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For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE NEWS VOLUME VIII NUMBER^ FOUNDED BRYN MAWR COLLEGE MARCH 7,1990 KEEP ABORTION Naomi Tutu speaks AND BIRTH CONTROL at Swarthmore BY LIZ PENLAND in the places where they work and end up abandoning their wives and children, When Naomi Tutu first took the stage leaving them destitute. in Swarthmore's Lang Auditorium on Another evil sustaining apartheid Saturday, February 24, she was greeted which Tutu discussed was the Education with enthusiastic applause by the sev- Act of 1953, which was passed to ensure enty-odd membersof theaudience. When that "black South Africans would accept the clapping was finally dying down, their inferiority because of inferior edu- she said with a wry smile, "Let's hope cation." South Africa spends spends six you do that when I finish speaking." times more money on the education of a Tutu, daughter of Bishop Desmond white child than it does on the education Tutu, gives frequent presentations on of a black child. As a result, over eighty South Africa in conjunction with her work percent of black South African students Molly Yard speaking in Thomas Great Hall photo by Laura Hart for the Tutu Foundation. This founda- every year fail the final exam in their tion was begun in May 1985 to help vic- senior year of high school. tims of apartheid, especially refugees who Tutu also addressed the realities of the Yard urges BMC to were forced to leave South Africa and government-sponsored Death Squads, those within South Africa who were the existence of which the South African displaced from their homes. government unconditionally denies, Tutu holds a bachelor's degree in even though a member of such a squad vote pro-choice French and English from Berea College recently confessed in public his connec- in Kentucky, a master's in International tions within this secret network and BY RACHEL WINSTON and pocketbook against a stack of candi- Economic Development from the Uni- provided names of many involved par- date i.d.'s and press schedules. versity of Kentucky, and an honorary ties. The Freedom Caravan for Women's "In 1989, PA legislators had their day," doctorate of Political Science and Inter- Even within the more public sector of Lives, an on-the-road abortion rights she began, "but in 1990, the people of PA national Relations from the Universal police activity, brutality is perpetrated voter mobilization sponsored by the will have their chance to speak loudly Orthodox College in Nigeria. She is cur- with impunity, as exemplified by an National Organization for Women, and clearly in favor of abortion rights." rently pursuing a doctorate in Interna- incident in which three white policemen wheeled into Bryn Mawr'sThomasGreat Yard predicts "a voter backlash against tional Development at the London School severely beat a black policemen foralleg- Hall last Wednesday night, bringing with incumbents" who sought to deny women of Economics. edly not closing a gate, so severely that it a veritable bandwagon full of pro- the option of having an abortion. Tutu began her talk with a discussion he died a few days later from the injuries choice political candidates. With incumbent Governor William of the more insidious and deeply-rooted he sustained. No charges, or even sus- An audience of several hundred, in- Casey (Dem.) running for re-election on forms of oppression in South Africa, the pensions, wt/H handed out. cluding a large number of anti-choice a fervidly anti-choice platform, Yard "hidden evil that the world seldom sees Even though the Apartheid system is activists, arrived to hear speeches outlin- outlined NOW's endorsement of Repub- or notices ... evil which sustains the sys- so hideously violent, Tutu herself is an ing the latest strategies of the pro-choice lican Barbara Hafer in her bid for the gu- tem." She first mentioned the land re- staunch believer in nonviolent resistance. movement. bernatorial office. The PA chapter of moval policy which gives thirteen per- This belief she attributes to her father. As While technicians worked to correct a NOW is asking area voters to switch cent of South Africa's land, and undesir- she said, "I personally can't escape from faulty sound system, delaying the start from the Democratic Party to the Repub- able land at that, to the three million being my father's daughter. Twenty-nine of the evening's presentation, I had a lican in support of Hafer's primary race. Africans who comprise eighty-six per- years of brainwashing is pretty power- chance to talk with NOW president Molly Voters must cast their ballots within their cent of the population. This policy forces ful." As an example, she explained that Yard. Crammed into a hallway stacked registered party to select a candidate in men, who must seek employment far her father would say, whenever family with tables and chairs cleared from the the primary election. away from their homes, to live apart members would come home after par- Great Hall to make room for the event, Noting Hafer's "strong track record" from their families for the greater part of ticularly vivid encounters with the vio- Yard reviewed the Pennsylvania pro- and her positive reading on a litmus test the year. In turn, this splits many fami- lence of apartheid, "They [white South choice voting strategy, balancing her coat lies apart as men often take companions Students meet, react to three candidates for Dean

BY MAGGIE J. KRALL It is impossible, and for our purposes, Department. She received her B.A. from Two other questions to which Goss- AND PATTI SAVOIE unnecessary, to present the entirety of George Washington University in 1956, man gave somewhat vague responses the candidate-student interactions ob- graduating summa cum laude, and were those about the importance of The final phase of the search for a new jectively; the scope of such an explora- earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at Johns women's colleges, and how to address Dean of the Undergraduate College tion is far beyond that of a newspaper Hopkins University in 1960. tensions on campus. She stated clearly began last week, with visits from three of article. Here are presented a few of the In student discussion after the meet- that she wants to be at a women's college the four candidates for the position. Eva points that the students found most ing with Gossman, it became apparent and is committed to women's education: Gossman, Janina Montero, Karen important, and some of the student reac- that the general consensus was that her "It's not a career move for me... I would Tidmarsh, and Faith Gabelnick were tions to each candidate. responses were vague and somewhat really like to work in a women's college selected from a pool of 75 applicants on Eva Gossman, the first of the candi- patronizing. Many students asked ques- ... I think it's a special time for Itheml". the basis of their past experience and on dates to arrive, began her visit on the tions about what role she would take in Even though she was asked to elaborate, preliminary interviews with the search 26th of February and stayed through the the progression of Bryn Mawr as an insti- students were left wondering what her committee. Included on the schedule set morning of the 27th. She is currently the tution responding to the changing world reasons are for wanting to be here. up for each of the candidates were meet- Associate Dean of the College at Prince- around us. While she acknowledged that Addressing the campus tensions issue, ings with Bryn Ma wr department.! I chair- ton University. Her area of academic the world is growing more complex, and she spoke briefly of building a curricu- personsand major administratorson both interest and expertise is philosophy, and that students need different skills and lum and providing models to address Bryn Mawr and Haverford campuses, as she taught at Goucher and Sarah Law- understandings to prepare for our "adult the problems, but offered no dynamic or well as separate coffee hour discussions rence Colleges during the SCs and 60's. and professional lives", she offered no concrete suggestions. with faculty and students, and a dinner She has also held various administrative innovative ideas, and presented no strong Janina Montero arrived on the after- with student organization members. positions at Princeton in the Philosophy motivation for change.

EACE AND POLITICS: a variety of perspectives P from a variety of people

see centerspread pages & Page 2 The College News March 7,1990

It has come to our attention that several members of the community were offended by the posters we put up calling for articles about Black "Herstory" Month. In using this term, we did not mean to imply that black history is valid only in a feminist Are we silencing our own voices ? context, nor did we mean to deny the importance of men in the legacy of black history. We offer our sincere For a community that prides itself on its ability to communi- cate, Bryn Mawr has been doing an awfully poor job this last apologies to those who were offended by these posters. semester and a half. We have seen a breakdown in communica- In general, we would like to encourage anyone who is tion both on the institutional and the personal level. The only angry with the College News to write letters and /or form of communication that is flourishing right now is that of commentaries ,which we will gladly publish, in the the anonymous sort, which is primarily one-way, raising issues interest of maintaining an open dialogue between com- but not seeing them through. munity members and the paper. Anonymous communication in important in its own right: it protects people who need protection and allows things to be Hancock responds to criticism of posters said which ordinarily wouldn't, but on the scale in which it has To the Editor: mayhavecaused. In an otherwise overly been occurring at Bryn Mawr, it implies deep mistrust and fear During elections campaigning thoughtful week, I would say that my of each other and of ourselves. Many things get said through ru- this past week, residents of Pembroke posters displayed a thoughtless error on mor, unsigned messages,and faceless actions that cannot be East found a note attached to my cam- my part and I would like to apologize paign poster displayed in East's front and take responsibility for my mistake. I responded to or dealt with in a mutual fashion. hallway. The note was written on loose- would have gladly removed the posters Anonymous communication should be only one of the many leaf notebook paper and was unsigned. had I been told of their offensive nature. forms of communication a community uses. The rise in anony- It read: "Do these chracteristics make I sincerely wish the person who wrote you competent or a Racist?" the note continued vigilance in future mous communication at Bryn Mawr would not be such a My poster, and others exactly like it in attempts to combat racism, though with problem were it not coupled with the general lack of communi- other dorms read: "Make it: / [1 small / much less anonymity - in light of both the cation in so many areas of interaction: between students and ad- I] blond/ [] President/ vote Catie Han- Honor Code and whatever insight we cock/ SGA President". have gained in the past several years into ministration, between administration and faculty, between staff The source of the posters being the fact the nature and usefulness of anonymous and students, between almost any group on campus and any that I have been called "small, blond missives. other. one" by my close friends since freshmen Sincerely, year, I sincerely regret whatever confu- Catie Hancock '91 A community defines itself through communication, or the sion, discomfort, or concern my posters lack thereof. We, the Bryn Mawr community, have begun to define ourselves not so much as who we are together but as who we are separately. We are gradually isolating ourselves from Stroud recognizes serious problem any form of communal understanding through our inability to within The College News talk to each other. Words. We deal in words, as an academic community, words To the Community: College News (only women may write and symbols. It is time for us all to think about the how we use 'To whom itdoes concern: there would articles, and our focus is always on be no black legacy without Martin, Mal- women) must put the kind of pressure these words and symbols: the ways in we do not use them but colm, Booker T., W.E.B. and all those on women of Color that Theresa Ten- should, the^ays in which we do use them but should not. other black men. Black women do not suan (HC '88) described in the 1987Color We need to start holding ourselves personally accountable for separate their history by gender, like Anthology: white women do. Stop assuming you " Tm sorry, Jenny, I can't make it to the ways in which we communicate. We need to bring under- know everything!" the feminist alliance meeting tonight standing and trust to our interactions with others in this com- 'Thank you sister for a point well said!" because there's an ASA meeting tonight munity. Most of all, we need to make the effort to bridge the These comments were written on a and from 8:00 to midnight I'm going to College News poster in the computer be OF COLOR.' 'Matt, I'd love to come to communication gaps which separate us, as a community, from center. The poster was calling for articles the administration's meeting on diver- ourselves. from the community for Black History sity, but there's a lunchtime discussion Month; the "his" in "history" was crossed on sexual harassment and Thursdays are out and replaced with "hers." my WOMAN days.' You are all too con- THE COLLEGE NEWS My first reaction was to think, "Of scious of the violence that is being done BRYN MAWR -TCOLLEGE VOLUME XI.NO. 9 MAR. 7,1990 course we're not assuming we know to your self-identity when you are forced everything — we just want to focus on to perform the impossible task of frag- Editors Rachel Perlman C-205 526-5482 women because we're a women's pa- menting yourself — WOMAN/OF Beth Stroud per." Because it focused on women, the COLOR." C-1515 527-5536 centerspread project led to discoveries I believe in the separate space The we might not have had if we'd been College News tries to provide for women. Arts Editors Shari Neier writing about men. We found out about But if it's a separate space for white Jamie Tortorello Ida B. Wells, for example, who wasn't women, it won't do any of us — white or mentioned in any of the standard ency- of Color — any good. Layout Editor Tracy Trott clopedias or general biographical refer- My own position is difficult. The ences. Black women are harder to find College News will be a bastion of white Sports Editor Laura Hart out about than Martin Luther King, feminism unless women of Color con- Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, or tribute to it. But on the other hand, how Editorial Board Mary Elizabeth Cave, Bettina W.E.B. DuBois. can I ask women of Color to contribute to Cocnran, Amy Efron, Thea On the other hand, something was a bastion of white feminism? I don't want Gray, Laura Hart, Siyon Kim, Shari Neier, Liz Penland, definitely wrong with the Black History to be like Molly Yard who says, "It's all Patricia Savoie, Jamie Month centerspread. All of the articles quite wrong. I wish these women would Tortorello, Tracy Trotter were written by white women. join NOW and see what we're all about.' It wasn't meant to be that way. We And how can I ask women who are al- Graphics Thea Gray and Kaia Huseby asked a numberof women of colorif they ready exhausted from the struggle to would write. We contacted the organizer expose themselves again? Subscriptions & Advertising Mary Elizabeth Cave of campus Black History Month activi- I find I have to do what I can, running ties. We put up posters asking for ar- the risk that, in all probability, what I do Articles for the next issue of The College News are due Friday, March 30, ticles. When the dead line came and went, will be wrong. I often feel trapped. But at 6:00 pm. Articles should be submitted on a Mac disk to the folder outside of Rock 100, where they will be returned the following Tuesday. we printed what we had. I didn't under- then, if women of Color are constantly There is also a disk for your use at the monitor's stand in the Computer stand why Black women hadn't submit- facing oppression, the least I can do is Center. ted anything. deal with this "trapped" feeling. The comments on the poster helped About a month ago, in response to STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: The College News seeks to provide a me understand. I realize that Black class discussion about white Southern forum for the students, faculty, administration, and staff of Bryn Mawr. The College News welcomes ideas and submissions from all women, like all women of color, are writers, a professor said something I members of the community, as well as from outside groups and dealing with two or more kinds of op- thought was very wise. "Let's just as- individuals whose purpose or functions are connected to those of pression at once. When action on behalf sume all these writers are racist," she the College. The College News is a feminist paper and an advocacy of one oppressed group shuts out mem- said "Let's assume they're racist and Journal committed to diversity, women's issues, providing a space bers of another, anyone who belongs to sexist and everything else. And then let's or women's voices and promoting pluralism. While letters from men are accepted, all articles in The College News arc written by both groups is put in what must be a work from there." women. Each article represents the views of its author, not schizophrenic position. Even the mile' I'll work from here. necessarily those of the paper. form of scpaiatism practiced by The Beth Stroud March 7,1990 The College News Page 3 Seven Sisters hold conference on "Images of Women"

