SCARLET 8 BLACK Student Newspaper of Grinnell College 1202 Perk Street Grinnell College Grinnell, Iowa son: A weekly newspaper published each rridny of the coliegc year by tho GlilIItL-ll coinnnttec on sni- usni riioiiciiiions, Represenicd on national raver- tlsing by Nailollni Educational Advertising scivicrs. soo chlllgtoll Ave, New York, New York lflol’lt second cirss postage paid it Grinnell, lows. sutr script. ate 55.00 per school year. woo paid subscripilons. OPS Member of tho Collegiate Press Scrvlco corral: MANAGING enrrok nusmrss MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAGER srnrr worsens Barry Anconn . Neil riscnci Stephen warsn . nruce sironi Marine Berkcy, cordon Christensen, Snsrn Edwards, Anne stirrer, Debbie Gcniry, Jack cochenouer, Andy rsurcs, orvid lrrurinnn, Adrienne Lemmons, Molly McGuire. sire Miller, Paul Nncninnn, Jo" Sci-comer, Gerald swunsnn, Ann rrirel, Anne rnylor. PHOTOGRAPHERS .c Alan semi-rat, Don neclicr, Leigh smiths. melt rreuinoiui Editorials . . . MORE OPENS TALK Discussion oi open dorms reached a new level of absurdity this week with the adoption of the Rawson Proposal by the Senate. Passage of the proposal demonstrated that President Leggett’s speech two weeks ago missed the ears of those people to whom it was olficlally directed. The president has made it clear that extensions of open dorms will come, at the earliest, after many other major changes are made in the structure of student living. We must agree that there are other areas of student life equally in need of improvement, and that if all improvements other than increased opens were made, Grinnell would not be such a bad place after all. Continued pressure for open dorms can only disturb the faculty and administration, to say nothing of the students who would like to see energy devoted to improvements that will be made As for tho advocation of revolution, let us remember that we are a small, private, isolated school, and that the only result of a student uprising is likely to be a lot of exstudehts. The 5&5 is in favor of an extension of open dorms to 24 hours every day. But given the unyielding attitude in Hurling Basement, we must he content, temporarily, to work on Grinnell's other prob— ‘9is And bear in mind, fellow hypocrites, that the fight is not for open dorms — it is for legal open dorms. ENCAMPMENT AND THE REPORT it is unfortunate that the report of the Faculty Committee on Academic Life will not be ready for Encampment. The weekend retreat would have provided the ideal time for students, faculty, and administrators to discuss the report and exchange ideas. Serious Encampment discussion of academic life (and that seems to be an all inclusive term) will be limited by the fact that the report, although not here yet, is coming soon. And when it does finally reach the students, it looks like it will be almost the end of the semester, is time when the strain of academic life precludes discussion of it. STATEMENT or owwnnsmr. Mnmamem AND cracuumort orinneil Colitis scarlet and Black, lzoz Park Street, Gnnnell. roweihiek, Town soliz ruuiisned every Friday of the school year by the committee on Student, Publications, Grinnell colleen. Grinnell, lowa soilz. EDITOR: Barry Ancona , MANAGlNG solron: Nell riscner i Averlge No. Copies single issur Elfin isiue During Nearest io rrrceoiiig i2 Months riiinr pair Total No. copies printed mm moo cuinpns Distribution . , LZDO 1,3917 Mall suhsciiriions , soo in Total Yald Cltculatinn new has me Distritniiion iun 1W Total Distribution . 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These Hondkniis Fly Off Your Fingers With Supersonic Speed RGtJ 905 MAIN SCARLET AND BLACK IlllUllllllllillUllllllllllllllllillllllllHillllllllllllllllllllillilillllii LETTERS TO THE EDITOR s‘iliilHlililHllillHtilllHitlilHimiHimlllilHlliilHliiliiilillilltlilllllfi NOlSE AT MAIN DOOR To the Editor: On a campus where matters of importance to the academic and social structure of the COL- lege community are being ier— vently discussed and debated, I wonder if I am justified in mentioning a subject such as "courtesy” To be blunt. people returning through Main door from midnight on 'till three cm. are noisy and boisterous to the degree at which sleep for a typical resident of Main hall has become an impossibil- ity. With the institution of tho rio—hours policy, it is, of course, natural and expected for people to be using Main door trorn midnight on. And any person would agree that conversation at Main door is no oddity, but rather a normal thing. The point that i want to make is that when such conversation reaches an intensity at which the residents of Main cannot get to sleep, even after closing the windows, a problem defi- nitely exists. I would like to request that individuals e i i h o I conclude their laughing, singing, and talking a iew hundred feet away from Main door, or that they substantially decrease their volume upon approaching Main door. Carol A. HollOn PENZNER ON CROSSETT To the Editor: ’ it was truly disconcerting Io read the letter by Professor John Crossett in tile last issue of the sour To find that a man with a Ph.D. would adopt the role of Grinnell's Joe Fyne is certainly had for the image of Grinnell as on intellectual and rational college. Mr. Crossett at- tacks the GSM on the basis of its grammar and syntax rather than its ideasr Perhaps even more discorh certing than his attempt to dis- credit GSM was his approach to argument in general. His re- search of the GSM would he analogous to a dissertation about the llllad using Monarch Notes as one’s only source. Mrs Cros< settl has not appeared at any of the meetings of the GSM. All were