Trends Eardy Decision Differ At Colleges

Friday, December 10, 1971
Vol. 4, No. 13
·sMC Up. H'ford Down:
Wollor.d Proposes Increases
In Tuition and Enrollment -
Eardy Decision
Trends Differ
At Colleges
By ERICA SCHWARTZ
While the number of applicant s for early
decision to Haverford decli ned this y ear ,
Bryn Mawr experienced a sharp incr ease
in the number of its early de cis ion applicants.
This year Haverford ha s receive d 79
applications from early decision candi dates ,
according to Di rector of Admissions William Ambler . Last year 100 applie d and
33 were admi tted. Some 29 have been
accepted so far this year, and t hree whos e
records are not yet complete a re sWl
being considered.
Ambler pr edicts " the coming deca de will
be different in college admis sions . " He
cited several fa ctor s for this including
an end to the large increas es in collegeage population, the changing i mportance
of college education to high school g r a duates, the available alternatives to college,
the changing role of the s mall " pr estigious" college, and e conomic pr ess-ur es .
He believes, ' ·We have to be a little
clearer ·about what kind of educatio n we
offer. " Ambler expects " a s hrinking pool
of applicants" which will mean more com petition between colleges for the s ame
students. This i s indica ted by the " yi eld, "
i.e. the percentage of applicants acc e pt,! i
who eventually matriculate. Tha t yiel d has
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On Appointments:
Students' Council
Set To 'Approve
New Committee
By DAVID WESSEL
The Haverford Students ' Council i s clos e
to approving a new system for comm i ttee
appointments.
The system, pr opos ed by Da vid H sia,
calls for the establi shment of a proc e dure
committee whi ch would exami ne applicants
for all commit t ee seats , and then m ake
recommendations to Council.
Council woul d then either accept the
nominee by con sens us , or retur n w e m a tter
to committee.
If the propos al is passed Sunday by
Council, it will be presented at the F ebr uary plenary session.
The proposal drew immediate fire from
Second Vice President J im Smalhout who
blocked consens us on one matter of H s ia' s
proposal, a cla use providing that the com mittee would submit only one recommenda tion for each vacant seat. The com mittee
would consist of three Council me m bers,
plus the P resi dent and Second Vice P resident in ex offici o roles.
'Elite'
If the Council passes this claus e Sm alho_ut charged, s aid, "we're creating
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e~Ite within the Counci l composed of Coun Cil members. This is a not-too-subtle
attempt to revi ve a str ucture which would
function like the executive commi ttee of
the past Council which was a bolishe d for
good reason." Subtle attempt to revive
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By CATHY DAVIDSON
Bryn Mawr President Harris Wofford
presented a proposed tuition and residence
increase to the executive council of the
Student Government Association (SGA)Sunday night.
He recommended that tuition
be increased by $300 and that there be an
increase of the enrollment "by 10 resident and 10 non-resident students each
year for a maximum of 100 students of
over five years . The proposals will be considered for fina l approval by the Board of
Directors at their meeting Thursday .
"We really agonized over this for some
time," Dean Mary Patterson McPherson
said . Wofford said that the increase in
fees had been set " as something you can
live with, not something we like."
Major Fund Drive
Bryn Mawr P resident HARRIS WOF FO RD -
The Board committed itself to a major
fund drive at its- meeting in October , ac-
Kelly Files Suit Against PHEAA;
Class Action Decision Due Monday
By JAY McCREIGHT
A decision s hould be forthcoming Monday
concerning a class action s uit filed by Haverford sopho m or e David Kelly against the
Pennsylvani a Higher Education Assistance
Agency
c on cerning the withholding of
scholarship f unds .
Kelly, pr e s ently bei ng prosecuted for
refu sal to r egister with the Selective Service System, a nd who subsequenyly regis tered following his arrest, was told by
PHEAA in the fall that, due to his being
pros ecuted for the felony, his maximum
s cholarship of $1200 would be withheld until
acquittal, at w hich time the money would be
released.
b arging that" the Haverford
PHEAA s uit i nvalidated the denial of funds
and t h a t s uch withholding was , in essence,
an unconstitu tional punishment prior to
being found guilty of a crime, Kelly's
attorneys , L a wr ence Silver and Burton
Caine, obtained an injunction against the
withholding IUntil a hearing could be set
on th e a rgum ents before the same three j udge U. S. Di strict Court panel that con sidered the or i ginal PHEAA suit.
First Hearing
An initia l h ea r ing. was held before the
panel Dec . 1 , with Judge Joseph Ditter
absent . Dean J ames Lyons and Prof. Ariel
Loewy a ccompanied Kelly to the hearing. A
que stion of t he pa nel 's juris diction was
r ais ed and finally settled after some con cern on th-e part of the judges. Kelly
stated, " They considered it a fairly bureaucr atic app eal, an individual, simple
case." Kelly ' s attorneys attempted to show
other wise, insisting on Kelly's absolute
need for tlL.e funds in order to continue
with his Hav e r ford education second semester.
Withh ol ding,
they pled, would in
a ctua lity be d enia l of the scholarship funds.
Exam Shows
Ro ckefel Ler will present exam shows
every night at 10:30, Dec. 16 to the 21st,
featuring lo-c a l talents of folk and classical music? dr ama, dance, and poetry.
The show will be short, lasting 15 minutes apiece . Coffee and donuts will be
served free.
The hearing lasted for the entire day , during which is was also revealed that a
$600 computer error deficit in PHEAA
funds paid to Haverford for Kelly 's first
semester would be laid to Kelly's account.
Written arguments were requested by
the court, and oral arguments on both
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cormng w wonora , m oraer to close the
gap between income and yearly expenditures. The College is pr esently spending about $1 million a year from unrestricted reserves which should function
as endowment in order to close this gap.
" Unless a major donor is found half of the
remaining reserves are a lready committed to be spent for the new heating sys tem," Wofford said . " This will leave only
some $4 million to meet the '71-72 and
futu r e deficits -- or to meet other emergencies . "
" We must engage in a major effort to
get new capital. I'm committed to that. "
There have already been several planning
meetings in connection with the fund drive.
He added that "I'd rather that would not have
been neces sary in my first few years here,
but it clearly will."
Enrollment Increase
The decision to i ncrease enrollment by
20 students came partly from the realization " that without strain we ha d increased by about that many this year,"
Wofford said. He said that he ha d received
estimates from Director of Admissions
Elizabeth Vermey and McPherson thatgood
students were available and that there wer e
some spaces empty on campus and more
students could be housed off-campus. The
proposal recommends that 10 of the 20
live off- campus .
Bryn Mawr probably will admit 20 more
students next year, but "we ' re not commit-
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Search for New Alumni Director
To Start Soon, Coleman Sa
The search for a new HaverfordDirector
of Alumni Affairs may be begun sgon,
according to President John Coleman. The
post has been vacant since late October
when William Sheppard, who had the job
for nine years, died.
Because of the ruling that no vacancy
can be fille d without a study of that post' s
value in light of the college's economic
situation, the iss ue is clouded. Coleman
has recommended that the position be filled
by a full-time person who would have
responsibilities in fund raising and job
placement as well as alumni affairs.
Such a decision ·m ust be made by the
administrative advisory committee which is
chaired by Sidney Perloe, who said that
recent committee discussions have centered "not so much about the pros and
cons about filling that office, but about
making s ome sort of parity .. . between
faculty and administrative vacancies." He
noted that this is the first administrative
vacancy to be so considered and that the
comittee is trying to determine ''procedures
on how we cut up the limited pie. " Perloe
expressed interest in establishing "equity"
in filling vacancies in the two categories.
No Steps
The office of alumni affairs is part
of the Development Office. Stephen Cary,
vice president for development, said, " No
steps have yet been taken to replace Bill
Sheppard because of the procedures to get
clearance for a replacement.'' Although
his office has not taken any steps to search
for a candidate they have had "expressions
of interest" and they are thinking about
what kind of person is needed. Cary said
HOWARD TEAF
Acting Director of Alumni Affairs
it is likely that the new appointee WHI
" r elate . . . even more closely to the
Development Office. ' '
For that reason, "We would like him
to have some fund-raising or public relations experience.' ' Cary emphasized,
''The job covers all aspects of alumni
relations is not primarily a fund-raising .
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D'Andrea: Too Few Hours
Available for H 'ford Classes
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By JOHN HUIBREGTSE
" One disadvantage of being a. small
school,' ' says Thomas D'Andrea, acting
P r ovost of Haverford, "is that there is
not enough freedom and flexibility for students to schedule their courses," and un a voidable conflicts often arise between
courses a student wishes to schedule .
''Some' students '' according to D'Andrea,
" sign up for courses that they don't want
to take , only because it fits their schedule. "
D'Andrea believes that " a complete '
laissez faire system' ' would be best for Hav erford. With this system D'Andrea feels
that the chances would be smaller for
course conflicts .
Haverford ' s present system allows for
less than forty hours a week to schedule
courses. This is due partially because of
the time alloted to the physical education
department and for chorus and orchestra, said D' Andrea . No courses can
be s cheduled between four and six in the
afte rnoon , and no classes can be scheduled for Wednesday and Saturday afternoons .
Physical education classes and intercollegia te athletic events are scheduled at
Kelly Suit
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sides of the case will be presented Monday. PHEAA attorney John Killian is expected to argue that the only portion of
the 1969 law (curr ently being rewritten)
that the origina l Haverfo r d s uit obliterated
was the in stitutional reporting claus e, and
that other. por tions of the la w have remain ed intact. If the PHEAA position i s found
to be i nco rrec t , they could be held in
contempt of court.
Other Motives
Ke lly fe lt tha t the real reason money
was being withhe ld was, " to quote from
a letter from Killia n, the age ncy would be
embarassed' -- the citizens of the state
would not like to see me getting a ny money
under a ny guise."
PHEAA atto rneys a rgued that, in the
meantime, Kelly could raise enough money
to continue his education , either by working or by attending a community college ;
Kelly counte r ed by saying tha t by no means
could he, without the s chola rship aid , con tinue to attend Have rford, and tha t his
educationa l needs would not be met by
going e ls ewhere .
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To a dd evidenc e to his cha rge tha t
P HEAA's intent was to deny fund s, Ke lly
cited a court transc ript in which PHEAA
representative Thomas Reeher was quoted
as saying," we only deny the money."
Upon having his testimony read back to
him, Reecher recanted: "I meant withhold ."
Prior to being charged with nonregistration , Kelly stressed, he had exhibited
both the financial need and satisfactory
character to make him eligible for PHEAA
funds, and had in fact received an $800
scholarship. Hence the only · basis for the
withholding would be the felony charge;
such a penalty for an unproven crime
would probably be unconstitutional , Kelly
said. The case is being pled by Caine
a nd Silver for gratis, and Kelly has received permission by the court to enter
his appeal as a pauper.
these times .
Also, no classes can be scheduled for
Wednesday and Thursday nights between
seven and eight - thirty. This time is .re served for chorus and orchestra.
D'Andrea feels that sixteen hours a week
alloted to the physical education depart ment is probably too much time, especially for " a high academic college as Haverford." D'Andrea suggests that in his lais sez-faire system a professor would be
allowed to schedule his classes any time,
with a student having to decided between
the course or participation in intercol legiate sports, chorus, or orchestra if a
conflict presents itself. However, he also ·
believes that introductory courses should
be offered between 10 a.m. and 1 p .m.
Smaller, upper - level courses could then be
scheduled any time. Courses with many
sections , according to D' Andrea, could offer
classes in . the sports and music time
blocks and students participating in these
activities could take the course another.
time in another section.
Other plans have been suggested to D'Andrea, including one where time for sports
would be between 8:30 and 10 a.m. morning,
a time when attendance at classes is smaller, leaving the afternoons free for schedul ed classes . As of now , D' Andrea feels no
major changes will occ ur in course scheduling at Haverford; he does not see any
practical and immediate solution which
would be acceptable to all factions.
Bryn Mawr's Applications Increase
fallen from 60% to 50 % i n recent yea rs.
BMC Up
B r yn Mawr has expe r ien c ed a s ignificant
increase in applicants. Director of Admissions Elizabeth Vermey is very pleased
with this year's " strong and varied early
decision group ." 55 women out of the 85
who applied are coming, although many
are still considering the option of the one :year deferral. Last year only 55 women
applied early decision, 38 ·of whom were
accepted. The relatively low number of
early decision applicants has always been
due, at least in part, to Bryn Mawr's
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women's college." Another factor is the
structure of the curriculum . According to
Vermey, many of the students come from
schools where they have had pass/fail
and they are now look.i ng for more tradi ~
tiona! , structured academics. "One thing
that I think is helping us," she added
" is Yale 's Insider's View of Colleges.';
Apparently the book which speaks highly
of Bryn Mawr, has been widely read and
was mentioned by many of the appiicants .
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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
December 10 , 1971
Post-bac Program Expires
Despite Significa nt Success
By SETH HEALD
Haverford's P ost Baccalaureate program
is ending this year when a three-year grant
from the Rockefeller a nd Macey foundations expires . The program began in 1966 with a three
year grant which was renewed in 1969
for another three years . William Cadeury,
31 of New York , i s director of the program, which includes Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, Oberlin a nd Pomona Colleges in
addition to Haverford. Cadbu ry is a former
chemistry professor a nd dean at Haverford. Zelbert Moore , assistant to the President, is the ass is tant dir e ctor of the
program at Haverford.
Under the prog ram , college graduates
spend a year at a participa ti ng college
before going on to gradua te school. Most
of the Post-bacs were black , but there
wer.e a few whites from Appa lachia plus
Mexican American a nd Puerto Rican students.
Most black students were from Southern
black colleges , but there were some from
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Round ng
Out t he
NEWS
Social Bus
WI LLIAM CADBURY
Director of Post-Baccalaureate Program
The Social Bus i s running Friday
and Saturday nights between Br yn
Mawr and Haverford. Maximum ca pacity , due. to insurance and safety
pr e cautions , is s even per sons at a
time; additional trips will be ma de
if demand warrants .
Outlays for the bus were made by
the social committee. Drivers will
be Steve Clark, Bucky Mann, and Ken
Be rnstein . The bus will proba bly r un
for the rest of the year- - o r as long
as the money holds out.
The schedule is as follows:
Lv. Ha verford
Lv. Pem Arch,
Bryn Mawr
Union
7:30
7: 45
8:45
8:15
9:45
9:15
10:45
10 :15
11:45
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T he Haverford housekeeping staff
will be cut by four persons in an
effort to reduce financial according
to Vi ce -President for Business Affairs Charles Smith .
Three of those r eductions will be
made Jan. 1 when Giova nna Vizzarr i , Thomas Fra zier , a nd T homas
Gagliardi retire from the staff.
The fourth reduction will occur
only when another member of the
staff retires.
The College had considered the
question of hiring a n outside contractor for the housekeeping services. "This revealed tha t there
would be a cash savi ngs of ap proximately $25, 000 a year, " said
Smith . However the staff did not like
the aspect of no longer being Haverford College employees. T he staff
made a n alternative proposa l for
savi ng the money, in which they sugges te d that the staff be reduced by
four p ersons through attrition.
T hi s reduction will mean that the
staff "will be una ble to main tain
the p resent level of service ," according to Smith. The department
requests that students be patient
about such non - routine tasks as
moving equipment, and to a llow "for
any apparent short comings in these
area s.''
Smith a lso commented on the
CHARLES SMI TH
Vice President for Business Affairs
ership ," and hoped this success
could continued despite the problem s
caused by the reduction of the workforce .
Extensions
All Haverford papers except those
in lieu of examinations, a re due not
later than 4 p.m . Thursday, Dec .
16 . T hose in lieu of exam s and lab
notebooks are due not later than 4
p.m . , Monday, Dec . 20 .
Students seeking to make advance
arrangements for extensions o.r incompletes should fill out forms in
the recorder' s office a nd then sub mit them for approval to Associate
Dean David Potter . Extensions cover
work to be submitted by Monday ,
Jan. 3 so that a grade can be submitted before the Jan. 7 deadline.
Incompletes cover work which cannot be submitted by Jan. 3, but will
be due not later than Wed., Jan. 12.
Potter said, "Extensions and incompletes will be granted only in
cases of serious illness or other
emergencies." Any s tudent who does
not r eceive a grade by Jan. 7 or
who receives a n unauthorized incomplete will have a grade recorded
as a dropped (DR) course. Such
grades will be reviewed as failures
by the Committee on Student Standing a nd Program s .
Group Therapy
A planning session for those mem bers of the Bryn Mawr Class of '73
interested in group therapy sessions
was held Monday at the Infirmary .
The session was conducted by Dr.
John Howkins , consulting psychiatrist at Bryn Mawr, andJoyceBeckett, a Bryn Mawr social worker.
Winners
Mary Ann Cincotta '74 and Miriam
Fisher ' 74 have been elected to t he
Bryn Mawr- Haverford Coed Dorm
Committee representing the SGA.
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W offord Proposes
In creases
AAUP's Nation·-wide Figures:.