BY KALYANI BRODERICK women in art and on being women art- ists. Speakers representing Hinduism, The Seven Sisters Women's Confer- Islam, and Christianity spoke on images ence 1990 was held last weekend at of women in religion. One of the authors Wellesley College. The conferenceallows of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" and a profes- Traditions women from the original Seven Sisters to sor from MIT addressed the issue of meet and discuss pertinent campus, women in science and technology. national, and global issues. Often con- Women in the media and women in May Day — now, the truth nections are made between students, Japanese film were also addressed. exchanging experiences of being a Seven Bryn Mawrtyrs were appointed BY MARGOT HIPWELL Godfrey of Bouillon, and King Arthur), woman on campus, which benefit each by the Appointments Committee to rep- AND MANDY JONES chimney sweeps, a float with Winter school. Learning how the other Sister resent Bryn Mawr at the conference. The TRADITIONS MISTRESSES battling Spring, musicians, morris danc- schools deal with rape prevention, 1990 delegates are Noelle Good '90, ers, Robin Hood and Maid Marian, the women's studies, and graffiti, for ex* Tamara Genest '91, Kitty Turner '91, OK. So we lied. It's been known to Lady of the May on a white donkey with ample, can often aid us at Bryn Mawr in Susan Morrow '92, Camilla Saulsbury happen. Especially in this column. There hunters and huntresses, shepherds with understanding how we can address such '92, Julie Demeo '92, and Gwyn wasn't no veggie gods from Wales de- sheep, players, milkmaids and village issues. Richardson '92. Morrow, Saulsbury, manding sacrifices in front of the Great boys, a float with the "Arraignment of Within the wider perspective "Images Demeo, and Richardson hold two-year Hall. Thafs right. No Yam Y.A.D. We Paris," and many Gypsies. Six weeks. of Women," many contemporary positions and will be planning the Con- realize that this is a crushing blow to you, Amazing. women's issues were addressed this year. ference for the Spring of '91 at Bryn Mawr. so, go ahead. Take a second or two to Of course, such pomp and circum- Speaking on the changing social images If you have questions about this year's recover. We understand. stance was not to go on without the no- of women, Molly Yard, president of conference, need information about Enough pity. It's time for THETRUTH. tice of the society columns. There were NOW, gavethekeynoteaddress. An artist another Sister college, or wish to help May Day has its origins all over the world. between 3,000 and 4,000 people present from Rhode Island and an art historian with next year's conference, any of the From Africa to Australia to Asia to Eng- at that May Day, and entrance at Rock from Wellesley spoke on images of' delegates would love to talk with you. land. To the Delaware Valley. Well, kind Arch was $2 each. The profits from the of. A frolicking festival for all the young day were totalled at near $8,000. maidens and youths of the village, May Another Big May Dav was not held Day in England was a celebration of the until May 1906, and this one was even re-birth of the earth. Yes. A FERTILITY more of a high society bash. There were RITUAL. Throwing flowers about, danc- two special Pullman "May Day trains" ing around the Maypole (a tree stripped that ran from several major East Coast of its branches), and generally making cities to Philadelphia for the celebration, very merry, the villagers would feast and despite the general shock at the and sing to honor the May. The May amount of leg shown by the participat- Queen, the "spirit of vegetation,"and the ing Bryn Mawrters, the 5,000 or so ob- "Bride of May," was traditionally the servers seemed to enjoy their stays. Es- fairest village maid. The procession pecially the traditional breakfast of straw- through the town included heralds, oxen, berries, cream, and lambchops. worthies, morrisdancers, milkmaids, and From 1906 on, it was decided to hold chimney sweeps. When they reached the Big May Day every four years, with Little village Green, they set up the Maypole May Days in between. This practice en- and then danced about it. They spent the sured that every Mawrter had at least rest of the day enjoying a fair with "food one Big May Day during her stay. Enthu- , entertainment, and goods." And so was siasm, however, began to die down the Elizabethan May Day. around 1914, right before the beginning Bryn Mawr College had its first May of World War I. In 1918, people thought Day celebration on May 1st, 1900. Meant that it was not right to spend so much to be a fundraiser for a new Student and be so gay while others were dying in Center, this "May Day was, by all ac- the war overseas. That year, a Little May counts, extremely elaborate. Fora school Day was held instead of the planned Big that had only been in existence for five one. 1924 saw the return of the truly Big years, this was quite an undertaking. May Day. It was held on May 9th and Especially since the people who thought 10th and was extra elaborate, to make up Southeastern Pennsylvania it up (a bunch of Seniors), only thought it for the previous two disappointingly up in March. Six weeks. Think about it. small ones. It cost a frugal $20,750.86 to According to the College News (5/7/ mount this sucker. And lots of people Telepathic Authority 24), everyone involved had to agree not came. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, the Secre- to cut classes in order to help prepare the taries of State and Commerce, ambassa- event. There were numerous May Day dors from France, Britain, Italy, the Neth- THE TAURUS MAWRTYR it through from start to finish. She is committees and everyone worked espe- erlands, and Poland, and the governors (April 21 — May 20) very persistent and doesn't see any sense cially hard to bring it off with flying of Pennsylvania and Maryland were in shrinking from hard work. She seems colors. The 1900 May Day procession among those present. Loyal, loving and true. That's the to put a great deal of effort into every- was truly a sight to behold. (Check out Despite the staggering size of these Big Taurus Mawrtyr. Well ... at least that's thing, ranging from writing papers to the pictures in the Archives sometime.) May Days, the best remembered ones part of her. A side you must not — and panicking! There were 12 heralds in white and gold, were held in 1932 and 1936. These were often cannot — forget. Of course there's Most Taurus Mawrtyrs possess beau- 4 oxen pulling the Maypole, numerous also the last Big May Days. They actually a somewhat dark side, too. She can be tiful voices — ranging from clear, well- dancers, nine Worthies on ponies (David, cost less than their predecessors, with hot-tempered and stubborn. Very stub- modulated voices, toones that are down- Joshua, Judas Maccabeus, Hector, Alex- Big May Day 1932 ringing in at a piddly born. right sexy! They also use them to yell ander, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, continued on page 5 But she's not stubborn about things like anything if you make them furious simply because she feels like being so or — because they generally don't get because she has nothing better to do. The simply furious; behind the fury they are does not really feel like being heartless happening around her — when there are Taurus Mawrtyr usually weighs matters deeply injured. However, an occasional enough to stop her flow of conversation. lots of amusing people she can meet and very carefully before she forms any opin- outburst of emotion from the Taurus And in fact the only thing that can really have a wonderful time with. This doesn' t ions about them. And because of the Mawrtyr is healthy — it clears the air. stop her (apart from a fire drill or some- mean that she is nothing more than quick- large quantities of common sense she And then one can go ahead and soothe thing of that nature) is one of the famous witted and amusing. The Gemini possesses, she often feels that she forms them with a few loving, simple, and Gemini mood-swings. Mawrtyr needs a great deal of mental good opinions. So she doesn't like it if truthful words. They are forgiving if Well, after all, she was born under the stimulation, for she possesses a remarka- people try to push her into changing her you are truly sorry, for sincerity is very sign of the Twins — so being entertain- bly strong intellect. And she is extraordi- mind about things. In fact, she hates it! important to them. ing is only one part of her personality! narily sharp! (Even if it is not always ap- Her opinions, however, aren' t the only She can also appear self-centered, cold, parent.) She is extremely perceptive and things she stands by. She is extremely and a trifle annoying. Moreover, her idea observant, but generally does not allow loyal to her friends. She is cautious about THE GEMINI MAWRTYR of "just a little bit of fun" can occasionally these characteristics to bother the people making friends because she is often wise (May 21 — June 20) go just a little too far. But it is really she associates with, or make them un- enough to realize the danger of leaping difficult to become totally oblivious to easy. head first into relationships of any sort. She is sparkling, vivacious, and a lot her charm and friendliness simply be- The Gemini Mawrtyr is very attracted This doesn't mean that she is not impul- of fun. Few people are bored around the cause she is in a bad mood now and then. by the idea of novelty. Anything new sive. She can certainly be bouncy and Gemini Mawrtyr; this is one of the most The Gemini Mawrtyr thinks that being and interesting appeals to her. She is also impulsive on occasion, but often keeps entertaining signs of the Zodiac. She is too perfect is boring—and a lot of people rather curious and analytical by nature. that side of her nature under control. witty, her conversation is often both in- would agree with her! Mental exercise, in fact, is one of her The Taurus Mawrtyr hates leaving telligent and interesting, and there is Sheisimpulsiveandsociable,and hates fa vorite pastimes! It's just one of the many things half-done. She is capable of being generally a great deal of conversation. to be .faced with a total lack of entertain- ways, however, by means of which she thorough, efficient, and very practical. Once a Gemini Mawrtyr is put at her ment. She is the kind of person who is keeps herself and others amused and en- Once she embarks on a project, she sees ease and begins to chat and laugh, one happiest when there are lots of things tertained. Page 4 The College News March 7,1990 Image kills - Campaign aimed at young women BY RACHEL WINSTON doing whatever he is doing." "Roseanne" Digest subscriptions. Controversial target-marketing strate- is her favorite television program. Her Accordingtothereport,compiled from gies used by tobacco and alcohol compa- "White, poorly-educated" women, be- clothing preferences tend toward jeans, interviews with potential consumers, the nies have come under increasing criti- ware! The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. knit tops, sweaters, and shorts. Her fa- "Dakota" woman "cannot be too tough, cism. While promotions aimed at con- wants you ... to smoke their cigarettes. vorite bands are all male groups. The -i.e. bitchy/cold (motorcycle jacket). sumers likely to purchase a company's Marketing plans for a new brand of ciga- report goes on to detail her aspirations Cannot be too cute, giggly. Woman can- product are standard practice among rette aimed at 18-20 year-old women were ("To havean ongoing relationship with a not be too submissive (i.e. fawning at a American companies, campaigns target- obtained by The Washington Post last man; To get married in her early twenties man who looks disinterested)." ing women and blacks (two groups with month.Thedetailed report, anonymously and have a family.") and describes her Plans for target-marketing the "Da- greater than average smoking popula- sent to a public interest group called the work as "entry level service or factory" kota" brand come fast on the heels of the tions) have produced vehement opposi- Advocacy Institute and forwarded to the labor. highly controversial Reynolds proposal tion. Alcohol advertising aimed at chil- Post, gives an unusual look at the highly "Work is a job, not a career," for the to market "Uptown," a menthol ciga- dren and college-age males have also specific research performed by tobacco "virile" woman. The study suggests ac- rette aimed at inner-city blacks. Public come under criticism. companies in today's extremely competi- tivities she might enjoy include cruising, pressure forced Reynolds to abandon Camel cigarettes' "Smooth Character" tive cigarette market. watching television, and shopping at the plans to test-market this cigarette brand, campaign features a cigarette-smoking, • Reynolds plans to market the cigarette mall. Special events the targeted woman though the "Dakota" controversy sur- tuxedo-clad cartoon camel. Inonead, the brand, called "Dakota," in Houston this might attend are Hot Rod shows, tractor faced soon after this decision. camel gives tips for men to attract women. spring. Promotional Marketing, Inc., the pulls, and "Tough Man" competitions. Secretary of Health and Human Serv- The scene is a beach were a man is forci- company hired by Reynolds to compile The report also outlines future adver- ices Louis W. Sullivan has taken an espe- bly carrying a woman out of the water. In data on the proposed target group, la- tising options that Reynolds might choose cially strong stance against the "Uptown" another promotion, the camel is shown beled the study "Project V.F," which to pursue. It suggests forming a rock and "Dakota" brand proposals. "It is grinning with a cigarette, while a scan- stands for "virile female," the name given band called "Dakota" to play at events especially reprehensible to lure young tily-clad woman and a pair of dice grace to the chosen demographic group. around the country which "virile" people into smoking and potential life- the neon-colored background. These ads The company describes the typical women would attend. Other promotional long nicotine addiction," remarked Sul- have appeared in Rolling Stone and "Dakota" smoker as a white female in ideas include trivia games printed on the livan, a key player in the fight against National Lampoon. her late teens to early twenties who cigarette packaging, "V.F. Soap Opera "Uptown." "And the risk that smoking Anheiser-Busch's Budweiscr beer spends her free time "with her boyfriend Trivia Videos" and free Soap Opera specifically poses for women adds an- campaign, featuring a beer-drinking dog, other tawdry dimension to any cigarette Spuds MacKenzie, is also cited as adver- marketing effort aimed at younger tising aimed specifically at children and Yard prompts BMC to action women." young adults. In manv of the beer ads, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) has the dog is surrounded by women in continued from page 1 which he refused to rescind. joined with Sullivan in condemning various states of undress. Women's- of women's issues, Yard called pro-choice Another controversial public offering Reynolds' marketing strategy. Kennedy rights advocacy groups, including the voter support of Hafcr "critical to her from Freind included a locker room-style introduced legislation that would bring National Organization for Women successful run for office." NOW's politi- joke about his wife in which he com- cigarettes under more strict regulation, (NOW) have voiced their opposition to cal stance has evolved into strictly non- pared her to a prostitute. in addition to establishing a powerful the objectification techniques used by partisan campaigning where a candi- Yard encouraged Mawrtyrs to work regulatory body called the Center for alcohol and cigarette companies. Adver- date's agenda takes precedent over hisor on Polsky's campaign, though the col- Tobacco Products to underwrite research tising agencies and their clients rarely her party affiliation. lege does not officially lie within the on smoking's health effects and to sup- respond to these complaints. NOW's increasing disillusionment 166th District. NOW is calling on stu- port education efforts. The legislation Tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris with two-party politics came to public dents nationwide to become involved in must pass through several committees Co., recently received heavy criticism attention last summer during its annual state elections between pro- and anti- on Capital Hill before being considered from Secretary Sullivan for thecompany's national conference. Tired of endorsing choice candidates. In this spirit. Yard for a vote, however. sponsorship of the annual "Virginia candidates who would assure NOW of asked students to "devote a summer to Cigarette manufacturers spend more Slims" tennis tournament located in the their support for women's issues, onlv to freedom," recalling her days as an activ- than $2.5 billion annually on cigarette Washington, DC. area. Calling the to- have the same candidates relinquish this ist with the American Student Union advertising that many contend targets bacco company's financial assistance support once they attained office, former during the New Deal when she fought women, children, and minorities over "blood money" used to "foster a mis- NOW president EleanorSmeal suggested for the rights of trade unionists and other demographic groups. Americans leading impression that smoking is forming a third, women's party. Her against racism. spend over$52 billion each year for health compatible with good health," Sullivan proposal was greeted with enthusiasm Yard's nearly half-century of activism care and reduced productivity related to remarked, "When the tobacco industry by conference attenders. Though noth- no doubt explains her strong belief in the smoking, according to a report issued by sponsors an event in order to push their ing more than a proposal to study the power of grassroots movements. Born in Sullivan. The report also cites illness due deadly product, they are trading on the feasibility of forming such a party, Shanghai, China, the third of four daugh- to smoking as costing each individual health, the prestige and the image of the Smeal's suggestion made headlines ters oi missionary parents. Yard grew up American the equivalent of $221 yearly athlete to barter a product that will kill across the country, causing much bris- in Chengdu, the capital of the Szechuan in heightened insurance and health care the user." tlingamong Democraticand Republican province in western China. Immense bills. functionaries. Overwhelmed with work poverty and problems associated with on upcoming state elections, NOW con- overpopulation madestrong impressions Grand May Day approaches, tinues to explore the third party possibil- on Yard, clearly influencing her life's ity. work. Along with Hafer, Yard discussed After moving to the United States at but will not approach 1936's NOW's support for pro-choice Demo- the age of thirteen, Yard attended continued from page 2 frivolous and ostentatious. Ditto for the crat Alan Polsky in his run against Swarthmore College, where she fought $14,943.25. Because of the Depression, seventies. Then, in the midst of the disco Stephen Freind for the 166th District, anti-semitic admission policies among donations from the proceeds were made era, traditions made a comeback. Or at which includes Haverford Township. the school's sororities. to the Workers' Relief Foundation, and least they tried to. In 1978, Traditions This is Polsky's "third and final" bid Before joining NOW in the seventies, every student had to pay a costume fee of Mistress Skye Brainard '79 decided to for the office he came within 2,000 votes Yard worked as an activist within the $2.00. Bryn Mawr was creating tons of bring back a form of Big May Day. It was of winning in the last election. Yard be- Democratic party in Pittsburgh, Phila- new costumes in order to be able to hire called Grand May Day because it was to lieves he is a "strong candidate" to win delphia, and Washington DC, where unemployed seamstresses. 1936 saw the be grander than those immediately pre- this time around, "with a large grass- she befriended Eleanor Roosevelt — a last Big May Day, and the directors tried ceding it. And it was. And we hate her. roots backing." Polsky already has three friendship which lasted until Mrs. to surpass the last in grandeur. It was so We can't tell you how much we hate her. times as much money in the form of Roosevelt's death. Yard fought racism in big ... how big was it? It was so big that Anyway. Grand May Day didn't re- campaign contributions as he did in his Pittsburgh, as chair of the YMCA, while Seniors that year took only three classes ally catch on until 1982. In 1982 they even previous bids for office. attempting to institute action in the fields each so that they would all be able to had oxen. It wasn't as elaborate as the Big Polsky, in the audience at last Wednes- of housing, employment, and education. have extra time to work on it. 700 stu- May Days of the past, but then what is? It day's rally, believes voter disillusion- She led a march to the Pittsburgh Post dents were in costume, and more charter did, however, have the one thing that men t will be the source of Freind's defeat Office, carrying thousands of letters trains came from everywhere just for the separates Grand and Little May Days: in the upcoming election. Polsky de- urging the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights occasion. Several major motion picture Queen Elizabeth I and her court. In 1986 scribed Freind as "the self-proclaimed Act. Since then, Yard has worked on the companies recorded the day's events for there weren't any oxen. And instead of pointman for the pro-life movement." Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the rest of the nation, and Big May Day being carried in a plush sedan chair by Along with his instrumental role in craft- presently fighting for the passage of went out with a bang. healthy, husky members of the junior ing the Abortion Control Act of 1989, national civil rights legislation. As time went on, however, attitudes faculty, Queen Elizabeth walked. Tradi- making PA the most abortion-restrictive Along with directing the primary towards May Day at Bryn Ma wrchanged. tion bows to reality. Except for that ele- state in the nation, Freind has other con- campaign of Byrd Brown, president of From glorious Elizabethan pageant to a phant at the Centennial May Day... troversial, and at times bizarre, distinc- Pittsburgh NAACP, for the Democratic three ring circus put on by 400 wealthy As we write this, we are beginning to tions. nomination for Congress, Yard was in- girls, the golden image of this tradition realize that this year will only be the Freind'salready flimsy credibility with strumental in drawing up affirmative tarnished and faded. There were no more fourth Grand May Day in Bryn Mawr's voters took a nosedive last year when he action rules ensuring the representation Big May Days after 1936, only Little May history. Aaaaagh. Ok. It'll be good. But explained that a rape victim couldn't get of women and minorities among dele- Days, and even these lost the glamour don't be expecting no ugly beasts of pregnant by her assailant because her gates to the Democratic National Con- they once had. It has been noted that in burden. Especially the white kind. And psychological distress would cause a vention. Responding to the charges of the 50's, May Day spirit was at an all time we suppose that we don't really hate "secretion to be secreted" that would inadequately addressing issues of racism low. All the other traditions were ap- Skye Brainard. But she should be glad prevent pregnancy. Freind's obvious and classism often made by white femi- proached with great enthusiasm, but May that we don't have her phone number. So implication: if a rape victim got pregnant nists, Yard answered, "I can't stand it. Day seemed unimportant. In the 60's, there. as a result of the assault, she wasn't really It's all quite wrong.] wish these women when Bryn Mawr, along with the rest of Want to do something for May Day? raped, or she was a willing victim. Freind would join NOWund see what we're all the nation, was beginning to break free Let us know SOON. Box C-1329 or C- was heavily criticized for this statement, about." from the past, all traditions were seen as 1346. x7554. You know you want to. March 7,1990 The College News Page 5 Afro- American fashion show part of Black History Month

