e on ly apat h et ic
of how that individ ual should live
re lative to certain value sys tem s .
her life. Academic ideals, sports
Yet it see m s t h at outwa rd ly
events , and even the fate of the
pass ive people ar e s uppose d to
farmwor kers (as far as anyone
ch a nge . Why t h e con cern with this
here could change it) come second
ch ange? On a n individu al leve l you
- if th at is what the individual
kn ow t h at it is virtually im wants . !t ~omes down to whether
poss ible to cha nge those things in
or not It IS worth being here or
a fri e nd you do not like - you can
anywhere , if you must subordi~ate
e ith er accept t hem as t hey are or
your set of values, or if you must
par t c ompa ny . In a community of
over one th ousand people, how · be constantly remonstrat~d bv
those louder than you who think
much more diffic ult is it t o tr y to
that you are wrong.
change th os e people who ar e con Karen 'Remenchik '77
te nt with th e ir values?
pla ns had not been form ally accepte d by th e Sisterhood as a
group ." In fact, not only is t he
e nd or se d
by
the
b ookl et
Siste rh ood, but t he committee
work ing on it was formed durin g a
Sisterh ood meeting and is a St a n din g Committee of the S isterh ood .
F urth er more, I fee l t hat fin an cial aid is a s ignificant proble m in
attracti ng qualified Black fresh me n, especially after t hey have
been accepte d at Br yn Mawr as
well as severat other colleges.
Also, J ill Doc kett and Joanne
Yancey are "c o-presidents" of t he
Sisterhood. Jill h as done a substantial amount of the work in t he
Sisterhood and should not h ave
been disregarded by t he " News"
in its notation of t he presidential
office.
I am dissappointed by both t he
shallowness and in acc uracy of
your article about the Admiss ion
of Blacks at Bryn Mawr.
June Oldham '75
Senior Representa tive lo lhe
Admissions Commillee
Edito.·'s Note: W e regret that the
comment referring to Sisterhood
endorsem ent of the booklet was in .
correctly attributed t o Jun e
Oldham . M elanie Porter-Rag land,
one of the booklet coordinators, is
responsible for th e statem ent. lVe
stand by the accuracy of the res/ of
the article.
ch emical naugac ides t o protect
c rop s ha s wor se n e d a bad
situ ation . T here ar e now le ss t han
five hundred naugas extant in the
Unite d States -yet, no steps h ave
been take n to declare t he animal
a n end anger ed s pec ies and th ereby
e nd the s laughte r . If th is step is
n ot ta ken th e nauga will almost
-cer ta inly ce ase to e xis t within two
to three year s time . We mus t act
now.
On Monday and Tues day mem bers of the Na uga Acti on Committee will be in t he H ave rford
dining c enter dur in g dinne r collec tin g s ignatures for a peti t ion to be
se nt to Congress urging t h at steps
be ta ken imm ediate ly to save the
wild nauga. It is o ur hope that t he
students of H ave rfo rd a nd Bryn
M awT will sh ow t h e ir concern for
our c ountry 's wildlife and for their
own poste rity.
John Ba bo ukis '77
Ellioll Crooks '76
Bill Gul he '76
Marsha ll Wa lthew '77
In Appreciation
To the Editors:
On behalf of the Haverford
College Bas ketball T eam I wo uld
like to th ank ever yone for the
t r emendous fa n support t h at you
gave us t his year . The lar ge, noisy
crowds were a big boos t to t he
team . We are espec ially proud of
the large number of fans t hat we
had for our two play-off games at
Muhlenberg - our school suppor t
fa r outclassed t h at of t h e other
schools in t h e to ur name nt.
Tony Za nin
Varsity Bas ketball Coach
library, and the dorms we enjoy
our close friends, and some not so
c lose frie nds, and we carefullydo
not r ecognize mostpeople. W~ are
not a community of scholars and
frie nds ; we are a bunch of groups,
almost-groups, and lonelies. Like
mostpeople, we are neither con.
te.mptible, nor honorable. Like
mostpeople, we observe a legal
code . And this is not despicable.lt
is just our way.
What is despicable is that we
almost believe that we are unlike
mostpeople; wit h tongue in cheek
halfway we obey a Quaker honor
code . Unlike mostpeople, we do
not fit our persona, because we
mis represent ourselves to our·
se l v es se mi -co nsc iously . We
neither acce pt that we do not want
to live like Quakers, nor that we
do live like mostpeople. But am·
bivalence is easy and doesn't cost
much in the short ·run. So we don't
say . - I trust that a familiar sar·
don ie to ne is apparent in what I
h ave wr.itte n. Yet I have not writ·
te n t his to perpetuate that tone. I
h ave wr itte n in an attempt to offer
a catalyst.
But a catalyst for what?
Slew Garelick '76
Legs and the woman I sing,
Driven to shun romance,
BoJ"ed by the bac kward thing
Docherty calls an "advance."
All unbes ieged is her Troy,
Safe, all too safe she lives
T hreats are but tentative,
T im id and shy is the boy.
Tried he but once a sly course,
But seized even so with doubt
At t he last minute crept outEmpty inside was the horse.
Muse te ll me why and wherefore,
The 'reasons thereof and the
causes
Of so great and many long
pausesWhy is the boy such a bore?
epicallee
applebee
Page 9
Opinion
[he Garden: Community and Survival Center
By MICHAEL AUCOTT '68
Among all the recent speculations regardin g energy, the economy, and the future of
civiliz_ation, one item stands out: food. Virtually everyone agrees that food production
will be of increasing importance to the
world in the future . Further, it has been
noted by many that today's food shortages
are due mainly to wasteful habits of food
consumption and land use .
It is in the area of food that Haverford
and Bryn Mawr can have a beneficial effect
on society merely by taking notice of, and
expand.ing, an activity already well underway on the Haverford campus. This activity, ignored by most students, is gardening.
There are now, and have been for many
years, a number of gardeners, both from the
campus itself and from surrounding neighborhoods, who have vegetable gardens on
campus. The time is right for the expansion
of such gardening, and for the entry of
Haverford and Bryn Mawr as institutions
into community gardening .
It would not be hard to institute a gar dening program. First, a survey of the
colleges' unused acres should be undertaken, and sites chosen for the expansion of the areas already gardened. Then
gardeners could be recruited from the staff,
faculty, student body, and surrounding com munities, possibly including potential
trouble-makers who might welcome a
chance for productive activity.
Students could be involved in gardening
on an extracurricular basis , or in fact, as
part of their course material. Fac ulty could
become involved in research , not only on
the vast, and little understood area of plant
interactions, soil micro flora, etc.; but also
on the group dynamics of shared activities
and the notions of land ownership and use
and their relation to the development of
societies. Everybody could have a good time
digging in the dirt.
In addition to the basic enjoyment of gardening, t h ere could be at least four big
benefits from such a program.
1. The college comm unity cou ld raise a
lol of good food. Most people t hink that gardens produce food only in the summer. Not
so. If Haverford and Bryn Mawr were really
on top of gardening, they could supply t heir
own lettuce, spinach, cabbage, carrots, etc.
for most of April and all of May; and vir tually ever y vegetable anyone could eat
could come from the gardens in September
and October . Then in November and part of
December , cool weather crops, like lettu ce,
could still be coming to the dining table,
fresh from the garden!
2. The college community could learn
much about small-scale food production,
and impart this knowledge to others . There
h as probably never been a time when man
has had a greater need to increase his
knowledge of food growing . The intricacies
of the profound interaction between man
and plant which reaches s uch a pronounced
focus in a garden have barely begun to be
learned . If the talent arid intensity of
Haverford and Bryn Mawr were brought to
bear on the problems of gardening, ex cellent results would ensue .
3. The college community could both .
learn and teach self-sufficiency, and in so
doing, help its O\Vn survival. In the years
ahead, if the costs of food and fuel increase,
as is likely because of shrinking supplies of
resources and expanding populations ,'
decentralized, energy-conserving life styles
and techniques will probably become more
important to many. Colleges may well survive to the degree that they teach people
self-sufficiency skills, such as how to grow .
(and preserve) their own food.
4. The college community, with its gardening program, could encourage com-.
munity cooperation and the sharing of
resources. With this would come greater
friendship and understanding among all in-
J
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College grounds
"
If} '}
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- present location of gardens
volved. Further, the community would be
helping to fos ter - by example - a saner
local, national and international policy
regarding resource and land use.
ByTOM ROWE '77
Our end less debates on the Honor Code
are now at last heading toward sim plification . We are trying to cut away the
thickets of unneeded moral extrapol atio n in
injustice on many levels when we leave
Bryn Mawr. The "real" world is here at
Bryn Mawr as well as outside it; we must
define now what values we hold in terms of ,
feminism, humanism , and individualism.
"Women Workers Week" was also a time
of individual revelation, in addition to
collective arousal. I hosted a Black woman
from the United Auto Workers Union; to
Bernice Higgins ·I owe a personal debt. My
feeling toward my self and my goals
crystalized in part, thanks to her.
Which leads me to n,y most fragil e and
most important impression of that week.
