SCARLET & BLACK Student Newspaper of Grinnell College one. again, the oldest collage newspaper west of the Mississippi VJ. Lxxv GrinnaII, Iowa, Friday, December I, I967 No. it COLLEGE TRUSTEES UP TUITION S20 . TOTAL FEES SSTOO illlillillilillllilllllillllilllllllililllmllllllllllilllllllllllllllIIlllllIliillIIlliIIIlliIIIlil|IIilllIIIillllllilllliiillllillllilllillilllIIIllllllllllllllllllilllllillllllllllIIIillllllllilllilllllilllllilllllllllllllllllllllllluilllllllllllllllllllillllllillllllllliiillliiillllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIlllIIIlllillllliillllllillillllllllllllilllllllllllllllillli SENATE DEBATES CONSTITUTION CHANGES glilllllllllmlllllllllliiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllli "- NEWS BRIEFS fillllllillllllliillllllilllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilfi INTERIM TOPICS ANNOUNCED The American Indian, an his~ toricai approach to Vietnam, Black Power and Negro His- tory, Theories of Evolution, and Eastern Mysu‘cism are the ma- jor topics selected for the Jan- ,uaiy 11716 Interim period. Literature seminars on J. D. Ealinger, William Faulkner, Her- man Hesse, “heat" poets, Nic- holas Kazantzakis, and a com- bined seminar on Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright will also be included in the program. A series of discussions deal< Ing with differences in sexual experience of men and women, birth control, etc, will be pre- sented. “The War Game," a documentary-like iilm of flu- ttonal nuclear holocaust, and several student movies will be shown. Workshops in drama, computer programming and language laboratories will be open. Mr. Z i m m a r (psychology) will host a discussion 01 inter- cranial psychology at rats. n a e | I.V.S. REP. HERE DECEMBER 7-8 John R, Esser, a representa- tive of International Voluntary Services. Inc, (IVS), Will visit the campus on December 7 and 8 to discuss overseas opportu- nities. IVS, a private, nonprofit or- ganization, has been working on a ”people-topeople” level in developing countries since 1953. Over zoo volunteers are now working in agriculture, commu- n i t y development, education and youth activities in South east Asia with new teams de- veloping in the Middle East. TODAY AT 4 P.M. Electoral politics Draft resistance Civil liberties panel discussion with! SDS DRU PAX ACLU South Lounge PPPE, sponsor SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS JAMES HITS CITY HOUSING By SUE T. MILLER Q: “What do you think of public houslng In Chicago?” A: “I would drop a bomb on 35th through 47th Streets and start over again." In talking of the wrongs of the Chicago housing project, Director of the Waterloo Human Rights Commission, Ronald James addressed a group Wed- nesday In South Lounge. “I wouldn’t h D u s e cattle there," he said. “I went to the Stockyards at 63rd Street and they are more roomy, better built than me projects are. . . Anyway you look at it, as a sociological, or an architectural proposition, those projects are wrong," James was asked it he wanted to get away from such low rent charity housing. With the money Chicago Mayor Daley “has poured in," James answered, “no doubt he could have done better . . . those with less money and connec- tions have done better." The Mayor, James cited, “is putting Negroes in cracker- hoxes until they explode." James also spoke of Adam Clayton Powell—as “an articu- Iator of the Negro anger." And oi Martin Luther King—as "one remembered as “poor, naive, ignorant, (who) walked the streets, talking to young men with swltchblades. saying ‘what have you accomplished by this.’ " The Waterloo administrator mentioned one case of a young- ster with six arrests behind him, who has “no exposure to whites." “No exposure," he pointed about the South Lounge, “to this kind of paraphernalia here,“ “Here Grinnell goes all the way down to Memphis to help," he said, “and it does nothing in Waterloo," James spoke of the best in- fluence at the college in the town of Grinnell, tor its prob- lems in the treatment of Negro students'there, is the pockeb book. “As much economic power as the college has on the com- munity, I'm sure there's some pressure that can be brought to play." Other possible methods for college people to improve the situation between Negroes and townies came from audience comments, Taking pictures, preaching sermons in the town churches. and articles in the papers of specific incidents, to monTs_ (oontinucd on Page 3) Debate raged at the Wednes- day senate meeting over the proposed Committee at Thirteen (C of T) and ombudsman. ‘Thum Thomas, Gates, and Nail Fischer, Langan, members of the committee that drafted the new constitution, found themselves answering to SEV- eral determined senators who oppose it. The C of T would replace the Senate as the SGA's legislative body. It would include the C or HP president, the AWS presi- dent, the SGA president, and ten members elected at large. Ari ombudsman, appointed by the C of T, would be charged with