Fage Two SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. September 22. |96l firarlpi ooh iiiltifk Grinnell, Iowa GRINNELL COLLEGE A weekly neivsiianer published each 1 year by the Grinch Committee on Student rublie ions Andrew Blown, iiimvi nepicsciiird {or niiiona ndiciusiiiy'. by Niiiiionil Acieiiising Sciiicc ruc. ooilcge riiblisncis iii-ii iesentarnc. 12» hiadison A1e.. New '1'e N. 1:. Entered as second clhss matter at the Post since at limeli. loiva. under the act of March 3, 1:27.. Subscription r e 51.50 per school l day or tlic college 11, Nancy rorel , 111' iani Welty Sports [xi-car Editor: Fenian. Editors . oorw mirrors ~ , Susan 'was gadmii-able by Jack Chapman , The first case this year cone ‘cei-ning violation of the Orienta‘ tion regulations was presented before the Men's Primary Court last Tuesday evening, in a ‘travesty oi the judicial System, the court fined North Younker ‘hall, The case far the prosecution undeniably weak, almost The defense was relation to the although to deny non-existent. (in competition), ‘the vague charges was almost 1 unnecessary. Advert inc Layout - Advertising Sulesmen Business Assistants . . , . . . < , Admssiolis and Confusion ‘ Inquiries concerning the Grinncll admissions policy: particularly in connection with the class of 1965 have beell directed to both this office and that of the Student Govern: ment Association. Essentially students and facility are askv; lug two maioi questions. Why is thele a notable decrease in. the pcicentag'e of fleshman students from the East! (there are 11 percent as compared with the 20 percent of last year‘s class) and why, if our admissions policy is conceined with leflecting' in its population choices a geographical sampling of students are only 11 pel cent from the Atlantic States this yeai, and about 2'5 per cent from the Iowa region 01' about 50 per cent from the Iowa- Illinois legion? , l These inquiries are not to be blushed off easily since it would seem to be a valid conceln of the student bodyi and faculty to ascertain how fellowvclassmates and studentsi are to be chosen from the many applicants, sillce these classmates do much to determine the tone not only of class-l loom activity, but formal and informal activity which takes: place outside of the classroom. ' 1 I11 an effort to airive at some satisfactory answer the SGA is taking steps to investi gate the present adm . ions policies. An SGA committee will report back to you through representatives after conferring with the adnlin- - istt‘ation. Next week a statement from Dean Stauss at—l tempting to answer your questions will appear in the S&Bl 'oditorial columns It is hoped that this investigation 11 clarify much of the confusion which reigns We invite youil comments and lettels. Cowles-MA Mature Decison ’l ,from one particular another. but from the facts as they affect each group and each, thinker. Although the opinions express, Laurels go to Cowles hall for attempting something new in the way of orientation proglalnming Last weckl ' Cowles voted unanimously to abolish the present prepping illoglam in their hall and substitute a personal apploaoh p ogram devoid of n1att1esses,fiie chills and the usual ob~ senity. Oui beanies ale off to you Cowles. Our Last Words We often point with pride to the fact that 0111' Grin nell community ofi'els an oppoltunity to expelience a max imum number of views and opinions and a minimum 01; ‘pressure to accept any one of them. And this boast gene1‘1l— ly holds true si\ and a half months of the school year. But it would be unrealistic to suggest that during the x weeks covered by the freshmen orientation program, the class of '65 is not press d into believing that hall‘ 'tmity and the Grinneli tradi on are supreme, inviolable,l yLlnquestionably desirable and ultimately necessary for :1 meaningful four years at Grinnell. We certainly do not condemn the hope of any person‘ .at Grinnell that his hall may become a showcase of cooperar We and competitive spi t. And that a feeling of close endship develop among the halls members, which noilld 'cal y on even into the years past college. But we do condemn this same person when he tries i to force feed his ideas into the minds of freshmen on the , grounds that “you have to make ’em find out what hall fellowship is because they’ll never find out themselves.” i What about the fellow who came to Gl'illllell believing .our claim that we have no social fraternities but who, in» lstead, finds his hall elders doing theil' best to make a Iflaternity out of their hall {01 fool of it becoming ”just la do1"."mit01y ! We maintain that most freshmen come to Gl'innell llooking for a certain amount of fellowship, that most would ‘participate‘in hall and campus activities it only their ,upperclass