Iriday. November 24. I?" SCARLET AND BLACK IIII IMMODEST PROPOSAL By DON WINNEY Author's note: Any sexual or otherwise scintillating sym- bolism herein stated, whether intended or distended, ex« tended or attended is hereby declared slmply symbolism, unless otherwise perverted. Not long ago our esteemed President declared there is a Resl~ dential Hall Problem, not to be confused with last year‘s South Campus Problem or the previous year's North Campus Problem, He asked for a frank Solution and now, Irl all immodesty, I should llke to propose a very natural one. But first, perhaps an existential example from my tnil at Grinnell will help one candidly conceptu- alize this humble answer. A couple years ago one spring rlot night after diligently wres< ding with the social implications of my gradepoint, I was calmly contemplating realities of existence in a North Campus lavatory. There, surrounded by cool green walls, lulled by a sweet, seques- tered quietiide occasionally rippled by the sibilaut suddenness ol sloshing water, I gargled transfixed by the Very pastoral sanctity of this haven, reminded as indeed William Wordsworth was of nature's welcome refreshment. "Five times," I murmured to the rythmic rain of cleansing water, “Five long times have I passed to thee this day. And again I hear these waters swelling from their natural spring i . “Pooh, you 5.0.3., you," I heard a friend politely posit. I ma quiesced to that affectionate euphemism, although no one before had ever called me “Pooh." “Pooh," he implored, “This bitch has to take a ———” “cognizance of our facilities?" 1 suggested. He was referring to the sleepy, curvacious bundle of silken beauty seductively nes- tled in his virile arms. “Why certainly," l replied, although dutl< fully noting its gender, one usually foreign to our North Campus facilities. He gently dropped her on the floor along with several cans of roaming liquid and staggered to the mirror where he wrote in lipstick some obscure classical word, it looked like a derivative form of the Latin Verb “iucco, fuccere,” “Come on, Pooh," he begged in a somewhat unscholarly man- ner, “Let's leave this bitch and go rape South Campus." Why what did he mean? Never before had I been proffered such a philosophical proposition. After all. it might be easy to do that kind of thing to a bitch. But tn a universal . , . Suddenly I seemed confronted with a moral dilemma of enormous propor- tion, one unequal to my mental or physical fortitude. Should l fol- low my friend‘s sinuous and sinful path to South Campus like an animal or should I remain here amidst the amenities of Civilizav tion? That was the question: To go or not to go? I had to go. Quickly I walked over to the lacility, Just then, however, this bitch started tervently clawing at my leg. I looked down and as i did. as 1 gazed upon those sultry lips, upon that silken skin and sensuous body, upon that wagging tail, it was as if the burdens of Civilization were somehow to be discharged, as if face to face we stood naked unto the world unashamed oi out corporal beings and now awed with a transcendental sense at hu- man bretherhnod. l quickly pulled up my pajamas. As my uncouth friend impatiently left, I graciously held the door or the faculty open while she soampercd in. Yet I too was relieved. At last there was a solution to the Residential Hall Proh- lem a a civilizing emission at the human condition: coeducational johns. DEFENSE PLANNED AS INVADERS RETURN Again alter legal visiting hours, though this week on Fri- day night. six strange young men found their Way into Read, Loose. and Meats dormitories, They went first to Read, en— tering by the loggia door and passing a Read girl who had witnessed the invasion of Sat- urday the eleventh. She said: “At least one of them was the same; he was a big guy and easily recogniz< able. One wore a jacket turned inside out, but it flapped open and showed a William Penn College insignia," and added, "They were drunker this time.” One man entered a second . floor room but left when told by the surprised girl that she was going to call the police. The SIX then went (0 Loose lounge where Bette Davis, Res- Idellt Adviser, prevented them from entering actual bedrooms. She phoned the police, was told about the Road call, gave dlr recllOllS In the dormitories and went to Main to look for the patrol car already en route to South Campus. Their last Visit was to Mears. “About 12:15 a.m. I went to my mom; i opened the door. A guy was sitting inside on the windowsill, using my tele- phone," a Mears girl said. The window, which had no look, was open, revealing the boy's friends who were waiting outside on the fire escape. The loose window screen had been torn off. “I asked him What he was doing and he asked to make a ‘phone call," she continued, “I told him he couldn’t, pried his fingers from the phone, and pushed him out the Window, onto the fire escape. They ran to their car which. she said, was a red Chevy Convertible with a white top The police, although they have not caught the offenders, re< portedly