Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, October 253 _l9b3 Phil Johnson i Apathy and Need for Reform The students or the United States rarely get \zl‘y involved in things political. Now and their t'icre will be a small demonstration in tront ot the Wirite House, or yuuperative rcsolutrons pissed by scatter-ed student seirates, but seldonr any concerted action taken by any large group students The closest thing Lo 3 student move- nt that this country has seen in recent years is the present struggle tor civil rights. Uniortunate— ly, however, the activists in civil rights are iew and tar between. Most at us are happy to give our opinions, but tew icel concerned enough to get in. v ilvcd in doing anything, The most important explanation ior this lack . involvemcnt by the US. student community is s:iuply the tact that there is no distinct student community. In many countries oi the world, uni» varsity students are very conscious that they are a separate classin the society. wrth ways at think- irg and sets at valu - all oi their own. Th is especially true in the stilHleveL oping nations. Through the process oi chum» tion, students in these countries became aware that there are alternatives to the way things are happening. They become aware that de- mocrncy is an alternative to repressive gov- ernment. and that social and economic rc- ior-in is air alternative to the miserable liic oi the great majority or their people. The result is usually an intense impatience with the way things are being rrrn. otten this dissfits istaetion blossoms into rebellion, In Por-tugcse Airica today, the students oi Ana grin and other territories are in open revolt against their colonial governments, which havn instituted a repressive caste system and reiuscd education to the mascs Students iii Iran have engaged in nonsviolenl demonstrations against thoIShah's brutal reprcs son or educational and religious ircctlom. The National Union oi Iraqi Students was an active iorce in the success at the revs olutiou of February, 1963, which overturned the regime oi Gencral Kassern. Tlrc NUIS is now working with tiic new government, at. tempting to set up a tree and open society in tree. The Dtiwrliel‘ r gime in Haiti has or solved all student organizations and has made the Uni- vc ty oi Haiti into a State Institution, attcr his policies were opposed by Urrivcrsrty students In Paraguay, the government has moved to destroy the national union oi students, FUP, antl‘ has forced FUP I‘rcsldcnt Osvaldo exile, The national union or students oi South Airica is engaged in an intense struggle against the apartheid policies at the pi sent government. They are demanding iull social and political eduality tor all the people oi their country. Almost all oi the students involved are whites. More cxarnplcs could be cited, but they all have the same two common elements: (1) There Rosas into is intense and unified political action by students, , and (El this action is directed toward social re. form. . Does this occur because other students are more conccrned about their country and their people than are the students or the 11.5.? I t'lou't think so. And there certainly are enough oi us ready to rebel, given the a. use. The big diiierence is the tact that there is no widely iclt need ior major rcioi-ms in this country. except perhaps in the area oi civil rights. We have driited along withorrt ever doing much, because there was never very much we needed to do. The danger is that, alter all ot these ycars, we may not rccogliide a real problem when we see one, Many studcnts see such an issue in the battle ior civil rights, whether this is a widely held conviction has yet to be tound out. (Maybe. as a bare stari to check on this scntiment. let's count how many people are willing to part with some oi their old books, vitally needed to educate other Americans) Scarlel‘ and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell, law) A wcetsty newshxr‘er published each rir u ii c .i by National Adve dict, ri, itcvr-cserrreii uri- rcseututivc, I: it tour Street. class nosluge raid lit GIlnnell, rcr xchaol year. lows. EDXTort .. BUSINESS . MANAGING EDIIoit . m: .s iim'rntt FEATURE EDITOR SPORTS Ennon rig Szrvlue, inc. College Puhl New Yurk 22, Subscription rate sun iSchiii, Phillips; lHaines Won lM's To the Editor: Contrary to tormal appcar- ances. Haincs I-tall won first place in Dance Intrainurals. Tire Judges were mistaken. Ken Schiii Tom Phillips at the callers. . uni i N. Y. Second Vim “(rink and mind