University Daily Kansan
Wednesdav. June 20.1973
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10 Years at Smith: Movie Mags to Love Comics
By SALLY QUINN
The Washington Post
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—Overcome by a wave of nostalgia on the last day of my 10 reunion at Smith College, I decided to have just one look at my old house, Talbot.
Walking up to the front porch past the bicycles, past old swing and into "Fusers," a sitting room named for the old-fashioned term *fusering*, an astonished floor level ever over a bit.
I hadn't planned to go up to my old room on the third floor, but there I was, knocking on the door, petrified someone would say "come in." Someone said "come in."
1 GINGERLY OPENED the door to find a student sitting cross-legged on the bed firing her nails. "I used to live in this room 10 years ago," she said. I had said it. She smiled prominently.
"Oh, we'd read movie magazines any more," she replied. "We read love comics
"Yes," I went on, trying to recoup, "and when I lived here I had, piled up in that corner, the largest collection of movie magazines on campus."
IT WAS EASY to remember two other times I had driven into Northampton, Mass, the foreblooded black, wrought with pyre-covered sign, "Smith College 1871."
The first time was 14 years ago when I was driven up by my parents on the first day of my freshman year, not knowing a soul, and was deposited on the front steps of Talbot House in tears, wearing the darkest red eyes. I could find to hide my swollen red eyes.
The second time was driving back from New York with friends the day before graduation, not knowing whether or not I was going to graduate. I did graduate . . . at the very bottom of my class, which I ignored until the presence of a distinction than second-from-bottom.
THIS TIME I drove back with my old classmate and class president, Toni Kissel. I worked in the laundry room at Abighr House. I wore a beige safari suit, a pullover and chains. Perfect, I thought. Everyone else, it turned out, was wearing little summer cotton dresses, slacks, laffers
Having my suitcase carried upstairs by a freshman who called me "ma'am" was the first shock. The second was seeing a sign on the door of the communal bathroom saying, "Man inside." That, we later found, was only in deference to alumnae.
the rooms.
still, after 10 years, produces the same
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Among the procedures listed by the search committee are the following;
Search Process Outlined For Business School Dean
--smoking, no men in the rooms at any time. When a Kingman (campus policeman) or father visited, we were to yell "man on floor" before he appeared.
The search committee established, to screen candidates for dean of KU'S School of Business has completed a list of procedures to be used in the search.
Alumnae, in cable knits, McCollen blouses and pleated skirts, similar, except for the color of their hair, to the students of 14 years ago at the first freshman assembly.
Nichols to Name Tenure Groups
- To schedule a meeting in which the outgoing dean is invited to offer advice on her future.
The committee will search for possible successors to Clifford Clark, who has resigned. Joseph Pichler is acting dean of the school in the interim.
Each committee will have a special problem to study.
WE LEARNED RULES 14 years ago. We had housemaothers who helped us obey the rules, and we did great work.
Last weekend was not only reunion weekend for every fifth year (starting with the class of 1083, whose members stayed in the infirmary) but also commencement weekend, the graduation of the largest class (more than 600) in the history of Smith College.
It was in that room that Miss Charlotte Fitch, our class dean, had announced 14 years ago that our class was the first one at Smith that had ever had less than 50 per cent of her students. She stunned silence throughout the hall, then a gasm of disgust from the prepreps. One classmate, very upset, confided to me that if she liked two girls equally and she found out one was from a private and the other was from a public school, would like the private school girl better.
ONE OF THE first activities was a special panel on where the college was going. It was held in Sage Hill, remembrance of those who died in the naps. The slow hissing sound of steam heat
Chancellor Nichols said the names of the committee members would not be released until one last position was filled today. The meeting will conclude their business by September.
It was in Sage Hall that same day that Miss Fitch informed us we had two blacks in our class. There were those who were unhappy with that and, later, at a compulsory assembly with Marian Wright Edelman, a law student from Yale and the first black woman to speak at Smith, some of whom are survived by their mother and snickered, bissed and chanted "Alabama niggers should be free," on their way out.
