has is. The ‘Ad Hoc' Committee Tentative appointments to President Leggett’s Ad Hoc, Committee on Hall Reorganization were made this week. The , appointments now await Leggett’s approval. The three facul- ty members named to the committee by chairman of the committee, associate dean Richard Winters, are Luther Erick- son (chemistry). R. Homer Norton (history). and Henry-York Steiner (English) The students named to the committee byl Jerry Goddard, SGA president, are Steve Kent, SGA president- elect, Karen Lauterbach, AWS Board presidentelect, and Bob Foote, CofHP president-elect. As soon as this committee is approved and meets it will receive from the Executive Council of the faculty a series of proposed changes in the housing system. it is upon these proposals that the committee will act. From these proposals they will make recommendations to President Leggett. The nature of these proposals will be of great interest to the en- tire campus and when they are released it is hoped that the student representatives on the Ad Hoc committee Will make a real effort to consult with the students as a whole about the recommendations. The working of this Ad Hoc committee should, by all in- dications, be a very difficult task. President Leggett, who called the committee together, has committed himself to some sort of change in the housing system. He has gone on the record as saying that “there is excessive moral neutrality in the residence hall system” and that it lacks the “flexibility it needs. Leggett has also indicated that the Executive Coun- cil, which is making the proposals that will be the Ad Hoc com- mittee’s raw material, feels that ”anti-intellectualisin is pretty prevalent on Nolth Campus." 0n the other hand, the student members are just as firm- ly committed to the opposite stands In a letter to the_editor on October 8, 1965, SGA president-elect StevegKent said that “Personally I have no gripes with the present hall’systern and I think there is much to recommend it.” Foote, i_n asimilar way, feels that the present system should be maintained ~‘ and said so while campaigning for CofHP president. How this conflict is resolved should be interesting. i think the Ad Hoe committee should keep the student body posted on the progress it is making. This, after all, is a prob- lem with which we’re all concerned. To Study City During Break ”The Inner City Project is not I social workers‘ convention," as- rcrls Dennis Spencer, cochairman oi the social action committee of the Board of Religion. “The students who participate in the proiecl are not on a mission to clean up the slums. They will be going in order to become ac- quainted wilh the poveriyslricken sections at large ciries." The program will take place' in Chicago, Sr. Louis, and New York over spring break, and Spencer in- dicated lhai people who are inter- ested in the program should con- tact him or Charlene Ellis by Tuesday. Spencer emphasized that sui- dents will have an opportunity to go out on their own in who: he called the “neighborhood plunge." "They will have a chance to really lalll with the people and un- derstand their problems. With all Lhe talk about the ‘secular city' there is a growing concern about the urban situation, The Inner City Project provides the opporniniiy lot students to leave their ivory tower and gain an understanding and appreciation of the problems that face our society.” In the ”neighborhood plunge” studenls can go out on the streets and just talk to people, or get a job tor a day as a laborer and work next lo the people they are trying to know. Spencer told of how two Gi'innellians, posing as a married couple, wenr lrom door to door last year telling landlords rhey were looking lor an apartv merit and talking to the people in me buildings about living condir tions and their outlook on life in general. One church in each city arranges for living accommodations. and while the students Work in a fairly loose framework, there are planned events such as a welfare tour, vis- its to slum schools, and meeiings w i t h community organizations. 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Sii1y\\'ll| scorn l-ui-risli, ioiin Wail Dick cirady. iiili niiwnuy, Ami rnrrrr, Aim ltlrschner. .vuiiy niairolni. Krls Nash, Libby runiiwiu, bulzhiuii Rice SCARLET AND BLACK Doug McCormac A curious question has arisen out oi the ashes, dust and blood of Viet Nam. Those who have grown used to taperrecorded screams, newsreel dismember- menis and daily liveinch headlines are wondering it, and those who can recall the joysome and full- heurted spirit with which America pursued its com- mitments in the great World Wars are asking it. Has America become a nation or lilypanis? Fanatics have long deplored a supposed decadence in morality and courage, but only recently have more educated bigots been arguing the same point. Student prolesls and draft-card conflagrations and other violent acts express oven hostility to the pres- ent war effort, and some opinion polls have indicated that even respectable people do not unanimously consent to our great Leviathan's policies. Such eviv dence lhen suggests that our brave soldiers also would preler not to be in Viet Nam. A Des Moines Register article from Valentine's Day, l966, demonstrated dramatically the degenera- tion from the “Over There!” spirit of WWI to the modern altitude of “go away, unpleasant nasty thing." in the Great War (related the article) the military hierarchy had been so upset by a French offer of licensed, inspected prostitutes for innocent American doiighboys that ihey refused to let Presi- dent Wilson even hear about such a “blatant pru« position." preferring in let the dry rot take ils na- tural toll along with the bombs and the bullets. TD< day, on the contrary, we snicker lewdly and open- ly at the rate of venereal disease in Viet Nam and cynically note the fact that prophylactic manufac< ture is now “essential industry." What has caused the declenslon from former ideaL ism and enthusiasm to present nihilism and weak ness? Prior to World War II, America showed no great desire to create unhappiness in the world, and if it had not been (or Pearl Harbor, our wise leaders would have graciously accepted the occupancy or southeast Asia and Europe and the removal of six Friday. March 4, mo The Grudge Pot million Jews on the principle of self-determination of governments. i.e., any