SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, Dedember ll. m4 Scarlet and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell. lawn A weekly newspaper published each Funny a: me col- lege year by ills Cimnell cummmee on snide": Publlcw nunshepresrnied [or national (IKWCI‘HSHIZ by National M. musing Service, Inc, College Publishers Replesenwtlve. is East 50m sneer. New York 22. ivy. Second class post- ige paid lit cllnnell, lawn, su cripliun rate 55ml per school year. 1.982 pnd lubscriplionsl Lynn neuzler .llm Mclnlm ~lohn Woi: . Susan Taonr cyulmn Brusl _ Bunny King. Ruth Unruh Tom nsrlmun Ann snow-nun Nancy Gromko. Pam einy, Susan oeiber Steve Casey. Keulon Cl mer Dick Lovell, Nick Nouns, Paul risk gamut 9’1sz X9 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) EDITon ,, nusiNEss MANAGER MANAGING canon NEWS EDITOR . nan-um: EDITOR SPORTS EDITORS . HEAD moroompnm NEWS REPORTERS fl, IPORTS REPORTERS ._.. ’l‘or Herbie we wish a week full of cheer, And fifteen new majors by this time next year. in the crystal palace with all its lights, We wish young lovers happy nights, And our Sad Freshman, who’ere they be, We give you to Parsons University. Over at Newton, John Turek and the gang, Santa’s bell for you will loudly clang'. It’s been a year, special issues and such, For all of your patience, thanks very much. The Scarlet and Black, long may she stand. West of ole’ Miss and best in the land. To all who in the columns have been hit, Santa offers a handy first-aid kit. To Editor John and his journalistic pinemate, A year without crises, inudslinging, or hate, And for sake of harmony in this holiday May the S&B love SGA. To all the men of the M. and St. L., And trustees, and alums, a joyeux Noel, Refreshment we give to Penny and Zeke, Just like they give us when our days look bleak. For the CofHP, Wade and Gummy, And Judy and her gang, bedchecks chummy. For other members of the bureaucracy, A gilt-edged handbook on hipocracy, A brown helmit and if it doesn’t fit, A big gold star for Mike Dewitt. To members of Langan, north and south, A Christmas case of “foot in the mouth." We‘ll ignore the JLA And as for comps, what are they? To the Burling library sneakie thief, We give a coal black holiday wreath. To the Courts, men and women’s, and high, one, two, A Faculty Committee on “affairs" for you. For our faculty, lest they feel forgot, A student committee, which could really be hot For frustrated students, an “open house," In lieu of a Forum with rule — NO MOUSE. To those who are worried by parents unnerved, Santa leaves them the ghosts of those who swerved. To Clark and Trigg and the rest of the jocks, Four points all, and dirty sweatsox. To Killer Young and physical Edd, What might be left in Santa’s sled. Now Santa has finished his yearly trek, His sled, like your poets, is nearly a wreck. Pot, Twinkle, and Gummy, Wade, Babes and the rest: Maris, Jimbo, Stods, Annie, all in jest, Richard, Susan, Philip, Helen, and Lenore, Like the Raven shall return nevermore. Only with plagiarism are we this erudite. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night heaters to the Editor Prof Proposes Periodic Assembly of College Community To the Editor: There are some great events here at Grinnell that are known only to a few. More members of the college community should have been told in ad- vance last week to spare an hour for Dr. Li of the Univer- sity of Iowa and for Mr. David Maitland of Carleton College. I have heard many lectures in art history, but never one so good as Li's on “Sung Land~ scape Painting.” I have heard many talks on question and. answer, on hearing and listen ing and responding. but never one so good as Maltland’s “On Listening.” Robert McMillan and Roger Eldridge are modest men. They didn’t shout at you when their guests came. But these men had something very important to say, said their messages well. Many students who didn’t miss these events were deeply impressed and ex- pressed regret at the small st- tendance. I have often missed a good lecture or concert or play. I used never to miss a good mo» Vie. Why? Because I had two friends who followed the re- views and who alerted me Weeks in advance so that I could budget my time. I miss these friends very much; oh, I still have one who knows mo» vies and I turn to him for ad- vice. Why can’t someone pro- vide information about speak— ers and artists and scientists who are to appear? Surely the Grinnell Information Service can get the ordinary cursus vitarum, the who's who stuff. But this needs to be supple- mented by someone who knows the guest personally and can relate his interests to ours. I would like here to express a word of appreciation to Mr. Eldridge and to his secretary for having provided copies of Samuel Miller’s most recent articles. I found them in the R. A. R. and scanned each of them. They helped me to un- derstand what the Gates Leo- turei‘ was driving at. And in- deed I picked up a book of Dean Miller after he departed and followed up the theme of metaphor in my philosophy Classes. May I add that I find every public event a great stim» ulus to work in my field and never. well, or almost never, a distraction. Perhaps students think of Grllinell College as a place for lectures, plays, and concerts but not a place for sermons, The sermons are indeed inte- grally related to the worship of God and one may say that there is no God, or that what- ever cosmic force there is nev- er asks in he prayed to or to be praised in song. Or at least doubtless he never told you that one day in seven was sacred and that you should go to His house to listen to His prophet proclaim the Word, You may add that this version of meta— physics is primitive arld out< moded and that you hate to aid in the continuation of sup- erstition. Positively'you may say that the spiritual life can be better cultivated through the ministrations