Grinnell College camsBlA Oldest College Newspaper West at the Mississippi Special Edition Stresses “Actionabiiity” "rm ecstatic.“ was the way President Glenn heggett expressed his organiled. The incnlty and ad Using a term he has rise need to become “actionable.” “Do it; norrt hesitate,” he said. This special issue or the sol; includes a lengthy report by the Eu- opiniou oi the loss Encampment. lie had high praise tor what he called the “constructivelless” oi the Encampment committees. “But," he told the closing session of the Encampment, “You’ve got to get yourselves ministration can’t do this ior you." d often in the past Leggett stressed the cainpineilt Committee as well as Stabenlenls from each member of the executive cabinet 01' the SGA. These statements point to many ways Vol. LXXlV Grinnell, lows, Tuesday, October ll, I965 in which the ideas exiinessed iii: Encampment can be made “actionable." Extra : Encampment Offers Intensive Consideration o President of the SGA Reevaluation of Norms By STEVE KENT Why have encampments? Why bother? Ailcr all, we have things pretty good here. Why spend hours evaluating the Grinnell community when we could be spending them in acquiring an educa- lion? Well. partly because Grinnell exists in a dynamic, changing world and because Grinnell itself is a dynamic and changing society in miniature, To remain true to its original ideals and intentions, the college can never cease making ad- justments. Partly, it is because basic to the Gl'innell tradition is the belief that improvement can always be made, But, above all, it is because the spirit which makes its question the ends and means oi our community is the real essence oi a crninell education The critical spirit cannot be compartmentally applied, The Weber thesis and the Grinneli commun~ ity are equally worthy objects or its at- tention. Grinnell's primary tnsk is to produce liberally educated men and women — individuals capable of looking at their world in totality, critically yet con- structively. Reason and common sense, we are taught, guide us in our judg- merits oi the world. Yet reason and common sense are not always ode oustely applied in our oonslderations of our own society. Tunes ot dritt inevitably occur when the critical spirit grows mute and pur- poses become coniused, Accustonied to dealing with superiicialities and to ace ing in terms of petty political ends, col- sca~ (Continued on Page 2) AWS Board President Unrestricted Hours By KAREN LAUTERBACH An alteration at attitude in the Grin- ncil student culture cannot be success- iully effected until all segments of tha community come to challenge the basic disparity between what’s expected in the academic sphere and what’s expected in the stoma] sphere of student life. The time is now, while the whole community is in a period of transition. to express a conviction in the importance of all that happens to a potential scholar in the total learning process. Students are presently diverted from sxercising trecdom or choice or per- sonal judgment in individual soclol strains by n distracting rule structure. Boih men and women have comple- cently accepted a highly restrictive system of women’s hours as a major rector hampering individunl action Ind the growth oi personal responsibility This uncritical reliance on artificial standards appears in a broader context as non-participation in the classroom and extra-Curricular affairs as well. What must be accomplished is a com- plete and consistent redefinition oi the student role in the aiiairs of the college to involve positive participation and per- sonal independence in all phases or com- munity lite. But a reiormation of attitude must occur simultaneously with the structural changes necessary to allow its expressmn. This suggests a radical de- parture from the present protective philosophy and structure to formulate a new, positive liviilg program on campus AWS— (Continued on Page 2) Speaker of the Senate Quest for Community liy DAN oucxs The quest. for community is a basic human motive underlying man's efforts to make the world a more human place in which to live. We at Grinnell are driven by this motive to create a special type oi community — an intellectual one in which people are draWn together by a desire to understand the world of man and the world of nature, We seek a community in which ideas {low and interact in a dynamic learning process. We hope, by this process, to coniront questions of values so that we can relate our knowledge and ideas to ineauiugiul purposes. Intellectual Community Have we created an intellectual corn< [nullity at Grinnell? Academic life is mechanically geared to a pace at dead— lines antl examinations. Students are re- quired to pass courses in a subject in- stead ot being re ' ed to learn a sub- ject. Campus act as are tied to no ethic of tradition in which the routine is preferred to