Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Editorial The last line In the last two years I have participated directly in the production of over sixty issues of the Scarlet & Black . . . some 500 pages altogether. This is the last and I am lad, but it it were mine to do over again, I would not esitate. Sixty weeks . . . maybe 1,000 hours. Perhaps, I nan best conclude by trying as best I can to tell why. Why? is seldom an easy question to answer. This is no exception. I could as easily tell why live, for the answer is much the same. It goes beyond a commitment to journalism. Journal- ism is no sacred cow of mine. It goes beyond a desire to correct the failures of Grinnell College. Though this is per- haps part of the answer. Ultimately, I suppose, editing the 8&3, is part of search. A search which I share with my classmates and probably with every other generation that was once young and idealistic. A search for harmony and meaning in the lives of men. In a world like all human worlds, filled with hypoc- racy and hate, is there no way in which men can live in honesty and love‘.7 Is there no way in which individual good is compatible with common good. Cannot commun- ulism and nationalism give way to humanism. Must some men always die that others may live. The particular tool I have brought to my search is a typewriter. There is no end to other approaches. The only absolute seems to be that the search must he made. In a nuclear world we canot share Frost’s unconcern: A111 worry about is the sun ‘ We’ll be alright if nothing goes wrong With the lighting If we continue to fail in our search, Bob Dylan may have come closer to the truth: It’s a hard rains a gonna fall. Editor Needed Again Due to the resignation of editorelect Suzanne Gelber, the 5&3 again needs an edllof [In the next two semesters. Interi- estod students should submit a letter or lppliuilion giving qualifications and suggesting improvements in the son to Henry-York Steiner, English, by Wednesday noon. Educator Decries Grades Two recent studies indicate there may be no direct relation- ship between high grades in college and later professional success. Dr. Eli Ginzberg, a new York researcher, studied a group oi 842 Columbia University graduate students who had won ieliow- ships to the school between 1944 and 1950. Findings showed that students who had graduated with honors, won scholastic medals or had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa were more likely to he in the “lower professional perlormance levels” than Students who had not so distinguished themselves while in college. In another study, a learn of University at Utah protessors toiintl almost no relationship between the grades a medical student gels and his laier perlormance. An Explanation Educator John llolt observes that current school methods‘ destroy love oi learning by encouraging students ll) work for petty rewards 7 names on honor rolls, medals, gold keys —— tor the “souslaction or healing they are better than someone else." it's usually 8 combination of grades and extracurricular participation that indicaies success in later lire. rModcrator, November 1966 Scarlet" and Black GRINNELL COLLEGE Grinncll. low: A waning newspaper puniisnsn sacn rndry or the coilecc year y the crunch Commune on sruurnr run “cations. neprssrntcd for national advertising by Na. nonai Advertising service, Inc., Conege Puhlishers RepresenruilVE, in East som arrest, New York. 22, my. mom cuss postage pain it Grinnell, town Subscription rate 15.00 per school year. 1800 paid aubscrivllons. . Hlmla ruson sin-o wni , Henry wnncim wows umoii , _ Morin. Berlley maroon canon Nell Fischer cm canon , Susan Gelner SENIOR animus . .. Aim Axcirod, Ann kirsrnnrr IiSSlS’rANT TO THE EDITOR , Anne rarrrr CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER __ _ .iini sturru PHOTOGRAPHERS _ __ Alan ncmnnmt. susan cursor cincuuirton sTArr! __. Mlke nsioic, cnucx nomcnocu sun: M raui Nuhmln, conic, smith, itryr maroon. Etch-m Schnelmv, karny snca. .ian Hale, hill Jones Bruce Bin-Atom, uicnarn Knmp, Andy Burs, rhetor- Johnston, Hour-y WHhelm. nytii. Murray, sum. Inorsen, Don winnsy Friday. December 9. l9“ - Faculty Comment A Crime" Dilemma By EZRA MENDELSOHN Hlslory I have been asked by the Scarlet and Black to comment on the question oi student sexual moral< ity. 1 claim no special knowledge which would al- low me to speak with certainty on this complex subject. but I believe that my recent arrival at: Grinnell gives me a iresh perspective. I welcome any response to my observations and suggestions, for it. is clear that a continuing discussion is nec- essary lot the establishment and maintenance or hamiony among some students, faculty, and ad- ministration. One response to the debate over visitation and women’s hours is simply to condemn all student premarital sex. it is imitlcss to argue with people who sincerely hold this position, just as it is fruitless to argue with sincere Moslems that Mohammad was not the prophet oi Allah. it is my assumption, however, that premarital sex is not necessarily harmful or immoral; it is likewise my assumption that students who engage in such ac. tivities at Grinnell should not feel that they are committing an illegal act which, it brought to the attention of the authorities, will result in severe penalties. To be sure, the problem is greater here in a small, midwestem, Christian Community than it would be elsewhere. I have been part of academic communities in New York, Philadelphia. and Israel. At each of these places either the institu< tion was more liberal with regard to the sexual behavior of its students than Grinnell, or the lo- cation itseli provided the opportunity to enjoy a relatively free social lite. But it is just because Grinnell is what it is that we need to be more im- aginative in solving our problems. On the one hand, wo-‘have intelligent and, i think, tairly so phisticated students, attracted to Grinnell because ot its high academic standing. 