Page Two Scarlet and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinnell. lawn A weekly neusnaper published each Fllduiy of the col- lege year by the Grinnell committee on student poolica lions. Repre~enled ior national advertising by National Ad- vertising Service, Inc, College publishers nepicscnra is East 50th Street, New York 22, N.Y, Second class pose are paid at Grinnell, iowa Suhscrlpllan rate 55.00 per school year. l,932 naid subscriptions. znrron BUSINESS MANAGER NEWS Emrox FEATURE EDITOR seems Enn‘on HEAD rtioroGRAr EXCHANGE :niron . REPOR’I‘ERS John whit .. Harold Fuson susnn Taylor Wayne Sienger Store cnsoy . Toni Hnrtrnall . Sara Bey Ann showritor, Nancy Groinku, rain clay, susnn Gerber, Anne Fnrrcr, Judith Wallace nick Easily. sue Jonnson, ooue MoCornuie sPniu's REPORTERS . susmcss Sl'AFF xenton Clymer,rchk Lovell, Nick Nouns, Paul rrigi; . John W. Jul-instill, w. chandler Monrinan, nick seilert, Jim srephons St. Olaf Tries Interim; Carleton to Publish Tasty Literary Digest By Sara Bey Two Antioch College seniors have established a dormitory service to provide food delivery, laundry ser- vice, and, most ambitiously, a scheme to synchronize all the clocks on campus. The Antioch Retard writes, “This has never been done in the memory of mod» Irn mun." Beluit College is offering upper- classmen opportunity to take a tull term of work during the summer at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, The seminar studies in- clude two courses in advanced oral Spanish, one in Mexican art and architecture, and an independent study project. A revised calendar at St. Olaf College now provides tor a tour- week interim period. Students can choose from 96 interim courses or independent study in Europe or Mexico. 280 sophomores at St. Olaf will go on dates picked for them by a computer. Applicants filled out a questionnaire previously used at Iowa State University, comparing them on 41 different points. At Carleton College, students are planning their second Computer Date Night. They used a two~part questionnaire with a psychological preference test and a statistical in- formation section. Mother, the “international” lit- erary magazine published by Carle~ [on students, will be printed this year on green rice paper with a 2- page sugar foldout, The new tore mat was announced, senior Jefl Giles said, so that “those readers who don’t like Mother can eat it." He added that. the magazine has received the Goodhomemakers' Seal of Approvalr After the second term of his sophomore year, a Carleton student will be able to take one course per term on a pass-rail grading basis, Thus, the Carletonian writes, “The graduate school-bound student will be able to follow up his interests in areas where he would be most ‘llkeiy to worry about receiving a quasirlatal ‘C’ or ton" Seventeen students from Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, pic- lketed the city’s new Playboy Club, carrying such slogans as “Do You Want Your Daughter to Be a Play mate?" The university's student council voted, nine to four, against utilcially sanctioning the action of any volunteer group of Xavier Stu» dents in such a protest. Grinnellian Sends Edr note: The following is the first report from Cynthia Brust, one of (our Grinnel- linns participating in the Le Moyne exchange program this semester. it was received last Wednesday. Twenty three hours on a bus, Small dirty bus stations, and a big clean one. A bridge game between four aisle seats. Sun- rise over Saxton, Missouri. From snow to grass growing green; from 16 degrees to 65 degrees. . . . . A cordial protessional hands shake and a smile from a bouncy, darknaired language teacher turned “housemather” and guardian angel. A station Wagon filled with suitcases that arrived, and phone calls about the one that didn’t. A five-room CoiLage for the girls to shore, and a converted turn~olvihe~ century carriage house for the boys. A note from Mr. Dona- hoe. Introductions, 5 mile 5, handshakes. . . . . Four Grin- Le Moyne Report neilians nians. The four days since we are rived in Memphis have been a haze of people, places and events. But a law sharp impres- sions do sort themselves out. The sharpest of all is Southern hospitality is no myth. become four LeMoy- Even the clerks in the stores- downtown have welcomed us to the South, and some have even' commented on the newspaper stories that have been printed about us. Walking around the tiny campus is like being wrap- ped in soft cotton, lor every- one from President Price to the cafeteria crew goes out of their way to see that we are comrortable and happy. that ’ Our , SCARLET AND BLACK “You know," said a recent date, of mine as she placed a booted loci on the coffee table and in her tipariilo with her shiny new butane cigar lighter, “It’s kind of a shame that chivalry is dead,” She paused to exhale a cloud of acrld smoke. "I wonder what killed it?" I responded in my usual sophisticated man- ner — a long silence broken at length by still more silence. However, the question did intrigue me so 1 puzzled over it for several days, The question intrigued me for several reasons. First, it was a proiound question and I like to puzzle over profound-type things. More important, it intrigued me because it was the first question this girl had asked me that didn’t. deal