Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Editorial . . . Rules Changes In the short months of its exis— tence the new AWS Board has made lome notable strides toward bring- Ing a degree of reality to the an- cient code of rules which protect and smother Grinnell womanhood. The recent Quad dress rule change and the new grace minutes program pro certainly constructive steps in the right direction. But they are on- ly short steps, and there is much which must yet be done before rules will reflect reality. It seems, however, that some- thing else must come before the rules themselves can be changed. Further rule changes, if they are to be of any value, must be major ones, so major that they require a new and more vital conception of what Grinnell is and ought to be. In short, Grinnell life must begin to reflect the kind of maturity which the rule changes will re- quire. To a large degree this maturity is already present. What it requires is simply a good public relations effort to bring it into focus and a good theoretical study to provide in writing the rationale which al- ready exists in mind and action for many of us. But while maturity is evident there are still too many pockets of irresponsibility on both campuses. There is still too much of what one administration official has called the "damn foolishness” of prepping, There is still too much condoning of objectionable drunk- oneas and obscenity. It is up to those who claim ma- lurity to see that such symptoms of childishness are curbed. When this is done the rules situation can more easily be liberalized. N THE sac dill needs inloioaiod students lo aid in all phases of its opoialion. Upperclassmen wiih journalistic experience are especially needed. ll you are Iucll an interested nudonr. show your handsome [or beautiful, as iho case may bol lace in iha sea oliioa at 7 pin. Sunday for lha weekly staff meeting. Animal Behavior Friday. September It. lib-f I Am A Prisoner 0f Saga Edit. note: The following plea was discovered by an intrepid 5&3 cub re- pnrler in his cake at lunch Tuesday. it is here reprinled in the public iu< terest. Woe is mel My story -— unbelievable as it may seem —- must reach the outside world somehow. Others must not he entrapped into my heinous predicament of terror. And you. dear reader. may even be able to reform the editing horror before my time is gone. I am a sophomore at Grlmell; that is to say, I would have been a whoa-om lhlsyeuillhadmendedmydlsses inst yen. But I couldn‘t go In class; I had no time. I had no time to lure girls into my room. . . I had no time in take my swimming test. . . . I had no time to polish the eagle. . . . i had no time to wait for the Cafe dei Faro to really open for business. . . I hardly had time to eat the food I am omnipresently supposed to cook. . . . It all started when I was a small child. I was reared on Horatio Alger books. They told me to make snmcihlng of my- self, to he industrious, to eam my own way. My parents lolcl me to make some- thing of myself, in be industrious, and to earn my own way through school. FinaI< ly, when the financial aid office told me to make something of myself, in be in- dustrious, and in earn my way through college, I decided to make something of myself, to be industrious, and to earn my way through Grlunell. Yet little did I realize the Scylleharb- dian choice that my decision to put my- self through school represented. it was only after already signing my contract with Saga that I discovered the mini- mum wage on campus to be only eighty- eight (83!) cents. It was then that I first realized to my extreme dismay that to finance my Grinnell education, I would have to work 3,000 hours each of my academic years at the college. My first year at Grimell, I was on campus 210 days. In order to finance my 31800 tuition, food, etc. in addition to m , travel expenses, nooks, and clothes, found myself Working in Comes all hours a dayl l was allowed to sleep four hours a day (except at Christmas when I found it Wary to Iork additional hours to purchase presents). I had no time for anyming else. . . . 1 must digress tor a moment to say that one day — when fizwles was closed for its traditional onceevery-threeyeal cleaning — I was able to visit my first classes here. It was in February, I think. about the time the debate club kids were heading South for Mardi Gzas. I sat in on Economics 217; there I learned that the minimum wage in the United States was approaching $1.60. I remember won< dering why our campus was no longer considered a part of the United States. Later I attended History 226. There I learned that the Southerners had coun- tered Abolitionist propaganda during the Civil War by implying that Northern workers were veritable wage slaves. I remember wondering if maybe the Southerners were right sometimes. It might be added that i‘m not wondering any more. Such is my tale of woe. I write it while locked in the Cowles kitchen for my four. hour night. Somehow I will try to smuggle ‘ out to the world of the free and the livlng. i need help, and my fel- low sufferers in the Quad, the Library and the Desk in the Forum Lobby must he saved. —— Wretched Prisoner of Saga Letters . . . To the Editor: Whatever happened to Billy King? Why did he leave? In the first place, specifically, what qualified Billy King to organize the Des Moines Project? What did Billy King accomplish? Was the project successfully com- pleted? Willi whom did Billy King leave? Where did Billy King go? And what is Bllly King doing now? From what sounds) did the Des Moines Project derive iis funds? How were fhcy derived? For what purpose(s) were they spent? Under what, if any, cena tral agency was the Des Molnes Project