For those few days a sense of "sisterhood"
was established between two groups of
women. Stereotypes of aloof Mawrters
meeting working women deny the vital importance of t he week. Age, race, economic
class diffe r ences were not ignored but
utilized to emphasize the common concerns
question of "professionals" organizing
of feminist humanism. Many of the labor
unions like teachers' unions is an interesting one , yet it is important to , union women expressed their hopes for
CLUW, the Coalition of Labor Union
recognize that unions arose in low-pay, lowWomen. This organization unifies women
status , high-exploitation fields. "Women
from all un ions, even rival movements , in
Workers Week" dared me to establish my
their str uggle for equity. In the same way,
sense of equity and human worth. Personal
goals of fair wages, child care, and personal "Women W'orkers Week ," especially
satisfaction urgently require universal ex- through the residency program, asserted
tension to all women.
that trade union women and college women
Less obviously per haps , "Women share a need to unite to achieve our goals.
Workers Week" confronted the elite notion Such contact between women workers and
sometimes subtly expressed by "educated" Bryn Mawrters are crucial. They must be
women: the notion that "we" won't face - repeated if we are, in words of a former
discrimination because of our gender , that student of the Summer School, Hilda Wor"we" won't face a lack of child-care thington Smith, to make the world " light,
facilities, that "we" won't face inequity and strong, and warm, light for humanity."
present; as my own feelings were involved , I
analyzed their roots and meanings.
First, I felt that the week addressed my
feeling that Bryn Mawr women are too often isolated, insulated, from the ' outside
world ." By that, I mean the totality of the
world outside Bryn Mawr, not just the
professional world, but the larger society
which embraces the collective perspective
of labor unions. I do not come from a family
with union ties; "Women Workers Week"
taught me about unions and about the types
of work most represented by unions. The
"'Women Workers Week' dared me to
establish my sense of equity and human
worth."
an innovative one. Every summer from
* 1921-1 939 BMC held a Summer School for
Women Workers in Industry, most of that
time under the direction of Hilda W orthington Smith. Any conception of BMC as
a staid and traditional women's college
• must clearly be broade_ned to recognize this
bold step. In educating wome n workers
Bryn Mawr enlarged its early feminism to
include all classes and races of women. The
Schoo) lvas the first experiment of its kind,
under;;aken at a time when labor
movements were still struggling for
legitimacy.
Hosting labor union women of the '70's
modernized this historical struggle. It was
inevitable that I should examine the
• "'t '-
-.
'
The cultivation of food may well be the
essence of civili zation. Gardening is a
civilized, and civilizi ng, activity. Haverford
and Bryn Mawr should do more of it.
Honesty or Hex?
A Broader Sisterhood
By SHARON WITHERSPOON '78
The week of Jan. 20-24 was "Women
Workers Week" at Bryn Mawr . As part of
this week of commemoration of Bryn
Mawr's role as a pioneer of labor education,
several BMC women hosted labor union
women. I was lucky enough to be such a
host; my impressions of that experience are
still strong. Somrhow BMC's history, my
personal feelings and a perspective on
presen society seemed to unite in a strong
challenge to me and to Bryn Mawr .
Bryn Mawr'~ role in labor education was
-possible sites for gardens
the Code and get. down to basic~. All th is involves is a simple affirmation of our personal and collective honor.
Future arguments and h ea dach e:,; can be
elimin ated right now if we radically simp lify
the Honor Code to its logical condu~ion. We
need a simpl e statement everyone can sign
with cnmplet e consciousn e-;s and knowledge
that it works. The pledge " I will be honest"
is a ll we really shou ld demand from inmming students , so why don't we leave it at
that ?
Honesty in al l our ad ivities is ex art ly
what we are after. Honest pt~)ple don 't cheat
on tests or forge papers. They do not steal
from the dining center or keep overdue
libra I) ' hooh. Fu11 hermore : t.hey nmfi·on t
one anot her constantly in a ll sm1s of mat ters, because keeping silent when on e should
inst rud . or inf(mn others is a form of lying.
Have we found the perfect Code? Heduced
t.o e-;sent.ia ls, our Honor Code would affirm
that we are all hone-;t , which is the point of
any honor code. You might ~ee that some sly
fellow could sign the code in had faith ,
however. If one is dishone-;t presuma hi~· one
would li e and pledge hon e-;ty.
This dist urhing phenomerlon is found in
all honor codes. Hone-;t people will hone-;t.ly
pled ge hnn e-;t y. Likewise dishonest ]X~>ple
will dishom~tl.v pledge hon esty. Clearly we
must find a way to prevent t.h e second case.
Threats or curses oft en do the trick of in suring t rut hfulm~s. Per haps we should
a mend our sim pl<· pledge to indude a hex;
" I will be hone-;t or let me burn in Hell. "
Unfortu nately thi s hex will not work
because many studen ts do not care where
they end up. We n<.>ed a co de that will
t hreaten something we a ll ch erish very
dearly.
Happily there is such a h ex, desi gnt'fl to
hit t hose prone to ch ea tin g where it hurts. I
propose that we adapt th e f<>llo wing Honor
Code and end furth er pointless debate: "I
will he hon<.'l't or may I he cursed getting
into graduate school ."
Page 10
Thursday, March 6, 1975 1
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Whose Concern is Child Care?
By RONALD JENKINS '76
A community that ignores its children
can never be whole. The decision of both
the Bryn Mawr and Haverford student
governments not to allocate any funds to
the Bryn Mawr-Haverford New Gu lph Child
Care Center is indicative of a general
student lack of awareness of the unique
function that the center fills in the hiCollege community.
Children of the faculty and staff of both
colleges attend the center as do children of
graduate students and members of the local
community. Many parents would not be
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Opinio~
able to work, teach, or attend classes
without the high quality child care that the
center provides. Many students' immediate
reaction might be that since the great
majority of Haverford and Bryn Mawr
students have no children, the maintenance
cif the day care center should not be their
concern. But in addition to providin g a
much needed service for the minority of t he
hi-College community who have young
children, the center serves numerous other
important roles of which all students have
the opportunity to take advantage.
The center provides an invaluable source
of practical observational data for students
taking courses in child development,
language acquisition and other related
areas of psychology and education. Many
students have a lready taken advantage of
this convenient field study opportunity, and
many more could do so in the future.
Students interested in careers working with
children or with special interests in that
direction have the chance to apply for
positions as student aids and teachers at
the center.
Another reason for supporting t he center
is to promote a healthier relationship with
the surrounding communities of Haverford,
Bryn Mawr, and Ardmore from which our
academic community is unfortunate ly and
unnecessarily isolated. There is no purer
and more effective way to communicate
friendliness to our non-academic neighbors
than opening our resources to the care of
their children .
I have worked at t h e day care center
since September and have grown to respect
the un usually high level of dedication
d isplayed by people involved with the cen ter at all levels. I cons ider it a privilege to
have had the opportunity to complement my
academic and extracurricular pursuits with
a job that allows me to exert my energies
towards the very real, touching, and
gratifying · human challenge of he lping
children grow. Simply to help keep an option of this type open 'for any Haverford or
Bryn Mawr student should be reaso n
enough to provide the center with some su pport.
If we truly want to consider ourse lves a
community in the fullest sense of the word J
do not think we can afford to deny s upport
to a center which provides a ser vice as
By ROB HARRIS '78
Jac k Coalman walked in and said, "Rob, I
.want to tell you about my plan. I've fi gured
out how : to end our frna n:eial' · prob lems
forever." ..
Thinking Jack was a little fl ipped-out, I
shrugged off his remark. But he pursued th e
matter so I finally to ld him to proceed.
"Are you ready for this? We' ll h ock the
rare books!"
"We'll what?!" I asked, now convinced he
was insane.
"We'll pawn the rare books . They're
worth millions. Just by getting rid of John
Keats' letter we can add three new faculty
postions ."
"But Jack, that letter's irreplaceable!"
"Awww. Who needs it? Everybody knows
he could write. And listen to thi~ . If we
hock the page from the Gutenberg Bible, we
can serve steak at every meal."
"Listen to me! You're crazy! That thing
is priceless!"
"What's the difference?! Everybody's
seen a copy of the_ Bible."
"But what about all the people that come
from miles around to see the books?!"
"O.K O.K. So we'll pawn the tickets on
display in the Sharpless gallery."
Jack seemed really pleased with himself
at this point, and he was intent on convincing me.
"Furthermore, Rob, we can eliminate
overcrowding permanently simply by getting a good deal on Spenser's manuscript of
The Faerie Queen. We can buy HPA and
build new dorms. And what's more Students Council won't have to pay for the
lights!"
"But Jack, people come from all over just
to see that book. It's world renowned."
"Have you ever read that thing, Rob? Do
you know how dull it is? The Faerie Queen
- hah! That book's gonna be the first thing
to go ."
"Look Jack. You're out of your mind.
Why don't you just raise tuition like all of
the other college presidents in the country?"
"But, Rob, I won't have to because with
the piece de resistance we'll have no more
By CARSO N BARNES '78
problems. We' ll h ave ever y male in t he
nation applying here. Haver ford will be a
househo ld word. Because after I se ll
Dante's Divine Comedy we won't h ave to
charg_e t uitio n !"
"Jaaack ! As soon as you announce t his
madman's idea, you 'll have Dave Freezer in
your office!"
"Rob, you just don't seem to understa nd.
T his is where I save eve n m or e money.
Since we won't have any rare books, we
won't need a rare book li brarian . I gave him
his notice this morni~ g."
Bring a Little Hi-College Home with You
DOWN
1. Feature of a Have rfo rd
road
2. Egypt. sacred bu ll
3. John or Steve
4. They keep goi ng
down
5. Sinatra. e.g .
6 . Lift
7. "For __ We Know"
8. Number of peop le in
West. Civ.
