SCARLET 8 BLACK Student Newspaper ct Grinnell College l201 Pout street Grinnell College Grinnell, law will A wcckly newspnper published soon Friday of the college year by tnc Grinnell Committee on Stuw dcnt Publications. Represenled tor national adverv tlsmg by National Educsuonnl Advertising services, 360 Lexington Ave, New York, New York won. second class hostage hold ht Grilltleil. Iowa. Sub- scnption rute $5.00 per school year. mm paid subscriptions. EDITOR . MANAGIN BUSINESS MANAGER CIRCULATION MANAG STAFF WRITERS 7 Barry Anemia Neil rlschcr stephen Worsn uruce slrom . , n Christensen. Edwards, Auuc rnrrer, ncooie Gentry, Andy Isaacs, Adrienne Lcmmons, sue lvlillt-r, rnul Nacnnlarl, .icii Schecktcr. ocrold Swims-m. Anne Tnylor . Alon hemhardt. Don Hooker, Dick Treumnnu Editorials . . . THIS IS NOT AN EDITORIAL This is not an editorial. If you were expecting the son's analy- sis of, and pronouncements on, a critical issue facing the campus today, I’m sorry. There were quite a few things to write about this week. Grin- hell was Visited by a “new politician" and a “radical pacifist," the radio station is having a hard time getting on the air, and North Campus men can‘t decide whether their biggest enemy is the Dean of Men or themselves. My chief cause of concern, and the reason that there is no editorial this week, is the problem of objectivity. Basic to any edi- torial policy must be an objective and objectivity. My objective is simple: I wish to see students have the greatest opportunity to live and learn, academically and otherwise, during their {our years at Grinnell. I am sure that this objective does not differ greatly from the wishes of the faculty and administration, but the specific methods to foster this opportunity will. ii I am to per- suade anyone that my method is better than theirs, I must be Ob‘ ijective. Shouting, demonstrating, and poking fun may be enjoy- able and sotisiying pastimes, but they will not convince anyone or anything. One of the most dangerous imitators of objectivity is the edi- mrial plural, If you read "the 5&3 feels that. r . r” you will prob- ably think about the problem a bit when I sit down to write an editorial, and I’m thinking about my girlfriend a thousand miles away, an hourly tomorrow, and when I have to do my next laun- dry, I don't feel too much like an editorial we. But if I write ”I {eel that . . .” you are likely to think “goody for you, Ancona_" If 1 am going to honestly convince you ot anything, without beguiling you into believing that I am speaking for a committee of leading thinkers, it must be done by me, not "us.” Getting a clear understanding of any issue on campus is diffi- cult, and is further complicated by sixteen credits of courses (a lubtle plug tor academic credit lor the editorship). Getting a grasp an a major campus issue is dilficult for an administrator to do In a year, much less is student —- whose main concern, unlike the administrator, is not campus problems — for a weekly deadline. The use of reason, which is basic to any argument, seems to be missing quite olten from discussions on campus. When I pointed up what seemed to me to b? contradictions in Edward Holtmans’ argument during his South Lounge speech Wednesday, he replied that it was a paradox. I guess it you‘re “right” and you face a contradiction, you’re allowed to Call it a paradox. But how can you determine logically if you are right beiorc reaching the cou- tradiction? You can't. And it you can‘t discuss your position log< icaliy, you can’t discuss it at all. 1 have barely scratched the surface oi the problems surround. lng editorial writing in a liberal arts college in a world or change, but if yoll see an editorial next week, do me, and yourself, a iavor. ,Think less about “where [he 5&B stands” and more about why. Barry Ancona Transferring out (if Grinnell? A number of students seem to be initiating transfer applications. it you are leaving Grinnell for soother college or university, the 5&3 is inter- ested in your reasons and rationale and any problems you have encountered In making application. Put your name in Box Number 259 or the 5&3 box and you will be inter- viewed. Applications for the 3&1} Editorshlp for 1968 should be sent to Mr. Cleaver, chairman of the Committee on Student Publications, before Wednesday, November 11. SCARLET AND ILACK gullIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIINIIIIIMIIIIIIIII|lilllllllllllllliflllllllNlllillil LETTERS TO THE EDITOR millilitlllliilliilllllilllilllllllillllllllllllllilillllillilllllllillillllll in: To the Editor: In the last issue of the 5&1! Mr. Deblcki, of the Spanish De partment. properly undertook to correct some factual errors made in u previous issue of the paper. In doing so, how- ever, he seems to have com— mitted an error of his own. He wrote: “Emphasis in the course (Humanities) is on Ilt~ erary analysis in depth through the irequent writing or papers which are thoroughly criticized by the instructor, and through conferences.