AWS, CoiHP Vio ate Visitations Regulation Spend Night in Men's Halls To Make Student Concern Vivid By HAROLD FUSDN Huddled in the President's suite at Gates Hall Wednesday night, eight aws Board members. seven Coil-1F members and tour members of the Executive Cabinet discussed the implications ABOUT 700 STUDENTS gathered in ARH auditorium Wednesday evening to hear Stu- dent Government Association President Steve Kent and other student leaders explain their reasons for staging a deliberate violation of the college's visitaticnt rule. or Dante‘s lniemo, especially those passages reserving the most horrible punishment in Hell to those who remain neu- trait ln itself, the discussion was not a particularly noteworthy event, but the situation was complicated by the time: It was shortly alter midnight and amidst the harmless discussion of Dante the students were committing the otiense oi illegal visitation. The guilty persons had already done their duty as campus enforcement oiiiciais and had apprehended them- selves for the Violation. Their case is now pending belore the student courts, Earlier in the same evening, 701] students gathered in ARH auditorium to hear SGA Pres- lder: Steve Kent explain the rationale for a deliberate Vio- latlun or the college’s rule on illegal visitations. A number of factors were in- VDlVed in the student leaders’ decision to go through with some kind of protest demonstra- tion, said Kent, The particular iactor which forced the demonstration at this time was what Kent called “an unacceptable penalty" dealt to three students by the Faculty Committee an Student Affairs. The students were originally suspended for the remainder [if this semester lor participation in an illegal visitation (see story at the bottom or the page tor da~ tails of the bass). Kent told the assembled stil- PROTEST— (Continued on Page 4) FGSA Suspends three For Visitations Violations By HENRY WILHELM The controversial caseuof ll- legal Visitatinns, which résulted in the suspension of three stu- dents {or the remainder of this semester and all of next semes- ter, is the result of a Complex chain of events in which good intentions on the part of many students and some faculty mem- bers went awry when the case became enmeshed in me col~ lege ”policy“ on student con- duct. Last Friday the Faculty Com- mittee on Student Affairs, com- posed ot tour voting taculty members, advised by the deans and Joseph Wail, (history), chairman oi the iacuity, sus- pended Robert Hanenberg, Frank Knowllon and Michele Anderson, all juniors, for a visi. tatiDn violation, ' Hanenberg spent the night in his ofivcan-ipus apartment Wllll Anderson, his girlfriend for nearly two years, and Knowlton was with a girl (name withheld) Whfl is now home on “medical leave” [or psychiatric reasons. The three students appealed the Friday decision of the com- mittee and the case was heard again on Tuesday. The commit.- tee rejected the appeal. .The 5&8, through various sources. has definite knowledge that when the committee first heard the case, the members voted unanimously in lavor oi suspending the students for the rest of this semester, and to prohibit them from taking their final semester exams, This wuuld have meant the students would receive no academic credit for the semesters’ work that if the students returned to Grinnell second semester, they would he placed an conduct pro- bation and the men would have SUSPENSIONS— (continued on Page 4) Grinnell College 9mm Oldest College Newspaper West or ih. Mississippi Vol. LXXIV Grinnsll. lowa, Friday, November 25, I966 ”Illegal” Opens in Gates Hull . . . or aws noun AND c of HP MEMBERS gathered in the halls. The violators. who immediately apprehended them- President's wit- in Gates Hall late Wednesday. before “that. will taco the student courts within ih. next day or rpenaing the night illegally in Gates and two other men'l two. sas Photon sy Henry Wllmlil and would lose the cost of the semester's tuition. The commit- tee also originally stipulated