Haver.ford Drops to 159th •1n Faculty Salary Survey
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A study of the latest pay statistic s from the American
Association of University Professors shows Haverford
dropping from 63rd to 159th in national rankings . The
following table tells the story:
Average Faculty Compensation
Academic Year
Have rford's Ranking
1960- 61 ....... .. ... . .. . ........ . .. . ... : . . . . 7th
1961-62...... . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12th
1962-63. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8th
1963-64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15th
1964-65. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23rd
1965-66. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25th
1966-67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31s t
1967- 68 .. ... . .......... . .... . ...... . ...... . 33rd
1968-69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36th
1969-70 . .. ...... ... . . . ..... . ............... 63r d
1970-71 . ....... . .. . ... . .. . .. . ......... . .... 159th
Nine years ago Haverford was eighth in the nation, topped
only by Harvard, Columbia, Cal Tech, Duke, Amherst ,
Claremont, a nd Princeton Theological Seminary . During
the past two years Haverford has been pushed out of the
front rank of academic institutions .
The following institutions now outrank Haverford in average faculty compensation : Pomona, University of Connecticut, Wesleyan, Howard University, New College, Knox Col lege , Lake Forest College , Southern Illinois University ,
Iowa State University, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Boston
College, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley , Williams, Cen tral Michigan University , Macalester College, Dartmouth,
Fairleigh Dickins on , Glas sboro State College, Dut chess
Community College, Hofstra, St. Johns, University of
Rochester , Antioch , Kent State, Oberlin, University of Ak -
'Works and Days',
New lit. Magazine,
Due Wednesday
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Faculty Recruitment
Efforts Fall Apart
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H'fordSeeksFunds
To Offset Costs
Of PHEAA Suit
By BOB ADAMS
T he class action suit of Haverford and
Goddard Colleges and s everal individua l
students from Pennsylvania against the
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assi stance
Act involved a tota l expense of $45 00 .
The s uit, begun in Oct ., 1970 befor e a
three-j udge Pennsylvania fe deral court,
contested two acts pas s ed by the P enn sylvania legislature in Oct., 1969 . Original
provisions of the acts required colleges to
s upply PHEAA certain infor mation on the
Pennsylvania residents in thei r student
bodies before any students could receive
a PHEAA scholarship or loan.
T he three - j udge panel instructed the
two parties to devise a mut ua lly accep table solution , whi ch has since been accomplished.
The s ole expense incurred by Haverford
a nd Goddard during the extended s uit was
the $4500 in out-pf- poc ket operating expenses for the sympathetic la w firm the
College contracted -- Dilworth, P axson,
Kalish, Levy and Coleman. Lawrence Silver
a firm member a nd member of the ACLU
la wyer, was central position in pleading
the case .
Had the firm billed the plaintiffs in its
standard ma nne r , the suit would have cost
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ting ours elves beyond that." The increase
of up to 100 is "som e thing we ' r e going
to have to look at yea r by yea r ," Wofford
said.
Cha nges in Aid
The proposa l s ubmitted to the executive
council a ls o include d a change in the fina ncia l aid program . They planned to maintain the s ame percent of students on aid,
c ur r e ntly 37% from College sources a nd 40%
from a ll s ou rce s , but s tudents would be
asked to ass ume la rge r loans a s part of
their contribution . Th e expected student
contri bution fo r 1971-72 , whi ch includes an
optional loan of $500 , i s $700 for incoming
freshmen , $10 50 for s ophomores, and $1150
for juniors a nd senior s .
The financ ial a i d office establishes' a
budget for eac h a id applica nt , which includes tuition , re s idence, $500 for books and
other expenses, and t r ave l , deducts what
parents are able to pay , as estimated by
the Parents' Confidential Statement , deducts the s tudent' s contributionJ a nd a wards
th e bala nce as grant aid.
Guide for the Perplexed
" Works and Days" will hit the ne ws- stands next week, proba bly Wednesday,
editors-in-chief David Banks and KitKonolige said this week .
The new Haverford-Bryn Mawr magazine for literature, photographs , a nd the
graphic arts will be sold in Haverford ' s
dining cente r .and in Taylor and the dorms
where lunch i s served at Bryn Mawr .
Konolige hastened to add that the maga zine is still accepting s ubscriptions through
the mail , which may be pa id for by check
or charged to Payday or the bookstore
a ccount. The price is $4 for students and
$5 for a ll othe rs .
Banks noted from his hospital bed that
he was " r eally excited " about the mag a zine. " We ha ve four short stories , about
six or eight poems, and a lot of fine
etchings a nd photogr'a phs ," he said. Most
of the e tchings are in color , he added.
The staff ha s been " somewhat disappointed" by the response to a request for
subs c riptions , Konolige said. " But we think
that people will want to buy it when they
r ealize what a strong is s ue we have ':
Ma te r ia l i s currently being considered
for the second i s sue , which is scheduled
for publication in mid- February. Managing
editor Phyllis Maguire emphasized the
continuing nature of " Works a nd Days , "
a nd encouraged potential contributors to
s ubmit their work " whenever it's ready
fo r publication ." The deadline for the
second issue is Jan . 31 , s he noted, " but
the re will of cours e be an issue after
that. "
Both Banks and Konolige pronounced
them selves " we ll satis fied " with the com ing issue . " We still have to prove ourselves ," Banks sa id, " but we think this
issue will do that. It' ll make people realize
we're s'e rious a bout ma king this maga zine a continuing institution . As more and
mo re people contribute to it, of course,
it will get bette r and better."
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ron, Franklin & Marsha ll , Lehigh , Swarthmore , Temple ,
Vanderbilt, Rice, University of Virginia, Manhattan College ,
and Trenton State College . This yea r Haverford shares
its place in the rankings with Emory University, Kalama zoo College, and Eisenhower College .
Up until the past yea r (1970-71) the AAUP tabulated
under Table 4 of its ' ' Annual Repor t on the Economic
Status of the Profession " the r elative pos itions of various
institutions with respect to average faculty com pensation .
In 1970-71 the statistics we r e cha nged a nd the relative
ranki ng system was droppe d. Average fac ulty compen sation for the ranks of P rofe~ so r , Associat e Profe ssor, a nd
Assistant Professor were given for each of the 1345
participating institutions. By simply totaling t hese figures
for each instit ution, it was possible to construct a r anki ng
system comparable to the earlier one.
For 1970-71, then , Haverford has been ranked with ot her
instititions by simply a dding the average compe nsation
for each professoria l rank . When thi s is done for a ll the
institutions in the AAUP listings, Haverford ranks !59th
from the top .
It s hould be pointed out that the compensation statistics
include fringe benefits. In Haverford 's case the part of
total compensation paid out in fringe benefits is extraordinarily high -- 20% of total compensation, as against
a nationa l ave r age of 10%. Haverford 's rank in each of the
professorial s ub - ca tegor ies is as follows:
Average Faculty Compe nsation 1970-71
Haverford' s Ranking
Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165th
152nd
Associate Professor
209th
Assistant Professor
All Weekend
Du re r Exhibit, Comfor t Ga lle r y, Haverford .
" The Imaginary Invalid " by Moliere, Philade lphia Drama Guild, Wa lnut St.
" Dr . Zhivago", Ardmor e (642-2000) a nd
City Line Center (473-2045)
"Citizen Ka ne " , B ryn Ma wr (525 - 266 2)
"Clowns", Eri c Wynnewood (649- 5252)
Sean P hillips a nd Leo Kott ke , Main Point
(525-3375)
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CAB LE TRAVLHO USE
By LISA HEALY
The closest B ryn Ma wr has ever cometo
an establis hed policy on the recruitment of
black fac ulty wa s the now - defunct black
studies committe e that dealt with the general area of curriculum and procuring faculty to teach it.
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs JoAnne Thoma s, a m e mber ofthatcommittee ,
s aid, " It s o r t of fe ll apart during the spring
of la s t year. '' Before it fe ll apart, the students on the committ ee we r e able to intervi e w several applicants fo r faculty positiq_ns
a s t hey becam e availa ble.
According to Prof. Frederic Cunningham,
a l so a member of the committee, it " existed around the enthusiasm of a few people
who started it. '' Cunningha m says he has
heard nothing this year on the subject of
blac k studies or recruitm ent of black fa culty . " Too bad, " he said . " The re are still
things to be done ."
According to Joanne Doddy , they were able
to fill a position in the sociology departm ent, and were a lso instrumental in finding a qua lified person for the black his tory curric ulum . Dodd said that Bryn Mawr
now has seven black facu lty members , six
of whom are either lecturers, part-time
lecturers, or visiting lecturers. The seventh is a n assistant professor.
Th ree of these faculty members are
attache d to the school of Social Wo rk and
Social Research , two are in s ociology ,
one in history and one in politi cal science . Haverford employs three black fa culty
and a dministrators .
Four H'lord Students Meet NY Alumni
Four Haverford students travele d to New Program, a nd Lichtens tein is a transfer
York City Nov. 22, to m eet with a bout from Sm ith who will rece ive a Haverford
25 Haverford alumni in the Board of Gov degree .
ernors Room of the New York Stock ExWa nt to Know
cha nge .
Brownell
said
t he a lumni ''want to know
Greg Kannerstein, assistant to the Pres t
he
current
topic
s on Haverford' s camident, invited the four, Bruce Browne ll
pus . . . Every year it cha nges . " He said,
' 72, Alex Hancock ' 73, Mark Love '72,
"They want to know what t hey ' re giving
and Jackie Lichtenstein ' 72, because the
money to . . . how t he college is
their
al umni, according to Brownell, are " real -·
p rogressing ."
ly interested " in Haverford as it is today.
Browne ll a dde d that the al umni want
Each of the four students participates
to hear from the s tudents directly and
in a different facet of Haverford - - Brown desire more chance for contact. They
ell plans to take a semester off, Hancock
are upset tha t alumni no longer r eceive
lives at Bry n Ma wr , Love has been a
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AIR - Steamships, Ho tels, Tours
Friday, December 10
Charles Mitchell , chairman of BMC art
his tory departm e nt on Durer a nd his
a r t, Roberts, $1.25 7:30 Followed by a
Re naissance Quartet Conce r_t.
Saturday, December 11
Serendipity Gospe l Conce rt, Roberts , $1. 50
8. Haverfo r d Dean of Stude nts J a mes
Lyons stakes his na m e on it.
J erry Rubin , Goodhart Common Room , 8
p.m . Sponsored by BMC Politica l Alliance
Sunday, December 12
The lates t film of "Hamlet " with Nicol
Ric hardson , Germantown ' s Bandbox , a d vance tic kets $2 .50. (Continues through
Tues. , Dec. 14)
" The Tria l of the Catonsville Nine " , Good hart, FREE , 8 p. m . Sponsored · by the
BMC PoliticaCAlliance
'' Through the Looking Glass '', a d rama tic
reading presented by the Literary Forum ,
Stokes , 8 :15 Ha nukkah Pa r ty, Bryn Ma wr
- Haverford , Founde r s Common Room ,
4:15p.m.
Wednesday, December 15
Zvi Gabay, Vice Consul of Is r ael , " Will
There Ever Be Peace in the Middle
East? " , Congregation Young Israel , He l lerm an and Large Streets, Phila de lphia .
Fania Jordan , Angela Davis's sister, Good hart Common Room , 8 p .m . Sponsored
by the BMC Political Alliance.
Please s ubmit a ll item s fo r the Gui de
by 6 p .m . Wednesday to Mary Woode ll ,
Pem West, or the NEWS office.
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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Post-bac Program Ends
Bernstein, Snyder Receive Fellowships
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· Northern black colleges and predominantly
white institutions as well.
The students usually spent a summer at
OberLin college before coming to Haverford. There are five Post-bacs at Haverford this year, while 13 were involved
last year, and 11 the year before.
According to Moore , nearly all of the
Post-bacs from Haverford have been accepted at high -.ranked graduate schools
including Berkeley, Michigan and Prince ~
ton. Moore mentioned one student from
Savannah State who is now studying chemistry at Princeton after spending a year
at Haverford, calling that "quite a jump."
He said that the Post-bacs were well
prepared for graduate school after their
year at Haverford, especially those going
into medical school and the sciences.
Cadbury stated that enthusiasm for graduate schools is down at the moment largely
for financial reasons but he thought the
program was "worthwhile at the time. "
Cadbury mentioned that when the program
was started six years ago, the total number of blacks admitted to medical schools
in the country was about 200 a year.
" If we could add 10 students that was an
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Assistant Director of the Post-bac
Program at Haverford ·
increase of 5% which is quite significant , ,
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he said.
According to Cadbury there are now
1000 black students admitted to medical
schools each year so there is no longer
as much need for the Post-bac program.
'Important Role'
President John Coleman felt that the
program "played an important role on
this campus" because when the Postbacs first came to Haverford they were
the only adult blacks on campus at the
time when the College was beginning to
accept larger numbers of black freshmen.
Coleman thought the program was very
succ essful and that it "proved itself and
then the money ran out.''
He said it is common for foundations
to pioneer new programs and have the
government pick up the prog'rams once they
are started. Because of the present financial situation, however, there is no
chance for the Post- bac program grant
being rene wed again either by the government or by private foundations.
Both Moore and Coleman mentioned that
they were hoping to lure back some of
the former Post-bacs as future members
of the Haverford faculty.
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The Lame Ducks will hold an intra squad scrimmage Sunday from 11:30 p.m.
to 1 a .m. at Radnor Rink in Villanova .
All players are requested and spectators are invited to attend.
DRESSES
Profs . Richard Bernstein of the Haverford philosophy department and James
Snyder of the Bryn Mawr history of art
department have received senior fellowships from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. The two were among 84
recipients selected from 715 applic~nts.
The value of each fellowship is $18,000.
The awards are designed to help humanists progress in their research and
further develop their competence as teachers and scholars by providing support
for an extended period of ininterrupted
study . Recipients are selected by the National Council on the Humanities, composed by 26 humanists appointed by Richard
Nixon.
This year fellowships totaled
$1.4 million.
Bernstein plans to use the fellowship
to support his authorship of a book on
the nature of social inquiry . He will probably take a one year leave to conduct his
work. Bernstein has been chairman of the
philosophy department since his appointment as a full tenured professor in 1966.
In 1969 he was named one of America's
ten most outstanding college teachers .
Snyder says he will study early 16th
century art in Holland. He will be based
in Amesterdam and work out of archives
in Haarlem. During his planned leave he
hopes to write a book or monograph on
early Dutch painting. Snyder is in his
eighth year at Bryn Mawr.
Bernstein and Snyder both received let-
Bryn Mawr and Haverford are among 12
Pennsylvania colleges and universities in a
comprehensive and in-depth study of how
they can maintain fiscal stabliity without
reducing the quality of their academic
programs. The other ten schools, all faced
with increasing financial pressures, are
Allegheny, Bucknell, Carnegie- Mellon ,
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Prof. Donald Swearer of Swarthmore also
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Chatham College President Edward Eddy,
organizer of the project, explains, "In
order to maintain the quality and leadership of these institutions, intelligent an<!
careful long-range planning is essential.
Hit or miss attempts to trim budgets
or to postpone maintenance are not enough.
A thorough examination of priorities must
be undertaken. "
The institutions are studying every aspect
of their operation including the instructional
program, personnel on both teaching and
administrative staffs, student financial aid
programs, campus libraries, student services, bookstores, athletic programs , and
short term investments.
The study will enable each school to
develop a more precise financial selfunderstanding through a direct and open
review of its own operations and comparison with the efforts or others. It
also will assist institutions in identifying
areas within which they can reduce costs
without seriously impairing quality.
Alumni Director
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position . . . he may well have greater
responsibility in the placement area.' ' Cary
expects the new appointee to "support
and advise " the Development Office "as
Bill was doing more and more."
Cary n9ted that Howard Teaf, professor
of economics emeritus, has agreed to serve
as acting director on an interim basis.
Cary said he was "very pleased" at this
since Teaf "is obviously admirably qualified" and since it " takes a good deal
of pressure off us. "
Small Staff
George Couch, public relations associate
and also a member of the Development
Office staff, said, " the staff is pretty
small at present. We could use more executive staffing." He feels that if the college is going to make some sort of a
" commitment" to job placement, perhaps
a psychologist ought to be hired to do
that job.
A decision by AAC whether or not to
fill the vacancy and if so, how, will it
be made during the second semester , afte r
that committee has s tudied the issue .
A search committee headed by Car y
will begin to s eek applicants if the posi tion is approved. Sources indi ca te that
in any case , an appointment wi ll not l;le
made until at least late Febr uary.
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December 10, 1971
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
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THE ARTS .
Rahsaan Overwhelms Audience.
With Terrific Innovative Set ~
By JAY McCREIGHT
I don't' know what Rahsaan means when
translated from the Arabic, but I s uspect
it has to be something good. At least! think
so after hearing Rahsaan Roland Kirk a nd
associates toss Haverford on its ears last
Friday night in their Arts Series concert.
