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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~\- MCQLLEGE NEWS^ VOLUME VI Number 7 ^1 FEBRUARY 8, 1984 Three candidates vie Angela Davis speaks at forSGA presidency racism, gender conference by Kris Anderson class president and is currently Traditions by Sheryl Statland Three candidates are vying for the posi- Mistress. She was president of her high tion of Self-Government Association (SGA) school's student government and last sum- The second annual feminist sympo- President at Bryn Mawr this year, a fact mer served as a Congressional aide. Brueh- sium, which focused on American femin- which is indicative of the recent increased wiler is also active in athletics at Bryn ism, brought four feminist scholars to Ha- interest in student government here. Last Mawr. verford College to discuss race, class and year Sara Hathaway ran for and garneKed Bruehwiler is running on perhaps the gender within the feminist movement this the presidency unopposed, and several most specific "platform" of any of the three past weekend. other offices drew only one or two can- candidates. She is advocating a complete Angela Davis, currently at California restructuring of SGA into a bi-cameral State University in San Francisco and the didates. This semester, however, atten- Kristen Steiner '85. dance at and interest in Sunday night government with a House and Senate, author of Women, Race and Class, gave the similar to the United States Government. keynote address on Friday, February 3 at She believes that as long as SGA is review- dent would be eliminated. The position of 7:30 p.m. in newly finished Roberts Hall. ing and updating its Constitution already, treasurer would lose the political power it President Robert Stevens introduced Davis now is the time to examine the system and now holds and would instead be a to the near capacity crowd by relating his make major changes in order to render it committee-head position. All committee memories of the 1950s and 60s. more efficient. heads would combine to form the Senate, Davis began her address by thanking the ^ The bi-cameral government would differ while the House would be made up of dorm people who made it possible for her to from the US national system in that there presidents and other representatives. come to Haverford, and told the audience would be two presidents, a "junior" and a Bruehwiler sees the House as dealing that the money made would go to the Na- "senior" president, each elected to two- with "social/people problems" while the tional Alliance Against Racist and Political year terms, and the position of vice presi- Senate would cope with "long-range/ad- Oppression. She then noted that February ministrative problems." Asked if she fears is Black History Month and said that she fragmentation or communication dif- looks forward to the time when America ficulties under this system, Bruehwiler will not need a special month for blacks or said, "No, because the two groups would any other minority people. come together on Sunday nights at The focus of Davis' speech was the rela- Assembly." Bruehwiler said she feels the tionship between black and other racially new system would be "more efficient" and oppressed women and "middle-class" offers more "dorm-based input." white women. She argued against the '•■::■:'■:.■ .:■■'■.'' :■<■■■;■ ■* ■> ':-.'■ ■■.:''■■: i ■ Y:\ ";-■"':!■:: ':*:■:?.■ . /V:.'v'•:■*; Jenny LeSar '86 is co-president of the "American Pie" ideology where a larger sophomore class and has been on the slice for one group necessitates a smaller Maria Bruehwiler '85. budget and constitution committees. She piece for another group. Instead, Davis was also president of her student govern- used a pyramid model which had black wo- Assembly meetings has been high, and ment in high school. LeSar sees her first men on the bottom and theorized that a numerous Mawrtyrs have tossed their hats priority, if elected, as finishing up the work black women's victory moved all women into the ring based on the belief that they currently being done on the constitution. up, whereas a white middle-class women's have something special to offer. success necessarily left all other women The presidential candidates are Maria She likes the idea of a bi-cameral govern- ment that stresses greater dorm represent- behind since they were at the very top. Bruehwiler '85, Jenny LeSar '86, and ation and involvement, but she sees pro- Moreover, Davis connected the women's Kristen Steiner '85. Although they all bring blems inherent in the two-president struc- movement to both the nineteenth century high levels of involvement in student ture. LeSar would revise Bruehwiler's plan abolitionist and the twentieth century civil government to their candidacies, each of- rights movements. Clearly white women fers different visions of the future of SGA to eliminate the need for two presidents who are both in office for two years. became conscious of their oppression .and different solutions to its problems. from the fight for equality of black people, Maria Bruehwiler has been sophomore Jenny LeSar '86. (Continued on page 5) but the 'women's movement' has not been free from racism. Indeed, Davis noted that black women were forced to form their own suffrage movements. She parallelled Assembly debates SGA constitution the long struggle for the suffrage amend- ment with the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in terms of the need for an ap- by Laura Greene out" to the general public more effectively Further doubt was expressed that the new peal to a multi-racial, working-class base. The current SGA Constitution works than the current Assembly. structure would fragment the elements of Further, she recited the famous question of Sojoumer Truth, "Ain't IA Woman?" to il- quite well, despite its advanced age and a The Senate would be a slightly extended Assembly, causing severe problems of lustrate the point that black women's expe- few technical flaws. Nevertheless, there are version of the present Steering Committee, communication between the two bodies. elements in SGA Assembly which seek to as the heads of all the major committees Much confusing and detailed discussion rience incorporates sexism arid racism, restructure the Constitution, and have on campus would meet to discuss the pro- ensued, culminating in two votes, after and enables black women to speak for all sought the same for about seven years blems and issues specific to their commit- nearly two hours of discussion. Before con- women. now. tees. This body would be under the senior sidering the bicameral structure in detail, From this historical perspective, Davis In a rather dramatic presentation during president. Assembly voted to institutionalize some then moved onto the plight of women to- the Feb. 5 Assembly meeting, a new, if not Though this structure seems rather forum for the specific concerns of the Hall day. She gave some statistics of the Reagan administration's effect on women, who are original, structure for Assembly was radical, it is essentially the same structure, presidents in the Constituion. A "flexible" unveiled. This structure, a bicameral for- with more attention given to the concerns sense of the meeting vote was then taken, the worst hit of the poor. Davis mentioned mation, would designate a "House" and a of the dormitories. in which Assembly voted (ten to eight with the Reagan crusade against abortion, and the fact that the only woman on the Su- "Senate" under the body of an Assembly Several people at Assembly had ques- two abstentions) to work on implementing headed by a junior and senior president. tions about the feasibility of the junior and the proposed bicameral structure in a con- preme Court voted against the decision fa- This would require new constitutional defi- senior presidents structure, however. In stitution. With this, Assembly adjorned in vorable to abortion. She said, "women nitions of several key positions on the proposed structure, an elected junior various states of jubilation, despair, and don't represent women, especially those who represent Ronald Reagan," which Assembly. president would almost automatically frustration. Hopefully, a thoughtful The House would consist of hall become the senior president the following Assembly will convene again next week, to brought forth applause from the crowd. presidents, class presidents, the Haverford year. Doubts were expressed that any per- further discuss the manifold issues concer- Finally, Davis asked, "How many of you and off-campus reps, four members at- son could bear the stress and commitment ning our not-yet-late, great Constitution. (Continued on page 4) large . and the junior rep to the Board of of two years in the presidential office. Trustees, and the junior president would In addition, the structure would give the preside over this body. This assembly which would go against the avowed pur- would give these representatives a forum in pose of the revised structure to "break up which to discuss the issues specific to their the hierarchical concentration of power." constituents, and would desireably "reach "real" power in SGA to the two presidents, PAGE 2 D THE COLLEGE NEWS FEBRUARY 8,1984 Tocqueville, Tyranny & SGA TOC and me: notes from Cyprus Dear Mr. Ellis mouth pull back to show a couple of rather It's really very nice here in Cyprus. If ' sharp teeth (though how he keeps them A history class was recently discussing what Alexis de Tocqueuille, a don't come back this semester, can I still go sharp i do not know; he tends to eat the Frenchman, had to say about American government when he visited to Turkey? I am enjoying so much just K softest, mushiest catfood i can buy.. .ex this country in the early nineteenth century. He saw great individualism ing here and looking at the stars and listen- cept for raw steak—my mother feeds hirr ing to the waves coming in on the beach. that occasionally when we are home—little among the American people—the kind of individualism that "threatens The batteries for my walkman are a littl*- bits mixed in with the canned stuff which to confine man in the solitude of his own heart." For America's future, draggy or Id be listening to Al Stewart still. seems a little blue). . . I was talking about Tocqueville feared two things: the political isolation of the people due to Maybe I will just wait here for the tide to go his smile. . . . You don't want to see my ca- out and take me with it; the next stop smile. individualism run amok, and the tyranny of bureaucracy. across the sea is Egypt or Sinai or some But I changed the subject— Whether or not you feel his predictions were accurate for the entire na- such piace. What a wonderful way to travel. "For the tenth time this column, Sara I like Bryn Mawr, I really do, but I have fi- You really should be more organized." tion, it's interesting to consider them with regard to Bryn Mawr's Self- nally figured out that you are all simply try- "Go away, cat." Government and the direction it may be taking soon. ing to get rid of me. I know, you call it grad- "Why? It's your problem if I end up wan- In the past our sense of individuality and our desire for freedom—from uation, but I'm too smart to be fooled. If i dering the halls and it is against the law to never come back from here, I will have abuse an animal by starving the poor crea- any kind of restraint, and sometimes from any kind of respon- foiled your plans to disguise it all in red ture. You can't do anything about me." sibility—has kept many of us from being active participants in the self- tape and diplomas. In other words, it takes too much energy Ha ha. for him to arouse himself from the window governing process. We all want to go our own ways, and occasionally Say hello to Mrs. Ridgway and Mrs. Ellis seat to take a walk down the hall or across the "community of individuals" concept backfires. This has been tme of for me. And tell Julie she can keep the the campus. I was going to completely ig- SGA, where the best interests of the community are sometimes sub- radio. nore him for a moment while I got back Cordially, onto the original subject matter. sumed to the special interests of the different personalities who chance to Sara "That is the problem with youp-tnesis; be in office in a given year. But nearly all of us have allowed this to hap- you cannot keep control of what you "And you're going to put that in campus thought the idea was originally." pen: we've allowed ourselves to sip into political isolation, in the Real "I know very well what the original idea World as well as Bryn Mawr. If not formally involved, we have been was of my thesis and I'll bet you don't know blase. Sara E. Orel anything about bows in ancient Egypt." —1^_—_—_— "Nor do I particularly want to." The recent trend of high attendance at Assembly meetings contradicts mail?" my cat drawled, lying on his side on Aarrgghhh. this history. The wheels of the system are slowly beginning to turn: the window seat. As I was saying. . . correction. . . about Assembly can be a legitimate forum, and we can have a relatively par- "Why not? I won't have to show up for to say. I have a request. The next time you my Thursday conference then." I finished introduce me to someone, please do not in- ticipatory government. Cussed individualism hasn't died, but political in- sealing the envelope. "And I can mail him troduce me as a senior as if that was some terest (including student-nm voter registration campaigns) seems to be the chapter when I finish. It shouldn't take sort of great accomplishment. If you are more than a couple of weeks." reading this, then I presume you are more increasing. "Of course, one could always fade away than capable of doing everything I have Enter, suddenly, a new system, a proposal for a very different stmc- into one's wallpaper and never leave the done. In fact, the last thing I really think de- tixre of SGA, complete with two presidents, a House, and a Senate. Pro- room at all." served congratulations was my getting into "Oh, no; I don't want to do that. The this place. Wait till I graduate or at least un- ponents of the change suggest that the system offers greater representa- snow is finally melting a little bit and I til I come back from Cyprus to tell me con- tion of the people, through the emphasis on dorm-based representation promised some friends I would help them gratulations, "you're a senior" or, when be build a snowman before dinner." ing introduced to me, please don't say in the House. But doesn't this system actually distance individuab from "Why not a snow-woman?" "wow." the government even more, taking emphasis from participation and "Because I think they look too silly to be I know a lot of seniors like this ac- * placing it solely on representation? Doesn't it lean toward the kind of called women," I snapped, and suddenly claim. . .1 don't know, it seems to make felt a little bit bad about it. I had to stop my- me feel like I should have done something burgeoning bureaucracy that de Tocqueville foresaw? self from apologizing for the tone of voice; (or even be able to do English—feel as if. I The ultimate question is not whether the proposed stmcture is in- those apologies are reserved for parents am very bad at grammar). If you think 1 herently "good" or "bad; "it is whether Bryn Mawr needs it, and whether and friends. have done anything worthy of your "wow," "You have a geology lab to do and ask Mr. Ellis. 1 have the sneaking suspicion it would work here. Do we need it? We wonder why we should dump a French to study and German to translate that every time 1 walk out of his office he system that seems to require only minor technical tinkering—say, in the before you do that." starts to giggle uncontrollably. "I hate cats who read my assignment I don't blame him. I giggle a lot myself area of delineating Steering Committee's duties—and not a major book," I glared at him through the haze of about the whole thing. I used to be in awe of overhaul fear which has already begun to gather seniors. Things look a lot different from The dangers of the proposed structure obfuscate its value as some- around me as I think of the coming here. For me, at least. There are a lot of semester. folks in my class whom I go "wow" about, thing simply new and different. If we choose this type of government, are "I didn't read it. You were talking about too. we choosing to "confine ourselves in the solitude of our own hearts"? Are all your work on the phone last night." But they aren't the ones who run away to "Don't eavesdrop, cat. It's not polite." Cyprus when they panic. And they aren't we making the statement that we don't care to participate, that there is He graced me with one of his few ac- the ones whose thesis advisor asks them, no real workable community here, so instead we'll create a system that knowledging grins (ugly things: his eyes "How do you know I giggle uncontrollably? asks nothing of the individual? Surely the Association does not wish to squeeze tightly shut and the comers of his I thought the door was thicker than that." go that far. We have more faith in our community, ephemeral as it is, than to think that we cussed you-know-whats can't get together and work things out at Assembly. CQLLEGE NEWS