BY ANNE R. POOLE ning wear made from taffeta, rayon, and Goodhart Hall took on the air of a metallic fabrics, such as a silver and black Parisian runway last Saturday night for paisley strapless dress worn with a gold the African American Dress Exhibit. The lame shawl/sash. Several items in the fashion show was sponsored by the Sis- show induced oohs and aahs from the terhood, as one of the variety of activities audience, including a close-fitting, stra- planned for Black History Month. Al- pless dress of green iridescent taffeta, though attendance was relatively low, and a linen duster coat and skirt in strik- the audience enjoyed the colorful pro- ing hot orange worn over a gold sleeve- gram, narrated by Anita Fore, with cloth- less top. ing modeled by Sisterhood members It was announced that the outfits Angela Williams, Dara Bowman, Monica shown would be for sale, creating a veri- Poole, Basheera Abdus-Sabur, Lisa table feeding fren/v backstage after the Myers, and Aletha Akers, who wowed show. One widely sought after item was Community possible without uniformity the audience with her talent for dramatic a cotton tunic dress in a subdued blue poses and moves. batik print, with poiiff sleevesand a ruffle continued from p.7 sity of Maryland, the term "has come to On a stagedecorated with African bas- around the scoop neckline — a combina- background. Although they are not signify the worst that a person can be," ketry, the models presented clothing by tion of the vintage and ethnic looks always considered a "minority," Jews says Beck. Pittsburg designer Miel. 'Miel,' whose popular on the Bryn Mawr fashion scene. aredefinitely a minority in America. Beck Beck wrapped up her talk by reading real name is Carol Staples, takes her nick- After intermission, the models paused said that three percent of the people in two more poems by Jewish women; she name from theSpanish word for "honey" for some vocal entertainment — an a America are Jewish. then answered questions for about half and is the aunt of Sisterhood co-presi- capella performance by singers Monica When she introduced herself, Becksaid an hour. These questions addressed is- dent Lisa Myers. Her designs are con- Poole, Angela Williams, and Dara Bow- that when she was younger she dreamed sues of division among Jewish women; structed largely of comfortable natural man. of living and working on a kibbutz in the various roles of Jewish in women in fibres in ethnic shades and patterns which All in all, the models displayed profes- Israel. However, she is opposed to cur- different instiutions and bridging these were especially pleasing to the Mawrter sional composureand yet appeared to be rent Israeli policies and supports a differences; and internalized anti-Semi- audience. enjoying themselves — a refreshing women's organization working to get tism. Beck wrapped up the questions by The first part of the show revolved change from the pallid, homogeneous Israel out of the West Bank. She returned saying "I hope that in your workshops around cool, casual, cotton summer faces in Vogue and other fashion publi- to this point when discussing anti-Semi- you will take up these issues." clothes which chased away thoughts of cations. The Sisterhood's purpose in tism. Criticism of Israel is not equivalent The conference included two sets of the impending cold front outside. A tra- presenting a fashion show was to move to anti-Semitism. However Israel and workshops. In each of the two sessions ditional yet modern look was achieved away from the traditional activities which Israeli politics are often used as an ex- there was a choice of four different work- by the use of ethnic shapes and designs accompany a celebration such as Black cuse or a cover for anti-Semitism. shops on a variety of topics, including "A in clothing that is still trendy for 1990, History Month. Anita Fore said that in- Beck discussed the term "JAP," a Feminist Vision for Peace in the Middle such as a sarong skirt and tank top in an stead of showing a movie, which is too "deeply anti-Semitic, deeply misogynis- East," "Judaism and Abortion," and African print. often the only social event going on at tic term." She says that "a lot of women "Twice Blessed: On Being a Jewish Les- Later in the show came an array of Bryn Mawr, or getting a speaker who resist the idea that the word JAP" is bian." sharp-looking 1009} linen suits and would only offer verbal information, the extremely negative. The term has be- Approximately 100 people, predomi- dresses suitable for office wear. "Mobil- group tried to find something eye-catch- come used to describe both people who nantly women, gathered inThomasGreat ity is the key word here," said Fore of the ingand out-of-the-ordinary. "We wanted are and are not Jewish. This has led to the Hall to hear Evelyn Torten Beck. This suits' skirts, which sported well-placed something visual for a change," she said, interesting rationalization that it "can't conference, organized primarily by vents that allowed the models to stride "...something different which people be anti-Semitic because you don't have Achot, drew people from Delaware and across the stage with confidence. would enjoy." to be Jewish to be a JAP." At the Univer- Virginia, as well as the Philadelphia area. Rounding out the program was eve- Three of four Dean candidates visit Bryn Mawr, meet with students continued from page 1 "Education should be as rigorous and as tant than her "visit" in evaluating her finance students in the creation of their noon of the 27th, and dined with stu- complete and as accessible as it possibly capabilities. In student discussion fol- own. dents that night, finishing her visit on the can. I think that women have a variety of lowing the dinner meeting, there was Unfortunately, due to the limits of 28th. She is currently the Dean of Studies strikes against them, and that the envi- some tendency to highlight mistakes she space, it is impossible to include all of at Wesleyan University, and also served ronment provided [at Bryn MawrJ is has made in the past. It is important to what was discussed. For most students as Associate Dean of the College there. right." Given the statement of the col- note that when the graffiti incident of the difficult decision seems to be choos- She has held teaching positions in the lege's mission, she finds the lack of a last year was brought up during the dis- ing between Montero, who would offer a Departments of Spanish and Italian at women's studies department here at Bryn cussion, Tidmarsh acknowledged that a strong voice and a new perspective to the both Wesleyan and the University of Mawr contradictory, and would like to mistake had been made by the people administration, and Tidmarsh, who is Pennsylvania. She obtained her B.A., see a department developed eventually. who painted over the graffiti in the bath- one of the most trusted and respected M.A., and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at Student discussion with Montero room, and that in her opinion the situ- administrators on campus. Adding to the University of Pennsylvania. Shegrew reached an intensely personal and emo- ation was badly handled and caused the tremendous impact of the eventual up in Argentina and Uruguay. tional level when she was asked what it more hurt and anger than was useful. choice is the fact that Tidmarsh has said Student reaction to Montero was in- was that she felt most passionately about, Many of the concerns voiced in dis- that she will leave the college if she is not tense and favorable. She presented a whether related to her job or not. There cussion with Montero were again pre- appointed to the position. She feels that strong character and clear understand- was tremendous power in her voice when sented to Tidmarsh. Like Montero, her presence in the dean's office would ing of the issues important to students. she responded, "I don't think I care about Tidmarsh has a strong commitment to cause unnecessary pressure for a new She struck students as possessing an anything more that I care about bringing pluralistic education and believes im- Dean of the Undergraduate College. excellent combination of optimism and about the proper environment for mi- provement will come via changes in the Losing such a trusted figure in the dean's realism. nority students." curriculum and faculty ideology, and office would clearly be a substantial loss Montero expressed unfaltering belief Karen Tidmarsh is currently the Act- recognizes that such change will take to the college. It is difficult to know in the potential for truly pluralistic edu- ing Dean of the Undergraduate College time and money. She spoke of seeking whether the loss of Tidmarsh could be cation, while clearly recognizing that it here at Bryn Mawr, and served as Asso- out a broader range of students, and of compensated for by a new voice, even will take time to achieve. She empha- ciate Dean, as Associate Director of the need to work out how to bring into one as impressive as that of Montero. sized that faculty and curriculum are the Admissions, and in the English Depart- Bryn Mawr the bright student who is The decision could be even more diffi- key elements of change. She said that she ment on campus as well. She graduated badly prepared and help her to succeed. cult if the remaining candidate, Faith Ga- is prepared to lose some battles, and she from Bryn Mawr College in 1971, acquir- One important element of this for her is belnick, proves to be, in the students' knows that it takes time to convince fac- ing her A.B., magna cum laude. She was a restructuring of introductory level eyes, of the same caliber as Montero and ulty members long used to teaching in a a research student at the University of courses in all departments, concentrat- Tidmarsh. Gabelnick is currently dean at particular way of the need for change. Cambridge, and earned her Ph.D. in ing on lowering the large size of many The Carl and Winifred Lee Honors Col- She pointed out that even when a profes- English from the University of Virginia beginning courses, and enabling faculty lege, Western Michigan University. She sor expresses a desire to expand his or in 1988. to focus more attention on students who has been a professor of literature at The her courses they need time to do re- Tidmarsh had to distance herself from need help. American University and the University search, and that requires money. Mon- her position as Acting Dean of the Under- Having been a student at Bryn Mawr, of Maryland, and has held other admin- tero believes that the educational system graduate College during her "visit" to Tidmarsh especially appreciates the istrative positions at Maryland and has done a "piss poor job of educating Bryn Mawr, which was set up in the unique atmosphere and education that Western Michigan. She received her B. A. minorities in this country", and that tra- same format as each of the other candi- Bryn Mawr offers. She recognizes that from Rutgers in 1964, and went on to ditionally elite institutions such as Bryn dates' visits. It was difficult and strange for many women single sex education is receive her M.A. from the University of Mawr have a responsibility to initiate for students to try to appraise her as a not only different but better. She also Massachusetts. In 1974 she received a progress. candidate, and to find some basis for recognizes that academic work "does Ph.D. in Literary Studies from The Montero is a strong supporter of comparison. Obviously with Dean become deadly when it's the only thing American University. Gabelnick will women's education, and is committed to Tidmarsh, our previous experiences with in your life", and seeks not to build the have arrived at Bryn Mawr on March Bryn Mawr's mission as it is stated. her here at Bryn Mawr are more impor- student social life, but to help guide and 5th. Page 6 The College News March 7,1990 Non-violent means to Peace studies mission sends eight to West Germany

