Article February 16, 1974 Issue

Calming a Campus

SUSAN BIGELOW HILL

"Will you let me make my own decision! I've got to do what I think is right." In the midst of a campus crisis I was reluctantly finding myself in the role of a harassed college newspaper editor. So I left the conversation at the dinner table and walked rather dejectedly back to my room.

Once seated in my snug rocking chair, I began recalling the day's turmoil over the college president's controversial choice of a commencement speaker. He had invited a successful woman executive of a cosmetics company—a world which seemed out of key with both the intellectual pursuits and the feminist consciousness of this women's college.

Moreover, he had extended the invitation without first consulting the student commencement committee. The Women's Action Group applied pressure tactics. Distorted rumors spread by word of mouth and mimeographed fliers. There was much protest, argument, and confusion. By the end of the day everyone's spirits were down, including mine.

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