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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. LOCAL FILMS: Aea dem~r ~ · Screen ing- Room . Heat The Hn~art . .Jennifer .Jones. Fro m :-Jil l til :~117. Kill{.! o{ Decil t l H!):J) with J\1arl"in (;arden ....·. !)(-)7. 1400. Ardmore. FrPeh ie & the Rl~wl. ()4 2.:2000. Hr~· n M awr. Scenes From a Marrint:e. !i2!). 2f)()2. Erie W\·nnewood. I~e nnv. 6-1 9. !)~!)1. Suhurh~ n . 1\lfurder on ' th e Orient F.r . pre.o.;s. 642· 47 47 . TJ.A . Call WA 2-fiO I O. Thursday-S unday - ERICK ANDERSEN March 11 & 12 - THE DILLARDS March 13-16 - JANIS IAN· March 18 & 19 GARY BURTON QUINTET BARRY MILES TAN LEATHE R 5-1/ 2 TO 9 23.00 PEA SANT GARB 223 S . 17th St. 868 Lancaster·Ave. PHILADELPHIA BRYN MAWR EXTON SOU ARE 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 MADs- -- Ml 2-0764 ., .. ---------LAMPOS r ' 1!, . ~ munn~.o:J ... .-.::; ., unJrt mKnn mKLL D•agonal/y Opposite The Train Station Open Dally 10·6 - . · Sat. 9:30-5:30, Wad. Nita 1111 9 ewes m RECORDS • TAPES • NEEDLES • RECORD ACCESSORIES PAPERBACK BOOKS - Usual & Unusual DI SCOUNT PRICES - WEEKLY SPECIALS FAST SPECIAL ORDER SERVICE Is " Our Bag " for th at h ard to get • • tape or book • No extra cha . .• We Welcome "aryn Mawr t'ayoay" • LA 5-1333. 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 Photo by Walter Holt - PDA 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 concert~----~~~------~~~~~~~~ drama~~~~--~------~ 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 C o m mitt ee, an eight-person PIZZA PALACE LA~CASTER 602 J\VE., BRYN MAWR OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE LOVE B UG All SGA dues m ust be paid by Friday, Mar . 21. Send dues through Campus Mail either to Ellen Gritz in Pembroke East or to Meg Stolee in Erdman. There will also be dues collec. tion on Monday, Mar. 17 and Tue s day, Mar. 18 in the· Thomas Reading Room from 10 to 11 in the morning and 4 to 5 in the afte rnoon. Students who h ave not paid dues will not receive a new meal ticket. 527-2229 527-9727 L OVE D OVE MANAGERS OF THE COOP st udent co mm ittee which scheduled the events for his six· day vis it. In add ition to his Collec· tion t alk and lecture he saw students individually through the Career P lann ing Office, visited t hr ee classes, two evening sess io ns, and an open lunch and dinner wit h students. Commenting on his visit, Rowen said, "We've really enjoyed the ex· per ience· and we 've profited enor· mously ." Senior Joe Quinlin, Chair~an of the Wilson Com· mittee , said that Rowen truly en· joyed his contact with students and was impxessed by their politi ·a! and economic awareness. Feel ings were mutual, as evidenced by one student's com· ment: "He was very informative and intereste d in . providing as much information as possible both about journalism as a whole and his personal experiences." summer in europe 65 DAY ADVANCE PAYMENT REQUIRED U.S. GOVT. 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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 Editors -in-Chief Barbara Riemer Marcus Levitt LA 5-2365 LA 5-4922 News Editor ..... . . ...... ..... .... David Wertheimer, Ml 9-1959 Opinion Editors . . ....... . ....... . Margaret Cary, Don Sapatkin Arts Editor . . ...... . . . .... . . ......... .. ... . . ... . . . Jonah Sal z Sports Editors ... . ... . . . .... . .. . . Louise Comar, Jay Goldman Photo Editors . . ... . .. . .. . ......... Linda Simpson, Jeff Wilson Contributing Editors . . . . . . .. . .. . Nick Finkelstein, Paul Socolar, David Wessel Executive Editors .. . ... . ...... Mary Beth Krebs , Jay McCreight Assignments Editor . . .. .. .. ..... . .. . ...... -.... Margie Starrels Comptroller . ........ .. .. . ...... .. ... . ........ . .. Arthur Clum Business Manager .. .. ... . ..... . . .. .. . ....... . .. Robin Melgel As~ociate Arts Editors ... . .. Matthew Mirapaul; Jane Widerman Editorial Assistants ....... . .. .. .. .. .. Eric Harrison Tom Lent Jeff Lowenthal, Dave Peters, Maureen O'Riordan, Bob Rosen ~ berg, Paul Tuchman, Vicki Weber Bryn Mawr H averford LA 5-3659 Ml 9-3671, 6085 ~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 J College grounds " If} '} ~ 'J - 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 ( More 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 ACROSS Cisterns Abyss See 16 Across Out of bed. _ dawn _ joint Pen name of 10 Across 17. Span ish painter 18. Houston player 19 Meeting· Abbr. 1. 5. 10. 14. 15. 16 20 . 