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BARD EEK VOL" I HAY 16 NO.5 TO The Alu.,~i Association pledr;ed a total of :~2,200 to Bard af'the-ir'Artnual--l1eeting, last Satuarday. Of this sum, ~1)200 was ear:""1arked for scholarships. The remaining '~l,OOO vJaS pledged to the Student Fund Raising COI:TI:",itteG.~ The caI:1~ai:,:n to build a recreation hall recieved L::'E ~:.dd·3d boost when the Alu};1!~li .~avo the COrI'1ittee per-mission to ma:il requests fO!'3ubscri.ptions to over 1,300 Bard cradua~es c ,-,-.---~-.----.- -.~-,.-------..... -,--,-----Afterrecieving Cmmcil approval last }J:ond8.Y nit~ht: the Student Fund Raising Committee announced that individual quotas in the campaign for the new "rec hall" am01mt to $25. 73 ~ This is the 3.LlOill1t each student must raise to meet the student goal of $7,000, Chris Hagee, Chairman of the Corrnnittee said last niCht that already five students have suceeded their quota.. l~ t 110 un t Holyoke I Mr. Hagee corr~r:lented~ in a similar drive) the girls are raisin~ ~49.56 each and 77% of their total has already been turned in Q This is the overall pict"iJ.:re of how the Fund Rasisinc COITlElittee expects to raise the~12,OOO for the building; Student g6al~~~.a~t~l7.000 - Trustee Ple.dge .. " .. " n " ~pl.OOQ We start building.g.$8~OOO Alumni Pledge.e ••••• ~loOOO The estimated profits from subscriptions sold to A1uInni •• (l." ~ •. $1.000 Income from savings account,profits on renewals for next year, and gifts fran friends of Bard •••••••••• Do~oe ••••• ~ •• o.~$2.500 Building completed at •• a •• ~.o& ••••• co •••••••••• oo,,'&.e •• D •• o~.)12,500 c- ---------------- ----------_ .• - , '-ST.lX· .2.J Last Tuesday eveningls Education Panel was stran8elymild and unarg,uementative for the subject under discussion, Emotion, Sex, and Education. Dr .. T1olff, moderator J opened the Danel \-rith a few remarks on some current problems and opin-ions concerning sex" He accented stronely that sex cannot and should not be detached from love or the total emotional pattern of the individual or Dr. ~Jolff also warned asainst current nisrepresentations of Freud1s viewpoint} and spoke of the emotional impoverishment that results from sexual rGlcase without love. He claimed that many recently published reports on the sex issue tended to be on an infantile level,that a lone range study of sex inte Grated with the personality is needed~ Dr. DeGre, opening the panel made three main points: l)that scientific data has been misused as guides for conduct, 2) that the philosophy of love involved a rec- (Cont. on Page 4) ~~. Stefan Hirsch will re?ort the findings of the Faculty Student Cowmittee on Social Standards and Regulations to Council this evening. The following open house hours will be proDosed: Monday through Thurs-day, 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM and 6:00 to 8:00 PM, Sat-uarday,l:OO to 5:00 PM ani 6:00 to 10:00 PN; Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 PIJI. I ,,'J'''"'_ _ • _________________ _ *BARD t~EK* What is Progressive Education? V.hat do we vrant it to become at Bard? F;ditorial Board Jud Levin Barb V;heatland JolUl Deimel ~ ~-_Jff ---In searching for an answer we tend to look for and establish definite and rigid rules. This is a mistake. The beauty and perhaps