Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. February 2." l962 $ratrh>t anti 713111111 Grinncll, lawn GRINNELL COLLEGE 11 1111111111 newspnnel: published cuh 1 the c rum. of matml at the p.151 0 nl lualrh a. 1 Subsmhumv lowa. lumi- nc 51.51 nu- bLhuul .1 1 11.1mm 111,111,111, (111155111111 1 Cvnv Editor . . .. . ' . 1 Annunu 1.11 - mum ' .~ emu: scum. 1' hm 11111-11 Leslie llmslcucn 1.1-1 1c she Eunice FM 7 1 We call your attention to the article on the next page: 0 this issue which deals with the possible switch by cam—l pus radio station KGRW from All to FM‘ broadcasting. We entirely support such a change Critiscism ol' ”KG” has rained l1ea1ily upon the shoul~1 (leis of station managels throughout its history. Among the blasts are these: that it is often impossible to bring‘i in programs because of electrical interference or because‘ 'of mechanical failure at the station; that the station is an expensive hangout fol iazz ai'ficiandoes 1vhose“cool” chatu tel and Far out fare find few listeners; on campus don't have time to listen to the radio anyhow. A switch to PM would eliminate the first beef almorst en- tirely Such a change would allow the station to broadcast suonger signals 7 signals even strong enough to be pick-1 ezl up in the now “KG- less" Norrisses. l According to Manager Porter, true high fidelity sound could be transmitted within a 10-nlile radius. Such improv ed quality and range would be an inducement to the cam- pus musical and drama departments to present radio con»l certs and plays ,¥ thus helping to widen the variety of programs, a task already undertaken with some success by Porter. And, in answer to the third criticism, we think with the good programming and fine mechanical quality which 17M would allow, more people would find time to listen. Of course we re; ize that FM reception requires a dif- ferent type of receiver than the traditional AM varietyl But FM rcceivers are no more expensive than the othel type. Many students have FM receivers now and are en- joying the excellent commercial-free programs available onl e tions in Des Moines and other cities. e think the investments 7 $7500 (ma mum) by tie college and individual investment ill FM 1eceive1's ’7‘ \zollld be well worth the money And for those who don't wish to buy an FM set, we; offer a suggestion made in our office the other day. Why not present afternoons of selected music in Roberts Then- ter? Piped through the wonderful sterophonic sound sys tem recently installed there, such music would provide a good background for, say, Saturday and Sunday afternoon reading. ’ Wed gladly plint 11eekly plogrnms of what’s to be izeald’ in the Scarlet and Black. Should the soldier speak? We that most people l i agree with Gen. Thomas D. White, USAF, Ret. if the military man is compelled by conscience or conviction. to speak out, either ill contravention of policy or the pro— priety that must govern the man in unifonn, let him leave the service The militan is an arm of the nation’s executive govAl ernment and as such is not entitled to formation and/or public criticism of policies laid down by congress and the I‘resident. At most, the military serves as an advisory bo-l (ly in order to facilitate policy formation. Army General Edwin Walker's re igllation after cen-l Slure for promoting his “Pro-Blue” pro "am as a means ofl educating his soldiers to the Communist threat places him zlow in a position to, legally, cry woll' as he so (105' es. While we might abhor such actions we can’t deny his light as a citizen to make s11eepiug' plonoucelnents nbnutl anything, so long as he doesnt defame 01 libel i as llel neally did in describing H'lrrv Tillman, Dean Atcheson and 1 Eleanor Roosevelt as ”pink. ” Like any business. the lllllili 111011 policy in order to maintain stability and to achieve desired goals. Any criticism of that policy should be “1 pt: in the family." “‘ v must adhere to :1 come: l Tito. 1 exit. He's lmcnlcllst Chri fl ‘1 l“l“‘1 111.11.11 1 by Paul Reichs Though once or twice a year 'a collegial student ,will take a stand on .1 national political issue, 1hcsc stands file not the main eluci- government buslncss. The Griuncll Student Govcl'n-, Association likewise upon £111 opinion .mm‘l- occasion expresses with the admlmslralive tasks 111V licl'elit in local student govern- ment. This fall thcl'e arosc the ques- tion nl adequately representing student body opinion in those llistancus whcn the Student Senate docs decide to adopt a stand on a national issue. in the resulting debate lhc Senate passed the “Edgren Amendment" _ :1 referendum by-lnw which states that any govel nmcnt of student