The fragmentation and factionalization inherent in the proposed Karen Sullivan Beth Leibson Kristina Anderson system will only heighten SGA's problems, not solve them. We urge all Co-Editor-in-Chief Co-Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Merion 32 Rhoads 355 645-6097 Association members to give at least a few moments of consideration to 645-5712 645-6008 the type of government you want to live with and to speak up at Assembly with questions or criticisms. We still have an open forum. It's Anne Robbins Snoozer Archer Jaquie Worth Sasha Torres Co-Sports Editor Co-Sports Editor Distribution Editor Mews Editor ours to use. Radnor Denbigh Pembroke East 58 Denbigh 301 645-5248 645-5561 645-5700 645-5600

The College hews is a Bryn Mawr publication serving the entire College com- munity. People interested in joining the staff should contact one of the edit- ors. Deadline for letters to the editor is Friday preceding publication. The Major's council seeking input College Pieius is published every other week on Wednesdays while classes are in session. First Class postage paid at Bryn Mawr, PA. Mailing address: Bryn Mawr Col- If you have had any experience, positive or negative, with lege, Rockefeller, Bryn Mawr. PA 19010. •transfer credit from a Junior Year Abroad ^ Statement of Purpose •transfer credit from summer courses or from other colleges 7he College Hews seeks to provide a forum for the students, faculty, ad- •major credit across departmental lines ministration, and staff of Bryri Mawr. While articles on topical subjects will be •credits earned from European baccaleaureate ' published, each issue will seek to examine in-depth an issue of relevance to the College community. The College News welcomes ideas and submissions please contact the Bryn Mawr Majors' Council Committee on Transfer and Academic from all members of the community, as well as from outside groups and in- Credit. We are currently reviewing Bryn Mawr's attitudes and regulations on all aspects of dividuals whose purpose or functions are connected to those of the College the crediting process. Please call Julie Herman at X5607 or drop her a note in Denbiqh. FEBRUARY 8,1984 THE COLLEGE NEWSC PAGE 3 Class of 1988 reflects conformist trend

by Alice Sillman Vermey: We haven't looked at that re- have either an alumna or a staff interview. College News: Miss Vermey, how many ap- cently. We looked at it about a month ago The reason we gave the interview up was plications for Early Decision candidates and I think we have about the same num- that it was so hard to accomplish. We have been processed? ber of people wno ve been coming for in- found, however, that it is important. When Miss Vermey: We have two Early Deci- terviews as over the past few years. The reg- some students have an interview ana some sion plans, fall and winter. Last Friday, ular plan applications are going to be up a do not I think that the students who don't January 27, we sent out the letters to the little bit over last year. February first was are at a disadvantage. We haven't required winter Early Decision candidates, as this the deadline and we've noticed that a lot of an interview for about three years and we had to be done by February first. The total people mail their applications on the dead- miss it. amount of Early Decision students this line. We'll know in the middle of next week CN: Do you have any contact with Haver- year is about 75, including both Fall and when all the mail has come in how we stand ford regarding female applicants? Winter applicants. That is about one quar- in comparison to last year. Vermey: No. We don't have any know- ter of the class, which is typical. CN: Have any substantial shifts occurred ledge of who applies to Haverford, and they CM: Did you detect a noticeable differ- regarding Admissions Policy? don't know who applies here, unless a stu- ence in the number of Early Decision appli- Vermey: When we review the applica- dent makes a point of telling us. We don't cants this year as compared to last year? tions we look at many different aspects of ask them. After the admissions process is Vermey: We had a few more Early Deci- an application. We consider academic rec- over in June, Mr. Ambler and I get together sion applications this year, but not signifi- ord, teachers' recommendations, what a and determine whether we had any com- cantly more. student writes about herself, and extra- mon applications or not, and if so what we CN: Have you detected a change in the curriculars. We don't require an interview did with them, and who we lost to each Elizabeth G. Vermey, Director of number of students taking tours or staying this year but next year we're going back to other, if we did. There isn't nearly as much Admissions at Bryn Mawr. over as perspectives? a required interview. Everyone will then (Continued on page 11) Misery is normal: welcome to Bryn Mawr It goes without saying that Bryn Mawr building on Merion Green and then burn it This year's controversy revealed the claim I was deceived and deserved to be does many things well, perhaps too well. down. opening of a new Bryn Mawr epoch. Sub- happier. If I couldn't enjoy the sheer adven- Dining halls and dormitories, handsome Suddenly, rebellion had risen like a dank jected to the calming—nay, slumbering— ture of learning Greek, I was abnormal. It engraved invitations to learned gatherings, wind from the northwest. Unrest billowed influence of SGA's reasonable discussion, was my fault, and happiness had to be and an unyielding commitment to educa- through the ranks of scholars. Reactionar- freshman misery was successfully defused sought in other arenas—by myself. It never tional integrity (while mail-order term pa- ies and revolutionaries divided into their as a topic for revolution. SGA's handling of occurred to me that BMC ought to be re- per businesses thrive) exemplify BMC's respective camps over an issue which chal- the issue reflected official BMC's response sponsible to make us happy in normal, or- confidence and professionalism. Indeed, lenged the Stoic primacy of academics to hot potatoes. Be reasonable, tolerant dinary ways. My emotional development Bryn Mawr's sense of perspective—(ar- over fun. A fresh philosophy battered Bryn and accepting of others viewpoints. Bring was my responsibility and should stem chaic, elitist, and comforting) as to why it Mawr consciousness: did freshmen have intellectual and personal integrity to the from my academic achievement. That is exists and what education should be—ex- the right to be happy? negotiations, and reach a resolution the message we got, once upon a time. plains why Bryn Mawr fails to succeed in The rest of us had borne BMC oppres- acceptable to all—or failing that—wait un- fermenting controversy. And before you sion for years without thinking it unusual til the passage of time and the exigencies Thus the organized freshman demand recoil, shocked, at the idea of such activity or cruel punishment. Indeed, we believed of Bryn Mawr life tire the controversy and for bourgeois happiness shocked us to the on such a placid campus, remember that we had "asked for it." Attracted by the con- allow it to die a dignified death and be core. More galling than "Liberte, Equalite. college was synonymous with radicalism cept of work for work's sake, we challenged buried in an urn in the Cloisters. Such is the Sororite" to the Metternichs of yore was the and action not too many years ago. neither weekly freshman English papers, way of civilized women. Yet the creation of concept that freshmen should not accept complex requirements in everything from angered, heated, irrational debate remains the same terms by which we had lived until language to gym, the humiliations of Cus- an area in which Bryn Mawr must work now. Could a real Bryn Mawrtyr be judged toms Week, longer labs, papers and harder to offend. not by the lucidity of her thesis, but by the Paula Tuchman classes, fewer Friday nights on the town, Is righteous fury possible in truly intel- fulfillment of her Saturday nights? It was nor esoteric courses with impossible re- lectual circles? What act, which demand, revolutionary! Now Bryn Mawrtyrs were de- quirements—all of these we took in stride. could be foul enough to provoke unreason manding sexual and social satisfaction! We Instead, senior misery is the problem here? The most earthshattering idea of the waited, tensed, expecting M. Carey Helpless attempts to stir the Gothic, apa- that must concern us. No longer, thanks to last 100 BMC years—the right of Bryn Thomas to descend from above shaking ^ thetic masses include the ibid, controversy, the freshman revolution, do we hide our Mawrtyrs to be happy—has degenerated with wrath and hurling lightning bolts at in which heroic Mawrtyrs battled the misfit status and pretend that we are bad into calm and pure reason. What fouler end the heathen.- Modern Language Association's exclusion Mawrtyrs because we want fun. Now, I am for a heartrending issue? of that useful abbreviation. Attending a willing to shout "I WANT GOOD TIMES!" For what made this freshman year differ- mass rally devoted to ibid, retention, I ob- The revolution, like the feminist one, has ent from any other? The hassles mentioned served the faces of Art & Archaeology refu- transformed all of us—men and women— above, and easily embellished by any one gees alight with the fervent glow of learn- freshmen and seniors. Now we too can de- of you, had not changed. However, a pro- ing. Meanwhile. I pondered why these mand social and sexual freedom as an in- fessor told me of the unprecedented de- same people could net unite to further a herent part of our Bryn Mawr education! liere ore some sample comments: fault of six of her freshman students in worthy social cause, to break down barriers For rarely have I found a senior who is I am miserable,' said llona Bray. I handing in final exams. Had the admis- of oppression, to strike blows for the libera- not miserable, and with good reason. Imag- sions office been admitting a new, more re- tion of humankind as well as wordkind. ine the threat of impending joblessness, too am miserable,' stated Andrew laxed type of student, believing as much in Anguished, I asked—why must every the desire for security, the sudden realiza- Searle. Furthermore, lane Clark social as academic freedom? (eek!) Had co- potential imbroglio, instead of being tion that you clear your own path in the declared, 'I am miserable,' while operation with Haverford declined to the fanned by inarticulate aggression and in- woods from here on. Responsibility is point that male/female interaction was tolerance, wilt into a rational and construc- handed to you on a non-silver platter, in Debbie Stetter agreed, I am dead, and morale suffering? But what year tive settling of differences? Must we bring lavish and seemingly endless amounts. For miserable'." has failed to feature these tensions to some into intrapersonal disputes the productive perhaps the first time ever, you're on your degree? In other words, what could explain and discerning abilities required in writing own. What will happen unless we dive the new dissatisfaction besides the rolling lengthy term papers? Is there no separation headfirst and posthaste into the safety of tide of a historical event far beyond our between the faculties stressed in learning graduate school? A real Bryn Mawrtyr will ability to comprehend? I felt like a French from books and those in learning from not experience that insecurity, for grad Of course the admissions catalogues peasant too old to march on Versailles. "Let people? school awaits. A real Mawrtyr would not ex- lied to us! All of them lie! Do you think we them eat cake"? Hell, I didn't even know I Bryn Mawr's insistent belief that both perience social and sexual longings, for re- believed for one moment the bald state- was entitled to bread. academic and personal integrity share the serve reading awaits. Therefore, the seniors ment in the 1979 prospectus declaring, same characteristics has hindered its deni- and freshmen are united in their misery. "All freshmen who so desire will be as- As a senior, I believe that there is no real zens in valiant, yet ultimately doomed at- Can one class appropriate unhappiness? I signed a Haverford boyfriend," or "Sex is reason why this year's freshmen should be tempts at pettiness, churlishness, insipidity think not. readily available"? I gleefully prepared to any more miserable than those in 1980, al- and stupidity as expressed commonly In an unprejudiced survey which I took, wallow in masochism, subjection and a big though they are far better organized nowa- through political and social action. Too all 500 bi-College seniors save one admit- GPA—say 3.9 or so. I felt like a cloistered days. If people stranded on remote islands many Mawrters feel those qualities and ac- ted to feeling miserable. Here are sample novice preparing to offer herself to the God and others in truly miserable conditions tion are joined and thus avoid the attempt comments. "I am miserable," said Nona of Erudition. Compared to this prospect, can find some happiness, how can we sub- at revolution altogether. We are students, Bray. "I too am miserable," stated Andrew Love and Fun looked positively bourgeois. scribe to the monolithic concept of univer- not activists. Never the twain shall meet, Searle. Furthermore, June Clark declared, Succeeding years erased my confidence sal freshman "MISERY"? Bryn Mawr has and even if they could, we've all got reserve "I am miserable," while Debbie Stetter in my ability to compete under these never claimed to provide social satisfaction reading. agreed, "I am miserable." Also, Lisa Bab- terms. Dreams of burgeoning Grade Point greater than the newfound delight of asso- Such dubious philosophy seemed on the ington confessed, "I am miserable," even if Averages and proud parents surrendered ciation with equals sharing a commitment verge of toppling when recently, a real, live it was only Denbigh's nonexistent heat that to a resolve to grab as much gusto as possi- to intellectual stuff. Freshman misery? Let Bryn Mawr controversy reared its hesitant had caused her depression. Ellen Berko- ble under the circumstances and tell Mom them go to Villanova, says the modern-day head. I had asked, "Where is our Barclay in- witz '83, assured me that last year, "Every- and Dad that the grading scale only went as Marie Antoinette. Fun is ninety-nine per- cident, la Casa fracas, mannequin debacle? one was miserable." Only Scott Nodelman high as 3.0. If I couldn't be an intellectual cent sweat and one percent inspiration. Are Bryn Mawr polemics limited to Erd- was assured enough to deny the charge, by Bryn Mawr standards, I planned to sal- The idea that Bryn Mawr should fulfill the man napkin notes?" Fondly, I recalled saying, "You must be crazy, as usual. I'm vage as much human existence as roles of mommy and boyfriend is an idea sophomore year when Heather Henderson accepted to med school. I've never been possible. ludicrous to us who are too old to benefit and myself planned to build an ROTC happier." But he's wrong. But I never though I had the right to from any changes! PAGE 4Q THE COLLEGE HEWS FEBRUARY 8,1984 Gloria Steinem at Penn: Feminism 101 by Cindy Brown in calling the men of ATO off with