greatest value of Progressive Education as we know it at Bard is its 1ndef1nat-n~ss, which at the same time permits it to be all-inclu'::i7e. If we IT.ust cerino the ter:n, Progressive Ectuc;} cion, Y;e should ~_llC lud0 the vaguenes s, the aro-b~gui. ti8S of it in t~l:~ defini tion, and a ttempt to ~~itney Bolton Id~ ~o more. The effect of a rigid, detailed defini-- ;~ i~il Caminer :5_0:']. v;uuld be to cimi:1ish the u:'1iversa.l ap-pcC?l and J3 ck Collins bro3d j.Jcssibili ty for c-ppllcatioj:l v-~ich Progressive Zelda Gale =ducation should entailL Janet Hooper At Bcrd \.e offer fref~dom to explore, as w011 as the ~Il~rie Kelbert opportunity to work toward a general goal. This sit-Bill Le\{i t uation can be found in othf~r colleges, but OU!' SiZ8 -J • Eliott ,Lins_+ey allows us to have small classes, a.nd a. greater chvnce Danny NewmDn for -individual expression and develo~ment which are Scott Peyton difficult to duplicate elsey."here, To say ~ore nbout . Be_rb SChtmberg the goals of Bard or of Progres~ive Education is un-Do.vld Schwab necessary. 1-.s long ~ S Vi e mainta in this broad frame-Joan r '1111nms \'/ork, \.hat remains to b'-J decided must be thought out by each student. Bard cannot and should not try to shape the destiny of its students with A strict set _______ -_'.of ideals. In doing so, it would eventually ll~it the deSireable attraction it h~s to nIl types ,of students. The students who wish a smattering of knov-:ledge f0T', no soeciCll ' reason, as v,-ell as those who are sincere with tl love tor their studies, or have 8. speciol goal in mind,should not be discriminated against. There is room for all so long as each contributes to the college while he 1s here. Often it is embarv_ssing vlhen someone ~,sks, tfBa.rd,eh1 VJ-ell,just wh8t is Progressive Education?tf Of course, one cannot de'fine vagueness, by an E;xplclnation of the specic-:l featuresof BDrd education ~nd social life ~(lnd the bearing they c(~n have on individual development. In spite of unfort~~te incidents and consequent disillusionments this term, B~J. rd is a good school. To keep it that y,-o.y, to improve it hherever possible, we must concentrate on the simplest, th~ most basic aspects. anywhere-hiring nnd rf=hiring . good teachers ,conducti11€; s timu-latlng classes, offerrng -more coUrses, rttracting intelligent students. ThE excellent practice of inviting interesting speakers and holding f'theme weekends" should cont1nlie. If such fundemental 8 sp€:cts of & .rd t;ducation deteriotnte, ~ny ideals v:e offer will be met-ningless. But ns far DS ,the?e basic ideas are concerned-\',-hClt &~rd stnnds for now is more than satisfactory'. Amending our ideals hrtstily ~ight quite 1.Ullntentiot18l1y result in a ~tep bock\ nrd. ----------------,..-------------------_ .... LETTERS TO THE ,EDITORS _(Edt tors note: 1'his column 1s open to any expression of student opin~ that the Editors feel merit ,ntten-tion. The ViCVIS expresses in pub-lished letters aru not necessarily chose of the Bard Week) , To the Editor: Bard ~~e~ started as a im1tat-~on--or-aIiiediocre 'high school news )aper; therefore it worried no one. '"e read it and only learned that some of our facultycould not write 3S well as we had supposed they should. The staff members smelled of solf Y;illed, little