BY ERIN M1ELKE tory, one of the many books students read performed many of the undesirable jobs for Haverford students. Also, they are already AND LISA MOORE was "The Germans" by Gordon A. Craig. In the country. While many Turks have been in scheduled to visit five classes at both col- addition, students have been reading many West Germany for a couple generations, West leges. They may also go to Swarthmore and On March 6, six students and two profes- recent news articles to keep track of current Germany still deems them "guest laborers," Muhlenberg to talk about their peace studies sors from Bryn Mawr and Haverford will events in East and WestGermany. According not the welcome citizens that the privileged mission. Katie Aldrich said she feels very ex- travel to East and West Germany for a twelve to Professor Myers, "Students will be well East Germans are considered to be. Tensions cited and a little scared, but eager to day visit on a Peace Studies fact finding prepared." leading to violence between the East Ger- take part in this mission. They will spend three days in West The travel itinerary for this trip includes mans and the Turks run high in their compe- mission. Berlin, four days in East Berlin, three days in meeting with the Chancellor's office of East tition for employment, housing, etc. Bonn and one night in Cologne. The purpose Germany, the Mayor of Bonn, environmental The reunification of East and West Ger- of this trip is for the students to learn first- groups in East and West Germany, a Jewish many requires the resolution of many com- hand about the political situation that East women's group in East Germany, the jour- plex internal and external issues in- and West Germany are currently facing. Then nalists of the ADN (the East German equiva- cluding a rate of exchange for cur- the students will share their new understand- lent of the Associated Press), and the Allied rency, the location of the capi- ing with the bi-college community through forces in Berlin. Also, if tickets are available, tal, and the impact the reu- forums and by visiting classes to talk about the students may go to the theater. Students nification will have on what they have learned. will have Saturday and Sunday free in Berlin. foreign affairs Professor of German Michael Myers ex- They hope to be able to attend many rallies plains the three part structure of the pro- for the elections which will be held on Sun- return gram: the students prepare by learning back- day, March 18 in East Germany. trip, ground information about East and West The problems facing the reunification of participate Germany. They travel to learn more about East and West Germany are complicated and fo the situation and to gain a national under- numerous. Students will learn more about share standing. Then, students return to dissemi- these economic, social, ideological, logistical k nate the information they have learned. and ecological problems. Because East Ger- The Peace Mission program began in 1982 many is a heavily industrialized nation, it and has allowed students to travel to South faces one of the world's worst problems with Africa, Ireland, the Appalachians and last pollution. To bring East German industries year, Eastern Block countries in Europe. up to WestGerman environmental standards Varney Truscott, the Director of Events at to improve the condition of the environment Bryn Mawr is responsible for arranging this could involve closing down factories and trip, and according to Katie Aldrich (BMC, putting many people out of work, causing a '92), she has done a "really great job." great financial burden, not to mention the To be selected for this mission, students cost of cleaning up the environment in the had to write an essay explaining why they first place. wanted to go, submit teacher and peer rec- Other such complex problems facing the ommendations, and then be interviewed. Of two nations involve many racial tensions. the applicants, Katie Aldrich, Sara Ogger and While EastGermansare welcomed into many Samantha Walker from Bryn Mawr, and Anna parts of West Germany, the town of Bremen Blau, Anna Engle and Steven Mihm from has resorted to closing its borders to keep the Haverford were selected. From Bryn Mawr, East Germans out. WestGermany must build Professor Carol Hager from the political sci- much temporary housing for the immense ence department will travel with the stu- influx of people while the East Germans are dents along with Professor Michael Myers busy seeking employment where employ- from the bi-college German department. ment is suddenly scarce. One group who In preparation for this trip, students have have almost gone underground to avoid put in dozens of hours in research and dis- confrontation has been the Turks. After World cussion (abou 16-8 hours each week). To learn War II, many people from Turkey came to some basic information about German his- West Germany to be "guest laborers" who "Stand up and speak for what you believe in' —Naomi Tutu at Swat continued from page 1 Several people were pulled under as the to change it, of dar- Africans] too are oppressed. They too are masses of people rushed out. Those who ing to "Stand up and dehumanized in trying to dehumanize us. managed to get out worked to get the chil- speak up for what you Pity them." dren still inside and those who were injured believe in." She added that for white South Africans, out of the press of bodies. As she was in the The audience did applaud the price of their immense privilege is fear: middle of this turmoil, Tutu noticed that a Tutu even more enthusiastically 'This fear leads them to force their children man who had been trampled was uncon- when she ended than they had when she to spend much of their lives in the army scious She said that, "A group of us tried to began. Everyone seemed to have gathered killing our children." give him CPR, and I can tell you that that man new hope and energy with which to fight for Tutu was careful to point out that she still died while we were trying." She went on to the abolition of apartheid, energy which is Africa, has great empathy and sympathy with the say, in a deadly serious tone, "At that point, desperately needed, especially in combat- people ask her, militant groups and activists through com- I felt angry enough to kill." ting the generally indifferent and sometimes "Do they really care?" and she mon experience, that even though she's In closing her speech, Tutu exhorted her amiable treatment the South African govern- added, "They being you." nonviolent personally. In talking about her audience, which was primarily college stu- ment receives from the American govern- In answering this question, she said that nonviolence, she said, "That's not to say that dents, to keep the pressure on local and na- ment, a prime example of which is President she used to respond immediately 'yes', bufl I haven't felt like 'I could kill somebody right tional governments for continued sanctions Bush's recent official invitation to President now she hesitates, not really sure what to say, now'." against South Africa, to keep the issue of de Klerk to visit Washington. wondering if people still care as they seemed- She went on to describe an outdoor night- apartheid's injustice alive, not allowing it to The reality of America and other nations' to a few years back when South Africa was in: time concert she attended in Soweto last year disappear under the media trends. complacency and inactivity on the issue of the media spotlight, wondering, "Is it that where a number of bands played, though the She challenged everyone with the task of apartheid is a frightening one. In addressing our freedom can wait as long as their corpo- final and most popular one did not show up. holding institutions and businesses respon- this in her presentation, Tutu had first talked rations continue to profit from apartheid?" When people realized that this last band was sible for their policies and actions regarding about impact of this system upon the chil- When Tutu was finished, that question still not going to play, they were upset and a few South Africa to exert economic pressure on dren, about the fourteen and fifteen year olds hung in the air, "Do they really care?" They of them threw aluminum cans onto the stage the apartheid government, of learning the who have seen their relatives shot in the being the American people and the people of as a mild form of protest . The police re- history of oppression both in America and streets, for whom "Death is something which other nations. They being the students on col- sponded by teargassing and firing their rifles everywhere to learn better how to combat it, they have grown up with and power is equal lege campuses everywhere. They being the into the air. The crowds panicked and began of exercising the right and responsibility as to violence." She had then said to the audi- audience which was gathered that night in a mass exodus through the narrow exits. citizens of this country to criticize and work ence that whenever she goes back to South the Swarthmore auditorium. They being us. March 7,1990 The College News Page 7 revolutionary chart Appalachian Communities for Children educates BY NATASHA SEAMAN to assert themselves and take more active money management, family psychology, or role in their homes and in their communities. anything else that can be made available to In Jackson County, Kentucky, there is They are working to empower the people them through University of Kentucky out- radical grass roots agency called Appala- through literacy, which is a step towards reach programs. By serving on the board of chian Communities for Children(ACC). It greater democracy in a self-serving and cor- directors, they learn to express themselves in doesn't protest the CIA, it doesn't organize rupt political system that invites outside group situations, and to make decisions that marches or demonstrations, it isn't even economic interests into the county to exploit will affeqt the entire organization. aligned politically. What it does do is pro- low labor costs and natural resources. Often, the women need tremendous cour- \ vides programs in adult basic education and For women who described themselves age to begin working for ACC. Husbands are literacy to people in one of the most under- universally as "backward and bashful" be- not always eager to see their wives leave the developed counties in the eastern fore they began working for ACC, working home, and resent the changes that the women f*\^ United States. Further, it employs for the organization is a big step. Many of go through as they find a voice and stronger (Ji^^N over thirty women from the com- them never finished high school because no self-concept. These changes, like any others, munity, and gives them one ever took an interest in them. Often, they are painful and often require massive shifts probably the first position were not the worst students, nor the best, so within their families. The entire Appala- of power that they ha ve they slid between the cracks (gaping holes?) chian culture has always devalued and si- had in their lives. of the educational system. They found some lenced women's voices, and thearea'sunder- —his may seem a sense of identity in marrying and having development and lack of job opportunities light contribu- children, often at age fourteen or fifteen. hasonly deepened this. In taking positions of tion to world Once the women start working for ACC — power in the organization and working in peace, but usually in simple jobs at first as the women adult education and thus exposingeven more build self-confidence — they are encouraged women to the options available to them, the in their work in teaching or in managing women are creating a framework for a more programs. They take courses in writing, peaceful society. WILPF: People who care about justice and freedom