“ But the purpose of the Hu- manities course is not “Empha- sis on literary analysis." In 1963 Mr, Dehicki himself was on the committee which pre- pared 8 “manual for instruc- tors" in the Humanities; in that manual appears "A Rationale for Grinnell's Course in the Humanities". There, on p. a, the manual states: The course has a twofold purpose: 1) to introduce a student to humanistic works with which an educated per- son should be acquainted; and 2) to train him in the skills necessary to relevant appreciation and use oi the great creative works of men. The new report on curriculum currently under consideration lists the purposes of the Hu- manities course as lour in num- ber; they are substantially the same as the two listed in the manual whi ch Mr. Debicki helped to prepare. It would be unfortunate if the Humanities were ever re duced to the status of being merely a course in "literary appreciatlon", like “chemistry appreciation” or "physics ap< preciatlon" and other such courses in science lor non- majors. The idea of a non- majnr in Humanities is direct- ly counter to the aim of a liberal arts college. John Crossett Classics To the Editarl I am one of the “Requiem people” mentioned in last week’s 5&3 in the editorial and in Neil Fischer's column, and I am keenly interested to learn of any Convocation events I may have missed. I attended every panel (with the exception of the Saturday morning con< flict): ate two meals with plan ticipants; was a Campus guide for the entire weekend for all- other participant: and attended 5 e v e r a1 informal discussions with participants in the balls. I even got to the dance. In no way did my pcriorming the Requem impede my involvement in the rest of the Weekend activities. . . Ann I. Kirschner UNICEF CARDS UNICEF cards will be on sale at the downtown Post Of- iice. The campaign for the in- ternatiunal humanitarian organ- ization is being run by the Griunell Chapter of the United Nations Association. Cards will be on sale from nine to live, weekdays, until December 1v Nov-min! I7. ”2] ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR By Nei Fischer, MEMO T0: Ron Miller, Vietnam Committee, GSM (et 31.) FROM: Neil Fischer, 5&3 SUBJECT: Is there a Vietnam petition or isn’t there a Vietnam petition or where in hell is the Vietnam petition or whatever happened to the Vietnam petition, anyway? “I’m copplng out." That, Mr. Miller, is what you told me a few minutes ago after I saw you sit through a tworhour discussion with an Iowa protessot who just turned in his draft card. I believe you, Mr. Miller, and I think you ought to he blasted this week. ‘ i wanted to turn this columns garish little scarohlight on po< lin‘cal animals _ democratic and republican — at Grimell in this issue, but I’m going to turn it on you instead. Two and o hail weeks ago you, Mr. Miller — in the midst of a long forgotten Convocation and long before a lengthy mid- sem break — fired up this campus to sign an anti-war petition bombasting a war “immoral in its useless loss of lives.” You were very concerned, Mr. Miller, about the precise syn. tax or your sentences. 1 made a mistake in writing about your pe. titiorl, Mr. Miller; I called the War “immoral and a useless loss of lives." You seemed so genuinely concerned for your petition that the sail; ran a special boxed correction pointing out the mistake, it was a little change, Mr. Miller, but I was happy to make it for you because I thought you were genuinely devoted to your causal I tried to give you more coverage in the 5&3 than any othal convocation event I made sure you got your picture in the paper, Mr. Miller. I saw to it that the Des Moines newspapers and wire services got stories about you, Mr. Miller, and about your petition and your Vietnam Committee and your GSM. i signed your petition, Mr. Miller. Forty percent of the student body signed your petition, Mr. Miller. Ashley Montagu signed it, Mr. Miller; so did Mar- , tin Luther King. A nice lady from The New York Times even interviewed you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller, you told me Lyndon Johnson would he sent a copy, of the petition . . t and Dean Rusk and Rockefeller and a whole lot of other people. You told me, Mr. Miller, that if I paid for it I could send coplel to my congressmen at home. What will you write my congressmen now, Mr. Miller? Will you tell them that “about a month ago less than hall of Ihe students at a tiny, isolated college bus stop signed a petition?" Is that what you‘ll say in the letter you’ve been drafting for two and a half weeks, Mr. Miller? That’s old news. Mr. Miller. If you had sent it out when it was fresh, Mr. Miller, tl might have meant something. What does it mean now, Mr. Miller? You told me that some of the signatures were falsified and some of the names non-existent. You told me you had to check them, Mr. Miller. Does it take you and your committee — you, who lired up al~ most half the campus in a week — [Wu and a half weeks and more on check twenty potentially-false signatures? Twenty, by your own estimate, Mr. Millerr Does it take two and a half weeks and more to make a public announcement of how many signatures you got, Mn Miller? well. does it? Does it take you that long to type them out and write a letter giving background on your petition? What, in fact, have you been doing with the Vietnamese peti- tion since October when it was signed? It is now the middle Of November, Mr. Miller, I have seen you in the Forum gleefully poring over yuurrpetl- tion on several occasions since convocation. l have asked you, several times, for a breakdown of the signatures, Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller, I think you have done all of those who signed that petition, all of those who considered it everywhere ironl Main Lounge to the Wednesday night Senate meetings, all ot those who thought about it and publicized it and wrote home about it a vast injustice. And this week, Mr. Miller, I want you to do something about it. I only have one more rhetorical question for you, Mr. Millenl Are you going to send copies of those signatures out or are you going to use them for notebook paper? I hope you take this column personally, Mr. Miller, I hope people come up to you and ask you about the petition. I hope people get angry about it, Mr. Miller, and about you. And then I hope you crawl out of your lethargy and print thou signatures. Mr. Miller. And 1 hope it isn’t too late.