Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Editorial . Last week’s editorial pointed to the need for a "con- text of understanding” on the part of the alumni and par- ents toward the Grinnell educational experience. One means of providing such a context is wholly lacking: that is a high quality periodical alumni publica- tion which acts as more than a class newsletter. The present Alumni Scarlet and Black needs to be scrapped in favor of a publication, preferably a “slick" lei-monthly, which would offer not only alumni news but would tell in words and pictures something about the ongoing changes in Grinnell life. Articles by faculty about their own research and work as well as articles about all phases of student life would be appropriate for inclusion. Must colleges of Grinuell’s stature have such a pull- lication, though hopefully Grinnell could improve on the quality of the vast majority of these. The need for such a publication seems apparent to the administration, but shortages of money and time have so far held up concrete steps toward its realization. From this viewpoint it looks as though we’ve stalled long enough. As each issue of the AS&B loses itself in innocu< ous announcements, another opportunity is lost for im- proving the “context of understanding” and consequently the college‘s support in the outside world. Letters ' Sugurless” 'l‘o the Editor: Come now Does anyone real ly think that Homecoming is . tended to provide parents with a taste of “real" Grinnell lite? 1: parents must rely upon such visits to comprehend how their charges conduct themselves, then they are a singularly iso- lated, nnperceptive lot, Does the housewife invite her triends over tor Wednesday at- ternoon ironing and soap opera on TV? Perhaps she should so her triends can see how she lives. My mother missed open rooms, poker games, locker room banter, rehearsals, house meetings, and bull sessions this weekend. Maybe the sym- osium on Russian drama could ave clued her in about the "sugarless” aspects of college. Dick Lovcu Train To the Editor: Homecoming visitors and stu- dents were treated to an unex- pected thrill last Saturday when their attention was grasped by a train passing north to south just east or Ward Field. _ Spectators enjoyed views of natcars, oil cars and several boxears hearing such rnottns as “Railway Express," “Go Great Northern” and other similar inspirational messages. The train was reported to have contained more than one hundred twenty cars approach— ing an all-time record for a crinnell homecoming. The six engined diesel also came near I new record. All in all the train was great- ly appreciated end we are plan» ning to ask for one next year if we can get enough student I’EEPOnser —Metlloerenul Hovering Skephcrsm To the Editor: Skepticism seems to hover in the air of this campus, especial- ly concerning unrestricted wo< men’s hours. Snickers about "discussions" at a quarter to twelve tend to have a sarcastic, 1 - know . what - you - really » mean flavor to them. But allow me to relate an event which no- tually took place this last Sun- day night: ’1\vo close friends of mine were talking on the phone at 11:45 pm. So far, so good. But tragedy creeps into the drama. tic situation: one iriend lives on North Campus, the other on South. AS the conversation pro- ceeds, past midnight, past the hewitching hour when all Cin- derellas are turned into King Kongs — to be locked up, she learns that he is deeply upset and wants to talk to her about it. Well, they’re on the phone, right? And everybody and his cousin George can walk by and talk to them, ask them to keep their voices down 7 it’s quiet hours, you know — or to get off the phone, they’re expecting a call. So what do you do’! He could meet her at one or the court yards and pretend he was the pizza man until the night watchman came along — per- haps luteen minutes. but not long enough to handle a prob- em. So what do you do at a time like this? The opportunity to help someone has arisen, Not a Des Moiues project, not a Bel— mond project. This is someone you kuowl Someone in whom you have a vested interest. You could help him, talk to him, lis- ten, understand, empathize . . . if only you could be with him, Is this such a crime? Problems don’t run on a schedule coinci- dent with the Cinderella hours. You can’t turn them or; at Scarlet and Black GRINNILI. 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Don winney A Review Faculty Comment Friday, October 28, W66 louder and Funnier By JAMES KISSANE, English Three Ugly Years, by L. K. Hanson. Like most Grimellians who never checked it with Protes- sor Erickson, l have always re— garded St. Olaf as the braided and buxom Nordic Frau among our sister colleges, high—minded enough tor anything but like as not a touch on the stodgy side. So I was surprised and envious to discover that Notthiield’s other campus has spawned a really iirstrate piece of college humor. I can understand that on this particular subject no one is in a hurry tn take a college protes- sor’s word for it. and I felt the same way when as dean of men (of all people) touted me on to this collection of campus car- toons. But Thompson was right; Three Ugly Years, by 1.. K. Hanson, for three years the stair cartoonist on the St. Olaf student newspaper, captures in its “Wiggly lines and squiggly letters" a very funny and gen- uinely distinctive glimpse oi the college scene. During his ugly years at Olaf, Hanson must have made that taculty forget all about tally- ing up the misspellings, gram- matical atromties, and offenses against logic and human decerb cy that appeared in the college paper. The “Uglies.” as the comic strips collected in the book are called, run the full gamut of campus situations -— from the frustrations of peace marchers to the ignominy of clean sneakers and Lhe living death of the Studentrlaculty cof- tee hour — without striking a Single false note. Even the