Friday. October l8. I763 SCARLET AND BLACK Page NlllC PieSideni leggeii’DiscusseS'Student Role’on thlpuS * h ,, "”‘Poverfy’ In'GrinneII“ " I By GLENN LEGGETT Justice Abe Fortas begins his final chapter to his Concerning Dlssent and Civil Disobedience with the following sentence: The story of man is the his- tory, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit commu- nal life; and, second, of the emancipation of the individ- ual within that system of nec- essary restraints. it is not an original observa- tion certainly, but it is an es pecially important one now, when the concepts of individual liberty and communal order are getting so polarized that ra- tional consideration cl differ- ent points of view is extraordi- narily difficult. Justice Forias is telling us with a nice matter— oHaCt precision that the issue is not personal rights or com- munal rights but rather per sonal rights and communal rights, not either-or but both- and. g I wish we could make Justice Fortas‘ statement our text. for the perennial debate in our academic community over who is violating whose rights, who is misusing whose powers or not using them properly, and who is counting the votes in whose participatory democracy. it we could use the statement as a text, we might be able to recognize that our academic community is really a plural- ism of communities made up of different kinds of people. Most of them would like to dis< charge both their obligations to themselves and to others gra- ciously enough to allow us to say that we have at Grinnell at least the spirit of a single com- munity, Why not? Chiefly, I suppose, because all 1400 of us students, faculty. and staff live so close- ly together here that at times we appear to deal with each other with our nerveendings rather than our best and most communicative Voices. Speak- ing for myself, I think my chief obligation is to preserve and enhance the reputation of .the College as an institution worthy of support and affection, not only from students and fac- ulty but from alumni and friends to what goes on on campus. Students and faculty have different responses, and I respect them. asking only that they respect mine. At this moment we appear to have a plethora of problems. Any college does. A college like Grinnell with a superior student body and faculty, each operat< ing on the other's sensibilities, is going to have more than most. We need to remember that a revolution in many things is underway, every- where, and as Martin Luther King Jr. suggested here last year, we aren't going to be able to sleep through it at Grin- nell. But I know too that, as a community of students and fac- ulty, we have the wit and con- cern to make things work out Well. Indeed, We can follow the lead of what a good many stu- dents and faculty are already trying to do: to set up both formal and informal procedures for listening and talking, for objecting and resolving, for pro« posing and studying and recom< mending. In general, we can create structures that are both definite and viable enough to let us consider proposals for di< rection and change with the liberal disposition that a col- lege like ours is supposed to be creating in all of us. The student-laculty Commit- tea on Student Aflairs is a structure of such procedures. 50 is the Judicial Council and the revised Committee on Stu- dent Publication! and Radio. So will be the impending reor- ganlmtioli of several faculty committees to include student representation. So too. hope- fully, will be the newly insti- tuted student advisory system and the expanded resident ad- viser program. Though some difficult matters Such as the change in women’s hours and the residence hall system have already been instituted, none at the structures is secure enough or experienced enough at this moment to warrant an easy optimism, and none of them will make the place as perfectly reasonable as each one of us might ideally WlSl’l. But we are at least started. and the job now is to lessen the gap between the problems that keep appearing and our procedures [or dealing With them intelligently. We will have some agonles but I thlnk we can do it. We have to. To reter to Justice Forlas again and to paraphrase him: The survival of our society as a free, open, democratic coni- muiiity will be determined by the procedures — the rules of conduct, the methods, the practices a which survive the confrontations. For pro< secure is the bone structure oi a democratic society; and. the quality of procedural standards which meet general acceptance a the quality of what is tolerable and per missable and acceptable con- duct —— determines the dur- ability of the society and the survival possibilities of free« dom within the society. For ourselves here at Grin- nell that kind of society is es< sential; and we might remema her, as the man says, that such a good society, like Char- ity, begins at home. illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIlllllIIlllllIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIllllllllllllllllllIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Campus Events: Homecoming, Love’s Labor's Losl' By ALLAN HART Aside from the usual enter- talnment of the typical Grin- nell weekend, the Homecoming Weekend that is now upon us at- fortls all sorts of new thrills. For example, there will be a con- glomeratlon oi parents mingling around the campus, and along with the alums, they will go through the traditional period of shock at the degeneration of Grinnell students. To counteract this moral indignation, there will he concerts and theatrical productions performed by those students who have not yet fallen under the influence at the less upright students. Accordingly, the first major event of Homecoming is the col- lege production of “Love's La- bol's Lost” by William Shake- speare. It is directed by Robert Ingam, and the leads will he played by William Saylor, Bren- da Thomas, Elizabeth Wich- matiu, and Fritz Schwallor. It begins at s p.m. on Friday, in Roberts Theatre. A: the ama time on Saturday the play will be given again. Then at 8:30, both Friday and Saturday, the Grinnell College Choir and Chamber Orchestra will perform in Herrick Chapel. There