a wrist something the ruling class could handle, "I'll say anything; I'll be going back to slapping. but restructuring was another matter. She New York tonight." So Gloria Steinem, She also promised, however, to provide faced down a vociferous male critic of prominent feminist and editor of Ms., some ideas on how to "overthrow or hu- abortion; Steinem explained that women, promised at the beginning of her appear- manize (society)," advising her listeners to because they are trained to look for male ance at the University of Pennsylvania last pick the appropriate verb depending upon meal tickets, let men pay for meals, and at- Tuesday. Yet the speech and question and "how patient you feel." In fact, she didn'tdo tend frat parties where they are let in free answer session which followed, while ap- this, but reiterated the need for institu- while men have to pay because women re- parently strengthening the resolve of tional change, carrying the freedom flag, ceive less money for their labor and per- Penn's embattled feminists, clearly re- and so forth. haps should pay proportionately less. Fi- vealed Steinem as a feminist of somewhat Once in a while the grim humor of femi- nally, she encouraged people to make or- staid cloth. Her resolve and good humor nism edged her historical tribute, as when ganizational announcements, which they were much in evidence; she did not talk too she reminded attentive listeners that with- did. For the most part, Steinem was at her much about her new book, and her pa- out the language feminism has provided, best during this time, though unfortunately tience was large. Yet for those comfortable wife battering and employment inequality people kept leaving. in a more radical framework and those who and a host of other ills "used to be called In answer to another male interrogator, believe that existing structures may not life." She asked the men in the audience she agreed that men who give up prestige provide the answers feminism seeks, her how they would feel if they received a positions so that women can have them are speech was the first step: Feminism 101. It Spinster of Arts degree, had to apply for a "more virtuous" than the rest of us. Per- was appropriate for much of her audience, Sistership, or otherwise saw their existence haps this isn't what she meant, but if it is, but it left many questions begging. defined in wholly female terms. Steinem has a lot of explaining to do. Jus- Steinem spent a lot of time reviewing These moments were few, however, and tice realized does not make one better, but where the movement has been, and re- the bulk of her discussion centered on the simply more just and fair. Virtue is the im- flected the consciousness-raising roots of basics of consciousness concerning sexism petus, not the result, of such an action. the so-called "second wave" when she de- and its ties to racism. Although she nodded At the very end, she told the remainder clared that the talk was "an excuse for you in the directions of class oppression and of her audience to go out and each perform to see each other," to run an organizational homophobia, sex and race were her focal an outrageous act the next day. She prom- meeting as well as see and hear one of fem- points. Most notable in its absence, how- ised to do so too. If everyone did that, she from the effect of her points. It was a frus- inism's high-profile movers and shakers. ever, was any discussion of peace issues, stated, "the world will be changed by trating experience, but perhaps no person She professed to believe that the ideas disarmament, or nonviolence. Thursday." who is something of a legend can perform needed to reform and awaken were "right Her themes for 1980s feminism re- If Steinem had been an inspiring adequately for an audience as disparate as here" in Penn's Irvine Auditorium among counted four old goals with no new ways of speaker, the evening would have provided the one which greeted her at Penn. Her re- the standing room only audience, but the achieving them, and once again peace and uplift for those of her listeners working in flections provided morale, however, as sev- calibre of questions cast doubt on this opti- the threat of irradiated annihilation were every area of feminism. She was not a rous- eral women and men testified, and that mism. "If we come today and there's no absent. Reproductive freedom, including ing speaker, however, and the pauses and may have been the most important thing trouble tomorrow we haven't done our separating sex and violence and equalizing missteps that tripped her up subtracted about Steinem's appearance. job," Steinem declared. This was some- marriage; redefining work to include the thing of a safe bet as a speaker, for the fol- commonplace tasks of everyday life that lowing evening was already planned to pro- harnass and harass women; forming demo- Daws opens Gender Conference test the showing of Deep Throat with Linda cratic families and chucking sex roles; and Marciano, a.k.a. Linda Lovelace, who was a getting sexism out of the culture, are the (Continued from page 1) that white people did not universalize the prisoner and abused woman while she was items of Steinem's agenda. There was little consider yourselves involved?" Only a black experience. involved in the making of the film. that was stirring about her enunciation of handful of hands were raised, and Davis en- Hooks then moved on to the question of Steinem, to her credit, had done her these causes, few definite targets demand- couraged people to "get involved" in poli- "Should we name ourselves as feminists?" homework. She acknowledged the "diver- ing action. tics. She called for an All People's Front She attacked the individualistic usage of sity" of Penn, and empathized with those It was difficult to determine whether she that would be a conglomeration of black, feminism so that it has come to mean any- who were either burned out by or novices advocated revolution or reform, especially other racially oppressed, gay and lesbian, thing. Many women have an aversion to la- to feminism, and those who, in either case, when at the end of this list she talked up the youth, age, peace, and women's move- belling themselves as feminists although were coming to affirm the reality of the new campus magazine Ms. is now publish- ments. "There are so many groups out they may hold the same beliefs as women movement: "It walks, it talks, it's a ing and empasized what a good sport there," she said, "Let's prepare the way for a who call themselves feminists. Hooks sug- feminist." She told her audience that the American Express was for letting women new society." gested that we politicize ourselves and say, recent Alpha Tau Omega fraternity "inci- get credit cards. The symposium continued the next "I advocate feminism" instead of merely dent" was in fact rape and why the consent This rather tame recapitulation was fol- morning at 10 a.m. in Stokes Auditorium. identifying as a feminist. of a drunk, drugged person does not con- lowed by a more pointed discussion pe- Hortense Spiders, of Haverford's English Zillah Eisenstein spoke about the politi- stitute permission to do whatever one riod. Why do women fear revealing them- department, introduced the three feminist, cal and biological phenomenon of the wants to that person. This linkage to the selves as feminists? Steinem answered that womanist scholars: Nancy Hartsock, De- "sexual class." She believes there is a trans- painful situation at Penn no doubt gave identification with feminism meant identi- partment of Political Science at Johns formation process of biological "females" heart to those who have insisted ail along fication with women which in turn led to Hopkins University; Bell Hooks (Gloria becoming political "women." The impor- that rape is rape and Penn made a mistake revolution. Reform, she declared, was Watkins), University of California, Santa tance of "difference," an echo of Hartsock's Cruz; and Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College. discussion, was seen as a part of patriarchal Nancy Hartsock began the morning's ideology to keep women apart from one presentations witha talk concentrating on another. Moreover, Eisenstein emphasized gender and race because she felt that these the autonomy of patriarchy, capitalism and Infirmary committee reestablished two issues were central to a critique of racism in ordering society. Marx's class theory, which is the primary The fact that women have increasingly by Laura Greene Committee, which will convene biweekly class theory today.-Hartsock stressed the become a part of the labor market is crucial Re-established as a result of the student for lunch meetings with Dr. Frieda theories of difference which have been for Eisenstein. Women in the labor market interest generated by last semester's ques- Woodruff, Nurse Joyce Brotherston, and present in the women's movement's devel- realize the need for daycare, as well as the tionnaire on the College Infirmary, the Infir- Dr. Margaret Temeles at the Infirmary. opment. She saw them in two distinct cate- problems with the family structure. She mary-Student Advisory Committee held Worth further reports that one important gories: one where women are seen as being perceives the politics of the 1980s as being its first meeting Tuesday, Jan. 31. The change has already taken place in the Infir- different from men as a whole, and the focused on sexual and racial issues, and Committee will prepare for the formal mary: student medical files are now kept in other set of theories which emphasize the notes the hysteria over the little bit of review to be held this Spring, and will re- a locked room, to which only Infirmary important differences among women like equality that women now have. main as an ongoing committee to improve staff have access. In a further development, race, class and sexuality. The audience reaction was mixed. Some communication between the students and the Infirmary-Student Advisory Commit- Hartsock felt that it is these differences people felt that nothing new was said. the Infirmary. tee plans to distribute another question- which serve as the basis for critique and ac- Others were disturbed by the time limit: naire in early March. This questionnaire will tion. Moreover, she stressed that the split- "the speakers couldn't develop their Three or four "outside" doctors, with an call for specific ideas for change, and any ap ting up of the "women's movement" into thoughts," Judy Porter commented. Fewer understanding of the special problems of propriate suggestions, as well as the com- small units where women felt free from people attended the open panel discussion college infirmaries but no personal rela- ments and statistics of the First question- those women who could have power over that took place in the afternoon, which was tionship with either the Infirmary or its naire, will be taken into consideration by them was, in the long run, a positive action. essentially a question and answer period. staff, will conduct the review, according to the reviewing team. Finally, the Infirmary She saw separatism as the basis for work- During this session Hooks expounded committee member Jaquie Worth. Julie plans to publish a new booklet describing ing together and taking political action. on her desire to politicize feminism. She Holman, Cornelia Kietzman, Megan Klose, the specific services offered by the Infir- "Coalitions are not comfortable," Hartsock stated that there are preconceived notions and Robin Shaughnessy are also on the mary. commented. "If you feel comfortable, of what a feminist is, but when one says, "I you're not coalescing." She concluded by advocate feminism" people ask, "What do reiterating Angela Davis' concern for over- you mean?" Hooks advocates a collective coming our differences in view of the up- identity, because a private transformation coming presidential election. does not translate into revolutionary Feminist or womanist Christian women who would like to participate in a Bell Hooks, author of Ain't IA Woman praxis. The question then arose as to what discussion/study group please come to a meeting on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 4 then spoke on "Feminist Theory: A Revi- this praxis looked like. Nancy Hartsock p.m. in the Pembroke West living room or call Lucinda at 645-5863. sion." She emphasized the important role cited the Italian theorist Gramsci who be- that black women have in feminist dis- lieved that it was dirty, daily work and course, and how theory has not been a part struggle, which means we can look ahead of non-white women's domain. She noted to next year's symposium for more praxis. FEBRUARY 8, 1984 THE COLLEGE NEWSD PAGE 5 Law, medicine popular externships

by Karen Sullivan mainder of the sponsors range from a free they are later asked to complete have been "The Extern Program is by far the most lance artist to a director for Mondale for overwhelmingly enthusiastic for the past popular program on campus," said President, Inc. ;o an editor of Working few years. "For the vast majority of the Christine Cornog, secretary of the Career Woman Magazine. While Cornog reported students, the externship experience Planning Office and coordinator of the pro- that "Law and medicine have continued to strengthens the students' interest in the gram. So far this year eighty-five alumnae be the most popular fields for externships," field," said Cornog; for the few who are less SGA and friends of the College have offered to she also noted a growing interest in favorably impressed, the experience can expose sophomores and juniors to the ins- business and banking in response to a help them weed down their career options. and-outs of their professions during spring climate more conducive to female ex- As the deadline for externship applica- break, while sixty-seven students have ap- ecutives in the business world. "Oppor- tions *as this Monday, the Career Planning Elections plied. In addition, thirty sponsors have tunities for careers for women in banking Office is now more crowded with students agreed to feed and house the students for have increased tremendously in the past anxious about summer jobs and seniors that week. lew years," she stated. anxious about their careers. Job Location are to Though over a third of the externships The responses of the students to the pro- and Development Coordinator Betty S. are offered in law or medicine, the re- gram as indicated on the questionnaires Schmidt sent a form to alumnae in December in search of summer jobs; the beheld returned information, as well as informa- tion gathered from other sources, is now filed according to state. Notices on intern- Monday Burstein discusses activism ships are published as they come in the weekly news bulletin. oy Jaqule Worth theory but she said that she has been as The two part-time assistants at the CPU night at well served by reading literature jnd who are filling in while an Assistant Direc- Karen S. Burstein. Bryn Mawr class of tor is sought both provide services for 64 and President of the New York State poetry.' Burstein aiso tamed about how draining those concerned about life after Bryn Mawr. Dinner Department of Civil Service, spoke on Catharine Brennan, the former director of .'anuary 31 on "Public Service: Between ife on the firing iine can be. She quoted Kii^inger, who said that in government, career planning at Lake Forest College, the Idea and the Reality." Describing provides general counseling along with heiself as a "political activist," she began one has a certain amount of intellectual PLEASE Director Dolores Brien, while Martin while at Bryn Mawr in the smoker of capital which, is spent very quickly and she described her "great loss." She has "no Stamm, formerly of the University of Penn- Rhoads as the organizer of political sylvania's Career Planning Office, is seminars. During the late '60s, she was an place to go to find renewal [for her inform- ing vision]" and "no way of restoring the available for practice interviews and will be VOTE! anti-Vietnam activist, then became a New groundings from which [she] came." She conducting workshops on job oppor- York state senator for five years, and as tunities in ten fields. The first two work- President McPherson added in her