SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. April IS, ”A! Scarlet and Black GRINNELI. COLLEGE Grinuell. lawn A weekly newspaper publishzd each Friday or lhe bul- lege year by the Gnunell columns: on Studznt Publica nous Repruscnlcd loi imunnul advenismg by National Ad» ionising service, lnc., Codes: Yubllshers neprcsuumuve. lb East sum Street. New York 22, NY. Second class posi- nge paid at Grinncll, (mm. Subscription nts $5.90 Del school ymr. lEW mid subscriptions, lob Hodlema Hnmh‘l rusou .Alan Axelmd Mmhi lurIuy Slevz uuszy Aime l‘lmr Paul nraalzy Libby Plunwlil suzy Wlll nusmzss M En ASSOCIATE EDH‘OK CDPY EDITOR . SPORTS miron matron: :nrron . EXCHANGE EDITOR EDITOIIAL mam] CIRCULATION MANAGE! Student Ideas Sunday afternoon we will inaugurate a new leader for Grinnell. In his inaugural address President Glenn Leggett will tell the college that it is time for a ”reaf» firmation" of the sense of community and that any break-down in communications that may have typified Grinnell and other campuses in past years should now come to an end. Leggett will say it is time for the stu— dents, faculty, and administration to get together and solve these problems. In recent weeks we’ve had several occasions to talk with President Leggett about the college community. Most recently it has been with regard to our editorial policy. Leggett seeks a more constructive policy from the 58:3; he wants to see us making policy suggestions for the college. We’ve been reluctant to do this. We‘ve been more willing to limit ourselves to a critical posture, offering our opinions as particular cases arise. The reason we have chosen this stand is that it has seemed to be more effective for past editors. The record of willingness on the part of the administration to react to student crit» icism has been far better than their willingness to re— act to new plan It is easier to dismiss as “impractical at this time" a constructive proposal than it is to an- swer a criticism of an existing but poorly working policy, It is our opinion that in recent years at Grinnell the effect of any student-promoted proposal has been little. The conflict that Leggett will speak of Sunday has driven a wedge between students and administra- tion that created on the part of the students a suspi~ Cious, hyper-critical attitude toward the administration. We hope that when Leggett speaks of more and closer work with students he means that the students’ opin— ions will not only be sought more but considered more than they have in the past. If this proves to be the case, if President Leggett can bring about a better working relationship with the students then he will have accomplished a great deal. But even with better working relations. the pri- mary responsibility for creative leadership rests with him. And while it is good to know that any constructive and thoughtful proposals that students may present are going to get fair attention, we think that it is likely that students will continue to look toward the presi~ dent’s office for the new ideas that Grinnell needs. And Student Praise It’s not often that we take this space to applaud an act by the administration. But this week I think we’ve witnessed an unparalleled act of broad-mindness on their part. Thursday morning an art exhibit was hung in the Forum. The exhibit was created by photographer Hen- ry Wilhelm, co—editor of the Cyclone. A few of the pho- tographs aroused a question of propriety in some cir- cles. Some went so far as to have portions of the exhibit removed. When confronted with this conflict, however, the administration took a bold, strong, liberal, and high ly enlightened position. They had the removed photo— graphs replaced. It is a promising sign to see this alti~ tude on the part of the administration. Doug McCormac The Grudge Pot i was quite enjoying my dinner last Friday, having saved the plumpest Shrimp fur lasl. when as I eased my lurk into the lender mor- sel a muted scream violated the conviviality of the, Quad. Piteous of some, as-yet-anohy‘ mous girl being frightened from he: meal, and angered by the Wretch who would have dared to do such a deed, I looked anxiously, bul with sympathy ready in my deepvblue eyes. about the table for that pale, tearrstn'cken, nauseous grotesquely that — only seconds before — had been the lace or a pure and Charming miss, Much to my dismay, alas, I perceived only empty chairs and slaie smoke arising lrom cigarette butts, for my sometime, meal-time companions had not shared my sensitivity to the delicacy and complexity or victuals, nor ever had known the necessity of slow gunman- dizing. Horrors! Behold - it must have been the shrimp who had called out. Guiltily, secreA lively cramming that daleclable little dainty into my shirt pocket —- grease stains spreading like ominous blots of sin — I hastened to the privacy of my apartment, pulled the curtains, and laid the battered crustacean upon my desk. What perverse, primal manifestation was this? "Let it be known in lhe world," I heard the shrimp say, solemnly, puiulully, “that l was filed in deep fat — mere Wesson Oil — as a living Sacrifice lo artificiality and sham, The greasy eruptions and violet pits that decorale your youths’ faces are the hideous signs or the degradation to lollow." “What can i do?" i asked, falling, lying prostrate, grovelling, flapping my limbs in lu- lilc abandon over my carpet (which is of a miller expensive sort that cannot stand ma much of such wear). “ls this lhe end? A pmg» ress to nonexistence, a twelve-line sonnet, a race where the, horses gallop off into invisi- bility, non-nuclear devastation and annihilation. a meaningless hollow silent scream — is this civilization?" “Tell lhe world," said the shrimp. “Tell them what? What?" But my roommate, proud, haughty. dis- dainlul and free, strode past the trembling posture of my body and lilled that plump shrimp in his lips and in two bites devoured it. I awaited the carbuncles and boils to seep from his pores like dirt from the end of a worm, but he only smiled and asked me why 1 was sleeping nu me hard llovr. 