SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. March 20, 19b! Scarlet and Black GRINNILL Grimm COLLEGE low- A weekly newspaper 1published each Friday or the col- lege year by the c tinns. Represented f riuue committee on Student Pumice. or nutioiiul advertising by Nhlioual Ad- venising Scrvlcz, luc., college Publishers Representative. in East tom Street. New York 22, N Second C|ass post. age pnid nt Griniiell, lows, subscription rate 35.0“ per school year. 1800 paid subscnoiions. i‘n’i‘s‘i‘b’i‘éss‘ insurers SPECIAL BUSINESS MANAGER ASSOCIATE EDITORS routine EmTOR sronrs EDITOR new PHOTOGRAPHER . EXCHANGE roman . CIRCULATION MANAGER . rrrorreus in... . .iiiiin wolf Humid, Fuxim . .ilni Meiniyre non Hodicme, sue lelur ., Wayne sirngu Steve cisey Tom iiiirinipu ,. snrr rev . . handler Mnnnniin k ciirdy, noun Mcconniic. Arthur Yellin, 'Jmllls nerzog, Aim Axelrod, Glen Ashmnfl, Kris Nash .irrnetie Mill, Connie slrnon, Don iVliiiiey, siinrori Sheumakzr. Lynn neuzler ruorocunrncns com: 51 AK-‘E . ,. John Phillips, Steve silencer, Henry wunelrn sue nrrnulsi, csroi Jensen, cuen Wernick, Ann simonsen, Helen noiscinw, Amy Rossman, kareii summers, Dorm: Kntllalnln, curll Dugan. 1 cc Bani, Kendall Vlcforlne, Bunny nunx Dewey Analyzes “The white lieves that while an individual Negro can be lovable, Negroes as a group are animals,” said the Rev. Robert Dewey, minisr ter of the First Congregational Church in Grinnell, during an interview with 5&3 reporters Tuesday evening. Dewey rec1 turned Tuesday from Selma, Alabama, where he partic pated in voting rights demon- REVEREND ROBERT DEWEY Selma Situation Southerner be-Isafety) finally came over and cut the rope." Dewey described the atmos- phere ”behind the lines" as a camp meeting or homecoming. He said people were milling around and there was a “ter- rific community spirit and fel- lowship." The rope and the bridge have become symbols for the civil rights demonstrators. and Dewey noted, “This movement creates symbols all the time. icenier ironil along with clergy iroin all parts oi the country ioined aims last Friday in what proved is b. an uni County com Home. strations as a representative of the Iowa United Church of Christ Conference. “Another fear of the white Citizens in the South is that Negro emancipation is causing loss of his status and dignity." Dewey continued. Dewey point- ed out that if Negroes are enfranchised, influential men in the Selma community, like Sheriff James Clark, will be removed from power. “Releasing the white man ironi these fears is a major concern of the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference’s non-violent philosophy,” Dewey noted. “In this sense, human rights, not just civil rights, are at stake." Speaking of his own expert ences, Dewey said that he spent his first two days in Sel- mzi manning the line that was led by the “Berlin Wall" rope. “We just song and talked near the rope until Wilsm Bak- uccessiul march on the Dallas 1 am convinced the movement doesn’t precipitate violent situa- tions, but it such a situation does occur, it creates another symbol and feeds the cause." Dewey also participated in the attempted integration of a Selma church last Sunday. Dewey said the minister of the church refused entrance to the {integrated group, saying, “You ‘are making a mockery of our religion," but that several members of the church and other Selma citizens offered verbal encouragement to the group. When President Johnson de- iivered his voting rights mes- sage to Congress Monday night, Dewey was seated near Mars tin Luther King. “The tension of the clay and the emotional character of the speech made the moment of victory over- DEWEY— er (Selma director of public (Continued on Page 9) . powering," he said. “We started ‘ Sieve Shender School for Young Apes There was once, in a farmf jungle, B survival school for young apes. It was a small school, as these things go, but it was a very famous one, and young apes, male and female, flocked to it from all parts of the jungle. The school’s curriculum, ac- cording to its catalogue, was designed to educate the students in all aspects of LIFE. The wide spec» trum of courses offered included such refined ones as “History of Ape Thought" and “Ape Art —- From Ugh to Oobanga," as well as practical courses in jungle survival such as “Lower Order Group Con- trol," dealing mainly with herd psychology, and “Digital Manipulation 222" for advanced infighting with clubs and rocks. However, in spite of the Wide and varied cur- riculum. it came to he felt by the faculty and the students that the school was not adequately prepar- ing its scholars for the REAL THING. When the young apes returned to their homes during vacations, they were impressed by the vast gap between life at the school, to which may had become accustomed, and the Vicious, ape—eatrape chimp race of LIFE in the rest of the jungle. The faculty had long been aware of this problem, and although they themselves were not particularly upset by it, they were some- what concerned for the sake of those young apes who were not destined to become academicians. Some iaculty members suggested the curriculum be expanded to include new courses such as “Ad- vanced Breast Beating” or “Group Cooperation," but this was not what the students wanted. “We can't escape this gilded palm tree by tak- ing more courses." grunted one young ape. "The problem is that when we come here we simply sub- stitute the conmil of the faculty for the control of our kinrgl'oup. What we need is more independence and the right to run our own affairs." Alter much hair tearing and breast thumping on the part of the students and discussion on the part of the facul- ty, it was finally agreed that the young ape had a valid point and the students were allowed to estab- lish their own government, the AST (Associated Student