Inturdly. February ID, "A! §AYS ATTITUDES NEED TIME CRAWFORD ON THE PROBLEM By ZELTE CRAWFORD (Sociology) Recent developments between the Grinnell Community and the Grinnell Negro have brought to the surface on issue that has existed for some time, That issue is the apparent tension that has been building up be. tween the two factions for - number of years, Most people on Gflnncll’s cam- pus will probably agree that something should be done to change this situation, Present- ly, however, the disagreement ZELTE CRAWFORD rests on the subject of what change should be initiated, and who Should inltiate it, Some circles propose that the Negro work more or less inde« pendently in searching for the method he thinks most expedi- Grit. Other circles have encouraged the college administration to up ply its own authority to assure Negro students the rights that are rightfully theirs as Grinnell students and as American Citi< zens. Still another group proposes that the white students must act — with the administration and the Negro, or without them. After these approaches have been exhausted — and it appear: that this is the present predict- ament on campus —- the problem seems icr all practical purposes to Still exist. Negro students still avoid traveling downtown dur- ing the evening, and avoid cer- tain establishments because of the threat of verbal and physi- cal abuses; these abuses are very real, as the past has prov- en. Although for the most part the enthusiasm for action has some- what faded, a few studenw and taculiy members are still work ing. through meetings between Negroes and town people, for a better understanding between the two groups. And yet, while these meetings are taking place, Negroes are Still afraid to venture down- town during the night, and the hostility that many of the citi- zens of the town have shown Negroes lingers on-many times. with increased intensity. Action to change the present situation Should have taken place long ago — before it reached this point. It is some- what ludicrous to try to place the blame on any single group [or inaction and apathy because it is apparent that the entire Grinnell College population has been guilty of the lethargy that has allowed Negroes to suffer undue humiliation. Negro students themselves have ignored numerous occa- sions of unpleasant encounters in the town of Grinnell, and have Withdrawn tn the microcosm that the campus prowdes. They have failed to act for them selves in many of these cases, and have discouraged others from acting ior them. In other instances the Negro students have responded by re- porting incidents to college authorities and city officials, but no action resulted. White students have generally illiilillielii if: Serving The lntelligentria of Iowa Student Newspaper of Grinnsll celleg. 1202 PARK STREET GRINNELL. 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Heeker Adritnric Lemnions ivlnrinn nerkey sorry Aneona oavid iiorwatt . ieir sciitckicr A. J. Bernhardt Sicnlwn Wnrslr orucc sirom prinicd in Newton, in. by the News printing company iNcwlon oaiiy News). Employing ihc renewing press ussocintions. agencies, ind syndicates: Collegiate Prcss Service (oi the us. Student Press As~ soclatlon); Liberation News Service; Associated Collegiate Press: kind Features tl-ioarsti Syndica| ; Los Angt-lL-s Times Syndrome: The wash- ington sue Syndicate inc., Student communications Network. SCARLET AND BLACK pleaded ignorance of the situa- tion, and have attributed their ignorance to the inability of Negio students to communicate their various problems. The validity oi this piea might be compared to the ostrich-head in the hole analogy. That such a large number of white stu< dents profess to have “Negro iriends", but do not possess the sensitivity or empathy to realize the dilemma of their ”Negro colleagues," lends doubt to the sincerity of their concept of iriendship. Yet, many of these students who have so vehemently con- demned Negroes for their lack of action have experienced many similar unpleasautries in the town or Grinnell, and have re« acted in a Similar manner. Also, the question that inevit< ably comes to mind is whether or not the white student should act when it is necessary, with out the consent of the Negro students on campus. Does the Negro dictate the consciences of white students? Both of the groups already mentioned conveniently point an accusing finger at the college administration. At most. in action has been sloveti until recently, and even now the et- iectlveness of its action is queSe tionable. The College adminis- tration's responsibility to its students becomes a salient issue when examining the Negro stu- dent’s plight in Grinnell. That Negro students have been experiencing discord ior decades, while attending college in Grinnell, has been confirmed by numerous black alumni. Tlils ZELTE~ (Continued on Page 8) llllliillllilillwilllllllillllllllllllllllllillllllllllllillllllllllilillllllilllillli TVS SHUFFLED In spite at a c or HP meet- ing which was held Sunday night, the question of what will become of North Campus tele» visions in the iace ni integrat- ed campuses remains unan- swered. In an effort to unite North Campus, Ron Cogswell asked each of the hall presidents to talk the matter over with indi- vidual hall members. He indi- cated that he favors the idea of all halls keeping their TV'ii Within the men’s residence hall system, and all but one at the North presidents backed him with a resolution of similar opinion. Most halls don't want