Page Two A Tradition . . o It's a tradition that each new editor a given his first chance at editorial power »— set forth his views of and plans‘ for tlle newspaper. Essentially I'm an iconoclast, a conscious malcontent, and rebel in the face of such a dogmatic tradition. However, after careful consideration of several factors, I have decided to write that same editorial. I came to this decision, by the way, when I observed the ten inch empty space in the upper left hand corner of this page and realized I didn’t want to talk about hall reorganization (and neither do many other people, SGA included), I didn’t want to talk about abolishing finals (I don’t think about finals let alone talk about them), and I didn’t want to talk about student apathy. I just couldn’t work up the energy to talk about that last one. To the point: I don’t think you're going to see any star~ tling changes in the 8&3, John has worked up a pretty good staff, has a fairly smooth operation going. Why should I rock the boat? There are some small technical matters where we will differ. I, for example, will probably use larger headline sizes. Essentially, however, we are in agreement about news papers and so you will see no purge, no great rebellion. What are you likely to see? You are likely to see a great- er interest in schools other than Grinnell. You may see a no- ticeable increase in concern about things that happen outside of our sequestered little Skinner box on the prairie. You may, in tact, find an editor who is quite bored with things that have concerned campaigning editors of the bygone days. I’m not likely to become upset about SGA elections and the like. I might be inclined to be more upset if a program that stood a chance of really doing or accomplishing something failed. Like the Des Moines project — as a random example 0r like the LeMoyne exchange program a for another. Letters . . . Wittgral Says Spending for NSA ls Legitimate Function tor SGA To the Editor: Paul Thurston presented an in- teresting personal appraisal of the Des Moines Project in last week’s see. He implied in his letter, how ever, that the $250 expended _an- nually for Grinnell's affiliation with the National student Asso- ciation and for implementation of NSA programs on campus comes from "money allocated for social purposes." I would like to clarify the exact financial nature ot Grin- neu College’s relationship with the NSA. Using the academic year 1965» 1966 as a pertinent example, of the $2,600 comprehensive fee paid by each Gn’nncu student, $50 was ear marked as an activity fee. From that $50, the Grinnell Student So. cial Coordinating Committee re» ceived 521 {or the implementation of its various campus social pro- grams. The remaining 323 of the activiiy fee was shared by the men's and women's residence halls, the student publications, the roium, the student auditor and the Student Government Associa tion. it was from the student gov» ernment’s total allotment of $1,630, or approximately one dollar aild a half out or each student's activity fee, that the Student Senate de- cided to budget 3250 for Grinnell’s dent money allocated tor social purposes; it came from student money allocated for the operation of the Student Government Asso- ciation. George Witlgral SCARLET AND BLACK Wilbur lenks Friday. December 1|?“ Jenks' Journal The jet airliner is more than a machine. The Con» ception, form and meaning of a machine are in its function; rarely does a machine achieve, like the Pleta or The Divine Comedy, seltvtranscendence, the quality oi convincing the beholder that it is what it is not: stone Mary and the dead Clirist, words a uni- verse. A machine is only as noble and significant as its function. We attribute to a computer, for example. squatting in its clinical and cool surroundings, the ability to “think." It Lherelore takes on (or us a mell- acing humanity, the implacable, lealureless lace of an unearthly usurper. What is the function of the Boeing 727? To trans- pon. passengers from one place to another? Yes, and more. It has, for me, a theological. almost spiritual function. Its immense power and range was devel- oped in order to overcome the perfidinus tyrants that rule the heart: time and space. To leap from Chicago to Boston in one hour and‘ twenty»iivc minutes is to draw near to the annihilation of human limitation. It is [0 suggest that time and space can be conquered in