government can determine its own action as long as they do not interfere with our plans. Even unprovoked violence, indeed, was in. sufficient to maintain a natural furor and hatred of our enemy for three years. and so periodic appeals to the loathsome innate character of the enemy had to be made. while biologists have discovered nothing conclu- sive about the relative merits of the various racial and national groups, four district factors gave pl’e» liminary indications that the Krauts and Nips were interior classes. (1) They looked funny. (2) They talked runny, (3) They acted runny, (4) They were runny. The American public did not have to take the word or some oilicial ptopagandizer for these iacis, either, since simpla observations or Kraut and Nip communities within America confirmed them. The weakness of our Viet war effort must be ri- diculously apparent by now. Namely this: There are no Vietnamese in America to remind us or our hatred, to congeal our blood in constant loathing, to foster our outrage lhaz here is one possibility at human existence that deserves to be exterminaleri or expunged like a cancerous blight. Not one Viet Cong shall survive. Then we will blast North Viet Nam back to the Stone Age. And why slop there? The South Vietnamese are no better — perhaps worse tor presuming to our form of govemment — and after they have aided our victory, they shall be thanked with an appropriate nuclear devastation Remember (lo paraphrase the great President wu- son) — the world that is sales: for democracy is one without people. Enough is enough. The suggestion of the proper attitude has been made. “Survival, security, surplus” is the universal hierarchy by which to measure the achievements of nations. and America alone has gained the topmost rank. Let us not render our great attainment of the iinal goal worthless by ignoring and despising the two more basic values. Grace Minutes Theory Not Progress: Reichs To the Editor: Carls Go For 40 (Count ‘Eml Hours C Di Opens a Week—With Closed Doors is it possible to grant litieen “grace minutes” in approximately five in actuality? The rider in the Senate bill indi- cates it is. ii women are given the grace minutes, but must of the loggla doors are locked at 10:30 on weekends, rhe ones remaining open being locked promptly at 12. all the surplus minutes gained in racing the night watchman to Loose are gone. Now, besides main ing lite dull for the night watch» man, not in mention Grinnell's suir sprinters, this idea seems to ,go against the theory of grace minutes. The people needing grace minutes are those coming in late; those coming in late usually try to make Loorc door; Loose door is open later than the rest 01 lbs loggia. if all doors lock promptly at 12, the women may have “gained" 15 grace minutes, but they’ve also lost about half that time by the door locking process. This is progress? Renate .i. Reich! Locked Doors Policy Prompts Questions To the Editor: Not only is the AWS board romping backwards in its grace minutes proposal, but it is drag- ging everyone else with it! In n time when responsible people are striving ior a more liberal policy on women’s hours. the group suu- posedly representalive oi South Campus has come up whh a fine answer: more locked doors' it is mtel‘esling to note ilial for once ‘it is not ilic :iLliiiliiist:atlon mm ‘is per-pelrniing unnecessary i-e. stl'ictions on lhe student boo; but the students themselves. i suggest iliul the AWS hour-d take another look at the amount of freedom on this campus and nsk itself it it is helping matters any. Ami Kirscliner theory and" An expanded open house plan has been drafted in a joint Carleton student meeting. The meeting of the Carleton Men’s League, Woin~ en's League, C.S.A., and me Board of Proctors approved a proposal of open houses in all dorms each al- ternoon from I to 5 with closed doors, extension of hours tn 7 p,m. to 11:45 p.m. on Fridays, and 7 p.m. to [2:45 am. on Saturdays. Dormitories may also choose by a twothirds vote to have an extra open house provided they give 2 list of signatures lrorn that dorm to the dean forty-eight houis in ad- Vance. The proposal was submitted to the StudentrFaculiy~Administration Council for discussion a week ago. ii the council approves the pro- posal, lt will be submitted to the Faculty — Administration — Tnlstee Council for serious consideration and perhaps modification. An amendment to the proposal providing the “option lor earlier closing hours on a given open house in an individual dorm basis" removed the opposition of many girls who ielt they would be incon- venienced with the extended hours. No WEEKEND HOURS The principle or no hours on weekends for senior women has been approved by Coe’s Srudeni Affairs Committee composed oi iacully members. The AWS-spon~ sored proposal was approved by a unanimous vole of the committee; details will be Worked out later. Coc's Dcan oi Women hopes to pin the plan inio eilect in lime for. its spring mm. The college only‘ needs lo iiiiri a proctor to be on duty between the hours of 1 am. and 6 am on Saturday and Sun- day mornings. The idea of keys for senior women was suggested as an alternative but was rejected by the AWS board bclore their proposal even reached the com- mittee. REFUSE T0 AID DRAFT A petition sponsoied by Antioch's Students for a Democratic Society urging that the college refuse to cooperate with the Selective ServA ice System in ranking male sui- dents has been presented to An- tioch’s Administrative Council. In an SDS-sponsored meeting students were told that uic college would be acting “as or harm manager in n slaughter house" in giving inlor— mation to local draft boards. in presenting the petition which contained 186 student signatures obtained over a [our-day period, an SDS member demanded ihat the college make a public state- ment opposing Uls. policies in Viet Nam. Several members of Anti- Dch’s Administrative Council ex- pressed doubt that they had his authority to decide a college posh lion on the war noting that even it they had the authority, approwil or the Board of Trustees would be necessary. PROIEST ART REMOVAL Seventy Cornell s r u d c or s marched a week ago during a inc. ulty meeting which was consider. ing silideni protest of the reinuinl oi drawings irorn Cornell‘s Com- mons. The drawings by Bruce cm,“ 'I RUM prong-r, (Continued on Page 4)