will be two movies on Friday night. The first will be the regular ARI-l film at 9:30, which this week will be “Key Largo." At 10:30 in the Forum South Lounge, “Days of Dylan Thomas" and “A Child's Christ- mas in Wales” will be shown. On Saturday there will be many activities to deepen the numbness of the previous gem eration. After a 9:30 a,m. coilea hour in the residence halls, there will be an informal sym- posia with various representa- tives of the administration and students, starting at 10:30 in the dorms. Between 11 am. and 12:30 pm. a buffet luncheon will be served in both the Quad and in Cowlcs Hall. Alter the afternoon sport events, we will be revived dra< matlcally by a charcoal steak dinner in the Quad and in Cowles. Following this them will be the alorementioned thear . .i . . i'ii mu tre and choral performances. Then the big dance will titillate our minds and bodies. Featuring the Pizaht Brothers Orchestra, the Homewmilig dance will also bring tears of nostalgia to many guests. Of course the women will be bedeckcd with flowers dis< tributed by enterprising, bush ness-nlillded men for the local florists. That finishes the activities at ‘ Homecoming, not to mention the adults' visiting during that time. On Sunday, things get back to some old degenerate scene, ex- emplified by the Open Darius; doubtless students will have sent their parents home before then. At 8:00 the Forum movie at Fri- day night will be reshown, and so will the ARl-l movie (9:30). The regular Monday night Bridge lessons will again be held at 7:30 in the dining area of the Forum. Finally on Wednesday a jam session will he held in the Forum North Lounge, at 10:30 p.m. With all these swell things going on, who will think of fall- ing to the usual depths of de- gradation? ..u . i I V t‘ ' 7 By KATHERINE NEWKIRK It is an easily accepted fact that in the town of Grinnell, and throughout lowa, there live a number of families of “poor folk." However, it is not commonly known that families here living below the poverty level number one in tour, a ratio comparing unfavor- ably to the national average of one in five. Thus we see that the pleasant rural community and the college are not, in fact, far distant from the poverty problem, and from the war on poverty. 0n the state level, the problem is being attached by the office at Economic Opportunity (CEO). Dr. C. Edwin Gilmur, instructor at Political Science at Grinnell, served as the first director of the program beginning in June 1965. Under his year-long administration each county was organized, and local programs were started. Grin- uell is included in a four county program including Poweshiek. Benton, Tama, and iowa counties. The center is at Belle Plaine. it is the duty of the Regional organization to identify the problems of this particular area, to identity resources available to mobilize them, and to establish a system of priorities to determine how resources shall be used. Programs begun by the regional commit- tee include a year-round Head Start program, a medical services center, and a regional multipurpose center. According to Mr. Gilmour, the “guts" of the poverty program is the Community Action Program (CAP), which is centered in A house on Griimell‘s south side. each community. One important goal of CAP is to turn the pro- grams back to the target group to carry out. Efiorts are made to employ the underprivileged, and to help them organize them- selves. The feeling expressed by Mr. Gilmour is that programs administered by disaffected people are “demanding and dehuman- izing" to the people at whom they are directed. The 0E0 and CAP programs are both products of the current “War on Poverty." Being new, they have encountered several problems in trying to add their elforts to already existing church, private, and educational efforts. They found the "olrlrlineH agencies were resentful of the new programs. Many feel that the new pro— grams have failed to do as they promised and that they have not eliminated the Waste and red tape that were found in the earlier decentralized system. Mr. Gilmour expressed discouragement over the present trend oi the poverty program for several reasons. He feels that the CEO could be “the most promising new look in this century,” but that the program is not understood and that in practice it has adopted many of the characteristics of the old line agencies. Gllmcur ad- vocates organizing the poor people so that they may become their own representatives, He feels that they may become a powerful political force, but until they do so, they will continue to be looked down upon and catered to, and kept in their places as “second class citizens.” Other programs are underway to combat poverty in the area. The four - county region is served by a total of 10 VISTA workers. one living in the Grinnell community. it is the goal of these work- ers to live in the area, among the people, and to give them as- sistance in a personal way. Miss Rita Zollner, the 20~year<0ld Grinnell VISTA volunteer explained that her time is spent helping the entire community, not only those in the lower income brackets. She gives as her services tutoring, helping with the Uncle Sam's Club, advising the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and working at the regional multi- purpose center iu Malcolm, She is currently involved in organizing a club lor mothers who receive assistance under the Aid to De- pendent Children program. having been here 2 months, she ex- plained that her progress has begun slowly because she wants to learn to know the people and to have them trust her. The Grinnell League of women Voters is also interested In the poverty problem, and particularly in housing problems. They are in tile process of organizing a survey to determine just what housing conditions are in Griniiell and what may be done about them. College students interested in helping in the various battles ol the war against poverty in Griniiell may do so by giving time to the Uncle Sam's Club, by assisting teachers of the Head Start program, or by providing aid in the League Survey For details on available opportunities, place requests in the son mailbox. . iii, .t..i.r....., . ‘ among