Pu;- Six :VVVVVVWVV VVVVVVVVVVWVX o > toiilti XAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAX '1 “ert'l’ em up if they don’t deliver!" He Says What He Thinks When it comes to seeking candid comments, you’re a hell of lot better off talking to Big Jilin Sle- biska in town than talking to Negro students on this campus. At least Big Jim will tell you what he thinks. Based on the evidence volunteered —- the in- stances of verbal or physical aggression against Ne- gro students actually reported by them — there would seem to be no problem in the town of Grin- nell, Iowa. But there is. After interviewing almost everyone involved, only a handful of incidents were agreed on by Ne- groes at the College. But ask the same students — so reluctant to re- port their own individual confrontations with the townies —— if there is imminent racial violence in Grinnell, and you'll find their feathers highly ruf- fled. By now it should be obvious to everyone that students don’t have to go to Chicago or Des Moines to find incidents of racial hatred. A lot of people ought to be nailed up for the ‘trouble they’ve caused. Everyone from Grinnell Chief of Police Bill Peters to Boycott-planner Max Helfgott agrees that the College could have and should have pressed charges against townie aggressors in a number of instances. Most people agree that the Police could have and should have acted more quickly in potentially- dangerous and often physically-damaging confron- tations between town bullies and Negro college stu- dents. And a good number of people rightfully think that the Grllinell College White majority should be morally indicted for apathy in the face of danger to their Black fellows. But you can’t nail up anybody without evidence and support. And until Negro students become willing to re- port what happened . . . until both White and Ne- gro students realize that quiet, lazy discussions aren’t the only solutions to which they can com- mit themselves . . . until the College adminstration is jolted by tragedy to act first and think about town-gown rapport later. 1 . until the activists learn to plan before jumping to guns and boycotts . it seems pretty unlikely the trouble will decline. Max Helfgott acted too soon. He admits it, and there's no sense crucifying him for an error of judg- ment in the form of an information leak. The College and the Police haven't acted quick- ly enough, and maybe they can learn their lesson before the real —— now potential — trouble starts, The Negroes haven't been candid enough in the face of actual investigation. They remain covert and self-shrouded in mistrust, mysteriousrless, and secrecy. And Big Jim —— stereotyped the town bully —— has simply got to be congratulated God help him, he thinks he’s acting for the town of Grinncll. But at least he says what he thinks. SCARLET AND BLACK r ALTERNATING DORMS QUESTXONNAIRE (Editor’s Note: The following questionnaire should be clipped and placed in Ihe SCARLET AND BLACK mailhnx in the campus Post Office Within the next four days.) _| 1. Do you prefer alternating dorms? < ) northrsouth I system? ( ) 2. Would you approve ofa system of freshmen and sopho- I mores on one campus and juniors and seniors on the other? Yes? ( ) No?(, ) a. Do you think that the occurrence of illegal visltatious l warrant a reorganization of the dorm system? Yes? ( ) No7 ( ) I 4. Do you feel the present northsouth system results in an abnormal living situation? Yes? ( ) No? ( ) I 5. Would you prefer a maintenance of the present north campus hall system? < ) all men’s hall drawings? ( ) I 6. Would you favor an all campus referendum before any reorganization: are made? Yes? ( ) ND? ( ) I 7. Do you think the proposal presently betore the Student Affairs Committee for “blocks" of dorms separated by a brick wall reflects what was orlginally meant hy “alternat- Yes? ( 1 No? ( 1 8. Are you a male? ( ) lemale? ( ) I sophomore? ( ) junior? ( ) administration? ( ) I lng dorms?" freshman? ( ) senior?( ) laculty?