Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS index Senior Index 207 3

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Co LU ' Where do you go to school? Barnard. Where? It ' s the female part of Columbia. You answer wearily, one more time, and wish to God they ' d finally get it right. But you kind of understand. After all, you thought more of going to Columbia yourself, a year or two or three back. It ' s only when you ' ve been here a while that you begin to recognize the importance of a women ' s school — of Barnard — and of being a woman, after all.

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Place an individual in a closed environment for four years and she will, of necessity, form numerous relationships — with the college administrator who employs her in her work-study job, with the professors for whom she reals off pages and pages of typed matter, and the guy behind the counter at Mama Joy ' s who sometimes gives her an extra pickle. And then there are the friends. They usually come in two categories: male and female. And though she often finds herself going through periods of time when she foresakes friend for lover, she really does know her priorities. Lovers represent the temperal, the ephemeral. They are as lovely as the shined brass door handles on Hamilton and the crown- bedecked blue cloths unfurled on Low, gracing the Columbia campus each Commencement. As lovely to look at as the ivy on Barnard Hall, as the flowers before Milbank ' s marble columns. But like the embellishments, lovers fade. Friends remain be- hind, waiting, as steady and reliable and comforting as the build- ings themselves — without their seasonal adornments. Sisterhood is powerful? In unity there is strength? She laughs at the catch phrases, almost annoyingly common now. But she wouldn ' t try to deny them. For if the Barnard student leaves with anything, she leaves with her friends.