Fridny, November 21. ms SCARLET AND BLACK Page Three } Transcript (Continued from Page 2) resented in the Griilnell student body doubtless has much to do with the problems in our pres- ent situation. Student govern ment tor the past several years, tor instance, even with good intentions, has not been able to deal with the necessity oi enforcing rules on a dissent~ iug minority, perhaps for the understandable reason that maximum exposure is now pro- vided in the halls for particu- larly strong personalities to ex- ercise an exhibitionism and ag- gi-ession. So far as the College admin- Islratiun is concerned, it has suiiered from charges or stu- dents that it cares more about “public appearance‘Vthan about students' emotional needs and thus has not really made its claim clear for the necessity of its concerns, which include the need for emotional and mate rial support from alumni and donors, the encouragement of prospective students and their parents, the respect and well- wishes of current parents. and the good-will oi the immediate community. Out oi its own needs, the College administra— tion has probably embraced the abstraclion oi “ceinmunitv” .{as a magic word instead of trying to define aild minister to the perpetual and real divi- .. anemones THANKS To OurColleqe Student and Faculty Customers For Dining With Us. We Will Be Closed Wednesday Afternoon. Nov. 27 or 2:00 pun. And Will Reopen Friday. Nov. 19 at ":00 mm. BEYMER’S Kinq'n Food Host USA. uion of interests among itself. its iaculty. and its student body. It has perhaps not talked enough about the distribution oi rights and obligations among the parts oi its “community at scholars“ but instead ["15 em- phasized its hopes lor totality and im- wholeness, probably because talk about separation oi powers and “ultimate author ity" is not comiortable rhet- one to deans and presidents But it is necessary now to admit we need to achieve a better balance than we have among the sometimes compet- ing interests oi students, inc- ulty, and College administra- tion. We need to continue to deiine what we expect oi one another so that the atmos- phere oi intellectual and emo— tional growth that is so stead- ily being improved at Grinnell can be maintained, principally by retaining the remarkably talented and committed people who have chosen to gather in the College, There are certain conditions i regard as necessary to such a balance. They are so pio- ioundly and permanently inilu- ential that they have to be talked out simultaneously With the formulation of the “inter- im” period. Ill Management of the residence halls during the “interim” period. i shall not speak at length about the student “reieren. dum” oi ll November. There have been questions about its technical validity, its timing. and the impression it gave. perhaps inadvertently, that stu- dents wcre going to decnie the “interim” arrangement With- out any reference to the con- cerns oi iaculty and the Col- lege administration Bul l was favorably impressed with the insistence of the Student Gov- ernment Association that among the procedures neces- sary to implement the rcier- endum were (I) the need to determine procedures ior se- lecting house iudicial councils, (2) the need to determine en- iorcement procedures, and (3) the need to formulate a “bill at rights and obligations" CDli< cerning individual behavior in a dormitory situation. Tiiese all seem to me to be constructive and necessary iii-st steps. i understand they are now under- way. Many oi these steps, when refined and discussed in your committee, will go iar toward meeting the conditions or balancing the concerns oi students, iacuity, and College administration which I dis- cussed in general terms above and now list here as specific recommendations ior your con- sidel'atinn: l 7 The need for a minimal, workable non-interference in otllers‘ comiort and privacy within the dormitories, begin- ning with students’ lirm pledges to one another to maintain “quiet hours" as promised in the student handbook (even, as I understand it, to the level of music. talk, slamming or doors, and the like): in speaking about dormitories I include the din- ing halls, where respect for the rights oi others is essen- tial, particularly those rights Today’s go—anywhere, do—anythlng Hush Puppies.® Look casual, leel relaxed in these lall newcomers. 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Not all aspects of residence hall lile can be settled in this manner, but it is a device necessary to meet the needs or that minority which now must leave the col- lege or choose not to come to it initially, As I said previous- ly, it is my understanding that SGA officers, in consultation with resident advisors, deans, and iaculty members, are al- ready attempting to formulate such descriptions. to experi< ment with new devices such as judicial committees within each hall, and to renew a commit ment to good dormitory liie on a new, more sell-determining basis. 5 a The need to expand op portunities, for coeducational visitation in student rooms to a maximum of 84 hours per week provided conditions such as the above are met and pro- vided certain administrative details, such as strict adher— ence to the stated times as de- termined by the hall's govern— ment are attended to, and pro- Vided that coeducational visV iting hours will not take place between 12 midnight and 8 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday and between 2 a.m. and 8 a m. on Friday and Saturday. This latter point is sellcxplauaiory to parents, alumni, iacnlty, and I suspect most students. i believe. too, that the opening oi the common-use lounges weakens any argument tor the. eta-educational need to have v ting in individual room: during the normal hours ior sleeping, This last item, the state- ment on “open dorms," will no doubt he a perpetual topic on this campus, ii ior no other reason than that it has by now become highly symbolic and thus surrounded by tradition. But i believe that the leelings or our own student body, a large segment of which wants something less than “unlimited open rooms" would argue ior some limitation, and 84 hours per week seems to meet reasona ably well the iaculty require- ment that management of the residence halls pay a regard to privacy and quiet; it also serves to satisiy the “account- ability" oi the College adminis- tration as it explains our resi- dence hall program to parents, alumni, and prospective stu- dents. I am aware that I have given your committee a great deal to do, and a short time to do it in ~ that is, Consider ations involving workable ere plications or my recommenda< tions as well as implementa- tion of judicial and enforce- ment proceedings; discussions oi proposals irom individual residence halls and the relating of them to one another: all in all, a continuing review oi what seems to be working and what isn't as you attempt to construct a realistic and Work- anle “interim" system that points toward a permanent system and at the same time meets the general require- ments I outlined at the start of Section II and the specific recommendations or Conditions I gave in Section III. But I am also aware that much construe- tive work is already underway. For instance, my understand- ing is that individual halls, to a varying degree, have already prepared statements for the consideration or your commit- tee. It remains for each one now to begin preparing revised pro< posals within the prescribed limits oi 34 hours per week or less. As soon as your commit- tee is satisfied that an individ- ual residence hall has its house in order, it can be told to pro. cecal Hopeluiiy, when all resi- deuce halls have reported In, enough variety in regulatioiu will have exhibited themselves to assure the College that we can continue to appeal to dif- ferent kinds of Students. 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