Galleys, 1960 - 1969
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Item New Constitutional Revision Committee(1960-03-25)"On the agenda for the Community Meeting scheduled for Monday night is the establishment of a new Constitutional Revision Committee. It will be the responsibility of this body to review the work of last term's Committee and to draft a Constitution serving the long-range, deliberate interests of the majority of the Community. This draft will then be submitted to the Community for adoption, hopefully before June."Item New Constitutional Drafting Committee(1960-03-30)"The scanty attendance at Monday evening's Community Meeting may be rationalized. The majority of the Community was perhaps persuaded that the Community Council's proposal, after ample or excessive discussion, would be adopted and a slate of nominees for the New Constitutional Drafting Committee subsequently prepared."Item Statements on the Constitution Committee(1960-04-05)Statements from various community members regarding the Constitution CommitteeItem Fluid Government Structure(1960-04-06)"More than one writer in Galley has recently pointed out the shaky nature of the Community's rather fluid governmental structure. It is hoped that a new or possibly two or more new, constitutions will remedy this. But that is not the worst of it. We simply cannot wait. There is pending right now an issue which will illuminate the cracks in the machinery of democratic self government at Bennington the issue of which may well be to deprive students of all freedom, making them subservient to the unfortunately all too efficient operations of a well-oiled faculty."Item Look Magazine(1960-05-14)"After observing the activities of Look Magazine representatives on the Bennington Campus this weekend it seems to us that more 'Anne Carter' type publicity is in the making. Look Magazine seems to have come equipped with script and costumes. We don't feel it necessary to reclothe Bennington in any way, shape, or dress."Item Bennington's Policy Re: Graduating Seniors(1960-06-06)"Bennington'ss policy re: graduating seniors seems to be based on perpetuating uncertainty. This gathers momentum toward the end of the last term when most senior projects are eit her fulfilled or nearing completion. The student at this time is still completely unsure of her ultimate graduation from Bennington College"Item The Plight of the Non-Smoker(1960-09-27)"10:00 -11:20 am Half-filled coffee cups adorned with floating cigarette butts face - - - - me in Commons as I stumble about blindly tapping with my white handled cane, part of my standard equipment at Bennington."Item Re: Orgiastic Proceedings in Public Places(1960-10-20)"A mixed blessing is this freedom that we hold so dear at Bennington . On the one hand, it encourages and facilitates our 'free expression' and 'creative self-fulfillment', but on the other, it occasionally puts us in the position of being identified with a particular exercise of that freedom which we neither want nor claim."Item Pseudo-advertisements(1960-10-25)"One wonders, rather, the point of the pseudo-advertisement and the cards on the Independents' bulletin board -- surely the people on campus who are so discriminating as not to endorse either candidate can find more constructive ways to make known their viewpoints."Item Postage Rate Increase(1961-06)Item Thefts in the Cooperative Store(1962-11-29)"It has been announced to us that due to the repeated thefts in the Cooperative Store, the Store will be closed evenings and on week-ends until further notice. The Community was informed that this action would be inevitable if people continued to steal, but the warning had no apparent effect on the situation."Item Dissenting opinion on contributing to the Bennington Civil Rights Committee(1963-05-20) Nicholas, Jeannie; Stafne, Marianne; Wolter, Sally"There are many sides to the question of whether or not the student body should forfeit its Friday night dinner in order to contribute to the Bennington Civil Rights Committee the money which would ordinarily be spent for this food. We would like to present a dissenting opinion to this gesture. This gesture supposes universal public consent to a matte r which should be decided privately."Item The Irrationality of Vietnam(1965)"The arguments of Mr . Adam Yarmolinsky may sound convincing, but unfortunately, his brand of logic is hard to fathom. Supposedly Mr. Yarmolinsky sincerely believes that the Viet Cong control of large areas of Viet Nam is based largely upon terror. It is not to be denied t hat terror is used but it appears that t his terror is used more against the Saigon officials sent out rather than directed against the mass of the people. Can't this explain the morale of t he Viet Cong?"Item The Passion Flower Motel(1965)A satirical response to galleys about the tension between self-governance and rules/laws, in particular new alcohol regulations. "We have heard that a faculty member suggested that the whole solution to the problems that have recently been discussed in galleys and private protests, is to set up a college-run, cooperative motel on campus. We suggest as a possible name "The Passion Flower Motel." As a site, of course, what could be better than the meadow by the lake?"Item Laws, Rules and Morality(1965)"Girls here seem well able to discipline themselves according to their own moralities without disrupting the community. I think we are intellectually established well enough not to need a moral structure imposed on us from without. We have all experienced conventional morality and made our own judgments on it."Item Galley from "Captain Normal Monad"(1965)"That statement your Acting President made about the drink has just been brought to my attention by one of my subordinates, and I thought that even not being a member of what you kids call The College Community it might still be all right for me to put in my two cents' worth of contribution to all that free discussion you have going on up there on the Hill."Item Bennington College is Heading Toward a Rapid Decline(1965)"The increasing submissiveness on the part of students and faculty is also indication of a change. Evidence of this is the amount of active vocal protest and the number of galleys that have been written concerning the absence of faculty parties in contrast to the amount of angry talk around campus."Item Conflict , argument and discussion are essential prerequisites of a liberal community.(1965-03-30) Levy, Caryn; Marshall, Nancy; Perloff, Jerry"As seniors we are also concerned with the future of individual freedom at Bennington. We feel that the recent galley, signed by five seniors, is proof of the ferment and unrest at Bennington. However, we also believe that their assumption that the administration is at fault or is trying to 'emasculate the Bennington reputation' is erroneous and reflects the kind of attitude that can do more damage to the community than can restrictions from the administration."Item The Real Problem(1965-03-31) Hadary, Susan"Recently a good deal of faculty sponsored activity has led to the discussion and evaluation of what are considered to be the problems at Bennington, consisting of, among other things, the dining room crisis and social life at Bennington. To me, these are not the real problems confronting the student body or the college as a whole."