Friday. October 27, |96l SCARLET AND BLACK Pa ge Three THE FORUM for DISSEN T by Curt anb As was evidenced by reports ironi the recent Kansas City Regional Conference. the Peace Corps is enthusiastically contin- uing its realistic approach to' the problem of “liclping foreign countries meet their urgent need for manpower." President John F. Kennedy went to the top for the person- net to administer this program. Among the men he chose were Dr, Joseph Kaufman, loryner Dean of the College at Bran- deis; hanklin H. Williams,‘ Nkruniah's Harvard ll‘oonlmale;, and the 26'yedl'sold director of[ Johnson's lilo-man e a in p a i g n force. . . Although meeting with has tility in Nigeria, the Peace Corps has been very well re., ceived by most governments, The 60 Corpsmen who recently‘ disoinbarkcd from a plane in Ghana singing the Ghanese nae tional anthem soon became known through their desire to learn from the people of that,‘ country as well as teach them. impressed by this group‘s attic tude and especially their respect for manual labor, Ghana has now ordered five times as many as span as possible, A six-week training period often involving 66 class-hours or study a week {allowed by a threerweek break-in period is usual for Corps members. During this time the hosti Committee investigating Possibilities For Providing Shelter Against Fallout Plans are being made to provl vide shelter tor the Grinnell siu dent body from rallout in case, of a nuclear bomb attack. , President Howard R. Bowen, and Vice President Merritt Lud.‘ wig appointed a committee on Sept. 12 to plan a program or, mobilization and shelter tor. all Grinnell students whose‘ parents do not live in the City‘ of Grinncll and to appoint a‘ minimum number oi staff and their families to administer thef program. Members ot the committee arel, William A. Nevill tchcmistryl,i chairman; Dean or the Collegel James H. Stauss; Dean of Wo—l men Evelyn Gardner; Dean otl Men Steven Woo , Evan H. Walden, director of the physi- cal plant; Robert Fisher, dii'eC-l tor of the iood service and Lud-l wig. l According to Neville, “It is toollinrdy to try to protect against a blast. it is belicvcd that the major threat to Grin. nell will come irom tulloiit trom a bomb aimed at the Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarter at oriiit Air Force Base in Omaha, Ncbr. Our committee is striving to have the plan in operation by the lirst of the year." So tar the committee has ins Professor Dantorth To Speak At Phi Bete Chapel Friday Joseph D. Danrorth tchcmis try) will be the speaker at the fall Phi Beta Kappa chapel to be held next Friday morning at 11. Danforth’s address, which is .co-sponsorcd by the Board or Religion and Beta Chapter oi Phi Beta Kappa, will be thc first in a new faculty series on “Approaches to Reality.” Dane iorth, who is a member or Phi Beta Kappa and an omcer or the Grinnell chapter, will be introduced by Dean oi' the Chap. cl Winston L,’King. Announced at the chapel will. be the names of seniors elected‘ as new members oi Plll Beta Kappa and of sophomorcs who will receive book prizes fur outstanding work done in their freshman year. i Presentation of the member- l l ' were discarded immediately her 1 Will be staying during the two‘ ' ship certificates and book prize countries languages must be mastered, skills are refilled and American as well as na- tive cultures are studied. Responding only to countries that make specific requests ior men, the Corps knows that it will have critical jobs awaiting its specially trained members The Corps hopes cvcntually to have a pool oi 15,000 highly motivated Americans possesscd or knowledge, a needed shill, in—j gcnuity and a willingness to sacrifice material v/cllsbcmg iorl communication with their tcl» low host-country worke- The Corps has no more use ior applicants bearing a white; man’s burden than it has icrl countrics that wish to spcciiy, the race of their Corps group: in short, the Peace Corps is anl cited to cxplorc to the depths the sinccrity oi young American idealism, } What then is the state oi Cam-i pus political idealism Lipon‘ which the Peace Corps