Chancellor Raymond Nichols announced Tuesday that four subcommittees would begin meeting today to discuss the basis for procedural rules and regulations in granting tenure to members of the faculty and administration.
Nichols said the subcommittees had been created in response to a controversy last April when a large group of professors and the Committee of Promotion and Tenure differed over what specific guidelines were used in determining tenure.
Sophomore Grant
Michael VanRons, Kansas City, Kans. sophomore, has been awarded a grant-in-aid for the next school year from the Newspaper Publishers Association.
'The foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $23,000 to 51 blacks and other minority students enrolled in 30 accredited journalism school programs.
VanRoss received his award through the foundation's Scholarship Program for Negro and Other Minority Students.
—To solicit recommendations from the faculty of the School of Business, alumni, department of economics and Advisory Board of the School of Business on nominees for the dean's position and the type of dean needed.
- To schedule a meeting by the search committee with the School of Business faculty to discuss the committee's parties to discuss the committee's characteristics of rehabilitable candidates.
—To conduct a general screening of nominees before sending letters to them.
—To send letters to nominees asking whether they would be interested in the dean's position, and if so, requesting personal information.
- To screen nominees to establish a wye of prospective candidates to be interviewed
—To schedule visits of the prospective candidates with the Chancellor, vice-chancellors, deans and student representatives.
After the visits are completed, the School of Business Assembly will vote on a ranking of the candidates and rankings of the candidates, the vice-chancellor will select and negotiate the job position.
—To schedule a committee meeting in which the School of Business Assembly is invited to hear prospective candidates present a brief talk and answer questions.
Curfew hours were announced and strictly kept. We were on the honor system. We were to have posture pictures taken, nude, then a semester of required basic motor skills or "BMS" (one learned to walk and down stairs in high heels carry a bag).
Miss Fitch told us that day that our class was mostly interested in art history, English, languages and history. We were really happy with the averages and the dredged Regurgator's Last.
“*REGE*, AS I came to know it, was the opposite of Deane's List. I was on Rege the entire time I was at Smith. I lost my scholarship because of it the first year and never made it through to him. I had to him I had made the Registrar's List, he misunderstood and thought it was an honor.
Lawrence Sherr, associate professor of business and chairman of the search committee, said the committee was hoping to have a new dean selected by July 1, 1974.
Shortly afterward an announcement appeared in my father's home town newspaper to the effect that Miss Sally Quinn had attained the honor of being placed on the Registrar's List at Smith College . . .
We were also told about President Thomas Mendenhall, our new president that year. As a present to our class, which came with our graduate school trip, we gave us a concert—three hours of Ella Fitzgerald. He announced simply, on the radio, "You've come to hear her, not me; so I will get to hear you."
LAST WEKEND, on the panel were President Mendenbail, now two years away from retirement, the junior-senior dean, and two outstanding seniors.
We learned that much has changed.
An aristocratic, elderly alumna, stood up and demanded to know why a course in accounting would be "Well," explained Mendental soberly. It increases the students' chances of getting jobs in the summer, gets them out from school, gets them into the higher echelons of the labor force.
"AUTO MECHANICS is on the curriculum. We feel that any institution which can turn out someone who can swim, bartend, short-order cook, repair a car and any home appliance is fitting its students to the needs of the times."
Last weekend we were told that the largest major today is psychology; that students are electing—that's right, elec-
tricity is the most popular subject, something sexy like Joyce, Yeats and Eliot"; that "junior year abroad" can be spent at Yale or other men's colleges, at Spellman and other black colleges, in government (or) (for government major)—or abroad.
There will be 38 blacks in next year's class. Three years ago they would have elected to live in an all-black house under the Black Student Alliance but, next fall, only prefer to be integrated: Separatism has downed them, say, out of lack of interest.
WE LEARNED THAT there are longer rules. "twenty-four-hour parallels" is the way they say men are allowed to spend the night in the rooms.
Other than that, things are pretty much the same.
