SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, November 30, I962 Scarlet and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell, [own A weekly news uicr published each Flldnv icu hi ihc c in I commune m. Silillrlll rm ll.lm .\ Nclill climm... iluimcuiul tor imiil . by N iolul nummunc sen i-cscvulliiu velmul cliu. die in: ol Mil *iulu. r lhc camca mmu \vn .uhmluiu iiiucicu as huvi, “ruler ll iici- school . lsw. Slibscrllltion vile m Hatfield smge Buck , . . . i- splinter News'eihlm , , . . . .i no im Neus Ellllol kuimul Ulllemflbl' line Editor nail 'lmiiihl mum, Lflslle Brusletlcn, siic All letters to the Editor written for publication in the Scarlet ml Black must he typed and double spaced. No unsigned letters I be printed. However, writtcrs' names will bl: withheld upon request. The 8&3 reserves the right to shorten any ltttci‘l Responsibility and the rules It's ll difficult thing for students to make tlle transi7 tion from home, where rllles are understood because tlley are established on a personal basis which allows flexibility, l-nd college where 1200 persons must live ill close pro. imr i’v under rules which oftentimes seem to have no meaning ior the individual. . CASE 1N POINT is the hours rule which is llCCeSSlr thed by the fact tllat the college is l‘ sponsibile for safety and reputation of its students as well as its own leputation as their lrdiall. I don't believe any Grinnell :.tlm'listrator is illterc tell ill seeing the hours lllles obey ed fol any other reason. They agree that students must be allowed to make their own deci r lere those decisions involve the responsibility of the col- lege. However, tlle college cannot expect students to help meet this responsibility unless it respects their own sense what is right and wllat is wrong. Valid suggestions for rule changes collie only from a n ajoi'ity of those involved—in this case the students who e under them, the parents who make it possible for their children to do so and the friends of the college who further slpport it. But as long as rules exist they nlust be obeyed. It the rule is unrealistic, such as the drinking: rule seems by many to be, then it should not be broken bllt should be changed through effort ill the proper manner. The “proper manner" is not to argue that a rule “cannot” be obeyed alld then prove it by not adhering to I But, to argue that the rule "should not" be obeyed and obtain a majority opinion. A campus referendum is the first step in this direction. BUT NO INDICATION of what the campus thinks “should” be done will be respected by the Administration Lnless a sense of responsibility is shown toward obeying the rules which exist now. The drinking rule is not being enforced properly. Hall presidents who run on the nonrelltol-cement ticket are tak- -ing the easy and wrong Way around an unpopular rule. Despite the fact that the Administration has said no to extension of hours and to a change ill the drink- ing rule. the possibility for change in the future re» mains. There has been considerable discussion of the initiation of honor plans to stimulate student responsibility towardl rules. The proponents of those plans are, first of all, asking~ the majority of Grinnell students to reaffirm attitudes which they already hold and which are a direct result of the type of education which Grinnell oli‘ers. SUCH AN AFFIRh‘IATION is valueless, except for college publicity reasons, and is insulting to the student who is attempting to live according to his own, sincerely formulated standard of conduct. The students who would l'lolate cul ellt regulations will violate an honor code VIS‘t as e: ily. But what the proposer: of the codes are over- looking most (if all is (llili there is no universal per sonal standard of student behavior. Ullirer ll behavior can only be regulated by rules and so it is the rules themselves which lllold student attitudes, not the re- verse. IT SHOULD BE the responsib tr of the strident gm ernment and the administl tioll to turtlier investigate the d 'llking rule and the possibility of extension 01‘ hours so that they might present students with rules which not only “should” be obeyed but which “can” be obeyed by every Grinnell student because he sincerely feels that lie is doing so for his own good and for the good of the com— lnllllity. ' Jim Hatfield 5&3 Editor oils but they draw the line at the point, _ FORUM : FOR ‘ DESCENT , By Tom Phillips , , This week i would like lo ‘tllke up lhc subiccl of i-‘i-ce‘ :will; whil ll is, and whether ue‘ have ii iii iicl. in our pi-cscnll age, tlle world seems to bc spill, iiilo two sometimes unconscious-l