“WA 0 Nb! 3. it“ By LYNNE SIEMERS ’ h rash of injuries to students ls well as faculty on the Grin- nell campus has left people with casts, crutches and taped ap< pendages. Mr, Crossett, after giving his lecture on virginity last week, was attacked by a group of anti- .virginity people on his way home. In defending himself against these people ("I’m not lure if they were boys or girls," he said), Mr. Crossett sprained his thumb, Although no bones were broken, his thumb was taped by the doctor to prevent lurther injury. (The sea thanks Mr. Crossett for his account. In keeping with his wishes, the fol- lowing line from the poem “The Exaggerator" by Mark Van Doren is presented — “The truth to him was like a fan." Mr. Crossett told the 5&3 that he has always felt that Van Doren wrote the poem about him.) ICARLET AND ILACK injuries Besei Campus 'A broken leg was the result of being hit by a car ior Mary Kay Kasary, '72. Saturday, Sept. 14, she was struck by the car on the corner of 6th and Broad. The ensuing fracture has left her leg in a cast and Mary kay on crutches or in a wheelchair. Because she is tired of answer- ing questions, Mary Kay plead- ed: “Please tell people that, no, my toes never get cold. No, my leg hasn't started to itch yet. When I get out of the cast, l'll think of many other ways to get plastered." Marilyn Mulligan, '72, was playing volleyball several weeks ago when her leg was jumped on. She Went to the health cen- ter after it started hurting. From there she went to the doctor, who wrapped her ankle in an ace bandage. The pain continued, on she went back to the health center and was sent back to the doctor, He sent her to the hos- pital for x-rays. Although no bones were broken, Marilyn had \_. ‘ shattered the nerve ends and twisted the tendons in the lower part of her leg. With his arm in a sling, Ernie Rose, '71, is out of the football starting line-up for about two more weeks. Ernie tore the muscles in his shoulder last Wednesday. Part of the therapy he has been getting includes ultra-sound (the sending of sound waves through the torn muscles) and heat treatments. One of the more severe injur- ies of an IM football game ll Reggie Graham’s ripped liga- merits in his ankle, Twice a day, for about two weeks now, Reg- gie has had whirlpool treatments to aid the healing of his injury. This is a repeat performance for Reggie. Last year he tore the same ligaments and was in a cast for six weeks. It ruined his diving for the season. Fortunate- ly, this year's injury occurred early enough for him to be in shape when the swimming sen- son starts. liliiillliiillliiillllliiilllliilllliiillliilillliiilllliiilllliiilllliiiillliiillliiiillliiillliiiillliiiilllliiilllliiilllliiiilliiiiilliilllliililliiiillliliiilliiiilliiiillliiiilllliiiillliiiillliiillliilillliiillliiillllliiilllliiiilliiiillliiiiliiiillliiiiilliiiiilliiillll How To Apply To Graduate School By DALE B. TERRY Director of Admissiom Application to graduate Ichool is essentially no differ but from the procedure involved in making college application. The student must first deter- mine, in conference with his major adviser or others in whom he has confidence, which lchools are best suited to his needs, A collection of graduate school catalogs is available in the Financial Aid and Place- ment Office located at the south end of Burling Library base- merit. Once the student has selected schools best suited to his needs, it remains to determine appli- cation and scholarship dead- lines. Write to the appropriate officer at the school concerned and request the necessary forms. Graduate school dead- lines for both admission and scholarship purposes vary wide- ly and students should have their selection made and the rorms in hand by December lst to assure that they will not miss specific deadlines. The tests required for err- trance to various graduate lchools will be noted in the ap- propriate catalogs. .Tliii may involve the Graduate Record Examination and/or Advanced Test in the major field, and At some schools the Miller An- alogies Test will be required. The dates for the GRE upti- tude and advanced test are listed below, and students who need to take the Miller Anal- ogies Test should Contacter'r Obermiller to make specific arrangements, since that test is usually administered on an individual basis. GRE dates: October 28, 1968 December 14, 1968 January 18, 1969 :Fehniary 22, 1969 April 26, 1959 July 12, 1969 Application forms for the test are available in the registrar's office. Those wishing to take the GRE on October 16, 1968 must have these aplication forms sent in by October 8. For information concerning special tests such as the Law School Admissions Test, the Medical School Aptitude Test, etc, contact the appropriate pro—professional adviser. Some words of advice: 1. Do not Wait until the last minute to ask professors for recommendations to graduate school. The early part of our second semester, which is I busy time for our professors, may coincide with the deadline! for completion of application forms. 2, Check examination require ments and make appropriate arrangements for the necessary examinations before the dead- line. 3. Give the Registrar's Office adequate notice and clear direc- tions concerning where you want your transcript sent. If you will need a supplementary transcript, please notify the Registrar's Office before you leave school in the spring. 4, If a financial statement I: required by the graduate school before a fellowship can be awarded, submit it at least eight weeks before the school deadline. 