SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, October l9. I962 Scarlet and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell, Iowa A weekly newipnnfl published each ruauv pr lhC collcze hi the Glillnell Committee on Student I-ubliqumm, F, Blown, ' . Ilu est-mill for national Jd\el up: ' * e Publistlu he . '1. Emu-r4 M the I'm mm: at a melt. Iowa, no u .u-l ot Iluch 2, (sis. Subscription n: sisn v" school Inc. (.oll °‘ the Jim Hatficlll Geolge Burk L -n u. m , lulu-u . kltllaltl (Ilium . Int. Th “ins wu lbrllmr, Jlrn Mel N . Susan B. Rabbits hi all lilleilhm Gcllldinc Rounzv >llou Judi lulu-h sile 1» Business Jlu Snort) , Cuhy Ell - Assutnnl cl, ' uml I um. Liam Bruslcttem Nuts! Last night's circus had everything bllt elephants, and tiley'd probably have been on the scene it" the politlcs ill- l'olved had been of the Republican brand. (Wait ‘til next Week.) The Program in Practical Political Education put on a good show, no one can deny that. But somehow, after tlle List hilzzah for tile Demos in '62 died away, there seemed- to be something missing. _ Let’s see. What was n ssing‘? Words‘7 No, there were plenty of those. Criticism oi" what’s over and done with ill American politics? Nope. There was plenty of that. What was missing? ‘ Maybe it was tll’ . Maybe it was an honest. specif- ic nnucnflescendine, di lies on of the state of the na— tion today and ullat's to be (lone about fixing it up. That’s what I wanted to hear. I wanted to hear what 5 key American Senator thinks ought to be (lone about Cuba. About Berlin. About the racial problem. About the i am problem. I wanted to be stimulated somewhere within the cerebellum, not the viscera. Senator Goldwater, if you read this betel-e you speal: ' \ eell. please remember this: Grinllell College, not the Lincoln Day Dinner. Jim Hatfield 8&1} Editor The pace at peace The lfour year old Grin ell ”pe‘ce movement” has played an excitingly radical El all, crying; ollt of an intense involvement with nuclear realties to a majority of per— plexed, synnathetic or outraged st‘udent onlookers. The “movement” get organized as Grinnell Students for Peace some time back, and lots 01' people worked on the less spectacular details of administration. But a preponderance of wandering enthusiasm m'er practicality left the “move» Inent” swimming between weakness and strength, between the adherence of the barberless, faithful few and the crew cot hundred. This year the “movement" has hitched up its or- ganizational belt as the Grinnell Student Peace Group, because the “for Peace" (male might presume unfairly that nonmlembers were ipso facto for war. The pr ent Version has produced one at" the finest conbrete accomplishments of the “movement‘s“ stormy ex t» ence, a series of faculty members talks entitled, “Is Disarmament Possible." This emphasis, which Presir dent Mike Home“ has been kicking around in his vis- Ions for a few years, 'liltIS at focusing the insights of different academic dis iplines on (lisarnlament’s prn ti ill aspect Professor Joseph Wall took the histol- an’s standpoint ill a lively introduction to the series Tuesday night For many of us the intermittent eruptions of ”peace l’ioVelnent" action stand as landmarks ill Grlnnell’s en» coumging struggle to come alive. It all began one fine sprlng‘ night ill 1960, when about rty piclleting students decided to make the all-campus , ml itary ball their scene of protest. ROTC has seen fit to use a Very private, women’s gym ever since. The following fall a larger group marched at the capitol building in Des Mojnes, and next morning’s “Register" left Iowa gaping at this pullky threat to its peace of mind. lst year fourteen students decided that a stand against nuclear testing was worth a meal, or maybe even three meal-less days making their Voices heard in Ameri‘ ca’s capitol. Over 300 Grinnell students back home skipped a, meal to Show their solidarity. And all the time between these valuable outbursts, the peace movement talked, dis- cussed and collapsed into listless exhaustion. This observer congratulates the present group for carrying through an effort which can give continuity to the "movement,” bllt those spasms ot’ plotest are still damn necessarv not onlv because Grinnell needs the perie odic jolt (but al 0 for two rather sobering