publicly announced Mr. Crosseit has failed to contact any GSM member as to his own personal feelings However, before falling into the same pitialls as Mr. CmS< sett, let me enlarge upon the “out of context" quotations re fered to by him. it has become apparent that the opens issue had become a closed issue due to the attitudes of the admire istration. President Leggett, in an interview with B GSM mem- ber, had stated, as he reiterated the following Sunday, that there was to be no extension oi open dorms, It therefore became evi- dent to the GSM opens commit- tee that the only avenue for Friday, ociohsi 6, [91:7 didliddi. dhhddlddh By Neil Fischer American campus creative writing usually has two outlets — collegersponsored workshops and lavatory walls. But at Grinnell conscientious B846 sanitation engineers wipe the slick walls of Forum privies clean of the day’s poetics late each night. And every year students await a long-anticipated cre- olive writing course which never seems to materialize. And while the “History of Grinnell College” lecture perennially bills this place as “a continuation of the New England tradition of small liberal arts colleges,” it is an entertaining footnote to (his history of hired education that all New England Colleges and uni< versities now offer one or more classes in creative writing. Smith College has five creative writing courses and seminars; Amherst has four; the University of Massachusetts has nine}; MiTJ'. even has one, For that matter We never heard of a college — save Grinnell — that doesn’t offer some sort oi creditable work in written cra- ativity. But the Howard oi Poweshlelr County, I guess, doesn't see the med for nary a wrifing course. I wonder why Parsons has t . We, of course, have our wri ng labs and our one journalism professor and — believe it or not — one course in our catalogue which might — incorrectly — be imputed as a writing course. And so irate professors who read the fine print in our fine bul- letin will, i suppose, write in correcting me: ' “Well, Mr. Fischer, I’m surprised at you. We have Expository and Narrative Writing — that is to say, English 204 — and how dare you print that, anyhow?" But before you correct me, Mr. Crossett, I might tell you that English 204 this year has been mutated into a class in Formal Rhetoric with little or no creativity required or even encouraged. While Jaundice — my erstwhile muse of joumalism — and I were planning this syndicated outrage, Joe Krausman pounced on us with the same — all too valid — complaint. “it’s a crime. It’s an insult. Tt‘s shockingly incredible that a college of this caliber doesn’t have a course in creative writing . t . And I think the reason is that English professors are usually pedants,” quoth he, Krausman tells me that English departments generally have two objections to teaching creative w "ng: (l_) they think good writing is God-given (Hello, again, Mr. C) ahd (2) all of the profes- sure "would raihei- criticize great writing than help students pro- duce good wri ng"; in other words, nobody will teach it. Great writing may be God-given, but as John Ciardi mused in a recent Saturday Review, “t . . even a shmoo might recognize that writers, whatever their divine condition, learn from one an- otherr” And re somebody to teach the course, 1 guess while we dish out a million dollars plus for a PE. complex (which most people justify because “we can always use it") it takes a poverty-stricken resident advisor (Krausman) and a Russian professor (George Young) to organize and finance an oifrcampus writers workshop. Again, I emphasize that this isn’t my problem. My creative outlet is this column, and that — believe me — is a problem. But for the students flocking to the writer's workshop on Sun- day afternoon and to Paul Jones’ poetry workshop because there’s no creativity on campus, it is a problem. And I suppose when the Haveman manifesto comes out pro claiming a new academic environment at Grinnell, the lltemry artists have to go back to the Forum johns and suifer and hope that at least E&G will read their poems before they scour them away change left open was that of revolution I now believe even more strongly that this is true, It. was also our opinion that be- fore the student body would take this truly unpleasant road they would have to be informed of the President’s position it seemed to us that the sooner the problem was solved the bet- ter all of us — administration, faculty and students — would i'eel. A value judgement had to be made. How important is stu- dent social seltreguiation? it is a question all of us must an- swer helore engaging in revolu- tion, I do not relish revolution, but it is the only choice pre- sently confronting students, l would ask tlhen, that Mr. Crossett direct his remarks to the issues as drawn by Eric Thor and Ron Steinhorn in past issues of the Nil 1 would hope that he does not continue to be- come involved in out of context quotations, poorly worded head- lines, and wall posters He has an open invitation to meet with any of us or in come to any of our discussions and meetings. Michael Pens/er LOST 8i FOUND Students have requested that a centralized campus lost-and< found agency he established to eliminate the extra steps and confusion associated with the multiple, informal lost- and- found agencies which now exist. The College Book Store has been designated to act as the campus lostrand-found agency. Now and in the. future, all articles in informal lost-and- found agencies and articles which appear to be lost and whose owners cannot be iden- tified, should be promptly turned over to the College Book Store Patronize Our Advertisers