SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, January ll. H763 Grabendorff finds friend/y air at foreign students conference By whit onuhendorir 8&3 staii Writer Scarle’r and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grimm“. Iowa n weekly newspaper is binned Each Frill-y of to year by the Grinnell Committee on Student Ptlhllcnti ns, W1» iinm A. Nevin, cluirmui. Represented for nationrrl advertising by National Aave sing Service, ran, Collego publishers Rev- rcsentative, lzo Madison Ave., New itorlr. N. it. Entered no 1) mood ole-rs mutter st the Post. office at Griuncll lows, under \° the not of March 1. i379. Subscription rate 34.50 per Ichool Jim Hatfield Gm“ Buck homesickness, whlcn was seen warmer...” . no control over the exploding Mourning Editor News Editor ., Assistant Newr Editor . y. Susan ii. (firwlntion Mrnnger . moot Mnnngc Ad siiesmeo mines: Asst are I) m, d Mitch Leslie Brulletceli, Larry snooker Carolyn snhs srd ohlcmever sue Watkins Jim norm nohertr . , Ruswll Lureker . Burners Hunt. Gcrsldme ltooney Mike Greenfield PM, \Vorkmim Levine sire ravines , The comfortable Kellogg Ceris‘ tor for Continuing Education opened its doors for an “Adven- ture in World Understanding” at lChristmastime last year. About to foreign students from- 40 different nations, representing 50 fields of study and a large All letters to the Editor written for publication in the Scarlet unsigned letters writters' names will be withheld upon and Black must be typed and double spaced. No will he printed. However, "quest The 5&8 reserves . . . leaps tall buildings the right to shorten any letter. Ever wonder what you‘d probably find in at college number of American colleges, and universities, accepted Michi- gan State’s invitation. {mulling at the variation of , colors, costumes and luri- ‘ guagos, the first—and not at all unfriendly — comment 1 l heard was “What a bunch of l funny creatures!" Some of these "creaturfl" were already working at their PhD, and on the faces of the students, but it helped them to forget it for some hours. TWO DAYS LATER. we had the opportunity to see how American farm life looks by spending two days with different farm families in four counties of Michigan. Again it was the great welcome we found everywhere which impressed all of us. The rest of our ten days we spent in lectures and discussions, not always as well received as the social activities; no wonder, for most of us had enough from lectures in our universities. Nev- lertheless there were two high- lights in the grim. intellectual pro- hlrth rate of mankind on this earth. These frightening aspects should give more than one rea- son for worldwide cooperation Much more connected with our , own troubles and experiences were the parts of the conference when the foreign students tried to analyze their own viewpoint ‘ ‘on the Us. One of the most ,funny things was the “bestseller list" we made up. ON THE PLUS side was the outstanding friendliness and helpfulness of the American lpeople and on the minus side were the date and grade sys— tems. The social and academic pressure within the college and luniversity were the most crit- admjssions report on Ghengis Khan or Sky King? No in— formation available on them but the Scarlet and Black was able to find the records of some other popular fimlres: others, at the respectable age . of 30, had quite a. long ex~ rienoe in international study. ing. DR RUTH USEEM made L\S'icized points, understandable familiar with the term of “the from the djfierEnt back in . n . gro & third culture, telling us that and educational systems most of ' John F. Kennedy: Needs haircut but other- wise neat appearing. Slight speech defect. Prob- albly won‘t need aid. Weak in economics. Would enroll only if we accept brothers too. Refused admittance. Karl Marx: Seems unimpressed with Ford grailt. Refused. Benedict Arnold. Suave, mature. Wants to go to Britain for graduate study, Possible Rhodes scholar. Admitted. Fredericli Nietszche: Muttered about death of Deity throughout interview, Could be threat to campus morality. Refused. Christine Jorgensen: Admitted as special stu- dent. Charles Starkweather: Serious, purposeful lad. Hitchshiked from Nebraska for interview. Ad- mitted. Stephen Foster: Plays banjo. Could be anoth- er folk singer. Refused. Clark Kent: Mild mannered. Says he wants education so he can fight for truth, justice and American way. Good athlete; says he can leap tall buildings in single bound. Interested in journ- alism. Admitted. Adlai Stevenson: Large vocabulary. Says a lot of funny things have happened to him. Read of school in Saturday Evening Post. Admitted Gary Cooper: Has earthy odor about him. Rolls his own, Left interview early for noon ap~ pointment. Refused. Luther Burbank: Dirty fingernails, green thumb. Probable upstart. Claims grass will not die even if walked on. Ideas may be dangerous. Refused.