Page Two Scarlet and Black GRINNILL COLLEGI .IIMI". low- A weekly news spar Published each Friday or the col- lege yenr by the rinnei Committee on student Publlcr Hons, Represented (or national advertising by Nuionul Ad- verilskix: Service, lnc.. colleen Publishers epresenzauve. lB Ens: 50th Street, New York 22, N31. second class Dost» In pnld n: Grim-ell. lawn. subscription mu $5.00 Del ucnbol year. limo naid Lubscrllluonsi Bob Hodierno I ASSOCIATE mrron OOIY EDITOR ._. spans Ennon FEATURE Enrron EXCHANGE xenon EDITORIAL LIIRARM . CIRCULATION MANAGER onumsmo Asslsnm PHOTOGRAPHERS REPORTERS ,. rnni lndley Libby Plnnwlu _ Suzy will rum Cris: scar: rmnn. Jim Slums. ram. wait chk Chedy, cmry 1mm, runi R. Jones, Ann ximnner. M-ry Malcolm, Kris ann, Libby Pnunwlll, .lnne runsn. .lurly Scan, Linnu Seckekon, Jun \vnuuker Editorial Grass Protest “How far shall we carry this demonstration? I mean are we going to sit here all night and stop eat- ing, too?” From a Civil Rights sit-in in Selma? From a free speech protest at Berkeley? From a demonstration for academic freedom at St. Johns? No, quite uncharac- teristically this question of strategy was posed here on our own sometimes sun-lit campus. The cause of the protest? Asphalt blight. Or as Millard Sheets would have described it, a lack of “cul- tural integrity.” More simply the cause of the demone stration was the start of construction of a new parking lot. The proposed sight for this conflict-producing new parking lot is just east of the already existing Burling parking lot. Yesterday a handful of hard core demonstrators (already someone has suggested that they are being manipulated by outside forces) sat on the Stump of a now defunct elm tree and prevented construction workers from proceeding with their work. At the same time the demonstrations outside were taking place a small cadre of well-trained ex- perts (some have suggested the training took place on a nameless Latin American island country) were conducting negotiations with the administration. Officially the college is taking the position that the demonstrators can do anything they want to make their point except slow up work on the parking lot. Unofficially they are saying that nothing must he done to slow-up Grinnell’s entrance into the parking lot race. "We have a parking lot gap and we know it,” said one official who wanted his name withheld. “What are we going to do, say, if Carleton or Oberlin or Antioch gets ahead of us in parking lot space, How do you think that’s going to affect the uncommitted high school students?” The demonstrators, meanwhile, were making plans for camping at the construction site. “We aren't trying to hurt the college‘s position with regard to the uncommitted high school students,” said a spokesman for the unusually clean~cut student group. “All we want to do is preserve the grass. It’s a moral issue for us and has nothing to do with intercollegiate rivalry.” The demonstrators also speak of the cost of such a program. “Do you know how many tulips you could buy with the money they’re spending on the asphalt?” At cocktail parties officials will confide 7 strict— ly off the record if that they too don’t see the impor- tance of narrowing the parking lot gap. They are quick to add, however, that it would involve great loss of face if we were to pull out at this late date. “We have committed ourselves to being able to accommodate just as much chrome as other schools. We can’t be con- sidered a second rate power.” SCARHT AND BLACK —— Doug McCormac Friday. April 19. new The Grudge Pot l lihally made the scene. I hadn't wanted in. George said u great many amusing, fascinat— ing, lively, important people would be there; no I accepted the challenge of boredom and drove through the quiet village streets to the house on the little hill. Mary took my coat at the door, and I never law it again. I never saw Mary again, either, although she was a nice girl. She had a slight lisp which turned out to he leprosy, and on some weekends Arthur or Morry pretend to visit her at the sanitorlum. We all miss her infectious lisp. George introduced me in a stranger who claimed that the world was to end in 90 days. After he had had his vision of this event, he decided not to shave till Doomsday, and the stubble already made him look like a bum. I sat in a comiortable chair in the corner of a huge, empty room and waited for the inn to begin. The roaring lire in [he screenedflfl fireplace was Cinders by the time a handsome young man hobbled across the rug (in crutches. and he paused in from of me. Silently, i tried in ignore him, but he would not leave. l pretended to awake from a nap and glanced up and said. “Hello, who are you? What happened to you?" “I’m Fred,” he replied cheerfully. “I use crutches to symbolize and dramatize the fact that] am an embrinnul cripple. These crutches represent the psychological disorders, and they serve to demonstrate the need for understand- ing and assistance that all of my