Friday, February 5. ms SCARLET AND BLACK Page Threo David Lighthourne — letters to M other Although this column is really nothing more than a chance for my mother to hear from me once a week, the awful pressures of society are some- times Just so great that I'm forced to sit down and set things straight around here. By sheer coincir deuce, the new Forum is an awiully good target for a little bit of compulsive intelligence. The first Lhing that should be pointed out is that Gtinnell students still don’t have a student union, "they haven't had one since the old one was torn down, Temporary facilties were first set up in Main basement and then in that new building there in front of the library. Someday, mother, maybe some day . .. In the meantime, though. there's no need to make the situation more difficult. If students Want to use the showroom and window displays in the new building, they ought to cooperate with the ad- ministration hirelings who also use the place. On the other hand, I think it would only be polite lor the students to be given proper respect. The [list obvious problem has to do with the grace and gentility that's running rampant over there. Please don't. misunderstand me; I think grace and genrihty has its place in hie, along with golr shoes, clock bottles, and anything else. Grinnell House is full of it, and that’s fine with me. What l want to know is what that has to do With students? There’ll be plenty or time tor grace and gentility in later years, when we can‘t find anything better to do. At the moment, however we are presumably con cerned with more interesting and more important matters. Aside rrom all the petty little ways in which pre- tentious formality has been dropped over there— dropped like lace handkerchiefs soaked in cheap perfume — the incident in which a Grinnell student was suspended from college is of the most interest. The decision of the dean cannot be criticized, The student involved directed unmistakably abusive lan- guage at a lady. The dean or men characterized the incident as “outrageous," which it was. But it was also more outrageous than the dean of men has apparently considered. The incident could not have occurred in anything but an outrageous situation. The student was asked to leave the building in a manner which was both unprovoked and thoroughly ungentile (please ignore the irony). There was neither right nor reason for this i concealed in- sult. It occurs to me that “ludicrous" might have been a better choice or words in the dean 0! men's remarks. DuPont Bestows Group to Conduct the American Medical Associa~ tion, the National Education Association, and the Washing ton-UN Seminar. Coffeehouse Plush. Dark. lonely Amid Buslle. Prosperity in Forum quieter than the rest or the new college Forum. Tom Pope, the student math ager of the coffee house, has found that the plushness of the room has discouraged busi- ness, saying, ”I think the decor is too ritzy; a lot of students say they are awed by the room." Ludwig feels the coffee house The 15 couples bring $10.has a definite place in the For- . . . . — . he Cafle m htl into the Catie, while its.um “Ni, “V? WE} £553,811 neighbor—the grill— adds a qualitative tone to tho - 3 rest of the building. 22:: an exceedingly large busl Open only two hours a day. . f ~ Two or [ha coffee house: m_ the dark, red hued Caffe oi sis t h Ll d menu selections that range “res ave apparen y serve lfrom 15 cents for demi lasse as deterrents to the success of , . ,. espresso to 90 cents for cher- gl‘eio‘iaf‘e- “5 PM“ “‘1 91““ ries jubilee. The average otter. ing is priced at 30 cents. The Caffe sports a thick, red confirm” manager pop. carpet, marble table tops, and agrees with critics of the Cal< a 31,200 shining eSPresso mak- fe’s prices, saying “I think the era According t0 Merrit Lud- menu selections could be more wig, vice president of the col- reasonably priced than they lege, however, “The amount are now. However, one must of money spenton that room is bear in mind that the prices not any greater than m anylhave already been reduced by other room.” one fourth." By Jim Herzog Perched atop the flat, mid- western Grinnell College cam- pus is the college's Cafie del Faro—a plush, city-like coitee house. While about 80 per cent of the' Grinnell students troop into the Forum’s grill every day, an average of 15 couples patron- ize the coffee house nightly. $8,000 on Grinnell Grinnell has received two grants totaling $8,000 trom E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Com- pany, Inc., of Wilmington, Del., Acting President James H. Stauss has announced. One grant, of $5,000 IS lor ad- Vanced teaching. Of this, $2,500 is designated tor chemistry and $2,500 for teaching other sub» jects which contribute impor- Lantly to the education of sci- entists and engineers. The other grant will provide a maximum of 33,000 for sum- mer scholarships for prospec- tive high school teachers of science and mathematics. The two grants to Grinnell are part ot $1,800,000 being awarded to colleges and universities in the Du Pont Company’s pro— gram of aid to education and basic research, Internship Program The Iowa Center for Educa- tion in Politics will conduct a summer internship program with national interest groups again this summer. Four students of sophomore and junior standing irom Iowa colleges will be selected to work for two months in Wash» ington. Each student will re celve a gram. of $750. Selections will be based primarily on aca- demic considerations such as the student’s record and his. proposals for research projects to be submitted after the intern- ship experience. Political activ- ity and other nonrcurriculal’ in- terests will be considered sec- ondarily. The four interest groups which have already expressed interest in the program are the American Banking Association, AHRVANO'S “MVP - [Pl/(ll, - fl/fl’flkffll FRIED CHICKEN Special/y prepared in our germs? Penny PHT Fryer 3-: ‘2! is '( Applications 3 re available irom c. Edwin Gilmour (politi- cal science), and are due to the ICEP March 1, no greater l'OOmS, While the expense of con- structing the coffee house was than the character of the room is more restrained and Saga’s Forum food manager. 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