children ho could not get their ten year old lisping into the Bardlhn, and because they wanted to be heard, had formed a child's newspaper. No, \ ~ were Dot worried then •. l!e felt that after their fling, ~hey would tire of publication. But now we se thDt thE) :&rd ~ has degenerated, in order ~tD.Y alive. They have pumped embalming fluid into the mimeograph machine. A tattered, bruised opponent WD8 picked nnd for the sokeof circulation W1'5 given a little pu~eling. :hey pic~­ed ::;11 18 sue which .~~ s ,i,~';'C 8 . pure ., and todDY ShA .... ld bt\ pure , but \\'hich has ueen l(lbe.1eQ Oy people - \irith their own motives c.S poli tiC8~ , as f8ction domin~ted, and the Bard Peek has hnd fun.In their ed.itor-ia.ls they attack everyone on C~lnp­us except themselves (fI" 8 the younger stud.ents ••• "~ end thus feel thnt they are non-p~rtisan. I in-sist that the basic sitUf:tion in which two faculty members might not return to Bard should not be uSed for the Sake of militant editori~ls~ ' These men are not just "good" te(.,ch-ers. Dr. Peis and Dr. :-Ioenig Dre excellent teachets. Tne issue is not politics, or how it has been handled, it is the fundementel issue of the careers of these two men, nnd the sentiment concerning them of the student body. It is the issue that student opinion in this college does not ~ean ~ demn. This is the issue. For the Bard 1,·'eek to c£lpi ttl 11ze upon the Ries--{oenig nffa.ir 1s disgusting. John B. Segc:l GREASE-lvl0NKEYS APE PROS With the recent opening of t.he 8'.lLo'TIobile rc.ces in Hhine-bF:~k, ITlany a Bard driver has :)CGn eyeing hi s own heu.p r.1 th h0~es of entering this insec-ur 0 pastioe. Never to be out-rl! thi.s reporter thrust his pOluted head under many a bon-net (hordto yon, bub) this week, ~.r:.l c'::..mo up wi th a gre[;.SY sef:ilp r~.lJ.1 the f(;11oVii ng inf Clrm'_ti~)!~: l"!' orc~&n Ki~lg I S f'-:'nr- -v:h':.:el::;d Ch ;>:Lst!:las tr·~e w&.s barreJ f .... ·orr.. Lr'~ck c0l11peti tion by the LS.J.lCA. RCi, C021: sp8.:;d3 over sixty 7!ore . tou h:1I'd on the' sqnir-rGl. Hfi.PPY Hurner, on the other hand, TIas deniel his chance on the grounds th'1t his Frazer made llinuelic~:!te :l,yL-;e:" which might well [rove of~ensiv8 to the other driv8I's." liltJI'C'. f3uc(;8ssful W&S [vI2.rk £\ich:;.rd,· who was offe!'ed a Gtarti71g in ~Jhe MG (mashed grill) division. NiilI'kmay reject the opportu!1i ty, hOT8vcr, duc~t;) the hos t:ile trees between here and .Rhinebeck. "They b. t Lack my poor Ii ttle car 1nc~rci ...... les::·l.y, II Mark grumbled roce~.l tly. The ~icgeGt poscible conten~e~, Chi ck Steketee.. Vf(.1.3 doub tful v;hen ·J.3i~ed ao()u t pl~~ns for hi:.:: sleek r!j .... ~er. !II donI t go ~or th:;.:.t ;}pced stuff, It he confided. II Tha tIs "Nh} I play catcher." It is my b':,i.,ef, the'refore, that Bard. this yw.~·~ . Yi-ill he- represent.ed . ........tRhine-t·~il,~:~~: :")J)l.y ~ .. .l.l. t,110' s::-J~L!1~]~3) ':~~.!l~ t:~~: 0U~y ~acing Ba~di~ns vill be Geen i~1 front of stune Eow. MEMBERS OF CLASS OF 194.8 ATTEND MANY GRl.DULTE SCHOOLS Last fall the Bard-St. Stephans Alumni As socia tion mailed Cines··· tior:nCiir88 to the r.lembers of the 1948 gr3.duating cluss. Fif!:.y-two of the eighty-three grad-uates of the class responded. Of this group, thirty reportEd ~ha t they y;ere con .... ,inning their v:ork for [·.dV.s.