Friday, February 14, 1961 SCARLET AND BLACK Page Titre. On Automation — WELCOME To THE BEGIN. NING OF CYEERNATION WEEKEND. AS YOU KNOW WE WILL DISCUSS THE use on Misust OF MACHINES AND COMPUTERS, THE DEANS WILL MAKE SOME PREFAYORY S‘lATE. MENTS ON THE GOALS OF THE WEEKEND . . . WILL SOMEONE P THE DEANS. Grinnelliuns Attend Vote Conference; Efforts to lower Voting Age Foil By Janet l-lala Two Grinnell students, Mike Dejoie and Bruce Armstrong, attended the Iowa Conference on Lowering the Voting Age held last Saturday at Camp Sunny- side in Des Moines, The confer- ence, sponsored by the lows Young Democrats, was attended by high school and college stu- dents from throughout Town. The purpose of the conven~ non was the discussion of the recent bill in the Iowa legisla- ture to lower the voting age in Iowa to eighteen. Tuesday, after the conference, the bill was de- feated. , The Grinnell students attend- ing went as representatives of a recently»formed Grinnell Com- mittee for the Advancement of Universal Suffrage at Eighteen — CAUSE, The National Stu- dent Association, the Young Re publicans, the Young Demo~ crats, and the lawn Federation of Teachers were represented at the meeting. State Senator John Walsh (R), who sponsored the bill, and State Representative Dan John- son (D) were discussion leaders for the conference. Loggia Looks Remain Locked By Paul Nachman lf after-hours confinement of Grinnell coeds constitutes a fire hazard through possible one trapment in the loggia, the col- icge can easily install “panic push-bars” on the loggia doors for emergency exit, according to Building a Grounds (3&6) Superintendent Evan Walden, However, the college has plans for a crashvbar door sys— tem for next fall that Should solve the problem," reported AWS Board President Karen Lauterbach. Walden asserted that the ex- isting iocked-loggia arrange- ment is safe, since the night watchman and the housemoth- ers have keys for the loggia doors. in the unlikely event that the doors should remain lucked during a bad, earlyunoming fire, said Walden, the women can traverse the loggia a long way in either direction or they can escape through first-floor windows on the street side of the Quad. Loci-ring of die doors appar— ently violates Section L2 of the state firesatety regulations for dormitories: “aims shall be so arranged and maintained as to provide free and unobstructed egress from all parts of every builds lng 01‘ structure at all times when the building or sti—iic- titre is occupied. No loolcs or * fastenings to prevent free es- cape from the inside of any building shall be installed on exit doors," In an Sail! interview Monday, Walden said that he was un- aware ot this rule, emphasizing, though. that tire prevention ii a very strong 138:6 concern. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIItlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Carleton Student Leaders Visit By Steve Kent Pictured above is the newly elected Carleton Student Association President Eric Janus, left, discussing Carleton problems with Grinnell Stu< dent Senate Speaker Bond Faulwell and a friend from Carleton. Janus and four friends from Carle< ton Visited Grinnell February 910 to talk infor< molly with SGA President Steve Kent and other Grinnell student government officials concerning oampus issues of mutual concern. Carleton, like Grinnell, is experiencing a period of stress and uncertainty while a feasible policy of room visi- tation is being worked out. At present Curletonis ans have two afternoons and one evening of opens hours. per week on each campus (men's and women's) for a total of twenty-four hours a week. This is a temporary policy subject to revision by 3 students faculty-administration Open House Committee, A major question yet to be resolved at Carleton is determining an exact definition of what conduct is or is not acceptable during open rooms. Other issues currently under debate at Carleton include allowing students over twenty-one to drink in their rooms and the liberalization of women's Photo by Krys Newton Hillilllllllililltlllllllllilllllllllillllllllllllillllilliillllilllllllllllllllltllillllllllllllilltllllllilllllllllllltlllllillllllllllllilliiillillillilllllllllllllllllltllllllilllllilllllllllllillllllilllllilllllllllllllilltlllllllllllilllltililliillllllllllillillllllllllli “They get tired of our carping about fire hazards around here," he noted The tiresaiety code also di- rects the State Fire Marshal to make regular inspections of cole legs iaCIlities. “The State Fire Marshals have never inspected our buildings.” commented Wai- den. “Schools seem out of bounds for them, “It‘s the same at other schools — they don't have in- spections, We are