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SCARLET AND . BLACK

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Grinnell, Iowa
GRINNELL COLLEGE

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o muses oi the Christmas time,
An ardent plea to thee is made

For hClp wrtli this eighth Noel rhyme,
A nomenclature iusiliade.

We‘ll sing an opening balulalow
For Donald Jones and Richard Howe,
And synthesize a madrrgal

For James Kissane and Thomas, Phil.

Hark the Herald Angels‘cllol‘us
For Captains, Mandcville and Brunton, Morris,
And let them sing another one,

For M. M. Lieberman and son.

Klausncr, Kimtz and Mr. Allan
or Christmas cheer deserve a gallon
Served in dialectic mugs

And spilt on existential rugs.

For President Bowen we might accord

Another enormous grant lrom Ford

For Ludwig and Kautrnann when Christmas comes
Let their stockings bc stut'ied with attluent alums,

A test tube tilled with mistletoe
For Siiei‘ison. Oclke and Dantoi-th, Joe;
Hang fetal pigs upon the tree

For Walker. Mendoza and Kenneth G.

String popcorn kernels on a thread

For the Pileugerville Pilasli and Bowers, Edd;
And decorate the Girls gym track

18 times 'round for Cox, Leakc, Waclc

Drop the hornb and join the revel
In the shelter with William Nevill;

Everything is Dionysrari,

Winston King has had a vision

,Oi Buddha rising train the sedge

Along the silty river's edge

And screaming “On dancer and Prancer et. al.
(Good cheer to Joseph and Mrs. Wall.)

But up in the sky there arose sirch a clatter
The pentagon tried to examine the matter.
And sent up an Atlas assolilting the air-
Which lodged in the foot ot a reindeer there,
And only Cadet Colonel Letham must know
This topssccret origin oi “missile-toe"

Season’s greetings to the Brrrkles in Japan.
CCUN and riggins, Dan

To Henderson. Craig. and Martindale, Molly
And the IRC, and Schol‘icld, Holly.

A Christmas apparition oi high attrition
To our respected Midwestern House oi Admission:
A quiet yulctide ior Poly. Sci.

rroehlrchcs Weinachtcn, Mr. Baay.

Santa please stop to see Timothy Merrill,
Send El pair of shears to Tuffy Terrill
And a liquor book for old EL.

Benowilz gels Leonard, who is cute as hell.

It Came upon that midnight clear,
For Snyder and Ballick, a 5 ft. beer,

DEC}: the halls with Fuller, Charlie,
Gill‘iitll and Gleysteen and Ron Gnult, too.
Mary F. Newman rides the trolley —

Joe Okumu had the flu.

For C Edwin Gllmour (before it‘s too late\
Bring Kennedy and Khrushchev here to debate.

Give a grit to Hoops and Neuhaus, Shirley

To the students for Peace, and leader, Curley,
And while we linger on agitation

Here's a meal tor the Washington delegation.

Round the tree in circles great
Run this Empowered heads of Statc,
The Three Big H's and Jill perform
Two in Council and two in the dorm.

For the athletic world of iock

We hang a sweaty Christmas sock

For Presidents 01 every hall

An organized, sanctioned Christmas hr-awl.

@ilie %dmtg Hf finned

 

hy John Ward

“Hark" said l cnlcirng the
post ollrc “I seem to have roe
ceivecl a mi we."

My companion spoke glee—
iully. “And 1, too. have drscor»
crcd a paper oi unknown nature
in my mail box." immediately,
l whipped out my slide i lo
and computed the probability
or such a happening. The od
were 3 to 1 against the iicciii»
r-ence. - »
ceeded
move
spective mails
and to ponder
them careiully.

“Why," said I
”it is our sched-
ule of final ex
aims for this so-
mester." . a

My companion Ward
responded. "Arid rt is complete
with a handy dodt-yourselt
schedule for the lower division
classes. Let us return to our
room and calculate the ending
of the year."

I acquiesced and we marched
oil in the northerly direction,
my eyes sparkling trom walking
into the wind and iroin anticie
pated joy at the prospect an
ending the year.

We reached the
spread the various semester-
exoin directives on the desks
and beds and chairs, We made

our

room E\ n d

'lit back to mil 6
and to interpret

(lone. ‘Ve
our nor]:
the results.

As :\ point oi intormction, 1
am a junior and my companion
is a senior. Like most ju' cm
I am tolnng scvcral lower dr—
vision coiirses My companion is
in the upper echelon in his inns
jor field and has many seminars
and independent proiccts.

imagine my horror- when I
found out that i have tire imal
exiinls on five Consecutive day..
But in addition, while taking
my first cxains l am still going
to be attending first semester
classes in German. phy . and
logic. During the iunior liberal
arts exam I will be attending
classes in second semester Gore
man, ph , et al.

I scored tor my companion
lest he go mad when he saw
his schedule, for, being a senior,
he is apt to be highly nervous
and high-strung. I need not
have worried, for his exams
take place on the irrst three
days oi the upper di sion
schedule and he has a 28-day
vacation till upper division
classes resume. -

Entia non suiit . . ,

The semester examination
schedule is incredibly wells
planned Committees must have
worked long and hard trying to
set up a schedule that would
be fair to all. Some poor secre—

a master calendar and two mas—
ter schematic diagrams of the
schedules. These we nailed on
the wall. Translating group
numbers to calendar dates oe-
cupied the better part at an
hour.