9. Boat places
10. Decrease
11. To the sheltered side
12. Fog
13. Type of gat hering
21. Necessity at finals
time
23 . Missile
26. Professor w1th personality
2l Logical prof
28. __ Frankenstein
29. Met coach
,-,.~-~----l 30 . Guggenheim's goodbye
31. Dorm
32. College and Roger
-~-~-----l 35. Push __ _
36. Compete
42. Dagger
43. Every dog·s possession
44. Demanded of the Bryn
Mawr-Haverford Orchestra
45. Coward
- - + -- ---1----l---..J 48. Econ . Prof.
50. Cook's specialty
52. Never a good excuse
--+---+-- 4---..J 53. Banned lettuce
54. Small bird
55. Gat's diversion
56. This: Sp.
f------1---l 58. BMC Prof.
59. Luman·s colleague
60. Estonian weight
---L--L_..,L_.J 63. Husemoller's measure
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Out of bed. _ dawn
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Pen name of 10
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18. Houston player
19 Meeting· Abbr.
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26.
29.
33.
34.
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al.
Good counsel
Lear's faithful fol lower
No: Scottish
Bother
Noted board member
of the 19th century
Within: comb. form
Bearded official
Goddess: Latin
ford h ave both contnbuted personallv in
m a ny ways to t he s upport of the cent' I
s incerely hope th at the student gover.
me nts will fo llow their generous exame;n·
Pes
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h . b
b y r e -exammmg
t e ir udget priorities and
all oc ating some mu ch needed funds to th'
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munity .
Equal POOH Protection
Coalman's Pawnshop
One of the major problems fac ing Haver·
ford in recent months has been economic
difficulty. Now t h at President Coalman h as
public ly announced the new bu dget, I can
reveal his alternate pla n .
T he other night I was sitti ng in my com fy
fifty-two degree room after another great
dinner of Slater mystery burgers whe n
ther e was a knock on th e door.
vitally s ignificant as the nurtur 1·
·
ng of
childre n . Most of the center's operating
costs are m et t hrough other sources Th
request m ade to th e student governm. e
ents
.
was l 1ttle more than
a request for agestu~
.
f
o s upport . Pres ident~ Coleman and Wof.
Surely the best
39. voc.: 'Fine arts
course
40. Legal claim
41 Fight result
42. Render more pleasing
46. Dutch commune
47 l!ingual abode
49. Product claim
51 . Aged: Latin (abbr .)
52. Freezer
38.
53.
57.
61.
62.
Type of plastic
Pres ident or lantern
Anthracite
Wi lde
64. Harmful fluid
65. Land measure
66. Rolli ng __
67. .canadian Indian
68. Too thin
69 . Pem and Fillmore
70 Lyman Beecher __
D oes P et Owners' Organization of Haver.
ford (P OOH) tr uly serve a useful function
in t h e community?
In a m essage of purpose published last
sem est e r , its goals we re stated as being to
h old th e pet owners responsible for their
pets - it would be their responsibility to
kee p pet s out of the d ining ce nter, to be~r.
so n a ll y
r e spo n sib le
for damage
(pres um a b ly , t h is included fri ghtening
thos e who fear dogs or cats) incurred by the
pe t , e t c.
Appare ntly, it can be said that the func.
t io n of POOH is to protect the community
from pe ts. But there are two related fun;.
t ion s th at P OOH seems to have nothingto
say ab out: what it can do for its members,
and la t e ly, how it c an protect the pet from
th e community.
Is it pos sible to h ave an agreement 11itha
local veterinar ian , fo r instance, such that
m e mbe rs of POOH could take their pets to
that vet excl us ive ly in exchange for reduced
c harges? Or, could quantity purchases be
m ade of pet food in POOH's name, to be
distr ibuted to its members who would pay
,Jess t h en to fe e d theis pets? Who knews.
· And now, POOH's stated function of pet
owner respons ibility has been eliminated,
with the local dogcatc her (not cat catcher,
not snake , qua il , rat , gerbil - why only
dogs ? ) on campus at the behest of AI
Willi a m s. The in dividual owner, it seems, ~
now in the position of not having to contend
with confrontation as a corrective means,
nor with the r ules or intentions of POOH.
The r e is a higher law in operation here.
A I Wi lliams 'te lls me that he was under
co ns ide r a ble press ure from faculty and
-studen ts las t semester to invite the town·
s hip dogcatc her onto the campus. He has
now done so and I am no longer able to let
m y dog r un ~n Wednesday mornings and be
r espon s ible to t he hi-College community: I
am now r espons ib le to the laws of the
Towns hip over those of this college.
Two last t houghts: the dogcatcher has
bee n le nient so fa r. He has returned mydog
to m e, rather th an having me go to the
SPCA to pay the fine or have the bea~t
gassed. But wh at greate r "right" to life do I
have, that m y dog may be so lightly slain?
Am I bett e r , or only - different? .
And: how long until the clause Ill the
H onor Code, providing .for confrontatiOn If
on e s tudent t hin ks another is bemg
damage d by d rugs, fo r instance, becomes an
invita ti on for Lower Merion Pohce to
reg ular ly patrol the campus on the lookout
for "s us pic ious " persons who might happen
to h ave a little dope ? How many years does
t h at p ut one in prison for?
Opinion Deadline
and
The NEWS will accept signed ~~:ter: com·
op inions from any member of the bi·Co b~~hed as
mum ty. Su bmitted matenals will be puhl to edll
space perm1ts. We reserve the ng 11 nol pllnl
opinions of excess1ve length , and we WI
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· The deadline for all letters and op~ ~alerials
p.m. on the Tuesday before publica'. n. . !:Oil
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1ursday,
March 6, 1975
Page '11
• The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
"ooperation: ·Does it Stop With Cross-Majoring?--(Continued from page 1)
,operation."
On a more concr ete level ,
rresentation on faculty search
mmi ttees h as bee n stan~dized. It is now formali zed
!icy to have a Bryn Mawr
fr~sentative on eve~y H averfor.d
hoc hinng committee who IS
1sidered a fu ll member and par;nntes in the concensus . Due to
l'irrerence in hiring pr ocedme,
·h a formali zed policy con·ning Haverford participation in
in& at Bryn Mawx has n ot _Yet
Jl adopted, but the expectatiOn,
:ording to Ma ·Kay, is that the
hition will ·be similar. Some
~gress regarding consultation
ween the two faculties has been
de in the steps be for e a vacant
·ition is defined.
~ryn Mawr is continuin? . an
[en policy 'regarding fu lf1lhng
isional requirements with comat Haverford, and Haverford
dents will be allowed to use
tyn Mawr courses . to count
r ards the fulfi1lmen~ of t h e
lnension point _ r equuements
ich will begin for next year's
shman class . Whether Bryn
1wr faculty would assign dimenn points to th e courses in their
~artments was to be discussed
a meeting on Wednesday, but
were unavailable before
NEWS deadline.
Chem Prof. Colin McKay
Photo by Art Carbuncle
ses t h an vice versa has been
nearly wiped out. (NEWS Feb. 28)
However, Polit ical Sc ience prof.
Marc Ross, also a member of the
Joint Cooperation Committee ,
says th at "success of cooperation
is n ot dependent on the number of
bodies ." Semester to semester
changes in enrollment don't really
reflect the s uccess of cooperation
as a whole, Ross says, but rather
th e "sh ort run" effect of part icular courses' desirability and
appeal. MacKay h olds much the
same opm10n, saying t h at he
doesn't believe in " the numbers
game."
" The name of t he game is to
open opportunities for students,"
M ac Kay said , and cooper ation
would be "a positive thing even if
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Duplication of courses on bot h
campuses has been minimize-d further in many departments to allow
for more varied complime ntar y
programs. Ross feels t his is important "to make the choices open
. for students richer."
Both Ross and MacKay see
cooperation as necessary in t h e
light of the financia l s ituations
faced by both colleges. Departments of 3-4 people ar e "no longer
v i a bl e,"
says
Ross ,
and
"economies of scale" are very important.. According t o MacKay,
"It's the only way t o develop a
scope of programs within t he
boundaries of fixed resour ces
available to eit her institution. "
On Speaking Terms
'In certa in areas, however ,
cooperation is still being held
back. T he different departments
have h ad to face diffe rent kinds of
problems in trying to get together.
"Differences in educational
p h ilosophies and pe rsonali ties
limit cooperation," said Ross .
"They can't be overlooked."
Alt hough it has been th e job of the
Joint Cooperation Committee to
"monitor" cooperation, it h as not
bee n
c h a r ged
with
implementation, and they are not
there to force people to cooperate.
But, said Ross "More departments are speaking to each other
l10\V."
Another difficulty cited by both
Ross a nd MacKay is t he fact Lhat
Bryn Mawr has a gradu ate school
and Haverford does not. Ac l'Ordin g to MacKay, " more subspec ialties must be covered at the
gradu ate level," which is not · so
m uch th e case at the un dergradu ate level. This co uld
possibly r esult in a differ ence in
educational approach, as well as
t he mechanical problem of
professors on each campus having
different course loads.
Cooperation, it seems , is advancing. The general policy in thjs
area to h ave no general policy, so
that it may go as far as any one
department and its hi-College
counterpoint wish to take it and
not be forced to go farther. As
MacKay said, " Bryn MaWl· and
Haverford are both different than
they were before . We must make
sure that difference is not worse,
but that difference is better."