inspected twice a year by our insurance companies." he added. However. the February 2i Des Moines Register reported that State Fire Marshal Wil< our Johnson's staff has inspect- ed all Iowa colleges and uni- versities, except Grinnell and the University of iowa. within the last two years. Johnson plans to inspect Grinnell sometime this spring Other aspects of the fire-safe ty situation on South Campus have periodically been criticiz~ ed. Last spring Miss Lauter- bach found that many fire ex- tinguislieis in the women’s halls were inoperable due to un- derpressiire. They have since been recharged. She aso termed the fire es- capes that Iead into the court- yards between individual dorms “a farce.” Most of them end nine feet. above the ground — too high for safe jumps. Sev- eral of the courtyards them- selves are fire traps, she adds, because they are planted with flammable shrubbery, Walden explained that the fire escapes do not reach the ground primarily to keep children from playing on them. He noted that semesterly iii-o drills on South Campus. also m- quired by state law, have prov- en effective in alerting the women to emergency proced- ures. The halls, Walden said, can be cleared in about two minutes Miss Lauterbach said, how ever, that five minutes is I more reasonable estimate for emptying the loggia. The men's halls have long violated the fire drill require. ment; there have been no drills on North Campus for about ten years. according to Head Resi- dent Terry Moore. They prob- ably have not been reinstituted because no one would fakl them seriously, he speculated. President Glenn Leggett said Thursday that he has asked Walden to meet with the State Fire Marshal and that the col- lege does not plan any action until it receives state instruc- tion. President Leggett added that Walden had assured him that the dormitory buildings are iire< proof and that the possibility of fire spreading throughout the Quad was .very unlikely. Walden also told Leggett that women students would not be trapped in the event the dorm caught on fire because the head residents would unlock the doors with their keys. Mr. Leg. gett affirmed, however, that ro« liance on a few keys to free hundreds of students might prove inadequate in a panic situation, Attenlpi to REACH Across Gulf; College-Town Group Now Defunct ay niyllis Murray Defunct now except for its high school tutoring program. REACH was potentially one of Grinnell's most forceful college groups. The organization, how- ever inactive at present, rep resents an idealistic concern which, though dormant, is not entirely dead among Grinnell students. Begun in the tall of 1965, REACH was the outgrowth of student participation during the preceding summer in a Chicago social action program of the same name, The Chicago pro- iect, which had included classes, workshops, and cultural field- trips for high school students of varying backgrounds, stimu- lated several Grinnell students into considering a comparable program for the Grinnell com- munity. An early report of the Grin- nel REACH group described the purposes of the organization as “providing a basis for a coming. together of different economic groups" and as “providing a new meeting ground which could reach across old separations." in the process of planning specific action, the initial lead- ers. of whom Jeanne Cook, Jane Parish and George Wittgraf were most active. explored ex- isting town facilities and exist< trig town needs. They found found that. outside of the mov- ie theatre, a few pizza houses, and an Uncle Sam’s Club high school night (which had limited appeal and response), Grin< nell high school students had little opportunity for constructive recrean‘on. - As failures became more fre quent, REACl-l’s hopes of pro moting a full-time, paid com- mllnity recreation director, in- formal workshops and study groups, and weekend activities gradually dwindled The only tangible result or any of the effort was the addition of Sell- ior high school tutoring to tho already-existing junior high pro gram. By last fall, attempts to re Vive REACH did not succeed beyond the tutorial coordination effort. Asked why REACH had failed, neither Jeanne Cook nor Jane Parish were able to iso- late a reason: the problem was simply a combination of “in- sufficient organization,” “too little free time." and "dlsap« pointments leading to a general 1053 of enthusiasm." Leaders Cook and Parish still feel, however. that both the students and iaculty of the col- Iege have something to contri< bute to the rest of the com- munity—something more than the tutoring programs and Uncle Sam's Club. valuable though these projects are, structurally dead, REACH still exists as an idea and an Ideal.