to com- mit themselves definitely—it's easier to wait and See what everybody else does — but a tentative headcount shows six halls (Smith, Cowles, Gates, East and West Norris, and Langan) in favor of retaining their tubes, one hall (Clark) in iavbring or selling theirs, and four halls (Rawson, Dibble, and North and South Younlier) still undecided. The fact remains that the only way men will be guaran- teed television in their halls next year is by keeping them in the men’s hall system. Ono thing is certain m the College won’t provide them. Page Time 0" THE RIGHT BY win. F. BUCKLEY, Jr. I have a communication here born the Saturday Evening Post, requesting that r publicize a current issue in which is featured a story on Senator Thomas Dodd by his former ndminstrativo asSistant Mr. James Boyd, which under the circumstances I gladly do. Here is an article, the beginning of a projected series the aim 01 which is to establish that Senator Dodd is a thief, a crook, l hypocrite, and a thoroughly obnoxious human being. These ver. dicts are reached by techniques which are interesting to any stu- dent oi polemics, not to say slander, You read about young, ideal- istic, clean-living, peopleloving, pure-minded James Boyd, who in 1958 was attracted to Thomas Dodd. W y? Because Mr. Dodd was, in those days, also idealistic, clean ng, people-loving and pureminded. ' But, then alter a while, James Boyd discovers that the senator really isn’t any longer all those things. He discovers that the sena- tor really is using money that was intended Io finance his political campaigns for personal expenses. He discovers that the senator is derelict In his performance of his official duties. He discovers that the senator accepts fees for his speeches and his articles. and the free use of private cars, airplanes, apartments, whatever. To expose the reliance on hall-truths and distortions of tho factual thrusts of Mr. Boyd's allegations~which by the way are apparently received by the editors or the Post as positively scrip. tural in authority (incredibly, the editors did not check I slngll allegation with Senator Dodd, not one)«is a halt-morning's work. An example of a iactual charge brought by Mr, Boyd is “the ornate Dodd silverware“ which “had been replated gratis by a silver company at whose behest Dodd had urged changes in the Treasury Department's silver policy," a charge that caught my eye because when it was first levelled a year ago i took the trouble to telephone said silver merchant only to tind that the repiating cost was 315, and that Senator Dodd had insisted on paying for it, That kind of thing hurts, oi cmtrse, hurts in the eyes of those who have not had access to, or have not remembered, the facts. out what is finally damaging is the subjective portrait or Senator Dodd, concerning which no factual refutations are readily pro- ducible. Mr. Boyd says that between the first time that he met Mr. Dodd and the time that he decided to run to Drew Pearson with his revelations, Senator Dodd had changed. That he had grown arrogant. That he had grown callous. Supercilious. Lazy. Ir- responsible. l . . Now how does one go about dealing with such judgments? It occurs only to the unusual reader to ask himself whether it is pos- sible that during that same period it wasn’t the senator who changed, so much as the author. During that same period the author, a) effected a dalliance with a lady of loose morals, whom he put on the senator's payroll; b) became estranged from his wife and four children, c) subsequently took up with yet another lady, the secretary of Senator Dodd to whom he is now married: and d) discovered that Drew Pearson is the tons et orlgo of Ameri- can morals. Now there is an anti-Pilgrim’s Progress for you —- Meanwhile, from the point of view of humble residents of the United States, as also from the point of View of energetic members of the anti- Communist community, Senator Dodd was appraised as the man responsible for the most sustained, exhaustive, thoughtful series of foreign policy speeches, reports, investigations, being delivered anywhere to say nothing of a lively record on domestic matters, His output was equal to that of three typical senators, Who changed? Boyd or Dodd? YES, Dodd WIS censured - on ii technicality which most knowing people admit a majority or us. senators would be censured for it they had been so unfortunate as to employ James Boyd as confidential assistant. And at course, the continued persecution by Boyd et oi oi Dodd is saleable to a na- tlonnl magazine, in the sense that the reverse would not be, It Senator Dodd had arrived at the editorial office of the Saturday Evening PDSt accompanied by the Archangel or the Divine nee. ords, which records absolutely established that Boyd was a liar, a phimey, a cheat —— that august journal would likely not have bought the story. Because Boyd, though now a public figure, is un- important; whereas Dodd is important. By the same token, Dodd cannot, as a practical matter, sue, because the Supreme Court has Said (Sullivan vs. the New York Times) that public officials cannot sue barring a demonstration or “actual malice" which — —uliless the archangel is subpoenable — is seldom provabler And in any case, such suits cost more to bring than Mr. Dodd has got. That is die iinni ilony, considering that Mr. Boyd's charges is that Mr. Dodd got rich at public expense. Mr. Dodd isn't even rich enough to sue the pans oft Boyd, which leaves Mr. Boyd in the unaccustomed position of keeping his pants on.