the responsibility of di- iecnng students' ideas through appropriate channels, and also adVislng students as to where they might turn for assistance on any given matter. One question raised was whether there are enough well- known people on campus to run for c oi T in an atrlarge elec- tion, Fischer replied that stu- dents who are not members oi the C of T will be statting various committees, and can make themselves known in this capacity. Thus, the structure provides a merit system at sorts, he said. SGA President Ric Mac- Dowell made it clear that he s u p p o r t s representation by halls. To this end, he rec- ommended an amendment to the constitution that would give the Senate the power to initiate rule changes. Presently, the C of HP and AWS Board propose the changes and the Senate passes them. Several senators expressed similar doubts, among them Ray Horn, Rawson, who felt that students' ideas follow the path of least resistance and thus are likely to come more easily through senators whom the students have a chance to know better. Thomas countered that one at the purposes or the new con- su'tutioii is to get away [ruin the idea of halls as legislative districts. Fischer added that senators generally seek their jobs not for the purpose of being a liason between SGA and hail, but to work on legislation. The ombudsman's expressed raisori d’etre is to keep interested students aware of what is go- ing on. MacDowell’s amendment was tabled until next week. Doug Tolleisen, Dibble, chair~ man of the admissmns com» mittee, announced that the com- mittee is hoping to publish a booklet for prospectives that would present student views at Grinnell. He emphasized that the booklet would provide both positive and ne gative view- points. The booklet would not be designed to replace other admissions publications. Students interested in Con- tributing should send their work to the admissions committee be- fore Christmas. Tolletsen hopes to have the booklet published by February. Ron Cogswell, c of HP presi- dent, announced that both res- ident advisors and student ad- visors might be present in the halls next year. The stu'leilt advisors would receive more extensive training than the cur- rent hattleboards, and perhaps would receive some pay. iiilllllllllllllllllllllillillliillllilllllllllllllllilllliillilllllilllllillllllillilllllllllillllllllllllilllllllllilliiilllilllllilllllllllllilllllilillllllllllilllilillllllillilllil Photo by Don liccker Newly arrived regiment commander Lieutenant Porter [Bill Saylor] makes himself known to Corporal Smith [Grady Murdock—let” and Private Clay [Greg Coggs —rightl in Robert lngham's No Better. which opened last night in Robert: Theater. [Review on page 3.), TUITION RAISE HIGHEST EVER By NEIL FISCHER President Glenn Ieggett an- nuunced Tuesday that tuition charges will increase an un- precedented $200 next year, jumping from $l925 to $2125 and making the total cost at a year at Grinnell $3100. In a letter to parents, Leg< gett said that the “major rea- sons” tor the increase are the competition (or and rising sal- aries or “highly qualified schol- ar-teachers;" higher student labor and start wages; and the inflation of academic, service. and physical plant costs. “We expect therefore an in< crease of about $350,000 in operating costs tor leases (on top of an increase of about $450,000 for 1967-68, compared with 1956-67).” Leggett ex- plained. “Two-thirds of the $350,000 Will be met by the in« crease in the comprehensive charge." There are about 1160 stu< dents at Grinnell. An increase of $200 per student comes to $232,000 — exactly two-thirds of Leggett’s estimate for increased costs next year. Leggett said that the EMI— tlonal third would hopefully he met by “increased glits ironi industry, alumni, and friends or the College.” Room, board, and fees (ao‘ tivities, college events, and health fees) are expected to re- main the same, Leggett noted in the letter. The $200 tuition increase is the largest in the history or Grin- nell. Tuition for 196768 was $1925 e only $155 greater than the 31770 figure {or 1906-67. The lsoezn figure was only SISO above the $1640 tuition charge for 1965-66. The total cost — including room, hoard, tuition ,and fees — of attending Grinnell College in 1941, the year Chairman or the Faculty Joseph Wall grad- uated, was $720 — only one- third of the tuition costs alono rpr next year. Tliition iorty years ago wal $160. A decade ago it was $700. Room and board costs at Grinnell have remained sulr stantially the same since 1961- 62 — that is, around $910. K decade ago the figure for room. board, and tees was $850, Leggett said that the True. tees have authorized an expara sion of financial aid to take care of “hardship cases" re< suiting irom the tuition in crease, “Though the increased tuln tion charge is in line with typi. cal (average) annual increase: in personal and family ilk comes," he stated, “this may not be true in the case of some TUITION— (Continued on Fae 4)