Page Four

SEARLET AND BLACK

 

llrohnke Sums Up Council's Progress
Cites Newsletter, Semester Budget

Duane Kroimke starts to clean out his desk as he prepares
to leave the job of student council president tn a successor who
will be selected next Monday. Krullnke, .‘d Rhodes scholar, will
study at Oxford after graduation.

by Duane Krohnke

The theme “The Year of the
Student" has been my attempt
to provide a unifying concept
for student government 21 pi i-
ciple from whicl specri issues
and problems dcrrve thei
ing. it has occurred in what
probably was the last year of
the existing student government
structure, and therefore some
details may be irrelevant to the
new system,

In the last category would fall
the introduction of a weekly
newsletter to highlight Council's
activitie A committee system
was established to facilitate the
efficient handling ot hues, and
committees wer charred by
Council member and staffed
with members of the student
body at large in contrast to the
previous practice of managing
Council expenditures on a week
to weels basis, semester budgets
for the out c Council portion or
the activity tee were instituted.

National Affaris
The Council, probably tor the

mean-l

lHo’rh's Cry:
i'loway First'

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As a candidate for Student
Government president, in the
tradition at all succcssful can.
didates, i will not go out on
a limb and present the students
oi Grinncll with any profound
solutions of the perplexing prob~
lcins of student life which face
us here at the “Harvard of thc
Midwest." Rather, I feel that
it is necessary for me to pre-
sent a guiding principle for our
government that will be ex-
tremely useful to my
candidates as well as all those
other interested, and disinterest-
ed, students of Gr-inncli.

Only in the solid lowa tra—
dition, the tradition of firm re—
actionary government. can we
find our needed guidance. The
rbasic horsc sense which each of
‘us possesses (as enlightened
members of that state of mind
called loway), must he allowed
lto reign supreme when we deal
with the diftrculties that spread
constant contusion among this

the Council and ‘tlre studentlmns‘
,body ‘ l
l This fall the National Affa l
lcommittee was established to co»
ordinate various campus social.
political action groups, to bring.
national issues before the stu-l
dent body and, when necessary.
lio take stands on these issues
lIts cfforts to ignite discussion a
lbout the UneAmei' an Activi—
ties committee tailed. because
other issues usurped time for
deliberation it is currently ens
gagcd in a study of Grinnell
studenls’ interest in the Faint-
Four Youth Corps proposal
international Activities
Through the cooperation of
various campus groups, students
from Poland and Kcnya wcre
brought to the Grinnell corn-
munity this year. Unrortunately,
there has been drfttculty iir tub
filling the groups' financial ob-l

if each of us
,good old. loway

practice our
horse sense.

Ioway Hath

ligations to the college for these‘wc will be able to achieve that‘

students, and thus future foreign “Wide spread sense of respon-
student programming shouid'be sibility" that is
carefully weighed in light of the proper functioning oi' our

follow‘

,current generation of Gi-innelle ' ,

necessary for,

Friday, February l7, |96|

tThomsorl Favors NSA Membership

‘ it is upon my conception of
t
‘dent that l have based my plat
form. First, the president will
jhavc to be a coordinator of ,all
student arrairs. Second. he \vil ,
the the i'ocal point of studentlI
‘Dpinlon. ‘
In the area of coordination, the
president‘s main responsibility
jwiil come between the end oft
lspring vacation and June 1. A
lbudgct tor the next academic
lycar will have to be passed, a so.
i l

nust be planned and budgeted. at

,slngie booklet for the Campus}
lwiil have to be compiled and
published and the transition thS‘
.to be made from the present en-l
forccmcnt system to a separation]
l )f the court and enforcement
areas.

