aWoocl Asks CofHP l'o lel’r “ Number of Privale lceboxes By Ellis Simherloff Stephen E. Wood. Dean ol Men, announced at the 'CofHP meeting Tuesday that he would be going through the men's halls next week to investigate room shortages, overcrowding, base. ment housing, and general room conditions. He asked house pres-t idents to rill out survey forms to help determine the possible necessity or added dormitory space. Dean Wood said that nevi! South Campus Welcomes Men 1 lo Open House' 1 “Quad open house will have a Complete face lift this fall,” Quad social ‘ Susie Deep,” and we hope that} reports chairman it will meet with the approval at everybody.” half-hearted mischievously Gone the decorations, the snatched dainties, and the social convention that implies that a Woman must sit in her room and are wait to be picked up. The instead, will hostess in the. Quad lroin x-lo p.m. and a spacial Dithyramh in Main Lounge starting at 9:30. itali- dam Viled guests will he welcnme In: South Campus, Music and refreshment will he available in the hall lounges. Dithyramb will theme, "Turn of the Century,“ with its Olde Townc Pub, Spe.. cial silent flicks starring Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Cops, Blanche Sweet, and Harry Carey women, open rooms callers as Well as in- l feature thel will be shown with appropriatel piano accompaniment. Seating capacity will he lim- ited, so couples must have tick— ets, purchased from hall social chairmen for one dollar. Those who aren't going to Dithyramb see the movie “Shane,” star-ring Alan Ladd, which will can housing might enable the form- ing of basement service and recreation areas and eliminate some undesirable rooms and live ing conditions He that the council should take some collec- also suggested live responsibility for open rooms regulations violations. The dean informed the coun— cil that no new refrigerators l ~should be permitted in the halls and suggested that each hall said the president is concerned over their unsightly and has discussed the possibility of munity refrigerators and/or ice presence some college owned com- machines on North Campus. Peter Cohon. President of the CofHP, asked house presidents to call requests from persons desiring exceptions to the car rules and asked for general the student body about new rules for written statements from or changes. The CcfHP also voted, by 5 tto 4, to uphold a motion madel by Clark president, David Gol- den, to begin and end the Mid— Semester Break one day later to enable students to participate in some of the Homecoming Day events lEx-President Truman to Deliver lAnnual PPPE Political lecture. . i-larry S. Truman, former pres ,ident ot the United States, will deliver the annual Program in iPractieal Political Education rpo— llitioal lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Grinnell College. President Truman’s Grinnell schedule, as announced today by C. Edwin Gilmour, (Poll. Sch), director of the PPPE, will be highlighted 'by a public lec- ture, “The American Fraildency ‘should limit itself to two. He in an Era of Crisis" at 3 pm ‘Oct 23. in Darby Gym, On campus for two President Truman will also hold la news coniercnce, be felted at la dinner given by the campus lpolitical clubs, and answer ques 'tions pertaining to his lecture at a special seminaretype class. i During his stay, he will be I a “Politician , in . Residence," ‘ meeting and talking informal» ly with students in classes, at meals, over coffee in the student Union, and in the residence halls. in 1934, while the presiding Oldesl Co Vol. LXXl Solos +0 Highlighl' Tonighl's Lenox Quar’rel' Members of the lenox Quar— tet will be featured as individ- ual perfonnels rather than as a unit in a public concert at Grin. nell College tonight. at 3 p.m., in Roberts Theabre. Paul Hersh, who normally plays viola in llhe quartet will be at the piano tor mhe three compositions to be performed: J. S. Bach's Sonata No. 3 in E Major for Violin and Piano, with Peter Marsh. violinist; Beatlht» ven’s Sonata No. 4 in c Major for Violoncello and Piano, with Donald McCall, cellist; and Men- delssohn‘s Trio in D Minor, 0p. 49, for Piano, Violin and Violon- cello, with Theodora Marita, violinist, and Mr. McCall. This will be the second in a series of four falll concerts of- fared by the Lenox group which is quartet-in-residenoe at be shown in ARH at 10 p.m. Grinne‘ll for the second succes- Performance sive year. ’l\he third and foumh are scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 12, and Friday, Oct. 18, both at it pm. in Roberts ’Ilheatre. Men's Honor Club Adds Four Seniors The Friars have elected four new members to their organiza. tion. Those Chosen this fall are David Brown, Randy Jenkins, Bruce primer, and Ken Schin. “While it is not regular prac— tice for Friars to select mem- hers irom their class, a consti— tutional clause which allows for the election of up to five meme ers in the fall term was taken advantage of," stated Friars ,president Curt Lamb. Lamb also said that second [semester Hermits would be named soon. days, ‘ judge of the Jackson County (ll/lo.) Court he was elected to hhe U. 5. Senate, gaining reelec- tion in 1940. He