nave Bit": Julu wuu Kitten Adi. sun Len Caiodncy 5 violations of automobile pro. visions will result rn penalties in the tollowing categories: l (a) violation or provisions by ‘car owner . suspension ot car permit ranging troin one week ‘ . ‘to permanent suspension, , The Penalties It“; minor my! (b) violation of provisions by major iniractions will be touiid car user . fine or not less than under the Men's and Women‘s three dollars and not more than House Rulei- rtwcnty dollars. l ll Amendment to Men's Housct (c) Maintaining and ”ammo iRulesi General Rules and Reg-ran illegal car — fine of not less rulatwnsi p- 40 , ltnan firtcen dollars and not more I. add: Penalties ior minor-:ilian twentynve dollars and/0r lnlraclions shall range Imm a‘recommendation ot suspension fine oi not less than five dollars‘irem the collage, land not more than twenty dole lars. Penalties for mdjor iniractions ‘shztll range lronr a fine oi not jless than twenty dollars and lynot more than fifty dollars and/or iccommcndation or con- duct probation or recomilielida» tinn til suspension or dismissal iroin the college, Ill. Amendment llniormatiou ;Social Regulations, p. dent handbook, USE OF RESIDENCE HALL LOUNGES, dclctc iom para— ‘gl'aph #3 “6.30 pm." and in- lsert “10:30 pm," the paragraph. lthcn to read- "The lounges in‘ ‘llw men's halls will be open to- laducaticnallv from 10:30 a,m. to ‘lo:3tl pm Sunday through lTliur-sday, and irom 10:30 am I The Sana” “Nd ”‘9 “110‘“ ilo 12.00 midnight Friday. ending ‘Soluli‘m summed by Jim iii-om 1180 am Saturday to 1’3”“ 3°" , ‘1 .30 am Sunday The Student Body believes the Iv. Amendment General Pw‘PDSe of lhe midssemester [0 . tutor-motion and Regulationslbl‘eak ‘0 be general relief and Emmi Regulation; p_ 16_ 5“,,ir-cspite horn academic endeavors dam Handbook lot the classroom. MOTOR VEHICLES: Therefore, the Grinnell Col- l. Students oi Junior and Sen- loge Student Senate urges the ‘lOl‘ class status are pcrrnittcd to iaeulty to tacilitate this attempt maintain and operate motor Ve— at escape by reiramirrg irom as. lhicles while in attendance atlsigning hour-lies or papers with. ;Grlmicll College. ,in an unreasonable period oi 2. Limited cm. manages mgyilime following the break. be _ anted by the Dean oi Men‘ We request that the Speaker tor Dean oi Women to other stu-‘oi the Senate send copies of ‘dents whose parents live in this resolution to the Dean of Griirnell and its vicinity. the Collegc, Chairman oi the 3, All cars must be reg teredFaculty, and to the Cha"men ,by thou am. the second Monday‘u‘f all the departments within ;aitcr classes begin. at the Deathhe faculty. of Men’s oiiicc. ‘ Ed Robbins, Speaker of the 4. Students oi sophomore, iun Senate. announced that Sue Tay— ior- and senior class status may-lor intends to resign the position dr e cars maintained and op oi Secretary oi the Senate Dec. eratcd by other students for so. it Anyone interested in the pee cial purposes with the permis-‘sition should contact Mr. Rob- sion oi the owner bins, iSenale rCoutinued ironi page 1 grace pcriod cited above ’be considered a major- tion. shall lnfr'dc» i v. Amendment to Women's House Rules, Section E, Gcner . Rules tor Women, 1 b,, p 50. jAdd: Penalties tor minor lu- :Iractions shall range irom a fine }oi not loss than three nights' ‘httll confinement tor thc first ofs liense tip to twenty nights' hall Econfinement ror repeated viola— :tions. Penalties tor major in- .i actions shall range trom a fine ‘01' not less than 15 nights' hall confinement tor the first oiicnse ,to recommendation or conduct rprobzilion or recommendation of suspension for repeated viola— tions. Chapman also announced that the Executive Cabinet has ap— pointed Stevo Tilly to the In- :tcrnational Studies Committee. to General and Regulations, 18. stu— AS srnxr srtiit s ~ . _, CllIE‘ l’HOTl ' lixctiarstlt: EDHUR copy EDITOR . BUSINESS ASSISTA , I'.Lu-nl Tum H rii . .lclt .hnliiuiuu Run Lucpker ruse rn, lune :tiarslrsll Nuis! (Parl’ ll) Wlieat Sale Viewed as Error To the editor In recent years the gold supply on reserve in Ithis country has been dwindling at a rate that has seriously endangered the economic standard ‘on which our economy is based The great in; Jim Hatfield put it this way 2t yezlr ago (in reference crease in ioreigu investments by American busr 1.0 Eugene McCarthy): Last night’s circus hail everything but elephants, zrnd lhey‘tl probably have been on the scene if (he poli- tics involved had been of the Republican brand . . . The Frog am in Practical Political Education put on :4 good shml, no one can deny that . a . Let’s see. Wlult we were plenty iii-l those. (‘i' with in American pnliti that. \Vltal was mis ing' missing? Words? No, there lC VI 01 what's over and (lime 7 Nope. There was plenty of Maybe it was this Maybe it was all honest, specific. uncondesceuding' discussion of (he state of the nation lotl'ciy and what‘s to be done about Philip; it up. Mr. "disrespectful." They wereu' out whiil’s lulppening in the world tndu). Few learned anything they didn't itlread) answering" questions with cute quips but little depth. mow. Ml Truman revealed nothing: about; the world Situation l0d2l)’,llhe “1“?