BY SARAH WERNER intern for WILPF. I really didn't know any- thing about WILPF before I began working You know the slogans — "Listen to there. I was very tired of school and was women for a change." "It will be a great day looking for a place where I could do peace when our schools get all the money they need activism work. and the Airforce has to hold a bakesale to buy I had gone on the Peace Studies Mission a bomber." What you may not know is the my sophomore year and met all sorts of fabu- organization they come from—the Women's lous civil rights workers doing amazing International League for Peaceand Freedom. things. I know that sounds like a bit of a WILPF, as it is fondly called (not easy to pro- hyperbole, but I can't convey how wonderful nounce but much shorter), is what its name it was for me to meet so many strong women says it is: an international organization of and men trying to change the things that women working For peace and freedom. were wrong around them. Coming back to WILPF began at an international women's Bryn Mawr was very hard — it (and not just congress at The Hague around the time of BMC but academics in general) seemed dull, World War I. The United States chapter was unimportant, unreal, selfish. <£? *?*\ i ~'*2***i i5>V*£ * founded soon after by Jane Addams, who went When I went to WILPF I found what I had £W i *T,*V^r *\'«"*/V* ontobethefirstAmericanwomantobeawarded been looking for: people who cared. Not just '^/?'%rmiJCi£? '' * t/£ the NobeI Peace Prize Emilv Greene Balcn'who people, but women, all sorts of women. It \vkjt jk"? *1§T"kS*4w was one °* Brvn Mawr's early graduates and wasn't so much what I was doing (editing \$* >/5; *^#V'^i%%' another WILPF president, is the only other Ameri- and layout for the membership magazine) or 5. V»* * -*• *%S)*1' can woman to win the Peace Prize. Today, WILPF what they were doing (immediate results are i , ffm ^•»SS«jT * has chapters all over the world, including the Ameri- extremely rare in the work they do). It was \** % Zr*£'*^*'* cas< Europe, Africa, India, and Asia. It also has NGO that there were women who cared — about K^-\cS»*«w,*'*V «4r*' (non-governmental organization) status in the United peace, about justice, about freedom, about *—••'/**&&/& Nations. the world and not just about themselves — a • t*»; £ •tf.*' TheU.S.chapterofWILPFisheadquarteredinPhiladel- community of women who were trying to do \*JZ^f phia, and there are member branches across the country. Much something about what they cared for. " " of the work being done is at the local level—on school boards, in Although WILPF internships do not pay, city- and county-wide programs, and in local elections. Issues range there have been Bryn Mawr students who from demanding disarmament and protesting U.S. intervention to done Dana internships with them. For infor- combatting racism to protecting the environment. Recent large campaigns mation about becoming an intern or a mem- led by U.S.-WILPF have included racism workshops across the country and ber, or if you have questions about programs, Tax Day protests against military spending. Men may be members of WILPF, but literature, posters, T-shirts, etc., you can write the majority of WILPFers and the entire executive and legislative boards are women. or call WILPF at 1213 Race Street, Philadel- The first semester of my junior year, I took off from school and worked as an editorial phia, PA 19107, (215) 563-7110. *.* mm*m?& 5yn Bryn Mawr's Feminist Judaism workshop BY RACHEL PERLMAN world, affects us personally. She began by sonal strength. ties. Beck is a professor of women's studies reading three poems that expressed ideas Beck stressed the importance of a sense of and professor and Director of Jewish Studies "No woman is truly free to be anything and concerns that she proceeded to address. community; however, this unity is not equiva- at the University of Maryland at College until every woman is free to be a Jew," said "Ms. Lot," the first poem, uses the story of lent to uniformity. She began this by describ- Park. She thinks that it is important to inte- Evelyn Torten Beck, the keynote speaker of Lot's wife as a point of departure for a new ing aspects of herself, some of which she grate these disciplines, both with each other the Feminist Judaism conference "Jewish voice to lend a new aspect to the biblical shared with most members of her audience, and with other areas of study. She is working Women on Campus: Diversity and Commu- story. (Lof s wife, who is given no name, and others that fewer people shared. There is for a curriculum in which Jewish studies nity." Beck's presentation was titled "Re- looks back at Sodom and is turned into a a wide spectrum of different people within include women, women's studies include claiming Judaism: The Challenge for Women pillar of salt.) Beck also read an exerpt from the Jewish community: in belief, in back- Jews, and history includes Jews and women. on Campus." Adrienne Rich's "Sources": "I refuse to be- ground, in social class. "I want Jews still to be called an ethnic Beck outlined three crucial aspects of her come a seeker for cures. Everything that has "I am enormously sensitive to anti-semi- group," says Beck. She reminded us that presentation. They are the challenge for ever helped me has come through what al- tism and its effects on young women," says everybody has an ethnicity, regardless of women within Judaism; the challenge facing ready lay stored in me." Beck continued to Beck. However, she thinks it is essential to how or why they came to America. regarH Jewish women externally, as we deal with explore how we "as Jews, as women, as focus on aspects of being Jewish other than less of how Ion?; they !> id been here or wht re the world; and how dealing with misogyny feminist, some as lesbians" can "use our tra- anti-Semitism, which, ironically, often moti- they came from Everybody has a history, a and anti-semitism, in Judaism and in the dition and transform it" to a source of per- vates people to develop their Jewish identi continued on page 5 Page 8 The College News March 7,1990 2Ss KT^S ■A-M> Women's Theater Festival brings diversity of plays to Penn

BY NANCY YOO care of, she would love to act in an advi- you've been wondering what it was all ship. Some of them were true, and some sory role. Finally, if next year's Women's about, here's an idea of what you missed: were probably invented, but all were so The first Women's Theater Festival at Theater Festival were to happen, Hart ANNIVERSARY WALTZ improbable and funny that it was impos- Penn featuring diverse and controver- thought that it would be nice to collabo- Anniversary Waltz, performed at the sible to tell the difference. sial shows concerning sexism, racism and rate with Bryn Mawr. Gold Standard on February 21, was one They came on stage in wedding garb, international torture would never have laugh after another. It was a two-woman Lois in a bridal gown and Peggy in a been possible without Lynda Hart. Hart, Show Reviews: show: Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, tuxedo. They were dressed as a butch- who started teaching English at Penn a The Women's Theater Festival, unfor- lovers for the past ten years, acted out femme couple throughout the play, but year and a half ago, worked non-stop 6n tunately, ended on March 2. In case scenes and stories about their relation- continued on page 11 this project since the end of August. Organizing a Women's Theater Festival is something that Hart had wanted to do for vears now. Every time she would meet Or hear of woman performers-doing exciting and new theater, Hart wanted to bring these women together to wherever she was. She finally decided to organize Penn's first Women's Theater Festival when she noticed how much of a need there was on campus for unconventional theater: "There was a great clamoring for it ... Daily, students, sometimes even students I didn't teach, would come to me and ask me about doing gay, ethnic, or women's theater." To Hart, the most important thing about this whole ven- ture is the experience that the students who are performing in the shows are having. Through their participation, the students are being exposed to work that they would normally not have a chance to do. Hart sees the Women's Theater Festi- val as a way of addressing "issues of diversity of campus through the thea- ter." One of the points she really wanted to make was that neither women's thea- ter nor feminism are simply within a singular line of thinking. Hart wanted to show and succeeded in showing that there could be a festival that displayed a multitude of feminist views. The shows Cast of "Waiting For the Parade." Pictured left to right: Jane Moore (Margaret), Polly K. Davis (Janet), Janis Dardaris in the festivals included the docudrama (Catherine), Elizabeth Sanchez-Franklin (Marta), and Celine Havard (Eve). "Gender-Bending: On the Road at Penn" Photo courtesy The Walnut Street Studio Theatre in which Anna Deveare Smith re-enacts phone interviews she had with Penn faculty and students involving questions about race, sexuality and gender. "Salon "Waiting for the Parade" rings true de la Mer consisted of a series of at times hilarious and bawdy monologues while "Let the Instruments be Shown" pre- BY MINI KAHLON idea. Catherine (Janis Dardardis) has a K. Davis) energetically organizes war- sented performance art delving into the husband in the war; Eve (Celine Havard) efforts to impress and gain the respect of horrorsof international torture. Although "God! Maybe I do think like a whore!" has a husband who is enraptured by the her husband; Margaret (Jane Moore) has the excitement level has been high and "Try everything or life's not worth the idea of war but is too old to participate in one son in the war, and one in prison as the response to the festival has been great, doctors' bills" the general mayhem; Marta, the German a suspected "anti-war communist". The Hart admits there 'Ignorant and immigrant, has a father in 'camp' in play turns out to be a commentary on the has been some con- naive women may Canada as a suspected Nazi; Janet (Polly continued on page 10 flict. A few people be charming in walked out on peacetime but "Salon de la Mer," during war—they Ojays concert reflects current Philly tastes which is sprinkled are dangerous" with anger against "Zap the Japs" BY JAMIE TORTORELLO International Records label, a subsidiary the aggressive imposition of heterosexu- "Waiting for the Parade" was a play of of CBS. The label, with Gamble and Huff ality. Hart emphasizes, "It has not been resonant statements. Resonant state- The Ojays /Levert concert at the writing and producing featured "mas- without negative reaction which is also ments? The 'resonant statements' that Schubert Theaterin February was bound culine" male vocalists, strings, horns, and good; I wanted some controversy ... We our conversations' abound with, and to be a success. Not only did a nostalgic latin percussion. Along with othergroups are trying to do things that are disturb- which sometimesdo ring amazingly true. audience fondly remember the Ojays of on the same label (Harold Melvin and ing, not conventionally theatrical ... Cliches also often ring amazingly true — 70's Philadelphia soul, but the group has the Bluenotes) and those inspired by its You've got to take that risk, that people but whether they do so because of in- enjoyed continued success, recently sound (the Chilights and the Spinners), might get a little freaked out." On the sightful content, or because their con- winning an American Music Award and the Ojays enjoyed crossover success, and whole, the festival has gone beyond stant usage has made us forget what releasing a new album. Furthermore, the influenced the growth of disco through Hart's expectations which were high to 'truth' really defines, is not clear. In the Levert link (the lead singer of Levert is theiruseof stringsand percussion. Even- begin with. Hart sums up her feelings day-to-day variety of theater that we are the son of Ojays' Eddie Levert) was a tually, Philly soul disappeared, as ten- with, "This is like a dream come true for accustomed to, though, there are scenes perfect gimmick. In fact, the concert was sions between Gamble and Huff caused me." and moments that call out for their lines entertaining and upbeat, but a bit disap- them to stop working together, and black As of yet, Hart does not know whether because the formulas are so entrenched pointing. Levert, on the whole, was less perform erssuch as Michael Jackson were there will be future Women's Theater in the form. Very naturally then, when talented. Their most charismatic per- signed directly to major labels, rather Festivals. There has been great support we hear the particular rhyming line, it former hid behind his shades, adding to than subsidiary ones. The recent past, and enthusiasm for the idea of making 'rings true'. And in this way, the lines in the mystery-man image by skipping the though, has seen a revival of the sound, the festival an annual occasion. How- "Waiting for the Parade" 'rang true'. final bows. When the Ojays came on- indicated by Simply Red's cover of Ha- ever, Hart is a little wary about the This "poignant drama" tells the tale of stage, the concert improved. Still, there's rold Melvin and the Bluenotes' // You commitment involved in such an under- five different women surviving the trau- something subtly sad about watching Don't Know Me by Now and the success of taking. About fifty people have put a lot mas of war together in Canada. This "big-twenty-years-ago" groups. Love Soul 2 Soul. And no place has been more of time and effort into this year's produc- "poignant drama" also tells the tale of songs are less sexy, steps more strained, ready forthesedevelopmentsthan Phila- tion, working during spare time which five women defining their worries and and new material, like their rap number, delphia. In a city where Philly soul is the they didn't really have. Hart herself is emotions in terms of the men in their awkward. The highlight of the concert, backbone of all oldies radio stations, the both a teacher and a writer. Although lives. What I participated in was an expe- therefore, was a medley of the original Ojays and their legacy will always have she's not making any promises, Hart feels rience that defined women by their sons, Ojays classics by lyricist Kenny Gamble a home. Much of this information comes that if the time-consuming process of father, and husbands, not in any case, by and pianist Leon Huff. from The Death of Rhythm and Blues by securing financial support were taken a sister or a mother, by a philosophy or Initially, the group was on the Philly Nelson George. March 7,1990 The College News Page 9 ^UTE-KTA- INM&H T Views of Asian Bryn Mawr junior Joanna Ho Pacific America performs, releases first tape