opening said she is "getting thin" but that in govern- ment, one doesn't take a sabbatical shops, held on February 8, will be on arts remarks, she was also the force behind the administration and fund raising. legislation to ban pay toilets from New because "when you leave, you leave peo- York state. She continues to work for the ple's consciousnesses" and then "you're ERA and battered women. dead." She said she became a state senator because she saw she could "affect people's Presidential candidates' platforms differ She was appointed president of the Civil lives by being a part of the process to Service in June of 1983 by Governor Mario change the law." And in the Civil Service, (Continued from page 1) throw up our hands." Steiner feels "peer Cuomo. Unlike her years in the legislature she has even more direct "power over peo- study rooms" like those at Harvard and where she and the other senators were "like ple's lives; I can say that this person can Bi-college cooperation is high on Brown, as well as freshman/junior big actors in a play" and she learned how to take this exam." LeSar's list of urgent concerns, and she sister program, would help dissipate stress. make specific decisions because "it was the Martin Luther King was supposed to would like, as president, to assess "how Steiner is less supportive of the propos- same every year," in the Civil Service she speak at her Bryn Mawr Commencement, Bryn Mawr feels about cooperation with ed bi-cameral government than LeSar. She doesn't have the "luxury [to] repeat deci- but sent a telegram saying that he could Haverford and other colleges." She noted feels that it is unnecessarily complex and sions." She described the effects of her not come because he was in jail. Neverthe- that "apathy runs high here, and I want to "not the most efficient way to address work as a "slinky:" unable to see the effects less, his inspiration was part of the founda- generally get more people involved." SGA's problems." She wants to restructure of any one decision, she must move on tion of her "informing vision." Hearing him Kristen Steiner, class of 1985, is current- without the benefit of immediate feedback. on another occasion made her realize how ly Secretary of SGA and has been freshman the constitution but would prefer to spend a little more time on it, within a specific When she does get a chance to "sit down one could "be transformed by the power of class president and on numerous commit- limited time framework. and think, [she] can make arguments on words and [by example] of individuals put- tees. She also holds the position of junior either side" of a decision. It was at Bryn ting themselves up against a bad system." class songsmistress. Athletics, she noted, Steiner's other concerns include endow- Mawr, she said, that she learned to weigh While life in the government may be "in- are an important part of her extra- both sides of the question. But in her cur- tellectually debilitating," it is also "fun, curricular activities, as they "maintain my ing SGA independently ("so that it can rent job she has to rely on an "informing vi- very exciting, and really fine." As Karen sanity." operate autonomously from the College"), sion"—the result of reading, contacts with Burstein concluded, "The Talmud says that Steiner has several goals she would like assuaging the pains of cooperation through better communication, and trying people, listening all the time, and moving if you save one life it is as if you've saved to work toward if elected. There is an around. At Bryn Mawr, she studied political the entire world and I really believe it." urgent need, she believes, to address the to change the administrative sanction question of stress on campus. "I don't against making political statements. "If agree with President McPherson's idea that there's any time for Bryn Mawr to act," she it's a national problem and all we can do is noted, "it's now." Write for the COLLEGE NEWS! Contact an editor today: Karen Sullivan x5712 Beth Leibson x6008 Sasha Torres x5600 Kris Anderson 642-7334 Snoozer Archer (sPorts>x5561 Anne Robbins x5248 Susan Messina x5904 Karen Noteboom of the Curtis Institute and Frances Ellerbee '86 rehearse a scene Margaret Vaughn x5952 from 77te Marriage of Figaro, which opens in Goodhart on Feb. 17. (See article, p. 10). PAGE 6D THE COLLEGE MEWS FEBRUARY 8.1984 i Violence against women permeates our socie Difficulties in defining rape in our society by Kathy Roth affirmative. 90% of men said, in a survey succumbed just once to the dreadful allure someone is beaten up are they "asking for A woman walks home from visiting a by the author of Say Mo To a Rapist and Sur- of sexual violence." it" because of the way they were dressed? friend one evening and enters her house. A uiue, that if they saw a woman hitchhiking Acros the nation, it is mandatory for a Would a demonstration analogous to man lunges at her, and, with the point of his along they would feel they could "do some- judge to advise a jury that rape is easy to Clarence Darrow's trick of trying to fit a knife pressed to her throat, he promises to thing sexually" to her easily. claim, but difficult to prove. What one pencil into a moving bottle ever be used to kill her if she struggles or screams. She is A California Police manual, under must conclude from these facts is that rape disprove the possibility of murder? raped. "Patrol Procedures," chattily explains that is a crime most men can see themselves Rape is not seduction. And rape is not What happens? "Forcible rape is one of the most falsely committing, sympathy often rests with the always bloody and violent. Rape happens Two thousand years ago and within city reported crimes. The majority of second rapist, not the victim, and that rape laws on whenever a person, usually a woman, does walls, according to Deuteronomy, the day reported' rapes are not legitimate," the many levels protect the criminal more than not want to have sex with a man, and he woman would be killed. She could have wife has decided to "go out on the town" the victim. forces her. Even if a woman is ambivalent, screamed, the reasoning goes. In 1984, the and later regrets it. A doctor commenting Maybe we should stop and define rape. and she is forced to have sex, that is wrong. descendent of the law—on the books in on rape in Rape: The Bait and the Trap says "Rape is easy to claim, but difficult to pro- Societal attitudes need to change so that many states—requires evidence of a that "Court dockets throughout the nation ve..." Our society does not debate the ex- people feel that a woman should give her physical struggle and a witness to prove contain many a tragic reference to a case istence of other felonies. No one says, "Was full, knowledgeable and conscious consent rape. In a case like the above, the woman wherein a highly intelligent male may have his money stolen, or did heg/ue it?" When to intercourse, not merely acquiescence. has to risk death in order to merit protec- tion from the law. (Jnder Deuteronomy, if the woman is Lunt mannequin offends women unbetrothed she marries her rapist—after he pays her father fifty sheckles. Today in part of the educational process, and of so- procedures the Council advises women to Sicily and parts of the Soviet Union, accor- by Margi Clarke cial and personal change, the Council's in- follow in combatting it lack any under- ding to the Boston Globe, the woman mar- It is not often that the issues of sexism, sistence that the conflict over the manne- standing of the seriousness of this threat. It ries her rapist—abduction is one method racism and other forms of the institutional- quin's display could be resolved through states: "The College encourages students of securing a bride. ized violence so prevalent in our society are discussion, and their position that the de- who believe they are being sexually har- If the above case took place in the four- exposed and confronted in the context of mand for sanctions against the men's ac- assed in any way to discuss these feelings teenth century and the victim was proper- our own lives in our own community. Last tions was vengeful unfairly denied the need with the harassing individual." Women's tied, she would marry her rapist and all her semester, one such "social evil" reared its to establish and maintain standards of be- vulnerability to discrimination, abuse and property would be transferred to him. head in the public display of a female man- havior for students at the college. harassment is complex and serious; it is That's the reality of the "heiress stealing" nequin in a Lunt suite window. Exhibited not simply a matter of misunderstanding written about in Harlequin Romances. nude, in various costumes, and, for a pe- and hurt feelings. Such advice denies the Until the thirteenth century, rape laws riod of time, with a beer bottle positioned If the dignity and integrity of fear and hurt that women actually feel were listed under property laws. Rape was a between her legs, the manipulation of the women is to be respected by the when faced with sexual harassment. crime against a husband or a father. In forty mannequin constituted a sexist and violent The hostile reaction to the women con- states in 1984 it is legal to rape your wife. act. community, actions such as the fronting the Lunt residents indicates that You can't steal something from yourself. Numerous women were offended and display and manipulation of the such misunderstanding is prevalent in the The fact of the matter is that we live in a angered by the display, and took the re- mannequin must be recognized as bi-College community. Sadly, the Haver- society which is prone to rape and loathe to sponsibility of confronting the men in the ford administration demonstrated a similar protect the victim. Estimates of the suite. In my view, those confrontations sexist, destructive, transgressing the lack of understanding and commitment to number of women who will be raped in were not met with any degree of under- boundaries of acceptable addressing issues of sexism on its campus. The Honor Board's delay made it all the their lifetime range from the federal gov- standing, nor respect, though the manne- behavior..." ernment's estimate of one in fifteen to a quin was eventually removed from the more difficult for the women who were Washington D.C. rape crisis center's figure window. concerned and frightened by the violent of one woman in three. At the same time, Because sexism is evident in many of The repeated criticism that the women implications of the display. of reported rapes—and only around 20% our interactions, and in the curriculum and had not followed the Council's procedures All of these factors combine to create an of rapes are reported, conservatively policies of both Bryn Mawr and Haverford, must be rebuked, not only because it de- atmosphere that makes possible the kinds speaking—typically around one percent of a letter was written to the community to flects attention from the content of the of actions and denials which characterized the cases will end in a conviction. In 1972 in call attention to the display as a concrete issue, but also because the Honor Code's the Barclay rape, and makes it so hard for San Francisco, out of 621 reported rapes, and specific act that should be recognized premise that dialogue will serve to resolve women who have been victimized by date six offenders were eventually sentenced to as sexist and condemned as such. The let- all conflict among students is clearly inap- rape to seek out support. These connec- prison—a .97% conviction rape. ter evoked a virulent and expressly hostile propriate in issues of community-wide im- tions are not in the imaginations of the Furthermore, society and the courts reaction from a majority of the community, portance, particularly concerning issues of women who confronted the Lunt residents. sanction rape in many circumstances. because it was read as an attack on the male domination and the abuse of women They are real, frightening connections that Some cases have already been mentioned: Lunt residents, rather than on the act for through objectification. must be acknowledged and faced directly if the woman doesn't or can't physically which they were responsible, that of dis- In the brochure on "Women at Haver- so that our behavior and our attitudes can struggle, if the rapist is her husband. In ad- playing the mannequin. This distinction is ford," the potential for sexual harassment truly reflect care and concern for the safety dition, though researcher Jean MacKeller central to the task of transforming our atti- among students is acknowledged but the and dignity of women in the community. reports that roughly eighty percent of rapes tudes, and more importantly, our behavior are committed by acquaintances, it is vir- about issues of sexism. tually impossible to convict if the rapist While I was offended by the display, the was known to the victim. "Acquaintance" conflict with the Lunt men cannot and includes past lovers or boyfriends, bosses, must not be reduced to a simple matter of Workshop raises conscio co-workers, fellow students, relatives. the suite offending a group of women, and their company. Several of the participants We live in a society where rape is an ac- certainly should not have been dealt with, by Karen Sullivan recalled the uneasiness they had felt ceptable outcome of a date, where wearing as it was initially suggested, as an issue rel- Last Wednesday's Women's Alliance because the black children they met in a tight dress merits losing control of your evant only to the two women who signed meeting on "Racism: A Workshop" began their classes lived in such distant life and body, where a woman who has the the original letter. If the dignity and integ- with an uncovering of the participants' neighborhoods which they could visit only audacity to be alone hitchhiking, going to a rity of women is to be respected by the earliest memories of racism and ended with extreme precaution. bar, or walking at night deserves victimiza- community, actions such as the display with an articulated concern with what is One woman described the conflicting tion. "Victim precipitation," which refers to and manipulation of the mannequin must perhaps the most blatently racist situation messages she received from her mother actions that invite rape, includes such be recognized as sexist, destructive, trans- at the College: the preponderance of black when she visited a friend in the Watts behavior as consuming alcohol with a gressing the boundaries of acceptable be- maids and custodians in a white-controlled suburb of Los Angeles; the excursion was man, according to Menachim Amir's in- havior and challenging the values of the institution. at once a "great idea" and a dangerous fluential study, Patterns of Forcible Rape. community. Thus the two women de- As facilitator of the workshop, Amy undertaking. Yet even with such broad definitions of pro- manded that the act be condemned and Villarejo followed the format suggested by Another woman related this divided at- vocative behavior, Amir concludes that on- the men held accountable for it. the book All the Women are White, All the titude towards segregation to the popular ly 4.4% • of all rapes were victim The Honor Council, claiming that the Blacks are Men, but Some of us are Brave distinction between "good" middle class precipitated, compared to 17% for other community had not previously issued a (Barbara Smith, ed., et al.) in structuring blacks "whom it was absurd to oppress" violent crimes, such as murder. statement recognizing sexism as wrong, the evening's discussion, whereby one first and "bad" lower class blacks who are Rape is a common problem, yet little was reluctant to enforce standards that had uncovers emotional responses to racism, "dangerous and mysterious." As the protection is offered to women. Much of never been explicitly articulated in a com- then explores ways in which the individual woman pointed out, this schismatic por- the reason for this situation is that many munity forum. The position taken by the has been oppressed as a woman, and then trait of blacks is encouraged by television, people do not believe that rape is a crime. Council points to the obvious questions connects the consciousness