It mattered not how the blind saxophonist/
woodwindist/flautist spelled his name; his
language came out truly through his. m usic .
The evening served as sort of an introductory course in jazz. Leading off the
night was an unnamed group billed on the
promos as ''Another Attraction'', which
was the name they assumed for the rest
. of the show. The group played off tenor
sax, alto s ax, piano, drums and a fantastic
bass in a sequence of solos that added
together fo r about an hour jam. The set
amounted to "this is my instrument and
I want to show you what I can do with it'';
occasionally the fandangos threatened to
fall apart, but a strong rhythm section
kept the songs rolling. The detached sense
of the lines provided little outright melodic material, but a strong sense of
. mood provided plenty of cerebral meat
for the audience to chaw upon.
During the intermission between the two
attractions, some squawking arose behind
stage that sounded vaguely like Jesus Christ
Superstar. For a moment, the audience
was slightly uneasy, fearing that the great
Rahsaan was not all he was cracked up to
be. But such premonitions were quickly
dispelled as the man himself stepped out
on stage, swathed in incense and imparting an air of such dignity to his lengthy
position of mikes and instruments that
very little shuffling was heard among the
audience. Then, with one woodwind under
his arm , a saxophone weighing on his neck
and belly, and a necklace of miscellaneous
musical contraptions strung around his
head, he launched out, accompanied by
piano, bass, tambourinE> and drums .
But the show was all Rahsaan ' s (save for
a breaker by the South African drummer,
who experimented with a variable-tone
water drum and the effects of the human
larynx on drumheads , as well as exhibit-
Literary Forum Undergoes
Looking Glass Changes
In the ordered, just, and no doubt eminentJy real world on this side of the Looking
Glass , at least three publications have
somehow made mistakes about the details of
the Haverford Lite rary Forum's production
of "Through the Looking Glass" It will
unquestionably be Sunday night at 8:15 in
Stokes, and will be free .
The dramatic reading uses a script adapted by Prof. Robert Stiefel, made up of
selections from Lewis Carroll's "Through
the Looking Glass" and one section of
" Alice in Wonderland". Stiefel has also
been "director in name" of the production,
though " each chara cte rization has gene rally
been the wor k of the individual a ctor," he
Sqid.
Thos e actors include: Sally Russ o as
Alice, P rof. John Davis on as the White
King a nd the Red Knight, Prof. R. Jared
Lubars ky as the Gryphon , Prof. Doris Quinn
as the White queen, Prof. James Ra ns om
as the White Knight, Da nna Spielma n a s the
Red Queen,. Prof. John Spielman a s HumptyDumpty , a nd Stiefel a s the Mock - Turtle ,
" the thing mock- tu r tle s oup is made of" .
Prof. F1·a nk Quinn will na rrate. Da vis on
has written music especially for the pia~
including setting The Lobste r Qua drille a nd
the Mock- T ur tle Song to music .
Stiefel sees the production as " a nice
break from exams and paper s. It should
be ve ry relaxing for both audience and
perfo r me r s."
ing the usual flair of the jazz back- up
man). Whipping through his assortment of
saxophone, alto clarinet, bass clarinet,
clarinet, flute, slide whistle, s i ren, cymbals and police whistle, Rahsaan showed
both the control lacking in many of the
experimentalists and the innovative drive
lacking from many of the traditionalists .
"Improvisation is the thing," he emphasized during one break. He broke the show
up into absorbable bits between his solos,
both relaxing the musically energized audience and allowing him to use his unheralded, but pleasant, voice .
His songs were generally easy bluesoriented, such as Bill Withers' "Ain't
No Sunshine'',
but his presentation
accelerated the mood from slow melancholy to high-pitched frenzy and then back
again to settled acceptance . "Black -nuss",
one of Kirk's own numbers , closed out
the set with clapping, vocal background,
and instrumental pride .
Rahsaan and his Vibration Society left
stage despite unanimous encouragement
to go on, pleading a previous engagement. We stumbled out, satiated and stoned.
Hoagie Carmichael was not necessary. The
musical filet mignon was enough.
I like power, I like h itting.
Ted Williams
Washington Senator~
Film Series
Bryn Mawr
Tonight: The Sleeping Car Murder
A very well done murder-mystery under
the fine direction of Z ' s Costa-Gavras .
Yves Montand and Simone Signoret turn
in their usual s terling performances .
In French and well worth while . 7: 15 &
9:30.
Tomorrow: Cat Ballou
This is a true masterpiece of a comedywestern , as Jane Fonda and company
romp their way through train robberies
and gun battles . Everyone in the film
is great, but Lee Marvin, as the one and
only (thank God) Kid Shaleen is especially hilarious, and equal honors go to his
horse. Fantastic. 7:15 & 9 :30.
Mon., De.c . 13: It Should Happen to You
This film marks the start of a Judy
Holliday festival and it 's one of her
best. She plays ~"an out- of- work model
who spends her last dime to have her
name pasted on a billboard and then sits
back and awaits the very funny results.
Judy Holliday is an unbelievably great
comedienne, and Jack Lemmon is also
on hand. 7:15 .
Tues., Dec. 14: The Solid Gold Cadillac
Holliday again , this time as the owner
of ten shares of stock who speaks her
mind at a corporation meeting with
hilarious results . Paul Douglas is fine
as the love interest and John Williams
is amusing in a minor , but pompous,
role. You really should not miss these
films . 7:15.
Haverford
Thurs . , Dec. 16: The Young Philadelphians
Good for a laugh and a little more as
lower class Paul Newman makes his
way up through Philly society occasionally cleaning out the skeletons in his
closets . Robert Vaughn is the little bit
more - he is g reat as the pitiable son
of a fine family involved in a murder.
8:00 Roberts .
Other Exam Festival Films
Fri., Dec. 17: Freaks
Stokes 7 :30
Touch of Evil , 8:40 Stokes
Sat., Dec. 18: Musicals of the Thirties
Roberts, 7: 30
Horsefeathers , 8:55 Roberts
·Sun., Dec. 19: The Wild One
Roberts , 8:00.
Mon., Dec. 20: Blue Murder at St.
Trinian's, Robe rts, 8:00.
The Critic (4 min. short)
NO serie s tickets , Each film 25¢,
double features a lso 25¢. Please note
that Masque of T he Red Death has been
cancelled because of the late date.
BERNIE HOROWITZ
Meaty, Great, Beaty, Big, Great, and Bouncy
By KEN SUGARMAN
Meaty, Beaty, Big, And Bouncy are
Roger Daltry, Keith Moon, John Entwistle, and Pete Townshend. Together
they form the . Who. The Who is great.
"Meaty, Beaty, Big, And Bouncy" is
The Who's greatest hits.
I Can't Explain - first Who single (excluding I' m The Face/ Zoots Suit re. corded as the High Numbers, being the
Who minus Moon) - Top- Ten-England' 64-Pete at 18-Hard and savage-Rippedoff from Kinks-Jim Page plays rhythmBeverly Sisters do back- up vocal About drugs and/ or frustration of incoherency - Still leads off many a Who
set - Crude. Great.
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - Second
smash - b/ w Anytime You Want Me,
Inspired by Charlie Parker- More hard
rock-Shel Talmy production - Nicky
Hopkins on eighty- eights . Kit Lambert
calls it, ''A pop art record, containing
pop art music . The s ounds of war and
chaos and frustration expressed musically without the use of sound effects. "
Great.
I'm A Boy - Top Ten again - Lots of
falsetto - Remember Yakety Yak? Absurd Story - Boy ' s rna dresses him up
as a girl and won 't let him enjoy all
the normal boyish pranks like slittin'
lizards tummies and throwing rocks at
passing cars - Townshend calls it his
"Alice Cooper Syndrmoe." Great.
The Kids Are Alright - More success
- b/ w is Legal Matter- Broke big in Detroit - reitera tes Townshend' s genius Beginning of generation theme - Very
back- patting - Stonetough. Great.
Legal Matte r - About a guy on the run
from a chick about to nail him for
breach of promise - "It' s a legal matter
baby, marrying's no fun, it' s a legal
matter baby , you got me on the :un" Beneath this i s '"I'm lonely , I' m hungry,
and the bed needs making " - Lookin'
for a ma id. Gr eat.
Pictures of Lily - A wonde rful song
about puberty and sex- without-girls(real
life girls, that i s) - Big BBC hit until
they lis tened and found out it was a bout
masturba tion - " Why can 't he go out
with gi r ls like othe r boys? " Gr eat.
Substitute - Anothe r s ingle that never
made it he r e - On the " Leeds" album Written as a spoof on . 19th Nervous
Breakdown - Obvious Jagger- like accent
- The stock down- beat riff in the vers e s
is snatched from Melody Maker Blind
Date - ~'I was born with a plastic spoon
in my mouth / T he north side of my town
faced east/ And the east was facing
south " - Townshend humor. Great.
My Generation - Their best? - A
youth hymn of solidarity - Out of a talking blues thing of the "talking New York"
ilk- A
lot
more Kinks- Still distinctive though- Accompanied by smoke
bombs, amp crashing and guitar smashing on stage - What is Pete going to do
at middle-age? Great.
Happy
Jack - Chunky rhythms - new
style for Who - Talmy is junked and Kit
Lambert becomes new producer - Fun
single - Sense of unde r statement and
irony that makes "Fool On The Hill "
shmaltzy
by comparison - Off-beatStrange seaside existence of an imperturable idiot - Made Billboard' s Top
Twenty - Four. Great.
Boris The Spider - John Alex Entwistle
comp - Insect fear - staggering contrast
between Who 's characteristic falsetto
harmonies in chorus and throbbing resonant tone of Entwistle' s bass (both vocal
and instrumental) create a hair- raising
sonic range - All top and bottom with no
middle - HendriX' s favorite Who song _
Great.
I Can See For Miles - Good production
- Moon' s insa nely best drumming on
plastic: wild, slamming and scattering
rim shots all over the place and hitting
the bass drum on every beat - About
the dog of a blindman named Miles/drugs/ a jealous man with exceptionally
good eyesight - Biggest U. S. single
success - " Who Sell Out" - Mono is
better. Great.
Magic Bus - Pulsates with a mystical
quality. Heavy drug lyrics again "Thruppence and sixpence every way,
trying to get to my baby" - Acid gets
more and more expensive - Ostensibly
about a lover' s misplaced affection for
the vehicle that gets him close to his
girl - Best c ut on "Who On Tour" Great.
Pinball Wizard - Previewed Tommy - A play - up to Nick Cohn of the
Times. Great.
The Seeke r
- First release post " Tommy " - Who produced - Driving
style - A lot to say - The search of a
really desperate man for some port of
truth - Inadequacy of pop prophets like
Dylan , B eatle s , and Leary - A dogged
determination to keep looking, even without the hope of any positive result this
side of the grave - "I've looked under
chairs/ I ' ve looked under tab l es/ I've
tried to find the key to fifty million
fables " - Inspired in the mosquito- ridden
swamps of Florida d r unk at three in the
morning - A let down . Great.
E Pluribus Funk by Grand ·Funk, Capitol
SW853. Stereo. $4.98
NEWS photographer Scott Sherk caught this one lo k "
down through various parts of the Radnor fire escape. o mg up at Andy Sim ons looking
December 10, 1971
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Hot Shoppes Shock for Unassuming
By JUDY FRIEDMAN And TARA GHOSHAL
And ELIZABETH HARTE And ELIZABETH
HOWARD And PATRICIA HUNT
In a town not noted for its appeal to the
gourmet, it is both a gastronomical adventure and an aesthetic pleasure to dine a t
Hot Shoppes Sr., 568 Lancaster Ave. In
keeping with a fierce tradition of Pennsylvania Dutch atmosphere and cuisine, Hot
Shoppes is . a big, bustling establishment
concerned with consistent cooking. And un like the more subtle American restaurants,
the food is neither alleviated by the atmosphere nor enhanced by the service.
It is this delightful concurrence of distinctive dining and definitive ambience which
produces a homey and unrus hed atmosphere
in which to enjoy the modest but nevertheless appetizing selections.
The restau rant's unassuming and undetectable exterior is a lmost deceptive.
Inside, the Pennsylvania Dutch decor is
slightly subjugated but not enslaved by
cheery red Naugahide booths and wallpanelling ornamented by wrought-iron representations of ruralistic animal life. The
Gift Shoppe and Cuddle Zoo in the foyer
are musts . And the friendly cashier will
be delighted to attach the purchase of a
stuffed Snoopy candle-holder to your restaurant check.
One is immediately impressed with the
hostess. It is this attractive and wellgroomed personage who leads you to new
vistas in dining pleasure and also to a table .
Hot Shoppes has perfected the art of direct
approach in a novel Wgy -- the mat is the
menu! At first glance there seems to be
a paucity of choice, but under the seeming
sparseness lie a multitude of tantalizing
taste temptations. In fact, the plethora of
combinations boggles the uninitiated mind. ·
Who would not pause over patented platters
with names s uch as Buckboard, Mighty Mo,
and Teen Twist -- all pleasingly palatable.
Beyond these universally acclaimed favor ites, the menu also caters to the individual
preference. For the cosmopolitan tastebud,
the Creole omelette always rises to the occasion. For the larger appetites,. Hot Shoppes proffers a range of entertaining entrees extending from exquisitely-crusted
sea food to moistly mellow Pappy Parker
frie d chicken .
As you will come to hope, the successful meal at Hot Shoppes is not left to
the main course. The desserts , Hot Fudge
Ice Cream Cake , Strawberry Sundae, Date
Nut Torte with Rum Satin Sauce (a seasonal favorite) are all portions of sumptuous creaminess to be ingested with demented abandon . To bring the delirious diner
down to earth, Hot Shoppes obligingly offers an unlimited quantity of unespressive
coffee or perky pekoe. HotShoppes has been
recommended by Betty Crocker Kitchens
and Marriott Corporation and has received
a rating. Good dining!
Serendipity Concert Tomorrow Night
The sixth annual Serendipity Gospel Concert will be presented tomorrow night.
The concert is given each year as a
benefit for Serendipity Day Camp, a nonprofit day camp for children from communities surrounding Haverford. The camp
operates on the College campus during
the summer.
"This past camp season was difficult
finance-wise and operation-wise,'' according to Louise Allen of Ardmore, who has
served the camp as a volunteer community coordinator since it began in 1963.
" We have a great deal of wor k to do to
raise the necessary sums of money and to
revitalize the camp itself. This concert
is the first of two such concerts we hope
to give this year to aid the fund raising
effort. ''
The concert will again be given by the
Main Line Interdenominational Choir, unde r
the direction of Harold Thompson . The
forty-member choir originated two years
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ago from the combined choir singing at
the Serendipity benefit by choirs from the
black churches in Ardmore and Bryn Mawr.
Included in the choir ' s repertoire are
traditional hymns of the church, spirituals
and gospel music, as well as more contemporary rock gospeL Beatrice Wake,
one of the choir's directresses comments,
"The Main Line Interdenominational Choir
has improved in a lot of ways. Over the
past year our choir has gained confidence
in itself, having appeare<! in more than
ten full concerts and many guest appearances all over the Philadelphia area. We
always look forward to the Serendipit~
Concert and t ry to ma ke it one of our
best because this is where we began singing
together. "
Tickets are available at the Haverford
College Box Office, MI 2-7644. Prices
are $1 .50 for adults and 75¢ for children
under twelve.
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Gut Exam
J.R. Poindexter, Jr., Haverford '71, has had the foresight, kindness, and
eminent reality to send us this illustration of what exams are like in graduate
school. Next installment in the continuing effort to make Exam Week a Night to
Remember: "Unsolvable Crossword Puzzles for Speed-freaks '~
Instructions: Read each question thoroughly. Answer all questions. Time limit - 4 hours .
Begin immediately.
HISTORY -- describe the history of the
papacy from its origins to the present
day, concentrating specially but not exelusively, on the social , political , economic , religious , and philosophical impact on E urope, Asia, America and
Africa. Be brief, concise, and specific.
MEDICINE You have been provided with
a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
bottle of scotch. Remove your own appendix. Do not suture until your work
has been inspected. You have fifteen
minutes .
PUBLIC SPEAKING 2,500 riot-crazed
aborigines are storming the classroom .
Calm them. You may use any ancient
language except Latin or Greek.
BIOLOGY -- Create life . Estimate the
differences in subsequent human culture
if this form of life had developed 500
million years earlier, with special attention to the probable effects on the
English parliamentary system. Prove
your thesis.
MUSIC -- Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate it a nd perform it with flute and
drum. You will find a piano under your
seat.
PSYCHOLOGY --Based on ·your knowl edge of their works, evaluate the emotional stability, degree of adjustment,
and repressed frustrations of each of
the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias,
Ramsesall , Gregory of Nicoa, Hammu rabi. Support your evaluation )Vith
questions from each man's work making
. appropriate r eferences. It is not neces sary to translate.
SOCIOLOGY -- Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the
end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Define
Management. Define Science. How do they
relate? Why? Create a generalized algorithm to optimize a ll mana~erial decisions . Assuming a n 1130 CPU s upporting 50 terminals, each terminal to
activate your algo.rithm, design the com munications interface and all the necessary control programs .
