Page Two letters . . . ii an. Lecture Raises Dilemma: Which Class Requirement to Obey To the Editor: l remarked with anticipation tiiat Dr. Smith’s tinal lecture was listed -on the social calendar [01'8 pm. on Tuesday. Excellent, 1 would be able to attend . . . but my hopes were untounded; the lecture was actual. ly scheduled for ll am, at which hour 1 had an examination (but l reel that the importance of the class would prohibit absence in any event). Thus, for the second time this year, l was compelled to rorego the pleasure ot a lecture strongly recommended by two of my professors as pertinent to class work, as well as intellectually stiin- ulating. Why does the dean’s office per. sist in scheduling lectures tor ll a.in.7 lllust the conscientious stu- dent he taced with the dilemma of whether he should attend his class or a worthwhile lecture? Were there only a few 11 am. classes, the reasons tor scheduling a lecture at that time might barely outweigh the objections. However, since the classes which meet at that hour number more than twenty, I am sure that I am not the only one who has been distressed by this predicament. it the college tools that the lecture is worthwhile, it should make attendance possible tor all students. Elaine Cook Parent Objects to Journaltsts' Pictorial Display of Poverty To the Editor: l am amazed that ci-innell stu- dents could so invade privacy, so insult human dignity, so endanger collegeconimunity relations as to print the three photographs of urinnell residents and houses in the November 5 issue at the Scarlet And Black in so many parts or our country people are crying ,tor help to get out or impossible situations that it seems superfine our to go peeping into the private lives of people who may be con- tent as they are, Also one does not usuauy take advantage at the naivete ot the elderly. As for the child in the messy backyard, are the students positive that he is less happy than it ll: had a well-groomed yard? Such an assumption, without going deeper, is pretty materialistic. May 1 sug- gest thatthe rive eager students take their cameras into some of the dormitory rooms at the college, it messiness is the criterion of the’ underprivileged, my guess is that they can rind rooms which will tar surpass anything they can rind in the town ot Grinnell. . A parent Steiner Door Sign Indicates Progress To the Editor: William James did an essay called “The Moral Equivalent of War." (The Popular Science Monthly, 1910). Gtrinnell’s Viol. Nam Study Group has apparently hit upon the aesthetic equivalent of war. On a door In Steiner there ape [denied the notice “Revolutionary WARFARE has been puslponed due to CONCERT." Man, that's progress. Paul G. Kuntz tphilosophyi Standard Oil Gives Unrestricted $5,000 Grinnell has received an unre- Itricted gift of $5,000 from the Standard Oil (Indiana) Founda- tion, President Glenn Leggett has Announced. The gitt was presented by v. n. Dolen, a representative or the inundation. “We are placing no restrictions on the use of the binds granted as long as they are spent cur- rently to improve education and are not used for endowment pur- poses," said John E. Swearingen, roundotion president. “They may be applied wholly or in part to- ward research, faculty salaries, libraries, training teachers, oper ating costs, building programs, or any other purposes desired." The gitt to Grinnell is one or 77 unrestricted grants being made this year to outstanding private universities and colleges by the Standard Oil, American on, and Pan American Petroleum Founda» tions. ACS Meeting Grinneil students who spent last summer doing laboratory re- search under a National Science Foundation grant will tell of their work at the student affiliate chap— ter of the American Chemical So- ciely meeting next Tuesday. The meeting will be at 7:15 pm. Scarlet and Black GRINNELL Grinnoll. coLLEG! lawn a tvccxly newspaper published each Friday or the col. ~ cat by the crinncll Committee on Student Publica- . Represented [Or national advertising by National A ~ ionising Service lnc, conga Publishers Rep”: ntatt to East 'lmh Street, New York 22, mt, Second c. ss on age paid at Urluncil. lowa PM“ school year two on islillon