5. Many graduate schools re- quire a separate fellowship, NDEA, or assistantship applica- tion. In some cases you may need to write directly to the Chairman of the graduate school department regarding assistantships. 6. Don't minimize the impor- tame of a well written applica- tion beginning with the very first letter you write to the graduate school. 7. Check with the appropriate i Marmst Subversmn—A ReView I By "twins KISSANE Deplriment of English "A Night of the Opera" —-starring the Marx Brothers (1935); When Arieti asked me to re- view this Marx Brothers clas« sic, horse sense told me to beg off. You will understand why when I admit that I still find it more natural to speak of "movies" than of "films." That's about as out of it a! you can be. But, as you see. curiosity as to why the Marx Brothers should rate so high with the knowing young pre- vailed. The most obvious and prob- nbly the most crucial thing about the Marx Brothers’ hu- rnor is that it is utterly and gloriously low-brow. Now the essence of good “low-brow" comedy is not simply the ab- sence of sophistication but the fun it takes at the expense of high-brow pretensions. That is the point of nearly all of the Marx Brothers' gags and un- tics. In this respect, as in all else, Groucho is the key man. I recall a scene, from another movie, that epitomizes his ge- nius for shocking human gran- deur into dumb passivity. He is working as a hotel desk clerk and some pompous ass atoms up to him saying, “You people can't treat me like this! i am owner of the largest chain of laundries in the world!” “Laun- dries, eh?" says Groucho, nev- er daunted as he rips off his shirt and thrusts it at the luv dignant swell. “Then take this and have it back by Wednes- dayl" "A Night at the Opera" in really a series of variations on this theme. It takes us on n tour of all the customary haunts of Privilege, but alwayl with u iow»brow twist: the ritzy dining room (a scene for Groucho's unabashed wise- cracks): the ocean liner (with the colorful revelry of steerage immigrants in contrast to the sedate luxury of first class); and, above all, that bastion of “cult-yah," the opera house. The opera is a perfect scene for me Marx Brothers’ low»brow sabotage, and they make the most of it. Groucho is insuffer< ably gauche and irresistibly funny leaning out of his box to offer a dime to the stony-faced swell who returns his program to him. Chico and Hal-pa al- most literally tum Ii Trovatoro — that lugubrious tragedy — Into a three-ring circus. It's all summed up when — owing to a substitution of scores -— the opening measures of the overture are suddenly trans- formed into a raucous render. ing of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame." That the Marx's low-brow comedy should strike a sympa- thetic chord in numbers of the current student generation is easy to account for — on one level at least: it appeals to their particular sentimentality and disillusionment. Chico and Harpo, those sweet - natured clowns who make children laugh and weep with piano and harp, are the perpetual iugi. tives from the hirelings of the high-brow establishment: stew- ards, doorman, waiters, guards, and — of course — the cops. If today's radical finds his sen- timents confirmed in these two, he must surely revel in Groucho's brazen insouciance as he discomfits the respeo< table. No innocent fugitive, but u nervy lnterloper named Otis P. Driftwood, he is out to beat the swells at their own game. But he does it with a style no enemy of the affluent estabv lishment can fail to appreciate. His shoe polish mustache is an flagrant an outrage to prim propriety us the raunchiest set of sideburns, his obscene cigar is as hold an affront to solemn decency as the weediest reefer. Anyone aspiring to epater lo bourgeois has got to admit Groucho was there first, From that initial moment when we see him ogling the decolletago of a wealthy patroness from hll semi—crouch we recognize in him the apotheosis of the urn- couth. There are worse ways of has ing entertained than by comedy of this sort, Yet it is anothel of many recent youthful enthu- slasms that prompt me to hope we do not iorget that a high- brow cultivltion of a low-brow taste can never quite be the thing itself. To identify with something isn‘t the same in becoming identical to it — any, more than playing in her dairy could make Marie Antoinette a real milkmaid. In short, it won't do to confuse a style with a condition. So much for moral- izlng; corny and predictable an it is, “A Night at the Opera“ could hardly be called a great film. but itducs makes. good night at the movies. iillliiiillilliilliiiillliiillliiiillliiilliiilllliiiilliilillliiiilliiillliiiiliiiillliiiiilliiiilliiiiillliiillliiillliiillliililllilillliiiillliiilliiiillliillliillllliiilliiiillili special fellowship adviser on campus NOW for advice on pro< cedures, The fellowship list is provided for your use: Dantonh Graduate Fellow- lhfps, Fulbright Fellowships and Lydia C, Roberts Graduate Fellowships; Charles S e l l e r, Burling i. . Marshall Scholarships and Rhodes Scholarships, II o m e r Norton, Camegio 216. Rockefeller Theological Feb lowships, Dennis w. Haas, Steiner 21 Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, Neal Klausner, Steiner It. CANOERS’ SPIRITS UNSWAMPED The Student Recreation Coma mittee sponsored a canoe trip to the Coralville Reservoir over the past weekend. Nine students, two physical educa- tion instructors, and one dog canoed eighteen miles during two days, spending the night at Sugar Bottom Campgrounds, near Iowa City. Despite [heil experiences with the wind, rain, and mod, the SRC is planning more canoe trips for the spring.