of racism with which depicts blacks either as bourgeois A survey from the summer issue of Ms. about the awareness of the Council mem- the empathy in searching for ways in which Sesame Street characters or as the magazine asked men across the country bers and the community in general. The to eradicate one's racism. gangsters of Hill Street Blues. whether they believed rape is a criminal act failure of the Council to act according to For many of the women present, busing Villarejo next asked "What did you learn which they could never under any cir- community values carries serious implica- brought them together with blacks at at home about black people? What terms cumstances see themselves committing. tions about its role at the College. While I school, while the distance of black and did your parents use in describing them, Only 35% of the men could answer in the realize that discussion and dialogue are white communities severed them from and how did that make you feel?" A FEBRUARY 8.1984 THE COLLEGE /YEWSDPAGE 7 y through the media, pornography, and rape Rape: a crime of violence, not sex Pornography promotes by Michele Rubin be raped—whether they define themselves On February 12 at 4:00 p.m. in Stokes as feminists or not. Most men will have objectification of women Auditorium the Coalition For Action in someone they know or love raped within Women's Issues is holding a film and panel their lifetime. which is permeated with sadism and mas- discussion on the most prevalent violent Rape is everyone's problem but it *rs by Helen Carter ochism, perpetuates and encourages a crime against women, rape. This panel dis- women who are the victims and it is The magazines sold on city street cor- specific ideology, attitude and approach cussion will confront the issue of rape di- women's consciousness that must be ners picture women being bound, beat, toward women. Most pornography con- rectly, explaining rape and answering ques- raised in order that they can be aware and whipped and tortured. Women are degrad- veys the distorted message that physically tions. Rape is an often hushed-up, fre- ed, chained, enslaved, and raped in virtual- abusing and forcibly raping a woman is quently trivialized and much ignored ly every book purchasable in "Adult only" erotic and pleasurable for men, and that crime, both in the bi-College community \Jne out of every three women r stores. In theaters in the red light districts women desire, enjoy and ask for this kind and the "real" world. It is, contrary to so "° wilt be raped—whether they define of every city, movies donning titles such as of treatment, expect it or accept it as their common beliefs, a crime and a federal one. themselves as feminists or not" "Joy of Pain," "Black and Chained," "Cry lot to be victims of such experience. In The purpose of this panel is to raise con- Rape," "Angels in Pain," and "Slave Girl," short, it glorifies, trivilaizes and demeans sciousness regarding rape, both in women portray the hunting, the maiming, the the suffering of women. Dominique Poggi, protect themselves. Our society demeans who are the potential victims and men who mutilation, and the subsequent rape and a French feminist, writes that pornography women. It is a rape society and only women misunderstand or commit the act of rape. murder of women like ourselves. All of functions to purvey "an ideology of One of the most volatile subjects that can change that. these publications have one thing in com- pleasure and enjoyment which urges will be discussed is the subject of date rape. Another aspect that will be discussed is mon: they combine sex and violence for rapelike relations, exalts rapists, and per- Date rape occurs with alarming frequency, what human resources and legal recourse sexual stimulation or pleasure. These are suades victims that they are in fact consen- often without the rapist even realizing that women have in the event of rape. The panel examples of "hardcore" pornography, and ting and satisfied because they fully bloom he is committing an act of supreme viola- will examine federal and state laws pertain- they are dangerous. under masochistic conditions." Laura tion, sex without consent. Date rape and ing to rape and discuss what needs to be Pornography is not an expression of sex- Lederer in Take Back the Might explains coercive rape are issues which radically di- changed in the American judicial system ual freedom, sensuality or a liberal attitude. how pornographic movies, pictures and vide opinion, most strongly between men regarding rape. For example, a woman It is a symptomatic manifestation of a stories are a "celebration of male power and women. Part of the problem which cannot prosecute a husband, even if she is patriarchal order coupled with misogyny over women and the sexist wish that brainwashes people into thinking date rape separated from him, for rape in 40 out of and of sexual hostility directed at women. women's sexuality and values be totally and coercive rape are "okay" is societal 50 states in our country. There are many Furthermore, pornography serves as an subservient to men's." roles for men and women and sexual ar- laws on the books which hinder and pre- ideological mechanism to uphold this Hence, women's bodies are stripped, ex- rangements in our society. The panel will vent rape prosecution and even more atti- social order. Besides arising from male fan- posed and contorted for the purpose of be discussing this in some depth. The tudes which do the same. tasies and the staging of male imaginings, ridicule and domination to boost the Rape victims often become victims of pornography also mirrors actual social masculine esteem which receives its sense the court system, of doctors, of their fami- relationships between men and women. of power from viewing females as i\ woman fe raped every three lies and of their friends due to sexist and ig- We can say that pornography is "verbal or dehumanized objects to be used, abused norant views concerning rape. These atti- pictorial explicit representations of sexual and discarded. Pornography is, therefore, minutes and a woman b battered tudes can change only with the elevation of behavior that," in the words of the Com- an instrument of anti-woman propaganda every eighteen seconds." social consciousness and'the changing of mission on Obscenity and Pornography, which serves the patriarchy and which rein- societal sexual conditioning. have as a distinguishing characteristic "the forces the myth of passive and masochistic The panel will discuss how we can "un- degrading and demeaning portrayal Of the feminine sexuality and presents a distorted panel will also be examining our Western teach" rape in our culture and see how pop- role and status of the human female... as view of woman's nature, while it glorifies culture as a rape culture in which society ular music, movies, television and books a mere sexual object to be exploited and images of male predators and sadists. teaches men to rape, condones rape, and glamourize rape and convey the message manipulated sexually." Moreover, it From "Snuff' films to "flesh" magazines, teaches women to suffer rape silently. that women want to be raped and that it is represents or descirbes sexual behavior from newspapers to books, from store The panel is not trying to set up any man's right to rape. This, too, is part of that is degrading or abusive to one or more displays to billboards and from record more of an adversarial position between societal conditioning regarding gender of the participants in such a way as to ap- covers to "Vogue," violent pornography men and women than already exists. But roles in our culture. Society perpetuates prove and support such degradation and has come to occupy its own niche in com- the bottom line of the matter is that men rape; we can start to help stop it. abuse. munications and entertainment media, rape and women get raped. Rape, contrary Rape and fear of rape is a prison which In one three month period a group of and to acquire a quasi-institutional to popular opinion, has nothing to do with every woman lives in every time the sun researchers from Women Against Violence character. Its acceptance in the mass sex and everything to do with violence, de- sets. Date rape and coercive rape is a viola- in Pornography and Media, a group of Bay media, whatever the motivation, means a gradation, violation and dehumanization. tion, a pressure, and a terror every woman Area California feminists formed in 1976, cultural endorsement of its message. A Rape is not exclusively a feminist issue, any has encountered. The panel hopes to help viewed twenty-six pornographic films in message that makes people more sym- more than are murder, torture and assault. change attitudes regarding rape and gen- San Francisco, 21 had rape scenes, 16 had pathetic to the rapist and less so to the vic- It is a women's issue and a human issue. der roles in this community which ulti- bondage and torture scenes, two were films tim. A message portraying pain as According to a Washington D.C. rape crisis mately will help change attitudes in our of child molestation, and two featured the (pleasure and which is reported to make center, one out of every three women will society. killing of women for sexual excitation. men more likely to engage in rape. If we "Snuff films purportedly show the actual see enough victimization of women in the murder and butchering of one of its ac- media, violence becomes commonplace, tresses. Don Smith studied 428 "adult numbingly routine, and we become insen- only" paperbacks that were published bet- sitive to it. Thus pornographic depictions ween 1968 and 1974, and were readily contribute to the maintenance of a climate jsness about racism available in stores other than "adult only" tolerant of both psychological and physical stores. He found of the 4,580 sex episodes violence against women. A climate where a number of the women present felt disad- upon one's life. in these books, one-fifth involved com- woman is raped every three minutes and a vantaged by their youth in speaking with The experiences of the two women of color pleted rape, virtually all focused on the vic- woman is battered every eighteen seconds. their parents on racism. One woman's present contrasted sharply with those of tim's fear, physical resistance, and terror Instead of proposing that women's father was a social psychologist who was the fourteen white women. One of the which became transformed by the rape in- bodies be put at the disposal of all men, we able to buttress his racist perception of women described a "responsibility to be to sexual passion, and less than three per- must demand that we be allowed to control blacks with the information he had been better than I was, because if i wasn't they cent of the victims report the attack and our own bodies. Instead of coupling sex- trained with. "Obviously I didn't have the would assume that all Indians, or whatever, less than three percent of the attackers uality with violence let us unite it with love. newspaper articles and statistics. I don't were like that." She remembered being meet with any negative consequences. And rather than relegating sexuality to the know where he got his," the woman said. beaten up in ninth grade for no reason and Thus, one can see how pornography, profane, let us instead hold it as sacred. Another woman related how when she "burning with embarassment as if it were had asked her mother why a black man and all my fault." a white man were fighting on a television Discussion of racism at Bryn Mawr More Jewish women to come program her mother had replied, "Well, began with one black woman's observation The current speaker series, "Jewish Women: Ancient Dreams, New Visions," con- that's the way it is, little girl, and you'd bet- that "One of the things that really disturbs tinues on February 13 when Evelyn Torton Beck offers "A Jewish Perspective on ter get used to it." "I got really frightened by me is the fact that every single person who Feminist Literature." Beck is Professor of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies the irrationality and the violence of it," the cleans the bathroom, sweeps the floor, and German at the University of Wisconsin where she has taught since 1972. This year woman said. shovels the snow, without exception, is she is the recipient of a fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities as As one woman pointed out, the par- black." A white student who had worked at an independent scholar. An expert on Kafka and translator of Isaac Bashevis Singer, ticipants had two types of experiences: Wyndham compared the politeness with Beck edited Wee Jewish Girts: A Lesbian Anthology. She will be speaking at 4 pm in " 'My father said this horrible thing,' and which she was treated by the faculty to the Thomas 110. 'My parents said all the right things, but I'm abuse suffered by the full-time black Judith Plaskow and Starhawk will discuss feminist spirituality and patriarchal still afraid'." A Quaker woman, for in- waitresses, while another woman religion on March 6, at 4 pm in Thomas 110. Plaskow teaches Women in Western stance, pointed out that her background remembered reading the black feminist Religion at Manhattan College and is currently helping to found the Journal of had emphasized that "Everyone is of worth anthology Off our Backs as a black maid Feminist Studies in Religion. Starhawk teaches Creative Ritual and Feminist Theology regardless of background, not inclusive of vacuumed the rug around her. at Holy Names College, Oakland, Calif. She is a therapist and counselor, and author of background"; color-blindness" overlooks The discussion ended with a song and a The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. the tremendous influences of one's race group hug. PAGE 8DTHE COLLEGE HEWS FEBRUARY 8.1984 Students examine European attitudes toward peace Peace Mission travellers convene by Julie Herman slightly less sharp in England than in Ger- Whirled from one continent to another, many or Canada. The reason behind this is whisked from one conference to the next, the rising public outcry against missile the three-member Bryn Mawr Peace deployment in that country, sparked by the Studies Mission spent a hectic eighteen feminist protestors at Greenham Common days in January interviewing members of and fanned by the less radical church and three Western governments and peace political groups whose mainstream anti- movements about their attitudes on war protests frighten hardliners in the foreign policy and disarmament. British government. Mason believed that it Bryn Mawr graduate student Joseph was the activism by groups which normally Mason, Haverford senior William Reno, avoid such confrontation that has forced and Bryn Mawr sophomore Sara Hamlen the British government to strengthen its (see accompanying article) left on January position. 