French Summer
During the summer of 1975
t h e lnstitul d'etudes Francaises
d'avignon, under the auspices
of Bryn Mawr College, will offer a progr am of study m
French language , literature,
history and political science.
Students may earn up to 7
semester-hours of credit.
For furth er information and
app li cation forms , cont act
Prof. Michel Guggenheim.
Sax and Horn
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player s needed for jazz-rock
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vacation. If inter ested contact
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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Page 12
Investment Fund Group
Profits from Ventures
By MAUREEN O'RIORDAN
The Bryn Mawr s tudent investment fund group is "working
furiously," according to manager
Fran Sedita. The group which was
established by an anonymous
$100,000 gift at the begin~ing of
"
Fran
Sedita, one of three BMC
students in charge of the Investment Fund. Ph oto by Jeff W >f so n
first. semester with the object of
providing an opportunity for
students to educate themselves
about the world of finance and investment, has even begun to turn a
profit.
According to Sedita, the investments the group has made fa ll
into three main categories: bonds,
high-income stocks, and stocks
which are expected to show a
profit through capital appreciation
(rise in price) rather than through
dividends.
One of the group 's top three
holdings is $10,000 woth of shares
in the Ins urance Company of
North America, which Sedita termed "very safe." $6,000 has been
invested in the First Woman's
Bank of New York, wh ich has not
yet opened its doors. One of. the
less conservative investments 1s
$7,000 of Digital Equipment.
T hree- Digit Profit
" Digital Equipment was our
first real plunge," said Sedita.
"We were very excited that we
made about $500 on it, but we've
s ince lost some of that. It's a very
long-term investment, and reflect~
our opinion that capital spending
will eventually increase."
Now is "a good time to invest,"
Sedita says. " Over the next few
~'ears , prices will be high but now
they're historically low."
The group is reporting to the
Bryn Mawr Board of Directors
who has given them "complet~
freedom," she says . " We started
with about $100,000 and now we
have approximately $102,500. Of
course, the figure changes every
clay."
Thursday, March 6, 1975
SGA Influence, But No A ctivity .
(Cmttinued fro m page 16 )
than their election.
Two students comme nte d in a
NEWS opinion (Jan. 31, 1969):
" On Monday night it was said in
public meeting that Bryn Mav.'l·
students did not know enough to
serve in anything but. an advisory
position on the committee . And it.
was said by our representative."
They disputed a questionnaire implying that students were satisfied
with appointed representatives,
since only 200 returns were
received.
Student representation on
College-wide bodies began in 1969.
Two students were then elected to
a committee to study coeducation
options,
and
the
faculty
Curriculum Committee decided ,
under Undergrad pressure , to
allow three students from the
student Curriculum Committee to
sit in on its proceedings. The
following semester this was
regularized, and by April, 1970 the
number of student representatives
was expanded to five. These
students do not have voting power.
Admissions Committee opened
its doors to students in March ,
1970, in conjunction with requests
from a non-SGA student group,
SisterhoQd, and the Women's
Studies Committee. McBride approved the election of three
students, one of whom had to be
Black, to the committee. Contrary
to earlier requests, however, no~ ·
voting power was granted. The
NEWS condemned this as another
instance of giving students "influence, but not power" (March
13. 1970l.
In 1971, the Board of Directors
.· c
'
allowed two under~raduates and
poweJ m. allege decision.making
two grad students to be elected as
cooperatwn, and women's studies.
non-voting representatives to its
Although all three Colloquiaspu;
meetings. This question attracted
off a large numbe r of question.
little attention on campus, apnan~ . resu lts, refere nda, and
parently, as less than ten students
specific proposals, they had little
attended open discussions with
long-range effect on SGA. In one
the Board on the issue.
case (1972), a whole year Passed
When students attempted to
before questwnna1re results wert
gain access to the appointments
even re~eased.
committee in 1970, McBride to ld
The first Col.loquium arose out
student Curriculum Committee
of a stu dent petitiOn. Coupled~it~
head Clarissa Rowe that students
the pres~dent1al search dispute, a
would not be qualified to judge the
student-mttlated meeting with
research and standing of a proDean Dorothy Marshall to discUss
fessor in her field (NEWS, Feb.
student e~pulsions and appea~. J
27, 1970). Following the 1972
and a ~eetmg between 50 students
Colloquium, students again
a~ld stx fac ulty members 10
pressed for a place on the com~tscuss pass/fail and grading o~
mittee, together
with the
twns, anttc tp atiOn of increased
publication each term of which
student ~dvocacy and interCollege
professors were up for tenure and
commumcatwn was high. Th~
reappointment.
wave of frenetic activity (NEll'S,
A subcommittee of faculty and
Feb. 7, 1969), however, died do~]
students considered mecha~isms
by Colloquium time. A second
for institutionalizing student
meeting of fac ulty and students to
evaluation through campus -wide
plan the Colloquium was attended
questionnaires. This group apby more fac ulty than students. a
pearecl to be c lose to a decis ion in
premon it ion of things to come.
March 1973 but stalled as faculty
In 1972, the Convocation relea;e
memb~rs ~xpressed fear ;f which fo llowed Colloquium coin.
"popularity c ontest" methods. _ CJcied vnth the release by anad hoc
The subcommittee's work is still
facu lty gro up of a broad pro.
at the "experimental" st~ge now,
gram for change . Both called for
according to former
SGA
the abo li t ion of ' divisional re.
President Sue Herman .
qu ire m e nt s , bu t no alliancE
Colloquia Results
emer ged above board betweenthe
Three Bryn Mawr Colloquia
two gro ups.
(March, 1969; March , 1972; and
This is th e second of a tu·o {Jilrl
October, 1974) and one March, series. In fut ure issues u•ill ap/)far
1970 "duel" Colloquium attempted
a series of articles dealing 11ilh
to revitalize SGA through culling
Curriculum Commillee, and 1111
proposals from the student body
analysis of current problems
en masse on issues such as reducrelating to SGA and governanceal
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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Page 13
BMC Pre-Med Pressure--(Continued from page 16)
·'study all the time," yet most interviewed who held such views
found i~ difficult to recall individuals who really fit this
description.
Another fr~quent comment was
that pre-meds do not join extracurricular activities . NEWS
Editor Marcus Levitt notes that
"no high-ranking member of tqe
NEWS has ever been pre-med" in
recent years. .
Yet nearly all of the "pre-meds"
interviewed escribed outside inGrinding and Success
Professors agree that outside inare important. Biology
department Chair man Robert
said that the successful
medical school applicants he
knows were " we ll-rounded"
Prof. Anthony Kaney
stated that most of the students in
his Biology. 101 course, about 80
of whom claim to be . pre, are capable of handling the
sensibly, but t hat he wishes
few anxious individuals ("about
percent" of t he p r e-med
nts) could relax more. "I
ply fail to see any correlation
the real pre-med grinds
and success," he added.
The Biology 101 course has,
, been much criticized by
;tudents who feel that it is a "prened weed-out course." Many conit unnecessarily diffic ult and
, wit h " nit-picking
labs." They believe that, since the ·
class is so large, the biology
department tries to discourage
potential pre -meds so that only
the best students remain .
The Faculty Responds
The faculty is sensitive to this
criticism. Conner absolutely
dehies any such "official policy"
and "cannot understand" where
the idea comes from. "That poor
101 course, it suffers so," he said.
"We've tried so hard to make it a
good liberal arts course m
science."
Kaney added that, al~hough the
<:ourse is difficult, there are other
contributing factors, such as the
number of people taking the
course as a required divisional ,
and those who say they are premed but have not given much
thought to their interest. "They
filter themselves out," he . commented.
In addition, Biology 101 is
especially demanding for students
whose previous experience in
scien<:e has been limited. "Some
people haven't the vaguest idea of
what a science course is like,"
Kaney stated.
Counselling Poor
The Bryn Mawr pre-medical
<:ounseling service was also
criticized. (see The NEWS Jan.
3 1). "Sometimes we ..are overly
kind in our counseling." explained
Conner. Students who have
serious trouble with their work
should reevaluate t heir plans, and
should be provided with more information regarding other healt h
careers, he said.
Many freshmen c omplained
about Dean Jane Hedley, who
they say discourages science <:ourses and strong pre-medi<:al
programs. They say they are
dis<:ouraged from taking more
than one s<:ience <:ourse their first
year, although this results in a
mu<:h heavier load in a later year.
"I try to think of the overall
<:ourse load" and the needs of a
balanced liberal arts program,
counters Hedley. She admitted
that in the past years she may
have been too "soft" in her advice
because of her personal experience as an English major.
Nevertheless, H e dley still
believes that "a certain maturity"
in science is needed, espedally for
labs, although the present freshman dass seems to contain an
unusual number of strong science
students. She adds that students
should try not to depend upon the
advice of a single person, although
this is particularly tempting for
freshmen.
Hedley agreed with Kaney and
Conner that students interested in
medicine who find they really do
not have the aptitude or interest
for science should consider other
careers . Students "don't realize
they have to be good scientists to
be doctors," she said. But this
con nection leaves a difficult
choice for some people.
Prof. Robert Conner, Chairman of the Biology department at BMC:
"We've tried hard to make Bio 101 a good liberal arts course in
Photo by Jeff W1tson
science."
