May Day Offers a Daylong Moratorium on Academic Effort
As finals week hurtles toward campus at gale force and Bryn Mawr students hunker down for the academic tempest, the College's annual May Day celebration promises a break from the mental weather as students briefly turn from drudgery to drollery. May Day 2007 will be celebrated at Bryn Mawr on Sunday, May 6. The Convocation in Goodhart, at which academic awards are announced, will take place at 8:45 a.m., and the procession to the Maypole will start at 9:30 a.m. For a complete schedule, see www.brynmawr.edu/news/mayday/.
Outgoing Traditions Mistresses Tania Melo '08 and Emily Norman '08 (who are now the president and vice-president, respectively, of the Self-Government Association) have scheduled a full slate of activities — a few new additions as well as old favorites. The celebration begins at 5:45 a.m., when sophomores awaken seniors with flower baskets and song, and ends with the traditional late-night screening of The Philadelphia Story, starring Katharine Hepburn '28. In between, there will be not only the Maypole dance, but the Mayhole dance, a wry feminist response to the traditional English fertility rite; an African dance workshop; belly dancing; a performance by the dance ensemble Pulso Latino; traditional South Asian henna painting; singing by Bryn Mawr and Haverford a cappella groups as well as the Renaissance Choir; The Robin Hood Play and numerous other performances.
Bryn Mawr Dining Services will be out in full force, serving a picnic lunch on Merion Green from 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Carnival refreshments will be served in the Campus Center Main Lounge from 1 to 4 p.m., and dinner, on Merion Green from 5 to 7 p.m., will be served to the accompaniment of a mariachi band. For those not on a Bryn Mawr meal plan, lunch will cost $8 and dinner
$10. All other events are free, and most are open to the general
public. The festivities usually draw a substantial crowd from the
surrounding community, as well as friends and family of Bryn Mawr
students, faculty, staff and alumnae.
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