reasons: The Bomb is with 'llS in a bi, er way than ever and the nay- sayers ar life itself Larry Smucker 5&3 Managing Editor necessary, because in saying ”no” they affirm- Le'H'ers to the Editor Parents ponder: 'l-Iours for ours? ' To the Editor: courage and condemned vio- lence would make a referen- (him a significant educative dcvmc for the student body. (3| ACCORDING To Tm: Edgren Amendment, passed by last year’s Scum, there are (we methods of initiat- -ing .1 referendum: one by a decision of the Executive Cabinet, and the other by obtaining the names of 25% of the student hotly on a petition culling for :1 refer» cnduxn Surely, if Messrs. Halland and Pilgrim represent even a si eable Interested minority desiring u referendum, they are only too free to utilize this latter method. So it occurs to me that the (lelnngoguery ot' the Harlan and Pilgrim letter is guilty ot all the evils they attributed to Mr. 505* ton and the Executive Cabinet. Or was u a Joke after all? Carol A, Miller The question of the regulation of women's hours is no simple, (lo»you-(lan't-ycu-app r o v e mat ter, however it may appear on the sul '9 It, involves, for one thing, a consideration of tiln s a posluvely trigllteningly com- phchleu concept which Thomas Mann (see Magic Mountain) has discussed at length and 131' better than I could. in the limit- ad space of a letter to the ecu. tor and with, moreover, my special limitations of intellectual endowment and/or velbal flu. em-y. conceivably set [orlh Still, I have plu _ed in and may as well continue. "Would I have refused to let my daughter, etc. etc’" Nab urally not. My daughter is c ceptlonally mature, able, lntel» ligent, dependable, and re- sourcet‘ul: she needs no such uv ficial definitions of her Inor- ulity. If one can doglnatically, and for reasons convenient only to urban workers, alter lime (to day light savings time), can one also alter it out-ot-hand for reasons or pleasure to mid- western coeds‘ What kind ot timerrulos obthln on the Mlssi sippi Campus? at Vassal" Is this a question of states’ rights" in- dividual rights? Grilmell autho Illes' rights) It's a tough question A Parent. To the Editor: As parents of a freshman stu— dent at Gr lnell, we thoroughly may your publlcuhou. It gives us a piclulc oi the school aboul which we still have much to learn. However the issue just received (Oct. )) dissipated some of the good feeling we had in regard to general attitudes on campus In the quucl- of pl'cpr plum I am referring particu- larly to the lehglhy and rather silly comments in the letters to the Editor MR. LARSON bIIGIIT want an answer to the uuouluu posed .u the end of his somewhat noll‘ sensical ospousal of pro )ing. Our answer i~ ‘yes" 7 tnis is evaclly the kind of institution we hope our son is attending. though I must say Mr. Larson raised a few doubts in my mind, that is u his attitute toward such an outdated, childish ac tivity is representative. To the E(l.tot. I had to be rather amused by the suupbuv pcech of Johns Harlan and Pilgrim in last week's 5&1}. Since it ignored all the pertinent facts relating to the Executive Cabinet's velo or a referendum on the Mlssissi pl resolution. I‘ve decided must be a joke, it However. just to clear things up, here are the facts: (1) THE RESOLUTION 31' the Senate was not, and can— not constitutionally be, a man- (late upon the Cabinet to hold a referendum. It is but the recommendation of one branch of student government to an- other. As a result, it is up to the discretion of the Cabinet whether or not it will deem such a recommended refer- endum necessary. (2) THESE ARE THE rea- sons Mr. Boston gave to the Senate (of which both Hurr Ian and Pilgrim are members) for tlle.Cabinet’s vein: The Cabinet did not feel there is sufficieul opposition to the Senate's passage of the l‘eso' lution to warrant a referen— duln on those grounds, upl- dld it feel that a resolution which in essence commended We hope that the opportun- ity tor :1 college education is something more than an “aca- demic rat race"; that “2mm tionnl and physical release” is served by lav better means (huh prepping stunts: fhut de- pendent thinking and the abil- ity to get along with one's fellow man doesn’t depend on such shallow reasoning as these letters displayed. One exception — our colnpli» ments to