The students should express
their opinions on the social proa‘,
gram. To facilitate this, a poll

hc job 3f Student Body prcsi»“

 

will be talren concentrating on
areas instead ot spocitic groupsl
‘The advice of the activttie
. .ounselor will be used and Indi'
viduals wzil be questioned as to
.student opinion. A studentrfacul-
ty committee will be created to,
. tudy the transition of the Judi-l
.ial system, Recommendations
will be made as to procedure
and precedent. There is a critical
need for such a study in this‘
area. »

i lion to

organizations such as the state
and national legislatures. the
National Education association
nd the Democratic and Republi-
aii parties. This committee
would act as a clearing house tor
information coming to the carri-
pus.

oh the campus level, student
ipinion can be created by in-
:reased communications between
(acuity and student, 1 will use
my influence as Student Body
3resident to issue progress re—
ports so that the student can dis—
cuss plans in advance of final
decisions.

The possibility or calendar
changes, the plans for a build—
ing program, the question of
curriculum changes and a de-
finition oi plagiarism are vital
issues for this campus and
should he made known to the
student in their formative
stages. Resolutions passed by
the Sentrtc will he iorwarded
to the faculty for their con-

sideratinn.

I would like to maintain the
Gi‘innell tradition. At the same

i time, I would like to promote the

intellectual level oi the campus.
I see no reason why this Couldn‘t
be begun during New Student
Days. Coffee hours and lectures
3n the why and how of a liberal
education and a student concert
will effectively achieve a bal—
ince betwecn the social and acne
dcmrc si es of New Student Days.
Faculty discussions with halls on
various topics should he encour—
aged.

Lastly, i would say that I am
qualified for this ofrice. in addi—
servrng on the house
:ouncil, I have been a member of
the Strident Council, chairman
it New Student Days for this
year and a member of the Calen—
dar committee as informal Social
:l‘ialrman, .

Goi Thomson

this experience, lstudcnt government. We wrll not

first time in its history, cone
corned
fairs. A resolution against the
loyalty oath and the disclaimer
affidavit of the National Defense
Education act was passed by the
Council, sent to national govern:
ment officials, newspapers and
other student governments, and
was inserted in the Congres-
sional Record by Congressman
Fred Schwengel.

in addition Grinnell led the
Midwest Conference student
.lbody presidents' conference to
pass a similar resolution and to
direct other Conference schools
to consider the issue. Until
Congress eliminates the oath and
affidavit, student government
should continue its activities a-
long this line.

The Council formed the Race
Relations committee, which sent
two persons to the Washington
conference on the sit-in move-
ment and sponsored a fol sing-
ing rally to raise money in sup-
port of the movement. it also
investigated alleged mistreat—
ment or Negroes in the town of
Grinnell and discussed racial
problems in the U. 5. Jill Dcir-
ningtorr, chairman of the coin-
mittee. deserves special recogni-
tion tor outstanding service to

PRIMARILY
PIZZA

DELIVERIES
tor
CARRY OUT

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717 FIFTH

itself with national afv

The Council's representative
to the faculty's International
Studies committee served as at
dclcgatc to a conference on the
Experiment on international Liv-
ing. This position should be
turther expanded to include in-
forming students of the many
summer foreign study and tor-
oign work programs.
Unresolved Issues

Probably the most important,
unresolved issue is the question‘
of membership in the National
student association, whose nae
tional attairs vicepresident
visited Grinnell this fall. other
unresolved oi- unsolvcd problems
include the alternating dorm
proposal, the enforcement of
lquiet conditions in the library,
the procedure tor concert selec—

KROHNKE
Cont. p. 3, col. 1

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CASES AND
SOLUTlO NS
EYES
EXAMINED

E. J. Jensen. O.D.

Optometrist

Across from Post- Office l
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longer be
niisintorincol.

misled, but Simply

This is an urgent request forJ

all of us intellectual type loway
farmers, the 5.0.5. (Sons or the
Soil), to bank together to pro-

tect our cultural heritage from
the corruption of higher educa-
tion. ‘

Steve Hath

As the focal point of student

 

opinion, 1 would concentrate
this opinion in two areas: iirst, l
on the national level; second, .
on the campus level. i
l advocate joining the National
Studcnt association as one means
l)f projecting student opinions
lonto the national level. A com-
mittee will be created with the
purpose of maintaining contact
between the campus and national
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