-:-1CE"d Ci egrc0s in v::.r-ious ur.ivcr~dtics. Ni!1e students hc:iVC c:-jtcred Col"U-Intia U~"l versi ~y; two are in TeacLers College, one in the NGW York School of Soci&l Work, one in the Advanc'~d School of Architecture, and one in the School of In tE;rnutional Affairs.· OthD~S __ are continuing their work in che~­istryj economics and music. Three gr~du~teG were admitted to the Schoo~ of j~c;. v~nced In terrn tional Studies in V~shington and t~o are atteading Fordh&m Law School. 8ther grhQuti te schools represcm t.ed are New York Medical College, Georgcto~n University School of MediCine, Boston University Msdic&l School, Harvard Law School, and Syracuse Law School. One student is continuing her ~ork ~t the Sorbonne in Paris and others ~re at MII.T., West-ern Reserve University, Univer-sity of Kansas, University of Donver, Uni versi ty of Io~ya, Indiana University, Tuft.s . Gellege -&00· GeneP&-l'~4'~1e-gi{H*];... THE PURITLN MYTH Ii man in a grey suit removed his grey fedo!'a in CLst0nishment. Oppos:i.te him, on u long T&l1. in the D&rtmouth College Library, was a frcf3co dedicLlted to the effect of the free, cri ticc.l, democratic culture of the Unitert St~tes on the Mexican pensn~t. The artist, J one Clemente Orozco, h '.ld no t hidje~1 bJl1i~Li c.. thletic v:orkers or trlife·-givingll m&chin2s, Clsh!..:.mGd of hL; vievl. RCttL8r, his pc.nel por-trLyed a colosaal tyr~nt tS2cheT overseeing a parude of id6ntical smiling, red-chce.ked children. Behind and to the left the grey-c:J.i b::d man SflVJ a circle cf grey-sui ted I.tlf:m, and colorless women. They seemed to stand c.:.round a shrir!e, only the center of the circle Via;:l empt:r. Tho 'w;'ife said: "V,'h':l.t dOGS it mean?:! 'The man: IIWell ••• ah ••• he S '30ms to be ••• ::l.h ••• att.E.tcking ••. Pl.lrit&nism. It He rppl&ced his grey fedorb. in relief <ina bA~i!led :"i.w·J..Y I So the Tr.7th of Pur:'ttjni~'JD. continue:}. C,uestion: Why don't we Amuricans hrLve a gren.t art. Answer: PuritG..Dism. ~u.8stion: Why 2.re Vie incapable of enj oying our inJi vidUfJ.l ~-,ensa tions and cxp€riC!1C8s? Answer: Puritanism. Puritanism 1- the l~xative that purges us of OU1' guilt in being mere pructicLl economic Dlcn, the opib.te thut mskes us blane religiou2 rather than econo~ic factors. 7he myth is ch".ll::;r:ged by historiC'~1.1 fs.ct. Puritans were not l' S(: 0PPO:?8U to Ltrt or i:p,jJsdic. te 5xperiellce. Cromv:7ell WElS a p.stron oi 1.l'100.rtS; i~~il ton ';~ro te SCJ!rl2 of the ·.'.;crlcl ' s gre::L b3St lyric poetry .,-~'l::l stil: cl[ii~ed to be t;.;.n orthodox E .. nd Puri tan Christian. Pur! tan ~ermOl1S in the GCirly dS.J2 of New Engla~d UR8d imagGs an.d rhythnlS t.h~Lt made heaven and hell imrnedis. tely experie'nced reali ties. Admi t-(Cant. on next page) rlThere is an evc;r-incTeBsing opportunity for college graduates in governmental v,ork, TI believes Dr. Louis Koenig, a Bard graduate (1938) a~d our present Profes~or of Governrnent .. dc-~virlb vYorl-(ed Vwith illL1ny govern:Jent :-;g'8ncies in the 18 t ten ye::~"trs, Dr .. ;-~oenig is qualified to spf~cl1:~ on SUCi1 matt.ers . .de n8S t,.vorkcd Hitll the Fuel Pat.ioning T',ivison e,f the O.,P .. A. ,\.itn the Bureau of the BudLet, and with tl"?8 Hoover CouY1i~~sion<t It is Dr. V::oenig 1 S opirJ-ion that (i Yo1.mg person going ::nto govern.