told the nightwatch- man that the boys were from Brooklyn, lcwu. Rlc MacDowell, at the Senate BOOK REVIEW ON NELLY SACHS, HER POETRY By GEORGE YOUNG, RUSSIAN The first German-English edi- tlon of the collected poems of Nelly Sachs (0 The Chimneys, published last month by Far- rat, Strauss, and Girou) is a book of very important poems, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, in his introduction to the book. calls the oeuvre of Nelly Sacha great and mysterious, two words which are among the first we teach freshmen to avoid when writing about liter- ature. But Enzensberger use! the right words, Her poetry is great because in poem after poem Nelly Sachs iinds human voice and human words adequate to speak of the inhuman and unspeak- able agony of the death camps. Her poetry is mysterious be- cause her words, her Voice, her images quietly, without forcing or fudging, transmute real Bgunles into real joys. in her poems the dust that rises from the death furnaces becomes, by magic that is not slight-of—hand, the dust the butterlly carries on his wings. The dust from Dachau is carried, by winds which man can not control, across seas to become the soil of Israel. The themes here are the old, timeless ones: death and re- birth, catastrophe and redemp< tinn. But what is fresh and timely is the voice with which Nelly Sachs speaks of these deaths and these reblrlhsi One certain problem for ev- eryone today. but especially tor the literary artist, is that daily one witnesses and learns more of the unspeakable, but one has only words. Nelly Sachs fled from Germany to Sweden in 1940, when, as she said, lan- guage was all she had left. Not many writers in any language can lind words that say more than a picture of a pile of emar ciated bodies, or Words that speak more eloquently than the seven digit number of the people wllo were killed. Only the rare Word \leI not bounce back, only the rare voice will not scream or fail. Moreover, the news media show us so much of the unspeakable so Often that our ears no longer hear, say, the weekly boxscores from Vietnam; our eyes no longer see that humans, not just televised objects, are be- ing killed. For sanity we make ourselves blind, deaf, dumb. The achievement of Nelly Sachs is that she gives us eyes (her eyes on the dust jacket photograph are unforgettable), ears, and Voice to rehumanize ourselves as, today. we con- stantly must. meeting Tuesday night, said that a member of the C0 of H P will be stationed in the quad in Resident AdVIser Suzi Ar- genti’s room, from 10:00 pm. to 12:00 p,m. Wednesday through Saturday and should he called by anyone in trouble. He will notily Cogswell, MacDowell or Dean Thompson, who Will then investigate. rig. Thru IIEIIN PATROL ROOMER RUMOR Uncommon to popular belief, up student has yet been tound in violation of residence hall regulations, Dean Thompson said. Asked about patrolling, he said that there has not been any since the Spring Riot last year. and he does not plan any in the near future; he has no plans for, as he puts it, “wane dering around looking for trou- ble." Thompson does, however, reserve the right to intervene if informed specifically of any trouble. Thompson said that house councils, consisting of elected officials, seemed to give pri- mary loyalty to their constitu- ents than to the administration in conflicts that arise between the two. A “civil service sys- tern," he stated, might there fore be preferable. The South Campus ”batilehoard system" was commended by Dean Thompson as one such example. ) NEWS BRIEFS (Continued tram page 2) function — advising Volun- teers and trainees of Selective Service laws and procedures and confirming to local boards the fact of the Volunteer's serv- ice. In future appeals, Vaughn will write letters to the board , describing the circumstances in each case and urging board members to grant a determent until completion of the Volun< teer's overseas tour. “We have a serious situa- tion," he said. “The problem of induction notices to overseas Volunteers is becoming a ma- jor concern for us. Pulling a Volunteer off a productive job at midatcur is unfair to the na- tion, the host country, the Peace Corps and the individu- al.” SOCIOLOGISTS TAPPED The Grinnell Chapter of Al- pha Kappa Delta, the national sociological honor society, has initiated four senior majors in- to Its membership this month: Betty Brandis, Edith Peterson, Evelyn Sugawa, and Ruthena Sternberg. Membership in the national Headquarters For: society is most commonly ro- served for graduate students but the Grinnell Sociology Depart- ment in 1962 became the firs! strictly undergraduate depart- ment permitted to organize n chapter. in addition to the four initi- ates Richard Kessler is a hold— over member from last year. TEACHER TALKS Marie Martin, Grinnell '64. will speak on her three years or teaching in India, today at 4 pm. in the South Lounge. Miss Martin spent her “Filth Year Abroad" teaching at Ah- mednagar College near Born- bay. 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