Frid- 'April 30, in! !CARLET AND ILACK fig. Tim. Letters . . . Beeman Sees Intellectual Potential In More Faculty-Student Contact To the Editor: Just today a list canto into my hands that was compiled earlier in the year by the Board ot ite- ligion. For some reason it was never distributed to the student body, at least to my knowledge. I don’t know how the list was compiled or what the circum- stances were that motivated those who undertook making it up, but i do know that in the idea behind its being drawn up is the remedy tor a problem that exists now on the Grinnell campus. Quite simply the list consists of members of the taculty who would \he willing to entertain students. or just talk and discuss with them outside of the classroom. Beside many of the names are listed in- terests that these people have, ranging from Indians of the South- west to astronomy. Freshmen arriving on campus must really feel cheated to tind the sad state or attairs that stu- dent-iaculty relations are in out: side of the classroom. For the most part, the contact students have with their instructors is limited to the three or four hours they spend in class with him or her each week. Somewhere there is a ritt that keeps any further Contact from evel‘ developing. Even in the new Forum one notices immediately two segregat- ed groups of coffee drinkers 7 inc lty and students. The recent serlea of student-few v coffees un Thursday and Friday after noons which were designed to break down this barrier have been [or the most part total flops in this respect. Only two or three taculty members ever show up at all (despite the fact that simul- taneously, large groups of them are paying for their coffee and segregating themselves in a cor- ner ot the grill). Even the few brave souls who do come rarely return. students don’t help bridge this gap either. Too ottcn anyone who is seen talking to a protessor is accused of “lll'owmnosmg” or trying to pad his gradepoint. In cynical society of his peers it can‘t be understood that he or she might really like the man and have a genuine interest in his opinions on a subject. We have some of the finest academic minds in the country here at Grin» noll, as well as a student body selected on the basis 01 their in- tellectual drive, among other things, The two in conjunction with each other could create a real academic atmosphere 7 not one that quits tunctioning as soor. as classes are over on Saturday. For School or Typewriter Supplies Grinnell Office Suppl Across lrom the Porto GRINNELL. IOWA The result could bring some real excitement to this campus and community, now condemned by many as being dead. We must realize that even in the wastes ot Iowa, real culture and intellectual stimulation can he created. and the most satistying way to dorthls (also the cheapest) is simply to let the natural spon- taileity oi the students come in in- torinal contact with the people who get the most pleasure trom seeing this and working with it7 lhe laculty of the school. Bill Beenlan Reichmann Views Lighthourne's S tand, Questions His ‘Enliglltened Tolerance' To the Editor: it has occurred to me on several occasions that David Lightiioiu-nc is a person possessed at a unique and authentic insight. i take it back. David's column ct last week has thoroughly destroyed such il- lllsions, 1 am by taste and knowledge unqualified to pass judgment on the quality of Miss Redpatl‘i’s per- iormancc. Undoubtedly, it was a good one, And ior some it may have been a tiiltilling and en- lightening experience. hut what disturbs me is the tact that Light- hournc assumes that what is ben- eticiai to some is hcneticiai to all. i believe it is possible that there are certain aesthetic standards to which all artistic endeavor must Heavens to Minerva! Good Grief, Galileo! Muses‘ Might Muster Mystic Meaning? To the Editor: Please print the following word puzzle. Although i have been sworn to secrecy regarding both its source and purpose, 1 was also instructed to reveal it to our world- conscious campus. “Reformer Graham chewed good tood two-hundred times bctoro swallowing anything, and Shakers' God a woman unmarried, while Noyes married multiple pertcct- ing race to shock neighbors in W. B. with blend named it No young blood, flower’s sequestered without blossoming into a bell- cnrve distribution; New England Spiritualism. “And yet, there are no wars in Southeast Asia not character- lzed by three parties (two allied, and one outsider) of which two become unallled, one independ- ent: three