'As the governments have to de- 4 for London, from where they proceeded fend NATO, Hamlen said, "they have to to Bonn and to Ottawa, before returning to assume everything it says is right. They the United States on January 22. The three can't question themselves." mission members gave their first public ac- While Canada's NATO military has count of their adventures at a dinner at the ;■■! esented the same views as militaries else- home of Bryn Mawr President Mary Patter- where, the Trudeau government recently son McPherson, on January 31. announced a peace initiative to faciliate Reno, Hamlen and Mason each talks between the Soviet Union and the piesented the highlights of their stay in one United States. Hence, Canada currently city, and then responded to questions from sees its role as one of moderator, rather their audience. than military ally. Peace studies winner Sara Hamlen stands before the House of Parliament, England. Perhaps the most striking aspect of their talk was the theme of opposites which seemed to appear and disappear when Hamlen encounters increasing tension over arms least expected. For example, although NATO briefings in each capital drew the by Sara Hamlen began to worry and start its own propa- only to government officials, but to both, same hard line between East and West, ganda efforts. and many times. Reagan is currently the German public opinion, as characterized To describe everything we learned, and Much of what I learned falls under the only United States president not to meet by Will Reno, was far less concerned with a all the meetings we attended would take a category of "subjective," because they the Soviet leader. Soviet threat than with the concept of a good many hours, so let me summarize were just impressions, yet important im- The greatest danger is to stereotype, and unified Germany. This issue, though long some of the things we learned, and encour- pressions. There is much more fear in West hence to underestimate your opponent. I forgotten in the United States, was felt to age you to seek me or my two colleagues Germany; in any confrontation, Germany, am very interested in motives, because I remain pertinent to the lives of Germans out with questions. In London and Bonn, all of it, would be destroyed, whether war believe that if a solution lies anywhere, it who have friends and relatives still living in the debate seemed very focused on cruise was conventional or nuclear. So sugges- lies here, not in capabilities, but in inten- East Germany. missiles and whether or not they should be tions to increase world security by replac- tions and political reasons. We need to Because of President Ronald Reagan's deployed. Until recently, there has been ing nuclear weapons with conventional learn why the Soviets act as they do, and perceived tendency to view the world consensus on issues concerning NATO, ones still use the underlying assumption simplistic answers like, 'They are an em- through star-spangled glasses that reveal and both conservative and liberal govern- that deterrence is the best policy, and is ef- pire of evil," are destructive and danger- only dichotomies of good and evil, East ments have pursued similar defense strate- fective. Yet. if war were to erupt in West ous. So, if I were to suggest what to do and West, the United States is often seen as gies. Helmut Schmidt, we heard many Germany, what then? Could we sanction about this problem, I would suggest two unsophisticated and ill-informed on times, was the one who requested the sacrificing West Germany? One of the things, the first being, "Learn more about Europe's political realities. cruise and Pershing missiles in the first things I learned was how narrow and per- the Soviets." Joe Mason reported that many Germans place. Yet, now Schmidt's party maintains haps naive an American conception of war The second suggestion would be, "Ex- 'questioned Reagan's intelligence'' and that it opposes deployment of the missiles; is. Germany was heavily bombed until it amine your assumptions, and those of doubted his "grasp of complex issues." the Labour government in Britain called for was leveled, and that was with the weapons others." These issues are extremely com- Sara Hamlen explained that while many unilateral disarmament in their election of forty years ago. plex, often to the point of despair, but if we Germans understand English and can thus platform. are to lift this cloud of uncertainty at all, we read Reagan's statements in the original, If there were an easy solution to all these must explore all our options. We need to they do not understand that American In Canada, however, the debate is wider, quandaries, then someone would have seek new solutions, and think in new ways. campaign rhetoric is geared to home and has an odd twist to it. Trudeau's peace solved the problem before now. There are I fear that the deterrence argument, if it be- issues and not world opinion. initiative, and his travels to speak with no simple solutions, only more complex comes embattled, will cease to be ques- !n contrast to the United States' coolness world leaders, calls for an improved atmos- questions. One suggestion that the tioned by those who advocate it, and hence toward the Soviets, West Germany con- phere, less inflammatory rhetoric, and for Quakers advocated was that we learn more become quickly obsolete. Any policy has ducts a series of talks every four months on the political leaders, instead of the arms about the Soviet Union, that we visit there, to be continually examined in light of new small problems which need airing. As negotiators, to become involved in seeking and talk not only to common people, not circumstances. Hamlen put it, this constant communica- a peaceful solution to the rising tensions in tion lessens East-West tension and the world. diminishes the need for the landmark Canada's government at the moment is agreements that are required for rare sum- liberal, but everyone is wondering when What is Greenham Common? mit meetings to seem successful. Mason Trudeau is going to retire, or whether he by Priscilla Isear added that European politicians had been will call for elections and run again. the airbase fell into disuse, but control of hoping for the same sort of communica- Trudeau has been in power for 16 years, On August 28, 1981, a group of women the land was never returned to the public. tion to be opened between Reagan and and many of the voters are tired of him; at from Wales walked 110 miles to the United In 1951, despite opposition by local Soviet head of state Yuri Andropov, who the same time, he is not starting a peace in- States Air Force Greehnam Common, authorities, the MOD purchased the land, was viewed as versatile and sophisticated. itiative to gain votes. Rather, he is acting about 50 miles southeast of London. Later and later leased it to the American military. "Europeans saw Andropov as one of the like a statesman, not a politician, and so it's that week, four women chained themselves In 1979, the British government announc- best opportunities for breakthroughs" in up to his party to worry about the politics of to the fence surrounding the base, de- ed that the U.S. military would deploy 96 communication between Russia and the getting elected. Meanwhile, the Conserva- manding a televised debate with a Ministry Cruise missiles at Greenham in December United States, said Mason. "The present US tives picture themselves as the "govern- of Defense (MOD) representative on the of 1983. administration's failure to see that was ment-in-waiting," and are committed to proposed deployment of 96 Cruise Cruise is part of the deadly and expen- perceived as a major blunder." rearming and increasing their commit- missiles at Greenham Common. That de- sive new breed of first strike nuclear While the opposition between East and ment to NATO. mand was never met, and since then, weaponry; because the missiles fly close to West seemed to diminish in importance in So. there's your brief summary of the po- women have lived on the Common to pro- the ground, they are undetectable by radar, Bonn, differences within all three govern- litical climate. All these governments, test the deployment of Cruise missiles in and U.S. Global Positioning Satellites over ments over arms and disarmament were though they will not admit it, are feeling in- particular, and the buildup of nuclear Europe can change their flight patterns very sharply defined. The military and creasing pressure to do something about arsenals in general. Citizens throughout continuously, thus assuring pinpoint ac- NATO representatives based their view of the rising nuclear tensions in the world Great Britain have started similar peace curacy. Small enough to be transported by world affiars solidly on a numerical tally of arena. In Britain it is not so much the encampments at various military installa- van, each missile nevertheless has a nuclear capability, whereas politicians serv- Greenham women who are making the tions to actively oppose the nuclear threat. destructive force fifteen times more power- ing in ministries of State looked to Soviet government uneasy, but the church Greenham Common, formerly an area ful than the hydrogen bomb used to intentions as a gauge of possibilities for groups. When the Anglican church came of truly common ground which was freely decimate Hiroshima. peace. out with a book called The Church and the accessible to all British subjects, was first Throughout the past two years, the Hamlen implied that this division be- Bomb, advocating what the government used as an air force base by the MOD dur- women of Greenham Common have par- tween warhead-counters and diplomats is ought to be doing, then the government ing the Second World War. After the war, (Continued on page 9) FEBRUARY 8.1984 THE COLLEGE /VEVVSD PAGE 9 Hyman integrates feminism and Jewish history

by Natalie Sacks as a survival tactic, "to enhance their own Amy Friedman, an organizer of the lec- dience came because he is interested in For the twenty-five people in Thomas self-esteem" in a rigidly defined subor- tures, sees a need on campus for this type "both feminism and Judaism." A social 110 last Tuesday, Paul Hyman's lecture on dinate role. of event, which she called "a natural sort of work student felt that the fundamental education," as it deals with a search for per- issue of integrating feminism and religion "New Light on the History of Jewish Hyman pointed out that until recently, sonal identity. made the lecture interesting to all women, Women" served largely as an impetus to in- the memoirs had been studied by students Sheila Weinberg, the bi-college Hillel Jews and non-Jews alike. tegrate Jewish and feminist identities. Her of Yiddish for purely linguistic purposes. lecture was the first of three in the Jewish director, was "delighted" with the lecture. The next lecture wili be by Evelyn Torton Womerv Ancient Dreams, New Visions Moving to the 19th century, Hyman She hoped that a Jewish feminist discus- Beck on "A Jewish Perspective on Femi- speaker series. discussed the phenomenon of Jewish sion group that existed last year could be nist Literature." Beck is the editor of Nice assimilation in Germany, which is com- recreated. Jewish Girts? A Lesbian Anthology Paula Hyman, dean and teacher at the monly viewed in terms of the male Jewish Another member of the audience, (Persephone Press, 1982). The lecture is on Jewish Theological Seminary in NYC, elite. She suggested that the pattern of Rachel Goldsmith, though pleased with the February 13 at four p.m. in Thomas 110. shared with an enthusiastic audience three assimilation was different for Jewish lecture, felt that with the exception of the The lecture series is sponsored by the case studies of Jewish women's history to women because they had far less access to women on the Lower East Side, Hyman Bryn Mawr Dean's Office, the Commission "serve as a prism to open up new ways of education and business, and were focused her studies too exclusively on up- on Campus Projects of JCAB, the Penn- looking at the Jewish historical therefore not in a position to measure suc- per class women. sylvania Humanities Council, and Hillel. experience." She stated that "History is cess in terms of the modern world, as men One of the handful of men in the au- defined as history of men," a phenomenon were. Though Hyman felt unsure about the she felt was doubly true of Jewish history. implications of the gender gap in this in- The issue of gender and the develop- stance, she stated that at ths time women ment of Jewish male and female roles over were "serving a preservative role for Jewish Feminism creates poetry the ages are central in her work. She said culture." from new canon that the sex role division was especially The third case brought to light the ex- strict in the religious realm, and she defin- perience of Jewish women immigrants on ed gender as "a socially constructed role." by Amy Villejaro the Lower East side of Manhattan in the much of the canonical tradition. The cases pointed to three different early 20th century. Hyman said that these Rachel Blau DuPlessis, a member of the DuPlessis's unique blend of theory and aspects of the Jewish woman's experience: women "made the neighborhood the locus English department at Temple University, poetry reading heightened the audience's spirituality, assimilation, and political ac- of their communal Jewish identity." stunned an overflowing crowd at English understanding and appreciation of "The House on Friday with her discussion/ History of Poetry," for the themes and use tion. Hyman saw these cases as breaking In opposition to the general assumption reading of "Feminist Poems—The History of language at work and play in her poetry through assumed notions of Jewish that married women were politically inac- history. of Poetry." are perhaps less accessible (or more tive, Hyman described the Kosher Meat DuPlessis, both a well-known critic of literarily self-conscious) than those in Boycott of 1902, which occurred in The first case showed how women living women's poetry and a poet herself, gave a much of contemporary feminist poetry. Yet response to price hikes. These organizers in central and eastern Europe in the six- moving reading of her own work, a book- despite the difficulty of her work, "The used class-conscious rhetoric in their leaf- teenth and seventeenth centuries express- length series of poems entitled "The History of Poetry" presents an insightful, j lets, raised a strike fund for bail-outs, and ed their piety within a rigid male-oriented History of Poetry." DuPlessis has dubbed honest, highly-skilled example of the the women continued to use their strong tradition. Hyman discussed The Memoirs of her work-in-progress a "deconstruction of possibilities for women's expression." neighborhood network to organize against Glueckel of Hamlen as a source. In all male poetry," a bold statement indeed. Among the poems DuPlessis read Fri- Glueckel's time, women were the primary gangsters. Yet DuPlessis has achieved a stance as a day afternoon were "Two Gypsies," "Ode to consumers of Yiddish literature, which With this example, Hyman pointed out woman poet that is at once "critical and Psyche," "'Killing Me," and her longer and represented a "lower culture" compared to the need for further investigation "of local complicit, ambivalent and angry." most compelling "Crowbar." Each ex- the Hebrew literature men studied. grassroots organization to define com- In the canonical history of poetry, plored both sides of "the postulated line munity." DuPlessis asserts that "women are which is articulate speech," moving in and Hyman suggested that the contents of this literature reflect the women's ex- Hyman concluded by challenging the represented as an object of scrutiny rather out of familiar language and sounds. Some rewrote well-known male poems; others perience, and that studying it illustrates audience to see history with a "wholeness than the speaking subject;" in other words, how the women made themselves central previously unavailable." women are the "signified with no control of tackled the previous work of women poets, the signifiers." The woman writer's mis- becoming "fictive collaborators" with sion, then, as Margaret Homans has sug- previous women's texts. Both captured the gested is to "forge a Self out of the tradition ear, delighted the mind, and challenged of Otherness." In her "History of Poetry," our understanding of the male tradition, as Impressions of Greenham DuPlessis takes control of the signifiers to well as past and contemporary women's develop her powerful, "precious poetry" poetry. In any case, Rachel Blau DuPlessis by Priscilla Isear (from DuPlessis's "Crowbar"). is a name to remember; "The History of and American troops laughing and glaring, In her own work, DuPlessis relies on cita- Poetry" is a collection to eagerly anticipate. "We're talking about life and death. and the silos, low and flat and terrible, tion from male and female poets alike We're not talking about images. I mean, it which hide the sacred agents of death: the (Keats and Dickinson, for example): "in a won't matter when you're dead whether Cruise missiles, some already deployed deep, wounding dialogue with already writ- you were a good conservative chap or a and ready for destruction. Women's faces, ten poems, [I] call attention to some Common radical feminist—you're just dead. And some composed and resolved, some con- distance between those two traditions." (Continued from page 8) this is life and death." (Simone, Newbury torted with fury and rage, others joyful and Through citation, the force of the canonical