ENGINEERING -- The d i s a s s e m b I e d
parts of a high-powered rifle have been
placed on your desk. You will also find an
instruction manual , printed in Swahili.
In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger
will be admitted to the room. Take whatever action you feel appropriate. Be
prepared to justify your decision.
ECONOMICS - - Develop a realistic plan
for refinancing the national debt. Trace
the possible effects of your plan in the
following areas; Cubism, the Donatist
controversy, the wave theory of light.
Outline a method from all possible
points of view. Point out the deficiencies in your point of view, as demonstrated in your answer to the last
question.
POLITICAL SCIENCE - - There is a red
telephone on the desk beside you. Start
World War III. Report at length on its
socio-political effects, if a ny .
EPISTEMOLOGY -- Take a position for
or against the truth. Prove the validity
of your position.
PHYSICS -- Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the impact of the development
of mathematics on science.
PHILOSOPHY -- SKETCH the development of human thought; estimate its
significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
describe in
detail. Be objective and specific.
EXTRA CREDIT -- Define the Universe;
give th ree examples.
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Much Remains To Be Done
One unforessen consequence of the new calendar is that the student governments of the two Colleges would be pretty much immobilized between Thanksgiving
and January. The burden of academic work and untouchable deadlines is s'uch
that there is little time for the students to continue in their roles as part-time
administrators of the bi-College community.
After the vacation, Students' Council President Larry Phillips says he will
do much less administrative work, as he hopes to resume a life of normalcy
as soon as possible. Fine, but there are several issues on which we would like to
prod his Council to get moving.
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Student involvement in the tenure and educatiOnal pohcy tssues ts one area
which sorely needs attention. No good reason has yet been given to reduce the :·:;~
student representation on the educational policy committee to two members. ::;::
If, as chairman Colin Mackay fears, the committee may be too large , the student :,::::
delegation is not the one to be cut-- two members do not provide sufficient student )
representation on such an important body.
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The tenure and reappointment committee, which got off to such a promisi_!lg if.
start last year under the direction of John Davidson , should be revived and given ::::::
direction by the Council. Tenure promises to be a major issue in the second
Cooperation Requires Pressure
The Haverford coeducation issue is far from decided , but already some students have said they are tiring of the discussion.
They have a right to get tired if a discussion such as the Nov . 30 open meeting
: :::; of the coeducation and expansion committee is plagued by the sort of insultingly
:~;~:: repetitive discussion we saw there . It was apparent that many questions and com-=::::
ments came from students who had not even read the committee's minutes ,
'"==: published and summarized by The News. Insipid comments came from both sides
=::::: of the fence, and came from people who should have known better.
Some misunderstandings persist. For one thing, it should be fully realized by
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the Haverford community that Bryn Mawr is quite unified in its fears of a decline
i}i in cooperation once Haverford goes coed, and Haverford should respect this
fear, even if it feels that fears are not justified. For the Students ' Council Presi:=:::: dent to wonder, at this point, " Does anyone at Bryn Mawr besides President
:::::: Wofford " think cooperation would diminish, and for the Dean of Students to sa ri/ castically belittle that fear, will only hurt discussion of the issues involved.
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The Council should
also give full support to its fledgling budget review board,
now encountering difficulties in getting the salary information from the College
that the Council requested it be given. Council should do some hard ba rgaining
to support the board; if the original decision to ask for salary information (on a
confidential basis) was considered legitimate, why hasn't the Students' Council
a major point to be pessimistic about cooperation .
But there remains one trump card to this and other barriers to the Colleges'
cooperation -- student agitation. One Haverford professor has suggested a general student strike as a means of forcing the two facilities and administrations
to attack cooperation on a more intense basis. This sounds good , if students
can get up the energy . Cooperation is a more difficult policy to pursue successfully than is coeducation, and if that is the policy that the College opts for , signl:_
ficant efforts have to ensue -- and student pressure cannot evaporate.
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Its avaricious and regressive nature is well-documented, and the organization's
continuing control of collegiate athletics represents a major scandal.
Haverford should not be alone in its position, though. If the Middle Atlantic Con-
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NCAA against this misguided and useless rule.
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The committee's discussion of letter
grades at other schools is completely
beside the point because no such
grades exist at Haverford. Thus, the
entire logic of their suggestion
rests on a subjective conclusion
that only a certain percentage of
Haverford students should be
receiving A's.
accept the conversion scale the LSDAS
supplies itself - - a scale substantially
stricter than Bryn Mawr's, The conclusion
was fairly straightforward: A simple aboutface from the previous decision. The faculty
meeting of Dec . 2 rubberstamped the ac ceptance of LSDAS's scale.
Nobody , least of all the seniors who will
be most directly affected by the decision ,
seemed to notice, even though the committee ' s reasoning is in some places
specious and in others simply non-existent.
Dave Sloane , in his Viewpoint of Dec. 3,
notes one of the most glaring logical errors :
mamely , the committee's astonishing in attention to the fact that all the schools
considered (except Bryn Mawr) already
employ letter grades and a 4-point scale.
What this means is that acceptance of the
LSDAS scale is not the same direct con version for Haverford as it is for the other
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provoking plenary session for February. After all, if a plenum is not present, :::::
parliamentarian David Hsia reports, the Council's career as a constitutional gov- i!}
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area to cover. Hopefully, December rush, the vacation, . and the cha nge of admin- ?i
istrations in February won't render it immobile.
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By KIT KONOLIGE
Senior Editor
One re s ult of the somnambulent pace of
gove rnment a t Ha ve rford is that when once
in a great whil e , something important does
happen , it goes right past most of the people
it affects . This is precisely the case with
the recent non-controversy over the conversion s cale Haverford would (or would not)
supply to the Law School Data Assembly
Service (LSDS).
Briefly, what happened was that the Haverford faculty, no doubt pressed by Bryn
Ma wr's adoption of a scale for the con version of its grades to a 4-point system ,
decided to legislate some conversion of
its own. At about 6 p.m . at its meeting
Nov . 18 , tired and hungry, it approved
the adoption of the Bryn Mawr system ,
which makes grades of 87-100 equal 4.0,
80-86 3.0 a nd 70 - 79 2.0 (See The NEWS,
Nov . 20, for the comparison of this scale
with that of the LSDAS) A number of professors were upset by the leniency of this
s cale , among them Prof. Louis Green,
who managed to win acceptance of the idea
of a committee -- composed of himself, Dean
Da vid Potter , and President John Coleman - to see if information on the subject would
pe rhaps change the faculty's mind .
The. committee r eported its findings Nov.
30 in a me mo which is so rare as to be
vi rtually a collector's item by now. They
exami.1 ,ed thP sys te m s of eight comparable
colleges. ~a d: of whom, except Bryn Mawr ,
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spontaneous group that will take action on the week - to-week grievances of students. i/:
i{ pliance with a rule designed to combat illiteracy among college athletes.
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···-=· for athletic competition. The rule, well-intentioned but misguided, sets unreasonable
:::::; standards of academic eligibility for "student athletes," standards that infringe
?::' on an institution ' s autonomy.
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The rule interferes with internal academic policy while not accomplishing any
:;::;; real reform of the woefully corrupt intercollegiate athletic scene. Some of the least
{ii competent college students ever to don a basketball uniform have played their
i/i,[ bca01s1keegtebawlli_thcar0 emersacsindce _th~ illt
. sti_ttutitonbof t~et ruled. A~ the samde time, to force a
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Letters to the Editof \
Equal Rights
To the Editor:
We are two students from outside the
Haverford - Bryn Mawr community involved
with the
Haverford
Educational Involvement Project in Germantown . We
have found many opportunities, academic
and social , on campus and in the commun ity, that we would like to continue. Therefore, we would like to transfer to Hav erford as undergraduate degree candidates . However , being women , we have
been denied the opportunity to apply. We
are being denied on the basis of our
sex, and not on the basi of our academic
qualifications . It is morally unacceptable
to us that women should be denied the
right to apply .
In our conversations with members of
the Haverford- Bryn Mawr community
(students , faculty and administration) we
have found the moral issue obscured
or ignored due to the overwhelming concern for the continuation of cooperation
between the two schools .
The arguments have been given:
1) that Haverford is a " men's" college , unable and not ready to deal with
women
2) that cooperation offers the choice
of two different lifestyles, and that coeducation could mean that each campus
would isolate itself.
3) that admitting women will necessi tate changes in financial and admissions
policies, faculty hiring , and possible ex pansion .
These arguments point out the interest
of immediate convenience of today's students -.but they do not answer the basic
questwn of equal opportunity. Instead they
are problems that will obvious ly have to
be dealt with in accord with the larger
moral issue .
. The discussion of cooperation is seen
as more imp011rtant tha n confr ontation
and action on the issue of sexual discrimination. Further, it is apparent that
Haverford will not adequately serve women
students until it is pushed to do so; and
that Bryn Mawr in is opposition to coeducation, is blocking the right of women
to become Haverford students, and thereby
taking full advantage of the unique oppor tunities Haverford offers.
We urge that, Haverford, as a Quaker
institution , confront the moral implica-
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Go Beyond Opposing the War--Withhold Your Taxes
By P r of. WILLIAM DAVIDON
Everyone wants peace, and probably most
of those who read this open letter favor
an early deadl ine for withdrawing all U.S.
troops, weapons, and military aid from
Vietnam, Cambodia a nd Laos. Rather than
arguing fu r ther against the war, I would
like to discuss here newly developing ways
to resist it.
In recent years, some people have in sisted that tax money for war not be withheld from their paychecks. A few employers, including the Friends Peace Committee in Philadelphia and the national office
of the War Resisters ' League have honored
such requests. Other people have kept their
income to forms and amounts not subject
to withholding tax. As more people have
decided to resist paying for war, methods
suitable for more widespread use are be ing explored-.
This week, I am filing a new W4 tax
form with an attached schedule A to cut
in half the withholding tax on my salary.
The money that would have been deducted
for war and war preparations will be used
instead to help war victims and to press
for changes in the war policies of our country.
As the administration withdraws ground
combat troops from Vietnam, its war expenditures go increasingly for aerial and
naval bombardment, for deployment of automated weapons, and for hiring people from
other countries to kill and be killed. Our
tax money now pays for killing about 300
people each day in Indochina . As the government uses advanced technology and mercenaries to rep lace U.S. combat troops,
war tax resistance takes on new significance.
T here are now tens of thousands of us
who no longer volunteer the war tax on
phone service, nor income tax beyond that
withheld . With hundreds of others , we have
filed a taxpayers' s uit in federal court
challenging what we consider to be the
government ' s unlawful use of tax money to
wage this war . Many of us have filed for
the return of taxes which we believe have
been illegally seized. But until now, we have
not been able to stop Haverford College
from giving the government most of the
money it wants from us by deducting it
from my salary.
We have several reasons for choosing tax
resistance as a further way to oppose the
war:
Is Haverford Headed Tow·ard Mediocrity?
By PROF . JOSIAH THOM.{'SON
In the short span of four years Haverford has dropped from 31st to 159th in
J the AAUP rankings. Why has this happened
and what does it mean for the future?
It is now simply a matter of record
that the principal deterioration of Haverfo rd's position on the AAUP scale has come
about under Jack Coleman ' s administration.
It would be silly to argue that he wanted
this to happen; s urely no college president
sets out deliberately to make his faculty
second- rate. Yet it has happened. Why?
There are nationa l eco)lomic changes that
have effected Haverford' s position. But na tiona! trends cannot be used as an excuse
for the deterioration, since these trends
have likewise not inhibited a great number
of private colleges from passing Haverford up . l suspect we might better look
closer to home for an explanation. T he
post-1967 per iod has been marked by a
great architectural and a dministrative expansion unaccompanied by a like expa nsion
in the College ' s income . T he Board decide d
to build a dining hall wi th money it did
not have, while at the sam e time going
ahead with dormitories s o expensive that
no federal aid could be used i n thei r
construction. Simultaneously, the President
oversaw the greatest expa nsion in a dminis!ration that the College ha d ever expe r ienced. While fac ulty compensation de clined
relative to the nationa l norm , administrative positions a nd salaries were greatly
increased. For the first tim_e i n the history
of the College senior admi nistrators were
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applebeean vision
and the re were i n..the same country
students abiding in the library , keeping
watch over their books by night.
and lo! the spirit of christmas came
upon them , and the glory of the lord
shone round about them , and they
said one to another ,
let us remember the time past,
the sweet-s melling tree and the quiet
carols,
,
the shining lights, the fa lling snow ,
and the excitement of coming gifts.
and let us r emember the time present,
that christmas is nearly upon us ,
that beyond the papers, the bluebooks ,
and the midnight exha ustion and despair,
stands home, comfort, and joy.
and let us remember the time future:
to give light to them that sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death
and to guide our feet into the way of
peace.
rejoice ,
applebee
paid at level s greatly at?ove that of the
most senior faculty. However one judges
the wisdom of these decisions ~ - and I' d
be the fir st to admit that some justification could be offered for any one ofthem -they evidence a clear shift in priorities
away from the Haverford of the late 50's
and early 60 's .
What will be the likely effect of this
shift in priorities?
Put most simply, this shift will lead to
a College of nice buildings and busy administrators -- in s hort, a second - rate
institution. ln the early 60 's Haverford
stood at the very top of liberal arts colleges. A Chicago Tribune study showed her
to be number one among liberal arts colleges for men , and as the table above
indicates, she was 7th in AAUP rankings .
Now this is no longer the case. Franklin
& Marshall, 119th in the 1961-62 rankings ,
Stu~bling
has passed her by , ana even lilassboro
State would seem to prize her faculty more .
Haverford ha s a good reputation , and for
a year or two she can ride on that reputation. But as time goes on reputation will
mean less and money more. Inexorably,
her better teachers and scholars will be
lured away . They will not just follow Wa lla ce McCaffrey to Harvard, but will make
their own way to Kent State, Macalester
College, or Pomona . Meanwhile , the President 's policy of no senior appointments
will mean that these men will no longer
be replaced in kind. No longer will it be
possible to get a Bernstein, a Russo, a
Partridge, a Wintne r, a Luman, or a
Mac Caffey from any of the better universities. Inexorably too, this will affect the
pool of applicants for admission which is
(Continued on page 1 0)
Station
By GREG TOBIN
I know the r evolution will not be tele vised, but why can 't it cm:ne by radio?
The question of the dining center music
program is in the midst of a rather ridiculous argument, in which both parties involved have failed to even discuss their
grievances together.
Apparently this whole business began
at the start of the school year when Larry
Phillips appointed Jeff Myers as a com mittee of one dedicated to the arduous
task of turning on the mu sic during meal s .
When it was discovered that the dining
center could transmit voice messages from
WHRC , the novel idea of broadcasting
both music and public notices was brought
tq Wendell Wylie , then the program director
for WHRC. According to · Jim Crite , who
~quabbles
Myers admits to have been dragging
his feet, but I wouldn't say that
WHRC has been overly enthusiastic
about negotiations, either.
since has s ucceeded Wylie as program director , Myers asked for four things. First
he wanted meal time broadcasts to be
conducted by people whom Myers had
chosen, apart from the staff of WHRC.
Secondly he watned complete access to
~. 'le station equipment for the meal-time
hours. In addition he proposed the traditional college-FM format with as little
talking and self-identification as possible.
Finally he asked for a key to the station
(Continued on page 1 0)
1. To help build a climate of resistance
to war and regimentation: so that people
in and out of government, in and out of
the military, will be less locked into automatic compliance with orders that destroy
and degrade life. A man who is ordered
to kill Vietnamese is more likely to resist
if he knows oth_ers are resisting in whatever
ways they can. John Woolman argued similarly for war tax resistance in his Journal of 1757 : "Some of our members .. .
seeing their brethren united in the payment
of a tax ~o carry on the said. wars, might
think their case (similar) . . and thus by
small degrees there might be an approach
toward that of fighting . . . ''
2. To turn our resources, at least temporarily, to more constructive purposes :
Some of the money no longer withheld by
the college to pay for war will be deposited with the Philadelphia War Tax Resistance Fund which makes no-interest loans ,
to local groups working for constructive
fundamental
change,
e.g. the Black
Economic Development Conference, the
Philadelphia Bail Fund, and the Philadelphia Resistance . Some of the money no
longer withheld will be used for direct
relief to war victims through the new '' Medical Aid Committee for Indochina " , whose
policy is ' ·to extend its efforts to those
outside Saigon ' s control ... to respond to
specific requests for aid to civilian medical
facilities in North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
and those areas of South Vietnam under
the control of the Provisional Revolutionary
Government. ''
·
3. To participate in a growing war tax
resistance community: Nearly two hundred
war tax resistance centers have been set
up across the country. The program of the
Philadelphia center includes administering
the War Tax Resistance F und , organizing
tax resistance clinics , individual counselling, sending out speakers and literature,
helping tax resisters who face trials or
property seizures, and participating in
monthly war tax demonstrations, picnics,
and other activities. This tax resistance
group is concerned not only with the war,
but also with s uch gross economic injus tices in our society as the use of tax laws
and the ...wage freeze to force poor and wo rking people to bear the heaviest burden of
war and inflation , subsidies to the rich and
powerful , and undemocratic concentration
of vast e conomic power in the hands of
relatively few.
