Ellie $1: Oldest College Newspaper West at the Mississippi arlrt & ililatlt GRINNELL COLLEGE Volt LXXVI Grinnell, lows. Wednesday, December ll, was No. I! 25 of l35 Majors Attend Science Division Meeting A meeting or majors in the Science division was held on Monday, rollowing a memoran- dum from Dean stauss concern ing the possibility of seating junior and senior majors on their divisions' Educational Policy Committees. The pro- posal was designed to make possible taculty consultation with students on departmental reaching policies. of the 135 majors in the Science division, only 25 ats tended this first meeting tor discussion of the proposal. Stu~ dents who did come brought up several questions concerning the mechanics or seating stu< dent EPC members, Mr. Walker, chairman of the Science division, commented that there was no consensus at the meeting on the options offered, He added, “I don‘t con- sider oileefiftlt oi the group or majors suggested in the Exec- utive Council's plan to he rep— resentativa of the division.” Walker continued, “I, per- sonally, am seriously interest ed in getting some feedback from students, because 1 think it is extremely important that a student voice be heard in curricular affairs} Yearly Woes Plague Wrestlers Again A perennial Grinnell wres- tling prohlem, lack of depth and balance, confronts Con- ney ximbro as he begins his inaugural season as Pioneer mentor. Coach Kimbm's five re- turning lettermen include a trio of planets at last year's Midwest Conference Meet. Dori Kraitsik, the loop's 1677pdund titlist in 1967, placed third in that weight class last winter atter being sidelined most of the cams paign by an arm injury. He returned to action just a week before the loop meet, and posted a 6-3 record for the season. Bill Wedding capped a 15-4-1 campaign by taking second at 160, and Joel Rickr man came in fourth at 123 and compiled an 8-6 mark lor the Season. The other Veterans are Bob LeBell, who was 2716 at 145 and 152, and John Shaw, 1-151 at 130, 145 and 152. The top sophomore pros- pects are Ted click, 160-167; Steve Hutchings, 167: and Alex Karlin, a 191 pounder who will have to fill in at heavyweight much at the time, They were consistent winners a year ago as mem- bers of Grimiell's freshman team, The Trains Hardly Go By Anymore Every Monday and Thursday aitcrnoon a slow ireiglit departs f1 .ni Llutshalltown, 1a., bound tor Albia. it is the only rogue larly scheduled train which still uses the iron horsepath which graces central campus. Occa- sionally, a handcar can be seen. but the Grinnell College of yes- tet'yeai' which attracted train- loving students irom all over the country is dead. In the near future, esideace halls niuy even he using railroad ties to stoke their fireplaces. The railroad has had an im< portant role in the history of Grinnell. 1. B. Grinnell founded the city oi Erimiell at the inter section of the northrsnuth and the eastrwest railroad lines, After Horace Greeley told Grin- iieil to “Go West, young man," he did, and in St, Louis he met Henry Fart-lam, the man who owned the railroad which built the nortli~soutlt line through campus. r'rom him, Griniolt learned where his line would cross the Rock Island, and there he founded Gn'nnell, When the town was founded, .1. H. Grinnell laid out its gen- eral plan. Among other things, he set. aside the land for Gri . nell University which he hoped would be built someday, At that time the north-south line ran beside the campus rather than through it, The College did not purchase the land east of the tracks until later. Students who consider the tracks in central campus a nuisance may wonder why Grinnell set aside land next to the railroad tracks for a College. No large plot ot land could have been very far from rails, especially it it were near the center oi the Grinnell of the 1850’s. in 1863, the first passenger train Came down from the north. An entry in the diary of Josephus Eastman for June 27, 186.5, described the event. “The first passenger car came through today. This is an era in the history of Grinnell. It looks like the Eastern style of living. Now, tor the first time in five years 1 live in a town where the cars run. Hurrah for the cars, Hurrah, Hurrahl” Grinnell had many trains traveling through until rela- tively recently. in 1953, the last passenger train on the north- south line was dropped. The students on campus ilagged down the “Doodlebug" on what they thought was its last run and served the crew and the passengers doughnuts and cof< lee. Until last Summer the freiglits ran twice a day from Marshalltowu to Peoria, and smith campus residents with one o'clock classes often had to watch the train go by. Swimmers Win 6 0f l4 Con’resis In Knox Relays On December 1, the Grinnell swimming team competed in the 15th annual Knox Relays, and won six of fifteen events. Gi‘innell teams also took second in four events. No all-around team scores were kept at this meet, Uniortunately, however, this hopetul earlyrseasdn rodomon. tade does not quite tell the whole story. Grinnell still lacks depth in the allrimportant sprint races, whereas Mon- mouth, who was undefeated in dual meets last season, looks nearly as strong as ever in this area. Lawrence, who won the conterence meet last spring, did not come to the Knox Re- lays this year. Cornell, who did come, looks much improved. KNOX RELAYS Grinneil Results Varsity Diving Team Totals; 1. Knox 332.15, 3. Grinnell 279.50; Indivniua Results: 1. Boccker (Knox) 217.60; 2. Froh- itch 161. 