brethren would prOVidc an example i Fell too many people here say “this is 11 but we ulc go- ing to do to you freshmen to make sure you become fulll' acquainted with Grinnell and our hall. ’ Too fen say “this is 11 hat Glinncll offers you and we hope that, like us, you will find it valuable. " l This is not intended to he a clitique of anvones 01 ideas “here freedom to keep our own personalities is ll]iv cvelyones View of college life. We realize that too many hold would ring true fol einllt months instead of just si\ images have been imbeddcd too deeply in many minds lJV idom and Dad, class of ’37 and the poplllzll Hollywood cons , morning) .North .inilitant trial was a shoddy , cvel Yet, using the time of tho prepping episode (1-30 Sunday as justification for a verdict of guilty, the court fined Younkel' 320. Even I, a anti-preppei', felt the and crudcl attempt at Justice. uiieh court member has a in yudiec concerning prepr ping; i1 is inevitable. Under our system of law, howevch each court member must supc press his prejudices, and can- fine himself to the considerar tion of the facts and argu- ments :15 presented in the court room. The law is vague and the men of north campus desire definition Each judge must un- (leistnnd the giavity of his tier cision and be as obicctive and definitive as possible. 1 shall not express my spin-l lions.ol\ the validity of prepping, lhe . that has been done by all,l Indceol the Student Scnr ate resolved, teinpei-ariiy at least, that question last spring The extremely nebulous artu ele adopted by the Senate con- cerning the orientation program sets down very loity purposes: to further adaptation to life in' often. ‘Gl'lnnell residence halls and the college as a whole; to foster a realization of the opportunities which Grinnell and college life offer; to facilitate a rapid and eficctive academic adjustment to college. The resin ions are express ‘ ed as follmvsi “There will be ‘ no activities carried on during ‘ the orientation program which ‘ L'uuld endanger the physical or mental condition of the l participant or impair his study time or ability to nd— ‘ just to college life." There wlll be no ’obsceniiiesl and no swatting; hall membei- ship cannot be contingent upon participation in the program.‘ Violation of these plovisions, in letter or in spiiit can result in fines Since these iegulations speci l fieally plohibit only om: of the lid anal pieppiiig activiticsia (swatting). the lna]0|‘ rcspoliSi- bility foi adaplalion of that prepping piograin to the iules iests on the hall piesldent. i There is a fine line that dis— ,tinguishes voluntary from eblig: aiory: it is difficult to deter—. mine what could endanger the physical or mental condition or ‘activity, could impair the ability to odii ~ to college life Some hall pm A dents have not accepted tl responsibility with the gravity it demands, Dccidedly, and admittedly, the majority of the men on north campus favor a rigorous prc — ping program. The administi , lien, the faculty, a vocal rhi— nority of students and, most im- portant, the law demand re- straint. Under pressure from both forces, the presidents of halls engaged in prepping are in a dilemma. T h e s e presidents certainly have a responsibility to their constituency; yet, if we are to uphold the concept of student government and 1self-enforcement, the greatest reSronsihility is to the consti- tution and its laws. Undeniahly there have been Violations, covert as they may be. A boy has been injured, lach of hall membership has been threatened those not par- iticipaiing. One president defies ‘the inquiry of concerned stu- dents into his hall’s prepping piogram; another preps subtly nd discicetiy The goals of the program ale peivcrted, the iestiictions defied in spirit. These presidents must accept their responsibilities and exert their power to restrain as the law requires and as we students demand. THE FORUM for DISSENT. by Gary Hanson Bill Johnson Mike Montross Much of today's coininentai-y‘ _ local or international, pol cal or ether-wise — seems sadly aching in {actual material. WC believe that clear thinking must necessarily have a solid founda— tion of previously examined facts, and that tho consideratio , of any controversial issue mustl arise not from the arguments 0 one particular group or another, thinker oi- ed in this column Vii celtainly be open to dispute we will at-l tempt to base our interpretations on our understanding of the facts} land not oul previous emotional piei'udices it is to this ploposir, tion that we dedicate this col~ uinii, As the tension and misun- derstanding between itussia and the United states mounts, the necessity of finding a so. lution to the Berlin crisis lic— eomes acute. rot. at n time when it is essential to know , what