ly Warring Factions on lllis qu - i ,ubn, namely the pcoplc \vllol ‘lhink 'e have il and lhc pcoplel ,whn don‘t l , Now lhc lm-mci- group includes“ I“ wide i-ai-icly oi linpoilanl fig: viii-cs. including palellls, lawyl. disciplinary functionaries, and most modern Protestant lilll‘llSr lors: these personages bclicvc that live actually choose to do aily-‘ illimg we do, and are therefore ‘responsible for all our aclicns ‘and dish consequences. l l i l The latter group includes avant-garde playwrights, bella- ,vioral and slim types of psyr cholugists. iiilaiise voung college punks. economic dclciininisls and Cultural i-claliv' ts. ‘ They say that nobody knows . lW'l‘lClt he's donlg, that we're all tools 01 Something or olhei', and the so no one can real]: be blamed ”115% ‘m- pi-aiscd for anything he docs, Acllinlly. what lhcv ically think} ' that the i-c lhc only ones who know \. ial they're dbiiig. As is the case with all qi tions in hiring two Warring Faction bolh iii-c probably 1 wrong, And so hei-e i would i l like to state my position lh ‘ l Free \Vill, like ilnlnoriali ‘ not a gift but im achievement, , , ll is lhc slulc oi lpcrleci lu- l cidity in which you cm. see , ‘ what you ought to do and 1 what you real like doing pinc— 1 ed side by side, and know, , lhul you ought to do what you ; , ought lo do. And by lhis I i mean to hint that the cxpei‘ . , enre of Free Will i religious experience. liilil il is the only state in which man can trans~ 1 ccnd liiiusell and the only state in which he can really i sin, and that it can occur sel- 1 dom or oilcn iii lhe course of , lwhat AWSB President Briley gives ’ background for check change To the Editor: The A350 lated Women Students Board has made a change in women's procedures by eliminating lhc nightly room checks. This \Vlll be on an cxpciimcnlal basis. beginning Sunday, Der ccmpci- 2 This is merely ii slight change in procedures and does not aft'c t any rules or regulations concerning lloul , Olli- olzlown Sign i. sigllrout procedures, clc ALL REGULATIONS on exit and entry at the Quadrangle remain as they are now and pcmillics lbi- mfl'actlon ol any and all ~ lirtions . stand This change the product at sevciul months consider:- liou mill has been mile .15 a matter or convenience both for the women sludciils and the executive officers. Evaluation at this change in procedures will be made in pint by occasional lllghtcllecks held by lhc Aws Board. Fur- thcr evaluation will he made lhi-iiuch lhe voiced opinion of lhc womcu m an open meeting sometime illci the his: oi lhc year as A POINT of clality and in answer to many inqui ics iiilc lhc situation Concernin women's hours. 1 wish to pbihl out lhul lhc AWS Board lids devolcd a considerable ambiml 01’ lime and energy to a study of lhe Situation and lb possible uhanEes and/or modifications. llowcvcr, the ndiuiuisliulion sees no possi change in women‘s hours at the present time. Donna Jo Biiicy AWS Board President is SGA a farce at Grinnell? To the Editor: i BUT BEFORE we get cm- ‘ed Last Wednesday night Student mvayuu blallllng the adlllin.ti‘a~ Goiei-nmeul at Grinnell reached tion, ii is about time lhal all of a pal lllr The attitude ol [he us, as Grinnell College sludems, major _ pl’ sent at the Senatc,take a cold, critical look at our‘ i‘nectlllg was, at best. one oflselres and our S,G.A usl belorc it was over. , Tile lusl question hhich must What happened in Senate ,bc discussed is Do we need or was not new, ll was just more “vain student gavel‘l‘mieni" ll obvious. The meetings of the Lille answer lo this question i Senate have become a farce! iiio. lhcu let‘s dissolve our so. We are mm .1 rubber stamp iuhd quit unsung cui- lime. in nul‘ leadership—we just i in Tim .wswrl'l is y s. then follow. l lhink il is time for some se- We have been asked to discuss iibus consideration to be given the role of S‘tldcnt Goveiumcuhllo the methods at presenting our i- onsibililles and our ideas shichcau be used ef- privileges pic in relation lo the leclivelv. lest oi the college communily, If Sludcnl Government at This is ’all an out '0 th at laik;Griuucll is to mean anything, we of changes in the in king rulc‘must li~y to stimulate an attitude and women's lluur ibolh areas of Concern among all of the stu- which have been i-eieclccl by lhe dents, not just lhc "chosen lciv." administration. llllivilyu D. All Poll urged in evaluation of split checks To the Editor: What was understood in Loose’s llousellleeting concerning. major use of the spot checks in the new procedural change for night-check was that lhesc ty for any our present system? We only have the memory or a few