SCARLET AND BLACK November 22, I?“ Transcript of President Leggeii's Letter 1 wish in this letter to take up three matters of concern to students, Iaculty, and the Col- lege Administration: (1) a re- sponse to the proposal or your committee for coeducational use of common-use lounges; :(2) a statement or matters I consider essential to a long-rim workable solution of our resi- dance hall "problem”; and (3) a discussion of the “reieren- dtlm-proposal” oi the Student Government Assocration of 11 November lor the management of residence halls between now and the time (a period that has come to be known as the “interim”) when a definite policy can be worked out by your committee, then approved by the College Administration and then implemented. Items 2 and 3 are dililcult to keep leparable and discrete and lhould perhaps be taken as n oingle statement. 1 Proposal for the co—educational use of common-use lounges On 22 October your commlt~ 'th referred to me the lollowing recommendations for the co- educational use of commoneuse lounges: l — All halls, each fall, shall set their own hours {or the coed use of their commoneuse lounge. 2 — voting on the setting or hours tor Coed use shall be by Iecret ballot. A simple major- Ity oi hall members shall be re- quired to set hours between I:Ol] 3.111. and midnight. A 2/3 majority of hall members shall be required to set hours of use It other times, 3 — Upon a regular motion In hall meetings or upon peti- Iion of 30% of the hall, the question of lounge use may be reopened for possible modifi- cation. Voting procedure lor revision shall be the same as outlined under No. 1 4 — After locking hours, only those men accompanied by women students shall be per- mitted in women’s residence halls. in point 4 or the recommenda- tion I prefer that the statement read as follow: Alter locking hours, only those men accom- panied by women students shall be permitted in the common- use lounges oi the women’s residence halls. The bold phrase is the addition and is necessary lor clarity, With the change just indi~ cated, the recommendations have my approval and may be implemented as soon as you [ind it feasible [0 (lo 504 ll Essentials for a workable solution of the resident hall “problem.” You may recall that in my letter to faculty and students at 30 October regarding the de- ciSlon about Mr. Schneirov I included the lollowing para- graph: As I see It, we need in the residence halls i — a mode of living and regulation consistent won the mental and physical health of students, one which will serve the best interests of the aca- demic program or the College and so permit students to work eflectively as students (that is to say, with sufficient rest, quiet, emotional security, and privacy to enable them to do their best academic work); 2 — a set of standards for behavior, and enforcement of such standards, that assure the trustees, the Iaculty, the students, and me that neither tyranny nor anarchy can oper- ate in the residence halls: 3 — enough variety oi living options designed by the College community so that n divergen- cy in temperament and person» :11 style can obtain in both pres- ent and prospective students; and 4 — a means for the Judicial Council and, where necessary, the deans, to deal quickly (either by removal from the residence halls or from the col- lege) with a student or group of students whn Can not abide by any regulation, either those oi their peers or those at the College. items 1 and 2 are chiefly dif- ferent ways of saying Ihe same Gulf Discount Center Free Turkeys :1in FROM NOW UNTIL THANKSGIVING Come In and Register For Your Turkey Now! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY ,ll ”Jr We Will Ec Open (mm b pm .i om. Thanksgiving Day For Ihozn at yuu who are remaining at school {or his short vacaiion. TOM a BET'IE Gannison thing, ior each refers to the need to have a style or hie in the residence halls Ihat at the very minimum does not inter- {are with the ability oi Students to get their academic work done. item Ii rclers to the need to create and maintain enough diilerences in the regulations of individual halls so that both present and prospective stu< dents oi ditterent expectations and sophisticanons can be ac- commodated. Item 4 reiers to the need tor disciplinary and enforcement procedures which can operate both iairly and quickly, Though none oi the items gets to the crucial ques- rions or how and when, they do add up to a statement of broad policy which the trustees at their meeting of Z and 3 No- vember subscribed to as a Board, as did the Executive Council oi the Faculty at its 13 November meeting. A variety of points or view exists among students and lac- ulty and the College Adminis- tration about specific defini- tions of the terms in the (our items, as well as about what ways oi implementing the gen~ eral policy. And this statement leads to another: that there are differences in concerns about the residence halls that have to be recognized and then taken into account by three groups or people — students, laculty, and the C o l l e g e administration (which may be said In repre- sent not only the trustees and the president but through them, though imperlectly, alumul, parents, and prospective stu- dents). Discussion of this three-way net of Concerns begins with the recognition that this College, like almost any other or its kind, has found It very diffi- cult in the last decade to sup- port the notion, which once was a matter of lailh, that residence hall management ought chiefly to reflect Ii kind at remedial- parenthood (in loco parentls) environment: in other words, that the residence halls are a central part or a character-to mation or finishing-school m sion (or the institution. But this admisston oi change is a state- ment quite dependent on the next one, which is that the Col- lege cannot endorse an anarchic system which will inevitably result in “every man lor him- self.” Roughly speaking, the pattern oi residence hall regu- lations exists lot reasons not exclusively in [he Interests at students or their leelings about sell-education; there are other reasons, the sources of which lie in history. economics, archi- tectural limitations, and society tit-larger Nu matter what changes in speciiic regulations may become appropriate, the College must always house the majority of its students in a rash- ion that attends to their mental and physical health In such a way that the life in the halls at its best contributes to campus llie and at its worst does not de- tract from it. When it dna work, a residence hall system lucceeds in uniting with a de- gree of practical reasonable ness the essential concerns of the faculty, the wishes of stu- dents, and what can be Called the “accountability of the Col- lege administration" Faculty concerns range from n disinterest in the residence halls to a concern that laculty members themselves do all they can individually and col- lectively to help students and deans bring a positive and per- vasive “inlellectualism” into the halls. Between the two ch tremes are a variety ol‘ indi- vidual faculty attitudes, all of which are natural reflections of the fact that the Grinnell lac- ulty consists of persons of dif- Ierent temperaments who can be said to have varying styles of talking with students. But it is safe to say that whatever their Warm Up For Winierl $2 OFF On All Swea’rers THE Corner 4‘i'ii {2 Main Cult“ stior individual diiierences may too" all faculty members are in agreement that life in the Resie dence halls, at the very minlv mum, Should not interfere with the educational program of the College, Let me speak now or student a wishes. Students are chaling under restrictions on dormitory visitation which in many "1- stances may be more conserva- tive than those “at home” or in many surrounding schools or our size and type, and even somewhat more restrictive than those in the dormitories of ma- t . . . . s yor state universities, Including those in luwa. As the demand or study and the seriousness or purpose or our students have increased, the amount of en- ergy and time once given with good humor to adjustment to “hall life” has decreased; and the diversity of personalities and codes of morality now rep; h TRANSCRIPT~ (Continued Page 3, Col. 1) Clearance Sportswear: Blouses Skirts Pants C ulottes 490/0 on Regular Price HOURS: Monday — Noon . 9 pm. Tuesday - Saturday _. pirate Siyie Shop For Vu'omen