refs erellces to purely local preoc- cupations only heighten the authenticity and bite of Han- son’s comic portrayal. It is the drawing, however, that makes the cleverness and the ac- curacy oi the “Uglies” jell into a grand piece of campus satire. Hanson’s pictures are about as primitive as Virgil Partch’s or Jules Feiffer’s, and his att' ~ tic unskill is even more at a Vir- tue than theirs. These sublimely awiul drawings are the perfect vehicle for expressing the grubby and extravagant disen- chautment that makes the "Uglies" so enchxnu'rlg. Hanson's cartoons don’t give, it hardly need be said, a public relations man‘s view or college llfe: but somebody at St. Olaf knew what he was doing to see to it that so iresh and zany a manifestation of irreverence and wit was called to people‘s at: tention. Some years ago a stu- dent Showed me what purported to be a reproduction of Alan Jones' blackboard illustrations through an entire hisoory course, accompanied by appro- priately bewildering captions. I thought they were terribly fun- ny, and if someone had printed them up as a hook, Grinnell might have stolen a march on St. Olal’s Three llgly Years. And this takes me to Lha question why current efforts at humor on our campus should be so consistently feeble or gauche and why student criti- cism should be so lacking in the comic spirit. Maybe I just don’t see the good stun people turn out, but examples or the oppo- Slte kind are not far to seek. One would get the impression from last week’s 5&3, tor in- stance, that our idea oi kicks here is to zap classics protes- sols and to ilail away at tradi- tional and largely moribund at- titudes tow a rd Homecoming with a sarcasm so inert and heavy handed as to make the proverbial lead balloon seem like Halley’s Comet by Com- parison. I believe it Was John Dryden who said that a sloven- ly butchering is a poor excuse for satire. What one admires especially about Hanson‘s “Ugo lies” is that they do the job‘ with a flair. Paradoxically, think “urbanity” would have to be the word for the quality that comes through the spectacular crudeness or the "Uglies"; and that is exactly what one misses in the irritable, joyless carping that seems our style. 'ntree Ugly Years convinces me that St. Olaf must have more going for it than its own herd of mllch cows and some mighty fine hymn singers. As for Grinnell, I have not lost hope that its student culture will some day serve up some- thing a bit more piquant than unadulterated animus and uhr leavened angst. twelve and on again at logsin opening the following morning. You can’t pretend that people stop thinking, feeling, crying, laughing alter twelve, as if they were mar-ionettes set aside. Yes, Women can Visit between their own halls, as can men. But what happens when the person(s) closest to you live on the other side of the tracks? A college should give its stu- dents the opportunity to experi- ment, to make mistakes in a spe~ cial environment, less harsh and severe, but equally as real as that of the unsheltered world. Now, while you are somewhat isolated from the city police, the church, your par. ents, you can develop your- self, see what you are really like inside. Try things —— try to console a heartbroken friend a TRY, you may fail, but what do you gain it you don’t make the chart? But you’d better watch out — you might learn some- thing. Live and learn; learn and live. Watch your step, please. —ancy Lou Faculty Briefs Knopf Edits Kenyon A. Knopf, economics, is editor oi as new series of eight introduction to economics textbooks being published by John Wiley Ah Sons, Inc., at New York City. Seven of the texts have been published, with the eighth one now being prepared tot release. One at the texts, “The Market System,” was written by Rob- ert H. Haveman, economics, and Knopf. other titles in the series are “National Income and Employ- ment Analysis," “Economic De- velopment and Growth," “In- ternational Economic Pro b- lems,” ”The Economics of Poverty," "Welfare and Plan- ning," “Town-rd Economic Sta— bility," and “Case Studies in American Industry.” The series is to be enlarged as appropriate manuscripts are found or mmmissioned. PSSC Teachers Meet The {all meeting at area high school teachers using the phys- ics program developed by the Physical Science Study Commit- tee will be held hen: on Setub day. Approximately 90 teachers are expected to attend the meet- ing, which will begin at 9:30 am. in the physics lecture room in the Hnu of Science. it will continue until 3:30 pm. with 31 noon break for lunCh. at which time President Glenn Leggett will welcome the beach ers. Walter French, professor of physics at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Llncoln, will be the featured speaker, Also on the program will be Herman Kirk- patrick, physics instructor at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines; Wayne B. Denny. phys- ics; and Grant 0. Gale. phys< ics. The Physical Science Study Committee, which operates on a nationwide level, was formed in 1955 to develop an improved physics course for secondary schools. Swenson Studies Spectrometry Jack 5. Swanson, chemisF try, rec-fly attended a four- day course on “Spectromeirio Identification of Organic Com- pounds” at the University at Chicago’s Center fin: Continu- ing Education. Sponsored by the Amarican Chemical Society, the course was a rehesher designed to bring chemists up no date with the latest in spectrometric iden- tification techniques. Dr. Swanson use: these tech- niquer in his Inching of on- garlic chemistry as well an in his arm reseancit. Fund Chairman Named 5. S. m, vim presldat in marge of share operations for Walgreen Drug snares. will serve a: diam of me Park elm" Fund secn‘on (II the 196‘- 67 Annual Fund, President! Glens Legged has announced. A feature at the 1966-67 An- nual Fund is a pledge by the college's Board oi Trustees to match all alumni and parent commons up to 325,000.