nor minus caurl cases, and rumors of olhei- incidents, but up ac- lunl slalislics. Having lived in a basement room 1 am well aware that the a nersou's life, depending upon ,checks would be used (or evalil-, that pgrsonls capacity {or com. lilting this new svslem. il was number of girls who are appre» munim .A” we ms; of our lalso understood that if lhis ssthended for leaving the Quad he- liic is really llllmdrunl, we do what we do because of 5 hell or patterns, the Class War. l There's a famous old phrase which goes “to uudcrsland all is in forgive all" Now that's all right lo a certain poml, because most llgs are done out at iconlusiou and not through choice. But when Jonah heard the clear voice of God and chose lo hide lmm il, he sinned; and when, in ,Gclhscmune. Christ heard the ,clcii- voice of God and chosc to ‘obey il, He was blessed. i i And let me just add lhall‘ Whearing the clear voice ol oclrl may quite rightly be taken as a metaphor loi- imp 'ig all at once exactly what lhc righti thing to do, and that llidingi hum the voice of God is really, ‘no more lhaii trying to ignore a pi-oiouucl moral compuncliou, Moral in ' hl is Communion: and ,mprlal sin is lo proceed as il‘ l .c had never seen at -:lll i I have more things to savi ,ahoul lh bul i keep suspecting ’that [he orld has either heard iit all before or n‘l ready to ‘ ‘il vol So I will now 010 ‘lo something ri- 1lc say, limncl)’. lhnl the rule ,ni-ouiid here which leqnil‘es stil- ;iicnls on scholarship to either stay here or pay back evey cent lhcy'vc been “,ln'ell is a rat lcii greedy pcllv lililc rule. and that lhc admin liulois ot' lhis college ought to be ashamed at their greedy little selves. slip- pose some kid doesn't ‘herc, and can’t afford to pay you back? So you won't lmnslel, his ci-ed Aal'gh. diminished. 1 question whether the AWSB and lhc “administra- tion” will have any valid and conclusive basis ioi evaluation. What accurate statistics do we have about the effectiveness of i and llem was pol successful, accordrltween l2 and s cm is but a ling to some undefined standard. repressed lcllances for libel‘nlizing women's} anxieties, social pressures, pi- illouse rules would probably be basis for evaluating fraction of lhose who escape. In order that there be a valid lhe new ,syslem, I urge than an anony— jmous poll be taken asking for the necessary information. It is ,lhe responsibiity of lhe AWS ,Board to see that such a study is made. , Sheila Scriggins Horwal-iL sugges’rs procedure \ for changing regulations By Mike llorwatt In i-ccciil weeks there has been a barrage of protest against wo- men's hours Not surprisingly, this CritiClsm has been directed toward the AWS Board. Foi- they are his governing which is thought responSlble loi- upholding the status quo. But lhey are iipl. , .Rather, the awso has dem- onstrated far more iuiliulive in securing rules changes lhuu eilhei their «rib or men constituents (these are often not the same) In lucl. ea' this year that _ _by body proposed modest bul Sig—i completelr changing the subled nihcaiil subslaillive alteration oi, e always wanted women's rules. This earlier pro—l posal is llol lb be confused with lhc culicnl change, uhich is at an adnlinistrallre lather than Substantive nature. Upon its submission to Fr i- den! Boncl‘l. lhc plan was reject» ed. According lo informed sourc- es, hc told the AWSB that lhc mullci- of changing women's hour is out of lheii- province. out any change. in women‘s hours iol- tlle near future. Consequently, those who are dissatisfied with women's hours bod)" imust contend with the President jot the College and not with lhe AWSB or the Deun of Women. For. rightly or wrongly, he h flatly told the constitutionally sanctioned strident governing orv gun Illat in this area of sludenl nffa s lhcy can do no mci-c lhlin lnlk among themselves. now TO CHANGE THE RULES Obviously pressure to change the rules iiiusl therefore be re— ‘directed. Those who are disconr ,lenl ought lo stop complaining ‘and initiate pusilivc action. l Fai- ineplness on the pawl ol opponenls oi women's hauls is a significant reason why may have nol been changed in the pus: three and .1 half yenis and are not now being revised. Bv formulating a coherent al- ‘lernalh'e lo the present reglll Ilium, by oficiing a reason \\" - lhe present system is incompa 'iblc wilh the long-range gca l the college and by organizing as a group, lhere is little doubt mm a significaiil change in pre‘ like 1, Further. hc is said lb have ruled nt arrangements could be se- icuiecl. i Certainly it lhe AWSB receiv- ,‘cd more suppoil their efforts ‘ln‘onld he more successful.