With liquor or sex. Alter several days I did find the answer to my date's question. Pneumatic door closers killed chivalry. You, of course, know what a pneumatic door Closer is. it is that clever device at the top or doors that insures that every door that is opened is closed, thus maintaining an orderly, closed—door society. I Now it is a well known fact in chivalric circles that the most important part. of being chivalrous isn‘t throwing your coat on mud puddles or walking on the outside of the side» walk so you’ll be the one hit by the mud splashed by all the horses that run past or your attitude toward your girl or anything silly and unimportant like all that. Man, What really counts is opening that door in front of her. Any knight in shining armor knows that. Back in the glorious days of Arthur and Gwen and the rest of the round table crowd, a door just hung there on its hinges like a good door and looked at your Granted the hinges may have been a little rusty and granted the door may have been twenty feet high, made of oak. and weighed a ton, but at least it didn’t have one of those hissing, sucking, pneumatic closers at the top lighting you every inch or the way The number or budding young knights in shining armor who've had their ego smashed beyond repair trying to open such a door sunve« ly deries human imagination. Nothing is more humiliating than to stand at one side of a doorway, place your hand on the door, pus-h, and have nothing happen. You push again, this time your hand farther toward the center, and still nothing, At last, in desperation, your face red with shame, you push at the middle of the Friday. February 5. i965 Paul Roberts Roberts Rules Of Disorder door where you have better leverage, and you manage to open the door about a mird of the way, your arm now effectively blocking the path at your Lady Fair. Your only recourse is to walk through the doorway first. And there you have it, the man going through the doorway before the woman and chivalry has suffered another setback. in a futile attempt to tight these siayers of knighthood, these empowered doors, I devel- open what could have been a successful tactic. As I would approach a door, I would fail about a step and a hall behind my companion and then, at the last second, realizing suddenly that there was a door to be opened, would dash wildly iorward, arm rigid and extended, and throw open the door using the force or my sprint to overcome the pneumatic closer. “Brilliant," you say? Not quite. This system works well until one encoun- ters a double door. For some reason known only to the hierarchy of B at G only one door or every pair is unlocked. You have only to im- agine a charging Lancelot meeting a locked doorr Shredded, absolutely shredded my coat, shirt and arm. Bled, you know, badly. So now you know why chivalry is dead, it will remain dead until all doors are once again treeswinging and unencumbered by the trap» pings or our modern, industrial society, until once again they are allowed to close of their own initiative. Then, and only then, can we re- turn to those happy days when knighthood was in newer, so—to—speak. u s . ice reflected sun and high spirits gave thl icene a partylike atmosphere . . . “Say, have you been to any of those Rosen- llcld lectures? Really fine, I mean really fine. That Brzezinski has a helluva lot on the ball." "Oh yeah? I haven't been able to get to any of them, I'm reading the New Testament. I thought that would make a good project for interim. You know I'm taking New Testament next semester and i thought i might get ahead this way." “i hope both of you can make it to thc Booth lectures, They should be some of the finest we've had recenfly. Why I'Ve Checked out a couple of his books from the library and I’m gomg to read them so 1 can talk to him on ii really meaningful level at the coffee hours." “The three of you will have to come to my Iroom next Sunday. I've simply l i l l biggest problem may well be, deciding who to turn to tor help it we ever need it, be- cause We’ve had so many sin- cere offers. Classes start tomorrow, and all {our of us are looking for- ward to becoming areal part or life at. LeMoyne, rather than a protected, if not cherished, ap- penduge I“. AND OVER WTERIM I FOUND MYSELF... \\ 'got to show somebody the rough dratts of this new story I'm working on. I really reel creative, inspired even. This interim is really great The story is all about this girl who finds out that she in . . say. Whose bid is it?" "I think it's yours," "Oh, yeah. Three hearts. . lithograph Exhibit Featured till 17th “The Phenomena of Jean Dubul- let," an exhibition at so lithographs selected from a series by the fa- mous French artist on natural sub- stances and occurrences. is now on view in Schealler Gallery. The prints will hang there through Feb. 17. One of the most influential and original artists to have emerged in Paris Since World War II, Dublllfet has in these prints sought an en- tirely new kind or lithography. Using a variety of unorthodox methods, he has produced works ranging from a description of ti]. , universe to one of dust l Eschewing the traditional pencil or brush, Duhullet never draws (ll- rectly on the plate. He often uses the substance portrayed, and the result is a cantmlled accident, a phenomenon ill itself.