Friday night was the class dinner. There were more than 100 classmates and husbands, everyone pinning name tags on at the door with maiden and married names, of course. Most of the classmates married, at least those who came back.
MOST OF THESE who came back seemed to be happy with who they were and what they had become. (Otherwise they might not have come back.) At the head table at the outgoing and incoming class officers, they not corsages.
There seemed to have been some confusion about what to wear; the class of '83 was in everything from chiffon and wool trousers to neck-neck sweaters, and paint-shredded chirts.
There was a lot of screaming, tentative recognitions, comparing of notes . . . "How are you?" "Are you married?" "Do you have children?" "How many?" "Are you divorced?" "Do you work?" "Do you have a beau?"
There was a great deal of heavy and not very-suble scrucity of the state of each other's faces and figures. "Look at all the lines in so-and-so one's face." was overheard
THERE WAS RATHER a lot of drinking.
Mostly bourbon. Husbands were trying to establish their roles. "I carried someone's suitcase today and just now offered to hang a coat," complained one. "And both time I've been called a male chauvinist pug."
It was sophomore month that we were first allowed to smoke in the room. Senior year, we were allowed to have men in the rooms on Sunday afternoon from 3 until 15. Shades up, lights on, doors open and feet on the floor was the idea, if not the rule.
and, "I can't believe it. She hasn't changed a bit."
Junior year abroad can be spent at Yale or other men's colleges, at Spellman and other black colleges, in Washington, D.C.
Saturday morning, half awake and groping down the hall in a flimsy nightgown to the communal bathroom (which housed sinks, toilets and bathtubs), toothbrush in band, I was relieved to see that the "man inside" sign was not on the door.
'Junior year abroad' can
The idea that men now stay overnight was unsettling, but something I could live with. The idea of sharing a bathroom with strange men was something I could not.
athletic supporter. I had just begun my morning toilette when the door was flung open and two semicirclal men walked stall and the other began to brush his teeth.
Back at the houses after dinner, the husbands, who were sharing rooms with their wives, broke out the bottles, and everyone sat up and drank all hours.
"OH, YEAH," said a young man with no shirt on. "We drink bong now."
"I just ignore them, pretend they are not here, I thought, and go about my business. I casually took out my special cosmetic beauty grains and began washing my face. How, what that crap that you're putting on me?" "that's the one who was brushing his teeth."
INSIDE, SOMEONE HAD done the wash
the might before and hung it to dry—two
forks.
My year was the last one of apathy. I loved John Kennedy because he was so sexy, and few really understood one of our classmates from Rhodesia, who had been declaimed persona non gratia by her own mother, making out against Rhodesia's racial policies.
"LOOK WHAT SHE'S putting on her face," said the first one to the others, who came over to stare. "It's hard to believe she will do to make themselves look good."
The seniors who were still left had men sleeping over and they were having their own parties down the hall. They were borrowing the husbands' bourbon.
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP)-Two of the four men aboard the minibus Sea Link, trapped beneath the ocean for 31 hours, were pronounced dead Tuesday as the small craft was returned here aboard the deck of its mother ship.
Last year when I ran into my old government professor in an elevator, he said: "The people are all so cute."
"I never thought I'd see the day when you would be writing about politics." (I was a single-minded theater major, intent on becoming a movie star.)
BUT IN NOVEMBER of 1963 John Kennedy was slain and that clearly was the beginning of political and social awareness across everyone, including Smith College.
Joint funeral services for Link and Stower were set for 9 a.m. Friday (Lawrence time) in Vero Beach, Fla., the Smithsonian Institution announced. It was the Smithsonian that sponsored the fish research project in which the men died.
Today's students apparently are losing interest in movements, marches and major protests, or braved ideological positions, and they often do not know about what they can do or be, themselves.
Burial Set for Two Dead in Mini-Sub
In several long discussions with different groups of students, most surprising was their apparent lack of interest in the women's movement.
The formation of the Individual Fulfillment Coalition was the result of a meeting Tuesday of the Political Action Committee of the KU Commission on the Status of Women.