4. To be better able to live with ourselves: since we will not bomb, kidnap,
nor otherwise harm people (nor would we
conspire to do so), we will do what we can
to keep our earnings from being used by
the government to hire others to commit
these crimes. We find that a continuing
search for significant ways to act upon
our beliefs helps overcome the cynicism,
despair , a nd numbness that tend to infect
us all.
' If anyone would like to know more about the
W4 schedule A tax form to reduce taxe·s
withheld, or to discuss war tax resistance
further, I would be glad to hear from you .
Scholar-Studs vs. Wonder Women
By ALBERT BRANCATO
BMC Grad School
For several months members of the
Bryn Mawr community have despe rately
tried to persuade colleagues at Haverford
not to ruin the " unique and exciting relationship " which the two colleges enjoy by establishing coeducation. While taking part in
the debate at Haver ford , Bryn Mawr has ingeniously manage d to keep the coeducation
issue away from its own campus . Smoke
from the fir e of coeducation at Haverford
drifts to our campu s in the form of "cooperation ."
In the special investigation of coeducation
at Haverford, "cooperationists" from Bryn
Ma wr have outlined long term benefits of
an extensive program of cooperation which
they- claim would be irrevocably lost by the
rash action of Haverford. T his patronizing
attitude proceeds from fear that Bryn Mawr
might itself have to become coeducational.
To protect itself from such pollution
Bryn Mawr has offered the alternative of
cooperation . Cooperationists would allow a
certain degree of coeducation which would
at the same time still protect Bryn Mawr's
feminist reputation. Excitement a nd constructive tension on both campuses would
supposedly result from the juxtapostion of
feminism and pseudo-co-education. All such
arguments for cooperation of an a ll ma le
Haverford with a Bryn Mawr limited
formally to women disguise Bryn Mawr's
fear of disgarding its tradition as a women's
college. Bryn Mawr's notion of its own
tradition is a false one, as is its solution
to the present issue.
Bryn Mawr has never been a women's
institution. Of its four components, administration, faculty, the graduate school,
and the undergraduate college, only the last
is still restricted to women while the
third became coeducational in 1931. Are
three of the college's working parts any
less a part of the school because they
integrate the sexes? Is Bryn Mawr to be
defined only in terms of the undergraduate
school? For too long the administration and
faculty have nursed the undergraduates on
a distorted tradition which denies the
presence of men on campus. Thefaultypremise that the Bryn Mawr man does not
exist does not lead to the absurd conclusion
Bryn Mawr has never been a women's
institution. Of its four components,
only the undergraduate college is
still restricted to women.
that the Bryn Mawr man cannot exist.
The word "cooperation" adds a favorable
connotation to what is essentially bad coeducation. The goal of cooperation between
Bryn Mawr and Haverford is, of course,
to gain the advantages of coeducation as
well as to exploit the academic resources
of both facilities. The sexually segregated
nature of both institutions frustrates attainment of either goal. Inevitably Haver ford scholar- studs confront Bryn Mawr
wonder women. Sex roles conditioned by
society conflict with academic interchange
as each seeks to enforce his or her sexural
identity or superiority. Only the establish ment of coeducation on both campuses could
clear the air so that neither campus could
identify itself with a sexual role . Only
such a policy would allow unbiased aca-
(Continued on page 10)
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December 10, 1971
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Page 10
Wonder Women
Skinner Simplistic
HRC Stumbling
(Continued from page 9)
demic interchange to occur in a realistic
By RICHARD KATZ
... when your attitude toward good and
setting of coeducation.
BMC Grad Student
evil is determined.
Finally, why must a feminist college be
The point of B. F . Skinner's latest All in all, this seems a rather weak
a women's college? The Bryn Mawr Col book Beyond Freedom and Dignity is es- foundation for a utopia.
lege Council meeting of December 2 foc~s­
The book is marked by inconsistency. In
sentially polemical -- only two chapters
ed on feminism defined in the followmg
out of nine are concerned with the actual fairness to Skinner I would point there is
manner:
design of a new and better culture. The much of value, too . In many senses Beyond
" Bryn Mawr is a feminist institu Freedom
a
nd
Dignity
is
a
book
like
The
other seven, by and large, argue for a
tion by its recognition of society's
conceptual reformulation that must precede Republic . Both are asking fundamental
past a nd existing repression of wosuch a massive undertaking. If we are questions about man's place in the universe;,
men a nd by its action to help women
to judge the book at all, then we must both are disturbing i n their argument.
to discover themselves a nd to exercise
do so on the basis of the cogency, con- Perhaps this is the strength of each book - their equa l rights in the world."
sistency and correctness of its arguments, not i n the argument but the question -- the
Consequently feminis m i s an attitude,
not in misplaced criticism of a utopian act of asking a question is a fundamental
detacha ble from an institution. It can be
and deeply human one.
vision per se.
nouris he d by a coeducationa l college as
On the grounds of cogency, etc., the book
well as by a women 's college. Is the Bryn
is unfortunately muddled. Skinner's basic
Mawr administration, fa c ulty, or graduate
postulate of deter minism is s implistic and
school any less feminist than the under perhaps fatal to his overall endeavor: his
graduate college? Feminis m and coeducanotion of morality is simply incorrect.
(Continued from page 9)
tion are compatible at Bryn Mawr. The
Let us look at each of these.
struggle of feminism would deve lop more
already constricting in quality if not
Determinism
honestly at Haverford a nd Bryn Mawr if
According to Skinner, man is either
quantity. And this is as it should be. For
both campuses were sexually i ntegrated.
we might all hope that an applicant would
determined or free (directed by a n autoUntil then the feminist debate must be
nomous inner man). The position makes
be more interested in who will be teach cloude d by unnecessary Bryn Mawr-Haver good intuitive sense . Nonetheless it is
ing him, or in whether he will be able to
fo r d bickering.
a linguis tica lly a nd philosophically s loptake Russian or Spanish, than in whether
The Bryn Mawr community is already
PY way of putting it. Rather man is
the President has two assistants or none,
coeducational. Undergraduates should not
.. .. either determined or a victim of chance
or in how spacious his dining ha ll or dorpermit their part of the college, the only
... under the compulsion of some agency,
mitory may be .
part maintaini ng sexual segregation to conThis is not a happy future to face, but
or free
vert to a policy of cooperation , poor coand two paradigm s are not one , and cannot
it is there, and I believe we m us t face it.
education
. Nor should the undergraduate
be conflated. The firs t issue is scientific
Is there anything faculty and student s can do
college remain a women's college. Sexua l
(and even as a scientific paradigm much
about it?
too simple, Heisenberg's results); the
I believe there is very little a ny of us segregation reinforces sexual predjudice
second is political. Both have their own
can do. It may simply be the case t hat and its in ~vitable conterparter, sexual re styles of explanation and criteria of validity.
without a substantial infusion of funds from pression. Even if the foundation of Bryn
One ,cannot base an argument on linboard members, foundations, a nd concerned Mawr College as an all women 's college
guistic sloppiness, yet much of Beyond
alumni Haverford must necessarily become was originally a n enlighted gesture, the
Freedom . and Dignity demands a polar
a second- rate institution. It is crystal clear continued support of such a di nosaur is
opposition between autonomous man and
that the financial management of the Col- nothing but sexua l - elitist pretension. T h e
determined man. It can't work- - not unless
lege is vested in the President and the axiom that Bryn Mawr is a wc.:nen's col you're willing to grant a fa r - fetched notion
Board. As long as they are content to lege must be replaced. M. Carey T homas
such as freedom being coe~tensive with .preside over the dissolution of the finest unveil yourself!
randomness.
faculty and student body the College has
ever had, there is very little the rest of us
Even if we are to grant a more reasonable version of the determinist thesis to
can do. Al ready this fall the AAC and the
(Continued from page 4)
Student Budget Review Board have learned
Skinner, the book rema ins inconsistent.
Skinner is arguing that we must choose
how · easily they can be fended off. All the plaintiffs an estim ated $32, 000.
Haverford a nd Goddard are s haring t he
we can hope for , I s uppose, is that the
bette r va lues. But if we are determined
. .. we have no choice in the matter of
President will stop talking about how ex- brunt of the expense, the two having raised
values
cellent we are long enough to take a long, approximately $3000 from gifts of alumni
. .. we can't say a value is good, but
dark look at the statistics, or that a and friends of the schools. Haverford Pressingle Board member might interest him- ident John Coleman a nd Goddard Presionly that we have come to believe
in it due to a prior his tory of reinself in the question of why we keep build- dent Gerald Witherspoon (Haverford '55)
forcem ent .
ing buildings and hiring administrators have sent letters to the a pproximately 45
while letting our faculty decay and stu- colleges, including Bryn Mawr, which supHow can we argue for a better world, when
dent fees i ncrease .
better demands volition -- the freedom to
ported the suit, in order to raise th e re choose good from bad. To call a society
maining $1500. The letters , appealing for
"good" demands a man who is free to
contributions of $25-$50, have resulted in
MAIN LINE STYLE PIZZA
choose good.
approximately 30 affirmative responses
If we are determined, then we can't
totalling $1460.
argue for or against anything. All we can
say is that some value is more prominent
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ward position for any reformer .
Oblivion Beckons
(Continued from page 9)
which up to this time had only be
the privilege of two people, Roger Eas/n
and Wendell Wylie . All of these reques~:
were granted and everything was honky.
dory .
·
But not for long. Crite claims th t
Myers failed t? s ubmit a schedule of wh~
was broadcastmg whe n, and soon peo 1 ,
were failing to show up for their assi:n~
ments. Th
whole business became qu't
•
1e
aggravatmg to Roger Easton who subse. '
q~ently closed the station to Myers and
his cohorts and stated bluntly, "Let's
talk about this ."
Ever since that fateful day, there h
been little or no dialogue between eithas
of them. Crite plans to offer a compr~~
mise plan of staggered programming bl
which
Myers would be able to use th.e
.
equipment every other day. Myers h
mixed feelings on this , but seems agre:~
able , on t he condition that there will b
periodic evaluations between the broad~
casters, a nd whoever doesn't make the
grade is eliminated and replaced.
Fine . The problem is, however, that
although there' s been a lot of print about
this whole ?ffair, nothing has happened.
~yers a.~mits . to have been "dragging
his feet,
but ·I wouldn't say that WHRC
has been overly enthusiastic about negotiations , either.
WHRC is stumbling. If it wants a wider
audience, a nd wants to gain respectability
as a community station, then why can't
it see the perfect opportunities of dining
center broadcasts? I can understand if
Myers and Easton don't quite agree, but
why won 't they talk about it?
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This brings us to the Skinnerian moral
code , a code based on the replacement
of reinforcing for good, and aversive for
bad.
Is this tenable? Not really . It is poor
ethics , and displays a n ignorance of much
of twentieth century mora l philosophy . If
Skinner's thesis is correct, then good is
everywhere replaced by reinforcing. A
heroin addict may find a dose of heroin
quite reinforcing, and yet admit at the
same time that it can cause infection, de bility and death ; i.e., that it is bad. Good
isn't positive reinforce ment.
A reinforcement morality is essentia lly
s ubjective . Consider the case of rape. It
is reinforcing for som e people, a nd aversive for others . Most people would regard
it as evil, by an objective standard, categorical imperative or what have you. A
Skinnerian cannot admit objective evil.
Wha t can he say of a
rapis t who is
. .. determined in every ac t
. . . when one 's own values are just deter mined, and not objectively true or
false
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H'ford Counseling Service Praised
(Continued from page 1 6)
,ess or tn e counseling service, ana rms
process should receive periodic review.
The committee al so stressed the importance
ofthe infirma r y "as a place where students
1· can fine reprieve from debi litating emotional pres sures."
The committ e e' s third recommendation
~ under this categor y concerned institutional
I~ I stress . The coun selors a nd a dministrative
~- · staff should-review regularly "the· sources
le of non-producti ve stress within the College
environment. " The r eport emphasized a
Jd "community mental health orientation" to
examine th e weaknesses of the school.
Research project s and possibly even a
s course taught by a m ember of the counsel r ing staff should a l so be cons idered to aid
in the understanding of th e institutional
environment.
Student Resources
The counseling service's r elationship
with students i s good, the r eport commented, but more should be done to develop student re sources a nd increase the
: number of groups . Students should be trained
to give draft information , to work at a
I drop-in center dur ing hours in which th e
I counseling servi ce is not op en, and to help
freshman . " We might be a ble to work with
customsmen," Widseth stated, comm enting on this last suggestiOn.
More groups s uch as Interact s hould be
started, said the committee, and group s
discussing specific interests, s uch as dr ugs
or sex, could also be valuable. The report
also suggested cooperating with ''nearby
institutions , particula rly B r yn Mawr," t o
form groups .
The committee rejected the idea of a ba nd oning or reducing the counseling service.
it felt that " the ser vice p rovides brief
therapy for students in a way that is very
similar to the services offe r ed by counselr ing services at other comparable i nstitu tions."
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This is the last i ssue of The NEWS
for the year of 1971.
We'll be hitting the ~EWS-stands on ce
again Friday, Jan ; 21.
Group members also felt that there
should be no charges made for counseling,
since monies obtained would be negligible,
the nature of the service would be altered,
and such a charge might lead to more
students seeing counselors for longer periods of time, reducing the counselors' free
time for shorter treatments.
Summary
Th e committee summed up its report
by emphasizing that the counseling service
"provides a fine service to the students
and is a much needed resource within the
College. The recommendations made mainly concern increased efficiency in the use
of resources and increased contact with
other parts of the College.''
There was little mention of the service's
relationship with Bryn Mawr in the report.
The decision not to consider thoroughly
-cooperation with Bryn Mawr was made by
Lyons, who organized the visit. The group's
time was limited, he said, and other concerns were thought to be more immediate.
Th e formation of the committee was
provoked both by budgetary considerations
and by the feeling that all specialized services of the school should be periodically
examined to see how they could be ruli
better, Lyons said.
Statistics
The committee's report publicized some
interesting statistics about the counseling
service. During the year 1970-71, 45% of
all Haverford students were seen by the
counseling service for an average of 3.62
sessions. This represents an "unusually
high p roportion of the student body," although th e average number of interviews
per ·s tudent "is in keeping with data provided by comparable counseling services
at other colleges."
The comm ittee was chaired by Lawrence
P ervin , dean of student affairs at Livingston College of Rutgers University. Other
members incl uded Dr. Haskell Coplin, professor of psychology at Amherst College
a nd former college counselor; Dr. Peter
Jenney, a staff psychiatrist at MIT; and
Carol Turner, administrative assistant to
the dean at Livingston College, and a
graduate student in counseling psychology.
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Page 11
Committee ·Announces Second Te'rm
Tentative H'ford Collection Schedule
By JAY McCREIGHT
A series of Haverford Collections have
been tentatively scheduled for second semester, but a final decision of the question of required Collection attendance will
not be made until later in the spring.
Chairman Stan Lacks, speaking for the
committee, remarked that the past misconception of the committee's "powerlessness' should be cleared up. "We have the
power to make decisions" he emphasized;
drafts of the committee's proposals are
submitted to President John Coleman for
consultation, "but not for clearance."
Opening Collection for the second semester will 9e held Sunday night, Jan. 16, at
8 in Roberts, with required attendance.
Speakers will be Coleman, Athletic Director Dana Swan, Students' Council President Larry Phillips, a member of the
educational {>Olicy committee, and a member of the coeducation and expansion com mittee.
Financial Issues
Among topics diScussed will be the College's financial situation, new budget proposals , and issues likely to attract Collegewide concern second semester. After Collection , a reception will be held in the dining center. "We'd like to begin the new
year together as a College, instead of
diverse groups of students, faculty and
administrators," the committee said of the
opening Collection.
The tentative schedule for second semester Collections is as follows:
Jan. 25 -- "War Games" a BBC film
on nuclear war.
Feb. 8 - - Students' Council presidential speeches.
Feb. 15 -- presentation by the music
department
Feb. 22 -- speaker on either Pakistan
or the Mid East.
Feb. 29 -- presentation of the coeducation proposal from the Board of Trustees.
March -- one · on women 's liberation,
one on the Presidential primaries and
campaign (featuring either Birch Bayh, John
Lindsay , or Art Buchwald), and one on
Haverford Receives
Large Gitt for Gest,
Student Centers
By DAVID WESSEL
"As a result of a generous gift" the
first phase of the Haverford students'
center and the Founders Annex renovation are now fully funded according to
Vice President for Development Stephen
Cary.
Cary said the gift, received Wednesday
from an anonymous donor, "will enable
us to complete the funding of what we've
called the first phase" of the students'
center. This phase includes the snack
bar, booths , dining area, and game room
in the basement of the dining center.