“ deal “‘9 501““ ncss has caused much gold to tlow irom our once very largo reservoirs. As attempts to stop this outtlow oi gold, Pres idents Eisenhower and Kcnnedy ordered bomc overseas dependents at US, .serviccmcn in an at tempt to check the spending or US. dolla s abroad, Later, the Adnrrnist tron decided that ;slich an attempt was either insigniticnnt or was incl. walking cticctively and cancelled the Slllll' :mons. However the outilow problem remained 1 unchecked. r The decision to allow communist block nations lie purchase American wheat at the world price 'was explained by Kennedy. in a recent statement, as a move beiictrcial to the problem oi licrping lgold in ttus coun v. The Soviet Union would pay. Truman reportedly called the Grinllell students l for the most part, in gold. This deal would be the they met-elv wanted to find ‘boost we needed to help the balance of payments ideflcll A. the larae wheat surplus would be iar-tially drained, Certainly these advantages to and perhaps are not really debatable. However, Mr. Kennedy incons ccrvahly tailed to discuss a point tar more import And so the sllow's over. and the ballloou’s are busted. lam than those mentioned above. Maybe neit time OUR BREAD TASTES GOOD 7 i In the long- run. how advantageous is it to lirade with the hundred times declared enemy? iLet there be no question that the USSR. is otrr reneniy, even though their latest policy seems to ‘be peaceltil. Lenin. Stalin, Tito. Khrushchev. and countless other dedicated communists have re peaicdly stated that our capitalist way oi lite can not (‘OseVl with the international communist movement in any pellriancnt \\' y. l The communist world has ‘orn our downtoll, lnot to ashes. but to dctcat b surp sing the tree. tcapitolist nations or the West by economic means. ‘Piccenl pent-c overtures by the Soviets only reilect itlie true nature at their tiual arm Conunun t leaders have ottcir said that aid trout the West rnust bi: used when needed even though the final end will be victory oI communism over capitalism. The summer wheat crop in the USSR. has tailed miserably; Khrushchev’s agricultural pro gram lras proven to be quite poor, Secretary of Agl culture Freeman made a trip to farming re— gions oi the Soviet Union in mid-July, only to re— port a lrlghly ineii'icient tar-m program, This crucial economic [ailure rcllects directly upon the drawbacks oi the communist system. since the Soviets are trying to outdo the United States economically, this agricultural tailure is a signitie cant setback tor them By selling them wheat. even at a domestic pilce, we would be bailing the Russian Come munists out of a serious problem, Surely the United States needs the gold from such a wheat sale, but do we need 'it at the expense oi strengthening the Communist regime" isn‘t this a step that might help to bring about the reality ol‘ Khrushchev's boast: ‘We will bury you!" Would the sale symbolize the tree-world‘s resistance to communism? How can the United States expect the tree world to honor our embargo oi Cuba if we cone tradict our stated policies by trading with the U.S.S R. and olhEr communist bloc nations”! The nature ot these queries should suggest that our foreign policy not be inconsistent at the expense oi principle. In spite at America's seliish lute-est or obtaining the gold and temporarily alley ti g part of the agricultural surplus problem, and her maybe notesoeseliish. attitude of ,‘fhemiug 7091 those in need," I feel that our policy should ser- iously be considered in light of the following: “The capitalist forces constitute our nil!- nrul enemy despite the not 0.1th they helped us (Lt defeat their most dangerous represens (alive (Hitler). It may happtll that we shall again decide 10 make use of their aid. but nl\ ys with the sale aim of accelerating their final ruin." —Jusi]1 Broz Tito. l9“ John McCarthy