of the Lenox Quartet, and our moral fer- vor better geared into the Civil Rights Movement. Music and desegregation, you may argue, are the religion of the modern intellectual, along with fine sexual relations. I should like to answer these difficulties not from my own experience but from testimony of sir Julian Huxley. Huxley is not only a great biologist but Berry Discusses Forum Uses. Responds to 'Deluded Sectors' To the Editor: The Forum has just opened and already indignant protests of “betrayal” can be heard among certain deluded sectors of the student body. “They're trying to civilize us” runs the hue and cry among certain young rustics. My own re- sponse to these pathetic whim» pers is “Get off it, Jack, you're just. yellow!" because I think these people misunderstand the intentions of the Forum’s creators. For my money the Forum represents a recognition by the powers that be that we students have had a legitimate vexation with the former drabness of Grinnell. In fact we must have made our case awfully well by the looks of things, because the. ladylove’s earlobes in one of ttli windowside alcoves. bash the piano keys, giggle, guffaw, wail roar, pursue Britomart over the hill and dale, etc, the Forum is not going to be of< fended. The Forum is so com- pletely padded, upholstered, berugged, hedraped, patient, motherly etc. that a great deal of ructions and cacapho‘ny are not going to upset its compos- ure. As a matter of fact, I think the planners oi the Forum will be disappointed if students don't tear up the pea patch and sow a few wild oats in their little castle, All they expect is that we don’t carve our initials in the furniture, don’t spill pipe ashes on the rugs without clean— ing them up, and dont hold Forum is nothing less than aglhings down to a muffled roar palace of joys waiting for us tolwhen certain special occasions, make something of it. ‘such as a chamber music per- And lhis is the point: doiit,forinance demand it. So lets be cowcd by the elegance of ml the FOium with exubciance the Foiumi make what youland supply the vitality which want out of it If you want to any great public building needs stand on your head on the to have. South lounge rugs, nibble your Gordon Berry also a poet and great essay writer and a leader in interna- tional cultural organizations, In his agnostic book Religion W h- out Revelation he writes of Bi.- tending chapel. He was one of those “who on llie whole enlnved the chapel services. This had nothing \vhaievcr in do \viih trust In me ordinary sense, since i decided. on me map [er being left entirely in my Choice, not to be confirmed. The whole curismu schcluC, ilieolosirally can. slurred, iememrrl wholly incompm. henslble _i could not (or in: life of me understand how anyone ivun ihe background at runny could come to acccpi .r . in spite or this, as I say, in hi all my inlellecluui hosnluy- the chapel services gave me somenung valusnlc, and something which i dbiained nowhere else in pre- clscly me some \A‘dy. As i look back, nus simple personal [act illilsimIL‘S, berier man could whole rooms at hr. gliluelll, the extreme cmliplexiiy of religion, and me ease Wl|h which wiremgn: coliipllnmoms are esiflbr lislied in me rellgious his. as indeed wnt-iln the mind in general" u. s, Huxley, Religion wiluoue Rovelmioil, gmsi Benn. London. 1927. pp. ilz, I would not be using Sir Jul< ian’s witness if it did not coin- cide with my own experience. I should like also to add a few words from the address of F. S. C. Northrop. Northrop is a philosopher of science, pro- fessor emeritus of Yale Law School, author of The Meeting of East and West, and altogeth- er one of the finest teachers that my friend Klausner and I have ever had. At least we do not brush his thought away lightly. Northrop spoke in 1954 when Beloit rededicated its Chapel. I believe his points about the relevance of a Chapel Program to the integral life of our community and of the rela- tion of other fiEIds to the ideas there presented are true, “This Chapel has brcn ihe place whole, In my yssrs here and I rnisi also in yours, the members oi our col- lege have met logelhel’ in uuuy, Ill peace, and in ills serious menuu ro give deep and lining luraumg In our personal and collcclwe Ines. The lootball games have united us also. mu usumly Wilh some dislmssmgly noisy and unnecessarily aggrisswe ullisideis lirrsenr an me olnel side or the fields whose spim, like rim or due belligerent partisan on our side. was onrn hardly conductive m a spirit of unaliimily and genre or In a concern wnh Iasling values miner rhiu lVIllI Ihe immediate partisan gain ol me moluenr . II is because luv, economics, poi cal science, ru. giucering. and the other applied sciences need me spuiulni resources of philssnrliy and religion, it may are to he iruly practical, mar a college needs u chapel. It is because religion requires Philosophy in anieulaie us mun, {aim in deeds. mar a chapel needs is eoliege — a college, more over, such as ihis one, where suldcnls sud lrculry are lree not merely in believe but also in seek out me scientific evidence and phillsopllical reasons (or what rhey believe " (r s. c. Northrop Man, N-lure Ind God: A Guest roe Lites meaning, The Credo Series, Pocket Books, New York. 1963. pp, iii, no.) Even if the religious life is not as Sir Julian argues. a unique dimension .of thought and experience,and even if oth- er disciplines are not depend~ exit in the least as Northrop argues, upon philosophy and r e l i g i o n, ,nevertheless we should take seriously his argu- ment that the whole commun- ity needs to be periodically gathered. Otherwise we lose the sense of common purpose, we become atomized individ- uals or at best members of fac- (ions and cliques. There was a time when the whole commune ity gathered once a month for convocation. There was a time when a majority of the suldelits KUNTZ— Continued. on Page 3