6. Graham. Freshman Dlvln Team To- tals; 1, Knox 230. z. Grinnell 148.50; individual Results: 1. Johnson (Knox) 136.5; , . . 4. Gaines; 5. Hubbell. 4x100 Medley Relay (Fresh): 1. Ripon 4:112; 2. Grinnell (Ward, Daley, Weins, Cams) 4:121, 4x100 Medley Relay (Varsity): 1. Grinnell (Williams, Meyer, Rollins, Gordon) 4:021), 3x200 Free (Varsity): 1, Mon- mouth 5:55.G: (Grinneli disqual- ilied). 3x100 Butterfly (Varsity): 1. Griilnell (Williams, Dale, Rol- lins) 3:103, 4x50 Flee (Frosh): 1. Knox 1:381; r . . 4. Grinnell (Daley, Cams, Carroll, Weins) 1:401. 4X50 Free (Varsity): 1. Knox 1:318; , , . 4. Grinnell (Rollins, Hicks, Gordon, MCBlain) 1:365. 3x100 individual Medley (Frosli): 1. Grlniiell (Weins, Haeiner, Ward) 13:11.9. 3x100 individual Medley (Van sily): 1, Monmouth 3205.9; 2. Grinneli (Brown, Wi iams, Meyer) 3:031. 3x100 Backstroke (Varsity): 1. Cornell 3:11“; 2. Grinncll (Swackhamer, Siekert, Brown) 3:343. 3x100 Breaststroke (Frosh): i. Monmouth 3:313; (no Grin- nell entry). 3x100 Breaststroke (Varsity): 1, Grinnell (Siekert, Brown, Meyer) 3:28.41 4X10i] Free (Flash): 1. Grins nell (Ward, Cams, Haefner, Daley) 3:371. 4x100 Free (Varsity): 1. Mon- mouth 3:28.9; , i i 4. Gl'innell (McBlain, Gordon, Dale, Hicks) 3:441. Six Pioneers Make All-Midwest Squad Despite the Pioneers' 3-5 iootball season, they must have impressed the rest or the conference with the large number 01 players Grinnell placed on the All-Midwest Squads. or the six chosen, the only Grinnell player picked for the ins: team was 1968 CoCaptain Don Kraitsik as a defensive half- back. “Bobbie Don" Lillis, another 1968 C0»Captain, was a second team chmce as tackle on oilense and de- tensc. He was the only player iiom any school to make the all-conference team both 017 feiisively and defensively. Other players making the Second All-Midwestern Con- ference unit on offense were: senior John Wintel‘sonfind, 1968 CorCaptain, senior Jon Buswell, back, and Senior Brian Barnesiback. Tom Lower, a Senior, made the Second defensive team at the linebacking spot. McKibben Memorial Benefits King Fund Contributions to the Martin Luther King, 112, Scholarship Fund made in the name of Tinioth y McKihhen have amounted to $224 as of this date, Father John Hedger has announced. Other Contributions are being sent directly to the college, where 535 has so tai- been received. Timothy McKlbben, son or Professor and Mrs. McKib- ben, was killed in an accident in the Swiss Alps early last summer, but his body was found only last week, A Requiem Eucharist was celebrated by Father John Hedger, assisted by Frank Thomas, at St, Paul's Episcopal Church last Wednesday, De- cember 4. Timothy McKibben 1947 1768 He never came down to age and walk on safer ground and treasure the memory of what he saw. So, time will never dim, for him, what others lose, or never had, or never seek. He possessed it, with so much more, when the earth, not the vision, deceived him. Robert W. McMillan Faculty Delays Adding Students To Admissions ,.4 Student representation on the Admissions Committee was dls< cussed and voted on at l fac- ulty meeting Monday. Th Committee on Faculty Organi- zation recommended almost full student representation on the Admissmns Committee. A1- thougli the iacuity was general- ly in favor oi student represen- tation, it voted against the pro- posal. Because or concern over revealing Confidential files on applicants to students, it dia rected the Faculty Organiza< tion Committee to study tiie idea more and submit a new proposal aiter the semester break. At the well attended meeting, extreme disagreement was we pressed irom both sides, and debate on the issue lasted for almost the total of the two hour meeting, The iinal vote, which failed or a majority was 42 to 34, with many abstentions. The proposal ol the Faculty Organization Committee cov< ered two areas The commit- tee recommended that students be given full representation on the Admissions Committee con- cerning policy matters. Con- cerning student participation in the deciding of special cases which do not fall within the policy guidelines, the commit- tee recommended that Student members be given voting rep« resentation but not full access to the confidential files of ap- phcants. The difficulty on this second point centered on privacy or files and Whether students should be allowed to see con- fidential recommendation and medical forms, The commit- tee's proposal on this question seemed to he a compromise be tween giving the student mem- bers voting rights with tull ac- cess to files and no voting rep- resentation at all. Although, ac- cording to one faculty member, a good case was made for the “coding" of information (using symbols tor proper names) from confidential forms, the mood or the iaculty at Mon- day’s meeting was apparently towards not allowing any rep- resentatlon in this area, and the Committee on Faculty 0P ganizatioii is expected to come up with a new preposal of that nature. Because of the length of the discussion on the Admissions Committee, the iaculty heard an abbreviated version of Mr. Magee's report on me Student Aflairs Committee. his report, submitted now because he will M on leave next semester, called the faculty's role in the present polarity oi student. and tliidulrsiioluuil c.,..e..iely mud- 23L