Friday. Joouiry TI, l9“ SCARLET AND ILACK letters . . . Anonymous Letter Sets Poor Taste to Verse To the Editor: There once was n man called SAGA Fred Who thought he could fix up a prelly crude spread. As the table was served, the taces grew pale, For .there, right beiore them, lay dead ietal whale: And, as it such a torture weren’t. bad enough. The main course~oh horroi-slewas heel stroganoit, As money is saved, the meals get tlat, Yet, somehow, by miracle, ole Fred gets tat. Though supposedly he eats what he puts out, But we can't. digest it, its sight makes us shout. Even breakfast is a bit of fun With hardboiled eggs that tend to run. And the places they hide all the onions is silly— ln eggs, in baked beans. even two-day old chili. out even that doesn‘t cause quite the twitch As the pineapple slice in the grilled cheese sandwich. Did you hear the poor, ole cowboy who cried, “Sure is lonesome in the saddle since my spinach died."t And when it comes Friday, you’ll see fasting Catholics Whom, Fred insists, can survive on two iish slicks, And as the meatloai is served, the Himalayan explorers all sing: Put enough ketchup on it 7 we'll eat ouytlungl The brownies, thank God, don’t make us sick, But they’re uneatahle without hammer and pick. I see now my verse is becoming a ballad, Perhaps a Saga, or legend, about iello salad, While the tone of this poem may seem rather quippy, liust we eat the oldest tood “west of the Mississippi”? Anonymous wishing to avoid SAGA pro, Student Papers, Politicos, Viet Nam, Dorm Computer Spark Campus News Two summers ago when civil rights leader: in Mississippi diSA covered that one of their volun- teer workers was on the Harvard Crimson start, they urged him to start a paper which would be fair to the Civil rights movement. The Crimson man, Peter Cum— mings, thought the idea over. but then abandoned it to return to Harvard for his junior year. How- ever. he came back last summer to begin such a paper with $32,000 collected from "Eastern liberals," and a staff of seventeen college ialu, Their newspaper, The Southern Courier, is a non—profit indepen- dent newspaper trying to print an honest, unpreiudiced nccmnt of civil rights new: in the South. on July 15, 1965, the Southern Cour- hr began printing in Atlanta. Georgia, a minimum of “.000 cop- ies weekly. Distribution has re- mained difficult in white commun- ities although much simpler on college campuses and in Negro communities. Because of insuffic— ient advertising the paper must rely on private support. “Don't be afraid of [.51. He's harmless, he just likes to flirt" Sc reads a sign on the door or a dormitory room at the University or Minnesota. Seeing the sign, the dormitory's maid had misgivings about cleaning the room. but she finally built up enough courage to enter. When she walked in, a voice greeted her. “Good morning," it said. “My name is LSL I'm a computer. Don't you see me? rm that grey box right in front of you. l'm really quite useiul. Look, I‘ll turn on the desk lamp. (Desk lamp went on.) "Neat, huh? Need some more light? I'll get the pole lamp—just a sec, (Pole lamp went on.) "Tliete, how’s that? Oh, that's [0‘3 much? l’d better turn it off. (Pole lamp went off.) “This room’s a real mess. i suppose i should let you get to work. it you get hUngrY. help yourselt to the marshmallow pea- nuts on top of me, Well, I've got some serious thinking to do. i sup- pose I should shut myself off. Goodbye. See you next week." The computer‘s inventors, frBSi'h men in electrical engineering, plan to use it in their apartment. By dialing different numbers on the computer, they will be able to turn on and Off individual lights, the radio, television, alarm clock, and all kitchen appliances. A backlash of cookies, fnlitcake, blood, and other gifts for service- men in Viet Nam has resulted from the protests against American pol- icy in Viet Nam, Tons of cookies, hundreds of cases of beer. thousands of books, and other items have been offered to the defense deplrunem but will not be transported to Southeast Asia. Also, the recent ”bleed-ins" on college campuses are not be ing used tor Viet Nam. The Ameri- can Red Cross lay: them is no blood shortage, and therefore i! is not pressed for blood. instead. hospitals within the United States are being given the blood. More than 100,000 students on 75 cam- puses have participated in the blood drives. Senator Robert Kennedy of New York has invited a student from the State University of New York at Stony Brook to work in his Washington oitices during the summer and for a week in the winter. The student chosen would be considered a part of the Senator's oIIice staff. would meet wtih Sen- ator Kennedy. and attend commit- tee lieai-ing or floor debates, The University will pay the student’s transportation and living expena ses. This program is already in el- iect in such mayor universities as Brown and Dartmouth who sent 18 college legislative interns in Grinneli’s isolation lauded by Grad To the Edilor: Grinnell is E special kind of school for special kinds_nf peo ple. You have to be a little odd to love Grinnull. For example you have to enjoy walking down that one railroad track, into the barn dotted country side, as much as you like an evening at the Red Onion in New York City, You have in be able to hibernate in the library basement for all of Jan. and rebxs gray days as much as you enjoy plodding the slushy streets or Chicago. You’ve got to like bad coffee, well-done steaks, and luke Warm showers in plugged stalls. You must be able to marry a hook tor nine months running and call the matrimony holy You have lo know how to peacerully retreat with ii few ivory tower profs and some semis bright contemporaries and be hap- py. BUT MOST IMPORTANT, you have