type share." “What would happen it I grabbed one or those crutches and threw it HCNSS the room?" I asked, my interest somewhat aroused. "I would fall." he answered Immediately. “But,“ he added, “someday I may lay them aside of my own accord — or maybe I won't. It all depends on the situation — if ii-wiil have some world-wide effect, a dramatic sav- ing gesture or something of that son," He slumped in the floor and crossed his legs. seeming very depressed. “Why doesn’t some- one else join the cause?" he asked Without wanting a reply. “Damnahle sticks!” He flung the crutches toward the fireplace. “This is an age that lacks relevance," said Constance Duggs, as she sneaked up and be gan strangling poor Fred. ' “Gasp' Glul'pl Blah!” choked Fred. He wrilhed on the floor like a dumb eel pulled out of water, and his lace tumed while, then purple. But Constance Doggs controlled him, her long tenticlerlike fingers entwined about his neck. \Vhen Fred was dead, i asked. “Wily did you do that. Constance Doggs?” “This is an age that wants relevance," she replied and commenced strangling me, while Visions of eschatology, like sugarplums, danced in my head, llIIiIllllllilllllllilliiiiiliiiillilliliilllliilllllllllllllllliiilllliliillillllliilllllliillllllllillllllliillllllliilllillliilllllliillllllillillllli Study Finds Protesters Primaril y (unearned Wit/i Campus Problems By ANN KIRSCHNER Recent reports have indicated that across the country, niimms on college students‘ Cull- nary tastes have sparked almost as many demonstrations as has discrimination in the South, and that protests against the war in Viei Nam have barely been more widespread than those against dormitory regulations. The Scope oi Organized Student Protest in 193445, published by Educational Testing Service in Princeton. N.J,, has altered some statistics on the subject. They are based on the answers given by deans oi students at 849 oi the country's 1,000 tour-year colleges and universities, The study Was Wriiiei‘i by Rich- ard E. Peterson. an ETS associate research psychologist, Peterson based his results oil the examina- letters. Loggia Locking T0 the EdilOI': North Campus Arise! An iupisiice is being done. The women were given 15 minutes grace to gel nun [he Loggia Why aren’t an given 15 minutes grace to gel our? The prlnClple is the same. if AWS can give a little grace lol' the women, why can't ihey iur the men? Alan Hanawalt Photos Praised To the Ediiur: l hall: s..n Henrv Wilhelm’s photo 5 nnc exhibit. The range and depth at his walk have iinally been given representation. Photography as a part of [he graphic arts has been somewhat neglected. wllhelm's work is at high proiessionnl qunhiy and should do much to encourage interest in this area. ll is to his and the college’s credit ihar such an exhibit has been presented. Hank Balikov (ion of 27 issues. He found that in all of the issues, no more than eight per cent of the dif- ferent student bodies were involved in protests. The top PIOIESL figure was in response to (lor- niuory rules. Second in line were complaints about liquor rules, or the 849 colleges questioned, 38 per cent reported prolesls over civil rights, but these demonstrations included only six per cent of the students. Twenty-live per cent or me col< ieges had undergone protests about loud, in- VOlVing under 7 per Cent of the students. Less than 5 per cent of the students at 21 per cent or the colleges had demonstrated against lhe war in Viet Nam. Twentyreigllt per cent or the institutions reported protests in the South in the summer of 1964, but only 4 per cent of the stu- dents were engaged in Southem civil riglns work. This is half as many siudenis as par- iiClpaicd m quarrels over dormiroiy rules. “Relatively iew smdenis were engaged in protesting mailers dealing with insll‘uclion, raculiy, and ireedom of expl‘essxon at lhe rein lively iew colleges where such pmresrs were in fact reported," says the Peterson slurly. Seven per cent oi lhe colleges reported pru tests on behalf oi academic freedom for pro- iessors, and 4 per cent on rules regarding con— troversial speakers. Developments, published by the Educational Testing Service, commented that the results oi the study “make clear that the demise of apathy has been exaggerated.” It also Said, “At preseni, then, the much-vaunted strident protest movement seems in be neither a sun- rise nor a conflagration, but only a flickering candle." However, Peterson himself says, “There obviously are substantial numbers of students Willing lo make known publicly [heir antagonism lo existing situations 7 especially those situations where [here is a perceived moral contradiction or hypocrisy. And there is every indication that the numbers or student activists have been multiplying in the past live years," He also says, “The Current surge oi student unrest and active protest must cer- laiiily be among the most significant develop- menis in higher education, perhaps in Ameris can soClety, oi the mid-19605."