Cary noted that the portion of the funding which was to come from students
through Students' Council President Larry
Phillips has indicated this to Cary, he
will not count on it.
The latest gift "assures the opening
of the student center as soon as construction can be completed." The opening
may be in February, but Cary is not
certain. He pointed out that the second
phase , which includes the bookstore, mail
room, and offices for student activities,
is still not yet financed. A foundation
appeal is pending.
The gift also completes the funding of
the transformation of Founders Annex into
the Margaret Gest Center. Cary noted that
money for the renovation itself had been
received earlier but funds for carpets,
offices, and furniture had not come. This
gift provides such funds and will assure
the relocation of counseling and faculty
offices from Whitall sometime before late
spring. A gift earmarked for the destruction of Whitall has been available for
sometime, but the building will remain
until offices are provided in the Gest
Center.
Haverford and community relations.
April -- a black theatre group, the
traditional Senior Collection , a Collection
either on the economy or on law and order,
and the Senior music Collection.
Six of the Collections are fixed; the
others may be rearranged by interested
parti~s if the tentative proposals are cancelled. The committee expressed hope that
their "rejuvenation and diversification" of
the Collections would encourage greater
student attendance, and so obviate the need
for an attendance requirement.
'Expected Attendance'
Regarding the requirement, Lacks noted
that attendance at Collections is still "expected " of students, and that all should
"give the program a fair chance." During
the spring of 1972 the committee will present its requirement proposal to the student
body for consideration.
In other business, the committee added
two new members, Caroline Trela as the
new faculty wife representative, replacing
the resigned Ann Davidon and freshman
Barry Zubrow.
Appointments
(Continued from page 1)
a structure which would function like the
executive committee of the past Council
which was abolished for good reason."
Council President Larry Phillips '72
supported Hsia's proposal saying, "I think
that the question of committee nominations should be taken out of Council except for the final decision. " He believes
it would be unfair to ask the committee
to spend time considering nominees without
giving it some authority in determining
whom the appointee would be.
Majority Rule
This aspect of the proposal will probably
be decided by majority vote, under Council
rules, at this Sunday's meeting. At last
Sunday's meeting, all members present
indicated they wou ld support Hsia's recommendation . However, Smallhout claimed,
''Passage of this section of the proposal
is not a foregone conclusion at this time.
Several members of Council have expressed
second thoughts and misgivings concerning the almost unlimited perogative of
this committee in committee appointments. ''
Phillips expressed hope that the new
system, if eventually adopted, would be an
improvement. He pointed out that the responsibility and power in recommending
appointments would be shifted f.rom the
President, as it currently stands, to the
procedures committee.
The procedures committee would also
"offer advice on matters of Council internal procedure. " It would also, at the
request of the Council, ''offer advice on
matters external to Council alone."
If approved by plenary session, the new
procedure would become Article III, Section 11, Part 2 of the Constitution.
A lumni Meet Students
(Continued from page 4)
The NEWS automatically and that reunions
are often scheduled for times when few
students are on campus.
Among the issues discussed were the
honor code, which the alumni fear is dy ing, coeducation, and campus racism .
Brownell said he was "really tense " prior
to the meeting. •'Those three piece suits
· it seemed like a very strange situation . . . but once it got going it was
very relaxed." He summed up the discussion as '·fantastic. "
Hancock commented, "A lot ofthe alumni
seemed to be concerned about issues which
aren't as big now as they were a couple
of years ago -- like drugs -- but in general, 1 was pleasantly surprised at how
interested they were in a lot of important
things."
Also attending the New York meeting
were Howard Teaf,
acting director
of alumni affairs, and Charles Perry, associate director of development. The meeting was chaired by Jack Armstrong '56,
president of the Haverford Society of New
York.
Page 12
December 10, 197'\i ~
The Bryn Mawr- Haverford College News
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(Continued from page 8)
tions of its decision on coeducation that Haverford deal with the fundamental
right of equal opportunity .
Margaret Mintz
Eva Gladstein
Free Braxton ·
To the Editor:
The Friends of John Braxton Committee is a newly-formed group of approximately thirty people who have organized
for the purpose of aiding specifically John
Braxton and generally all other federal
prisoners who have been jailed because of
their stand regarding the military.
John Braxton, a member of the Society
of Friends, graduated in 1970 from
Swarthmore College where he was Student
Body President. Upon graduation, he re·fused to take any draft classification . He
believed that to accept a Conscientious
Objector classification would be unfair to
non-Quakers who could not obtain the
same. Further, Braxton believed that ac ceptance of any classification constituted
compliance with a policy of killing.
John Braxton was sentenced on December 29, 1970 by Judge Alfred J. Luongo
to two and a half years in federal prison .
Braxton has now served e leven months
and is currently in the Petersburg Youth
Reformatory in Virginia . Braxton has
been and is eligible for parole at a ny time,
according to Rule 4208 (a) (2) : He will be
coming up for parole in March, 1972.
The Friends of John Braxton Commit-
JOHN BRAXTON
tee has currently received approximately
1,100 signatures (inc luding thoseofeleven
clergy of the North Penn Ministerium
which is in Braxton's home territory) on
petitions to the United States Board of
Parole asking for early parole for John
Braxton.
According to statistics, non - compliers
with the military have one of the lowest
rates of parole from federal prisons. With
American prisons straining to rehabilitate
criminals, the morality of detaining John
Braxton and others because of their concern for human life seems indefensible.
In addition to this point, several persons
in national politics are now seeking
amnesty for all young men who have left
the country to escape military obligations.
Approximately five hundred men who
stayed home and faced penalties for non compliance with the draft are still in
prison. John Braxton is one of these five
hundred .
We, The Friends of John Braxton Committee, ask for your concern for John
Braxton and other prisoners of his status.
We implore you to exert whatever influence you can to gain for .John Braxton
and others the earliest possible release.
Thomas J. Collins
Morris Longstreth '59
The Friends of J~hn Braxton Committee
70 Shannon Road
North Wales , Pa.
Editors' Note: John Braxton was elected a
member of the Corporation of Haverford
College at the Corporation's most recent
meeting, Oct. 29.
Dam It
To the Editor:
For the past few years of our Haverford
Experience, we have had to deal with the
large bodies of water in front of Stokes
and Leeds. It is obvious to a ll that Bogart's
buildings and grounds beavers haven't been
able to dam the problem. We have a few
.af
•ugg.,tio"' (1) Dig tconohe,, (2) pmide
swinging vines (3) build a drawbridge ( 4)
purchase some ducks or (5) call a plenary
session. Thank you.
Wild Bill
Duke
Boss
She-wolf
Wolf
The Lamb
The Ralph Beebs
Ringworm
Nik
Wags
Chasbo
Joe Dube
Yacs
Moral Politics
To the Editor:
It seems that the arguments for and
against cooperation are being discussed
only on the basis of their political clout
whereas it seems to me that the question is a mora l and not a political one.
I resent the political condescension
on the part of Haverford College to B(yn
Mawr College concerning the stated issue. While it is certainly necessary that
the spectrum of views at both Colleges
be considered, the decision should be made
by Haverford alone, based on what it wants
to do. It's time for the College to cease
baiting applicants with the idea that Haverford is in any real sense coeducational
unless it is willing to undertake steps in
that direction.
The arguments for the existence and
maintenance of a women ' s college appear
cogent and realistic. However, similar
points cannot be applied to a men's college .
Concerning The NEWS
editorial of
December 3, and especially the sentence,
"As long as there is only one tenured
woman teaching at Haverford, and as long
as Haverford students, fac ulty . and administration retain sexi st attitudes towards women, coeducation cannot be considered. " I would like to point out that if
that logic were applied to blacks and minorities our experience and education
would be severely limited.
Therefore, I feel that Haverford College
should pursue a course anticipating full
coeducation in the immediate future while
seeking to improve and increase its cooperation with Bryn Mawr. They are not
mutually exclusive.
Charles Banks '74
Class Presidency
Tradition To End
AT Haverford
By TERRY PELL
With the graduation of the class of '72
will vanish the tradition of class presidents
at HaveFford, as Ken Ludwig is the la st
student to hold s uch a post at Haverford .
The claS's of ' 73 aborted an election in
their freshman year between Wendell Wylie and Jerry Anderson, feeling the office
served no important function. Wylie commented, " It never came off. We decided it
was no t necessary . ''
Neither of the succeeding classes have
elected presidents, and according to the experience of the juniors, it isn't necessary. When something needs to be done
interested individuals have steppedforward
and ass umed respon sibility, as in the case
of class plays.
It remains to be seen, however, if the
juniors can s uccessfully organize their
commencement without the benefit of a
class president. While Ludwig agreed that
prior to his junior year there wa s "normally nothing to do ,'' he has been active
recently in arranging for co;nmencement
activities.
Another function of the office which Dean
James Lyons mentioned was "c lass week end_s ..". He also recalled money raising
activities·, both to finance class activities
and the class gift. According to Ludwig,
when he assumed office two years ago, the
class had a debt, which was erased through
class movies which he organized last year.
Some juniors felt they would achieve the
same end through class dues. As to the
other organizing functions for commencement, Wylie commented , " There is a nucleus of studtmts who are interested in
such concerns. ''
By TERRY PELL
T he educational policy committee was
asked Wednesday to consider a resolution
stating that students of both Colleges should
be free to major in either College. No
decision was reached, and the topic was
put on the agenda for future discussion .
The committee also considered as "top
priority " <l proposal to convert the EIP
program to an "Academic Extension Program . " The discussion centered on whether
students should be given academic credit
for the semester spent off campus, or
whether this aspect of the program should
be .treated as a' 'term away.'' Presently credit is given for the semester as one of the
eight needed to graduate.
The committee will consider in future
sessions the topic of "alternative paths to
graduation . '' One proposal is President John
Coleman's idea to reduce the requirement
for graduation from eight academic semesters to seven, in order to encourage students
to spend a full term away from
academic work.
In other discussion , the committee considered a proposal that would create a new
Grade Change
(Continued from page 8)
schools . An A at Swarthmore, for example ,
produces a 4.0 at LSDAS; but a Haverford
student would have to get a 93 or more for
the same grade.
In other words, the committee's diS'
cussion of letter grades at these other
schools is complete ly beside the point because no such grades exist at Haverford.
This the entire logic of their suggestion
rests on the final point -- a subjective conclusion t hat only a certain percentage of
Haverford students should be receiving A's.
If the Btyn Mawr system were a dopted,
according to the committee's figures , 30.8%
of Haverford grades would be 4.0 on the
LSDAS scale. "We felt that such a step
would be unjustified," the committee's
report primly conc ludes .
So i nstead, the committee adopted a
scale which makes 6.0%ofHaverfordgrades
4.0. Aside from the fact that this percentage
is completely arbitrary , the committee
attempts to mask its action by stating, "On
this (LSDAS's) scale 15.6% of Haverford
grades
are
A' s " --failing to note that
9.6% are actually A- , worth 3.67 at LSDAS .
Cole man assured me that the committee
had actually considered the percentages of
students at the comparative school s re ceiving each grade, and that unde r the
LSDAS scale Haverford g~ades would be
approximately the same. Whether this is
three-hour time block on Monday, Wednes.
day and Friday afternoons to allow more
flexibility in the scheduling of classes
and hopefully avoid many of the conflict;
that exist now .
Class Limits
The committee also discussed the ques.
tion
of enrollment
limits for various
classes , hoping to avoid having to rule on
each new limitation . The committee feared
creating "a whole new class of routine
decisions. " Further noting that "all prev.
iously set limits are not subject to the
test of educational value," the committee is
considering the possible pattern of alloting
each department "a certain number oflim.
ited enrollment courses" based on the
number of students enrolled. "The departments themselves could then decide how to
use these."
Majors
The committee also considered a proposed set of criteria for non - departmental
majors . The discussion centered on the
question of whether any set of criteria would 1!
''strengthen or merely prevent formation of
new programs ," although the committee
noted that there are "proble m s with these
programs , and it is desirable to strengthen
them." One of the considerations discussed
was the possibility of re leasing faculty time
for these projects, as otherwise they "settle
to the bottom of the faculty priority list. "
No decision was ~ac h e d as to whether or
not the committee wishes to a dopt these
criteria as policy.
The Trial
"The Trial of t he Catonsville Nine"
will be performed Sunday night at 8 in
Goodhart. The play, sponsored by Political Alliance, is free . It is the story of
Berrigan brothers trial for burning draft
records in the Baltimore suburb.
true or not, the committee makes no mention of it in the report; we must conclude
that the faculty acted without noticing that
the committee's comparisons did not really
support its reasoning at a ll.
Aside from the committee's arbitrary
conclusion, its makeup was rather question·
able. Porter and Green are two of the
stricter grade and order men on campus.
Why was Green, obviously a strong parti·
san on the issue, appointed to the committee at all? It seems to me that the com mittee's preconceptions militate as much as
its faulty logic against the acceptance of
its conclusions,
_
There may i ndeed be good reasons for
using the LSDAS scale , although the committee obviously di dn 't hit upon many of
them. Even if it ha d, the importance of
the issue would seem to suggest that stu·
dents , who will be adversely affected b)
it, should have been given some notice
of the issue's existenc e and some chance
to express their views on it. If the com·
mittee wanted to deal in percentages (a
questionable educational practice at any
rate), couldn't it at least have seen its
way to conceding" that 10% or more of Hav·
erford grades are worth 4.0?
It may be too late for many seniors'
law school c hances, but juniors and others
still ha ve the opportunity to buttonhole
thei r favorite professor and ask him if
he had any idea what he was voting for
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tanguage
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
Committee
(Continued from page 1 6)
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we decide to .drop the language reqmre-
ent we must do other things to strengthen
m
'
language
departments here at Haverf ord"
.
Three briefs were presented to · Clay
by Richard Silberman, Prof. Douglas Heath
nd Bill Loughrey on the question of the
acquirement. Silberman reiterated pastar~ments of the educational policy committee against the requirement. Heath
feared that the present or stricter reI quirements would restrict the applicant
1 pool of high school students available to
the College and Loughrey presented a
lZ-page thesis on the topic .
Director of Admissions William Ambler
countered Heath 's fear by stating that the
requirement could both weaken a~d
strengthen the breed of Have~ford ~pph.­
cant according to the way m which It
was presented to potential students.
Two Questions
Loughrey's position was based on two
questions : why are languages essential to
the College; and, if so, why then is there
no faculty support for the requirement.
Clay suggested perhaps "indepe~~ence."
from translations and a greater sensitivity to one' s own language " could be
the languages' virtues . In addition , he
cited several courses which required languages, and noted an earlier EPC statement stressing the necessity of language
competency in certain fields of study.
From the floor of the Collection came
a suggestion to increase the desirability
of languages while phasing out the requirement. Clay heartily agreed with the
suggestion; "it's not enjoyable for faculty
members to say, teach a co~rse in Ovid
to students whom they know are hating
every minute of it," he remarked. Richard
Steele resurrected a proposal for project
courses combing both language and human1 ities faculty in thematic courses , for example, in Greek philosophy.
The question of language competency
1 surfaced as a major point in the meeting's considerations. Prof. Robert Steifel
noted, "The study of language is basic
to the educated man's position," but only
the humanities professors seemed to
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support the position that language competency was necessary for its majors .
Dean David Potter lamented, "It's very
difficult to explain how we justify a two
year requirement by examination and a
one year requirement in the course. I'd
like it put in such a way that I could
defend it." Others spoke of high school
language instruction as being " useless "
in terms of creating competency, and asked
why there was still an admissions language
requirement when such languages were
seen as "a waste of time."
On Par With Math
Some representatives of the College's
sciences division felt that languages a nd
mathematics should be placed on a par
in terms of their relation to other courses
in their specific divisions. Prof. John
McKenna noted that throughout past College
inquiries it had been implied, but neve r
stated, that scientists should be required
to take languages. In addition, language
competency could only be gained through
two years of study, whereas mathematical
knowledge s ufficient for the sciences could
be gained in one or two semesters. Logically enough, the question of Bryn Mawr's
system of replacing mathematics for a
language requirement was raised, but the
analogy was found to be false due to Bryn
Mawr's double language requirement.
"Haverford has a schizoid personality:
if we are a libera l arts college, are we
a technical pragmatic school?" posedSteifel. He stressed the lack of definition of
Haverford's present identity in terms of
its classic past as leading to such dilemmas
as the language question raised. "The
language requirement it totally unexplainable in terms of Haverford's present phil osophy," Steifel concluded.
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Determined Desire
By JON RALPH
With two weeks of intramural basketball activity gone, the rims that flock
to the games already have a good premonition on how their favorites will fare
in the season. By next issue, Gubby
Csordas should have that computer programmed and ready to spew out all sorts
of statistics for the trivia-minded .
For now , this reporter is forced to
rely on subjective information and hear say in commenting upon the performance
of the twenty teams in the National and
American leagues .
