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ews Vol. LV WELLESLEY COLLEGE NEWS. WELLESLEY, MASS., APRIL 12, 1962 No. 15 MIT Lends Shells To Tree Day Crew; Madame Pandit Addresses Wellesley, New Purchases Set by Virginia Kelley '64 Stressing ~Human Material' of India Spectators at the Tree Day crew demonstration will see a "V", if not India Moves Ahead Madame Vijaya Pandit, ex-president of the United Nations General Assembly, scored the traditional "W," formed by the United States yesterday for-the current resumption of nuclear tests in a press conference crew shells on Lake Waban. Miss Clapp announced in chapel last Slowly, But Surely at Wellesley. The sister of Indian Prime Minister Jewaharlal Nehru stated that "Testing is week that two 45-foot rowing bar Speaking on the thesis that an wrong no matter who does it." · ges will be borrowed from MIT as understanding of the "human mat Replying to a question on the temporary replacements for the erial" of India is essential to any necessity for tests to further West four lost in the collapse of the crew examination of Indian political in ern security, Madame Pandit de house last month. stitutions, Madame Vijaya Lakshmi clared, "Fear Motivates both sides. The borrowed craft, which ar Pandit called here Tuesday, for The Soviet Union is also afraid. rived Saturday, are to be used for greater sympathy with all methods Somebody has to break the circle Athletic Association, Tree Day, and of evolving democracy. Madame someplace. A great country like Sophomore Fathers' Day crew acti Pandit stressed the importance of the United States should not be vities. indi v;idual dignity and state respon afraid to take the risk." She "re Physical Education classes in sibility in Indian political tradition. gretted exceedingly" the failure to crew will be resumed as soon as reach an agreement in the current new shells can be bought and a new In the first of three lectures negotiations in Geneva. sponsored by the Barnett Miller crew house built: "Definitely next Not Close to China spring-next fall would be a happy Foundation, the sister of Prime Madame Pandit stated that India surprise," said Miss Betty Speers, Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke was not at present "particularly head of the Physical Education De on the topic "India's Experiment in close to Red China." She did not partment. Democracy." comment upon future Indian action As crew shells must be custom The Indian national elections of to meet the Communist threat on made, the destroyed shells cannot last February, held only fifteen the northern border of India. With be replaced immediately: Miss years after the country achieved rega 1 to the unchecked problem Speers knows of only two places independence, were pointed to by she aft1rmed only that India had wher.e they are manufactured. the speaker as a sign of the politi "no intention of allowing further Letters Bring Action cal maturity of the people. These encroachments." The decision of the Administra elections, the largest in history, Not withstanding !:urrent ten tion to restore crew facilities was were carried out peacefully by sions Madam.: t>andit restated her based on the enthusiastic response secret ballot. Madame Pandit cre desire to have Red China seated in made to the letter circulated by dited the voters with a deep under the United Nations. The diplomat the Physical Education Department standing of the issues involved. based her position on the irration last month, which asked that stu Voters made decisions not on per PrNldent ind diplomat ality of excluding one-fourth of dent~ interested in continuing the sonal considerations she said, but photo by Ellen Washington '6q the world's population. Insisting crew tradition at Wellesley write rather· attempting to cast their bal that relations should play no part letters to the Department. lot according to effects on city, rallying the many diverse groups by "converting people's hearts" ra in the decision she declared that Over 750 letters were received, state and national life. of the country around a policy of ther than by fighting them. "We don't like several of the coun a representation of more than 40 Madame Pandit pointed to Ma passive resistance against Great Therefore, Madame Pandit point tries with whom we deal in the per cent of the student body. Miss hatma Gandhi as the man who used Britain in the effort to achieve in ed out, when independence was United Nations." Speers, who spent her vacation the "traditional thought processes" dependence. Mr. Gandhi taught achieved, there was in the Indian Madame Pandit assured report Continued on Page Seven of the Indian people as a means of that change can be brought about people, "less bitterness than ever ers that there had been no difficul before at the end of a political ty in the integration of Goa into struggle." This she viewed as the India. The tiny pieces of territory ET To StageGiraudoux's Version of Rape of Lucrece; greatest asset in the peaceful estab- on the west coast of India were Continued on Page Three seized from Portugal in December. 