Tribe). » For a time. everyone was convinced that a happy solution had been found which would allow the young apes to learn about LlFE and get an education at the same time. But alas, this happy interlude was only the proverbial calm before the storm, and when the storm broke, the coconuts began to fall thick and fast. A seemingly innocent misdemeanor on the part of one freshman ape marked the beginning of the tempest. One night, during mid-semester exams he was seen swinging through the trees in ihe males’ compound, at a speed well over the pre- scribed limit, dropping coconut rinds and banana peels indiscriminately on the heads of sleepers be» low. it was later established by fellow students, after his apprehension, that he had become de- pressed after “bombing" his exam in lion psychol- ogy and had proceeded to get soused on a quart of fermented coconut milk. being justly proud of their new right to govern themselves rather than hush the incident in order to protect the offender from severe faculty recrlm- inations, his fellow students took him before the AST Tribunal. That august body, after much deliberation, fined him ten couch shells and warned him that in case of a second offense, he would not escape With sucll a light punishment. The matter was considered done with, and the students, pleased by their ability to render JUSTICE, returned to their Studies. However, in the eyes of the FTS (the Faculty Truth Squad, a committee established by the pro~ fessors in order to keep tabs on the AST), the case was far from concluded. In a secret meeting, cone ducted at night in the heights of a secluded palm tree, they decided that the punishment had been too mild and that it was necessary to intervene in order to remind the students who was really running the school. The young offender was subsequently sus< pended for three weeks. Reaction from the student body was Swift “1 coming. The AST tribunal chief lodged a formal protest with the faculty, saying that the Truth Squad had violated a fundamental area of student jurisdic» lion, and furthermore, that the Squad’s very ex- isiniice was a insult to student integrity. The FTS replied with the statement that the students didn't have any rights other than ihnse the faculty chose to grant them, and that “there's no such thing as ‘siudent integrity,‘ ” Still hoping to resolve the conflict through an appeal to reason, the AST issued a rather extensive statement which said in essence that student-faculty relations Could only be based on trust and that Stu— dents could hardly be expected to be responsible when the FTS refused to recognize them as mature monkeys, There was no reply by the faculty at this "me, (Continued Next Week) Shades of Gray Shooting From the Hip By Carl Otis Gray What’s hipness? it seems that hipness implies an awareness of being of your own time and having the ability to communicate it. A hipster is some» one who is aware, very much‘ aware, of what could happen and what should happen in his particular flow of experience. So say the experts who in {his case happen to be The Village Voice, Greenwich Village’s own peculiar version of the Scarlet and Black. Using the definitions put forth and current trends in American student opinion I can only reach the conclusion that hipness is very desirable, extremely glamorous and highly prestigious among this college generation. This is as it should be, After all we are a generation spawned during a world war, weened during an international police action, and matured during a period of hostility whose overt manifestations Could mean total de- struction of our planet. During our lifetimes it is doubtful that we have ever experienced one day when a human life was not taken as a result of international conflict. I therefore assume ihat we have a right and a duty to be hip. Awareness of one's tllne suggests a recognition of ‘rill the social, political, and personal issues that affect us. The ability to communicate suggests an involvement. It IS obvious that it is impossible to lake thcse sintements literally and attempt to em- brace the problems of the world one by one. What is necessary is a certain abstraction, a neat gener- alization that can serve as the basis [or the indi- viduals functioning as a hipster. l'.’ . i It). Whether or not I consider myself a hipster is not in question here. but looking around me l can discern, in this pioneer of the midwestern educa- tional traditions, very few. lf we are aware of the problems we certainly don’t go out of our way to communicate this awareness. Far from playing the sophisticated Easterner in the wilderness of midwestern traditionalism, provincialism, and iso- lationism, I am appalled by our complacency and apathy here at Grinnell. From the success of the Grinnell Civil Rights Group and the reaction to U.S. military actions in Viet Nam, I can only see looming in large neon lighting that obscenity at Obscenities — SQUARE. Let’s face it. We are unable to look beyond the physical boundaries of this institution. Even in our dealings with our own internal problEms we lack the sophistication and imagination in deal with thESE issues in a creative manner. We lack the initiative to take firm stands: we possess a wonder- ful ability to procrastinate and vaccilate. if all these symptoms are merely a local phenomenon, as I am convmcod they are, then 1 suggest we voluntarily quarantine ourselves — apathy is con- tagious. Like apathy, hipness is also contagious - pruhably their only common factors. If other insil~ tutions of similar merit have been struck with III it’s our turn to contract it. With the loss of apalhy should go our own naive conceptions and illusions about ourselves and our society. With the advent of hipness should come some dynamism and leader- ship. Come on, hipness is sweeping the country —— let's get into the mainstream.