affiliated? Was it an agency approved by lo cal authorities? What support, if any, did [his unnamed agency give to the Des Molnes Project? Des Moines Project accomplish? (in addition to the “rent strike"). Doesn’t everyone remember the quantity of coverage given to the Des Moines Project? Did the 5&3 ever investigate the re- liabilliy of Billy King and the authenticity of the Des Muines Project? If so, why wasn‘t the student body lnlomied beyond vague general statements? Wlly wasn’t the student body ina formed of the Des Molnes Pm]. ect’s final outcome? Did the in» forest aroused in me Des Moines Project warrant the son’s exienswe c o v e ra g e? Doesn’t the 5&3 have [he re- sponsiblllly to accurately report events relaled to the student body? e Suzie Hughes and Jamie E. Baker. Ell. note: The substantial coverage giv- Whal concrete Things did the en lo the Des Moines Project in Scarle‘l and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grillmll, fowl: c u A weekly new-rarer published each Friday or in. l” e mlierc year by me Gllnncll cumnuriun on‘Slfldlm Piibv ,3' q. licnllonl. Rtprcsemei: for national ndverllalnfl by Na- 5’ “s llonal Advertising Service. InC.. College Publisher: Represcmaiivc, 15 [nor 50o. Sireer. New York. 22. mi. € nsecond class posiage paid an Grinnf‘ll, Iowa Subscription mess rmron BUSINESS MANAGER COPY Em'ron , SPORTS ranon . ASSISTANT T0 'IHE Drro CIRCULATION STAFF snrr rate 35.00 pcr .cliaol year. laoo paid lubscripflons. Harold ruson Suun wul . Mnnhl acmey . Sieve Clsey , Anne rill-m lvnkv Delaie, Chuck ncniclnock Greg Wallace, PlIuI Nncnmnn, clunlcs smlih. uryu Neuml . R|chard Schneirov, Kathy shun, Jeremy wuson. John Wilson, Ncil Fischer. Chuck onminn. Sm nuiu, Jane Purim, Paul Jones. Ann Kirschnm', Phyllis Murray. niucn nnnfnm, icinn Eclmein, Cary olnauns, David Hownnd, Richard Ramp, Lynnn Gniler. Roxanne .ionmon, Gary Axisirn. previous issues of the 5&3 re- flected the concern of the edi- tors for glvlng due publicny to areas in which Grlnnell students are actively conoerned with the problems of contemporary so- ciety. The editors saw the Des Moines project as an honest at- tempt by a relatively large group nf Grinnell students (at least fifty at one point) acling on their own initiative to coin- bat the problems of poverty in Des Muluea Last week's riot by some 390 Negro teenageis in Des Moines certainly seems to substantiate the opinion that the problems were and are very real ones. No attempt was ever made n the part of the project puri pants Io hide information about the project (several coffee hours were held at which students were invited to ask questions). The son was certainly uni con- cerned wllh hiding information. The particular questions which Miss Hughes and Miss Baker ask about the end or the project were largely answered in the April 15, I966 issue of the 58:3. The 5823 was aware of Mr. King’s background as an 5135 organizer in Newark, New Jer- sey, before he came to Des Moines. The 5&3 was also aware of and reported on Mr. King’s plans to return to New York last spring [0 lake up com- munity service work there. The 5&1! will continue to ful- fill its responsibility to report events related to the student body. To the Editnrl The “Invalid Generalizations" column by PRJ in the last sea issue was aptly entitled. Fresha men may indeed be uneducat- cd, but certainly no more so, proportionately, than the upper- classmen who surround ibem. As a freshman, I find myself in the unlnlellectual position of beginning a liberal education alier leaving a iall'ly unllberzll high school The seuiurs around me do not seem to be loo lib- erally endowed Wltlt anything more inlelleciual than pride in their own potency. The fact that ihe pic-1970 classes were very probably characterized by bearded girls and frustrated boys m as op- posed to file bearded boys and iweniyfoul- year old girls la- beled by PRJ as members of my class —— does not seem an issue to merit so mllch resent- merit. What makes PR1 think that college mores will change so much in the next four years after remaining lalrly constant, although not so laudy, for the past thirty? The North Campus problem was here before we arrived, and the Cowles prepping that went on last Sunday at 4 a.m., and other incidents of last weekend (such as the breaking of East Norris‘ Window) seem to indi- cate upperclassmen really don‘t give much of a damn what sort of reputation the college re- ceives. The class of 1970 may well end up living in a yellow sub- marine, but upperclassmen — if what I’ve seen is any ex- ample~are already submerged in their own pride and resent- ment. — Frustrated Fmsh. Ed. Note: The foflowing is a letter to the editor found in a recent issue of the Gal95« burg all.) Register Mail un- der the headline "Tail Wags Dogs”. To the Editor: R e c e n t student demonstraa tions around the country, and resolutions by siudcm associa- tions, are demanding that the law concerning the use of cera tain drugs and the Selective Service system be changed. This leaves me wondering Why the students think they have any right whatsoever to demand that any law be Changed. . . A sludeni is on the receiving end all the way, until he, or she, graduates. The parents, the tax supported government agenn cies, ihose who provide scholar- ships, all give the studem an opportunity to learn. . . . Why then do students feel they can demand what form or shape (his gift of an education should be? By their demands, they are in effect saying to their parents, and to all who make their schoollng possible: “You must feed, clothe, shel- ter and provide educational facilities for me. You must not object to any way I talk, dress or conduct myself. You must LETTERS— ciinnnuea on Page a