'Duel of Angels'Dramatizes Multi-Leveled Conflict She insisted that Goa had always Dartmouth to Host been integrated because it was "a Duel of Angels, a three act play Second Empire bourgeoisee in the san Bjurman '62) and causes her part of India." by Jean Giraudoux, is a contrast in little town of Aix-en-Provence husband, Armand (Maurice A. '} C • • Since the seizzure of Goa, Indo style and tone to the productions about 1868. Breslow) to see her clearly for the Nat • ompetI tIOll nesia has threatened to take similar ET has so far presented. Style is in Conflicts of Purity, Suspicion first time. Paola takes her revenge action in its claim to Dutch New fact the key aspect of Giraudoux's Aix was a town of love and plea- by making Lucile believe she has In Poetry Readings Guinea. Madame Pandit reported theatre. He once said that nothing sure without guilt until Judge Blan- been raped by Count Marcellus, little popular Indian interest in the comes alive except through its chard (Robert McEntire) and his (John McLean), the most subtly The Thirty-fourth Annual Inter- Indonesian affair. Side-stepping any style. He established in general wife Lucile (Shirley Hampton '63) corrupting man in Aix, and the collegiate Poetry Reading Contest direct statement on the claim, she terms what the theme of the play arrived. He imposes the impera- most handsome. will be held at Dartmouth College expressed India's "complete sym is, and then brings it to life during tives of bourgeois vices and virtues Symbolic Conflict on Saturday, April 28. Contestants pathy" for all countries seeking in the course of the action. The char in the law courts. She is conscious The conflict, in the shape of a from all over the country will ga- dependance. acters clearly define themselves of the purity within herself, and duel - an actual duel between Ar ther in Hanover for a day of activi- Madame Pandit reiterated India's through their language and the believes she sees insects and rep- mand and Marcellus, and a sym ties, including the reading, social bond with the nations of Africa drama springs from a confrontation tiles on any one not strictly chaste. bolic one between Paola and Lucile, activities, and a large dinner. and Asia. "Obv.iously," she said, of opposites. When she refuses to acknowledge representing vice and virtue-is a This year Wellesley plans to en- "we are in deepest sympathy with ter a contestant to be chosen in a those emerging nations." This play, its original title, Pour anyone, she brands them with com- conf.lict between an individual and campus--wide contest sponsored by , _____________ _ Lucrece, is a retelling of the rape mitting adultery, or of being de- that which attempts to remove his f Lucrece set in the eriod of the ceived. She does this to Paola (Su- privilege of giving order and form the Speech Department. All com 'ROSES' ON THE ROAD to his own world. Paola believes peitors will be asked to read one T,vo Wellesley College theatre she is fighting for all women; to or more poems of their own choice productions have been invited to' her, man is not a reality, he is a but based on the theme "It's a free Columbia University for the sec simple being who must be allowed world," which is also the theme of ond of hitherto unprecedented to keep his illusions if life is to con the Intercollegiate Reading. Read 'road tours'. Roses, by Susan Le tinue smoothly and happily. Lu ings will be limited to seven min vine '62, directed by Frances Roy cile's crime has been to reveal to utes. ster '62, and Giraudoux's Duel of men that women are not all angels. Preliminary Contest Angels, directed by Karen Geel Lucile refuses to acknowledge Maurice A. Breslow, who is the muyden '62, will play to a New evil in the world. When she is forc faculty advisor in charge of the York audience on Saturday, April ed to see it, forced to recognize preliminary contest, announces 21. that she herself has a dual nature that it will be held on Monday, Ro,es has already traveled to of purity and passion and that she April 16 at 4:40 in 444 Green Hall. Harvard's Loeb Drama Center, must accept Paola's values, she re Judges for the contest will be Paul where it was received enthusiastic fuses to compromise and kills her R. Barstow, Mr. Breslow, and a ally and noted as "bright, satiri self.