physical as well as spiritual battle, The earth can become a unity, time an illusion. The fan jets thunder, embossed with rimming sunlight, and as the 16,0004011 bird rises from the runway I am estatic With submission. The earth falls away. and only the most iundaniental human prob- lems are visible. Absiracrioils like morality, Value, culture and self are no longer apparent, (or their records in the laces at human beings are diminished to noLhing. I am aware only that the earth is a plan- et, inhabited by a civilization. I can see how Ihat civ- ilization has sketched its presence on the surface, its frail geometry on the gentle and overwhelming illogi- cal simplicity oi nature. I am no longer an individu- al, though i teel the pain of my insignificance. i am spread out over the immense distance, suffering \u‘b tier the paradox that I am both a part of all I see and not a pan of it. For an instant that pain is relieved; I do not exist. I am all that exists, I am the measure of my vision. My senses leap to accommodate it. But my wisdom is inevitably interrupted, perhaps by c stewardess scivlng scrambled eggs or by the disap- , pointing realization that 3 Howard Johnson's insult- ing orange roof is visible lrom 31,00u lee! up. 1 im- agine that lor some who have died in jet airllnel‘s it might have been a maternal, almost perieci death: a soothing return to the immensity. For others, for whom selflessness could not he sustained even by the stratosphere. horriiying. The abruptness oi the changes wrought upon [he mind by these flights irom world to world coiiiounds me. The mind adjusts to the varying significance at experlence as the eye does to changing light. To re. turn after a VESlt With a loved one to a less radiant reality is to be troubled by a certain dinlness of vision. The world is unreal, unsatisiying; the eye is empty. Conversely, to tall into her presence after months 0! separation is to be momentarily blinded, blinded by the significance oi it, Our minds do not or- ganize experience according to time but according to significance. Thus, it is that our whole lives may or hit around a single lovely event, or that a memory may he more immediate than the present itsell. im- mediacy is a function or meaning, not at time. The extremity oi a jet-night renders all illusions trans parent. all realities‘ opaque. 1 had a sale night. When the plane touched the ground and rolled into the flight pier, l was com- pelled, as I often am, [a thank God. Then i waICIied as a small set of gears restored the wing naps to their neutral position, and remembered that this was a machine, that man had made this mythic vehicle. First thanks go to him. Student Opposes Class Segregation, Supports Unstratitied Hall Reforms To the Editor: I have been following with in- terest the discussion of the resi» deuce hall system at Griunell and have been somewhat dismayed that the only concrete suggestion of change has involved an integration of the sexes with a segregation by classes. ‘ To separate students by classes seems to me to be more arbitrary than to separate them by sex. The only rationale which seems to mo. tivate this is the desire Io extend the privileges of upperclassmen, while providing “an apprentice ship to maturity" for underclass- men. in this headlong rush for a For South Anti-Muternulism Seen as Big Problem Campus, Future Generations aff'ntion with NSA. Quite sim- ply. the money allocated for NSA affiliation Llitl not come from stu- better system for the supposedly more mature. the needs of the 1an dcrclassinen seem to have been Scarlet and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grimm". law- A weekly news ipci published each Friday oi the cob lcgc yeci by the onnncll Committee on student Publici- nous Represented for national advertising by National Ad» vertlsing Service, inc, College Publishers Representative. 