One student, who feels extremely pressured to get a ":3.9
average to get into medical
s<:hool," stated that she has wanted to be a doctor ever sin<:e she
was three . She will never give up
her ambition, she added, and will
not consider other health-related
<:areers. She said that she does not
resent others who may feel more
relaxed about their plans, but considers it "a crime" to be a pre-med
only becausP there is "nothing
else to do."
Many Bryn Mawrters who want
to become doctors feel a kind of
togetherness, an esprit de co1ps:
this is particularly evident on the
almost entirely pre-med third
floor of Merion. Nevertheless ,'
Jentz emphasizes, "I don't like to
be dassed as a member of a group;
I don't like to be shoved off in a
corner, into the great big bin of
pre-meds. Being a pre-med does
not interfere with being a person."
'ford Pre-Med PressurePresentBu t Necessary
sophomore.
way," said Chesick.
107 is definitely not a nunch
<:ourse." First semester grades
The faculty , Wintner asserted,
Recent newspaper artides have
support those .:Vho see little basis
wants nothing more than to get
<:atalogued incidents of lab
for anxi'ety - of Chem 107's 60
sabotage at other colleges, a
deserving students into med
students, :37 received a :3.0 or bets<:hool. Students, he said, " would
problem apparently absent at
ter, while only five got a 1.0 or
have to worry about it if I'm not
Haverford. In a lab, said Perkins,
below.
worried about it."
"people relax and are more
Pre-med Dropouts
Kessler said that students can
<:ooperative and more friendly
Pressure tends to be most acute
reduce
pressure by having a
than
in
class."
in the lower level courses ,
variety of career options in mind.
Others saw a difference in
especially introdudory chemistry,
"They
shouldn't
<:onsider
Haverford students . "People
which causes many students to
medi<:ine the only thing they can
around here are not <:utthroat,"
reevaluate their pre-med plans.
do," he said.
stated Mandelkern. "It's very
Said Chesi<:k, "It's the first time
<:ompetitive," explained Thomas,
they've hit something and they
One of Haverford's strengths is
"but only in a positive way."
discover they're not going to make
its apparent reputation for .honest
it."
grading. "Our credibility is high so
Chesick said that the departChesick said that about 10 to 15
far," said Wintner. "Our su<:cess,"
ment's emphasis on calculations
per<:ent of those who register for
Chesick agreed, " is based on the
and writeups in labs means "the
Chem 107 do not complete the
fact that our recommendations
<:han<:es to do dirt to someone else
course, with most of them moving
~nd marking are re<:ognized by
in lab are minimal."
to Chem 101. A few take their
medical schools as being honest,
One way professors try to
Chemistry at Bryn Mawr, and one
not fantastically inflated. Perkins
alleviate pressures is by having
or two drop the s ubject each year.
<:ailed the grading "very honest
almost no take-home exams in inBiology Prof. Dietrich Kessler
and very pre<:ise."
tro <:hem courses. " How mu<:h
said that almost all his pre -med
Admissions Ideas
temptation one should be substudents tend to do better in their
Chemistry Prof. Harmon
jeded
to
is
a
question,"
said
junior and senior years.
Dunathan sees Haverford possibly
Chesic k, who, like all other
Senior John Blenko saw t he
leading a group of <:olleges in an
professors
interviewed,
had
heard
pressure on him ease after the
almost no complaints about the effort to <:hange med school adfirst two years. "Once they get
mission policies, which he termed
policy from students .
into it," h e said, "it begins_to die
Having in-class tests, Chesick " frivolous and inconsistent."
down ."
said "relieves the anxiety about
" I think we coula sen': a
Perkins said upper level courses
what the other guy is doing. message ," he said, ''that they have
have less te nsion be<:ause their
Mutual reinforcement is pari of to be dear, consistent, and come lective nature' attrads interested
it,"
he added.
municate what they want. They
students who are good in the subcan
do better," Dunathan said ,
ject.
Courteous 1•rofs
"and we can do better, too." The
Freshman Lewis Thomas said
Perkins had nothing but praise
question Dunathan sees fa<:ing the
he meets the pressure in his
for the <:hemistry professors.
college is " What could Haverford
chemistry dass by reacting
"They're considerate, helpful, a nd
do to make the general situation
negative ly to "people who are
willing to help every student
better?"
gung-ho on grades and comdevelop to his potential," he said.
petition." "I just stay away from
"They respond as sens ibly as they
Mandelkern criti<:ized medical
them," he said, adding that he
can," said Mandelkern of his
s<:hools' emphasis on chem istry
spends as mu<:h time in the
professors.
grades. "Practicing medicine at a
fie ldhouse as he does on any .
Chesick and Wininer saw the ir
usefu l level," he said, " is not
<:ourse.
role as one of trying to reduce
s cientifi<: . I fail to see the
"You just can't take four years
student. pressures . "We try and
correlation betwee n chemistry
rol. John Chesick: "Chem 107 is definitely not a crunch course."
of
just being pre-med," added a
strudure it in a non-compel iti ve
Photo by AnC:y Laquer
grades and rnedi<:al ability."
By PAUL TUCHMAN
While Haverford students and
contacted by The NEWS
that pre-med pressure
most argue that it is unlecessary. If pre-meds make the
!ffort, commented chemistry Prof.
John Chesick, "there's a very good
:hance ·they'll come through."
Senior Stan Tuhrim cited
hverford's good t r ack record,
vith over 90 perc.ent of last year's
nedical school applicants gain ing
dmission. "Everybody can do
vel! and get in ," added senior
~arshal Mandelkern.
But still the pressure contin ues,
1ith competition for med schools
pe most fre quently mentioned
ause. The pr ess ure, said
hemistry Prof. Claude Wi~tner,
terns from "having to maintain
some sort of grade point aver age"
to satisfy medi<:al schoo l
requirements. That, Wintner said,
is <:ompounded by the fact that
med schools are looking fo r
everything
women and
minorities but the average
Haverford student.
To the difficulty of admissions,
senior Carl Perkins sees added a
"self-imposed drive to succeed ."
The traditional high sense of competition is "an out let," he &aid ,
"an excuse for working hard."
For one sophomore pre-med,
pressure means "you sort of hate
the other people in the class. The
least little thing can aggravate
you ."
Also , the require d science courses are tough and demanding.
However, Chesick said, "Chem
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Sports
Gymnasts Pack Up Gear for Season
. n, top scorer for BMC in floor exercise at the Slippery Rock Championships, shows how easy it was.
unda S•mpson
By LOUISE COMAR
Bryn Mawr has never been
known as a "suitcase school," but
las t weekend seven stude nt s
packed up their bags and bused
the six hours to Sli ppery Hock
St ate College, on the Pennsylvania
and Ohio state borders.
They were not just any Bryn
Mawr st udents, however , the occasion was not just any "spr ingweekend" affair nor t he hosts just
any local fr ate rnity. T hey were t he
Bryn Mawr gymnastics team,
travelling to t he Fifth Ann ual
Pennsylvan ia State Gymnastics
Championships s ponsor ed by t he
Pennsylva ni a Women's - Gy m nastics Coaches Ass oc iation.
The Bryn Mawr team competed
in t h e ' B' Divis ion agains t
F ranklin and Marsha ll, and Edinboro State College, placin g last
with a score of 38.25. Edinboro
(Dave Engel, Fans Will Miss Him)
By JOE QUINLAN
Dave Engel has played his last basketball game
in a Haverford College uniform.
Haverford fans have had a good look at that
uniform because Engel's been a starter for fo ur
seasons.
You know the one - number 22, with the shirttail out and worn by the kind of athlete we're most
proud of around here.
For years coach Tony Zanin has been touting
Engel as his most consistent player.
"David is so steady out there that he just blends
into the action," Zanin said. "He can . sh
O's
Dave Engel
rebound and pla~·s excellent de!ense - usually
against taller players. Dave also has been a
steadying influence over the past t wo years when
we've had young teams ."
Despit e his play, Engel rarely attracted much
attention becausP he's not a flashy player. He 's
averaged l 0 points pPr game for the past t hrPe
seasons, never scor ing 20 in any game.
"I don't do an~·thing really well." Engel explains modest ly. "Actually, I'm mediocre. But I'm
good in my mediocrity."
Dave came to Haverford from T homas Jefferson
High School in Annandale, Va. He fo ll owed the
path of an older brother who attended Haverford
and played basketball in the mid-60's.
Engel left high school a year early, but always
had in mind to play college basketball. He was
thrown into a sta rting role mid-way through his
freshman year, when the BSL Boycott claimed the
campus' attention .
He was never challenged for his st arting spot,
but he had to survive a very tough second season
before Voit h, Stu bbs and Co.' ar rived last year.
Still, the younger players had to ad;pt to
college level and the Fords finished 8-ll. Engel's
(and Zanin's) persistence finally paid off t his year,
when Haverford blossomed to 15-10, the best
record in a decade.
With Engel the only senior and Dave Pyke the
only junior, even better thin gs are in store .
"Oh, they won't miss me next year," Engel says.
Nobody a round H averfo rd seems to agree.
Especially hundreds of fans who gave him a
minute -long standing ovation against Drew, Haverford's last home game.
"Sure, we'll miss Dave ," says one team member ,
while others echoed the sentiment. " He was a good,
steady player and a leader- in his own quiet way.
He's worth keeping around for his jokes alone ."