nuswbss MANAGER Aosuclhlh EDH‘OR . ollls uulron AlURI: t non lmttl. ‘DnUR cincuution MANAGER , Lllltll m- CHICAGO flL/uEAU PHOTOGRAPHERS . .llm «brain has Alma Axelrnd, Janice Blhl. site baroulr s bsc prion 'nle 53.00 per subscript ns. .lohn wolt Illrold Evsoa . nan Hodtema sreve carry Cynthia linit Paul nradley w. Chandler Monrmon . site ray-tor srurgls, scott Purim, Steve siren-lei Mortu- betray, Pull! nradley, rain clay, Amie mcr, .lefl lien, Jeanette Jllu loetccr, .la Di coev sure nusuvhss s'mrr Mall, Mary tialcnlm, Sue Moestuc. net volnnd, Eleanor raio, Judy srott, vomcmnce, Wayne Stonccl. Su: Baumcr, Dick cliody noisy l-lcrron, Bnrhln Westiitu xaten summon. Susan will SCARLET AND BLACK Wilbur tenks 1 am setting out, lnolishly, to write that which has never been rend. For as long a tilne as men have been able to write, it has been written, yet never read. It is the humblest of realities, so muted and plain that its authority is neither respected nor be- lieved. As a lover's mistrust is the germ of gro- tesque jealousies, so is this unbelier the germ or an. other hind or insanity, an inverse reality so mon- strous and absurd that the most exquisite gesture of the mind is not equal to it. Rationality llees trom ii. the senses are blown out by the overload. To speak to such dealness is tutile. So l am writing to myself, knowing that words were never adequate to this purpose. But we are all mud; we do not read signs oi the times. Words are. now, all we have. 1 therefore confess a bastard hope; that someone will read. [his time. Charles Rutledge, a Small and wiry man nick- named “Sneakers," was a soldier. An intantryman, World War II and Korea. After his name, this was the first. thing he told me about himself, Loothlessly shouting as we bounced in the back at a pickup truck through chilly early-morning mists. i met him that morning in a pit; he was stooped over a shovel, excitedly scraping loose dirt trom a ledge, as it high rank were about to lay a foot there, while above us on the edge stood the foreman, an exconvict, on in- credibly base and brutal tyrant. Al tirst I admired this laborer, who took on the most meaningless task with the zeal of a high school football player. Among these rnmhling beasts he seemed to display one of the more elaborate human attributes: pur- pose. But he was always the same, and the source of his ambition bé‘Came obscure. it battled me; he was drilting in some sort of illusion. This crew had no cause but to waste time, no common objective but 5 pm, no sense of camaraderie. He began to irritate me, linally l despised him. He yielded readily, and with pride, to the foreman’s most in- sulting thrusts or authority. But my contempt tunied to pity, One late afternoon I watched Charles scramble up a dry bank of earth and knew: he was not building a highway, he was lighting a war. These Friday. November l9. l'Ml icnirs' Journal ditches dug for drainage pipe were mockeups of the trenches. Charles had a brother, Alfred. Alfred also had served through two wars. Alfred’s stooping shoulders carried a great burden of Weariness. His face, swarthy and grlmacing, was carved deeply with years of woe. He spoke to me oilen, saying. "Do you think you’re going to get to like it, Willie!” with a comic New England cadence. Alfred, too, was obedient, but not to other men. He was obedient to the impartial advance or destiny and necessity, He spent a week in jail, tor something he didn’t do. He worked quiet and continuously all day. He knew that time goes by no matter what. He were those in- tantry pants, heavy with pockets, every day. I guessed they were as old as the war, (or they were strewn with patches. One alteration late we stood together in the rain; we had been driving stakes inlo the roadbed all day, and he turned to me with a broken smile: “Do you think you're going to like it, Willie!” And again I knew: the simple jest that had preserved the sanity or soldiers {ell dead upon me. And so I remembered, a counselor at summer camp, tall Johnny Nelson. A beautiful Albino, a Billy Budd and an Odysseus, with a jaw that stood for- ward with valiant strength. He wouldn't talk about the war. (He was a marine in Korea; I once over— heard him tell