Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. October 4, I963 ‘ Scarlet and Black GRJINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell, Iowa A weekly newspaper Dubliabnd ouch rridny of the miiefle by the Gnnnell Committee on Student Publiunions. Wu. 1 A. Nevin, chairman. Represented for national hdvcniuing by Nutionnl Advertising Service. ind, College Publisher. RAT» relentntive, 18 Elut sou: Strut, New York 22, N. Y. Second cluss wlfllgc paid M. Grinncll, Iown. Submiptlon rote $4.50 per xdaool ycrr. Jun Bel-m! Conrad Dunn om nucu _. Lynn Dcuzlcr v...“ Karen Adkinson Len Chlodht‘! Iohn Wull' u Lnepku srolu's EDITOR ASSISTANT NEWS COPY EDXTOR .. The College Game . Cast of Characters ‘ Jack—a; freshman. He‘s well groomed, neat, has a sub- scription to Sports Illustlated, Playboy, and in high school won the award given for participation in extra-curricular activities. Gerry—a sophomore. They say he’s gone heat, but he was once much like Jack until he cancelled his subscrip- tions to Time and Playboy and purchased the Realist. Bob—a,sel-lior. Didn’t run for a student office wheni a junior. He's not an introvel‘t, but he‘s not interested in many campus activities, subscribes to no magazines, and is neither beat nor well groomed. (Scene—a Ford Hall triple.) Jack: Gerry, I received that extra-curricular activity booklet today; so, I joined IRC, the Young Republicans, and the Cosmopolitan Club. I’ll probably Sign up to work for the yearbook, but I hear that‘s uncool work. Gerry: I‘m sorry you joined those clubs, Jack I know you‘re a frosh, but you Shoulda known which clubs to jolnl by now. Like for example, this is a, liberal campus; 50, you join the Peace Group, the YD’s, and you work for the, Scarlet and Black. Bob: Talk about it later, guys; I’ve got a lot of read- ing I want to do for my seminar. ‘ Jack: Gerry, we‘ve got to go to this liberal arts lec- ture tonight, It’s optionally required extra work for the Junior Liberal Arts Exam. . Gerry: I’m going to that; then I’m going to hear that PPPE expelt talk on socialism. How about you, Bob? ‘ Bob: Sorry, guys, bllt I want to do this reading. (Jack and Gerry exit.) Jack: What’s wrong with Bob, Gerry‘.7 He doesn’t give a damn about all these clubs and doesn’t go to but one or two lectures a week. Doesn’t he want to make the most of all the visiting lecturers:7 _ Gen-y: I don‘t know about Bob. He used to belong to some of the best campus organizations and go ‘to hear {l most of the lecturers. But now he seems to think he‘s : l Phil Johnson SNC C Gets NSA Support The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com- mittee is an organization of Southern student} devoted to the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. SNCC (pronounced “snic") pur- sues this goal through non—violent but direct action. its primary activities have been in the area of voter registration, where the group has done canvassing and educational work, and, when necessnry, has organized demonstrations. sncc also works against discrimination in educatio , job opportunities, the equal use of public fncili. ties, and all of the other areas which the noble and numerous white man has decided are not to be shared with anyone but his fellow W.A.S.P,’s (White AnglerSaxon Protestants). The United States National Student Associa— tion has for a long time recognized a common interest with SNCC. The basic policies of USNSA, set by the National Student Congress during the summer of each year, have consistently taken a firm stand in the area of civil rights, including full support both of the goals and of the non- violent means of SNCC. USNSA has been further concerned with this particular organization be- cause the people involved are students. SNCC is a student-run, student-staffed, and students financed organization. This sets it apart from many of the civil rights groups now working in the South, and this peculiar make-up demands the careful attention of the student community. USNSA has not had the funds to support SNCC momentarily, but it has lent its full weight in policy statements, and organizational assistance wherever possible. The 1963 National Student Congress, attended by Jim Parkison, Vance Opperman, Dan Friedlander, and me, vol:- ed renewed support for SNCC, and then passed a special resolution on the situation in Americus, Georgia, where on August a; of this yenr three field secretaries of mm (two white and one