Engel pointed to t he t eam 's five -game
southern swing over Christmas break as an important element in the team 's success t his year.
" It gave us the chance to really become a
team," he said . " We had a good t ime, .tre, but th e
big th ing was be ing together so much. We're teammates and friends .
"The trip a lso he lped us keep some cont inuity in
the schedule . We played really good teams down
ther e a nd we knocked off s ome good MAC teams
when we got back," he continued.
" I also think Coach Za nin's had the most to do
with deve loping my game . You have to liste n to
him , though, because he likes to expla in t hings."
"Tony really knows his stuff. I coach high school
kids in the summer and I find myself asking what
he'd do in any given sit uat ion ."
Engel lived in Barcfav as as a freshman and
Gummere the following y~ar. This year he's lining
off campus in Rosemont wit h his biggest fan, his
wife Dot t.ie, who's also from Annandale .
After grad uation, Enge l expects to coni inue h is
study of matlwmatics and hopes to teach math at
the college level.
"'I've had a good exper ie nce here," he said. "I've
seen some growth in sports at. Haverford in four
~'ears .
Now at games, the fans ca n have a good t ime and
see us win. The support helps the players, too ."
Dave Engel - a student, athlete and gentleman
in Haverford's best t radit ion. And he'll be missed .
Sports Scripts.
LIFE~UARDS NEEDED for Mondays and
Wednesday:; from 5:>!0 to 6::30 p.m. T h.ose interested s hould hold WSI or Senior L ifesavi ng
credentials and may s top in at the Haverford
ath letic office for fur t he r information .
HAVERFORD'S LACROSSE TEAM opened
preparation for its March 26 season lidlifter by
dropping an 11-G scrimmage Sunday to the Mai;1
Line Lacrosse Club. T he Ford st.ick~en , who sport
a new youthfu l outlook, were paced by t.he two-goal
performances of freshmen AI Lane and Ned
Welbourn.
BMC LACROSSE SEASON IS HERE! All
students who a re interested in playing on the team
should contac t Miss Delano immediately.
G~M CL~SSES BEGIN immediately .fo llowing
vacat iOn. T imes s hould have been announced
during organization a! meetings this week.
took secon d wit h 53.05 a nd
Franklin and Marshall took t he
trophy home with 60.55.
This tr ip mar ked t he second
time that Bryn Mawr has com peted in these state-wide c hampions h ips. Last yea r , t h o u gh
scoring lower t han t h is year
(:34.79), t h e team toppe d bot h Or sinus and Franklin and M ar s ha ll.
Ursinus, whom Bryn Mawr beat
earlier this year, was not in t he
competit ion th is year.
The team left bright and early
Saturday morning and dr ove to
West Chester where t hey joined
th e West Cheste r team on a char ter ed bus fo r the ride to Slippery
Rock.
The it inerary for t he rest of t he
wee ke nd included a pract ice at 6
t h at evening, a night at t he
Holiday Inn, an 8: 30 war m- up
Sunday morning and t he c om petition at 10.
Space Cadets
The " Space Cadets ," as t hey
c all t h emse lv es ( " W e' r e so
spaced"), · were literally on t he
beam t hat morning. Juniors Gail
and Linda Hann and sophomore
Julie Shibata totaled a scor e of
13.20, the highest the team has
ever achieved in that event . L .
Hann did the best with a score of
4.90. H er d ance movements were
gr aceful and her two superior
t ric ks (two cartwhee ls in a row
' "'"'
~'
a nd her dismount) were . 11
' executed.
~~ ·
Vau
ltin
g
saw
Br\'ll
,
1
.1
. ,, a~r.
w~tt h1out"fthe needed muscle and
WI
a ear of flying." The team
places t he sprmg board just fi,·e
feet fTom the horse, while other
teams were springing fromsix fee•
away. But G. Hann did the ili'st!or
Bryn Mawr, earning a 4.0.
T he uneven bars were tilt ,
team 's weakest event. Fresh.
woman Cynthia Wesson s~ored
highest for the team with a Ui
On The Floor
Wesson also topped her team.
mates in the floor exercise ~itha
5.35. Both L. Hann and Shibata
earned lower scores than in the
past ·due to the fact that theyoot~
had added another superior trd
(a "tuck-back" somersault int~
air ) to their routines, whirh the1
missed in their performances. A
fall is a whole point deduction.
. Overall , the team membersar
coach Linda Castner agree that it
was " an enjoyable way to end the
season."
Next year the championship~ill
be in Ea,stern Pennsylvania,
possibly at West Chester, whir~
would cut the transportat ion time.
But t hen there would be no "suit·
case" weekends, with late night
drivin g home in the snowandj
a.m ., Monday morning arriva~ oo
campus .
!...m.....-
John Devlin (left) faces an opponent in Saturday's MAC fencin!
competition in H'ford's field house.
Photo by ;,,, '"'"
H-ford Hosts Tourney
As Fencers Cop Sixth
By MIKE FENDR ICH
As a tribute to Henri Gordon
Haverford's fencing coach for 40
years, the first championships of
the newformed, seven-team Mid d le Atlantic Fencing Confe rence
was h e ld in the Alum ni F ie ldhouse
last Saturday. The home team, after fin ishing the regular season
with a 5-4 record, placed s ixt h in
overall competit ion and was
awarded the team sports manship
trophy.
But "nice guys" don't. only
finish next to last. The Haverford
team was honored when junior
Mark Pleatman placed third in the
individua l epee competit ion and
sophomore Mark Wheeler was
named to the All -Confere nce
team . Wheeler concluded an outs ta ndin g 10-4 season on Sat u rday.
The le ngth of the round- robin
to urnament, which began at !0
a.m . and lasted until 6 p.rn..test~
the concentration and endurantl
of many of the leagues top fewll.
According to Stevens' coarh,
Cliffo rd Kr imss, who has roarhe~
for half as man seasons as Gor·
don, the level of compP.tition at
this year's tournament was "the
best I've seen so far." Krirn~s al<O
observed that Haverford 1135
fielding its best fencing squadin
many years.
A . spirited team from Johlli
Hopkins University dominat_e~
Saturday's competit ion. Hopktn'
won team titles in foil epee and
sabre, as well as the overall cham·
pio ns h ip fo r t hree weapons.
Finis hin g behind Hopkms .
overall team results were Steve~~'
Tec h Tem ple , Muhlenberg,
' e., Haverford and Drew·
Lafayett
Thursday, March 6, 1975
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Fords Nip Widener in MAC Playoff,Drop Final
ford s quad , and le ft t hem 11 clown locals were beaten off the backat the half.
boards, as t h eir opponents conBench-Bound Travis
tinually snuck in for second and
Taking a gamble coach Tonv t hird shots while the Fords were
Zanin star ted Travis' in t he second usually limited to a single atha lf, hoping that his big man could tempt.
initiate a rally. But such hopes fe ll
In a complete and ine xplicable
t h rough when t he second-year reversal, the Fords s h ot a
pivotman pic ked up his fourth fou l disastrously poor 13 for 25 from
at 18:55 and committed an of- the foul line to F&M's 16-19. All in
fe nsive violation at 17:30 for an all, the Haverford performers apautomatic ride to t he bench.
peared flat, possibly because of a
From th at point, the Fords letdown after a highly emotional
could only manage to move within tr
the n ·
before.
nine on Dave Engel's t ip -in at
16:20, making the score 45-36. Don
Marsh 's steal and lay-up a minute
later increased the F&M lead to
51-36, and the latter forces employed a ver y deliberate offense
for the remainder of the game,
looking only for an open jump shot
The Widener game was very
or a lay-up. This coerced t he nearly a replay of the thrilling
Fords· into dou ble teamming tac- nail-biter of a victory which the
tics in an effort to r ega in Fords pulled out against them
possession of t he ball.
earlier in the year at home .
Haverford's fre nzied attempts
H-ford J umps Ahead
to catch up were unsuccessful as
Voith gave the Fords a quick 2-0
F&M repeatedly found t h e open lead when he was fouled on a drive
man underneath for a lay-up and off the opening tap and converted
assumed an ins urmountable 61-42 both free throws . The well-drilled
lead wit h 5:43 on t he scoreboard Fords, showing great patience
clock. After t h at, t he scoring against Widener's 3-2 zone
proved to be "academ ic " as F&M defense (which led the nation in
continued its torrid shooting unti l fewest points allowed per game),
the fina l buzzer.
methodically found their opening.
S ub~ pa r Ford O ffense
E ngel discovered Pyke open at
Voith 's 16 points and the 15 15: 22 and canned a shot himself to
Stubbs paced a sub-par Haverford
put the Fords on top 10-9.
attack, whic h shot a fr igid eight
Neither team could manage to
for 24 in the second half while string together more th an two conF&M, led by Cordes' 21 fired 14-21 secutive buckets as the lead never
in t h e second half and 29-49 (60% ) grew larger than three for e ither
overall.
side during the remainder of the
However, t he very categories h alf. Haverford fin ished t he initial
which pwved decisive for t he · 20 minutes with a 27-26 edge after
Fords the night prior against a six poin outbur st by Travis.
Widener, now weighed heavily
Had the contest been a hockey
against them. T he ir ball-h andling game, one might have described
was not as s harp and, on occasion, opening half play as "closethey co mm i tted some un - checking", since both teams afcharacterist ic foo lish errors. T he forded t he oppos ition little opportunity to establish any momentum . What appeared at first to be
a general nervou s hes itation
among the players later t urned out
to be coaching game plans patience, good tough defense , and
no unnecessary ch ances .
