Scarlet and Black CIINNILL COLLEGE Gflnnll. but A weekly newspaper published each Frldn or the col» lege year by the Grinnel committee on Stu ent Publica- tions. Represenred lor national advertising by National Ad~ vertlelng service, inc, college Publishers nonretenrnllve, la rust 50th Street, New York 22, in. second clnss post- age» pald it crinneu. Iowa. Subacrlptlon rate 35.00 per Ichool your. loan paid subscriptions. , John Wall 5 G "old rum ASSOCIATE nor-runs hob noalerne, sue lelur Furun: EDITOR . Wayne srenlel spears non‘on , Steve Casey nail) rho-room Tom nemnun :xciuuvai: EDITOR snrn hey CIRCULATION MANAGER . w. Chandler Mohrman nmafins ,. ,. ., rem Claw, Anne Fairer, chk Cnady. hour MtConnac. Gerald Goddard, .lanres Herzog, All“ Axelrod men Atnrnon, ltrle Narh, Jeanette Mull, Connie simon, Karen ornmnn, shrron sneumaker . . Mike nelole, John Phillips, Steve shender. hem-v Wilhelm sue Iarduist, carol Jensen, Elm: wemlck. Ann slmouoeu, Helen noiselew, Amy hossmnn. an summers, bonus ltotllelnen. Curu Dflgflflr Janice aehl. xendut vterorlne, hunn Hunt Dick Lovell. Nick Mortar, Plu rrlgg ,, Mimi Medan, sunn will morocnnpnzas .. cont STAFF IPOR’I'S RHORTERS nuslNEss STAFF .. Karen Luuterhach, Jlru Parkinson, and Hill Johnson are pictured ring a student coilee hour Wednesday atteraoou in which a panel of A lender: discussed their eoucerns with the court system with about no mdontl. Johnson outlined three toncerm of line process and iurlsdistlon, and listed a number or arm which have occurred this year. The lot- lowing cases, he said, have resulted in conduct probation tor the atu~ dents lnvolv drinktu in the remote , selling beer in u huu lounje, drunkenness, toiling e six- truck. rlnluu at a local bar without identification, bacon-sin: ill and swearing at a member or the cuuege administration in the Forum, repeated throwluue or uquoz bottles uninst the wane of student rooms. _ Johnson also llsted um which have led to Iuspenslons: rteaung at n protessor'r car, swearing it a woman member or the adminiscrie tlon in the Forum, an illegal visitation violation. in aid that one student was dismissed iron the college tor dischsrging firearms in his room. Following the cortee hour, about 10 students signed a list indieut lug they would assist in charts to achieve sGA’s demands in rlue process and jurisdictional clarification. (See story page 1). SCARLET- AND BLACK Friday; “hoary-2|, ”5! Shades of Gray living Up By Carl Otls Gray In the past two weeks I have constantly been amused by the responses to my last article. it seems that by_attacl-iing America’s sacred cows 1 provoked an overwhelming majority or my read- ers. Paul Roberls' column last week took particu- lar care to note the “depth of my hatred” im- plying that l was “vicious, hateful, bigoted, narrow- minded and arrogant." it seems that. Mr. Roberts and Company need some setting straight. l intend to live up to my reputation -— so Mr. Roberts, I’ll be arrogant enough to defy anyone who tells me I have no right to do so. it there are any other self established experts on the Negro mind in the audience l would urge them in forever hold their peace, because they cannot and never will begin to scratch the surlace of a problem with which they have never come face to race. 1 have a right to be presumptious enough to say that no one. save another Negro. can tell me anything about civil rights. While liberal or not, I knew more about American democracy, or whatever it should be called, at the age of ten than you will even be able to know. As the hypocrisy that calls itself acceptance wends its way into our lives, new hypocrlsies will slowly be uncovered and ran vealed. Don’t tell me how I Should [eel about being given the privilege ut living in this wonderiul "ldylr lic" community because i could not be less interest. ed. Realize this, you're doing me no lavors. it you honestly want to delve into that thing that you all know so well, “the Negro mind,” ask Eddie Atkins’ four year old sister who was beaten up by her iellow kindergarten students because she was a Negro. Ask the children who were herded through the streets of Selma what it means to be an American. Then and only then can we begin to converse on a level with me as the teacher and you as the student. Until I was so dubbed by Iellow Grinnell stu- dents as an embittered young man, l had never considered myself as such. But if that is the case, well then, “you ain’t seen nothin' yet." I would suggest that it any of you are interested in pursuing the development of bitterness in the American Ne- gro you should read (he works or w. E. DuBois to begin with and then as you graduate to the rela: tively techie voice or James Baldwin you hold your stomach and read LeRoi Jones' personal statement in Kulchul‘ 9, the one that ends with his final word to Negroes — CUT THEIR THROATS! All that: men