how he watched ten of his buddies lose their . i .) Then one evening the camp director insisted that he tell the campers about his war ex» pcriences, around a campfire. He talked, about starving and naked children, until he began to weep, The little boys giggled. l was alraid the older boys and men were ashamed. Al sunset the flag waitzed down the tlagpole to o bugle call. Johnny stood on the hill and watched, motionless until the flag was taken off the Chain, folded and was out of sight. when we were running again he was still standing, watching. Patriotism? Homage to a torce im« measurable greater than himself, to an unfathom- able mystery and evil worthy or devotion. From these I have learned this about war: nothing in heaven or earth can make it right. A thousand Canadian University let increased its tuition $200 bring- Ca'nadians Protest Tuition Hike, Open Dorm Controversy Rages Most important, however, was students marched on October 29 for increased student linancill aid and lower tuiricns. The students, representing eight Nova Scotia universities, marched (Bur abreast down i two mile route from the Dalllousie Univtzr- sity campus to the heart or Hali— fax, Nova Scotia. Marchers were forbidden by the National Student Day committee lrom carrying pla- cards or singing. The marchers filled the pro- Vince's legislature grounds to hear the remarks or politicians repree senting the government of Nova Scotia and the opposition parties. The Liberal leader advocated an immediate reduction of tuition lees, an increase in scholarships, and an increase in per capita grants to the universities item the ledernl and provincial govern ments. The Nova Scotla finance minister also spoke, but he em— phasized the very limited finan» cial resources of the province al- though [he government recognized education as it gieat public prob- lem. a a u Reports are beginning to come in or other colleges which have raised their tuition [or the coming academic year insolner. Ripan raised its tuition 3200 to bring the total student cost to 32500; the University or Roches» mg the tuition rates for under- graduates to $1900; and Brown University has raised its tuition from $18“) to $2000. tee-i. The president of the University of King's College in Nova Scotia has banned any further teach-ins on the premises or King's College, The president, was Critical of the October 9 Toronto teach-in and its “rowdy element whose main purpose seems to be to conduct a vindictive and vitnpcrative attack on the United States and her ioretgn policy." He banned the teaclrins shortly after one had been held on finan- cing higher education during which students had hissed state- ments pertaining to the retention of some (llllilm tee. a s o On October 23 a group or Am- herst students burned literature being displayed iv volunteers from the Committee on Non-Vio- lent Action. Much of the material burned included pamphlets pio— testing the war in Viet Nam. The entire Amherst community was shocked and enraged by this incident The students have since agreed to pay $35 in restitution. The Student Council censured the burning by a vote or 54, and a faculty committee is looking tun the burning. the lack at student arousal by the act. The (acuity has spent much time condcmming the strident body for not becoming enraged by this incident. The lacnlty at Am- herst is seriously beginning to wonder it it is possible to pull its students out of their present state ot apathy. e e o The survey or open hall hours continues with these colleges: naverlord: s u n d a y through Thursday, 9 a.m.-2 am Friday and Saturday, 9 ram-3.30 am, The school has an honor code requiring all hour: violation to turn themselves lll. Oberlin: Sunday, l pm. — 5:30 p.m. The faculty has the final say over Oberlin’s social code. Reed: Monday through Thurs day, 4 p.m.»8 pm; Friday, 4 pm. -1 am; Saturday, 1 p.1n.~l a.m.; Sunday, l p.rn.»9 p.m. A sludenlvfaculty senate makes all “inlervisilalion” rules at Reed. Yale: Monday through Thurs day, l p.m.-1 am. (on permission of the mdividual’s college mas— ter); Friday and Saturday, 11 am. -lz midnight; Sunday, 11 E.m~7 pm. A council of masters of Yale‘n residlntiai colleges decides Yaic'n Socill Code.