BY MEERA MAHESWARAN BY BETH STROUD ics suggest a shared societal responsibil- reeled against the mass media which, he ity for abuse, Joanna's offer more sup- "I don't consciously go out to make a stated, focused on unrealistic and detri- Joanna Ho has been playing the guitar port for female victims and place the political statement. The photographs I mental portrayals of Asian- Americans sinje she was eight. She taught herself to blame where it belongs: "But if some- choose to d isplay or exhibit happen to be as a "model minority". In his artistic play and to write music — she says she's thing like this happened to you/and socially significant...." states Corky Lee statement, Mr. Lee asserts that the mis- only had one lesson. Since her freshman you're ashamed, I understand/but this in reference to his photographs of Asian representations the media consistently year, she's been performing at Bryn ain't no problem with you, girl/this is a Americans. From February 23rd to March projects is "counterproductive to the Mawr, sometimes on Merion Creen and problem with men." 8th, the Campus Center Gallery will be premise that all people are created equal". sometimes in the Cafe. Now, she's re- She didn't quite manage all of the presenting "Roots to Reality: Photo- This belief surfaces in his exhibit as many leased "Late Afternoon & Sunset Blue," a verses of Bob Dylan's fast-moving graphs of Asian Pacific America", by of his images are of Asian Americans tape of ten original songs. It was re- "Subterranean Homesick Blues," a mu- Corky Lee, a Chinese-American New working inanti-stereo typical occupations corded last summer in a basement in sical tongue-twister, even though she Yorker. Mr. Lee, who describes himself (i.e. as taxi-drivers, pizze'ria owners, Minnesota, and now, nine months later, tried three times to get through one of the as the "unofficial, undisputed, Asian kosher deli owners, and news venders). it's finally available. Last Wednesday verses without faltering. "I don't think American photographer laureate", has Mr. Lee's belief that art is capable of night in the Cafe, she there's anything been covering Asian-American concerns powerfully projecting and questioning gave a concert to wrong with making through the photographic medium for social issues is substantiated by his pho- mark the release of a lot of mistakes the past 20 years. tographs of Asian-Americans protesting "Late Afternoon & when you play these Mr. Lee's keen knowledge of Asian not only domestic concerns of police Sunset Blue." The things," she said, communities and lifestyles as a whole brutality against a young bicyclist, but room was packed. "because it just goes was evinced during his talk on Thursday also the international apathy towards She opened with lo show you ... For evening, Feb. 22, at the Campus Center. drowned Vietnamese boat people. Nancy Sinatra's all the folks who It is interesting that his talk, by the will of His image of a mother and her two "These Boots Were aren't from Minne- the audience's questions it seemed, cen- daughters at a Korean Day Parade in Made for Walking," sota, who think Bob tered more on the Asian-American cul- New York seems to demonstrate a clash and went on to play Dylan can't sing ... tural and political situation rather than of East meets West as it depicts a Korean nine other covers nobody can do this on the topic of photography itself, indi- woman dressed very much in Western and ten of her own like he can." cating that Mr. Lee's priority in his im- garb while her two daughters, on either songs, seven of Between ages is truly to give voice to social issues. side of her, are dressed in traditional which are on the sets, Kelly Lock and He is painfully aware of the socio-cul- costume. Mr. Lee also makes it clear, tape. Caitlin Dempsey, tural status of Eastern groups in relation both verbally and graphically, that those "Where the Wild dressed in black to the West. He was quick to emphasize Koreans, Vietnamese, and Filipinos who Things Are" and leather, did a rap, that the segmentation of Asian Ameri- have emigrated in the last decade un- "J.D.& the Midwest- I— "La Di Dah Di," by can communities into professionals and doubtedly encounter a disparate set of ern Blues" are h HI a i m Ho and her guitar on the Doug E Fresh. Robin blue-collar workers is a common condi- cultural conditions from that of most Joanna's best songs. cover of "Late Afternoon & Sunset Bernstein and Re- tion among various ethnicities in this Chinese and Japanese whose American In both of them, she Blue." Photo by Donna Uetwiller. becca Mattis did country. roots — and scars — may go back a pushes her voice as another, "Get Your One complaint that he made was di- continued on page 10 far as it will go. She howls. She sang both HandsOff My Body" by the YeastieGirls. of these in her first set, and after she Both of these acts had the audience on finished "J.D." she commented, "I al- the floor laughing. Dinner theater — in Rhoads? ways play that one right before some Joanna opened her second set with song that's really hard to sing." And she Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On," which BY ALESSANDRA DJURKLOU made one feel one was right in the midd le followed it with k.d. lang's "Nowhere to she said had been dubbed "the sexiest of the show. Sometimes, however, it was Stand," a song about domestic violence. song in the world" by two-thirds of her A diehard Peanuts fan, I was some- hard to see details across the dining hall When she had finished "Nowhere to family. She did it justice. what unsure that human beings could because they were blocked by tables of Stand," she said that she was trying to Her rendition of Shawn Colvin's "Crv reproduce the bittersweet, multidimen- people. These trifles, however, did not avoid playing her depressing songs — Like an Angel" was heartbreakingly sional quality of the cartoon. That's why take away from my enjoyment of the by playing other people's depressing beautiful. The audience was hushed, lis- I was pleasantly surprised by Broadway show. I walked out of this production of songs instead. "Nowhere to Stand" was tening to the warm, comforting lyrics: "I Souths from soup to nuts dinner theatre "You're a Gcod Man, Charlie Brown" a clearly a substitute for her own song hear you calling. You don't have to call production of "You're a Good Man, very happy camper. Good show, Charlie "Halfway There," which deals with sex- so loud/I see you falling, you don't have Charlie Brown." Brown! ual abuse. The contrast between the two to walk so proud./You can run all night, The idea of dinner theatre to liven up the songs is interesting: while k.d. lang's lyr- continued on page 10 everyday drudgery of cafeteria food is an excellent one, and by the time the ice cream novelties were served, I was a kid Becky Birtha.student writers read informally again. A woman I talked to during inter- BY GRETCHEN JUDE setting the tone of the evening with ele- Cedar (that's West Philly, folks) read a mission remarked that the show was gant, provocative poems both mesmer- variety of poems soon to be published, as appealing not only because it brought us I really enjoyed last Thursday night's izing and amusing. Robin Bernstein fol- well as the best children's story I've heard back to childhood, but also because it open reading The mellow atmosphere lowed with a well-woven short story in years called "Nappy Bear." The read- had a lot to offer to adults. I think that ofCC105—complete with candles burn- about a recent Manhattan summer, a tale ing closed with a segment of Birtha's explains why this show is such a favorite ing in the windows, dried fruit and nuts that many in the room found very true- short story from her second book "Lover's with everyone. and occasional easy laughter—provided to-life. Gia Hansbury shared poems that Choice," called "In the Life," a moving The cast did a great job, apart from the a relaxed dynamic between readers and were a contradictory yet well-balanced story in the voice of an aging African- fact that with such a show one can rarely listeners that I found refreshing and mixture of the reflective and the confron- American lesbian recalling her life-long go wrong. One of the more memorable rather unusual for BMC. tational, in a formal language punctu- companion and the love and community performances came from Ramien Pierre, Victoria Nixon opened the reading, ated with self-conscious bluntness. Then they had shared. as Snoopy, who lamented: "Oh, the curse Christine (I don't know your last name I hope this sort of thing can become a of a fuzzy face!" and made his fans very because you left before I coufd ask you) tradition, as it did at SUNY Buffalo with happy with his flying ace impression. read poetry inspired by her travels, Becky Birtha's help. My suggestions for Amy Holzapfel was the quintessential poems of crystalized moments of experi- future readings: even more mellowness. Charlie Brown, drawing us into the ence and self-reflection. This can be hard in such an intense and somewhat exasperating world of the little Dominique Behague's writing re- serious community, in a place that val- roundheaded kid, despairing over his vealed a strong and intimate voice, in ues the product over the process (for this inability to fly a kite, charm the little poems re-evaluating and re-valuing the reason I found Becky Greco's sharing of redheaded girl, and receive Valentines. personal. In contrast and complement, "works in process" both refreshing and ,Reena Freedman as Lucy, reminded me Cheryl Kim followed, speaking calmly exciting — I can't wait to hear the of how evil little girls truly can be. The and eloquently of rage and empower- changes). Similarly, BMC's emphasis on rest of the cast all gave strong perform- ment in a world that "still ain't well/still the written over the spoken word stunts ances, but I was somewhat disappointed ain't fair." Then resident mystic Beth readings — the great diversity of style, that Pigpen and Peppermint Patty did Stroud read, choreographing graceful . content and theme was blurred by the not have more active roles in this pro- poems in simple, tactile language and uniformity of reading style (Robin and duction, and that Schroeder was missing imagery, melding the mystical with the Beth are, I think, two exceptions). Thanks his long blonde curls. mundane. Becky Greco shared soaring to the Women's Center for organizing The overall production flowed well, poems of dreams and waking, visionary this opportunity. I look forward to more even though it was slow in a few parts. Becky Birtha read with students. versions of reality. and various opportunities to listen and The staging was interesting because it Photo by Tee A. Corinne Becky Birtha, a guest from 51st and share. Page 10 The College News March 7,1990 Contest open to book collectors