The next step was to trans.
pose these figures onto the
calendar. My slide rulc verit—
ably ilcw as 1 called out dates
and times. Thcii iic were

A bowl oi wassail,
A ligger ot gin
For Roger C. Porr-
And Calnal sin.

tary must have worked fingers
to bones typing the cryptic
stencils explaining the proce-
dures and programs The iunior
liberal arts exam syllabus is a
masterpiece oi philosophy.
Whiteheadion in its simplicity.

But thc entire production
is s to obey the “rule ot the
greatest simplicitv" so iinpoiu
tent m the history of science.

é

Cherubs lift their heads and pucker
For Ruthie G, and Larry Smuckor
And Robbins, Eddic and Zi\'in. Gall
And Michael A Burr, tho il'antic mule

Keep the ClCZ‘iVGI‘S out o[ the Scapuss' reach:
Lat Sheldon thner Come back to teach.

To Cabinet Secretary. Eleanor Zine,
A Christmas wish from Susan Klein.
And to b 'ghten Curtis Bradiord's liie,
Publication rights trorn Yeats' wile.

A Christmas pot Iol‘ Bennett Bean

And Stephen VVoDd. our favorite Dean.
And add a wrCzith for Evelyn G.

And James C. Slauss and the Family P.

A hall and hearty yulc is soon

For Diane Connolly and Roommate. Jeanne;
And tor Dorie Newton and Margaret Post
Wt: otter up an cggnog toast,

Joy to the World and Randolph Reed
To Gretc rind Vivian and Susan Mead
And Kathy Friend and Bruce M. Becker
From Bernstein, Judi, morals cliccircr.

And tor three wise men oi great foresight
McLean and Glenn and Paul Courtrrght;

Add some cheer tor Huber, Pat,

And Richard Cei-verie and William Platt.

For John H. Peale and Richard On‘
Christmas spirits begin to pour:
Bring more Clips to hold the brew
For Welly, Hamilton and Roberts. Sue.

Merry Christmas irom Hansen, Samuel and Gray
To Davids, Mai-ail, Lightboru-nc and May;

And to the Millers, all tlnrteeii

Arid Mitchell, Mary and Thompson. Jeanne.

Sing Christmas Carols in Merrill Park
For Parish, Erwin, Seeder and Clark:

For the Artist's league and Cooper, Marty
A Surrealistic Christmas Party

To those oi you whose names aren't here
Look to another Noel next year;

And imally, not with tongue in cheek
We wish you a wonderiul Christmas week.

The Staff and the“ same

For tiic creators oi this sched-
ule i would lrk to quote Wil-
liam oi Occam who said- “Entia
non stint multiplicrinda practcr
necessitatcml" This translated
roughly can mean "Don’t nlilltis
ply things beyond necessity." or
"Conliise not, lost ye be con—
iiised.“

End the semester hciorc
Christmas and have n twnsn'eek
reading per-ion aitcrwards, or
else return to the scheduling
of the past with modifications,
but the way things are going
now can lead to general pam—
noia and diverse terms at i .
sanity on the part at the Stu—
dent bedy. and the nroicssors.
Whipping out my dependable
slide rule, 1 find that I have a
50750 chance oi passing my
exams, but the chances oi find-
ing out wiicn and where my
exams will be held is approxi—
mately so to l . . . against.

ofdferd

To the Editor:

Open Lcttel‘ to Mr. \Nilliom
Halama, President of the Grin-
nell Student Government Asso-

ciation.

Dear Bill: ‘

Student government at Grin.
nell has had to iace its first
major crisis in recent weeks.
While some oi the excitement
has died down, however, the has-
ic issue has not yet been decid—
cd. That is the question wheth-
er student government shall
have the right to express itself
on matters not directly related
to the welfare of students. Some
have felt that only campus idc
reierenda are the proper med.
ium ior the expression of stu-
dent opinion on national and in—
ternational issues. Others icel
that student otircers and Sans
ators. once elected, must have
the irecdom to vote as a body
and express themselves collecA
tively on any subject in which
they are vitally interested

In objecting to ircouent res
iereda. you have expressed
the tear that only a small min-
ority of students might turn out
to vote on a given issue. i would
consider this an argument a.
gainst tl’el‘lucl‘it senate I'esoluV
tioris it a rcterendum does not
give strong backing to a senate
resolution. this is an indication
that on that issue the senate
does not speak- tor the student
body Fol whom, then, does the
senate speak?

When senators argue that they
speak only ior themselves, 2 's
is either insincere or unrealistic.
When senate resolutions receive
widespread coverage in newspaps
ers, on radio and Tv, it is in
eilect taken by the public to
represent strident opinion at
Grinncll. After all. uhen the
senate makes repi ntations to
the college administration on
campus matters. it does mean to
speak for the student body. and
properly so. As the Preamble to
your Constitution states, "the
so A. , . . shall administer and
legislate rules pertaining to all
aspects of student litc, . Stu-
dent oiircers and senators are
elected for that purpose and one
ly with that purpose in mind.

II the senate is inclined to e »
press itseli irequently on issues
oi national and international
concern whrclr will tend to be
controversial and have no pare
ticular relevance to campus his,
then iutirre campus elections
will be run along pzll'ty lines,
Then a candidate will have to
identity himselt as a Republican.
a Democrat, a Liberal, or an
Alllel'iCa—Firstcr. This, you will
agree, would destroy student
government.

Student government should be
strong, It can be strong only it
it enjoys the respect and trust
of the student body. It can ens
joy this position only if it ex»
ercises those iunctrons ior which
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