Page Four WWWW ’ yxvvvyvvvyyvvvyyvvyyyvvy i’l'l’i’l i‘ l it >fli , ‘ §i31%tid{&¥leikt XAAAA/A/MAAAA/A/AA/AMA/AAAA/AA fiflflfimofimflmo \.,' Disaster Strikes l in 52 This was a great week for local news here in Iowa, enabling us to produce a great Iowa news- paper. Disaster, it seems, strikes en masse one week every year. We had the opportunity to cover a robbery '(LEGGETT DE-DEFURRED, see Page 3); a Grin- nell professor apprehended for suspected drinking under age (ALEXANDER PIX, see Page 3); a quasi-obituary for a former 5&3 copy neditor .(HECKER ENDIT, see Page 6); a real obituary (LOCAL IOWAN BURI- ED, see Page 1); and a fire — shades of The Vi- car of Wakefield »— de- vastating a local minis- ter’s h o u s e (KATZ FETCHED FROM HOT HOUSETOP, a l s 0 on Page 3). I o w a weather, of course, is always a dis- aster. And apparently it is always deserving of a banner headlinerat least as far as the State’s larg- est daily, The Des Moines Register, is con- cerned. On the national scene: Campus cops in Detroit keep files on all s t u d e n t s containing “homosexual tendencies” and “political de< Viations;” they also own a tractor that converts in- to a riot tank (Page 1). At the University of Utah, campus police use chemical mace as a “purely defensive” measure (Page 7). We feel like real live newsmen. The proposal for alternating dorms (Page 1) seems a disaster to the editors of the 5&8, but Mr. MacDowell asked us not to comment on that this week. It really was a fine week for black humor. So you think you've got problems? Things have been worse, if not just 5 bad. Jonathan Routh’s A Book of Disaster (available in paperbound for a dol- lar) goes you one better. The book contains Vintage-1890 photos and drawings depicting Some Pitiful People (for exam- ple, “A Poor, Sick Person Being Visited by His Bet- ters”); Some Miscellaneous Disasters (eg, a series of etchings including “Abyssinians Being Massa- cred," ”Massacred Abyssinians,” and “A General Exhorting His Troops to Massacre More Abyssi- nians"); and the like. “By comparison, ”Routh tells us in a preface, “the reader's own puny problems and personal de- pressions are guaranteed to fade into total insignifi- cance.” Also featured are Some Mean Thoughts (cg, “Concealirlg Oneself in thc Undergrowth and Flick- ing Bread Pellets at Elderly Callers to the House") All instances of disaster are instances worth rc- porting. All instances worth reporting are instances of disaster. All instances occurring this week were instances of disaster. Assume your premises, put your statements in standard form, and draw your own conclusionilogi- cal or illogical. ) < MAMA/ix «g? X ) SCARLET AND BLACK Friday, March i. I?” TOM-TOM PANS POWER. RAPS REC By SUE T. MILLER (Editor‘s Note: Tom Thomas, Gates Sopho- more, won the SGA elec- tion Tuesday, Feb. 20, with a til-vote margin. Out of a total 839 votes cast (79 per cent or the electorate), Thomas got 53 per cent; his oppo- nent, Dan Cheitetz, got 47 per bent of the total vole. In this interview held a week after the election, Thomas gives some candid comments on his aims for the com- ing year.) Since the question at the role of student power was frequenb 1y mentioned in the SGA cam- paign, Thomas was asked how much he telt student power would eiiect administration de- cislons like the new reception center. “Well, they (the students) can go out and steal the cen- ters lumber as they ship it in,” he oiiered, or “like at NYU, they can lie in front of the bulldozers as the trees are plowed: but there’s not a damned thing i can do about it. The reception center was fought by three student govern— ments beiore me.” “They (the administration) are the ones that have the motley — we can express our opinion, I think they want us to, but the students have no power.” However. Grinnell Students and their government do have the power to organize, Thomas said, and thls organization should take place “before we (himself, com? and AWS Pres- idents, and the Committee oi Thirteen) ever go home for spring break.” Thomas feels student govern- ment action Should center around several key problems: i) all-campus room—draw; 2) student advisot system; 3) in— tegrated campuses; 4) no staii additions; 5) elimination oi over-crowding on campus. “I‘ve given the all-campus roont draw iitst priority,” qillpped Thomas, “Since no it- nances are involved.” As tor his second priority, Thomas expects the 70 new student ndViSOi‘s to be “all the things the ballleboard should be, and is not.” “This includes lots of minor things," he added, "like iust lettltig people know when they’re being obnoxious." Thomas said he was “dis- appointed lll [he manner the administration (1 ho S e to inte~ grate the campuses" and that he would [Ike [0 see the plan changed. “Their integration will Stretch Gt'inliell's building budget lo the limit. The blocking eni- ployctl was dictated mainly by finances," The new SGA President sees his ionrth pi'iutily problem a the new RA 5 tom —— as a “ralhel siruclu A! bull sesslon." “l'll give on example, Last year my hall (Gales) had a Blast year, with everyone not mg each other, everyone pissed over what each other had been doing, So we got together one night and told each other what was il'rilalini; about us, things we had never Sultl. Alter two months of hate, the problem was solved." Thomas puts campus over- crowding last on his list or priorities because “some would rather tolerate it and concen- trate on other changes." “Unfortunately," he said, “the overcrowding, especially on North Campus, is being amel- iorated by simply changing the quads to triples. Already, 51 student living quarters on North Campus have been eliminated. This is not an adequate solu- tion to the problem" Two ither things Thomas would like to accomplish this spring are the first steps to- ward a “free university sys- tem,” and "considerable ex- pansion oi the Student Used Book Store." ”The taculty here has a great amount of talent that isn’t be ing used now,” he added. “It would he a nonrpressure system—informal meetings in residence hall lounges, or avail- able ARl-i classrooms.” Asked about the status of the present petition for credit (or extracurricular activities, Thtk mas said that it’s still Define the faculty. The problem. he said, is ”how to determine full participation, For example, how many times does one have to sing in the choir to be a choir member?" Thomas concluded by reat- iil'ming his belief in the “indivi- dual approach” to government. “We want to get SGA out of the vacuum, unto the cam- pusr” Asked to define Ihe vacu- um, he gave his answer in the form or a question: “how often has Ric MacDowell been in your hall?” “1 hope l‘m not disappointed," he added, “with the people who turn out to run for the Comv mlttee of Thirteen. Practically any student on campus has a chance of getting elected. i hope they don't leave it to the politicos." “The broader the base (01 student participation), the more originality of proposals there will be injected in student gov- eminent.” llillillllllllmlllllllllllllllillllllllllllilllllillllllilllllhlllllllllllhllmtl DREAM PREY T0 HAWK (the 5&3’5 lawn News Service) A poster publicizing a Feb- ruary 25th recital in Roberls was removed last week from the Forum bulletin board by Mrs. Jewell Hawk, Forum Direc‘ tor, prior to the Sunday per- iormance. 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