0h, bitter dis- illusionment! False tale! What a promiscuous whore you are. Before the mirror, I saw the small red head at a pimple assert itseli upon the whileness or my face, Letters . . . S. C. Problem To the L Im‘: “We've given up the lhoughl as doing any lhlhg about the South Campus Problem,” ad- vised President Glenn Leggett last January (5&3 Jan. 21). Holy intellectualism, Batman, there is a South Campus Problem! And i: would seem by implication that it musl be worse lhan the North Campus Problem, be impossible lo define. and more rampant if the President, the student deans, the Ad Hoc Committee, the Executive Council. the Faculv iy Committee on Student Affairs, the AWS Board, the Cofl-IP, and the Senate huve joini- ly thrown in the towel. Never let it be said. lhough, that the men of North Campus can 0ilt~pl0l>lEm the women or Soulh Campus because we have the right lu have jusl as many problems at the same magnitude_as the other end of the campus does. in the light of unequal publicily, South Campus has been grossly overlooked when we indeed have our own problems. We feel that the SCP does not primarily stem from the present hall System. but rather largely as a result hi the bases of many fe- male relallollslllpsnThese bases Consxst maln- ly of unwrilten reciprocity agreements among women to promote each otliei"s boyfriends and sacondly, a guarantee oi companionship because few of us enjoy Sitting alone on a (lawless Saturday night. Consequently. a group of girls congregate wallowing in Com- munal sellvpity instead of attempting lo ex- plore the mean' gtul possibilities of inter- female relalio s, Women don’t seek Out other women expressly im- lhese ends. but what good are “cool" boyfriends and other such status Symbols without other women around? This type of relationship arises (mm the unavailability or reluctance of |hnse versed in other topics of conversation to en- courage ihlelleclual enthusiasm. These slalemehis, we believe, generally re- fleet |he attitudes oi the less mature — re- gardlcss Df age or classification. Freshmen can beneiil imm living experiences derived mm a heterogeneous group or uppeuclass women; conversely, upperclnss women can benefit from the genuine intellectual zeal ex~ hibitcd by some freshmen which can as st us in defining our goals, Separating lresh. men women wilh access only to selecled up» pcl‘class women would deny them accessglo a \lidcl', nlfll'e diver ilied group — assuming that lliere is diversification in numbers at Grinnell. riom olll' experience, freshmen wo~ men’s halls have stunted most forms of in uivulual growth and have lailed to produce anything beyond superficial trivia which most of us remember as freshlne lsn'l him a more realistic picture bl anli- lclleclualism on soulu Campus? We have youthful imper- leciious, and we breed trivia and anlirlnlel» i l lectunlism by permitting these forces to re- place informal exchanges of ideas. Optimism cally, the mature college woman allows her- self I healthy amount of trivia and escapism but also realizes that the importance of at taining Ind fiaintuining outlets for outside of class intellectual stimulation. Some fresh- man women can achieve this without living experiences wilh upperclass women, but whv compound lhe already prevalent by isolating ireshmen women geographically? Why iso- late upperclass women from the many cun- sti‘uctlve freshmen influences? Anti-intellectualism on South Campus, as we have defined it, is more than a reaction against Icademic pressure. It flourishes and proliferales in an environment which affirms consistent banalities. Amidnlellectua 5m, then, is the absence of much of the potential meaning accessible to intelligent persons. lil- stead of altering the hall system, each one should decide Whether we want to continue supporting trivia, which can discourage fresh- men, or be of some Value to them. ’l‘romonveutm La Celestina B. All): Mother's Advice ED. NOTE: The following is a Letter sent to a Gi'illnell coed by her Mother. Tile daughter asked to have it re-pl‘illtcd. That powerful emotion you described as “Ieeling horny" is the dark, potent, whirlwind force of the unconscious. And your whole liie depends on what you do with it. It must be used. ll will not be suppressed. It can be drained on somewhat by piecemeal satisfac- lions — sex. “kicks," physically exhausting exercise 7 the whole range that the Greeks provided [or in the Dionysian rites — but u 13 hot ilseli a need for any of these things. It is the creative energy of the universe. our drive, even, is immortality. It has no morality of its own—only . power lo express, a restless seeking to fulfill. it we feel it strongly, dear heart, we must find something big enough to work at, that is worthy of his power. For ii We do not give il meaning and threw tioli u will turn on us and destroy us, or we will spend a picirul life merely trying lo drain it off. You have this creative energy and power very strongly, dear Daughter, uud you will iiud a work lo du that harnesses it, Ind turns it to creation, to beauty, to love. But it is more universal than the kind of love you can express for one person 7 lo pmli‘ all that energy illla one person would overwhelm and destroy the poor guy! N0 — it is something far hevond that, Something we share with God — or at least, something fundamental to the universe which we can use with God’s help lo share in Ills cl'ealivo lile.