are distinctly out of the realm of hlaclr Nationalist, Black Supremist movements, so that charges oi ianatictsm are totally invalid. Alas, even James Baldwin, In a debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge last week mirrored my views by stating “The American Dream is held at the expense or the Amerlcari Negro.” And furthermore — get the hell off my back, you've been on it long enough; it's my turn. Paul Roberts Roberts Rules Of Disorder As spring approaches — slowly - a young man's fancy turns lightly to thoughts of love and base- ball and tennis and like that. Not so at Grinnell, Men of normally sound sense turn rather heavily to nights or lancy or, to be more explicit, to thoughts of SGA elections. This year — even before the sap has started to run - some ol the “edge" has been taken off the election. SGA has been simplified. Alas, no more complex procedure, no more “cumbersome checks and balancas," no more unwieldly Senate sessions. In short, no more charm. Lest titer: be any contusion, SGA was and re- mains a game to he played by campus politicos, devoid oi any significance or importance. lt ac- complished little before. It will accomplish little in the luture. It cannot possibly do more than set petty penalties {or petty oilenses, argue petty points in a petty manner, and create sell~inflated images of importance tor its officers. By simplifying the game. by reducing the num- ber of players, by making the rules easy to under- stand. the game has lost any challenge. Embroil- merit and experience in practical political pro- cedure was the only accomplishment of SGA. Now we‘ve removed that. The advance or spring at Grinnell usually brings thoughts or the gall Course by night, water lights and — the greatest circus at all — the sen con- vention. Almost as a corollary to SGA’s loss o! charm, it looks at ii there might not be I conven- Klan. In order to have a convention, there must in three people ioolish enough to want the job of SGA president. Seemingly we have no such hufloons. "l‘is a pity. You would think that on a campus or this size and nature, there would be at least three peo- ple willing to play the larce or SGA president. Or perhaps the board scores have gone up so much that . . w David Lighthourne letters to M other I’m sitting in the northwest corner or the North Lounge at the Forum, watching my brand new, Corvette—wheeling buddy Casual stucco dance the Harlem-shuttle with a hippy girl with ratted hair. I'm getting nervous because Casual la imitating the people on the Lloyd Thaxton show, mouthing words to the jukebox and weaving around across the floor, his eyes closed in a transtixion of glory which only Calitomians apparently understand. Meanwhile, the Forum has has sent in goons to check out the noise and one hau just pulled out a balloon used in sobriety tests. “Stucco, we’ve got to split." Stucco notices the unrest in the crowd, mutters, “Like this scene is hurtirr, man”, and dispenses with the unknown girl with the railed hair by murmuring gently, "Take live in the crusher, baby." with a sigh ol reliel l head lor the door. But Casual has just gotten hung up on the flashing ligth warning glrls that the Faculty Committee is literally hallrslarved [or more Victims. I finally drag him out a Side door, safe (mm the stampede, to south campus. Once agatn casual lS oblivious to the activity around him, as he dances down the Slde< wulk pretending he's got a guitar. We got to lind a place to put him up while he's Visiting, so we head tor Langan and look around. One thu‘d of the hall has disappeared. C85 ual is naturally preplexed. “It looks mlghly strange, man, all these cats splitting so sudden.” “No sweat, man. it’s just like u mid-winter Berkeley lelist purge.” Relicved, Casual produces a Barry, God and Mother button and starts testing pads. in one deserted room there’s an electric guitar abandoned 0n the floor. It belongs to a student on a on» month vacation. Casual has round his bag again and tucks the instrumznt under the blankets next to the pillow. “This is it, man, Throw some sand in the box to i can catch my 2's." Latter that night I'm awakened by the sound or large vehicles pulling up outside. instinctively I run for Stucoo’s room in Case we have to hide out in the heating tunnel again. Stucco's asleep with his guitar, but the screams or hostages being dragged down the hall and thrown into the trucks soon wake him up. “Listen Casual, we’ve got to get out of hero {or a while. Will you drive m to Marshalltolvn?” "Sure man, anything but this. A not can't. even lake a nod around here.” Next morning, Casual has his red Corvette packed and ready to roll, The chick with [he railed hair is standing by the cor, painting her linger nails and wavmg a temporary farewell. As we Spin out, 1 say, “Casual, like Who's the daily with the hair." “Tune in next week, man "