SCARLET 8 BLACK Efudenl’ Newspaper of Grinneli Collego 1101 Park SIM BIIIMII Colloqo GMT. low. lo"! A weekly newspaper publishzd Inch Friday of P d" college year by the Grinnell Committee on SW- en! Publicationl. Represented [or national adver- Mumb" 0' 0h. using by National Advmilinfl Service. 1M» Colloid Yuhilshun R nresemntlve 15 Eur 50th Strut. New “ll-oint- cm 22. is Second cl... gauge and It Grinnell. pm. My“ prion nub ti on rcnool you. into uni-mu . MANAGING EDITOR pnid'rubscripuo . business mucosa CIRCULATION HANAG um Anon- Neti mun . cupnen WInh Incl Stron- Editorials . . . THE COLLEGE CABIN The college cabin at Rock Creek is being sold. The state Wants ID expand the facilities at the State Park, and is in the process of purchasing the land owned by the college The loss of the Cabin is unfortunate for Grinnell students. Al- Ihough the steep and often muddy path from the road and the outmoded restroom facilities detracted somewhat from the cabin’s popularity, it provided on adequate shelter, privacy. and — most important —- was privately owned. ' The State Park closes at 10:30 pm, and imposes restrictions on cooking fires. Other parks with adequate shelters and cooking iaciliiies are at a iinancially prohibitive distance for casual use. There are two questions arising from the coming sale of the cabin. Since the sale is not even near the final stages, why can’t we use the Cabin this Fall? Lee Arbetman, North Campus Social Chairman, was told by Dean Winters that the Cabin was in need of repair. We were told last Fall that the cabin was in need of repair, yet it was used. Arbetman oliered in help pay for repairs from the social fund, but Winters said the cabin was closed pezu manently. The second question involves the future of oiiscampus property for social programming. According to Mr. Lambie, business mana- ger of the college, there has been no discussion of purchasing any property to replace Lake Acre. Loss of the cabin Is a further restriction on already limited op- portunities ior social activities. Failure to secure a new location for an off»calnpus cabin would be unlorgivable. REVOLUTION The September Revolution was shortliveo. Worried house Iimsidenls stood before their restless flocks, and explained that ‘Leggett was ready ID let It third of the faculty and twothirds of the students go" in order to maintain the supremacy of the rule: over upstart students. The masses were lulled. A catalog of possible college improve— ments was read at Wednesday’s open Senate meeting by Ric MacDowell. At that same meeting, Chairman of the Faculty Wall [aid that the Curriculum Committee repon should reach the stu- dents in November. The activists returned to the underground, Part of their work had been successiul. The idea of revolution had been instilled upon the minds or the members or the college community. Few of us would welcome an open revolution and its necessary repercussions; however, even fewer of us are satisfied with cola iege social regulations as they stand now. Somewhere between revolution and maintaining the status quo lies the desirable course for liberalization. IT We really believe that social rules change is important, let us not be timid about steering closer to the former. THE STUDENT HANDBOOK i got out my Student Handbook the other day. I wanted to brush up on regulations covering Sunday aiternoon open house. I was rather surprised to iind that the page designated for this topic in the Table of Contents was blank. Looking through the handbook, I noticed a total of four blank pages. included among the topics to be covered were open house regulations and the Preamble to the SGA Constitution . Was this some colossal printing error that went unnoticed, or did it happen only in my copy? or aren‘t there any open dorm rules this year? LANCAN OFFICERS ELECTED Langan hail lined its vacant offices tor this academic year semesterr chuck Main replaces Pittman as vicepresidont. Neil Fischer was elected to fill the hall’s vacant Senate seat, All student: hitcrested in participating in a writers’ workshop in poetry, prose, wednesday night. As all candi- dates ran unopposed, they were elected by acclamation. John Pittman was elected gesident ol the hall. He had en the acting president since the last week or the previous or piaywriting, are invited to come In Ibe Coffee House Sunday at 8 pm. Questions about the workshop should be directed to Paul Jones or John Herr. SCAR LIT AND ILACI LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LONELINESS To the Editor: Although back as a senior, i must suggest after only a week oi’ encountering a raw hardened Grinnellians ( h I I sometimes "aloneness" is cultivated by the Grinnell student as a lign of his tough individuality, his lack of Med for others not like himself. Appreciation of variety, par- ticularly of personal types, often seems lacking, sometimes causing paintul hardness and discourtesies. In turn, these conditions make “aloneness” a necessity for some. I miss my individualistic and liberal friends the one who stressed kindness. the one who admired the courage of