Friday, January 16, I963 @EEEEW @wmmwmfi News i i (things WWW mnemonic Takuo Shibata, a Japanese economist, and Aaron Lowin, on Iowa State University psy- chologist, will serve as visiting iactilty members this semester. ‘ &&&&&&&&&& Evan Walden, formerly Di- rector oi the College Physical Plant, Wlll head new construc- tion on campus. Dale L. i-lawn will replace him as head oi 3&6. &&&&&&&&&& I, Robert ingham, Grinnell'a ,actor-in-residence, is joined this semester by an actresssine residence, Joyce Elliott Steer- rnan. The duo will conduct a Shakespeare workshop. &&&&&&&&&& Robert Matthews joins the Speech and Theatre staff as technician this semester. Ir&&&&&&&&& An exhibit of cultural products from over 100 countries will be at the Des Moinea Veterans Memorial Auditorium February 3 and 4. Bus transportation — sponsored by the Foreign Stu- dents organization on campus —can be arranged through Rich< ard Marz, &&&&&&&&&& Seniors interested in the 5th Year Abroad program at India’s Ahmednager College may sub lnit brief statements to Prof. Steiner. Students in the program nerve as undergraduate teach. crs, academic planners, and resident advirors and receive paid transportation, room, board, and a $2541 stipend. &&&&&&&&&& An exhibition of 30 color wood- cuts by Joseph Domjan is at the Scheaffer Gallery. The art- ist is the father of Mike Domjan, o Grinnell junior. &&&&&&&&&& Grinnell will host a Drug in- formation Week February 8 through to. Guest speakers in- cludo John Finlator, Director or the Federal bmeau oi Drug Abuse Control. More on DRUGS ln next Week’s [3&3 . . . &&&&&&&&Ht& Mrs. Margaret K. Musser, long a beneiactor ot the Col- iege’s music program, lelt Grin— heli a $12,500 bequest, She died in August, 1967. Grinueli students with home residences in Iowa are eligible tor an expense-paid political in- ternship in Washington, D. C. for one week. Applications for the program —— sponsored by the iowa State University—may be made to Prof. C. Edwin Gil- mour. &&&&&&&&&& Grinnell College has received a $30,000 bequest from the es— tate oi Mlss Lucis Merrill oi Alden, Ia. &Briir&&&&&&& Janet Nichol, off-campus sen- ior, was killed in an automo- bile accident December 16, &&&&&&&&&& Prof. Hamid Fletcher (Politi- cal Science) is recuperating in San Francisco and will not teach this semester. Seriously ill since mid-December Fletcher was hospitalized at the Stan~ iordsPalo Alto Medical Center where the nation’s ilrst success- iul heart transplant was per- formed, &&&&&&&&&& There are live additions to the Grinnell taculty this semesterfl Michael Cullen, Instructor in Mathematics; Alan F. (Summer son, Instructor in Economics; Raymond Horton, Instructor in Political Science; Granville J, Smith, instructor in Physics; Dean Straifin, Instructor in Anthropology. &&&&&&&&&& Sue Edwards, Cieveiand fresh. man, was selected new Cyclone Business Manager this semes« ter by the Committee on Student Publications. She replaces nern. ard Cullen, North Younker jum ior, who resigned because — among other things, he said— he wasn’t sure Grinneii students actually wanted a yearbook. &&&&&&&&&& A distinguished Argentine writs er, poet, and critic who has been considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Jorge Luis Borges, will lecture at Grinnell February 2. Borges, a protessor of English literature at the Uni- versity or Buenos Alres and cur- rently a visiting professor at Harvard, is the author or the celebrated book “Labyrinths”. His visit is sponsored by Ill. Spanish department, and a com- plete bibliography or his works is available on request at the Hurling Library desk. More on Borges in next week’s 5&3. &&&&&&&&&& THERE WILL BE AN OPEN MEETING SUNDAY AT 7:30 P.M. IN ARI-i AUDITORIUM TO DISCUSS THE SENATE'S NEW PROPOSED CONSTITU- TION. SCARLET AND BLACK 0%? JEOPARDY (Continued irom Rage 1) put further burdens on the bud- get of the private college. John I-lolt Myers, attorney with the iirm of Williams, Myers and Quiggie wrote in the American Alumni Council's COMMENTARY: I‘Tha (tax) regulations as proposed indi- cate once again that colleges and universities which now are not even required to file in~ come tax retunis are becoming more and more involved with the Federal income tax law. According to the Des Moines Register: “Average tuition at the private colleges in iowa this year is about $1,097, some $724 higher than at the state universities. The gap has been widening for several years." Grinncll's tuition ior 1968-69 Will be 32.125. Even beiore the new tax proposals could take effect, the private College is at a disadvantage financially. The higher tuition costs and other problems or the small college were discussed at Grin< nell's Legislator Dinner last Thursday the 18th. Dr, Irwin J. Lubhers, Presi« dent of the Iowa Association of Private Colleges and Universi- ties said that the privately supported colleges "are really facing a buZZvSaw, Many are just scared to death the private college is going to go the same way the private academy did." The President of Drake Uni- versity, Dr. Paul F. Sharp, suggested a program of state grants-in-aid to college students to put the cost of education at private colleges within the reach of more Iowans. While the three state univer- sities are overcrowded and Spending millions of dollars in tax money to build more iacili< ties, Sharp said, there are 9,000 spaces available to students in the 23 private colleges and uni- versities of lowa. The estimated cost oi the grants-in—aid program is $4 < $7 million tor the iirst two years. If the state universities were to absorb the 36,505 students now enrolled in private institu- tions, the operating costs alone are computed by Sharp at £32 million. This does not include addi- tional classrooms and dorms. Lamble concluded: “In my opinion, they (the U.S. govA ernment) Will have to turn around and supply higher edu- cation . . . possibly even to graduate school.” The words SCARLET a BLACK in the newspaper’s flag on page one are set in Pill- DlAN type style, a type race which came into prominence about the time Iowa Coilege moved rrom Davenport to merge with J. B. Grinneil‘s proposed university. A Iprgrapber’s manual or Ihe 1870’s said that PHlDlAN “. . . suggests action, even inspiration . It is a strong band gloved in velvet." The Grinnell College newspaper began in 1871 as the iOWA COLLEGE NEWSLETTER and later incorporated the PULSE, a competing college publication, to tor-m a paper called THE UNIT. In the early 1890’s, that paper changed its name to the SCARLET & BLACK. Long noted as ”the oldest college newspaper West or the Mississippi," the 5&3 begins its 194th semester or publication with portraits or J. n. Grinnell and Horace Greeley in its nag. Greeley told Grinnell to go West and thus coined a byword in American history. This semester‘s editors of the 3&3 consider this newspaper, thereioie, a scion or Greeley‘s in- fluential New York WEEKLY TRIBUNE, which has itseu become a byword in the his tory oi American journalism. THE RIGHT By Wm. F. BUCKLEY, Jr. The President, it is said, handswrote the version of the Stat. of the Union address we all heard, and the credibility gap n0t< withstanding, it is altogether plausible that it is so. it was a pretty awiul speech, awiul in every sense. in con- cept, it was utterly unimaginative. in style, totally, relentlessly lacking in distinction. Mr. Johnson’s deliveryisurely?Ais the worst in history? My own memory goes back only as tar as FDR, who was supreme, and they say that President Buchanan was pretty bad, but sight unseen, I'd listen to James Buchanan read through the entire encyclopaedia, rather than the incumbent recite one poem by Edgar Guest, The principal deficiencies of the speech have been only re- marked—the lailure to integrate the Vietnam War to our foreign policy; the iailure to explore the root causes at the restlessness to which he rleetingly alluded; the encyclopaedic enumeration of all the blessings he has conferred upon us (the President even found time to mention his program tor the redwood trees in Calif< ornta, at which point Mr. Arthur Schlesinger leaned over to mo and whispered “better redwoods than deadwoods," whereupon I granted him a plenary indulgence for all his past sins); etc. etc. etc. But besides all that, the speech was peppered with irritating phrases or little moment except insofar as they suggest the proiila oi the President’s thought. What are We to make. for instance, of the sentence: “Tonight our nation is accomplishing more for its people than has ever been accomplished before”? A moment's concentration on that sentence leads one to the brink of total dismay. Consider, to begin With the syntax. What does he mean, “tonight”? Apparently. a synonym — more technically, a synecdoche — for “At this point.” But the clumsiness is distracting. And then again, on the point or syntax, it one learns English good like a President should, you don’t Change from the active voice (“our nation is accomplishing”) to the passive voice (‘2 . . than has ever been accomplished") un- less required to by a great national depression. or a world war. And finally, What is this about “the nation" accomplishing something for “its people"? The nation is its people. If he meant to say that the people at America are accomplishing a great deal tor the people at America, then that's okay, only hardly worth saying because it is tautolcgtcal. One cannot retrain irom sus- pecting that what the President had in mind was “the govern- mentLthat he meant to say that “the government" is accomplish- ing more tor the people. whereupon one objects: but THE GOVERNMENT isn't THE NATION. And don‘t forget Illat, buddy. And tempted moreover to insist: the people don't belong to the government, so that John< son should not have referred to the nation’s accomplishing more tor “its" people. Let those who Will say that this is nitpicking. I write for those who care to ponder the President's thought habits, which, ideally, should be all of the nation's people. Or consider this: “Surely a nation that can go to the moon can place a decent home within the reach of its families." Once again, a statement which, read last, or heard fast, tends to cross the stage quickly, and disappear into the wings of platitude, But it is a very foolish thought. In the first place, it is a government that decides whether to go to the moon. And the way the government gets to the moon is by taking money from the people which might otherwise have been spent in building more houses. It is relentlessly clean that the government of Russia couldn‘t possibly go to the moon if it permitted the people the freedom to spend their money as they saw fit, And it is relentlessly clear that the United States will have fewer house on account of our decision to go to the moon. _ And again, What is this business about a nation’s “placing" a decent home within the reach or ”its” (there we go again) iami. lies? The government has practically nothing to do with houses, it you consider government-built or subsidized houses as a per centage of the whole, (Between 1550 and 1960, tree enterprise built 13,000,000 housing units, While the government, net, destroyed 100,000.) The people or America come within reach of houses as a result of their own exertions, and as a result of the disposition of other people to save. Whrtt makes it ditiicult ior people to build their houses is: a) taxes (taken by the government); b) inflation (caused by the government); and c) restrictive labor union polb cies (protected by the government.) Tile most usetul thing the government could do to place de- oent homes within the reach oi its people, is go away. And so on. Fortunately, the state or the union is better than the state oi its President’s mind.