( ) 9. Commentsl J the National Security Council is charged with deciding who will be deterred. An interagency committee re- commended such deferments in early December. In an inter- view with Pat McMahon of the Stanford Dally. Hershey said he believes the Council’l tails me to act on the committee's lecommendations is a sign that the Council may not accept the committee’s plan. DEFERMENTS IN DOUBT! WASHINGTON (CPS) — Gen. Lewis Hershey, director of the Selective Service System, says he thinks there is some doubt the National Securlty Council will grant bread-scale deter- ments in mathematics, engi- neering and the sciences. Under the draft law passed last year, tilllllllilltlllilHlllllllllllillllllIlHllllillllllltllllllillllllllHilllllllllllilllllllllllllllllltllllllllllillllllltllillllllllllllllllllllllllillUllilllllllllllllllllilllllilll iiiiileili . iii Sewing The Intelligentria of Iowa Student Newspaper oi Grinnell College 1101 PARK STREET GRINNELL. IOWA 50111 An independent nmt‘spaper published weekly, except during frohnuy. and exami- nunon periods, uy the Gnome“ Committee on Student Publications. Reprcscmed tor national advertising by Notional Educ... tlonlil Adveruung Simon, :iso Lextngton Ave, New York, in. 1mm. Second plus: postage paid or ormucll. lu Subscription rate ssno pc. school your. itch paid sub- sci-muons. 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Bernhardt Stephen \Vnrsh spouts , HEAD PHOTOGRAPHER BUSINESS MANAGER CIRCULAHON MANAGER , Enlcc‘ siruru Printed in Neuton, in. by Compuny (Newton Dally Noun. rmpicying the following press ussocinnous. ituencien and syndicates: Colicgmtc Press Survicc (oi the Us studout ms; As- Somatic“), Liberation News Selvice, Associated Colicguuc Press, l(lng Features (licarst) Syndicule, Lus Atlgelcs Times Syuuicutc, the Wash- iucion Slur Syndicntc lncn silldont Commuulcuhous Network. Friday. February 2, ”Al WWW. By FRITZ SCHWALLER As usual, when the Admin- istration is contempiaiing a basic change the students have been kept in the dark as to what the change will involve or who it will effect, More often than not the rea- son ior this “lack of commune icatinn” has been that the Ad» ministration itsell doesn‘t know what is going on. This vacuum of knowledge at or from the top has caused rumors m be thrown at the un. Wary student with such rapid- ity that it is sometimes diiiiclllt to separate the rumors from the divine oracles. But sums ideas do stand in the lore- ground as actually being pr0< posals. The most certain of these proposals is the principle ct alternating dorms or at least coeducational campuses, not to be coniused with coeducational dorms. Dear Mrs. Low: Why on earth would you want to co educate, or rather integrate, the campuses it there will re» suit the same delineation be~ tween purely male domain and female? I refer to the south campus wall system. What dit- terence is there to men remain. ing solely on North Campus than to being placed at the southern extremity of South Campus? 1 can think of few things that might help the social situ- stion at Grinnell better than alternating dorms, Yes. alter- nate, like Mears: womentl Main: men; Cleveland: women. This would keep men and wom- en out or each: other's halls, but would still give the atmos- phere of one unified campus and not two separate and dis- tinct ones, How about making Meal-s and Main the same sex as East and West? Now it's I long walk for a guy late on Saturday night returning from his chivalrous escorting of his date to her "door". The second most obvious pro- posal, it not now a tact, comes to us as the allacampus mom draw. In my opinion the status gun is far superior. Men, being what they are, prefer rather set groups oi friends, at least to live with. When u freshman is placed in a hall, he must mold himself to his new environment, as he will have in do under ”its new system. But as it stands now that male will remain in his group of rather intimate iriends unless he wishes to leave his hall, which he is tree to do. Okay, I put in my plug for the old system. Well at least someone has come ollt into the open and defended a View, 1‘5- gardless of its merit. As things stand now Bur-ling Basement had better get busy and drop some more proposals. When someone Said no one knows general student opinion (in the affair he made the un- derstatement of the year. IlilllillllillmiiilliiiiilmiilliiiuntililillliiilliiiiHIMillliiiiiilliiiiillilli Carlos Gloria ul Lion Country Safari, in Southern Florida, gave mouthnormoulh resusci- tation lo a lioness that had lalr len into a canal.