Betts'Puy Called "Promosi A REVIEW By DAVID DILLON “Every sane person knows that it is a better thing to build a City than to bombard it, to plow a lield Ihan to trample it, to serve mankind than to conquer it, And yet once the armies get loose, the terrific noise and shock 01 war make all that was valu- able seem stale and dull and sentimental . . . seem to sink to so much whimpering futil- it .” y New Republic, November 7. ISM War Without End, by Ray- mond F, Betls (history), Con< veys a poignant and powerful artistic expression oi the shat- tering‘ tragedy which, arising out of World War 1, has become the pervasive reality oi this cen- tury. Careiully selected ,docu— mentation is given cohesion by exchanges or poetic dialogue which rise to l1 crescendo of de- spair, revealing the ultimate in- anity at “no man’s war." A multidimensional experience is achieved through the simultane- ous presentation at lilms dis playing the milling crowds who applaud the advent of hostilities, the ranks oi gulls locked in fierce combat, the debris 0! I31- STAGING— (Continued on Page 9) PROFESSOR GORDON CRAIG of Sianiord University pauses thoughtfully during it’s opening address at last week's “Grinnell Weaken I" Roberts Theaterr Craig rpoke on "World War I: Some Problems at Loadersbi Besides Craig‘s address the Weekend restored an origi. not play by Raymond ootts. history tree review at ism, an address by Victor orornbert at Yale and several coffee hours. Campus Is Dove Says 5&3 Viei Nam Survey By RICHARD SCHNEIROV In an Sim survey on Viet Nam conducted recently, 54% oi the Grinnell community took a delinite dove position while the rest were divided between support oi the administration position and escalation oi the war efioiir The Viei Nam survey was dis tributed randomly to student, faculty, and administration mailboxes, Though there were iewer than one hundred returns, the results can be taken as a general trend. The college‘s position ree floated the national dissatis. faction with the wan Almost two thirds or those replying indicated that they did not support the administration‘s position on vlet Nam. or those two thirds, 55% thought that the ”us should cease bombing Grinnell College 9mm Oldest College Nowrpapor West or to. Mississippi Val. LXXlV Great New lag Is Computer Hookup With University of Iowa By NEIL FISCHER Between the hours of 4 and o p,m., Carnegie 104 becomes is language laboratory or sorts, The language, however, is rather unusual, Its sentences consist 0! FOR- MAT statements. “DO” loops, and instructions to “GO TO,” and its syntax must be letter pEi'lect. Fonran is the language understood by the lam 360/40 Computer of the Uni- versity or lowa. Located in Carnegie Hall, the Grinnell College Computer Center is linked to the lowa City com- puter by telephone and is available tor use by all men-l- hers oi the Grinnell College community. Equipment at Grinnell, super. vised by Timothy Clark, in< eludes three Card punch ma. chines (which prepare IBM cards in 360 Fortran) and an IBM 1978 Data Terminal (through which punched sae quences are transmitted). Rental or iBM equipment lnd phone bills to the UniVer— sity oi lowa cost the college around sumo per month, es- timated E. R. Mullins, Asso< claie Professor of Mathemat- 105. and Director of the Grin- nell Computer Center. In ad— dition computer time on the Iowa City machine costs Grinnell fifty dollars an hour under a tinieshaping arrange- ment. Mullins slated that over sev— enty programs have already been run over: Grltlnell’s new iacllity, which was opened tno weeks ago. These include rela- tively simple jobs like the more than iiity class programs and employee payrolls which have been computed to more Com- plicated private problems, such as the vote analysis being Cun- ducted in Political Process 20!. Twenty student programs have been run to date — most or them totally independent or COMPUTER- (Continued on Page 3) Awards Offered For Language Experts A new annual award for speaking proficiency in a motl- ern ioreign language has been established at Grinnell. Presi— dent Glenn Leggett, in announc- ing the award, said it will be given tor the iirst time next spring. Made possible by a $500 gift from Dr. Walter H. Trumbauer oi Montevallo, Ala, the new prize will be known as the Jen~ sen Award, in honor at Ruth Jensen Trumbauer of the Bar- nard College Class or i917. Dr. Trumbauer. who was a member of the Grinnell English faculty in 192324, said he estab- lished the award because “then and since, i have had a high re- gard for Grinnell academic and Cultural standards“ The prize, amounting toms: will be “glven annually to that student who, being born and educated in the United States, has demonstrated the greatest speaking command oi one oi the modern foreign languages cur- rently taught at Grinnell Col- legs." The languages involved are French, German, Russian, and Spanish. Grinnell, lows. Friday, oooomoor 9. mo No. [4 North viet Nam, recognize the National Liberation Front, ini- tiate all enclave policy, and press for negotiations"; 28% took the position or unilateral withdrawal; while only 14% stood for escalation — “step- ping up the bombing of North viet Nam, occupying the do. militarized zone, mining tho harbor or Haiphong, and look- ing iorward to an eventual in- vasion or North vlet Nam." A majority ielt that we war! not fighting a “just" war in Viet Nam. There was also a general teeling that “we wen not winning the war," that the South Vietnamese people did not generally lavor our involvoa merit” and that “they didn'I care which side Won." Thll ieeling was not by any mean! conclusive Approximately : third of those replying had "no opinion" or wrote in that then VIET SURVEY— (Contlnucd on Page 9) New NOUS Debuts Next Week‘ Replaces “Review” Willi Fresh Format NDUS, the Grinnell College literary magazine which 135i year replaced the Grinncll no- view, will be appearing on campus immediately aiter this weekend. The new publication, named alter the old philosophical and religious quarterly which was published on campus several years ago, is an amalgamation of The Review, with Ihe poetry and short stories and art (pho- tography and line cuts). the 01d NOUS, with its Critical and technical papers, plus an ex- panded format including a broader scope of papers, book reviews, and more art works The old NOUS, which went out oi existence several years ago (1963), was supported by the Board OI Religion until the Board widldrew its iunds and the magazine collapsed The new magazine is supported to a large extent hy the school and SGA iunds, besides private con- tributors, and as such, has the potential {or a more expanded and comprehensive coverage Within die limits of its func- lion. The issue coming out next week will be 62 pages long and will represent the works at 33 contributors including some fac- ully work. The editor, Paul Jones, said that he hopes that the papers will spark enough crillcal interest to merit formal replies (in the form at essays of 500 words or more) from the student body or Ille iaculty. The staii intends to put out tour mugazliles a year, in De- cember. March, May and Sep- tember. This, of course, calls tor a great deal of material con~ tribution from the students Jones said that he was very pleased with the results or stu- dent eilort this issue; the staii was able to select one out of four in the poetry contributions and the amount of material in other NOUS Phoio . NUDE NUMBER 12, OCTOBER 19“ areas was much the same, Jones went on to say, however, that he hopes that contribution: will not stop, The editor said in a final comment that he hopes that tho scope of the magazine will be appealing to the community, and that the quality can be maintained. . By JOHN DENIW