'lgo Two

The Fees 60 Up . . .

The tradition wasn’t broken this year, and students

returning to Grinnell next fall will be $130 closer to

reaching the magic $3,000

comprehensive fee (which

ought to be reached by 1969-70 if the present trends

continue) .

Last week we argued for a guaranteed compre—
hensive fee at Grinnell, a plan now in effect at three
Midwest Conference schools — St. Olaf, Coe, and Be-

loit.

The plan was discussed by the trustees, just as it

has been discussed for the

past several years, and re-

jected because the present system makes budget plan-

ning easier.

It has been suggested that guaranteed fees are of-
fered simply as selling points by some colleges and that
they offer no real advantage because students are then
paying according to four-year projected college costs,
instead of one-year projections.

But sometimes sales gimmicks have side advans
tages. The added advantage to guaranteed fees would be
a lessened chance of mass exodus which might other-
wise occur at schools insisting on reluctantly tacking on
many unpopular dollars to fees year after unending

year.
letters . .

Student Writes of Sgt's letter:
Must Remember Such Views Exist

To the Editor:

i enjoyed the ietlzr of last week
based on T/Sgt. Ginnutsos’ editorial
and appreciated receiving this ex»

i-ession oi a viewpoint that rare
y is heard on campus. No matter
how much one’s opinion is opposed
to the sergeanl's, everyone must
come to realize that such opinions
do exist and belong to intelligent,
lane and successful lnen. All living
opinions must help us build our
final answers tor the present world
tituation.

l was somewhat disheartened,
however, by the scrgeant's own
lack oi understanding or the stu-
dent liberal “opposition." since he
has been overseas so long, though,
I can sympathize somewhat with
his disso ' 'on irom the modern
American idiom and currcnt p0pu~
lar intcresls. Thus, no one will dis.
miss him for being a tow years be.
hind on college lads, (“Telephone
booths“ ‘ i read about them in
high school.) ”Girl‘s barracks” al-
so might be a suitable synonym
tor the Quad The sergeant. in
Lruth is deeply committed to his
military lirc.

The good sergeants language,
however, is not wholly that or a
just appeal based on sound rea
zoning; certainly, it is not likely
to persuade those with even a
slight inclination toward “The Coir
legiate Fringe" to adopt his 09an
tons, No one _ especially a college
student a enjoys being called an
intellectual midget, a bourgeois
bore, and imbecilic sloth. and a
“cutie” in such a short space. Al-
though these epithets might have

 

delighted his friends with paroxy-
sms of mirth, they are not the kind
oi words that promote free com.
munication.

The journalistic sergeant alas,
becomes so carr d away by his own

McCORMAC—
(Continued on Page 5)

SCARLET AND BLACK

Wilbur lenks

A pale ghost of an undergraduate, one ior whom
the thread of inherited responsibility had become so
thin as [D be lost in the fabric of the present, alien-
aled originally by a barely perceptible speech de-
fect and a pair of nearly globular eyeglasses, later
by the human condition, sensed with mounting dis~
comfort that the unenrolled students and poemless
poets or Harvard Square had stopped providing him
with his meagre ration of their common, though
unspoken, belief; that human being need only be to
mean. Because he Was around twenty-eight. and no:
getting any younger, because he had watched the
philosophical season or the undergraduate genera-
rion change around him, and because his manhood
seemed to have gone lhe way or his identity, he re—
solved to make one small concession to what was
now his pride, was once his despair, and to seek an
alternative to anonymity. So one altemoon he picked
up the Current issue of the “Broadside," or perhaps
an imported copy of “Blues News," and lhumbed
through it, unadmitledly looking lor lhe names oi
lost Delta reiugees. He had to do something, and he
did: he went out and found Son House.

Perhaps he had never forgotten the gangling,
simple and unassailable Royal Dam in “The Prairie
Years," or this evocative and poignant transiorma-
tion or the New Jersey landscape or high tension
lines and industrial Smokestacks into a Vision of pure
longing by the hoarse complaint of a saxophone on
the car radio. AS we define the nature of all time
according to one lucid instant (mm the past, so he
struggles to recover the now vague images of that
time, to make them relevant to the present. For what
are ieelings but images at the present, given mean-
ing by memories of the pasr and iinaginlngs of the
iuture? Past and iuture pound on (he dour, Dilend
our privacy; we should admit them, ask them to
make themselves at home, and invite them [0 keep
quiet.

A curious admixture oi cowboy, laborer. and in-
tellectual, he ambled to the trout and methodically
seared himself at the microphone. He was tall; his
knees soared in the middle distance. He seemed to

 

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Jenks’ Journal

assume that we were aware of the deed that he had
done, and that we knew it was somehow significant.
He was a skilled and ludiclous antiquarian. “If the
man doesn’t want to sing again, then you’ve got in
leave him alone,” he said His diction was painstak-
ingly exact, disturbed only by a nervous rush or air
in his throat Words like “catharsis" and “inter-
loper” came out with speech-clinical. mellculuusnessv
campus words, which both established his authority
and betrayed his madness.

