SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. April 24, I?“ Scarlet and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell. lewd A weekly newspaper published each Fnday or the col- lege year by the Gnnnell Committee on Student Publica- tions, Lailtl H. unmet. chalimon. Represented to! national advertising by National Advertising Sumce, lnc., College euollsnets Representative. is East 50m Street. New York 22, my. Second class postage P2|d at thnnell. lawn. subscription rate 34.50 per xchool year. Lynn nenzlet .Iim Mcfntym John wolf xuen Adkiusan Mmhn Post EDITOR . . BUSINESS MANAGER MANAGING EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR copy nmmh . , uni Fish SPORTS EDITOR , . . NEWS AND copy STAFF Cynthia Burst, Bun Hunt, Ann Showalter, Nancy Gromko, Mun eta Sawyer, Pom cm. susnn Taylor Susie Gclblr. Jenn Vnidcrvoon Tom Hartman . . .Ionn Moe . Mnc Marshlll, Leslle Bruslellen John roinnm Dick rnxon HEAD PHOTOGRAPHER AD MANAGER BUSINESS ASSISTANTS cIrtcuLATioN MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION MANAGE Editorial Briefs i No Tresspussing '; The 5813 has been reminded by Building and Grounds that the students are again busy making paths here and there across the green expanses of the campus. Although we would be the first to grant, along with Student voices, that “the sidewalks are in the wrong place,” it seems that thoughtful students could do away with some of the short cuts across new grass areas. Spring is a pleasant time of year here # students should be able to take a little extra time to make it pleasant for B&G as well as for themselves. Baffled Board? The “integrated" living situation on South Campus has been very well planned and handled by the AWS Board. Every possible effort is being made to make Main and Mears, formerly freshmen dorms, invi rig to upperclass residents. With room-drawings, just two weeks away, the Board is now busy choosing Baffle— board officers for each dorm floor in the quad. Some- times, it seems, baffleboard members apply for rea sons of gaining prestige, getting early choice of rooms, or acquiring a stepping stone toward next years AWS Board candidacy. The AWS Board seems vitally inter- ested in making its dorm system work. The choice of baffleboard members and their subsequent position in the hall will undoubtedly emerge more important than ever. Placing freshmen in all the dorms, and the theory behind it, necessitated a new type of community living in the quad. Without being policemen or full-time advice counselors, the baffleboard members will have an active part in creating and maintaining community. This should certainly be considered in the already difficult job of choosing the best people for the posi- tion. l Spoilers at the Polls Six percent of the students who voted in the Mock Election had their ballots spoiled because of their misuse of the voting machines. The PPPE had repre- sentatives present at all times to explain the machines in order to avoid just such an event. It looks like getting people out to vote is not the only problem at the polls -—one should also be sure that they pay enough atten- tion so that they know what they are doing. Spoiling a ballot through carelessness doesn't say much for the privilege to vote. Time Goes By It is ironic that Grinnell students, who are eternal- ly desperate for time. will find themselves losing one hour this week-end. The thought has already spread panic among several paper-writers and exam takers. The only pleasant thought right now about going on daylight savings time, is that next October we will all gain an hour when things get back to normal. If It’s Your Birthday —- Hope It’s Happy To the Editor: We are accustomed to speak— ing about different "genera tions" of college Students which are believed to have a more or less unique identity. The appel- lations “angty”, “lost”, and “complacent” have been used to describe some of these gen- erations. Realizing the hazards of generalization, we may still profit from an attempt to fit the contemporary generation of college students into this same framework. The frequency with which they use the Word "meaning ful" offers us me best clue to an identity for these young peo- ple. The very use of the word “meaningful" suggests the are istence of something which is “meaning—less.’ Inherent in such a View are attitudes of examination, skepticism, and experimentation — all qualities ascribed to this particular gen- oration. Philosophers, sociologists and psychologists have launched a massive criticism of contemr porary middle class suburban values. The essence of their objections has been that mid— dle class society has wed itself to the spiritually sterile values of chronic status consciousness and excessive concern for ma- terial well-being. It is against this background that the current college group should be set in order to under stand their preoccupation with meaningful existence. For bet ter or for worse, most of this generation cannot value relig- ion highly enough to find in it a convincing scheme of life val- ues. At the Same time. both the absence of sound values in so- ciety at large, and‘the psycho~ logically crippling effects of that absence of meaning have been made woefully apparent. What has resulted is a gener- ation which deeply