Dogfight Continues
Widener drew fir st blood in the
second half but Stubbs returned
the compliment as the second half
promiRed to be a continuation of
the first half dogfight.
A Travis tip-in at 15:41 restored
a three point margin for tha locals .
Two minutes later, Travis hit a
Coach Zanin attempts to boost the Fords' morale during a time out hook shot and ensuing free throw
to swell the Ford lead to SIX
in the play-off against Franklin and Marshall.
Photo by Jeff Wdson
By PHIL ZIPIN
Haverford College's basketball
team finally ended its season last
weekend, winning an exciting Mid ctle Atlantic Conference semi -fin al
Friday against Widener , but t hen
dropping the divis ional ch am pionship to Franklin and Mar sh all
the following night at Muhlen berg
College.
The post-season play- H averford's first trip to the conference
tourney since 1969 - concluded
the winter campaign for the Fords
with a fine 15-10 overall won-loss
mark.
Unfo rtunately, the Fords' plans
for a league championship were
stymied as Franklin and Marsh all
look advantage of foul-plagued
Billy Travis' absence and some
cold Ford shooting to run away
with a 74-49 title game victory.
Sticky Defense
The local cagers found trouble
penetrating F&M's tight man-to man defense and relied upon t he
early bombing of Dick Voith to tie
the struggle at nine wit h 6:30
gone. But F&M's quick and tale n ted big man, Mike Cordes, drove
to the basket and drew Travis'
third fo ul wit h 12:57 remaining in
the half.
Despite staying close in t he
early running, the Fords were
clearly a different team without
their sophomore cente r . As Cordes
started to asser t himself in t he
middle and on the boards, F&M
slowly pulled ahead. A Dave
Stubbs field goal with 2:24 left
lowered the deficit to 33-27, but
F&M's Bill Snodgrass and John
Boyer boosted it to a ten point
spread.
With 13 seconds remaining,
Stubbs converted one of two free
throws to cut F&M 's advantage to
37-28, but Snodgrass' improbable
bucket at the buzzer seemed to
take the heart out- of t he Haver-
BMC Squash Raises Little Racket
By MAURY BRENNAN
The Bryn Mawr squash team's
$eason .is coming to an ~nd, and
chances are you didn't even know
it had begun. For t hat matter, t he
very existence of s uch a team
might come as news to you.
That's unfortunate, but quite
understandable. The team, which
i&a mere two years old, has only
seven members, and the schedule,
as '76 Valerie Rossetti (one of the
seven) puts it , is "nebulous." So
far this year the team has played
in one invitational tournament
and one dual matc h agains t Shipley, in which they were beaten 4
to 1·. Bryn Mawr ~!so participat ed
in the "A" and "B" divis ion of a 5College round-robin at U of Penn
last week, a contest notable for
Rossetti's fin e play. It rema ins to
. be seen whether any more matches will be scheduled.
Squash Has Class
In keeping with t he sport's
"c lassy" image, t he team uses t he
exclusive Merion Cricket Club for
work-outs , t he only condition
bein g that the members wear " tennis whites" on the court. "That's
ju st for s nob effect," says
Rossetti .
Coach Mary O'Toole, however,
sees the absence of a squash court
on campus as a definite handicap
to th e BMC team. "It cuts down
our practice time to a few hours a
week," she notes.
Like Bryn Mawr Rpo rts in
·ge ne ral, winnin g is not al l important for the squash team .
Most of the players are newcomers to th e game, coming out
for the team after having enjoyed
'squash as a phys. ed. activity.
Having fun with the sport remains
a priority with them once they are
team members.
Coach O'Toole receives high
marks from her athletes for her
spirit and patience. "She shows
great. dedication to the sport
despite marginal r eturns," comments Rossetti.
The other members of the BMC
squash team are: '75 Terry de
Vito, '75 Stacy Polen, '76 Donna
Dean. '76 Joan Wi lmar th, '78
Diana Heed. a nd '75 Susy GodaFenjves.
This Week No Sports
All winter seasons are over.
points. Following a pair of Stubbs
charity tosses Dave Pyke, who
earlier had limped off the court,
returned - -a walking t ribute to
Dick Morsch's talents .
Widener moved into a 58-58 tie
with 3:20 remaining, but missed
an easy chance to pull ahead.
Stubbs hit a field goal to break the
tie at 2:58 which prompted Zanin
to implement his four-corner offe nse to waste away precious
seconds . An unmolested Widener
goal at the buzzer c losed out t he
scoring and presented Haverford
with its first playoff triumph ever,
66-61.
Voith l.ecl once again the Ford
offensive with a game-high 22
points while pivotman Travis was
simplv outstanding, firin g seven
for nine and s naring six reebies.
Srubbs was steady and effective an
with 15 markers and nine big
bounds.
Enge l
and
Pyke
collaborated for 12 points and nine
assists .
Three vital statistical comparisons helped show why Haver ford was victorious: a 33-23
rebounding edge, a 9-16 turnover
advantage, and a flawless 18 for 18
fou l line performance as compared
to 7-13 for Widener.
Zanin was elated with his
team's showing. "It was a great
job all around. Everybody played
well." He voiced his gratitude to
t h e fans, who outnumbered
Widener
by a 3:1 r atio.
Dave Stubbs
Widener.
scores
against
Photo by Jeff Wilson
Berger Kings Win
Intramural Crown
By JAY GOLDMAN
The warped floorboards and
battered backboards of the Haverford gym are um,<>ually quiet these
afternoons. Now that the. intramural basket ball program has
c ome to a close, things will be
taking on a much less raucous
outlook around the old athletic
facility.
Three months of competitive
play cultivated into conference
championships last week for t he
Berger Kin gs in the "A" league
and th e Bohm Bullies in the BlueHeel divis ion. As a final mark of
the season's completion, an All Tournament honor squad pluR t he
annual Docher ty awards were
re leased earlier this week from
the office of league commissioner
Skip Jarocki.
The Kin gs, regu lar season
champs with a 13-2 record, almost
failed to advance past the opening
playoff round when the upstart
Steenbergen Steelers battled them
to the end 'before succumbing 4645. The victors discovered a bit
more breath ing room in the tourney finale where they toppled
league runnerup Fine's Wines 40. 33. The freshman-junior com bination of Corey Levens and
Steve Cytryn spearheaded the
Kings' attack wit h 32 and 28
points, r espectively , in the two
games to the top.
Wines Overcome Vidair
The Wines earned a t itle berth
by overcoming Charlie Vidair a nd
the Murphy Misfits 39-36. Vidair
tallied 14 points and added an
equal number of rebounds but
found little offens ive s upport from
his teammates . Captain Paul Fine
fir ed in 11 markers for the win ners.
· Named to the "A'' league all star un it for credible tourney performances were sophomore Mark
Shaiken of the Stee lers. Bill Mur-
phy and Vidair of the Misfits , Fine
of the Wines and Cyt,ryn and
Levens from the champion Kings.
One of the few teams to actually
perform like its namesake was t he
Bohn Bullies, whose roughhouse
play carried the m past t he
previously unscat hed Tol edo
Toads 41-37 in t he "B" division
title contest. Sophomore Greg
· Whitehead blazed the meshes for
18 points while teammate J eff
Bohm compleme nted with 15
markers and 11 reebies . Mike
Hobbins led the losers with 12, but
the chief factor of t he team's
downfa ll was their inability to
control t he boards, managing just
29 rebounds against the BullieR'
42.
Bullies Breeze By
The title-holders reached the
fin als after disposing of Genzer's
Geysers 32-30 anc;l Bludman' s
Bludgeons 37-27 in t he opening
rounds.
Freshman Mark Davis
accumulated 18 points for the
Geysers while Steve Curran turned in a fine overall showing fo r
the Bludgeons wit h 11 points and
14 boards.
Th e Blu e co nfere nce a ll tournament squad consisted of
Danny . Kim (Fan s), · Warren
Thompson (Follies). Gerrv
LaRoc hell e (Toads ) and J i~
Flower (Toads). Admitted to the
Heel stars were Bill Parsons
(Ge:vsers), Mark Mason (Zephyrs),
Curran (Bludgeons), Whitehead
(BullieR ) and Bohm (BullieR).
The Docherty awards, presented after the completion of each
intramural season to individuals
exemplify ing outstanding trait s of
sportsmanship. were accorded to
Bill Murphy in the "A" league,
J im F lower of the Blue divi~ion
and Brian Shuman of the HPd conference. Ballotting fo r 1he awards
was done by league officials and
r eferees.
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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Thursday, March 6, 1975
Bryn Mawr's SGA
Streamlined SGA Wins Full AutonOmy in '71
By MARGARET CARY
The present form of Bryn
Mawr's SGA dates from Ma r~ h ,
1971 when students approved a
new Constitution , consolidating
the pre-existing Undergrad
Association and Self-Government
or gans into one stream lined
organization. Together with th is
decision . the Bryn Mawr Board of
Dir ectors withdrew its prerogative
to cance l SGA decisions on
student life, allowing the group
fu ll autonomy for the firs! time in
Bryn Mav.cr's history.
The new organization was seen
by many as an improvement over
the redundancies of dual governance, and ~s a possibil ity for a
new open for um on "gener al
po li cy"
i ss ues,
s uch
as
cooperation.
Self-Gov played th e par! of
"moral" a rbiter before 1971, cons ultin g hall presidents about such
issues as parietals, drug policy,
and th e dorm exchange. Unde r grad spent much of its time
co-ordinatin g th e activities of the
"B ig S ix " (major st udents'
o.rgan izations on campus, such as
All ia nce, Ath letic Association ,
etc.), a lth ough it did have t ime to
Rowren Advocates No Politics
For Gov't Econofllic Counselors·
to
Hobart Rowen, financial columnist and economics editor for the
Washington Post, met with students during his week here as a
Wilson Fellow. Above he discusses journalism with NEWS editor
Barbara Riemer.
Ph oto by Jeff Wits on
By ANNE GATES
and MARGIE ST ARRELS
Economic advisors must not
become political age nts for the
president, declared Hobart
Rowen, economics editor and
financial co lum nist of the
Washington Post, at Collection
Feb. 25.
Rowen, who spent last week at
Haverford as the College's first
Woodrow Wilson fellow, advocated a middle ground for
the government economist where
he is "not a monk, but not
a statesman." He felt that
Ford adv isor Ala~ Greenspan
has ac hieved this balance by
neither
actively
expounding nor p u blicly disavowing
the President's policies. In contrast, Rowen cited Herbert Stein,
who made political speeches
during the 1972 Nixon campaign.
Speaking in a conversation format with Haverford President
John Coleman, Rowen blamed the
present high unemployment on a
government policy centered on
fighting inflation during 1973 and
1974. While maintaining that the
nation's economic problems could
be solved if the necessary leadersh ip were available, he could not
see unemployment dropping below
five percent within the decade .
Rowen also noted a rise in
economic literacy in the United
States reflected in an increase d
interest in the overall state of the
economy, rather t han traditional
business and financial news. This
new interest in the economy, he
said , is also evidenced by the
growing number of economic staffers in Congress.
In his lecture on '~Jo urn a li sm in
the Post-Watergate Era," Rowen
ma de seve ral more imp actual
stateme nts. "Watergate has n't
made the press arrogant. We get
kind of cocky, but I can't put my
finger on any type of arrogant
behavior."
H e ad ded, "I don't think
Watergate coverage was too
much." Although it was "one of
the most s ignifi cant stories" in a
long time , Rowen hopes the Post
doesn't h ave another stor y as im porta nt for a long time.
Th e
Post
"e njo yed
the
dangerou s e uphoria" of uncover in g t he Watergate scandals,
Rowen co mm e nted , but not
without repercuss ions . He noted
that the government shifted its attention "from the real news to attacks on the media ."
From his vantage point on t he
newspaper that broke much of the
Watergate story, at Collection
Rowen observed that the press
learned much from covering the
scandals. Even though the government does have an overwhelming
power to limit the free press, such
as challenging two Post television
licenses in Florida, Rowen said
that Watergate showed that once a
newspaper de cides on a line of inves tigation, government interfere nce is generally ineffective.
Watergate illumin ated the great
powers of the government - "the
power to con ce al fac ts of
authorized events," and to force
their vers ion of events on the
public. However, it also prove d
that there "can be an organized attack on th e credibility of any
ele ment" of government. This was
demonstrated by the · pers istent
digging of Post reporters Carl
Bernstein and Bob Woodward
(Continued on page 6)
press for more s tudent represent.a! ion on facu lty committees and
for expansion of the cleaning
system. Often th ere was a
"healthy competition" between
the two groups . Noneth e less,
unifi ed SGA was seen as a forum
fr ee from t he "parochia l" in terests
of
the
ear li e r
or ganizations.
How effective has SGA been in
meeti ng its goal of focusing
s tudent input on general policy
issues of the College? How does
its record staud as compared to
the older organizations? What
routes have been s uccess ful m
mobilizing students a nd 1n
c reatin g new poli cy?
This can best be examined by
looking at some spec ifi c proposals
for change since 1968: the search
for a new pres iden t of the Co llege;
fa c ulty committee representation;
Co ll oquia
recommendat ions;
Curriculum Committee debates;
the idea of a n open coll ege-wide
forum; and general structural a nd
governance questions.
Pre-med pressure, however extreme at other schools, is greatly
overrated at Bryn Mawr, a series
of interviews conducted by The
NEWS during the past two weeks
suggest. Although there are a
number of students who do feel exceptional anxiety about admission
to med schools, in general those
interviewed who consider themselves pre-med agreed with freshman Irene Jentz, who said that at
Bryn Mawr, "Being a pre-med
does not interfere with being a
person."
Most Mawrters interested in
medical school indicated that
most of the pressure they sensed
was self-motivated. A sophomore
stated that her main goal in
classes was "to learn the best . science classes, they occasionally
seemed too impatient, because of
possible for me," and stressed that
she "wouldn't take gut courses" to
"general . academic pressures ."
Many rumors h ave been c irinflate her grades.
culating at Bryn Mawr about
Self-Motivated Pressure
Jentz feels that she herself deliberate cheating a_nd ruini ng of
tends to study "more than
lab experiments, but no hard
average," but that t his was largely evidence was found to confirm
a result of her own personality. them. One student suggested that
Freshman Rita Williams stated such stories were probably about
that her science courses did not as likely "as the ice-cream lady ."
take up excessive t ime, and that
Although many students comhumanities and language courses plain about the difficulty of their
may often require more work.
science courses, especially inSome students did find that troductory biology, only two intheir classmates were too con- terviewed felt any sense of
cerned with their own grades to destructive competition with their
help each other out, while others classmates, or a need for better
indicated that this was not the grades than their peers. Some
noted that there seemed to be
ease. Senior Peggy Williams
much greater competition at
stated that although people
Haverford, but were not sure why.
usually cooperated willingly in her
m a search for a successor t
President Katharine McBride: ~
Board Committee, a faculty com.
mittee and an "advisory'; com.
mittee, including the preoident
and vice-preside11t of Undergrad
appo in ted by the Board.
·
A fac ulty poll take n at !his time
indicated the faculty's willingness
to let " interested" students par.
tic ipate in the search committee';
work. However, the facult y.
secretary opposed the mov;
saying the committee was larg;
. enough already. When student•
asked the ir UndergJ·ad president
Doris Dewton, to step down fro~
the committee due to overwork
Dewto n responded that she did
have t he time and "especiall y. the
contacts." (NEWS, Jan ., 31, i969).
In numerous meetings over the
year students objected to their
lac k of say in the search and to
their
representatives' ap.
pointme nt "from above," rather
(Continued on. page 12)
Douglas Steere To Speak
At H'ford Commencement
Douglas Steere, T . Wist ar
Brown Professor of Philosophy
Emeritus , will be Haverford's
Commenceme n t speaker, the
Senior Class Coor din ating Committee announced t his wee k.
Steere, a noted Quaker sc holar,
taught philosophy at _Haverford
from 1928 until his retirement in
· 1964. When he was awarded an
honorary degree from the College
in 1970, the c itation read, Steere is
a "Quaker philosop h er and
teacher who carried and still
'carries generations with you in
sear ch for a fairer , kinder world"
From a B.S. in agriculture fr om
Mic higan Sta te University in
1923, Steere went to Harvard
when he completed a m'asters
befor e going to Oxford as a Rhodes
Scholar. After earning a B.A. from
Oxford he returned to Harvard to
complete his Ph.D. in philosophy
in 1931. With the exception of a
number of special lectureships,
Steere spent his entire teac hing
career on the Haverford faculty.
Steere has long been active in
the American Friends Service
BM C Pre~ Meds: Pressure's Overrated
By JOAN SLONCZEWSKI
Three committees were set u
~t the College in November 196~
One se nior suggested that it may
be easie r for women to get into
medical school at present, because
they are a "favored minority."
The attitudes of non-medically
or ie nted students toward " premeds" varied from indifferent to
strongly negative. One biology
major said she resented the fact
th at most of h ~ classmates were
pre-med, because people seem to
~ke the attitude, " If you're not
pre -med, what are yo u ?" A
sophomore wis hed that more of
her classmates were interested in
basic researc h .
Many non-scie nce majors tend
to be especially negative about the
pre-med scene. Many are quick to
call pre-meds "neurotics" who
(Continued on page 13)
Do uglas Steere
Committee (AFSC), the Friends
World Committee (FWC), the
Fellowship of Reconciliation, Pen·
die Hill and the National and
World Co~ncil of Churches. He
has made several trips ori behalf of
the AFSC and the FWC including
one to organize Quaker relief in
Finland in 1945.
In 1967, Steere led t w~
"residential dialogues in depth
for leaders of different religious
groups. The first, held in Japan,
brought together ten leading Zen II
Buddhists and ten ChnstJan
scholars while the second, held in
India, brought together a like
number of Hindu and Chnsttan
scholars . T he 73-year-old Steere
also served as an observer·
delegate for the Society of Friends
at Vatican Council II in Rome.
The author of many books and
articles, Steere holds honorary
degrees from Oberlin, Earlham,
and the General Theological
Seminary (Episcopal) in New
York. He has been married to
·
1928·• the
Dorothy Steere smce
couple has two daughters, Hele
Steere Horn and Anne Steere
Nash . The Steeres currently hve
on College Circle.
th
Steere was selected by e
. t. g Com·
Senior Class Coor dma 1? af
mittee from over 100 nommees,
ter two polls of the entire class