‘ Norman Vincent Peale: Very friendly. Smiles a lot. Entire office force asked for pay raise after he left. Refused. Henry Ford: Admitted. Mao Tse Tung. Talented. Does Charlie Chan impersonations, Thinks he would like communal spirit of hall living. Fatlier invented ping-pong. Admitted. ‘ Fidel Castro: Interview lasted four hours. Wants to study Russian. Took 12 lumps sugar with tea. Admitted. Sigmund Freud: Wllistled ”I Had the Craziest Dream” throughout interview. May adjust in col- lege environment. Admitted. Norman Erbe: withdrew application when told English classes don’t read Henry Miller, Ralph (Sonny) Liston: Asked if older stu- dents pick on freshmen. Seems to know a lot about criminology. Admitted. Socrates: Insisted on standing during inter- view. Declined offer of tea. Future plans vague. Refused. Oedipus Rex: Withdrew application when told he couldn’t go home every weekend. Anthony Armstrong-Jones: Not considered. Name Won’t fit on IBM card. G. Rose Lee: Nice girl. Wants to be cheer- leader. Admitted. Harry Truman: Plays piano. Language needs cleaning up. Seemed distracted by MacArthur pic- ture in office, Refused. Lowell Thomas: Very interested in junior year abroad program, Admitted. Jim Hatfield: Possible malcontenlz. Refused. Aware of such a lot of differ- ‘ent backgrounds not only in, education, but also iand way of life. quite a number of us “adventurers" had not the best feeling about the upcoming. days. But . . . was it the program, or was it the kind help and guidance of members of the starl‘ or the friendly American hosta students? . . . somehow we soon became a community and we all made triends, whom we were sorry to leave it the end of the conference. THE HIGH SPOT of our so- cial activities was an informal. party in one of the most beau- tiful homes in Lansing. it was ing job in providing the whole‘ crowd with drinks and excellent food, On Christmas EVE the adven< turers were given the opportu- nity to have dinner with a fam-) 1in in Lansing and to share with, ;them the Christmas celebration. , This was for almost every- l one an outstanding experience l in getting to know the friend. i l lines of American families, who took complete strangers into their homes even on such a great family holiday. Naturally this attempt could- n’t do anything against all the To the Editor There is unequivocably a ,growing increase of convistion ‘ori my part about this rcknown‘ connnmity. Apparantly the or. ithadox style of spelling. as por-‘ claimed prevslantly and fervent— 1y by those pre~eminant and. wellrcontrollcd mines (the facul— ty and Webster) is dinnitely _ohallanged and prejudiced a- gainst by many students. indeed Webster’s supposnhly, ilurishing style has been Sacra-l dotally unshl-incd. His authen— tisity is disfavorably viewed; it is no longer idolozetl and usedl in unidolerated purity. Devision and dissention are_ prominant among his (student) ‘floolwers; a suhstanciai number of his one—time vasals are inl withdrnwl; the faith of his he-i livers has coilasped. l lnbcdded deeply in their pup-' iiontions are enumerablo unfe- liciolls and spasmatic occurrances l contary to Webster‘s style, which indeed is near total anhilliation. is his style too out and dry? Undouhtably students want more iorhation. And the distinquishcd iconsistancy of Grinnell teaching lsccms of no adventage herein.‘ lbeing completely unintlucnciai. \ Yours, exstastically twartcd‘, {and seeped in failure. i Winston L. King RS. All words in bold face are the original creations or my students. I lwe all would belong to it. Her rather controversial but espe— cially interesting theory is that culture and lives in another, the second one, doesn’t belong to either, but is a member of the third Culture, a bridge between the other two. in the increasing number of such people she saw a possibility for better world understanding. Not so optimistic was the outlook of the famous Prof. of Food Science, Dr. Georg Borg- stl'om, who spoke about “Food and the great human gamble.” He pointed out that our mod- ern scientists spend millions to find out what food the man on the moon will need, but forget sponsored by one of the ownersabout all the millions of pen- of Oldsmobile, who did an smaz-‘ple who will starve if there is us came from. But all these differences seem— ed not to be so important, be in religionla person who leaves his original,cause many of us we“ gut mu from an American “friend” or ‘hsd an obvious photo in the irooni. and others seemed to he iquite used to making straight lIA’sl ‘ so AT THE end of the con- ference we could join a very ,fsmous foreigner, Tocqueville, who wrote about the united States. when he says: ‘The na- tions seem to he advancing to unity. 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