to_be able to tolerate, to even enjoy, yourself. For that is what Grinnail is all about. Your self. You spend iour years lucked away in a little corner of town finding oul what makes you lick. There is nothing to deviate your . There is no way to es. cape t, No cars, no bars. no city in which to lose yourself. You ei- ther face yourself on that rich farm land or, like Mr. Schiff and other ex-Grinnellians, you trans fer to another school “to escape an llnpossihile living situation." I stayed at Grinneil, I found out what, I believed and where I wanted to go. in the silences or those long Iowa winter: I dis- covered some rather strange and dear people, Together we ex plored the back pages or some remote writings a i . the far cor- ners or our minds and dreams. My Grinnell experience has served me' well, extremely well. Thus. unlike Mr. Schiff, 1 consider it a privilege, as an alumna, to as sist in the support of Grinnell. May she long live, for the odd ones. Smdy McCIrII'iey Ehierl, ’62 work in his offices in Washington and New York. The three principal editors of Brown University’s newspaper have resigned their position: fol- lowing a meeting with the dean and A discussion of their hoax issue. The issue contained stories of an Advisory Ind Executiv. Commit- tee decision to llinw up in 103 Pembroke" to live offecnmpua on In experimental basis during the next semester. Pembroke is a girl's college quite near Brown. instead of the paper promoting I more thorough discussion of Pembroke‘s residential and social system, the issue has had very harmful effects. Many students ac- cepted ii in the spirit in which it was written, Most faculty and ad- ministration members did not. The Herald has frequently tun hoax issues but none have ever been printed in the middle of De Climber or in such a serious vein un an issue currently under dis- cussion. The issue was su convinc- ing that girls stopping by the dean's office in make applica- tiuns for the off-campus residen- ces had to be convinced that it was a hoax FHOTO CREDITS un storm, un sturcis 5, Joint Phillips, inn sungis uu sums lou Sillt‘gil Purim ‘Fitth Year' Student Describes A ‘Typical Day' at Ahmednagar By DONALD BOGUE Edi Note: Donald nogue is l Travel-Service Scholar spend- lng his ‘Fifth Year Abroad! As many of you probably already know, Ahmednagar College is an Indian college which is located about 150 miles inland from Bom- hay and has a student body of about 2500, The connections be tween this college and Grinneli are quite close, since for the last tour or five years, Grinnell grad- uates have had the opportunity [0 come to this college and work for a year. This year not only i. but also Professor Wayne Denny (phy- sics) and his wife are spending a year here, For the last week or so, I have been debating as to what the best method oi telling you what lndia is like or at least giving you an idea of what I am doing here at Ahmednagar. Maybe the best method would be to give you a run-down on how i spend a day here at this college. Take today, Saturday, November 27th, for in- stance. ln one way, Saturdays are unusual days for me, because ev— ery Saturday at 7:30 arm, I be- come a professor for one hour and a half and conduct a Class for the senior psychology students. I teach an experimental psychology practical (laboratory). During the year the students are supposed to learn how to do twenty-rive ex- periments so that they can per- fan-n them Well on their final elk aminations next March. 50 after a quick breakfast in my room, I went oil to class to try to teach my fifteen psychology students how to do an experiment which tests a person's manual dexterity. i always have a little trouble com- municating my ideas to these stu- dents. They don’t know English very well, and l imow very little Marathi. HOWBVBI‘. after listening to me talk to them in English and then talking among them- selves in Marathi, the students us- ually figur- out fairly well how to do the experiments and how to write them up afterwards. Today’l lesson wasn’t too difficult to ex- plain, so i think the students um dersmnd it fairly well. After my class was over, i went over to the iaculty tea, which takes place every morning at I a.rn. Tea is the most important drink around here, and every good Indian stops work in the middl' oi the morning and in the middle of the afternoon in order to hav. a cup of tea loaded with milk land sugar (just like the American coi- lee break), After tea I went back to my room to bone-up on a little Maia athi (the language oi this region)‘ were my lesson in this language at if a.m. A student is now leaclr ing nie Marathi tor a short period each day, so i have succeeded in learning a few words and phrases. Marathi is fairly difficult because the script and some or the sound- are very diiterent than English, but it is worth the effort in he abln to carry on simple conversation! with the students and the sen- vants. liiiilliiiillltiiiltiiiiliiiiiIItiilliiiiiitiiiliiiilliiiillliiiilliilllltilllliilliiittiiiliu Cut Class — Discuss Religion litiiilliiiilliiiiilliililititlllililliiiiliiiillliiillliiiiliiiillltiillliiillliiilllim At 11:30 one ot my trienao here on campus, a Muslim fellow who is taking education courses at the college, paid a call. He is quite interested in religion, so I decided to cut my Marathi lesson short and spend an hour discussing is. lam and Christianity and the stat. of [hi world today with him, Ad usual it was very enlightening i. a person like me who has never had a chance beiore to know and talk to people of other religiou- backgrounds, At 12:31) every day I go to tilt EATS LUNCH—— (Continued on Page 1) ENJOY A DELICIOUS STEAK WITH AN . . . S. O. B'. 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