Negro) were arrested while leading a peacful demonstration. They were beaten repeatedly by Christiansen By Nancy McCannon police, jailed, charged with “incitement to insur- rection” a a crime which carries the death penalty in Georgia a and are being held in lieu of $360,000 pence bond until the grand jury can meet some time in October. This incident is not rare one. SNCC work- ers have been beaten, j led, and thrown out of towns, ridiculed, threatened, and last spring a young Negro man, Jimmy Travis, wns murdered in Mississippi while working on s chc votei- registration program. Life is not pleasant for the 150 or so young men and women who make up the full-time staff of SNCC. They are paid about $10 a week for subsistence, and usually have to find a part»time job in order to eat. Transportation is as often as not by foot or by mule. violence and brutality are constantly waiting if they push too far. Pro- gress is heartbreakingly slow. Yet these young men and women remain at work because they share a common goal _ a goal which most of us will freely agree with, fat and happy here in Iowa where such ideas are not very dangerous. SNCC’s biggest problem is a lack of funds. The Freedom Singers who sang in A,R.H. last spring were on n tcur trying to raise funds for SNCC. The organization is yery largely depend- ent on contributions from campuses across the country, but these campuses have not in the past been overwhelmingly responsive. At least Grinnell is safely with the majority in this score. it would be a darn good idea if someone actually tried to run a fund-raising campaign for mac around here, At Grinnell I mean — here. We probably would not lose any money for SNcc, we might optimistically raise a nickel or two, and it would be interesting to See if the noble principles so freely espoused by all pro. perly-liberallyzeducated students go far enough below their skin to reach their pocketbooks. Explores Cave .3 cave last Sunday. The cave‘ute cave insects of the order was a small, privately owned outgrown that. I just don’t know . Eighteen Grinnellians took to Peter M. Miller The Sanity of Stones it probably doesn’t interest anyone in the slightest, but there are only eightystwo more dsys until Christmas of which only sixty-six are shopping days. This startling piece of mccn— sequential news found me in a rnther apathetic frame of mind, but nonetheless l mustered up my courage and fortitude and embarked on my annual sojourn into childhood via the toy de- purtments in the local stores Usually I wait until a few days before Christz mas, when every business establishment from drugstore to gas station displays such s multiz tude and abundance of toys for the tots that the casual observer could swear that he was look— ing st the very inner sanctum of the venerable, jolly old Saint Nick’s hidezawvayeat the North Pole; however, my enthusiasm to see what brain- storms the toy tycoons had dreamed up soon grew to a furious pitch and throwing all rc- straint to the wind 1 took my hand and marched myself downtown to take just a little sneak peek into the land of childhood memories. Very cautiously i opened the door of a store i was sure contained somewhere in its depths the magic words “TOY DEPARTMENT” which was the key that unlocked the wonderful world of childhood fantasy. Carefully l crept to the rear of the store where i found myself surrounds ed by games and planes and all sorts of won- derous things. But something was wrong, Some- thing was alien and strange. The toys i saw before me were not those that l rcmbered play- ing with as a child. No, instead 1 saw before me games and playthings which sent achill of icy horror reverberating up and down my spine. Carefully I read the names on the all too bright boxes hoping that perhaps my first glance had been hasty and inaccurate. Methodically l mouthed the words i read, too frighened to fully comprehend their significance. “Combat-" (in three demension lettering on a garish yellow exploding background) 7 “Tank Attack, Crash Tank through Enemy Obstacles, Test Your lant— tle Skill.” “ch Fight, Air Battle Game, shoot down as many of the enemy as possible _ one skill and you’re an ace, two, a double ace.” “U.S.