Page Teri SCARLET AND BLACK Friday September s. [965 >Wa|l (Continued trom Page 9) wait upon it and protess to be its servants. As i have said, i do not anticipate the demise of the liberal arts college Within foreseeable future lut whether or not it will con< hide to be an eflective in- ltrument of higher education, dequately iuliilling its unique ole within our educational sys- m is quite another question, no one I think that each lib< ral arts college in the country ill have to answer in its own {lay With whatever talents and inlightened sell - Interest it has available to it. It is here that or concern for the college as : community enters in, ior it is only by the combined inter- st! and “lot“ of students, faculty and administrative staff working eiieciively together for the common goal or educational excellence that will give vital- ity lo this particular education- al enterprise and justiiy ito ex- istence as an institution. Bigness is no virtue unless tllat size is reflected in the research facilities 0! the inst-i- tution’s library holdings and laboratory equipment and not just in the quantity ot student IBM cards in the registrar'l oliioe and the number of fac- ulty and start on the treasur~ er's payroll. Nor is smallness a virtue, if all it can otter the student is smaller. more uni« form residential halls, and [ew- or faculty and fellow students' names and faces to recognize «in the opening weeks of coir lege. berkeley, Michigan and WAYNE’S STEAKHOIISE "the Rox' ' food - beverages steel ks Next to the Theater JUNIORS cassec Junior '5 globo‘ circling stepein dress‘, will light up your ‘ wardrobe of detail and a sense of perfection. Beautifully stitched and buttoned. 100% Wool Double Knit in Orange, Blue, Olive, Brigs. Sizes 5.15. ony $20 VIRGIN (A’s..- Wisconsin and a few other large state universities, how. ever, have known how to uti- lize bigness so that it has corp tributed to educational excel- lence. we who as iacully, students or administrators at Grinnell College have committed our talents and/or a sizable part of our tather's salary check to the small liberal arts college must in the same way try to utilize our smallness so that lt may contribute to educational excellence more effectively and imaginatively than we have so far done. Or I could cite the example, last tail, of an attempt upon the part or some students to establish several small dISCuS< sion groups to deal with the Viet Nam question in which in each group there would be joint participation oi students and iaculty representing sever- al different areas of concentra tion. This was an excn‘lng idea, for we were to deal with the most pressing and controvers- slal issue on the contemporary scene in a far more education ally constructive manner than by picket lines or armbands, however sympathetic i may be to those terms or protest. The groups were iormed. an elabor- ate bibliography was compiled, but then the faculty members became involved in their regu- Iar teaching assignments and committee duties, the students tound themselves irantically caught up in the regular roue tine oi papers, lab reports and examinations. There was no one to push the proiect, and an important educational idea died aborning. In short. we have not eliec~ tively and imaginatively made use of our smallness to my mate a liberal arts education. Our failure is not for want of ideas. Pi-oiessor Magee has tor the last year and a halt pro moled the idea of inter < dis- ciplinary seminars in which at least two iaculty members, representing dlflerent dis - pliiies, would conduct a semb nar for from ten to iitteen up< perclass students on such top- Some people say iliey wouldn't walk across his sheet on our pix- Ia. Others say ilrey wouldn‘t even go to lheir lounges for it But you don't have to H we‘ll deliver to ice as existentialism, race rela- tions, or the problems or new developing nations in which an inter-disciplinary approach would quite obviously be the most eifectlve devise for deals ing wrth the subject matter. Faculty members participating in these joint seminars would, of course, receive full teaching credit for their participation. Protessor Alan Jones, recently returned irom the University or Sussex, has proposed to me the possibility ol combining the traditional American class- room and the British tutorial situation by which experimenta- tion and variety could he intro« duced into the routine semester course as it now exists. “Grinnell, our catalogue says and in italics so that it cannot be missed, “is a small col- lege." But smallness, as Presi- dent Leggett has said, is no virtue in itself. There is Very little educational signiiicance in having only lzoo as opposed to 2000 soudents on a college campus. But smallness does begin to acquire educational significance it we can say that there are never more than twenty students in a single class section What my colleagues and I are suggesting is, of course, expensive education, but Grim neli is already expensive, We would I think find it easier to justify a somewhat higher tui- tion than the present already high tuition. it by so doing we could more effectively utilize the community lhat is the col— lege with all oi its possibilities for experimentation and the ex- change of ideas. Finally, as an essential part of this idea of communitas is the necessity for an accurate. rair and even critical presenta» tion to our alumni and to the world at large through the various publication media of the college as to what we are doing at the college now, and what our plans and aspirations for the iuture may be. This requires the closest kind or cooperation between students, faculty and administrative start. 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