Student Newspaper of Grinnell College W «wwwmoyo‘f once again the oldest 9- college ,, newspaper 3 west of the Mississippi noww uh Monday large discussion groups could be found scattered all around campus -— in Main lounge, In off-campus apartments, In North Youllker 2-3. WHEN RUMORS RUN WILD , NEWS LEAK KILLS BOYCOTT By NEIL FISCHER (Editor‘s Note: In an at- tempt to sift through the boy- cott situation that muddled itself together all this week. the 5&3 Staff conducted over sixty Interviews and spent over fifty man-hours. Two staffers — Joshua Sachs and David Horwatt — deserve credit tor a good part oi the tollowing news analysis which represents, the sol; feels, an accurate account of the events which rocked the campus for the last few days.) By the time the Forum open- ed a little after 2 pm. Sunday, a very enticing rumor had reached the 58:3 offices. TWO or three ditlerent sources said that Max Helfgott had gotten very up-light some time over the weekend at Toad Hall — an oil»campus house at 1525 6th Ave. — during a discussion of the Town vs. Negro Student problem. They added that Hellgott was trying to organize a boy- Cult of the hamlet of Grinnell by the entire student body of the College. That was a rumor that de- served some checking. But more wasn’t any time to do any checking. On his way back to campus Saturday, Helfgott — an oli- campus senior —- showed D. Mayer, owner of the East End Grocery, a copy ot the plans and asked him what he thought 0! the boycott idea. LEFTOVER ON THE MEAT COUNTER The meat counter was a little busy that day, and Moyer said he didn’t have time to look at the mimeographed paper Heltgott gave him. Hellgott went. off to class, and Moyer left the document out on the counter for all the. town to read, Prof. Alan Jones (History) — also a member of the Grinnell City Council — happened to see it there above the raw ham- burger. The mimeographed sheet at East End was, Helfgott said later. “the only one then in ex- istence — the only poster post- ed.” Some townspeople found out about it and got very up—tight. The CuiHP found out about. it and discussed it, according to President Ron Cogswell, for about iive hours Sunday night; they got very up—light. And, in their turn, the Negro contingent on campus found out Heligott was serious about the boycottt, and they got very, very up- tight. But by then the snowball of rumor was going all down hill, and everybody seemed unwill- ing to Stop it. LARGE GROUPS DISCUSSING Monday large discussion groups Could be found scatter- ed all around campus * in Main lounge, in the Forum grill, in off-campus apart- ments, in North Younker rooms. Some groups were continuing plans tor a weeklong, ”token boycott" of the town. Some were discussing the necessity for and practicability of boycotts in general. Some were making up new, wild ru- mars. Others — notably groups of Negro students »— were won- dering if boycotts might not be the wrong answer after all. Meanwhile Helfgott and his group were trying to get in- iorrnntion to the student body » “a most futile effort indeed around here," he told the Si‘rB Photo by non Hacker rooms, in the Forum grill . . . Background on the Town vs. Negro Student problem on Page: Tuesday. They wrote out a list of half a dozen instances of ag< gression against Negro dents by townies, made a sten- cil, and took it over to the Col- lege Service Bureau to have 1,200 copies run oii, Father John Hedger and Reverend Newell Davis, both ministers in town, offered to' “get the money somehow" to ilnance the mimeographing, according to l-lelfgott. T00 CONTKOVERSIAL FOR THEM The ladies at the Service Bureau, however, took one look at what was Written on Helfgott’s Stencil, decided it was [on controversial tor them, and told the boycott group they couldn’t run or: copies oi “that" without College approv- Bl. They sent Hellgott to Mary G. Jones, Alumni Secretary and head of the Service Bu- reau operation. She told the group the same thing and sent them to Dean Richard Winters. So Heltgott and group puiied and panted over to Burling basement only to hear {mm the dean that the stencil would have to have a faculty sponsor. The forthcoming campus ra- dio station — represented by oil-campus senior Eabak Ar- majani, one of the early plan< ners oi the boycott H oifered to sponsor the mimeographing. Winters said that Wasn't any good, either. Heligott asked Chairman of the Faculty Joseph Wall to sponsor it, but before Wall could answer, Prof. Robert. Ca- nary (English) agreed to put his name on the Stencil as sponsor, Back to the went llcligozi BOYCOTT— (Continued on Page 2) Service Bureau and company, stLl- ' No. lb PREfllul' PROFESTS By MARTHA BERKEY 5&3 Special Writer A small return on the campus recruitment poll run in last week’s issue of the 5&3 showed strong approval (59 yes; 1 no) of President beggett’s decision to postpone the Marine recrulb ers until the recruitment obliga< tions oi the college had been iurther discussed. The reason scents obvious as only four of the sixty people who answered the Dow questionnaire ex- pressed doubt that Grinnell stu- dents would demonstrate ii Dow rent a job recruiter to campus. There was. however, a varie- ty of speculations concerning the nature of the demonstration. Forty»three said they thought that such demonstrations would be peaceful while twelve said it would be violent. A majority thought it would be small rath- er than large. A majority also said that they thought the dem- onstrations would be composed ol students and faculty mem- bers. Although only 15 ol the so said they would be uncomfort- able with 3 Dow representative on campus, thirty-five said they would demonstrate against Dow. Four said they would see the Dow representative it he came. None were seniors. More than half said that the college should not allow representatives of the military to recruit on campus. About the same number were opposed to the college's allow- ing the C.I.A. to recruit on Cam- pus, Nine men and one woman were interested in talking to a military recruiter on campus and eight were interested in talking with a representative of the OLA. Thirty men and thirty women responded to the questionnaire and there were approximately equal numbers from each class. One faculty member filled out the questionnaire, and lie in- dicated that he would demon< strate against Dow, A variety of answers were PROTEST— (Continued on Page 8) lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHllllllllilllllllllllll COLORADO POTTED from the Sikh’s Denver bureau BOULDER, Color, Jan. 27 — A crackdown Tuesday morning on use of marijuana hi this un- iversity town multed in the arrest of 23 men and women, including 11 University oi Colo- rado students and a teaching assistant at the university. More than thirty officers from the Boulder Police De- partment and the Us. Burr can of Narcotics and Drug Abuse Control begain raiding oil-campus houses at dawn. All 23 were arrested on war- rants ——one on suspicion oi il- legal use and possession and three others [or investigation of illegal use, possession and said oi marijuana, Capt. Lowell Friesen of the Boulder police and UndErsheriff H. K. Cun- ningham said. Cunningham added that no more arrests were expected. EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA§_ POSE yel‘ w high-level new Scarlet & Black. AAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Feaiures index ~ PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER ~— The entire staff of the 5&3 rea counts the background and events of the boycott escapade that jolted the Grinnell campus all this week .. .,STORIES ON Pages 1-3, IT’S TOUGH BEING WHITE—Big Jim Slcbiska tells his own story to former 5&8 editor Barry Ancona _ ,Page 3. A GOOD 0LD~FASHIONED EX- A Washington, D. C. law- ng for Liberation News Service proves that a supposedly private conference center (used for government planning) is bugged by the Central Intelli— gence Agency LIE HOUSE AND . . . Wm. F. Buckley. Jr. on a Volunteer Army; Flying Pucks Revisited; Riot Report Squelched; Negro Players’ Ensemble Assembled; New Library Hours at Glinnell; A Potential Nobel Prize Winner Visits the Campus . . . and more . . . inside the CIA AND AIR- ,On Page 11. > > :1 WWW v.v vvvvvvvvvvvvi