~ent ~\~or-~': r:1USt be throughly enthused, for t~1c ~8rK can be both routine ~nd tetiiou2 if one is not comp- I letely interes'"cedc :'Od8Y, too rlany stuilents tj.1inl{ only -~0f-fJos-tiQJ1~L~in _ the F'edercJl Government. Dr fI T{ocnig feels that local 2nd ~s-t8:t-e g-6ve1'nrnGnts--- al-soprQv~tdJ~.~j~n~eFest-ing careers for would-be statesman. ·t ~ j I i I f . (cant. fro~ Page 1) ognition of its c:,ni~1J21 basi~) Dnd its spiritu.:::l 8ublination, 3) that love is ? process in ~hich the indi ,rid Ucl 1 transcend ed hi~se If • lIsa v~llis,second partlcipont,spoke on tne re-12',tion bet\feen promiscuity end emotiona 1 t:'lala just-ments, and decided that in ~nost cases,promiscuity resulted from decided emotional disturbances,as, for example, an unsuccessful repression of the mothers imr;ge or a need to a ssert one's Tfthreatened H manhood. David Vrooman then presented some interesting stati~,tics on prniscuity in colleges, Lnich tended to prove that a low r&te of Don JUanism exisited in this social strata. J~[r. Senior's talk, that ended the for¥t1al panal, emph~si:?,~ ~tr-e :tMl'el' tJene'e'-'-o-f ··ootlefttri-en-i'Tr"·e&t.&Bl1-&ft.-ing a healthy soul. ':'he college should direct tHe flappctite:'ener,gy of emotions anr:l l'ai.se t~e:n to the sublime. He objected to the clinical approach to sex~ t'Clr;ss rooms Clre not lilce the bou()oir 11' Con-sistently, ~'r. ;enior 9.1)0:\:8 of the necessity for loving not only e human being, but also th8 great men and ineas in the 1"estern tradition. The discussion following,ratht)r than focusing on some of the videI' aspects of the sex problem or on the specific changes needed in th.e :bard social· life for i::lp12r1enting the exprr~s~ed sex-id8c.l~', re-solved R bout the n,~ces::.i ty ~ncJ purpo~-:es of 2 coun-selor at Bard, to handle 811ot.ion81 di.stllrbances6 --.-.-~---------,-~--.~--.--~-.--.- -------_ ... _-, . (Conto fro~ Page ~) tedly, the Puri tans v.'ere strict in controling thE~ non-Church pleasures, and removed Duell colorful ritual end sym.oolism from the church, but Puri t2.nisrn R lone does not Account for an Dnti-8rt ethic .. Only \"here it was coupled wi th a Pbuisness-rlanH more 11 ty rlid it becom.e 2nti-e.rt. 'Ine need to plan experi811ce arid to f3elf--coUDaciously calculate tlle c:ffect of action (both doctol'ines posionous to art), gre1;\- not so :1uch .t rom C1 Purl tan more 1 code as from the buisne~ Srr1£;n psycIlologj-T. ~h€ :~J_nti-sensual ethic hn.s its root les.::; in puri tan dog~as a:1d more in Li'18 belief that the economic ~an V"ho amasses po~sessions FInd :.:loney ,lone can conquer death .. The man I l'1o glorit ies economic ;.~ctivi ty and ,ees knowledge as it1portant only if it is usesole in the ::narket plac{~ (for power over others), this man is respo~sible, and not the puritan, ;.or 11c,Kin.g art 21iAn to !!reality'!. T~-HJ gre;y suited man has impoverishe(l hi:nself and clothe(i hL"!lself in machine rags. rhether this me3ns that the artist r;1ust root him-self in the opposition group, i.e. the Yiorking class, v,ill be discu-ssed in weeks follovving. 

Bard Week, Vol. 1, No. 5 (May 16, 1949)

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Bard Week, Vol. 1, No. 5 (May 16, 1949)

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