impressed With the need to find meaning , Letters to the Editor Time, Newsweek, Move Over! Grooms Views Campus Sex in life. Two cults have devel< oped to fill the value vacuum. One would make love the ulti- mate value in life. The Bible of this cult is Fromm's The Art of Loving. ‘ The other cult views life as merely a stream of unordered accidents. To be alive is to be in the state of experiencing things, hence sheer experience becomes an end in itself. The highly publicized sexual experimentation of the contem- porary college group may per- hapS be more clearly under- stood if we consider the twin values of love for love’s sake and experience as an end in it- self. While it is too early to assess the workability of these Values, it is possible to note that psy- chological needs, as well as biological drives, must be tak- en into account for an explana< [ion of what appears to he moral laxity. Steve Grooms By VINCE ANKU Ghana’s government has no interest in either ruthless com- munism or moribund capital» ism. She is pursuing her own independent course; yet Nkru- mah has been accused of being a Communist running a Soviet satellite. This accusation is not only a monstrous distortion of truth, but also shows a gross ignorance of what Communism really is. I believe that the Russian, Chinese, or Cuban brand of Communism is bound to fail in Ghana. In Ghana, over ninety per cent of the people are land owners who would rcr act violently to any attempt by the government to collecthlze their land or any personal prop- erty. The government would have to imprison or liquidate the land owners in order to col- lectivize all the agricultural land. Moreover. many prominent government officials and their close relatives are also land owners. The government’s aim is to help the people live a bet- ter life, and so it cannot pmr vide the good life on the blood of the majority of the people. it would be stupid to attempt to collectivize tropical cocoa growing forests where adequate supervision of workers is im- possible. Without collectiviza- lion, Ghana farmers still pro- duce more than a third of the world's cocoa. For these rea sons the government is making no effort to “collectiVlze for the sake of collectivization," which seems to be the case in some communist countries. Just as Communism would be detrimental to Ghana, so would the American form of capitalism prove disastrous to her. Ghana's government needs a great deal of money. The people are quite reluctant to pay taxes, and voluntary con- tributions have only recently Leslie Brusletten and Well- house studios equal New York World's Fair this Spring. A Wellhouse photograph of Leslie will be displayed at the East- man Kodak exhibit at the Fair. The color portrait was taken soon after Leslie was elected Snow Queen last year. Mrs. Wellhouse said, “She looked so striking in her ski outfit that we asked her to come in and pose for us. The picture was later used in the Cyclone. Welll‘louse exhibited the print at several Conventions. it won a blue ribbon at the Missouri State convention in Kansas ,Clly, Court of Honor (purple Wellhouse Portrait of Leslie Brusletten On Display at World’s Fair in New York ribbon) at the Nebraska State Convention in Omaha, and a red ribbon at the Iowa State convention in Des Memes. At the Iowa convention Wellhouse hung seven other prints all of which won ribbons. including four blue ones. The picture was accepted for hanging at the National Con- venlion in Dallas and was placed in the National Loan Collection, which As selected from among the photos hung at the National Convention and is circulated throughout the U. S. It was from this collec- tion that Eastman Kodak Chose the photos to be represented at the World's Fair. Anku: Ghana Pursues Own Course come into prominence. Thus, Ghana must plan her economy very thoroughly. She strongly feels that the somewhat efficient capitalistic System is not the quickest way to the bet- ter future. Ghana blends West- ern and Eastern economic theories with her own expel’h ence. Though Ghana perhaps borrows much from Marx and Lenin, this is not a sufficient ground on which to label Ghana a Communist satellite. This will become apparent In the later articles. Ghana is building an anal: getlc country based on the principles of African Socialism. This is a social, political, and economic System permeated by belief in God and thus in the dignity of the individual man, Ghanians believe that African Socialism will provide the greatest economic progress while reasserting the tradition- al cooperative values of Afri- can life. In April 1961, Nkrumah made the following statement in the New York Times: “The aim of the party is to build a socialist State in which the free development of each sector is a condition for the free development of the other sec- tors of society. This is conson- ant with African situations, conditions, and Circumstances.” Mr. Nkrumah has said time and time again that private in- vestment, elther domestic or loreign, and state ownership can coexist in Ghana. This is one of the features of "African socialism.” It is based not on the concept of class struggle, but on traditional cooperative principles in which private ownership plays a Vigorous part in the society. This deft nitely is not Communism. in-