BY KAIA HUSEBY erwise. Abby's collection has grown despite Christian material — bibles, prayer the difficulties; not only has she found Book collecting is one of the most en- books, literature, and other old texts — beautifully bound books, but she has start writing! James Tanis, Director of riching and exciting hobbies there are. composed Robin Bernstein's collection, also found interesting remnants from Libraries, encourages all to apply; if you Seymour Adelman, the man behind the which was awarded second prize in 1988. years past. London news clippings from applied before but did not win, try again! famous book contest that has been going Her fascination and acquisitions began fifty years ago slip out of the pages... one (Cocktail recipe book collector, are you on for the last five or six years, wanted to when she found an ornate bible with a book was impossible to read because the out there?) All you have to do is send a encourage the enthusiasm of collectors leather clasp from the 1890's. Rare book pages had never been cut apart. What one-page statement explaining your col- by awarding $50 to each year's winner. value is not of importance to her (even other messages will she discover? lection and how it started to James Tanis, Being an avid bibliophile himself, he was though she possesses a Concordance Intrigue and curiosity are often the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library, by both aware of and eager to recognize the from the 1600's); instead, Robin looks for foundations of book collections, no mat- Monday, April 2, 1990. Expose those often unusual motivations and origins of books that she is attracted to instinc- ter what the theme. If you have any sort private obsessions that may be building the Bryn Mawr undergraduates' compi- tively, books that have a more personal of assortment in your room or at home, up on your shelves! lations. meaning. Genevieve Bell received the prize in When reading works by Helene Hanf f, // // 1987 for her assortment of Australian Abby Kay, winner of the 1989 award, books. Fiction, non-fiction, childhood found numerous references to a British Waiting For the Parade favorites, and currently out of print jour- author, "Q" (also known as Sir Arthur nals of Australian political satire were Quiller Couch). The Oxford professor continued from page 8 new, are still thought-provoking. Marta the elements of her vast collection. The wrote often about prose and verse, about crucial roles these men play in their lives realizes that her father's sudden interest, purpose was to gather together books the importance of clarity in writing, all — it is not, as advertised, a play about after the death of her mother, in the Nazi which reminded her of home; it turns out with an inspiring intellectual acuteness women and should not be confused as party could easily have been an obses- that most of the books cannot even be that has kept Abby on her search for the such. sion with seed catalogues. found in the U.S. (except at the Owl elusive "Q." There are a limited number A wonderful scene of drunken revelry is When school children in Eve's class Bookshop!) Genevieve said that the con- of his books in circulation; one book on one of the few occasions when it does live come in with buttons that say "Zap the test gave her a chance to talk about what the art of writing took two years to ac- up to its description. Catherine finds out Japs" she reprimands them and demands she really enjoyed with a group of people quire. Other works are cheaper and more that her husband has been reported that the pins be removed. The students she wouldn't necessarily have met oth- readily available only in England. missing and pulls out the alcohol. Marta then go to the Principal of the school to and Eve join in to sing, laugh, and share repeal' her decision, and are actually in the good time. For once they seem to told that it is 'fine' to wear the pins. They find pleasure in themselves, their friend- return with the pins back on, saying that Joanna Ho releases tape ship, and their true feelings. Excellent Eve should be shot as a traitor. There are acting and a familiar situation helped me other such instances where the blatant continued from page 9 Moon Will Take You Home," "I'll Re- to empathize with the characters — they display of anti-enemy sentiment makes we can take you where/You can shout member You," and "J.D & the Midwest- were very real, very filled out. What us realize once again that the potential out in anger, you can laugh like a fool/ ern Blues" were recorded with drums made it especially attractive was that for ethnocentricity exists within us and is You can sing Hallelujah/You can fly like and bass. "A Lock Of His Hair" has — they could also haveeasily been Mawrters just much more visible and distinct in a bird/You can cry like an angel/when yes — sound effects. But these changes getting drunk on a Saturday night, com- extreme conditions like the war. there are no words." alone don't account for the different batting their boarding school woes by I am not going to touch on aspects of She tried to end with "Dream a Little quality of her songs. For someone who's exchanging comments on lovers, good the production apart from the acting Dream," made popular by The Mamas been to all her Cafe concerts, it's a little sex (or lack thereof), Daniel Day-Lewis. (which was excellent), as I personally and the Papas, but the Cafe crowd called like hearing a close friend's voice on your Another time, Eve, Catherine and Marta found the traditional format that the play her back for two encores — "Rocky Rac- answering machine. Even though it'sstill go on a picnic. Eve, who has always was presented in uninteresting. I also coon" by the Beatles and her own "I'll a wonderful voice. vocally deplored the concept of war, have found no answer to the nagging Remember You," requested by her sis- The jacket photograph is of Joanna, brings a pair of binoculars to observe the question of why playwright John Mur- ter. naked, curled around her guitar. It's a bombers as they swoop, dive and — rell would want to writea play about five Ian Carter sold copies of "Late After- good metaphor for her music. Generally bomb. She is fascinated by them — and women. noon & Sunset Blue" throughout the speaking, she's shy. But when she plays, says so—admitting at the same time that Why would a man want to write about concert. By the end of the evening, about especially-when she plays her own songs, what is behind this 'beautiful' display is five women living through World War thirty copies had been sold and Joanna she's vulnerable and exposed. The tape an ugly event. II? Perhaps he wanted to share some was "somewhat less in the red," as she doesn't capture the intimacy of her con- The playwright also makes a deroga- unique insight that would change our put it, than she had been before. certs. On the other hand, listening to tory comment, at Janet'sexpense, on over- lives or, (and more presumptuous), say Technically, the tape is uneven. Joanna Joanna at the distance it provides helps zealous organizers of war-time activi- something phenomenal and different attributes thedifference in sound quality prove how talented she really is. ties. It is clear that finally Janet has a about women. Instead, he just pins up to the fact that the tape was recorded on If things go according to plan, she'll be cause to adopt, a job to undertake and another chauvinistic comment on an an 8-track recorder, as opposed to a 24- performing again in Philadelphia on carry out — and it is the war that has already crowded billboard. I think that track. Her engineer has upgraded his March 11th, at Hepburns — a women's provided her with these. She makes a he justifies his play about women (for equipment to 16-track, though, and her bar at 254 S. 12th Street in Philadelphia. pathetic figure, unpopular among other women?) on the basis of his depiction of next tape will be much closer to studio "Late Afternoon & Sunset Blue" can be women ("Can't stand that woman") and women as the 'saner' elements of the quality. purchased by sending your name and cheated on by the husband for whom war. (Husbands are immature or fickle, Her recorded voice sounds unfamil- box number to C-133, with a check for $7 'she was doing all this'. We are expected the father goes crazy). But not only does iar. "Where the Wild Things Are," "The made out to Joanna Ho. to shake our heads and sigh about the he rehash old cliches about women fact that she capitalizes on the inherent "keeping the homef ires burning", he also sentimentality and theatricality of war. It presents an oft-repeated distortion — Corky Lee's "Roots to Reality" is ironical that this play itself is an excel- that this was all that these women were lent example of such exploitive efforts— about. At the beginning of the play Eve continued from page 9 moments of daily life. As a former stu- it uses the war to pull us into a whirlpool asks for "some space, good sense and a generation or more. Mr. Lee's self-styled dent of American history, he aims to of emotions, 'powerful' statements and little mutual respect". I, too, ask of male photojournalism does appear to success- correct false or absent historical roles of over-determined images. To give it its writers writing about women for some fully cut across specific nationalities to Asians in America. duecredit though, it does bring out some space, good sense, and please, just a touch create a more harmonized image of Eventually he plans to publish a book aspects of the war that, although not of respect for who we might really be. Asians in search of a deeper foothold in of all his photographs so as to leave a America. legacy of his work and observations. As a Chinese-American, this photog- In Mr. Lee's black-and-white pictures rapher's goal of creating a unified recog- I witnessed none of the "sexual erotic ... nition of all Asian Americans is blatantly house kicking ... exotic submissive sex The Admissions Office needs Bryn Mawr stu- reflected in his works. His photos have objects" intimated in his self-written ar- dents to give tours and work in the Admissions also covered South Asian-Americans. For tistic statement. His photographs reveal example, his image of a Hindu Sect in laudable insights into the Asian life that Office this summer. We have part-time and full- Indian Independence Day Parade show- not only all Asians but also all peoples of time positions available for part of the summer ing a young Indian man dressed in tradi- all races should be aware of. Mr. Lee and for the whole summer (the full range of dates tional clothing, carrying a "ghetto blas- modestly insists that his own background ter" on his shoulder, captures the con- is unimportant — what matters is that is May 21 to August 31). The pay rate is probably trasting — but not necessarily conflict- people will see his photographs and going to be $5.05 an hour (although this is still ing — merge of cultural traditions. question the roles of Asians in America. being negotiated as part of a college-wide read- Mr. Lee's photographic career took When discussing his photographs, Mr. seed when, as an organizer for better ten- Lee had a ready story to tell of each, but justment for summer employees). In addition, ant housing in New York City's China- one need not speak with him to under- housing may be available at discounted rates. town, he started photographing tene- stand the socio-politically provocative If you are interested in working for the Admis- ments before and after redevelopment. images and the real story behind each His photographs have been used by The photograph. As stated by the artist him- sions Office this summer, please call x5152 as New York Times, New York Post, Time self, his exhibit openly "explores alterna- soon as possible to arrange an interview with magazine and the Associated Press. Mr. tive voices not heard, visions not seen, Justine Jentes. Lee's images are products of solid photo- but needs and concerns that must be journalism in that they document certain addressed". March 7,1990 The College News Page 11 DATES WOMEN MAKE March 7— PedroCruz, formerSalvadoraii labor organizer and politi- —"What would Jesus Say?" Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Aware- cal prisoner, will speak on his experiences. 7pm, Campus Center 105. ness Week at Penn, 7 pm, in the Christian Association Lounge, at 36th March 19— "Exploring Feminist Theology" with Rev. Susan Cady, a and Walnut. Info: 898-5270. Sophia Scholar, from Emmanuel Methodist Church. And "Changing March 27— Women Writers at Bryn Mawr presents a reading and Perspectives on Biblical Women" with Dr. Robin Mattison. 1 pm at the workshop with Margaret Gibson. 1:15 pm, in Campus Center 105. Christian Association of Penn,36th and Locust Walk. April 2— "Accepting Challenges-Integration of the Whole" lpm at the March 20— Diane Fuss, Professor of English at Princeton University, Christian Association of Penn, at 36th and Locust Walk. presents "Tongue in Chic: Fashion and the Construction of Lesbian Aprils— International Women's Day at Penn, "CelebratingOur Diver- Subjectivity." 7:30 pm in Room 111, Annenberg School, 3620 Walnut. sity." Sponsored by the Penn Women's Center. Info: 898-8611. Info: Larry Gross, 898-5620. Through March 25— Fences, Tony and Pulitzer Award winning play March 26— Take Back the Night March at Penn, sponsored by Penn about black in the urban North and lost dreams. Annenberg Center, Women's Alliance. Meet at 7:30 pm on College Green, on Locust 3680 Walnut Street. Tickets: $17.50-$22.00. Info: 898-6701. Walk between 34th and 35th. Through April 1— "African American Artists" Works from the perma- —"How Feminist Faith Strengthens Self Esteem" lpm at the nent collection honoring Black History Month. Philadelphia Museum Christian Association of Penn, at 36th and Locust Walk. of Art, Parkway at 26th. Info:763-8100. Swim team wraps up strong season, looks to next year continued from page 12 morning of the three-day event, at least seconds offer their earlier time, estab- Mia Norlin and Katie Brown were very team tradition. All were entertained by six swimmers swam well enough in pre- lishing a new record of 1:48.76. strong, finishing sixth and seventh in the Johanna and Lida's forays into the rest liminaries to qualify to swim again in the The depth of the team was incredible, one-meter diving. stops on the New Jersey Turnpike look- evening finals. The top twelve finishers with 13 team members winning points Coach Bolich was thrilled with the ing ever-so-fashionable in their latex caps in each event competed for ribbons, for BMC. Bryn Mawr was strongest in outcome of the Tri-States meet and the and Speedo goggles. The other major hit medals, or plaques. the breaststroke events, entering at least entire season. When asked to comment of the weekend was the team's luxury Some of the highlights of the meet eight swimmers in both the 100- and 200- she said, "Our long training season can accommodations, replete with Laura were Miller's record breaking 200-yard yard breaststroke preliminaries. Three be frustrating at times — it's hard to set Ashley comforters and MTV. What more breaststroke race, winning her fourth swimmers made finals in the 100-yard goals in September and stick with them could a swim team ask for? place overall with a time of 2:39.95. The breaststroke: Miller, and juniors Amy for five months, but we did. The swim- Two weeks following Seven Sisters, women from Bryn Mawr were also suc- Mahan and Julie Smith, who finished mers worked hard and it paid off with the team loaded up the vans again and cessful in breaking two relay records third, eighth, and twelfth respectively. successful swims, competitive meets, and headed to the Tri-State Championship during the course of the weekend. The Fourswimmers finished in the top twelve even some broken records." Looking meet, held at the Virginia Military Insti- 800-yard freestyle relay was swum by in the 200-yard breaststroke: Miller, forward to next year, there will be many tute in Lexington, VA from February 16- Miller, May, Wagner and Hanson, who Mahan, sophomore Zoe Williams, and strong swimmers returning, including 18. Thirteen swimmers and three divers teamed up to break the old 800-yard Smith, who finished fourth, seventh, valuable freshwomen Jo Wagner and qualified for the meet, which is consid- freestyle relay record by 24.62 seconds eighth, and twelfth respectively. And as Lida Hanson. However, seniors Meredith erably more than last year. Overall the with a final time of 8:42.38, earning a usual, the threesome of sophomore di- Miller and Melissa Oliphant will be team made an impressive appearance third place finish. The 200-yard freestyle vers ranked very well among their com- greatly missed both for their swimming and surprised other returning teams with relay team, comprised of Miller, May, petitors. Johnson finished first in three- contributions and the sense of spirit and their degree of improvement. Every Hanson, and Stillmock, dropped .28 meterand fifth in one-meter diving, while fun which they brought to the team. Five gender-bending plays comprise women's theater festival