0n the other hand, we live in a narrow social environment. Concerts, athletics. the occasional touring theater or opera company are commendable in themselves, but we all know that we ultimately spend a very small percentage of our leisure lime attending these iunctions. What most of us want to do (and I as- sume that Grinnell students lire no exception) is to talk, eat, and drink with our friends. We are not going to sleep with every person with whom we become friendly. We may not even wish to sleep with those whom we love. But we are all made to feel guilty in a system which treats visi- rations as “occasions for sin," and we are all made to feel uncomfortable in a system which im- poses strict regulations and then tacitly ag es not to enforce these regulations as long as iscres tion” is maintained. 1 1 know that the common reply to the accusa- tion that it is hypocri 'cal to have rules which are discreetly ignored is. “You have more freedom now than you would it the rules were enforced." And I am aware of the criticism made of the students that. by their protest, they only impeded the eventual relaxation of regulations. The tirst statement can scarcely be defended. As for the second point, it seems to me that the students, by making their teeiings known in a restrained and responsible fashion, achieved lar more than they lost. 1 take their action to be a sign of maturity, rather than the reverse, and I think it is a highly encouraging sign that Grinnell students are think- ing not only of their exams and papers, but of other problems as well. Assuming that the students are sincerely up< set by the lack of freedom which characterizes the Situation at Grinnell, can We hope that laculty and administration will be more responsive to their needs in the future? Can’t we make a lasts ing contribution to this whole question by think- ing in terms of building new dormitories, which would provide decent sitting room: for small, informal parties? Can‘t we allow more upper classmen (and women) to live oftcampus, it they wish? Can’t we relax visitation regulationsi, And can’t. we think in terms at establishing oil-campus social clubs, so that students might occasionally escape from the familiar (sometimes all too familiar) atmosphere of the College? The essential question, perhaps, is whether Grinnell is to follow, or to lead. A“! we of the iaculty and the administration prepared to take certain risks in order to create a more healthy situation at the College? And, no less important, are the Students prepared to accept new respon- sibilities (after all, greater freedom implie‘ greater responsibilities)? We know, in these post~ Freudian days. that sex cannot be swept under the table. or snblimsted by means of fifty mile hikes through scenic Iowa. We know that a healthy attitude towards sex, one which recoga nizes its tremendous potential lor both unselfish- ness and harm, is dependent upon attitudes to- wards authority, hoth parental and institutional. Let me close wlth a plea that the whole ques~ tion or student sexual morality be explored anew in the true spi 't of iniellectualism. I stand with a iamous 19in century thinker, who appended to one of his treatises: “Dixi et salvavi animam meam.” News Briefs Weekend Events In preparation for nexi week's big problems, the Sunni Calelh (lat this weekend offers various types of escapes. Friday night, the Forum offers the best in free juke box. Saturday [here will be a rock and roll dance with music by the clesmys, The ARH flick is "Lucky Jim” and will be shown at 2:00 Friday and 9:45 Saturday. There is also a basketball game wllh Knox at 7:30 Sntur~ day in Darby. lllllilllllillllIilillliillllllillililllllliilllllillllIIllililiillllllllllliillllliilll Three in Washington Three Grinnell Students are currently attending American University in Washington, Dc, as Washington Semester stu- dents. Mariana Alwell, Ron Cogswell, and Leida Sclioggen, all political science majors, are participating in the program, which involves an intensive study at the federal government. This is the twentieth year that the University’s School ot Gov- ernment and Public Administra- tion has sponsored the Wash- ington Semester program. Religious Events chuploin Dennis Haas will preach the sermon at College Church this Sunday at 11:00 pun. in Herrick Chapel. His Iopic: “Christmas Is Dead!” The second half oi Handel’s oratorio, The Messiah will be played at 2:30 pm. Sunday in the Music Room and South Lounge, Forum. Vespers will be held as usual during the week or ii- nais, Tuesday and Thursday at 9:45 pm, Herrick chap el. Essa Grant Grinnell has received a $2,500 grant from the Esso Education Foundation, President Glenn Leggett has announced. The grant, which was award- ed to Grinnell as part of the loundation's Presidential Con< tingency Program. is to he used during the 1966-67 academic year to help advance the col» lege’s educational program. Jones Scloes in D.M. Don Jones, music, will be bass soloist at a periormance ct Bach’s “Magnified!" Io be presented at Ihe Plymouth Con- gregarional Church in Des Moines at 4 pm. Sunday. This is the second year in a row Jones has been a Soloist in a perl‘mn’iailce oi the “Mag nificai” presented by die Des Mollics chiii‘cll. Graham Publishes "Natural RUOI. Gratis," an article by Benjamin F. Graham, Jr., biology and F. H. sot-man at Yale University. appears in the newly published July»Sep< (ember issue of The Botanical Review. Dr. Graham is associate pro- fessor of biology at Gl‘innell and Dr. Batman is professor of fur- estry at the Yale University Graduate School oi Forestry. From “Grinnell and You" November 1936' Amelia Earhart, worlds {are- most aviatrix, opened the cob lege lecture course on October 13, 1936 with a talk, “Aviation Adventures.” She said that “based on the average flying which the average person does in this country you may expect: to be 128 years old hetero any accident occurs to you.”