Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, May IO. l963 ‘ Bunny King and her bagged partner finish line, bringing a victory to their Haines Hall team. Grinnell Gels $15,000 Grant A $15,000 grant to Grlnnell College from the National Science Foundation for support Diffcrcnt from many of the grants to Grinnell from the NSF. because it is _r instruc~ ’ as students 1 c o I . Childish RIO‘l‘S During the past week thousands of Ne- groes peacefully demonstrated in the strilfe— torn ci V of Birmingham, a crisis was oc— curl lg in Haiti, and Grinnell students pare tieip ted in two S1 'lng Riots, a grand wu- tel' fight, and Sp 'ng Day. While 2,400 Negroes chanted, "We want to be free," a few hundred Grinnell stun dents either condoned or actively aided in two Spr g Riots. The first of these was destructive. Windows and screens were broken staged the first succesr ful panty raid in modem Grinnell his- tory, This raid was a by—product of at- tempts to spur the women into defying hours, The next night a less spontaneous riot occurred. Dittoefl messages saying, “Toe night is the real thing;" were distributed. The Central (Riot) Committee asked the woman students to be out of the quad till 2 am. This riot aborted, as too many stu- dents were in cl ofyan overdose of play groundelike activi es. Stephen B. Wood, dean of men, called the riot “childish,” and for once the Scar» let and Black would like to go on record as agreeing with him. The Riots, if they proved anything, showed that on the whole, student responsibility is at a low ebb. It also showed that, at what we claim to be Scarlet and Black GEINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell, Iowa a weakly manner» minim |'llile of the (DUCK: iellr by the uni common swan - wan..." a New" chitin ui lol' iisiims lieilleseil . ix East ‘iuth st., Now York 22 mi. (xvlld this; impure nihi it onnncii. In i Siibxcliptifln mu» size be: schimi rc , Jim Hnnflg ,. Confld Dnnm navr nacir Jnlui Wlili' >‘nll Den-Ller is ws hi on one of the best educational institutions in the country, students feel that they can in effect afford to give up studying for five or six days. The Riots were negative, if they were anything: They put the Student Govern- ment Association Preside t, Jack Chapman, in a bad bal ining posi on when he asks the administ dtion to delegate more power to the students. Is this the type of thing the administration can expect if the stu- dents al'e granted the power to initiate rule changes? Thus last week was a big‘ step backward. Probably the most discouraging thing about the Riots is that they clearly illusA trote thzit many students feel that the on~ ly students responsible for anything are the house presidents. J. P. H. of an “Undergraduate Instruc-Vtionnl equipment, inost of the tional Scientific Equipment‘lfunds will be used to purchase Program” has been announcedlequipmcnt for a‘ by Grinnell President Howard level course. new senior- ‘ “Advanced Lab- ‘ David Ligh‘tbourne R, Bowen , This program will be directed by Dr. Roger J. Hanson, asso- ciate professor of physics, Under the terms of the grant, the Cole lege will match, from non-fed- eral sources, the NSF. amount to cover direct costs of the pro-l the equlprnent is to be purchas» ed within the next two years. New Gran‘i Will Aid Fishmdil ject. l A supplementary grant of 31,-: 500 has been made to Grinnell College by the National Science Foundation for support of re-' search being done by lrving Y. Fishman (biology). To be used for direct costs in'i Fishman‘s research on “Chemo—, reception in Small Mammals," this additional sum brings the grant to a total of $24,300. Thel original grant, for a three—year period. was made in December of 1959. This award is the fourth madel oratory,” and for the elementary l laboratory. l “This new equipment will en— able the students to carry out . ‘ a variety of experiments and projects not possible with exist mg equipment," Hanson said. . Under conditions of the grant, by the N.S.F. to support Fish- man’s work. the first having been given in 1955 and the sec- 1957. He uses various’ kinds of bats for most of his lrcscarch. Fishman first joined the Grin- nell faculty in 1943. for three years, then returned in 1954, af-' ter completing his doctoral study. He holds his 3.5. and MS, de- grees from the University of Oklahoma and his PhD. from Florida State University. Toynbee: Remain in Human World A Grinnell College audience Monday was told that the great- est been of a combined classical and religious education is that it is an antidote to the intelleCr tual error and spi tual sin of assuming that man is the high— est spiritual presence in the uni- verse “All higher religions and phir losophies oppose‘ and condemn this anthropocentric view,", Ar- nold J. Toynbce, Heath visiting professor of history, said to make sortie: from it, drag~ ging his chains, inic otbori lworlds, Anyone who has had a Western classical education in Latin and Greek can look at the contcmporary world, not, pen haps, with a Grcck’s or Roman's eyes, but with a fifteenthcen-g tury Italian humanist’s eyes," Fashimi Allotment Since the newspaper Is the only permanent record of the vital issues that confront us from week to week, we can all probably guess what this column is going to be about. One of the most interesting accusations to arise from this Week’s first Spring Riot was that it was “uncreative.” Not only that but so many people were ashamed of the entire enter- prise that they staged another one the next night, presumably to make up in organization what they lost in spon}aneity, It seems that nobody can quite decide what they want. A ”creative" riot would evidently involve something bizarre. like the theft of Darby gym. On the other hand, this woiild probably require a certain amount of coordinnicdcffort. especially in finding someplace to put it; and such things are contrary to the Grinnell student's general independence in thinking for himself, and thus never getting anything like that done. Those who somehow managed to get away with it without disappearing forever can boast of the day when they not only cut oft all the lights in the library, but