6qu Oil Education Grani- Given to Chemistry Dept. Gl‘lnnell College has receiv- ed a SL000 gram from the Ed lmenl since tiansistois.” the lascriy ucation Committee or the Gull Oil Col'polallon Foundation, President Howard R. Bowen has announced Joseph w. Daniorth (chemis- try) said the eitt has madc pos- sible the purchase ot' equipinentl for the organic chemistry lab», oratory which permits studentst to conduct experiments working in the absence of either air or? moisture. Men Enier Loggia For Midnighl Sing Advertisements far [he \VUS Auction Dance will take a spe- cial form in the Quad on Fri~ day night. The Scarleteers, North Campus singing group. will be in the ioggin between 12 midnight and 12:30 am to serenade the women's halls. Special permission has been given by the Dean‘s office for the men to be in the Quad aiter closing hours, AWS Board Selects Five as Sophomore Councilors New members were recently appointed to the sophomore- commission, a south campus group that works under the auss pices oi the Aws Board and,‘ helps turther communication be- tween the board and the undcru classmcn. Those recently named by th-el board are Lorinda Yetsley, Judy Roberts. Tarra Hookham, and; Mai-thaMontgomery, Cris Pelerr‘ son was named chairman. Tassels Recognize Six New Members Six new members have been l announced as Tassels ior the semester ending in June, 1963. Tassels, sponsored by Mortar Board, senior women's honor society, recognizes each semes- ter those ireshman girls who have maintained a 3.5 or high» or average tor either semester oi their ireshman year. The new Tassels are Debby Derlacki, Ginny Hal‘iord, Pam Eschbach, Barb Plager, Martha Montgomery, and Christine ‘ Scott, Pursell Publishes Papers in Iowa Mai‘h Monthly Lyle E Pursell (mathematics) has had two papers published in the September, 1963, issue of‘ the Iowa Association of Matlles matics Teachers “Newsletterfl The iii-st is an expository pa- per entitled ”Appl'o iniating an Anglc Division by u Sequence of Bisectlons: an application of binary lractions in a problem in plane geometry. The second ,ot thc board at l Collgge and received his Ph.D. jtric and General Telephone Lab— i Physics Laboratory. ltinue lchambcr music performances to. r in Bflat : Wei: ‘against a ‘ct his philosophic inquiric ‘ oi the world. i' l I News Briefs l1 28 YR's lo Travel lo Cedar Rapids Tonight 23 Crinncll YR's will: travel to Cedar Rapids. wllel'ei they will attend a Republicanl dinncr highlighted by a speech, by a ionncr representative in‘ congress, Walter Judd. Judd kcynotcd the 1960 Republican convention with a speech many regard as the best political, speech in recent year laser Exhibit-- It'll be a Gas A dcmonsti-ation oi the gas laser will be plcscnlcd by Dr, Hcibcrt Trottei. Jr., chairman Gcncial Tclc-(‘ phone cu Electronics Laborator— ics, Inc, tonight in ltobcits} Theatre , Scheduled for 8 pm. and open to the public, the demon. stration will he preceded by a collcgc science colloquium at A DJ“. in Room 125 oi the Science Building. Vlhele he will explain, the usc ol' the laser in scientific, experiments. Callcd thc ”most dramatic SCH enllfic and engineering develole has been pioveii to have mmwl possible applications in commu- nications, science, and cligincel i mg l Dr. Trotter, who is a native oi Woodstock, Va.. was gradu- l atcd from llampden-Sydney l degree in physics from [he i University ,0! Virginia. Before joining Sylvania EloCr oratoiics, lie was a member oi the physics laculty at Washing l ton and Lee University and 3‘ development physicist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied His campus visit is being spoil-l sored by the General Telephone Companies of lawn. Missouri’ and Nebraska, and the college's Division oi Natural Sciences. ‘Clu‘bs Supp l barker lSi or’r; WUS Carnival By Lynn Dcnzler Slop right up, ladies and sons tlclnCll! The carnival midway is right here in thc \Vomcn’s Gym , Fun, games, and pl‘I/cs [or all All proceeds to go to thc Woild University Sciuicc. i am normally a trom North Campus College, but tomorrow Saturday. Oct ll, 1 will be a at the one and only Cl‘ia‘ al‘nival west of the Mlsr ippi. it is the annual WUS Auction Dance and Carnival and will get underway at 9 1),"! Looking down the midway. I scc lots or campus organ aticns involved in various The Young Republicans Seal lctcl‘l Gl iii are luyaplaysti practicing up for the campaignl lyeal’ to colllcitheir booth is a plate throw, with prizes promise to be good noisemakers tor the mock political coiwem tian in the spring Carnival Continued to page 4 thal l Member til the WU.S for homo 'ow’s carnivali 0n Martha Montgomery, Kunio lBeuStcheT, Bruce Beckiord an grinnell Conga Scarlet @Black Oldesl‘ College Newspaper West of file Mississippi Committee discuss final plans the committee are (l. to r.) Waki (partially hidden), Sue :1 Paula Brown. LXXl Grinnell. Iowa. Friday. October ll 1963 No. 5 The Scarlet and Black has re-l ceiued a First Class Honor Rate ing from the Associated Colle- giate Pres for the issues