Mr. Snyder and Lnngan Hall. Apparently there are some people on campus as stu— dents who are discovering what u means to put away childish things, Discussion of both Sides at an issue is always good, and G l ml the Grand Ole Cpl-y ul KRNT in Des Moines. We will soon be ta“ ing reservations for the Sunday matinee performance, October 28. For 33 (including transportation) you will be able lo see (he na- tion's best performers in (he country-western field only 5‘ ty THE NE be will miles from Grinnell. WE ARE BEGINNING a horseback riding program this week- end with tree rides sponsored by the Informal Social Committee Sului-dav afternoon. The stables were subsidized last year by the college and were used extensively for much lower rates than those at present. It is our hope that the stables will eventually be subsidized again, but the only method by which we can prove to the college that there is need for their help is by our interest and participation in the available program. Your opportunity to discover the fun in hoiseback riding 15 at hand Saturday after- noon. NEW Pll\ Tom; and pool equipment have been purchased for our Union Iacilllies. The pool table used now will be retelted and the old one repaired to working order. The new equipment will have to last until the end oi the semester. Sociul Coordinating Committee probably your letter wrltcrs thought they were expoundillg great and wise fundamental truths. This alwavs sounds a lit- tle ridiculous unle it comes from one who has had a grout deal of learning and experience, A Parent Reader To the Editor: I appreciate the opportunity to comment as a parent on the hurtling issue of women‘s hours I will first answer your specific questions. I think the Gl'innell administration should act in RCA cordance wifh its own judgment in this matter. When my daughr tor planned to go Grinnell. I did not ask specifically about: women's hours: I was interested generally in the administration, the laculty. the student body and the alumni: I received very favorable reports on all of these groups then. and outside the pages of 5&3 I receive very favorable i‘epor on them new AT HOME, my daughter would not be permitted to star out all night or to entertain boys in her bedroom, The quesV (iuu could never arise. since such things are not done in our community. They are done. of course, by a few rebels, and they are done generally in a few rebellious communities, I have not observed that the reb- cls. either individually or (:01- lectlrelv. are healthier. \vealtlb icr, wiser or happier than (he rest of us, College has nobler purposes than preparing a painless (mush lion into the adult world. If will do no harm, however, to realize that there are few op- portunities in that world to in- dulge “basic rights" entirely free from regulations. s An Illinois parent To the Editor: As parents of a Grinnell co-ed we strongly protest any move to abolish women's hours. The answer to your question as to whether we would have refused to let our daughter come to Grinnell with no hours regulaA tions is an unqualified yes, We are greatly distressed because of the increasmg trend toward be laxation of all college rules and regulations as evidenced by the hazing incidents. open open dorms, unrestricted liquor in dor moi-(es, repons of girls in men's dormitory rooms all night. and how the pressure for elimi- nation oi curfew for the women. Everywhere we are com- pelled to live by rules and un— der restrictions. Society would simply break down without them, and life at :1 college is no excehtion. Laws are neces— sary for the protection of those who want to abide by the cor- rect standards of behavior. We are curious. Why else do you want to rel v the houls but for “free love“ School activities are over. the library and student union closed. No hours at the wonle s dorms would mean no restrictions at all on boys being in the lounges and loggi: all night. and \‘ice versa—the girls in the be ' dorm, How liberal can one get? It . our feeling that all this agitation is being made by a small but vociferous minority and (hul the average level-head cd student is not opposed to rear sonn‘ole rcstricuons. It is too bad that u {cw sludents can damage the reputation and prestige of the college, which is what. is happening right how. Parent readers