‘ Army Tank and Jeep—20 pieces, stage your own All Out Attack. Tommygunitch, Tmytommyi 59c. Tactics 1, Tactics ll, Stalingrad, Espionage." My horror grew to fever pitch and frantically 1 reached for one of the “games” and began to read the “simple, easy to follow instructions" in hopes of proving my fears groundless. With trembling lips i read the description of a “game" entitled ”Missile Attack." “Missile Attack . , . provides . , . enough nuclear battle equipment for maximum effort warfare and massive counterattack. Never before so much actual design working model USAF-type firepower and manpower! Your opponent prepares to launch a sneak atomic attack. He sets the locking trigger and adjusts the nutomntic elevation control on his ICBM launcher. He iircsl But you nre rendyz Your missile bnsc crewmcn intercept the warning . . . Your XA»Countcr-fighter is launched to inter- oept . . . contdpt . . , you deliver the nuclear knockout, But wait: You have been attacked by n doublezstage warhead and the second one is bearing down. Your crew can only use their hand—gun radiactivators. Can you still win? Are you good enough to Survive? only you can answer . . . " l stared in utter disbelief; could it be true i asked myself over and over ngninl Have we regressed from sanity so far that even the ‘once sacred innocent r aim of childhood now too must be enrolled within the ranks of the neurotic adult World? As I turned slowly, completely numb and disillusioned, my aye caught one more box. It was ,a paint by number kit for a 32" by 15” painting reproduction of “The Last Supper.“ At this point the stench of hypocrisy grew so unbearable that I ran out of the store and down the street in a headlong stumble back to my little white “ivory tower" where l hastily locked and bolted the door behind me, thus shutting myself off from the world. cavern, named Hunter’s Cave Grinne’l‘l near Maquoketa, Iowa. The trip bed a double purpose for the students and Kenneth Ohrlstiansen (biology), faculty adviser Students’ reasons for gomg on the all-day cave expe- dition ranged from interest in the beauty of the caves, the ex— citement of exploring, and curi- osity about caves to the sport. ing aspects of cave exploration. Christiansen. who has been take) ing Grinnell students on exipe~ ditions for five years, is par- ticularly interested in the min-l ,ologisi Talks on Embryology A biologist at the Oak Ridge} National Lnboratorles, Dr. Frank Finamore, will present a public lecture, “Nucleic Acids in Des veloping Embryos,” at Grinnell ‘on Thursday, Oct. 10. Coming to Grinnell under the auspices of the Oak Ridge Trav- 'cling Lecture Program, Fina- more's lecture. set for 4:15 pm, in Room 125 of the Science Building, is being sponsored by the College's Division of Natural, Sciences. Before joining the staff at Oak Ridge, Einaunorc, who re. I ocived his PhD. from Florida State University, was an 25507 ciate professor of physiology at Southern Illinois University. He has also worked as n rev search associate in the depart- ment of physiological chemistry at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. While in Iowa, he will also ‘speak at Cornell College and , Drake University. about 110 miles northeast of' . collem'bola, “The limited and demanding conditions of a cave offer an excellent opportunity to study the evolutionary process in in- sects that have adapted to se» vere conditions," explained Christiansen. Ohnistiansen .is now experimenting with natural selection to see if he can dupli— cate some of the special charac— teristics of cave snimnls. He, hopes eventually to answer, such questions us why certain cave insects are found only in par- ticular geographical areas. 0n Sunday‘s trip, in addition to collecung specimens for his research, Christiansen and four students attempted n systematic survey of the cave, noting where cave insects could be found. This survey was a check of a previous detailed survey done in 1959. Specimens found on such tours are put into a spe- cial chamber which was design- ed to duplicate cave conditions. Kathleen Friend, an ardent cave explorer end one of the students making the su/rvey, dc» scribes the caves in this way, “They’re always pitch black and muddy. Some of the rock formations are quite beautiful, particularly if you haven’t seen them before. in many plam You have to crawl.” Dave cul. ver, a sophomore who also help- ed with the survey, added, “it's lscrt of like mountain climbin undengroun Miss Friend summed up stu— dent reaction ki bhe cxpcditic by Saying, "’Ilhere‘s no one urea Son why you go. Either you’ » excited and want to go back i ’you hate it and never want ‘see a cave again.”