continued from page 10 seemed to be asserting their ability to selves to the ground, they were difficult less voices and the slides took on a more at one point they switched roles; after the construct their own roles any way they to see. and more sinister meaning as the play play, a member of the audience was chose. Women can identify with James -Rachel Perlman progressed. Every time an actor donned overheard saying "I've never seen a Dean as much as with Katharine Hep- THE INSTRUMENTS MAY BE SHOWN the white doctor smock or cracked a stick woman who could look like she was in bum. When we walked into Penniman Li- against the railing, I had to suppress a drag because she was wearing a dress." -Beth Stroud brary for the showing of "The Instru- feeling of fear. Particularly painful for Correcting and interrupting each CALM DOWN MOTHER and TERROR ments May Be Shown," this is what we me was the heavily symbolic scene in other, they told the story of how they had OF WEDDING saw: a person lying on a torture bench which two women bind each other's feet met in Berlin in 1979. Peggy had been "Calm Down Mother" was performed with horrible-looking spikes, a huge in wet rags they take out of basins of traveling with a gay theatrical company before the longer "Terror of Wedding." projector screen with a black and white water. The rags were streaked with a red called Hot Peaches, and Lois had been "Calm Down Mother" was an interest- picture of something unidentifiable (but which looked like blood. In another ef- touring with a feminist company, Spi- ing if disjointed portrayal of the conflicts certainly gruesome) and figures in black fective scene towards the end, all the derwoman Theatre. Lois's company had women address. It was comprised of draped across the walls, hanging onto actors are herded together like so many lost their costumes en route, and so they several scenes that didn't lead into each the rails which line the three tiers of the cattle tied in by a thick wire while the called Hot Peaches to ask for help. other but added up to be an interesting library. From a huge speaker to our right, faceless voices murmured "They say I "Well," said Lois during the perform- piece. ethereal, New Age-type music floated don't exist anymore." ance, "Peggy was in this gay theater "The Terror of Wedding" united out to us. Welcome to the World of Tor- At first I felt that there was too much group, and they were mostly drag queens. Florence Nightingale with the problems ture. going on and that the audience was too And I was with this feminist group and confronting modern nursing. It also "The Instruments May Be Shown" close to the actors. After the first ten we were mostly, well ... feminists. Re- threw in current political issues such as consisted of an hour and a half of per- minutes or so, these "problems" disap- member, this was 1979 and we were very homosexuality, AIDS and the Arab-Is- formance art in which the actors moved peared. The audience's attention was much into deconstructing the female raeli conflict. The play tried too hard to around enacting acts of torture, taking riveted; no one dared even cough. The image and all that." include as many issues as possible. The on both the roles of the torturer and the implied violence and the pain withheld During the course of the performance, scenes switched back and forth from tortured. The props used to evoke the were more excruciating than the actual they lip-synched pop songs, taking on Florence Nightingale's life to the pres- netherworld of torture were a white sight of bodies writhing or screaming. the different male and female roles. They ent. The frequency with which these doctor smock, a judge's wig and cloak, a The crucial ending of the play was also acted out some scenes assuming the scenes changed was a major liability to military cap, a fish tank full of water and complete. "The Instruments May be voices and mannerisms of old movie the performance. thick, dusty books which yielded no Shown" ended right at the moment be- stars. The very fact that both of the per- "Neither "Calm Down Mother" nor answers. Intermittently, the music fore the tension would start to fall apart. formers were women underlined the in- 'The Terror of Wedding" were particu- changed to voices saying, "We know you The actors froze in various positions, the vented quality of gender differentiation. larly suited to the studio in Penn's im- know ... Knowing is Believing ... I don't music returned to the opening score while By playing the often-ridiculed "butch" pressive Annenberg Center. Both plays know anything" and the projector moved the lights slowly dimmed into pitch and "femme" roles sometimes associ- included a large amount of crouching or to the next unidentifiable picture. darkness. ated with lesbian relationships, they kneeling and as the actors lowered them- These every-day props, the tension- -Nancy Yoo

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The only full contact team sport for women — rugby

BY KAREN SOLOMON ation. Contrary to, well,other opinion, there is no sport that can be compared to Under the expert coaching of Oscar rugby, and unlike any other sport aside Matthews and Eddie Lyden, with guest from water polo, it is the only full contact appearances by Jojo Gunn, the Haver- team sport for women. How many ford/Bryn Mawr Women's Rugby Club women you know can attempt to regain is back in full force, having been in pre- whatever was mugged off them by chas- season practice since mid-February. With ing and tackling their assailant? 15 of the 34 players being rookies, enthu- If you have neither seen a rugby game siasm has not been lacking. The return- nor know much about the sport, the ob- Br-Co women's rugby in action. ing squad includes seniors Felicity O'Her- jective is to carry the ball into the try zone ron, Sarah Gill, Seanna Melchior, Val (which is similar to an end zone, but pitch down by the field house parking ties, don't limit yourself to just this one. Papaconstantinou, Natasha Singh, Alix again rugby is unlike any other sport, lot; you pass it on the way to HPA. Our When I've spoken with people about Cohen, Danielle Voogt, Rachel Gilman, and yes, I am avoiding the f-word), and next game is on the Tuesday following what it is that they like about rugby and captains Andhra Lutz and Karen to place it firmly on the ground; hence a spring break, March 20, when we will be enough to keep coming out, the general Solomon; juniors Carla Tohtz, Jennifer try, the main rugby form of scoring. The hosting the touring Williams College, feeling is that, especially at places like Frisby, and Elizabeth Skokan; sopho- ball is advanced meters by means of with the time to be announced. The fol- Haverford and Bryn Mawr where you mores Shannon Ross and Kim Boltz; and kicking, running, by carrying it forward lowing Saturday we will travel to take on can get pretty sucked up into your work first-years Liberty Rucker, Mia Shapiro, in a maul, or by pushing it forward in a ourarch-rivalsSwarthmore, with the time and lose your perspective, it's The Great Jenn Reed, Callie Chenault, and Eliza- scrum. If you, despite my graphic de- to be announced, but probably at 11 am. Escape. When you're out there at prac- beth Courtenay. Newcomers include scriptions, are unable to envision what The weekend of March 31 and April 1 tice or in a game, rugby is all you think seniors Laura Hart and Jaye Fox (its I'm talking about, ask any rugger - she'll we'll be down in Charlottesville for the about. And in how many sports you can never too late to start), junior Margot gladly show you what these terms mean. 14th Annual Virginia Women's Invita- name do you, as an integral part of the Hipwell, sophomores Tina Rodriguez The ball may only be thrown backward, tional Tournament. game, party with the other team after- and Betina Cochran, and those frosh, so this isn't really advancing the ball (and Tentatively scheduled for the seventh ward? It's there more than any other how we love 'em, Emile Taylor, Rebecca sometimes it's really not advancing the of April is a match with our other rivals, place I've been able to find between the Nowlin, Mary Johannesen, Kelli Nichols ball), but it is a means to get the ball to the fourth nationally-ranked Monmouth two colleges that we're able to really (who rounds out the 12% of Breconites another player, hopefully one on your Renegades. (The game is tentative as they keep perspective of what life's all about who play rugby), Eleni Varitimos, own team, so that she can then either aren't sure they're up to playing us.) Then anyway. Remember all that stuff about Basheera Abdus-Sabur, Liz D'Amato, give it to another of her teammates, or on April 14 we'll play our ever -friendly having fun in life and loving your neigh- Rebecca Snyder, and Brooke Barnes. use one of the former means to advance -but -that -doesn't -mean -you're -going - bor? The fact that even as a club sport we For those of you unfamiliar with the it herself, or with a little help from her to - win- this- time match with Penn (at have a better turnout than any varsity game, rugby is a sport rarely played friends, or even the other team, depend- Penn), but they usually end up playing team sport should tell you something. before the university level in the United ing on who we are playing. Much better, us here because we all like our pitch You may be able to tell a little from States, with the exception of a few high thank you. No? Well, the best solution to better. Saturday the 21st is at Haverford watching the games and perhaps attend- schools that have teams. Even so, rugby confusion is to come watch the mighty against Shippensburg, our third rival ing the post-game ("in the Bryn Mawr remains limited mostly to the university Toads play. team, but for different reasons that you'll tradition") teas just what it is that we love and club level, so it's one of the few Our next game is coming soon to a have to watch the game to figure out. so much about the sport; but to really sports where almost no one comes to the pitch (that's the English equivalent for Then Haverfest, May 5, is the date and know it's just something you've got to try sport at the university level having played the American term "field") near you, that place of our last game, against Bucknell. for yourself. If you're interested in play- before, and having the clubs means that is to say Haverford, where we play all of Even though this should be our most ing there's still time; call Andhra Lutz at the fun doesn't have to end upon gradu- our home games. We play on theorchard "festive" game with surrounding activi- X5495 or Karen Golomon X7545. Swimming season long, hard, but successful

BY MEREDITH MILLER ruary 5, the team of sophomore Kara AND JULIE SMITH Stillmock, junior Natalie May, Hanson and Miller set a new school record for the The swimming season is a long one. A 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of very long one. Practices began on Sep- 1:49.04. tember 18,1989, and the season officially Post-season competition is usually the ended on February 18,1990 at the close of most exciting time for athletes, because the Tri-States Championship meet. Be- they are at the peak of both their fitness tween those dates, the team was in the and confidence. Not only that, but hey, water and on the boards virtually every it's almost over. This year was no excep- weekday afternoon, whether working out tion for the swimming and diving team. under the watchful eye of Coach Barbara The post-season began with the annual Bolich or taking on the latest competitor Seven Sisters' Swimming and Diving in one of their eight dual meets. Here are Championships. On February 2, a squad some of the regular season highlights. of 14 women made the journey to Smith At the season opener versus Lehigh College. Throughout the two-day meet, per- Melissa Oliphant "90 performing an energetic butterfly. Photot courtesy ofB. (an NCAA Div. I school — never a lot of Bolich fun), sophomore diver Ingrid Johnson formances showed a great improvement broke both the one a nd th ree meter school over last year. Whereas in 1989 only 5 records, a nice way to start the year. The swimmers were point winners for BMC, following week, Bryn Mawr got its first this year an amazing 22 team members Upcoming Athletic Events (and, well, its only) win of the season, finished in scoring positions, to give BMC defeating Notre Dame of Maryland by a a strong fifth place standing at the end of Tuesday 3/20 Rugby vs. Williams 4 pm score of 150-107. When asked to com- the meet. Key players included sopho- Lacrosse vs. Cedar Crest 4 pm ment, Coach Bolich yelled, "We won!" more Ingrid Johnson, winning both first Thurday 3/22 Lacrosse vs. Chestnut Hill 4 pm Ursinus provided some close competi- place in the three-meter diving competi- Saturday 3/24 10 am tion later in November, narrowly defeat- tion and second place in the one-meter Wellness Seminar: ing BMC 113-141.Strong first placeswims event, and senior Meredith Miller, fin- Women's Worries were recorded by freshwomen Jo Wag- ishing within the top five places in each Rugby vs. Swarthmore at Swat 11 am ner in the 1000-yard freestyle and Ginny of her four individual events. Other point- Sunday 3/25 4 Mile Road Race 8 am Ebener in both the 100- and 200-yard winners finishing in the top twelve of sponsored by backstrokes. One of the most exciting their events were freshwomen Jo Wag- BMC Athletic Association meets of the season was on January 29 at ner and Lida Hanson, as well as juniors Tuesday 3/27 Lacrosse vs. Colby 4 pm Widener University. The final score was Amy Mahan, co-captain Julie Smith and J.V. Lacrosse vs. St. Joseph's 5:15 pm a close 121-139, with newcomer fresh- Natalie May. Not only did the team have Thursday 3/29 Tennis vs. Muhlenberg 3 pm woman Lida Hanson winning first place a good meet, but they had a pretty good Friday 3/30 Tennis vs. Vassar . 4 pm in the 100-yard backstroke, and senior time as well. The freshwomen particu- Saturday 3/31 Wellness Seminar: 10 am co-captain Meredith Miller scoring three larly enjoyed Hell Week on the road, a firsts. And finally, in the last regular long-standing, albeit unavoidable, swim Assertiveness & You season meet versus Swarthmore on Feb- continued on page 11