Court) vibrant. Laughter, tears, screams, moans, text is dissolved into other forms. ticipated in numerous forms of nonviolent The Day of the Greenham Common ac- and music, throughout it all the sounds Tactics other than citation are at work in direct action; they have blockaded, tion, over 40,000 women join together out- become like music, one song which we all The History of Poetry" as well: vagrant picketed, staged mass demonstrations, wanderings, use of dialect and mistaken entered jail, cut the fence, entered the base, verb tenses. All serve to "destroy the un- and danced on the silos. New ways to pro- contested rhetoric" which constitutes test are continually being created and tried. Last February, Greenham Women Against Cruise took the matter to court in New York, and applied for an injunction Inside the fence, death, immobility, hopelessness, hate. Outside the fence,,'**"*■*'#/ doom—what can we do to destroy the restraining the U.S. government from life, action, purpose, love—for the planet, for the other women there, and! for beast that has already been given life, and deploying Cruise. They are basing their the soldiers and engineers on the other side." ( has devoured, and has grown too large for case on articles of the Geneva Convention, us to comprehend? So we turn outwards, and on the Genocide Convention, which and find life, hope and purpose once more; defines genocide as killing, causing bodily we are strong, our actions can influence, or mental harm to, or "deliberately inflic- and we are empowered, restored, made to ting on the national, ethnic, racial, or feel once again readied to fight. religious group conditions of life side US Air Force Base Greenham Com- sing, and we are one. A green-clad man inside the fence calls calculated to bring about its physical mon to protest the deployment of Cruise Greenham Common is a place of sharp me a beast. Angry, enraged, I accuse him of destruction in whole or in part." Because missiles. Masses of women collected, all contrasts. Inside the fence, death, im- being the beast, and then realize that I am 55% of the population of England and strength and good spirits and anger mixed mobility, hopelessness, hate. Outside the not his beast, for all of together are the Wales lives within a one-hundred mile together. The fence covered with trium- fence, life, action, purpose, love—for the beast, fighting the monster which makes radius of Greenham Common, the deploy- phant banners, pictures of children, planet, for the other women there, for the us mistrust, despise one another, and ment of Cruise clearly poses a direct threat families, friends, lovers, and brightly col- families left behind, and for the soldiers which diverts us from hating the thing to the lives of British subjects. ored ribbons woven in and out. Mud all and engineers on the other side. The fence which threatens to kill us. Women now rise, Although deployment has started at over, climbing up and down hills covered is there to divide us, but cannot; women furious, to name the true beast, to destroy Greenham, and will certainly continue for with slippery muck. The energy of so many destroy the fence with their thoughts and it, to avenge those who have been killed in some time, the protest at Greenham has women together. Women pulling down the words, as well as with their hands. We talk spirit, and who will be killed in body. Green- heightened the awareness and involve- fence, the police officers grabbing and with the soldiers and police officers, and in ham women are women everywhere, and ment of scores of thousands of British and hurling women, and more women rising to our communication, we affirm our con- the spirit spreads and envelopes. We can non-British women, and the influence of take their sisters' places, to shake and cut cern, and our hatred for the barriers which break the barriers by being angry and non- those opposed to Cruise missiles is always and weave the fence. have been set between us. violent, loving and hating, creating and growing. As one woman at Greenham said: And beyond the green wire, first the rolls Looking inside the fence, we are filled destroying, learning and unlearning, by do- "We aren't going away. We'll be there for as upon rolls of barbed wire, then the British with a sense of hopelessness and ing what we must do if we are to survive. long as it takes." PAGE 10D THE COLLEGE HEWS FEBRUARY 8,1984

Figaro Project seeks new talent

by Sara Snyder duction of Mozart's opera The Marriage of the moment two pieces are well under way. Did you know that the arts are alive at Figaro, which will be presented in Goodhart The first is a 50's-style musical comedy set Bryn Mawr? Honest. In recent months, on Friday, Feb. 17, and Saturday, Feb. 18, on Capitol Hill, with script by Jessica Goodhart Hall has been jumping with activ- at 8:00 p.m. Anne Kish, the coordinator of Hynes, lyrics by Anne Myles, and music by ity and excitement, primarily because of the Figaro Project, is the musical director, Greg Scott (known to Bryn Mawr as "Trans- the Figaro Project. More than 100 people and David Ostwald, Opera-Theater Direc- portation Coordinator"). This piece deals have become deeply involved in the Proj- tor at Julliard and now at SUNY-Purchase, with a raucous southern congressman who ect in some capacity. is the director of this production. The cast is tricked into becoming an ERA The Figaro Project is actually an experi- is comprised of Bryn Mawr and Haverford supporter. ment for Bryn Mawr: it is designed to test students and faculty members, and stu- The second work in progress is a modern the potential for the arts on this campus. dents from Philadelphia's Curtis Institute opera comprised of rap, rock, blues, gos- Anne Kish was originally brought to Bryn and Academy of Vocal Arts. pel, "wymyn's", and classical music; lyrics Mawr just to produce an administrative re- are by Sara Snyder, Elizabeth Storz, Anne- port on the condition of the arts on cam- marie Monahan, and Vivion Vinsen; music pus, but she felt she couldn't gauge the is by Sara Snyder. It deals with an incident school's artistic potential without in some We have been very lucky to have of rape at a small college, the factionaliza- way really testing it. She took this opportu- the opportunity that The Figaro tion of society, and the disillusionment of nity to create The Figaro Project, an idea the Figaro character in the 1980's. The she says she's been dreaming about for Project has afforded us, but pieces both work off of the original Mar- more than ten years, ever since she studied unfortunately, few people are aware riage of Figaro, maintaining some of the with Darius Milhaud, who composed one of same characters, the Beaumarchais spirit, the Figaro operas (The Guilty Mother). of any of it. The project has been and the political emphasis, but reinterpret- The Figaro Project is taking a dual aca- plagued by poor publicity and the ing them into the 1980*s (in two very differ- demic/creative approach to the study of insidious isolation of the Bryn Mawr ent ways). They will premiere on May Day Beaumarchais' Figaro trilogy (The Barber and be presented on several subsequent of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty community.'' dates, including the night before Mother), and the remarkable body of works convocation. Rehearsals continue for The Marriage of emanating from those plays (principally The Figaro Project has been a great op- Figaro. the operas by Paisiello, Rossini, Mozart, Figaro is played by Thomas Carson, a portunity for students at Bryn Mawr to get and Milhaud). Each week a scholar from graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts, involved in the arts; it has given academic the two colleges' faculties or the larger who recently won regional auditions for the credit for participation in the arts, and has Although many people have become in- academic community lectures to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Carson is given students a wide-open pallette for volved in the Figaro productions, few have Figaro class on any theme relevant to the also the only black member of the all-white their creativity—people have been able to taken advantage of the class credit or the Figaro works. Among the first semester's cast. Other artists from outside the com- get involved in any element of artistic pro- chance to create the original production. It lecturers were Marcel Gutwirth on the revo- munity include Stephen Smith as the duction that they choose. In addition, the is not too late, however; directors, compos- lutionary importance of the play The Mar- Count, Karen Noteboom from Curtis as Figaro Project has provided students with a ers, instrumentalists (!!!), musical arrang- riage of Figaro, Nancy Dersof i on Comedia Susanna, Richard Liberty as Bartolo. and forum for working closely together with ers, actors, singers, dancers, stage mana- d'ellArte, and Joe Kramer on time in Beau- Steven Albert as Don Curzio. Bryn Mawr faculty, more advanced students, and pro- gers, producers, publicity managers, set marchais' works. During class time the stu- math professor Ty Cunningham will ap- fessionals. For the Mozart opera produc- designers, choreographers, and all kinds of dents have also presented their own di- pear as Basilio, and Haverford music in- tion, the Project has brought several great assistants are needed desperately for the verse research on aspects of the Figaro structor Nancy Brocklin plays Marcellina. artists to Bryn Mawr for an extended pe- two original productions mentioned works and worked on improvising opera. Members of the production returned riod: David Ostwald, an eminent opera di- before. As well as the scholarly activity that The from vacation early in order to rehearse rig- rector; Helen Vanni, a Metropolitan Opera If you have any sort of artistic urge, you Figaro Project has stirred up, various crea- orously for a full week. With less than two vocal coach, Jeanne Stark, a Belgian con- are encouraged to get in touch with mem- tive projects have been in the works under weeks to go now until production, every- cert pianist, and Anne Kish herself, an im- bers of the Project in order to participate. its auspices. In November a workshop ver- one is working furiously to bring it all to- portant violinist, composer and conductor. Meetings concerning the final productions sion of The Barber of Seville was presented, gether. Anne Kish, who is only at Bryn We have been very lucky to have the op- are held every Tuesday at 5, either in Anne under the direction of Andy Lichtenberg. Mawr as a part-time employee, feels like portunity that The Figaro Project has af- Kish's office or in Goodhart Common He and a group of students created a ver- she is doing "three jobs" right now. forded us, but unfortunately, few people Room; everyone is welcome (urged) to at- sion of the play in which each time a char- The Mozart opera, albeit consuming, is are aware of any of it. The project has been tend. Anyone interested in participating acter left the stage, the actor who played not the only work in progress within the plagued by poor publicity and the insidious can also get in touch with Sara Snyder at the part was replaced. Unfortunately, atten- Figaro Project. Since the beginning of the isolation of the Bryn Mawr community. 645-5724. dance at the two performances of this pro- school year, writers and composers have duction was dismal because of lack of been meeting and working on what will be publicity. the finale of the Project, our own original Work began in October on a grand pro- addition to the body of Figaro works. At Arts coordinator to be appointed tinue to use both the Schwartz Gymnasium by Sasha Torres and the Pembroke Studio." With this in The seriousness of Bryn Mawr's commit- mind, the proposal suggests the necessity ment to the arts has been a topic for debate of a technician to design sets, supervise for several years. The bi-College appoint- student technical work, and assume "gen- ments of Andrew Lichtenberg, and Steven eral responsibility for building manage- Lipsitt, the review of the dance program, ment" of Goodhart. and the appointment of Anne Kish have Scrutiny of the proposal raises questions been attempts to remedy the inadequacies about the continuing nature of bi-College of the arts program. Now President cooperation with respect to the arts pro- McPherson, Dean Dunn and the Commit- grams of the two colleges. Despite the pro- tee on Appointments propose another sol- vision for "harmonious and cooperative re- ution: the appointment of a full time Arts lations," the proposal does not clearly ad- Coordinator and of Lecturers in the Arts. dress the relationship between Haverford's According to the draft proposal for or- offerings (including majors in both Fine ganization of the arts at Bryn Mawr, the Arts and Music) and the offerings at Bryn Arts Coordinator will insure "ample" per- Mawr. Similarly, there is no indication of formance opportunities, bring visiting art- whether or not Bryn Mawr will continue to ists to campus, manage the arts budgets, make joint appointments in the arts with and maintain "harmonious and coopera- Haverford. In addition, the proposal is tive relations'* with both Haverford and bi- vague on the question of how many lectur- College student groups. He or she will also ers will be appointed, when these appoint- supervise and coordinate the work of the ments will be made, and in what areas. lecturers in the Arts, who will receive three- Finally, will this series of appointments year, non-tenure track positions. really make a difference in the opportuni- The proposal stresses that there will be ties Bryn Mawr provides its students in the no major in fine arts at Bryn Mawr, but also arts? Perhaps a dynamic and energetic Co encourages the offering of work for credit ordinator, aided by similarly devoted Lec- in fine arts. No provision is made for the turers can reverse the effects of the Col- possibility of independent majors in fine lege's decades-old policy of benign neglect arts. It also encourages making Goodhart of the arts. Only time will tell, and with this Members of the Figaro cast returned early from winter vacation to rehearse "a center for the arts" though "graphics will proposal still in the draft stage, the amount rigorously. ....'...... stay in Arnecliffe" and "dancers wHl con- of lime needed may be considerable. FEBRUARY 8,1984 THE COLLEGE NEWSD PAGE 11 Bryn Mawr basketball still shoots to win