itself mainly: A column ot opinion open to Contribution by Scarlet 3< Black readers mm the delegates to the NSA The Grinnell Student Senate has passed a Senate mcllnn stating that henceforth Grin- ncll delegates , to the NSA i shall be elected, rather than appointed by 1111: Senate 01' l SGA president. The e1cction1 of the NSA lclcgatcs shouhr serve as the gauge for deter g campus political unin- you some phase of national 1101- '5'“ 1 my yet concerns ion. in this election such issuesas lanpear llkely to come undci NSA consideration may be an ed They may vvngc l‘lom HUACl and lnililaly muzzling” hea , lugs to urban aliails depa menis and medical aid. A canvl didale would have to take a stand on current polltlcal topics, and be clcctcd or rejected, dc pending on whether or not hi stand is compatible with Cnm- pus opinion as reflected at the, polls. \ resolution of the Senate shall , lie subject to It campus-wide referendum if so requested in a mention signed by 25 percent of the student hodx. This by law assures the student body of final authority on any Sen- 1 yet does not i ate resolution, solve the problem of reprc~ sentat-ion in policy formulat- mg. Since 1hc leierenclum is a lather culnbelsoma device, and at bcsl allows fol a restlicted yes or no choice, 11 has been suggested that the’ SGA omcers and representatives be elected on the basis or political stands on national issues, thus assur- ing proper representatlon campus opinion vescluucns of a national nature. 1 would suggest that elccucn ito those mice; on the basis 01‘ political philosophy would be inappiopriale When the SGA does take a stand on a national issue, 1hc normal procedulc is to direct the individual c0l»' legcs rosolutlon to the National Student Association The NSA both instigatcs and c0 oidinaies ,politicai criticism on the part cl collcve student bodies. The mall-1 forum 101- express- ing thls criticism is 1hc NSA convention It thelcioie appealS, that those students most direct- ly involved in represenling 1hc political Vlcv, s at a student body of, in lacmulaung1 I would suggest that these duly elected NSA delegates be‘ incorporated as a standing com»; ‘mittee of the -SGA and that members of (his commlttee,‘ elected on a yearly basis, serve as a policy-making group, With- in the SGA [01' those occasions‘ lwhen the SGA should decide ml l act independently from the NSA.i 1 would recommend that. this “politically" elected cum- mluee be given lhe authority , to accept or reject any reso~ . iutinn on national afiairs puss- ed by the Senate. The enm- mittee's aechaons would, of course,besubiect m the dimer 1 menticncnl by—luw 'on referen- 1 dums though, locally, the com- mittee would be representa-_ tivc enough to resort to the | referendum. would further ieccmmenu lthat in event or ,‘my student igloup action. independent 011 the SGA, the “polillcal” com. mluec inlincdiaiely issue a state— llnent either suppolting the said lgroup action on behalf of the lSGA (subject again, 1c thel lefelendum by law) 11. identity- ling the said acllon as an action taken by a group of studentsl lattendlng vanellenbl to be confused v.1tl1 the Glinnell slu l 1dcut body as a 111,101e and 1101; necessarily lefiecling (he opin- ion of tile Glinucll student body 111 thoughts out of Season Ive eitl1e1 been having bad dicams c1 my ladle mysucnlly lplcks up the long lolgcuen 1oicc lthe at ”The Shadow before each Sunday mornings giopc towaicl the scrambled eggs or the lRevereud Billy James ngls is ml lhn-1eal, Aim :1 little inquily I find, ‘1 have no private evil genie and that at 8:30 Sunday moining 011 some nameless lowa station, :1. pudgy Oklahoma amalgam D91 Jackie Gleason and Father vine blcats out his learlul har- rangue against “atheistic comv ‘munism.” ln newscasterrtalk Billy James is a national leader in the 1 Right" of American He heads two John Birch-con1e~lately o 1- g anizations s the Christian Crusade and Wu the People — in additlon to his Sunday messages on Mutual. Since the catch-phrase pol- , icics of the “Radical Right" _ impeachment of Earl Warren and Karl Marx, no planes for incineration ol Havanna -uul 1' establishment or the Spanish inqulsulnn _ arc mu— 1y \1ell 10101111 and accepted 1 according to ones greater dcr grcc cl idiocv, 1 \1011't delineate . further. Billy Jim mouths the same svllables, but he's (lifter- iuiel‘esting. He‘s a - sllrewdie. Billy Jim's introducmg funda- communism makes the Rightis‘ . , . . 