is happening, our lead- or: are failing to reveal the truth to us. In his speech to the nation on ception oi College, USA But nation of anyones right to pressure others into accepting their View of the orientation program's goals. Some parts of the halls programs have produced noble results at least as measured on the utterly llndofin» able fellowship Stale many Grinnellians seem to go by. But, too, many of the aspects of individual hall programs unrewlll'ded and i1 few of them — SCSI“ llllWflI'l'flllif‘d, illegal. Palts of the programs of campus have been conducted admittedly in violation of StLlA One of those halls has been fillOKl for such t‘1 violation. Other halls have taken advantage dcllt Handbook regulations. of the weak legal link which as a checkpoint. Obviously, many a boy \ ill ”volunteer" ,a stunt which has no real purpose in order that he might not he considered anti-unity or whateml' So it seems at last that ‘1'ied on under stricter supervision by tllc'CofHP [1111!] has been evidenced in the first week in the six of the program’s i might prove valuable to some Grinnell students not by their own admission, many would fool disappoint— ed \1 ere they not given a chance to participate in it. not believe for a minute that the pl'oszl'alll is body 5 idea of the l1 v to a successful life at Glillncll. 1 duration, In t But let's Th perhaps our boast libou and a half July 25,1961 (see vitalspeeclies,1 Sept. 1,1961) Piesident John F l Kennedy piesented a veision e l the Beilin crisis to- the Ameiicaiil people that beie little iesembr‘ lance to the real Berlin crisis. l Kennedy explained the East~l West conflict Ovei Berlin in de-i‘ ceptively simple term the So-! Vlet Union wants to take DVE , West Berlin and America will defend the people of West Ber. :lin no matter What the Cost. No other aspect of the crisis was mentioned in Kennedy's speech: according to Kennedy America must Choose to defend, West Bellin or give it up. i But iathei than the Clucmll decision of the matter, this is a gross misrepresentation of the truth. Such dishonesty should be vehemently condemned whether- it occurs in America or the 50-, wet Union. Yet no major United, States newspaper has criticized‘ this speech to our knowledge. , Tile West, in spite of her post war- agreements to keep Ger many disarmed ”forever," has ‘ armed the West German ne— public and has recently threat— ened to supply her with atomic weapons Perhaps the real 11ch liii cri is caused by the Soc vict Union’s fear of a strong Germany. Does this seem preposterous? it is an out and out condem at least threc halls on north l “voluntmz‘W for 1 offers the wow the prob am, if it were car- t our li inf: in a colllple\ oi Should the SeViet Union fear a strong Germany any nioie than a stioiig United States? Let us View the situation from the Russian side of the Iron Curtain. Seventeen million Russ sians perished as a result or the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. In the West German Adenauer government of today twelve out of seventeen cabinet members and high officials were once Nazis; 84 percent of the ambas- sadors and leading diplomats in the Bonn foreign office had pre— viously worked with Hitler. The LG, Fai'ben industries. which supplied Eichmann with the “Zyklon B gas” are again dominating German industry; Hens Globke, legal initiator o: , the annihilation of the Jews in the ’305 and ‘405, is Adenauer‘s rightrhand man today. And according to F. Yorick Blumenficld in his recent re- port on the West German elec- tions of 1901 (Editorial Re- search Reports, vol. 11, no. 8), "German ministgr of defense Joseph Strauss has said that anybody who worked against the Nazis, for whatever reason. must lie considered a security risk." President Kennedy would have us believe that the Soviet Union stopped the flow of refugees in. to West Berlin because of what this was doing to “their" East Germany. The Soviet Union has never tried to build up East Ger— many as the West has built up West Berlin. After the war. iac» tories were actually shipper“! from Germany to Russia, The Soviet government felt that Germany should be left in destruction in order to learn the llorror of war. The East Germans weie foiccd to proclaim the day of Hitlers deieat as one of their national holidays. The refugee problem really indicatcs that the Soviet Union does not so much fear a weal; East Germany as she does a strong West Ger» man and a united Germany l0“ . ed towards the West would undoubtedly be far worse. The Berlin problem is more complex than either- side cares to admit. Neither side has begun ‘ronUM FOR DISSENT , toilette third-s. INinston L, King, dean of the Jim Hatfield chapel, will speak on “By VVh'cll ‘AutllorityT' in College church lSunday morning at 11:50,