Senior B could beat anybody on a given
day a nd given the refs. Wild Bill Csordas,
and Krause form a hard-nosed trio that
becomes a potent treat when joined by
' hack' Finley.
Senior E
Senior E is quarterbacked by the irrepressible Parham with his sidekicks
Baruffi and Garton. With the kind of passing
these three do, however, Griffin, Keels,
and Baird better go for themselves.
The Junior D color squad relies mostly
on Nelson and Jack. Irby also helps carry
the burden . Wendell Wylie is the burden
that Junior D will have to carry.
Soph C has shown great potential in
the opening weeks. Segall, Ferrell Schutzman, Newberger are just learning to play
together, though, 11nd show it every now
and then. They will probably lose to some
of those experienced Senior and Junior
squads that have lived, eaten, and bedded together for years.
Which brings us to the American League.
American league play has improved steadily over the last few years with this season
a l ready showing some fine teams in action.
Freshmen
Frosh B has shown tremendous potential
on the floor. Hackett, Quinlan, Krol , Levit
and in fact all the rest of the squad al ready have shown som e junior team s the
raw end. Other frosh teams may take a
little longer to blossom, though we hope
it will be before spring.
Junior E with Lentz, Norris , Schfieling, and Irving will be hard to beat ~hen
they jell. If they do, they should be given
the cha nce against some teams from the
National league.
Soph E, the JV reject bunch ,· stars Hubbard, Lacks , Shiel and Levy. They guarantee
a cliff hanger to a":Y team willing to face
a tenacious defense .
The rest of the American league will
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the rest of the half, Pledger made seve ral
defensive gems to prevent Stevens from
coming closer than five points. O' Neill
sealed the game with four assists in the
last three minutes.
Effort Uninspiring
While there were occasional bursts of
good play , the Fords ' team effort was generally uninspiring. Terry Pledger's fine
play was marred somewhat by the fa ct that
Stevens is perhaps the smallest team that
Haverford will play this year. While the
back court was excellent when it played
together, there were times when teamwork deteriorated and it was each man for
himself. Perhaps this was due to the poor
quality of the competition. Whatever the
case, the team should go into the second
semester with three wins, more than it won
all last year.
Lebanon Loss
In a game played Saturday night at Leb anon Valley, the Fords were downed, 9849. The Flying Dutchmen took an early
lead as 21-year-old freshman Bill Ammons put in 13 of the first 16 points , and
Lebanon Valley kept the lead from then
on. Leban~n's stature and extent of depth
all over the court overwhelmed the Fords ,
and the influence of Doug Johnson, 4th leading rebounder in the MAC, did not aid the
Haverford cause.
Coach Tony Zanin , speaking after the
game , commented philosophically , "We just
had a bad shooting night. It' s the same
thing that could happen to any team. If
we had been playing well, we could have
come within ten or fifteen points of them ."
BOX SCORE
Haverford
F .G. F.T.
O'Neill
4- 7 1· 2
Pledger
9-19 2 · 3
Morton
5·11
3-8
Ray
7-17 4-4
Oegraphenreed
7-19 1- 1
Sedwitz
1· 1 0· 0
Mueller
o- 1 o- o
Shotzbarger
2- 6 o- 1
Total
35-81 11-19
43.2% 57%
Stevens
Cress
Keltos
Mcinerny
Gemgani
Morris
Stalgaitis
Ketterer
Total
F.G.
10
2
4
4
4
1
4
29
F.T.
'3- 5
2· 2
4· 5
2· 2
1· 2
0· 0
3· 3
15·19
Reb.
Total
4
18
5
8
3
1
9
20
13
18
15
2
0
4
81
1
3
43
Total
23
6
12
10
9
2
11
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when meekly, when m eekly i battle
them .
now , doomed, we daily .
' raging) answer all them :
we need one more a - minus,
we need one more a - minus,
we need one more a - minus,
ad na useam.
owlleluia,
applebee
wrote
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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
December 10, 197l
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Haverford Forfeits MAC Basketball Eligibility In '1.6 Rule' Hassle
By STAN LACKS
In a de cision , which Athletic Director Dana Swan called "one of the toughest of my life , "
Haverford College on Wednesday officially withdrew from the MAC southern division
basketball league competition for the remainder of the season . The measure was taken
because Haverford ' s refusal to sign the NCAA" 1.6 eligibility rule" would have prevented
the southern division from receiving automatic qualification for the NCAA college division
championship round . Every other college in the conference has compli ed with the ruling .
The "1.6 rule" (see headline) stipulates .
that students not "predicting a 1.6 average" on its overall record and on every team's
either their senior year at high school or conference record. However, no game the
while in college should not be allowed to Fords partake in will count in the conferplay or practice with an intercollegiate ence standings and Haverford will most
team. As Swan described it, the rule "was likely appear with an asterisk indicating
originally designed to keep the bums out of ineligibility. Individual accomplishments
athletics and to establish a national aca- may not be affected, although this has yet
demic minimum using national no rms.'' to be clarified.
Not New
If students "below 1.6" do· play on interHaverford's objection to this rule is not a
collegiate teams, the institution is declared
not in compliance with the 1.6 legislation . new phenomena. The college consistently
opposed the "1.6 " ' legislation since it was
and is barred from NCAA tournament competition. The college must also agree not to adopted by the NCAA on January 13, 1965.
give financial aid in any way based on ath- On April 26, 1966, then Athletic Director
letic ability or participation. A high school Roy Randall put us on record as support"1.600 prediction" is computed by aver- ing Princeton University's President Goaging either SAT or ACT scores with either heen, who spoke for the Ivy League in
strongly disagreeing with the legislation.
class rank or grade point score.
Withdrawing from the league will not in Haverford Presidents Hugh Borton and John
any way affect the rema~ning schedule . Coleman have frequently written to the
Every game Haverford plays will count NCAA expressing our fundamental oppo,'
.· ·SPORTS ·
The future is fixed; it is only the past that changes -Contemporary Russian slogan.
Six Athletes Feted at Alumni Dinner;
Ambler Awarded Varsity Club Trophy
By STAN LACKS
Director of Admission s William Ambler
received the coveted Alumni Varsity Club
Award last evening at the Club ' s annual
fa ll dinner , held for the first time on campus in the Bryn Mawr room . Six other fall
athletes were honored at the event attended
by 100 athletes, fathers-, and coaches, guests
of the Alumni Varsity Club .
Delaware Blanks
H'ford Wrestlers
46-0, For Record
T he Haverford wres tling team was
soundly de feated in thei r meet with Dela wa r e on Saturday . 46 - 0. Th e Hens , 8- 5
las t year , se t a tea m point re cord and
pinned seven out of ten oppone nts , also a
reco r d. Roy Lunch regis tered the fastes t pin over J ohn We rne r in 1:56 . Ha verford us ua lly plays against Delaware in the
first ma tch of the season and ha s not defeated the Hens in recent years.
The Ford wrestlers travel to Muhlenbe rg on Saturday to tangle with a re vamped Mules squad. Despite the return of
only three lettermen , new coach John S.
Biddiscombe expressed confidence for the
season due to an aggressive crop of freshmen contending for a spot in every weight
class. Inexperience nonetheless , the Mules ,
Biddiscombe believed , would present a good
match for the Fords .
118 - Schmitt, 0, pinned Gold 3 :42. 126 Thorne s, D, won by forfeit . 134 - Buckworth
D, pinned Koshland 3:42. 142 - Lane, o, pinned
Scott 5:49. 150 - Carter, 0, pinned Danner
7 : 20. 158 - Martin, D, dec. Hines 10·1. 167 - R.
Mulhern, D, dec. Duttrel 16·3. 177 - Chambers
D, pinned Zubrow 6:40. 190 - Lynch, D, pinned
~~;.er 1:56. Unl.- Shetzler, D, pinned Williams
Archery Record
Ann Stockho '74 set a new scholastic
archery round record for Bryn Mawr
on Oct. 27 with a score of 382. The
previous record of 374 was held by Amy
Rosenberg '73. A scholastic round consists of 24 arrows shot at 40 yards and
24 shot at 30 yards. A perfect score
is 432, with straight bullseyes.
Defensive back Bruce Ga rton was there cipient of the Wright Trophy, awarded each
year to a member of the Haverford and
Swarthmore squad for their performance
in The Game. According to head coach
Dana Swan , Garton "made the big defensive plays when they counted." Besides
intercepting two passes and knocking another down in the end zone , Garton ' s last
minute run which scored the two point con version became the margin of difference
in Haverford ' s 22-21 victory .
The Magills Awa r d this year went to defensive linema n Ted Williams, " The player
on the _s qua d who be s t exemplifies dedication to footb a ll in the highe s t tradition of
sportsmanship . "
" He has done a great
job at Ha verford in a number of ways and
only part of it s how s up in his football ,"
Swa n noted. " Ted neve r played football
be for e he cam e here a nd the second game
he dressed fo r he sta rted. Even though he
was a way a ll las t yea r , he esta blished him s e lf this sea son a s a team leader . "
Defens ive ta ckle Gaeton Zorzi was named
Outsta nding Line ma n of the Year . Zorzi
was vicious , a veraging about 15 tackles per
game and Swan thinks he was best in the
conferenc e .
The Mos t Improved Player Award was
shared by defensive guard Wendell Wylie
and center Rich Cushman. Wylie, who en tered Haverford at 16 years old and 275
lbs ., has not made steady progress his three
years on the team. But an injury to Gary
Gasper gave him a break and he responded
well. Swan cited Cushman's steady and re liable play in the middle as compared to
last season.
First team All Conference fullback Doug
Wendell won the Haverford College Soccer
Trophy . This award is given by the Haverford Club to the player contributing most
through his play and sportsmanship to the
success of the season.
Sheppard Recalled
The six dollar roast beef buffet meal
was preceeded by a moment of silence
for Bill Sheppard . In addition to the awards
all the letter winners were introduced b;
the coaches of the varsity squads. Zorzi
and split end Doug Nichols will be football
captains for next year, while George Till
and Mike Ferrell will serve as co - cap tains.
(b) A m ember institution shall not be eligible to enter a team or individual
competitors in an NCAA-sponsored meet, unless the institution ...
( 1) Limits its scholarship or grant-in-aid awards (for which the recipient's
athletic ability is considered in any degree) and eligibility for
participation in athletics or in organized athletic practice sessions
during the first year in residence to student athletes who have
predicted minimum grade point average of at least 1. 600 (based 011 a ~
maximum of 4.000) as determined by the Association's national I
experience tables ...
(2) Limits its subsequent scholarship and grant-in-aid awards and
eligibility for competition in varsity intercollegiate athletics to
student-athletes who have grade joint average, either accumulative or
for the previous academic year, of at least 1. 600 ...
sition to the legislation.
Basically, the administrators object to the
NCAA dictating educational policy. They
also see a double standard for students if
enforced ; as some freshmen would be able
to participate in the full range of activities offered and others would not. "An
institution should be able to set its own
eligibility requirements that depend on the
objective s of the institution," remarked
Director of Admissions William Ambler
Principles
·
Having clung to this principle, anyone
admitte d to Haverford who has met the NCAA
and league eligibility rules as to full.
time s tatus and total years of competition has been allowed to play on intercollegiate teams.
1
"We frankly do not know whether or not
(Continued on page t5)
Fords Outshoot Stevens, 81-73;
Pledger Sparks Sco_ring, Defense
By BILL LOUGHERY
In the first home game of the s e ason ,
Haverford ' s var sity basketball tea m broke
open a c lose game with thirteen quick
points ear ly in the second half on their way
to a nondesc ript 81 - 73victoryoverStevens .
The Fords' blitz came after a sluggi s h
first ha lf in which they were plag ued by
foul t r ouble and inconsistency .
Terry Pledger led the Fords with 18
rebounds and 20 points , including a nine for
19 performance from the field . He also
played a fine game on defense, persistently
intimidating Ste vens ' players and blocking numerous shots. Ball-hawking Percy
Morton, who led a tough Haverford press
that bothered Stevens most of the night,
scored 13 points and made seve-ral important steals. Chico Ray and Bill DeGraph enreed , who scored all of his 15 points
in the second half, both turned in good shooting performances .
Take Lead
Tom Cress sparked Stevens ea rly in
the gam e , scoring their fir s t 13 points a nd
givi ng the m a 10-2 lead a t one point.
Ha verford cam e ba ck on four ba s kets by
Chico Ray a nd led 15 - 14. However , with
a little over ten minute s gone in the ha lf
three of the F ords' s tarting five were s lap ~
pe d almost si m ulta neou s ly with th eir third
foul s . Reserves Marc Sedwitz , Geo rge
Shotz bat·ger a nd J ohn Mue lle r filled in we ll
a nd extende d the lead to 38- 34 at ha lf.
Shortly after i nter m ission , Billy O 'Neill
s co red on a driving lay -up , Pl e dge r on a
rebound s hot , DeG r aphenre ed on a jumpe r
and Morton o n a _lay- up off a s t e al to give
Haverford a 46- 36 lead . Following a basket
by Stevens, Ray hit two jumpers and Degraph e n r eed and Morton added a basket
a piece to extend the lead to 53-38. During
(Continued on page 13)
··photo by Tom 8111
Haverford forward Bill DeGraphenreed
angles a corner shot in second half of FOld
victory over Stevens.
Coleman Statement on '1.6 Rule'
" ki fdind iht deplo_rable that the members of the Haverford basketbali team who have
wor e so ard this fall
d · t
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for the Middle Atl t " an wm er , should be penalized and prevented from compe~
pute with the NCA~n ~~Conference Southern College Division title because of our dis·
th e sma ll er colleges· . ey deserved better than this -- and so does athletics throughout
'' Though I believe we are
l 'd
6
legislation
on so I ground in our refusal to comply with the l.
we had to ' wef were ready to accept e_xclusion from NCAA tournament play as the price
"
pay or a stand taken on prmciple.
.
However ' . for the NCAA an d th e MAC to enter mto
·
· has the
an agreement whtch
e ff..ect of forcmg
us to withd raw f rom conference play is in my mind unconsctonabe.
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1 am disappomted that th
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have academic sta d d
e 0 er members of the Southern Division, many of whom
with the 1 6 1 . 1 t~ ar s and policies comparable to ours , have complied so readily
· egis a wn and have so far sh
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against legislation which s
. own no _mtentwn of supporting us in~ strugg e
leges.
eems so rnappropnate for small , selective, pnvate col·
"I will be writing to the pr 'd t
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will help us in this m tt
· esl. e_n s of a_ll Southeren Division schools to ask if the)
in any negotiations hea er · In addibo~, I Will support Diector of Athletics Dana Swan
officials.
can carry on With fellow athletic directors, and MAC and NCAA
' 'Due to the timing of this e ,
withdraw from basketball
Y ar _s. controversy, we felt we ha d no other course but_to
automatic qualifying berthco~ptbtwn and thus allow the Southern Division to have Its I
feel the MAC must
· u . we do not expect to withdraw next year. Instead, we
come to gnps with th · ·
ot
penalize schools like H
f
Is Issue and solve it in a way that does n 1
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aver ord which find th NC
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nd
an unwarranted interferen
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AA legislation dtscnmmatory a
ce WI mternal academic policy.' '
December 10, 1971
The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
NCAA Eligibility Rule
(Continu ed from page 14)
there are students at the college whose
records here or whose predictive indexes
would make them ineligible under the NCAA
rules ," admitted assistant to the President, Greg Kannerstein. "But we are sure
that we will continue to admit students
who do not predict a 1.6 average if we
feel they can contribute a great deal from
Haverford College, and we certainly will
I not stop any Haverford student from play1 ing on an intercollegiate team." Ambler
added that "any time you take a stand on
a matter of principle, you must take the
consequences that go along with it".
Not much was made of Haverford 's stand
in the past as it did not affect a nyone but
' the college . This summer \howe ver, a new
development took place . The Southern College Division of the Middle Atlantic Conference, to which Haverford belongs, negotiated an agreement with the NCAA which
assured it an automatic qualification berth
in the NCAA College Division national
basketball tournament. In return , the MAC
agreed that all ~membe r schools competing in basketball would be in compliance
with the "1. 6 rule".
Previously, Haverford, Lebanon Valley,
and Ursinus had not been in compliance.
However, the two othe r schools agreed
to sign this fall. Thus , Haverford would be
singly preventing the Southern Division
from having an automatic qualifier in the
INCAA tourney if it continued to compete
Iin the conference.
Three Alternatives
Haverford protested against this arrangement and appealed the status to the NCAA.
By December 7 when it was c lear that
no appeal had a chance of success , Swan
and the administration were faced with
three equally unpleasant alternatives . They
could have signed and agreed to live by
tbe rule, even "tongue in cheek" as it
appears many universities do. However,
both Swan and the administration felt that
to do so would not be in the spirit of pon esty that Haverford purports to uphold.
A second route would have been to ig nore the wishe,s of the conference and
tberefore forfeit the automatic qualifier
in the NCAA tourney. Swan considered this
alternative but felt that again that it was
not morally right to deprive others of their
wishes for a principle which we unilaterally stood for .
