Galleys, 1960 - 1969
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Item An Evening of Christmas Music and Readings(1969-12)"The readers include Peter Wilson, Nicholas Delbanco, Richard Tristman, Stephen Sandy, Barbara Smith, Michael Dennis Browne and John Beary."Item Size is destroying the Bennington Experience(1969-12-12) Cromley, Jessica; Gordon, Lyn; Frank, Marilyn"Size is destroying the Bennington Experience. What is a Bennington Education? Administration dictation with student and faculty influence?"Item Excerpt from "Tell Me Lies"(1969-12-11)"We could live together and be poor and happy. We could paint the walls ourselves, and make furniture out of boxes ...We could drink cheap wine, eat pasta, and read the "Brothers Karamazov". We could make love three times in a night and buy a record player and find we both like Mahler. Until the mistake that is not quite a mistake makes me pregnant. We will talk about this at great length and read Simone de Beauvoir."Item Robert Sward Visiting Campus(1969-05)"Robert Sward will be visiting the campus on Thursday the 15th and will give a reading of his own poetry at 8:30 pm in the Carriage Barn Lounge."Item Does Today's Generation Have a Future?(1969-05-02)"Biologist George Wald, a 1968 Nobel Prize winner, electrified his listeners at MIT last month when he gave the following talk."Item Item Statement about People's Park protest in Berkeley(1969-05) Eskin, Stanley; Juhasz, Joseph; Kirkpatrick, Joanna; Rowe, LeonardItem The Benniad: written in the year MCMLXIX by Apoca Lypsia(1969-05)This satirical galley describes a dystopian Bennington featuring issues on campus such as the construction of the new science building and the "three course norm" a proposal to allow students to take a maximum of three courses.Item Open Meeting for Students Only(1969-05-07)Open meeting for students only to propose a unified group of perceptions, suggestions, etc. to improve the community especially in terms of academic issues.Item Kate Housekeeper and Ellie Siegel Memorial Funds(1969-05-08) Bloustein, Edward J."Several friends of Kate Housekeeper and Ellie Siegel and of their families have sent in sums of money which have been used to establish two memorial funds. Kate's and Ellie's families will ultimately decide on a fitting use to put each fund at the College."Item Photography at Bennington(1969-05-13) Hyman, Laurence J."There seems to be growing concern among the students that, for financial reasons, FEPC has dropped the academic offering of photography at Bennington. This is not true, and I feel this subject should be qualified immediately. FEPC has not discussed the subject, nor has the art division. I resigned some weeks ago from the teaching of photography for a variety of professional reasons. Basically my reasons were that I have neglected my own photographic work; that I find it necessary now to devote greatly increased amounts of time to the College's publications; that photography, in order to be offered properly, needs more faculty time and monetary expenditure than the College can now afford; and , finally, that the art division is not convinced that the medium is valid as a graphic art or that the teaching of photography at Bennington is as important as architecture or ceramics or other art division studio courses."Item Petition against three course norm(1969-05-12) Sorin, Judith"We are supposed to make our own decisions about our education here, but a three course curriculum is imposing a particular educational theory on everyone. There are many of us who want a broad education and who wish to explore several fields; we know that our time at college is probably our only chance to do so. The proposed change would make this impossible for us."Item An office for handling professional planning, job opportunities, etc., should not be attached to a liberal arts college(1969-05-07) Carini, Louis"I am not going to argue that the present NRT office is or should be adequate to this task, but that the office for handling professional planning, job opportunities, etc., should not be attached to a liberal arts college. Because of its NRT role, the NRT office can well continue as it is. Though Dow chemical recruiters may never have to be barred from Bennington College only because of the low esteem in which it holds your professional potentialities and for no other reason, the reason why the issue of recruitment has occurred at all is because the universities have gotten into the mistaken position of mixing education with vocations."Item STOP ROTC ON THE DARTMOUTH CAMPUS - FREE THE PARKHURST 56(1969-05-13) Greenthal, Susan; Gershman, Judy; Jacobson, Toni; Handler, Amy"Last week the three year fight to totally eliminate ROTC FROM THE DARTMOUTH CAMPUS was brought to a head. At 3:00 am Wednesday May 7, 56 men and women were arrested for defying a court injunction to leave the building (Parkhurst Hall, the college administration building). 