to two, two to three, and one make tour. Wars are tortile ground, it concludes, one party perpetually open, one per- petually looking, one perpet- ually standing by, a fourth in. evitably coming 7 with no Satls~ taction to any, but only New Eng land griet. So 7 “Havens new can he louiid for snlallrscale AH bombs bursting into Lisaveta colors in a paiviicd sling rocket. Satellites have hat- chet-shaped solar-ray pads to in- lllice chorgcs in man, Wcher weaves stories in used book shops selling rebounded classical 1e ico- grapllers as ersatz French. lndo~ China is in bloom; young sowcrs reap in time their eleven-time loser Briand in seventy year lite like Sanhedrin in Nasser's fer- tile crescent key canal. “Soloman’s (sic) calm. Parasites cut dead babies to prove love of moth ; and Lucretia stands bleed- ing on canvas, circumscribed dag gei- in aura from a bath house across the room, dripping blood periodically. While all this hair pens, the men in the golden hcl- niet depaits trom another scene, from Vict Nani, and heads ior SloaaneLtering. “In sum, rotor-m head and m nibers to create a marriage \r ~tii dying for under the stadium at Chicago, Manhattan iissicn, and be philosophically sensitive to lie terary devices, as well as more potent ones, like Oratory oi Divine Love 7 it’s all small talk in recoil» structcd \Vllliamsliurg to stock puriian strains, colonial Americans starting it all by tcmpcrance — no liquor, no ioiindation for peri- Wigs. “MacBl'ide. and Maude Gonlle’s Child" With that signature the strange cpistlc ends. Could any scholars among us have such cant? Might the nicssagc poi-tend auguries auss here? Oh, Clio and lilincrva and Socrates and ihises, what is to be done? Your sincere intormer, Joel Sltillder Mother's Day GIFTS Cosmetics Jewelry Celebrity Hallmark Carols Pangburn - Whitman Candy FREE GIFT WRAP FREE WRAP FOR MAIL DIAL 236-3t5l GRINNE DRUG S BUSIEST DRUG STE) E 327 -4TH AVE coniorm. On a certain level. what makes good Bach perhaps also makes good Dylan. However, this docs not mean that because i like Bach I must also like Dylan. it happens that folk music irritates me. Am 1 then a lesser person than David? Yet, variance of taste is not the question. The real point is an as- sumption which Lighthourne makes which is implicit but never- theless blatant. David seems to tool that because i am unable to appreciate Miss Redpath’s talent I am a crass and superficial crea- lure. in other words, David ap» pears to assume that he knows something about liie that I do not. Lighthoul‘ne’s column is clotted with a ludicrous irony (it irony can he ludicrous), As a member- or the jean-Jacket generation, Dar vid supposedly prides himself on his enlightened tolerance, That tol~ erance is purportedly hascd on the realization that a person's clothing, economic status and mannerisms, and his taste in music and art are not valid measurements at a per» son’s worth 7 and that aesthetic sensitivity cannot be equated with intellectual or emotional sensitiv- ity. As a man of the world, David should know that appearance is precisely what the word meank that it is only outwarancss. A beard and sandals can hide a mind that is sordid and malicious as well as can the resplendence of Hart, Shaffner, and Marx. So who is to say which evterior hides the honest soul? There is as much mannerisin in thc glib alltlostspro- letal'imls who inhabit our campus as in the “middle-class hedonists,” We all have our little acts to play 7 Dnvitl and 1 as much as anyone. I “cum agree that the Fciiim 7 the structure especially 7 is a useful testament to the tact that all the Phllistines haven't been slain But then i also know some very worthwhilc people who like Ed Sullivan. kichnril ucicliinann Honorary Cadel Colonel Laurie Houdek, junior, Sat- urday night was selected as honorary cadet colonel at Grin- nell. She was named at the animal military ball, wlllcll was spon- sored by thc Grinnell Air Force ROTC detachment. ILO Director To Speak Here David Blanchard, deputy di< rector of the Washington, D C.. branch of the International La< bor Organization, will discuss "The ILO and World Affairs" at a Colfee hour scheduled for 4 p.m. next Wednesday in the South Lounge. He will be a guest of the col- lege International Relations club at dinner that evening. Blanchard has been on the ILO Staff since 1947, Before as suming his present post in Sep< tomber, 1959. he specialized in maritime labor problems at 11.0 headquarters in Geneva. 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