13 East onth street, New york 22, mt Second class post» one plus] it Grinncll, lowu Subscription me 55M) per school year, lam Amid subscliotioos. “KIM. , , . . . tiusllx' nob rtoolcmc nrrola i-osou sieve mosey cyuinlii umsr . erul uric y _ sue lai or w handler Mollrnnn .llm sturcls, Scott rnrrish, Stove spender Karen Summers. Stun“ ivnl Alon AxleIl, Julllcc aim, siic nirqulst, Manna amt-y, raul nradicy, Prim cuy, Anne Funcr, lcir Hm. lcancne Mall, Mary Malcolm, sic ivlocstuc, Jim merger, Jnxml Poland, Eleanor onto, Judy econ, Dilute Pulucmncc, wiiyne Slcngcl. Suc Daimler, Dick cliaoy . . uetsy Hermu, narrari VL'csitllll bxclmlva EDITOR other or unease . C|RCULATION MANAGER rilnio ’RAPHERS . uusiNrSs sure utruitrbns , copy STAFF forgotten and their contribulion to hall life has been ignored. Integration of the classes has recently been Alislituled on South Campus with a success that makes a return to separation or classes irrational. For every impression able lrcsliman who has been ini- tiated into the evils of the jaded uppcrclass existence, there are a dozen whose contact with upper clnsswolllcn has served to acquaint them with a serious commitment to studying, to soothe their home- sickness, to enable them to discuss ideas in a dispassionate manner. and to cope with the barrage or new experiences, both social and intellectual, with which college has assailed them. For the ini- mature freshman, the uppcrclcss man is a necessary guide; for the mature freshman, she is is neces sary companion. To remove her would be a return to the ilnspeak» able frivolity of Mears and Main three and tour years ago. This is not to say integration by sex or ioinoval of restrictions should be abandoned with the re- iection of segregation by classes. This would be throwing out the baby with the bath water. But to keep the bath water would wrinkle the baby pretty badly. So think twice about the advantages or send ration by class and work harder to find an alternative which would give you what you want most. Karcii Adkinsonl Wolf Jealously Notes Week's Correspondence To the Editor: To the Editor: in recent weeks there has been much discussion concerning the North Campus Problem. Last week President Leggett indicated in the 56:15 that "anti-intellectualism is pretty prevalent on North Campus” and also “there is excessive moral neutrality in the residence hall system." Perhaps, but I do not wish here to discuss this sublect. ltuther, i wish to bring to light a tar more serious matter, one possir bil , so pervasive tb' no one is aw e ot it. one so awful no one dare reveal it—TIIE SOUTH CAMPUS PROBLEA But you say there is no South Chlnpus Problem? Events of the past weekend argue otherwise, Early Saturday evening, a young man appealed to the women of Conterence House for advice on a grave crisis in his lifeiihe care of two young kittens. 1 dare not re- veal his identity nor mine. The incident suggests that the con- sequences or such a revelation would exceed Lhe grotesque hunlilir ations suffered by the males in Genet’s The Balcony. with straight laces but diabolic intentions, these females (I use the term with reservations) in- structed Ibis innocent lad to per. form unnatural ICE that common decency forbids me to disclose. Have these females no heart! Could they not sense the anxieties of iathcrhood this innocent was sulferingl But where were their maternal instinctsl This matter is broader than Conference House: it concerns all South Campus. Do not turn away gentle reader. This inalcise may be repu b You gnl quite a few letters ihimmdamen neck, didn't you? Wm WM: '"llmlifié’nrlifidfi 3.5 gfioa (villa .buW sbn _ l - . . of the anti‘ntellectualisin and moral neutrality on North Campus. but what or antimatarnalisni and perverse morality on South Gain- us'! what kind of mother will the outh Campus coed make? in sur- veying campus life, in the future, we must look with one eye at North Campus mil with the other at South Campus. Certainly prob- lems exist among the men, but among the females there is a threat which endangers future genera lions. Anonymous Student Cleans Up ‘Scrombled Eggs To the Edito Just 50 that, should anyone ever look back on this string of events, it will be seen that there was a stubborn thread of truth parallel ing the more popular version, that at every turn the loud circum- stantialities were met by attempts to state what was actually the case. I'd like to point out a couple oi inaccuracies in last week’s puller. in your ‘Egghead’ story. quoted Dean Thompson as say lg that four students it the Colrlcs SAGA office with eggs after being apprehended by the Grinncll police for doing the same thing ftiptovvn Both of these ‘Iacls' are illcol'recl as slated —— as has been pollllt‘kl out to Dean Thompson. as has been pointed out to SAGA Chuck, us has been [utilcly repeated it is safe to assume that this correction hoped. too — but then, i ‘ Iald’wcassfludl‘il, A HI HWOH m NM, u, u.