Therefore , Swan took the third path and
I withdrew from the conference, clearing the
way for the automatic qualifier. " We do
not have the right to ask others to share
tbe consequences ," Swan determined. "We
took this step so people could play, not
so they could necessarily win a championship. "
Continue Protest
Haverford will continue to protest against
the 1.6 le~slation and the MAC ' s arrange ment with the NCAA. Swan made it clear
that Haverford was only prepared to remain
out this year with the hope that the conference would reevaluate its decision . " We
can ' t stay out of the league forever, especially if this spreads to other sports'' .
Haverford's basketball team was notified yesterday of the final outcome. Coach
Tony Zanin has been unhappy with the entire incident all along and according to
Swan "sided with his kids in the desire
to continue in league competition. He has
I
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DANA SWAN
alot of pride in his players and doesn't
want to see their season hurt in any way. "
Statements
President Coleman issued a statement
on Wednesday which deplored the situation
Haverford was forced into. (see below)
Kannerstein saw the root of the problem
with the NCAA attitude to collegiate athletics:
"It's incredibly short- sighted of the
NCAA to insist on administering policies
without making any distinctions between the
kinds of colleges and universities it serves .
I believe the day is coming when small
selective private colleges and perhaps even
academically superior larger institutions
will no longer realize enough benefits
from NCAA membership to make them want
to stay in the organization.
"The 1.6 legislation may ha ve been
adopted in good faith to curb recruiting
abuses . But it seems clea r now that it has
no significant effect in that area , and has
only served to penalize unfairly several
institutions and individuals. The legislation
should be repealed. ''
So, the MAC will now be eligible for its
national tournament, the NCAA ha s again
succeeded in imposing its standards on a
small college , and the Haverford satellite
has been averaged out of orbit with an
ample supply of life saving asterisks.
Another Red Wave crusade for "moral
integrity in keeping with Haverford's Quaker traditions" has begun.
Page 15
H1ord Fencers Sliced, 15-12;
Epees, Foils, Sabres Too Dull
By JOE SEILER
Well , what can one say? Everyone expected the Haverford fencing team to lose .
I mean it' s almost a college tradition.
Well , for a change the team was not
convinced that the end was inevitable.
But they lost anyway.
It was close, 15-12, but it was still
a loss like so many the team has seen.
There are a lot of reasons. Only two
days before, the team was notified that
the event would be at Drew, not Haverford. It seemed that their coach "couldn't
make it."
On Time
For once the team actually arrivedahead
of time at an away meet, a great s urprise to Drew. Drew was already preoccupied with a protest at the Presidents'
House over the suspension of three students
for the possession of heroin in their rooms.
One student told me that it was an "exciting"
night as Drew nights go .
Then the meet began. And the sabre
team dropped the first three bouts . But
it was not yet the end. Drew ' s first sabre
won the MAC sabre title last year and
their second sabre is known to be strong.
Veterans Bill Mock and Chris Cline are
capable but were no match in their first
match for the Drew fencers. Freshman
John Carp shows "real promise," but
his loss was not a surprise.
Still, by the end of the first round
the score was only 4-5 Drew. Epee and
foil had come on strongly with fencers
Peter Scheffler, Jeff Fluck, Glenn Johnston , and Roger. Cbin winning their bouts .
Joe Seiler and Bob Bryan's losses how ever , gave the lead to Drew.
Sabre Cline won one bout in the following round , and epees Scheffler and
Fluck , and foil Chin kept Haverford in the
race . Other losses gave Drew a 2 point
edge 10-8 at the beginning of the third
r ound. Still it was not the end for the
Fords.
Sabre Loss
Sabre team lost two in the final round ,
one of which was a disputed decision .
Mock won easily , but a 5-4 decision against
Cline came from conflicting observations.
As epee and foil took the strips Drew
lead 12-9 . The team still could have won .
Trouble
Johnston won his last bout quickly, but
from then on there was trouble. Scheffler
lost to a clearly inferior fencer through
cheap touches . As time ran out Scheffler
won a touch , but the judge ruled that it
came after the end. Maybe, maybe not.
Then Chin lost a 4-2 lead to give Drew
the victory. Epee fencer Fluck also then
lost to a fencer below his quality , giving
Drew a 15-10 margin.(Epee fencer Seiler
at this time decided that he would fence ,
seriously, and won easily but it was a
bit late .) Rookie Ed Betz came back from
a loss in the previous round to give Haverford the final match ending the meet
15-12, Drew.
So where did Haverford go wrong? There
are no reasonable excuses because the
team should have won. Sabre, although
fencing a good team, should not have lost
so completely. Both the foil and epee teams
··won" 5-4. But where foil should have
lost at most 2 bouts, epee should have
lost none. They lost on silly, stupid mistakes that Haverford fencers always seem
to make .
Finally, although a poor and unnecessary
loss it is clearly in the past and there
is some reason to believe that the Ford
fencers can change their evil ways. No
promises or predictions, but if the fencers
fence as they are capable of they just
might have the first winning season in
a very long time.
Things were not rushing along as planned .
Due to a complete failure of Drew's foil
equipment, Johnson's first bout was delayed
for fifteen minutes at a point where he
was leading 4-0. Epee was contending with
timers who called halt ·at least once a
bout as their clock momentarily died. It
seemed hilarious to Drew, but the Fords
missed the fun.
This Week In Sports
BRYN MAWR
Basketball: vs. Lincoln, Tuesday , 7
p.m. (home)
HAVERFORD
Basketball: vs . Eastern Baptist, Saturday , 8:30p.m. (home)
Wrestling: at Muhlenberg, Saturday ,
2 p.m.
COMMUNITY
Saturday: BIG FIVE basketball at the
Palestra: LaSalle vs. Tulsa , 7 p.m.
St. Joseph ' s vs . Providence, 9 p .m.
PROFESSIONAL
Eagles football: vs. St. Louis, Sunday,
1 p.m. (home)
76'ers basketball:
vs . Cincinnati, tonight, 9 p .m .
(Harlem Globetrotters , 7 p.m.)
at Detroit, 8 p .m . Saturday (ch. 48)
at Buffalo, Tuesday, 7:30p.m . (ch. 48)
Flyers' Hockey: at Detroit, Saturday ,
7:30 p .m. (ch . 29)
7 p.m .
vs . Buffalo , Thursday,
(Spectrum)
--photos by Tom Bell
The best offense is a tough defense- Haverford center Terry Pledger, in this series of defensive gems, displays the style that consistently intimidated
Stevens players who challenged the Fords' version of the 'Big Dipper.'
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The Bryn Mawr-Haverford College News
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December 10, 197l
Visiting Committee Praises Haverford Counseling Serv.ice;
Recommends Advisory Council, Increased Faculty Comtact
By D'VERA COHN
"In general, the Counseling Service is
meeting, to a remarkable degree, its stated
objectives . _. The Counseling Service is
attuned to the needs of Haverford and responds to them with methods that by and
large are appropriate to the Haverford
situation."
So stated the report of a visiting committee examining the Haverford counseling
office. The committee spent two days on
campus at the end of October , meeting
with students, faculty and administration.
Although the committee praised the work
of the service, it made several recommendations for improvement in use of resources, and the · relationship between
counselors and students, faculty, and the
administration. It prefaced these recommendations with general comments on the
objectives of the service, and on its present
functions.
Wofford Responds to Coleman
On Coed Committee Ideas
By CATHY DAVIDSON
Bryn Mawr President Harris Wofford
sent a letter to Haverford President John
Coleman last week, on the preliminary
ideas presented by the committee on coeducation and expansion at Haverford. The
"preliminary point," he said "is the present reality and the future prospects of a
unique two- college community.'' Even the current level of cooperation
between the colleges "makes it inaccurate
for either undergraduate college to be considered a single - sex institution," Wofford
said.
The Most Promise
Successful cooperation seems to offer
the most promise for both schools, according to the letter. '' This course seems to me
much more interesting than the conventional
form of coe"ducation that involves a minority of women in a predominantly male
Cou·ncil Tightens
Budget Procedures
Bryn Mawr students living at Haverford
" who have not paid their dues will be sent
back to Bryn Mawr by order of the Dean
of Students,'' says a Students ' Council
resolution for new procedures for the
Haverford Council Treasurer.
This threat arose from difficulties the
Council has had in collecting Council dues
and art series fees from exchangees. "In
the future, the College shall bill Bryn
Mawr exchangees" for these items.
David Hsia, author of the procedures
and Treasurer Karen Spiecher also informed Council Sunday that certain dorm
damages are charged to students through
Council. Fees include $25 for each false
fire alarm and $14 for each state exit
sign .
In order to prevent future problems with
the allocation of funds, and overruns and
misuse of such funds, Council has adopted
the new procedures.
They call for one person from each
Council funded activity" to be authorized
to handle the money. Written approval
from this person will be required to obtain
any funds from Counci l. Organizations will
be notified monthly on the status of their
accounts; Council billing from the business
office monthly, rather than by semester.
The resolution continues "If you overrun
your semester's budget in November, none
of your other bills will be paid until Jan ua ry." Under certain special circumstances
this r ule may be relaxed.
The procedures state, "Council i s near
broke, which is the reason for the rigid
enforcement of the (overrun) rule . The days
of loose Council budgets and s urplus to
cove r overruns are long gone because of
inflation and a s ucces sion of short- term
Treasu re rs. ''
Hsia r eported that the student- faculty get - together fund i s frozen until next semes ter. He also reported a strange item on a
bill from the business office; it demanded payment for an upholstery job done on a
chai r las t year costing $75. Hsia said the
bill wa s paid, although no one could ac count for the r equest or the chair itself.
In othe r business , the Council at the
request of Phillips , issued a call for a
colloquia committee. That committee would
tr y to plan a series of discussions .
institution," Wofford said.
He expressed approval for the committee's recognition that admitting freshmen
women to Haverford could pose a barrier
to cooperation between the two schools .
If Haverford decided to admit these women,
he said, " from that time on we would be in
competition for a relatively small pool of
possible students," and the women students
at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford might
"find themselves in an unhappy competition.''
Wofford extended the arguments against
freshmen women at Haverford to the proposal that upperclassmen women be admitted as transfers, a lthough, "if the number
of transfer women is very s mall , " he
noted, " the effect on cooperation will, of
course, be less." On the other hand, " if
the numbers are small, I do not see the
gains , from your point of view." he said.
Transfer Problem
Admitting even small numbers of trans fer s would ''set up two very distinct classes
of women at Haverford," he said. Some of
the difficulties with this kind of situation
came out when Haverford participated in an
exchange program with several women' s
colleges .
Wofford stressed his respect for Haverford's autonomy in making the decision.
"If you conclude that full coeducation as
a single college, with s ubstantial numbers
of your own women students , is the best
choice for you, then you should go that
way," he said.
The committee separated the proper
functions of a counseling service into three
areas: therapy, prevention, and education.
Therapy includes counseling sessions; prevention includes discussions of " the nonproductive stresses within the college and
the kinds of institutional changes that will
result on fewer crises and greater growth
and development. " The committee defined
education as informal meetings with the
various segments of the community to talk
a bout the institutions and students ' development within it.
" I think that we handle the therapy sec tion p retty well , '' commented Jane Widseth
who, with director Jam es Vaughan a nd
psy chiatrist Peter Bennett, counsels stu dents at Haverford. " What they're saying
is that we don ' t handle the prevention and
J erry Rubin, shown here in a picture taken
sometime before he showed up at a HUAC
meeting dressed as Sant a Claus, will ap pear
live and in concert tomorrow night at 8 in
Go odh a rt
Common
Room .
T he
presentation, sponsored by Alliance, may
feature a guest appearance by Main Line
Chronicle Publisher Bernard ' Uncle Ben '
Krame r.
Language Requirement Reconsidered;
Need for Defination of Liberal Arts· Ed.
By JAY McCREIGHT
Haverford must define its need for
languages if it wishes to keep them1 according to the ad hoc languages committee.
The committee is currently involved
in a running dialogue concerning the language requirement and its relation to the
college's liberal arts tradition.
Part of this dialogue surfaced Tuesday
at a meeting held in Sharpless Auditorium and sponsored by the languages com mittee in order to air the differing views .
In an interview prior to the Collection,
President John Coleman conceded that the
present requirement "hasn' t wor ked
terribly well . We haven't taken the other
steps that were assumed when we originally made the proposal." A lack of
integration with the over all College program and philosophy were the causes to
which Coleman attributed his dissatisfaction. " I could easily be persuaded to go
in either direction - - to increase the requirement or abolis h it entirely," s ta ted
Coleman. "But I don't think we wa nt any thing that smacks of a nuisance require ment. ''
Five Alternatives
The committee prepared a memo to the
students prior to the meeting, listing five
alternatives with regard to languages: main~ining the present requirement; a bolish ing the requirement; allowing the various
divisions or departments to set up their
own r equirements but dropping the Col lege - wide requirement; returning to the
two year requirement; or recommending a
proficiency in one language as determined
by examination or one year (or semester)
or work in a language at an intermediate
level.
Prof. Diskin Clay , chairman of the committee, stressed a pragmatic approach:
"The more we look into languages, the
more we discover that p roposals have been
made and not carried out. We intend to
carry ours out.' • He was leery of the
consequences of dropping altogether the
language requirement, fearing economic
repercussions for language faculty in a
tight- budgeted college. Clay stressed, "If
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education sections as well as we could."
Student Trust
The committee praised the trust among
students gene r ated by the counseling service. "For many students, it is the onh
p lace that they can attempt to come t~
grips with their loneliness and isolation·
for many students it is the only place that
th ey can get help in integrating the intellectual and emotional, cognitive and affective parts of thei r lives . .. Tlfe service
has wide acceptance among students and
is viewed as a place that they can go to
and talk in a n open, frank, trusting man.
ner ,'' the committee report stated.
Recommendations
Three recommendations concerning use
of resources were made by the committee.
First, the results of MMPI tests, given to
freshmen each year, should be for the exclusive use of the counseling staff. According to Widseth, the committee felt that
too much time has been spent on individual
interviews. T he counselors this year are
holding 15-student discussions of the test
to save time.
The committee also felt that conscientious
objection advice and other draft information
should not be p rovided by counselors, but
by other administrators or by trained
students. Psychological issues relevant to
draft decisions should be a counseling
concern, however.
The third committee suggestion concerned staff ho urs. Staff members should
make clear their office hours, and should
question whether ' 'emergency situations"
mus t be dealt with immediately.
Faculty Contact
Several of th e most innovative suggestions concerne d the counseling service's
relationship with the faculty. The report
proposed orientation sessions for new
faculty, discussion groups on specific issues
with interested fac ulty members, and informal meetings with faculty members. A
counseling service a dvisory committee,
compo ~e d of fac ulty and students, shouldbe
created to ass ure a cont.i nuing link between counselors and these two groups.
One specific function of such a committee
might be to suggest areas of r esearch lobe
undertaken by counselors.
" We have been thinking of discussion
groups for faculty, " Widseth said. "A
faculty- student advisory committee is under
consideration" by both the counseling service and dea n of students James Lyons.
" We would like to meet with faculty to
understand how we could be useful to them
in helping them work with students," she
commented.
The report did s how that " we should be
proportioning our time differently to work
with different sections of the community,''
Widseth continued
Administration Contact
The repo rt a lso recommends more contact with administrators. Staff members
should be made aware of the referral pro·
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Changes in BMC Xmas Dinner Unveile~
By DEEDEE BERGER
Bryn Mawr's annual Yuleti de dinner
will be Wed., Dec. 15 . Several alterations
in the us ua l holiday festivities have been
made because of the new dining system
this year, according to Kathi Atkinson
SGA President.
'
Formerly , each dorm had a s h rimp
cocktail _ hour , fo llowed by a huge, s it down dmner with Haverfordians serving
as waiters. This year, a fancy dinner
will be served in the four dining halls,
Hanukkah
The Jewish Students Union will hold a
Hanukkah party Sunday afternoon at 4: 15 .
The party will be held in the common
room of Founders Hall.
Students , faculty, and their families
are invited to attend. Bryn Mawr students
s hould contact Terri Berman, Pem East
for information a bout transportation .
Come eat, drink, talk, and dance .
and each dorm will sponsor a cocktail
hour du ring the evening. Faculty members will be invited as before to the
various dorm parties . Because there is
not the limited seating problem as there
was in the smalle r dining halls, this year
frie nds may also be invited to the parties.
Although later in the evening, the cock·
tail hour will r emain essentially the same.
The freshmen of each dorm traditionallY
provide entertainment such as skits, and
faculty guests a r e encouraged to entertain
with a ny given combination of skits, songs.
jokes, or stories .
A similar a tmosphere to previous years
will prevail , Atkinson noted, even though
everyone will not be able to enjoy the
leisurely, more intimate dinner of years
past. She expressed the desire for people
to continue dressing up for the evening
to he lp maintain the spirit. One advantage
the ne w system might encourage, she added.
is that the coed dorms will invite someof
the Haverford faculty to join in the evenW
celebrations.