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SCARLET AND BLACK

 

Mavis Staples, youngest member at the Staples Family singing group, talks backstage to
Grinnell students during all intermission period at last week's Saturday night cancert. The
group. singing gospel and blues songs, entertained a foot-stomping. hand clapping crowd
in Derby and appeared later in the evening at the student Dithyrumb in Cowles.

 

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I am little inclined to expose1

my own ignorance;

Let one thing, nonetheless, be,-
known, and that is that no one!

will receive a degree from
Grlnnell and be liberally edu-
caled in any sense of the word.
Nor will the interim session
Within two or three weeks per-
mit one to master any nebulous
concept, dichotomous scheme,
or ambivalent antithesis. By
one calculation appearing in
this paper, we should be able
to master the elements of about
180 scheme of order and chaos
Within four months. Since such
a large number of schemes in«
eludes all authors ot signifi-
cance from Alcaeus to Dowson.
1 should Wonder why any stu-
dent would feel himself unedu~
stated and why, therefore
(since we are all so discon—
tented with Grinnell) anyone
should go here for four years.
Needless to say, professors,
classes, and papers would be
entirely useless and would be
best done away with, We could
have four months of interim
session and leave the school,
clutching our degrees, knowing
who Alcaeus and Dawson are.

I should, however, suggest
that everyone whose blood pres-
sure rises when he considers
the JLAE should take a swim in
the pool, get drunk, go to the
union, or read E. R. Burrows
for an hour.

'rohy Pan

Corps Test Coming Up

The Peace Corps Placement
test will be given at Grinnell
on Saturday, February 22.

Twelve students have signed
up to take the test at this
time. The number of students
to be tested iS limited to twen~
ty. ’

Alcoa Gives $1,000

Grinnell has received $1,000
{mm the Aluminum Company
of America Foundation, ap-
proved by the Trustees of Ala
coat, and announced by Alcoa
works manager In Davenport,
W. F. Kneelaml.

Meet, the SGA

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Tom FulImer {
Miscellany and Digression l

“Student government must
reorganize itself drastically. It
must no longer care whether
or not it is graced with admin-
istration sanction and legit-
imacy.” With these words
which appeared in a dittoed
statement distributed lastgweek
and signed “Publius,” the
source of tlte‘problems of the
Grim-tell College community
could be seen.

For in the statement by Pub-
lius is the type of reasoning
which has created the prob-
lems which are manifest on the
Grinnell campus. The thoughts
of Publius, whoever he, she or
they may be, are the product of
a selflisl‘l, unrealistic, and to-
tally irresponsible philosophy
which has developed on the
Grinnell campus.

Behind this philosophy seems
to lie a belief in some sort of
divine right of students. Free-
dom and the sanctity of the in-
diVldual appear to be corner-
stones of this philosophy. But
missing is any conception the
regulations and responsi ties
which must be present in any
society to insure freedom and
sanctity of the individual for
everybody.

This philosophy assumes that
the students possess the defini-
tive knowledge and judgment
concerning social beliefs and
practices. Thus, whatever the
students want, they should re-
ceive. The right of the faculty,
administration, and even the
Board of Trustees to have any
control over student regula-
tions is denied.

Perhaps Publius is right
when he says there should be
a reorganization of student
government. However, the fail-
ures of the present system are

 

not the ones he pictures. The
current problems in student
government certainly cannot be
blamed on an overemphasis on
rule enforcement.

Perhaps student government
has failed because it has been
guided by the same philosophy
which guides Publius. Perhaps
the administration views stu<
dent government with contempt
(a claim made by Publius) be-
cause student government has
viewed the administra 'on with
contempt.

Basically the process of stu-
dent government is analogous
to a game. But one cannot suc-
ceed at a game unless one un-
derstands and follows the rules
of that game.

Maybe more could be accom-
plished with a student govern-
ment which understands and
willingly observes the rules of
the game. For the rules of the
game are not going to be
changed simply to suit the
whims of a group of students
who will spend only four years
on the campus. And if those
who are attempting to destroy
the game succeed, they will
have destroyed their only road
to accomplishment.

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hard in Znnzlhnr, Wham whit!
o1 Cuban eignrs nnd opium p'
mingle strangely with the u

of spice: in the trngrunr Atria-n
night. 2-1.. hired Union Jack had
flown tor 74 years. Only last De-
camber .u Zunribar .sluiuol (In
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dryu. And lo we uy mo ll,
sultan, Ind firewall to Zlnnblh
n d or mystery,

[Ind 01 ehungo,

(Music up and

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Landowner at 16

A True Story
' of Success
Through Thrift.

FATHER OF OUR
COUNTRY

 

Did you know that George Washington was a land-
owner nt tho ago at I67 Ho raved his earnings from
hi: first iob as a surveyor and wot able to buy prop-

. riy.

You can do the same today by saying regularly .i
Grinnoil Federal, You‘ll soon have u Iubstantioi mm. .

ut aside for Imargoncy. vacation piam, or your future

home.

Take the thrift iip today and open your savings
account here. Komembnr when you says do“ make I

difference.

GRINNELL FEDERAL 1,
SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION