Page Six SCARLET AND BLACK Trend To “Dis-Credit" ROTC ' Recently, a number of univer- Iities, including Harvard, Yale. Princeton, and Stanford, have discontinued the granting of academic credit for ROTC programs. Waning interest in ROTC programs has been evi- dent across the nation. A 10% drop in enrollment has been noted for fiscal year 1969 alone. Declining to follow the na— tiooal trend, the Grinnell ROTC enrollment has increased 15% (mm {our years ago, reports Capt. Purdon'l, commanding of- ficer of Grinnell AFROTC. In an interview. Purdom expressed the view that while the suspension of the ROTC pro- gram is “probably" a trend, it is not one that will “sweep the country.” in tact, AFROTC alone is planning to add 15 more detachments in the next year, he said Capt. Purdom reacted to the questioning of the program by stating that it is periectly compatible with the aims and goals of liberal arts education. Purdom stated that the U.S. defense establishment n e e d S "articulate and intelligent" men to understand all the problems ol politics and the world, in» cluding the needs of human be- ings. He cites the college bulle- tin as stating that Grinnell is concerned with “exact habits of investigation, c o m m u n i c a- tion, intellectual integrity. and a clear understanding oi the re- lationship between thought and decision, between action and consequence." Pllrdom explain- ed that these are the mutually supportive goals at both the col- lege and AFROTC heret Purdom was opposed to both In a kin g AFROTC mandatory and to cutting academic credit from the ROTC program. A mandatory program would put "road blocks" to the high qual< ity oi the courses and give course loads too large to in— terested students. Remov- ing academic credit would put the ROTC on an extracurricular level which would make it di- rectly competitive with sports. newspaper, and theatre activi- ties. Objections to the AFROTC program's present status in» clude the argument that “the force of ideals” is the key phrase in the college bulletin. ideals are antagonistic to the Iorce or weapons, iollows the argument. David Lindblom, a junior who opposes ROTC, stated that the military is a force which allows the U.S. to exploit people all over the World. Grinnell College involve- ment with ROTC means com- plicity with exploitation and murder, he feels. Having taken an introductory ROTC course, Lindblom de- scribed lt as “incredibly simple minded” and limiting in its viewpoint. Lindblom questioned whether the limited and unques- tioning nature or the program could be considered in sym- pathy with the standards at the college and the goals or a lib~ eral arts institution. Friday. March 7. l9". Cidget Goes To The Grinnell Sweatshirt Shop By GARY GTDDINS i know that rm not the only student who, on arriving as a ireshman here, was completely grossed out by what passes as the Grinnell College Book Store. After two and a halt years at discussing that anti-intellectual. antireducationol hole in the basement of Carnegie, and after two and a halt years oi hitching to Iowa City or Des Moines to get a book or magazine, several students including myself have decided that there has been enough talk and that something should be done. Briefly then. here are eight suggestions ior rectiiying a major problem in the “Grinnell Experience.” I! we can't, at the very least. proA voke an immediate discussion between Mr. Wassan and sev- eral {acuity and student repre- sentatives, then we recommend that you thumb through your old SErB‘s and reread Susan Kaeser’s manual on taking over college buildings. L All texts and hard cover books should be sold at 20% below the publisher’s price. IT Bookmaster’s, etc. can stay in business selling at a discount then an allegedly non-profit book store should be able to. 2. Magazines or intellectual merit should be stacked. Varsity is line if you like “Busty" or “Plump Knees" but where the hell in Grinnell can you get, without subscribing, copies of the Paris Review, the New York Review, the Swanee Re- view, Saturday Review. and New Yorker, Evergeen, the Realist, I. r. Stone‘s Weekly etc. I’m sure that at the very least, live copies of each could be sold regularly. 3. The bookstore should stock a tow copies of books or popu- lar and/or scholarly interest that are published currently. For example, this year alone, there were new publications or new translations of such impor- tant writers as Bellow. Malraux, ilesse, Kosinski, Barth, Berry- .man, Arendt, etc. it the First Circle and Wellmr Culture weren't being used as texts, they wouldn’t have been ordered either, Lin order to expand the stock it would probably be nec- essary to expand space or at least redeem-ate the store. Pos< sibilities: use part of the stor- age room; get rid of the over- priced cosmetics; use a class- room in ARH. There are other possibilities which need to be discussed. 5. Let students work in the store on the same salary set up that the library works under. The book store should be {or the students and the students can use the jobs. (For examples at how this and some of the other ideas in this list might work, check the Antioch book store.) 6. There should be a commit— tee consisting oi one proi and one student from each depart- ment to discuss what books should he ordered that are re- lated to course texts, but aren't assigned. 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Extra Speaker Also Available Garry Gases $63 Holds 15 Tapes Country Western - Pop - Jan - Classical Stop In And See This New Dimension In Music — You'll Be Happy You oidl course on American Literature there will be many importaui authors that can’t be tit into the course but that the prof could still suggest, knowing that they are available in the book store. The sami thing goes tor reference mate- rial. 7. It would be nice it channels were set up to sell and order records of major interest such as the Caedmnn series. 5. Students should be able to order any books from the book store. Of less importance, it those damn price stickers have to mar expensive texts that the few bookropheliacs among us might want to keep and look at with love and devotion, couldn’t they please be placed on the rust blank page? if you agree with the gist or this list >—- and if you don’t you should be in Monmouth -_ get angry, sign the petitions that will be sent around, speak to your professors and iind out it they agree too. 4-lelier Words Slall CBS Paper The printer of The Brother- hood, the Concerned Black Stu- dents’ newspaper. balked about printing the last issue of the paper, but finally yielded to pressure by several ces mem- bers and printed it. The manager of Grinnell 01'. iice Supply, Robert Anderson, said that he has had no qualms about printing past issues or The Brotherhood, but that he objected to the use at “tour- letter words" in the 11105! re- cent issue. "I told them I would preler not to print it,” Anderson told the SGtB. “I don’t use those words myseli, and that’s the same reason I wouldn’t run an ad in Plerndactyl.” Anderson said that he finally agreed to print the mimeo— graphed paper after Editor Roy Walker and other Black Stu- dents talked to him “Tor an hour and twenty minutes and wouldn't give in." According to Walker, CBS had bought printing supplies irom Grinnell cilice Supply as part at an agreement that the firm would print The Brotherhood. Anderson said that he had agreed to print the paper. but that he was unaware that four- letter words would be used. He said he told the Black students they could return the supplies they had bought and he would relund their money, ii they wished. Walker was not satisfied with Anderson's reason for not want- ing to print The Brotherhood. “We’ve used the word 'nigger' in past issues, and he’s never objected,” he said. "His reasons weren't concrete." Anderson said that his person- al dislike of {ourvletter words is the only reason he didn't want to print the Black stu- dents’ paper. "They tried to bring color into it, but l’m not discriminating at allr I told them i was more on their side than on any other," he told the 58:3.