THERE IS NO large women's rights organization on campus. Although there is a women's center in Northampton, none of the students seemed to know much about it. They were all aware and sensitive to the issues, but not actively involved.
"Why should we be?" said one student,
"We're all women here. There's one to pop up."
"It is a colection of concerned Lawrence residents," said Lynn Knox, St. Louis, sophomore, chairman, "that represents all different types of people concern abut the problems of educational sex stereotyping in Lawrence."
The committees are designed to investigate athletics, resources and extracurricular activities, career education, training in the Lawrence public school system.
Two companions in the forward chamber of the Sea Link, Robert Meese, 27, and Archibald "Jock" Menzies, 30, were in excellent condition shortly after the 21-foot craft was freed Monday from the wreck of a ship that had trapped it 351 feet deep in the Atlantic.
Dr. Helen Gilles, member of the board of education, attended the meeting and described it as interesting. She expressed a sense in keep in touch with the group's activities.
Coalition Formed to Investigate Sex Stereotyping in Education
The coalition established a group goal and created four individual committees.
Clayton Link, 31, the son of the man who designed the minibus and Albert Stover, 51, an expert in underwater survival, were injured when a jet engine of almost 24 hours there had been no sign of
life from the tiny compartment in which they were trapped.
The deadline for Douglas County residents to pay the second half of their 1972 personal property and real estate taxes is midnight tonight.
The other two men were reported in excellent condition.
Members of the coalition plan to present the results of their research before the Legislature.
County treasurer Edythe Norman suggested that residents mail their tax payments to the treasurer's office to avoid crowds at the pay windows.
Tax Deadline Is Set
Link's father, Edwin Link, 71, who built the small research submarine in his basement.
The Sea Link returned to Key West shortly before noon on the deck of Seal Island.
"Death was not abrupt; it came slowly," said Dr. David Youngblood of Duke University who is attached to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
"He was as much of a scientist as his father," she said. "And he would understand if he could be aware what had happened."
His mother, Marion, said she understood why her son had died.
The elder助手 had helped direct the rescue attempt and his wife said he had been stunned by the event.
He said the most likely cause of death was exposure to temperatures that dropped to 40
Rescuers decompressing the chamber in which the two dead men were trapped said it might take another 36 hours to get their bodies out of the sub.
Youngblood said pressure inside the rear chamber was so great that the bodies could be seriously damaged if pressure was dropped too quickly.
Yonghouship said that despite the fact that there were no signs of life from the men after 10:15 a.m. Lawrence time Monday, rescuers tried to revive them "under the longshot assumption there could be a speck of life left."
He said any attempt by the men to swim out of the trapped sub "would have been more likely."
Did Giora Steinem's commencement address two years ago had much effect? "Oh, some of the parents were a little shook when she said 'Housework was s—t work'"
Ten years ago at Smith, you wanted to get married and have children. "Ring by spring" was the goal of most seniors. If I couldn't be a movie star, then I wanted no part of any other career—but marriage—oh maybe a volunteer job on the side . . .
MOST OF THE SENIORS said they wanted to get married and have children (they figured they had already lived together with men and know what that was like), but they didn't want to be married, saving for a career. Many of them had no idea what they wanted to do after graduation.
After we ate a Saturday night, we sang happy birthday to one classmate and happy
They sang the same songs too. In the middle of their concert, after they had asked two of our classmates, former "Smiffis" to sing, and after they had sung "Deep Purple" in honor of their fathers, they gave presentations to two departing seniors. There were corsages. Everyone hugged the seniors.
BUT THE SMIFFENPOOFs looked the same as they had 10 years ago. They had shiny hair and long dresses and they "all looked like virgins," as someone pointed out.
anniversary to another. Presents were given, a few hugs exchanged, a few tears shed. Just like 10 years ago. Everyone was feeling a bit foolish and sentimental. And a couple of them were laughing at the Smiffendogs, the big college singing group, suddenly appeared to serenade us.
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