of 1that publication published di ing the second semester 1962 The Lenox Quartet will con- its fall series of public 1 morroll' at 8 lull. in Rois/cits Theatre. l The quartet will draw on selections by llaydn, Brahms, and Schubert as they play the Quartet in c major, Op. 20, No. 2. by Haydn; the Quartet l major, Op 61, hyl Brnhms' and the Quartet in D l By Karen Adkinsdn “In a traditional religious sense God couldn't create," as» sci-ted Paul Weiss in a Fine Ails lecture on artistic cicativity "Creation involves wor ‘ng recalcitrant material liot.nllly to malic something, but also in make omething be. God made the we 01, but the world is still sustained by God and has no existence outside at Him a reality external to himself." D Weiss is a philosophei, ai ' , and praiessoc at Yale His interest in creativity grew out “My main interest is a thorough iiml Systematic study on an ill» Striict, then on an experiential bil» 5. My book. “Modes oi Be- ing" is highly abstract; the I st of my ten or so books are ' concrete? He continued. “I went f‘r‘om an interest in logic, which I hndl l had tot a taught larger [or some years interest I inquire hau- logical order dil is a review of “The Teaching oi" Mathematics," a book by Roy. Dlll’JiSL'li the element of Creativity czlme‘ mu Fire or six years ago We Lenox Quartet Show to Feature Haydn, Brahms, Schubert Works ‘ ries l l] l studied in graduate school andi. sharpened , up lny questions and began to minor, Op. Schubert. , This is the third in the tall series by the lenox Quaitel, in iesldcnce on the G niicll cani- pus tor the second 5 ght year. The gioup will conclude the sc Friday. Oct 13, with an a pm. appearance in Roberts The- ater featuring numbers iroin Haydn Schubert, and Shiloh posthumous, b'y began to sculpt and paint in April he had a one man show at the Ross-Taladny Gallery in New Haven, “I wanted to iind out what the arts wele by engaging myseli in them," hc commented “i think this has freed me from misconceptions which philoso— pliers have about artistic cn- Tlie artist creates a thing with ‘ leis irom other order, Notui-ally,,‘1 Paul Weiss luliis with students T Kobak 5&3 Receives High Rating 1963 The sacs lUnlveisity of lnf Journalism. was termed an “excellent publication. R, who rated 37 weekly publications of schools vary in size from 1250 to 751, called the S &B “extremely well done and marked by sound in- ‘telligence in handling news of ,the campus. lpaper to be proud of." ‘ Commenting on the rating 5&3 Editor Jim Herzog said evaluated at the “We are pleased by the ratingl lalthough we teel that it is not an accurate measure of any, papei's Value, We are. however lgiatihed to have produced a pa lpei which bespcaks excellence " 'dcavol's My philosophical Con~ ccpts are cl er to artist and the problems at artists others are closer to critics and spectators, “I through an arc gallery in one day, to sit through an entire symphony. Now i can only-see one room of paints or really symphony. Art appreciation is his Wednesday coffee hour in Younker Lounger Minnesota school‘ \vhich' Definitely a news~l Gi-inncll's used to be able to go‘ _j asking questions. , students come back again and ‘ understand. The :Can Machines Really Think? An engineer trom iowa State ,University, Dr. Robert M. Ste- wart, will give a public lecture, “The Automatic Computer — E. l Slave or Master? Can Machines lThink?" at Grinnell College on Thursday, Oct. 17. This lecture. sponsored by the college’s Dilvision 0f Nat- ural Sciences, is scheduled for 4:15 p.111. in Room 125 a! the Science Building, ‘ Dr. Stewart, a professor of ,electrical engineering and phys- ‘ ics at iowa State, is a recognized expert in computer electronics and widely known for his work n the field. He designed and built the ,largevscale digital computer, known as the “Cyclone," for the Cyclone Computer Laboratory of the Englnecring Experiment ’Statian at Iowa State. i l l Grinnell--lo wa's Intellectual Oasis desperately diilicult, exhaust. ing, crisscrossed with pain and anguish But there is an ulti- mate satisfaction heyand mere enjoyment," he said. “Children can’t, appreciate tart. Although they have inno» items and aren't bound by con- vention, they don’t see the im- port of the work. An adult who has lived in a tradition recap» tures in a work of art his fresh- ness but retains a sophistication and awareness of convention." Weiss has been at Grinnell be- - tore as a Gates lecturer, in 1959. - His visit this year has included a Fine Arts lecture and coitee hour Wednesday on Artistic Creativity, and a lecture last ’; night in the Seminar on Order series. Tomorrow morning in ARH he will hold a discussion with students on his speeéhes. “Grinnell always surpr es me." remarked Weiss. “i-re ai. ways thought of Iowa as_no- where Grinnen is 40 miles tar- _ (her from nowhere. But Grinnell ‘is intellectually alive. In most places students get shy about At Grinnell. again with questions it they don’t questioning is more innocent, more searching, :and more persistent."