22. 24 25 26. 29. 33. 34. 37. Perloe. McCauley. et 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 . . h . b b y r e -exammmg t e ir udget priorities and all oc ating some mu ch needed funds to th' . l d . IS umque y pro uctive element of our com. 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 any letters deemed libelous or offens~e 1116:W · The deadline for all letters and op~ ~alerials p.m. on the Tuesday before publica'. n. . !:Oil The deadline fo r all letters an~ opmlon~;1~11 ; 1 s p.m. on the Tuesday before pubhc...ion44 5 aces shou ld be typed . doub le-spaced. with n E~iiO/S. per li ne and sent to e1ther of the 0 P 1111 ~. in!he or broug ht to th e Bryn Mawr NEWS o1 ICe Col lege Inn on Tuesday n1g ht . 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 ·SHARE THE RIDE WITH US THIS WEEKEND . AND GETON to AGOOD THING. Us means Grey hound. and a lot of your fell ow stu dents who are already on to a good t hing. You leave when 'yo u like. Trave l comfortably A rrive refreshed and o n time. You'll save money, t oo. ove r t he increased air tares. Sha re the ride with us on w eekends. Ho lidays Anytime. Go Greyhound GREYHOUND SERVICE ONEWAY TO N.Y. City Baltimore ROUNDTRIP YOU CAN LEAVE $11.1 5 1:00 p.m. $5.70 5.95 11 .60 12:30 p.m. 7.85 12:30 p.m. 14.95 7.00 11 :00 a .m. 13.30 5.50 10.45 1:55 p.m. All busses depart from Phila. 17th & Market St . YOU ARRIVE 3;05 p.m . 2':45' p.m. 3:45 p.m. 1:35 p.m. 4:10 p.m. FRANCES CHISHOLM, STUDENT AGENT PHONE: 525-6619 GO GREYHOUND ...and leave the driving to us® only a handful of students took advantage of it." 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 Saxophone and trumpet player s needed for jazz-rock sfage band fo rmin g after vacation. If inter ested contact klob Peterson (MI 2-4 502) or Roger Bagley (MI 2-5219l. Procter & Gamble Brand Management It's One of the Finest Career Op·portunities Available Anywhere -~,1,~~,T;l/1dtMt ,#B/1.1 Procter & Gamble manufactures more than 50 consumer products, including Crest toothpaste, Duncan Hines cake mixes, Tide detergent, Pampers disposable diapers, Scope mouthwash and many others whose names you would recognize just as easily. For each product, there is a small group, usually just 3 people, who plan, create, and supervise the total consumer marketing effortincludi ng TV advertising- for that brand. It's called Brand Management, and it is one of the most challenging and personally rewarding jobs in our company. Right now we're looking for a few highly qualified college seniors to join us at the. beginning level in brand management. "Innovative" , "proven record of leadership and being able to get things done", "superior academic achievement", and "good oral and written communications skills" are some of the words we use to describe the people we want. We want a "take charge" person who can assume immediate respon- . sibility, learn quickly, contribute good ideas, and cope with (and even enjoy) constantly changing situations. To such a person we offer a very bright future. We promote only from within, and only on merit, and you'll move ahead in marketing management as fas•. as you show by your work that you're ready for more responsibility. 1 If this interests you, and you think you qualify, read the folder on P&G Brand Management that's in your Placement Office. Then, if you're still interested, fill out the Personal Data Sheet that's also in your Placement Office and send it to: Ms. Sandy Moersdorf The Procter & Gamble Co. P. 0. Box 599- Dept.M Cincinnati, Ohio 45201 Include both your school and home address and phone numbers. If the Placement Office is out of Data Sheets, just send us a letter and your resume. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer 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 tion of requirements, increased Bryn Maw r. WAFFLE ~MPERS How 'bout a change in you at t he sNEEY. AI DMORE ARMY & NAVY STORE MENSWEAR THAT GIRLS \NEAR also GIRLSWEAR THAT MEN WEAR "SHOP II UnER COIFUSIOI WHERE CHAOS IS THE NORM" PNB UN ICARD MASTER CHARGE AMEit. EXPRESS AT 24 W. LANCASTER AVE. 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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 Page 14 The_ Bryn Mawr- Haverford College News 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 Page 15 The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News 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. Page 16 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