Grinnell's not so well accepted who looked for the beauty, dig- nily, humor, irony, and variety in life, and the one whose cro- ntive endeavors were visited upon others. Example can be tound in the remaining human- Ists. Hopefully, Grinnell will not become a boring, humorless haven of recluses who come out only to serve popular causesl T h e n interpersonal respect might approach the level of aha stract social concern on our campus. Carolyn zeman FISCHER’S COLUMN To The Editor: Mr. Neil Fischer’s column in the last issue seemed to me worthy of comment. As I recall, last year the student leaders announced that it was sufficient to abolish women’s hours at once; any problems arising from that action could be taken care of afterwards with no inconveni- once. It would appear that Mr, Fischer is beginning to See what others, myself included, argued all last year — that the action was too hasty and that inade« quate planning had been done. May 1 say that i was struck by the maturity of Mr. Fischer’s solution? He writes, ”Get angry, and tell them what you want." I believe that the technical name for such behavior is “tantrum." .lohn Crossett QUIET IN THE LIBRARY To Tile Editor: Libraries are traditionally places in which the maintenance of quiet is almost religiously ob- served. The Students here at Grinnell have found that this il one tradition worth savmgr Even during the peak evening study hours, when hundreds of stir dents paclt the reading room and other study areas, there can be heard only an occasional murmured conversation. It is quite distressing, then, that during the day there are voices that echo throughout the library I, and probably many or my fellow students, would appreciate from Mn Alden and the library sialf the same re< spect and consideration for the study habits of others that most Students are careful to observe. Tom Jackson RADIO STATION Friday EXPECTED TO START THIS SEMESTER Two years of hard work will pay off when the new campus FM radio station sin its first broadcast sometime in late November. in the meantime, m energet- ic and enthusiastic stall mem- bers, under the direction of Station Manager armi Armajani will undergo extensive techni- cal training in the areas or newswriting, control operation, programming and announcing. Construction will start shortly on the station's studio which is to be located under the stadium at the south end of Ward Field. Equipped with a wioot an- [cons and a lO—watt transmit- ter donated by Mr. Robert Noyce, President of the Grin- nell College Board of Trustees, the station will insure quality broadcasting up to a distance of 21/, miles Tentative plans tall hr thc nation to operate on followul Monday - Thursday 7 am. I 1 am; Friday and Saturday 7 am. — . 5 pm. and 9 pm, - 1 am; Sunday - 1 ram. to midnight. in addition to a regular sched- uling of news, sports, and pop. ular and classical music, the radio station's proposed sched- ule allows two hours per day of prime time for special pro- gramming. This provision will make possible delayed broad- casts of campus lectures and concerts besides the presenta- tion of leased radio tapes and syndicated features such as Tho Shadow and The Green Hornet. A prayer beginr every slid Photo by Don Hacker own dim... .i the Quad. PRAYERS AT OIIAD DINNER' ARE THEY} NECESSARY? By DON HECKER One of the last vestiges of Grinnell College’s past as a churchrsponsored institution can still be seen every night at 5:40 at the Quad. it is the custom or singing a short grace before the regular sit- down dinner, The singing of grace at the Quad is, according to Dean Low, “merely a tradition train the past.” “This type of cere- mony is characteristic of pri- vatelyrowned liberal arts cob ieges," she explained She believes the singing or grace adds to line total atmos- phere at traditional, gracious dining. Last year, South Campus voted to retain the custom. One Read junior stated that she was under the impression that most people were indiiter- ent or opposed to the prayers. She assumed that they would be discontinued in a few weeks. For herself, she said: “I feel that I am singing a solo every time." Another girl commented that It seemed that her friends could never get through prayers With- out giggling. Althuugh there seems to in little enthusiastic support for the prayers, Dean low indicated that she had received no air jections, and that therelore there has been no thought to discontinuing the grace. At least one of the prayers is theologically unacceptable to religious groups that do not ac< cept the trinitarian doctrine. it is also opposed to the belicls of any taith that does not accept the doctrine of forcing their beliefs on the general public, and all noanesiern religions. Dean Low explained that stu- dents have a choice, and do not have to attend sit-down dinner, but suggested that per sons who might have Io attend could only stand silently. The Quad custom is not com- parahle to the arrangement at Cowles, where only a moment of silence is observed at sil- downs. The Cowies system al- lows for wide religious divers- ity. Patronizc Our Advertisers