was elected vice president in 1944, taking othce as president on April 12, 1945. While he was in oitice, the nation committed itselt to mo- mentous decisions, the impact or which is sull being felt, includ- ing the Truman Doctrine, Mar. shall Plan, NATO, and the Point Four Program. In May of 1944, less than a year beiore .he became presi— dent, he received his rirst hon- orary degree e a doctorate of laws irorn Grinnell. This is the third year oi the political lectureship on the Grinnell campus, Last ywr, Senators Eugene J. McCarthy (Dem, Minn.) and Barry Goldwater (Rep, Aria) were the guest lecturers. They were preceded by Sena— tors Hulbexit H. Humphrey (Dem., érz’tmell College Scarlet @Black lege Newspaper West of ihe Mississippi Grinnell. Iowa. Friday. Oclober 4. I963 ‘Crealivily' lo be of Two lectures i Dr. Paul Weiss. Sterling pro- {asset of philosophy at Yale University, will deliver the third series at lectures, beginning Wednesday, in Grinnell’s year— long "lnterdisciplinary Seminar on Order." With all lectures open to the public, Dr. Weiss will first speak on the “Nature of Artistic Cre- atictn,” at Wednesday’s regular 11 am, Introduction to the Fine Arts class in Roberts Theatre. This will be tollowed by z cofiee-hour discussion, which will be held at 4 pm. in Younker Hall lounge. His main lecture, “Creativity,” will be given Thursday at a pm. in Herrick chapel. A philosopher turned artist, Mimi.) and Homer E, Calpehart‘ llarry S, Truman (Rep, 1nd). All were also Politician—in» Residence. No. 4 Featured Topic n Order Series Dr. Weiss is the founder oi the Metaphysical Society or America and oi the Philosophy Education Society, inc, and tounder and co-editor oi the “Review of Metaphysics.” Author oi'and contributor to' numerous books on philosophy, and art, and himseli a painter in oils, Dr. Weiss gave the Gates Memorial Lectures at Grinnell in 1959. in 1960, he received an honorary ill-1.13. irom the col» lege. With a BA. degree from New York City College and MA. and PhD. degrees vard, Dr. Weiss taught at Har- vard, Radclide, and Bryn Mawr before going to Yale. from Har- Install New Chaplain Sunday Roger Lee Eldridge will be installed as college chaplain at a special service Sunday at 4 pm. in Herrick Chapel. The service Vn'll be open to the pub lic. “Less Religion on Campus" will be the subject of Mr. Eld- ridge's address, following the “charge to the chaplain" irom President Howand R. Bowen, tor ill-re college; Paul Courtright, for the students; Winston L. King, 'tor llhe caoiilty; and the Rev. Robert D. Dewey, for the churches. -Mr Dewey is minister or the local First Congregational Church. King, who is chairman oi the laculty as well as an as- sociate or the chaplain in the college's religious p r o g r a 111, will give the invocation, and Howard R. Burlde, also an as- sociate of the chaplain, the benediction. Courtright, senior from Omaha who is president of the Student Board of It - ligion, will read the Scrip- tures, Directed lby Don Jones, the college choir will sing two an- thems, and Elbert Morse Smith will be at the organ. Mr. Eldridge, who last month assumed his duties as college chaplain and member or the philosophy and religion depart. ment iaculty, received a BA. degree from Carleton College in 1955, a B.D. from Yale Di» vinity School in 1959, and an M.A. trom ’Stamifolld University in 1960. He has held ministerial, YMCA, and teaching assign merits in various parts of the country and last your was act- ing chaplain at Carleton. l-lis wife, the farmer Sheila Van Sickle, also is a Carleton graduate and has an MA. from Occidental College. She teaches in the Grimell Junior High School. Roger Eldridge Demons‘l'ral'lon The development, use, and par tential oi the gas laser will be the subject of Dr. Herbert Trot- ter Jr., chairman of the board of General Telephone or Elec— tronics Laboratories, Inc., when he gives a special public lecture Friday, Oct. 11, at Grinnell. The laser—short for "light am- plification by stimulated emis- sion of radiation"7has been proven to have many possible applications in communications, science, and engineering. it will be demonstrated at the 3 pm. lecture in Roberts Theatre. As a communications source, a single laser, using an ex. tremely high irequency signal, may some day carry as much inlormotion as all communica- tions channels now in exist- once. A native at Woodstock, Va., lDr. Trotter was graduated irom Special Lec’rure lo Feal'ure of Gas Laser HampdenSydniey College and received his PhD. degree in, physics from the University of Virginia. While with Sylvania Electric during World War 11, he was manager of engineering and de- velopment of the aompany’s v T, or “proximity,” fuze program, a discovery described by the Navy as “the second most im— portant weapon development -during the war." While on campus, Dr. Trotter will also appear at a college science colloquium, set for 4 p.m. Friday, Oct, 11, in Room 125 of the Science Building, where he will explain the use of the laser in scientific experi. ments. His visit is jointly sponsored by the General Telephone Com- panies oi lowa, Missouri, and Nebraska and the Division of Natural Sciences at the college.