Page Four SCARLET AND BLACK Zeke Sequeim. head of the Placement Off ce. scouts 10b5, permanent and temporary. for students. it Helping ‘k Students Discover Future * Is Objective of Placement Office By Karen Adkinson “We’re in the business of sell- lng opportunities." said Zeke Bequeira, director of Grinnell’s Placement Office. The Placement Office is de- signed to aid students in mak~ lug vocational plans. It was set up as a separate office just over a year ago with Sequeira as director. One of Sequeira’s innovations has been the Placement Office bulletin distributed every week. It contains summer employ- ment information, dates of tests and visits of industrial recruit- ers, and graduate fellowship news. He said, “We had no idea this would flourish as it has. We published a special bulletin about the Peace Corps senior program which was distributed only to juniors and within an hour after its distribution we had other students calling and coming in to ask for copies of their own." The Placement Office, ac- cording to Sequeira, acts as a counselor, adviser, and “brolc en" It brings together recruit- ers ahd job seekers, but more than that it “seeks to find means by which students can translate their educational ex- perlences into productive and exciting vocations,” ”Most students seem to ig- nore vocational planning dur- ing their underclass years, and by their senior year it is some- times too late. How many stu- dents, for example, choose a major with a thoroughly inves- tigated vocation in mind, or perhaps more important, how often do they select their work in supporting disciplines with a direction in View? Often the related course work can do much to enhance a person’s lap bor value,” said Sequeira. He continued, “This is like buying the most beautiful Cad- illac you can find and then let- ting it sit because you won’t spend anything on gasoline, service, and licensing. Students and their families often sacri- fice a great deal for a BA, but aren’t willing to invest a little time and energy in investigat- ing what they want of the world and what the World wants of them." information is available in quantity at the Placement of- fice. Industry actively recruits college graduates and puts vo- cational information at the dis- posal of colleges. The federal Arene Theatre Renewal is Complete The modern atmosphere of the recently remodeled arena theatre located on the ground floor-of ARH' will provide the background for many future lectures and seminars, accord- ing to Evan H. Walden, direct- or of the physical plant. The new lecture room, opened to classes on Feb. 10. had served as a theatre arena workshop before the construe tion of the Fine Arts Center. Because of the need for more classrooms, it was decided to put the workshop area to better Ila. The remodeling. in the plan- ning stage for two and a half years, actually began just be- fore Christmas vacation of last semester. Although the project is technically finished, drapes and permanent chairs will be added along with a large table for seminar discussions. For the present the seminar and lecture room has been fully scheduled for classes varying from humanities to speech correction. Next year, however, the use of the “old arena” will be limited to groups more appropriate to that type of classroom, such as large English and history seminars. government, through not only the individual personnel de- partments but also the Depart- ment of Labor and Civil Serv- ice Commission, is another source. Individual research or- ganizations also offer a good deal of data as do professional and vocational associations like the American Medical Associa- tion. “What to do about summer employment is a dilemma for us. There are two main reasons for summer jobs; experience and money to continue an edu- cation. Most of the time the two don’t coincide. It’s difficult for us to decide which to ex- plore, in which area to expend the mast effort. If students have leads or especially if they have run up a blind alley, we would like to know in order to share it _with others to help make their time and energy spent summer job hunting pro— ductive with a minimum of ef- fort.” Friday, February 14 Monroe Beardsley Evali‘iaies Relation Movements In lirtler By Cynthia Erust Normative problems, “the re- lations or order to value," were discussed Tuesday evening by Dr. Monroe Beardsley, His speech, “Order and Disorder in Art," was the eleventh of the "Order Seminar” Series Dr. Beardsley stressed that order itself is not necessarily a valuerconcept, but “. . . in some fields, order is taken to be a ground of goodness; Something desirable for itself, . . ." He cited such ancient thinkers as Plato, Plotinus, and St. Augustine as early perceiv— ers of this connection in the field of aesthetics. . Their conception was based on two essential principles; “what makes a work of art good is its beauty,” and “what distinguishes beautiful things. . . . is a high degree of some kind of order.” This forms a tradition which “. s the old- est aesthetic tr tion in the West." This aesthetic theory in- cluded organization, unity, and proportion in its definition of order. The major part of Dr. Beardsley's lecture was spent evaluating two modern move- ments which he feels “. . . have raised this old problem again in an. especially challenging way. . . .” These movements are “. . . the increasing use of chance, or accident, in the cre- ation of art,” and the informa- tion Theory of esthetics. “Tychistic art” is the term of Dr. Beardsley uses to de- scribe “art produced by acci- dent. . .” Although new meth- ods of “composing” were in- cluded, the discussion was lim- ited mainly to Lhe field of “painn'ng,” as this is the area where tychistic art is most common and. most easily assessed. According to Dr. Beardsley, “The courting of accident has been present to some degree in all abstract art.” He sees the current in- terest in “junk art" to be a nat- ural outgrowth of this fascina— tion, for “nothing is left to the vagaries of fate more utterly than what man casts away. . ." DENO'S Cold Beverages PIZZA Spaghetti Every Monday and Wednesday Moving to contemporary mu- sic, Dr. Beardsley described and analyzed the Information Theory. This he called “The most significant attempt to provide a precise description of order in art. . .” This theory is a mathematical one, based on a series of signals and the “in- formation” they give, which depends upon the unpredictabil- ity of each signal. A random arrangement would give more information than one following a pattern, which would be “re- dundant” or predictable This theory is applied most easily to melody. Hypotheses can be formulated that “. . . there is some fundamental con- nection between musical coher- ence and information—value," There appears to be a “. . . positive correlation between musical value and redundancy. or order. . . The best melodies lie somewhere . . . between complete ’randomness and a very tight control.” When we judge a work of art to be good," Beardsley contin< ued, “it is relevant to support this judgment by pointing out that the work is highly unified. Again, , . . He concluded with the obser- vatiOn that “. . . Intensity of quality and perfection of form are both involved. . . each is an aim of art. . ‘. . The artist, no doubt is one who rearranges the world, and makes us some- SPRING AND SUMMER BRIDES plan now for that special day. Featuring a com- plots line of gowns and veil: for bride and attendants. Consultation and rental service for the wedding and reception. CALI. Mrs. Irving Fishman AFl'Efi 5 EM. — 236-4417 Regin- a w.s n. Coniultant Dr. R. Maas Optometrist Phone 236-4002 FREE DELIVERY — CALL 236-6334 Hanson’s DANISH MAID PASTRIES 4th Ave. Home of Qualify 719 5th Avenue across from United Food Store Contact Lenses Complete Optical Laboratory