1 lanlty Into nntl- By Larry Smucker doubly appealing. The st bogeyman emerges from, obscurny oi' economicl theoly, conveniently enough as a? big pink Antichl-Lsc , Although the idea is not orig- 01 paniculally exciting lBilly Jim is reallzing its possir bilitics fully in his radio rlletol 1c, lHis qulcl just us folks dlawl modulates effectnely from 1hc l 1011, manly exposuie of those ivy ilcaguc eggheads in the admlnis Ultlatiou cGllnncll has not been given such status as yet) to the high, jerky, urgent revelation that the godless agents 01 Red have seriously ‘inilllrated thc American clergy and me breach less wind-11p “What next?" con- juring up a dim image of llun ravishing grandmother. The homey moneyrraising inc» tics the Crusader uses are Clever too. No beggar lac nickels and dimes, Billy Jim asks weekly fax a Specific number of small con tributious to “Carly 011 lhc wol- Hls only slip—up here come after 2111 antlrmatcnalismratrChl'istmas» time speech, when "the hslcncr" was offered, ior only $2, :1 box or gl'eetlng cal-n: designed by Rev and Mrs. Hargis (“especially for you"). , Today I have 110 incllnnuon to bail. rcncuomrles, try to see , what makes Billy Jim tick or 1 gcnemuzc about a snunuon that has frustrated a certain portion of the American people hub Christian Crusadism. I won't deplore the perversionl pitch 1111a . ‘ immediate 01‘ ‘ present 1m- 1in 012119” 1 To the Editor. The pieces in Volli by Mr Schlh Mr, 111, Clyde Douglass and Mr. Smuckel‘ have all impelled me to write you about somelhmg which has been worrying me since the late Washington junket. 1 had always believed that a college, when it was not a way of lchcvlng the tedium or an oppoltunity f6! amiable dlSS-pfl- lion, or an apprenticeship for making money and marriages, \vas a place {01 thinking This thinking wlll perhaps be often muddle headed and hopelessly inconsequential, but still, in 01.1- ioles as students and faculty. 0U) business is to think, not to act, and to think about "Ham- let," Malx, 01 Plato not about practlcal matters. 11 seems to me oncn proper that a student resign from :1 college, temporarily or perman- nenlly, 1n order to take up a life of action. And it seems to me occasionally proper, in pe- riods cvcn gllmmel than these that a college stop being: a college and become n political or minim-y arm. last issue But it 58121115 to nle always necessary that a student, at the times when he takes be ing :1 student seriously, should think—.instend of .vloing my- thing else; and that a college, insofar as it takes being a col- lege seriously, should pm. vhlc a place for lhlnklng. May 1 quote George 1'. Ken- nan. if only for the prestige lof his name" “All the remaining years of life will be available for preoCcupation with the pass» ing scene; but these years of school and college are the only ones available for history. for literature, for an, un- lhought, for philosophy. “if the student gets these things at college, there will al» 1ways be time in the years‘ ahead to take part in the 111a vi the day, and he will have the equip ment to do it. But if he does not get these things in his stu- dent years, 11 is unlikely that he will ever get them at all. . . 4 This is why 1 am irollbled when 1 see students sitting around—sometimes even under the encouragement of their teachers—attempting to discuss ,cun-cm international problems which they slmply do not have the historical and the geographr 1c and the semantic knowledge to discuss in any useful way, 1 would like to canal illlese excited and eager souls. segregate them flom the the moment, that they might be 'hetter fitted to face it in the future” (Quoted “PMLA,” September 1961, Part I. 1). ii.) Yours faithfully, Benton Fox ‘ and of religion. 1 don't cven want to assess the strength oi the “Red ical Right.” although Billy Jim claims the existence of 2000 rightwing local organizations and presumably 11-ch to weld these clement: into :1 “Fratermty cl Country-Savers" in a lop~sccV be: policy session last month. A less-persuasive Billy Jim named Fred Schwaltz heads an organization on the West coast which also aims at puttmg religr ion back in HUAC and Right- ists are ebbing away at the Re- publican strength of guberna- torial aspirant Richard’M. N on. Closer by, a Des Moines meme her of the John Birch Somety made the runoff ballot hu- my council, was defeated after poll» ing 6.000 votes and quickly de- clal'ed his ca11d1dacy for U. S, Congress h-cm Iowa's 4th dis- ll'ict, But no more. The question I'm really in- terested in is whether 1 should concern myself with Billy Jim more man as : fascinat- ing odditv. I certainly have better things to do and, Billy Jim is :1 lower denominator in my field ol cultural anem- lives. 1 have no desire to at- tempt a radio refutation after breakfast on sunny. THOUGHTS OUT 91' season: Could. p. 3, col. 1