also chained up all the doors and trapped ‘ everybody inside. Of cause, the gravity of this accomplishment may be exagger- ated, because nowadays such an act would im» prison the entire student body instead of just the students. But that sort of thing is contrary to the whole ‘dca anyway A riot is supposed to be a violent order. and so maybe those critics of this Week's activities can only be ashamed of the lack of vi — lelice. Mr. Walden, on the other hand, can prob- ably be somewhat concerned by inc amount of violence done his window screens, and must only regret that it’ll be hard to collect the half mil- lion dollars he figures it’ll cost to get them Forum For Descent fixed The real issue here is the mysterious naiui-c of Grinnell disorder. It seems that whatever disorder is created during the day, suddenly disappears at midnight. Grinncll girls are evi~ dently creatures of habit But because this punches holes in the earlier notion that people around here are too independent to function as a group, we need some kind of new theory for all future Spring Riots. 1 don't think we ought to take the adminis 'tration to heart when they claim this sort of thing is childish A proper mature sort of dis- order would no doubt emulate the attitudes at Carleton. where the editor of the newspaper suggested a sit-in of all men in the women’s halls and vice verse. I somehow imagine such adult behavior would simply be too much to contend with. So I w’ould like to propose that instead of one riot every year, We take the events of this week to heart and have two from now on. One could be a master plot of gigantic proprtions. involving the disappearance of something im- portant or valuable. The sophistication of this enterprise could gradually improve to the point where a lot of good might even get done, For next year I suggest a plot to get Dean Wood's. legendary tape recorder and all its used reels. The other night of rioting would include such traditional aspects as the abduction of student officials and the waiving of women’s hours. Only from then on there would be no threat of dis- ciplinary action, because the student body could use whatever they hzid stolen the night before with a certain bargaining power. lf any girl get fined for staying out late. we’d simply to refuse to return whatever vital' part of the coir lcge that was missing. Poor Communication Criticized Delivering the last of a series of lectures on “The Philosophy of History,” and using “An Ap- proach Through 2: Classical Edu- cation” as his subject, the noted British historian added: “This education in a classical culture and in a higher religion has a double advantage. It does not take one out of our human world into the non—human world of protons and nebulae. This is of grcat practical value, because human beings are good at dealing with human nature. Therefore, we cannot afford to neglect the humanities, To drop these and fly off into physical science is a form of escapism and will bring its nemesis. ”At the same time, a classical education, while keeping one in the human world, takes onc out of the particular contemporary cell of it in which he happens to have been located by the ac- cident of birth. “or course, one can never brcak away completely from his own time and place, but a classical education enables him Defended by Ehrig To the Editor: Several weeks ago there were many discussions and letters labout the quality of dress of the :men and women at Grinnell and ithc impressions received by VlS‘ ‘itors upon seeing some of the outfits worn by students, This[ last week there has been quite a bit of discussion, mostly in the Senate. about the Women’s So- cial Budget, especially the Fash- ion Board allotment. As Chairman of Fashion Board, I would like to say that if the men on this Campus do not likc the way the Women dress then ,thcy should not complain when‘ my committee tries to provide a better opportunity for shopping, (We also try to improve fashion lideas on campus by‘ providing fashion shows and style clinics as WC have done this your, Margaret Ellrig Ed. Note: We’d like to scc indirducl initiative in suclii matters as taste mid dressA buying, not guided fashion l trips. By Sam Schuman The problem. as usual, )5 one of communication. One of the things that sets Grinnell above the run of the mill college is the generally excellent commune ication bctwccn faculty and stu~ dents. There are, as i see it, no great stumbling blocks in the path of faculty-administration c o m m u meation. Unfortunately, there is no communication be- tween the students and the ad- ministration. How might a student at Grin- neil communicate to the ad ministration? There seems to be only one avenue open to such a student, the avenue cl protest. Since the student has virtually nothing to say about any ad- ministrationul edict, the only methods by which he can ex- press his fcclings given administrations! policy are either acceptance or protest, in turn, there is only one path by which the administrative personnel of this college can talk to the students, And that is the imperative path, the path of giving orders. As l understand students, but the students have about any , the rules and regulations of this institution, there is absolutely no provision for either the stu dents or the administration to discuss, argue, learn, debate, ex» plain, moderate, compromise, convince, or be convinced, Who is to blamclef coursc, both groups are at fault, but 1 am afraid that the primary bur- den of guilt must fall upon the student body, Thc administra- tion seems to have made several honest attempts to open an aver nue of communication with the failed to take advantage of these openings, What can be done now? Very ,llttle. it seems to me. The ad- ministration has apparently ace ccpted the student's judgment of himself as an eternal picket. It is now the student’s responsibil- ity to modify this role. The ad- ministration, which has emerged from this discussion in what is probably a better light than it deserves, must decide to listen to the students, and listen to them honestly, l EVERYDAY IS SUNDAE AT DAVIS ICE CREAM SHOP GOOD MALTS A ND SHAKES TOO.