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BARD EEK J!OL. I !"flY £~S NO.6 ATTEND THIRD PSYCHOLOGY PANEL TOMOREOVI NIGHT ,ALBEE SOCIAL The Educational Panel on CurriculuJTl C'1nd ,Prafes 'sion, postponed from last Thursday will be held in .Albee Socia'l tomorrow night at 7:30. ~~. George Rosen will act as moderator The debut8s that highlighted the first panel will probebly be renewed under a different focus. The m;\.jor questions to be discuss-ed revolve about the type of student Bvrd College requires and what his attitude toward tho modern \vorld should be. In recent weeks, as a result of the first panel, mnch time has been spent discussing whRt should be tht.: main emphasis of Bard Education. Along with current inforrnn.l debates and the criticism of Bard in the Brrdian, the Bard r 'eek, through its faculty column this week and its editori~l lC'lst \y-eek hps tried to pose besic questions. It is hoped th9t all those who heDrd about the first panel and Vl€re not able to c;;.ttenJ, and those who have been pleased, irked, or awekened by the crtticism :Jnd suggestions from the tv~'o nev~spapers will come to participate in the discussion tomorrow night, The annual·· Fscens·ion D~1 y-·· r- ·!idnight -celebrc:ltion of the Holy Eucharist v;i11 be observed Thursday, l~y 26 in the chapel of the Holy Innocents. Father Orrick at nresent in resi-dence at Holy Cross ~~OnC'l.st8ry in ",,'est Park will be the celebrpnt, Hobie Pardee, Bob Bizzaro, Jack Collins Rnd Scott Peyton will serve as Rcolytes. fiscension Day is one of the three most important dbys in the Christirn year. It has been celebrated on this campus since the founding of the college in 1860. DP.NCE V.'ORKSHOP TO PERFOF1\~ T1H O SENIOR PROJECTS A Dance V:ork!;)uop to be held June 9,lO,nnd 11 in the gymnasium will feature a senior project by Fr.:tnk Lemmon and one by Sarah Ca shr!.lCln. . .. . . " . . Frank wi.ll ._ Rr:E:s.ent - a0anceb~-s·eu" on ·OsCar 'it/fIde's fairy tale, - '--'rhe--Birtlicfax'--of the Infnnta. He will take the mAjor role, that of tne uglYJrJisshapp~ned d\vnrf who falls desperately in love VI'ith the charming Infanta. The chorus will include Zoe r~arren,Joan Kroll, J8.net Gay, and Phyliss Oram. Theodore Procha zka composed the rous ie for Frank's project. The Ronn Ste Ilion by Robinson Jeffers supplied S?rC'h Ct~ shnmn wi th the inspira tion for her proj ect. Fr8~{ and 82- rah viill dv.nce the leading parts. I composition by Claire 1.-i 8 ight involving the entire dc:!!ce group will complete the progrnm. Jcnet Zir1mernnn composed the music for ~liss ~eights creation~ ~:- Bo.rd Week .:~ Editorial Board John Deinul Jud Levin Barb Wheatland Staff 'Jhitney Bolton Jkt eke ol':rr:'tins Bill Lewit . L~11iott Lindsley Do..:r,.ny S chanberc; ninD. Ransohoff -2-(Ed~Ors' Note: The followinrs article by Hr. Heinz Bertelsnann is the third in a sories Written by membGrs of the faculty. Next week's o..rticle will be contributed by I.1r~ Stefen Hirsch.) All/IS OF PROGR3SSIVE EDUCATION by I.Ir~ Heinz Bertelsmann The two questions asked in the last issue of Bard Week, "What is Progressive Education? vVb.at do w-C-want it to become at Bard?1I should be asked and dis-cussed incessantly as only by doing- so will prOgress-,· ----------------~'ive education renlain a living issue. Therefore, the fact that both faculty and students have taken the 1nla'ttdve of late to bring about diSCUssion of the ncaning of proGressive education is in itself a healthy sign and an indication that we all are alive to the problems which constantly confront us. Thoughts and debates are no substi tutes for action, but deliberation tlUSt precede intelligent action. . , ' Everyone at Bard I believe, agrees that "definiue and rigid 11 are contradictions of r'progressi ve ii, the latter implying growjh and ir,l'~ provenent, but there is no danger in our beconing rigid in defining aitlS and principles as long as we realize that we must search contil'). ~ uously for new approaches and methods to attain our ideals, fur ever" cl-:anging life ceaselessly' confronts us with new problems but also 0· .. pens up new opportunities. -It is -reasonable, I believe, to turn to the Catalogue for adefini T~-l~' ~ " : : of aims, as it was the ideas expressed there which brought us teacL,:' :,") ,; and student s her e - none of us, at 1 eas t, -could hor:tes t ly hD.. va become associated with Bard had we rejected them. The following excerpts are found there: "provide for each student the educational experiences 'which will be of r,lost valuG to him or"fieri'; H ••• student (to) be d~alt v!ith as -an individ.ual personali t~r;;; II ••• help tho student find that field~ •• through which he can r.1D .. kc tho greatest contribution to societyll, n~~.aasume rosponsi1bility for their ways of living~ •• 1t To-this I am inclined to add "the producing of civilized human beings", but that -perhaps ,ls implied , in, or . is eVen the .. sum total of, the a.bove, as ed'tr Cation as defined here is ' a ver:i'·' broad----concep-t ' indeed~ VlJ'e 'do'- tJ.ot- ,thirlk of education simply in academic terms, in terms of cur~iculum, but we also think .C individual personalities and their needs, and we also speak of "contribution to society" and (continuEld on -pa,rr.e 3) Barbara Schrunberg Jud Lovin · -3-All/IS OF PROGR~SSIVE EDUCATION (continued from pa~e 2) urCSl)onsibili ty for WD.ys of livingll ~ Progrcssi vb education, then, moans all theso things and not just ONE of then, it tlcans the in-dividUal - but ~lso society, it ' nlcans curriculum - but also porson-ality~ not tho one £! tho other~ Each in its proper fashion will d~ velop and strengthen the others, rather than live at their own ex-pense. When there is n. clash between, as there r.1ust be from timo to tir:1c, they will become harmonized. rro be hlrmonious within oneself and with society most certainly docs not moan supine acceptance of the world as it is, for its shortt-comings arc only woo evid~nt to all of us. The answer to these sho~­comings is found neither in a wi thdro.wul fror,1 this vlorldnor in a doclClratioru'<of ways by tho nihilist, but in the incessant struggle of tUl.dcrstanding 1:10n and women v/ho, becauso they carry harmony in t~eir souls Can bring harnony - to othors~ PpoGrcssivG education, then, includes not only those things which are stressod in lust week' s a~~tic10 (the freedom to explore, small ' classes, individual oxprGssion,t stimulating discussion, new courses, intellig~nt students, good teachers, intol')csting spoo..lrors), although. all of them are most certainly necessary, but also tho equally osse:1-tinl development of tho passion fOr truth; of curiosity; of under-standing; of tolerance of opinion, idiosyncras-:r, human failinGs, ana faiths; of hW:1ility; of charity; of res"1!oct for otllcrs~ of the dotormination to join battle against 110s, intolerance, vilification, Oond corruption; 8.11d of the willingnoss, no, . of the strength, to change one's mind. Unloss we understand t l"lis full meaning of 1?rogrcssi'ID education, we arc lilcoly to make the horrib10 l:listakc of identifying a hlgh IQ wi th at to. iI'lJ'llldlt , knowledge bf facts wi th onlightonr,lont, and arrogantt intelloctualisn· wi th wisdom~ Goniusof sorts vvrongly motivated - . rOl:1cl:ibor Hitler! - can all to easily lD como thu curse of hUl:1,anity. Tho bost teachers and tho best studonts in a school of ~rogrcsslvo education arc thosc who try their loval best to strive for ~not just one but ·a11 the goals which progressive oducatJ.on secks to attain. ~.--------------~--------------------------------L:ETT~8R TO BAFLD Vf.EEIf: ",\11 housewives r.lust moet food pluIDling p roblems to u linitod degree. Therofore I can sympathize with tho dioti tio.n who' has to plan for a lurf30 faEli ly. lIowevor I to request that ana weck notice be givcn before a parent or visitor can have a meal at cOllego shoVls an inability to be efficient in a flexible manner. If tho udministrn.tion is anxious to have tho ilparont_bodyil becor.:o [).Vfo.ro of tho individual qualitios of Bard Collo!je and acauaint itself \'lith B::-..rd l s particu~:!'i atl.n~o2tphoro, such inflc):ibili ty should be avoided at all costs. ~ From u visi ting parent t .----------------------------; I~onen Carries On: BARD rJ3EIC SEL~CTS Ii WAITER OF THE WEEK Bocause ho can ptle n. pmntc. of potatoes bettor than any other whi to-. wingo" in '· tho ~dinihg · comnons J we nal~O Dick Y:..ronon the Wni tor of the V\lo0k~ T:1.is is tho first ' tine Bard Woek ho.s s con fit to single out Tho lIan wi th the Tubers ~ ----:----In o.n intorvioYI, I~onon, D. snClIl, alert yru ng nan, accepted tho hore wi th . the cal!;1 ro serve of :J. s tuc1.ont V/ho ho. s soon D. lot of ho.sh in his time. Said Kronen on tho eve of imnorto.li ty: 'IDininc; COlilr10nS is good to mo - LIrs Smi th alYluys tolls :41e when I 'n doing u good job f1 Kronen is 0. li1odost r,lCln who hhs received so l;:any conplil:10nts fro:r:l I.Irs SmI th thClt ho can't evon rOnloubor why they wore given to him_ Tho aining COy.1Y.10nS chanpion Ii vas in Harth Barracks wi th his dog and two children. 