by Anne Robbins the point position, while Alice Charkes Even though the Bryn Mawr basketball played a strong game inside. Actually, the team (a) returned a week early from winter whole squad—Charkes, Workmaster, break and (b) has the coolest jackets east of Susan Bickford, Emily Fisch, Tondala the Mississippi River, the squad, which Cartwright, Emily Murase and Michele dropped the first seven contests of the sem- Ryan—played excellently, as they put all ester, continues to struggle. their hours of practice to good use. After three days, which featured four As it is every year, the Haverford contest practices, lots of snow and a private screen- was attended by a crowd larger and noisier ing of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Mawrtyrs than usual. This year the multitude wit- opened the second half of the season nessed a well-played contest that was against Allentown College, a team that is closer than the final 19-point margin sug- headed for post-season play. Surprisingly, gests. With the arrival of freshman Bryn Mawr came out on top in the early Stephanie James, Haverford has added the minutes of the game, as the offense me- fast break to its offensive arsenal, and, had thodically picked apart Allentown's 1-3-1 they converted most of their opportunities, zone defense while the Mawrtyrs' defense the Fords might have buried Bryn Mawr forced Allentown to rely on outside shoot- early. Instead, lots of Haverford's lay-ups ing. Allentown, however, came out in a bounced off the rim, and by the time the re- press about midway through the first half, bound was pulled down, the Bryn Mawr de- and the party was over for Bryn Mawr. fense was back in position. Haverford grad- Allentown dominated the next few minutes ually pulled ahead in the first half, though, and by half-time had a twenty-point lead as Elida Wylie rather quietly put in some and the game in hand. shots off offensive rebounds while domi- Two days later the team traversed the nating the defensive boards at the other Northeast Extension of the Turnpike again, end. this time bound for Cedar Crest College. The Mawrtyrs, who have not shot really Cedar Crest, unlike Allentown, did not well since break, exploded about five min- break the game wide open with an offen- utes into the second half. Center Jean sive spurt. Instead, they chipped away at Luscher scored three times on short jump- Bryn Mawr's defense, which proved to be ers, while wings Jenny Ho, Jackie Maurer, disappointingly vulnerable, and built a lead Anne Robbins and Andrea Madarassy off of chip shots from the lane. The couldn't miss. In addition, Bryn Mawr's Mawrtyrs' several turnovers effectively press began to take its toll, as Haverford squelched any hope Bryn Mawr had of get- coughed up the ball several times. How- ting back in the game, and Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr lost to Haverford in a well-played contest. ever, Bryn Mawr fell just a little bit short, as again left the court empty-handed. the Fords sank a couple of timely outside Still searching for a victory, Bryn Mawr Lady Cavaliers parlayed turnovers forced The next game brought one of Bryn shots and the Mawrtyrs threw a few too next faced Neumann College, a team they by their half-court press into enough fast Mawr's familiar foes, Swarthmore, to many passes away. handled with ease last year. Neumann break buckets to build a 22 to 2 lead. At Schwartz Gymnasium. Having .already Although Bryn Mawr is still winless, it is faced Swarthmore at the Seven Sisters wanted to force the Mawrtyrs into a run- that point the Mawrtyrs dug in their heels too early to write off the season. Recent and-gun game, and, unfortunately for Bryn and played Cabrini even for the remainder Tournament, Bryn Mawr knew what to ex- games, particularly with Swarthmore and Mawr, the referees showed no inclination of the half. Cabrini, however, proved too pect. Unfortunately, that knowledge didn't Haverford, have demonstrated that Bryn to keep control of the contest. Since Bryn deep for Bryn Mawr, who eventually suc- help very much, as Swarthmore's combina- Mawr's defense is much more than ade- Mawr was unable to run its set offense suc- cumbed by 31 points. tion man-to-man and zone defense was as quate, and the offense has shown signs of cessfully and thereby establish the pace of Again at home, the Mawrtyrs tipped off sharp as ever. Even if the offensive produc- coming out of hibernation. It also can't hurt the game, Neumann, which came away against Montgomery County College, tion was below expectations, Bryn Mawr that the easiest part of Bryn Mawr's sched- with a twenty-point win, had its way. which dressed just five players. Hoping to had to be pleased with its defense, which ule lies ahead. Gwynedd Mercy College, for exhaust Montco while utilizing her talented forced Swarthmore to take several low per- example, lost last year's high scorer to The Mawrtyrs made their debut at the bench, Coach Leigh Donato instructed the centage shots as the 30-second clock ex- graduation, and Haverford has already de- Bern Schwartz Gymnasium against ever- team to pick up the pace of the game. The pired. In fact, the sole difference between feated both Rosemont College and Harcum tough Cabrini College, which featured strategy backfired, however, probably be- the teams was Michelle Fowler, Swarth- Junior College. Finally, it must be reiter- some of the best outside shooting Bryn cause Bryn Mawr lacked the poise and ex- more's highly talented guard-forward, ated that Bryn Mawr is an extremely young Mawr has seen all season. Actually, perience necessary to carry off an up- who, to put it simply, scored when it team, with the bulk of its playing time though, the outside shooting was not the tempo game successfully. Montco opened counted. distributed among freshmen and sopho- deciding factor of the game; Cabrini won up a twelve-point margin in the first half, The junior varsity teams of Bryn Mawr mores—and not all of these players are the game in the opening minutes as the and they won going away. and Swarthmore also squared off in a con- basketball veterans. Even if the remainder test that, if the truth be told, was more ex- of the season does not yield a win (which is citing than the varsity game. Beth Work- doubtful), the experience the team is gain- master handled the squad masterfully from ing is going to be useful down the road. Vermey discusses publications

(Continued from page 3) coed. That literature reflected a situation overlap between the schools as we had pro- that was rather different from what it is jected. We never compare applications be- now. We are trying very hard to make what forehand with any college. We're particu- we are writing now to reflect the present sit- larly scrupulous about not doing that with uation and what we think the situation is Haverford. going to be like in a couple of years. We're CIS: Have you noticed any pattern in the currently trying to depict Bryn Mawr as common applications you do share, with somewhat less coeducational in future lit- women preferring Bryn Mawr or Haver- erature. But, certainly, cooperation will ford? continue with Haverford. It's absolutely Vermey: Mr. Ambler and I have agreed clear that the two colleges are very en- not to talk about that publicly. twined, and our literature must reflect that. C/V: In view of the recent outcry about C/V: It's hard to typify a Mawrtyr, but the way the Admissions office portrays have you detected a character shift in the campus social life at Bryn Mawr. is any ef- type of women applying? fort being made to portray a more accurate Vermey: My perspective is very long. I image of the social life here? can think back in the Sixties. I think that in Vermey: We're working on our publica- the Sixties the women were a little more ec- tions right now for students entering not in centric and rough edged. That famous 1984, but in 1985, because we start mailing Bryn Mawr "cussed individual" was a little to the students when they're juniors. It more so then. I think that today's student is takes us about four months to actually do a more like the student of the fifties when I publication from beginning to end. 1 want went here. She is somewhat more con- to make the point, when talking about how formist and interested in security— the admissions office represents the col- although the security takes a different form lege, that it's inevitable that we are lagging now. Then, security meant finding a hus- behind the current student body by about band right away and being economically two years. secure through your marriage much more The information that this year's fresh- than it does today. Today's security means men received was written two years before becoming a doctor. I think that this genera- they entered the college. What freshmen tion is a lot more like the generation of the

got about Bryn Mawr was written just at the fifties and forties rather than the sixties and ■ moment when Haverford was first going seventies., ,,, . Bryn Mawr's Jenny Ho shot well in the game with Haverford. PAGE 12D THE COLLEGE HEWS FEBRUARY 8,1984

Mawrtyr gymnastics shows improvement

by Dwyn Harben Friedman has recorded the highest scores The Bryn Mawr-Haverford women's in vaulting (8.1), uneven parallel bars gymnastics team is off to a very strong start (7.95), balance beam (7.15), and all-arond this season. The average team score so far (30.1). is 129.25, while last year's season average The opening of the new gymnasium has was only 117.0. The increase is quite also contributed to the team's success. The significant as the outcomes of many meets larger practice area provided space for are decided by a very small margin. A vic- some new equipment so practice time can tory over (Jrsinus College last year was be more effectively used. Previously, much achieved by .45 of a point. This season the time was wasted while the gymnasts waited team's highest score is 137.4, achieved in for their turn to use the limited equipment. the February 1 defeat of Division I com- Team spirit has been boosted by the petitor Princeton. Bryn Mawr has recorded tremendous increase in attendance at five wins and three losses to date, with only home meets over last year which was due one of the losses at the hands of another largely to the new facilities, as there was Division III team (Navy, on January 28). virtually no seating room in the old gym. Much of the team's improvement can be Nevertheless, the team is still hoping for attributed to Bryn Mawr freshmen Lori even larger crowds. Coach Lisa Novick Hess and Rachael Feinsilber, and Bryn says she expects even more improvement Mawr senior Carolyn Friedman, who this season, so future meets should be of returned to the team after taking her junior interest to old and new fans alike. Look for year away. Hess has posted the highest signs around campus announcing home floor exercise score of the season with a 7.5 meets, and come and support this im- at the home meet against Army and Navy. pressive team. Swim team battles adversity, improves performance Coach Wallington believes that if times are by Snoozer Archer not starting to come down now it is because of The Bryn Mawr gymnastics team has had an exceptionally strong season. What does the Bryn Mawr swim teamand fatigue from the daily practices. the teams of the Winter Olympics have in The first of three meets in five days was common? Training in sub-zero temperatures, against Trenton State College, who had spent 55. Briscoe got a second place win in the all her events winning the 50-Back, coming in practicing more than once a day in the pursuit their break swimming in South America in- 1000-Free with newcomer Nicolle Hirschfeld second in the 50-Fly and leading off the winn- of perfection, and eating the same quantities stead of sitting in front of television sets and overcoming all odds and finishing third. An- ing medley relay. Freshmen Serena Jung, of food. Back from a month of leisurely activi- going to bars, but the meet was so close that nalisa Crannell's times improved with incredi- Laura LaGassa, Lisa Brennan, and Maria ty, the swim team went through an intensive the loss of the last event cost Bryn Mawr the ble rapidity and against La Salle she did her Schwartzman all turned in fine performances winter sports weekend in a pool with a meet. Superior efforts and performances were best 100-Free time of the season with a third that include Jung's second place finish in the broken heater, which not only affected the contributed by all members of the team. Un- place win of 1:03.97. Stuart improved her 50-Back. Kim Cline's secret strategy of chew- physical abilities of the swimmers, but which fortunately, senior Helen Collins could not 200-Back time of the previous meet to get se- ing gum so as to help her rhythm seems to be participate due to a long running illness. cond with 2:34.41; she also finished second in undefeatable as she won the 50-Breast, came Senior Claudia Stuart won the 100-Back, the the 50-Back and first in the 50-Fly. Janice in second in the 50-Free and another 2nd in I rocrast mat ion techniques reached 200-Back and the 100-Fly as well, and though Kamrin dove from the 1 -meter board un- the 50-Fly. the pinnacle of excellence... senior Janet Homyak did not win any events contested and so was able to try new dives she did swim the 200-Fly, an event that has without worrying about the scoring and also Overall the team's performances have thinking of new ways to avoid been nicknamed the "buming-lungs-aching- did very well. Talent does not just lie with the been very good but with another two weeks of placing one's body in an ice-bath." musclesdropping-legs and let's-hang-onto- swim team, but the diving team of Kamrin and practice before the Frostburg Invitational, the-walls" race. For simply finishing the race Mellow have been leaping to new heights. Coach Wallington is sure of there being "top possibly hurt their mental training as well. Pro- that co-captain deserves a medal for finishing The first win of the season was against performances." Until then super-star swimmer crastinating techniques reached the pinnacle above water. Other swimmers who performed Glassboro State College which had half their Helen Collins will be keeping her yardage up of excellence as the swimmers strained their above all expectations were sophomore Janet team ill. Sophomores Lewis and Briscoe came so that she will be swimming tired at the meets minds, instead of their muscles, into thinking Lewis, sophomore Janna Briscoe, freshman in second and third respectively in the but will be ready for the Division III Nationals of new ways to avoid placing one's body in an Kim Cline, sophomore Amy Randall, and 200-Free and both showed time im- in March. But the rest of the team is eagerly ice-bath. senior Libby Mellow, diver, all of whom also provements from the first meet just four days looking forward to a splashing success at the But despite such adversities, Coach Lee placed in the top three as well. before. Stuart continued to dominate almost end of yet another season. Wellington feels that the team is "coming Against La Salle College, the team's times along" in its search for the fitness the showed continued improvement as they Badminton members had achieved before winter break. gradually get back into shape, but with the After two weeks of being back in the water, overall score being La Salle 74 and Bryn Mawr Thu. Feb. 9 Swarthmore H 4 pm Tue. 14 Temple A 4 pm Wed. 15 Rosemont/Cedar Crest H/A 4 pm Tue. 21 Univ. of Penn H 4 pm Badminton superb, underrated Thu. 23 Drexel H 7 pm by Snoozer Archer and Chestnut Hill just a few days later. The What is the similarity between the Bryn rest of the season they have impressive Special Tournaments Mawr Badminton Team and Rodney Dan- adversaries, but also they have a very big Feb. 17, 18, 19 William and Mary Open Invitational gerfield? They both get no respect. The chance of conquering these matches and Sat. 25 Easterns badminton team is the most underrated being the only team with a winning season. sports team Bryn Mawr has, and this is The line-up of this "unknown" group of Gymnastics unfortunate for many consider it the best players: Karen Spencer is the number one Fri. 10 Lockhaven/Glassboro/Swarthmore BMC 4 pm team we have (excuse me, Coach Novick). player for her second year and is con- Sat. 18 Hofstra BMC 2 pm After you see a badminton match, you will sidered a "badminton great." Cynthia Tue. 21 Queens Queens 2 pm never be able to think of it as a simple Schwartz is number two with Anastasia Sat. 25 PAIAW Championships BMC game for those birdies fly so fast and the Ashman and Kristen Steiner vying for posi- March 2, 3 NATIONALS—Division III National Invitationa amount of concentration needed is incredi- tions three and four. The rest of the team 17 REGIONALS—Radford ble. There are still plenty of opportunities consists of Shobanna Ahluwalia, Martha 31 NATIONALS—Springfield to see this team in action, and if your father Mason, Mitalee Das, and Guissou Dabiri. paid as much as mine did so you could not The number one doubles team of Joy Basketball only learn about Greek vases but about the Ungaretti, who is recovering from back Thu. 9 Gwynedd Mercy College A 7 pm facts of life as well, one fact you should troubles that kept her out last semester, Sat. 11 Columbia University A 2 pm learn in your four (or more) years here is and Sarah Hamlin are also the co-captains. Tue. 14 Chestnut Hill College A 7 pm that badminton is a difficult and challeng- Coach Amy Wolford has helped all her Thu. 16 Rosemont College H 7 pm ing sport. players equally and all are improving under Tue. 21 Eastern College* A 7 pm Against Division I West Chester, the her tutelage, so that only greater victories Thu. 23 Harcum Junior College H 7 pm team played well but lost against this for- lie ahead for the badminton team, and Sat. 25 Northeastern Christian Jr. College* H 2 pm midable opponent. But do not lose faith so since many of their meets will be at home, Thu. Mar. 1 Holy Family College H 7 pm soon for they then triumphed over Harcum please come down and cheer them on.