45 cases were tried on Friday May 9, giving the lawyers involved less than a day to prepare their cases and meet their clients. The prosecuting attorney asked, "with some hesitation", for 15 day sentences on work faros, $100fines, and that the students be allowed to bring textbooks with theD so they could continue their course work. After a brief recess, during which the Judge met with the Governor's council (Governor Peterson of New Hampshire is scheduled to receive an honorary degree from Dartmouth in June and he is a trustee of the college) a 30 day sentence behind bars and $100 fine was declared. No mention was made of books. The 45 prisoners were immediately taken to jail. They have since been transferred to six jails in New Hampshire. Two of the people convicted were not even in the building. 9 members of the group have to stand trial on May19....If you can give some money, a car, any time at all at Dartmouth or for more information please contact us. The 45 people in jail need visitors, letters, encouragement. We have a list of names addresses and jail regulations."Item Apple Pie Motherhood Band to Play(1969-05-01) Ryan, Beverly; Hamer, HollyApplepie [sic] Motherhood have performed at the Boston Tea Party, Unicorn, Cafe au Go Go, the Bitter End, Electric Circus , La Cafe, and many others. They have made several television appearances , and the release of their second album is set for June . Their sound ranges from hard rock and blues to soul, emphasized by unique vocal performances. This opportunity is a first for Bennington.Item Item Response to Proposals for a Three-Course Norm(1969-05-02) Kaplan, Isabelle; Kaplan, Harold; Woodworth, Robert H., 1902-1990; Lyon, Irving; Gray, Paul; Benedikt, E. R. Coburn; Picco, U. R.; Browne, Michael Dennis; Cairns, John B.; Malamud, Bernard; Smith, Barbara H.; Supowit, Lee; Tristman, Richard G.; Delbanco, Nicholas F.; Cornwell, Robert G.; Surette, Gerald M.; Kirkpatrick, Joanna; Guy, Georges F.; Eskin, Stanley"We feel that a reduction from a four-course to a three-course program is a reduction indeed. We understand and respect the educational principles upon which the three-course suggestions are based - a compensation in "depth more valuable than what might be lost in "breadth" - but are not convinced that such a compensation would intact result from the change."Item Time to Get Ready for This Year's Stoopendous Carnival(1969-05)"We need ideas from everyone to produce a marvel of a carnival NINE days from today on May 23. There are 20 booths and so far only 10 houses have come up with decisions for booths. Ohhhhhh! So please please get together in your house to make plan, to organize, supply and decorate."Item A Partial Rejoinder(1969-05-16) Seidler, Doreen"It was precisely with regard to change in the interests of educational matters, not men in rooms, that last spring's"movement"was initiated. For example, self-study, was, in part, undeniably a reaction to the substance of last spring's dilemma, a dilemma which neither ended last spring nor did it resolve itself last fall. The momentum and support the "movement" gained bore witness to its central concerns: Each potential signer of the petition was apprised of our larger concerns with educational policy and orientation. Whether the hours issue was the best or potentially most successful vehicle for the expression of those concerns,is not properly at issue here. But the notion that it was men in rooms, rather than educational policies and priorities,is too facile,superficial, and in the last analysis, distorted an appraisal,to let pass by."Item A Partial Reminder(1969-05-19) Cairns, John"Miss Doreen Seidler has recently observed with regards to last spring's men-in-rooms controversy that "the parietals was used... as a vehicle for the expression of profound disenchantment and regret with the apparent direction in which Bennington seemed to be moving." Puzzled, a newcomer, I begin to see light--it wasn't men-in-rooms at all. It was disenchantment and regret. Why, it was all a sham, it was all a vehicle for expression."