He documented and praised at length the phenom-
enon he had succeeded in isolating, who stood in the
wings, Chording. But then he was totally eclipsed,
probably for him the most satisiying moment in the
profession he had invented for himself. It is [his mo-
ment that interests me; for San House was a man
authentically possessed by the devil. Humility had
come to him through an old suffering, told and retold
within him until it had been kindled into myth. The
old blues man apologized ior making a spectacle or
his necessity, tor having to let the demon out, if only
[or an apocalypic forty-live minutes, then cautiously
slipped the slaii out or the doorlatcht The iirsr symp-
toms appeared: hands iurtively tuning and plucking
the strings, voice deeply stirring. eyes closed and
mind calling up images or uncontrollable immenslly
and uniathomahle misfortunet Then he began, and
every heave and gasp for breath. every drop of
sweat, every cell in his body was committed to the
blues.

How is it possible for the harrassed intellectual
to find his Calling in this Old raisin of a man? Be
cause in this old blues man lhere is the nagging and
unrelenting awareness of the human condition, and
in his iace the torture and agony of a mere man
Whose mind and body must contain a universe. How-
ever unsophisticated in his mode of expression, it
moves him totally. it requires the full attention of
his mind, body, and spirit. His wisdom is simple and
powcrrul, lull oi paradox. But ior us, the important
thing is that he understands that moment that es-
caped us, has lelt that longing lor horizons; he brings
them back to us, brings back the painlul and joyous
certainly.

 

Curtains Go Back

Because 'A Rule Is a Rule Is a Rule'

To the Editor:

We live on the north side of the
second floor oi East Norris hall.
Our view iaccs away from the unm-
pus onto the countryside which
is quite beautiiul, However, our
view was obstructed by the pres-
ence of curtains. No matter where
we moved them they would still
block some part oi the View. So
we took them down.

Three weeks later we round a
note in our room Saying that we
had to put them back because of
the Head lionsckceper's orders, in
conferring with the ilead House-
keeper on the subject we were
told that we would have to put
the curtains back up because “a
rule is a rule . . a rule is a rule '-
We were told that in any society
there were rules and that tor the
same reason one could not go
speeding along the highway at 90
miles pcr hour we could not take

 

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Up in East Norris

down our curtains. We \vcl told
that it was a matter of p nciple.

To the Editor:

The text cl a letter to the edi~

Iowan Launches Own Protest
To Biased Protest Coverage

in: is being pushed by the Students
for a Democratic Society. I rlitlll’l.

we replied that the principle was
diiiercnt since we were not en»
dangering anyone. The l'est of the
arguments oi the Head Housekeelr
er were too involved for our minds
to tollow, Anyway, the next day
two maids came and put them
back up.

We believe [hat a rule which is
absurd should cease to be a rule.
Rules for the sake of rules dinn-
nish the value of significant ones.

Jim Arieti
David Gibson

Profs Guests at Coe;
Kuntz at DC Meeting

Paul Kuutz (philosophy) and
Chaplain Roger Eldridge ap
peared as guest speakers at the
cue College Fine Ans Festival,
held Nov. 5 in Cedar Rapids.

Kunlz also attended the 23rd an
nual meeting oi the American So-
ciety ior Aesthetics in Washington,
luc, October 2730 and served as
'a member or the program com-
mlltee which selected papers pre-
sented at the National Gallery at

 

 

tor that the Des Moiues Register
did not print was .

The news media gave extensive
coverage to the antirwur demon»
strations on Oct. 15th and 16th,
but the reasons why the students
dcmonstrated were largely ignored
by the reporters.

into that news vacuum came
the news that organized drait dodg-

(tity Provide Shelter?

To the Editor:

Regarding the caption under the
picture at the top of page l2 in
last week’s scarlet and Black, when
did it bccome a city's responsibilir
ty “to provide adequate housing
tor all its citizens”? l have been
under the impression that it is the
individual’s (or individual fami»
ly’s) responsibility to provide ade-
quate housing for himself. If I
am in some way misiniormed. will
someone please enlighten me?

Jan llale

Applicallon letters {or those
interested ln attending Le
Moyne College during the sees
and semester are due in [0
Dean Richard Winters by Mons
day, Nov, 15.

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see any correction noting that ll.
was simply the proposal or one
man that was not adopted by llle
organization,

The Register put the text or a
leaflet on draft dodging an the
hunt page and gave the Chicago
Tribune's explanation that it was
being ”distributed by lcllist
groups." Neither the Register uor
live larger metropolitan newspap-
ers that I examined carried a sub-
sequent UPI story that the leaflet
was the work of an individual who
said it was fl “satire on [he anli~
dralt movement." He Said the o A
flcial reaction showed “a terrible
lack of a sense of humor.”

Any officlal from President
Johnson to the mayor oi Deep
River. as well as anyone wearing
a uniiorm. could get his views
published in the papers, oitcn at
some length by denouncing llle
students. Arid the students re-
mained sitting ducks with no op-
portunity to get their side ol the
issues before the public.

A faculty member at the Umr
versity or Iowa reports that the
demonstrators he knows are a»
mung the brightest students at the
University. At the Unlvcl‘siy of
Chicago, where high intelligence is
required of students admitted, a
poll showed 55 per cent of the sin»
dents oppose US. policy in Vict
Nam and favor American “rill-
dl‘au'al. A study by a British sociol-
ogisl of olher demonstrator the
llnntigned Frcc Spccch .llortmout
at Berkley, (Salli, round that it
landed to attract the more intelli-
gent students.

A sensible man \iill Wltlllltvld
lcritlcal Judgment of the tlemulr
istrating students unless and until
lllm lit‘ws media present their side
of the issues.

 

winter col-nily
lut. Vermin