'l'hoy arc both very proud of hil:1. In all his ycars of' work in conl~lons he has had but onc :motto: uTo drop, pcrchn.nco to mop" ___ NOTES ON NOTABLES: OR, BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE ________ _ I paid a visit to Dr. Fullers Zoological Park-on-Hudson the other day, and was much enlightened by the beasts I saw there, Perched in the first cage was the rare Talented Blond (D. Arnasonus), so sou-ght after by curators, collectors, and night clubs. In the next cooPf a Night-Blooming Student (Gold-brickus VulgarusJ was raving at the bars. My big thrill was yet in store though, for when I moved towards the crowd that milled about another large pen, I was treatod to the sight of a roal Sr:.nll -Time-Editor (Bardiensis Intellectua;us) who was at the moment feeaing on a few £aculty fish. Further on in the Park, I saw great numbers of common Love-Birds, (Zabritsky Wanderers, they arc often called) and some Greater Thinkers. The latter ~ro so quiet in their cago, that it wqs hard to know if they wero alivo. In the Park, too, was a variety of simians, but they were so well mixod in with the other specimens that it was difficult to recognize them. In all, I had a very good time at the Park, and the staff was most courteous. One of thorn, however rudely implied that his association with the wild beasts was having its effect on him. To this fan-tastic idoa I paid no heed, and I scurried toward the exit just as fasb as my four feet would take me. Whitnoy Bolton ART AND THE WORKING ~LASS Last weck's article ended with a question: in view of the hostility or the business world to art, must the artist soek rootholds in the working class? The answer is neithor simple nor absolute, for tho proletariat of this country is of var-ying political viewpoints and has, as a consequence, many different attitudes toward art. Also, it is in a stato of transition: the relation of the Union to Man~gement is in the pI eee'tts-e:f -bwng de-e i dc;.d.----' ______ ,._._ .-' -"_". __ c •• ~~_ •••• " •. _." _.,~_ Generally, however, the working class is still subjecttto a vicious sort of mass-romanticisme Its most obvious manifest-ation is in the belief that overy working man can, with the 'breaks· and a little capital, become a manager and a profit producer. Mass-romanticism also shows itself in the avidity with which the workers swallow Hollywood fantasies of Amer-ican prosperity, and in tho constant oquation of the upper-class lifo with pleasure. (Tho recent criticism o~ Holly-wood, it should bo noted, came only from tho advanced art circles or from the profossional red-boiters and political hacks in Congr~ss) The working class thus is still subject to a vision that has no objectiv~ basis in fact. It contin-ues, furthormore, to conceive of man only as he has acted in the 'market-place' during the last hundrod years. This irrational vision clutters the imagination of the wor-kingman, making him unconsciously uneasy and antagonistic to any other imaginative scheme. However, there is a potontial in tho working class that makes mo believe that a time will come when tho artist will bo ablo to fcel rootod in, and use symbols that arc accesiblo to most mon. Whon the Unions have come to sec that democratic socialism is not an Gmpty slogan calling merely for another type of plannod ~conomy,that-it involves a v:is.iQX)Q.f-aroform-e-dmah-~ -'d.--im. n who has the 101-sure-tO--create and discover I a man who knows others not on-ly by their clothes or gestures, then the artist will be called upon to help define what man should bo, he will have found a roothold, his vision will be valued. Should tho artist tic himself with tho working class? No, not as it now exists. He must wait until he is needod to dofine tho new man. Until thon ho must live out his life isolated from the populaco, showing thom, by his own ex-ample, what man can be. But tho time will como when such isolation will no longer be necessary, ~ d fu e artist will again bocome tho high priest with a r.1odern ritual. D. No\\rrnan 

Bard Week, Vol. 1, No. 6 (May 23, 1949)

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Bard Week, Vol. 1, No. 6 (May 23, 1949)

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