Friday, March lo. lm ItIIlllllllllllllltlllllltlllllllltllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllltllilllllilllllillllllllllllllllllllltlltllllllllllltllllllllllllhlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlltttlllltttllltttllltttllltHlltttllllllllltlllltllllllllllillllllli Des Moines Poverty .s. . JOHN WOLF AND JEAN VANDERVOOT interview a resident of ill Bottoms area of Des Molnes in Novem- ber. I965. The interview we see special issue on poverty e Southeast 5 part at an wliieh liigli. SCARLET AND BLACK lighted the problems of ihe Bottoms Area. Eftorts to improve conditions there tee. financial lailuie if $6.000 cannot be raised to purchase new quarters in com- munity organiler Jim Dunn. Photo by John Phillips Bake Sale This Weekend Will Help Purchase New Quarters for Southeast Bottoms Project In an effort to raise a por- tion of the $6,000 the Des Molnes Southeast Bottoms Pro ject needs to purchase new quarters, Grinnell students are holding a campus-wide bake sale today and tomorrow. Pro- ceeds from the sale will go to- ward repaying several Iowa churches which have agreed to loan the project the money needed to purchase a private home to replace their recently condemned building. Jim Dunn, a community or. ganizer and lhe only lull time staifrmember with the South east aottoms Protect, described the area in which the project works as one where “Nearly 80% of the homes are listed as either deteriorating or dilapi- dated; the unemployment rate is 2.7 times greater than the city rate; the median education is 8th grade as compared to a city median or 12.3 grades; nearly 80% of the homes have outhouses and many of the peo- ple (40 or 50 families) have to walk In a converted horse drink~ ing trough tor water because they lack facilities in their homes.” The new building will be used [or administrative tasks and tund-raising activities, and Will serve as a meeting house for in- tormal conterences and special tutoring. Space will also be pro- vided for the Still Osteopathic Hospital and College which fur- nishes low-cost minimal health care for slum residents Today from 5:00 p.111. to 5:30 pm. women can order baked goods and have them delivered to their dorms. From 6:30 pm. to 11:30 pm. there will be more baked goods on sale at Cowles. Tomorrow, business will be held near the lunch lines and from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Gard- ner Lounge, at Cowles, and at The Lantern on Broad Street. Page Seven Orchesis Otters Varied Themes Orchesis will present its an- nual concert tonight and tomor- row night at 8 p.m. in Roberts Theatre. The program will in- clude a variety oi dance themes and styles, ranging from the light trivolity of “Games," which depicts the stages of de< velopment from early childhood to adolescence, to the classical elegance of “Baroque,” a re working of a dance from last year’s concert. Among the other selections Will be three studies based on the movement qualities of re- flection, repulsion, and attrac- tion, choreographed by Orchesis sponsor Betty v o e r t m a n (Speech and Theatre), and a series Di ethnic dances. The lat~ ter will include Hawaiian and Argentine dances performed by Orchesis president Sue Ogaml and Mrs. voertman, respective. ly, a Polish character danca done by Mrs. Judy Mendelsohn, and Philippine dances per- formed by Pedro Ronduen, a foreign student at Grinnell. and several Filipino students from Drake. Mrs. Voertman. who has not appeared with Orchesis in concert since 1964, will partici- pate in rive numbers. Several men will also dance in the program—in “Games," which tcatures nine couples, “A‘ Day in the Par choreo. graphed by Mrs. Voertman and Mrs, Mendelsohn, and two other numbers choreographed by Mrs. Mendelsohn. ‘Civil Rights Movement Not Dead,’ Delta Ministry Continues Support By Lilah Morton Is the Civil Rights Movement dead? Sue Geiger, representa- tive of the Delta Ministry Civil Right movement, who was on campus this week, doesn’t think so. According to Miss Geiger. “the demonstration phase of civil rights is dying because Vietnam demonstrations have taken over. But there is still a lot of work to be done. In the immediate future it is the state elections and, in the long run, it is education and econom- ic programs." Mississippi claims 26 of [he 64 civil rights workers left in the South. in previous summers, college students [took- ed to the South to work in the movement. Last summer there were only three students, all or whom were seminarians, working in Mississippi as part of their curriculum. Miss Geiger and her com- panion, Jean Phillips, discussed the project with several Grin- nell students. The discussion focused on the Federal Food Stamp program, poverty. dis- crimination, and the tutoring program being carried out by the Delta Ministry. The Delta Ministry is partially supported by the World Council of Churches, which considers Mis- sissippi as a prime area (or toreign mission money. Churcha es in Airica are supporting the Civil Rights movement in Mls< sissippi. The result of the dis« cussion is that Lucy Polerd, Grinnelt freshman, wants to volunteer to Work in Mississippi this summer. Miss Geiger’s re action was “Great! We need her and ten more like her.“ Lucy feels that “this is some- thing ! really want to do. I like to help people to the best of my ability. I get a lot of satisfaction out of it.” Lucy is concerned with the general poverty as well as with civil rights. She worked tor three weeks in Appalachia helping clear land for a school. Immediately after spring va- cation there will be a fund raising campaign to send Lucy to Mississippi tor the summer. A minimum of $300 will be needed for transportation, food, and lodging. Simultaneously, a campaign for paper, pencils and crayons will be staged. These materials are needed in the tutoring program. Anyone interested in joining Lucy this summer should con- tact Lilah Morton, ext, 564. 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Clearly, this was not the kind of student-teacher relationship I learned about in methods class. Nor, for that matter, had my iirst eight weeks or prac- lice-teaching prepared me tor such an encounter. Like the other 35 participants in the program, I spent the [list half of the semester in an cuterrcity, predominantly middle class high school. This school provided an excellent atmosphere in which to make my lirst “stab” at teaching, Except for overcrowding, it had relatively rew problems. It was not only blessed With an el- licient administration, but also with a competent, dynamic taculty. My supervising teacher loaned me two English literature clos— es, for which I assumed the full responsibility of planning, teaching, grading, and (Ilscl- pline. Most oi the students with whom I had Contact were in- telligent. creative. and cooper- htive. Granted, there were some See TEACH on Pane 0 now ‘ JUDY ROETMAN, Gretchcn Brewer. and Ann: Sproguo (l—v) spent several weeks pracrlco teaching in Chloe-go school; lost -» semester as part at the ACM's Chicago Urban Semester program. Photo by loss: Kum