the innovative. These forces combine to stifle a commitment to learning, a desire to communicate ideas. and a critical awareness of values. Hence, our search tor community goes uul'ewslrded. Fortunately, students have the re- sources to build the foundation for an inspired intellectual process. We need not wait for the decision - makers at this college to adjust the curriculum or establish new lecture programs, By asserting a degree oi intellectuull in- SENATE— (Continued on Page 3), By KATHY JAGOW More than a marathon trampoline ses- sion, Encampment was an opportunity for the different groups on campus to meet together for an intensive considera- tion oi Grinnell as a total entity. Stiucturally, the titty students and twentyeiive faculty and administrators who attended were organized into six discussion groups. Each group spent three sessions discussing, respectively, academic program, relation oi the col< lege to the outside world and the total college environment. Reports room each of the group leaders were presented at a final Combined session of all the Eu- campment partitipaitls, What came out or this year’s En- campmeni? People looking tor a co- herent plan of reiorm will probably be disappointed; the general nature or the discussions was not conducive to such a simple tormiila. The aims and goals or a liberal arts education, and the means or achieving these goals, are our easily agreed upon. You can’t. get a formula answer to the question “What is Grinnell?” Look to the Philosophy So what did happen that weekend? in rormal contact between laculry and stu- dents, some violent discussions, some hard thinking, a better view of Grinneli within and beyond the campus. Both leaders and just ordinary students (as one participant described herself) looked beyond the details of our present system to the philosophy, the reasons, the ration- ale Oi Grillnell and of liberal education in general, In the end, if the thinking b3- giin at Encampment will continue on campus, we should have a set oi cri- teria, specuic goals that we wish to achieve, and an effective means oi get- ting there, By attempting to answer some of these general questions belore us, we lialurah iy came up with a wide variety of an- swers, This report will attempt to be as objective as possible in presenting dire terent sides of the various questions. ENCAMPMENT— (Continued on Page 2) C of HP President Open Dorms Extension. By ROBERT FOOTE The question is not whether we should extend visiting hours in the residence halls but Whether, or to what extent, WI should have restrictions. The burden of prool in the open dorms question rests not with those who request greater freedom Di movement but with those who would restrict it. Discussion oi open rooms usually be- gins wlih the assumption that restriction against any visitation is normal. Open rooms have been considered as times of exception to this assumption. It is time now in question the basic assumption. and perhaps to begin anew. Entrenclled in the Victorian morality is an unreasonable suspicion of sex. Peo- ple (eel frank and meaningful and discus- Slon of sex should be suppressed. People have assumed that situation: conducive to the commission oi the sex not should be avoided at all costs. Hence they think pregnancies will be averted and virginity preserved. The unfortunate thing is that it doesn't work that way, The Victorian morality is clearly inadequate in contemporary society. It serves merely to obscure is- sues and lo pervert any attempt to de- Velop a rational and sensible morality. A new rationale. rooted not in tho open dorms question, rooted not in tho Victorian conception or restriction, but in the modem conception oi freedom with consideration. Freedom with con- sideration eiitalls not merely individual development in isolation. it also implies c oi HP— (Continued on Page 3) Social Coordinator Urban Social Program By BOB JOHNSTON Grinnell College is isolated in n rural area but its social program is urban. easy to get to, and tree. Grin. nell students must now develop on attitude to match the program. They must break out oi a social shell that relies on dates and droughts. it is unfortunate that on a run at the mill Saturday night the average dorm may contain up to 80 per cent of its occupants while another unknown pel'e ccntage are availing themselves of tho Rex or Longhorn, Students must bn willing to expose their ideas, opinions and tastes to something llew a some thing controversial - something oit‘beat, A free access to challenging events is worthless it the majority at students tail to take advantage of them. Explore the variety: Leilox Quartet, Jeiicrson Aiiplane, Woman in tho Duties, The Goldovsky Opera. 8%. Car- oline Stanioi-d, The White Devil, Case. blauca, The Three Souls, The i. Shaped SOCIAL— (Continued on Page 3) _____________ ADDRESS HEREl xog afie'noa “WHERE Qilqnd